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OSA Events Highlighted Optics in Sustainable Energy Sector

The Optical Society (OSA) has hosted two meetings in Tucson -The Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, and the Optical Interference Coatings Topical Meeting.

16 Jun 2010

Bright Light Therapy Betters Sleep Disturbances in Soldiers

New research study indicates that bright light therapy is effective for treating sleep disturbances in combat soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The abstract of this study will be presented at the SLEEP 2010 meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Texas.

16 Jun 2010

Spire Semiconductor Awarded MDA Contract to Develop Efficient Solar Cells

Spire Corporation, SPIR announced that its subsidiary, Spire Semiconductor, LLC, was awarded a Missile Defense Agency (MDA) contract. According to the contract, efficient, multi-junction solar cells have to be developed for the space applications.

14 Jun 2010

NAS NVRmini Surveillance System Granted ImmerVision Enables Certification

NAS NVRmini, a surveillance system developed by NUUO Inc, has been awarded the ImmerVision Enables certification.

14 Jun 2010

CVI Adds USB 2.0 Interface Capability in BeamAlyzer Series

CVI Melles Griot has added an advanced Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 interface capability in the 7-blade Super BeamAlyzer and the 3-blade BeamAlyzer series.

11 Jun 2010

Optimum Optical Systems Acquired by Teledyne

Teledyne Technologies’ subsidiary company, Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, has acquired a California-based company called Optimum Optical Systems.

11 Jun 2010

Optical Society’s Website Receives Silver Honors Award

The Parents’ Choice Foundation has presented the Silver Honors award to the Optical Society’s (OSA) website called the OpticsForKids.org.

11 Jun 2010

New Aspheric Lenses for Data Storage and Biomedical Markets

LightPath Technologies has launched a new series of aspheric lenses for data storage and biomedical markets.

From LightPath Technologies, Inc. 11 Jun 2010

Spectrum Machinery to Sell Beta LaserMike Products in New England

One of the top-ranking specialists in control and precision measurement products, Beta LaserMike, has selected Spectrum Machinery as an exclusive sales representative in the New England region.

8 Jun 2010

New Technique for Classifying Monolayer Separation

The University of Nantes’ scientists have created a new technique to detect and measure grain boundary separations by utilizing a wavelength dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (WDS).

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 7 Jun 2010