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Scientists Use NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to Explain the Mystery Behind Infrared Light

A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky. It comes from isolated stars beyond the edges of galaxies. These stars are thought to have once belonged to the galaxies before violent galaxy mergers stripped them away into the relatively empty space outside of their former homes.

25 Oct 2012

New Report on the U.S. DoD Electro-Optical/Infrared Systems Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "U.S. DoD Electro-Optical/Infrared Systems Market: Improving Surveillance and Targeting" to their offering.

24 Oct 2012

Scientists Complete the First Mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope

Scientists at the University of Arizona and in California have completed the most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made.

24 Oct 2012

Apple Unveils New iMac with Brilliant Display and Reduced Reflection

Apple® today unveiled a completely new iMac® with a stunning design, brilliant display with reduced reflection, and faster processors.* With third generation Intel quad-core processors, powerful NVIDIA graphics and an innovative new storage option called Fusion Drive, the new iMac is the most advanced desktop Apple has ever made.

24 Oct 2012

Skin of Silvery Fish May Hold the Key to Better Optical Devices

Reflective surfaces polarize light, a phenomenon that fishermen or photographers overcome by using polarizing sunglasses or polarizing filters to cut our reflective glare. However, PhD student Tom Jordan and his supervisors Professor Julian Partridge and Dr Nicholas Roberts in Bristol's School of Biological Sciences found that these silvery fish have overcome this basic law of reflection – an adaptation that may help them evade predators.

22 Oct 2012

Keck and NASA Telescopes Reveal Unexpected Pattern of Change in Galaxies

A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 billion years, or more than half the age of the universe.

20 Oct 2012

Research Team Demonstrates Integrated Emitter Arrays of Optical Vortices on Silicon Chip

An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol and the Universities of Glasgow (UK) and Sun Yat-sen and Fudan in China, have demonstrated integrated arrays of emitters of so call 'optical vortex beams' onto a silicon chip. The work is featured on the cover of the latest issue of Science magazine, published tomorrow [19 October 2012].

19 Oct 2012

One-Box Optical Test Solution from Digital Lightwave Supports 40/100G Technology

Digital Lightwave, a provider of optical test equipment and technologies for the telecom industry, today announced the support for advanced 40/100G testing on the already globally deployed NIC platform.

From VeEX Inc. 17 Oct 2012

Epson Releases New Perfection Photo Scanners

Epson America , today introduced two new additions to its award-winning line of Epson® Perfection® scanners – the Epson Perfection V37 and Epson Perfection V370 Photo scanners.

17 Oct 2012

NHG Awarded License to Make and Distribute LightPath Technologies’ GRADIUM Optical Products

LightPath Technologies, a global manufacturer, distributor and integrator of patented optical components and high-level assemblies, has partnered with NHG, a major manufacturer and provider of optical materials, and granted to NHG an exclusive license to manufacture and distribute GRADIUM® glass products in Asia and, in particular, China , using LightPath intellectual property. The license is exclusive, non-assignable, non-transferable and has an initial term of five years.

From LightPath Technologies, Inc. 12 Oct 2012