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ADVA Optical Networking, BT Demonstrate Future of NFV-Enabled Managed Services

ADVA Optical Networking today launched a joint demonstration with BT that reveals the future of managed services built upon network functions virtualization (NFV).

12 Oct 2015

EPFL Researchers Produce Two-Micron Lasers Using Optical Fibre

Lasers with a wavelength of two microns could move the boundaries of surgery and molecule detection. Researchers at EPFL have managed to generate such lasers using a simple and inexpensive method.

12 Oct 2015

Stemmer Imaging Offers Teledyne DALSA Boa 2 Smart Camera for Parts and Assembly Inspection

With resolutions up to 5 Megapixesl, inspections up to 80 parts/second, enhanced embedded measurement and processing software, and a variety of I/O and mounting options, the versatile new Boa 2 smart camera from Teledyne DALSA can automate identification, measurement, guiding and verification requirements in a host of applications.

9 Oct 2015

Headwall Photonics to Supply Advanced Spectral Imaging Systems to PICVISA for Plastic Recycling

Headwall Photonics (Fitchburg, MA; Diegem, Belgium) will be supplying advanced-technology spectral imaging systems to PICVISA (Barcelona, Spain) for use for in-line plastic recycling and sorting.

9 Oct 2015

Crystallography, NMR and Simulation Reveal Movement of Molecules within Crystals

X-ray crystallography reveals the three-dimensional structure of a molecule, thus making it possible to understand how it works and potentially use this knowledge to subsequently modulate its activity, especially for therapeutic or biotechnological purposes. For the first time, a study has shown that residual movements continue to animate proteins inside a crystal and that this movement "blurs" the structures obtained via crystallography.

7 Oct 2015

Latest Contact Lens Technology Presented at American Academy of Optometry Conference

For years, millions of contact lens wearers have compromised by settling for 20/Happy vision; a term used to describe vision that was functional, but not 20/20. Eye Care Professionals (ECPs) have reported that 99.5% of patients experience at least one area of compromise with vision using today’s multifocal contact lenses.1 Research is now showing that new advances in contact lens technology are helping by providing the vision and stereoacuity (depth perception) patients want.

7 Oct 2015

DARPA Award to Support Research on Metasurface-Based Flat Optical Modulators

Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering , has won the prestigious DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Young Faculty Award (YFA), which will support his work on metasurface-based flat optical modulators.

6 Oct 2015