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Candela Reports Record Revenue and Profits
Candela Corp. announced that revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 1999 reached a record $15.8...

IR Camera Peers into History
In 1814, through 25 hours of fierce naval bombardment by the British, American troops successfully...

Heat-Resistant Coating Enables Headlamp Design Flexibility
Glass has traditionally been the material of choice for automobile headlamp cover lenses, but it...

Software Tracks Cells and Solar Arrays
NASA Johnson Space Center's Image Science and Analysis Group researchers analyze the frequency and...

UV Light Cleans up Shop
Bacteria are not welcome on the metal machining lines at General Motors Corp. But that doesn't stop...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)

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OPTICAL CIRCULATOR
Alliance Fiber Optics Products Inc. (AFOP)

CIRCULAR CONNECTORS
Ceramaseal

DENSE WDM
AFO

EDFAs
Ortel Corp.

ETALON-BASED LASER WAVELENGTH LOCKER FOR DENSE WDM
E-Tek Dynamics Inc.

OPTICAL FIBER
Boston Optical Fiber Inc.

FIXED ATTENUATORS
International Fiberoptic Technologies Inc.

PM MULTIPLEXER
Micro-Optics Inc.

REUSABLE FIBER OPTIC SC CONNECTOR
Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc.

FIBER OPTIC SOURCES
Oz Optics Ltd.

12-BIT CAMERA
Kodak Co., Motion Analysis Systems Div.

IMAGE ACQUISITION
Cognex Corp.

IR AERIAL IMAGING
Recon/Optical Inc.

DIGITAL CAMERAS
Kappa opto-electronics Inc.

CCD SENSOR
Dalsa Inc.

CCD INTERFACE CHIP
Cirrus Logic Inc.

IMAGE ACQUISITION
Coreco Imaging

CCD DETECTORS
PixelVision Inc.

DIGITAL VIDEO
Microelectronic Modules Corp. (MMC)

IMAGE PROCESSING
VisiCom

REAL-TIME IMAGING
Eastman Kodak Co.

DUAL-SCAN CAMERA
Hamamatsu Photonic Systems

SIGNAL PROCESSING
Analog Devices, Inc.

HIGH-SPEED VIDEOHIGH-SPEED VIDEO
Weinberger AG

MACHINE VISION
Avalon Imaging Inc.

DATA CAPTURE
Boulder Instruments LLC

DATA ACQUISITION
Datel Inc.

DIFFUSE PUMP CAVITIES
IR Sources Inc.

DSP, I/O BOARDS
Hunt Engineering Ltd.

PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR
NoIR Laser Co.

FOCUS CONTROL
Prior Scientific, Inc.

LIGHT-LEVEL CONTROL
Ocean Optics, Inc.

IC PACKAGING
Shellcase Ltd.

PCI SYSTEMS
Inova Computers Inc.

POLISHING EQUIPMENT
Ultra Tec Manufacturing Inc.

SAMPLE ANALYSIS
Spectronic Instruments Inc.

SPM/AFM CONTROLLER
Pacific Scanning Corp.

SR844 RF LOCK-IN AMPLIFIER
Stanford Research Systems Inc.

DSP LOCK-IN AMPLIFIER
Stanford Research Systems Inc.

LOW NOISE PREAMPLIFIER
Stanford Research Systems Inc.

DIGITAL DELAY/PULSE GENERATOR
Stanford Research Systems Inc.

DSP LOCK-IN AMPLIFIERS
Stanford Research Systems Inc.

TE COOLERS
Tellurex Corp.

VIBRATION CONTROL
Digital Instruments Inc.

TUNABLE 15-nm LASER
Nortel Networks

BLUE EXTERNAL-CAVITY DIODE LASER
TuiOptics GmbH

LASER DESIGN
Laser Diode Array Inc.

FLUORINE LASER
Lambda Physik Inc.

GREEN LASERS
Coherent Inc., Laser Div.

INDUSTRIAL LASERS
Rofin-Sinar Inc.

LASER MARKER
Synrad, Inc.

