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Optical Components Market Sees Decline, Some Gains
At $941 million, second-quarter 2007 revenues for optical components were down 4 percent from the...

Optoelectronics Industry Enjoying Steady Growth
The optoelectonics industry enjoyed robust growth in 2006, and a market report projects that steady...

Report Forecasts Increased Use of Photonics in Cars
LEDs, LCDs and other photonics technologies increasingly will be used in the systems of future...

FLIR to Acquire Cedip Infrared Systems
FLIR Systems Inc. of Wilsonville, Ore., has agreed to buy a controlling interest in Cedip Infrared...

CVI Melles Griot Buys Coherent Subsidiary
CVI Melles Griot has purchased Coherent Imaging Optics Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Coherent...

Laser Cutting Certificate Program Is Offered
The Industrial Laser Community of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has established a...

BAE Systems Wins Army and Navy Contracts
At its unit in Lexington, Mass., the London-based BAE Systems plc will design and develop a...

Lockheed Martin Receives NASA Contract
Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md., has been awarded an instrument contract from NASA, in...

Ocean Optics’ Founder Starts Up SpectrEcology
In Dunedin, Fla., Michael Morris, former president and CEO of Ocean Optics Inc., has founded...

Imperx Partners with North Coast Technical
A supplier of digital cameras and frame grabbers for machine vision, Imperx Inc. of Boca Raton,...

IPG Photonics Wins US Navy Contract
Expanding its presence in government applications, IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., has...

VueMetrix Appoints Sole Distributor in UK
VueMetrix Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has appointed Laser Lines Ltd. of Banbury, UK, as its...

Mercury Computer Selected for Zero-Visibility Landing System
Mercury Computer Systems Inc. of Chelmsford, Mass., has been selected by BAE Systems of Rockville,...

CAO Group Restructures Optoelectronics Operation
CAO Group Inc. of West Jordan, Utah, has restructured its optoelectronics sales and marketing into...

Industrial Laser Orders Rise in Second Quarter
Representing a 14.7 percent increase from the first quarter, second-quarter 2007 orders of...

Display Consortium Gains Members
The Micro Device Display Consortium, a group focusing on the microdisplay television market, has...

AccuSoft Partners with House of Tools
A reseller partnership has been established between AccuSoft Corp. of Northborough, Mass., and...

Aerotech Opens Branch In Japan
Aerotech Inc. of Pittsburgh has opened a subsidiary in Tokyo. Aerotech KK will provide...

French Companies Create US Subsidiary
Amplitude Systèmes of Bordeaux, a developer and manufacturer of ultrafast diode-pumped solid-state...

IDS Opens New Office
Imaging Development Systems GmbH (IDS) of Obersulm, Germany, a supplier of machine vision and image...

Northrop Grumman Names StockerYale
StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., has been selected by Northrop Grumman Newport News, a subsidiary...

SpectralSight Receives Grant from NSF
The National Science Foundation has awarded a nearly $500,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation...

NuCrypt Awarded Challenge Grant by HSIEC
NuCrypt of Evanston, Ill., has been awarded a challenge grant by the Homeland Security Innovation...

Laser Lines, V-gen Announce Agreement
Banbury, UK-based Laser Lines Ltd., an independent supplier of lasers and accessories, has...

University and Imago to Open Research Facility
The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and Imago Scientific Instruments of Madison, Wis., have...

Sanyo Appoints Power Technology as Distributor
Power Technology Inc. of Little Rock, Ark., a designer, manufacturer and distributor of laser diode...

Saint-Gobain Buys Alpine Research Optics
Saint-Gobain Crystals, a producer of optical raw materials that is headquartered in Paris, has...

II-VI to Acquire Majority Interest in Highyag
A wholly owned subsidiary of II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., will purchase a 74.9 percent interest in...

Hexagon to Distribute for Mycrona
North Kingstown, R.I.-based Hexagon Metrology Inc., a provider of measurement products and...

PaZaM-tech to Represent Meller Optics in Israel
Meller Optics Inc. of Providence, R.I., has appointed PaZaM-tech Ltd. of Jerusalem as its exclusive...

Advanced Photonix Awarded $2 Million in Contracts
Advanced Photonix Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., has received a $1 million order from the US military...

Thorlabs and Boston Micromachines Partner
Thorlabs Inc. of Newton, N.J., and Boston Micromachines Corp. of Watertown, Mass., have formed a...

Feature Articles

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Stacked Pixels
In the past 10 years, the image sensor market has grown tremendously, fueled in part by the...

Advances in Camera Phone Picture Quality
As camera phones become ubiquitous, consumer demand for a photographic experience similar to that...

Big Challenges of Small Pixels
The burgeoning camera phone market is creating a growing need for very compact high-megapixel...

Open-Loop Image Control
Because of the current trend of decreasing pixel size to increase pixel count on CMOS imaging...

