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Gigahertz-Optik's Hand-Held UV-VIS-NIR Pulsed Light Meter Now Features an External TTL Trigger Input

Gigahertz-Optik's hand-held P-9710-4 radiometer / photometer now features an external TTL trigger input function useful for remote timing of pulsed light measurements. In the P-9710-4 pulse energy mode, the measurement begins automatically upon the trigger input.

24 Mar 2010

Aston University’s Photonics Research Team to Offer Free Business Assistance

Engineering academics at Aston University in Birmingham, UK have secured £1.1m of research funding to provide free photonics advice to West Midland’s based businesses.

24 Mar 2010

EPA Awards SBIR Grant to Optical Control System Developer AccuStrata

AccuStrata Inc., a company in the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute's Technology Advancement Program incubator developing intelligent, real-time optical control systems that improve the manufacturing yield and efficiency of thin-film solar panels, has been awarded a $70,000, phase-one Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, university officials announce today.

24 Mar 2010

NSF Honors Joyner's Research on Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Promising research on superconducting materials, near infra-red spectroscopy, and nanotechnology has earned three faculty at Tufts University's School of Engineering early career awards from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy. The awards are among the most prestigious honors given by the U.S. government to outstanding scientists and engineers at the early stages of their careers, when many do their most formative work.

24 Mar 2010

New Dedicated, Turn-Key Analyzer for the Quality Control of Wine

At Analytica 2010, Bruker Optics today announces a new dedicated, turn-key analyzer for the quality control of wine, based on its well-established, award-winning ALPHA Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectrometer.

23 Mar 2010

ScotMet Facility Installs Four Thermo Scientific Mass Spectrometers

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced it is providing the Scottish Metabolomics Facility (ScotMet) with cutting-edge technology to advance the field of metabolomics.

20 Mar 2010

Polyp Detection Rates Improve Using Third Eye Retroscope with Colonoscope

Two new studies show an increase in polyp detection rates using the Third Eye Retroscope (TER), a retrograde viewing device, during colonoscopy.

20 Mar 2010

New CR-100A Optical Receiver from Advanced Photonix

Picometrix, LLC, an Advanced Photonix company (NYSE Amex: API), announces the availability of its compact coherent receiver product targeting the emerging 100G optical communications market.

20 Mar 2010

Maxine Morgan Unveils Specialized Lenses, Frames at International Vision Expo

Maxine Morgan Eyewear unveils its comprehensive line of specialized lenses, frames and specialty products with a major presence here at the International Vision Expo East, booth # MS1060, medical science pavilion, in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

20 Mar 2010

Brain Researchers Use Optogenetics Tool to Study Neural Circuits

Recently, brain researchers have gained a powerful new way to troubleshoot neural circuits associated with depression, Parkinson's disease and other conditions in small animals such as rats.

19 Mar 2010