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A Tale of Fish and Stones
For Vincent P. Palace, head of the Environmental Center for Research on Pesticides at Freshwater...
Infrared Camera Helps Spot Perimeter Intruders
Airports and harbors face a common security challenge: Their large areas translate into long...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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BEAM PROFILING
Photon Inc.
PORTABLE SCANNER
Faro Technologies Inc.
LENS COATING KIT
Summers Optical
IMAGING SYSTEM
Tera-View Ltd.
SINGLE-CHIP SENSOR
OmniVision Technologies Inc.
SOLID-STATE LASERS
Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH
ION CHAMBERS
Advanced Design Consulting USA Inc.
OPTICAL ATTENUATOR
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc.
LINE-SCAN CAMERA
e2v technologies plc
MICROMETERS
Präzisionsoptik Gera GmbH (POG)
DIODE LASER
Photodigm Inc.
FRAME GRABBERS
American Eltec Inc.
OPTICAL SYSTEM DESIGN
Optiwave Systems Inc.
SAFETY EYEWEAR
GPT Glendale Inc.
THG UNIT
Impulse Optics Inc.
USB CAMERAS
Edmund Optics Inc.
IR SPECTROMETER
m•u•t GmbH
SPOT PROJECTORS
StockerYale Inc.
ION-BEAM SPUTTERING
Laseroptik GmbH
ULTRAFAST AMPLIFIER
Spectra-Physics Lasers Div. of Newport Corp.
GPIB INTERFACES
General Photonics Corp.
VISION SENSOR
Cognex Corp.
PHOTODIODE
Hamamatsu Corp.
CRYOGENIC MOTOR
New Scale Technologies Inc.
CHIP LEDS
Avago Technologies Inc.
HIGH-POWER LASERS
Powerlase Ltd.
IMAGE STABILIZATION
Energen Inc.
RESEARCH RADIOMETER
International Light Technologies Inc.
STEPPER DRIVE
Applied Motion Products
FTIR SPECTROMETERS
A2 Technologies
EMI CANCELLATION
Integrated Dynamics Engineering
IR CAMERAS
Electrophysics Corp.
DPSS LASER
B&W Tek Inc.
GLASS ASPHERIC LENSES
CVI Laser LLC
MWIR CAMERA
Flir Systems Inc.
REFLEX-FREE LENSES
Docter Optics GmbH
MEASUREMENT SENSORS
Pepperl+Fuchs
INFRARED DETECTOR
Sofradir
ACTUATORS
PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P.
UV IMAGING DETECTOR
Paraytec Ltd.
TE-COOLED CAMERAS
Imperx Inc.
LIGHTING SOURCE
Seoul Semiconductor
FLUOROMETER
Horiba Jobin Yvon Inc.
MARKING HEADS
Synrad Inc.
MICROSCOPE
Rolyn Optics Co.
IMAGING TOOL KIT
AccuSoft Corp.
COMPENSATOR
TeraXion Inc.
SCAN HEAD CONTROLLER
Scanlab AG
METROLOGY SOFTWARE
Digital Surf sarl
DVI CONTROLLER
Apollo Display Technologies LLC
MULTILASER ENGINE
Point Source
DIODE LASERS
Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH
DOUBLE-SIDED TELECENTRIC LENSES
Navitar Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Prosilica Inc.
COLOR WHEEL
OC Oerlikon Balzers Ltd. Optics
DIODE LASER PACKAGING
Cutting Edge Optronics Inc.
OPTICAL MULTIPLEXER
Ocean Optics Inc.
IMAGE SENSOR
Eastman Kodak Co.
LIGHT ENGINE
OneLight Corp.
MIRROR MOUNT
Standa Ltd.
REFLECTOMETER
Luna Technologies
LASERS FOR GPON
Eblana Photonics Ltd.
IMAGE PROCESSING
Media Cybernetics Inc.
CCD CAMERA
JAI Inc.
SPECTROPHOTOMETER
CDI Pharma
LASER SAFETY GOGGLES
Laservision GmbH & Co. KG
THERMAL IMAGING
Thermoteknix Systems Ltd.
FIBER LASER
MPB Communications Inc.
PROJECTION LEDS
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
SPUTTER COATER
Izovac Ltd.
MOTION CONTROL
National Aperture Inc.
DEFECT SENSOR
Grintech GmbH

