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IR Spectroscopy Tests Charcoal for Tennessee Whiskey
To enable distillers of Tennessee whiskey to produce a better and more uniform product, scientists...

Miniaturized Airborne Instruments Provide Maximum
Atmospheric Data
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a professor of applied ocean sciences and of atmospheric sciences and...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)

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UV CURING SYSTEMS
Phoseon Technology

LASER STABILIZATION
Orbits Lightwave Inc.

BEAM PROFILER
Coherent Inc.

PC DRIVER
Pleora Technologies Inc.

ALUMINUM NITRIDE WAFERS
Crystal IS Inc.

LASER MIRRORS
Alpine Research Optics Corp.

MOTION CONTROL
Aerotech Inc.

CMOS CAMERA
Photonfocus AG

WIDE-TEMPERATURE LCDS
Kopin Corp.

XENON FLASHLAMPS
Specialised Imaging Ltd.

CONVERTER PAIR
Terahertz Technologies Inc.

MOTION CONTROLLER
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

DIODE LASERS
Alfalight Inc.

INDUSTRIAL CAMERA
Atmel Corp.

STEREOMICROSCOPE
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH

TORQUE MOTORS
H2W Technologies Inc.

INSPECTION SOFTWARE
Value Engineering Alliance

OPTICS FOR LEDS
L2Optics division of Dialight Lumidrives

IEEE-1394 CAMERA
Point Grey Research Inc.

LASER MODULES
Ondax Inc.

ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUE
Centre for Integrated Photonics

IR CAMERA
Cedip Infrared Systems

SOFTWARE TOOL KIT
Dalsa Corp.

OPTICAL ELEMENTS
Bea Lasers Inc.

COLOR SENSOR BOARD
Mazet GmbH

THERMAL IMAGING SYSTEM
Electrophysics

MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE
ipd

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES
Voxtel Inc.

MACHINE VISION SENSORS
Vision & Control GmbH

LOSS MEASUREMENT
OptoTest Corp.

MACHINE VISION CAMERA
Adimec USA

TELECENTRIC LENSES
Edmund Optics Inc.

RESEARCH STEREOMICROSCOPES
Olympus Life and Material Science Europa GmbH

VACUUM FTIR SPECTROMETER
Bruker Optics Inc.

DARK-FIELD LED RINGLIGHT
Volpi USA

SINGLE-MODE FIBER
OFS

INSPECTION TOOL
Polytech AB

COOLING SYSTEM
PolyScience

PIXEL CORRECTION
Imperx Inc.

THERMAL IMAGER
Armstrong Optical Ltd.

OPTICAL SYSTEM DESIGN
Optiwave Systems Inc.

HIGH-SPEED LASER MARKER
Keyence Corp. of America

HIGH-TEMP ADHESIVE
Intertronics

LIDAR SOFTWARE
Airborne 1 Corp.

WAVELENGTH STABILIZATION
Spectra-Physics, a division of Newport Corp.

FACTORY AUTOMATION
Toshiba Teli America Inc.

IMAGING SOFTWARE
AccuSoft Corp.

DPSS LASER SERIES
Linos Photonics Inc.

FPGA DEVELOPER’S KIT
Matrox Imaging

DAY/NIGHT EXCHANGER
Sunex Inc.

DIGITAL CAMERAS
Lumenera Corp.

THIN-FILM METROLOGY
Semiconsoft Inc.

VISION SYSTEM
Panasonic Electric Works Corp. of America

COUNTERROTATION STAGE
Cleveland Crystals Inc.

ERBIUM FIBER
Liekki Corp.

SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCE
Precision Photonics Corp.

UNCOOLED IR CAMERA
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH

SOLID-STATE RELAYS
Avago Technologies

GIGABIT ETHERNET SUPPORT
National Instruments

UV CAMCORDER
Oculus Photonics LLP

LED ILLUMINATOR
Micro-Lite

PATTERN GENERATOR
Holo-Or Ltd.

