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FDA Approves Expansion of Spectranetics' Clinical Trials
Spectranetics Corp. has won US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the expansion of the...

Mobile Video Improves Paramedic Response
An ambulance service in the UK recently found that 40 percent of calls for an ambulance were...

Photometer Measures Automotive Lighting and Reflectors
Standards for automotive retro-reflectors -- as well as signals and forward lighting -- require...

Streamlined Optical Assembly Delivers
Molecular Dynamics develops and manufactures instruments for high-throughput DNA sequencing and...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)

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3-mm PHOTODIODES
Advanced Photonix Inc.

DUAL IR DETECTOR
Jasco Corp.

DWDM PHOTODIODE ARRAY
Sensors Unlimited, Inc.

RECEIVERS/EMITTERS
Hamamatsu Corp.

MINIATURE SPECTROMETER ENGINE
Optical Coating Laboratory Inc.

FLIP-CHIP PHOTODIODES
Pacific Silicon Sensor Inc.

IR DETECTORS
Cal-Sensors, Inc.

LED MEASUREMENT
International Light, Inc.

NEAR-IR DETECTORS
Jobin Yvon Inc.

MULTIANODE PMTs
Burle Electro-Optics, Inc.

TEMPERATURE SENSORS
Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc.

OPTICAL TESTING
Agilent Technologies, Inc.

50-GHz DWDM COMPONENT
APA Optics Inc.

CROSS-CONNECT SWITCH
Nanovation Technologies Inc.

FIBER FAULT LOCATOR
Jensen Tools Inc.

FIBER OPTIC TEST
ILX Lightwave Corp.

LIQUID-CRYSTAL-BASED MULTIMODULE OPTICAL SWITCH
SpectraSwitch Inc.

300-mW PUMP MODULES
SDL Inc.

TUNABLE TRANSMITTER
Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group.

CCD CAMERA
The Cooke Corp.

CAMERA CHIPS
OmniVision Technologies Inc.

MONOCHROME DISPLAY
Kopin Corp.

IR IMAGING SYSTEM
Flir Systems, Inc.

IMAGING TECHNOLOGY
PenTile Matrix Licensing

INFRARED CAMERA
Electrophysics Corp.

TRILINEAR IMAGE SENSOR
Eastman Kodak Co.

MINIATURE INTERLINE TRANSFER CAMERA
Pulnix America Inc.

IR PROCESS IMAGER
Raytek Corp.

IMAGE SENSOR
Eastman Kodak Co.

STREAK CAMERA
Bifo Co.

VISION LIBRARY
Imaging Technology Inc.

STEREOZOOM MICROSCOPE
Prior Scientific, Inc.

OPTICAL ADHESIVE
Electronic Materials Inc.

LASER EXPOSURE METER
Precision-Optical Engineering

LASER EYEWEAR
Uvex Safety

LASER POWER METER
Ophir Optronics, Inc.

ROOM-TEMP EPOXY
Emerson & Cuming Specialty Polymers

TE LIQUID CHILLER
Melcor Corp.

UHV SPUTTERING SOURCES
Kurt J. Lesker Co.

150-MM PHASE MASKS
Lasiris Inc.

BLUE MICROLASER
Melles Griot Laser Group

CO2 LASERS FOR MATERIALS PROCESSING
Coherent Inc., Laser Div.

ULTRAFAST LASER
Spectra-Physics

FIBER-COUPLED LASER
Coherent Inc., Semiconductor Group

Al-FREE LEDs & LASERS
Admiral

LASER DIAGNOSTICS
Coherent Inc., Auburn Group

LASER MARKING
Industrial Laser Source Inc.

DUAL IR DETECTOR
Lambda Physik Inc.

UV LASER SOURCE
Oxford Lasers Ltd.

UV LASER
Nanolase

DIGITAL ILLUMINATOR
StockerYale, Inc.

FREQUENCY DOUBLER
Coherent Scotland Ltd.

PULSE GENERATOR
Berkeley Nucleonics Corp.

OPTICAL SERVICE ENABLERS
Ciena Corp.

SHORT-PULSE SOURCE
Electron Tubes Ltd.

OPTICAL DESIGN SOFTWARE
Focus Software Inc.

DWDM SUBSTRATE GLASSES
Schott Glass Technologies Inc.

FILTERING SYSTEM
AEI North America Inc.

FLUORESCENCE STANDARDS
Labsphere, Inc.

FUSED-SILICA LENSES
CVI Laser Corp.

GLASS ROD LENSES
Dolan-Jenner Industries Inc.

HIGH-POWER MIRRORS
Roper Scientific/Acton Research

OPTICAL ENGINEERING
SPIE

SAPPHIRE PRODUCTS
Maintech Inc.

SPOT CURING
Efos Inc.

MECHANICAL STAGE
Melles Griot Ltd.

VIBRATION ISOLATION
Linos Photonics Ltd.

ATR PROBES
H&W Optical Instruments GmbH

BLOOD FLOW CRYSTALS
ValpeyFisher, Ultrasound & Optics Div.

OPTICAL MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION
Hinds Instruments Inc.

FLEXIBLE BORESCOPE
Gradient Lens Corp.

FIBER OPTIC MICROSCOPE
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering, Inc.

LASER MEASUREMENT
Keyence Corp. of America

MINI OPO
Opotek, Inc.

MOBILE FTIR SYSTEM
SensIR Technologies

SPATIAL PHOTOMETERS
Eldim SA

TWO-AXIS LASER GAUGE
Pinpoint Laser Systems

FastTrack (Business News)

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High Technology Goes on the Block
HOUSTON -- Many auction houses feature art, antiques and collectibles. With the offering of rights...