FastTrack (Business News)
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Electron Tubes Business Renamed Sens-Tech
The detector modules and x-ray systems business of Electron Tubes Ltd. of Ruislip, UK, has changed...
Elbit Systems to Supply Imagers for Field Use
In Israel, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop Ltd. of Rehovot, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd. of...
Companies to Develop Microscope Hybrid
Hyphenated Systems of Burlingame and Karma Technology Inc. of Agoura Hills, both in California,...
Automa-Tech to Represent Excellon in Asia
Excellon of Rancho Dominguez, Calif., has chosen Automa-Tech of Val de Reuil, France, a...
SPIE Awards Scholarships
SPIE of Bellingham, Wash., an international society of scientists and engineers in optics,...
Veeco Receives Orders
European and Asian manufacturers of high-brightness LEDs have placed orders totaling approximately...
Spellman Japan Relocates
Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp. of Hauppauge, N.Y., a producer of power systems, x-ray...
MRC Optics Receives Contracts from US Army
The Sarasota, Fla.-based MRC Optics subsidiary of the Photonic Products Group Inc. of Northvale,...
Redlake Transfers Line to Princeton Instruments
Redlake Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., has transferred its MegaPlus camera product line to Princeton...
Laser Components IG to Market Osram Diodes
Under terms of a franchise distribution agreement, Laser Components IG Inc. of Hudson, N.H., will...
Yole Développement Announces MEMS Data
The market research and strategic consulting company Yole Développement of Lyon, France, has...
Agilent Technologies Buys Adaptif Photonics
Agilent Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., will purchase Adaptif Photonics GmbH of Hamburg,...
Nanya Technology Orders ESI Repair Systems
Nanya Technology Corp. of Taoyuan, Taiwan, has ordered ultraviolet laser memory repair systems from...
Office Opened by i2S Linescan
Pessac, France-based i2S Linescan has opened a sales office in Orange, Conn., to house its...
RPMC Lasers to Represent Jenoptik in the US
RPMC Lasers Inc. of O’Fallon, Mo., will sell in the US the entire product line of the Jena,...
Advanced Photonix Erects Facility in Michigan
Advanced Photonix Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., has completed construction of a microfabrication...
Farnell to Distribute for IST
In the UK, Premier Farnell plc of Leeds will distribute in Europe and Asia iDrive LED drivers from...
Inficon Acquires Maxtek
Inficon of Zurich, Switzerland, a producer of instrumentation and process control software for the...
Telops Increases Distribution in Asia
Telops Inc. of Quebec, Canada, has appointed Hy-Cad Systems & Engineering Pte Ltd. to...
Micralyne to Partner with Polychromix
Micralyne Inc., a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) fabrication company based in Edmonton,...
Nextreme Funds Heat Transfer Research
Nextreme Thermal Solutions of Research Triangle Park, N.C., has provided more than CAN $300,000 for...
Trumpf to Expand Its Headquarters
In a €50 million project, Trumpf GmbH will expand the size of its headquarters in Ditzingen,...
Litron Lasers Expands
A supplier of pulsed and CW Nd:YAG lasers, Litron Lasers of North America has opened an office in...
Industrial Design Company Announces Opening
A new business, Sauter Industrial Design, has opened in Garland, Texas. Focusing on small and...
Sofradir Announces Contract with Raytheon
Sofradir of Veurey-Voroize, France, has received a multimillion-dollar contract from Raytheon Co....
UK Department of Trade and Industry Funds Collaboration
Sharp Laboratories of Europe, based in Oxford, the University of Glasgow and the Institute of...
Harvard Licenses Microscopy Technology
The office of technology development at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., has licensed its...
II-VI Acquires Pacific
Through a definitive stock purchase agreement, II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., has acquired the...
SolidWorks Names OEM Distributor
Breault Research Organization of Tucson, Ariz., has announced a partnership with SolidWorks Corp....
SloanLED, Harbor Group Form Partnership
SloanLED, which designs and manufactures LED systems for a variety of applications, including...
Sydor Optics Moves
Sydor Optics Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., has moved to a larger, more efficient facility in the same...
Aurora, Holoeye Enter into Supply Agreement
In California, Aurora Systems Inc. of San Jose, a designer and manufacturer of...
Microvision Receives USAF Contract
Microvision Inc. of Redmond, Wash., has been awarded $3.2 million by the US Air Force to develop a...
Osram Plans Expansion
Osram GmbH of Regensburg, Germany, is expanding production capacity at its Penang, Malaysia, plant...
Zeiss and Stemmer Reach Distribution Agreement
In Germany, Stemmer Imaging GmbH of Puchheim, a technology supplier for image processing, has...
SensorTran and ODI Combine Technologies
SensorTran, a provider of advanced distributed temperature sensing systems, and Ocean Design Inc.,...
NuSil Announces Distributor in Brazil
NuSil Technology of Carpinteria, Calif., has appointed Huntsman Quimica Brasil Ltda., a subsidiary...
Mouser to Distribute for Avago
Mouser Electronics Inc. of Mansfield, Texas, an electronic component distributor, has announced...
Allied Vision Technologies Enlarges Plant
Industrial camera supplier Allied Vision Technologies GmbH of Ahrensburg, Germany, is adding 10,764...
Eight Grants Awarded to Develop LED Technology
Eight grants totaling more than $13 million have been awarded to develop solid-state lighting, with...
Experts Clash on Value of National Ignition Facility
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the huge laser being built at Lawrence Livermore National...
Universal Laser Systems Secures New Plant
A manufacturer of CO2 lasers and computer-controlled CO2 laser engraving, cutting and marking...
Ekips Receives USDA Research Grant
Ekips Technologies Inc. of Norman, Okla., a developer and manufacturer of lasers and laser-based...
SPIE Provides Grant for Photonics Education
SPIE, of Bellingham, Wash., has awarded a $3000 grant to the New England Board of Higher...
Evans Analytical Group Buys Accurel Systems
A provider of materials characterization services, Evans Analytical Group LLC has acquired the...
Linos to Distribute for Varioptic
Linos AG of Göttingen, Germany, and Varioptic SA of Lyon, France, have signed an agreement in which...
Axsys Technologies Acquires Cineflex
Axsys Technologies Inc. of Rocky Hill, Conn., has acquired substantially all of the assets of...
Veeco Receives Project Funds and Orders
Sematech, based in Austin, Texas, and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the...
ASML Joins Program at University of Arizona
ASML Holding NV of Veldhoven, the Netherlands, has joined the Industrial Affiliates program of the...

