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OPTICAL DESIGN SOFTWARE
Optis
VACUUM-SEALED CCD CAMERAS
Andor Technology Ltd.
8-W QUASI-CW UV LASER
Coherent, Inc.
DUV REFLECTIVE COATING
Acton Research Corp.
VIDEO AND IMAGE PROCESSING
The Math Works Inc.
COMPACT 10-W CO2 LASER
Universal Laser Systems, Inc.
FTIR, RAMAN SYSTEM
InPhotonics, Inc.
SOLID-STATE LASER
unique-m.o.d.e. AG
MOTION CONTROLLER
Standa Ltd.
FO COMPONENTS
Clairex Technologies, Inc.
CMOS CAMERA
PCO AG
LED RINGLIGHT
Orled
FUSED SILICA WAFERS
Sydor Optics
SPECTROMETER ADAPTER
Spectral Applied Research
ULTRASONIC RECEIVER
Lasson Technologies, Inc.
VISION SYSTEM
Matrox Imaging
O/E CONVERTER
Terahertz Technologies, Inc.
CMOS IMAGE SENSOR
Micron Technology, Inc.
WAVEGUIDE DESIGN
Optiwave Corp.
POWER SUPPLIES
Ultravolt, Inc.
EUV REFLECTOMETER
Schott Lithotec AG
AQUAMARINE LASER
PicoQuant GmbH
FT-NIR ANALYZER
Thermo Electron Corp.
METALLIC MIRROR
Unaxis Balzers Ltd.
SPHERICAL ILLUMINATOR
StockerYale, Inc.
TEMPERATURE SENSOR
Optocon GmbH
PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERAS
Sony Electronics, Inc.
BENCHTOP SAW
Logitech Ltd.
OPTICAL SOFTWARE
Photon Engineering LLC
SPECTRAL LIBRARIES
SensIR Technologies
TRANSLATION STAGES
New Focus, Inc.
IMAGER KIT
AEI Optics Unlimited
LITHOGRAPHY LASER
Lambda Physik Inc.
TRIPLE-RATE TRANSCEIVER
Picolight, Inc.
LASER COMBINER
Point Source
MACHINE VISION LIGHTING
Vision & Control GmbH
CD SOURCE
Morgan Advanced Ceramics
AUTOMATED WORKSTATION
ficonTec GmbH
INDUSTRIAL IR CAMERA
Cedip Infrared Systems
UV-VIS MEASUREMENT
Optronic Laboratories, Inc.
IMAGING SOFTWARE
Optronics
DIODE LASER
Micro Laser Systems, Inc.
TEMPERATURE SENSOR
Oluma, Inc.
DIGITAL SLR CAMERA
Olympus Europa GmbH
CMOS VGA CAMERAS
Photonfocus AG
PHOTODIODE
Hamamatsu Corp.
IMAGING PLATFORM
Soft Imaging System Corp.
ENDOSCOPE LENS TESTER
Lighthouse Imaging Corp.
WDM FILTERS
Advanced Technology Coatings Ltd. (ATC)
THIN-FILM MEASUREMENT
Ocean Optics, Inc.
10-Gb/s TO CAN PACKAGES
Kyocera Fineceramics Group
RAMAN ANALYZER
Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc.
TEMPERATURE CONTROLLER
Wavelength Electronics, Inc.
SOLDER BOND INSPECTION
Olympus Industrial America
PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERA
Cohu, Inc.
OPTICAL FIBER
CorActive High-Tech, Inc.
SWEPT-FREQUENCY LASER
iolon, Inc.
FO PATCH CABLES
Multimode Fiber Optics, Inc.
MULTIPASS AMPLIFIER
Femtolasers
STEPPER MOTOR DRIVE
Copley Controls Corp.
DATA TRANSMISSION
Datacube, Inc.
POSITIONING TABLES
Danaher Motion
VIDEO CAPTURE
Epix, Inc.
MICROMACHINING SYSTEM
New Wave Research
STENCIL-CUTTING TOOL
Synova SA
CONCAVE LEDs
LEDtronics, Inc.
CCD CAMERAS
Princeton Instruments
MOTION CONTROL
Performance Motion Devices, Inc.
NONCONTACT MEASUREMENT
Bare Hill Software Co.
PYROMETER CONTROLLER
Fisba Optik AG
SURFACE-MOUNT LED
Marktech Optoelectronics
ULTRAFAST LASERS
High Q Laser Production GmbH
DIGITAL CCD CAMERA
JAI Pulnix, Inc.
FERRULE MEASUREMENT
Data-Pixel
AUTOMATIC MICROSCOPE
Leica
IR GRATINGS
Optometrics LLC
LASER SOURCES
Eblana Photonics
CROSSED ROLLER SLIDES
Del-Tron Precision, Inc.
LAMP MEASUREMENT
Labsphere, Inc.
CCD CAMERA
Kappa opto-electronics GmbH
SINGLE-MODE VCSELS
Avalon Photonics Ltd.
VIBRATION ISOLATION
Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.
DATA MANAGEMENT
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering, Inc.
HIGH-POWER DIODES
Laser Components (UK) Ltd.
LED DETECTOR
International Light, Inc.
PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERAS
Hitachi Denshi
FIBER-COUPLED DIODE LASER
Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH (Limo)
LINEAR STAGES
Owis GmbH
FTTP/FTTH COMPONENTS
Photop Technologies, Inc.
MICROSCOPE CAMERA
Photron USA, Inc.
BLUE-VIOLET LASERS
IMM Messtechnologie GmbH
VIDEO MICROSCOPE
Moritex Europe Ltd.
LASER MEASUREMENT
Automated Precision, Inc.
OPTICAL FIBER
IVG Fiber

