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Camera Sensors Boost Safety for Japanese Railway
Passenger safety is a primary concern for railways and, although everyone is aware of the use of...
CO2 Laser Recycles Cathode-Ray-Tube Displays
Nothing lasts forever. That's especially true for electronics equipment, which not only breaks...
Putting Tires to the Test
Eugene Shaw, president of Lake Orion, Mich.-based L-Ray, wants to make sure that when the rubber...

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Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories
HIGH-SPEED CAMERA
Dalsa Corp.
GREEN LASER
Aculight Corp.
TEMPERATURE CONTROLLERS
Wavelength Electronics, Inc.
250-W LASER DIODES
Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH
NOTCH FILTER
Semrock, Inc.
MICROSCOPE STAGE
Prior Scientific, Inc.
LARGE-AREA LED LIGHTS
RVSI/NER
ACHROMATIC LENSES
Newport Corp.
3-D MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
EIT, Inc.
CCD CAMERA
PCO AG
OPTICAL CONNECTOR KIT
Krell Technologies, Inc.
POSITIONING STAGE
Aerotech Ltd.
ANALOG FRAME GRABBERS
Euresys SA
LINE-SCAN CAMERA
DVT Corp.
IMAGING SOFTWARE
Data Translation, Inc.
LED POWER SUPPLY
Optronic Laboratories, Inc.
GLASS POLARIZERS
Codixx AG
MICROMACHINING SYSTEM
New Wave Research
HORIZONTAL-CAVITY LASER
BinOptics Corp.
OPTICAL PROFILER
Ambios Technology, Inc.
SPECTROMETER
Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
80-W DIODE LASER
Coherent, Inc.
POSITIONING SYSTEM
ficonTec GmbH
SCANNER CONTROL
Fisba Optik AG
GAS DELIVERY SYSTEM
Concoa
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Diffraction Ltd.
RAMAN LASERS
Enwave Optronics, Inc.
MICROCAMERA
Elmo Manufacturing Corp.
NIR SPECTROMETERS
Brimrose Corp. of America
IR THERMOMETER
Mikron Infrared, Inc.
ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER
CorActive High-Tech, Inc.
BORESCOPES
Gradient Lens Corp.
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BEA Lasers, Inc.
CERAMIC SUBSTRATE
CeramTec North America Corp.
PYROELECTRIC DETECTOR
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
OSA ENGINE
Chromux Technologies, Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Imperx, Inc.
LIGHT SOURCE
Santec Corp.
DIODE LASER
Point Source
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Hamamatsu Corp.
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Picosecond Pulse Labs, Inc.
ANALOG FRAME GRABBER
Datacube, Inc.
RAMAN SPECTROMETER
InPhotonics, Inc.
Nd:YAG LASER
Azura Laser AG
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Tele Vue Optics, Inc.
FIBER SENSING
Intune Technologies
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Sensors Unlimited, Inc.
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Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc.
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Laser Optics
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piezosystem jena GmbH
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Nikon Instruments, Inc.
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National Instruments Corp.
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NuSil Technology, Inc.
CMOS CAMERA
The Cooke Corp.
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MetroLaser, Inc.
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New Focus, Inc.
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Kugler GmbH
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Imagine Optic
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LOH Optical Machinery, Inc.
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Opto Diode Corp.
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Ocean Optics, Inc.
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Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH (Limo)
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Motion X Corp.
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FastTrack (Business News)
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OSA Recognizes Achievements
Based in Washington, the Optical Society of America has bestowed its annual distinction awards upon...
University of Illinois Gets Funding for Photonics Research Center
A four-year, $6.2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will be used by...
Canadian Research Grant Awarded for Spectrophotometer Facility
Edward Cloutis, a professor in the geography department at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba,...
Veeco Receives Order for GaN Production Systems
Veeco Instruments Inc. of Woodbury, N.Y., has received a $10 million order to supply its GaNzilla...
Thales and Alcatel Open Industrial Research Lab
Thales and Alcatel, both European companies with worldwide operations, have created a joint...
Dalsa Supplies Chips for Aerial Mapping Camera
Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, will supply high-performance CCD image sensor chips to...
BlazePhotonics Sells Assets to Crystal Fibre
Crystal Fibre A/S of BirkerØd, Denmark, has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of...
Carl Zeiss Restructures
In Germany, Carl Zeiss Foundation has restructured, making its companies, Carl Zeiss of Oberkochen...
TeraXion to Provide Fiber Grating Development System
TeraXion Inc. of Quebec will design and deliver an automated fiber grating manufacturing system...
DiOP Lands Contract for IR Objectives
Diversified Optical Products Inc. (DiOP) of Salem, N.H., has received a five-year, $9 million...
Polytec Reorganizes
A supplier of laser-based measurement systems to the North American marketplace, Polytec PI Inc.,...
Jenoptik Acquires R&D Company, Innovavent
In Germany, Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH of Jena has purchased all shares of the start-up...
CCS America Allies with Spectrum Illumination
CCS America Inc. of Waltham, Mass., and parent company CCS Inc. of Kyoto, Japan, have forged an...
Precise Automation Obtains Machine Vision Technology
A supplier of vision-guided robotic motion controllers with built-in motor drives, Precise...
City University of New York Redesignated
City University of New York has been redesignated as the site for the New York State Center for...
Emcore Buys Corona
Emcore Corp. of Somerset, N.J., a provider of semiconductor technologies for global communications,...
Bio-Rad Microscopy Div. Moving to Zeiss Jena
Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH plans to transfer the core technologies of its recent acquisition, the Bio-Rad...
OIF Creates Integratable Tunable Laser Agreement
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) in Fremont, Calif., has approved a multisource...

