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Lynch Joins Headwall Photonics
Headwall Photonics Inc. is expanding into Europe and has hired Kevin Lynch as European sales manager to support customers and partners in the region. MORE

UAB Altechna Acquires Optida
UAB Altechna, a manufacturer and distributor of laser optics, optoelectronics and laser components, has purchased a major share of Vilnius-based optical coating company Optida Co. Ltd. Terms of the ag... MORE

Space Photonics Nabs SBIR Contract
Space Photonics Inc. has partnered with Schott North America Inc. and Harris Corp. to further develop its LaserFire laser communications technology under a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research ... MORE

Visualant Closes $5M Funding Round
Light-based identification and diagnostics solutions provider Visualant Inc. has completed a funding round in excess of $5 million led by Special Situations Technology Funds of New York. MORE

Brimrose Awarded 2 Army SBIR Awards
Brimrose Corp. has received two US Army contracts to develop chemical detection sensors based on imaging systems and quantum dots, the global photonics and high-technology company announced this week ... MORE

Peter Call Joins CoolLED Sales Team
Peter Call has been named field sales manager at LED lighting products manufacturer CoolLED Ltd. Call brings to the position microscopy and imaging experience and will be responsible for customer... MORE

Noble Industries Increases Laser-Cutting Capacity
Metal fabrication company Noble Industries Inc. has added a two-laser Mazak flexible manufacturing system (FMS) to its line of laser-cutting products. The FMS automatically transports, positions ... MORE

Trumpf Expands Facilities in Switzerland
Trumpf Laser Marking Systems AG has opened a 35,500-sq-ft production facility in Switzerland to accommodate the 70 percent increase in orders for marking lasers over the previous year. The $17.8 ... MORE

Melles Griot Names Director of Global Prod Management
Michael Tenalio has been named director of global product management for the Melles Griot Optical Systems Group, parent company Idex Optics & Photonics announced Tuesday. Tenalio will focus h... MORE

Jenoptik Receives €5.5M Order from Rheinmetall
The Jenoptik Defense & Civil Systems division has received a €5.5 million order from Rheinmetall AG of Düsseldorf, Germany, to supply 62 thermal imaging target acquisition systems and mo... MORE

OSA Applauds Year of Light Progress
The Optical Society (OSA) has commended the progress made by international optics and photonics leaders in having 2015 declared the International Year of Light by the United Nations. MORE

Lockheed Updates Laser Range Finders for Apache Helicopters
Global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin has delivered the first phase of laser range finder upgrades for use on the US Army’s Apache helicopter. MORE

Visualant Enters $10M Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize Competition
Chromatic-based identification and diagnostic solutions provider Visualant Inc. has entered into the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, a global competition to revolutionize health care. MORE

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3-D Maps of Blood Vessels in Brain Reveal Surprises
Blood vessels within a sensory area of a mouse’s brain loop and connect in unexpected ways, a new 3-D map has revealed. The findings could help scientists better explore what the cerebral cortex means... MORE

QD Method Combines Best of Optical, Electron Microscopy
A fast, versatile and high-resolution technique that combines the best of optical and scanning electron microscopy could provide surface and subsurface viewing of features as small as 10 nm in size. MORE

Bloch Receives 2013 Körber European Science Prize
Experimental physicist Dr. Immanuel Bloch has received the 2013 Körber European Science Prize, presented by the Körber Foundation for his groundbreaking research in the field of quantum simulation wit... MORE

Erupting ‘Nanovolcanoes’ For Drug Delivery
“Nanovolcanoes” carved out of a synthetic polymer with UV light can store and release precise amounts of materials, a feat suitable for drug-delivery technologies, its creators say. MORE

Global Quantum Network Based on Optical Fibers
A technique for increasing the time that quantum information is stored in glass fiber-coupled atoms could yield a global optical fiber-based quantum communication network, researchers in Austria have ... MORE

New Material Improves Camera Sensitivity
A new material with five times the light sensitivity of current silicon-based sensor technology could yield cameras sensitive enough to capture photos using only starlight. MORE

Lasers Proposed to Expand Photon Thrust
Adapting high-power thin-disk laser technology could significantly expand applications for photon thrust in spacecraft propulsion, enabling improved maneuverability and extended mission lifetimes. MORE

Laser-Driven Neutrons Could Thwart Nuclear Smugglers
A single short-pulse laser-driven neutron source could make searching for nuclear materials smuggled in shipping containers much easier to detect, an international experiment has demonstrated. MORE

Optical ‘Antenna-in-a-Box’ Catches Single Molecules
An optical “antenna-in-a-box” capable of detecting and sensing individual molecules at high concentrations could provide a better understanding of biological and biochemical reactions to detect early ... MORE

