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TECHNOLOGY
Fraunhofer IPMS achieves HYPOLED milestone
4 February 2010
Fraunhofer IPMS has achieved an important milestone within the European project HYPOLED with its digital VGA full-colour OLED microdisplay
APPLICATIONS
Climate research institute installs eximer laser for lidar measurements
4 February 2010
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research), located at the the Zugspitze mountain in Germany, has installed an excimer laser system from Coherent as part of its lidar system
INDUSTRY
Dr Thomas Baer to give keynote at Invest in Photonics
2 February 2010
TECHNOLOGY
Scientists achieve 1 Megajoule laser shot
2 February 2010
INDUSTRY
Halma acquires SphereOptics
2 February 2010
DISTRIBUTORS
Elliot Scientific signs distribution agreement with Akela
2 February 2010
DISTRIBUTORS
Andor Technology appoints Alpao as reseller for adaptive optics market
2 February 2010
APPLICATIONS
Researchers capture time-lapse imagery of cell signalling vesicle
2 February 2010
INDUSTRY
Fredrik Arp appointed chairman of Qioptiq
2 February 2010
INDUSTRY
Photonics spin-out company Scitech Precision launched
1 February 2010
INDUSTRY
IPG Photonics acquires Photonics Innovations
1 February 2010
News features
HELIOS consortium advances research in CMOS photonics
18 January 2010
Phase-one goals for the large-scale CMOS photonics project, HELIOS, have been met or exceeded by the 19 partners involved, according to French organisation CEA-Leti, coordinator of the pan-European consortium
SECPhO initiatives identified at inaugural meeting
17 December 2009
The inaugural meeting of the Southern European Cluster in Photonics and Optics (SECPhO) has taken place in Terrassa, Spain on 16 December, with around 100 delegates and 30 companies exhibiting
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Brightlock stack array
4 February 2010
LASERS AND DIODES
AMS Technologies has introduced the collimated 10kW CW wavelength-stabilised Brightlock stack array from Laser Operations, a manufacturer of the QPC lasers product line
AMS Technologies
NT9080 surface metrology system
4 February 2010
ANALYSIS, TEST AND MEASUREMENT
Veeco Instruments has introduced the NT9080 surface metrology system, which utilises white light interferometry to measure critical surface texture non-destructively, and at greater speeds than traditional stylus instrumentation
Veeco Instruments
H100 mid-IR fibre
4 February 2010
FIBRE OPTICS
Elliot Scientific has released a small-core, high-power multimode, mid-infrared fibre for use in medical, industrial and R&D applications from IRphotonics of Hamden, Connecticut
Elliot Scientific
Jaz-ULM-200
4 February 2010
SPECTROSCOPY
Ocean Optics
QDI 302 microscope spectrophotometer and Thermal Stage package
4 February 2010
MICROSCOPY
Elliot Scientific
N-216 Nexline piezo linear motors
4 February 2010
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25-26 February 2010
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16-19 March 2010
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