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OPTICAL SOFTWARE
LOH Optikmaschinen AG
FIVE-MEGAPIXEL CMOS SENSOR
OmniVision Technologies Inc.
BENCHTOP LASER MODULE
NP Photonics, Inc.
730- to 1120-nm LASER DIODES
Power Technology, Inc.
TWO-AXIS PIEZOSCANNER
piezosystem jena GmbH
LASER MODULES
Innovative Photonics Solutions (IPS)
LASER UPGRADE
Coherent, Inc.
GRINDING SYSTEMS
Lapmaster International
THIN-FILM FILTERS
Bookham Technology plc
MACRODEFECT INSPECTION
Rudolph Technologies, Inc.
FIBER OPTIC AMPLIFIERS
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
DEVELOPERS' KIT
Applied Color Science, Inc.
WIRE BONDER
Palomar Technologies Inc.
VIDEO MICROSCOPE
Dazor Manufacturing Corp.
FOCAL PLANE ARRAY
Santa Barbara Focalplane
SOLID-STATE LASER
Bavarian Photonics GmbH
SPECTROPHOTOMETERS
Ocean Optics, Inc.
LINEAR GUIDANCE SYSTEM
Schneeberger, Inc.
CERAMIC SUBSTRATE
Minicaps
FDTD SOFTWARE
Optiwave Corp.
GLASS POLARIZERS
Laser Components IG, Inc.
ELLIPTICAL RGB LEDS
Marktech Optoelectronics
NANOPOSITIONER
Mad City Labs, Inc.
PUMP LASER
Lumics GmbH
IMAGING SOFTWARE
Thermo Electron Corp.
COLOR CAMERA
Point Grey Research, Inc.
SPECTRORADIOMETER
International Light, Inc.
HIGH-POWER LASER
Advanced Optical Technology Ltd.
LIGHT SOURCE
B&W Tek Inc.
PARTICLE SIZE ANALYZER
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc.
DEVELOPMENT KIT
Optronic Laboratories, Inc.
LASER MARKING SYSTEM
Laser Photonics LLC
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Leco Corp.
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Technical Manufacturing Corp.
PLANAR WAVEGUIDES
Mesophotonics Ltd.
LASER CONTROLLER
Newport Corp.
CCD CAMERAS
Imperx, Inc.
PACKAGE INSPECTION
Logos Systems International
LASER SAVER
iC-Haus GmbH
MACRO IMAGING SYSTEM
Cambridge Research & Instrumentation Inc.
LOW-HEAT CURING SYSTEM
Xenon Corp.
BEAM SHAPERS
Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH (LIMO)
SOLID-STATE LED
Cree, Inc.
OPTICAL TABLES
Kinetic Systems, Inc.
CCD CAMERAS
Basler AG, Vision Components Div.s
MACHINE VISION
Cognex Corp.
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Semrock, Inc.
BEAM COMBINING
Aculight Corp.
POWER PROBE
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
LASER ABLATION
Cetac Technologies
TUNABLE FILTERS
Little Optics, Inc.
CCD CAMERA
PCO AG
IMAGE ANALYSIS
Media Cybernetics, Inc.
BEAM HOMOGENIZERS
Holo-Or Ltd.
LASER SCANNING
Scanlab AG
SPECTROMETER
Lasertechnik Berlin GmbH
STROBOSCOPIC CAMERA
LaVision GmbH
UV MONOCHROMATOR
McPherson, Inc.
HIGH-POWER DIODE LASER
Oseir Ltd.
PICOMOTOR ACTUATOR
New Focus, Inc.
BEAM EXPANDERS
Special Optics, Inc.
CAMERA CONTROL
Photron USA, Inc.
LASER DESIGN SOFTWARE
Applied Optics Research
TOROIDAL MIRRORS
Opco Laboratory, Inc.
SUPERLUMINESCENT LEDs
DenseLight Semiconductors Pte. Ltd.
CAMERA LENS
Sunex, Inc.
DIODE LASERS
Laserline GmbH
DESIGN SOFTWARE
Liekki Oy
MICROCAMERAS
Kappa opto-electronics GmbH
PORTABLE MARKING SYSTEM
Rofin-Baasel, Inc.
DETECTOR SYSTEM
Laser Tools Co., Inc.
CMOS PROCESS
austriamicrosystems AG
ZOOM SYSTEMS
Leica Microsystems Ltd.
MICROGRINDER
Moore Nanotechnology Systems LLC
A/D POWER METER
Coherent, Inc.
PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERA
JAI Pulnix, Inc.
IR OBJECTIVE LENS
Precision-Optical Engineering
RIGHT-ANGLE PRISMS
Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.
INFRARED CAMERA
Flir Systems, Inc.
IMAGING PROFILER
Solarius Development, Inc.
OPTICAL COMPONENTS
Schott Glas
DATA TRANSMISSION
Infinova
Er:FIBER LASERS
Toptica Photonics AG
TEMPERATURE CONTROL
Wavelength Electronics, Inc.
LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Dalsa Corp.
DEFLECTOMETER
Trioptics GmbH
ROTATION STAGES
Standa Ltd.
PUMP-DIODE ARRAYS
Quintessence Photonics Corp.
MATERIALS PROCESSING
Raylase AG
CMOS CAMERA
Photonfocus AG
CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE
PicoQuant GmbH
HOLE SHAPING
Arges-USA LLC
VISION BOARDS
Robotic Vision Systems, Inc.

