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Xponent Photonics Receives $23 Million in Series 3 Funding

Xponent Photonics, the leading manufacturer of Surface Mount Photonic components, announced it has secured $23 million in Series 3 funding.

15 Jul 2007

Xponent Photonics Unveils Xponent HDFiber for High Resolution Video Displays

Xponent Photonics announces its HDFiber product line at SID 2007. These optical components replace thick bulky copper cables connecting high resolution digital video displays with ultra-thin un-obtrusive fiberoptic ca...

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Launches Automated Optical Inspection System

Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced the Agilent Medalist SJ50 Series 3 Automated Optical Inspection system (AOI), whose unique imaging chain and powerful inspection algorithms qualify it as the industry's best AOI.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry-First Lightwave Component Analyzer for Testing Multimode Electro-Optical Components at 850 nm

Agilent Technologies Inc. today demonstrated its latest lightwave component analyzer (LCA), the industry's first to test components at an 850 nm target wavelength.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Completes Acquisition of Adaptif Photonics

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced it has completed the acquisition of Adaptif Photonics GmbH.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Extends High-Precision Thin-Film Optical Coating Capability

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the installation of a new reactive magnetron thin-film optical coating system from Leybold Optics GmbH.

15 Jul 2007

Light-sensitive Molecule Heals Itself in the Dark

Sometimes all an overworked molecule needs is a good night's rest. According to a study by physicist Mark Kuzyk and colleagues at Washington State University, a molecule that loses its ability to fluoresce when st...

15 Jul 2007

New Generation of Optical Molecules

The internet could soon shift into overdrive thanks to a new generation of optical molecules developed and tested by a team of researchers from Washington State University, the University of Leuven in Belgium and the Chinese Academy of Science in China.

15 Jul 2007

Using the Intersection of Mathematics and Computational Science to Understand the World

Undergraduate students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Howard University will now have a chance to pursue research at the intersection of mathematics and computational science, thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

15 Jul 2007