Phone Enables Instant Image Capture
Some mobile phone camera users want a device with true point-and-shoot ability — a camera that...

Optimizing an EMCCD for Spectroscopy
Since it was introduced to the analytical research industry, electron-multiplying (EM) CCD...

Organic Thin-Film Solar Cell Research Conducted at Stanford University
Global energy consumption is inexorably increasing, driven by population growth and the wave of...

A New Approach to Adaptive Optics for Materials Processing
When it comes to shaping the intensity patterns or wavefronts of light, fixed lenses are...

LED Focus

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Efficient Deep-Blue Organic LED Created
An efficient deep-blue organic LED (OLED) that could be used for display applications has been...

Portable Ozone Detection Without the Heat
Too much ozone can cause breathing problems, especially among asthma sufferers, because it...

Microscopy Focus

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Rapidly Counting Graphene Layers, One by One
Carbon someday could rival silicon in forming the basis for miniature electronics. Two-dimensional...

Team Develops Electron Microscope with 0.5-Å Resolution
Although studying how atoms come together to form matter is a central goal of science, it is...

Nanophotonics

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Suspended in Film and Placed Over Microcavities, Quantum Dots Become Brighter
According to a group of researchers comprising members from Georgia Institute of Technology in...

Joining Optical Components with Silica Nanoparticles
Assembling optical components requires some type of bonding mechanism, often using epoxies, glass...

Quantum Dots as Tiny Thermometers
As technology gets smaller and smaller, it is becoming increasingly difficult to take accurate...

New Media

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OPTICS CATALOG
Edmund Optics Inc.

LASER SAFETY
Laser Institute of America

HARD-COATED FIBER
Fiberguide Industries Inc.

OPTICAL FILTERS
Omega Optical

PHOSPHOR DISPLAYS
CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group LLC

ILLUMINATION GUIDE
SPIE Press

RESIZING IMAGES
Imaging Associates International

CVD DIAMOND SITE
Element Six Ltd.

POLYMERS AND LIGHT
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

LED LIGHTING SITE
TT electronics’ IRC Advanced Film Div.

TEM CCD CAMERA
Olympus Soft Imaging Solutions GmbH

HEXAPOD POSITIONERS
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

SINGLE-MODE FIBER
IRphotonics

PHOTONIC TESTING
Agilent Technologies

Peregrinations

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Watery Laboratory Whets Interest
Aquanauts have been strapping on scuba tanks, wet suits and other gear for years to study the...

Chair’s Light Illuminates the Not So Light
You might want to think twice before plopping down in one of these chairs.Sure, they look...

Presstime Bulletin

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Gel with Chameleonlike Qualities Created
A photonic gel that rapidly alters color in response to external factors such as pressure, salt...

Satellites Monitor Pesticides in Europe
Site Similarity Certification, a service developed by Spatial Business Integration GmbH under the...

Research

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All-Optical Switching Demonstrated in a Silicon 3-D Photonic Crystal
Optical switching — in which one beam of light modulates, or switches, another — is one of the holy...

Diode-Pumped Solid-State Laser Emits in the Red Without Nonlinear Optics
Diode lasers generate red light, but their performance at elevated temperatures degrades so badly...

Frequency-Tripled Fiber Laser Made for Underwater Communication
Seawater has a transmission window between 350 and 580 nm, and a collaboration among scientists at...

Novel Design Simplifies VECSEL Fabrication
There are several advantages in using the end facet of an optical fiber as the output mirror of a...

Unique End-Pumping Design Shrinks Laser
The technique of placing a frequency-doubling crystal inside a vertical external cavity...

Mid-IR Holmium Fiber Laser Is Pumped with Diode Laser
Remote sensing, spectroscopy, medicine and military countermeasures are among the applications that...

Spectroscopy Focus

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Searching for the Ultimate Sensitivity of Surface Absorption Spectroscopy
Surface absorption spectroscopy is used for everything from industrial applications to...

Finding a Way to Predict How Good a Cup o’ Joe Will Be
The difference between a great-tasting cup of coffee and a bland one depends on many factors,...

Technology

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$100 Bill to Be Safeguarded with Photonics Technology
In an effort to get ahead, and to stay ahead, of increasingly sophisticated counterfeiters, the US...

Flexible and Freestanding Photonic Crystals
Researchers from Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, Italy, have created photonic...

Counting Atoms — and Defects — in Semiconductors
For semiconductors, the mantra is “smaller, faster, cheaper.” Continuing shrinkage of transistors...

Getting an Edgy View of the Rings of Uranus
Like its neighbor and fellow gas giant Saturn, Uranus is ringed. Although not gaudy, its rings are...

Moving Droplets of Liquid with Light
Pumps are fine for moving everyday volumes of liquid, but something different is needed to move...

Quantum-Dot-Based Camera Images Two Colors
Infrared imaging is a familiar tool in applications as diverse as firefighting and military...