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Suntech Likely to Develop 20% Projects Under China's Solar Rooftop Program

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's leading manufacturer of crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) modules, today announced that it expects to develop approximately 20% of the 91MW of solar projects that were approved under China's Solar Rooftop Program.

13 Nov 2009

New Minimally Invasive Laser Treatment Help Avoid Uneven Blood Flow in Identical Twin Pregnancy

As the number of women having twins has increased, so has the odds of developing a serious pregnancy complication called twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). This disorder affects as many as 15 percent of identical twin pregnancies, and results in uneven blood flow between the fetuses. Until recently the outcome was usually death or disabilities for the surviving babies.

13 Nov 2009

Sirius Integrator Manufactures ES-C Series Solar Panel Systems for Evergreen Solar

Sirius Integrator announced today that they are now an OEM of Evergreen Solar's new ES-C Series 12 volt, 80 watt solar panel systems and are providing "Sirius High Availability Solar Systems(TM) " to customers throughout the United States.

13 Nov 2009

Aqua Pennsylvania Begins Solar Farm Construction at Ingram Mill Water Treatment Plant

Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. (Aqua) managers were joined today by elected officials and environmental leaders to celebrate the start of construction of a 1.1 megawatt photovoltaic solar farm at Aqua’s Ingram’s Mill Water Treatment Plant in East Bradford Township, which serves drinking water to the West Chester, Pennsylvania area.

13 Nov 2009

Dow Chemical and Caltech Sign Deal to Collaborate on Solar Energy Research

The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announced today that they had recently signed a multi-year research collaboration that is strategic to both organizations' interests in solar energy.

13 Nov 2009

Vision-Ease Lens Reports Major Fire in its Indonesia Manufacturing Facility

Vision-Ease Lens (VEL), a manufacturer of ophthalmic lenses, learned yesterday that its manufacturing facility in Jakarta, Indonesia, sustained damage from a major fire. All employees evacuated safely and damage is currently being assessed. The Jakarta facility is one of two manufacturing facilities owned by VEL.

13 Nov 2009

Zayo Bandwidth to Deploy TDM and Ethernet Services to More Sites in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Zayo Bandwidth, a provider of bandwidth infrastructure solutions for carrier, enterprise and government customers, announced today that it will deploy TDM and Ethernet services to an additional 300 wireless tower sites in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas of Pennsylvania in support of the current mobile platform and the upcoming transition to 4th generation technologies.

13 Nov 2009

VisEn Medical Unveils Commercial Cat B 750 FAST Imaging Agent for Cathepsin B Activity Diagnosis

VisEn Medical Inc., a leader in fluorescence in vivo imaging from research through medicine, announced today the commercial launch of its new Cat B 750 FAST(TM) imaging agent for measuring and monitoring cathepsin B activity associated with disease progression and therapeutic response in vivo. Cathepsin B expression is well known as a key biomarker and therapeutic target in a range of diseases, including atherosclerosis, oncology, and arthritis. The new agent is expected to have a significant impact in cardiovascular disease research, and is being launched at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2009 in Orlando.

13 Nov 2009

New Technique in Laser Hair Removal Developed to Eliminate Ethnic Skin Type Burns

Dr. Jay Kulkin, MD, internationally recognized laser expert and Fellow of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (highest designation), has successfully developed a laser technique making laser hair removal burns in ethnic skin types a thing of the past. For years, individuals with ethnic skin types have suffered needlessly with embarrassing, unwanted hair, as reports of burns (as seen on Oprah) have caused them to avoid laser procedures. Dr. Kulkin, Founder and Medical Director of WIFH, has developed a unique technique using the Cynosure Elite Yag Laser and has utilized it exclusively for over 30,000 procedures on all body types without one burn.

13 Nov 2009

US Navy Increases Funding to EF Johnson's 3eTI for Extension of VPMS Solution

EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: EFJI) today announced that its 3e Technologies International (3eTI) subsidiary has received a funding increment of $5 million from the U.S. Navy to extend the virtual perimeter monitoring system (VPMS) solution it is currently providing to the Navy.

13 Nov 2009

Researchers Develop Nano-Colorsorter Device That Sorts Light in Tiny Spaces

Looking sharp and looking for light - Berkeley Lab researchers have engineered a new class of bowtie-shaped devices that capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale

13 Nov 2009

Scientists Find Light Inside Optical Fibers Can Be Squeezed Into Tighter Space

Scientists at the University of Adelaide have made a breakthrough that could change the world's thinking on what light is capable of

13 Nov 2009

Findings Show Bausch & Lomb's Lo-Torque Lens Design Delivers Significant Rotational Recovery

Bausch & Lomb today announced that the company's Lo-Torque lens design demonstrates significantly better rotational recovery, which can lead to more consistent vision, compared with Acuvue's accelerated stabilization design. These findings from two clinical studies were presented at Academy 2009, the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.

13 Nov 2009

Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Forms New Division for 3D Scanning and Engineering Services

Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. (KMSA), the worldwide leader in the industrial measurement of color, light and shape, announces the addition of its new 3D scanning and engineering services division to its existing 3D non-contact scanner business unit.

From Konica Minolta Sensing Americas 13 Nov 2009

Lightwave Logic Introduces New Prototype Phase Modulator at Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference, NY

Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LWLG) a technology company focused on the development of the 'Next Generation Electro-Optic Polymer Material Platform' for applications in high speed fiber-optic telecommunications and optical computing, today announced that Terry Turpin, Lightwave's Optical Computing Guru, introduced Lightwave's new prototype phase modulator to the Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference in Tarrytown, New York earlier this week. The Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference is an annual event that offers investors, executives, engineers and entrepreneurs an elite analysis of ascending and disruptive technologies affecting management and investment decisions.

13 Nov 2009

Optics & Photonics News

Suntech Likely to Develop 20% Projects Under China's Solar Rooftop Program

New Minimally Invasive Laser Treatment Help Avoid Uneven Blood Flow in Identical Twin Pregnancy

Sirius Integrator Manufactures ES-C Series Solar Panel Systems for Evergreen Solar

Aqua Pennsylvania Begins Solar Farm Construction at Ingram Mill Water Treatment Plant

Dow Chemical and Caltech Sign Deal to Collaborate on Solar Energy Research

Vision-Ease Lens Reports Major Fire in its Indonesia Manufacturing Facility

Zayo Bandwidth to Deploy TDM and Ethernet Services to More Sites in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

VisEn Medical Unveils Commercial Cat B 750 FAST Imaging Agent for Cathepsin B Activity Diagnosis

New Technique in Laser Hair Removal Developed to Eliminate Ethnic Skin Type Burns

US Navy Increases Funding to EF Johnson's 3eTI for Extension of VPMS Solution

Researchers Develop Nano-Colorsorter Device That Sorts Light in Tiny Spaces

Scientists Find Light Inside Optical Fibers Can Be Squeezed Into Tighter Space

Findings Show Bausch & Lomb's Lo-Torque Lens Design Delivers Significant Rotational Recovery

Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Forms New Division for 3D Scanning and Engineering Services

Lightwave Logic Introduces New Prototype Phase Modulator at Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference, NY

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