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World Demand for Lighting Set to Grow 12.3% Annually Through 2016

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: World Lighting: Lamps & LEDs Market

7 Feb 2013

Cree LED Luminaires Illuminate Richard Petty's Garage Complex

Nicknamed “The King” of NASCAR®, Richard Petty has endorsed Cree® LED lighting after enthusiastically transforming his 100,000 square-foot garage with state-of-the-art LED fixtures by Cree, Inc.

7 Feb 2013

Researchers Create Light-Emitting Triangular Structures

For the first time, scientists have created single layers of a naturally occurring rare mineral called tungstenite, or WS2.

7 Feb 2013

New Way to Lock Structural Color

Iridescence, or sheen that shifts color depending on your viewing angle, is pretty in peacock feathers. But it's been a nuisance for engineers trying to mimic the birds' unique color mechanism to make high-resolution, reflective, color display screens.

7 Feb 2013

ITT Exelis successfully completed an optical fabrication contract for the University of Rochester’s Lab for Laser Energetics.

7 Feb 2013

AstraNet Launch New Low Volume Spectrophotometers for Life Science

AstraNet Systems Ltd (Cambridge, England), a manufacturer of analyser systems based on fibre optic coupled spectrophotometry, is pleased to announce the availability of another new product for the Life Sciences market.

From AstraNet Systems Ltd. 6 Feb 2013

Ophir Photonics Launch New Pyrocam IV Laser Profiling Camera at Photonics West

Ophir Photonics, global leader in precision laser measurement equipment and a Newport Corporation brand, today announced the Pyrocam IV at Photonics West.

From Ophir Photonics Group 6 Feb 2013

Luminus to Introduce New UV Big Chip LED at Photonics West 2013

Luminus Devices, Inc., announced today that engineering samples of a new UV Big Chip LED in Luminus' popular PT-39 form factor will be introduced at Photonics West 2013. Visitors will be able to see it in action driving a 3D printing system.

6 Feb 2013

Southampton ORC Scientists Study Use of Fibre Lasers for Particle Accelerator Technologies

Scientists from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton are part of an international project that is investigating the use of fibre lasers in ground-breaking particle accelerator technologies, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

6 Feb 2013

James Webb Space Telescope Marks Another Year of Significant Progress

The James Webb Space Telescope marked another year of significant progress in 2012 as flight instrumentation was completed and delivered to NASA.

6 Feb 2013

Leaders in Advanced Imaging to Present Cell Research at AAAS Annual Meeting

New microscope technologies provide images of unparalleled detail, allowing scientists to view individual cells – and even single molecules within the cells – moving in real time. These advances pave the way for better understanding of and treatment for diseases in humans, including cancer.

6 Feb 2013

Ophir Introduces NIST-Calibrated Laser Beam Profiler at Photonics West

Ophir Photonics, global leader in precision laser measurement equipment and a Newport Corporation brand, today announced NanoScan 2 at Photonics West, the new version of their scanning slit beam profiler.

From Ophir Photonics Group 6 Feb 2013

NKT Photonics to Supply Fiber Amplifier Module for Coherent Sub-Nanosecond Pulsed Laser

NKT Photonics, the pioneer of photonic crystal fibers, and Coherent, Inc., a world leader in lasers and laser systems for commercial and scientific markets, today announced that NKT Photonics will supply a high-power fiber amplifier module for use in Coherent’s newly released Daytona sub-nanosecond pulsed laser, targeted at various micro-electronics applications.

From NKT Photonics A/S 6 Feb 2013

New Reports on Global Lighting Industry and OLED Displays Market

The global OLED displays market is expected to reach $25.9 billion by 2018 from $4.9 billion in 2012 growing at a CAGR of 31.7 percent from 2012 to 2018. Mobile phones are the largest end use application and accounted for 71 percent of the total OLED displays market in 2012. Asia Pacific region is the biggest producer as well as consumer of OLED displays and contributed almost 90 percent to the OLED displays market in 2012.

5 Feb 2013

BMC Debuts Reflective Optical Chopper at Photonics West

Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC), a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products and adaptive optics systems, today introduced here at Photonics West the Reflective Optical Chopper (ROC). Designed to out-perform the traditional optical chopper, the ROC offers greater frequency range and a faster chopping speed without the need to alter the beam size.

From Boston Micromachines Corporation 5 Feb 2013