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New Pulsed STED Laser from Leica to Debut at ELMI Meeting 2014

Leica Microsystems is introducing a new pulsed 775 nm STED laser with the super-resolution system Leica TCS SP8 STED 3X, which achieves sub 30 nm resolution through pulsed stimulated emission depletion technology.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 20 May 2014

Power Integrations Introduces LYTSwitch-2 Family of Isolated LED Drivers

Power Integrations, the leader in high-efficiency, high-reliability LED-driver ICs, today announced its LYTSwitch™-2 family of isolated LED drivers. The new IC family, which delivers up to 12 watts of accurately controlled output power, substantially reduces component count, resulting in simpler, smaller, more reliable LED lighting designs.

20 May 2014

Global Medical Fiber Optics Market to Grow at 7.6% CAGR During 2013-2019

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Medical Fiber Optics Market - Forecast to 2019: Major players are LEONI, TRUMPF, SCHOTT, ROFIN, Coherent, Vitalcor and Timbercon" report to their offering.

20 May 2014

China-based Telecom OEM Places Follow-on 100G Orders with Advanced Photonix

Picometrix®, LLC, an Advanced Photonix® company, announced today that it has received follow on orders from a leading China provider of telecommunications equipment and networks solutions to supply the CR-100D for their 100G optical transport network equipment. These orders total approximately $700K to be delivered over the next three months.

20 May 2014

New Quadpod Mounted Work Area Flood Light from Larson Electronics

Larson Electronics has added to its extensive range of industrial grade lighting equipment with the release of a 2000 watt quadpod mounted work light.

20 May 2014

ViewSonic Announces Availability of 84-inch, Six-point Simultaneous Touch, Interactive Large-format Display

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solution products, announces the availability of the CDE8451-TL, an 84-inch, six-point simultaneous touch, interactive large-format display with 4K Ultra-HD resolution.

20 May 2014

Avago Technologies Announces New Line of 14.2mm Optocoupler Devices

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for wireless, wireline, and industrial applications, today announced a new family of 14.2mm optocoupler devices, the ACNT-Hxxx, designed for high voltage applications.

20 May 2014

Ball Aerospace to Build High-Spectral-Resolution-Lidar for Aerosols Winds and Clouds

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has received a contract from NASA to build a High-spectral-Resolution-Lidar for Aerosols Winds and Clouds - Using the Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar (HAWC-OAWL) to help scientists better understand how the wind transport of aerosols and water vapor affect air quality and cloud formation.

From BAE Systems 20 May 2014

New Optical Approach to Brain Scanning

Scientists have advanced a brain-scanning technology that tracks what the brain is doing by shining dozens of tiny LED lights on the head.

20 May 2014

Forecast Report on Global Market for Industrial and Commercial LED Lighting

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Industrial And Commercial LED Lighting Market - Forecast to 2019: Dominated by few organized players namely Philips, Osram, Cree, Cooper and GE" report to their offering.

20 May 2014

Imaging Tests Conducted by STEMMER IMAGING for First Phase of Bloodhound Rocket Plume

Monitoring the output of the rocket plume is expected to play an important role in the optimisation of the rocket and jet engine-powered Bloodhound vehicle as it is developed for its world land speed record attempt. Initial expectations that UV imaging would prove more useful than IR imaging were confirmed during the tests.

From STEMMER IMAGING AG 19 May 2014

New Imaging System Can Generate 3-D Movies of Entire Brains at Millisecond Timescale

Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have created an imaging system that reveals neural activity throughout the brains of living animals.

19 May 2014

Picometrix Announces Sample Availability of Avalanche Photodiode Receiver Optical Sub-Assembly

Picometrix®, LLC, an Advanced Photonix® company and the leading independent supplier dedicated to the design and manufacture of high performance optical receiver components for communications networks and test equipment, today announced sample availability of its avalanche photodiode (APD) receiver optical sub-assembly (ROSA). General product availability is planned for the third quarter of 2014.

19 May 2014

Larson Electronics Introduces New 60W Low Canopy LED Luminaire

Longtime leader in commercial and industrial grade lighting equipment Larson Electronics has announced the release of a 60 watt low canopy LED light with a removable glare shield.

19 May 2014

Researchers Design Glasses-free 3-D Projector

Over the past three years, researchers in the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab have steadily refined a design for a glasses-free, multiperspective, 3-D video screen, which they hope could provide a cheaper, more practical alternative to holographic video in the short term.

19 May 2014