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Laser Probe Characterizes Combustion
Combustion is a complex phenomenon. When even a simple hydrocarbon such as CH4 burns in air, it...
Billions of Pixels Map the Universe
Astronomy was once the purview of kings and their most learned advisers. Over the centuries, it has...
Green Lasers Micromachine Medical Implants
When one considers the impact of photonics in industry, telecommunications and aerospace...
Optical Motion Enlivens Videos
The entertainment industry is in the midst of a revolution. The artificial world of video games has...
Project Tests Gas Lines as Conduit for Fiber Optic Cable
The problem of connecting homes and businesses to the local area network gateway has been aptly...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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LASER POWER METER
Molectron Detector Inc
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International Light, Inc.
IR DETECTOR
BAE Systems
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Dalsa
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Matrox Imaging
VISION SYSTEM
PPT Vision, Inc.
SAW OSCILLATOR
Micro Networks
COMPONENT PACKAGING
Newport Corp.
OPTICAL TRANSCEIVERS
Stratos Lightwave LLC
AIR-BEARING STAGES
Aerotech, Inc.
RAMAN FIBERS
FiberLogix Ltd.
FIBER STRIPPER
3SAE Technologies
OPTICAL FIBERS
CeramOptec Industries Inc.
ULTRAWIDEBAND SAMPLERS
Picosecond Pulse Labs, Inc.
PIN PHOTODIODE
Hamamatsu Corp.
NETWORK AMPLIFIERS
Corning Inc.
TELECOM DEVICES
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
BEND-INSENSITIVE FIBER
Nufern
AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE
Multiplex Inc.
ACHROMATIC WAVE PLATES
Cleveland Crystals, Inc.
COMPACT FIBER AMPLIFIER
Ericsson
ERBIUM MICRO FIBER LASER
NP Photonics, Inc.
INTENSIFIED CCD CAMERA
Qimaging
MACHINE VISION CAMERA
Pulnix America Inc.
IMAGING BOARD
Sensoray Co. Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERA
Redlake MASD Inc.
IMAGING SOFTWARE
Improvision
CCD CAMERA
Soft Imaging System GmbH
ULTRACOMPACT IR CAMERA
Flir Systems, Inc.
CCD COMPACT CAMERA
Linos Photonics Ltd.
LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Lord Ingenierie
CCD CAMERA
Adimec
LOCK-IN AMPLIFIERS
Laser Components (UK) Ltd.
TEMPERATURE CONTROL
PolyScience
DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
National Instruments Corp.
RETROREFLECTOMETER
Labsphere, Inc.
ADHESIVE/SEALANT
Master Bond, Inc.
TEMPORARY ADHESIVE
Aremco Products, Inc.
INTEGRATING SPHERE
Jobin Yvon Ltd.
FLUID DISPENSER
EFD, Inc.
LASER CONTROLLERS
Photronic Devices
LASER DIODES
Frankfurt Laser Co.
LASER WELDING
Leister Process Technologies
LASER ALIGNMENT
Pinpoint Laser Systems
MINI WAVE PLATES
Tower Optical Corp.
DIODE-PUMPED LASERS
Photonics Industries International, Inc.
DIODE LASERS
NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH
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Alcatel Optronics
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Ophir Optronics, Inc.
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Lambda Physik Inc.
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Renishaw, Inc.
PUMP LASER DIODES
Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA
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L.E.W. Techniques
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K2 Optronics
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Henkel Loctite Corp.
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StockerYale, Inc.
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Kyocera Fineceramics Group
FO ILLUMINATION
Conquest Global
OPTICAL SAMPLING MODULE
Tektronix Inc.
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Grafix Plastics
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NorCom
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Oxford Applied Research USA, Inc.
PLASTIC NIR LENSES
Richter Enterprises
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Inphi
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Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.
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Sunex, Inc.
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Axsys Technologies, Inc.
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NanoOpto Corp.
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Discovery Semiconductors, Inc.
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Polytec PI Inc.
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Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering
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nPoint, Inc.
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Applied Scintillation Technologies
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Active Silicon
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Moritex Europe Ltd.
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Leo Electron Microscopy Group
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Scientific Computing International
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Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc.
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StellarNet, Inc.
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Prior Scientific Ltd.
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Tamar Technology
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Luna Technologies, Inc.
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Illumination Technologies Inc
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Image Systems Corp.

