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Future Lighting Solutions and Royal Philips Electronics Extend Collaboration

Future Lighting Solutions announced that it has extended its partnership with the Royal Philips Electronics.

14 May 2010

New Optical Channel Monitor from DiCon Features MEMS Durability, Reliability

DiCon Fiberoptics is pleased to present its new Optical Channel Monitor (OCM) for use in DWDM networks.

14 May 2010

NSM Music Employs Zytronic’s PCT-Based Touch Sensors in its New Online Jukeboxes

Zytronic has gained another high level endorsement for its PCT-based touch sensors.

14 May 2010

Lens Manufacturers Benefit from Taylor Hobson’s Optics Metrology

Drastic manufacturing yield improvements are being gained by manufacturers of high precision optics.

14 May 2010

Semrock Introduces New Quad-Band Set Comprising Hard-Coated Optical Filters

Semrock announces the first complete quad-band fluorescence filter set for simultaneous four-color imaging by eye or with a color camera using broadband illumination.

14 May 2010

Major Breakthrough in 3D Super-Resolution Imaging

With the help of a highly sensitive Andor iXon+ EMCCD camera, US researchers have developed a super-resolution, 3D imaging technique that can resolve single fluorescent molecules with greater than 10 times more precision than conventional optical microscopy.

14 May 2010

Abrisa to Showcase Optical Coating Solutions at SID 2010

Abrisa, a global leader in complete glass and coating solutions for display applications, will be showcasing a wide variety of front glass, optical coatings for display, silkscreened glass panels, precision-machined glass edges, and other lenses and glass at the 48th annual SID International Exhibition, May 25-27, 2010 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA.

14 May 2010

Single Rubidium Atom Controls Light Transmission Through Optical Cavity

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) describes the effect, that the interaction of an atomic medium with a weak laser field can be controlled and manipulated coherently with a second, strong laser field.

14 May 2010

Golden Anniversary of Laser

The first laser was small enough to hold in the palm of your hand. But in the 50 years since Theodore Maiman successfully built and fired the first laser, the technology has made enormous changes in the way we live our lives. This Sunday marks the golden anniversary of the invention that kicked off a major industry and paved the way for numerous life-enhancing advances.

From SPIE 14 May 2010

BIOLASE Releases New Animated Episode on Laser Dentistry at CDA 2010

BIOLASE Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLTI), the world's leading dental laser company, today announced that it is taking advantage of the large dental audiences at the California Dental Association 2010 CDA Presents Meeting in Anaheim, CA, to formally release a new episode of the animated educational program ToothTales.

14 May 2010