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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

New Application of PAT Worth its Weight in Gold to Breast Cancer Patients

Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients.

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

3M MicroTouch DST Selected as Touch Interface for New Commercial Display by ViewSonic

3M Touch Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 3M Company and a leading innovator and manufacturer of touch technology, and ViewSonic® Corporation, a leading global provider of visual display products, join in announcing today at the 2009 International CES that ViewSonic has selected the 3M MicroTouch DST Touch System as the touch interface for its new commercial display, the CD4220T.

11 Jan 2009

Scientists Discover Way to Detect and Pinpoint Excavation of Tunnels

With the same type of fiber optic cables used in telecommunications systems, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a way to detect and pinpoint the excavation of tunnels during times of war, such as those used for smuggling weapons into Gaza. The findings will be presented at the Defense, Security and Sensing Conference of SPIE (an international society advancing light-based research) in April 2009 in Orlando, Florida.

9 Jan 2009

Navitar Releases New 2009 Catalog Featuring Full Line of Optical Solutions for Machine Vision

Navitar, a global leader of imaging optics technology announces the release of its new 2009 product catalog featuring a full line of optical solutions for Machine Vision, Automation, Assembly, Imaging, Measuring, Inspection and Biomedical Sciences.

From Navitar Inc. 7 Jan 2009

First Vertebrate to Use Mirrors to Focus Light in its Eyes

Professor Julian Partridge from the University of Bristol, said: "In nearly 500 million years of vertebrate evolution, and many thousands of vertebrate species living and dead, this is the only one known to have solved the fundamental optical problem faced by all eyes - how to make an image - using a mirror."

7 Jan 2009