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New Ultrasensitive Image Sensor Based on Single Photon Avalanche Photodiodes Technology

Fast and ultrasensitive optical systems are gaining increasing significance and are being used in a diverse range of applications, for example, in imaging procedures in the fields of medicine and biology, in astronomy and in safety engineering for the automotive industry.

From Fraunhofer USA, Inc. 8 Nov 2012

Top ICRAR Contributor Awarded Tour of Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory

Last week the top contributor to citizen science initiative theSkyNet travelled to the heart of the West Australian outback to visit the future site of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope.

6 Nov 2012

Resolve Optics Provides Guidelines on Using Radiation Resistant Lenses

Resolve Optics Ltd has produced an informative technical note that addresses the question 'Does My Application Require Radiation Resistant Lenses?

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 5 Nov 2012

BiOptix to Exhibit New Surface Plasmon Resonance Instrument at Label Free Technologies Show

BiOptix today announced that it would be highlighting the new BiOptix 404pi, the first commercially available SPR instrument to incorporate phase-based common path interferometry technology, at the Label Free Technologies Show in Amsterdam from November 1 - 3 as well as at the PEGS Europe Summit on November 6 – 8.

3 Nov 2012

Huawei Technologies Presents Excellent Supplier Award to NeoPhotonics

NeoPhotonics Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of photonic integrated circuit, or PIC, based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications networks, today announced that for the second consecutive year the company has received the prestigious “Excellent Supplier Award” as a Core Partner from Huawei Technologies, one of the world's leading providers of telecommunications network solutions.

3 Nov 2012

Size of Asteroid Belt May Determine Evolution of Life on Nearby Planets

Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass, according to a study by Rebecca Martin, a NASA Sagan Fellow from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and astronomer Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md.

2 Nov 2012

Superfocus Introduces Conventional Style Adjustable Focus Eyeglasses

Superfocus LLC, creators of award-winning / revolutionary adjustable focus eyeglasses, today launched its new Leonardo Collection. Leonardo offers alternative style, together with user-friendly technology, at a more affordable price.

2 Nov 2012

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Enables Accurate Measurement of Starlight

Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish the total amount of light from all of the stars that have ever shone, accomplishing a primary mission goal.

2 Nov 2012

Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager to Study Nanoflares on the Sun

Those who watch the sun are regularly treated to brilliant shows – dancing loops of solar material rise up, dark magnetic regions called sunspots twist across the surface, and dazzling flares of light and radiation explode into space. But there are smaller, barely visible events, too: much smaller and more frequent eruptions called nanoflares. Depending on how many and how energetic these are, nanoflares may be the missing piece of the puzzle to help understand what seeds the cascade that causes a much bigger flare, or to explain how the sun transfers so much energy to its atmosphere that it's actually hotter than the surface.

2 Nov 2012

High-Contrast Imaging Confirms Extrasolar Planet in Quadruple Star System

Justin Crepp, Freimann Assistant Professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, provided the high-contrast imaging observations that confirmed the first extrasolar planet discovered in a quadruple star system. He is a co-author on a paper about the discovery, “Planet Hunters: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet in a Quadruple Star System,” recently posted to the open-access arXiv.org, and submitted for publication to The Astrophysical Journal.

30 Oct 2012

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