Expect a ‘fantastic showcase of ideas’ at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation

(01 June 2012)

SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012 promises to be a "fantastic showcase of the world's ideas and technologies for enabling astronomical research," predicted Mark Casali (European Southern Observatory), who chairs the symposium this year with Kathryn Flanagan (Space Telescope Science Institute). The biannual event will run 1-6 July at the Amsterdam RAI Convention Center, with more than 2,200 technical presentations complemented by a program of professional development courses and and the largest exhibition in this event series, with over 80 companies.
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SPIE and OSA choose Cornell professor as 2012-2013 Guenther Congressional Fellow

(31 May 2012)

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and the Optical Society (OSA) have selected Cornell University professor Chris Schaffer as the 2012-2013 Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow.
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Fujitsu Laboratories Develops Technology for Compact Optical Transceivers that Double Data Transmission Speeds to 25 Gbps

(31 May 2012)

Intended for data communications in next-generation servers using optical interconnects Kawasaki, Japan, May 31, 2012 — Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the development of a compact, cost-effective optical transceiver, a necessary step toward developing optical interconnects for high-speed, high-bandwidth data transmission among CPUs in the next generation of servers. The data rate and space available for mounting the optical transceivers in use today are obstacles in the way of making future high-performance servers a reality. Fujitsu Laboratories therefore achieved improvements on the driver IC circuit and module packaging structures, enabling transfer speeds of 25 Gbps over each channel in next-generation interconnects, a necessary step toward doubling conventional transmission rates.
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