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Material Gives Visible Light an Infinite Wavelength
A new metamaterial made from stacks of silver and silicon nitride nanolayers gives visible light a nearly infinite wavelength, an international team reports. The material could be used to make novel optical components or more efficient LEDs. “If three-dimensional ENZ metamaterials could be made in the visible, entirely new forms of waveform shaping, light tunneling and spontaneous emission enhancement would become possible over this technologically important spectral range,” said the team from FOM Institute AMOLF and the University of Pennsylvania in its paper, which appears in Nature Photonics this week.
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Flir Closing Facilities, Merging Optics and Lasers
Flir Systems will close up to six sites in the US and Europe and consolidate its optics and laser manufacturing businesses under a realignment plan announced this week. The thermal imaging systems maker cited "disappointing" preliminary earnings for the third quarter related to ongoing uncertainty in the US government as a contributing factor.
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‘Photons On Demand’ Enable Compact Optical Chips
Multiple imperfect photon sources can be combined on a single silicon chip to produce a much higher-quality source, say researchers in Australia. Such “photons on demand” will help create extremely compact optical chips.
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SX4 Fiber Optic Switches
JGR Optics
JGR Optics’ SX4 fiber optic switches are benchtop instruments ideal for manufacturing production testing. A single common input connects with multiple output channels.
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Fiber Coupled Lasers
Micro Laser Systems
Easy to use Fermion Series is coupled to singlemode or multimode fiber. Wavelengths from 375nm to 1653nm and output up to 500mW are available.
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OPAL IR System
Image Science Ltd.
The OPAL IR system is a very fast and accurate system for measuring MTF and other optical parameters in the infrared spectral region. A single-element MCT detector is used to scan the image of slit target at a constant speed.
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EMCCD 1 MegaPixel Camera
Raptor Photonics Ltd.
The digital FALCON EMCCD camera, model FA285-CL, combines high sensitivity, speed and high resolution. It uses a peltier cooled Texas Instruments’ 1MegaPixel Frame Transfer Impactron device which provides QE up to 65%.
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Water Stream Detects Pollution Better
A microfluidic sensor with a novel design uses unconfined streams of water as a simple, cheap way to test for dangerous chemicals and bacteria in liquid.
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UCF Partnership Focuses on Biophotonics
A research partnership between UCF’s College of Medicine and CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics, is helping scientists use light to learn how cells move during normal development and in disease.
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Alan Willner Elected OSA VP
The University of Southern California professor was elected as The Optical Society’s (OSA) 2014 vice president. Three directors at large were also chosen at this year’s election, held at the society’s annual meeting in Orlando this month.
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On this edition of the industry's only weekly newscast: photons on demand enable compact optical chips, a spinning-disk microscope peers deeply into a cell, and narrow-spectrum UV light may reduce surgical infections. Hosted by Photonics Media's Melinda Rose.
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Laser Companies Nominated for German Science Prize
Scientists from laser makers Trumpf and Coherent are among the three teams nominated for the final round of the 2013 Federal German President's Award for Innovation in Science and Technology, the Deutscher Zukunftspreis, the country's most prestigious national award.
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Adaptive Optics for Microscopy
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST
FREE WEBINAR
Peter Kner
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Enabling Structured Illumination Microscopy in Thick Tissue with Adaptive Optics
Peter Kner, University of Georgia
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Joel Kubby
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Adaptive Optical Microscopy Using Direct Wavefront Sensing
Joel Kubby, Professor & Chair, Electrical Engineering Department, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Neuroscience 2013 - November 9-13, 2013 · San Diego, Calif.
Visit Photonics Media at Booth 117
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Neuroscience 2013, the Society for Neuroscience's 43rd annual meeting, is the premier venue for neuroscientists to join more than 30,000 colleagues from 80-plus countries at the marketplace of ideas and tools for global neuroscience. Attendees will discover the latest science and cutting-edge research, forge collaborations with peers, have access to resources for funding and career development, and explore new tools and technologies. The science and networking opportunities are unmatched, with nearly 16,000 scientific presentations, 600 exhibiting companies, and dozens of career development opportunities.
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Swift Glass Company, an ISO 9001:2008 certified and ITAR registered company, is a privately owned worldwide leader in the manufacturing of quality fabricated glass parts for original equipment manufacturers. Watch to see some of our processes including: CNC milling and drilling; double sided lapping and polishing; thermal tempering; waterjet cutting; edging, and; slicing.
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