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C-MOUNT LENSES
Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH
SCAN SYSTEM
GSI Lumonics, Inc.
GRAY-SCALE STANDARDS
SphereOptics Hoffman LLC
LASER MODULE
Alfalight, Inc.
HIGH-PRECISION MIRRORS
New Focus, Inc.
IMAGING SENSOR
Indigo Systems Corp.
IMAGE PROCESSING
Matrix Vision GmbH
CAMERA COMPONENT
Vincent Associates
LINEAR MOTOR STAGE
Aerotech, Inc.
MATHEMATICAL MODELING
Comsol
CW DIODE LASERS
Shanghai Uniwave Technology
UV CURING COATING
Unaxis Balzers
UV/VIS CURING
Dymax Corp.
DIGITAL COLOR CAMERAS
QImaging
OPTICAL DESIGN
Optical Research Associates
HOLLOW-CORE FIBER
BlazePhotonics Ltd.
OE DEVICE PACKAGING
Laser Diode, Inc.
FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS
PicoQuant GmbH
COATINGS AND SPLITTERS
Alpine Research Optics
FRAME GRABBER
Cognex Corp.
THERMOSETTING POLYMER
Nitto Denko Corp.
FLASH SYSTEM
Schott Glas
BLOB ANALYSIS
Coreco Imaging
IR CAMERA
Infrared Solutions, Inc.
SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS
Blue Sky Research
FIBER TESTING
M2 Optics, Inc.
UV MEASUREMENT
CVI Laser Corp.
IMAGE SENSOR
Micron Technology
MIRROR MOUNTS
Siskiyou Design Instruments
LASER ALIGNMENT
Pinpoint Laser Systems
CCD CAMERAS
JAI Pulnix, Inc.
INDUSTRIAL INSPECTION
Philips CFT Industrial Vision
POLARIZATION TESTING
Barker Aircraft Research Co.
VIBRATION ISOLATION
Kinetic Systems, Inc.
LED DRIVER
Spectrum Illumination LLC
FIBER-COUPLED LASER
Lumics GmbH
ABSORBER HEAD
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERA
DVC Co., Inc.
SPECTROMETER
Instrument Systems GmbH
FIBER COATING
OFS
ALIGNMENT SOFTWARE
Melles Griot
TE-COOLED LASERS
Photonic Products Ltd.
PLASTICS WELDING
Fisba Optik
DIGITAL CCD CAMERAS
Imperx, Inc.
SCANNING MICROSCOPE
Carl Zeiss Ltd.
HEAT SINK ANALYSIS
Applied Thermal
NOTCH FILTERS
Semrock, Inc.
LINEAR LED
Wintriss Engineering Corp.
RECIRCULATING CHILLER
PolyScience
PM FIBERS
Corning Inc.
CO2 SLAB LASERS
Rofin Laser Macro Group
DIGITAL CAMERA
Alternative Vision
FLUORESCENCE IMAGING
Nikon Instruments, Inc.
AMPLIFIERS
Coherent, Inc.
OPTICAL LOW-PASS FILTERS
Sunex, Inc.
LASER SPECTRUM ANALYZER
Precision Photonics Corp.
BEAM PROFILERS
Photon Inc.
LIFE SCIENCE CAMERAS
Apogee Instruments Inc.
CONFOCAL SYSTEM
Olympus America, Inc.
X-RAY IMAGING
Roper Scientific Inc.
COLOR POLARIZERS
ColorLink Inc.
VIDEO CAMERA
Imaging Solutions
IMAGE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
BitFlow Inc.
LASER DIODE CONTROLLER
O/E Land
REMOTE IMAGING
Logical Solutions
METROLOGY SOFTWARE
Rudolph Technologies, Inc.
LASER DIODE
Latronics
LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Dalsa Corp.

FastTrack (Business News)
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Dalsa Wins Order for Custom Sensors
Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has received a $2.1 million production order for custom...
Lockheed Martin Secures Contract for Bomb Kits
Under two contracts from the US Air Force, Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md., will provide Paveway...
Chinese Companies Form Photonics Manufacturing Base
Photop Technologies Inc. has been established by the merger of Koncent Communication Inc., Sandgy...
Osram Obtains Government Contract to Develop OLEDs
To demonstrate the potential of white organic LEDs to conserve energy in commercial and residential...
Rockwell Scientific to Provide IR Sensors for Telescope
Rockwell Scientific Co. LLC of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has been awarded a contract from NASA's...
BAE Systems to Enhance Production of Uncooled Cameras
To upgrade production and reduce the manufacturing cost of MicroIR infrared focal plane arrays by a...
Companies Collaborate on Gene-Expression Analysis
California companies Affymetrix Inc. of Santa Clara and Arcturus Bioscience Inc. of Mountain View...
GSI Lumonics Purchases Westwind Air Bearings
Broadening its offerings in the laser and precision motion components business groups, GSI Lumonics...
German Company Secures Optics Firm
Jenoptik AG of Jena, Germany, has expanded its Photonics Div. with the purchase of all shares of...
Corning Consolidates; Closes Two Plants
To maintain flexibility and lower costs during down cycles of the semiconductor equipment market,...
Jobin Yvon Acquires Fluorescence Company
In the UK, Jobin Yvon Ltd. of Stanmore has acquired IBH Consultants Ltd. of Glasgow and will offer...
Group to Develop Platform for Free-Space Communications
A group of UK companies and universities will develop a next-generation optical platform for...
Sensors Unlimited Awarded Grant for Imaging/Ranging Camera
Sensors Unlimited Inc. of Princeton, N.J., has received a Phase 1b, 12-month, $2 million contract...
Optra Wins Grant to Develop Remote IR Thermographer
Optra Inc. of Topsfield, Mass., will supply a prototype two-band IR thermographer for the remote...
Photonic Products Group Buys Laser Optics
Photonic Products Group Inc. of Northvale, N.J., has purchased the assets and certain liabilities...
Veeco Acquires Emcore's Deposition Unit
Veeco Instruments Inc. of Woodbury, N.Y., has purchased the TurboDisc metallorganic chemical vapor...

