Optical Table System utilizes variety of accessories.

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To optimize safety, ergonomics, and space efficiency, SmartTable® OTS(TM) is available with shelving and support rails. All accessories attach directly to table frame for system mobility. Shelving products expand storage space in lab, allowing researchers to remove non-essential items from table. Functioning as bumper guard for vibration-isolated table, Hip Bar lets users lean into experiment to adjust table components.



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Newport Introduces the SmartTable® OTS Optical Table System



Irvine, CA - May 19, 2009 - Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in laser and photonic solutions that Make, Manage, and Measure LightSM, announces a new offering of unique accessories for the SmartTable® OTS(TM) optical table system. It includes additional shelving options and support rails to improve the safety, ergonomics, and space efficiency of Newport's SmartTable OTS system. For added convenience, all of these new accessories are designed to attach directly to the SmartTable OTS frame to improve overall system mobility.

The new shelving products improve lab space utilization, organization, and safety. They provide an efficient and economical option that expands storage space and allows researchers to remove non-essential items from their table. This increases useable worksurface space and eliminates potential noise sources, like cooling fans, from disturbing sensitive experiments. Another useful accessory, the "hip bar", allows users to lean into their experiment to adjust table components without causing excessive motion to the entire table, functioning as a bumper guard for the vibration-isolated table.

Warren Booth, Vibration Control Product Manager at Newport, states, "Since the release of the SmartTable OTS system, we have been receiving continuous feedback from users suggesting additional features and accessories they would like to see offered for the SmartTable OTS and this recent release is a direct result of their requests. "We are also debuting additional accessories at our Booth #1313 during CLEO, June 2-June 4, 2009, Baltimore, MD, to solicit additional customer feedback for future accessories. Among these is a new laser safety curtain accessory to demonstrate the flexibility of the SmartTable OTS system. Traditional laser safety curtain systems have been either supported by free-standing leg structures, which typically interfere with floor space, or by ceiling-mounted systems which require additional time and expense to install. The prototype OTS-LSC system attaches directly to the OTS frame structure via the overhead shelf supports to provide an integrated, laser safe, optical table system which can easily be relocated or repositioned with the lab."

Booth adds, "No other optical table system delivers the performance, field upgradeability and accessory offering like the SmartTable OTS. These new accessories, combined with the unmatched performance and value of Newport's patented SmartTable optical table family, provide an ideal solution for a wide range of applications including microscopy, holography, and laser electro-optic studies."

For more information on Newport's SmartTable OTS Optical Table System, please visit http://www.newport.com/OTS-09.

About Newport Corporation

Newport Corporation is a leading global supplier of advanced-technology products and systems to customers in the scientific research, microelectronics manufacturing, aerospace and defense/security, life and health sciences and precision industrial manufacturing markets. Newport's innovative solutions leverage its expertise in high-power semiconductor, solid-state and ultrafast lasers, photonics instrumentation, sub-micron positioning systems, vibration isolation, optical subsystems and precision automation to enhance the capabilities and productivity of its customers' manufacturing, engineering and research applications. Newport is part of the Standard & Poor's SmallCap 600 Index and the Russell 2000 Index.

Company Contacts:

Kim Abair

Director of Global Marketing

Tel: 800-222-6440

E-mail: kim.abair@newport.com

Warren Booth

Product Manager

Tel: 949-863-3144

E-mail: Warren.Booth@newport.com

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