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FTIR Spectroscopy Tracks Changes in Bacterial Spores Under Heat and Pressure
Bacterial spores — protective shells that help certain bacteria resist environmental stress — are...
Monitoring Cheese While Making It
The scale of cheese making has changed considerably since the time, legend has it, that the...

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CCD CAMERAS
National Instruments
1-A LED WITH TFFC TECHNOLOGY
Philips Lumileds Lighting Co.
PCI EXPRESS SINGLE- AND DUAL-BUS CARDS
Point Grey Research Inc.
PULSED LASER WAVELENGTH METER
Bristol Instruments Inc.
Q-SWITCHED ND:YAG LASER
RPMC Lasers Inc.
MICROSCOPE
FEI Co.
LCD CONTROLLERS
Digital View Inc.
UV CURING
Dymax Corp.
AMPLIFIER
Dynamic Structures and Materials LLC (DSM)
FLUORESCENCE FILTERS
Filtech Photonics Co. Ltd.
EXCIMER LASER
Coherent Inc.
MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE
Vision Components GmbH
STEPPER DRIVES
Applied Motion Products
MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS
Hexagon Metrology Inc.
BACKLIT CONVEYORS
Conveyor Technologies Ltd.
TAMPERPROOF IMAGES
Kappa opto-electronics GmbH
OPTICAL DESIGN SOFTWARE
RayCad Inc.
LASER STACKS
Dilas Diode Laser Inc.
FLUORIMETER
Gilden Photonics Ltd.
PENTA PRISMS
Edmund Optics Inc.
PV CELL EDGE ISOLATION
Manz Automation AG
840-NM SLEDS
Exalos AG
SCANNING MICROSCOPE
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
SMART CUVETTES
SpectrEcology LLC
FIBER COLLIMATOR
WT&T Inc.
BEAM STABILIZATION
MRC Systems GmbH
CHARGE PUMPS
Semtech Corp.
IR CAMERA
Flir Systems Inc.
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Labsphere Inc.
TI:SAPPHIRE LASER
Zecotek Medical Systems Inc.
SOLAR CELL MATERIALS
Braggone Ltd.
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Seoul Semiconductor
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Media Cybernetics Inc.
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Northrop Grumman Corp. Synoptics
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OmniVision Technologies Inc.
LINEAR DRIVE
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
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Photron Inc.
MOCVD SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING LEDS
Veeco Instruments Inc.
BIAS CONTROLLER
Photline Technologies
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Rohm Electronics Co. Ltd.
FILTER SETS
Semrock Inc.
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Olympus Integrated Technologies America Inc.
DIGITAL LIGHT SOURCE
Lexedis Lighting GmbH
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Comsol Inc.
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Tyzx Inc.
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ILX Lightwave Corp.
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Lumenera Corp.
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US Microscope Co.
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Morgan Electro Ceramics Ltd.
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Cognex Corp.
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Sensoray
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Interspectrum OU
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Dalsa Corp.
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Präzisionsoptik Gera GmbH
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Dialight Lumidrives
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piezosystem jena GmbH
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VDS Vosskühler GmbH
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Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
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Adimec Advanced Image Systems BV
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Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH
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NoblePeak Vision Corp.
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Cincinnati Inc.
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SensL
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DuPont Microcircuit Materials
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Aerotech Inc.
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Ophir-Spiricon Inc.
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Equipment Solutions Inc.
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Diagnostic Instruments Inc.
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Spectrum Detector Inc.
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4D Technology Corp.
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Prosilica Inc.
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Andor Technology
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Luna Technologies
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Laser Institute of America
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FastTrack (Business News)
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Photonic Cleaning Names Distributors
Photonic Cleaning Technologies of Platteville, Wis., has announced two new distribution agreements....
Power Technology Appointed a Reseller of Opnext Products
Photonic Component Group, a division of Power Technology Inc. of Little Rock, Ark., has been named...
Photon Enters Distribution Agreement in India
In recognition of the growing laser and photonics market in India, beam profiling instrumentation...
