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Avo Photonics Receives ISO 9001:2008 Certification

Avo Photonics, a custom design and contract manufacturing company specializing in optical packaging, announces that on April 16, 2009 it was granted ISO 9001:2008 certification.

14 May 2009

Laser Design Announces the Introduction of SLP-500 High-Speed Laser Probe

Laser Design Inc., the leading supplier of 3D laser scanners for more than 20 years, announced that its next-generation line of 3D laser scanning probes has a new member, the SLP-500. The company's new and improved Surveyor Laser Probes (SLP) are faster and more accurate than their predecessors.

14 May 2009

'Designer' Lenses will Give Those with Highly Aberrated Vision a New Lease on Day-to-Day Life

While the majority of patients with common vision problems can find glasses or contact lenses fairly easily, others who suffer from diseases of the eye that affect the focus of light have more limited options and may simply have to learn to live with poor vision.

13 May 2009

Fraunhofer ILT Unveils 400 W Femtosecond Laser

Femtosecond lasers (fs-lasers) are the key to ultra-precision processing. Whether in medicine, electronics, aerospace or solar technology, thin coatings can be removed, fiber-reinforced plastics drilled and ceramic components' surfaces structured using fs-lasers.

12 May 2009

Shimadzu Introduces New Spectrophotometers with 3-D Optics for Enhanced Flame and Furnace Analysis.

The new AA-7000 Series atomic absorption spectrophotometer from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments incorporates recently developed 3-D optics for enhanced flame and furnace analysis.

12 May 2009

Cornell Researchers Experiment with Making Objects 'Invisible'

Somewhat the way Harry Potter can cover himself with a cloak and become invisible, Cornell researchers have developed a device that can make it seem that a bump in a carpet -- or, indeed, any flat surface -- isn't there.

12 May 2009

Mobius Photonics Awarded Patent for Green, UV Fiber-Based Light Sources

Mobius Photonics, Inc. has been awarded U.S. Patent #7,529,281, "Light source with precisely controlled wavelength-converted average power".

12 May 2009

The Knowledge Foundation Releases Program Update for the 14th Biodetection Technologies Conference

The Knowledge Foundation today released a Program update for the 14th Biodetection Technologies conference which will be held at the Marriott Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD from June 25-26, 2009.

11 May 2009

Hubble Telescope to Receive High-Tech Upgrade

Scientists and engineers now creating new technologies for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, have realized they can be used to enhance the Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in the upcoming servicing mission.

8 May 2009

Scientists Develop Efficient Method to Detect Entanglement Shared Among Multiple Parts of an Optical System

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed an efficient method to detect entanglement shared among multiple parts of an optical system. They show how entanglement, in the form of beams of light simultaneously propagating along four distinct paths, can be detected with a surprisingly small number of measurements.

8 May 2009