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Laser Profilometry Inspects Shuttle Thrusters
After a space shuttle mission, technicians thoroughly inspect the vehicle for wear and tear,...
Hemispherical Display Uses Single Lens and Digital Projector
Delivering realistic graphical information to the retina has been a challenge for information...
Beamsplitter Coating Enables Virtual Display in Automobiles
The modern automobile control console has evolved from "dummy lights" to an integrated series of...
Displays Doped with Lanthanides
Emissive display technologies are benefiting from the development of new materials, notably organic...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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LASER FOR WDM SYSTEM TESTING
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering
DIGITAL IMAGE ACQUISITION BOARD
Philips CFT
PULSED DIODE LASER
PicoQuant GmbH
LARGE MODE AREA FIBERS
Crystal Fibre A/S
LINEAR IMAGER
Peripheral Imaging Corp.
IN-FIBER POLARIZER
Chiral Photonics, Inc.
INTENSIFIED CCD IMAGING
Cooke Corp.
FIBER LASERS
Laserline GmbH
CMOS/CCD IMAGER LENSES
Sunex, Inc.
AUTOCOLLIMATOR
TriOptics GmbH
DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE
SphereOptics Hoffman LLC
LASER INSPECTION
Control Systemation Inc.
LED CONTROLLER
Schott Fostec
POLARIZATION OPTICS
ColorLink Inc.
CCD CAMERA
Cordin Scientific Imaging
LABORATORY SPECTROMETER
Spectro Analytical Instruments, Inc.
OPTICAL FIBER
CeramOptec Industries Inc.
LASER TESTING
ILX Lightwave Corp.
VIDEO ACQUISITION
Arvoo Imaging Products
DRIVER AMPLIFIERS
Link Microtek Ltd.
OPTICAL DESIGN
Lambda Research Corp.
LASER POWER ANALYZER
Gigahertz-Optik, Inc.
HEAT CIRCULATORS
PolyScience
8-INPUT CONVERTERS
Advanced Measurement Technology Inc.
MODULATOR DRIVER
New Focus, Inc.
THIN LED CHIPS
Cree, Inc.
POLARIZATION ANALYSIS
Optellios, Inc.
A/D CONVERTERS
Texas Instruments Inc.
SURFACE-MOUNT SENSORS
Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc.
NOISE ABSORPTION
Halcyonics GmbH
TELEMICROSCOPY
Soft Imaging System GmbH
COLLIMATORS, MOUNTS
Optical Surfaces Ltd.
OPM MODULE
NP Photonics, Inc.
CONNECTOR INSPECTION
Lightel Technologies Inc.
VISION INSPECTION
Benchmark Vision Systems Pte. Ltd.
POSITION SENSING
UDT Sensors, Inc.
LASER DIODE MODULE
Blue Sky Research
SUBSTRATE BONDERS
Suss MicroTec AG
LASER SCANNERS
Scanlab AG
FO INTERFEROMETERS
Krell Technologies, Inc.
BEAM STEERING
Special Optics Inc.
MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE
ipd
COLOR RECOGNITION
Laser Components (UK) Ltd.
RAMAN FILTERS
Semrock, Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERA
Optronics
CYLINDRICAL LENSES
ingeneric gmbh
OPTICAL SWITCHES
Polatis Ltd.
THERMOSONIC BONDING
Palomar Technologies Inc.
SOLID-STATE LASER
Elektronik Laser System GmbH (ELS)
NETWORK TESTING
PerkinElmer Optoelectronics
CUSTOM CYLINDERS
Kreischer Optics Ltd.
THERMAL VIEWER/CAMERA
FJW Optical Systems Inc.
CHILLERS
Bay Voltex Corp.
MUX/DEMUX
Gigabit Optics Corp.
RADIOMETER HEAD
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
LASER VISION SYSTEM
Fisba Optik AG
LASER FOR MACHINE VISION
StockerYale, Inc.
PROCESS MONITOR
International Light, Inc.
POLISHING ABRASIVES
Meller Optics, Inc.
IR PHOTOSENSOR
Fairchild Semiconductor
PCI CAMERA
Photron USA, Inc.
HOLLOW PENTA PRISMS
Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.
PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE
Hamamatsu Corp.
LASER FOR SPECTROSCOPY
LaserPath Technologies LLC
THERMOGRAPHY CAMERA
Electrophysics Corp.
IMAGE ANALYSIS
Media Cybernetics, Inc.
INSTRUMENT INTERFACE
Acton Research Corp.
TRANSCEIVER
Firecomms Ltd.
ULTRATHIN WAVE PLATES
OptiSource LLC