Feature Articles
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Growth and Challenges in OLED Manufacturing
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are quickly becoming the next generation of small displays....
Managing Light to Increase Efficiency in LCDs
Consumers plan to purchase 72 million LCD TVs in 2007 and 98 million in 2008, when sales will...
Manufacturing Large LCDs while Maintaining Yields
As thin-film transistor LCD panel makers produce increasingly larger televisions, fewer displays...
Keeping Pace with the Global Display Industry
Global displays are poised to overtake semiconductors and become a $100 billion industry. Flat...
Lasing in a Gain-Guided, Index-Antiguided Fiber
In the past decade and a half, fiber lasers with very high multimode output powers have been...
Solar Technology: Seeking Its Day in the Sun
Throughout its long history, Japan has been known as the land of the rising sun. A modern...
Photonic Crystals Enable Ultrabright LEDs
Semiconductor light-emitting devices have almost completely replaced incandescent bulbs in...
Archaeology Digs Photonics
Even by the standards of his day, the fictional archaeologist “Indiana” Jones lacked the proper...
A New Application for VCSELs: High-Power Pump Lasers
Compact and robust high-power semiconductor lasers are needed in a variety of applications;...
Flexible Displays and Organic Electronics
Nearly 15 years ago, the US Display Consortium was established as a public-private partnership to...

