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Company Offers Unique Portfolio of Patterned Coatings Solutions for OEM Applications

Optics Balzers AG, formerly Oerlikon Optics, is a leading supplier of precision optical components. The company offers a unique portfolio of patterned coatings solutions for OEM applications.

20 Jan 2009

Resolve Optics Renowned for Their Specialist Lens Design for Nuclear Applications

Renowned for their specialist lens design for nuclear applications - Resolve Optics Ltd. has designed and supplied a specialist camera manufacturer with a novel UV zoom lens enabling remote viewing of a nuclear fuel assembly through 10 metres of water.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 20 Jan 2009

PI Introduces Novel Ceramic Linear Motor Actuators at Photonics West Conference

Piezo systems specialist PI will introduce the novel N-380 / N-381 NEXACT® ceramic linear motor actuators at this year's Photonics West conference in San Jose, CA. The new actuator is based on the Piezo Walk principle and replaces classical lead screw actuators combining high forces and long travel ranges with sub-nanometer resolution in a small package.

20 Jan 2009

Optical System that Allows for Direct Observation of Photonic Josephson Effects

The interaction of light and matter has always fascinated physicists and layman as well. Recently a group of researchers led by Dr. W. M. Liu from Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, CAS published their findings on Josephson effect for photons in Physical Review Letters.

20 Jan 2009

Designed To Provide Cataract Patients High-Quality Near And Distance Vision In A Range Of Light Conditions

Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (AMO) (NYSE:EYE), the global leader in advanced refractive technologies for eye care professionals and patients, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the TECNIS® Multifocal intraocular lens (IOL) for cataract patients.

16 Jan 2009

First Step in Building Optical Computers with Frequencies 100,000 Times Greater than Current Microprocessors

The ability to stream videos online with the quality of high-end home theater systems, and to run computer programs a thousand times faster, are some of the future advances being made possible by a Penn State research team led by Tony Jun Huang, the James Henderson assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics.

16 Jan 2009

OpticsPlanet Announces First Annual OpticsPlanet Brilliance Award Winners

OpticsPlanet, Inc., the leading optics retailer and a prominent information resource, has announced its first annual OpticsPlanet Brilliance Award winners. After a full year of monitoring, selling, and supporting well over 100,000 items, it has named the companies and products that will be presented with an OpticsPlanet Brilliance Award.

16 Jan 2009

Reconfigurable Three-Dimensional Liquid Crystal Device

Simulation of the electric field surrounding a single MWCNT in vacuum. Dr Tim Wilkinson from the Cambridge University Department of Engineering's Photonics Research Group has made an exciting breakthrough. He has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes to create a reconfigurable three-dimensional liquid crystal device structure.

16 Jan 2009

Photonics Innovation Awards will be Presented at Photonics West 2009

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Laurin Publishing, publisher of Photonics Media, have announced the 67 finalist companies for the 2008 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, the premier competition for the photonics industry worldwide.

13 Jan 2009

Finding Opens Way to Large Number of Promising Applications

Terahertz cascade lasers are a new family of semi-conductor lasers which emit in the frequency range of the terahertz, or 1012 hertz. Because of their potential applications, they currently raise considerable interest, despite one major drawback: their output beam is markedly divergent.

13 Jan 2009