FastTrack (Business News)
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EM4 Acquires Assets of PowerNetix
Supplier of photonic and integrated optic modules EM4 Inc. of Bedford, Mass., has purchased the...
Video Display and e2v technologies Enter into Agreement
Video Display Corp. of Tucker, Ga., has arranged to acquire the Pevicon camera tube assets and...
US Company Chosen as Supplier for German Space Projects
Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG of Backnang, Germany, has selected Discovery Semiconductors Inc....
JDS Uniphase Buys, Divests Businesses
In California, JDS Uniphase Corp. of San Jose has expanded its high-definition display business...
Novalux and Edmund Industrial Optics Form Distribution Partnership
Novalux Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has signed a North American distribution agreement with Edmund...
Honeywell Granted Rights to Optrand's Sensing Technology
Under a signed agreement, Honeywell of Morris Township, N.J., has garnered the exclusive rights to...
Bookham Technology Divests JCA Technology
As part of a strategy to focus on its core optical business, Bookham Technology plc has sold JCA...
Rigaku Establishes Solid-State Detector Div.
Rigaku/MSC Inc., based in The Woodlands, Texas, has formed a wholly owned division charged with...
Image Sensor Design Company Opens
Awaiba Lda of Funchal, Portugal, has been founded to develop and produce high-performance image...
NSF Finances Nanosensor Research
A research team at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., will develop photonic crystal...
Kodak to Buy Imaging Business from National Semiconductor
Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., recently agreed to purchase the imaging business of National...
GSI Lumonics and Alase Technologies Collaborate
GSI Lumonics Inc.'s Component Products Group of Billerica and Alase Technologies Inc. of Pepperell,...
Universal Display Wins Government Contract
Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., has received a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research...
IOTech Acquires Company
In Germany, IOTech Ingenieurgesellschaft Optische Technologien mbH of Waghäusel has taken over...
ORA Recognizes Design Achievements
Optical Research Associates of Pasadena, Calif., has announced the winners of its annual Student...
Newport Funds Student Travel Grants to SPIE Meetings
Newport Corp. of Irvine, Calif., is financing new travel awards totaling $10,000 for students who...
Company Wins Contract for Bonding Cluster
EV Group, a supplier of wafer-bonding and lithography equipment based in Schrading, Austria, has...
BAE Systems Receives Contract to Supply HIDAS
BAE Systems Avionics Group, based in Basildon, UK, has received a US Army supply contract for...
Goodrich to Provide Laser Warning Spares
The US Army's Communications and Electronics Command has awarded Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C.,...
Electronic Imaging Center Opens in the UK
In the UK, e2v technologies (uk) ltd. of Chelmsford and Brunel University of Uxbridge have...
Cambridge Technology Increases Services in Asia
To strengthen its sales and service network in Asia, Cambridge Technology Inc. has opened the...
Markland Subsidiary Gains US Army Contracts
Markland Technologies Inc. of Ridgefield, Conn., has announced that its subsidiary, EOIR...
Flir Supplies IR Cameras for Targeting Pods
Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., has received orders totaling $7.4 million to supply Northrop...
Axsys Garners Contracts
Axsys Technologies Inc. of Rocky Hill, Conn., has received an $18.6 million contract from Ball...
Northrop Grumman to Develop Method for Laser Manufacturing
Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. will develop a method for bonding laser materials under a...
US Air Force Purchases Polytec 3-D Vibrometer
Polytec Inc. of Tustin, Calif., has announced that the US Air Force Institute of Technology at...
ASIP Secures Contract for Integration Technology
ASIP Inc. of Somerset, N.J., has announced that its Netherlands-based subsidiary, ThreeFive...

