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Frozen Photodetectors Present Design Challenges
Of the high-energy particles thrown out by cataclysmic astrophysical sources in the universe, such...
Laser Scanning Keeps Old Military Equipment in Service
Military hardware is aging fast. In some cases, it's older than the soldiers who use it. Spare...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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LASER METER WITH PC INTERFACE
Coherent, Inc.
COMPLEX LASER MODELING
Zemax Development Corp.
NANOPOSITIONING STAGES
Discovery Technology International LLLP
BISTABLE SHUTTER
Vincent Associates
ORGANIC PHOTONIC SENSOR
Nanoident AG
SOLID-STATE UV LASER
Spectra-Physics
MULTILAYER ACTUATORS
Morgan Electro Ceramics Ltd.
HIGH-SPEED CAMERA
Brian Reece Scientific Ltd.
LED BULBS
CAO Group, Inc.
FIREWIRE REPEATER
Unibrain Inc.
LASER SOLDERING
Telops, Inc.
INSPECTION SENSOR
Philips Applied Technologies
PHOSPHORESCENT OLEDS
Universal Display Corp.
PHOTON COUNTING
SensL
REMOTE-HEAD CAMERA
Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.
MULTISPECTRAL DETECTORS
Vigo Systems SA
TUNABLE LASER
Santec Corp.
PATTERN ANALYSIS
Soft Imaging System Corp.
DATA ACQUISITION
PicoQuant GmbH
OPTICAL DISPLAY MATERIALS
Sartomer Co., Inc.
DEEP-UV LASER
Toptica Photonics AG
VCSEL ARRAY
Vertilas GmbH
IMAGE DITHERING
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
VARIABLE ATTENUATOR
Standa Ltd.
LENS TESTING
Wells Research and Development, Inc.
ALUMINUM ALLOY
International Resistive Co., Inc.
EMITTER DESIGN
UniCad, Inc.
CAMERA BOARD
Videology Imaging Solutions, Inc.
COLOR SENSING
Silicann Technologies GmbH
DIODE LASERS
Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH
IEEE-1394 CABLES
Nortech Systems, Inc.
WIDE-ANGLE IR LENS
Tamron USA, Inc.
DISPLAY MEASUREMENT
Optronic Laboratories, Inc.
LINE-SCAN LENS
Kowa Co. Ltd.
DESIGN SOFTWARE
Liekki Oy
LED ANALYSIS
Feasa
PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERA
Imperx, Inc.
MACHINE VISION
Sightech Vision Systems
OPTICAL REPEATER
Newnex Technology Corp.
CMOS CAMERA
PixeLink
THERMAL IMAGING
Optotherm, Inc.
355-nm LASERS
Photonics Industries International, Inc.
PHOTOSENSITIVE EPOXY
Nitto Denko Corp.
SPECTROMETERS
P&P Optica, Inc.
MODULATOR MOUNT
ConOptics, Inc.
CCD CAMERAS
New Electronic Technology (NET) Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
FO CABLE RECEIVERS
Mazet GmbH
FRAME GRABBERS
Leutron Vision, Inc.
FIBER LASERS
IPG Photonics Corp.
BEAM SHAPER
Molecular Technology (MolTech GmbH)
Nd:YAG LASERS
Laser Support Services
BLUE LED LIGHT SOURCE
Optical Tools Co.
DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA
Point Grey Research, Inc.
IMAGING SOFTWARE
Improvision, Inc.
DIODE LASERS
Laserline GmbH
CCD CAMERA
Prosilica, Inc.
PHOTOSENSOR
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
VIDEO RECORDER CARD
IO Industries Inc.
DIODE LASER
Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH
PATTERN GENERATOR
Cleode
IR CAMERAS
Mikron Infrared, Inc.
SAMPLE PREPARATION
JEOL USA, Inc.
INDUSTRIAL IMAGING
Stemmer Imaging GmbH
CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE
Olympus Life and Material Science Europa GmbH
MINI SPECTROMETERS
Newport Corp.
PULSE GENERATOR
Quantum Composers, Inc.
COLOR DETECTION
Optek Technology Inc.
FIBER LASER PUMP
Bookham, Inc.
TELECENTRIC LENSES
Vision & Control GmbH
DIODE-PUMPED LASERS
EdgeWave GmbH
WAVELENGTH METER
Bristol Instruments, Inc.
PULSED FIBER LASERS
Southampton Photonics, Inc.
POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE
dBm Optics, Inc.
SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING
Micro Photon Devices
STENCIL LASER
LPKF Laser & Electronics AG
TEST INSTRUMENT
Jova Solutions, Inc.
FIBER LASER OPTICS
CVI Laser LLC
BROADBAND POLARIZER
Codixx AG
OPTICAL FIBER
Polymicro Technologies LLC
RAMAN SPECTROMETER
Avantes BV
INDUSTRIAL MICROSCOPES
Nikon Instruments, Inc.
FIBER DELIVERY SYSTEM
Point Source Ltd.
SIGNAL PROCESSOR
C&D Technologies Inc.
QUANTUM DOTS
Evident Technologies
DIODE LASERS
NLight Corp.
LIQUID CRYSTAL POLARIZER
Elan Ltd.
LASER CUTTING HEAD
Hypertherm, Inc.
GLASS LENSES
Docter Optics, Inc.
OPTICAL FIBERS
Fiberguide Industries, Inc.
ROTARY ENCODERS
Micronor, Inc.
LEAD-FREE DIODES
Photonic Products Ltd.
INDUSTRIAL LASER
Bavarian Photonics GmbH
ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE
Veeco Instruments, Inc.
LASER KIT
Alphalas GmbH
ELECTRON MULTIPLIER
Burle Electro-Optics, Inc.
CO2 LASER
Rofin Group
ARRAY PLATES
Incom
VIOLET DIODE LASERS
Melles Griot Laser Group
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Optic Valley Photonics, Inc.
OEM LASER
Coherent, Inc.
OPTICAL PLATFORM
Shellcase Ltd.
BINOCULAR VIEWER
Stereoscopic Image Systems (SIS) Ltd.
LASERS, OPTICAL FLATS
Artifex Engineering
INVERTED MICROSCOPES
Leica Microsystems, Inc.
LASER CUTTING
New Wave Research

