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Device will have Many Important Applications to Quantum Technologies

A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated an optical device that filters two particles of light (or photons) based on the correlations between their polarisation that are only allowed in the seemingly bizarre quantum world. This so called "entanglement filter" passes the pair of photons only if they inhabit the same quantum state, without the user (or anything else) ever knowing what that state is.

22 Jan 2009

Tiny Disk-Shaped Lasers Could One Day Beam Information Through Optical Computers

Tiny disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information through optical computers. Unfortunately, a perfect disk will spray light out, not as a beam, but in all directions. New theoretical results, reported in the Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters, explain how adding a small notch to the disk edge provides a single outlet for laser light to stream out.

22 Jan 2009

Spectrometer Modules MCS FLEX Supplement Successful Spectral Sensor Line from Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss has added the MCS FLEX modules to its line of spectral sensors. The Multi Channel Spectrometer modules will be presented for the first time at the Photonics West trade show in San Jose, California, from January 27 to 29, 2009.

22 Jan 2009

Infinera to Exhibit at SCTE's First-Ever Canadian Summit

Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) will exhibit at SCTE's first-ever Canadian Summit, in Toronto February 3-4 at the Toronto Congress Centre. Infinera has pioneered Digital Optical Networking with the Infinera DTN, a Digital ROADM based on large-scale photonic integration.

21 Jan 2009

New Optical Processors Bring Advanced Filtering and Switching Capabilities to DWDM and Other Optics Applications

Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR) today introduced WaveShaper, a family of programmable optical processors, at the Fiber Optics Expo in Tokyo. These dynamically reconfigurable optical processors can produce highly flexible wavelength switching and filtering that is critical in DWDM system and component testing, optical pulse shaping and control, and general optics research and development.

21 Jan 2009

Company Will Feature Latest Suite of Metal Halide Fiber-Optic Illuminators for Medical, Industrial Applications

Welch Allyn Lighting Products, a premier manufacturer of high-performance lighting and technology, introduces the "LB24" suite of Solarc metal halide fiber-optic illuminators for medical and industrial applications. LB24 products are compact, efficient, long-life illumination sources that produce high-quality, daylight-appearing light for delivery via small-diameter fiber bundles.

20 Jan 2009

Company Offers Unique Portfolio of Patterned Coatings Solutions for OEM Applications

Optics Balzers AG, formerly Oerlikon Optics, is a leading supplier of precision optical components. The company offers a unique portfolio of patterned coatings solutions for OEM applications.

20 Jan 2009

Resolve Optics Renowned for Their Specialist Lens Design for Nuclear Applications

Renowned for their specialist lens design for nuclear applications - Resolve Optics Ltd. has designed and supplied a specialist camera manufacturer with a novel UV zoom lens enabling remote viewing of a nuclear fuel assembly through 10 metres of water.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 20 Jan 2009

PI Introduces Novel Ceramic Linear Motor Actuators at Photonics West Conference

Piezo systems specialist PI will introduce the novel N-380 / N-381 NEXACT® ceramic linear motor actuators at this year's Photonics West conference in San Jose, CA. The new actuator is based on the Piezo Walk principle and replaces classical lead screw actuators combining high forces and long travel ranges with sub-nanometer resolution in a small package.

20 Jan 2009

Optical System that Allows for Direct Observation of Photonic Josephson Effects

The interaction of light and matter has always fascinated physicists and layman as well. Recently a group of researchers led by Dr. W. M. Liu from Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, CAS published their findings on Josephson effect for photons in Physical Review Letters.

20 Jan 2009