DIGITAL CAMERA
Dage-MTI Technologies

OPTICAL BUILDING BLOCKS
Prizmatix

LIGHT SOURCES
Moritex USA Inc.

IR CAMERA
HGH Systèmes Infrarouges

OPTICAL SYSTEM
Resolve Optics Ltd.

BEAM PROFILING SYSTEM
Photon Inc.

BARE FIBER SHAPING
Krell Technologies Inc.

LED DIMMER
Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG

SMART CAMERA
SICK Integrated Vision Products (IVP) AB

PULSED FIBER LASER
Lumics GmbH

SILICONE POLYMER SYSTEM
Master Bond Inc.

IMAGE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
Sensors Unlimited, Goodrich Corp.

AMPLIFIER SYSTEM
Elektronik Laser System (ELS) GmbH

HIGH-SPEED VIDEO CAMERA
Weinberger Deutschland GmbH

TRANSLATION STAGE
Standa Ltd.

MINI IR CAMERA
Thermoteknix Systems Ltd.

GLASS CUTTING
Fonon Technology International Inc.

PHOTORECEIVERS
New Focus Div. of Bookham Inc.

MWIR DETECTOR
Sofradir

FIREWIRE CAMERA
Diagnostic Instruments

CMOS IMAGE SENSOR
OmniVision Technologies Inc.

POWER BASE
Electron Tubes Inc.

ON-MACHINE INSPECTION
Faro Technologies Inc.

LENS HOLDER SYSTEM
PerkinElmer Optoelectronics

OBJECTIVE POSITIONER
piezosystem jena GmbH

CLEANUP FILTERS
Semrock Inc.

IR DETECTOR/PREAMPLIFIER
Vigo System SA

SMART CAMERA
Sony Electronics Inc.

AMPLIFIED ULTRAFAST FIBER LASER
Imra America Inc.

MOTOR CONTROLLERS
New Scale Technologies Inc.

FastTrack (Business News)

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LIA and FMA Acquire Laser Workshop
The Laser Institute of America (LIA) of Orlando, Fla., and the Fabricators & Manufacturers...

Growth Predicted for OLED and Paperlike Displays
Organic LED (OLED) and paperlike display technologies are finding opportunities in the display...

Report Issued on European Laser Welding Market
Laser welding has a niche in the automotive industry, but opportunities exist elsewhere for its...

Imra America to Build Lab with German Groups
Imra America of Ann Arbor, Mich., has entered into an agreement with Lehrstuhl für Lasertechnik...

Bae Institute Wins Grant from NASA
Young K. Bae of the Bae Institute in Tustin, Calif., has received a $75,000 grant from the NASA...

Siemens Communications Buys Photonic Bridges
Siemens Communications Group of Munich, Germany, has purchased Photonic Bridges of Shanghai, China,...

PicoQuant Announces Young Investigator Award
PicoQuant GmbH of Berlin has announced that a young investigator award will be presented at the...

EPIC Releases European Laser Market Analysis
The European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) has announced the publication of “Laser...

BFi Optilas Completes Management Buyout
BFi Optilas International SAS of Evry, France, has acquired a majority stake in its company from...

Center Is Established for Chemical Sensors
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a research center at Princeton University in New...

Laserscope Buys InnovaQuartz
Laserscope of San Jose, Calif., has acquired InnovaQuartz Inc. of Phoenix. The Arizona company,...

Company Prepares for Relocation
JP Sercel Associates Inc. has purchased a 35,000-sq-ft facility in Manchester, N.H., in preparation...

Report Forecasts Boom for Displays, Digital Signs
The Quarterly FPD Public Display Shipment and Forecast Report from DisplaySearch, a display market...

General Atomics Appoints Japanese Agent
The Commercial Laser Group of General Atomics, based in San Diego, has forged an agreement with...

Dalsa to Establish Asia-Pacific Unit
After having undertaken a study of the Asia-Pacific markets, Dalsa Corp. has decided to establish a...

NIST Launches Test Protocol Facility
A facility has been established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in...