FastTrack (Business News)
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Study Cautiously Optimistic on Inertial Confinement Fusion
A Jason committee, working under a charter from the US National Nuclear Security Administration,...
Government Funding Promotes Optical Sciences
The National Science Foundation recently granted awards to advance several optical sciences...
Forecasts Are Issued for Market for Industrial Vision Systems
The European industrial vision systems market is projected to reach $948.44 million by 2011, with a...
DRS Technologies Wins Thermal Imaging Contract
DRS Technologies Inc. will produce thermal imaging systems for the US Marine Corps' M1A1 Abrams...
Companies Form Distribution Pact
Laser Components IG Inc. of Hudson, N.H., and Ulm Photonics GmbH in Germany have entered into an...
Radiant Imaging, Nichia Ally for Lighting Design
Radiant Imaging of Duvall, Wash., and Nichia Corp. of Tokyo have partnered to support designers of...
Laser Lines Named UK Agent for nLight
High-power semiconductor laser manufacturer nLight Photonics Corp. of Vancouver, Wash., has...
Aegis Spins Off RedShift Systems
In Massachusetts, RedShift Systems Corp. of Waltham has spun off from Aegis Semiconductor Inc. of...
Cree and Osram Opto Sign LED Purchase Pact
Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., has signed a three-year agreement with Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of...
Phasebridge Wins 'Photonic Radio' Program Contract
Phasebridge Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., has received a $350,000 contract from the Defense Advanced...
E2v to Supply Image Sensors for Gaia Mission
Under a three-year, $17.2 million contract, e2v technologies plc of Chelmsford, UK, will supply the...
Yangtze Optical to Defend Against Patent Lawsuit
Furukawa Electric North America APD Inc. of Plymouth, Mich., and its subsidiary, OFS Fitel LLC of...
GTDS to Represent Telops' Defense Products
GTDS Inc. of Boucherville, Quebec, Canada, has agreed to market Telops' defense products in Japan,...
Leister Process Launches Brand Name
Leister Process Technologies of Sarnen, Switzerland, will market the products of its Microsystems...
Newport Expands into Europe
Newport Corp. of Irvine, Calif., has made its Oriel products, including light sources and...
Janos Technology Moves to Expanded Quarters
Janos Technology Inc. has relocated to a 40,000-sq-ft facility in Keene, N.H. Designed to house 95...
New Wave Research and Opto System Join Forces
New Wave Research Inc. of Fremont, Calif., and Opto System Co. Ltd. of Kyotanabe, Japan, have...
MVTec Names Daheng as Distributor in China
MVTec Software GmbH of Munich, Germany, has expanded its marketing operations in China with the...
Schott Opens Unit in Singapore
Schott AG of Mainz, Germany, has opened a facility in Singapore for the encapsulation of electronic...

