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Thursday, September 3, 2015
Photonics Media's Weekly Newscast   The Nobel Prize was just the beginning. Find out about the new frontiers of superresolution microscopy this week on Light Matters!

 
Feedback Provides Better Optogenetics Control
Feedback Provides Better Optogenetics Control Feedback control could give optogenetics the specificity it needs to fight neurological disorders like epilepsy, chronic pain and depression.
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Northrop Grumman Wins $50M in US Military Contracts for IR Countermeasures
Also taking part in one projects are Daylight Solutions Inc. of San Diego and Selex ES of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Plessey Granted £6.7M to Expand LED Factory
The company will increase its manufacturing capacity from more than 100 million mm2 of GaN material per year to more than 3 billion mm2.
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Featured Products
Bristol Instruments - Optical Wavelength Meter Optical Wavelength Meter
Bristol Instruments
Able to measure absolute wavelength to an accuracy of 1 pm, the 828B optical wavelength meter from Bristol is suitable for use with wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) lasers.
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Canon U.S.A. - Laser Rotary Encoders Laser Rotary Encoders
Canon U.S.A.
Canon R-1 series Laser Rotary Encoders offer high performance in a very compact 36mm diameter body. All models utilize semiconductor laser diode, high precision grating disk, and diffraction and interference position sensing methodology.
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Argyle International - Mini and Micro Lens Elements Mini and Micro
Lens Elements

Argyle International
Argyle International has added a new series of miniature and micro lens elements to its diverse line of custom optics. Precise control of surface quality and centering make these lenses a good choice for your design.
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4D Technology Corp. - AccuFiz IR Laser Interferometers AccuFiz IR Laser Interferometers
4D Technology Corp.
AccuFiz® IR laser interferometers operate at wavelengths of 1.55 micron (SWIR), 3.8 micron (MWIR) and 10.6 micron (LWIR), for accurate measurement of polished or rough-ground optics and metal surfaces.
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Marines Use Augmented Reality in Live-Fire Testing
Marines Use Augmented Reality in Live-Fire Testing The new system is intended to support an array of training scenarios by injecting virtual images, indirect fire effects, aircraft, vehicles, simulated people and more onto the real-world view of a soldier's surroundings.
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Laser Diode Micro-Optics Enhance Cutting
Although a high-power diode laser operates at a relatively modest brilliance, optimized micro-optics make it well-suited for the rapid and precise cutting of 6-mm-thick stainless steel. That's the conclusion of Brilamet, a research project carried out by the German company Limo and the Münster University of Applied Sciences.
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Synopsys Recognizes Student Imaging Designs
The annual Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition recognizes North American students working toward a degree who submit optical design papers using Synopsys' Code V or LightTools software.
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LinkedIn   Join Photonics Media’s discussion group on LinkedIn! It’s a forum for all things photonics, where you can keep up with the latest industry happenings and post your own company news and product announcements.
Pemamek System to Be Used in Laser-Arc Welding Study
Seam qualities will be studied from R&D and production points of view. Four midsize companies have joined the research project, led by Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Finland, which will continue through 2016.
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Individual Photons Squeezed by Quantum Dots
Individual Photons Squeezed by Quantum Dots Squeezing is quantum phenomenon that produces an extremely low-noise signal potentially useful in technology designed to pick up faint signals, as well as in optical communications.
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Imaging to the Rescue in Fight against Invasive Bugs
Ravenous insects smaller than a penny continue to migrate from the Southeast, threatening to destroy millions of pine and ash trees in the Northeast. Now NASA has teamed with the U.S. Forest Service to combat the problem using an array of optical imaging techniques.
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Industry Events
2015 IEEE Photonics Conference - Oct. 4-8 · Reston, Va.
2015 IEEE Photonics Conference Previously known as the IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, the conference offers technical presentations by the world’s leading scientists and engineers in the areas of lasers, optoelectronics, optical fiber networks and associated lightwave technologies and applications. It also features compelling plenary talks on the industry's most important issues, weekend events aimed at students and young photonics professionals, and a manufacturers' exhibition.
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Photonics Media is currently seeking technical feature articles on a variety of topics for publication in our magazines (Photonics Spectra, Industrial Photonics, BioPhotonics and EuroPhotonics). Please submit an informal 100-word abstract to Group Publisher Karen Newman at [email protected]
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At Laser world of Photonics Admesy showed their latest range of spectrometers and spectro-colorimeters aimed at the lighting industry. Admesy CEO, Steven Goetstouwers demonstrates the products and shows their ease of integration.
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