Corning will expand production at its Canton plant in a $21 million project that will create 40 permanent jobs with the help of a low-cost power allocation, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is expected to announce today. The plant on McAdoo Road in the town of DeKalb will increase production of high-fused silica glass used in the semiconductor industry. The plant supplies microchips for computers, cellphones and other electronics. It also...Continue Reading
Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-chief at US News and World Report, suggests that we are losing manufacturing jobs, not because competing economies are stealing them, but because we are not growing the workforce to fill the job openings that we have. STEM, immigration and job training are three areas to focus on to deal with destructive innovation, says Zuckerman. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/07/22/creating-us-jobs-and-skilled-workers-for-the-technology-economy?int=a3fa09Continue Reading
The International Year of Light 2015 recognizes the importance of raising global awareness of how light-based technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to global challenges in energy, education, agriculture, and health. Share your work and show SPIE (and the world!) how light and light-based technologies play a vital role in our everyday lives. http://www.light2015.org/Home/About/Latest-News/July2014/1July2014.html Rural Cambodians make use of a MoonLight, a solar-powered lantern designed to replace the often-dangerous kerosene lamps that...Continue Reading
Gorilla Glass or Sapphire? One of our takeaways from the Optatec conference in Frankfurt was the surprising number of Sapphire vendors coming out of the woodwork. Continue Reading
Rochester, New York is bursting with energy, photonic energy! The New York (NYSTAR) MEP Center, aka High Tech Rochester, is a key player in the revitalizing this industry, along with various economic and business development entities in the Rochester region. To strengthen and grow this industry the Rochester region has received three grants; the Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator, (AMJIAC) the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia Program (AMTECH), and the...Continue Reading
Seven new fluorescence filter sets optimized for LED light engines are now available from Idex Corp.’s Semrock brand. The filters are optimized for use with most popular LED light sources on the market today and are available in single-band, full and Pinkel multiband configurations. All configurations are available preassembled in a microscope cube. The new filter sets can be used for theoretical modeling using the Semrock Searchlight online toolbox, and...Continue Reading
Rochester has a leg up on other areas trying to capitalize on the growing photonics industry. “Rochester has been, since 1853, since the founding of Bausch + Lomb, the center of the optics industry in the United States,” said Paul Ballentine, deputy director of the Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences at the University of Rochester. “We don’t want to say we are trying to get on the map, that...Continue Reading
The newest intraocular lens inspection system from Lumetrics is headed to a major U.S. manufacturer this month. Lumetrics has shipped its CrystalWave 765, the latest design in the RRPC member’s CrystalWave line of intraocular (IOL) and contact lens inspection systems. CrystalWave systems are used by the major IOL manufacturers in the world as well as the FDA. Focal length, wavefront and MTF measurements are combined in a single instrument to minimize handling of the...Continue Reading
Rochester is Home to ABVI, The Association for the Blind or Visually Impaired. Imagine the Possibilities this Thursday with ABVI, HTR and Your RRPC Colleagues. Here are some possibilities to rattle your thinking: In two labs some 50 miles apart in Israel, computer scientists and engineers are refining devices that employ tiny cameras as translators of sorts. For both teams, the goal is to give blind people a form of...Continue Reading
New York Photonics is a not-for-profit organization founded to promote and enhance the New York State optics, photonics and imaging industry by fostering the cooperation of business, academia and government.
