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Laser Ablation Enhances Uranium Dating
To gain a better understanding of the history of the Earth, scientists have learned to peel back...
NIR Reflectance Spectroscopy Analyzes Grain
Advances in genetics and biotechnology have made it possible to manipulate the chemical...
Terahertz Astronomy at the Pole Opens New Vistas
The South Pole hardly offers a welcoming environment, even during its relatively warm summer...
Digital Cameras Help Solve Mystery of Leaking Aqueduct
When New York's water supply began turning up in lakes and pools around Ulster and Orange counties,...
Optical Brighteners Recycle Old Colors
As plastics age, they become oxidized and yellowed through photoexposure. In consumer products,...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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PULSED LASER WAVELENGTH METER
Exfo Burleigh Products Group Inc.
REACTOR FOR SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS
Comlase
DIGITAL FRAME GRABBER MODULE
Matrox Imaging
MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION
National Instruments
SPECTROGRAPHS AND MONOCHROMATORS
Acton Research
FOCUS HEADS FOR WELDING
GSI Lumonics, Inc.
SPECTROPHOTOMETER
McPherson, Inc.
1310-nm VCSEL DIODE
Infineon Technologies AG
MICROFABRICATION
Chiral Photonics, Inc.
ALIGNMENT CARDS
Laser Components (UK) Ltd.
DIGITAL CAMERA
Nikon Instruments, Inc.
3-D MICROSCOPY
LaVision BioTec
BANDGAP FIBERS
BlazePhotonics Ltd.
DIODE LASERS
Limo GmbH
ASE MODULE
NP Photonics, Inc.
KINEMATIC STAGES
Alio Industries
CMOS CAMERA
Redlake MASD Inc.
FIBER OPTIC PROBE
InPhotonics, Inc.
PROFILE SENSOR
Hamamatsu Corp.
RETARDATION PLATES
Standa Ltd.
FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS
PicoQuant GmbH
SENSOR INTEGRATION
Unaxis Balzers
COLLIMATOR
Space Optics Research Labs (SORL)
DIODE LASER SYSTEMS
unique-m.o.d.e. AG
HIGH-SPEED CAMERAS
Hitachi Denshi
LINEAR ACTUATORS
Del-Tron Precision, Inc.
LIGHT MEASUREMENT
SphereOptics Hoffman LLC
AlN SUBSTRATES
Crystal IS
FRAME GRABBER
Leutron Vision, Inc.
UV LIGHT SOURCE
Heraeus Nobelight GmbH
ARRAY MANUFACTURING
Exitech
LONG-RANGE SURVEILLANCE
Diversified Optical Products, Inc.
IR CAMERA CORES
BAE Systems
BEAMSPLITTERS
Holo-Or Ltd.
SPECTROMETER INTERFACE
StellarNet, Inc.
ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
Lambda Research Corp.
AUTOMATED ASSEMBLY
ficonTec
LONG LIGHT LINES
Fiberoptics Technology Inc.
LENS FABRICATION
LOH Optikmaschinen AG
LARGE-FORMAT CAMERAS
Indigo Systems Corp.
FIBER LASER
Lumics GmbH
COMPACT STAGE
Polytec PI Inc.
AR-COATED BALL LENSES
Applied Image
ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEM
Intellite
157-nm LASER
Lambda Physik Inc.
SOLID-STATE LASERS
New Focus, Inc.
STRAIN-RATE TESTING
Cooke Corp.
METAL HALIDE LIGHT SOURCE
Schott Fostec
VOLTAGE AMPLIFIERS
Femto Messtechnik GmbH
VISIBLE LASER SOURCE
High Power Devices, Inc.
POSITIONING SYSTEM
Melles Griot
CCD DETECTION
Jobin Yvon Ltd.
CAMERAS
PCO Computer Optics GmbH
FIBER LASERS
DiCos Technologies, Inc.
NONCONTACT MEASUREMENT
Micro-Metric, Inc.
MACHINE VISION CAMERAS
Cohu Inc., Electronics Div.s
VIBRATION CONTROL
Kinetic Systems, Inc.
REFLECTANCE STANDARD
Ocean Optics, Inc.
SAPPHIRE WAVE PLATES
Meller Optics, Inc.
FRAME GRABBERS
Cognex Corp.
NIR ANALYZER
Perten Instruments
FIBER LASER
Koheras A/S
LASER BEAM SHAPER
Newport Corp.
VOLUME PHASE GRATING
Wasatch Photonics
TEST AND MEASUREMENT
Wells Research and Development, Inc.
LASER EVALUATION
Toptica Photonics AG
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NiCoForm
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Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
HIGH-BRIGHTNESS LASERS
Frankfurt Laser Co.
OPTICAL DESIGN SOFTWARE
Optical Research Associates
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NKT Integration
ONE-SHOT AUTOCORRELATOR
U-Oplaz
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Tiger Optics LLC
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Coherent Molectron
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Roper Scientific Inc.
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Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.
DISPLAY MEASUREMENT
Instrument Systems GmbH
LASER BEAM PROFILER
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
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PicoQuant GmbH
VIOLET LASER MODULE
Power Technology, Inc.
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Prior Scientific, Inc.
GREEN LASER
StockerYale, Inc.
MULTIMODE FIBER SHUTTER
Phoenix Photonics Ltd.
PICOSECOND LASER
Lumera Laser GmbH
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Arden Photonics Ltd.
Nd:YLF LASER
Thales Laser
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B&W Tek Inc.
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Diffraction Limited
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Melcor Corp.

