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Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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EXCIMER LASERS
Lambda Physik Inc.
CMOS COLOR CAMERA
Soft Imaging System Corp.
CALIBRATION STANDARD
Optronic Laboratories, Inc.
LINE-SCAN CAMERA LENSES
Schneider Group
TIP/TILT MIRROR ACTUATOR
Mad City Labs, Inc.
MINI LED RINGLIGHT
Schott Fiber Optics
MULTIHEAD CAMERA
Redlake
LIGHT SOURCE
Applied Analytics, Inc.
DESIGN, MANUFACTURE
Avo Photonics
VIBRATION ISOLATION
Kinetic Systems, Inc.
SMART CAMERA
Vision Components GmbH
SCANNING GALVANOMETER
Nutfield Technology, Inc.
Cr:LiSAF LASER
RPMC, Inc.
WAVEGUIDE SPLITTERS
Chromux Technologies, Inc.
VACUUM CHAMBERS
Kurt J. Lesker Co.
COMPACT LENS
Sunex, Inc.
SPECTROFLUOROMETER
B&W Tek Inc.
3-D OPTICAL DESIGN
Lambda Research Corp.
NIR SPECTROMETER
Bruker Optics, Inc.
UV-CURING LAMP
Variant Technology, Inc.
FT-RAMAN PLATFORM
Thermo Electron Corp.
FARADAY ISOLATORS
Del Mar Ventures
LASER MARKING
Vision Numeric USA, Inc.
FLUID FLOW SOFTWARE
Dantec Dynamics AS
FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES
Horiba Jobin Yvon
LENS PROFILING
Trioptics GmbH
COOLED CAMERA
Sensovation AG
SUPERLUMINESCENT LEDs
Exalos AG
STEPPER MOTORS
Saia-Burgess USA, Inc.
OPTICAL SPLITTERS
Communications Specialties, Inc.
POLISHING SYSTEMS
Logitech Ltd.
DISPLAY TESTING
Radiant Imaging, Inc.
GLASS CERAMIC
Schott Glas
OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR
Fujikura Europe Ltd.
NANOPOSITIONING
Sios Messtechnik GmbH
GREEN LASER DIODE
Global Laser Technology Solutions Ltd.
IR VIEWERS
PhotonicsTech
SPECTRORADIOMETERS
Luzchem Research, Inc.
FO TEST SET
M2 Optics, Inc.
LASER MEASUREMENT
Photon, Inc.
MEGAPIXEL IMAGER
JAI Pulnix, Inc.
NANOPOSITIONER
piezosystem jena GmbH
WAFER MEASUREMENT
Micro-Metric, Inc.
MONOCHROMATOR
McPherson, Inc.
CCD CAMERA
PerkinElmer Optoelectronics
RGB SENSORS
Keyence Corp. of America
IMAGE ANALYSIS
Media Cybernetics, Inc.
HANDHELD LASER
Limo-Lissotschenko Microoptik GmbH
X-RAY INSPECTION
Detection Technology, Inc.
LIDAR SCANNER
Optech, Inc.
OPTOCOUPLERS
NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH
FIBER MEASUREMENT
Photon Kinetics
COMPACT CO2 LASERS
Coherent, Inc.
BLUE COLLIMATING LENS
LightPath Technologies, Inc.
THERMAL IMAGING
Armstrong Optical Ltd.
VISION SOFTWARE
Pleora Technologies, Inc.
CMOS IMAGERS
Photonfocus AG
VIDEO CAMERAS
Epix, Inc.
SPECTRUM ANALYZER
Promax Electronica SA
OPTICAL CHOPPER
Boston Electronics Corp.
COOLED CCD CAMERAS
DTA Scientific Instruments srl
AR SURFACE STRUCTURE
TelAztec Photonics
LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Dalsa Corp.
PORTABLE SPECTROMETER
StellarNet, Inc.
CCD COLOR CAMERAS
Videology Imaging Solutions, Inc.
UV MIRRORS
Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.
GREEN LASER
Snake Creek Lasers
SPECTRUM ANALYZERS
Apex Technologies
OTD REFLECTOMETER
Radiantech, Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERA
DRS Technologies, Inc.
CCD ARRAY
Ames Photonics Inc.
MWIR CAMERA
Cedip Infrared Systems
PHOTODETECTORS
UDT Sensors, Inc.
NARROW-SPECTRA LASER
WT&T, Inc.
INVERTED MICROSCOPE
Pyser-SGI Ltd.
GANTRY SYSTEM
Aerotech, Inc.
SPECTRUM MONITORING
Ibsen Photonics A/S
HIGH-SPEED CAMERA
Point Grey Research, Inc.
LASER DIODE DRIVER
Zarlink Semiconductor, Inc.
FTIR MODULE
Interspectrum OU
INTERFEROMETERS
Toptica Photonics AG
CMOS CAMERA
Basler AG, Vision Components Div.
LIGHT-SCATTERING SOFTWARE
Wyatt Technology Corp.
RING-SPACED ETALON
CVI Technical Optics Ltd.
POLARIZATION CONTROL
Thorlabs, Inc.
MICROSCOPY CAMERA
Lumenera Scientific Corp.
MINISPECTROMETERS
Newport Corp.
INTENSIFIED CCD
The Cooke Corp.
LASER MARKING
GSI Lumonics, Inc.
WAVEGUIDE PROTOTYPES
Dow Corning Corp.
TRACE ANALYSIS
Tiger Optics LLC
FILTER SETS
Omega Optical, Inc.
CMOS COLOR CAMERA
ViewBits
THERMAL PROCESSING
Despatch Industries
SINGLE-MODE LASERS
Cobolt AB
MULTIVIEW INSPECTION
Coreco Imaging
LASER WELDING
Rofin/Baasel Lasertech
SCAN CAMERAS
Imperx, Inc.
FO EXTENDER
Stride Digital

