The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Biolase's non-contact handpiece designed for cutting both hard and soft tissue. The non-contact laser handpiece, which the company claims, is the only one that is ...
ProPhotonix Ltd of Salem, NH, USA, a designer and manufacturer of LED illumination systems and laser diode modules as well as a distributor of laser diodes, is to distribute the high-power laser line of Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA in ...
Tags: laser products, LED illumination systems, laser diode modules
IT'S the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer. The $US121 million ($116m) supercomputer, housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern ...
At the Satellite 2013 event in Washington DC (19-21 March) and at China Content Broadcasting Networking exhibition (CCBN 2013) in Beijing, China (21-23 March), Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes components, subsystems and ...
Quantum dots will cascade into the marketplace. They offer lower cost, longer life, and brighter lighting, according to WinterGreen Research’s new study Quantum Dot and Quantum Dot Display (QLED) Market Shares, Strategy, and ...
Tags: QLED market, Dot LED, LED lighting
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems, has completed its acquisition ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics, silicon photonic integrated circuit, Semiconductor
Standard: IEC/EN 62471 As White light LEDs become widely used in many LED products, assessment of the unique "Blue Light" hazard is critical. As of September 1, 2009, IEC/EN 62471, Photobiological Safety of Lamps and Lamp Systems was ...
Using a low-cost apparatus designed to quickly and accurately measure the properties of handheld laser devices, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, an agency of the US Department of Commerce) have tested ...
Tags: handheld laser devices, NIST, laser pointers
Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) have succeeded in developing electrically powered nano-scale lasers that operate effectively at room temperature – a step that could pave the way for their use in a variety of practical ...
Recently I had a chance to put Bosch's new GCL-25 laser-level to real practical use. The GCL-25 laser level features five beam points—up, down, forward, left and right; in addition, it also displays continuous cross hair ...
Tags: Bosch, Cross-Line Laser, Tools
IBM's decision to base its cloud services on OpenStack may prove to be a key to establishing the fledgling open-source platform as the enterprise standard. The announcement earlier this month follows similar moves by rival enterprise IT ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Cloud Platform, IBM
Looking for a home-theater setup that would satisfy Dr. Evil? LG Electronics hopes so: Next month it will start selling an 1080p projector that uses a lasers as light source, paired with a special 100-inch diagonal screen. We first heard ...
Tags: LG, Laser TV, Consumer Electronics
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, ...
Tags: Neophotonics
The Killers Battle Born tour, which has so far crossed the US, Australia and Europe to promote the band's fourth album, has taken ArKaos MediaMaster 3 with its new VideoMapper extension along for the ride. Show designer Steven Douglas has ...
At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (17-21 March), Kotura Inc of Monterey Park, CA, USA, which designs and makes silicon photonics application-specific integrated circuits ...