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Spectroscopy Identifies Botanical and Geographic Origins of Honey
Honey is a complicated food to analyze. Because it is difficult to know from where, exactly, the...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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LARGE-FORMAT LENSES
Navitar Inc.
CMOS SENSOR TESTING
Jova Solutions
WATER-RESISTANT LENSES
Edmund Optics Inc.
DIGITAL CCD CAMERA
New Electronic Technology (NET)
Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
IMAGE SENSOR FOR DIGITAL CAMERA
Eastman Kodak Co.
DPSS LASER
Thales Laser
LED RINGLIGHT
klughammer industrie gmbh
FTTx AMPLIFIERS
Alphion Corp.
VIS/NIR SPECTROMETERS
Analytical Spectral Devices Inc.
LASER DIODE DRIVER
Arroyo Instruments
RECONDITIONED LENSES
Laser Research Optics
MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE
Cognex Corp.
SLAB LASER
Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH
HIGH-VOLTAGE SEQUENCER
LabSmith Inc.
PULSED UV LASER
Spectra-Physics Laser Div.
NONCIRCULAR FIBERS
Liekki Corp.
Q-SWITCHED LASER
Impex HighTech GmbH
UV-CURING LAMP
Dymax Corp.
UV-CURABLE ADHESIVES
LuminDynamics
LASER CONTROLLER
Cobolt AB
SIMULATION, MODELING
Comsol Inc.
POWER METERS
General Photonics Corp.
NANOPOSITIONING SYSTEM
DTI-NanoTech
Q-SWITCHED LASERS
Coherent Inc.
RESONATOR OPTICS
Alpine Research Optics
PIPELINE MONITORING
LxSix Photonics Inc.
LOCKING MIRROR MOUNT
Elliot Scientific Ltd.
MODULAR LIGHT DETECTORS
Gigahertz-Optik Inc.
SOFTWARE UPDATE
Matrox Imaging
LASER BEAM PROFILER
MRC Systems GmbH
PM ISOLATORS
NovaWave Technologies’
SINGLE-FREQUENCY IR LASER
Innovative Laser und Systemtechnik GmbH
FIBER LASER PUMPING
Lissotschenko Mikrooptik (Limo) GmbH
THICKNESS MEASUREMENT
Precitec Optronik GmbH
IMAGING SENSORS
Photon etc.
SPECTROMETER
Ocean Optics Inc.
BEAM DEFLECTION
Raylase AG
SILICA MICROSPHERES
Polysciences Inc.
VIDEO SYSTEM
Polytech AB
DISPERSION COMPENSATION
TeraXion Inc.
MOTORIZED STAGE
Prior Scientific Inc.
DFB LASER
Sabeus Inc.
MACHINE VISION CAMERA
Adimec Electronic Imaging Inc.
FRAME GRABBER
Sensoray
LASER WINDOWS
Optical Surfaces Ltd.
SPECTROPHOTOMETER
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. (SSI)
OPTICAL TERMINATION
Tyco Electronics
TRANSLATION STAGE
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
RED LASER DIODE
World Star Technologies Inc.
DWDM LASERS
Applied Optoelectronics Inc.
COLOR SENSORS KITS
Avago Technologies
MACHINE VISION CAMERAS
SVS-Vistek GmbH
HIGH-NA FIBERS
CeramOptec Industries Inc.
SWIR CAMERA
XenICs
PUMP LASER DIODES
Avanex Corp.
MONITORING OPTICS
Fisba Optik AG
WAFER INSPECTION SYSTEM
Isis sentronics GmbH
IR CAMERA
Cedip Infrared Systems
VISION ENHANCEMENT
Flir Systems
OPTICAL TABLES
Kinetic Systems Inc.
LASER DIODE DRIVERS
ILX Lightwave Corp.
PROXIMITY MEASURING
Kaman Aerospace Corp.
SENSING INTERROGATORS
Micron Optics Inc.
EPOXY SYSTEM
Master Bond Inc.
LED DRIVER
austriamicrosystems AG
STEREO VISION SYSTEM
Tyzx Inc.
SPOTLIGHTING
Vision & Control GmbH
COLOR CAMERAS
CIS Americas Inc.
LEAD-FREE GLASS
Schott North America Inc.
VARIABLE FOCUS LENSES
Varioptic SA
OPTICAL LAPPING PITCH
Meller Optics Inc.
LINE-SCAN CAMERAS
SUI, Goodrich Corp.
MICROMACHINING LASER
RPMC Lasers Inc.
FLUORESCENCE FILTERS
Semrock Inc.

