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UV-Activated Adhesive Treats Heart Defects UV-Activated Adhesive Treats Heart Defects
A bio-inspired, light-activated adhesive used to treat congenital heart defects could soon replace more invasive treatments such as sutures, new research indicates. “This study demonstrated that the adhesive was strong enough to hold tissue and patches onto the heart equivalent to suturing,” said Nora Lang, M.D., of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. “Nothing foreign or toxic stays in the bodies of these patients.”
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Powerful Exoplanet Camera Unveiled
After nearly a decade of development, a powerful exoplanet camera, the Gemini Planet Imager, is now operational, detecting IR radiation to image and analyze planets from other solar systems.
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UK Awards Funds for Light-Based Manufacturing
The £3.6 million from EPSRC will fund research projects that will explore how light can be used in new ways to improve manufacturing in the pharmaceutical, chemical, electronics and security industries.
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Metamaterials Perform 'Photonic Calculus'
The discovery that metamaterials can be designed to perform "photonic calculus" as lightwaves pass through them could give rebirth to analog computers.
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Campaign Begins to Endow Award Honoring Tingye Li
The OSA Foundation has launched a fundraising campaign to endow an award for recognizing young optics researchers, in honor of the late optical communications pioneer Tingye Li.
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Alluxa - Ultra-Flat Dichroic & Polychroic Filters Ultra-Flat Dichroic &
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Alluxa, an emerging leader in next generation optical filters is pleased to announce ultra-flat dichroic and polychroic filters with very high levels of in band transmission. Typical uses for ultra- flat, thin dichroics are in imaging and laser based applications.
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China Daheng Group - Telecentric Lenses for Machine Vision Telecentric Lenses
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CDHC designs and manufactures GCO series telecentric lenses, with its good performance, superior image quality, low distortion and competitive price, fully meet the requirements of machine vision systems in industrial measurement application.
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Necsel - Necsel Red Laser Necsel Red Laser
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Necsel offers the Necsel Red Laser at 637nm in 8W and 16W power options. This industry standard package as high wall-plug efficiency, includes both FAC and SAC lensing and has a proven lifetime over 30,000 hours with less than 20% degradation.
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Voltage Multipliers, Inc. - Optocouplers Just Got Better Optocouplers Just Got Better
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Voltage Multipliers' 10kV and 15kV optocouplers help prevent ground loops, and electrically isolate your system. Use the linear, reverse leakage current to generate a clean control circuitry signal when the device is reverse biased.
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Light-Emission Studies May Improve Bioimaging
New understanding of secondary light emission by plasmonic nanostructures could lead to improvements in medical imaging, say researchers at the University of Illinois.
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Photonics Grants Awarded to Four Colleges
The National Center for Optics and Photonics Education will provide grants to four US colleges, with the goal of attracting high school students to photonics-related associate degree programs.
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X-ray Camera Has Image Stabilizer
The efficiency of the new Fourier transform holography method is based on an x-ray focusing optic being firmly fixed to the object to be imaged using a Fresnel zone plate.
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Finisar Acquiring u2t Photonics
In a move to strengthen its 100G coherent technologies portfolio, Finisar Corp. will acquire u2t Photonics AG of Berlin for $20 million in cash, the companies said this week.
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Optical Building Blocks Corp. - The Perfect Solution for Photoluminescence Studies of Lanthanide-Doped Semiconducting Nanocrystals The Perfect Solution for Photoluminescence Studies of Lanthanide-Doped Semiconducting Nanocrystals
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Photoluminescence (PL) studies of lanthanide-doped semiconducting nanocrystals have become very common in materials science. The increased research interest in such materials is prompted by applications in solar energy conversion devices, lasing media, LED technologies and development of upconversion-based luminescent labels for biomedical analyses and bioimaging. The new Quattro™ bench-top luminescence spectrometer is the ideal tool to fully characterize the PL properties of such materials in the UV-VIS range.

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In 2013, the exhibition sold out with more than 1234 companies. This year's exhibition will include five days of presentations, courses, and special events that offer opportunities for face-to-face interaction with potential customers.

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