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Rice University Professor Wins Norman Edmund Inspiration Award for Optical Imaging Technologies

Edmund Optics®, the premier provider of optical components, announces the recipient of the 2012 Norman Edmund Inspiration Award of $5,000 in EO products. Tomasz Tkaczyk, Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at Rice University, is being recognized for the development of optical imaging technologies used for the early detection and treatment of infectious diseases and cancer.

11 Oct 2012

Novel 3D Optical Doppler Imaging Reveals Cocaine-Induced Restricted Cerebral Blood Flow

Researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University have developed a high-resolution, 3D optical Doppler imaging tomography technique that captures the effects of cocaine restricting the blood supply in vessels – including small capillaries – of the brain.

11 Oct 2012

Laser Research Optics Introduces New Polarizing Beam Splitters and Beam Combiners

Laser Research Optics has introduced a new line of polarizing beam splitters and beam combiners for CO₂ lasers from 100W up that are in-stock for immediate delivery to OEMs as well as end-users.

11 Oct 2012

Holonyak’s Path to LED Discovery

Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE colleagues at the time called “the magic one” because its light, unlike infrared lasers, was visible to the human eye.

11 Oct 2012

VOO Upgrades ADVA FSP 3000 Core Optical Network with ROADM Technology

ADVA Optical Networking SE / VOO Selects ADVA Optical Networking and Arcadiz Telecom for Belgian ROADM Network. Processed and transmitted by Thomson Reuters ONE. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

11 Oct 2012

RiT in Final Development of New Indoor Wireless Optical Network Product

RiT Technologies today announced that it is in final development of the first product in its revolutionary new Indoor Wireless Optical Network (IWON) product family, positioning it for market launch during the third quarter of 2013.

11 Oct 2012

Synopsys Releases CODE V Optical Design Software v10.5 with Improved Optimization Capabilities

Synopsys, a global leader accelerating innovation in the design, verification and manufacture of chips and systems, today announced the availability of Synopsys' CODE V® Optical Design Software, version 10.5, which offers new and improved optimization and tolerancing capabilities for the design of high-performance optical systems with reduced sensitivity to manufacturing and alignment errors.

10 Oct 2012

Leica Geosystems Introduces Ultra-High Speed Laser Scanner

Leica Geosystems today announces the Leica ScanStation P20, bringing unprecedented performance to ultra-high speed laser scanning.

10 Oct 2012

Cree Launches High Performance Color LEDs

Cree, announces commercial availability of XLamp® XB-D color LEDs and XLamp XM-L multi-color LEDs. The high performance color LEDs provide lighting manufacturers with discrete and multi-color LED options to more cost-effectively address a wider spectrum of applications such as architectural, vehicle and display lighting.

From WOLFSPEED, INC. 10 Oct 2012

AOptix Reorganizes Company into Two Business Units

AOptix, a technology innovation company that applies optics to transform identity verification and wireless communications, today announced that it has reorganized the company into two business units: Identity Solutions and Communications. This news follows the recent announcement from AOptix that it has closed a $42 million Series E round of funding.

10 Oct 2012

ViewSonic Launches LED Display with Dual Point Optical Touch Technology

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solution products, today announced its latest touch-enabled LED display -- the TD2220.

10 Oct 2012

Finisar Launches Widely-Tunable Optical Transmitter for Cable Access Networks

Finisar Corporation today introduced the industry's first 1 GHz RF-modulated, widely-tunable optical transmitter in a Small-Form Factor module for cable operators' access networks.

10 Oct 2012

Cyan Introduces G.709 Optical Transport Network Switch Fabric to Enhance Router Bypass

Cyan today announced a significant upgrade to its Z-Series platform -- a multi-terabit packet and G.709 optical transport network (OTN) switch fabric that enhances the economics for router bypass in metro software-defined networks (SDNs).

10 Oct 2012

Digital Lumens Intelligent LED Lighting System Helps Ardo UK Reduce Energy Costs

Digital Lumens today announced that Ardo UK, a leading supplier of high-quality frozen fruit, vegetables and carbohydrates (potato, rice and pasta), has upgraded an 80,000-cubic-meter mobile racking cold storage facility in Kent, England to the Digital Lumens Intelligent Lighting System, saving 97% of its lighting-related energy costs annually.

10 Oct 2012