Optics & Optical Coatings
Webb Space Telescope’s ‘Backbone’ Completed
Manufacture of the “backbone” of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a backplane support frame (BSF) that is the largest optically stable cryostructure ever built, is completed and ready for integration, project contractors Northrop Grumman Corp. and ATK reported last week. MORE >>
Probes Light Up Synaptic Structures that Store Memories
Microscopic probes that light up synapses in living neurons could give scientists insight into how these structures change when new memories are formed. MORE >>

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Light and Optical Atomic Coherence Entanglement Reported
A state-insensitive optical trap could prove promising for the development of quantum networking, researchers in Georgia have found.
Fund Makes First Investment in Photonics Tech
A new venture capital fund has made its first round of investments in companies seeking to commercialize technology related to nanophotonics, metamaterials and quantum informa...
Zeiss Acquiring Xradia
Optics and optoelectronics manufacturer Zeiss has announced that it will acquire 3-D x-ray microscope provider Xradia Inc. of Pleasanton and will rename it Carl Zeiss X-ray Mi...
Microphone Listens with Light
Listening to a conference call can leave you on the edge of your seat craning to hear what the person on the other end of the call is trying to say. But, a new sensor develope...
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...
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.
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 ...
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 Busi...
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 ...
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 com...
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, res...
Societies Applaud Year of Light Progress
Progress is being made in having 2015 declared the International Year of Light by the United Nations, international optics and photonics leaders report.
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 a...
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. ...
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 r...
Laser Micro Industry Veteran Joins PowerPhotonic
Precision micro-optics manufacturer PowerPhotonic has appointed Jason Alexander head of its North America operations.


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CO2 Laser Lenses
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PZ 300 AP Z-Axis Elevator Stage
Made for adapting onto the top of standard X-Y microscopy stages, the PZ 300 AP Z-axis elevator stage from piezosystem jena has two parallel working piezo drives that allow th...
CellVivo Incubation System
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TechSpec C-Mount Achromatic Pairs
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Oria IR Ti:Sapphire-Pumped OPO
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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...
IK-WB81A IP Video Camera
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Plano-Concave Axicons
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The Perfect Solution for Photoluminescence Studies of Lanthanide-Doped Semiconducting Nanocrystals
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The Measurement of High Optical Densities (up to 8 Abs) in the Near-Infrared
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