LASER MODULES
Measurement Devices Ltd. (MDL)

SUB-50-fs OPA
Spectra-Physics Lasers Inc.

PULSE SHAPING
Unitek Miyachi Lasers

LASER TESTING
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering

MINI LIGHT SOURCE
EG&G Optoelectronics

LIGHT SOURCES
Hellma Cells Inc.

SUNLIGHT-VISIBLE WHITE LEDs
LEDtronics, Inc.

COATING SERVICE
Deposition Sciences Inc.

MICRO-OPTICS
Macintosh Nano-Optics Ltd.

POLARIZING GLASS
Corning Inc.

PRISM POLARIZERS
Spindler & Hoyer UK Ltd.

OPTICS PROCESSING
OptoTech GmbH

BEAM ANALYSIS
Spiricon, Inc.

CAD INSPECTION
Vitana Corp.

LIGHTING DESIGN
Breault Research Organization

DISPLAY TESTING
Eldim

FORENSIC MICROSCOPE
Leica Microsystems, Inc.

FTIR SPECTROMETER
Nicolet Instrument Corp.

GAS ANALYSIS
Applied Analytics Inc.

SIGNAL GENERATOR
Berkeley Nucleonics Corp.

JOULEMETER PROBE
Molectron Detector Inc.

AUTOMATED NONCONTACT INTERFEROMETRIC MICROSCOPE
Norland Products Inc.

NETWORK TESTING
Hewlett-Packard Co.

OSCILLOSCOPE PROBE
Terahertz Technologies, Inc.

LARGE-SAMPLE SPM
Burleigh Instruments, Inc.

RESIDUAL GAS ANALYZERS
Stanford Research Systems Inc.

PHOTON COUNTER
Stanford Research Systems Inc.

MULTICHANNEL SCALER/AVERAGER
Stanford Research Systems Inc.

SURFACE MEASUREMENT
Advanced Surface Microscopy Inc.

VIDEO PHOTOMETER
Tricor Systems Inc.

FastTrack (Business News)

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Bell Atlantic Funds Learning Labs
Molding today's high school students into tomorrow's telecommunications technicians is the goal of...

Scientists Call for Interdisciplinary Research
The full benefit of photonics to applications in chemistry, biology and material sciences is far...

Coherent Ealing Transfers Thermal Imager Testing Line
Coherent Ealing Ltd. has transferred its thermal imager testing product lines to Cambridge,...

Corning Increases Optics Holdings
With an eye toward capitalizing on the emerging market for specialty lenses, Corning Inc. has...

Bandwidth Reigns at Fiber Conference
Multiwavelength and high-speed optical fiber transmission technologies, particularly those aimed at...

High-Tech Firms Seek Growth Finance
CEOs of photonics and other technology companies actively sought external financing in the third...

Lucent Forms Fiber Venture
Lucent Technologies Inc., headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., and SviazStroy-1 of Russia have...

OSA, SPIE Move Toward Unification
The boards of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE have concluded that they are interested...

James Pearson to Step down as SPIE Director
James E. Pearson plans to step down as executive director of SPIE, effective April 30. Pearson, who...

Worldwide Fiber Demand on the Rise
Demand for optical fiber grew at a steady pace worldwide in 1998, driven by countries like South...

Analyst Makes Rosy Prediction for Photolithography
Companies specializing in photolithography could be big winners over the next few years, according...

SDL Buys Polaroid's Fiber Laser Business
SDL Inc. has acquired Polaroid Corp.'s fiber laser business for $5 million. Over the past seven...

SLI Gets Investment, European Market
Semiconductor Laser International Corp. has signed an agreement with a German venture capital group...

Sony to Reduce Work Force by 10 Percent
Consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. announced it will cut its work force by 10 percent,...

Thermo Completes Acquisition of Spectra-Physics AB
Thermo Instrument Systems Inc. of Waltham, Mass., has completed the acquisition of 98 percent of...

Feature Articles

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Lessons from the Battlefield: Technology Transfer Cuts Both Ways
As an industry, photonics can testify to the value of technology transferred out of the military....

