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PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Next Inning Technology Research (http://www.nextinning.com), an online investment newsletter focused on technology stocks, has published updated outlooks for JDS Uniphase (Nasdaq: JDSU), Finisar (Nasdaq: FNSR), Oclaro (Nasdaq: OCLR), PMC-Sierra (Nasdaq: PMCS), and Applied Micro Circuits (Nasdaq: AMCC). So far, the roadmap McWilliams laid out for 2012 has been extremely accurate. In March, just two days before the market peaked and...

IP Includes 2D and 3D MEMS Patents San Diego, California (PRWEB) September 18, 2012 CrossFiber Inc. disclosed that the Company now owns the entire patent portfolio, invention and lab notebooks, manufacturing knowhow and 2D MEMS switch inventory of OMM. OMM was the inventor and pioneering manufacturer of the world's first Telcordia-qualified MEMS-based photonic switch modules. For data center owner/operators and fiber optic telco networks, CrossFiber manufactures photonic switches...

Using ultra-low input power densities, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated for the first time how low-power “optical nanotweezers” can be used to trap, manipulate, and probe nanoparticles, including fragile biological samples. “We already know that plasmonic nanoantennas enhance local fields by up to several orders of magnitude, and thus, previously showed that we can use these structures with a regular CW laser source to make very good...

NORTHVALE, N.J., Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Inrad Optics, Inc. (OTCBB: INRD) President and CEO, Joe Rutherford, announced his intention to retire as President and CEO effective September 30, 2012. Mr. Rutherford will remain with the Company as a member of the Board of Directors. Inrad Optics board of directors has appointed Amy Eskilson as President and CEO, effective October 1, 2012. Joe Rutherford stated, "I am very proud of what we have accomplished during my tenure, and I...

CHESTNUT RIDGE, N.Y. and AMSTERDAM, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Teledyne LeCroy, in conjunction with Southern Photonics, is previewing a 45 GHz Optical Modulation Analyzer consisting of a Southern Photonics IQScope-RT coherent optical receiver and Teledyne LeCroy LabMaster 10 Zi oscilloscope. The two companies will preview the Optical Modulation Analyzer at the ECOC Exhibition in Amsterdam RAI, on 17th - 19th September, 2012, and plan a formal launch early in 2013. "LeCroy's...

NEWARK, Del., Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTC: LWLG), a technology company focused on the development of a Next Generation Non Linear Optical Polymer Materials Platform for applications in high speed fiber-optic data communications and optical computing, announced today that it has made available a White Paper on spatial light modulators (SLMs) written by Charles Greenlee, the Company's Chief Optical/Electrical Engineer. The paper proves organic...

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ECOC 2012, Stand 335 - OFS, a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative fiber optic network products, today announced the launch of its new erbium doped fiber (EDF) MP980-II product as part of its broad RightWave(TM) EDF portfolio. The new MP980-II product was developed based on erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) customer requirements for a higher power range (up to 600mW) combined with better efficiency, low noise figure,...

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ECOC 2012, Stand 335 - OFS, a leading edge designer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative fiber optic network solutions, today announced the commercial availability of its EZ-Bend® InvisiLight(TM) Optical Solution, offering virtually invisible, faster fiber routing inside homes and MDUs. "The EZ-Bend InvisiLight Solution was trialled across the globe by key OFS customers yielding excitement from installers and end-users," said Linda...

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ECOC 2012, Stand 335 -- OFS, a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative fiber optic network products, today announced the launch of its new dispersion slope compensating module (DSCM) for the cable television (CATV) market. This is just the latest product addition to OFS' broad DSCM portfolio, with a corporate heritage in DSCMs going back to 1996. Advantages of OFS' DSCM line include: Wave length flexibility Zero...

Three New VC's Join Existing Investors to Provide Expansion Capital for Photonic Switch Maker. San Diego, California (PRWEB) September 12, 2012 CrossFiber Inc., the developer and manufacturer of breakthrough photonic switches that enable novel architectures in data centers and next-generation telco fiber optic networks, announced today the completion of the final tranche of its Series D funding, now totaling $13.4 million. The Company said that the majority of the funds have been and...