FastTrack (Business News)
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IBM, Kodak Collaborate on CMOS Sensors
IBM has been in the chip manufacturing business for 40 years, but a recent agreement with Eastman...
Companies Partner to Enhance Lithography Tools
ASML MaskTools, a business unit of ASML Holding NV of Santa Clara, Calif., has forged a mul-tiyear...
Aculight Wins Government Contracts
Under the Small Business Innovation Research program, Aculight Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has...
Journal Solicits Papers on Machine Vision
Original papers are sought by Computers in Industry, an international application-oriented research...
Photonics Firms Benefit from ATP Awards
The Advanced Technology Program (ATP) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
Dalsa Wins Contract to Supply Sensor Chips
Under a five-year contract valued at $20 million, Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, will...
Lens Processing Companies to Merge
Schweiter Technologies AG of Horgen, Switzerland, has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire the...
Intense Photonics Gains Funding for Development
Intense Photonics Ltd. of Glasgow, UK, has secured $9.2 million for business development from all...
Second-Quarter Laser Shipments Up from 2003
At $173.6 million, second-quarter shipments of industrial laser equipment and systems for North...
Konarka Takes On Siemens' Organic Photovoltaic Program
Konarka Technologies Inc. of Lowell, Mass., has acquired the organic photovoltaic research...
Horiba Jobin Yvon Is New Company Name
Jobin Yvon, a Horiba Group company with research centers in Edison, N.J., Longjumeau, France, and...
Fiber Optic Communities Launch Organization
Communities living with a fiber optic infrastructure have established a nonprofit organization to...
Nuvonyx Secures US Air Force Contract
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.,...

Feature Articles
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Optically In-Well-Pumped VECSELs: An Attractive New Source in the Near-IR
Think fast: If you needed a wavelength-tunable laser with good beam quality in the near-infrared,...
Riding a New Speedy Bus for Image Acquisition
First the balloon popped, and then the eyes did. All the audience had seen was the balloon, full of...
Thin Films Sing a New Tune
The growth of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) fiber optic networks greatly accelerated the...
Monolithic Optics Enable Next-Generation Designs
The traditional design paradigm that optical and optomechanical engineers use to develop optical...
Advances in Optical Device Simulation Software
Simulation software is a well-known tool that can dramatically speed up product engineering and...
Automated Positioning Meets Microspectrophotometry
The number of manufacturing applications where spectral analysis of minute samples or areas is...
Controlling and Calibrating Optics
Accommodating the spreads of component characteristics in electro-optic assemblies is one of the...
Finding the Missing Link for High-Power Fiber Lasers
Despite their record performance, high-power fiber lasers have made little progress in penetrating...

Presstime Bulletin
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The Little Engine That Could (Theoretically)
Zhisong Wang, a professor of physics at Texas A&M University in College Station and at Fudan...
Bragg Cladding Waveguides Demonstrated
In the Oct. 4 issue of Optics Express and in the Oct. 11 issue of Applied Physics Letters,...
Infrared Photodetector Features No Dark Current
Researchers at Thales Research and Technology in Orsay, France, and at Université Paris 7 have...
Laser/Plasma Control Enables Monoenergetic Electron Beams ...
In recent years, physicists have explored the possibility of using ultrashort laser pulses to...
... as Do Plasma Channels Created Using Three-Pulse Technique
Another laser wakefield approach also displays promise for the development of tabletop particle...

Research
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Fiber Laser System Produces Femtosecond Pulses at 25 W of Average Power
There are several approaches to generating femtosecond pulses, but few of them are capable of...
Photonic Bandgap Fiber Makes Unique Gas Sensor
Many approaches to making gas sensors from optical fibers have been explored during the past 20...
Photonic Crystal Fiber Laser Is Highly Polarized
A collaboration at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK, and at Crystal Fibre A/S in...
Quantum Mechanics Keeps Secrets Safe
If you want to keep a secret, it helps to whisper. That's what researchers at NuCrypt LLC have...
Focusing Inside Left-Handed Material Studied
A team of physicists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has reported the results...
'Superlenses' May Be Beyond Reach
Despite recent experimental success in demonstrating negative refraction in and focusing by...

Technology
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Nanoribbon Waveguides Suited for Photonic Circuits
A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Lawrence Berkeley National...
Nanotube Films Suggest Alternative to ITO
Transparent electrically conductive materials have found application in a variety of products, from...
Tiny Tip Couples Diode Laser to Single-Mode Fiber
The inefficient coupling of a diode laser's power into a single-mode fiber has been a major...
Combs May Have Navigation and Display Applications
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., have demonstrated a near-field...
Scanning Laser Produces 3-D Microstructures
A team of engineers at Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation and at the department of...
Aluminate Glass Suitable for Optical Uses
Aluminum oxide is the material of choice for use in demanding applications, such as in the...
Microlaser Generates Microwatts
Researchers at Riken, the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research in Wako, Japan, have...