Schott Expands Capacity for Backlight Glass
Schott AG of Mainz, Germany, has started construction of three melting tanks in Valasské Mezirici,...

Hologic Acquires AEG Elektrofotografie
Hologic Inc. of Bedford, Mass., a provider of diagnostic and digital imaging systems for women’s...

SMI to Develop Silicon-Based Laser
The US Air Force has awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer grant to Structured...

Kansas Group Designs Remote Sensing Tool
Researchers at Kansas State University in Manhattan have developed a prototype for an unmanned...

Halma Acquires Mikropack
Mikropack GmbH of Ostfildern, Germany, has been acquired by UK-based Halma plc and will join...

Planning Force Acquires Quintessence Photonics
Planning Force Inc. of Spokane, Wash., has acquired Quintessence Photonics Corp. (QPC) of Sylmar,...

Cree to Supply LEDS to Seoul Semiconductor
Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., and Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd. in South Korea have signed two...

G-S Plastic Optics Installs Coating Equipment
G-S Plastic Optics, a Germanow-Simon company in Rochester, N.Y., has announced the installation of...

Cognex to Acquire AssistWare
Cognex Corp. of Natick, Mass., has announced its plans to acquire AssistWare Technologies Inc. of...

Modulight to Develop Atomic Clock Laser
Modulight Inc. of Tampere, Finland, has received a $364,000 contract from the European Space Agency...

Barr Associates to Buy Optical Coating
Barr Associates of Westford, Mass., has agreed to acquire the assets of the Natick, Mass.-based...

Companies Sign Marketing Pact
Analytical Spectral Devices Inc. of Boulder, Colo., has signed a worldwide marketing agreement with...

Jenoptik Opens Production Center
The Jenoptik Group of Jena, Germany, has opened a production center for plastic optics and optical...

Daylight Solutions Focuses on Chemical Detection
Daylight Solutions Inc. of Poway, Calif., has received a Phase 1 award from the US Department of...

Feature Articles

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PCI Motion Control in Microscope Automation
Over the past 15 years, microscopes have been transformed from devices for which the operator had...

How Much Energy Are You Throwing Away?
The Gaussian beam profile of a TEM00 laser is suitable for many applications. For targeting and...

Darkness on the Edge of Your Images
Numerous image sensor manufacturers are producing digital sensors that match the size of slide and...

Measuring 3-D Semiconductor Packaging
Since the early 1900s, science and industry professionals have been using optical measurement and...

Phosphor Placement in White LED Packages
To be useful in lighting applications and to compete with traditional light sources, the white LED...

LED Lighting Gaining in Cost-Effectiveness
A number of developments are converging to stimulate widespread replacement of traditional...

Cost-Effective Light Sources Created for Rear-Projection TV
Television in the US is going digital as of Feb. 17, 2009, when, under a Federal Communications...

Outlook Brightens for LEDs in the Lighting Market
As the LED comes closer to becoming tomorrow’s general lighting source, several factors will...

The Transistor Laser: A Natural for Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits
Since it was first demonstrated by John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain in 1947, the transistor has...

LED Focus

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Polymer OLEDs Match Small-Molecule Efficiencies
Researchers from Universität zu Köln and Universität Potsdam, both in Germany, have developed...

Nanotube Sheet Employed as OLED Electrode
Organic LEDs (OLEDs) incorporating an anode made from a thin sheet of single-walled carbon...

Aluminum Nitride LED Produces 210-nm Radiation
Suggesting applications in the elimination of environmental toxins, investigators at NTT Basic...

Microscopy Focus

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Subdiffraction-Limit Microscopy Exposes Vesicle Dynamics
Using a variant of fluorescence microscopy that enables subdiffraction-limit resolutions,...

Feedback-Based Imaging Enables Miniature Scanning Confocal Microscopes
As part of their work toward the development of a handheld scanning confocal microscope,...

Nanophotonics

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Photonic Crystal Improves Output of Quantum Dot Films
The addition of a 2-D photonic crystal to the surface of LED structures boosts the output of these...

