Osram Opto Semiconductors can pack up to 20 blue laser chips in the new PLPM4 450 module. Instead of taking the laborious approach and constructing a light source from individual laser diodes, it is now possible to reduce the complexity of ...
Tags: Osram, Laser Diodes, LED
For first-quarter 2014, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensurg, Germany has introduced what it claims is the first compact laser multi-chip package. The new PLPM4 450 module can pack up to 20 blue laser chips into a single butterfly package for projection ...
At the Laser Display Conference (LDC 2014) at National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan (19-20 June), Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp is presenting a 638nm-wavelength? red laser diode (LD) with what is claimed to be record ...
The barcode was invented at Westinghouse in 1930 by John Kermode, Douglas Young and Harry Sparkes. The first patent for a barcode, US Patent #2,612,994, was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on 7 October, 1952. The ...
British luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has invested £200m to expand production capacity of its Halewood plant in Merseyside, UK. With the investment, the company intends to start production of its Land Rover Discovery ...
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LASYS 2014 to see demo of high-power welding with online seam tracking; BMW-Mini already a fan. Laser positioning and deflection technology developer Scanlab and subsidiary Blackbird Robotics will be presenting their new robot-assisted 3D ...
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UK-based aerospace, defense and security technology provider QinetiQ Group plc has acquired Redfern Integrated Optics Inc (RIO) of Santa Clara, CA, USA. Founded in 2000 in Australia before moving to San Francisco, CA, USA in 2003, RIO is ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter (ended 27 April), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported its seventh consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth, to a record $306m (up ...
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QD Laser Inc of Kanagawa, Japan and the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics (NanoQuine) at the University of Tokyo have announced the development of wearable see-through display Laser Eyewear (LEW) based on laser retina ...
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The flexible packaging market is rapidly growing, with recent research suggesting that its global value equated to £45bn in 2013. But what has been the catalyst for this growth? Why is rigid packaging being replaced with flexible? ...
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UK-based supermarket chain Marks & Spencer (M&S) plans to use new laser tattooing technology to label its fruits in place of traditional paper-based labels. M&S has signed an agreement with Spanish company Laser Food to trial the ...
The Atacama range replaces the previous Hi-Zorb range and has positively driven valves fitted throughout rather than the less reliable shuttle valves previously utilised. The Atacama products, which are fitted as standard with both pre ...
Tags: shuttle valves, valves, Industrial Equipment, Components
The 6th International Conference and Exhibition for the Organic and Printed Electronics Industry, the LOPEC, has taken place in Munich last week. This year Coatema presented a complete new product line for laboratory coating and ...
US-based Pro Mach business unit Matrix has unveiled new Inever BY300 multilane stickpack machine, which offers both scoring and marking in one system. Claimed to be suitable for low-to-medium production of stickpack seals of dosing ...