Optics & Photonics News

RSS

Using Hubble Space Telescope to Understand Violent Lives of Galaxies

Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to dissect one of the largest structures in the universe as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies.

10 Jan 2008

Tyco Telecommunications Constructs Undersea Fiber Optic Cable Connecting Iceland and Denmark

Icelandic telecommunications provider E-Farice and Tyco Telecommunications, a business unit of Tyco Electronics and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, announced today the signing of a contract to construct the DANICE undersea fiber optic system to provide high bandwidth connectivity between Landeyjar, Iceland and Blaabjerg, Denmark.

10 Jan 2008

State-of-the-Art System Provides High Bandwidth Communications to Indonesia

Matrix Networks Pte Ltd and PT NAP Info Lintas Nusa, together with their supplier, Tyco Telecommunications, a business unit of Tyco Electronics and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology and marine services, today announced the completion of construction on the Batam shore-end cable lay portion of the Matrix Cable System and the beginning of construction on the Jakarta shore-end cable lay.

10 Jan 2008

Using Nanocoating to Concentrate Solar Radiation

nCoat, Inc. has announced the signing of an agreement for business collaboration and commercial product development with Sunvention USA, Inc. and BSR Solar Technologies GmbH using nCoat nanotechnology coatings in a Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) system.

10 Jan 2008

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Combining Low Cost with High-Efficiency Performance

Solar cells have attracted global attention as one of the cornerstones of alternative energy. In theory, it seems to make abundant sense to tap into the energy of the sun to convert light to electricity with little or no emission of noxious pollutants.

9 Jan 2008

QPC Lasers Receives Orders for BrightLase Laser Worth $1.3 Million

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer, industrial, defense, and medical markets, announced today that it has received $1.3 million in new orders for BrightLase® UltraTM Lasers for use in medical applications.

9 Jan 2008

Engineers Discovers Three-Dimensional Sound Cloak is Possible

Contrary to earlier predictions, Duke University engineers have found that a three-dimensional sound cloak is possible, at least in theory.

9 Jan 2008

The Infrared Sky

The infrared sky is expanding significantly for the world astronomical community with the first world release of data (DR1) from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS).

9 Jan 2008

Plastic Fibre Making Optical Networking Cheaper and Simpler

Plans in the 1990s to bring ultra-high speed telecom lines into every home foundered because the optical fibre infrastructure was just too expensive. But a new European project using plastic fibre and off-the-shelf components could make optical networking so cheap and simple that anyone could install it.

9 Jan 2008

Cynosure Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Cynosure, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of a broad array of light-based aesthetic treatment systems, and its largest shareholder, El.En. S.p.A., today filed a patent infringement lawsuit against CoolTouch Inc. in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

9 Jan 2008

V.I.O. Announces Collaboration to Develop Specialized Wearable Video Technology

V.I.O. Inc., the leading innovator of hands-free video technology, announced today a direct funding collaboration with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to perform research and development of specialized wearable video technology for military and law enforcement applications.

9 Jan 2008

Carnegie Mellon Joins Collaboration in Constructing Most Powerful Survey Telescope

Carnegie Mellon University joined the collaboration building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.

9 Jan 2008

Q-MED AB to Distribute Palomar Products Outside North America

Palomar Medical Technologies, Inc., a leading researcher and developer of light-based systems for cosmetic treatments, today announced the execution of an international distribution agreement with the Swedish company Q-MED AB.

9 Jan 2008

New Mobile Video Assistance Technology Improves Life of Older People

We are not getting any younger. As Europe’s population grows older, the need for care is growing and we are spending more and more money to get it. A new mobile video assistance technology promises to put off the need for carers, improve the life of older people and cut the cost of assistance.

8 Jan 2008