ISG is the first firm to Announce the New SONY IMX250 Pregius 5Mp Global Shutter LightWise™ Allegro USB3 Camera The new LightWise Allegro USB3 SONY IMX250 based cameras deliver excellent image quality and high speed performance. A variety of applications will be improved using this camera. The SONY IMX250 Pregius™ CMOS Image Sensor delivers unparalleled image quality with extremely low-noise with a global shutter. It has 2464 x 2056 resolution...Continue Reading
A 60-day comment period beginning today is the photonics industry’s opportunity to provide vital input on proposed regulations controlling export of important technologies under Category XII of the U.S. Munitions List, which governs commodities covered by International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The proposal has broad implications for the U.S. optics and photonics industry both now and into the future, say analysts at SPIE, the international society for optics and...Continue Reading
Date set: Thursday, July 16th 2015 Shadow Lake and Shadow Pines Golf Clubs Penfield, NY Register for the annual WNY Optics/Photonics Golf Tournament! For advance information email wnyoptics@rochester.rr.com This great charity event has raised a total of $200,000 to benefit the Golisano Children’s Hospital. The Tournament Reaches a Milestone. The Tournament is naming a patient room in the new Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center. The hospital graciously asked...Continue Reading
The New York Team submitted their application through SUNY Polytechnic Institute (Albany Nanotech) on March 31st. The team includes MIT, RIT, SUNY Polytech, University of Arizona, University of Rochester, USC Santa Barbara and others. Support letters from New York Photonics member companies represent small and medium-sized business support. The submission was made to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The final name for the submission was the American Institute for...Continue Reading
Optimax Systems, based in Rochester, grew from a struggling startup to what CEO Rick Plympton claims is largest optics manufacturer in the United States. Optimax achieves operational excellence by investing in cutting-edge technology, advancing its people, and sharing 25% of monthly profits with employees. Learn more from The Hitachi Foundation’s Good Work Blog: http://bit.ly/1EADgduContinue Reading
Researchers demonstrate how to encode 2.05 bits per photon, doubling existing systems that use light polarization Researchers at the University of Rochester and their collaborators have developed a way to transfer 2.05 bits per photon by using “twisted light.” This remarkable achievement is possible because the researchers used the orbital angular momentum of the photons to encode information, rather than the more commonly used polarization of light. The new approach...Continue Reading
A Future Beyond Film, Transformation in the Digital Age A lot of rehashing this old story, but with a few updates. We have more jobs in Rochester now than when Kodak was at full employment. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/bcvideo/1.0/iframe/embed.html?videoId=100000003538108 Read More Read Even More…Continue Reading
Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave. Since the days of Einstein, scientists have been trying to directly observe both of these aspects of light at the same time. Now, scientists at EPFL have succeeded in capturing the first-ever snapshot of this dual behavior. Quantum mechanics tells us that light can behave simultaneously as a particle or a wave. However, there has never been an experiment able...Continue Reading
A community-based organization called DAYLIGHT Project has introduced bulbs made from plastic water bottles to people living in informal settlements that lack electricity. The bulbs are a low-cost and environmentally-friendly innovation that are said to last seven years.Continue Reading
Sydor Instruments announced today that it has been awarded a $150,000 SBIR/STTR Phase I grant from the Department of Energy. Sydor Instruments will use this grant in collaboration with Cornell University to advance the development of a novel fast framing hybridized x-ray imaging detector. The hybridized detector is capable of capturing a sequence of quantitative x-ray images at rates compatible with the most commonly used bunch sequences such as the...Continue Reading
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