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Ferris to Head Sales at JK Lasers
Paul Ferris will coordinate the laser manufacturer’s global sales strategy in his new role as worldwide sales director. MORE

OKI Develops Entangled Light Source
The telecommunications company developed the world’s purest quantum entangled light source. MORE

Kelly Named President, CEO of REO
In his new role, the photonics industry veteran plans to accelerate the growth of the precision optical solutions company. MORE

OFC/NFOEC to Address Datacom Trends
The leading conference for the optical networking industry will expand its 2012 program and exhibitor participation to spotlight the growing role of fiber optics technology in datacom, cloud computing... MORE

Cell Phone Microscope Accessory Launches in March
A pocket-size accessory developed by Finnish scientists turns an ordinary camera phone into a high-resolution microscope that can accurately obtain images to one-hundredth of a millimeter. MORE

Edmund Optics Opens 2012 Grant Program
The optical components company is now accepting applications for its 2012 Higher Education Grant Program, which will award $80,000 in products worldwide. MORE

Imax Developing New Laser Projection Tech for Theaters
The entertainment company selected Barco to co-develop new laser projection technology that implements exclusively licensed patents from Eastman Kodak Co. for its IMAX theaters. MORE

Zecotek Commercializing MAPD Photodetectors
The photonics technology company achieved commercial production status for its solid-state micropixel avalanche photodiode photodetector, the MAPD-3N. MORE

Former Broadcom Execs Join Luxtera
Three former Broadcom executives have joined the silicon CMOS photonics company’s management team to advance its focus on high-volume optical applications. MORE

Armstrong Optical to Rep Ophir Optics in UK, Ireland
Effective immediately, the metrology supplier will be the sales representative for the Infrared Optics Group’s thermal imaging lens systems and optical imaging components. MORE

Jenoptik Wins Order for Traffic Monitors
The optoelectronics company’s Traffic Solutions Div. will install up to 550 traffic monitoring systems in Malaysia and will support the operation over a five-year period. MORE

Bridgelux Attracts $25M Investment
Kaistar Lighting (Xiamen) Co. Ltd. will invest $25 million in the LED lighting solutions manufacturer to drive down the cost of solid-state technology for general lighting. MORE

Vixar Wins Phase I SBIR VCSEL Contract
The National Science Foundation awarded Vixar the contract to demonstrate the feasibility of a composite resonator vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser that can achieve a 40- to 100-Gb/s serial data... MORE

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Alfven Instrument to Assess Aurora’s Aura
A small rocket was launched into the aurora borealis in an attempt to discover what makes the northern lights tick. MORE

Nanomaterial Combinations Enhance IR Photodetection
Improved infrared photodetector technology that uses multiple ultrathin layers of materials should have an impact on critical applications ranging from national defense to medical diagnostics. MORE

Information Recorded Using Only Laser-Induced Heat
A novel magnetic recording method allows information to be processed hundreds of times faster than with current hard drive technology. MORE

Lasers Reveal Hidden Earthquake Damage
New airborne lidar equipment reveals how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and shows how earthquake faults behave. MORE

Laser Research Provides Insight into Planet Formation
Phase changes in liquid magmas at pressures and temperatures that exist deep inside Earth-like planets could provide insight into the processes that govern planet formation. MORE

Quantum Dots Switch Neurons On, Off
Light from electrons confined by quantum dots was used to activate and control targeted brain neurons, demonstrating a noninvasive method for studying cell communication and learning how specific cell... MORE

Butterfly Wings Inspire Thermal Imagers
Mother Nature’s 5-million-year-old butterfly wing design, combined with a relatively new manmade material, enabled the development of a new sensor that is faster, smaller and more sensitive tha... MORE

New Resonator Overcomes Obstacle to Ultimate Nanolaser
Two very low power lasers that produce the smallest continuous-wave, telecommunications frequency demonstrated at room temperature to date may be a step toward the development of the “ultimate” nanola... MORE

EIT Extended to X-ray Regime
A technique that makes atomic nuclei transparent to light at certain wavelengths was extended to the x-ray regime; it could have important implications in the fields of lasing and quantum information ... MORE

Hollow Spheres Improve PV Panels
Hollow spheres of photovoltaic nanocrystalline silicon exploit a peculiar phenomenon to better trap light and could dramatically reduce PV panel costs. MORE