Device Bridges Optomechanics, Microfluidics
Whispering galleries — circular spaces beneath a dome that capture and amplify sound as quiet as a whisper — have inspired numerous scientific discoveries over the past several years. Now the phenomen... MORE

Alfano Awarded Laser Science Prize
Robert Alfano, distinguished professor of science and engineering at The City College of New York, has been awarded the 2013 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science by the American Physical Society ... MORE

CLEO Presents Cutting-Edge Research on Optics, Lasers
Smartphone-based cancer detection, a telecom-based time cloak and UV-LEDs that slow food rot are just a few of the cutting-edge applications of optics and lasers that will be discussed next week at CL... MORE

Metamaterial Flexible Sheets Could Transform Optics
A new metamaterial design that aims to replace bulky optical devices could improve IR thermal cameras, energy harvesting, and security screening and radar systems. MORE

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Oria IR Ti:Sapphire-Pumped OPO
Radiantis has launched the Oria IR, a Ti:sapphire-pumped optical parametric oscillator (OPO) for nonlinear microscopy and spectroscopy. Fully automated, it provides wavelength coverage with high avera... MORE

A3500sc/A6500sc Thermal Imaging Cameras
Flir Systems has released the A3500sc and A6500sc thermal imaging camera series for industrial R&D applications including tire and brake testing, on and through glass measurements, welding and sol... MORE

Flare Pulsed Laser
Coherent Inc.’s new Flare series of compact pulsed lasers provides an alternative to older gas lasers and first-generation solid-state lasers for life sciences and instrumentation applications. ... MORE

ACSL-7210 Bidirectional Optocoupler
Avago Technologies has released the ACSL-7210, a dual-channel bidirectional digital optocoupler with a data rate from DC to 25 megabaud (MBd). The device is optimized for bidirectional industrial... MORE

CCD Camera With Active Cooling
Allied Vision Technologies introduces the Bigeye G-283 Cool. This camera features Sony’s highly sensitive 2.8 Megapixel ICX674 Sensor with EXView HAD CCD II technology and 4.54 µm pixel pi... MORE

New Cooling Options Boost Intensity of Compact LED Line Light
LOTUS is a compact, robust LED line Light with integrated intensity control designed specifically for machine vision applications. It utilizes the latest in LED technology and optics to produce a brig... MORE

IK-WB81A IP Video Camera
Toshiba Surveillance & IP Video Products Group, a business unit of Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., has introduced the IK-WB81A IP high-definition bullet camera for outdoor video surveill... MORE

ORLED RL16Q and RL28Q Ring Lights with Quadrant Driver
Do you need sectional lighting control under high magnification? ORLED Ring Lights Deliver! Now you can independently toggle the 4 quadrants of our RL16Q and RL28Q Ring Lights. Allowing you to e... MORE

1060-nm DFB Seed Laser
Oclaro Inc.’s new distributed feedback (DFB) 1060-nm laser diode module, featuring an on-chip distributed feedback grating, is designed for the seeding of subnanosecond fiber and solid-state las... MORE

Plano-Concave Axicons
Edmund Optics has released Plano-Concave (PCV) Axicons, specialized conical prisms featuring one concave conical surface and one plano surface, which are suitable for measurement and alignment, resear... MORE

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Raman Spectroscopy for Research and Industry
Monday, June 24, 2013 - 1:00 PM
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Computational Microscopy, Sensing and Diagnostics for Telemedicine and Global Health Applications
Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - 1:30 PM
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Developments in Optics and Optical Components
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 1:00 PM
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CLEO 2013 - Technology Transfer
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 1:00 PM
This free webinar, sponsored by the Technology Transfer program of CLEO: Market Focus and Photonics Media, complements the live event, which will be h... MORE >>

Preview Agilent’s soon-to-be-released Cary Universal Measurement Spectrophotometer (UMS)
Monday, May 13, 2013 - 12:00 PM
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Enabling Technology for Highly Aspheric or Free-Form Optics Manufacturing
Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 1:00 PM
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	The Measurement of High Optical Densities (up to 8 Abs) in the Near-Infrared The optical densities of various materials used in the manufacture of laser safety eyewear have been determined in the NIR. The lens materials were... MORE INFO >>
	Hollow Silica Waveguides for Mid-Infrared Power Transmission and Spectroscopy Applications in the Mid-Infrared often require a flexible conduit for transmitting light from source to destination. Hollow Silica Waveguides with... MORE INFO >>
	Clearly Superior Epoxies for Optical Applications As technology in the optics industry continues to advance and improve, careful consideration of the properties of epoxies must be evaluated. When... MORE INFO >>

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