Recently added articles from Fiber Optic Sensors and Systems:
General Dynamics awarded $40 million NAVSEA contract to support undersea optic and sensor systems.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been awarded a contract by Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to provide the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) with support for submarine periscope, photonic, electro-optic, and ...
KVH receives new $2 million fiber-optic gyro order from Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... KVH Industries Inc., announced that it has received a new $2 million order for its precision DSP-3100 fiber-optic gyros (FOGs) from Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace for use in the Protector family of remote weapon stations. The contract is in addition to a $6 million order received in April ...
FLIR Systems receive $6.7 million contract from Colombian Ministry of Defense.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... FLIR Systems has received a $6.7 million order from the Colombian Ministry of Defence for its Star SAFIRE HD stabilized, multisensor surveillance systems. The units will be installed on fixed-wing surveillance platforms for use in counternarcotic and counterterror missions within the ...
Pembina Pipeline Corporation uses FT system on major synthetic crude pipeline.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Fiber Optic Systems Technology Inc. (FOX- TEK), a developer and manufacturer of patented non-intrusive sensing systems, announced the sale and installation of a pipeline strain remote monitoring system to Pembina Pipeline Corporation. Two FT3415 remote monitoring systems, with ...
L-3 to upgrade turret systems for Air Force.(CONTRACTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... L-3 Communications Corp. will assist the Air Force in reconfiguring aircraft turrets to accept high-definition TV sensors, fiber optics, and other technology under a contract that has a maximum value of $34 million. The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract requires ...
MRV Communications debuts LX 4108T Remote Site Manager.(NEW PRODUCTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... MRV Communications, a provider of products and services for out-of-band networking, optical transport, metro Ethernet, and fiber-optic components, has announced the LX 4108T Remote Site Manager, delivering console, power, and sensor management in a single system. The company ...
AMS Technologies announces availability of EXALOS SLED-based Broadband Light Source.(NEW PRODUCTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... EXALOS has extended its family of powerful Superluminescent Light Emitting Diodes (SLEDs) with a new 100nm SLED-based Broadband Light Source at 850nm. The new product is available from AMS Technologies throughout Europe. EXALOS 850nm Broadband Light Source is especially suited ...
Processors help navigators monitor true north.(NEW PRODUCTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Using GPS, fiber-optic technology, and Rabbit's products, Genonav offers accurate and reliable positioning technology to customers at an affordable price. Offshore survey ships and rigs require expensive equipment to get the most accurate heading and positioning on the open seas ...
MPhase and AlwaysReady enter sensor market with Smart NanoBattery.(NEW PRODUCTS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... MPhase Technologies Inc. and its subsidiary, AlwaysReady Inc., announced that development of their Smart NanoBattery is expected to position the company for entry into the sensor network market. The key feature of the technology that is being explored is the wireless activation ...
Latest oceanic fiber-optic cable detects undersea quakes.(TECHNOLOGY)
Jun 01, 2008 ... The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) began laying a fiber-optic cable under the Pacific Ocean, but it won't be used for telecommunications. The cable is part of an advanced monitoring and alert system that could provide warning should a destructive earthquake occur close to ...
Fiber optics in fashion.(TECHNOLOGY)
Jun 01, 2008 ... With 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers totaling more than 40 miles in combined length, the interactive art installation, called the Cloud, was quite a spectacle at this year's Pitti Uomo fashion show in Italy. Standing over six and a half feet high, the Cloud is ...
New Chiral Photonics coupler technology could assist in enabling tomorrow's silicon photonics.(TECHNOLOGY)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Silicon photonics, considered by many to be the future of computing, and a host of other new applications also built around high-refractive-index contrast structures, can now be more efficiently connected to mainstay low-index contrast fiber thanks to a breakthrough by Chiral Photonics ...
Energy technology pioneer Fotech raises 6.5 million [pounds sterling] in venture funding.(FINANCING)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Energy technology company Fotech has secured 6.5 million [pounds sterling] in venture funding from Scottish Equity Partners, Energy Ventures, and Saudi Arabia-based Shoaibi Group to commercialize its solutions for the monitoring and surveillance of oil and gas wells and pipelines. ...
Emerging standards drive SSL acceptance.(STANDARDS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... A recently published standard for testing of solid-state lighting will help to build approval of the technology, but more are needed to complete the picture. The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) has recently published a standard, designated LM-79, ...
Domino Printing Sciences acquires Photon Energy and its subsidiary NWL Lasertechnologie.(MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Domino Printing Sciences, a UK supplier of coding, marking, and traceability solutions, has acquired solid-state laser marking specialist Photon Energy and its subsidiary NWL Lasertechnologie for EUR4 million ($6.3 million). Based in Ottensoos, Germany, both companies are active in the ...
Two companies marketing sensors to detect strains on bridges.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Two companies with Ohio ties are marketing sensors they say detect strains on bridges early, perhaps preventing failures like the one that killed 13 people and injured another 145 when a Minneapolis bridge collapsed. A sensor being tested by Cleveland Electric Laboratories Co ....
Ophir-Spiricon launches its new Web site.(BUSINESS)(Website overview)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Ophir-Spiricon, a supplier of precision laser measurement equipment, has launched its new Web site where visitors can now access technical resources for power/energy measurement, laser beam profiling, and spectrum analysis. Other ...
CombOLED project of the EU focuses on OLEDs.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... The development of cost-effective processes for volume production of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) is the focus of the CombOLED project, part of a European Union initiative in the Seventh Framework Program (FP7) being ...
Construction of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) camera reaches milestone.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Construction of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) camera has reached a milestone, with the shipping of its five unique lenses from the US to France to be shaped and polished to a smoothness level of one-millionth of a centimeter. The lenses will then be sent to the Optical Science ...
Texas Instruments (TI) dominates the market for display devices based on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)
Jun 01, 2008 ... A series of reports on light engines and the picoprojector markets published jointly by Yole Developpement and Chipworks concludes that Texas Instruments (TI) dominates the market for display devices based on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), with sales being driven by the projector ...