FastTrack (Business News)
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LED Sales Have Dimmed, but Future Looks Brighter
Despite a lingering slowdown in the LED market that began last year, analysts see brighter days...
One Standard to Rule Them All
With the mid-September release of the GenICam programming interface standard, the European Machine...
Lumenera Becomes Subsidiary of Roper
Lumenera Corp., an Ottawa-based supplier of digital cameras for industrial, scientific and security...
Discovery Channel Awards Telescope Mirror Contract
The University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences in Tucson and Lowell Observatory in...
Watermill Group Acquires Contract Coating Business
The Watermill Group of Waltham, Mass., has launched MultiLayer Coating Technologies LLC in...
Tamron and New Scale Sign License Agreement
Tamron Co. Ltd. of Saitama, Japan, and New Scale Technologies Inc. of Victor, N.Y., have signed a...
New Wave Research and Ocean Optics to Partner
New Wave Research Inc. of Freemont, Calif., and Ocean Optics Inc. of Dunedin, Fla., will partner to...
Fiber Optic Market Forecast Issued
Electronicast Consultants of Upper Lake, Calif., has released a market forecast study regarding the...
Emcore Sells Minority Share of GELcore
Emcore Corp. of Somerset, N.J., has sold its membership interest in GELcore LLC to General Electric...
Corning Inc. Completes $2 Million Expansion
Corning Inc. in New York has completed a $2 million expansion at Corning Net-Optix Inc., a fully...
Biodent Announces Manufacturing Platform
A newly formed subsidiary of Nanoident Technologies AG, Biodent Technologies Inc. has announced its...
Community College Adds Laser Studies
An associate’s degree in laser manufacturing will soon be offered by Three Rivers Community College...
US Military Awards Boston Company $100,000
Via its Small Business Technology Transfer program, the US Department of Defense has awarded...
SensL Expands Global Distributorship
SensL, a provider of low-light photon detection sensors and modules, has expanded its global...
U-L-M Continues as Supplier to Microsoft
U-L-M photonics GmbH has extended its relationship with Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., to...
Hexagon Metrology Opens New Quarters
Hexagon Metrology Inc., a supplier of measurement and inspection hardware and software, has opened...
Belfast Company Acquired by Massachusetts Firm
PerkinElmer Inc. of Boston has acquired Belfast, UK-based Avalon Instruments Ltd. The acquisition...
Multiwave Photonics Selects US Agent
Multiwave Photonics SA of Moreira da Maia, Portugal, has appointed Market Tech Inc. of Scotts...
University Establishes Nanotech Research Center
The University of Colorado at Boulder has received a grant from the Defense Advanced Research...
Grant Awarded to Advance Communications Systems
Advanced Diamond Technologies Inc. of Champaign, Ill., has received a $1.4 million Phase II award...
Company Purchased by Its Former President
The founder and former president of SensArray Infrared Corp. has purchased the business from its...
Intel Sells Optical Components Business
Cortina Systems of Sunnyvale, Calif., has purchased product lines of Intel’s optical-networking...
LxSix to Collaborate on Energy Technology
LxSix Photonics Inc. of Montreal will collaborate for two years with the CanMet Energy Technology...
FEI and Malvern Team Up
FEI Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., and Malvern Instruments Ltd. of Malvern, UK, have entered into a joint...
Linos Opens Plant
In Germany, Linos AG of Göttingen has opened a plant in Regen that has a production area of 7200...
Bruker AXS Acquires Quantron
Bruker AXS GmbH of Karlsruhe, Germany, announced that it has acquired all the equity of privately...

Feature Articles
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Finding a Balance in Your Phone Design
When choosing an imager for a mobile phone, designers consider cost, size and image quality —...
Wavefront Coding for Mobile Phone Imaging
Conventional imaging systems use signal processing essentially as an accessory to optics, but...
Terahertz Radiation Sources for Imaging and Sensing Applications
Electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz (1012 Hz) frequency domain has unique properties that...
The Myths and Realities of Image Acquisition
Not too long ago, machine vision application users relied on frame-grabber-based systems for most...
Wavelength Selective Switches for Fiber Optic Telecommunications
Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems have become the standard technology in...
Jobs in Photonics
European workers in the photonics industry in 2006 are generally satisfied with their jobs, enjoy...

LED Focus
Hybrid LEDs Offer High Brightness and Output Powers
By combining thin-film and flip-chip approaches to LED design, scientists at Philips Lumileds...

