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Innovative Terahertz Wave Spectroscopy and Imaging Analysis Platform from Advantest

Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation announced today that it has developed a terahertz wave spectroscopy and analysis platform, a new entry in the company's line-up of non-invasive analysis equipment utilizing terahertz waves.

7 Jun 2013

STEMMER IMAGING’s YouTube Channel Features Interesting Product and Training Videos

A wide range of imaging and machine vision application, product and training videos can be found on STEMMER IMAGING’s YouTube channel, tv@imaging. Over 80 videos are currently available and at least one new video is posted each month at www.youtube.com/user/STEMMERIMAGING.

From STEMMER IMAGING AG 7 Jun 2013

Xenon Corporation Launch 60 Inch UV Curing Lamp

Xenon Corporation announces the availability of a 60 inch (1.5 meter) Pulsed UV Linear Lamp system for industrial applications. The LH-8150 was developed for large area UV curing and sintering in roll to roll or web based processes and designed specifically for the display and printed electronics markets.

From Xenon Corporation 6 Jun 2013

X-ray Light from XFEL to be Coupled with Intense Laser System Light Flashes

From June 3 through 5, 2013, some 150 experts from around the World are meeting up in Hamburg at accelerator center DESY. Their shared focus will be on setting up a new experimental station with the goal of coupling X-ray light from the free electron laser XFEL with intense light flashes from a compact and powerful laser system.

6 Jun 2013

Millenniata Completes New 25GB Blu-ray Optical DISC

U.S.-based Millenniata today announced the completion of its new 25GB M-DISC Blu-ray, with mass production to begin in early August 2013.

6 Jun 2013

NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph Mission to Study Sun's Lower Atmosphere

NASA's next scientific satellite, which is scheduled for launch June 26, will provide the most detailed look ever at the sun's lower atmosphere or interface region.

6 Jun 2013

Optics and Photonics Leaders Propose International Year of Light to the UN and UNESCO

Optics and photonics leaders from around the world including President-Elect Philip Stahl of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, last month presented the widely supported "International Year of Light" (IYOL) proposal to representatives from United Nations (UN) Member States and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at the UN Headquarters in New York.

6 Jun 2013

Climate Researchers Investigate Interactions of Laser Light and Ice Clouds

Intense laser light pulses increase the brightness of high cirrus clouds. Together with colleagues from Berlin and Geneva, climate researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have been investigating the interactions of laser light and ice clouds using the unique AIDA aerosol and cloud chamber on KIT’s Campus North.

6 Jun 2013

Fundamentals of Femtosecond Optics - New Book Released by Woodhead Publishing

Femtosecond optics involves the study of ultra-short pulses of light. Understanding the behaviour of these light pulses makes it possible to develop ultra-fast lasers with a wide range of applications in such areas as medical imaging, chemical analysis and micro-machining.

5 Jun 2013

Cheap, Robust Semiconductor Lasers Produce High-Energy Light Pulses Without Drawbacks

Laser researchers in Munich are challenging a basic assumption of engineering: "You can't have it all." They have shown that for certain kinds of laser applications in biomedical imaging, material processing, and communications, a new approach could deliver the desired capabilities with no problematic tradeoffs: in compact, inexpensive, efficient and long-lived devices that produce ultrashort, high-energy light pulses.

5 Jun 2013

Inexpensive Ground-Based Telescopes Aid Discovery of Hot Saturn-Like Planet

A four-university collaboration that includes Lehigh University astrophysicist Joshua Pepper has discovered a hot Saturn-like planet in another solar system 700 light years away.

5 Jun 2013

Low Irradiance LED UV Light Extends Shelf Life of Strawberries

Strawberry lovers rejoice: the days of unpacking your luscious berries from the refrigerator only to find them sprouting wispy goatees of mold may be numbered.

From Optical Society Of America 5 Jun 2013

Innovative Video Mapping System from Projection Advertising

Projection Advertising, the UK’s leading projection specialist, has announced its groundbreaking new MIMO Mapper system. MIMO, an acronym for ‘model in, movie out’, is a new approach to video mapping offering endless possibilities on even the most demanding of surfaces. Using the same principles as UV mapping, it incorporates additional capabilities making it one of the most advanced video-mapping systems in the world.

5 Jun 2013

Ventuz Enters Partnership to Create Interactive Display Solutions on MultiTouch’s MultiTaction Platform

MultiTouch Ltd, the world leader in modular multi-touch LCD screens for large-scale displays, has announced a partnership with Ventuz Technology to create interactive display solutions on MultiTouch’s MultiTaction platform.

5 Jun 2013

NASA's Swift Satellite Used to Create Detailed UV Light Surveys of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds

Astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University have used NASA's Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major galaxies.

4 Jun 2013