Cisco Though a laggard in optics, it has seen the light and is buying talent at a fast pace.
Nanotechnology's role in optics lies not as much in the optics themselves, but in the manufacturing process.
Millennia had 20 engineers with considerable talent in optics and Internet protocol.
The company leverages its deep expertise in optics, camera modules, MEMS and image processing to deliver pioneering products that expand the boundaries of smartphone photography.
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This phone also breaks new ground in optics with 1080p video recording, f2.0 aperture and a dedicated HTC ImageChip on the main 8-megapixel camera and an ultrawide-angle lens on the front camera that lets you fit up to four people in the frame for a premium Skype experience.
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That's well and good, but the future is going to judge Amo Houghton by how well he exploits Corning's present advantage in fiber optics.
To explain what Corning has--or may have in fiber optics--FORBES will have to step out of character for several hundred words and do a bit of science reporting.
Solenoid beams have already proven their "tractor beam" abilities in laboratory tests published in the journal Optics Express, but the pulling power of Bessel beams, presented on the preprint server Arxiv in February, remains to be proved experimentally.
In fact, the only member of the commission with any background in engineering specializes in physics and optics.
Virtually all modern technology relies on optics in some way, shape or form.
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Investors in the superhot optics sector read the writing on the wall.
The hinge technology will have to be an engineering marvel, and making the folding crease of the screen invisible will pose problems in materials, optics, and touch technologies.
Shortly after we caught wind of Android "consideration" within Samsung's camera division, a report surfaced that implied a change in course for the Galaxy giant -- the Korean company was ramping up mirrorless camera production at the cost of scaling back point-and-shoots, and the move appeared to represent a general shift away from compacts with a heavier focus on improving optics in smartphones.
And in the science of optics, the fact that the speed of light is constant in a vacuum is taken for granted.
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He was the guy in charge of fiber optics during the telecom run-up and crash.
Most of the challenge that lies ahead will be in crafting lasers and optics that will be able to transmit at these distances while keeping costs down, Tolley says.
Not quite, the Lumia 900 has its strengths, coming mainly in the form of optics, but it's the overall package and performance that's simply too plain, too ordinary, too dependable to merit the haughty flagship halo it aspires to emanate.
In a city where optics usually mean spying into a neighboring apartment, my habit over the last few weeks of keeping a pair of binoculars close at hand has earned me some odd stares (and a bit of accusatory grumbling from Forbes editor Michael Noer).
However obvious the idea seems, zoom binoculars are rare in the stratosphere of sport optics.
Investigators are also examining the role of Goldman bankers in trading in shares of Advanced Medical Optics Inc.
It rocked the corporate aircraft environment, created a lasting effect on business aircraft optics and resulted in a torrent of bad publicity that equated the company plane with corporate excess.
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Fundamental advances in LED semiconductor technology, optics, and lighting system design now enable LED lights to break century old cost and performance barriers that have prevented consumers from realizing the savings businesses and municipalities already enjoy.
In a series of tweets, he says that PureView itself is about "blending optics, pixels and image processing in new and different ways, " hinting at the high-end Carl Zeiss lens and the built-in image processing algorithms that are part of the 808 PureView's camera package.
But what you probably haven't seen is this euro cent-sized projector created by crafty German engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering in Jena.
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Its 25 people include a PhD in Electrical Engineering who is an expert on fiber optics, an aerospace engineer, and a computer scientist with a string of entrepreneurial successes in his wake.
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's exporters from automobiles to tech and optics -- has arrived in the form of currency devaluation.
Benoit Neichel, who leads this adaptive optics program for Gemini, said in a statement.
Light Blue Optics, a tiny technology company in Cambridge, England is developing a portable projector that can turn any flat surface into a touch screen and save our hands the hassle of holding anything.
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Small towns in isolated areas like this sometimes look to fiber optics for salvation.
Many carriers, including phone and cable companies, now build metro-level Ethernet networks, which are more cost-effective than optics because customers already use Ethernet cable in their internal networks.
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