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ET Solar Signs Agreement with Largest Global Manufacturers of Solar Tracker Systems

ET Solar Group Corp., a Nanjing-based integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic products including ingot, wafer, module, and state-of-the-art dual-axis tracking systems with manufacturing facilities located in Taizhou, China, announced today a framework collaborative agreement with Spain-based Meca Solar, one of the largest global state-of-the-art manufacturers of solar tracker systems.

26 Feb 2008

EMCORE Announces New Features to its Broadband Transmitter and Optical Amplifier Product Lines

EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite and terrestrial solar power markets, today announced new features to its 1550nm broadband transmitter and optical amplifier product lines.

26 Feb 2008

Highly Customizable Software Supports Transparent Operation of AON Superblade

This telecom-grade application framework will support all of the optical functions within JDSU's new AON Superblade solution that was also announced today, allowing it to seamlessly integrate within network equipment manufacturer's (NEMS) and service provider networks.

26 Feb 2008

Breakthrough Optical Technology Enables Creation of Denser DWDM Transport

JDSU today announced that is has invented the first nano wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology. The Nano WSS includes technology extracted from JDSU’s core Mini WSS technology, and will enable JDSU to develop denser and more highly integrated optical solutions, such as the AON Superblade, a single-slot blade solution that JDSU also announced today.

26 Feb 2008

New AON Superblade Reduces Size and Power Requirements of Optical Components

JDSU today announced that it is creating a single-slot blade solution for delivering all major functions required for optical network transport, called the Agile Optical Network (AON) Superblade.

26 Feb 2008

Revolutionary New Technology Delivers Improved Signal Integrity

Lightwire, Inc., the technology leader in CMOS photonics interconnects, today introduced the industry's first CMOS photonics 10GbE SFP+ LRM optical module, the LSME10XX.

26 Feb 2008

Projection Industry's Largest Market Chooses 3LCD Over All Other Technologies

3LCD, the world's projection technology leader, finished 2007 as the clear technology choice of the Pro AV market with more than 75 percent market share, according to data from Pacific Media Associates (PMA) for the period of January 2007 through December 2007.* Pro AV customers include the largest school systems, universities, corporations and high-end home theater enthusiasts.

26 Feb 2008

JDSU Introduces SRS Functionality to its TestPoint 10Gbps Product Line

JDSU today introduced stressed receiver sensitivity (SRS) functionality to its TestPoint 10Gbps product line.

25 Feb 2008

Thin-Film and Organic Photovoltaics Will Reach $3.8 Billion by 2015

Materials for use in thin-film and organic photovoltaics (PV) will reach $3.8 billion by 2015, according to a new study by NanoMarkets, an industry analyst firm.

25 Feb 2008

CoreOptics Announces Availability of MLSE Technology for Optical Networks

CoreOptics Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of 40Gbps and 10Gbps optical networking subsystems announced availability of the second generation of its Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) technology for deployment in metro/regional optical networks.

25 Feb 2008

High-Bandwidth Subsea Fiber Optic Cable Linking U.S. and Japan

A consortium of six international companies announced they have executed agreements to build a high-bandwidth subsea fiber optic cable linking the United States and Japan. The construction of the new Trans-Pacific infrastructure will cost an estimated US$300 million.

25 Feb 2008

Researchers Demonstrates New Type of Optical Tweezer

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) demonstrated a new type of optical tweezer with the potential to make biological and microfluidic force measurements in integrated systems such as microfluidic chips.

25 Feb 2008

Novel Design Enables Double-Patterning-Lithography

In a potential boost to advance lithography, engineers at SEMATECH and Carl Zeiss SMT today announced the completion of their final design for the next generation Photomask Registration and Overlay Metrology system – called PROVE.

25 Feb 2008

New High Power Tunable Laser Generates All Commonly Used Wavelengths

NeoPhotonics, a leading supplier of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) based components, modules and subsystems for the telecom and CATV industries, will debut at OFC a new high power tunable laser for DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) networks that has an output power of 40 mW and other features ideal for DQPSK coding and 40 Gbps systems.

25 Feb 2008

Revolutionary EFB Technology Wins the Prestigious New Machinery Promotion Award

OKI Printing Solutions today announced that its revolutionary Epi Film Bonding (EFB) technology has been awarded the most prestigious New Machinery Promotion Award by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan.

25 Feb 2008