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AMS Technologies Introduces High Performance Fiber Coupled Laser Diode

AMS Technologies introduces Princeton Lightwave¡¯s high performance fiber coupled laser diode with an exceptional high power of 400mW @ 1550nm.

4 Dec 2007

Researchers Receives Grant for the Development of Laser Interference Coatings

The Office of Naval Research has awarded a Colorado State University professor and her academic partners at the University of New Mexico, Stanford University and Jefferson Lab a five-year, $2.5 million Multidisciplinary Research Initiative grant to advance the fundamental understanding and development of interference coatings for high energy lasers.

From Veeco 4 Dec 2007

QPC Wins Major Contract to Deliver Lasers Used in Rear Projection Televisions

"QPC," a world leader in the development and commercialization of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced that it has won a major contract to develop and deliver lasers to be used in rear projection televisions based on DLP and LCOS technologies.

3 Dec 2007

Window Films Provides Simple and Effective Protection from Damaging Radiation

With summertime days away in the southern hemisphere, the threat from an unseen intruder significantly increases. Overexposure to UV radiation, highest during summer months, causes about 60,000 deaths a year worldwide, according to World Health Organization (WHO).

3 Dec 2007

Metrologic Releases World's Best-Selling Series of Hand-Held Single-Line Laser Scanners

Metrologic Instruments, Inc. today announced the release of the newest addition to the world's best-selling series of hand-held, single-line laser scanners. The MS9590 VoyagerGS, featuring a trigger design, provides aggressive bar code scanning for general-purpose linear bar code applications like those commonly found in retail, healthcare, government, and office environments.

3 Dec 2007

U.S. Army Awards CACI Task Orders to Support Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate

CACI International Inc announced today that it has been awarded three new task orders, totaling an estimated $57.4 million in value, under its Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) contract with the U.S. Army. The awards support the Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD).

3 Dec 2007

World's First Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics System

A team from the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes in collaboration with scientists from Durham University in the United Kingdom and from the University of Leiden and the ASTRON institute in The Netherlands have developed and commissioned at the William Herschel Telescope on the island of La Palma the first ground-layer adaptive optics system in the world that can be used for general astronomical observations.

3 Dec 2007

XsunX Provides Progress Updates to Establish TFPV Manufacturing Infrastructure

XsunX, Inc., a solar technology company engaged in the build- out of its multi-megawatt thin film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar module manufacturing facilities, today provided progress updates on its efforts to establish its TFPV manufacturing infrastructure.

3 Dec 2007

Cymer Shows 100W Extreme UV Burst Power

Cymer, Inc., the world's leading supplier of excimer laser light sources used in semiconductor manufacturing, announced the company reached its goal of demonstrating 100 watts of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) burst power at the 2007 International EUVL Symposium held recently in Sapporo, Japan.

3 Dec 2007

Infinera Director of Advanced Optical Technologies Named IEEE Fellow

Infinera Director of Advanced Optical Technologies, Dr. Radha Nagarajan, has been honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) as an IEEE Fellow for his key role in the development of Infinera’s large-scale photonic integrated circuits.

1 Dec 2007