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Kotura Announces Partnership to Bring New Silicon Photonics Products

Kotura, Inc., a leading provider of silicon photonic components, and Oki Optical Components, a leading supplier of very high speed optical and IC components for Ethernet and Telecom applications, today announced that they are partnering to bring new products to the market place.

21 Feb 2008

Fiber Optic Splicer Provides Greater Thermal Control and Lower Insertion Loss

In the world of fiber optic splicing, it’s been the choice of two technologies: electric arc fusion or filament splicing. Not anymore.

21 Feb 2008

Giant Camera will Survey the Sky 1000 Times Faster

Today (21 February 2008) the Science and Technology Facility Council's UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh shipped its biggest and most complex ever instrument.

21 Feb 2008

Helping Customers to Select the Right Component

The Machine Vision Lenses & Peripherals Catalogue from Moritex has been designed as an informative technical resource to help customers select the correct components to achieve an optimised imaging solution for their Machine Vision application.

21 Feb 2008

GPON Transceivers Augment NeoPhotonics Portfolio of FTTP Transceivers

NeoPhotonics announced today a new line of “pluggable” GPON transceivers, compliant with the ITU-T G.984.5 networking standard, to augment its portfolio of Biplexer and Triplexer modules used in “fiber to the premise” (FTTP) networks around the world.

20 Feb 2008

Lumera Corporation to Develop Telecommunication Products Under Agreement

Lumera Corporation, a leader in the field of photonic communications, announced today that it had entered into an agreement with Asyrmatos Inc., a privately held Boston-based company, to develop telecommunication products that will be enabled by Lumera's millimeter wave communication technology.

20 Feb 2008

Revolutionary Technology Enables Light Sources to Achieve Extreme High Brightness

Energetiq Technology, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of specialized short-wavelength light products for advanced technology applications, will introduce a revolutionary technology at the 2008 SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, February 26-27, that enables light sources to achieve extreme high brightness and power over the broadest spectral range.

20 Feb 2008

SIDECAR Provides Better Images to Earth

Many technologies have become so advanced that they've been miniaturized to take up less space and weigh less. That's what happened to detector controls and data conversion electronics on the James Webb Space Telescope being built by Northrop Grumman.

20 Feb 2008

USAF Awards Boeing to Develop Start-of-the-Art Laser Technology

The Boeing Company has been awarded a $49 million U.S. Air Force contract to advance the state of the art in laser technology.

20 Feb 2008

Telescopes on the Far Side of the Moon

NASA has selected a proposal by an MIT-led team to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon that would probe the earliest formation of the basic structures of the universe. The agency announced the selection and 18 others related to future observatories on Friday, Feb.15.

19 Feb 2008