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Airborne Laser Illuminator Delivered
The US Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency has made some strides in developing optical...
Excimer Laser Restores Paintings
With funding from the European Commission, Art Innovation BV of Hengelo, the Netherlands, and its...
Fiber Bragg Gratings Track Fatigue in Aircraft
Luna Innovations Inc. has devised a photonic solution to monitoring structural fatigue in aircraft....
Technique Monitors Oxidative Stress
Julio F. Turrens and his colleagues at the University of South Alabama in Mobile are exposing...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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PHOTODECTORS
UDT Sensors, Inc.
CUSTOM AMPLIFIERS
Femto Messtechnik GmbH
CCD DETECTOR
Jobin Yvon Ltd.
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Advanced Research Instruments Corp.
COLOR SENSOR
Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc.
BLACKBODY CALIBRATION
Mikron Infrared, Inc.
PIN PHOTODIODE
Hamamatsu Corp.
DETECTOR HEAD
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
SPECTROMETER
PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences
FO SWITCH/CONVERTER
Electro Standards
EDFA GAIN BLOCK
Lightwaves2020 Inc.
FO MICROSCOPE COUPLER
C Technologies, Inc.
TELECOM COMPONENTS
Gigabit Optics Corp.
C-BAND TUNABLE FILTERS
Ondax, Inc.
NETWORK SIMULATOR
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
RGB OPTICAL FIBER
Nufern
FIBER LASER
NP Photonics, Inc.
FIBER COUPLER
Limo
PHOTONIC CRYSTAL DESIGN
RSoft Design Group Inc.
TUNABLE FILTER
Santec Corp.
CCD CAMERAS
QImaging
MICROSCOPY SOFTWARE
Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
FRAME GRABBER
Matrix Vision GmbH
METALLURGICAL MICROSCOPE
Leco Corp.
UV CAMERA
Sarnoff Corp.
FRAME GRABBERS
Foresight Imaging
IMAGING/MEASUREMENT
Nano-Or Technologies Ltd.
LOW-LIGHT IMAGE SENSOR
e2v technologies
CCD CAMERA
JAI
NANOFOCUS DEVICE
Polytec PI Inc.
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Integral Technologies Inc.
DISPLAY METROLOGY
Radiant Imaging, Inc.
THERMAL IMAGER
Land Instruments International
RAMAN MICROSCOPES
Renishaw, Inc.
UV BEAM EXPANDER
Linos Photonics Ltd.
MICRODICING TOOL
NanoVia
CCD CAMERAS
Cooke Corp.
CCD LENSES
Docter Optics, Inc.
DIGITAL IMAGING
Pulse Instruments
INDUSTRIAL ENDOSCOPE
Moritex Europe Ltd.
CCD CAMERA
Pulnix America Inc.
STEREOMICROSCOPE
Rolyn Optics Co.
MACHINE VISION
ipd
SURFACE PROFILER
Ambios Technology, Inc.
OPTICAL MODELING
Breault Research Organization
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Laser Solutions & Systems
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Aremco Products, Inc.
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MKS Instruments
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Burle Industries, Inc.
UV CURE ADHESIVE
Ablestik
Nd:YLF LASER SYSTEM
New Wave Research
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Precision Photonics Corp.
Nd:YAG LASERS
Unitek Miyachi Corp.
DFB LASER DIODE SERVICE
CST Global
CO2 LASER
Coherent, Inc.
LASER DIODE DRIVER
Analog Modules, Inc.
DPSS LASERS
Lambda Physik USA Inc.
Q-SWITCHED LASERS
Photonics Industries International, Inc.
LASER POWER PROBE
Directed Light Inc.
Nd:YAG LASERS
Eksma
BLUE LASER SYSTEM
Novalux
GREEN AND BLUE LEDs
Laser Components (UK) Ltd.
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RVSI/NER
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StockerYale, Inc.
MINI LEDs
Opto Speed
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Boulder Nonlinear
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Prior Scientific Ltd.
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Spectrum Thin Films
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Tower Optical Corp.
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Optenso
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Lambda Research Corp.
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Advanced Technology Coatings
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Performance Motion Devices, Inc.
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Newport Corp.
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Nyden Corp.
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ILX Lightwave Corp.
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Tamar Technology