FastTrack (Business News)
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Company Ally to Provide Free-Space Optics Products in China
Carrier-class optical transmission equipment provider LightPointe of San Diego will manufacture...
Multiplex Offers Semiconductor Foundry Services
Multiplex Inc., a manufacturer of optoelectronic components and integrated subsystems that is based...
A4Vision Receives Government Contract for 3-D Identification Technology
A4Vision Inc. of Cupertino, Calif., will develop a mobile three-dimensional imaging identification...
Telops and ficonTec Form Alliance
Under a partnership arrangement, ficonTec GmbH of Bremen, Germany, will provide optronic test...
Firm Wins Contract to Develop Chiral Laser
Chiral Photonics Inc. of Clifton, N.J., plans to develop and prototype chiral fiber lasers under a...
Areté to Develop Collision Avoidance System for Marine Vehicles
Areté Associates of Tucson, Ariz., in collaboration with the Office of Naval Research and the US...
Dow Corning Opens Photonics Division
Dow Corning Corp. of Midland, Mich., has launched a photonics group that is expected to draw upon...
Bookham Agrees to Acquire New Focus
Following the acquisition of California companies Cierra Photonics of Santa Rosa and Ignis Optics...
Visualization Analysis Lab Helps Prepare NASA for Shuttle Flight
An advanced visual film analysis system to help detect and repair structural problems on the space...
Companies Form Manufacturing and Distribution Alliance
NP Photonics of Tucson, Ariz., and Chromux Technologies Inc. of Oxnard, Calif., have formed a...
Lightcross to Merge with Arroyo Optics
California-based suppliers to the telecommunications equipment industry, Arroyo Optics Inc. of...
Companies to Develop Thin-Disk Lasers
Spectra-Physics of Mountain View, Calif., and Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH of Jena, Germany,...
DRS to Purchase Integrated Defense Technologies
Under a signed agreement, defense electronics supplier Integrated Defense Technologies (IDT) Inc....
Schott Lithotec to Upgrade Mask Blanks for EUV Lithography
Under a one-year agreement, Schott Lithotec AG of Jena, Germany, will supply International Sematech...
Canadian Photonics Fabrication Center to Open
The purpose of the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Center, scheduled to formally open in May 2004,...
Albis Reintroduces Photodiode Line of Former Opto Speed
Albis Optoelectronics AG of Rüschlikon, Switzerland, has relaunched the photodiode and chip and...
BAE Awarded Contract for Laser System
BAE Systems Avionics of Basildon, UK, will design and develop the laser system for the F-35 Joint...

Feature Articles
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Diagnostic Laser Beam Measurement
Measurement of spatial beam intensity distribution — a beam profile — and of beam propagation...
Deposition Equipment Fine-Tunes Optical Coatings
Over the past few years, the need to pack more telecommunications channels into a given swath of...
Fiber Optic Connectors: Meeting Polishing Demands
Optical fiber is a good vehicle for high-speed data transmission as long as light transmission is...
Holographic Volume Bragg Gratings Stabilize Laser Diode Performance
High-power multimode laser diodes, emitting >1 W per diode, and laser diode arrays, emitting...
Picking Wheat from Chaff
A missile launches from a remote silo, streaks upward through the clouds, then shoots above the...


Presstime Bulletin
Levitators Offer High-Performance Glasses
Researchers at the Glass Products Div. of Containerless Research Inc. of Evanston, Ill., are...
New Model Advances Plasmonics
Scientists at Houston's Rice University have developed a model of the plasmon response of metallic...
Mortar Round Snaps Recon Imagery
A team of scientists at Georgia Institute of Technology's research institute in Atlanta has...

Research
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Amps Can Provide Flat Gain Across C-, L-Bands
A research group at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in Taejon, South...
Double-Pass Amplifier Delivers High Gain and Low Noise
Researchers at Universiti Putra Malaysia in Serdang have conceived and implemented a double-pass...
Good Splices Make Good Lasers
Intracavity losses of a fraction of a percent can cut the output power of a low-gain laser, such as...
Laser Fabricates Waveguides in LiNbO3
The two most common approaches for fabricating waveguides in LiNbO3 -- high-temperature...

Technology
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'One and the Same' Atom Laser Displays Unique Behavior
Scientists investigating one-atom at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena lasers have...
MEMS Enable Tunable Lasers for Telecom
Dynamically reconfiguring next-generation fiber optic telecom systems will require...
Mode-Locked, Tunable Fiber Laser Is Alternative to Ti:Sapphire
Fiber lasers are being developed in laboratories around the world as alternatives to traditional...
Holey Fiber Supports Megawatt Pulses
Scientists at Corning Inc. in Corning, N.Y., have developed a hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber...
Single-Stage YAG Amplifier Sets Power Record
A research group in Japan has achieved 132 W of average green power at 1 kHz by frequency doubling...