FastTrack (Business News)
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PPGI Purchases Metal Optics Company
In a cash transaction, Photonic Products Group Inc. (PPGI) of Northvale, N.J., has purchased the...
Gigabit Ethernet Offered for Vision Systems
Pleora Technologies of Ottawa has forged an agreement with Atmel Corp. of San Jose, Calif., to...
Spellman Acquires Del High Voltage
In New York, Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp. of Hauppauge has purchased Del High Voltage...
Cedip Forms German Subsidiary
Thermal IR camera specialist Cedip Infrared Systems of Croissy-Beauborg, France, has opened a...
Exfo Units Integrated, Relocated
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. of Vanier, Quebec, Canada, is consolidating the operations of...
Virginia Company to Develop Sensors for US Navy Gas Turbines
Prime Research LC, a subsidiary of Prime Photonics LC, has received an award of nearly $2 million...
Rofin-Sinar Purchases Laser Companies
In a cash transaction of an undisclosed amount, Rofin-Sinar Technologies, headquartered in Hamburg,...
Agreement Signed on Fiber Exchange
A distribution and product development agreement has been reached by StockerYale Inc. of Salem,...
Air Force Awards Contracts for Laser Technologies Research
The US Air Force Research Lab at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico recently announced that 21...
University Gains Government Grant for Research
The Economic Development Administration has awarded the University of Central Florida in Orlando a...
CVI Laser to Supply Mounts to Ignition Facility
CVI Laser LLC of Albuquerque, N.M., has secured a contract valued at more than $1 million to supply...
Spectrum Thin Films Expands Sales Force
Blue Hill Optical Technologies of Canton, Mass., has been selected by Spectrum Thin Films as its...
RSoft Design Names Israeli Representative
RSoft Design Group Inc. has selected Anomaly Technology of Mariaz Center, Israel, to distribute its...
Picarro Gains NSF Allotment for Research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Picarro Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., a $492,690...
Redlake Forms Partnership with IDC
Redlake has allied with Integrated Design Tools Inc. (IDC) to advance its MotionPro CMOS high-speed...
Chinese Company Buys Veeco's GaN Platform
Veeco Instruments Inc. of Somerset, N.J., has sold its TurboDisc D180 GaN metallorganic chemical...
Red-C Chooses Supplier of Tunable Detectors
Red-C Optical Networks Ltd. of Tel Aviv, Israel, has selected Aegis Semiconductor of Woburn, Mass.,...
Vacuum Components Hit $2.6 Billion in Sales
In 2003, the market for vacuum components and equipment subsystems totaled $2.6 billion worldwide,...
ORA to Develop Optical Design Software
Optical Research Associates (ORA) of Pasadena, Calif., has received a Small Business Innovation...
Semrock Supplies Filters to Carl Zeiss
Carl Zeiss AG, based in Oberkochen, Germany, has selected Semrock Inc. to supply fluorescence...
Digital Optics Collaborates with UNC-Charlotte
As part of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Defense Advanced Research Projects...
Wavelength Electronics Gets Canadian Distributor
Wavelength Electronics Inc. of Bozeman, Mont., has selected Silicon Sandbox to represent its laser...
Varian Buys Products for Spectroscopy
Varian Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., has purchased molecular spectroscopy assets from Digilab LLC of...
Highwave to Acquire DA-LightCom
In France, Highwave Optical Technologies of Lannion has signed a memorandum of understanding for...
Firms Join to Develop Organic LEDs
The Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics, and RWTH Aachen and Aixtron AG, both of Aachen,...

