Synopsys acquires RSoft, expands photonics software offering
05/09/2012
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. |
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CLEO/Laser Focus World 2012 Innovation Awards
05/01/2012
The 2012 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards program is designed to honor the most timely, groundbreaking products in the field of photonics and laser science. The awards are sponsored by Laser Focus World and the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO). |
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SOFTWARE & COMPUTING: Optical software models partially spatially coherent beam propagation
05/01/2012
Most optical engineers can adequately perform their engineering tasks by assuming that the light propagating through their systems is either totally spatially incoherent or coherent. |
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CLEO show to move to June in 2013
04/26/2012
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. |
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Ghent University and Imec release IPKISS design software for integrated photonics
04/16/2012
Brussels, Belgium--Ghent University and Imec have launched an open-source photonics software platform called IPKISS, which is a generic and modular software framework for parametric design of photonic integrated components and circuits. |
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Laser-fused dentures now half the cost of milled versions
04/05/2012
Lichtenfels, Germany--Laser cusing or fusing techniques are being used to create dentures at half the cost of milled versions. |
Comsol opens new Berlin office
04/04/2012
Burlington, MA--Comsol has opened a new technical sales and support office in the center of Berlin, as the area is home to research institutes such as Fraunhofer, Leibniz, Max Planck, and the scientific, technical, and biomedical research centers of the Helmholtz Association. |
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BioPhotonic Solutions wins 2012 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award
04/02/2012
Washington, DC--BioPhotonic Solutions is the winner of this year's CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award. |
OPTICAL DESIGN: Free-form optics enable lightweight head-mounted displays
04/01/2012
Free-form optics tiling can potentially overcome the invariant on the field of view and the resolution in a head-mounted display, and enable the design and development of lightweight and high-performance head-mounted displays. |
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200-kHz Swept Light Source for OCT Imaging
NTT-AT introduces new swept light source for OCT imaging.
- High-speed: 200-kHz A-line rate
- Voltage-controlled sweeping formats: k-linear scan available
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Scalable High-Power and High-Brightness Fiber Coupled Diode Laser Devices - Photonics West 2012
In this paper we present a detailed characterization of different diode laser sources based on the scalable modular concept. The optical output power is scal...
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Design and Test of Fast Laser Driver Circuits
In industrial laser systems and measurement applications, the designers are challenged with the very demanding task to design and verify fast driver circuits...
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The laser -- its past, present, and future
Invented a half-century ago, the laser was first thought of as "a solution without a problem." However, the effectiveness of coherent light as a to...
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OCT: noninvasive imaging for many purposes
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) takes advantage of the properties of coherent light to create 2D or 3D noninvasive images of turbid or otherwise semitrans...
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