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High Definition Imaging System from Carl Zeiss Meditec Designed to Identify Early-Stage Glaucoma and Retinal Diseases

Pima Eye Institute, which provides specialty eye care to the Southern Arizona community, announced today that it has acquired advanced new imaging technology from Dublin, CA based Carl Zeiss Meditec that can help identify early signs of glaucoma and retinal diseases more effectively than other imaging or diagnostic tools.

28 Jul 2008

Microscopic Microscope Operates Without Lenses

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have turned science fiction into reality with their development of a super-compact high-resolution microscope, small enough to fit on a finger tip.

28 Jul 2008

Boeing Tests High-Energy Laser with Chemical Fuel

The Boeing Company, industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency have completed installing the high-energy laser aboard the Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft and have begun testing the laser with its chemical fuel at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

28 Jul 2008

Zecotek Signs Extensive Distribution Agreements With T.E.M. Incorporated of Japan

Zecotek Photonics Inc. today announced it has signed broad ranging distribution agreements with T.E.M. Incorporated ("T.E.M."), a leading Japanese distributor of laser and electro-optical products. The agreements cover the distribution of Zecotek's fiber and solid state lasers, MAPD photo detectors, RFO vanadate crystals and patented LFS Scintillation material in Japan.

28 Jul 2008

Canon Installs CR-1 Non-Mydriatic Digital Retinal Camera at Eye Clinic

Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging technologies, today announced the first domestic installation of its new Canon CR-1 Non-Mydriatic Digital Retinal Camera at Rochester Family Eye Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

28 Jul 2008

Panasonic Expands Use of Altera FPGAs by Choosing Low-Power Cyclone 3 Devices

Providing a low-power and quick-time-to-market solution, Altera Corporation announced today that Panasonic has selected Cyclone® III FPGAs for its P2 HD Professional-Broadcast High-Definition Camera-Recorders. The P2 HD AJ-HPX2700 and the P2 HD Handheld AG-HPX170 are part of a new series of tapeless cameras developed by Panasonic to meet the growing worldwide demand for high-definition (HD) broadcast.

28 Jul 2008

Saving Time and Space by Enabling One Optic to Handle Multiple LEDs

Future Lighting Solutions announced today the availability of the new Linear Optic 210 from Polymer Optics Limited designed specifically for linear arrays of LUXEON Rebel LEDs.

28 Jul 2008

Device Will Boost Widespread Adoption of Important Vehicle Safety Features

Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced the SH77650, a single-chip SoC product optimized for image-recognition processing functions. The new device enables the production of more affordable vehicle information terminals, particularly the next-generation car navigation systems and peripheral devices that can help increase driving safety.

28 Jul 2008

Elbit Systems to Supply MARS to Israeli Defense Forces

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop Ltd. was selected by the Israeli Defense Forces as the supplier of Mars - an innovative thermal imaging and target acquisition system.

28 Jul 2008

Next Generation Optical Storage Systems using Electrically Powered Semiconductor Laser Diodes

Scientists have developed electrically powered semiconductor laser diodes that operate at a shorter wavelength than any others used today. The lasers, described online this week in Nature Photonics ("A 342-nm ultraviolet AlGaN multiplequantum-well laser diode"), could be used for the next generation of optical storage systems following today's Blu-ray disks, and will have applications in biomedicine, materials processing and microchip manufacture.

28 Jul 2008

Harvard University Demonstrates Highly Directional Semiconductor Lasers

Applied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller beam divergence than conventional ones. The innovation opens the door to a wide range of applications in photonics and communications. Harvard University has also filed a broad patent on the invention.

27 Jul 2008

Pirelli Group Forms Strategic Alliance in Integrated Photonics

The Pirelli Group and CyOptics, Inc. announce the formation of a strategic alliance in integrated photonics.

25 Jul 2008

ICOP Digital Receives Purchase Orders for Digital In-Car Video Systems

ICOP Digital, Inc., an industry-leading company engaged in advancing digital surveillance solutions, today announced that the Company has received purchase orders from two new customers in Alabama and Ohio for ICOP Model 20/20(R)-W digital in-car video systems.

25 Jul 2008

Fujitsu Expands Manufacturing Capacity at Richardson Headquarters

Fujitsu Network Communications, a leading supplier of innovative optical and wireless networking solutions, announced today that they are expanding manufacturing capacity at their Richardson, Texas, headquarters.

25 Jul 2008

Raytheon Showcases Third Generation Infrared Sensor Technology

Raytheon Company demonstrated its third generation infrared sensor technology to the Army last month at the Network Centric Systems production facility in McKinney.

25 Jul 2008