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Alfalight Announces Availability of Wavelength-Stabilized 0.65 W Pump Diode Laser

Alfalight, Inc., a leading supplier of highly efficient high-power diode lasers, announced today the availability of a wavelength-stabilized 0.65 W, 808 nm single-emitter pump diode laser packaged on a small form factor 3-mm Q-mount. The device extends the proven benefits of Alfalight's Wavelength Stabilization Technology (WST) to high-efficiency, temperature-stable DPSS micro-laser applications such as pico-projector and laser display systems.

14 Jan 2009

Photonics Innovation Awards will be Presented at Photonics West 2009

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Laurin Publishing, publisher of Photonics Media, have announced the 67 finalist companies for the 2008 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, the premier competition for the photonics industry worldwide.

13 Jan 2009

Visually Challenged MIT Poet's 'Seeing Machine' Allows Sight-Impaired to Take Photos

The demonstration comes more than 20 years after Goldring, a senior fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and colleagues began work on a "seeing machine" that can allow some people who are blind or visually challenged to access the Internet, view the face of a friend and much more.

13 Jan 2009

Finding Opens Way to Large Number of Promising Applications

Terahertz cascade lasers are a new family of semi-conductor lasers which emit in the frequency range of the terahertz, or 1012 hertz. Because of their potential applications, they currently raise considerable interest, despite one major drawback: their output beam is markedly divergent.

13 Jan 2009

Avo Photonics Celebrates Its 5th Year of Continuous Operations

Avo Photonics was founded November, 2003 by Dr. Joseph Dallas and Mr. David Winick as an advanced custom opto-electronic design and contract manufacturing house serving customers in the military, aerospace, medical, and telecommunications markets.

13 Jan 2009

Patients and Astronauts Benefit from NEI-NASA Collaboration

A compact fiber-optic probe developed for the space program has now proven valuable for patients in the clinic as the first non-invasive early detection device for cataracts, the leading cause of vision loss worldwide.

12 Jan 2009

NIST Award Granted to DST for Civil Infrastructure Fiber Optic Sensing System Development

On January 6, 2009, NIST announced that it created nine awards under its newly formed Technology Innovation Program (TIP), for developing the next generation of structural health monitoring systems for large infrastructure elements. Distributed Sensor Technologies, Inc. (DST), of Santa Clara, Calif., has been selected as a recipient for a program entitled "Fiber Sensing System for Civil Infrastructure Health Monitoring."

12 Jan 2009

High Resolution and Flexibility for Microscopic Examinations of Near-membrane Processes

With Laser TIRF 3, Carl Zeiss infuses its imaging system for Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence microscopy with an entirely new level of quality. The TIRF system is suitable for reproducible microscopic examinations of near-cell membrane dynamic processes and interactions of single molecules in cell-free systems with high time resolution.

8 Jan 2009

SYL2010 Display Expected to be in Cell Phones, Media Players in 2009

Syndiant, a fabless semiconductor company that designs and manufacturers chips for ultra-portable projectors and cell phones, is working with more than 30 customers on its SYL2010 product, to be designed into portable systems using both LED and laser solid-state light sources.

7 Jan 2009

Proceeds to Advance Development of Novel Short-Wavelength Light Sources

Energetiq Technology, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of specialized short-wavelength light products for advanced technology applications, today announced that it has raised additional capital in its Series C round of financing. The financing was led by a new investor, Ushio Inc. , and supported by existing investors including Intel Capital and Shea Ventures.

6 Jan 2009