FastTrack (Business News)
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MetaStable Instruments Wins $70,000 Contract
MetaStable Instruments Inc. of St. Charles, Mo., has been awarded a Phase I Small Business...
Verrillon Acquires ADC Group
Verrillon Inc. of North Grafton, Mass., has acquired ADC's passive photonic components business in...
NIST Supports Laser-Based Medical Implant Technology
Optomec Inc. of Albuquerque, N.M., has received a $2 million Advanced Technology Program award from...
Air Force Lab Signs Agreement for Pump Laser Technology
Nuvonyx Inc. of Bridgeton, Mo., and the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate...
Osram and Rohm Sign Patent License Contract
Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany, has granted Rohm Co. Ltd. of Kyoto, Japan, a license for its solely...
Tektronix Sells Optical Test Products Line
Tektronix Inc., headquartered in Beaverton, Ore., has agreed to sell select optical test products...
Optoelectronics Packaging Programs Funded at RIT
The Center for Electronics Manufacturing and Assembly at Rochester Institute of Technology has...
Sensors Unlimited Regains Private Ownership
The management of Sensors Unlimited Inc., a supplier of InGaAs photodiode arrays and cameras, is...
Nanotechnology: Opportunities for Photonics
In his keynote address at the NanoTech Venture Fair in La Jolla, Calif., in September, F. Mark...
Nanosys Pursues Nanolaser Technology
Nanosys Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with the regents of...
Nano- and Near-Field Optics Company Is Launched
Nanoptek Corp. of Concord, Mass., has been founded to develop and commercialize nano- and...
Schott Invests in VCSELs, Restructures Optovance
Raising its share to 52 percent, Schott Corp. of Yonkers, N.Y., has acquired majority ownership of...
Indonesia: Will It Surge or Slow?
After a series of economic setbacks in the mid-1990s, Indonesia is seeing rising interest from...
German Program to Develop Organic LED Displays
The German Ministry of Research and Education has granted a group of scientists €3.5 million for...
Scottish Photonics Company Gears Up for WDM Developments
Helia Photonics Ltd. has purchased the optical coatings division of Terahertz Photonics and will...
Defense Agency Employs Fiberstars' Lighting Technology
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is using a fiber optic lighting system from Fiberstars...
Micron Optics Expands Its Tunable Technology Capability
With the acquisition of Chameleon Optics, Micron Optics Inc. of Atlanta will expand its technology,...
Molectron Expands Laser Power Facilities
Molectron Detector Inc. has increased its laser power capabilities with the addition of nine...
Excel Technology Enters Pulsed Laser Market
Excel Continuum Corp., a subsidiary of Excel Technology Inc. of East Setauket, N.Y., has purchased...
ALST to Develop Laser Rangefinder for Space Program
Advanced Laser Systems Technology Inc. (ALST) of Orlando, Fla., has been selected by the Boeing Co....
Schwartz Awarded Government Contracts for Laser-Based Systems
Schwartz Electro-Optics Inc. of Orlando, Fla., has agreed to supply its Advanced Multiple...
Coherent Forms Technical Advisory Board
In a move reminiscent of large companies in other industries, from semiconductor to automotive...
Laser Firm Builds Inspection Prototype for Space Agency
Laser Techniques Co. of Bellevue, Wash., has completed the first task of a NASA contract for the...
Firm Wins Award to Develop WDM Components
Scientific Solutions Inc. of North Chelmsford, Mass., will develop a suite of ultradense WDM...
Alliance Is Formed to Develop Collimators
Kaman Aerospace Corp.'s Electro-Optics Development Center and The University of Arizona Steward...
Bookham Acquires Nortel's Optical Businesses
Bookham Technology plc of Abingdon, UK, has acquired the optical amplifier and optical transmitter...

Feature Articles
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Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy: Characterizing Nanostructures
As design rules for technologies used in applications as diverse as materials research and advanced...
Quasi-CW Solid-State Lasers Expand Their Reach
Flexibility may be the top selling point of mode-locked, diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 lasers. Their 80-MHz...
Photodetectors Test Pulsed Laser Diodes
Given that packaging adds 80 percent or more to the cost of a laser diode module, it is imperative...
Passive Component Testing: From All-Loss to All-Parameter
Fiber optics technology has taken a major leap forward with dense wavelength division multiplexing...
How Low Can You (Optically) Go?
The $140 billion-a-year semiconductor industry depends on Moore's law, the decades-old observation...