Microscopy Focus
A Tiny Mirror for a Small Microscope
When it comes to high-resolution confocal images with miniaturized optics, two fibers may be one...
OLED Fabricated on Cantilever
Scanning near-field optical microscopy conventionally has been an optically pumped technique....

Nanophotonics
Laser Process Simplifies Fabrication of Nanoimprint Molds
Investigators at the Industrial Materials Institute of the National Research Council of Canada in...
Femtosecond Laser Promotes Rapid, Localized Nanowire Growth
Optoelectronic devices, including blue laser diodes, LEDs and photodetectors, rely on the wide...

New Media
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OPTICS RESOURCE
Edmund Optics
OPTICAL COMPONENTS
Docter Optics GmbH
SOLID-STATE LASERS
SPIE
MICROSCOPE FOR FTIR
Jasco
OPTICAL FILTERS
Semrock Inc.
LENSES, PERIPHERALS
Moritex Corp.
UV-CURABLE RESINS
Epoxies Etc.
FTIR SPECTROMETER
Thermo Electron Corp.
BLANK-MOLDED OPTICS
Moulded Optics GmbH
MATH, DIGITAL IMAGES
Cambridge University Press
LIGHT, MATTER
John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
COMMERCIAL OPTICS
Anchor Optics

Peregrinations
Temperamental Art
Imagine the enigmatic smile of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa distorted into a threatening grimace or the...
Glow on the Go
Safe Lites LLC of Eden Prairie, Minn., manufacturer of GlowSkin active illumination systems, has...
The Museum as Lab
In a world of ever-increasing specialization, many people believe that cross-disciplinary...

Presstime Bulletin
Single-Pixel Camera
In an ordinary digital camera, the lens focuses light onto a chip containing millions of...
Laser Technique Directs Photochemical Reactions
Manipulating chemical reactions allows researchers to obtain desired outcomes. While chemical...

Research
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Taking the Heat While Measuring Fuel Cells
Solid-oxide fuel cells are getting attention as energy sources, but more information is needed to...
Diode Laser Emits at 2 μm, Tunable Across 177 nm
Tunable lasers that emit in the 2- to 3-μm spectral region have many applications in molecular...
New Fiber Amplifier Provides Broadband Gain in the O-Band
The C-band, between 1530 and 1565 nm, has been the spectral region of choice for dense wavelength...
Evanescent Coupling Lights up a Fiber
A fundamental problem of modern photonics is transferring light efficiently between the optical...
All-Fiber Michelson Interferometer Proposed as Unique Sensor
Researchers at Harbin Engineering University in China have demonstrated an all-fiber Michelson...
Nd:GdVO4 Laser Generates Deep-Blue Light at 440 nm
Many “quasi three level” neodymium lasers, in which the lasing transition terminates on an upper...
Femtosecond Laser Quadruples Its Output
As the energy available from femtosecond disk lasers creeps above a microjoule, the devices become...
Microring Resonators Make Efficient Add/Drop Multiplexers for WDM
A successful strategy since the first cavemen earned their tribe’s dinner by separating a single...

Silicon Photonics
Silicon Modulator Operates at Terahertz Frequencies
Scientists at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and at the University of Washington in...

Spectroscopy Focus
Substrates Tuned for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
Researchers at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, have demonstrated that a wet...
Spectroscopy Techniques Investigate X-Ray Radiolysis
Using UV-VIS and x-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy, scientists at the department of chemistry...

Technology
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All-Nanoparticle Coatings Increase Clarity
Nanoparticle coatings with antireflective, antifogging and self-cleaning properties have been...
A Flexible Display with the Blues
A group of researchers at the University of Central Florida in Orlando is not feeling blue, even...
Building a Better Guide Star, Times Five
The nursery rhyme is half correct: Stars are not little, but they do twinkle — thanks to...
Super Imaging at a Distance
In conventional microscopy, resolution is limited to about λ/2 of the light source because of...
Simple Modification Yields Tunable Single-Mode Laser
Wavelength-tunable, single-mode lasers can provide great flexibility to optical networks while...
Seeing Heat in an Uncool Way
Putting a new twist on an old idea, researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee,...
Interrogating Fiber Optic Sensors on the Cheap
Because fiber optic sensors are lightweight, compact and immune to electromagnetic interference,...
Better Switches for Planes
Standard electrical wiring in aircraft is bulky, is heavy and can lead to fires. But now,...