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…

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…

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…

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…

LONDON, August 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - With Photos Successful results and growing sales of Michelson Diagnostics Ltd's (MDL) Optical Coherence Technology (OCT) systems have encouraged investors to place…

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 -…

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,…

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…

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…

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…