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Optical Vortex Traps Tiny Droplets
For Daniel T. Chiu, a chemistry professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, all but the...
Oxygen Measured in Water by Making Movies
When asked to describe a new technique that measures sedimentary oxygen content arising from the...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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LabSmith Inc.
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Power Technology Inc.
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Trumpf Inc.
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Automation Engineering Inc.
INTERFEROMETER
4D Technology Corp.
PARTICLE SIZING
Nanosight Ltd.
ISOLATION SYSTEM
Ambios Technology Inc.
OPTICAL FIBER ARRAYS
Fiberguide Industries Inc.
DIODE LASER SYSTEM
Nuvonyx Inc.
ROTARY OPTICAL ENCODER
FSI Technologies Inc.
IMAGE PROCESSING
Vision Components GmbH
OEM MODULE
IMM Meßtechnologie GmbH
INSPECTION MODULE
Media Cybernetics Inc.
MOTION CONTROL
Danaher Motion
VCSEL IR LASERS
Optek Technology Inc.
FLUORESCENCE MODELING
Lambda Research Corp.
LINE-SCAN LENSES
Kowa Optimed Inc.
SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM
Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) Inc.
LASER OSCILLATOR
Coherent Inc.
OPTICS SOFTWARE
Optiwave Systems Inc.
RARE-EARTH CHLORIDES
MV Laboratories Inc.
LASER CONTROLLER UNIT
Pavilion Integration Corp.
UV PRODUCTS
Edmund Optics
POLYVINYL FLUORIDE FILMS
DuPont Fluoroproducts
RAMAN WORKSTATIONS
McPherson Inc.
BEAM PROFILERS
Photon Inc.
SUPERLUMINESCENT LEDS
Exalos AG
LASER CUTTING SYSTEM
Robotic Production Technology
HEAD ASSEMBLY FOR DEEP-UV
Hinds Instruments Inc.
MACHINE VISION CAMERA
SVS-Vistek GmbH
BALL LENSES
Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI)
LUMINESCENCE MONITOR
Ocean Optics Inc.
AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE
Hamamatsu Corp.
BEAM COMBINER/SPLITTER
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Jasco Inc.
UV LASER SERIES
Spectra-Physics
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SIOS Meßtechnik GmbH
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New Scale Technologies Inc.
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Nanonics Imaging Ltd.
BRIGHT-FIELD RINGLIGHTS
Volpi USA
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General Photonics Corp.
SINGLE-MODE VCSEL
Vertilas GmbH
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Osram Opto Semiconductors
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Standa Ltd.
GREEN LASER MODULE
Snake Creek Lasers LLC
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PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
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TechnoLab GmbH
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Liekki Corp.
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Silicann Technologies GmbH
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Point Source Ltd.
MULTICOLOR LED
Dominant Semiconductors Sdn. Bhd.
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Omega Optical Inc.
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Rofin/Baasel Lasertech
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Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG
CURING SYSTEM
Xenon Corp.
IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION
Wells Research and Development Inc.
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Prosilica Inc.
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Thermo Electron Corp.
IR CAMERA
Cedip Infrared Systems
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IB/E Ing.-Büro Klaus Eckerl
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Powerlase Ltd.
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Kinetic Systems Inc.
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Optometrics Corp.
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Sopra
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Prior Scientific Instruments
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Owis GmbH
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Rolyn Optics Co.
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Gamma Scientific
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Tiger Optics LLC
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Comsol Inc.
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Varioptic SA
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FastTrack (Business News)
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Quintessence to Produce Optical-Sensing Lasers
Quintessence Photonics Corp. of Sylmar, Calif., has won a contract to develop and produce...
