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BROADBAND SLED
Exalos AG
RESONANT OPTICAL SCANNER
Electro-Optical Products Corp.
SWIR LENS
Sensors Unlimited Inc.
LIGHT SOURCE
Gigahertz-Optik Inc.
MARKING LASER
Trumpf Inc.
RAMAN SPECTROMETER
B&W Tek Inc.
PULSED FIBER LASERS
Multiwave Photonics SA
OPTICAL COMPONENTS
Edmund Optics Inc.
SOFTWARE
Scientific Volume Imaging bv
PARTICLE MEASUREMENT
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc.
SINGLE-FREQUENCY LASER
Karpushko Laser Technologies (Klastech) GmbH
GEARBOXES, ACTUATORS
Heason Technology
GAMMA CORRECTION
Imperx Inc.
HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING
Spectral Imaging Ltd.
PUMP MODULES
3S Photonics
LASER FILTERS
Laservision
OPTICAL GRINDING
Novotech Inc.
INTERROGATION ANALYZER
BaySpec Inc.
POLARIZATION TRACKER
General Photonics Corp.
UV LASERS
Coherent Inc.
300-W LASER
Lumics GmbH
LASER MODULE
Luna Technologies
ADHESIVE/SEALANT
Master Bond Inc.
MEASUREMENT SOFTWARE
Ophir-Spiricon Inc.
SOFTWARE OPTIONS
Ocean Optics Inc.
COLOR SENSORS
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
TEMPERATURE CONTROLLER
Wavelength Electronics Inc.
CAMERA SYSTEM
Specialised Imaging Ltd.
1550-NM LASER DIODE
Photonic Products UK Ltd.
OPTICAL BENCH
Avantes BV
WAVEFORM DIGITIZER
Alazar Technologies Inc.
INTERCONNECTS
Chiral Photonics Inc.
GANTRY STAGE
H2W Technologies Inc.
MICRO INTERFACE
Diamond SA
PULSED FIBER LASER
Manlight SAS
VIDEO CARD
Enciris Technologies
X-RAY CAMERA
Rad-icon Imaging Corp.
ALUMINUM COATING
Alpine Research Optics
FUSED SILICA LENS
Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG
TELECENTRIC LENSES
Nanjing Kozo Optical Co. Ltd.
OPTICAL LIGHT SOURCE
GAO Fiber Optics Inc.
IR DETECTOR
Sofradir

Editorial
A gentleman remembered
Francis T. Laurin, president of Laurin Publishing, passed away on April 28 after a long...

FastTrack (Business News)
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Motion control industry: Looking to better times
The total worldwide revenues for the motion control equipment industry were estimated at $9.9...
The advance of photonics
In a move to better represent its vision, mission and scope, the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics...
Australians seek to save the planet with photonics
Australia’s future has gotten brighter, thanks to the launch of the Institute of Photonics and...
Laura Marshall is named managing editor
Laura Marshall has been promoted from features and news editor to the position of managing editor...
Software Interface Development
PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass., is developing an interface to enable the EZChrom Elite software...
CCDs in Space
Chelmsford, UK-based e2v will use the Kepler spacecraft, launched by NASA in early March, to help...
Collaboration for Microscopy
JEOL USA of Peabody, Mass., and the College of Microscopy, the education division of the McCrone...
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit Design Agreement
In Colorado, FirstPass Engineering of Castle Rock, a custom application-specific integrated circuit...
Navy Grant Awarded
DSPCon Inc. of Bridgewater, N.J., has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant...
Telecom Purchased
Thorlabs Inc. of Newton, N.J., has acquired the assets of Covega Corp. of Jessup, Md. The latter,...
Energy Harvesting Contract Awarded
The US Navy has given a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant to MicroStrain Inc. of...
New Name for Diamond Company
A Cambridge, Mass.-based supplier of diamond supermaterials for use in optical and mechanical...
Microspectroscopy Agreement Signed
In San Dimas, Calif., microscopy and microspectroscopy company Craic Technologies Inc. has been...
Division Spins Off
The Thin Films Div. of Ocean Optics Inc., based in Dunedin, Fla., has become a separate entity....

Feature Articles
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The Answer Is Blowin’ in the Wind
Although Dr. Anna Michel of Princeton University was in Beijing last summer during the Olympics,...
Fireproofing The Firefighting Robot
Some machines can be used to find fires or to extinguish them from afar, but saving the lives of...
Homeland Security with a Light Touch
From identification to communication, photonics technologies play a key role in homeland security....
A Nanotechnology Face-Lift for MCPs
Although microchannel plate (MCP) electron multiplier technology has been around for about 50...
Seize the Night
With two wars raging in the Middle East, North Korea launching missiles, and pirates taking sailors...
LED Lighting Ready for Takeoff
LED lighting systems are showing promise for applications at airports and on aircraft, both in the...
Light at the End of the Tunnel Seen for German Photonics Industry
Whether it refers to microscopes or cars, the phrase “German engineering” is synonymous with...
Just how dangerous are Foreign Researchers?
Through the years, a variety of forces have compelled the US government to place restrictions on...
Entrepreneurship 101: From Idea to Start-up
During the telecom bubble of the 1990s, the photonics industry was euphoric, with people barely out...

Greenlight
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Forecast: partial sun in China
“The move toward renewable energy is the clean way to go for any country, but it’s especially...
From battlefield to lighting fixture
Rather than diverting laser-guided weapons, a technology developed under a US Air Force contract is...
Betting on solar
One company that believes the solar industry is poised for explosive growth is Dow Corning Corp. of...
Not just for your nose
What you put on your nose to protect you from the sun at the beach also can be beneficial for...
How green is your widget?
It takes far more energy to make microchips than to make manhole covers per kilogram of product,...

New Media
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OPTICS GUIDE
Edmund Optics
POWER METERS
Coherent Inc.
EUV LITHOGRAPHY
SPIE
SPM TECHNOLOGY
SensL
LINEAR MOTION TOOLS
Del-Tron Precision Inc.
LASER MEASUREMENT
Ophir-Spiricon Inc.
END SUPPORTS
Danaher Motion company
LINEAR MOTION
HaydonKerk Motion Solutions’
MEASURING DISTORTION
Agilent Technologies

Peregrinations
Still life, until seen
On artist Rufus Butler Seder’s broad tableaux of glass tiles, you perceive a snowy owl opening its...

Slices from the Breadboard (Patent News)
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Patent Reform Act of 2009: benefit v. detriment
If put into effect, the Patent Reform Act of 2009 will change US patent law considerably for the...
Brookhaven laboratory patents metal coating
In Upton, N.Y., scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have...
DNA separation cartridge patented
Microfluidic Systems Inc., a Fremont, Calif.-based company focused on the development of...
Viralytics strengthens portfolio
In Sydney, Australia, Viralytics Ltd. has received a US patent for the use of Echoviruses,...

Technology
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Throwing curved light bullets
Researchers have devised a way to curve laser beams in the air by converting a standard directional...
Guiding reindeer through a warming world
While most Americans think of reindeer only in conjunction with holiday joy, the real animals and...
On the trail of arsenic
In stories of murder by poisoning, both fictitious and real, arsenic has long been a key player....
Get ready for laser-powered 3-D TV
Last October, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America Inc. announced that it was bringing to market...
When things don’t go swimmingly
Tiny single-celled creatures known as phytoplankton form the base of the ocean’s marine food web...
A handy way to detect life
The next time the soil of an alien world is examined for life, scientists may already have a good...