LED Focus
Better OLEDs, Perhaps, Thanks to a Holey Electrode
The makers of organic LEDs face a challenge. The devices are constructed from a series of organic...
Two Colors, One Dopant
A group of researchers from the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research at...

Microscopy Focus
AFM Characterizes Bubbles that Should Not Be
Nanobubbles should not exist because they defy a law of physics. Bubbles with nanometer-size radii...
A Smart, Small Scanner
A team of researchers from Japan has shown that even the smallest optical scanner can pack plenty...

Nanophotonics
Nanoscale Light Detectors Provide Mega-Performance
On the surface, nanowires would seem to make poor light detectors, but it is a nanowire’s surface...
Speedy Spectroscopy of Single Nanoparticles
Nanoparticles present distinct research problems. Because of variations among production batches,...

New Media
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DATA ACQUISITION
United Electronic Industries Inc.
MICROSCOPY SUPPLIES
Electron Microscopy Sciences
HALF-BALL LENSES
Moulded Optics GmbH
LASER-SAFE EYEWEAR
Laservision USA
FO CONNECTORS
The Light Brigade
DESIGN SOFTWARE
RSoft Design Group Inc.
OPTICS CD-ROM
Optics Technology Inc.
VIBRATION ISOLATION
Technical Manufacturing Corp.
POLYMER OPTICS
Syntec Optics Inc.
LIGHT SOURCES
Heraeus Noblelight GmbH
FUSION SPLICERS
Furukawa America Inc.
MICROMIRRORS
Yole Développement
PHOTONICS STUDY
IntertechPira
LED LIGHTING SITE
Avago Technologies

Peregrinations
A Smarter, Sleeker Speed Camera
Speeders beware!A traffic monitor to better detect British motorists with lead feet has been...
Light Elongates Day
It’s tough fitting one’s busy schedule into the confines of a 24-hour day. If only it could be...

Presstime Bulletin
Laser Speeds Up Microfluidics by 20 Times
Microfluidic systems can enable multiple rapid reactions between chemicals in fluid form. But...
A Laser Cavity Close to the Size of the Diffraction Limit
Researchers in Japan have developed a laser that operates at room temperature and measures only...

Research
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Microfluidic Waveguide Can Be Single- or Multimode
Optofluidics — the technology created by integrating photonics and microfluidics — offers the...
Multicore Fiber Amplifier Is an Image Intensifier
Image intensifiers have many applications — from biomedical imaging to optical metrology — and are...
Mode-locked Thin-Disk Laser Generates Microjoule Pulses
Femtosecond pulses with energies in the microjoule range are useful for laser micromachining,...
Silicon Raman Laser Has Low Threshold, High Power
In the past three years, several research groups have demonstrated Raman lasers in silicon. That is...

Spectroscopy Focus
Measuring Life’s Limits in the Ocean
Sea life may not lack water for survival, but marine organisms do need nutrients such as nitrate,...
Getting Juiced
Sugar is sweet, but sometimes its use can lead to bitter results. Such is the case with fruit juice...

Technology
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Pushing for Change in Magnifying Lenses
As scientists have realized for many years, the fluid nature and natural magnification of water...
Paper-Thin Displays Created
A group at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has created flexible displays as thin...
Studying a Splat in the Making
The splat that droplets of plasma make when they strike a substrate is similar to the shape that...
Laser pulses enable rapid, localized mixing in microfluidic channels
Rapid mixing of two fluids has remained a challenge within the microfluidics community. Current...