Trenton, NJ--Princeton Instruments has introduced a new toroidal-mirror-based imaging spectrograph that includes a Schmidt corrector in its optics, completely eliminating astigmatism across the field.

Mountain View, CA--Optoelectronics software provider Synopsys completed the acquisition of photonics design and simulation software company RSoft Design Group, extending its optical solutions offering.

Garching, Germany and Grenoble, France--A team of European researchers has discovered "significant" refraction of gamma rays by silicon.

Washington, DC--NASA awarded $3 million to Space System/Loral to host a space laser communications relay demonstration terminal payload aboard a Loral commercial satellite.

Essonne, France--Physicists from France and Canada are using isolated, precisely timed attosecond pulses of light to study the fleeting motions of electrons.

San Jose, CA--NeoPhotonics Corporation received a $39.8 million dollar investment from RUSNANO and plans to use a portion of the proceeds to establish design and production capabilities in Russia by mid 2014.

Long-wavelength pumped, periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides upconvert single photons, allowing efficient, low-noise silicon avalanche photodiodes to detect the signal.

Washington, DC--Next year's Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), held annually in San Jose, CA, will take place in June rather than its usual May, moving to June 9–14, 2013.

Guoguang Mu, who helped to pioneer optics, applied optics, and optical instrumentation, passed away on April 12 at the age of 81.

Menlo Park, CA--The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) camera received "Critical Decision 1" approval by the DOE to move into the next stage of the project.

Arlington, VA--A U.S. ONR-funded sensor starts airborne tests this summer so that Navy UAV robocopters will be able to distinguish small pirate boats from other vessels.

A range of diamond-turned aspheres fabricated from either aluminum or copper substrates are produceable in sizes up to 300 mm, with any aspheric profile.