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Diodes Introduces AL8807B Dimmable Buck LED Driver

Diodes Incorporated, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, today introduced the AL8807B dimmable buck LED driver.

14 Mar 2014

L.J. Star Launches 60mm LED Sight-Glass Light with High-Brightness

L.J. Star Inc., a supplier of sight glasses, sight flow indicators and other process observation equipment, has introduced the LumiStar3000™, a 60mm LED sight-glass light that is four times brighter than a typical sight-glass light, improving visibility of critical processes.

14 Mar 2014

CDFP MSA Selects Molex zCD AOC as Interface for 400 Gbps Hot Pluggable Module

The interface of the recently released Molex Incorporated zCD™ active optical cable (AOC) interconnect solution has been selected by the industry leading CDFP MSA as the interface for the consortium’s 400 Gbps hot pluggable module. The zCD AOC assembly will be highlighted at Molex booth 3863, OFC 2014, March 11-13, San Francisco, CA.

From Molex Fiber Optics 14 Mar 2014

OMS Introduces Hand Tools for Measuring Hi-Lo Gaps in Steel Catenary Risers

Two hand tools for measuring Hi-Lo gaps in SCRs (Steel Catenary Risers) and other fatigue-sensitive pipes are now available from oil & gas pipe measurement specialist Optical Metrology Services (OMS). The tools are easy to use and provide greater accuracy and repeatability than traditional Hi-Lo gap measuring methods.

13 Mar 2014

Yellow Hypergiant Star Spotted Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), Olivier Chesneau (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France) and an international team of collaborators have found that the yellow hypergiant star HR 5171 A is absolutely huge — 1300 times the diameter of the Sun and much bigger than was expected. This makes it the largest yellow star known. It is also in the top ten of the largest stars known — 50% larger than the famous red supergiant Betelgeuse — and about one million times brighter than the Sun.

13 Mar 2014

EMCORE Introduces the Optiva Series Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier and pre-Amplifier Modules

EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber optics and space solar power markets, announced today the introduction of the Optiva OTS-2O and OTS-2OP Series Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier and pre-Amplifier modules, which are designed for a wide variety of extended long-haul signal transport applications.

From Emcore Corporation 13 Mar 2014

WaveDivision Holdings Acquires Fiber-Based Metro Ethernet Provider CPI

WaveDivision Holdings, a business-class fiber optic and broadband services company with business and residential customers in Washington, Oregon, and California, today announced that it has acquired Capacity Provisioning Incorporated (CPI), effective immediately.

13 Mar 2014

MACOM to Demonstrate M37040 and M37041 CDRs at OFC 2014 in San Francisco

M/A-COM Technology Solutions, Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of high performance analog RF, microwave, millimeter wave and optical products today announced that its M37040 and M37041 4x28Gbps CDRs achieved a production release status and are demonstrated with silicon photonics based transceivers from Molex Incorporated, as part of a fully retimed 100Gbps parallel single mode (PSM4) zQSFP+ active optical solution.

13 Mar 2014

Schreder Lighting Receives Two Next Generation Luminaires Awards During the SSL Design Competition

Schreder Lighting, a manufacturing leader of outdoor LED lighting solutions, has announced that its Ampera LED Road Lighting Luminaire Family received two Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Awards during the Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Design Competition.

13 Mar 2014

Avago Technologies Announces its Latest series of MicroPOD™ and MiniPOD™ Solutions

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for wireless, wireline, and industrial applications, today announced its latest series of MicroPOD™ and MiniPOD™ solutions support 100GbE data transmission over a 550 meter link distance. Avago Technologies and Corning Incorporated have collaborated to provide long-reach, high-density embedded optical connectivity solutions targeting 100G interconnects for datacenter and enterprise network applications.

13 Mar 2014

Colt Deploys ADVA 100G Core to Address Bandwidth Growth from its U.K. Enterprise Customers

ADVA Optical Networking announced today that Colt has deployed the ADVA 100G Core to address bandwidth growth from its U.K. enterprise customers. A customer of ADVA Optical Networking for over 15 years, Colt chose the ADVA 100G Core technology because of its plug-and-play simplicity and ease of use.

13 Mar 2014

Larson Electronics Launches New Explosion Proof Cable Suspended Light Fixture

Leading supplier of explosion proof and industrial grade lighting Larson Electronics announced the release of a 150 watt explosion proof light fixture with a safety cable suspension mounting option. The EPL-HB-150LED-RT-100-1523-SCAB produces 12,000 lumens of light while drawing only 150 watts of power and can be operated on 100-277 volts.

13 Mar 2014

New Optics Selects ZWCAD+ for Better Team Collaboration for Efficient Product Design

ZWCAD Design, an innovative supplier of CAD solutions for the MCAD and AEC industries, announced that New Optics Ltd., a leading back light unit (BLU) and light guide plate (LGP) manufacturer in Korea, has selected ZWCAD+ for better team collaboration.

13 Mar 2014

NeoPhotonics Introduced New Configurations of its Multicast Switch (MCS) Modules

NeoPhotonics Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of photonic integrated circuit, or PIC, based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed optical communications networks, today introduced new configurations of its multicast switch (MCS) modules, which are designed to be combined in a modular fashion to increase the number of degrees or directions supported by a ROADM node, reducing initial costs and providing a “pay as you grow” model to scale with network growth.

13 Mar 2014

FUJIFILM X-E2 Camera Receives Prestigious “Gold Award” from dpreview.com

FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Shigehiro Nakajima) is very proud to announce that the FUJIFILM X-E2 has received a prestigious “Gold Award” from dpreview.com. DPReview is the one of the world's most popular dedicated enthusiast digital photography websites, with an audience of eight million unique visitors a month.

12 Mar 2014