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Florida University Strengthens Photonics Education
In a move that highlights its commitment to optics education, the University of Central Florida in...

All-Optical Signal Regenerator to Be Commercialized
San Jose, Calif.-based electronics contract manufacturer Sanmina-SCI Corp. and Kailight Photonics,...

Axsys Technologies Procures Telic Optics
Axsys Technologies Inc. of Rocky Hill, Conn., a supplier of precision optomechanical components and...

Carl Zeiss Buys Bio-Rad's Confocal Microscopy Unit
Life sciences research products supplier Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. of Hercules, Calif., has sold...

HiTek Power Opens Facility in Japan
HiTek Power of Littlehampton, UK, a manufacturer of low- and high-voltage power supplies for OEM...

BAE Systems Receives Contracts for Defense
BAE Systems of Farnborough, UK, was awarded a supply contract for Helicopter Integrated Defensive...

Synrad Forms Partnership with Benelux Company
To handle the distribution of its laser products in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, Synrad...

Kaston Selects Rocotech as UK Distributor
A Macau-based producer of high-grade crystals for laser applications, Kaston Optronics...

L-3 Acquires Two Companies
L-3 Communications of New York has bought Brashear LP of Pittsburgh for roughly $36 million. Also,...

Gooch & Housego Gets NIF Contract
Under a contract valued at more than $700,000, optical components manufacturer Gooch & Housego...

Precision Photonics to Develop Optical Frequency Metrology
Precision Photonics Corp. of Boulder, Colo., plans to develop high-speed optical frequency...

NanoDynamics Inc. Subsidiary Wins Contract for IR Windows Material
Nanomaterials manufacturer NanoDynamics Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., has announced that its subsidiary,...

Datacube Joins Raytheon's Seaport Enhanced Team
Image processing hardware, software and systems supplier Datacube Inc. of Danvers, Mass., was...

High Q Laser to Distribute Oscillators for APE
High Q Laser (US) Inc. of Watertown, Mass., has entered into an agreement with APE of Berlin, under...

Manufacturers Release Common Specifications for Optical Devices
A group of optical chip and module manufacturers has released common specifications for optical...

Alpine Research Optics Wins Contract from NIF
Under a contract valued at more than $1 million, Alpine Research Optics of Boulder, Colo., will...

Riegl Relocates to Larger Facilities in Florida
To increase its sales, service, administrative, distribution and research and development...

INO and Opto Biometrics Partner to Develop Optical Correlator
Under a signed transfer agreement, INO of Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada, has granted Opto Biometrics...

Feature Articles

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Small Design Changes Can Pump Up Ti:Sapphire Laser Power
Ti:sapphire laser oscillators and amplifiers are the dominant sources for ultrafast applications...

The Promise and Challenges of Short-Wave IR Imaging
Although applications for the mid- and long-wave thermal bands are well-established,...

Plug-and-Play Metrology
The field of metrology historically has been saturated with complicated, proprietary solutions....

Trends in Camera Design Increase Functionality
Commercially available camera sensors are shrinking, perhaps driven by the camera-phone craze. Now...

The Future of High-Speed Smart Cameras: Tomorrow's Interconnect
In recent years, the high-performance camera market has enjoyed an explosion in new technology....

A Smart-Camera Implementation of a Hardware-Based Neural Network
Although machine vision technology that can solve simple problems has long been available, no...

Camera Memory Allows Rapid Data Transfer
In scientific and imaging applications, there is a trend toward CCD and CMOS camera systems with...

Solid-State Heat-Capacity Lasers: Good Candidates for the Marketplace
Under the support of the US Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, and in collaboration with...

LEDs Meet Solid-State Electronics
LEDs, once considered low-flux optosemiconductors, are now finding use in traditional, everyday...

Siloxanes Find Niche in High-Brightness LEDs
Solid-state lighting, such as LEDs, is an emerging platform that, in some cases, will replace...

Industrial MicroscopyGets Down to Work
It's a three-dimensional world for industrial microscopy these days, whether it is used to help...

Total Interference Contrast Aids Thin-Film Engineering
Many materials manufacturing applications today, including coating deposition, semiconductor...

Differential Interference Contrast Adds Confocal Imaging Flexibility
Confocal laser scanning microscopy continues to make inroads into industrial inspection...

3-D Coordinate Measuring Helps Inspect IC Packaging
Semiconductor companies currently produce a large assortment of three-dimensional architectures for...

Technique Maps Complex Microsurfaces
Recently there has been much interest in various noncontact methods for measuring surface...

Laser Writes Ferroelectric Domains in a Confocal Microscope
Confocal microscopes are powerful tools for three-dimensional imaging on the submicron scale and,...

Fiber Bragg Gratings: A Versatile Approach to Dispersion Compensation
Chromatic dispersion compensation is recognized as one of the main challenges in high-data-rate...

Nanocrystalline Cerium Oxide Improves Glass Polishing Operations
Performance improvements are increasingly being sought in a variety of technologically advanced...

Optical Ceramics Look to Commercial Applications
Stopping a projectile traveling at 2000 feet per second is no easy task. To do so, manufacturers of...

Silicon Carbide Is Poised to Enter the Mainstream
NASA systems designers are always looking to minimize mass on solar system exploration projects...

Presstime Bulletin

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Liquid Crystal Electrically Tunes Photonic Crystal Laser
In the July 19 issue of Applied Physics Letters, scientists at California Institute of Technology...

Photonic Crystal Acts as Visible-Wavelength Superprism
Researchers from the University of Southampton and from Mesophotonics Ltd., both in Southampton,...

Five-Photon Entanglement Could Benefit Quantum Communications
Emerging strategies for distributed quantum information processing will require some type of...

Research

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Yb:Y2O3 Ceramic Laser Generates 4.2 W
Ceramic lasers may have a dramatic effect on the solid-state laser marketplace because, among other...

Hollow Fiber Delivers Distortion-Free Femtosecond Pulses
Multiphoton fluorescence is an important technique for analyzing living tissue, and fiber optic...

Up-Conversion Fiber Laser Produces Visible Output
Lumics GmbH of Berlin has developed a visible-wavelength source based on an up-conversion...

Two Wells Are Better than One for IR Detectors
Researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey have demonstrated that two wells are better than...

Tapered Fabry-Perot Filter Measures Wavelength
There are many applications of a simple, elegant technique to separate and measure the wavelengths...

Technology

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Nonlinear Behavior in Quantum-Well IR Photodetector Is Studied
Although the potential of quantum-well infrared photodetectors for thermal imaging has been known...

Microscale Actuators Drive Macroscale Optical Element
A team of engineers has reported the development of a rigid-body motion generator based on a...

Eye-Safe Laser Generates 7 W of Average Power
Eye-safe lasers with output in the 1.5-µm regime are in demand for rangefinding, lidar and other...

Micromachining Yields Compact FT Spectrometers
Fourier transform spectroscopy is poised to take the next step forward. Thanks to silicon...