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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.

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.

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 Conferen...

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.

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 ...

Beam profiler from Ophir Photonics supports the company's laser power meters

04/12/2012

Version 5.7 of BeamGage laser beam analysis software adds advanced image processing features, including fast, off-axis correction of distorted beam images.

Optical design software from Radiant Zemax offers reverse ray tracing

04/09/2012

Zemax 12 optical and illumination design is available in SE, EE, and IE editions, with new lens design capabilities.

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 biomedic...

FEI workflow software works with any light microscope

04/02/2012

MAPS (Modular Automated Processing System) provides a correlative workflow that lets researchers see both large-scale context and small-scale detail in one overview.

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.

Nanoparticle tracking analysis characterizes self-assembled nanomotors

03/27/2012

Salisbury, England--Radboud University Nijmegen is applying nanoparticle tracking analysis from NanoSight for the characterization of self-assembled nanomotors.

Ophir Photonics app for Android displays laser measurement data

03/22/2012

The Quasar app for Android smartphones and tablets displays laser meter data when connected to the company's Quasar wireless power and energy meter via Bluetooth.

OPTICAL DESIGN: Free-form optics enable lightweight, high-performance head-mounted displays

02/29/2012 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.

Silicon photonics maker Lightwire to be acquired by Cisco

02/27/2012

SAN JOSE, CA--Cisco says it is buying privately held Lightwire, which manufactures CMOS-based optical interconnects for high-speed networking applications.

Lithography mask-aligner tools now paired with simulation software

02/22/2012

Garching, Germany--A new cooperation agreement pairs SUSS MicroTec lithography mask aligner exposure optics tools with Layout LAB simulation software from GenISys GmbH.

ASI, 89 North, Berliner Glas, Goodrich ISR, and Insight light up the Photonics West show floor (VIDEO)

02/21/2012

San Francisco, CA--Laser Focus World attempted to capture the essence of some of the best showings on both the BiOS and Photonics West 2012 exhibit floors.

Integrated GRIN lens could couple light efficiently into silicon photonic circuits

02/20/2012 Singapore--Qian Wang and his group at the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) Data Storage Institute have developed a graded-refractive-index (GRIN) lens that can be directly integrated on a silicon chip at th...

Algorithm is faster than FFT for all sparse signals

02/09/2012

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (Cambridge, MA) have developed two algorithms that are faster than the fast Fourier transform (FFT) for all sparse signals.

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