Feature Articles
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Microstructured Fiber: Out of the Lab and Put to Use
For almost 40 years, glass fibers have guided and transmitted light, providing optical solutions in...
Imaging Sphere Enables Rapid Source Intensity Mapping
Many photonic applications require the ability to calculate luminous intensity; that is, light...
A Clear View of Fused Silica Transmission Gratings
Diffraction gratings have been manufactured for more than 200 years. Their development was driven...
Advances in Lasers on a Chip
Microfluidic technology has miniaturized many instruments used in biotechnology and medicine into...
Passive Hyperspectral Imagers See Chemical Clouds
Interest in the detection, identification and quantification of chemicals in the gaseous state from...

LED Focus
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Building Better LEDs from the Bottom Up
An LED manufacturing technique that promises to enable the production of brighter and more...
Weaker Microcavities Enable Brighter, Whiter Organic LEDs
Consumer display companies have declared white organic LEDs the wave of the future. Combined with a...

Microscopy Focus
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Hybrid Microscopy Reveals Surface Plasmon Dynamics
By combining the techniques of interferometric time-resolved two-photon emission and photoelectron...
Modified Mirror Reaction Metals Apertureless Probes
A research team from the University of Leeds in the UK, Riken research institute in Wako, Japan,...
Imaging with Electrons, Aided by Light
Researchers at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have developed an instrument with the...
Microscopy Images Photocurrent in Nanowire Detector
Using a near-field scanning optical microscope, researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston,...

Nanophotonics
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Organic Dye Molecules Form Waveguides
Scientists at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba have reported the...
Blue Electroluminescence from a Single Polymer Layer
Interest in organic LEDs is largely due to their potential for cost-effective device fabrication....

New Media
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TEST, MEASUREMENT
Keithley Instruments Inc.
LASER DIODES
Power Technologies Inc.
OPTICS FOR KIDS
Optical Society of America
POLARIZATION, DELAY
General Photonics Corp.
LASERS SIMPLIFIED
Pearson Custom Publishing
NANOTECH PAPERS
Nano Science and Technology Institute
VIBRATION CONTROL
Kinetic Systems Inc.
SOFTWARE CONTROLLER
Aerotech Inc.
IMAGING SOFTWARE
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH
DIODE LASER SITE
unique-m.o.d.e AG
MULTIPHYSICS MODELS
Comsol Inc.
OPTICAL SYSTEMS
Moritex
WASHERS, SPACERS
Boker’s Inc.

Peregrinations
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UV Alert, Gotta Fly
Without ultraviolet light, a monarch butterfly will get disoriented. This was a major finding in a...
Leading Lights
For anyone who has ever dreamed of playing lead guitar, a new tool lightens the effort of...
Blink and Go Blank
Scientists at University College London have used photonic techniques to study what happens when...

Presstime Bulletin
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Laser Micromachining Yields Optical Vibration Sensor
At Keio University in Yokohama, Japan, and at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., a team of...
Pyrite-Type Silica Produced at High Pressures
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and...
Mid-IR LEDs Suggest Scene-Generation Applications
Scientists at the US Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, working with Maxion Technology of...

Research
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Neutrino Detector Focuses on Earth
A team of 87 scientists from Japan, the US, China and France has reported the results of its study...
Small Smile Produces Big Output from SCOWLs
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington have...
Eye-Safe, Wavelength-Tunable Fiber Laser Generates >100 W
Eye-safe lasers -- those that emit in the 1.5-µm region where the cornea does not transmit -- are...
Mode-Locking Technique Well Suited for Fiber Lasers
For most of the four decades since their first demonstration, mode-locked lasers have been...
Jammed Beads Simulate Glass Transition
University of Chicago researchers have experimentally determined that the forces on granular...

Technology
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CW GaN Laser Diodes Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Next-generation DVD technology -- whether it's Blu-ray, as supported by Sony, Sharp and about a...
Digital Velocimetry Exposes Hummingbird Flight
Hummingbirds are fascinating to watch because, unlike other birds, they can hover in one spot for...
All-SiO2 Fiber Pressure Sensor Sets Sensitivity Record
By fabricating a miniature Fabry-Perot interferometer on the tip of a single-mode fiber,...
Nd:GdVO4 Laser Is Tunable Around 1.08 µm
At National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, researchers have demonstrated what they...
Pulse Delivered by Hollow Optical Fiber Creates Spark
Research shows that significant improvements in combustion efficiency can result when the igniting...
Inexpensive Optical Accelerometer Is Simple to Fabricate
The advantage of optical accelerometers over their electrical counterparts is their ability to...