Nanotubes and silicon: unexpected ingredients in a new optical device

Two Northeastern professors have discovered an unexpected photoswitch that could be used to make highly efficient optical electronics.

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REO Introduces Yellow HeNe Lasers for Fluorescence Excitation

New Focus Introduces Clear Edge Picomotor™ Mount

Princeton Instruments Introduces the IsoPlane, a Revolutionary Aberration-Free Imaging Spectrograph

Motorized Microscope Stage is Driven by High Accuracy Ceramic Linear Motors

Sensors Unlimited – Goodrich ISR Systems Introduces a Cubic Inch SWIR Camera for Military Imaging

Bruker fully automated stand-alone FTIR microscope LUMOS

New TruLaser Tube 7000 with pivoting cutting head

Photonics & Physics

DRS Technologies Launches the Smallest and Lowest Power Mid-Wave Infrared Camera Core to Original Equipment Manufacturers

Developed and manufactured by RSTA, the ZafiroTM640 Micro weighs less than 0.9 pounds and requires only 5 watts of steady-state power at room temperature

COHERENT presents its new Structured Light Laser Portfolio at the OPTATEC 2012

The built-in powell lense and the diffractive optical elements providing line respectively dot matrices structures are all made of high quality glass, thus guaranteeing an excellent intensity distribution.

New ZnS Optics for Mid-IR Lasers Offer Superior Damage Threshold

High performance, durable optics for the 2 µm to 5 µm spectral range

Astronomy

A half-billion stars and galaxies from NASA’s WISE mission revealed — many for first time Read

A new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky with more than a half-billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission was unveiled by NASA Wednesday.

Important Clue Uncovered for the Origins of a Type of Supernovae Explosion

Pitt team used Sloan Digital Sky Survey to determine that the merger of double white dwarfs is a plausible explanation for Type Ia supernovae

Rogue stars ejected from the galaxy found in intergalactic space

Illustration of a supermassive black hole

Image: NASA, European Space Agency, Alfred Vidal-Madjar

Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust

A planet’s dust cloud may explain strange patterns of light from its star.

First light from a super-Earth spotted

Scientists on a planetary-heat-seeking mission have detected the first infrared light from a super-Earth — in this case, a planet some 40 light-years away.

Imaging & Machine Vision

Prosilica GT Now Offers up to 29 Megapixel Resolution

The Prosilica GT3300 and GT6600 bring very high resolution to the Prosilica GT family of Gigabit Ethernet cameras for extreme environments.

JAI´s latest multi-spectral camera has higher resolution and sensitivity

JAI today announced the release of the AD-130GE, a new 2-CCD multi-spectral camera offering significantly greater resolution and light sensitivity than the company’s first-generation models.

New VRmagic SDK offers image processing library

With version 3.14 of its Software Development Kit, VRmagic now offers a simple machine vision image processing library for all the manufacturer’s camera models.

Illumination, LED's and light

Quantum dots brighten the future of lighting

A “New” New York State of Mind: Empire State Building Redefines New York City Skyline With Philips LED Lighting

ProPhotonix Launches COBRA™ Max, An Extremely Bright LED LineScan Solution

High Power, Fiber-Coupled LED Light Engines Replace Lasers and Arc Lamps in Industrial, Medical, and Life Science Equipment

New Broadband Visible Light Source Produces Balanced Output

Temperature stable Oslon SSL LED with constant efficiency

Medical Engineering

Scientists develop new technique that could improve heart attack prediction

First use of PET and CT to look at disease processes leading to heart attack.

Their own devices

MIT’s Medical Electronic Device Realization Center aims to connect microelectronics with new health‑care tools.

Trifocal intraocular lens for enhanced intermediate vision

Carl Zeiss introduces the first trifocal preloaded true-MICS IOL

Electro - Optics, Lasers, Imaging, Medical Engineer & Displays Companies Index

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Machine Vision & Observation

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Observation

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Solar Energy

Two small-scale versions of three-dimensional photovoltaic arrays

A new dimension for solar energy

Innovative 3-D designs from an MIT team can more than double the solar power generated from a given area.

Higher Cell Efficiency with Laser Processing

FUJIFILM INSTALLS CONERGY SOLAR PANELS AT ITS NORTH KANSAS CITY FACILITY

Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project awards $8.4 million to develop innovative energy technologies

Yale engineers making solar power more efficient

GE Energy Unveils New EverGold(TM) Solar Duty Disconnects

Sharp Develops Solar Cell with World’s Highest Conversion Efficiency of 36.9%

Jenoptik presents its laser processing equipment for the efficient solar cell processing at the SNEC 2012.

