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CityFibre to Invest £30 Million for Pure Fibre-Optic Network in Peterborough

People living and working in Peterborough are set to benefit from a city-wide, pure fibre-optic network, delivering Gigabit connectivity speeds. This brand new infrastructure will be paid for by a wholly private investment into Peterborough of up to £30 million by CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent fibre optic infrastructure provider to smaller cities and towns.

30 Oct 2013

ZTE and China Telecom Complete Real-Time Optical Fiber Data Transmission over 3,200 km

ZTE Corporation, a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment, network solutions and mobile devices, is pleased to announce that the company set a world record in real-time terabit optical transmission in collaboration with China Telecom Corporation Ltd. Beijing Research Institute.

29 Oct 2013

IES Selects Tempo’s CLiP-Based C4100 Mid-Lumen Output Linear Luminaire for 2013 Progress Report

Tempo Industries, a leader in LED linear lighting solutions, today announced that the company's Configurable Lighting Platform (CLiP) based C4100 mid-lumen output linear luminaire has been selected by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) to be included in its 2013 Progress Report.

29 Oct 2013

Global LED Chip Market Expected to Grow at 32.3% CAGR over the Period 2012-2016

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global LED Chip Market 2012-2016" report to their offering.

29 Oct 2013

Samsung LM561B Mid-Power LED Package Receives LM-80 Certification

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced today that the Samsung LM561B, a high-efficacy mid-power LED package has been LM-80 certified. LM-80 is a widely observed test for lumen maintenance developed and accredited by U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Star program.

29 Oct 2013

Lumishore Introduces New Redesigned Series of Surface Mount Underwater LED Lights

Lumishore the leading maker of underwater LED lighting fixtures has announced the company significantly upgraded their highly acclaimed series of surface mounted underwater LED lighting fixtures. The SMX Underwater LED Lights are one of the most popular underwater led lights on the market today and they just got better.

29 Oct 2013

Adaptive Optics Helps Overcome Limitations of Conventional Fluorescein Angiography

If you've ever been sleep-deprived, you've probably had a firsthand glimpse of the blood vessels in your eyes. But what you haven't seen—and what many eye care professionals cannot see as well as they would like—are the vessels closest to the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.

29 Oct 2013

IDS Exhibit Industrial Camera Range at International Conference for Vision Guided Robotics, November 13 2013 at Georgia Tech

IDS Imaging Development Systems Gmbh, one of the world's leading designers and manufacturers of machine vision cameras, today announced it will showcase the latest additions to its family of digital industrial cameras at the upcoming International Conference for Vision Guided Robotics (ICVGR), November 13, 2013, at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center in Atlanta.

From IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH 29 Oct 2013

New 24-105mm F4 DG OS HSM Art Lens from Sigma

Sigma Corporation of America, a leading researcher, developer, manufacturer and service provider of some of the world's most impressive lines of lenses, cameras and flashes, today from PhotoPlus Expo 2013 announced the pricing and availability of its new 24-105mm F4 DG OS HSM Art lens.

From Sigma Corporation of America 28 Oct 2013

Zecotek Imaging Technologies to be Showcased at Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Zecotek Photonics Inc., a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that the Company will be attending the Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference in Seoul Korea from October 27 through November 2, 2013 in Seoul, Korea.

From Zecotek Photonics 28 Oct 2013

IEEE ICIP Conference Honors Paper on ‘Near-Infrared Guided Color Image Dehazing’

Sabine Süsstrunk, IC professor for Image and Visual Representation (IVRG), received a Best (Open) Paper Award for the publication "Near-Infrared Guided Color Image Dehazing", co-authored with Chen Feng, Shaojie Zhuo, Xiaopeng Zhang, and Liang Shen, at the IEEE 20th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).

28 Oct 2013

Los Alamos Researchers Advance Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diodes

Dramatic advances in the field of quantum dot light emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) could come from recent work by the Nanotechnology and Advanced Spectroscopy team at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

28 Oct 2013

Researchers Measure Coupling of Photons and Electrons on Surface of a Topological Insulator

Researchers at MIT have succeeded in producing and measuring a coupling of photons and electrons on the surface of an unusual type of material called a topological insulator. This type of coupling had been predicted by theorists, but never observed.

28 Oct 2013

Sofradir to Demonstrate New Compact Infrared Imaging Cameras at AUSA 2013

Sofradir EC, Inc. will demonstrate its new line of high performance Infrared Imaging Engines at the 2013 AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington DC on October 21-23, 2013. The Miniature Thermal Imaging Engines, labeled “MiTIE”, utilize a Sofradir cryogenically cooled MCT infrared detector.

From Lynred USA 25 Oct 2013

Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra Space Telescopes Team Up to Look Deeper into Universe

NASA's Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before. With a boost from natural "zoom lenses" found in space, they should be able to uncover galaxies that are as much as 100 times fainter than what these three great observatories typically can see.

25 Oct 2013