Liekki Acquired by nLight
NLight Corp. of Vancouver, Wash., a manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, will acquire...
Zecotek and FujikuraSign Letter of Intent
Zecotek Medical Systems Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, signed a letter of intent on...
Jasco, Restek Collaborate in Area of UHPLC
Jasco Inc., with offices worldwide, including in Easton, Md., and Restek Corp. of Bellefonte, Pa.,...
Radiant Imaging Appoints Representative in Korea
Radiant Imaging Inc. of Duvall, Wash., has selected Modern HighTech Co. Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea,...
Dominar Secures Ellis Optical Technology
In California, optical coating supplier Dominar Inc. of Santa Clara has acquired San Jose-based...
ESDI Opens Office
Engineering Synthesis Design Inc. (ESDI) of Tucson, Ariz., has established a sales and technical...
Growth Predicted for Camera-Based Automotive Safety Systems
Safety features are being included in an increasing number of motor vehicles, according to ABI...
SphereOptics Appointed Reseller of Profiler System
SphereOptics of Concord, N.H., a manufacturer of precision standard and custom radiometric and...
AutoVision Acquired by SpecTIR LLC
With its acquisition of Los Angeles-based AutoVision Inc., SpecTIR LLC of Sparks, Nev., will expand...
Northrop Grumman Corp. Awarded $98 Million Contract
The Naval Surface Warfare Center of Crane, Ind., has awarded a five-year contract valued at...
AccuSoft Opens Office in UK
To strengthen its sales to and support of customers in the UK and Ireland, imaging software tools...
Dialight Expands Distribution in Europe
York, UK-based Dialight Lumidrives Ltd., a division of Dialight plc, has expanded its distribution...
Kotura and CyOptics Awarded $5.9 Million
Kotura Inc. of Monterey Park, Calif., and CyOptics Inc. of Breinigsville, Pa., have been awarded...
Cobolt Opens Facility in Stockholm
Cobolt AB of Stockholm, Sweden, a supplier of diode-pumped solid-state lasers in the visible and...
Alfalight Receives $1.2 Million Contract
The US Army Research Laboratory of Adelphi, Md., has awarded high-power diode laser manufacturer...
Goodrich Wins US Army Contract
Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., has received a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite...
Keithley Instruments and CNSI to Partner
Keithley Instruments Inc. of Cleveland has announced a partnership with the California NanoSystems...
Edmund Optics to Offer Schneider Lenses
Edmund Optics Inc. of Barrington, N.J., will offer seven lines of lenses manufactured by Jos....
Allied Vision Building New Center
Germany-based Allied Vision Technologies, headquartered in Stadtroda is building a development...
StockerYale to Acquire Spectrode
StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., will acquire the assets and intellectual property of Spectrode LLC...
Imra America and Toptica Sign Agreement
Imra America Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Toptica Photonics AG of Munich, Germany, have signed a...
INO Selects Office Site
In Canada, INO (National Optics Institute), an optics center of expertise based in Quebec City, has...
Zeiss Buys Wolf & Beck
In Germany, Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH of Oberkochen, which specializes in industrial...
Nanophotonics Collaboration Created
The Universities of Southampton and of Bath, both in the UK, and the National Taiwan University in...
Flat Panel Market Forecast Released
The market research company DisplaySearch has released the Quarterly Worldwide Flat Panel Forecast...
Lockheed Martin Awards Contract to MRC
Sarasota, Fla.-based MRC Optics — a subsidiary of Photonic Products Group Inc. of Northvale, N.J. —...
Picometrix ReceivesAir Force Contract
Picometrix LLC, a subsidiary of Advanced Photonix Inc. in Ann Arbor, Mich., has been awarded a...
Optra Receives Army Contract
The US Army has awarded a $700,000 Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II research grant to...
Universal Display Receives $750,000 Grant
The US Department of Energy has awarded Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., a $750,000 Small...
BAE Systems Awarded $18 Million Contract
DARPA has awarded a 30-month, $18.5 million contract to BAE Systems of Lexington, Mass. The...
Osram and Toyoda Gosei Sign Agreement
Toyoda Gosei Ltd. of Aichi, Japan, and Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany, have signed an agreement...
QPC Lasers Awarded $750,000 Contract
QPC Lasers Inc. of Sylmar, Calif., has received another contract, this one for $750,000, from an...
Powerlase to Collaborate with Osaka University
A research partnership has been formed between Powerlase Ltd. of Crawley, UK, and the Center for...
Ocean Optics Opens Regional Center
Ocean Optics Inc. of Dunedin, Fla., has created Ocean Optics EMEA, a regional control center based...
Telops, Opto-System Announce Alliance
Telops Inc. of Quebec City has entered into an alliance with Opto-System of Kyoto, Japan. The...
Intevac Receives SBIR Phase II Award
NASA recently announced contract awards in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program,...
LIA Renews Alliance with OSHA
An alliance has been renewed between the Laser Institute of America (LIA) and the US Department of...
L-3 Receives US Marine Corps Contract
Cincinnati Electronics of Mason, Ohio, a subsidiary of L-3 Communications Corp. in New York, has...