Presstime Bulletin
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Accelerator Yields 20-W T-Rays
Working at Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, Va., researchers from that facility, from...
Optically Trapped Gas Offers Superconductivity Test Bed
According to researchers at Duke University in Durham, N.C., optically trapped atomic Fermi gases...
InGaN Alloys May Yield Full-Spectrum Solar Cells
A team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National...
Biphoton de Broglie Wavelength Measured
In 1995, Joseph Jacobson and colleagues at Stanford University in California suggested that the de...
Thermal Effects Studied in Photonic Crystal Lasers
Photonic crystal lasers promise improved performance in applications such as telecommunications. To...
Laser Downs Artillery Round in Flight
TRW Space & Electronics of Redondo Beach, Calif., announced that its Mobile Tactical...
Optical Downlink Proposed for Space Probe
Scientists at Johns Hopkins UniversityApplied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., and at the...
Germany, US to Collaborate on Development of X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers
Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany, and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in...

Research
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Attosecond Spectroscopy Probes Atomic Cores
It is possible to infer the lifetime of core holes by looking at the energy spectral width of the...
Conjugated Polymer Exhibits Phosphorescence
Conjugated polymers are a class of materials that hold promise as a basis for electro-optical...
Photonic Crystal Laser Features Hexagonal Ring Resonator
A team at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and at Electronics and...
Light Manipulates Photon Tunneling
Through photon tunneling, quantum physics allows for the transmission of light through apertures...
Femtosecond Laser Offers Solution for Dissolving Acid
Dissolving acids in aqueous media is a fundamental process in many areas of chemistry. One process...
Photonic Crystal Laser Features Low-Threshold Pumping
Working with a cavity originally designed for cavity quantum electrodynamic experiments and...
Femtosecond Laser Makes Color Images in Glass
Researchers at Japan Science and Technology Corp. in Kyoto have demonstrated the space-selective...
Laser Setup Approximates Quantum NOT Gate
Contributing to the pursuit of an experimental quantum computer, researchers at Università degli...
Spectroscopy Quantifies Strain and Defects in Diodes
As high-power laser diodes continue to make advances in various photonic applications, it is all...
Atomic Gas Is a Nearly Perfect Photon Counter
Although proposed linear quantum computation schemes show promise, they are premised on photon...
Detection Method Measures Ultrasmall Volumes
Refractive-index detection is commonly used in chemical and biochemical analysis to perform...
Crystal Shapes Optical Pulses
Reporting in the Oct. 7 issue of Optics Express, a research team at Montana State University in...
CCDs Monitor Laser Damage
At the University of California, Riverside, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in...
Transmission Through Holes Investigated
Counterintuitively, shining light through an array of subwavelength-diameter holes can increase the...
Liftoff Enables GaN on Silicon
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Oriol Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif., are...
Cascaded Ferroelectrics Steer Light
The ability to electro-optically modulate the refractive index in ferroelectric materials promises...

Technology
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Dispersion-Compensation Techniques Compared
Optical fiber research indicates that dispersion compensation along a 40-Gb/s terrestrial link can...
Microlens Arrays Shape LED Beam
LEDs are not well-adapted for applications requiring uniform illumination, unless supplementary...
Spectroscopy Poised to Seek Terror Agents
In the post-9/11 world, an envelope may hide disease and a shoe may conceal explosives. Detecting...
Planar Device Boosts Gratings-Based WDM Performance
Gratings-based wavelength-division multiplexers (WDMs) are simpler to fabricate but generally have...
Quantum-Cascade Lasers Pass Detection Test
Research exploring directly modulated quantum-cascade lasers as telecommunications detectors...
Modulator Enables Nanowatt Reception
Photonic microwave receivers have improved dramatically with the recent advent of...
Tunable Filter Improves Multispectral Imaging
Multispectral image acquisition promises to overcome such limitations of three-channel image...
Tunable Laser Array Features Micromirror
Santur Corp. of Fremont, Calif., has developed a tunable laser module in which an external...
Freestanding Photoconductive Microswitches Formed
GaAs thin films grown at 200 to 250 °C exhibit excellent resistivity and subpicosecond relaxation...
Micromanipulation Forms Photonic Crystals
Fabrication of 3-D photonic crystals typically has relied either on lithography or on self-assembly...
Plastic Substrates Make Flexible Displays
With organic light-emitting diode technology, not only are displays crisp, but their useful life...
TIR Switch Exploits Polyimide Attribute
The refractive index of polyimide decreases as its temperature increases. Researchers at the...
Dual Lens Could Acquire, Display Images
Meaningful communication, whether between people or machines, can sometimes be challenging. Before...
Forming Fine Lines on a Curved Surface
There are many ways to fabricate diffractive optical elements, including diamond milling, soft...
Superlattice Reflectors Boost VCSEL Performance
A superlattice design for distributed Bragg reflectors in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers...
Photoluminescence Characterizes AlN
Researchers at Kansas State University in Manhattan have developed a means of characterizing the...