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Camtek Secures Order for its Automatic Optical Inspection Systems

Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: CAMT) ("Camtek"), announced today that a leading assembly and test supplier in Asia has selected the Falcon, Camtek's Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) system, for a 2D and 3D metrology and inspection solution.

14 May 2010

Physicists Discover Exotic Atomic Collisions Using Optical Lattice

The experiment starts by cooling a dilute cloud of hundreds of thousands of atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, approximately -273 degrees Celsius.

14 May 2010

UCSD Researchers Develop New Sensor to Locate Chemical Hazards

A tiny silicon chip that works a bit like a nose may one day detect dangerous airborne chemicals and alert emergency responders through the cell phone network.

14 May 2010

Raman Scattering Helps to Detect Rotavirus Strains and Genotypes Within a Minute

Using nanotechnology and a patented signal enhancing technique developed at the University of Georgia, UGA researchers have discovered a rapid, sensitive and cost-effective method to detect and identify a number of rotavirus strains and genotypes in less than one minute with greater than 96 percent accuracy.

14 May 2010

LaserCard Introduces New Optical Security Media-Based Green Cards

LaserCard Corporation today announced the introduction of the next-generation U.S. Permanent Resident Card (“Green Card”) featuring advanced optical security media and, for the first time, a Radio Frequency Identity (RFID) tag for compliance with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.

13 May 2010

OSA Helps Students to Present Papers at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

The OSA Foundation is pleased to announce this year’s 10 recipients of the Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Grants, endowed by Milton and Rosalind Chang, who will present their papers at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) to be held next week in San Jose, Calif.

From Optical Society Of America 13 May 2010

Three-Port Transistor Laser Modifies Current Law to Current-Energy Law

While the laws of physics weren't made to be broken, sometimes they need revision. A major current law has been rewritten thanks to the three-port transistor laser, developed by Milton Feng and Nick Holonyak Jr. at the University of Illinois.

13 May 2010

Glimmerglass to Showcase its Optical, Photonic Systems at SubOptic 2010

Glimmerglass Networks, the leading supplier of intelligent optical layer management solutions, today announced it will exhibit, submit a technical paper and deliver a poster presentation on the remote provisioning, monitoring and restoration of optical paths at submarine cable landing stations at SubOptic 2010, May 11-14, 2010, at the Pacifico Yokohama Conference Center in Yokohama, Japan.

12 May 2010

Latest Breakthroughs in Electro-Optics to be Featured at 2010 CLEO Conference

Researchers from around the world will present the latest breakthroughs in electro-optics, innovative developments in laser science, and commercial applications in photonics at the 2010 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS) May 16 to 21 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.

12 May 2010

Researchers Develop New Method to Stabilize Optical Phase of Light Pulse

Lasers can now generate light pulses down to 100 attoseconds thereby enabling real-time measurements on ultrashort time scales that are inaccessible by any other methods.

12 May 2010