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New Catalog from PI Focuses on Specimen Positioning Devices and Microscope Lenses

Nanopositioning specialist PI has released a new catalog entitled "Tools for Microscopy and Imaging", available for download in PDF format.

17 Oct 2008

Fermi Telescope Discovers Gamma-Ray-Only Pulsar

About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. Discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the object, called a pulsar, is the first one known that only "blinks" in gamma rays.

16 Oct 2008

Transformation Optics Promises Radical Advances in Optical Technologies

A new research field called transformation optics may usher in a host of radical advances including a cloak of invisibility and ultra-powerful microscopes and computers by harnessing nanotechnology and "metamaterials."

16 Oct 2008

Reliable Detection of Tuberculosis using New Microscope from Carl Zeiss

With the Primo Star iLED, Carl Zeiss is introducing a new fluorescence microscope which enables the fast and reliable detection of tuberculosis. Together with FIND, the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, which co-developed the microscope, the optics company will be presenting the system at the 39th World Union Conference on Lung Health in Paris from 17 to 20 October 2008.

16 Oct 2008

PPG Industries Appoints Augen Optics as Distributor of NXT Rx Performance Sunlenses

Intercast Europe, S.r.l, a business of PPG Industries, has appointed Augen Optics as an authorized distributor of NXT Rx performance sunlenses.

15 Oct 2008

Researchers to Develop Solid-State Laser Design Based on Synthetic Diamond

Researchers at the Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, have started work on a 3.5 year project to develop a novel solid-state laser design incorporating CVD (chemical vapour deposition) diamond manufactured by Element Six Ltd. Element Six leads the world in the field of CVD diamond synthesis and its application.

14 Oct 2008

AOptix Technologies Awarded the 2008 Frost + Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation

AOptix Technologies, Inc., a leading edge developer of advanced biometric iris recognition systems, has been awarded the 2008 Frost + Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation in the field of non-invasive biometrics. "Improvements in security require far superior and convenient biometric recognition. Through its innovative concept, AOptix Technologies has introduced the ability to automatically find and then accurately identify a subject's iris within seconds at a 2 meter stand-off distance," explained Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst Deepa Rangarajan.

14 Oct 2008

JMAR Technologies Awarded Contract for Custom RGB Lasers

JMAR Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced laser, photonics and detection technologies, today announced that the Company has been awarded a contract by Zebra Imaging, Inc. of Austin, Texas, to provide custom RGB (Red/Green/Blue) lasers for use in a holographic imaging product currently under development.

13 Oct 2008

Fianium to Develop Advanced Supercontinuum Fiber Lasers

A consortium led by ultrafast fiber laser manufacturer Fianium is to develop and evaluate advanced white-light (supercontinuum) fiber lasers for biomedical imaging applications.

13 Oct 2008

Device Allowing Imaging at Scales Previously Impossible for Optical Instruments

Researchers in Japan have developed a design concept for a device that allows imaging at scales previously impossible for optical instruments. Their advance is based on novel imaging techniques that allow optical imaging in the subwavelength regime, where the wavelength used is larger than the smallest features of the object being imaged.

10 Oct 2008