Research News - Electro Optics

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SPI buffs up its lasers

8 August 2008
SPI Lasers has increased its air-cooled lasers from 100 to 200W power and water cooled from 200 to 400W power, while also creating unique laser control functions offering direct application benefits across a wide range of laser machining applications.

Rofin wins design award at CeBIT

5 June 2008
The Rofin DQ series of lasers were awarded the iF Design Award at the recent CeBIT information technology trade fair in Hannover, Germany.

Introducing the next generation of energy efficient lighting

5 June 2008
A breakthrough in lighting technology is the subject of an awards submission to the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 2008 Innovation Awards.

Nextreme and Princeton to develop cool sensors

5 June 2008
Nextreme Thermal Solutions and Princeton Lightwave have signed an agreement to jointly develop a SWIR focal plane sensor using extremely efficient thermoelectric cooling.

Coordinate metrology on the micro-scale

30 May 2008
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has added a Zeiss F25 to its family of coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), which will extend NPL�s coordinate measurement capability down to the micro-scale.