DataLase Opens US Headquarters
Formerly Sherwood Technology, DataLase Ltd. of Widnes, UK, has opened a North American headquarters...
Sandia Grants License to E M Optomechanical
In Albuquerque, N.M., Sandia National Laboratories has provided a license to E M Optical Inc. to...
Texas Photonics Receives DARPA Contract
BAE Systems of Lexington, Mass., has awarded Phase II funding of approximately $705,000 to Texas...
NI, Agilent Technologies Ally to Create Drivers
Test and measurement companies National Instruments Corp. of Austin, Texas, and Agilent...
Company to Develop Silicon Modulators
Structured Materials Industries Inc. of Piscataway, N.J., has received a Phase II Small Business...
Flexible Displays Poised for Growth
Flexible displays are expected to take off by 2009 and to reach revenues of nearly $2 billion by...
Spectroscopy Market Shows Endurance and Growth
The US market for spectroscopic instruments is on the rise, according to a new market research...
OSA Foundation Funds Educational Programs
Four grants to educational programs for schoolchildren designed to increase awareness of and...
Dynasil Acquires EMF
An agreement has been signed under which Dynasil Corp. of America of West Berlin, N.J., will...
National Science Foundation Awards Research Grants
The National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va., has awarded research grants to five engineering...
Companies Ally Again to Develop Lithography
Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials, a Marlborough, Mass., supplier of lithography materials for the...
Photonic ‘Firewall on Chip’ Funded by European Union
The European Union has allotted €2 million for a three-year project to develop a reconfigurable...
Business Support Centers Opened by Fujitsu
Fujitsu Ltd., a Tokyo-based supplier of optical components, has opened offices in Singapore and in...
Siemens Buys Optical Inspection Business
In Germany, Siemens Automation and Drives Group of Nuremberg has acquired Opto-Control Elektronik...
Aculight Receives SBIR Fiber Laser Awards
Aculight Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has obtained four Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)...
Structured Materials Obtains NIST Grant
Structured Materials Industries Inc. of Piscataway, N.J., has received a Phase I Small Business...
Cree Purchases Intrinsic Semiconductor
Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., a supplier of semiconductor materials and electronic devices made from...
Applied Analytics Secures Larger Facility
Applied Analytics Inc. has moved to a larger plant in Maynard, Mass., to accommodate increased...
Advanced Illumination Opens Office in China
A supplier of LED lighting products for the machine vision industry, Advanced Illumination Inc. of...
PSI-TEC to Collocate with N.J. Company
PSI-TEC Corp., a subsidiary of PSI-TEC Holdings Inc., has entered into a collocation agreement with...
Applied Image Partners with Imatest
Rochester, N.Y.-based Applied Image Inc. has signed a partnership agreement with Imatest LLC of...
Zeon to Build Plant in Himi City, Japan
Tokyo-based Zeon Corp. has announced plans to construct a plant in Himi City, Japan, for its wholly...
Uvex Purchases Trinity Technologies
Trinity Technologies LLC of St. Paul, Minn., has announced that Uvex Safety Group of Fürth,...
LIA Extends Support
The Laser Institute of America, of Orlando, Fla., and the European Laser Institute, of Aachen,...
Vgoal to Distribute for Acol Technologies
Acol Technologies SA of Geneva, Switzerland, and Vgoal, a subsidiary of Kuen Chaang Uppertech Corp....
Laser Company Secures Flextronics Photonics
Semiconductor laser supplier nLight Corp. has acquired the assets of Flextronics Photonics PPT Inc....
IPG Photonics Opens Office in Michigan
Based in Oxford, Mass., IPG Photonics has opened a sales and service office in Wixom, Mich., to...
JPK Instruments Buys Nanoinstrumentation Firm
In Berlin, JPK Instruments AG, a supplier of scanning probe microscopes for life sciences and soft...
Optikos to Develop System for Focus Verification
Optikos Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., received a $3.4 million contract from ITT Corp. of White Plains,...
Fiberguide Industries Gains European Agent
Fiberguide Industries Inc., a Stirling N.J., manufacturer of specialty optical fibers and OEM...
Student Design Winners Announced by ORA
Optical Research Associates (ORA) of Pasadena, Calif., has chosen the winners of its annual Student...
Boeing and US Air Force Redirect Laser Beam
Using their aerospace relay mirror system, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems of St. Louis, and the...