FastTrack (Business News)
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JAI Purchases Pulnix America
JAI A*S of Copenhagen, Denmark, has purchased machine vision component supplier Pulnix America Inc....
Indigo's Software Division Relocates to Florida
Indigo Advanced Systems, a recent acquisition of Indigo Systems Corp. of Goleta, Calif., has moved...
Cierra Photonics Bought by UK Company
Bookham Technology plc of Oxfordshire, UK, has agreed to acquire the business, assets and certain...
Company to Build Dual-Mode Camera
Sensors Unlimited Inc. of Princeton, N.J., will develop a combined imaging/rangefinding camera...
Quantum Dot Company Licenses Technology
Evident Technologies of Troy, N.Y., has licensed a water-soluble preparation from Rockefeller...
Canadian Universities Link to Microchip Testing Equipment
Canada has launched the National Microelectronics and Photonics Testing Collaboratory, a $23...
Carl Zeiss Opens Assembly Facility
In a formal ceremony in June, the Carl Zeiss Group unveiled a microscope assembly hall at its...
Raytheon Wins Helicopter Sensor Contract
The US Army's Special Operations Command has awarded Raytheon Co. of El Segundo, Calif., a $110.8...
Veeco, Schott Ally to Upgrade Photomask Technology
To advance photomask technology and particle reduction for next-generation photomask blanks, Schott...
Media Cybernetics Puchases DataCell's Image Analysis Assets
Analytical imaging software provider Media Cybernetics Inc. of Silver Spring, Md., has bought the...
3M Foundation Helps Fund Laser Training
The 3M Foundation, based in St. Paul, Minn., has donated $70,000 to Linn State Technical College to...
ILX Lightwave Wins Testing Contract
Under a test service contract with ABB Bomem of Quebec City, ILX Lightwave Corp. of Bozeman, Mont.,...
Advanced Photonix to Supply Detector Technology for Missile
Advanced Photonix Inc. of Camarillo, Calif., will provide Raytheon Co. of Lexington, Mass., with...
Pulse Instruments Partners with Software Company
Pulse Instruments of Torrance, Calif., a commercial test equipment manufacturer for infrared and...
Glasgow Company Wins Laser Contract
Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global Ltd. of Glasgow, UK, has won a contract to supply 780-nm...
Veeco Gets MBE Processes
The University of California, Santa Barbara, will transfer molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth...
Laser 2003 Shows Optimism
The number of visitors and exhibitors at Laser 2003, held at the Munich Trade Fair Centre in June,...
Alliance to Develop Sensor Technology
Micron Optics Inc. of Atlanta and LxSix Photonics of St. Laurent, Québec, Canada, have...
IR Detector Contract Goes to Ohio Firm
CMC Electronics Cincinnati of Mason, Ohio, will supply megapixel IR detector assemblies for the...
Irish Photonic Test Companies Consolidate
The merger of Dublin-based Tsunami Photonics Ltd., a supplier of fast test system software for...

