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WigWag Debuts New Filament Lighting Kit for Various Smart Home Applications

WigWag, the award-winning open-source platform company weaving together the fragmented Internet of Things (IoT), today announced general availability of the WigWag Filament Lighting Kit, which empowers users to transform their lighting from ordinary to extraordinary to create the perfect lighting for any mood or occasion with smart and full-color LED light bulbs.

13 May 2016

Fulham, CNS Partner to Deliver DALI Programmable Lighting Solution

Fulham Co., Inc., a leading supplier of lighting components and electronics for commercial and specialty applications, has partnered with Control Network Solutions (CNS), to deliver a smart lighting solution based on the Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) intelligent lighting communications standard.

13 May 2016

Lighting Science Debuts New LED Products at WantedDesign NYC

With New York Design Week upon us, don’t miss the truly ground-breaking new products by Lighting Science® that will be on display at WantedDesign at the Terminal Building from May 13-16. Lighting Science, the leading LED innovators, are debuting two new products for the Wanted audience, the Series A+™ and the Genesis DynaSpectrum™.

13 May 2016

New RGB Laser Light Source Modules Deliver Energy-Saving Performance

As part of a NEDO project, Osaka University and Shimadzu Corporation have developed two types of RGB (Red, Green and Blue) laser light source modules using RGB visible light laser diode technology. The first model realizes the world’s best-in-class brightness for use in high-brightness laser display devices and laser lighting, while the second model is the world’s smallest ultra-miniaturized model capable of single-mode fiber output for use in scanning-type laser displays.

13 May 2016

Xtera to Develop Efficient Optical Submarine Network Across the Gulf of Oman

Multinet Pakistan, the leading domestic and international carrier in Pakistan, Omantel, the national operator of Oman and one of the largest wholesale carriers in the Middle East, and Xtera Communications, Inc., a leading provider of high-capacity, cost-effective optical transport solutions, today announced the signing of the turnkey supply agreement for the new subsea cable system Silk Route Gateway 1 (SRG-1).

12 May 2016

Phoseon to Display Latest LED Curing Solutions at Upcoming IR+UV Expo

Phoseon will showcase the latest LED curing solutions at the upcoming IR+UV Expo, co-located with OPTICS & PHOTONICS International Exhibition.

12 May 2016

New IVPA Imaging Holds Potential to Identify Heart Disease Better

As plaque accumulates on the inside of arteries, it can cause the arteries to thicken and harden. When that plaque ruptures, it can ultimately block blood flow and lead to a heart attack, stroke or other problem throughout the body.

12 May 2016

Kenneth Cole’s Flagship Store in New York City Features Soraa’s LED Lamps

Soraa, the world leader in GaN on GaNTM LED technology, announced today that its LED lamps have been installed in Kenneth Cole’s flagship store at the corner of Bowery and Bond Street in New York City.

11 May 2016

Cree Launches New CPY-20L LED Canopy Luminaire

Cree, Inc. continues to set performance and efficiency records with the new 20,784 lumen CPY-20L™ LED canopy luminaire. Delivering a remarkable 143 LPW at 5700K, the newest Cree® CPY Series LED product offers even better light experiences and lower operating costs.

11 May 2016

CyrusOne Customers Now Get Access to Telia Carrier’s 100G Connectivity Options

Telia Carrier today announced a strategic alliance with CyrusOne, one of the largest carrier-neutral data center providers in the United States. The agreement provides CyrusOne’s enterprise customers with access to Telia Carrier’s top-two rated global IP network AS1299, as well as total integration into CyrusOne’s National IX platform for connectivity and access to cloud services.

11 May 2016

Molex Develops Optical Bench to Test, Validate Optical Fibers Used in Astronomy Applications

Molex has developed a Polymicro Technologies™ optical bench to test and validate optical fibers used in astronomy applications. The optical bench measures focal ratio degradation (FRD) in specific optical fiber samples to determine if the fibers are appropriate for astronomy applications.

11 May 2016

Researchers Study Effects of LED Light Combinations on Lettuce Grown in Hydroponic Systems

Increasingly, vegetables are being efficiently grown using soilless techniques such as hydroponics. Hydroponic systems are favored for their ability to improve water and nutrient use efficiency and crop yields, and have the added benefit of allowing growers to use fewer chemical fertilizers.

11 May 2016

Tokyo Institute of Technology research: Shedding light on phototactic behavior of green algae

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and colleagues report that optical shielding by the eyespot pigments in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a unicellular green alga, determines the direction of their movement relative to light sources, and that the cell body behaves as a convex lens to focus and condense incident light.

10 May 2016

Toptica at Analytica 2016 – Outstanding Lasers for Biophotonics, Microscopy, Material Characterization And Non-Destructive Testing

From May 10th – 13th TOPTICA will present their latest developments in high-end laser technology at the Analytica exhibition in Munich, Hall A1, booth # 301.

From TOPTICA Photonics 10 May 2016

ESO’s latest facility upgrade features four new TOPTICA guide star lasers on Cerro Paranal

On April 26th, the impressive Four-Laser Guide Star Facility (4LGSF) was fully operational for the first time at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the Paranal Observatory in Chile. During the preceding verification phase, a team of TOPTICA and ESO engineers successfully completed the required system tests.

From TOPTICA Photonics 10 May 2016