EUV Frequency Comb Debuts
The first “frequency comb” in the extreme ultraviolet band has the potential to advance nuclear clocks and to measure previously unexplored behavior in atoms and molecules. MORE

ASD Awards Creative Spectroscopy Projects
The seven Alexander Goetz Instrument Support Program award recipients for 2012 received recognition for research ranging from hyperspectral analysis to noninvasive identification of artistic materials... MORE

$1.8M Grant Funds Adaptive Optics Study for Glaucoma
A $1.85 million NIH grant will support a study to determine the effectiveness of adaptive optics in capturing the earliest cellular changes signaling the onset of glaucoma, which may lead to earlier d... MORE

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MicroLine LS Camera Series
Finger Lakes Instrumentation has announced the MicroLine LS series of cameras for microscopy and life sciences applications. The cameras incorporate faster image capture and an expanded library of... MORE

Long-Life, Low-Noise Microchannel Plates
Photonis USA Inc. has announced a new long-life, low-noise (L3N) performance option for its microchannel plate (MCP) product line. The company says that the L3N option offers up to a 100-fold reductio... MORE

IWA-46EP Triple Isotope Analyzer
Los Gatos Research has introduced a triple isotope analyzer for direct simultaneous measurement of δ17O, δ18O and δ2H ratios in liquid water and water vapor samples. The IWA-46EP... MORE

Redesigned Scale Objective Lens
The redesigned plan-apochromatic 20×/1.0 VIS-IR objective lens from Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC makes it possible to acquire 3-D images of nerve cells down to depths of 5.6 mm in intact tissue usi... MORE

BraggStar M Excimer Laser for FBG Writing
The new BraggStar M from Coherent Inc. is an excimer laser that delivers high pulse energy and spatial coherence for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) writing. High pulse energy is a critical advantage in... MORE

EVG620HBL Mask Alignment System
For LED manufacturing, EV Group has announced the EVG620HBL, the second-generation fully automated mask alignment system for volume manufacturing of high-brightness LEDs. It delivers a tool platfo... MORE

Sapphire Optics
For use in blood gas monitors and other medical instruments, custom fabricated sapphire optics that are chemically inert and that operate over a wide spectrum, transmitting from the ultraviolet to 4.7... MORE

Zoom Spectra Spectrometer
Resolution Spectra Systems has introduced the high-resolution, compact Zoom spectra spectrometer. The handheld instrument, based on proprietary SWIFTS core technology, produces resolution that the... MORE

Polarization Scrambler, 2-µm Fiber Couplers
With growing demand for products in the 2000-nm range, Phoenix Photonics Ltd. has extended the operational wavelength of its current selection of all-fiber-based components and introduced 2-μm fibe... MORE

RamSpec-HR Benchtop Raman Spectrometer
BaySpec Inc. has released its next-generation high-resolution 1064-nm Raman spectrometer, the RamSpec-HR. The newly designed research-grade benchtop instrument delivers high sensitivity and spectral r... MORE

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Fundamentals of Miniature Spectrometers
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 1:00 PM
The fundamentals of modular spectrometers and how they have evolved into a modern spectroscopic tool with an overview of many common applications such... MORE >>

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Perspectives on Communications
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 1:00 PM
Photonics Media presents two perspectives on communications, one provides an overview of quantum theory of optical communications, and the other&... MORE >>

The Future of Imaging: Three Perspectives
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 1:00 PM
Presenters: Professor Stephen Boppart THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE WITH OPTICAL BIOMEDICAL IMAGING A medical doctor and professor at the University... MORE >>

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	Reliable High-bandwidth Video Capture Applications with image resolutions, data rates and analysis requirements that exceed the capabilities of a typical workstation computer continue to... MORE INFO >>
	New sCMOS Cameras vs. Current Microscopy Cameras Since the launch in late 2010 of imaging cameras that are based on a new 5.5 megapixel scientific CMOS (sCMOS) sensor, there has been much... MORE INFO >>
	High Power All-In-Fibre Linearly Polarized Laser Using Chiral Grating-Based Polarizer We present a linearly polarized all-in-fibre laser using a Chiral grating-based polarizer. This technology is potentially very promising for high... MORE INFO >>

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