Feature Articles
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Smart Cameras Are Earning a Niche in Machine Vision
With apologies to Forrest Gump: Smart is as smart does. As the cost of memory and processor chips...
Slab-Coupled Optical Waveguide Lasers Emerge from a Multimode Sea
Since the invention of diode lasers in 1962, researchers have sought to increase the power...
Selecting the Best Optical Mount
There are many types of mounts that can be used to hold and adjust mirrors, beamsplitters, lenses...
Novel Technology Could Increase Thermal Imaging Use
The desire to “see” in complete darkness or through obscurants such as smoke or fog has driven the...
Two-Photon Polymerization: A New Approach to Micromachining
The rapid technical development of ultrashort laser systems is creating exciting possibilities for...

LED Focus
Adding Muscle to Displays
For truly full-color displays, scientists at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have...
OLED Exhibits ~10 Percent External Quantum Efficiency
Scientists at Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd.’s Advanced Energy Research Center in Hirakata, Japan, have...
Suitability of Nanotube Films Depends on How They Are Made
At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, scientists have reported that not all...

Microscopy Focus
Seeing More with Less
When it comes to fluorescence microscopy, a team of investigators has shown that you can see more...
Electron Tomography for Integrated Circuit Analysis
To better detect nanoscale defects in integrated circuits, researchers at Cornell University in...

Nanophotonics
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Titanium Nanoparticles Produced by Laser Ablation in Liquid Are Studied
As applications of nanoscale materials continue to be developed, a fundamental understanding of how...
Photoluminescence Reveals Properties of Single CdS Nanowires
Although advancements in CdS nanowire synthesis and device fabrication have led to such optically...
Quantum-Confined Excitons Produce Luminescence in Silicon Nanowires
Light emission from silicon nanowires has been demonstrated previously, but there has not been...
Doped Nanorods Produced by Wet Chemistry
Two researchers affiliated with Tsinghua University in Beijing and with Anhui Normal University in...

New Media
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SPECTROSCOPY
Princeton Instruments/Acton
DIAMOND TURNING
Precision-Optical Engineering
FO PROBE
Instrument Systems GmbH
PROCESS ANALYZERS
Aspectrics Inc.
DATA ACQUISITION
Acqiris USA
INSPECTION CAMERAS
Redlake
CIRCUIT DESIGN
Artech House
OPTICAL LITHOGRAPHY
SPIE
PHOTON COUNTING
SensL Technologies Ltd.
FTTH TECHNOLOGY
John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Peregrinations
Turbulent Art
Vincent Van Gogh is well-known for dynamic depictions of nature in such paintings as The Starry...
High-Tech Highlight
Who does a computer-generated blonde turn to when she wants her hair to, like, really shine?...
Color My Web Sight
Increasingly, computers are used for educational and business presentations as well as for control...

Presstime Bulletin
Silicon-Based Chip Produces a Laser Beam
A collaboration between the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Intel Corp. in Santa...
Improved Detection of Radioactivity’s Warm Glow
You would not want to drink radioactively contaminated water, nor would you want your children to...
Ionic Junctions Exhibit Photovoltage and Electroluminescence
Solid-state devices such as LEDs and photovoltaic cells primarily employ electronic charge carriers...

Research
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Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer Has Variable Bandwidth
At the node of a fiber optic telecom system, it is often necessary to remove the data traveling in...
Femtosecond Pulses Write Grating in Nonphotosensitive Fiber
Although fiber Bragg gratings can readily be written in photosensitive fibers with ultraviolet...
Making Light Pulses Breathe
Motivated in part by ideas proposed for clouds of ultracold atoms, researchers at California...
Fiber Suppresses Stimulated Raman Scattering
Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) is a major impediment to high-power operation of fiber lasers and...
Building a Better Detector with Black Silicon
Exploiting an accidental discovery, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, at Harvard...
Stretched Taper Tunes Fiber Laser Wavelength
At the University of Arizona in Tucson, investigators have used the modal interference in a tapered...

Spectroscopy Focus
Near-IR Spectroscopy Analyzes Sesame Seeds
One of the oldest known condiments, sesame seeds are a good source of dietary fiber, vitamins and...
FTIR spectroscopy detects drinking water pathogens
Testing the safety of drinking water using conventional microbiological techniques is a...

Technology
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Identifying Counterfeit Cognac
In the food and drink industry, counterfeit products are a big problem. In the spirits industry...
Microlens Arrays Produced by Soft Lithography
A team of scientists at Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon and at LG Chem Ltd.’s Research Park in...
Sniffing out an ill wind
Volatile sulfur compounds are found in polluted waters and garbage heaps and are the major...
Stepping out of the Shadows Using Polarized Light
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have demonstrated a machine vision...
Bistable LCD Switches Optically
With the popularity of portable electronic devices that incorporate LCDs, researchers have been...
A Little Hole in an Optical Fiber Has Many Uses
Scientists at Aston University in Birmingham, UK, have fabricated a microchannel across the...