DoD contracts round-up:summer 2012 23 Aug 2012 Substantial backing for optical countermeasure and multispectral targeting systems,including a$463million agreement with Northrop Grumman. MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter The US Department of ...
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Design of Glasgow's semiconductor laser with monolithically integrated dynamic polarization control.Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed a technology that allows the manufacture of semiconductor lasers and associated ...
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Software control Raydiance,the California-based developer of packaged femtosecond laser technology targeted at manufacturing and machining applications,has announced the completion of a round of growth financing worth$20 million. The ...
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New CTO,Asian distributors,licensing agreement and first"LightEngine"sale make it a busy month for Berlin direct diode laser developer. Direct Photonics is focused on the development of ultra-high brightness direct-diode lasers.August ...
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Building-integrated PV ready to'come of age'22 Aug 2012 Maturing technologies and partnerships between solar and construction companies will prompt 4.6GW of installations by 2017. A new market report from the analyst company Pike ...
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Survey of more than 7500 people working in photonics suggests that nearly nine in ten find their job highly satisfying. Aerospace on top again:salary by discipline A new survey has found that the vast majority of people working in the ...
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Hamamatsu reports record-power-density VCSEL Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.has reported the first demonstration of 10-watt-class output power for a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser(VCSEL)array with ion-implanted isolated current ...
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PV puts utilities and construction ‘on collision course’ 16 Aug 2012 Achieving widespread grid parity with solar electricity may set up a titanic clash between the two industry sectors. PV panel The falling cost of ...
Lately,Taiwan's lighting industry is in the process of making five new smart lighting standards,expecting to spur the creation of a highly integrated supply chain and improve its competitiveness in the fast growing LED sector. To ...
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Developer of"black silicon"laser texturing process for imaging and PV applications signs deal with In-Q-Tel. Laser-textured"black"silicon In-Q-Tel(IQT),the technology venture wing of the US Central Intelligence Agency(CIA),has ...
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The German laser company Trumpf is to supply the car maker BMW with 14 of its “TruDisk” lasers, with shipments scheduled to begin this October. Trumpf says that the laser units will feature a variety of beam ...
GSI Group hit by scientific market slowdown 09 Aug 2012 Sales of fiber lasers from subsidiary JK Lasers triple year-on-year, but scientific orders are delayed. JK Lasers' carbon dioxide laser GSI Group, the owner of well-known ...
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Back-end facility in city of Wuxi represents an investment of more than €100 million by the German lighting giant. Osram, one of the world's leading lighting companies and a pioneer in the emerging market for solid-state lighting ...
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Kotura Inc of Monterey Park,CA,USA,which designs and makes silicon photonics application-specific integrated circuits(ASICs)for the communications,computing,sensing and detection markets,has launched a new Ultra Variable Optical Attenuator ...
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Semiconductor and MEMS giant aims to integrate video-sharing devices within smart phones and laptops. Projector phone:Samsung's Galaxy Beam Swiss-headquartered STMicroelectronics,rated as the world's leading maker of ...
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