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Bookham Launches New High Power 808nm Laser Diode Bar

Bookham, Inc. (NASDAQ:BKHM), a provider of optical components for industrial applications, has launched a new high power 808nm laser diode bar that can enable direct energy laser systems and range guided imaging for defense and security applications.

15 Apr 2009

Carl Zeiss Extends Successful Collaboration with Sony Corporation

Carl Zeiss today announced that its Camera Lens Division will extend their successful collaboration with Sony Corporation for a further 5 years. Taking full advantages of their competence both companies agreed to cooperate even closer in developing and commercializing new imaging devices in the future.

15 Apr 2009

Solid-State, Fiber, Gas and Dye Lasers Market Expect to Reach $3.3 Billion by 2015

Laser technologies are increasingly providing solutions that replace as well as complement traditional production technologies. Increasing competitiveness of laser technology provides benefits such as enhanced automation of work processes, increased product quality and flexibility, as well as progressive miniaturization.

14 Apr 2009

First Experimental Proof of All-Optical Silicon-Based Integrated Circuits

The paper results from the collaboration between University of Karlsruhe, Germany; IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; Lehigh University, USA and ETH Zürich, Switzerland. The achievements are a key step towards the development of complex silicon-based photonic integrated circuits.

14 Apr 2009

Using Lasers to Design and Control Polarization

Applied scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, lasers in which the direction of oscillation of the emitted radiation, known as polarization, can be designed and controlled at will.

13 Apr 2009

Extragalactic Survey Reveals Half the Universe's Starlight

After two years spent analyzing data from BLAST, the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope, physicists are releasing the first results.

9 Apr 2009

Schneider Optics Introduces 6mm Cinegon 2.1/6mm Lens

Schneider Optics, a worldwide market leader in high quality lenses for industrial applications, has introduced the 6mm Cinegon 2.1/6mm lens to its line of market-leading compact Schneider C-mount lenses for high resolution mega pixel CCD and CMOS cameras for machine vision applications.

7 Apr 2009

USYD Announces Launch of Institute for Photonics and Optical Science

On 23rd April the Institute for Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) will be formally opened by Senator Anne McEwen, Chair of the Standing Committee Communications, Environment and the Arts and Dr Michael Spence, the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Sydney.

6 Apr 2009

Swinburne University of Technology and Suntech Power Team up to Create Next Generation of Solar Cells

Swinburne University of Technology has teamed up with Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's largest photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer, to create the next generation of solar cells.

6 Apr 2009

Nikon Introduces Ecobins Binoculars Designed from Top to Bottom with Latest Eco Friendly Features

Nikon® is proud of its commitment to protect the environment and believes that pollution prevention measures and the efficient use of resources are vital. With this commitment in mind Nikon introduces ecobins binoculars.

2 Apr 2009