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Centronic Releases New Infrared Photodiodes Line for 1 to 2.4 µm

Centronic announced at Photonics West 2010 a new series of infrared photodiodes for the wavelength region 1µm to 2.4 µm

29 Jan 2010

Varioptic Announces Liquid Lens for Mobile Phone Optical Image Stabilization

Varioptic, the liquid lens company, today announced that it has developed its first liquid lens, A316S, offering Optical Image Stabilization functionality to mobile phones.

29 Jan 2010

New Ultrafast Laser Amplifier from Coherent Delivers Highest Power Output

A new Ti:Sapphire ultrafast laser amplifier from Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) delivers over twice the power of any comparable product. Specifically, the Legend Elite Duo-HP offers over 15 Watts of output power, and the highest pulse energy (up to 10 mJ) currently on the market for a kHz class, thermoelectrically (TE) cooled amplifier. Legend Elite Duo-HP can be configured to provide output pulse durations of <25 fs, <35 fs, <130 fs, or 0.5 ps to 2 ps with repetition rates in the range 1 kHz to 10 kHz.

29 Jan 2010

Coherent Expands Sapphire Series CW Visible Laser Line with 532nm Lasers

Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) has expanded their Sapphire™ family of compact CW visible lasers with 532 nm (green) lasers based on the company’s unique OPSL technology.

29 Jan 2010

Coherent Launches Verdi G7 Low-Noise CW Laser

Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) has launched the Verdi™ G7, delivering the highest power level yet for the company’s unique Verdi G family of low-noise CW lasers based on next-generation optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL) technology.

29 Jan 2010

AIXTRON to Build New Research and Development Facility

AIXTRON AG (FSE: AIXA, ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6; NASDAQ: AIXG, ISIN US0096061041) today announced an important step in the implementation of its accelerated Research and Development strategy by building a new state of the art R&D campus at its premises in Herzogenrath-Kohlscheid in support of the company’s Research and Development strategy.

29 Jan 2010

Gigahertz-Optik Introduces New Hand-Held LED Spectrolightmeter

LEDs measured on the test bench can produce different photometric and color results in actual operation mounted on the PC board. Also measuring slight color and flux differences between discrete LEDs mounted in a module is not possible with typical LED measurement set-ups.

28 Jan 2010

Ophir-Spiricon Launches Two New Laser Beam Dumps

Ophir-Spiricon, the global leader in precision laser measurement equipment, today announced two new Laser Beam Dump products for high power applications, the BD5000W-BB-50 and the BDFL500A-BB-50.

28 Jan 2010

Ophir-Spiricon Unveils PD300-R Line of Circular Photodiode Sensors

Compact, low noise photodiode energy detector provides wide dynamic range, from picoWatts to Watts

28 Jan 2010

Elliot Scientific Offers Range of Laser Products from AKELA Laser

Elliot Scientific is now offering custom multi-mode and single mode pulsed and CW diode lasers, diode laser modules, diode laser bars, arrays and opto-mechanical sub-assemblies in wavelengths ranging from 635nm to greater than 2 microns from AKELA Laser. In addition to custom packages and sub-assemblies, AKELA also offer high power laser diodes in a wide array of standard packages in single emitter, multi-element module and bar configurations.

28 Jan 2010

Canadian Solar Announces PV Modules Sales Contract with Fire Energy

Canadian Solar Inc. ("the Company", "Canadian Solar" or "we") (Nasdaq: CSIQ) today announced that that it has entered into a sales contract with Fire Energy Group ("F.E."). Under terms of the contract, shipments started in January, with Canadian Solar expected to supply 60MW of PV modules to Fire Energy in 2010.

28 Jan 2010

LED Screen from Lighthouse Technologies Installed at Rose Bowl Stadium

The world-renowned Rose Bowl hosted the year's most anticipated college football game this season -- the BCS Championship game, as well as the "granddaddy of them all," the Rose Bowl. For each game, nearly 95,000 college football fans in attendance looked to the spectacular new Lighthouse Jumbovision LED screen for game action replays, sponsor messages and entertainment.

28 Jan 2010

Plant Physiologists Capture Pollen Tube Growth on Camera

Studying pollen tubes, University of Massachusetts Amherst plant cell biologist Peter Hepler and colleagues have captured some of the fastest growing tissues known, on camera for the first time, to advance understanding of fertilization processes critical to development of all fruits, nuts, grains, rice, corn, wheat and other crops we depend on for food.

28 Jan 2010

FORS2 Instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Finds New Black Hole in NGC 300

The stellar-mass black holes found in the Milky Way weigh up to ten times the mass of the Sun and are certainly not be taken lightly

28 Jan 2010

One of the World's Largest Video Screens Installed at Meydan Racecourse, Dubai

Sojitz Corporation and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation installed a Diamond Vision screen as one of the world's largest and widest video systems at Meydan Racecourse, which opened today in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

28 Jan 2010