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Clearview Signs Supply Agreement with Optical Components Provider Ignis

Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLFD), a specialist in fiber management solutions for fiber to the premises (FTTp) deployments, and Ignis ASA, a leading international provider of optical components, announced today that they have signed a mutual supply agreement.

15 Feb 2010

ST's Protection and Signal-Termination Device Requires Less Number of Optical Transistors Than Conventional Terminations

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a world leader in protection ICs, has announced the world's first device combining field signal-termination and protection functions, enabling designers of industrial control and building-automation equipment to increase system performance and EMI robustness while simultaneously cutting power consumption, size, and heat dissipation.

15 Feb 2010

Using Gold Nanoparticles Scientists Convert Optical Radiation to Electrical Current

Material scientists at the Nano/Bio Interface Center of the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit

15 Feb 2010

New Diamond Nanowire Device Ideal for Quantum Science and Technology Applications

A diamond-based nanowire device. Researchers used a top-down nanofabrication technique to embed color centers into a variety of machined structures

15 Feb 2010

Researchers Stack Photons Using Quantum Entanglement Technique

While many of us enjoyed constructing little houses out of toy bricks when we were kids, this task is much more difficult if bricks are elementary particles. It is even harder if these are particles of light – photons, which can only exist while flying at an incredible speed and vanish if they touch anything.

15 Feb 2010

Using Laser Optical Trap, Researchers Observe Chemical Reactions Near Zero

Physicists at JILA have for the first time observed chemical reactions near absolute zero, demonstrating that chemistry is possible at ultralow temperatures and that reaction rates can be controlled using quantum mechanics, the peculiar rules of submicroscopic physics.

12 Feb 2010

Sony Announces Acquisition to Offer Optic Solution to Health Care Market

Biotech company to stay and grow in the park, CEO remains in place

12 Feb 2010

AB SCIEX's Mass Spectrometry Solution to be Used for 2010 Winter Games Anti-Doping Testing

Officials Increase Efforts to Enforce Zero-Tolerance Policy

12 Feb 2010

Brüel + Kjær Ships Large LDS Vibration-Test System for Testing Durability of Hybrid Battery

Hybrid power technology development is ramping up globally. In today‘s ultra-competitive automotive industry, these technologies of the future demand vibration test solutions that can efficiently perform highly accelerated lifetime testing (HALT), even on large and fully operational assemblies.

12 Feb 2010

Advanced Photonix Receives Follow-On Order for Photodiode Assembly and Optical Sensor

Advanced Photonix, Inc. (R) (NYSE Amex: API) announced today that it has received a $2.4 million follow-on order from a major defense prime contractor to deliver products within a 26-month time frame beginning May 2010. The Company expects most of the revenue to be recognized evenly over the next two fiscal years. The products to be supplied for this order include a custom photodiode assembly and optical sensor used for the Navy's Guided Missile Systems. The Guided Missile Weapon System is the world's most modern ship self-defense weapon, and has been specifically designed to provide exceptional protection for multiple ship platforms.

12 Feb 2010