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Resolve Optics – A Provider of High Performance UV Lenses and Lens Design

Resolve Optics is a specialist supplier of off-the-shelf and custom fixed focus and zoom lens that offer optimal performance in the Ultraviolet (UV) region (10-400nm).

17 Dec 2012

New Report Analyzes Global and Chinese Markets for Optical Films

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global and Chinese Optical Film Industry Report, 2012" report to their offering.

17 Dec 2012

Novel Camera System Maps Arctic Sea Ice to Help Assess Walrus Habitat

Walrus use sea ice as a reproductive, migration and resting habitat. However, as sea ice melts and recedes, this marine mammal increasingly is threatened.

15 Dec 2012

Alphion India Launches Small Form Factor GPON Optical Line Terminal Platform

Alphion® India Private Limited announced today the launch of the AOLT-4200, small-form factor, Optical Line Terminal (OLT) platform that specifically addresses rural broadband and mobile backhaul applications. Alphion® India is exhibiting its full range of GPON products at the India Telecom 2012 exhibition, in New Delhi, India, December 13th – 15th.

14 Dec 2012

Newport Unveils New Line of High Precision Adjustment Screws

Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in laser and photonic solutions that Make, Manage, and Measure Light®, introduces the next level of affordable high-precision adjustment with the AJS series 254-TPI (threads-per-inch) adjustment screw.

From Newport Corporation 14 Dec 2012

Lumen Dynamics Wins Coveted Award for X-Cite XLED1 Internal Pulse Generator

Lumen Dynamics, a world leader in light delivery technologies, achieves the 2012 Microscopy Today Innovation Award for its X-Cite® XLED1 Internal Pulse Generator. Recognized for innovation on the basis of importance and usefulness to the microscopy community, the Internal Pulse Generator provides researchers with precise time control and pulsing of each LED for advanced biological imaging applications.

14 Dec 2012

Zecotek’s Solid-State MAPD-3N Photo Detectors Selected by CERN COMPASS Experiment

Zecotek Photonics Inc, a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that the COMPASS experiment at CERN has selected the Company’s solid-state MAPD-3N photo detectors, for the multi-purpose experiment in high-energy physics taking place at CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator located in Switzerland.

From Zecotek Photonics 14 Dec 2012

Novel Attachment Uses Cell Phone's Built-In Camera to Test Food for Allergens

Are you allergic to peanuts and worried there might be some in that cookie? Now you can find out using a rather unlikely source: your cell phone.

13 Dec 2012

Astronomers Uncover Previously Unseen Population of Seven Primitive Galaxies

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago, when the universe was less than 4 percent of its present age. The deepest images to date from Hubble yield the first statistically robust sample of galaxies that tells how abundant they were close to the era when galaxies first formed.

13 Dec 2012

Newport Debuts HXP1000 Hexapod for Advanced Positioning Applications

Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in laser and photonic solutions that Make, Manage and Measure Light®, introduces the HXP1000 Hexapod, a high load, 6-axis-parallel kinematic positioning system that can accommodate a centered load of 450 kg or a load of 200 kg in any orientation.

From Newport Corporation 13 Dec 2012