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NIR Diode Lasers Measure Coal-Fire Emissions
Coal-fired power plants have been in operation for nearly a century; nevertheless, some of the...
Ritchey-Common Test Analyzes Uncoated Optics
When it comes to measuring large uncoated glass components, the Ritchey-Common test has yet to find...
CO2 Lasers Expose Hypersonic Flow
A two-hour flight from New York to Tokyo could someday be a reality with the development of a...
High-Speed Thermal Imaging Captures Stills of Turbines
Siemens Westinghouse makes land-based steam and combustion turbine engines for plant applications...
Acoustic Waves Characterize Surfaces
Surface characterization of the mechanical parameters of thin films, which are used in applications...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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Polymer Labs
INGAASs DETECTOR
Roper Scientific Inc.
FLUORESCENCE DETECTOR
Henkel Loctite Corp.
POWER METER
Coherent, Inc
POWER SUPPLY
Prior Scientific, Inc.
SINGLE-MODE FIBER
Corning Inc.
OSCILLOSCOPE
Anritsu Co.
FIBER OPTIC TESTING
JDS Uniphase Corp.
FIBER LASER SYSTEM
Koheras A/S
CWDM COMPONENTS
Gigabit Optics Corp.
DOUBLE-CLAD FIBERS
Nufern
SPECTRAL SOURCE
Newport Corp.
PACKAGED COMPONENTS
Tyco Electronics Corp.
OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS
Alcatel Optronics
FREQUENCY SOURCE
National Instruments Corp.
DIGITAL IMAGING
Pulse Instruments
InGaAs CAMERA
Sensors Unlimited, Inc.
MOTION ANALYZER
Umech Tech.
ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE
Veeco Instruments, Inc.
MONOCHROME CAMERA
Kappa opto-electronics GmbH
IMAGE INTENSIFIERS
Hamamatsu Corp.
MICROSCOPE CAMERA
Optronics
SMART CAMERA
Pulnix America Inc.
MONOCHROME CAMERA
Framos Electronic Vertriebs GmbH
INFRARED CAMERA
INO
INFRARED CAMERA
Flir Systems, Inc.
MOTION PROCESSORS
Performance Motion Devices, Inc.
IR CAMERA
Cedip Infrared Systems
LED RINGLIGHT
Orled
RECIRCULATING CHILLER
Applied Thermal Control Ltd.
FLUORESCENCE FILTERS
Omega Optical, Inc.
ANTIVIBRATION ISOLATION
Halcyonics GmbH
WAVEGUIDE SOFTWARE
Optiwave Corp.
MULTIAXIS SYSTEMS
EFD, Inc.
BLACKBODY SOURCE
Infrared Systems Development Corp.
QNX CONTROL
Precitech Inc.
RADIOMETER PROBE
International Light, Inc.
OPTOELECTRONICS
Micro-Metric, Inc.
Nd:YAG LASERS
Unitek Miyachi Corp.
Nd:YAG LASERS
Powerlase
LASER SIMULATION
RSoft Design Group Inc.
BEAM PROFILER
Spiricon, Inc.
LASER DIODES
Lasertel
STACKED ARRAYS
nLight Photonics
WAFER SCRIBING SYSTEM
New Wave Research
SCAN HEADS
Scanlab AG
PORTABLE CHILLERS
PolyScience
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GigaTera, Inc.
UNCOOLED LASER
Bookham Technology plc
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Cincinnati, Inc.
BEAM SHUTTERS
Lasermet Ltd.
RADIOMETER/DOSIMETER
Apprise Technologies Inc.
LIGHT SOURCES
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering
LINE LIGHTS
Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.
LIGHT SOURCES
Avantes BV
CUSTOM OPTIC
Holographix LLC
MIRROR COATINGS
Evaorated Metal Films Corp.
CAMERA LENSES
Janos Technology, Inc.
NEUTRAL-DENSITY FILTERS
Rolyn Optics Co.
OPTICAL FIBER
Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.
IR POLARIZERS
Medway Optics Ltd.
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Mad City Labs, Inc.
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Polytec PI Inc.
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Palomar Technologies Inc.
LENS TESTING
Wells Research and Development, Inc.
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Micromeritics
SPECTROPHOTOMETER
PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences
DIRECT-DRIVE SPINDLE
Aerotech, Inc.
SPECTROPHOTOMETER
Thermo Electron Corp.
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Renishaw, Inc.
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PVI
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dBm Optics, Inc.

