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Meller Optics Launches Sapphire Windows and Lenses

Custom fabricated sapphire windows and lenses of about 10in diameter in size have been launched by Meller Optics. This sapphire material has the ability to remit from the UV to the IR and is resistant to most chemicals, impurities, water, and sand.

From Meller Optics, Inc. 29 Dec 2011

Optical Material Technology Can Decrease Power Usage of Data Centers

A Bloomberg News Service story dated 13 December 2011 has described the vast power costs required for cooling data centers across the world.

27 Dec 2011

Technique for Improving Flexible Optical Fibers

An international team of scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States have developed a new chemical process, where a non-crystalline form of silicon is embedded into the long, ultra-thin pores of optical fibers.

26 Dec 2011

Introducing Passive Optical Diodes for Optical Information Processing

A new type of small optical device appropriate to fit several devices on a computer chip has been formulated by researches that promote accelerated, potential information processing and supercomputers.

26 Dec 2011

Plasmonic Nanoantenna Arrays Help Advance New Range of Optical Technologies

Using plasmonic nanoantenna arrays, Purdue University researchers have demonstrated new ways of accurately manipulating the propagation of light by modifying its phase, opening the door for new class of optical advancements such as powerful computers, telecommunications and microscopes.

23 Dec 2011

Nanowire Endoscope for Capturing High-Resolution Optical Images of Single Live Cells

A research team led by Peidong Yang, a chemist at the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed a nanowire endoscope by integrating a waveguide of tin oxide nanowire with an optical fiber’s tapered end, paving the way for capturing optical images of the inside of an individual live cell at high resolution or accurately delivering drugs, proteins, genes or other cargo without causing damage to the cell.

23 Dec 2011

Olympus Launches Newly Designed Olympus Objective Lens for Intense Biological Imaging

Olympus unveiled the new XLPLN25XSVMP SCALEVIEW 25x objective lens (NA 1.0) for an intensified imaging of condensed biological samples.

22 Dec 2011

Researchers Use Optical Coherence Tomography to Measure Growth Rate of Cone Cells

Researchers at the Indiana University Bloomington have used an optical coherence tomography (OCT) to study the nano-scale growth of cone cells in a live human eye.

22 Dec 2011

NIST Develops Fiber-Coupled Radiometer Capable of Measuring Absolute Optical Power

By using a microscopic forest of carbon nanotubes, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind fiber-coupled cryogenic radiometer that is capable of delivering absolute optical power measurements via an optical fiber.

22 Dec 2011

MSC Software, Sigmadyne Declare New Methods for Optical Systems Development

MSC Software, a pioneer in multidiscipline simulation solutions that generate product innovation, declared that Sigmadyne, a software development and finite element analysis consulting company, has presented a wide range of capabilities for the optical systems analysis with MSC Nastran as their basic simulation software.

21 Dec 2011