Channel Link RS-644 Advances as Standard
Fourteen machine vision manufacturers met in Rosemont, Ill., to create a camera-to-frame-grabber...

Applied Laser Research Contest Opens
The nonprofit foundation Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH of Ditzingen, Germany, has opened the...

Class-Action Suit Filed Against Flir
Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP of San Diego has filed a class-action suit against...

Forensics Professionals Dying for Hyperspectral Imaging
WASHINGTON -- A new market may be emerging for photonics: Forensics. Congress is considering...

Intel Takes Equity Stake in Optoelectronics
HILLSBORO, Ore. -- Giant microprocessor manufacturer Intel Corp. has quietly been acquiring equity...

Lord of the Photon Spins a Light Verse
BALTIMORE -- Kevin Kalkhoven has had a good year, so it is understandable that he was feeling...

Nortel Announces Deal to Purchase CoreTek
Nortel Networks Corp. of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, has agreed to acquire CoreTek Inc. of...

OFC Advances at Light Speed
BALTIMORE -- What do you say about the 2000 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) when the...

Premier Laser Accused of Patent Infringement
BioLase Technology Inc. of San Clemente, Calif., announced that it has filed suit against troubled...

Zygo Plans to Acquire Firefly
Zygo Corp. of Middlefield, Conn., has announced plans to acquire Firefly Technologies Inc. of...

Feature Articles

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Photonics in: Consumer Goods
People in Tokyo like to line up. They line up at 4 a.m. to obtain a box of traditional sweets or...

Photonics Design & Solutions:
Machine vision users are beginning to consider color imaging an important source of information for...

Lab and Factory Share Lasers
In the beginning, the development of scientific lasers was stimulated almost entirely by the...

Big Hopes for Small Lasers
The growth in telecommunications, data storage and data processing is driving fiber optic data...

Photonics in: The Laboratory
We asked laboratory managers what features they look for in photonic equipment and what they expect...

Industrial Lasers Make Their Mark
Like TV's Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, industrial laser users demand more power from their tools....

Display Measurement: Measure What You See
Significant advances in display technology have been made in recent years, creating new market...

Photonics in: Medicine
Photonics plays a key role in medicine and health care. Lasers, with their precise targeting of...

Photonics in: Military/Aerospace
The technological force that was on display during the Persian Gulf conflict in the early 90's...

Plastic Optics Challenge Glass
Injection-molded plastic optics with precision requirements were most likely first produced in high...

Quantum Cascade Lasers Make Sense for Sensing
Chemical sensing has enormous potential in environmental monitoring, medical applications and...

Technology Close-Up:
Determining an application's parameters and requirements is important when shopping for an image...

Photonics in: Telecommunications
The telecommunications industry is in a frenzy to deliver more bandwidth. The (mostly) all-optical...

Opening the Terahertz Window
Exploration of the far-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum has been frustrated by the...

Presstime Bulletin

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Cognex to Buy Machine Vision Business
In an agreement valued at up to $19 million in cash, Cognex Corp. of Natick, Mass., plans to...

JDS Uniphase, E-Tek Merger Under Review
The Antitrust Div. of the US Department of Justice has requested additional information and...

Lucent Contracted for Chinese Networks
Lucent Technologies of Murray Hill, N.J., has announced that it has signed supply contracts...

Tactical Laser Concept Examined
Officials from the US Department of Defense discussed the Airborne Tactical Laser concept at a...

IR Simulation Leaves Waco Tragedy Unresolved
On March 19, eight men at Fort Hood, Texas, fired assault rifles, machine guns and grenade...

Technology

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Infrared Sensor Watches for Black Ice
CANBY, Ore. -- Black ice is a tricky thing. You're sailing down the freeway because everything...

IR Exposes Gas-Phase Metal Carbides
Researchers have produced the first direct infrared spectra of the gas-phase metal carbide clusters...

Smaller Chips See Larger Markets
New complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology from Philips Semiconductor of Eindhoven, the...

Luminescent Materials Show Structure Damage
MALVERN, UK -- Flashes of light given off by crystals as they fracture may provide clues to...

Scientists Resolve Ionization Debate
FRANKFURT, Germany -- Since 1983, physicists have argued over how intense laser beams can multiply...

Doped Pentacene Yields Efficient Plastic Solar Cells
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Organic solar cells have a singular advantage over their inorganic...

High-Power Lasers Do the Work of Four
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Coherent Inc. has delivered prototypes of its proprietary optically...

Large IR Sensor Peers Deeper into Space
A 2048 x 2048-pixel infrared sensor developed by the Rockwell Science Center in Thousand Oaks,...

Light Drives Molecular Motor
GRONINGEN, Netherlands -- Scientists at the University of Groningen and Tohoku University in...

Lasers Manipulate Condensate
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have used...

One-Atom Maser Confirms Planck's Theory
Nearly a century after Max Planck explained changes in the spectra of hot radiating bodies in terms...

Mongrel Particles Act like Bosons
SOUTHAMPTON, UK -- Strange quasiparticles made of photons and electrons may lead to applications in...

Sensitization Produces High-Efficiency Organic LEDs
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Organic LEDs promise much to the commercial display industry -- cool,...

Polarization Rotator Puts New Spin on Fiber Bottlenecks
Researchers at AT&T Labs of Red Bank, N.J., have demonstrated a free-space micromachined...

Researchers Probe for Good Vibrations
MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that if one laser...

Satellite-Based Lidar May Help the Weatherman
MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. -- Sending balloons into the upper atmosphere to get weather readings is...

Large Tiled LCDs Present Seamless Images
ENDICOTT, N.Y. -- For years, manufacturers and research groups have struggled to develop effective...