The Boeing Company has accomplished a two-year modernization initiative for the Advanced Electro-Optical System (AEOS). This versatile, powerful telescope is effective for use in research and space situational awareness for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
By Will Soutter
22 Jun 2012
A multi-institute team of researchers has imaged and shown the propagation of surface plasmons on graphene using an infrared light beam and demonstrated a way to control them utilizing a basic electrical circuit.
By Will Soutter
22 Jun 2012
Solos Endoscopy, a HealthCare instrument company, has announced its plans to expand its MammoView Breast Endoscopy product line and also intends to market its product, MammoView breast endoscopy components to the hospitals both in local and international markets via direct sales channels.
By Will Soutter
22 Jun 2012
INSTEON, a company specializing in reliable and advanced home automation technology, has launched INSTEON LED Bulb 8 Watt (60 W), which is claimed to be the world's first networked remote control dimmable LED light bulb. The INSTEON LED bulb has a sleek design, and was developed to illuminate home and personal technology industries.
By Will Soutter
22 Jun 2012
Leica Microsystems, world-leading provider of Total Digital Pathology solutions, and Indica Labs, developing excellence in image analysis for Digital Pathology, today announce the integration of Indica Labs’ advanced image analysis algorithm portfolio into Leica Microsystems digital pathology solution.
Electro Scientific Industries (ESI), an innovative, laser-based manufacturing solutions supplier for the microtechnology industry has announced its acquisition of Pessac, France-based EOLITE Systems, a company that manufactures unique fiber lasers using innovative pulsed fiber laser technology.
By Will Soutter
21 Jun 2012
Elemental LED has launched a new under cabinet LED lighting fixture considered as the company’s debutant direct wire under cabinet LED light. This new lighting fixture can be directly connected to 120V AC power through a standard wall outlet.
By Will Soutter
21 Jun 2012
A new imaging tool has been developed by Italian researchers which is capable of capturing features that could not be detected with existing imaging methods or with the naked eye. Utilizing the reflected light from the spectrum’s mid-infrared portion, the Thermal Quasi-Reflectography (TQR) system is capable of producing sharper and better contrast images.
An MOU has been inked between the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) at the 2012 BIO International Convention in the United States.
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has designed a prototype automated pavement crack detection and sealing system to prevent workers from getting exposed to hazardous traffic.
By Will Soutter
19 Jun 2012
To meet the growing demands of Japanese automotive manufacturing,
the Mechatronics Division of systems integrator Sumitomo Heavy
Industries (SHI) is conducting applications-based trials using JK Lasers’ 1kW fiber laser (JK1000FL).
GlacialLight, a division of experienced global technology leader, GlacialTech Inc., has added the GL-PIR10C, a versatile infrared motion sensing switch, to its popular range of lighting products.
PI LP is now offering the PI miCos product line of precision linear stage positioners.
Plastic optics for lighting fixtures can now be custom manufactured by a new one-step process which affords flexibility and freedom of design never before possible, at prices competitive with injection molding. LUXeXceL offers its patented new "Printoptical" 3D printing service for on-demand manufacturing of optics directly from a CAD model, with no need for expensive molds or tooling.
The 400G/1T dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) multi-application network device prototype, which is the first of its kind in the whole world, was launched by ZTE at the 16th WDM & Next Generation Optical Networking Forum in Monaco.
By Will Soutter
19 Jun 2012