Germany-The first ever Mayday music festival in history took place on 14 December 1991 in Berlin(Halle Weissensee).The event was organised to help out the GDR radio station DT64(today MDR Sputnik),which was on the verge of bankruptcy.From ...
Tags: Germany, Mayday music festival, lighting designer, Thomas Gerdon
"Only reason for recent weakness in stock price is the re-balancing of the Russell 3000 Index." All smiles:Biolase booth at the American Dental Association meet in Las Vegas(November,2011). Dental laser manufacturer and distributor ...
Tags: Biolase, Russell 3000 Index, Nasdaq exchange, laser
Avago launches 120Gbps parallel-optic modules for cloud computing and data centers Avago Technologies has announced the availability of production volumes of 120Gbps multi-channel optical transmitter and receiver modules ...
New surface-emitting laser design could improve speed and efficiency of optical connections. On-chip laser,2 microns high A new design of surface-emitting laser measuring just 2 microns in height could make it easier for ...
Tags: laser, Nature Photonics, InGaAsP, Semerane
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's laser scanner suggests 22%of matter on floor of Shackleton crater could be frozen water. Pole hole:Shackleton crater at the moon's South Pole.NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter(LRO)spacecraft has ...
Tags: LRO, Laser Inspection, NASA, Shackleton crater, Moon Crater, laser scanner
New guide star laser debuts at SPIE astronomy event 26 Jun 2012 Apparatus could help observatory one day"find another Earth"–Toptica. Burning bright:ESO's portable guide star laser unit under test.A novel approach to laser guide ...
Tags: European, EOS, guide star laser system, SPIE, MPB, Toptica
Ultratech recently declared the shipment of its 50th laser spike anneal(LSA)system.Of all the 50 systems,Ultratech has shipped over 15 of its flagship LSA101 systems that are capable of reaching throughputs of up to 60wph. The unique ...
Tags: Ultratech, LSA system, laser technology, lower leakage
22 June 2012 New Focus launches first tunable,direct-diode blue laser operating at 461nm Photonics product maker New Focus(a division of Newport Corp of Irvine,CA,USA)has launched the Vortex Plus Blue TLB-6802 precision ...
Tags: blue laser, Photonics product, New Focus
22 June 2012 Sumitomo and Sony claim first 100mW true-green 530nm laser diode Tokyo-based compound semiconductor materials provider Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd(SEI)and Sony Corp say that,by using a semi-polar gallium ...
Tags: laser diode, GaN substrate, semiconductor materials provider, SEI
Procedure for treating chronic atrial fibrillation,a condition that causes palpitations and fainting,features a laser balloon catheter. Green light for laser heart treatment? A follow-up study of 56 patients with chronic atrial ...
Tags: Heart Surgery, Laser, EAS
Fiber laser firm EOLITE sold for$10M 20 Jun 2012 Oregon-based laser system vendor Electro Scientific Industries buys the French company in an all-cash deal. EOLITE Systems,the venture-backed fiber laser specialist that is based at ...
Tags: Scientific, Industries, Systems
Police in Dubai have confiscated 850,000 counterfeit HP items, including flat boxes, security labels, empty laser print cartridges, print cartridge bags and labels and finished print cartridges, in a raid on a showroom and store of a ...
Tags: printer supplies, office supplies, counterfeit HP, print cartridge bags
On 11 June at the LEDforum 2012 in Guangzhou,China,LayTec AG of Berlin,Germany(which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes,focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications)received the LEDinside'Aurora ...
Tags: LayTec, LED, Aurora Award, Test Equipment
GigOptix Inc of San Jose,CA,USA(a fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components for high-speed information streaming)says that its HXR/T4104 high-speed optical driver and receiver chipset is being used in the high-speed data ...
Tags: GigOptix, Chipset, Semiconductor, Laser
Value of leading infrared laser optics manufacturer slips 15%on weaker-than-expected guidance for the forthcoming year. II-VI stock drops 15% More than$150 million was wiped off of the value of the US-based optics company II-VI,after ...
Tags: II-VI, optics, infrared laser, optical components