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Lumileds Expands Line of LUXECON C Color LEDs to Total of 12 Colors

Lumileds, the global leader in light engine technology, today expanded its line of LUXEON C Color LEDs to a total of 12 colors (and 8 whites), making it the industry’s broadest line of color LEDs available.

29 Jun 2016

Cree’s New ZR FD LED Series Delivers 60% Energy Savings Versus Fluorescent Troffers

Cree, Inc. expands the award-winning ZR Series LED troffer portfolio with the introduction of the new ZR FD LED Series, a commercial spec-grade troffer that delivers superior energy efficiency of 130 lumens per watt. This performance increase provides customers with up to 60 percent energy savings versus fluorescent troffers.

29 Jun 2016

Roland DG Joins Hands with GPI to Create New Photonics Industries in Japan

Roland DG Corporation, a leading manufacturer of desktop fabrication devices worldwide, has announced the start of a joint research relationship with GPI, the Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries located in Hamamatsu, Japan.

29 Jun 2016

AOA Xinetics to Continue Supporting Telescope's Narrow Field Infrared Adaptive Optics System

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) has awarded AOA Xinetics, a Northrop Grumman Corporation company, funding to continue supporting the telescope's Narrow Field Infrared Adaptive Optics System.

29 Jun 2016

New Technology for Industrial Remote Visual Inspections

Ashtead Technology is delighted to announce the addition of the latest Olympus technology to its rental fleet of industrial videoprobes.

29 Jun 2016

Consumer-Grade LED Bulbs Could Illuminate, Provide Communication Links for Devices in Room

Researchers at Disney Research and ETH Zurich have demonstrated that consumer-grade light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs can, with some modifications, do double duty -- both illuminating a room and providing a communications link for devices in that room.

28 Jun 2016

New Laser-Based Uranium Enrichment Technology May Provide Hard-to-Detect Pathway to Nuclear Weapons Production

A new laser-based uranium enrichment technology may provide a hard-to-detect pathway to nuclear weapons production, according to a forthcoming paper in the journal Science & Global Security by Ryan Snyder, a physicist with Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security.

28 Jun 2016

Researchers Use Mid-Infrared Lasers to Detect Wide Range of Chemicals with High Sensitivity

Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have found a new way of using mid-infrared lasers to turn regions of molecules in the open air into glowing filaments of electrically charged gas, or plasma. The new method could make it possible to carry out remote environmental monitoring to detect a wide range of chemicals with high sensitivity.

28 Jun 2016

Orion’s Latest Record-Breaking Industrial Fixture to Join Patented LED High Bay Suite

Orion Energy Systems, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance, energy-efficient retrofit lighting platforms, today announced the latest record-breaking industrial fixture to join its patented LED High Bay suite.

27 Jun 2016

NC State Researchers Develop New Tool to Detect, Measure Polarization of Light

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new tool for detecting and measuring the polarization of light based on a single spatial sampling of the light, rather than the multiple samples required by previous technologies. The new device makes use of the unique properties of organic polymers, rather than traditional silicon, for polarization detection and measurement.

27 Jun 2016

Orion Launches New APOLLO VaporTight Fixtures

27 Jun 2016

EPFL’s New Technique Combines Lasers and Microfluidics to Enhance Tissue-Engineering

The medical field of the future is most likely to include wide-ranging tissue-engineering technologies such as organoids (tiny organs grown from stem cells) and organs-on-chips. However this prediction is made based on a simple yet demanding task – manipulating cellular performance in three dimensions.

24 Jun 2016

Multifunctional Ultrathin, Flat Lens Could Replace Bulky, Costly Machines Used for Testing Chirality

The natural world has several objects that are geometrically chiral. It is not possible to superimpose chiral objects onto their mirror image. For instance, human hands are mirror images, and so transplanting the right hand onto the left would be ridiculous. Amino acids, DNA and certain other molecules are said to be chiral.

24 Jun 2016

EyeCheck Smart Camera – the Eye for the Robot

Throughout the world several thousand robots are used for applications such as packaging, soldering, adhesive bonding, coating, etc. They are equipped with various cameras, mostly smart cameras, such as the smart cameras of the EyeCheck 1000 series from EVT.

From EVT Eye Vision Technology 24 Jun 2016

NPI HPL Task Force Recommendations Call for National Strategy to Manufacture High Power Lasers

Members of the National Photonics Initiative (NPI) High Power Lasers (HPL) Task Force, comprised of leading defense contractors, commercial laser companies and academia, today announced recommendations to improve US defense operations and regain our nation's manufacturing stronghold.

24 Jun 2016