14-megawatt solar plant at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev

Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium announces $7.5 million in grants to lower the cost of large-scale solar power

Dr Massimiliano Vasile with a model of test satellite

Bright future for solar power in space

Optical Networks & Fibers

Chiral Photonics’ Pitch Reducing Optical Fiber Array (PROFA) enables ultra-dense 2D fiber array interface

Nufern Expands Range of NuCOMM Fibers

The high-output narrow-linewidth full-band tunable laser

OFS and FURUKAWA announce High-Output, Narrow-Linewidth, Full-Band tunable Lasers and ITLAS

JDSU Introduces New Solution that can Improve Test Efficiencies in Optical Connector Production Environments by More Than 300 Percent

RAD Introduces Two New Pseudowire Gateways

Polatis 192x192 Low Loss Optical Switch to be Launched at OFC/NFOEC 2012

Electronics, Aviation, RF

Simlat Selected by UAS Technologies as Primary Provider of Training Systems for the UAS20

IVD2010 Rugged Intelligent Vehicle Display

GE Rugged Intelligent Vehicle Displays Provide Cost-Effective, Low Risk Upgrade Opportunity for Harsh Environment Deployment

lithium atoms (red) adhered to a graphene lattice

Straintronics: Stanford engineers create piezoelectric graphene.

UVision is unveiling the Blade Arrow Precision Attack Munition (PAM) in time for the Singapore Air Show

New Rugged Single Board Computers from GE Enable C4-ISR Systems to Process More Data More Quickly in Less Space

SBC625, XVR15 and XCR15 feature 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ processors

Stanford software allows aero-engineering students to focus on aircraft design instead of computer code

Stanford University Unstructured (SU2) is an open-source software package that gives advanced engineering students a crucial leg up on the time-consuming process of writing their own code to optimize aerospace designs

Electron's Negativity Cut in Half by Supercomputer

Simluations slice an electron in half, a physical process that cannot be done in nature.

Agilent Introduces Wireless Link for Remote Monitoring and Data Logging with Handheld Digital Multimeters

A wireless connectivity solution that links up to three Agilent handheld digital multimeters to smartphones, tablets and PCs.

Wild blue yonder: Engineers tackle challenges of hypersonic flight

Canon launches new FPA-6300ES6a KrF scanner for high-volume production of memory, logic and image-processing devices

HoverMast, Sky Sapience’s Autonomous Hovering Platform Makes Its Debut at AUVSI 2012 in Tel-Aviv

Photography

Sony Introduces Speedy α37 Camera with Full-time Continuous AF Powered by Translucent Mirror Technology

New Model Features High-Quality 16.1MP APS-C Image Sensor, up to 7 fps Shooting, High- Resolution Electronic Viewfinder and more

FUJIFILM ANNOUNCES ALL NEW WIDE CONVERSION LENS FOR THE AWARD WINNING FUJIFILM X100 DIGITAL CAMERA

The FUJIFILM WCL-X100, a wide conversion lens made in Japan and designed specifically for the award winning FUJIFILM X100, attaches directly onto the camera

Canon bolsters Cinema EOS System lineup with new EOS-1D C digital SLR camera supporting high-resolution 4K video capture

New Kenko Extension Tube Set for Micro 4/3rds and Sony E mounts

Cine-Xenar III: SCHNEIDER KREUZNACH presents the third generation of its film lenses

Gadgets

RIM Introduces the BlackBerry Curve 9320 – A Stylish, New Smartphone for the Socially-Connected

The new BlackBerry® Curve™ 9320 smartphone features all the core BlackBerry messaging and social-centric features that keep people connected, and it offers global 3G connectivity backed by long battery life to allow users to make the most of their day.

Toshiba Set to Excite the Tablet Market with New 10-, 13- and 7.7-inch Tablets

Toshiba Introduces Three New Android-powered Tablets, Giving Consumers More Choice

ASUS Releases Xtion, the First Whole-Body Motion Control for PC

Xtion motion sensor enables more intuitive multimedia, online browsing, and PC gaming with an extensive lineup of games and apps available via the Xtion Store

Life style

Sailing ahead with Blue Sea.

For over 166 years Ulysse Nardin has been creating some of the most reliable marine chronometers in existence. With this latest addition to the Marine Diver collection, the Manufacture in Le Locle firmly establishes its reputation as a cutting-edge watchmaker.

El Toro - Perpetual Calendar -A powerful Timepiece for everyday use.

Ulysse Nardin launched the first Perpetual Calendar, which allows forward and backward adjustment of all calendar functions over a single crown, in 1996.