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NASA Practices Placement of Primary Mirror Segments on James Webb Space Telescope

NASA engineers and scientists have been making practice runs to ensure the placement of primary mirror segments on the James Webb Space Telescope go perfectly when the flight equipment is ready. NASA issued a video and photos showing the practice run in the giant clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

21 Mar 2013

Most Green Laser Pointers Not in Compliance with Safety Regulations

Using a low-cost apparatus designed to quickly and accurately measure the properties of handheld laser devices, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers tested 122 laser pointers and found that nearly 90 percent of green pointers and about 44 percent of red pointers tested were out of compliance with federal safety regulations. The NIST test apparatus was designed so that it can be replicated easily by other institutions.

21 Mar 2013

Spectral Imaging Solutions for Environmental Monitoring and Industrial Quality Control

In the near future, spectral imaging will provide new solutions for environmental monitoring and industrial quality control. The University of Eastern Finland and Olympus Corporation, a Japanese designer and manufacturer of imaging equipment, have joined forces and are now working on a collaborative research project.

21 Mar 2013

PMC’s Single-Chip Processor Supports 10G, 40G and 100G Speeds for OTN Transport

PMC®, the semiconductor innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store big data, announced today the introduction of PM5440 DIGI 120G, the industry’s only single-chip OTN processor supporting 10G, 40G and 100G speeds for OTN transport, aggregation and switched deployments.

21 Mar 2013

US Air Force Successfully Launched Lockheed Martin-Built Infrared Surveillance Satellite

The U.S. Air Force’s second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, was successfully launched today at 5:21 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

20 Mar 2013

Olympus Expands Scope of Most Advanced IX83 Inverted Microscope Frame

The scan^R 2.4 high content screening station is the latest addition to the growing collection of microscopy systems based upon the new IX3 high-end inverted microscope frame. Thanks to its unique “open source” design concept, the IX3 is offering a completely modular and flexible approach to live cell imaging.

20 Mar 2013

NASA's Aqua Satellite Captures Infrared Image of Cyclone Tim

Infrared satellite imagery tells the temperature of the cloud tops within a tropical cyclone as well as the sea surface temperatures around the storms. A recent infrared image from NASA's Aqua satellite showed very little strength in the remnants of ex-cyclone Tim offshore from southeastern Queensland.

20 Mar 2013

NeoPhotonics Introduces micro-Integrated Tunable Laser Assembly Technology for High Speed Communications Networks

NeoPhotonics Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of photonic integrated circuit, or PIC, based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications networks, today announced a small form factor, narrow-linewidth, micro-Integrated Tunable Laser Assembly (micro-ITLA) technology.

20 Mar 2013

JDSU to Highlight Tunable SFP+ Transceiver at OFC/NFOEC

JDSU today announced that it will highlight solutions from its leading optical communications and communications test and measurement portfolios at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) at the Anaheim Convention Center from March 19-21, 2013.

20 Mar 2013

OFC 2013: Source Photonics to Demonstrate Low Power 100GBASE-LR4 CFP Transceiver Module

Source Photonics Inc., a leading global provider of optical communication products used in telecommunication systems and data communication networks, announces the live demonstration of the low power consumption 100GBASE-LR4 CFP transceiver module, the CPL-A4-MR-LR-CLFB, at OFC 2013.

From Source Photonics, Inc 20 Mar 2013

GigOptix to Showcase 100Gbps Quad Driver and TFPS Modulator Bundle at OFC/NFOEC

GigOptix, Inc., a leading supplier of advanced semiconductor and optical communications components, today announced that it will be showcasing its 100Gbps networking leadership at the upcoming OFC/NFOEC show with live demonstrations of its 100Gbps quad driver and TFPS™ modulator bundle and an Infiniband EDR chipset at GigOptix booth #3113, and several new product introductions.

20 Mar 2013

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Project Achieves Another Milestone

The first truly global telescope came a significant step closer to completion this month with the installation and first light on three new 1-meter telescopes at the South Africa Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) near Sutherland, South Africa. A team of five Las Cumbres engineers, technicians, and a postdoc, convened at Sutherland for three weeks during late February and early March to achieve this feat.

19 Mar 2013

Avago Technologies Announces New Additions to Atlas Optical Engine Product Family

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for wireless, wireline, and industrial applications, today introduced four new sets of Atlas Optical Engine 12-channel parallel optics transmitter and receiver modules, the 12.5G and 14G MiniPOD™ modules and the 12.5G and 14G MicroPOD™ modules.

19 Mar 2013

TriQuint Introduces New Transimpedance Amplifier Line for High-Performance Optical Networks

TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc., a leading RF products manufacturer and foundry services provider, has expanded its optical infrastructure portfolio with five new transimpedance amplifiers (TIA), enabling the company to now serve both transmit and receive portions of high performance optical networks.

From Qorvo, Inc 19 Mar 2013

Low-Cost Approach to Improve MEH-PPV Polymer’s Ability to Confine Light

Researchers from North Carolina State University have come up with a low-cost way to enhance a polymer called MEH-PPV's ability to confine light, advancing efforts to use the material to convert electricity into laser light for use in photonic devices.

19 Mar 2013