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Energy Focus Awarded LED Lighting Retrofit Contracts for Government Buildings

Energy Focus, Inc. today announced the Company, through Stones River Companies LLC, its wholly owned subsidiary, has been awarded contracts for government buildings totaling $4.9 million in the first four months of 2013.

8 May 2013

Chaotic Optical Cavities Store Six-Fold More Energy

An international team of physicists, led by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, has demonstrated that chaos can beat order - at least as far as light storage is concerned.

8 May 2013

Point Grey Announced New Model Additions to PoE GigE Vision Cameras

Point Grey, a world-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative, high-performance digital cameras, today announced new model additions to the Blackfly family of ultra-compact PoE GigE Vision cameras.

8 May 2013

JK Lasers to Exhibit at Laser World of Photonics 2013

JK Lasers will be exhibiting at Laser World of Photonics this year as the exhibition celebrates its 40th anniversary.

8 May 2013

B&W Tek Announce Completion of its First 6 Episode Series on Educational Videos

B&W Tek, an advanced instrumentation company producing optical spectroscopy and laser systems is pleased to announce the completion of its first series of educational videos.

From m-oem 7 May 2013

NKT Photonics to Demonstrate World's First Tunable Deep-UV Light Source

NKT Photonics, the pioneer of supercontinuum white light lasers, will demonstrate the World’s first tunable deep-UV supercontinuum-powered light source at this year’s LASER World of Photonics show in Munich.

From NKT Photonics A/S 7 May 2013

Magnalight Commences Sale of 10,000 Lumen Explosion Proof LED Light

Magnalight.com by Larson Electronics has announced the addition of the EPL-BS-161M-100 explosion proof LED light with aluminum base stand to its line of explosion proof LED lighting equipment.

7 May 2013

New Marine PC with Fully-Integrated Sunlight Readable Display from AIS

American Industrial Systems Inc. AIS, an ISO 9001:2008 is a certified supplier and manufacturer of cost-effective marine PCs with rugged touch screen interface comply with marine equipment standards to meet the demands of IEC 60945, DNV 2.4, and IACS-E10 (international standard for maritime navigation and radio communications equipment and systems) needed to withstand the harsh maritime environment requiring low EMI or long-term vibration resilience.

7 May 2013

Legends Seeks to Develop Ultra Efficient LED Light Bulbs

Legends Business Group, today announced the company's new Executive Energy Consultant, Jeff Wilson, as part of Legends research and development team, which has designed a circuit that consumes about 3.7-watts and is capable of powering multiple light-emitting diodes (LEDs) at a 60 Watt output equivalent.

7 May 2013

Teachers Fly Aboard NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747 Jet

Constance Gartner first heard about NASA’s SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) from her students at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in Delavan, Wis.

7 May 2013

Larson Electronics Magnalight Introduces Rechargeable, Explosion Proof LED Light Cart for Hazardous Locations

Larson Electronics Magnalight made public the EPL-RPS-1MLED rechargeable, explosion proof LED light cart. Designed to run 11 hours on a single charge, the Class 1 and Class 2 Division 1 LED light can illuminate a work area of more than 5000 feet.

7 May 2013

Ophir Photonics Announce New Addition to their BeamTrack Thermal Detector Series

Ophir Photonics, global leader in precision laser measurement equipment and a Newport Corporation brand, has announced the newest member of the BeamTrack family, the FL250A-BB-50-PPS.

From Ophir Optronics Group 7 May 2013

BiTec-Light Sensor Compact Measurement Device by Gigahertz-Optik

Due to its innovative BiTec-Light sensor, the new BTS256-E light meter is tailored to the particularities of LED.

7 May 2013

Leica Geosystems Laser Products Win red dot design awards

The laser distance meters Leica DISTO™ D210 and X310 as well as the Leica Rugby 840 rotating laser, were awarded the internationally recognized red dot award 2013. Here, creativity and innovation together with the high quality of design played a prominent role. The three products were selected from 4662 contenders in 19 different categories.

6 May 2013

AFRL Awards Primordial SBIR Contract to Develop Multi-Camera Immersive Surveillance System

Primordial today announced that it has received $848,791 in Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts to develop a multi-camera immersive surveillance system called Tentacle.

6 May 2013