Optics
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CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, August 28 /PRNewswire/ --
- A Solid First-Half Performance
- Net Profit Up 16.8% at Constant Exchange Rates
- Essilor Launches a Share Buyback Program
The Board of Directors of Essilor International, the world leader in ophthalmic optics, has approved the financial statements for the six months ended June 30, 2008.
EUR millions First-half 2008 First-half 2007 % change % change at constant exchange rates Revenue 1,520.2 1,476.9 +2.9% +9.6% Contribution margin 18.2% 18.1% - - Profit attributable 198.3 181.9 +9.0% +16.8% to equity holders of Essilor International…
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TOKYO, Japan, August 11 /PRNewswire/ -- HOYA Corporation today announced financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2008. Net sales were 130.1 billion yen for the quarter, representing an increase of 33.1% from 97.7 billion yen in the first quarter of 2007.
Operating income for the quarter was 21.8 billion yen, a 3.5% decrease compared with 22.6 billion yen in the first quarter of 2007. Net income for the first quarter was 21.1 billion yen, a 24.0% increase compared with 17.0 billion yen in the first quarter of 2007, primarily due to profits on sale of NH Techno Glass stocks,…
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BERLIN, August 11 /PRNewswire/ --
- Exceptional Performance Makes it the Solution of Choice for Data Centres
Corning Cable Systems LLC, part of Corning Incorporated's (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, announces that its FutureCom(TM) 10TENe System exceeds international ISO/IEC 11801:2002 Amd1:2008 and American ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-10-CAT6A system standards requirements.
Corning Cable Systems FutureCom 10TENe System is the newest addition to the high-performance FutureCom solutions and has been specifically developed to support 10Gbit/s applications over 100 metres, making the solution…
Scientists at Tufts University's School of Engineering have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to design an edible optical sensor that can be placed in produce bags to detect harmful levels of bacteria and consumed right along with the veggies. This same technology could mean an implantable device that would monitor glucose in your blood for a year, then dissolve.
Such "living" optical elements that could enable an entirely new class of sensors. These sensors would combine sophisticated nanoscale optics with biological readout functions, be biocompatible and biodegradable,…
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LONDON, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --
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Successful results and growing sales of Michelson Diagnostics Ltd's (MDL) Optical Coherence Technology (OCT) systems have encouraged investors to place a further GBP600K into the business to help develop the in vivo technology. The capital injection forms part of a new funding round of almost GBP600k into pioneering MDL, with Catapult Venture Managers investing a further GBP250k, London Seed Capital a further GBP50k and the balance of the money coming from private investors. The money will be used to complete development of its hand-held OCT…
We have long been fascinated by the concept of absolute zero, the temperature at which everything comes to a complete stop, but physics tells us absolute zero cannot be reached but only approached - and the closer you get, the more interesting phenomena you find.
Three scientists from ESF's EUROCORES Programme EuroQUAM gave insight into this 'cool' matter at the event "The Amazing Quantum World of Ultra Cold Matter", held at this year's ESOF (Euroscience Open Forum) in Barcelona. It was co-organized by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) within…
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CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, July 17 /PRNewswire/ --
- First-Half 2008 Revenue Up
- 5.4% Like-for-Like
- 9.6% at Constant Exchange Rates
Essilor International, the world leader in ophthalmic optics, today announced consolidated revenue of EUR1,520.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2008, representing a reported 2.9% increase on first half 2007.
Like-for-like growth was 5.4%, in line with trend rates, while growth excluding the currency effect was maintained at a strong 9.6%, lifted by the Company's sustained acquisitions drive (4.2%). This robust performance in a challenging economic…
Engineers working in optical communications bear more than a passing resemblance to dreamers chasing rainbows.
They may not wish literally to capture all the colors of the spectrum, but they do seek to control the rate at which light from across the spectrum moves through optical circuits.
This pursuit is daunting when those circuits contain dimensions measured in nanometers.
At the nanoscale, says Qiaoqiang Gan, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., engineers hoping to integrate optical structures with electronic chips face a dilemma.
Light waves…
An international team has reached a milestone in the construction of one of the largest ever cameras to detect the mysterious Dark Energy component of the Universe. The pieces of glass for the five unique lenses of the camera have been shipped from the US to France to be shaped and polished into their final form. The largest of the five lenses is one metre in diameter, making it one of the largest in the world.
Each milestone in the completion of this sophisticated camera brings us closer to detecting the mysterious and invisible matter that cosmologists estimate makes up around three…
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have taken a page from sports physiology and developed a low-cost optical sensor to measure the force with which tiny, migrating somatic cells push themselves away from an underlying surface. Force analysis devices like these could help to identify specific cell types more reliably than using a microscope or other conventional methods.
The sensor consists of a smooth surface that is studded with 250,000 tiny plastic columns measuring only five microns in diameter, rather like a fakir’s bed of nails. These columns are made of elastic polyurethane plastic…