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LED MEASUREMENT
Instrument Systems GmbH
ASPHERE MEASUREMENT
LOH Optical Machinery, Inc.
HIGH-SPEED LASER
Synrad, Inc.
DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA
DRS Data & Imaging Systems, Inc.
COATING SYSTEM
Leybold Optics GmbH
CCD CAMERA
Photonic Science Ltd.
LONG-RANGE IR CAMERA
Cedip Infrared Systems
PULSED LIGHT SOURCES
Jobin Yvon IBH Ltd.
COLOR SENSOR MODULE
Hamamatsu Corp.
RAMAN LASER
LaserPath Technologies LLC
OPTICAL VIDEO PROBE
Ram Optical Instrumentation, Inc.
REFLECTOMETERS
Anritsu Co.
NIR ANALYZER
Axsun Technologies, Inc.
LASER DIODES
Melles Griot Electro-Optics Group
FLUID LENSES
Philips Research
CCD SENSOR
Eastman Kodak Co.
PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR
LaserVision GmbH
LASER HEAD
Monocrom SL
BALANCED PHOTODIODES
Discovery Semiconductors, Inc.
PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERA
JAI Pulnix, Inc.
GaAsP DETECTORS
Bio-Rad Microscience Ltd.
SCANNING MICROSCOPE
Nanonics Imaging Ltd.
PHOTOSENSOR MODULES
Burle Industries, Inc.
AUTOCORRELATOR
Spectra-Physics
FIBER ALIGNMENT
Palomar Technologies Inc.
CCD CAMERA
Photometrics
DUAL-MODE AMPLIFIER
Nanomotion, Inc.
E-O TEST & MEASUREMENT
CI Systems, Inc.
MANUFACTURING PROCESS
EM4, Inc.
LINE-SCAN CAMERAS
Atmel Corp.
FIBER CONNECTORS
TraTech Fiberoptics, Inc.
GREEN LASER
Coherent, Inc.
X-RAY INSPECTION
Feinfocus
CHILLERS
Bay Voltex Corp.
FIBER SPLICING
Siemens Dematic
RAMAN SYSTEM
Lambda Solutions, Inc.
LIGHT SOURCES
Spectra-Physics
ULTRACLEAN ACTUATOR
New Focus, Inc.
OPTICAL FIBERS
Oxford Electronics Ltd.
3-D IMAGE MAPPING
Isra Vision Systems AG
MULTIFUNCTIONAL TEST SET
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering, Inc.
CAMERA UPGRADE
Basler AG, Vision Components Div.
GLASS CUTTER
TLC International
LIGHT SCATTERING
Horiba Instruments, Inc.
LED MEASUREMENT
Optronic Laboratories, Inc.
MACHINE VISION
DVT Corp.
PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS
Newport Corp.
MICROSCOPE CAMERA
klughammer gmbh
ELECTRO-OPTICAL SHUTTER
Optimet Inc.
EYE-SAFE LASER DIODES
Laser Diode, Inc.
OXIDE EVAPORATION
Cerac, Inc.
THICKNESS MEASUREMENT
Scalar Technologies Ltd.
CMOS IMAGE SENSORS
Micron Technology, Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERA
Olympus Europa GmbH
LENS DESIGN SOFTWARE
Lambda Research Corp.
PM COUPLERS
Comcore Optical Technologies, Inc.
RAMAN INSTRUMENTS
Enwave Optronics, Inc.
POLARIZATION SCANNER
Phoenix Photonics Ltd.
TRIPLE-NOTCH FILTERS
Semrock, Inc.
BLACKBODY CALIBRATION
Mikron Infrared, Inc.
BEAM MEASUREMENT
Primes GmbH
SPECTROFLUOROMETER
Ocean Optics, Inc.
CCD CAMERA
Sensovation AG
DATA ACQUISITION
PicoQuant GmbH
PHOTODIODE TESTER
dBm Optics, Inc.
ATOMIC ABSORPTION
Varian, Inc.
LASER MARKER
Unitek Miyachi Corp.
DIGITAL CAMERA
DVC Co., Inc.
BEAM PROFILER
Spiricon, Inc.
OPTICAL TESTING
Timbercon, Inc.
POLARIZATION MANAGER
Optellios, Inc.
EXCIMER LIGHT SOURCE
Cymer, Inc.
UVA LIGHT SOURCES
Gilway Technical Lamp
OPTICAL FILTERS
Union Optic, Inc.
WAVELENGTH MONITOR
StockerYale Canada
DIGITAL CAMERA
Riegl USA
SPECTROGRAPH
Andor Technology Ltd.

