Skip Navigation Links.
Most Popular Content
Community Forum
Photonics Directory
Accent on Applications
Back to top Back To Top
Photonics Detects Wildfires
The fire season of 2002 was the second worst in 50 years, burning more than 7 million acres and...
Optical Stimuli Control Magnetism in Novel Materials
In 1886, Heinrich Hertz observed that utraviolet light, when directed at a conduction plate, caused...
Grating Shrinks Endoscope
Endoscopes provide high-resolution color images in real time for a range of medical applications,...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
Back to top Back To Top
advertisement
advertisement
HIGH-SPEED SENSORS
DVT Corp.
TIME-DELAY CIRCUITS
Little Optics, Inc.
OPTICAL COMPONENT MEASUREMENT
Luna Technologies, Inc.
EPOXY RESIN
Andover Corp.
PULSE SHAPER
Clark-MXR, Inc.
EPITAXIAL WAFER CHARACTERIZATION
Optical Metrology Innovations Ltd.
FIBER-COUPLED LASER MODULES
Blue Sky Research
LASER DIODE CONTROLLERS
VueMetrix
FLUORESCENT LINEAR LAMPS
StockerYale, Inc.
PIEZO STAGES
Polytec PI Inc.
MODULATORS
Photline Technologies
HOT MIRRORS
Acton Research Corp.
BEAM ANALYZER
Spiricon, Inc.
STEPPER MOTOR CONTROLLER
Prior Scientific, Inc.
PHOTODIODE ARRAYS
OSI Fibercomm
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Hamamatsu Corp.
BEAM SHAPER
Holo-Or Ltd.
ACHROMATIC WAVE PLATES
Tower Optical Corp.
IMAGE SENSOR CHIP
Peripheral Imaging Corp.
VCSEL ARRAY
Laser Components GmbH
SPOT-CURING PROBE
International Light, Inc.
SOLID-STATE LASER
ELS Elektronik Laser System GmbH
WHITE LED ILLUMINATION
Schott Fostec
WIRE BONDER
Palomar Technologies Inc.
PROFILOMETERS
Ambios Technology, Inc.
CO2 LASER
Coherent, Inc.
MEGAPIXEL CAMERA
Carl Zeiss Ltd.
LIGHT CONTROLLERS
Operations Technology Inc.
REFLECTIVE GLAZE
Morgan Advanced Ceramics
SCAN GENERATORS
Toptica Photonics AG
MICROMEASUREMENT
Optical Gaging Products, Inc.
CRYSTAL SLICERS
Crystal Systems
DPSS LASERS
Bavarian Photonics GmbH
DIGITAL CCD CAMERA
The Cooke Corp.
PIEZOELECTRIC POSITIONER
piezosystem jena GmbH
LUMINANCE MEASUREMENT
opsira GmbH
BEAM HOMOGENIZATION
ingeneric gmbh
ELECTRON MICROSCOPES
Leo Electron Microscopy Group
LASER ALIGNMENT
Photonic Products Ltd.
WAFER POSITIONING
Newport Corp.
SPECTRORADIOMETER
Gamma Scientific Inc.
SUPERLUMINESCENT LEDs
DenseLight Semiconductors Pte Ltd.
PULSE FORM ANALYSIS
Gigahertz-Optik, Inc.
SOFTWARE UPGRADE
Euresys SA
IMAGE SENSOR
SphereOptics Hoffman LLC
COLOR MEASUREMENT
BYK-Gardner USA
RESISTIVE GLASS
Burle Electro-Optics, Inc.
LOW-WATER-PEAK FIBER
BOC Group
LASER DIODES
Osram Opto Semiconductors, Inc.
PHOTON COUNTING
C&L Instruments Inc.
INTELLIGENT CAMERA
Vision Components GmbH
INSTRUMENTATION MODULES
Stanford Research Systems Inc.
LIGHT-CURED ADHESIVE
Dymax Corp.
Nd:YAG LASER
GSI Lumonics, Inc.
COMBINATION DRIVERS
Durel Corp.
LASER POWER PROBE
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
BEAM EXPANDERS
Standa Optomechanical Products
THICKNESS EVALUATION
Isis optronics GmbH
CONTOUR ANALYSIS
Taylor Hobson Precision
MULTIPLE-VIEW IMAGING
Volpi Manufacturing USA
LIGHT TRANSDUCER
Photamp
FIBER LASER
IPG Photonics Inc.
CAMERA LINK PRODUCTS
Vivid Engineering
CAMERA SHUTTERS
Sunex, Inc.
OPTICAL FIBERS
Liekki Oy
DIGITAL CAMERA
Soft Imaging System Corp.

