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Magnification Lens Shrinks Diamond Spectrophotometer
Diamonds are valued by their carat weight, clarity, color and cut. Weight and clarity are integral...
Portable Spectrometer Reduces Mill Downtime
When a paper mill suspects contamination in the production line, the manufacturer faces costly...
Nd:YAG Gets a Bead on Reed Switches
Since its development for telecommunications applications, the reed switch has found use in alarm...
Compact Infrared Camera Takes Wing
The US and its allies have placed increasing emphasis on improving military reconnaissance...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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PHOTODETECTOR ARRAY
Anadigics Inc.
PHOTON COUNTER
Electron Tubes Ltd.
DATA ACQUISITION
Campbell Scientific Inc.
DIGITAL DETECTOR
Roper Scientific Inc.
HANDHELD RADIOMETER
Solar Light Co.
HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS
Jobin Yvon Ltd.
INFRARED SENSOR
Textron Systems
INTEGRATED PHOTODETECTOR
Santec Europe Ltd.
PORTABLE RADIOMETER
Efos Inc.
SILICON-BASED DETECTOR
OSI Systems Inc.
HIGH-SPEED PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE
Hamamatsu Corp.
ALL-FIBER WDM
WaveSplitter Technologies Inc.
BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT
General Dynamics Advanced Technology Systems
FO COLLIMATORS
NSG America Inc.
FIBER OPTIC CONNECTORS
Deutsch Military & Aerospace Ltd.
CRYSTAL OSCILLATORS
Champion Technologies Inc.
DWDM COMPONENTS
Arroyo Optics Inc.
EDFA MODULES
BaySpec Inc.
EPOXY-FREE COLLIMATORS
Doric Lenses Inc.
HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS
Spectrogon US Inc.
OPTICAL MEMS
Cronos Integrated Microsystems Inc.
LONG-HAUL, METRO DWDM
Lightwave Microsystems Corp.
MINI SPECTROMETER
Ocean Optics, Inc.
MODULAR CONNECTOR
ODU-USA Inc.
WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXER
Gould Fiber Optics
OPTICAL NETWORKING
Chorum Technologies Inc.
FIBER OPTIC TESTING
Azimuth Electronics Inc.
OPTICAL RECEIVER
Discovery Semiconductors, Inc.
FIBER SOFTWARE
RSoft Design Group, Inc.
FIBER PRODUCTION TESTING
GN Nettest
850-nm VCSEL
Emcore Corp., Mode Div.
AUTO IMAGE CAPTURE
Syncroscopy
HANDHELD VIDEO CAMERA
Navitar Inc.
IMAGE PROCESSING
Cambridge Control Ltd.
IMAGE SENSOR
Eastman Kodak Co.
SPRAY CHARACTERIZATION
Therm Engineering Inc.
TETHERED CAMERA
Data Optics, Inc.
THERMAL IMAGER
Ircon, Inc.
THREE-CHIP COLOR CAMERAS
DuncanTech Inc.
CONFORMAL COATINGS
Dymax Corp.
MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM
Hunt Engineering
POWER SUPPLY/SIMMER
Analog Modules, Inc.
VACUUM DEPOSITION
T-M Vacuum Products Inc.
6-kW LASER
PRC Laser Corp.
BEAM EXPANDERS
Optical Surfaces Ltd.
BLUE LASER DIODES
Hero Electronics Ltd.
FIBER LASER MARKING
GSI Lumonics, Inc.
FIVE-AXIS LASER TOOL
Trumpf Inc., Laser Technology Center
LASER GLASSES
Schott Glass Technologies Inc.
75-W GREEN LASER
Coherent Inc., Laser Div.
SOLID-STATE INDUSTRIAL LASERS
Spectra-Physics
LASER INTERFEROMETER
National Physical Laboratory
LOW-JITTER VCXOs
Vectron International
LASER MARKER
Alltec GmbH
BEAM PROFILER
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
PUMP LASER
ADC Telecommunications Inc.
CO2 LASER TUBES
BrainTech Co.
DIODE-PUMPED WAVEGUIDE LASERS
Maxios Laser Corp.
BACKLIGHT PANELS
Lumitex Inc.
QUARTZ HALOGEN LAMPS
Gilway Technical Lamp
COMPACT DIGITAL OSCILLOSCOPE
LeCroy Corp.
POWER AMPLIFIERS
Trek Inc.
WAVE MONITOR
Veeco-Ion Tech Inc.
BROADBAND UV MIRRORS
Melles Griot Photonics Components
PHOTOCELL CAPS
Three E Laboratories Inc.
OPTICAL COMPONENTS
United Optics Ltd.
MICROLENS ARRAYS
NanoSciences Corp.
SAPPHIRE OPTICS
Meller Optics, Inc.
ZOOM BEAM EXPANDER
Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG
LINEAR ENCODERS
Renishaw, Inc.
MIRROR MOUNTS
Linos Photonics GmbH
ROTATIONAL PLATFORM
Elektronik Laser System GmbH
NEAR-IR ANALYZERS
LT Industries Inc.
AUTOSAMPLER
Pike Technologies, Inc.
INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION
Newport Corp.
NEAR-INFRARED GAUGES
NDC Infrared Engineering Inc.
SPECTROPHOTOMETER
PerkinElmer Instruments
PROCESS PHOTOMETER
Optical Solutions Inc.
REFLECTION MEASUREMENT
Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
NEAR-FIELD SCANNING
ThermoMicroscopes
SIGNAL ANALYZER
Anritsu Co.
SPECTROPHOTOMETER
Varian, Inc.
TEST RIBBON FIBERS
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc.
WAVELENGTH ANALYZER
Walsh Scientific Ltd.