Feature Articles
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Colorimetry, Anatomical Studies Advance
Color vision has long fascinated scientists, providing topics for research in psychology and...
Optical Profiling Applications Expand
Optical profiling (white-light interferometry) is a noncontact technique for determining surface...
Laser Technology Targets Microelectronics Defect Detection
Using optical extension techniques, ArF lasers at 193 nm already produce features as small as 0.1...
Flat Panel Display Metrology Finds More than Meets the Eye
Popularity has its drawbacks, which for the increasingly popular flat panel display industry means...
Paintballing with Light
Paintballing techniques are well-established military training tools, but by using laser simulation...
Hollow-Core Fibers Seek the 'Holey' Grail
Photonic crystal fibers are glass fibers with a fine array of airholes running down their length....


Presstime Bulletin
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Tungsten Lattice Structure May Improve Thermal Photovoltaics
A tungsten 3-D photonic crystal developed at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., may...
High-Conductivity N-Type Diamond Demonstrated
Researchers at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique's facilities in Meudon and Grenoble,...
Thermal Imaging Gets under Mars' Skin
Scientists have released the most detailed results to date from the thermal emission imaging...
'Light Filaments' Burst Through Fog
The absorption and scattering of infrared radiation by water droplets is a serious issue for...
Ultrafast Lasers Enable All-Optical Histology
Following work by other researchers with dielectrics, metals and various biological tissues,...
Composite Molecule Promises Rewritable 3-D Optical Memory
Scientists from the University of California, Irvine, describe in the July 8 issue of PNAS a...

Research
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Lasers and Chemical Etch Make Tiny Holes in Glas
Scientists at the Natural Research and National Research councils, both in Ottawa, have shown that...
Terahertz Probes Reveal Excitonic Enhancement
While terahertz technology hovers between the fields of high-frequency electronics and photonics,...
Microlaser-Pumped Optical Parametric Generator Is Small, Tunable IR Source
Just as a high-gain laser can function in a superradiant mode -- i.e., without a resonator -- a...
Photonic Crystal Device Demonstrates Design Rules
Although research laboratories around the world have studied photonic crystals intensively, few...
In Search of the Dipole Moment
Turning quantum dots on and off sounds as simple as flipping a switch, but it can't be accomplished...

Technology
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Optical Switch Uses Thin Film and Mirror
Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn and Khunat Chaitavon of Thailand's National Science and Technology...
Co-Doping Drives 2-µm Fiber Laser
A group of scientists at the University of Sydney in Australia has demonstrated the use of...
Origin of 'Fiber Fuse' Is Revealed
In the argot of fiber optics engineers, a "fiber fuse" occurs when a fiber, overloaded with optical...
All-Fiber, Q-Switched Laser Generates 1.8 mW
A team of scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei has designed and...
Q-Switched Ho:YAG Laser Produces 50-mJ Pulses
Eye-safe pulsed lasers operating in the 2-µm spectral region are useful in ranging, remote sensing...
Researchers Demonstrate Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
A fiber laser capable of producing a train of picosecond, wavelength-tunable pulses at gigahertz...
Femtosecond Pulses Write Fiber Bragg Gratings
A group at the Communications Research Centre Canada in Ottawa has presented an alternative means...
External Cavity Controls Transverse Mode in VCSEL
The fundamental transverse mode of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) produces a...