The group is trading sharply lower following disappointing guidance this morning from optical networking component provider Ciena (CIEN).
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They were only minor players in these erstwhile American-led industries in the 1980s but are now dominant in everything from optical fibers to smartphone components, not to mention virtually every serious manufacturing challenge in the aerospace industry.
The 41-year-old sales account manager headed home from an optical supply business in Ronkonkoma around 4 p.m.
However, once the game is fully installed the game disc is no longer necessary, and playing from the optical drive will actually be prevented.
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But the optical switch takes the flickers of lights flashing by and, with the use of its micro-mirrors, redirects them from one optical fibre to another.
The live system of the Modbook Pro operates without any moving parts (aside from its optical drive), markedly decreasing the chances for data corruption or loss.
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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.
Moving to the front, the left earcup has a click button that allows you to switch from the optical input or the stereo input on the base, while the right cup controls the four EQ options that are available.
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The company also said it has upgraded the iPhone's screen from plastic to optical-quality glass, which should quiet some concerns about scratching and durability.
It borrows the clever magneto-optical system from Sony's popular little MiniDisc audio-recorder to stack magnetic data within concentric grooves on the platter's surface.
"We need very accurate high resolution images over a very wide field for the Dark Energy Survey" says Dr Peter Doel from UCL's Optical Science Laboratory.
The KONICA MINOLTA HD LENS assures high quality images, while a 40x Optical Zoom enables close-up shots from far away, with no sacrifice in optical quality.
This necessarily diverts capital from crucial investments in modern optical fiber and 4G wireless.
You'll also notice that absent from the unit is an optical drive -- not surprising, given the size.
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With its compact design and powerful 16x optical zoom, the PowerShot SX160 IS is a versatile camera with a dynamic optical zoom range from 28mm wide up to 448mm, perfect for everyday use.
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Update : JDSU CEO Tom Waechter said in an interview with Forbes this afternoon that the company has been benefiting from a steady stream of new products, with the optical components group generating 65% of revenue from products two years old or less.
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While its optical design is carried over from the previous-generation model, the new-generation lens features Sony's proprietary Nano AR Coating on optical surfaces.
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The new Razer DeathAdder's optical sensor was upgraded from 3.5G to a cutting-edge 4G infrared sensor with improved performance and precision.
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Plus, the 5x optical zoom makes shooting from long distances a snap.
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In a room down the corridor, several people are hard at work scanning barcodes from stacks of documents with an optical character reader.
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The computer maker on Wednesday is discussing its advances in making optical-communications components from silicon, the mainstay material used in conventional computer chips.
The live system of an SSD-powered Modbook Pro operates without any moving parts (aside from its base system's optical drive), dramatically decreasing the chances for data corruption or loss.
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Quantum key distribution does this by encoding the information in the polarisation states of individual photons, the particles of light, which are sent from Alice to Bob over an optical fibre.
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Similarly, the optical components industry has suffered from over-capacity for years, depressing profitability and returns.
The Optigan, or optical organ, plays samples from a transparency with sound waves printed on it, like the grooves on a record.
By eliminating the need to retype text from print media onto the screen, Optical Character Reader saves users a great deal of time.
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Recently a company from Utah called Millenniata has introduced an optical disc technology utilizing a disc in which the data is etched (or engraved) into a ceramic substrate rather than stamped on plastic like conventional optical discs.
While the entry-level GZ-E320 misses out on the highlight mode, all five models share a 40X optical zoom, 1080p shooting from a BSI CMOS sensor, an SDXC card slot and a 3-inch touchscreen for previewing any would-be masterpieces.
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Thousands of blades of polyethylene grass, blended with optical fibers, reflect light upward from the trays.
This is the source of the optical pulse which can be seen from Earth.
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