It s the leader in expensive high-end positioning technologies, including GPS, laser and optical systems for the military, aviation, surveying, mapping and construction.
Initially she worked on an alternative the company was developing to the canceled Sergeant York system, and then became program director for electro-optical systems.
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The team that created the machine spanned three operating divisions semiconductors, optical systems and consumer electronics and yet managed to meet accelerated design and production schedules.
One, called HERMES or less elegantly the Helicopter Remote Manipulation of External Slingloads has been produced by Advanced Optical Systems, an American firm, for the US Armed Forces.
Besides having unusual optical properties and being very small each is just one-twentieth of a millimetre in diameter the lenses have another trick of particular relevance to micro-optical systems.
"Combining the world class-technology and materials expertise of Nanosys with the engineering, design and supply chain capabilities of 3M will unlock a powerful new color viewing experience for consumers, " said Jim Bauman, Vice President of the Optical Systems Division at 3M.
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Panasonic's new compact 3D lens for the LUMIX G Micro System features two optical systems installed within the diameter of the lens mount, creating stereo images from the left and right lenses that are then processed with a 3D image processing system.
Optical scanning systems have a 98% accuracy rate, which means an unacceptable 40 errors per page.
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At that stage it was predicted that it would revolutionise optical imaging systems and make holograms feasible.
Crist said he hopes to have all the state's touch-screen machines replaced by optical scan systems in time for next year's presidential election.
Gov. Crist said he wants to get rid of all those touch-screen machines and replace them with optical scanning systems that would read paper ballots.
The advantage of the rival NTT technique, says Saruwatari Masatoshi, a senior researcher at the company's Optical Network Systems Laboratories, is that it uses only a single light source.
With mobeam's technology, the Galaxy S4 can "beam" traditional 1D barcode data to any laser scanner with no new equipment, such as optical scanners or backend systems, required by the retailer.
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Metro networks have phone gear like digital cross-connects, which manage high-and low-speed traffic, and synchronous optical network (Sonet) systems, which come from fiber-optic phone networks.
Though not directly affected by the Thai flooding, the company cautioned that they could be affected by potential shortages of non-optical components used in customer systems, like hard disk drives.
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Apple will be the first company to bundle an optical mouse with all its desktop systems.
In practice, quantum-key-distribution systems rely on sophisticated optical equipment to prepare, transmit and detect the individual polarised photons that make up the key.
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Many of the state's county election supervisors say they would rather adopt the more advanced systems than spend money on optical scanners.
China Unicom recently gave Lucent a billion-dollar contract to design and deploy an entire network, from the optical backbone to the circuits and wireless systems that will feed into it.
In addition to that, you'll get more than enough cables for hookup: a TOSlink optical cable, a TOSlink adapter for older Xbox systems, stereo RCA cables for older TVs and an AC adapter with a trio of international connectors.
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The new optical networking system should not be seen as a replacement for fiber-optic systems, Szelag added.
Cyras' god box combines the systems' layers into a single rack of software, chips and optical architecture.
It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.
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The m100 took profits in shares of Optelecom (nasdaq: OPTC - news - people ), a Maryland company that sells systems to business and government for sending and receiving video, audio and data over copper wires and optical networks.
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