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Soraa to Display New Wireless LED Lamp at LIGHTFAIR International

Soraa, the world leader in GaN on GaNTM LED technology, announced it will be incorporating the option of wireless control into its award-winning product line, starting with the company’s PAR30L (long neck) LED lamp. The new wireless lamp will be displayed in Soraa’s booth (#757) at LIGHTFAIR International, May 5-7 at the Javits Center in New York City.

30 Apr 2015

High-Speed STAMP Camera Can Record Events at 1 Trillion Frames per Second

When a crystal lattice is excited by a laser pulse, waves of jostling atoms can travel through the material at close to one sixth the speed of light, or approximately 28,000 miles/second. Scientists now have a new tool to take movies of such superfast movement in a single shot.

30 Apr 2015

RS Components Offers Fuel3D’s SCANIFY Handheld Scanner

RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE: ECM), the global distributor for engineers, has added the CES award-winning SCANIFY® handheld scanner from Fuel3D to its range of affordable desktop systems for 3D digitisation and printing.

30 Apr 2015

Vertical Designs to Build LED Lighting System for Vertical Farming

Vertical Designs Ltd. a privately owned company that designs, builds and patents innovative, fully sustainable and complete vertical growing solutions, announced today plans to build an exclusive LED lighting system for global use in vertical farming and other indoor agricultural growing systems.

29 Apr 2015

Novel Ultrafast Camera Captures Images in 2D

An NIBIB grantee has developed an ultrafast camera that can acquire two-dimensional images at 100 billion frames per second, a speed capable of revealing light pulses and other phenomena previously too fast to be observed.

29 Apr 2015

Fiber Mountain Introduces AP-4240 Optical Path Exchange

Fiber Mountain, Inc., the Glass Core Company and provider of transformative software defined networking (SDN) solutions for enterprise and hyperscale data centers, today announced its AP-4240 Optical Path Exchange (OPX).

29 Apr 2015

Optical Method Uses Laser Beams to Remotely Measure Free-Field Sound Pressure

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - the UK's National Measurement Institute - have developed an optical method for remotely measuring sound pressure inside a fully anechoic chamber which is the first to provide direct traceability to the SI base units.

29 Apr 2015

NJIT Telescope Captures High-Resolution Images of Flaring Solar Flux Ropes

Scientists at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have captured the first high-resolution images of the flaring magnetic structures known as solar flux ropes at their point of origin in the Sun's chromosphere. Their research, published today in Nature Communications, provides new insights into the massive eruptions on the Sun's surface responsible for space weather.

29 Apr 2015

Simple Method Improves Resolution of Conventional Wide-Field Optical Microscopes

Researchers at the UT-research institute MESA+ have developed a method to improve the resolution of a conventional wide-field optical microscope. Scattered light usually reduces the resolution of conventional optical microscopes.

29 Apr 2015

Hubbell Lighting Launches Kim Lighting's Customizable Light Distribution Outdoor LED Luminaires

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, launched today the first fully customizable light distribution outdoor LED luminaires—Kim Lighting’s breakthrough ArcheType X™ series. Available in a flood, wall or site/area luminaires, the ArcheType X™ has independently adjustable LED emitters—providing limitless lighting distributions and possibilities from one product family.

28 Apr 2015

Larson Electronics Launches 300W Portable LED Lighting Set with Rechargeable Battery

Leading manufacturer and supplier of explosion proof lighting equipment Larson Electronics has announced the release of a 300 watt LED lighting system that is designed for portability and reliability within the job site, and ideal for use in rough and demanding conditions.

28 Apr 2015

OSRAM SYLVANIA Donates Innovative LED Lighting Products to Energizing Taliesin West Program

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation is happy to announce that North American lighting leader OSRAM SYLVANIA has made a significant donation of innovative LED lighting products to the Energizing Taliesin West program. Led by energy efficiency consultant Big Green Zero, the program is focused on the goal of continuing Frank Lloyd Wright's legacy of innovation in finding better and less expensive methods for building structures and for utilizing them.

28 Apr 2015

3D Measurement Techniques Based on Digital in-line Holography Help Understand Fiery Fuels

Transportation accidents, such as trucks crashing on a highway or rockets failing on a launch pad, can create catastrophic fires. It’s important to understand how burning droplets of fuel are generated and behave in those extreme cases, so Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed 3-D measurement techniques based on digital in-line holography.

28 Apr 2015

VTT Involved in Developing Light-Weight, Energy-Efficient, Bendable and 3D LED Displays

VTT is involved in a European project, developing novel LED advertising displays, which combine thin, lightweight and bendable structures with advanced optical quality. The project will implement, for example, a LED display that will give the viewers a 3D experience without their having to wear glasses designed for the purpose.

28 Apr 2015

2015 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award Winners - AUREA Technology,Inrad Optics and Northrop Grumman

The CLEO 2015 co-sponsors (APS, IEEE Photonics Society, The Optical Society) and Laser Focus World today announced three winners for this year’s CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award. The CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards recognize outstanding companies that have made major contributions to advancing the field of optics and photonics through recently launched products and services.

28 Apr 2015