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New Adaptive Optics Toolkit Provides Easy and Affordable Option for Researchers

Thorlabs, Inc. and Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC) today announced the Adaptive Optics (AO) Toolkit, a new kit that makes adaptive optics easy, affordable, and widely available for researchers.

21 Jan 2008

Moritex Introduces Compact Digital CCD Microscope for Inspection of Gemstones

Moritex has announced that its compact MSX-500Di digital CCD microscope has enabled luxury jewellery specialists Wharton to inspect, measure and electronically document precious gemstones handled by the company.

21 Jan 2008

Unique Technology Combination Enables New Features

JDSU is advancing the world of polarization optics with today's announcement of its ability to combine thin-film and liquid crystal polymer technologies to produce high-quality custom birefringent components.

21 Jan 2008

Novel Technique to Sharpen X-Ray Imaging

Researchers at the PSI and the EPFL in Switzerland have developed a novel method for producing dark-field x-ray images at wavelengths used in typical medical and industrial imaging equipment.

20 Jan 2008

Elbit Systems Receives Contracts to Supply Thermal Imaging Systems

Elbit Systems Ltd. has been awarded contracts valued at a total of approximately $40 million from several customers for the supply of its CORAL and CORAL-CR hand-held lightweight Thermal Imaging cameras.

20 Jan 2008

Laser Diode Marks Company's Entry into Human Body Light Measuring Device Market

Opnext, Inc., a global leader in state-of-the-art laser technology, today announced the availability of the HL7001/7002MG laser diode for use in medical applications such as blood, analysis light source and endoscopy.

19 Jan 2008

Tiny Blue-Violet Laser Offers Strength and Power

Photonic Products is pleased to announce that Sanyo’s tiny blue-violet laser diodes are now available in industrial strength and power.

19 Jan 2008

New Chips Call on Light Speed

The tiny copper wires that connect different areas of an integrated circuit may soon limit microchip-processing speeds. So European researchers have developed technologies to produce and combine semiconductor microlasers with silicon wave guides for novel, power-efficient optical connections.

18 Jan 2008

ITT Corporation Announces a $174.7 Million Order from U.S. Army

ITT Corporation today announced that its night vision business was awarded an order from the U.S. Army Research, Development & Engineering Command Acquisition Center totaling $174.7 million. The order is for the AN/PVS-14 night vision monocular—ITT's most versatile night vision unit—and spare image tubes. It is the latest order for the Omnibus VII contract awarded by the U.S. Army in September 2005.

17 Jan 2008

Crystalix Enters Asset Purchase Agreement with U.C. Laser

CRYSTALIX GROUP INTERNATIONAL, Inc. and its subsidiary Lazer-Tek Designs are excited to announce that on December 29, 2005 they entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with U.C. Laser, Ltd. of Israel (DBA Crystal Impressions).

17 Jan 2008