Optics and Photonics News

RSS

Techna Institute Enters Contract with Canadian Centre for Photonics and Optics, INO

The recently launched Techna Institute located at University Health Network (UHN) has entered into its first contract with Hamilton and Quebec City-based INO.

28 Nov 2011

Urban Communications Purchases Optical Wave Division Multiplexer Equipment

Urban Communications has declared that the company has improved its service capacity by the purchase of novel infrastructure equipment for electronic networking.

28 Nov 2011

MIT Researchers Enable Significant Advancement Towards Optic Computing

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have succeeded in creating a component to furnish complete optical circuits on silicon chips, at last with the significant advancements in photonic chip development.

25 Nov 2011

Berkeley Lab Scientists Develop Simpler Technique to Produce Plasmonic Materials

A research team led by Peidong Yang, who serves as a Chemist at the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has developed high-density three-dimensional supercrystals by stimulating silver nanocrystals having polyhedral shapes that can self assemble, facilitating the production of novel plasmonic materials.

24 Nov 2011

Banner’s Q26 Series Photoelectric Sensor with Coaxial Optics Enables Clear Object Detection

Banner Engineering has launched the Q26 photoelectric sensor for detecting clear objects. This is an addition to its sensor product line.

From Banner Engineering Corp. 24 Nov 2011

Narrow Linewidth Tunable Laser Capacity Doubled by NeoPhotonics

NeoPhotonics, a designer and producer of photonic integrated circuit-based subsystems and modules for high-speed, high-bandwidth communication networks has declared that the company is all set to increase the capacity of its narrow linewidth tunable lasers to twice as much, since these lasers have been the major components for high speed 40 and 100 Gbps coherent systems, with the company offering them in an OIF MSA standard ITLA form factor.

24 Nov 2011

Prototype Contact Lens Provides Hands-Free Information Updates

Researchers belonging to the Aalto University in Finland and the University of Washington have created a prototype contact lens that can provide hands-free information updates to the wearer. Terminator-style information-vision is making progress towards reality.

23 Nov 2011

Behlman’s COTS Power Supplies Extend Life of Navy’s Electro Optical Sensor System

Behlman Electronics, a provider of commercial off the shelf (COTS) power solutions, has manufactured two COTS power supplies for the electro optical sensor system (EOSS) of the U.S. Navy.

23 Nov 2011

Knight Optical Establish New Division to Focus on European Customers

Knight Optical of Harrietsham, Kent, UK continues its expansion with the establishment of a separate division focusing on servicing its customers in continental Europe.

From Knight Optical (UK) Ltd 22 Nov 2011

New Rack Mountable Multimeter from Gigahertz-Optik

Gigahertz-Optik’s X1-RM Multimeter is a rack-mountable version of the X1 series hand-held universal optometer for use with a wide variety of detector types. It combines a powerful microprocessor and electronics in a rack-mountable module for integration into standard 19” rack-mount housings.

21 Nov 2011