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Major Retrofit Project in Downtown LA Area Features Amerlux’s Avista LED Light Engines

Amerlux recently supplied its Avista LED light engines as part of a major retrofit project in the downtown Los Angeles area. Since the late 1920s, GE lamps were used to provide light for the streets of downtown LA during its modern revitalization.

20 May 2016

Fulham’s AC-Powered ThoroLED LED Retrofit Kits Certified as ENERGY STAR Luminaire 2.0 Compliant

Fulham Co., Inc., a leading supplier of lighting components and electronics for commercial and specialty applications, today announced that three models of its AC-powered ThoroLED LED Retrofit Kits have been tested and certified as ENERGY STAR® Luminaire 2.0 compliant.

20 May 2016

Northwestern Scientists Find Impact of Bright Light Exposure on Metabolism

Exposure to bright light could affect your metabolism, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

20 May 2016

Meller Optics' X-Ray Goniometry Service Provides Complete Lattice Orientation of Single Crystals

Meller Optics, Inc. has announced they are offering a new service that provides a complete lattice orientation of single crystals and is suitable for a wide variety of materials, regardless of size and weight.

19 May 2016

RayVio’s New Series of Ultraviolet LEDs Could Enable Disinfection of Water, Environment

RayVio Corp., an advanced health and hygiene company, today announced that it has launched a new series of ultraviolet (UV) LEDs with the highest power output available from a small surface mount device (SMD) footprint.

19 May 2016

UCSB-Developed Photonics Approach Could Help Observe Nearly 100 Billion Planets

Looking up at the night sky -- expansive and seemingly endless, stars and constellations blinking and glimmering like jewels just out of reach -- it's impossible not to wonder: Are we alone?

19 May 2016

Researchers Develop New Virtually Imaged Phased Array-based Brillouin Spectrometer

At a microscopic level, every material contains spontaneous sound waves -- acoustic phonons -- that have properties dependent on the material's mechanical properties. When light interacts with these acoustic phonons, it scatters and acquires a frequency shift related to the material's elastic modulus, a characteristic measure of its ability to resist deformation and stress.

18 May 2016

AdValue Photonics Debuts New Fiber Laser with 1.2 mJ Pulse Energy

AdValue Photonics is proud to offer a fiber laser with 1.2 mJ pulse energy and single-frequency narrow linewidth to our customers. This exciting new product has been manufactured, shipped, and is currently available.

18 May 2016

Diodes Unveils New Universal AC-Input LED Driver, AL1676

Diodes Incorporated, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic, analog and mixed-signal semiconductor markets, today announced the AL1676.

18 May 2016

Scanning Lasers Could Enable TxDOT to More Accurately Measure Microtexture of Aggregates

A University of Texas at Arlington engineer is working with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute to assess whether scanning lasers can accurately measure microtexture of aggregates, which are used in asphalt and concrete mixtures.

18 May 2016

Researchers Explore New Optical Techniques to Create Higher Power Image Shifting Devices

Researchers from the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School have designed three new eyeglasses using high-power prisms to optimally expand the visual fields of patients with hemianopia, a condition in which the visual fields of both eyes are cut by half.

18 May 2016