Feature Articles
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CMOS and CCD Share More Than a Letter
Howard Rhodes, director of imaging engineering at Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology Inc., is a...
Laser Welding Penetrates the Plastics Market
Lasers seem the obvious choice for welding plastics: Their flexibility is second to none, and the...
Standardization of LED Measurements
Today, standards development remains a critical concern for LED manufacturers. One standard...
Perspectives on Measurement of LED Illumination Sources
The development of optical measurement instrumentation for LEDs has followed the requirements of...
LED Measurement Data Is Only as Accurate as Instruments Allow
Although LEDs emit within narrow spectral windows, manufacturers and users alike often need to...
Manufacturers Target Measurement of High-Power LEDs
The semiconductor light produced by LEDs has long been deployed in many areas of daily life,...
Chiral Fiber Gratings Polarized Light
Chiral photonic devices have a screwlike, or helical, microstructure with a period comparable to...
Fiber-Based Sensors Target Geophysical Applications
Fiber optics technology has found use in a variety of sensing applications in the oil and gas...
Photonic Crystal Fibers Accommodate High Powers
Photonic crystal fibers, sometimes called microstructured fibers, represent a novel class of...
Novel Gas Sensor Utilizes Random-Hole Optical Fiber
Monitoring the gaseous emissions of processes, especially high-temperature processes such as coal...
Optical Fibers Fuel Intrinsic Sensor Development
Intrinsic sensors based on fiber optics rely on the interaction among the environment, the fiber...
Compact Telescope Design Suited to Military and Commercial Applications
Most applications that use telescopes opt for one of two designs: the Gregorian or the Cassegrain....
Beyond the Visible: Near-IR vs. Thermal Imaging
For some machine vision applications, you need to see more than what can be seen with the naked...

Presstime Bulletin
Fullerene/Polymer Film Penetrates 'Quantum Gap'
In a paper for the September issue of Nano Letters released online Aug. 12, a team from the...
Free-Electron Laser Achieves 10 kW in the Infrared
Scientists at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va., have...
Entanglement Experiment Points Toward Quantum Repeaters
Reporting in the Aug. 19 issue of Nature, researchers at Universität Wien in Vienna, Austria,...

Research
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Tunable Femtosecond UV Pulses Produced by Second-Harmonic Generation
The measurement of extremely fast physical and chemical phenomena requires femtosecond pulses such...
Fiber Polarizer Utilizes Birefringence in Photonic Crystal Fiber
Today's fiber optic systems, such as fiber lasers and fiber-based telecom networks, are often...
Plastic Waveguides Display Laser Emission
A group of scientists at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and at Tohoku University in Sendai,...
Passive Stabilization Technique Tames Unruly Mode-Locked Laser
There is a delicate balance between too much saturable absorption and too little when passively...
Light Moves Water Droplets
A team at Arizona State University in Tempe reported in the Aug. 26 issue of Journal of Physical...

Technology
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Something Old, Something New: German Lab Marries Ring and Disk
One of the prime patents on the nonplanar ring oscillator (NPRO) expired last month, an occasion...
DNA Forms Molecular Photonic Wire
Scientists from the University of Bielefeld in Germany and the University of Twente in Enschede,...
Metallorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy Yields InSb Photodiodes for Focal Plane Arrays
Researchers at Soreq NRC in Yavne and Semi Conductor Devices in Haifa, both in Israel, have...
Lasers Induce Fast Spin Reorientation in Antiferromagnets
Unlike common ferromagnets used in everything from compasses to spintronics, antiferromagnets still...
Thulium Laser Enables Single-Frequency Oscillation in New Spectral Region
Single-frequency fiber lasers have been developed in the 1.1-µm spectral region (based on ytterbium...
Laser-Assisted Process Grows Sharp Tips
Sharp tips coated with diamondlike carbon have potential applications in field-emitter arrays,...