(Emerging Technologies) Lasers:
Industrial and consumer applications in abrasives and machine tooling have used man-made diamond --...

Fiber Optics Finds a Limit
Several optical effects can degrade the signal quality of optical transmission over silica glass...

A Light-Speed Defense Against Mach-Speed Missiles
The proliferation of short- and long-range missiles did not end, as some hoped, with the Cold War....

Night Vision:
General Motors is including a night-vision system with its newest Cadillacs, a breakthrough in mass...

Changing the Face of Warfare:
With incidents such as the Oklahoma City bombing and nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway still...

Presstime Bulletin

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EG&G to Pick up Division from Perkin-Elmer
EG&G Inc. plans to acquire Perkin-Elmer's Analytical Instruments Div. for $425 million. The...

Two Indicted for Exporting Fiber Optic Gyroscopes
A federal grand jury has indicted a naturalized Canadian citizen and a Chinese national in...

Lucent Commercializes 40-Gb/s Systems
MCI WorldCom will test a single-laser transmission system capable of sending 500,000 simultaneous...

Molecules May Enable 3-D Optical Data Storage
Highly efficient two-photon absorbing polymers may eventually be used for 3-D optical data storage...

Partners Deliver 980-nm Pump Modules for Undersea Use
SDL Inc. and Alcatel Optronics will deliver high-power 980-nm pump modules for deployment in...

Satellite Spins out of Control
A recently launched satellite spun out of control March 5, leaving NASA officials scrambling to...

Technology

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One at a Time, Please
Photons are gregarious. Unlike electrons, photons have no trouble congregating. For most...

Physicists Bring Light to a Crawl
Light travels in a vacuum at 186,282 miles a second. Experiments at the Rowland Institute for...

Lidar Shows How Pollutants Stack up
Researchers at the University of Lyon are using lidar to create a three-dimensional map of air...

Mars Photos Show Volcanic Activity
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor has snapped photos that suggest horizontal layers extend deep into...

Memory Cell Seizes the Light
As useful as light is, it's not the easiest thing to keep hold of. Storing light for any...

Novel Method Puts CMOS Imagers in Stitches
In the battle of the image sensors, Tower Semiconductor Inc. of Migdal Haemek, Israel, has...

Passive IR Spectroscopy Monitors Volcanic Gases
One of the most a ctive volcanoes in the world could provide researchers with important insights...

Small World Photo Competition Seeks Entries
Nikon Inc. is soliciting entries for its 25th Annual Nikon International Small World Photo...

Lasers Bond Difficult Plastics
Researchers have devised a laser technique that bonds thermoplastics without using environmentally...

Laser Imaging Sees the Pulse Racing
A laser imaging system is helping researchers to better understand how blood flows through an...

Lasers Make Rails Safer for Travel
Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a laser...

Adaptive Optics Maps out Retina
Researchers at the University of Rochester have turned Star Wars-era technology designed to clarify...

Software Enhances Grainy Security Videos
The images are familiar: a burglar caught in the act by a convenience store's security camera. As...

Spacecraft Captures Flyby Images
Almost three years after its launch in February 1996, the multispectral imager onboard NASA's Near...

Light Stamp Simplifies Lithography
As the semiconductor industry struggles to expand optical lithography's capabilities and decide on...

Interferometric Switch Overcomes Limitations
Despite improvements in conventional semiconductor optical amplifier-based interferometric switches...

Tissue Welding Gets Helping Hand
Tissue welding is a laser-based surgical technique that is still in the research stage, and several...

Tyco Submarine Systems Achieves 640 Gb/s per Fiber
Tyco Submarines Systems Ltd., based in Morristown, N.J., has demonstrated in a laboratory...

Researchers Unveil Ultrafast, All-Optical Switch
Ultrafast, all-optical switches have generated a lot of interest for future optical communication...

Laser Camera Illuminates Ultrasonic Waves
Conventional ultrasound techniques require that a transducer be attached to a sample surface for...