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28 July 2008
POL announces the new Linear Optic 210, designed specifically for linear arrays of LUXEON Rebel LEDs. The new optic, developed in collaboration with Future Lighting Solutions, eliminates the need to assemble and glue individual optics to each LED. A single optic is easily affixed to a linear array of LEDs already assembled on a PCB board, resulting in fast, low-cost assembly that reduces the footprint required for the LED lighting system in a luminaire. This product will be distributed world wide by Future Lighting Solutions.
Autumn 2007
POL are invited to present at the Future Electronics "Technology of Colour" seminars held in Bolton, Cambridge and Reading presenting POL's Colour Mixer optic technology along side the Cypress "EZ-Color" electronic LED control products. Download a copy of the POL presentation here.
17 October 2007
Richard Lewis - Senior Design Engineer, presents at the SID/UKDL "Successful Displays by Design" seminar. POL presented further developments in backlight design methods and their calibration techniques used to improve the accuracy of their "real world" optical modelling methods.
September 2007
POL launch range of LED optics for the Avago "Moonstone" range of LED optics.
31 May 2007
POL's Senior Design Engineer, Richard Lewis, presents at the UKDL "Technologies for Display Illumination and Backlighting" seminar on further developments in backlighting design using LED light sources.
26 April 2007
POL launch range of LED optics for the Luxeon Rebel LEDs and announce this on the LEDs Magazine.
15th March 2007
POL launch Cree XR-E Power within a Small Volume. POL officially launched its new range of compact hexagonal collimator optics for the new Cree XR-E high power LEDs on the LEDs Magazine. This new range has been specially designed to match to the new chip design and package of the XR-E and latest XR-C devices to provide high efficiency and tight beam control.
2nd March 2007
POL Colour Mixer Optic goes Universal. POL launch their novel high power LED colour mixing technology on the LEDs Magazine forum for all leading LED types, from Luxeon, Cree, Osram, Seoul Semiconductor, and many others.
14th February 2007
POL present their latest colour mixing technology for high power LED applications and backlighting at the Photonics Cluster arena at Imaging Photonics and Optical Technology - IPOT 08, NEC, Birmingham, UK.
October 2006
Bookham select POL's compact high power LED optics as the heart of their new colour LED multiplexing technology for projection display applications. Europhotonics reported on this development entitled "LED Multiplexing Improves Video Projection".
13 December 2006
POL presented at the UKDL"The Technology of Colour" Seminar on "LED's for Displays and Backlighting".
15 November 2006
Polymer Optics was officially presented with the status of "Certified Partner" to the Osram "LED Light for you" network. Mr Chris Ferrari accepted the award from the Osram team at the Electronica Exhibition in Munich
16 January 2006
"Slablight - the world’s largest LED backlight?". POL publish feature article on LED Magazine's website describing LED backlighting developments. Using techniques developed for mobile phone display backlights, POL and Ambisol are able to manufacture very large-area backlights that use LED light sources, as POL's Mike Hanney describes.
2 November 2005
POL presented at the UK Displays Network (UKDN) conference a paper entitled "Optimising Light Guides for Backlight Applications". The presentation covered POL's design and manufacturing capabilites from mobile phone display applications to very large area signage and illumination
3 October 2005
POL announces in LED Magazine their full range of standard LED optics enabled for the Cree 7090 LED devices. The whole range of POL optics - single cell 12.9mm hexagon optics and 7 Cell Cluster optics ranges - can be used with the Cree 7090 LEDs
1 April 2004
POL was invited to present a paper at the Society for Information Displays (SID) UK conference, entitled "Display Illumination - from Concept to Volume Manufacture". The presentation covered POL's design and manufacturing capabilities covering a wide range of display illumination sizes.