FastTrack (Business News)
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DuPont Sees Future in Telecom
Just at a time when many companies are getting out of the telecommunications sector, DuPont of...
Broadband Decision: An Unbundle of Joy?
After the woeful performance of the telecommunications sector during the past year, the industry...
Scotland to Open Packaging Facility
Scotland continues to cement its role as a key European hub for optics with word that an...
Hoffman Establishes New Company
Hoffman Engineering Corp. of Stamford, Conn., has formed SphereOptics Hoffman LLC in Contoocook,...
Dalsa Receives Sensor Production Order
A producer of broadcast television cameras has placed an order worth more than $5.5 million with...
Toptica Photonics Creates a Base in the US
Toptica Photonics AG of Munich, Germany, has opened an office for US sales and OEM customer support...
Indigo Wins Contract to Provide IR Sensors for Aircraft
Indigo Systems of Goleta, Calif., has received a contract from Baltimore-based Northrop Grumman...
Electro-Optic Test Equipment Company Expands
Santa Barbara Infrared Inc. has relocated to a 25,000-sq-ft facility in Santa Barbara, Calif.,...
Acquisition to Boost Optical Component Integration
NeoPhotonics Corp. of San Jose, Calif., a developer of nanomaterials-based photonics technologies,...
Agility Wins Government Contract to Advance Tunable Lasers
Agility Communications Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif., has received a contract from the Defense...
Mitsubishi Opens Semiconductor Division
Mitsubishi Electric & Electronic USA Inc. of Cypress, Calif., has established a division to...
UConn Joins Companies in Developing Optical Encryption System
The University of Connecticut in Storrs has signed a memorandum of understanding with two companies...
Company Expands into Optical Components, Modules Industry
SK Opto-Electronics Inc., which is based in Warren, N.J., has announced its entry into the optical...
Evident Opens Plant to Produce Nanocrystals
Nanotechnology materials manufacturer Evident Technologies Inc. of Troy N.Y., has opened a facility...
Linos AG Receives Order for Components, Expertise
Under a €30.6 million contract from a Turkish multiproduct electronics company, Linos AG of...
Firm Sets Up Office on West Coast
InP-based photonic products supplier DenseLight Semiconductors Private Ltd. of Singapore has...
Raytheon Wins Contract for Laser-Guided Bomb
The US Air Force has awarded Raytheon Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., a $173.7 million contract for the...
Companies Ally to Market on-Wafer Optical Probing System
Suss MicroTec AG of Munich, Germany, and LNL Technologies Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., have agreed to...
Nanopositioning Specialist Granted Supply Contract for Large Telescope
Physik Instrumente GmbH & Co. of Karlsruhe, Germany, will supply more than 280 custom...
Optical Parts Manufacturer Awarded Contract
KSaria of Wilmington, Mass., will develop automation equipment for the manufacture of fiber optic...
CRL Opto Uses Moxtek Components in Single-Channel Display
To give customers a high-performance single-channel display system, CRL Opto Ltd. of Hayes, UK, has...

Feature Articles
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Getting the Most Out of Your Image
For developers of scientific or industrial image-processing applications, robustly and accurately...
Maximize Color and Contrast in Multimedia Images
After scanning a color photograph into a computer, one assumes it will reproduce well on the screen...
CWDM: A Low-Cost Alternative for Increased Capacity
Cost savings realized in deploying coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) systems have...
Never Too Thin
To paraphrase the Duchess of Windsor, displays can never be too thin or too rich. Flat panel...
Optical Engineering for Beam-Matrix Art
Artistic use of lasers can take various forms. The best-known form is the laser show, which is...
Lasers Play a Bigger Role in Biomedical Applications
The laser is now well-established as a critically enabling tool in biomedical applications that...
Taking a Closer Look at Camera Specifications
Purchasing a camera for high-performance imaging applications can be confusing and time-consuming....
In Search of Calcium Fluoride
Anyone who has ever owned a PC is familiar with the problem of technological obsolescence. Faster...

Mini-Magazine
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Getting the Most Out of Your Image
iXon CCD Imaging Cameras
Andor Technology
EMERALD Cameras
CEDIP Infrared Systems
1200 hs High-Speed CMOS Camera System
The Cooke Corp.
PIRANHA2: High Speed, Big Responsivity
DALSA
KAI-0330D/S
Eastman Kodak Company
CCD485 Solid-State Full-Frame Sensor
Fairchild Imaging Inc.
High-speed PMT Modules for Photon Counting
Hamamatsu Corporation
EB-CCD Cameras
Hamamatsu Photonic Systems
IR Data Acquisition & Image Analysis Software
Indigo Systems
OmniLED
Labsphere Inc.
New Piezo Tuning Wizard
National Instruments
MicroPublisher 5.0 Megapixel Digital Camera
QImaging
New InGaAs Detector for NIR Spectroscopy
Roper Scientific Inc.
SUI MicroCamera with InGaAs FPA Technology
Sensors Unlimited Inc.
New Photodetector Catalog
UDT Sensors

Presstime Bulletin
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3-D Structures Offer Efficient Mixing
Complex three-dimensional structures of 10- to 300-µm-diameter microchannels fabricated in a...
Surface-Quenched Hairpins Detect DNA
A biosensor developed at the University of Rochester in New York that uses its gold substrate to...
Energy Transport Observed
Using near-field optical microscopy to excite fluorescent nanospheres atop chains of rod-shaped...
Cantilever Epitaxy May Improve LEDs
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., have developed a process for...

Research
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Optical Switch Designed for the Disabled
Researchers at the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center in Pathumthani, Thailand,...
Capillary Force Fabricates Probes
A team of researchers at Shizuoka University in Hamamatsu, Japan, reports in the March 10 issue of...
See-Through Thin-Film Transistor Unveiled
Transparent electronics may seem the stuff of science fiction, but engineers from Oregon State...
External-Cavity Laser Diode Offers 300 mW
Fedor N. Timofeev and Raman Kashyap of PhotoNova Inc. in Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada, have...
Nd:YAG Produces 2.8 W of Blue Light
Researchers at the Institut für Laser Physik at Universität Hamburg in Germany have set a record...
External-Resonator Raman Laser Emits 1.3 W
In the last 20 years, a host of wavelengths have become available from conventional lasers, and...
Setup Combines Ytterbium Fiber Lasers
A group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge is combining the output of ytterbium...

Technology
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Photobleaching Offers Coded Microspheres
Using a technique they call spatial selective photobleaching, scientists at Ghent University and at...
Castings Replicate Si-Template Optical Properties
Sensing and drug-delivery applications may someday benefit from a technique that replicates the...
Polymer Incorporates Alq3 for Organic LEDs
As the market for alternative display technologies grows, aluminum tris(8-hydroxyquinoline), or...
Stoichiometric Crystal Promises Laser Uses
A team of researchers from Germany and Spain is investigating the properties of a stoichiometric...
Soft Lithography Reproduces Microlenses
As we move from the electronics to the photonics age, micro-optics are finding a place in more and...