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KVH Secures New Order for Fiber Optic Gyro-Based Tactical Navigation System

KVH Industries, Inc., announced today that it has received a $2 million order for its TACNAV® II tactical navigation system for use by an international customer.

15 May 2010

Lens Manufacturers Benefit from Taylor Hobson’s Optics Metrology

Drastic manufacturing yield improvements are being gained by manufacturers of high precision optics.

14 May 2010

Semrock Introduces New Quad-Band Set Comprising Hard-Coated Optical Filters

Semrock announces the first complete quad-band fluorescence filter set for simultaneous four-color imaging by eye or with a color camera using broadband illumination.

14 May 2010

Abrisa to Showcase Optical Coating Solutions at SID 2010

Abrisa, a global leader in complete glass and coating solutions for display applications, will be showcasing a wide variety of front glass, optical coatings for display, silkscreened glass panels, precision-machined glass edges, and other lenses and glass at the 48th annual SID International Exhibition, May 25-27, 2010 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA.

14 May 2010

Single Rubidium Atom Controls Light Transmission Through Optical Cavity

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) describes the effect, that the interaction of an atomic medium with a weak laser field can be controlled and manipulated coherently with a second, strong laser field.

14 May 2010

Camtek Secures Order for its Automatic Optical Inspection Systems

Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: CAMT) ("Camtek"), announced today that a leading assembly and test supplier in Asia has selected the Falcon, Camtek's Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) system, for a 2D and 3D metrology and inspection solution.

14 May 2010

Physicists Discover Exotic Atomic Collisions Using Optical Lattice

The experiment starts by cooling a dilute cloud of hundreds of thousands of atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, approximately -273 degrees Celsius.

14 May 2010

UCSD Researchers Develop New Sensor to Locate Chemical Hazards

A tiny silicon chip that works a bit like a nose may one day detect dangerous airborne chemicals and alert emergency responders through the cell phone network.

14 May 2010

Raman Scattering Helps to Detect Rotavirus Strains and Genotypes Within a Minute

Using nanotechnology and a patented signal enhancing technique developed at the University of Georgia, UGA researchers have discovered a rapid, sensitive and cost-effective method to detect and identify a number of rotavirus strains and genotypes in less than one minute with greater than 96 percent accuracy.

14 May 2010

LaserCard Introduces New Optical Security Media-Based Green Cards

LaserCard Corporation today announced the introduction of the next-generation U.S. Permanent Resident Card (“Green Card”) featuring advanced optical security media and, for the first time, a Radio Frequency Identity (RFID) tag for compliance with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.

13 May 2010