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Tracing Environmental Change via Scallops
“You are what you eat” is true not just for people — it also works for scallops, members of the...
Visualizing Flow in Three Dimensions Three Ways
For designers of chemical processing equipment, scaling up from prototype to production is...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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SOFTWARE
Foss NIRSystems Inc.
CONNECTOR CLEANER
US Conec Ltd.
LASER MODULES
Blue Sky Research Inc.
MACHINE VISION CAMERAS
Sony Electronics Inc.
UNIVERSAL LASER CONTROLLERS
CVI Melles Griot
LASER DIODE CONTROLLER
VueMetrix Inc.
TEMPERATURE MONITORING
LumaSense Technologies
DIODE LASER PLATFORM
JDSU
IMAGING SYSTEM
ChromoDynamics Inc.
IMAGE SENSOR
Eastman Kodak Co.
OPTICAL FILTERS
Optometrics Corp.
WAVELENGTH METER
Bristol Instruments Inc.
PULSE MEASUREMENT
Angewandte Physik und Elektronik GmbH (APE)
MAGNETIC ENCODERS
Heidenhain Corp.
CCD CAMERA
Adimec Electronic Imaging Inc.
EXPANSION PROPAGATION SOFTWARE
RSoft Design Group Inc.
TWO-SIDED LENS PRODUCTION
Satisloh GmbH
PORTABLE RAMAN SYSTEMS
Jasco Inc.
UV LIGHT MEASUREMENT
Dymax Corp.
GIGABIT ETHERNET CAMERAS
GevIcam Inc.
LASER SAFETY
Lasermet Ltd.
RAMAN IMAGING
Horiba Jobin Yvon Inc.
WHITE LED
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
MICROMACHINING LASER
Coherent Inc.
CCD CAMERAS
JAI Inc.
LASER DIODE DRIVER
Wavelength Electronics Inc.
LINEAR STAGES
Aerotech Inc.
TELECENTRIC LENSES
Schneider Optics Inc.
GIGABIT TRANSCEIVER
Firecomms Ltd.
MOBILE MICROSCOPE
JEOL USA Inc.
EYE PROTECTION
NoIR LaserShields
WAFER INSPECTION
Applied Materials Inc.
DETECTOR CAMERA
XenICs
WELDING LASERS
Rofin Laser Micro
COLLIMATION MEASUREMENT
Photon Inc.
DISPLAY GLASS
Corning Inc.
COMPUTE ACCELERATOR
GiDel Ltd.
POWER SUPPLY
Emco High Voltage Corp.
MICROSCOPE STAGES
Klughammer Industrie GmbH
VIBRATION ISOLATION
Halcyonics GmbH
FPGA CAMERAS
VRmagic GmbH
PELTIER-COOLED LASER
Z-Laser Optoelektronik GmbH
LABVIEW DRIVER
Berkeley Nucleonics Corp.
CHIP SET
Zetex Semiconductors
CAMERA MANAGER
Imaging Development Systems (IDS) GmbH
OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER
Applied Optoelectronics Inc.
FILTER WHEELS
Edmund Optics Inc.
LIGHT SOURCE
Optronic Laboratories Inc.
PICOSECOND LASERS
Lumera Laser GmbH
MICROSCOPE
Veeco Instruments Inc.
PHOTOMULTIPLIER ARRAY
SensL
OPTICAL COMB GENERATOR
Sydor Instruments LLC
LASER SAFETY SOFTWARE
Laservision GmbH & Co. KG
MICROSCOPE SERIES
WiTec GmbH
INFRARED CAMERA
Electrophysics Corp.
CHEMICAL IMAGING
ChemImage Corp.
LASER DIODES
Power Technology Inc.
HIGH-PURITY OXIDES
MV Laboratories Inc.
X-RAY DETECTOR
VDS Vosskühler GmbH

FastTrack (Business News)
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Lighting Competition
The 2008 “Lighting for Tomorrow” competition, organized by the American Lighting Association, the...
Rofin-Sinar to Acquire Nufern
Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. of Plymouth, Mich., a developer and manufacturer of laser beam...
OSA Offers Scholarship Program
The Optical Society of America (OSA) Foundation in Washington, which supports programs that advance...
Big Sky Laser Changes Name
Big Sky Laser Technologies Inc. of Bozeman, Mont., a solid-state laser manufacturer, will change...
Intel Sells Division for $85 Million
Emcore Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., will purchase the telecommunications-related section of the...