FastTrack (Business News)
Back to top Back To Top
advertisement
Spectra-Physics Expands in China
With the opening of a subsidiary in Beijing, Spectra-Physics of Mountain View, Calif., has expanded...
Avanex to Purchase Optical Systems Unit of Vitesse
With a view to expanding its transponder line and further developing systems that integrate optics,...
Montana Firm Wins S2-Chip Technology Funding
To further develop S2-Chip technology for improved radar systems, Scientific Materials Corp. of...
Headwall Photonics Is Launched
Headwall Photonics Inc. has achieved a management buyout of the spectral module and holographic...
PI Establishes NanoInnovation Grant
Polytec PI Inc. of Auburn, Mass., has announced an annual award worth $25,000 to support the work...
Rockwell to Supply Spectacles for Laser Protection
Under a two-year, $5.9 million contract, Rockwell Scientific Co. LLC of Thousand Oaks, Calif., will...
EaglePicher Cedes Optical-Grade Germanium Leadership to Umicore
With Belgium-based Umicore SA's purchase of key germanium assets from EaglePicher of Quapaw, Okla.,...

Feature Articles
Back to top Back To Top
advertisement
Flexible Imaging with Smart Cameras
Smart cameras may be selling like hotcakes, but they’re really not revolutionary in terms of image...
New Cameras Offer Image Intelligence
The introduction and proliferation of smart cameras has been the most significant development in...
New Solutions for Image Processing
For smart cameras, image isn’t everything. There’s also image processing to consider. Being able to...
Custom Optics Meet the Challenges of 2-D Symbol Applications
The rising popularity of two-dimensional symbols for bar-code applications has increased the need...
Vision Guidance Increases Robots' Utility
Take the robot — basically a blind beast of burden — add vision capability, and you now have an...
Vision Sensors Meet High-Speed Networking
As production line speeds continue to accelerate, manual inspection has given way to automation...
Wavelength Monitoring of Sensors: Two Approaches
Fiber sensors offer several significant advantages over conventional electrical sensors. They’re...
Michelson Interferometry Interrogates Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
Fiber Bragg gratings, which have had such success in wavelength division multiplexing for...
Tunable Laser Wavelength Calibration for Fiber Sensing
Monitoring the wavelength reflected from a fiber Bragg grating can be achieved using tunable laser...
Polymer Optics Gain Respect
For many years, polymer optics languished as the stepchild of the photonics world. Considered...


Presstime Bulletin
Back to top Back To Top
advertisement
Single Nanotubes Display Steady, Narrow Emissions
Reporting in the Sept. 4 issue of Science, researchers at the University of Rochester in New York...
New Ring Laser Design Promises Telecom Improvement
Ring microlasers have proved useful in many applications, including optical communications,...
'Smart Dust' Self-Assembles and Self-Orients
Micron-size, chemically asymmetric photonic crystals that were developed at the University of...
Buckyballs Enhance Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity
Scientists at the University of Toronto and at Carleton University in Ottawa have produced...

Research
Back to top Back To Top
advertisement
Grating Enables Tunable Fiber Laser for Telecom
Today's fiber optic telecom systems use a different fixed-frequency semiconductor laser to transmit...
'Quantum Pointer' Improves Measurements
An optical system called a "quantum laser pointer," developed by scientists at Australian National...
Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier Displays Low Noise
Most fiber optic systems operate in the 1530- to 1565-nm C-band because the gain of erbium-doped...
Fiber Laser Is Wavelength-Tunable for the S-Band
A group at the National Chiao-Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, has capitalized on recent...
Mode-Locked Ring Laser Produces 274-fs Pulses
Scientists at the University of Central Florida in Orlando have developed a "breathing mode"...
Crystals Compensate for Birefringence in Polymer
The processing of optical polymers in the production of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and lenses...
Crystal Offers High Fourth-Harmonic Conversion Efficiency
Few nonlinear crystals are available whose transmission and nonlinearities are compatible with the...

Technology
Back to top Back To Top
advertisement
New Semiconductor Lithography Makes a Splash
Semiconductor manufacturers are about to be all wet. But that's a good thing. A new technique...
Tunable Dispersion Compensator Uses Micromirrors
At Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. in Yokoha-ma, Japan, engineers have developed a device based...
Hybrid Bragg Grating Enables Optical Current Sensor
Engineers at City University of Hong Kong have demonstrated a compact, inexpensive optical sensor...
Quantum Dots Suitable for Computing
Quantum computers promise to enable immense computing power in systems based on units of...
Minilaser Is Tunable, Single-Frequency Source at 1.5 µm
A widely tunable, single-frequency laser operating in the 1.5-µm spectral region has application...
New Holey Fiber Is Easy to Manufacture
Scientists at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg have developed a...
A New Tunable Optical Filter
Tunable optical filters are versatile devices with a place in a host of photonic applications. They...
Chalcogenide Fibers Show Promise as Raman Lasers
Lasers in the 2- to 10-µm region are important for a number of spectroscopic, remote sensing and...