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Point Grey Releases 1.3 MP CMOS Global Shutter Sensor Blackfly Camera

Point Grey, a world-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative, high-performance digital cameras, today announces the release of the all new Blackfly camera.

21 Dec 2012

Iridian Advances 1064 nm Raman Filters

Iridian Spectral Technologies Ltd. (Iridian), a leading global supplier of optical filter solutions, has added improved 1064 nm filters to its Raman filter offerings.

21 Dec 2012

Physicists Prove Anderson's Theory Using Diffusion of Light in a Cloudy Medium

Waves do not spread in a disordered medium if there is less than one wavelength between two defects.

21 Dec 2012

Verizon Installs Fiber-Optic Cables between Critical Switching Offices Affected by Hurricane Sandy

Less than seven weeks after Hurricane Sandy, Verizon has finalized another important step in the transformation of the communications infrastructure of lower Manhattan by completing the installation of fiber-optic cables between the company's two critical central switching offices there and buildings put out of service by the storm surge.

21 Dec 2012

Digital Cameras Help in Monitoring Spread of Tree Diseases

As digital cameras become better and cheaper, ecologists are turning these ubiquitous consumer devices into scientific tools to study how forests are responding to climate change.

21 Dec 2012

Photons Emitted From Light Sources Follow a Random but Coordinated Path

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have demonstrated that photons (light particles) emitted from light sources embedded in a complex and disordered structure are able to mutually coordinate their paths through the medium.

21 Dec 2012

Embraer Selects Astronics as Lighting Supplier for Military Transport and Tanker Program

Astronics Corporation (“Company”), a leading provider of advanced technologies for the global aerospace and defense industries, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Luminescent Systems Inc., has been selected by Embraer Defense and Security as a supplier for their KC-390 Military Transport and Tanker Program.

20 Dec 2012

Soraa Launches Fixture Validation Program for LED Lighting Industry

Clearing the way for widespread adoption of LED lighting, Soraa today launched the lighting industry’s first fixture validation program—Works with Soraa. Lighting fixture manufacturers Tech Lighting, Focal Point, Hevi Lite, and Dreamscape Lighting have joined Soraa to kick off the program.

20 Dec 2012

Utah Manufacturers Association Honors Precision Laser Measurement Equipment Producer Ophir-Spiricon

The Utah Manufacturers Association honored Ophir-Spiricon, global leader in precision laser measurement equipment and a Newport Corporation brand, as Utah Manufacturer of the Year.

From Ophir Photonics Group 20 Dec 2012

New Microscopy Camera for Colour Documentation and Fluorescent Detection from Olympus

Olympus has launched the DP80, a unique microscopy camera for both colour documentation and fluorescent detection. Combining a colour and monochrome chip within the same housing, the DP80 provides high resolution brightfield imaging alongside sensitive photon detection. With versatile functionality, the control software permits rapid and automatic exchange between the chips, without switching camera or optical path.

20 Dec 2012

Nanomechanical Dual-Core Optical Fibers Enhance Data Processing

Optical fibers –the backbone of the Internet–carry movies, messages, and music at the speed of light. But for all their efficiency, these ultrathin strands of pristine glass must connect to sluggish signal switches, routers, and buffers in order to transmit data. Hoping to do away with these information speed bumps, researchers have developed a new, dual-core optical fiber that can perform the same functions just by applying a miniscule amount of mechanical pressure.

From Optical Society Of America 20 Dec 2012

CyberOptics to Showcase SPI and AOI Inspection Solutions at INTERNEPCON

CyberOptics Corporation announces that it will present its newest range of SPI and AOI inspection solutions in booth 52-9 at the upcoming INTERNEPCON Japan.

From CyberOptics Corporation 20 Dec 2012

Mentor Graphics Upgrades LED Measurement Solutions for Auto-Lighting

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced significant advances in their T3Ster®+TeraLED® measurement and characterization hardware, as well as in FloEFD™ software simulation products, to meet the needs of lighting developers using arrays of LEDs in headlights, taillights and other transportation industry applications. These advances enable developers to efficiently manage the heat and condensation developed by these arrays thus improving product reliability and life.

19 Dec 2012

Bridgelux LED Completes 48,000 Consecutive Hours of Reliability Testing

Bridgelux, a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month and, to commemorate the event, the company announced that one of its LEDs has completed 48,000 consecutive hours of reliability testing.

19 Dec 2012

Global Optical Digitizer and Scanner Market to Grow to $467.1 Million in 2016

The global optical digitizer and scanner market is seeing rapid growth in unit sales based on increased end-user measurement needs, as well as greater innovation and product capabilities. To keep pace with evolving end-user requirements, equipment suppliers are consistently reinvesting in research and development. The resulting advances in probe technology, software, accuracy, and integration methods are creating further opportunities for high-end optical digitizers and scanners.

19 Dec 2012