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Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have once again demonstrated the incredible capabilities of metamaterials – artificial nanoconstructs whose optical properties arise from their physical structure rather than their chemical composition. Engineering a unique two-dimensional sheet of gold nanoantennas, the researchers were able to obtain the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect, an optical phenomenon...

JUVA Skin & Laser Center Highlights Popular Skin Regimens For Bridal Season NEW YORK, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As the median age at first marriage for men and women continues to rise, so do the ages of those respective parents. With older Mothers of the Bride and Groom front and center on the big day there is a rapidly growing trend in the beauty industry catering to helping these women enhance their look. Dr. Bruce E. Katz, director of the JUVA Skin & Laser Center in...

--High-speed Performance of New 100G Optical Modules for Data Center Fabrics to be Showcased Using MP1800A at OFC/NFOEC-- ANAHEIM, Calif., March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Anritsu Company (booth #2519) announces that Kotura, the Silicon Photonics Company, will use Anritsu's MP1800A BERT to demonstrate the performance of WDM QSFP 100G optical modules in the Kotura booth (#3618) during OFC/NFOEC, March 19-21, Anaheim, CA. The demonstrations featuring the MP1800A will showcase how the...

Researchers at the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have created an artificial material, a metamaterial, with optical properties that can be controlled by electric signals. Photonic metamaterials are artificial materials created by precise and extremely fine structuring of conventional media using nanotechnology. They offer numerous new applications from cloaking to radically improved solar cells. However, the properties of metamaterials are usually fixed....

Researchers from North Carolina State University have come up with a low-cost way to enhance a polymer called MEH-PPV’s ability to confine light, advancing efforts to use the material to convert electricity into laser light for use in photonic devices. “Think of a garden hose. If it has holes in it, water springs out through a million tiny leaks. But if you can eliminate those leaks, you confine the water in the hose and improve the water pressure. We’ve plugged the holes that were...

QUEBEC CITY, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO) (TSX: EXF) announced today the introduction of the IQS-2800 ITLA Tunable Laser Source, jointly developed with Coherent Solutions and exclusively available from EXFO. The recent bandwidth explosion is pushing next-generation transmission systems to new capacity limits requiring the use of complex high-order modulation formats like dual-polarization quadrature phase-shift keying (DPQPSK). Housed in the IQS-636...

ANAHEIM, Calif., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OFC/NFOEC 2013, Booth #2627 -- Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. has developed and started mass production of the FOL 1437 series of 14xx nm pump source lasers with high output and low power consumption in the 1420nm - 1460nm range. These are key devices for use in Raman amplifiers, demand for which is expected to increase as the telecommunications industry accelerates adoption of ultrahigh-speed communications at 100 gigabits...

ANAHEIM, Calif., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OFC/NFOEC 2013, Booth #2627 -- Furukawa Electric Company, Ltd. has developed a micro Integrable Tunable Laser Assembly (ITLA), a key component in ultrahigh-speed optical digital coherent transmission devices operating at 100 gigabits per second (Gbps). This transmission device is now being introduced globally with initial sampling of the micro ITLA. In addition to meeting the industries' demand for much lower power consumption and high...

GARDNER, Mass., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Precision Optics Corporation, Inc. (OTCQB: PEYE) (the "Company") today announced that it has received a follow-on purchase order for $660,000 for custom-designed endoscopes to be manufactured and delivered over a sixteen-month period beginning in July 2013. The endoscopes represent two distinct designs which include various aspects of the Company's unique proprietary Microprecision(TM) lens technology and optical visualization system...

This research is an attempt to showcase the technology and market impact of existing and emerging optical imaging technologies having a huge growth potential in clinical medicine for the coming five years. This technology based research report categorizes optical imaging technologies based on applications, based on geography and on the basis of technicalities of various optical imaging modalities. Dublin, Ireland (PRWEB) March 13, 2013 Optical Imaging is an emerging imaging technology...