FastTrack (Business News)
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ADC Plans Acquisition of Altitun, Ibsen
Minneapolis-based ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced plans to acquire Altitun AB of Kista,...
From Analyzers to Zoom Lenses
STANFORD, Calif. -- Nuts? Planters. Cornflakes? Kellogg's. Bookseller? Barnes & Noble. Lidar...
Clam Chowder and Photonics
WASHINGTON -- California may be the sentimental home of the semiconductor and electronics...
JDS Uniphase Bullish on Chinese Crystal Maker
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Industry insiders are speculating whether there will be a temporary shortage of...
New Schedule, Budget Set for Ignition Facility
US Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson presented his plan for the National Ignition Facility at...
Iris Recognition Moves to Airport
EyeTicket Corp. of McLean, Va., unveiled an evaluation program of its EyePass iris-recognition...
SpaceDev Plans Commercial Space Missions
The FedEx agent hung up on us when we inquired about sending a package to a near-Earth asteroid....
JDS Uniphase's Kalkhoven Retires
Kevin Kalkhoven of JDS Uniphase Corp. of Nepean, Ontario, Canada, and San Jose, Calif., has retired...
Cameras Considered for Aviation Safety
A recommendation by the National Transportation Safety Board may put miniature digital cameras in...
Sizing Up the Stars
PASADENA, Calif. -- Bigger is better, some astronomers believe. That's why a gaggle of major...

Feature Articles
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Light Levels and Noise Guide Detector Choices
Photonics is an enabling technology that creates benefits and value far in excess of the cost of...
Catch Your Drift
Whether a laboratory researcher or an optical-equipment manufacturer, you'll be concerned with how...
Ion Lasers:
When diode-pumped solid-state lasers first appeared in the marketplace during the early 1990s,...
Bring Images to Life
Making photographs at the microscope can be difficult. For example, magnification produces problems...
Thorough Testing Produces Fiber Lighting System
A fiber optic distributed lighting system can illuminate exterior door handles, puddle lamps and...
Death, Taxes and Shot Noise
Have you ever watched a live video line from your fine camera on an oscilloscope? Were you bothered...
Measuring Optical Quality
... The optics industry has helped to shape these standards for indicating tolerances. At the same...
Back-Illuminated Camera Images the Future of Spaceflight
Rocket power blazed the early trails that took us into orbit, but aerospace engineers have...

Presstime Bulletin
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Linos Buys Rodenstock Prazisionsoptik
As part of an effort to consolidate its business in the corrective lens market, Rodenstock...
Presstek Establishes Laser Diode Subsidiary
Presstek Inc. of Hudson, N.H., a manufacturer of products for direct-to-press and computer-to-press...
Laser Power's 'Suitors' Return
Union Minière SA of Brussels, Belgium, and II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., returned to the...
Antimissile Laser Passes Field Test
TRW Inc.'s Space & Electronics Group of Redondo Beach, Calif., reported that the Tactical High...
Lab Produces 1.3-micron VCSEL
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., have developed a vertical-cavity...

Technology
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Researchers Reveal Aequorin's Structure
Aequorin, a photoprotein widely used in biomedicine to study the role of calcium in cellular...
Study Confirms Attosecond Pulses
IRÁKLION, Greece -- Although researchers have achieved laser pulses as short as a few...
Microdevice Protects Sensors in a Blink
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- As concern grows about the potential for powerful lasers to disable satellite...
Solid-State Blue Laser Unveiled
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Researchers at Coherent Inc., Laser Group, have developed the prototype of a...
Coral Reefs Yield Fluorescing Dyes for In Vivo Labeling
MOSCOW -- Green fluorescent protein extracted from luminescent jellyfish has been used as a marker...
Slow Dance Unites Atom, Photon
GARCHING, Germany -- Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics recently created...
Arrays Advance DNA Detection
MEDFORD, Mass. -- Researchers from Tufts University have devised a screening method using a...
Dry Process Creates Clearer Fibers
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Although today's fiber optic cables may be able to handle today's...
Free-Electron Laser Plunges into the UV
A team at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron facility in Hamburg, Germany, reported that it has...
Technique Unveils Gene Process
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Gene transcription is the first step in the process whereby information stored...
Mode-Locked Laser Hits High Power
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Engineers at Spectra-Physics Lasers Inc. have hit a new high for visible...
Mirror Readied for Binocular Telescope
Scientists at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab in Tucson have prepared...
Novalux Offers a Peek at Its Top-Secret Laser
Novalux, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a high-power laser diode that it...
High-Reflection Mirror Is All-Polymer Film
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A new generation of multilayer polymer film developed by 3M Corp. shows advanced...
Silicon Crystal Used as X-ray Resonator
GRENOBLE, France -- Short-wavelength light presents special difficulties for researchers. Hard...
Signals Exceed Light's Speed
FLORENCE, Italy -- An established concept in physics -- the impossibility of transmitting a signal...
LEDs Offer Fast Data Transmission
TAMPERE, Finland -- With properties somewhere between a standard LED and a laser diode,...
Food Wrap Foils Microbes
Researchers at Toxin Alert Inc. in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, have developed a plastic wrap that...