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Profilometer Inspects Microlenses
The absence of an accepted standard for microlens wafer formats, which may include microlenses...
Machine Vision Gives Meat a Safety Inspection
Following the epidemic of mad cow disease that struck the UK and the recent outbreaks of...
Spectroscopy Technique Detects Carbon
Concern about climatic changes has researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory examining ways...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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InGaAs DETECTORS
Jobin Yvon Ltd.
AlN SUBSTRATES
Ferrotec America Corp.
1310-nm TRANSCEIVER
Picolight, Inc.
FIBER TERMINATION
Jensen Tools Inc.
SIGNAL SWITCHING
Racal Instruments Inc.
FIBER OPTIC SENSOR
ATC
PUMP STABILIZER
ITF Optical Technologies
OPTICAL FIBERS
INO
ERBIUM MICROFIBER AMPLIFIERS
Spectra-Physics/NP Photonics
DWDM TESTING
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
X-RAY IMAGING
Hamamatsu Corp.
MACHINE VISION
Panasonic Vision
ULTRACOMPACT CAMERA
Sony Electronics, Inc.
THERMAL IMAGING SYSTEM
Ircon, Inc.
MICROSCOPE STAGE
Prior Scientific, Inc.
INDUSTRIAL IMAGING
Vision Components GmbH
FRAME GRABBER
Euresys SA
DIGITAL CAMERA
DuncanTech Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERA
Diagnostic Instruments, Inc.
CONFOCAL IMAGING
Nikon Instruments, Inc.
CCD CAMERA
Andor Technology Ltd.
DIGITIZER CARDS
Acqiris USA
MACHINE VISION CAMERAS
Industrial Vision Systems Ltd.
IMAGING BOARDS
Foresight Imaging
TELECOM SOLDERING
Coherent, Inc.
PHOTON COUNTING
PicoQuant GmbH
LOCK-IN AMPLIFIERS
Femto Messtechnik GmbH
TUNABLE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER
Fiberspace
PUMP LASER DIODE
Anritsu Co.
157-nm FLUORINE LASER
TuiLaser AG
DIODE LASER
Coherent, Inc., Semiconductor Div.
WAFER-SCALE MICROLENSES
Waveguide Solutions
WAFER POLISHING
Plan Optik GmbH
ASPHERIC MIRRORS
Space Optics Research Labs (SORL)
DIFFRACTION GRATINGS
StockerYale, Inc.
OPTICAL COATING
SwissOptic AG
OPTICAL ANALYSIS
Ocean Optics, Inc.
POSITIONING STAGE
Del-Tron Precision, Inc.
OBJECTIVE POSITIONING
piezosystem jena
MOTION CONTROL
National Instruments Corp.
VIBRATION ISOLATION MODULE
Technical Manufacturing Corp.
MOTION CONTROL
New Focus, Inc.
FIBER OPTIC TESTING
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering

FastTrack (Business News)
Collaboration: Fiber Networks' New Link
Adversity, it appears, breeds fraternity. Since the beginning of the year, the once-cutthroat...
Can Calcium Fluoride Handle New Demand?
Although the demand for semiconductor lithography equipment decreased in the past year, system...

Feature Articles
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Not All Multiplexing Technologies Are on the Same Wavelength
Until recently, the development of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology has...
Microdisplays, Macro-Impact
Despite their name, microdisplays are making a big impact, and it's getting bigger. The size of a...
Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers: Manufacturing Matters
They slice, they dice, they weld. Diode-pumped solid-state lasers offer an ever-increasing degree...
The US Photonics Job Market: Is It Truly Down? Recruiting for the Future
One of our readers made this comment on Photonics Spectra's latest job survey: "It is fun to work...
Photonics Design and Solutions
The term "crosstalk" describes the phenomenon of power leaking from one channel of a wavelength...
Broadband Spectrophotometry: A Fast, Simple, Accurate Tool
Designing devices that incorporate ultrathin films is an important means of enhancing yields....

Presstime Bulletin
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'Microgear' Has Low Threshold, High Q
At Yokohama National University in Hodogaya, Japan, researchers have demonstrated that the...
New CCD Camera Utilizes Revolutionary Signal-Multiplication Process
Roper Scientific, Inc. has announced the release of the Photometrics CascadeO digital imaging...
Laser Trap Produces Degenerate Fermi Gas
Although Bose-Einstein condensates have not exactly become commonplace, intensive research over the...
Digital Video Captures Images of 'Blue Jet'
Meteorologists have long speculated about the existence of electrical discharges between the tops...
Nanocrystal Laser Emits Blue
Researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have reported continuous-wave 404.1-, 408.1-...
Bell Labs Displays 4000-km, 2.56-Tb Transmission
Bell Labs scientists in Holmdel and Murray Hill, both in New Jersey, have transmitted 64 40-Gb/s...

Research
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Laser-Ion Interaction Produces Coherent X-Rays
A team at Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg in Germany has proposed a means of generating...
Near-Field Microscopy Validates VCSEL Models
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have been gaining ground in a variety of...
Laser Controls Nanoparticle Growth
Spontaneous self-assembly has been a primary approach to the production of nanoparticles. But...
Laser Deposits High-k Silicate Films
Researchers at Université du Quebec in Varennes, Canada, hope to enable semiconductor manufacturers...
Rare-Earth Solders Make Better Bonds
Diamonds may be "forever," but the bonds they form with metal solders often are not. While typical...

Technology
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Passive Mode-Locking Is Achieved in Ytterbium Laser
Using an ion-implanted semiconductor saturable absorber mirror researchers at Australian National...
Widely Tunable Terahertz Generator Developed
Researchers at Riken's Photo Dynamics Research Center in Sendai, Japan, have developed a 0.7- to...
Two-Photon Absorption Enables Microfabrication
Two-photon absorption tech-niques that have proved beneficial to biological imaging are spilling...
Laser Ultrasound Tests Train Tracks
A train accident occurs in the US every 90 minutes, many of which are attributable to undetected...
Nanosecond Pulses Improve Laser Nitriding
Nanosecond excimer laser pulses yield better results than femtosecond pulses when laser nitriding...
Mid-IR VCSEL Operates at Room Temperature
An optically pumped vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) that emits in the mid-IR at...
Team Moves Bose-Einstein Condensates 44 cm
A team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has moved gaseous Bose-Einstein...
Simpler Technique Measures Group Velocity Dispersion
Group velocity dispersion in optical fiber degrades the quality of transmitted data and limits the...
Laser Emits Broadband Radiation
Think laser, and odds are that you'll think monochromaticity. A quantum cascade laser developed at...
Coastal Imager Provides Linear Results
Tests performed by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington have found that the Ocean Portable...
Doppler Lidar Maps High-Altitude Winds
According to Bob Dylan, the answer is blowing in the wind. That's certainly true for weather...
Photodetector Developed with 1.5-µm Sensitivity
Silicon-based photodetectors may benefit high-speed optical communications technologies because of...
CARS Limits Background Interference
Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy allows viewing of live biological samples...
Microscopy Techniques Image Organic LED Bubble Formation
Scientists from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore have examined the...
InAlGaN Quantum Wells Boost UV Emission
Using InAlGaN-based multiple quantum wells fabricated on SiC, Japanese researchers from Riken in...
Lasers Induce Transformation of Benzene
Multiple 70-mW continuous-wave laser sources have been used by researchers from the Università di...
Raman Imaging Probes Ancient Rocks
The microscopic structures discovered in the 3.5 billion-year-old rocks of Western Australia known...