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Researchers Demonstrate Optical Boomerangs

Bending light around corners is usually done with mirrors, but now scientists have realized self-bending light beams that propagate along curved paths.

15 Nov 2012

New Artificial Lens Nearly Identical to Human Eye Lens

Drawing heavily upon nature for inspiration, a team of researchers has created a new artificial lens that is nearly identical to the natural lens of the human eye. This innovative lens, which is made up of thousands of nanoscale polymer layers, may one day provide a more natural performance in implantable lenses to replace damaged or diseased human eye lenses, as well as consumer vision products; it also may lead to superior ground and aerial surveillance technology.

From Optical Society Of America 15 Nov 2012

Resolve Optics Launch Model 207 Close Focusing Motorized Miniature Zoom Lens

The Model 207 Motorised Miniature Zoom Lens from Resolve Optics Ltd. can focus on an object at infinity right down to an object positioned just 35 millimeters in front of the lens.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 15 Nov 2012

SWITCH Lighting Named Best of Innovations honoree in CES 2013 Design and Engineering Awards

SWITCH Lighting™, the only company with a full family of LED replacements for the incandescent bulb, announced today that it has been named an International CES Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Awards honoree.

14 Nov 2012

EPFL Scientists Control Caustic Light Patterns and Organize Them into Coherent Images

It's a simple, transparent acrylic plate – nothing embedded within it and nothing printed on its surface. Place it at a certain angle between a white wall and a light source, and a clear, coherent image appears of the face of Alan Turing, the famous British mathematician and father of modern computer science.

14 Nov 2012

CALIENT Introduces New API for OpenFlow on S320 Optical Circuit Switch

CALIENT Technologies, Inc., the global leader for photonic switching technology, today announced a new application-programming interface (API) for OpenFlow on its S320 optical circuit switch.

14 Nov 2012

New Quantum Mass Fusion Splicer with Automatic and Real-Time Clamp Force Adjustments

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, a major leader in the design and manufacturing of optical fiber and connectivity solutions, today announced the introduction of the Quantum Type-Q101-M12™ Dual-Heater Mass Fusion Splicer, the second splicer launched in its Quantum Splicer product line.

14 Nov 2012

IES Recognizes LSCG’s DEFINITY MR16 and BR20 LED Lamps

Lighting Science Group Corporation (OTCBB: LSCG), one of the world's leading LED lighting technology companies, announced today that its DEFINITY™ MR16 high-output LED lamp and the DEFINITY™ BR20 LED lamp has been recognized by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Progress Committee as providing advancements in the art and science of lighting. The accepted products will be part of the 2012 IES Progress Report, which presents significant developments in the lighting industry over the past year.

14 Nov 2012

Princeton Instruments Introduce PyLoN-IR Spectroscopy Camera with Fastest Spectral Rate and Reduced Dark Current

Princeton Instruments is pleased to introduce the PyLoN®-IR, controllerless, cryogenically-cooled CCD camera for spectroscopy.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 14 Nov 2012

Quartz Imaging Launches New FA-LIMS System at ISFTA 2012

Quartz Imaging Corporation will be showcasing its’ newest release of its’ FA-LIMS system (Failure Analysis Laboratory Information System) at the International Symposium for Testing & Failure Analysis (ISTFA 2012), held in Phoenix, AZ on November 13th and 14th. The first generation of the Quartz Basic LIMS and FA-LIMS has been successfully deployed in many companies around the world including multi-national semi-conductor organizations.

From Quartz Imaging Corporation 13 Nov 2012

JK Lasers Create Laser Drilled Message to Celebrate Diwali

To celebrate Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, JK Lasers has percussion drilled a special message in a 0.5mm thick stainless steel sheet using a JK150PS pulsed Nd:YAG laser.

12 Nov 2012

Leica Launches LAS AF3 Workflow-Oriented Fluorescence Software

Enhanced speed and efficiency for recording, processing and displaying large amounts of data - including 3D visualization in real-time

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 12 Nov 2012

NKT Photonics' Lasse Leick Received 2012 Pasteur Award

NKT Photonics’ Project Manager Lasse Leick has received the 2012 Pasteur Award for the work on a new infrared supercontinuum laser that can throw light on what was previously invisible.

From NKT Photonics A/S 12 Nov 2012

Panasonic to Shoot and Broadcast Total Eclipse with Two Cameras

On the morning of November 14th, 2012, the North of Australia will witness a total solar eclipse. Panasonic, using its HIT(R) solar panels and lithium ion batteries for storage, will produce a live broadcast of this spectacular astronomical phenomenon via USTREAM.

9 Nov 2012

Researchers Employ X-ray Free-Electron Laser and Spectroscopy to See Electronic Structure of Manganese Complex

Together with a large international research team, Johannes Messinger of Umeå University in Sweden has taken another step toward an understanding of photosynthesis and developing artificial photosynthesis. With a combination of a x-ray free-electron laser and spectroscopy, the team has managed to see the electronic structure of a manganese complex, a chemical compound related to how photosynthesis splits water.

9 Nov 2012