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II-VI Subsidiary Wins Contract for IR Targeting Components
Under a multiyear contract of about $12 million, Exotic Electro-Optics, a subsidiary of II-VI Inc.,...

Acquisition Supports Activities in Laser Applications
Physical Sciences Inc., a developer of advanced technologies for the acoustics, aerospace, energy,...

Sold! Used Optical Equipment on the Block
While entrepreneurs await the development of advanced technology that will re-ignite the Internet...

Schott Opens Third Calcium Fluoride Factory
Schott Lithotec AG has doubled its capacity for producing calcium fluoride monocrystals with the...

Purchase Helps Lower the Cost of Precision Lenses for IR Systems
Union Minière has moved from partial to full ownership of the optical materials company Vertex, a...

Grant Supports Development of Protein Analysis Technologies
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $1.1 million grant to Molecular Probes Inc. to develop...

Parallel-Optics Technology Expedited
Corning Cable Systems and Agilent Technologies have agreed to accelerate the use of parallel-optics...

NIST to Set Reflectance Colorimetry Standard
Avian Group USA has received a multiphase contract from the National Institute of Standards and...

Federal Funds Foster Photonics
Ten photonics projects have won contracts valued at more than $29 million under the US Department...

Flir Contracts Exceed $25 Million for Thermal Imaging
The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., a contract of more than...

Polymer Display to Benefit Covert Operations
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency, through the National Technology Alliance Program, has...

Center Focuses on Miniature Cooling Devices, Processes
To help industry develop miniature cooling technologies, Purdue University is forming a National...

Feature Articles

Photodetectors Adapt to Emerging Applications
Technology and economics drive photodetector innovations. Technology determines what can be...

Active Alignment Is Here to Stay
Active alignment is a ubiquitous process in fiber optic component assembly that sets the photonics...

Automated Metrology and Inspection
The 2001 downturn in telecommunications has significantly affected component manufacturers and...

Applications Will Bolster the Industrial Laser Market
According to analysts, the worldwide market for the laser sources and systems used in industrial...

Vision in a Box
Most of the theoretical advances that form the basis of modern industrial machine vision are more...

CMOS Camera for the Job
While the CCD offers the best sensor performance for digital imaging, the CMOS image sensor is...

Optical Network Components
Since 1999, the fiber component industry has shifted its developmental resources from volume...

CCD vs. CMOS: The Battle Cools Off
One of the most significant imaging technology events will occur in 2002 because of business...

Deposition Systems: Meeting the Demands
The key to growing the market for vacuum deposition equipment is in meeting the demands that drive...

Diversity Powers Laser Market
In the past few years, telecommunications has received enormous attention in the laser industry and...

The Elegant Optical Network
Consumer technologies with which we are accustomed, such as the personal computer, have become more...

Test and Measurement for Future Networks
It's no secret that telecommunications carriers are reducing their capital expenditures because of...

Miniaturization Drives Spectroscopy
In the spectroscopy industry, "downsizing" in 2001 described more the miniaturization of...

Optically Pumped Semiconductor Lasers
The past few years have seen a resurgence of interest in optically pumped -- rather than...

Scientific Cameras Push Perfection
A scientific camera does much more than simply capture a picture of an object under study. If an...

Technology Close-Up
Diode-pumped lasers are rapidly growing more powerful as their excitation sources increase in power...

Photonics Design and Solutions
Lasers support a multitude of disciplines, from manufacturing and medicine to communications,...

Laurin Publishing 2001 Photonics Awards
The Distinction in Photonics Award honors those individuals whose dedicated service over the years...

Planar Waveguide Battleground
The demand for increased communications bandwidth in North America is rapidly being replaced by...

Presstime Bulletin

Magnetic Ring Stores Cold Atoms
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have demonstrated a magnetic storage ring...

Spectra-Physics: Neutral Position on Buyout Offer
A special committee appointed by the board of directors at Spectra-Physics Inc. in Mountain View,...

GSI Lumonics Inc. Announces Sale of Perkins Elmer Shares and Litigation Court Decision
GSI Lumonics Inc. announces it has completed the sale of 1,398,166 shares of common stock of...

Crystal Growth Enables Lattice Control
A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis has devised a crystal...

Geologists ID Asteroid, Assess Mars
Researchers who gathered at the planetary geology session at the Geological Society of America's...

40-W Light Alters Nanoparticles
Nanoparticles are finding applications in biological and chemical sensing, but it has been...

Technology

Laser-Based Cooler Refrigerates by 13 K
Most of us envision lasers cutting through plate steel or vaporizing tissue, but they also can cool...

Short Pulses Show Absolute Phase Results
Absolute phase, the phase of a carrier with respect to the envelope of a pulse, theoretically has...

Near-Field Microscopy Probes Quantum Dots
Near-field optical microscopy is enabling researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor...

Violet LED Points the Way to VCSELs
The III-nitrides have demonstrated their potential as solid-state sources of violet and near-UV...

Laser Beams Link Satellites
The European Space Agency's Artemis satellite and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales'...

Photonic Crystal Lattice Controls Laser Polarization
By applying a photonic crystal lattice and changing the shape of the unit cell structure,...

Direct Laser Interferometry Forms Magnetic Nanodots
Laser-written compact disks have nibbled at market share for magnetic storage media. Could lasers...

Exposing Photon-Photon Scattering
It is intuitive to think of light as interacting with matter and not with itself, but this ignores...

Setup Offers Entangled Pairs of 856-nm Photons
As technological improvements enable the controlled manipulation of smaller elements, the prospects...

Polarization Defines Nanowires
Researchers at Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg and Fraunhofer Institute for...

Photonic Crystal Fiber Enables Optical Clock
Atomic clocks are already the most accurate timepieces on the planet, but a new version promises...

Fast Ignition Boosts Neutron Counts
In another step toward realizing the dream of fusion energy, researchers investigating...

IR Blind-Spot Detection Testing Extended
Autosense Ltd. of Denver and Ford Motor Co. of Dearborn, Mich., have agreed to expand testing of a...

Optical Sensor May Aid War on Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism, once an abstract threat in the US, became reality in 2001. But even before the highly...

Single Atom Probes Standing Wave
A probe composed of a single calcium ion has produced one of the most precise measurements of the...

Crystal Traps Light
A year ago, two research teams made big news by slowing the propagation of light through a vapor...

Pulse Tracked Through Waveguide
Conventionally, researchers study pulse propagation by coupling pulses into a medium and deducing...

Optical Tomography Moves to Developmental Biology
Faculty and students at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., are using optical coherence...

Interference Acts as Light 'Switch'
A "switch" discovered by researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada could lead to the...

Photon Sieve Focuses Soft X-Rays
Researchers at Universität Kiel and Universität Hamburg, both in Germany, have achieved a...

Adaptive Pulse Shaping Provides Photoselective Molecular Excitation
Researchers from the Universität Würzburg in Germany have discovered that selective excitation of...

Microlenses Self-Align to Optical Fibers
The size of microlenses enables them to guide laser beams to or from optical fibers that are hair...