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LightPath Hires Firm to Ramp Up Investor Relations
The optical components manufacturer has retained national investor relations firm Hayden IR to develop and implement a strategic investor relations program to raise its visibility and to strengthen it... MORE

Emcore Receives Solar Panel Contract from JPL
The compound semiconductor-based components provider received a solar panel manufacturing contract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for its Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, which is targeted... MORE

Nufern Wins Laser Amplifier Contracts
The fiber laser manufacturer received multiple military contracts to build 46 compact fiber amplifiers to support government laser efforts. MORE

Edmund Named Ernst & Young Finalist
Robert Edmund was named a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 program in the Greater Philadelphia region. MORE

Evans Joins Artemis Optical Sales Team
Chris Evans has been appointed sales manager for defense and aerospace by the thin-film coatings and subassembly solutions manufacturer. MORE

Laser Operations Names New CEO
Laser veteran Dr. Vittorio Fossati-Bellani was appointed chief executive officer of the QPC laser manufacturer, effective immediately. MORE

Kurz Elected Board Chairman at Carl Zeiss
Dr. Dieter Kurz was named the new chairman of the Carl Zeiss AG supervisory board, effective immediately. MORE

Gigaphoton’s Korean Unit Begins Operations
The lithography light source manufacturer’s wholly owned subsidiary, Gigaphoton Korea Inc., began business operations May 1. MORE

MicroVision Secures $5M Investment
The projection display technology company received a $5 million equity investment from private investors. The deal is expected to close by May 29. MORE

Northrop Grumman Fires Up Firestrike Laser
The global security company test-fired the first product in its next-generation Firestrike family of high-energy solid-state lasers, which meet size, weight reduction and ruggedization goals for opera... MORE

Edinburgh Instruments, Laser Quantum, Fianium Win Queen’s Award
Three photonics companies have received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the UK’s most coveted award for business success. MORE

Next Lighting Hires Katona as VP of Products
The solid-state lighting solutions company appointed Dr. Thomas Katona as its vice president of products. MORE

Emcore Sells VCSEL Product Line to Sumitomo Electric
The semiconductor components provider sold its vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser-based product lines to Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations USA Inc. for $17 million in cash. MORE

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Laser Pulse Reveals Quantum Phase in Electrons
Events that appear to happen instantaneously now can be resolved to a resolution of 10 attoseconds, enabling scientists to look at phenomena that happens on the order of attoseconds (10-18 s), previou... MORE

Technique Boosts THz Production
A new technique for producing more efficient terahertz radiation could lead the way to more powerful sensing and imaging technologies that can see through opaque materials. The terahertz band of t... MORE

3-D Holography Peers Under Mummy’s Shroud
Great details of an ancient mummy, including jewelry adorning its inner shroud, have been revealed in color using 3-D holograms. The University of Edinburgh’s Clinical Research Imaging Center... MORE

Nanoparticles Coaxed into Self-Assembly
A simple and inexpensive technique directs the self-assembly of nanoparticles into device-ready materials and has applications in fields including computer memory storage, energy storage and harvestin... MORE

SOFIA Completes GREAT Science Flight
The German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies (GREAT) experiment onboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has completed its first observations, and scientists ... MORE

New Solar Material Seeks to Replace Silicon
Silicon solar cells could be replaced by flexible, lightweight and inexpensive dyes, if scientists in Finland achieve their goal. Jongyun Moon and colleagues at the University of Turku have develo... MORE

Atomic ’Billiards Game’ Illuminated by Laser
An international collaboration has observed the occurrence of nonsequential double ionization in argon atoms. In successfully confining the ionization to a single recollision and excitation event, the... MORE

Sugar Cube-Sized Spectrometer Inspects Foodstuffs
An inexpensive spectrometer no bigger than a sugar cube could soon help shoppers decide whether the quality of fruits, meats and cheese is suitable for purchase. MORE

Silicon Implant Aims to Restore Sight
A new type of retinal prosthesis, which uses technology similar to that found in solar cells, could hold the key to those who suffer from degenerative eye diseases like macular degeneration and retini... MORE

Artificial Leaf Could Bring Electricity to Developing World
The first practical artificial leaf, composed of silicon, nickel and cobalt, can convert sunlight into chemical fuel, a milestone in the drive for sustainable energy that mimics the process of photosy... MORE

Microbubble Imaging Wins Nanoengineering Prize
A new “blinking microbubble” technique that images deeper inside the body for improved breast cancer diagnostics has won the grand prize at the University of California, San Diego’s Jacob School of En... MORE

Quantum Dots Shine Brighter with Acid
Vanderbilt University chemists boosted the fluorescence efficiency of white-light quantum dots to 45 percent, a more than tenfold increase. MORE

Light Used to Switch on Gene Expression
A new method that uses light-activated molecules to turn gene expression on and off provides greater precision for studying gene function and could lead to targeted therapies for diseases like cancer. MORE

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Nufern Wins Laser Amplifier Contracts
The fiber laser manufacturer received multiple military contracts to build 46 compact fiber amplifiers to support government laser efforts. MORE

Axio Zoom.V16 Zoom Microscope
The Axio Zoom.V16 manufactured by Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH combines the benefits of stereomicroscopes, such as zoom optics and long working distances, with the higher resolutions of light microscope... MORE

Millennia Core Green CW DPSS Laser
Spectra-Physics, a Newport Corp. brand, has unveiled a green continuous-wave diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser. The Millennia Core delivers 25 W of 532-nm power, with good beam quality and low... MORE

Planacon Model XP85112 MCP-PMT Detector
Photonis USA has announced the model XP85112, an addition to its Planacon MCP (microchannel plate)-PMT (photomultiplier tube) family, an 8 × 8-anode array equipped with a 10-μm-pore microchan... MORE

FireEye Objectives
Rochester Precision Optics has announced the debut of its FireEye line of infrared standard products. Designed for the newest compact infrared focal planes offered by Flir and other manufacturers,... MORE

SPL BKxx-40WFT Laser Bars
Osram Opto Semiconductors’ SPL BKxx-40WFT laser bars offer efficiency of up to 65% at 200-W continuous-wave optical output power and can simplify the design of laser systems and reduce their cos... MORE

Mobile Web-Based LED Selector
Osram Opto Semiconductors Inc. has built a web-based smartphone app for designers of exterior automotive lighting. The Automotive Signal LED Selector is available for the iPhone, Android and Blackberr... MORE

OD-110W High-Power IR Emitters
Opto Diode Corp. has introduced the OD-110W, the second product in the superhigh-power series of gallium aluminum arsenide infrared emitters. Featuring a very uniform optical beam, the device is desig... MORE

4Sight GP Industrial Imaging Computer
Matrox Imaging has announced the Matrox 4Sight GP, the fifth generation of its 4Sight family of industrial computers for machine vision and medical imaging applications. Powered by an embedded thi... MORE

VUVAS Purged Ultraviolet Spectrometer
McPherson has launched its latest VUVAS scientific-grade spectrophotometer. The instrument provides stable measurements over time and is easy to maintain. With a long lamp life at short ultraviole... MORE

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