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Companies Ally to Standardize Tunable Laser Components
Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, iolon Inc. of San Jose and Santur Corp. of Fremont, all in California,...

Welsh University Wins Award for Optical Biochip Research
The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has awarded $3 million to the...

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Scrambling to Reduce Polarization-Related Impairments
Polarization is a fundamental property of light. In classical physics, light is modeled as a...

Picking Up the Pace of Rapid Manufacturing
By one estimate, rapid prototyping equipment generates more than 3 million models and prototypes...

Infrared Detectors Image the Future
The ability to see beyond the capabilities of normal human vision is vital in areas such as...

Getting the Small Picture
Anadigics Inc. of Warren, N.J., is a semiconductor company that helps provide the gift of gab --...

Minimizing Error and Maximizing Precision in Microassembly
Precision assembly solutions are as unique as the products they are built to automate, especially...

Quartz Crystal Thin-Film Monitoring Forges Ahead
Research in fields such as nanotechnology, biosensors, thin-film displays and high-speed optical...

Illumination Design Gets Faster, Easier
From cell phones to automotive dashboards, illuminated displays have become commonplace....

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Illumination Design Gets Faster, Easier

Optics, Coatings and Subassembly Capabilities
Acton Research Corporation

Custom Optics and Assemblies Production
Corning Diamond Turning Division

TECH SPEC Lateral Displacement Beamsplitters
Edmund Industrial Optics

OmniLED
Labsphere Inc.

Wave Plates, Beamsplitters and Polarizing Optics
Lambda Research Optics Inc.

Simply Better Photonic and Microwave Solutions
New Focus Inc.

Optical Design Software
Optical Research Associates

Precision Optics and Coatings
Precision Glass & Optics

World Leader -- Optical Components
Ross Optical Industries

CleanTop II DoubleDensity Optical Tops
Technical Manufacturing Corporation

Precision Optics
Tinsley Laboratories Inc.

High-Performance Optical Profiling
Veeco Instruments Inc.

Standard and Custom Optical Coatings
ZC&R

ZEMAX Optical Design Program
Zemax Development Corporation

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Nanoclusters Form Logic Gates
Tae-Hee Lee and Robert M. Dickson of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have produced AND,...

Ultrafast Laser Creates Spin-Entangled Electrons
A research team at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and the University of Notre Dame in...

Facial Recognition Study Released
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...

Cassini Images of Jupiter Studied
En route to Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft, a joint mission of NASA, the European Space Agencyand...

Optical Fractionation Presented
Researchers from the University of Chicago presented their findings on the use of light to...

Research

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Femtosecond Laser Probes Plasma Formation
Pump-probe experiments employing femtosecond lasers have exposed the dynamics of numerous ultrafast...

Femtosecond Techniques Herald Attophysics
In pursuit of shorter and shorter sources of illumination to probe dynamic physical phenomena,...

Planar Laser Shows Promise
A team of scientists at the University of Southampton in the UK has presented its findings on a...

Filter Enables 23-Channel Laser
Transmitters for dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) consist of banks of lasers, with one...

Porous Silicon Emits Blue Light
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei report strong emission...

Dielectrophoresis Builds Photonic Crystals
Scientists at the University of Delaware in Newark, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and...

Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Laser Is Created
Although the terahertz frequency range has long remained undeveloped because of a lack of compact...

Tweezers Employ Three Forces
Using a Michelson interferometer in a double-hologram setup, researchers at Nanyang Technological...

Laser Produces T-Ray Diffractive Elements
To ease the integration of components for terahertz spectroscopy and signal processing, a team at...

Ruby Crystal Slows Light at Room Temperature
Over the past few years, researchers such as Lene Vestergaard Hau of Harvard University in...

Er:Fiber Laser Suitable for Optical Clocks
Scientists at Technische Universität München in Garching and at Ludwig Maximilians Universität...

Technology

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Molecular Self-Assembly Yields Giant Lattice
A group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the University of...

3-D Crystals Produced by Microassembly
Employing techniques that were developed for manufacturing integrated circuits, researchers in...

Gratings Offer New Breed of Tunable Laser
Researchers worldwide are pursuing several approaches to building tunable lasers that will enable...

UV-Induced Cross-Linking Yields Organic LEDs
Scientists from Universität München and Technische Universität München in Munich, and Covion...

Soft Lithography Enables Gray-Scale Process
As might be expected of the workhorse of digital circuit production, traditional photolithography...

Wafer Processing Yields High Q Microcavities
Microcavities require atomically smooth surfaces to obtain ultrahigh Q factors, but until recently...

Force Networks Examined with Photoelastic Imaging
How fast granular materials flow is related to how elastic energy in the materials is stored and...

Freon Improves Laser-Ablation Spectrometry
To reduce the incidence of elemental fractionation and improve the accuracy of laser ablation...

Root-Side Monitoring Controls Welding
Researchers at Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby have demonstrated a closed-loop control...

Fiber Sensors Probe Engine
As carmakers try to reduce the harmful emissions from gasoline-powered engines, efforts focus on...

All-Optical Frequency Shifter Demonstrated
As the demand for speed and bandwidth in communications networks increases, new approaches to...

Near-Field Raman Offers 25-nm Resolution
Researchers at the University of Rochester in New York, Portland State University in Oregon and...

RGB Interferometer Measures Diffractive Optical Elements
While white-light interferometry may be a standard tool for measurement of discontinuous profiles,...

Heat Treatment Produces Fiber for Sensors
In pursuit of a more economical fiber for evanescent field sensors, researchers in Australia have...

Raman Spectroscopy Probes Silicones
To better understand the properties of the ubiquitous silicone polymers, scientists from the...