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Innovative Glasses Making it Easier for People with Impaired Vision to Drive

Glasses embedded with a telescope promise to make it easier for people with impaired vision to drive and do other activities requiring sharper distance vision. Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists describe the advantages of these innovative glasses over earlier devices in an article published in the May/June issue of Journal of Biomedical Optics, mailed in print form to subscribers this month.

24 Jul 2008

Lambda Photometrics Announces Two New Tunable OPO Laser Systems from Opotek

Lambda Photometrics are pleased to announce two new tunable OPO laser systems from Opotek, the high-repetition rate Opolette HR and the high-energy Opolette HE.

24 Jul 2008

Polarised Sunglasses Help Astronomers See Black Hole Disks

For the first time astronomers have found a way to get a clean view of the elusive disks of matter surrounding supermassive black holes. By using a polarising filter on the Science and Technology Facility Council’s UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii, they have been able to see through the clouds of dust which surround these black holes. This work is published on 24th July 2008 in Nature.

24 Jul 2008

Work Greatly Strengthens Explanation of Quasars

For the first time, a team of international researchers has found a way to view the accretion disks surrounding black holes and verify that their true electromagnetic spectra match what astronomers have long predicted they would be. Their work will be published in the July 24 issue of the science journal Nature.

23 Jul 2008

New Laser Diode Driver Gives Customers Greater Flexibility in SFP Module Designs

Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today launched a new 4.25Gbps FP/DFB Laser Diode Driver. The SY88422L is a single 3.3V supply, small form-factor laser driver capable of delivering up to 90mA modulation current and 100mA bias current.

23 Jul 2008

Leader in Laser Vision Correction Celebrates More Than Half a Million Lives Transformed

LCA-Vision Inc., a leading provider of laser vision correction services under the LasikPlus(R) brand, today announced that one million laser vision correction procedures have been performed at its LasikPlus(R) vision centers. LCA-Vision opened its first laser vision correction center in Cincinnati, Ohio shortly after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the technology to perform procedures in October 1995.

23 Jul 2008

New Website Making Life Much Easier for Users to Find What They Are Looking For

Special Optics, a vertically integrated supplier of precision optical components and assemblies for high-technology applications, launched a newly redesigned web site located at http://specialoptics.com.

21 Jul 2008

Goodfellow Offers an Extensive Range of Optical Components

The Technical Glass Company, part of the Goodfellow group of companies, offers a wide variety of optical components ranging from plain toughened float glass windows to sophisticated aspheric lenses made by vacuum molding hot glass in ultra-accurate molds. The company also specializes in micro-optics, with components in the millimeter or even sub-millimeter size range.

16 Jul 2008

Pushing More Appealing White Light from Organic Light-Emitting Devices

The latest bright idea in energy-efficient lighting for homes and offices uses big science in nano-small packages to dim the future Edison's light bulb.

15 Jul 2008

Highly Affordable Multimedia Kit for Moritex's Popular LightScope Industrial Endoscopes

Moritex has introduced a highly affordable Multimedia kit for its popular LightScope industrial endoscopes that includes everything required to perform wide ranging portable inspection and video documentation tasks.

15 Jul 2008