Feature Articles
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Automation Advances Life Sciences Microscopy
Automated microscopy in the life sciences can trace its beginnings to the semiconductor industry....
Spinning Disk vs. Laser-Scanning Confocal Microscopes
When imaging thick biological specimens, light from out-of-focus planes often obscures the...
Through the Looking Glass and What Cavity Ringdown Found There
What is air? Scientists worldwide continue to focus their attention and their instruments on...
When the Light Fails
Proper lighting is an important part of any machine vision system. Obviously, the lighting needs to...
UV LEDs Suitable for Fluorescence Spectroscopy
LEDs that emit in the 340-nm wavelength range have been developed by scientists in the division of...
Improvements Sought in Nitride-Based LEDs
A team of engineers at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan, has reported the results...
Offering More Performance for Less Money, Accurately
The optical engineering discipline has entered a golden age. The computational power of personal...
Interoperability in Optical Design Tools
Today's photonics market is demanding optical design tools that not only are powerful and easy to...
Better Illumination Design Through Automated Optimization
Light pipes couple and shape light-source output distribution in a variety of illumination...
Motion Control Meets the Vacuum
Traditional motion-control devices, including stepper motors and DC servomotors, were designed for...
Motion and Vibration Control in Ultrafast Research
Research into ultrafast phenomena continues to be a dominant area of investigation, with...
High-Power Pulsed Laser Diodes Take on New Industrial and Commercial Applications
The ability of pulsed laser diodes to provide short pulses of intense power has made them an ideal...
Jobs in Photonics
When Photonics Spectra conducts a research project with its readership, the results are not always...

Presstime Bulletin
Direct Subangstrom Resolution Demonstrated
A team of scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and Nion Co. in Kirkland,...
Laser-Induced Ignition Studied
At Technische Universität Wien in Vienna and Technische Universität Graz in Graz, both in Austria,...
Nanotubes Act Like Antennae for Light
In a series of experiments with random arrays of multiwalled carbon nanotubes, scientists in...

Research
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How to Save Fiber from 'The Fuse'
Fiber fuse is a catastrophic effect that occurs when an imperfection in the fiber precipitates...
Nanodots: No Assembly Required
At North Carolina State University in Raleigh, two scientists have demonstrated a laser-assisted...
Efficient Side-Pumping Scheme Excites Short Fiber Lasers
Fiber lasers based on low-melting-point glasses can accept much higher doping levels -- sometimes...
Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Emits Simultaneous Pulse Trains at Three Wavelengths
Modern fiber optic telecommunications systems employ wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), in...

Technology
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Polymer Holey-Fiber Laser Is Easy to Make
Solid-state dye lasers, in which the dye is dissolved in a solid host rather than in a liquid...
Cool Tunable Laser Suitable for Microscopy
A team of scientists at the State University of New York at Albany in Colonie and at the New York...
Femtosecond Lasers Fabricate Improved Optical Waveguides
Many laboratories around the world are investigating the use of femtosecond lasers for fabricating...
Liquid Used as Lens for Miniature Cameras
As cell phone cameras and other optical devices become smaller and smaller, the lenses become more...
An Organic Field-Effect Transistor Emits Ambipolar Light
A new light-emitting field-effect transistor suggests the possibility of electrically pumped...
Thermally Actuated Fabry-Perot Filter Tunes Across C- and L-Bands
A tunable filter at the output of a semiconductor laser could tune the laser's output across a...
Mode-Locked Laser Has Potential as OC-768 Transmitter
A research group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass.,...
Advances Lead to Miniature Supercontinuum Sources
Supercontinuum sources are finding increasing use in applications that require a source with very...