FastTrack (Business News)
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Boeing, Ball Aerospace Collaborate on Satellite Communications System
Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems, a unit of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, and Ball...
LEDs Will Become Pivotal to Optoelectronics Industry
New configurations of LEDs will be key to innovative optoelectronic applications, according to...
Ophir Moves, Establishes Optics Company
Ophir Optronics Inc. has relocated to an 18,000-sq-ft building in Wilmington, Mass., in support of...
Zygo Group Targets Defense and Aerospace
Zygo Corp. of Middlefield, Conn., has established a business development group, Zygo Applied...
Two Companies Ally for Customer Service
Matrix Inc., a precision injection molding company in East Providence, R.I., and Optical Alchemy,...
Nanosys Wins Grant for Nanotech Research
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Nanosys Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., the first phase of...
Rofin-Sinar Licenses Lasers to Fanuc
Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. of Plymouth, and Fanuc Robotics North America Inc. of Rochester...
Andor Expands in Northern Ireland
Scientific camera developer Andor Technology of South Windsor, Conn., has invested more than...
Firm Acquires CVI's Laser Optics Business
Norwest Equity Partners of Minneapolis has acquired the laser optics business of CVI Laser Corp. of...
Companies to Develop OLED Deposition Systems
Kurt J. Lesker Co. of Clairton, Pa., and Imperial College London will cooperate to develop organic...
Optics Manufacturer Enlarges Operation
Liquid crystal optical device supplier Boulder Nonlinear Systems of Lafayette, Colo., has expanded...
Joint Venture Creates OLED Operation
Optrex Corp. of Tokyo and Nippon Seiki Co. Ltd. of Nagaoka, Japan, have created Adeon Co. Ltd.,...
Taliescent Moves to Technology Park
Taliescent Corp. has relocated to the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park in Tucson....
Physik Instrumente Buys Electronics Firm
Nanopositioning equipment manufacturer Physik Instrumente of Karlsruhe, has secured GSG Electronics...
Three Professors Win Laser Science Awards
For their contributions to the physics of fundamental and applied quantum electronics, Leon Cohen...
Industrial Laser Shipments Remain Steady
First-quarter 2003 shipments of industrial laser equipment and systems within North America and...
UK's Exitech Opens Facility in US
Exitech Ltd., a laser micromachining systems integrator based in Oxford, UK, has opened a...
Elbit Systems Subsidiary Wins Boeing Contract
Vision Systems International LLC (VSI) of San Jose, Calif., has been awarded a $60.1 million...
Cancer Research Funded at St. Andrews
Scientists at the University of St. Andrews in the UK have received a grant of more than $80,000 to...
Polaroid Sells Commercial Optics Div.
Polaroid Corp. of Waltham, Mass., has sold its Commercial Optics Div. in Norwood, Mass., to...
Veeco Opens Process-Integration Center
Veeco Instruments Inc. of Woodbury, N.Y., has opened a 15,000-sq-ft epitaxial process-integration...
Company to Enhance Manufacture of IR Sensors
To improve manufacturing technology for third-generation IR sensors under the Dual-Band Focal Plane...
Avanex Buys Corning, Alcatel Photonics Technologies
Corning Inc. will essentially be out of the photonic components manufacturing business with the...
Collaboration Results in Eye-Safe Microlaser
Quantum Group Inc. of San Diego has announced an eye-safe microlaser that can be used in...