Microscopy Probes Dielectric Constant of Nanostructured Films
Using near-field scanning optical microscopy, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory in...

Cryogenic Laser Photolithography Finds Quantum Dot Registration
In quantum dot information processing, it is critical to be able to register the position of a...

New Media

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VIBRATION ISOLATION
Technical Manufacturing Corp.

FRET FILTERS
Omega Optical

THERMAL IMAGING
Cedip Infrared Systems

LASER RESOURCE
Melles Griot

LENS SELECTOR
Navitar Inc.

LASER SAFETY
CRC Press

POSITIONERS
attocube systems AG

VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS
National Instruments

FO PRODUCTS
Fiber Instrument Sales Inc.

VISIBLE LEDS
TT electronics Optek technology

ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS
Burle Electro-Optics Inc.

Peregrinations

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Harnessing Technology to See
Elizabeth Goldring, a senior fellow at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in Cambridge,...

Stalking the Elusive Ball Lightning
German researchers have found a reliable way to simulate ball lightning by producing clouds of...

Presstime Bulletin

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Quantum Cascade Detectors Demonstrated for Mid-IR
In the June 12 issue of Applied Physics Letters, scientists at the Institut de Physique at...

Nanocrystal-Based LEDs Offer More Efficient Color Conversion
As part of an effort to improve the performance of potential solid-state replacements for general...

Membrane Has Photoswitchable Surface Properties
By grafting a photoactive vinyl monomer to a synthetic ultrafiltration membrane, researchers at...

Thin-Film Device Senses Texture by Touch
Engineers at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln have developed a large-area, thin-film-based...

CO2 Has Glassy Form Similar to Silica
Confirming theoretical predictions and potentially opening the door to novel, ultrahard optical...

Tandem Blue OLEDs Display High Efficiencies
Researchers from Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, N.Y., have reported luminous efficiencies of 20...

Research

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Picosecond Fiber Laser Breaks 100-W Barrier
Fiber lasers already have proved capable of remarkable continuous-wave performance, generating more...

Microcavity Is Sensitive Detector for Heavy Water
Researchers at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have demonstrated a technique for...

Liquid Deformable Mirror Promises Fast Wavefront Correction
Deformable mirrors offer the possibility of compensating for atmospheric optical distortion, an...

New Ytterbium Host Offers Efficiency and Tunability
The broad absorption and emission spectra of ytterbium, together with its small quantum defect,...

Continuous-Wave Solid-State Dye Laser Is Demonstrated
Dye lasers have been around since the 1970s and have been instrumental in many applications,...

Waveguide Generates and Modulates Second Harmonic
Researchers at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, have analyzed and demonstrated a...

Photonic Bandgap Fiber Forces a Weak Line to Lase
Both the fundamental wavelength of the neodymium 4F3/2 → 4I9/2 transition (890 to 950 nm) and...

Spectroscopy Focus

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Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Exposes Self-Assembly
of Mesoporous Thin Films
The low index of refraction and ultralow dielectric constant of mesoporous ceramic thin films make...

Time-Resolved Near-IR Spectroscopy Probes Potential Jump at Electrochemical Interface
The electrochemical interface where a solid meets a solution is of interest in the development of...

Technology

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Helium Is Good for Silicon Lasers
Recently, several research groups demonstrated Raman lasers in silicon, perhaps bringing the union...

Metamaterials May Be Used to Make Objects Invisible
Sir John B. Pendry of Imperial College London and collaborators David R. Smith and David Schurig of...

IR Radiation Breaks Si-H Vibrational Stretch Mode
Scientists from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and from Vanderbilt University in...

Adaptive Lens Employs Liquid Crystal
Researchers at the University of Central Florida in Orlando have constructed a tunable-focus lens...

Passivated Carbon Nanoparticles Show Promise for Multiplexed Biolabeling
Although semiconductor quantum dots have shown promise as bright fluorescent labels, concerns about...

Superconducting Detector Collects Terahertz Radiation
Detecting terahertz radiation is a chore. Terahertz waves are of interest for a variety of imaging...