Feature Articles
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'Wiring' Light with Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Shortly after the invention of the laser, researchers discovered that intense laser pulses can...
Approaches Aim to Unmask Semiconductors
When Walt Trybula looks at the future of semiconductor manufacturing, he sees problems. Such...
Infrared Chemical Imaging: The Future of FourierTransform IR Spectroscopy
Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic techniques are valued for their rapid,...
Atomic Spectroscopy:A Looking-Glass View of thePast, Present and Future
The oldest atomic spectroscopy technique is flame emission spectrophotometry, first employed by...
Gigabit Ethernet Finds a Foothold in High-Performance Vision
Real-time operation is a requirement for most high-performance vision applications, including...
Polycrystalline GermaniumEnables Near-IR Photodetectors Integrated with Silicon CMOS Electronics
In the past two decades, SiGe has been the material of choice for the development of near-IR (0.7...

Presstime Bulletin
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Airborne Laser Achieves 'First Light'
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems of St. Louis, a unit of Boeing Co., announced the successful...
Quantum-Dot Infrared Detector Displays Multispectral Operation
In the Nov. 1 issue of Applied Physics Letters, engineers at Stanford University in California...
Microring Lasers Target Optical Data Processing
A research group at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven and JDS Uniphase Corp., both in Eindhoven,...
Miniature Tools Created for Micromachining
Tiny polycrystalline diamond cutting tools fabricated by scientists at the University of Kentucky...
Nanofiber 'Flash Welding' Investigated
Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, report in the November issue of Nature...
Laser Beams Tied in Knots
Scientists at the University of Glasgow and the University of Southampton, both in the UK, reported...

Research
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Matter-to-Light Quantum State Transfer Demonstrated
Physicists Alexander M. Kuzmich and Dzmitry N. Matsukevich of Georgia Institute of Technology in...
Electrically Pumped 1.5-µm MEMS VCSEL Tunes over 40 nm
A collaboration of scientists at Two-Chip Photonics AG and Technische Universität Darmstadt, both...
A Light Switch in More Ways than One
Researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., have fabricated a silicon-based, all-optical...
Efficient Ho:YAG Laser Oscillates in Single Longitudinal Mode
By minimizing thermal loading on a Ho:YAG laser rod, a research group at the University of...

Technology
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Wet Stamping Produces Multicolor Micropatterning
Researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., have reported the multicolor...
Photonics Offers Remote Measurements of Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens, the volcano in southwest Washington state that erupted in 1980, is again showing...
Magnetic System Images Audiotape
Physicist David P. Pappas, project leader of magnetic recording measurements at the National...
Spectral Filter Is Cheap, Tunable and Accurate
Although the principal motivation for developing inexpensive tunable optical filters is the...
Silicon Laser Is Realized
At the University of California, Los Angeles, scientists have reported the demonstration of what...
Intracavity Fiber Sensors Are Sensitive and Inexpensive
A novel approach to monitoring fiber optic sensors by placing them inside a mode-locked laser...