FastTrack (Business News)
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Nanoptek Relocates
Nanoptek Corp. has moved to Clock Tower Place, a Maynard, Mass., corporate complex that provides...
BU Is Building Nanophotonics Lab
The Photonics Center at Boston University has begun construction of the $1.5 million NanoPhotonics...
Michigan Company to Develop Lidar System for High-Altitude Wind Measurement
Under a two-year, $2.1 million contract from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, as part of...
Companies Form OPO Distribution Agreement
Sacher Lasertechnik LLC, a Buena Park, Calif.-based service site for diode laser products, and GWU...
Cree Buys Gallium-Nitride Substrate Business
For $10.25 million, Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., has acquired the gallium-nitride substrate and...
Ohio Firms to Develop Flexible Plasma Displays
Imaging Systems Technology (IST) of Toledo and Extreme Photonix of Cincinnati have joined forces to...
Raytheon Wins Contract for Weapon Guidance
The US Air Force has awarded Raytheon Co. of Waltham, Mass., the maximum available share of three...
Semiconductor Fabrication Comes Roaring Back
To everything there is a season, and now is the time to build -- at least as far as the...
Flir to Provide Cameras for Air Base Security
Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., has received a $7.2 million order for its ThermoVision Sentry...
BAE Systems Opens Laser Centre of Excellence in UK
The Laser Centre of Excellence has been opened in Edinburgh by BAE Systems Avionics Group of...
Dalsa Wins Contracts for Customized Cameras
The Application Specific Contracts group of Dalsa Corp., which is based in Waterloo, Ontario,...
Companies Merge to Develop IR Instrumentation
Wilks Enterprise Inc. of South Norwalk, Conn., and Optical Coating Corp. of Natick, Mass., have...
British Alliance Formed
To combine the technical expertise of the Centre for Integrated Photonics of Ipswich with the...
Varioptic Defends Its Liquid Lens Patent Rights
Varioptic of Lyon, France, has announced that it will enforce the patents it holds on the use of...
GSI Lumonics Agrees to Buy MicroE Systems
GSI Lumonics Inc. of Billerica, Mass., has signed a definitive agreement under which it will...
Mözak to Represent Dyntest in US and Asia
Dyntest, a Grassau, Germany-based manufacturer of scriber/breaker systems for compound...

Feature Articles
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RGB Source Powers Up Laser Projection Displays
Despite being considerably more expensive than TV sets, liquid crystal display projectors are...
Light Tamers
From sophisticated deep-UV steppers to indoor-outdoor lighting applications, passing through...
Cleaning Standards for Fiber Optic Connectors Promise Time and Cost Savings
A cleaning standard for fiber optic connectors could save industry millions of dollars annually....
Slashing the Costs of High-Precision Micromachining
Nanosecond pulses from Q-switched, solid-state lasers have long been used in a variety of machining...
Tunable Telecom Lasers Promote Flexibility First
With the telecom market showing signs of improvement, interest in tunable lasers is growing....
Manufacturing Strategy Combats Laser Price Pressures
The manufacturing yield of single-mode lasers for modern fiber optic communications systems is...
Standardizing Tunable Lasers
In 2001, when the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) in Fremont, Calif., began work on a tunable...
Manufacturing Matters with Tunable Lasers
One problem faced by manufacturers of full-band-tunable laser modules is the need for close cost...
Nondestructive Inspection: Choosing the Right Microfocus X-ray Source and Detector
Of all nondestructive test methods, only x-ray technology enables visual detection of defects...
The Human Visual System Provides Clues to Better Object Recognition
Machine-based vision systems, such as those used in the factory, at security checkpoints and in...
Electron Multiplication CCDs Offer a Flexible Solution
A recent advance in CCD technology is the introduction of electron multiplication or charge carrier...
Resolution Considerations for Color Imaging Technique
Among the methods for color image creation and sampling, two popular techniques in common use are...
CCDs Outperform Film in Rotating-Mirror Cameras
Historically, the fastest framing cameras have been rotating-mirror film cameras, which can capture...
Femtosecond Lasers Carve out a Niche in Micromachining
The drive for miniaturization in electronics, photonics and biomedical devices is spurring an...

Presstime Bulletin
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Antimissile Laser Downs Large-Caliber Rocket
Northrop Grumman Space Technology of Redondo Beach, Calif., has announced that the Mobile Tactical...
Tonks-Girardeau Quantum Gas Created
Reporting in the May 20 issue of Nature, physicists from Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik,...
GaN Superior for Short-Wavelength LEDs
A team of researchers from General Electric Global Research Center in Niskayuna, N.Y., and from AXT...
Fluidic Lens Forms Different Lens Types
A fluidic adaptive lens developed at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla...

Research
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Periodically Poled MgO:LiNbO3 Generates High-Power Green
Although green powers in excess of 1 W have been generated with periodically poled LiNbO3 (PPLN),...
Left-Handed Materials Research Advances
The ability of left-handed materials to focus electromagnetic waves in unusual ways promises unique...
New Resin Suitable for Multiphoton Polymerization
Scientists at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and at Boston University have developed an...
Quantum Cryptography Used to Transfer Funds
Researchers at Universität Wien and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria, the...

Technology
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VCSEL for Telecom Features Curved Mirror for Single-Mode Operation
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are...
Fiber Laser Offers New Approach to 488-nm Emission
Solid-state laser sources at the argon-ion wavelength of 488 nm find many applications in medicine,...
Nonlinear Lidar Detects, Identifies Bio-Aerosols
As world governments have grown more attentive to the potential threat of biological weapons, a...
Optical Metrology Reconstructs Audio Recordings
Under an interagency agreement, the Library of Congress in Washington and Lawrence Berkeley...
Nd-Doped Fiber Laser Generates 360-fs Pulses at 900 nm
Femtosecond lasers are useful in machining applications as well as in medicine, precise...