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UK Firm Awarded Research Contract for Defense Technology
Intense Photonics Ltd. of High Blantyre, UK, has won an £80,000 contract from BAE Systems Avionics...

KVH to Supply Guidance Components to Raytheon
KVH Industries of Middletown, R.I., has received a production order from Raytheon Integrated...

Diploma Program Offered for Photonics Professionals
EP3, the Education Program for Photonics Professionals, is a series of six courses, each eight...

Alfalight Wins Government Contract to Develop Efficient Diode Sources
Under a $3.9 million, 18-month contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...

Fabrinet Will Manufacture External-Cavity Lasers for K2 Optronics
The EC-48 external-cavity lasers developed by K2 Optronics Inc., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., will...

What, Another Venture Capital Firm?
By one estimate, there are some 1000 venture capital companies in the US. As of February, there was...

Emcore Acquires Molex's 10-Gb Ethernet Transceiver Business
Emcore Corp., a provider of semiconductor technologies for global communications based in Somerset,...

Osram Names Three-Five Systems US Display Integration Partner
Electronic manufacturing services and display systems provider Three-Five Systems Inc. of Tempe,...

Memscap Purchases Opsitech SA
To strengthen its optical expertise, microelectromechanical systems provider Memscap of San Jose,...

Universities to Pursue Laser Research Under NSF Grant
To develop extreme-UV laser technologies that will be used in the fabrication of much smaller, more...

NLight to Develop More Efficient High-Power Laser Diodes
NLight Photonics Inc. of Vancouver, Wash., will advance high-power diode lasers under a $5 million...

Companies Consolidate to Provide Improved Infrared Systems
Under a merger agreement, Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., will acquire Indigo Systems Corp. of...

UK Companies Ally to Improve Video Headsets
To develop more affordable, robust and ergonomic head-mounted display systems, three British...

Light Age Relocates to Larger Plant
Alexandrite laser technology specialist Light Age Inc. has increased its size by four times in a...

Contract Is Awarded for Zoom Lens
Special Optics Inc. of Wharton, N.J., will design and produce a motorized zoom lens system to image...

Feature Articles

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Photonics in the Pharmaceutical Industry
By some estimates, as many as 7000 hospital patients die every year when health workers mistakenly...

Machine Vision Bolsters Quality Control
Machine vision technology has long played a key role in pharmaceutical manufacturing, particularly...

Space-Efficient Symbols Help in Drug Tracking
The benefits that bar coding can bring to the medication administration process are widely...

Pulsed Xenon Lights Help in Drug Tracking
On a pharmaceutical production line, it’s not enough to inspect random samples of material. In...

Process Understanding Promotes Successful Machine Vision
With the advent of graphical programming software, the need to write and debug countless lines of...

Mass Spectrometry Helps Drug Manufacturers Meet New Demands
Quality control in drug manufacturing has always been important: After all, if something goes...

Lasers Target Chip Fabrication
In semiconductor manufacturing, the drive to pack more functionality into ever-smaller spaces will...

MEMS Are on the Move in Europe
Nanotechnology may be the latest buzzword, but its predecessor — microtechnology — has yet to reach...

Micromachining Medical Devices: Finding the Right Remedy
Emerging challenges in micromachining include the need to process materials at faster speeds, in a...

Mini-Magazine

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High-Power, Short-Wave LED Purifies Air

High-Speed System Offers Optical Measurement for LEDs

Sandia Demonstrates High-Power UV LEDs

In Search of the Optimal Objective for 157 nm
Corning Tropel Corp.

Long-Travel Rack-and-Pinion Stages
Edmund Industrial Optics

Zero- and Multiple-Order Wave Plates
Lambda Research Optics

New 2004 Catalog
New Focus Inc.

Precision Filter Solutions
OCLI -- A JDS Uniphase Company

Illumination Design Software
Optical Research Associates

Optics by Ross
Ross Optical Industries

In-Line Beam Steerers
Special Optics'

Spectral Lamp Measurement Systems
SphereOptics-Hoffman LLC

CleanTop II DoubleDensity Optical Tops
Technical Manufacturing Corporation

Precision Optics
Tinsley Laboratories Inc.

ZEMAX Optical Design Program
Zemax Development Corporation

Presstime Bulletin

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Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Reveals Laser Melting
Scientists at the University of Toronto have employed femtosecond electron diffraction to study the...

High-Harmonic Generation Yields 4.4-nm X-Rays
A team of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Sofia in...

'Fast Light' Offers No Increase in Information Velocity
A group of researchers from Duke University in Durham, N.C., and from the University of Arizona in...

Research

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Intracavity Pumping of Ho:YAG Laser Boosts Efficiency
Both thulium and holmium ions make good infrared lasers when doped into solid-state hosts, thulium...

Fiber Laser Interrogates Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
Researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station have designed and built a...

Parametric Oscillator Produces 9- to 10-µm Output
Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK have produced what they believe are the...

Three-Dimensional MEMS Device Switches 100 Channels
A compact, 100-channel, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) optical cross connect has been...

Silicon-on-Insulator Switch Exhibits Fast Response
Planar waveguide devices based on silicon-on-insulator architecture offer the enticing possibility...

Technology

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Soft Lithography Reproduces Integrated Optical Devices
As more attention is paid to the use of polymeric materials for optical elements, researchers have...

Periodically Poled KTP Waveguide Crystal Generates Blue Light
A collaboration of researchers at the University of St. Andrews in the UK, the University of Sofia...

Fiber Optic Array Scans the Ocean for Submarines and Oil Wells
A group of researchers from the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington and from QinetiQ in...

Photonic Crystal Enables Surface-Emitting Quantum-Cascade Laser
By incorporating a photonic crystal resonator into the design of a quantum-cascade laser,...

Multidye Polymer Composite Developed for Data Storage
A multidye material developed by researchers from the University of Toronto and Princess Margaret...

Lidar Satellite Resumes Data Collection
NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite is again collecting information on the topography of...