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Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED lighting, announces that Gwangju, South Korea, is the first city in South Korea to join the LED City initiative, an international program that promotes the deployment of energy-efficient LED lighting. Gwangju, South Korea's center for the advancement of photonics, is home to 180 companies that were formed to research, develop and commercialize LED lighting products.

Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leader in microscale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, today announced the cooling of a laser diode in a TO-8 package using an embedded thin-film thermoelectric OptoCooler HV14 module. Cooling the laser improves the output performance and reliability of the device.

Nextreme Thermal Solutions claims its OptoCooler HV14 is the industry’s first high voltage, low current thin-film thermoelectric cooler (TEC) targeted at laser diode cooling for the telecommunications market to achieve a 60°C temperature difference between its cold and hot sides. This temperature difference, known as the ΔT, reflects the ability of the device to pump heat efficiently. For customers in the optoelectronics and telecommunica...

Trident Microsystems and NXP Semiconductors today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement whereby Trident will acquire NXP’s television systems and set-top box business lines. Trident would remain fabless with a significant presence in Asia and as a result of the transaction would have a global leadership position in the digital home entertainment market. Under the terms of the transaction, NXP will receive newly issued shares of...

Synopsys, Inc. announced the availability of enhancements to its CODE V optical design and analysis software, acquired as part of Synopsys' acquisition of Optical Research Associates. CODE V 10.4 delivers enhancements to its Beam Synthesis Propagation tool that enable optical designers to model and analyze diffraction effects in an optical system with increased flexibility, speed and accuracy. These enhancements are particularly useful for evalua...

Synopsys announced today that Shrenik Mehta has been awarded Synopsys' eleventh annual Tenzing Norgay Interoperability Achievement Award. As chairperson of Accellera, a leading standards organization in electronic design automation (EDA), from 2005 until 2010, Shrenik guided the organization to several collaborative initiatives that created widely-used standards such as SystemVerilog, Unified Power Format (UPF), and Universal Verification Methodo...

Intense Ltd., developer of next generation semiconductor lasers, systems and solutions, today announced the new Series 2400 eye safe laser diodes at World of Photonics 2009 in Munich. The Series 2400 are 1550nm short pulsed single emitters and stacks that have been redesigned for higher power and efficiency. The single emitters are available in 75µm to 150µm junction lengths, with power levels of 6W to 12W. Individual emitters can be stacked in...

Intense Ltd has announced it will officially release several new prototype laser bars and stacks which will be on display at the World of Photonics show in Munich this week. Among the devices on display will be newly developed prototypes of a 300W and 400W QCW H mount version product and a 10 Bar 3kW QCW Stack.

Intense, Inc today announced the appointment of Beate Sauter to the position of Director of European Sales. Ms Sauter has over 25 years of international sales and marketing experience, more than half of which is in the photonics industry. She will oversee all sales and marketing efforts in the EU for Intense, Inc., including direct management of key accounts and channel partners in the region. She will also be responsible for business development...

Ophir Photonics announced the Shock Absorber at Photonics West 2011. The Shock Absorber is the industry's first mounting post designed to allow the operation of sensitive pyroelectric laser power/energy sensors in an environment with vibration. This special mount smoothes out vibration and eliminates false triggering, reducing the sensor's susceptibility to vibration from 2 to 10 times.