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NEI to Fund for Development of High Resolution Retinal Imaging System

Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC), a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics (AO) systems, today announced that it has been awarded a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Grant (SBIR) from the National Eye Institute (NEI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

29 Oct 2007

Researchers to Develop Ways of Controlling Optical Energy

The University of Texas at San Antonio and The University of Texas at Austin are two of five research universities in a nationwide consortium awarded $1.4 million from the National Science Foundation. The Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) grant is designed to explore ways of concentrating optical energy on a scale of nanometers and develop means of controlling optical energy for applications in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

29 Oct 2007

Custom Zoom Lenses Overcome Performance Limitations

Drawing upon over 15 years experience Resolve Optics Ltd has established an international reputation for design and manufacture of OEM quantity custom zoom lens.

29 Oct 2007

Tokuyama Corporation successfully starts up AIXTRON MOCVD System for development and production of UV LEDs

AIXTRON AG is pleased to announce the successful start-up of an AIXTRON 200/4 RF-S epitaxy reactor at Tokuyama, Japan. The system is used for the development and production of AlGaN based ultra-violet light emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) and is installed at the Tokuyama R&D center in Tsukuba, Japan.

29 Oct 2007

World Record Set for Optical High-Speed Signals

A world record in the measurement of optical high-speed signals was announced at the Europea Conference on Optical Communication, held last month in Berlin. Researchers with the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, and spinoff company PicoSolve Inc., said they have "used the best optics capability and combined it with the best electronics capability to circumvent bandwidth bottlenecks."

29 Oct 2007

JDSU Introduces Latest Generation of MTS/T-BERD Fiber Optic Test Line

JDSU today announced the latest generation of its MTS/T-BERD fiber optic test line, the MTS/T-BERD 6000 LITE. A highly integrated, non-modular, compact Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) ideally suited for the construction, fault location and troubleshooting/maintenance of FTTx and access networks, the MTS/T-BERD 6000 LITE offers even inexperienced field service technicians a high-performance tool for broadband network quality and reliability.

29 Oct 2007

II-VI Announces Expansion of Laser Optics and Components Product Lines

II-VI Inc. announced this week it will expand its laser optics and components product lines and enter the fiber laser market by acquiring 74.9 percent of HighYAG Lasertechnologie GmbH for an undisclosed amount of cash.

29 Oct 2007

EMBARQ Logistics to Deliver Fiber Optic Broadband System Communication Company

EMBARQ Logistics and Wave7 Optics today announced here at the TelcoTV Conference and Expo that customers of McClure Telephone (McClure, Ohio), an Independent Operating Company serving parts of Henry and Wood Counties in Ohio, will soon enjoy the ultimate in broadband "triple play" communications services.

28 Oct 2007

PI Offers New Brochure on Piezo Ceramic Linear Motors

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of ultra-precision motion-control and sensing equipment for bio / nanotechnology, photonics, semiconductor and life science applications -- offers a new brochure on pie...

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 28 Oct 2007

EPSRC Has Awarded Group of Researchers to Work on Silicon Photonics

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded a grant valued at ?m to a consortium of researchers in the UK, led by the University of Surrey, to work on Silicon Photonics.

28 Oct 2007