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AMS Technologies Introduces Compact High Performance Laser Diode Controller

The Vue-LV-15 is a high performance, low cost 15A, 2.5V laser diode controller based on a powerful new microprocessor. It uses a precise crystal oscillator time base for direct computer control of the switching power stage and a patent-pending software algorithm that produces extremely low noise current without dangerous overshoots or start-up delays.

21 Apr 2009

New Technique That Scrambles Light May Lead To Sharper Images

When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective -- they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method developed by Princeton researchers could lead to lenses that show all parts of the scene at once in the same high detail.

21 Apr 2009

Manufacturer Qualifies Veeco's MOCVD Systems for HB-LED Production

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Shandong Raysun Huaguang Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. (Huaguang) of China has qualified Veeco's gallium nitride (GaN) and arsenic phosphide (AsP) metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems for high volume production of red and blue high-brightness light emitting diodes (HB-LEDs).

From Veeco 20 Apr 2009

GenOptics to Join HORIBA Scientific Business Segment

HORIBA Jobin Yvon (Longjumeau, France) a fully owned affiliate of HORIBA Ltd (Kyoto, Japan) and a leader in analytical instrumentation products and worldwide leader in optical spectroscopy, announced today, April 17th, 2009 the acquisition of GENOPTICS (Orsay, France).

20 Apr 2009

Innovative Method for Controlling Light by Adopting Tuning Concepts from RF Technology

In a recent publication in Nature Photonics, a joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Centro de Física de Materiales of CSIC/UPV-EHU in San Sebastian (Spain), Harvard University (USA) and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich (Germany) reports an innovative method for controlling light on the nanoscale by adopting tuning concepts from radio-frequency technology.

19 Apr 2009

Report Analyzes the Global Market for Non-Linear Optical Materials and Applications

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Non-Linear Optical Materials and Applications - Global Strategic Business Report" report to their offering.

16 Apr 2009

Open Design Allows for Precision Adjustment With External Optics

With six powerful thin-film chips and a hemispherical lens, the new Infrared OSTAR Lighting LED from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors produces 3.5 W of optical output power at an operating current of 1 A.

16 Apr 2009

Turning Windows into Display with Just One Click

Just one click and the window turns into a display. At the Hannover Messe from April 20 to 24, Fraunhofer research scientists will be demonstrating light-permeable conductive coatings as the basis for transparent displays (Hall 6, Stand F48).

15 Apr 2009

European Organization for Nuclear Research Places Order for Zecotek's MAPD Solid-State Photo Detectors

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, is pleased to announce that the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, has placed initial purchase orders for Zecotek's proprietary MAPD-3N Micro-pixel Avalanche Photo Diodes.

15 Apr 2009

New Technology Transforms the Utility of an Established Technique

Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, has applied Electron Multiplying (EM) technology for the first time to dramatically improve both the speed and sensitivity of Scanning Tunnelling Luminescent spectroscopy (STL) by replacing the standard CCD camera, used to detect photons, with one of its Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) cameras.

15 Apr 2009