Feature Articles
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Fiber Makes Inroads in Stress/Strain Measurement
Demand for increasingly sophisticated measurement tools is on the rise in oil and gas as well as in...
Opening Optical Fibers Without Sacrificing Robustness
Access to the core of an optical fiber is required for many applications, including evanescent wave...
Metal-Coated Fibers
Glass optical fibers typically are manufactured with a polymer buffer or coating that protects the...
Coal mine Safety
According to the latest official mining statistics, from 2003 to 2006, more than 20,000 people died...
The Common Thread
The telecommunications industry was the first market to use fiber optic components and devices in...
Organic Thin-Film Solar Cell Research at Stanford University
Although extremely simple in concept, successful photovoltaic devices for solar energy production...
Silicon Photomultiplier Detectors for Low-Light Detection
Low-light detectors and multidetector imagers enable a wide range of applications, including cell...
Using Software to Validate Assumptions in Projector Design
Designers often are faced with the daunting task of translating vague requirements for a complex...
Closing in on Photonics Large-Scale Integration
The introduction of very large scale integration dramatically cut the cost of electronic devices,...
The Illuminated Laser Warning Sign
The traffic light is a universally recognized device (except perhaps by the severely color-blind)....

LED Focus
Rear-Projection Helps New Avionics Displays Fit into Old Cockpits
A plane’s cockpit is a tight space, full of displays that are rectangular, square, circular,...
High-Brightness Multilayer Optical Film Light Source
Liquid crystal on silicon projection systems are used in rear- and front-projection television, and...
UV LED Created with Nanorod Heterostructures
Vertically aligned nanorod arrays that exhibit strong near-ultraviolet emission have been created...

Microscopy Focus
Multiphoton, Multifocal Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
One multiphoton microscope is good, but more can be better, especially when it comes to speed. A...

Nanophotonics
Silicon Nanowires Show Promise for Solar Applications
As the search continues for efficient and inexpensive materials to harvest solar energy,...
Artificial 3-D Quantum Dot Crystal Created
Although quantum dots are being looked at for a growing number of applications, the scale of the...

New Media
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LIGHT ENGINE
OneLight Corp.
PULSE GENERATORS
Berkeley Nucleonics Corp.
SPECTROSCOPY
Intevac Inc.
PIEZO MOTORS
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
OPTICAL FIBERS
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
STOCK OPTICS
Anchor Optics
OPTICAL FIBER
Fiberguide Industries Inc.
AA SPECTROMETERS
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
SECURITY IMAGING
Matrox Imaging
OPTICAL CEMENTS
Summers Optical
LINEAR GUIDES
Danaher Motion
MULTIMODE FIBER
IRphotonics
WIDE BANDGAP LEDS
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KgaA

Peregrinations
The Brain in Full Color
Researchers from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., have developed a technique that can be...
HAL Knows What You’ve Been Thinking
Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey might not be so fictional after all.In...

Presstime Bulletin
Holographic Microscopy Reveals Hunting Behaviors of Microbes
The toxic dinoflagellates Karlodinium veneficum and Pfiesteria piscicida sometimes are associated...
Machine Vision System Learns to Recognize Artists’ Styles
Have you ever gotten back from an estate sale across town, only to start wondering whether the oil...

Research
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Edge Coupler Links All-Solid Photonic-Bandgap Fibers
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University and at the Institute for InfoComm Research, both in...
Improving X-Ray Imaging with a Streak Camera
When using x-rays to study what is very small and fleeting, researchers have had two choices:...
Integrated Germanium-on-Silicon Detector Opens the Eye at 40 Gb/s
While one company’s approach to integrated silicon-germanium photodetectors is described in detail...
Crossovers Without Crosstalk
In an electronic integrated circuit, tiny conductors connect the various components, and in a...
850-nm Photodetector Can Be Integrated into Waveguide
It’s no secret that electronics technology will not keep pace with Moore’s Law for much longer....
To Boldly Go Where No Sensor Has Gone Before
Unlike electrical sensors, fiber optic sensors are impervious to electromagnetic interference, and...
Low-Loss Waveguide Developed for Terahertz Radiation
Many investigators around the globe are exploring terahertz radiation for applications in remote...
Focusing Better with X-Rays
Designing for fine-focusing helps when building telescopes and microscopes. However, the refractive...

Spectroscopy Focus
Uncovering the Best Way to Turn Dull Wood Pulp into Bright Paper
When making paper, manufacturers typically use hydrogen peroxide to bleach the processed wood pulp,...
Different Chemistry at an Icy Edge
Clearing up the atmospheric impact of salting roads and sidewalks is one possible outcome of recent...

Technology
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Recycling Light
What do you do when you don’t have enough light? Recycle what you have. That is the verdict of...
Everyday Documents Protected with Infrared Technology
For those who want to protect everyday documents such as tickets, deeds and licenses against...
Diffuse Reflectance FTIR Spectroscopy Helps Find Sulfite in Beverages
The inorganic compound sulfite (SO32–) is used to ferment or preserve various foods, including...
Slot Waveguide Is a Sensitive Biochemical Sensor
A collaboration of scientists in Europe has demonstrated what it believes is the first biochemical...
Improved Technology Leads to a First for Flying Spectrometers
Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., have reported a...