Feature Articles
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Laser Diodes Look for Long Life
How long is long enough for a laser diode to last? The answer essentially depends on the...
Reliability Counts for Laser Diodes
What does a simple $10 laser pointer have in common with a space-qualified optical transmitter...
Exploring Failure Probability of High-Power Laser Diodes
For industrial applications, high-power laser diodes must last at least 10,000 hours. This will...
Standardization of Laser Diode Lifetime Testing
Laser diodes are well-established in both telecom and commercial applications. Semiconductor laser...
Electro-Optical Characterization of Organic LEDs
Organic LED displays employ an emerging light-emissive technology for efficiently converting...
Laser-Based Micromachining Gets Practical
According to professor Y. Lawrence Yao and colleagues at Columbia University in New York,...
Micromachining Lends Flexibility to Display Applications
Fully integrated laser-based micromachining systems are gaining acceptance in several areas of...
Lasers Target Glass Marking
As do many materials suppliers, manufacturers of glass products stand to benefit from...
Shaping Diamond for Industrial Tools
Both manufactured (polycrystalline) and natural diamonds are finding an ever-increasing variety of...
Lasers Trim Embedded Passive Components
Throughout the electronics industry, the demand for more functionality and reduced package size...
Microscopy Solutions Accelerate Research
Plug-and-play microscopy is a fairly new concept that has some researchers shaking their heads....
Imaging Center Offers the Latest Microscopy Techniques
Scientists study samples, such as microscopic detail of cellular tissue from a mouse kidney and...
New Tools Add Precision to Live-Cell Fluorescence
Researchers using live-cell fluorescence often have to examine samples repeatedly to observe...
Focusing on TIRF Microscopy
Applications from cell dynamics and single-molecule events to vesicle and protein tracking are all...
Automation Adds to the Microscopy Mix
Some researchers are legendary for their lab capability, easily able to find needles in haystacks....
Adaptive Optics Improves Multiphoton Imaging
In the years since Bio-Rad Laboratories Ltd. of Hemel Hempstead, UK, licensed the right to...
Piezoresistive Sensors Facilitate High-Speed Nanopositioning
Science and industry requirements are fueling demand for smaller and higher-speed nanopositioners....
Thin-Film Filters Come of Age
Multilayer optical thin-film filters play a critical role in applications ranging from biomedical...

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Presstime Bulletin
Polymer Lasers Produced by Soft Lithography
Scientists at the University of St. Andrews in the UK have fabricated semiconducting polymer...
All-Optical Device Switches Signal Wavelength
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have developed what they call a...
National Ignition Facility Beamline Produces 10.4 kJ
On the evening of May 30, researchers at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore...

Research
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Compensating Thermal Effects in Rod Lasers
By forcing an Nd:YAG laser to operate in radial or azimuthal polarization, a team at Soreq Nuclear...
Novel Chromatic Dispersion Compensation
A collaboration between researchers at OFS and Bell labs of Murray Hill and Holmdel, N.J.,...
Eliminating Beat Noise in Ring Lasers
Single-frequency ring lasers utilizing erbium-doped fiber amplifiers as the gain medium are...
Digital Holography Used in Watermarking 3-D Object
In this age of tightened security, researchers at the University of Connecticut in Storrs have...
Shocked Photonic Crystals Tune Light
In a series of "numerical experiments," researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in...

Technology
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Photonics Examines Brake Noise
Most automotive brake noise is little more than an annoyance. But as advances in technology and...
Spectrometer Uses Micromachined Grating
In the pursuit of compact spectrometers for a variety of industrial applications, researchers at...
Fiber Laser Pumps Fiber Lasers for Telecommunications Applications
A coalition of British and Russian telecom engineers has developed a fiber laser system that may...
Nd:BaYF Laser Produces 2.4 W
Lasers based on BaY2F8 (BaYF) have the potential to compete with other neodymium-doped solid-state...
Microscopy Probes Electron Behavior in Lasers
Using variants of atomic force microscopy, a group of scientists from the University of Toronto and...
Systems Compensate for Polarization Mode Dispersion
Dispersion, particularly polarization mode dispersion, becomes increasingly problematic at higher...