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New Oval and Round LED Lamps from Avago Ideal for Electronic Sign Designers

Avago Technologies (Nasdaq:AVGO), a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced the industry’s first surface mount technology (SMT) high brightness oval and round LED lamps for use in outdoor and indoor electronic sign applications.

17 Mar 2010

Capella Teams Up with IMT to Develop Optical MEMS Devices

Capella Intelligent Subsystems, Inc. and Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. announced today the formation of a strategic foundry relationship.

17 Mar 2010

Printworks Installs Canon imagePRESS C7000VP to Meet Client Demands

Canon Business Solutions., Inc., a subsidiary of Canon U.S.A. and leading provider of document imaging and print production solutions, announced today that Printworks & Company, Inc. of Lansdale, PA has installed the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP digital press to support the growing demand for short-run quality color output.

17 Mar 2010

Kotura Demonstrates 12 Channel Mux and Demux Silicon Photonics

Kotura, Inc., an industry leader in silicon photonics, today announced successful demonstration of their Echelle grating Mux and Demux for 500 Gb/s wavelength division multiplexing applications.

17 Mar 2010

NASA Releases Science Data Captured by LRO Camera

NASA is releasing to the Planetary Data System (PDS) the first six months of data acquired by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.

17 Mar 2010

Optics 1 and Irvine Sensors Sign Teaming Agreement for COTI Systems

Irvine Sensors Corporation (Nasdaq: IRSN) today announced that it has formalized its teaming agreement with Optics 1, Inc., of Manchester, New Hampshire, an optical systems designer and manufacturer, to support production opportunities for Clip-On Thermal Imager ("COTI") systems that have been jointly developed by the two firms over the last several years under government sponsorship.

17 Mar 2010

High-Powered Laser Initiates Upward Liquid Flow Along Silicon Surface

Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have discovered a way to make liquid flow vertically upward along a silicon surface, overcoming the pull of gravity, without pumps or other mechanical devices.

17 Mar 2010

Ambarella Announces Availability of A5s Media Processor for IP Camera and Video Surveillance Markets

Ambarella, Inc., a leader in low-power, high-definition video compression and image processing semiconductors, today announced the availability of the A5s Media Processor for the IP camera and video surveillance markets.

17 Mar 2010

Lunar Exploration Using LRO Images

A researcher from The University of Western Ontario has helped solve a 37-year old space mystery using lunar images released yesterday by NASA and maps from his own atlas of the moon.

17 Mar 2010

NJIT Receives $1.5 Million Grant for New Solar Research Center

NJIT received today from Apollo Solar Energy, Inc. a three-year, $1.5 million grant to establish a solar research center.

17 Mar 2010

SPI Receives 1.75 MW Solar Installation Contract from Temescal Canyon

Solar Power, Inc. (“SPI”) (OTCBB:SOPW) announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Temescal Canyon RV, LLC to design and build an elevated Recreational Vehicle (RV) parking structure which will incorporate a 1.75 megawatt DC solar system utilizing SPI’s top-ranked solar modules.

16 Mar 2010

Prizmatix 630nm LEDs Power Fluorescence Microscopes

Prizmatix Ltd is a company specializing in manufacture of fiber coupled High Power LED light sources and rapid prototyping fiber optics solutions.

16 Mar 2010

BIOLASE Receives FDA Clearance to Market iLase Dental Laser

BIOLASE Technology, Inc., the world's leading dental laser company, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its iLase™ diode laser, the world's first personal laser for dentists and hygienists for performing a full-range of minimally invasive soft-tissue and hygiene procedures.

16 Mar 2010

COMPTEL PLUS 2010 to Feature Optical Breakthroughs from Glimmerglass

Glimmerglass, the leading supplier of intelligent optical layer management solutions for telecommunications service providers, today announced that it will display and demonstrate at COMPTEL PLUS (booth no. 826) the latest breakthroughs in optical systems that enable service providers to provision, monitor and reconfigure circuits in real time, instead of days or weeks.

16 Mar 2010

MICROSCIENCE 2010 Designated an EMS Extension by the European Microscopy Society

MICROSCIENCE 2010 has been designated an EMS Extension by the European Microscopy Society. This means that it will receive increased support, and it will host the European Society’s General Assembly – when up to 60 representatives from the national societies come together.

16 Mar 2010