Feature Articles
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Ceramic Lasers: Ready for Action
Ceramic lasers have the potential to dramatically reshape today’s marketplace for solid-state...
Infrared Cameras Take Off in New Directions
The principles behind infrared technology have not changed much since they were developed in the...
All IR Cameras Are Not Created Equal
As media saturation spreads in the Western world, it is almost impossible to go anywhere without...
IR Imaging Assesses Damage in Mechanical Parts
Testing the damage induced by fatigue loading to mechanical structures has traditionally been a...
Low-Temperature Measurement of Shiny Metals
Understanding and controlling the temperature of metals at all times during the manufacturing...
MCT-Based Cameras Uncover New Infrared Imaging Applications
Infrared cameras based on mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT) focal plane arrays are finding their way...
Infrared Thermography Streamlines Automotive R&D
Infrared thermography inspection has become a powerful tool in the automotive research and...
Aspherics Come of Age
The use of aspheric surfaces offers the optical designer a way to achieve high performance with a...
Laser Diode Manufacturers Turn Up the Power
By one estimate, the global market for high-power laser diodes could approach $450 million by 2006...
Fluorescence Detection Gains in Sensitivity
The biotechnology and medical diagnostics industries could soon benefit from a technique that...
OFC 2004 Highlights Broadband Access and Cost-Cutting Technologies
Broadband access, including fiber to the premises, and technologies that cut capital and...
Hybridizing Spectroscopic Techniques
Any given material can be characterized using a wide variety of spectroscopic techniques, each of...
Driving Down Detection Limits
Identifying and quantifying the presence of metals is an important factor in determining...
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Moves Ahead
Although the first laser plasma was generated in the early years of laser development, it was not...
Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy and Spectroscopy Advance
Although the rapid advance of scanning probe microscopy in the 1990s enabled routine imaging of...

Presstime Bulletin
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Photonics West: The Buzz Is Back
The nearly 15,000 attendees at last month's Photonics West show in San Jose, Calif., were upbeat...
Reflective Platelets in Squid Are Composed of Protein
The Hawaiian bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes camouflages itself using reflective tissue composed of...
Laser Setup Proposed for Attosecond Spectroscopy
A research team at the University of Ottawa and at Steacie Institute of Molecular Sciences, both in...
Soft Lamination Improves Organic LED Performance
Scientists at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
Ions Generate 5-nm X-Rays
At JILA in Boulder, Colo., researchers have obtained x-rays as short as 5 nm by high-order harmonic...
Light Valves Enable 110-in. High-Definition Display
A team at NHK and Seikei University, both in Tokyo, has reported the development of a 110-in.,...

Research
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Quantum Dots Break 'Artificial Atom' Model
A worldwide collaboration of scientists investigating the electronic states of quantum dots by the...
Single-Crystal Nd:YVO4 Fiber Exhibits Good Laser Parameters
Neodymium-doped vanadates have proved very successful materials for miniature diode-pumped lasers...
CW Parametric Oscillator Is Powerful Spectroscopic Tool
A joint effort by researchers at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and at Sandia...
Three-Dimensional Process Sculpts Waveguides in Silicon
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have reported a technique that is based...
Nonlinear Crystal Generates 5 W of CW Deep-UV
The tight lock that excimer lasers had enjoyed for many years on the market for high-power...

Technology
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Research into Condensates Continues
It has been nearly a decade since the first experiments were reported on Bose-Einstein condensates...
Transistor Emits Infrared Radiation
A research team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed a transistor that...
Er-Doped Fiber Amplifier Provides Dynamic Control in C- and L-Bands
Cramming an ever-increasing amount of information through existing optical fibers enhances the...
Nanocrystals in Glass May Be Suitable for LEDs
Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Ikeda,...
White LEDs to Appear in Audi Headlights
Audi AG of Ingolstadt, Germany, will feature Luxeon white LEDs from Lumileds Lighting LLC of San...