Sunny Future Forecast for Solar Technology
The next several years look bright for the photovoltaic industry as the demand for alternative...
Intense Enters Chinese Market
A&P Instrument Co. Ltd. of Hong Kong has signed an agreement with Intense Ltd. of Glasgow, UK,...
Obzerv Receives $600,000 Contract
A spin-off of the National Optics Institute, Obzerv Technologies of Quebec City has been awarded a...
Optinvent Created
Optinvent of Rennes is a spin-off of Thomson AG of Boulogne-Billancourt, both in France. The...
Teledyne to Purchase Judson Technologies
Teledyne Scientific & Imaging LLC, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Inc. of Thousand Oaks,...
Nemotek Licenses Technology from Tessera
Miniaturization technologies provider Tessera Technologies Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has announced...
DRS Technologies Wins $18 Million Contract
Raytheon Missile Systems, a division of Raytheon Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., has awarded a contract...
Princeton Lightwave Earns DARPA Contract
Princeton Lightwave Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., has been awarded a two-year, $3.5 million contract by...
Applied Materials to Acquire Baccini
Applied Materials Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has agreed to purchase Baccini spa of Treviso,...
Light Blue Optics Opens Base in US
Light Blue Optics of Cambridge, UK, a developer of holographic laser projection technology, has...
Curtiss-Wright Awarded Boeing Contract
The metal treatment segment of Curtiss-Wright Corp. of Roseland, N.J., has received a contract from...
Schott to Build Facility
Schott Solar Inc. of Roseville, Calif., will construct a solar energy technology production...
FiberTech Joins Leoni
Leoni Fiber Optics, a subsidiary of the Leoni Group of Nuremberg, Germany, has purchased 90.2...
Spectrum Moves
Spectrum Thin Films Inc., originally of Bohemia, has moved its headquarters to Hauppauge, both in...
Nexxus Lighting to Acquire Lumificient
Nexxus Lighting Inc. of Charlotte, N.C., has announced that it has signed a nonbinding letter of...
i2S Expands Presence in China
Specializing in surface inspections for the optimization of production processes, i2S Linescan of...
Five Funding Awards Granted
The Carolinas Photonics Consortium, consisting of five universities with a focus on photonics...
Precision Optics Sells Product Line
Precision Optics Corp. Inc. of Gardner, Mass., has sold its custom optical thin-film product line...
LightPath and CDGM to Form Joint Venture
LightPath Technologies Inc. of Orlando, Fla., and CDGM Glass Co. Ltd. of Chengdu, China, will...
Dilas to Distribute for m2k-Laser
Dilas Diode Laser Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., has signed a distribution agreement with m2k-laser GmbH of...
FEI Opens NanoPort in China
FEI Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., has opened a NanoPort in Shanghai, China. The new facility joins three...
Oerlikon Solar Opens Office in Singapore
Oerlikon Solar of Pfäffikon, Switzerland, a provider of thin-film silicon solar solutions, has...
cmosis nv Created
Based in Antwerp, Belgium, cmosis nv has been created to supply CMOS image sensor solutions to the...
Omicron Names Distributor
Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH of Rodgau, Germany, has named its first North American sales...
Braggone and Beneq to Collaborate
Braggone of Oulu and Beneq Oy of Vantaa, both in Finland, have signed a joint development agreement...
Dynasil to Purchase Instrumentation Firm
Dynasil Corp. of America, headquartered in West Berlin, N.J., has entered into an agreement to...
Axsys Receives $21.9 Million Order
Axsys Technologies Inc. of Rocky Hill, Conn., has received a $21.9 million order from BAE Systems...
Rudolph Technologies to Buy Semiconductor Division
Applied Precision LLC of Issaquah, Wash., has announced the sale of its semiconductor division to...

Feature Articles
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Optofluidics Emerges from the Laboratory
For centuries, the components in optical systems have been made from a variety of glasses and...
High-Brightness LEDs for Light Engines
Increasing the output performance of LED-powered projectors is within our grasp. When the first...
Power LEDs for Machine Vision Lighting
Smart cameras, at a reduced price, have continued to increase capabilities for machine vision...
Improving the Profitability of LEDs
LEDs have proliferated as a result of increased mobile phone sales, but pricing pressure has held...
High-Refractive-Index Encapsulants for High-Brightness LEDs
High-brightness LEDs have developed rapidly during the past five years. They are used in traffic...
See-Through Nanowires Used to Drive Transparent Organic LEDs
As the push to create optically transparent and mechanically flexible LED displays for the next...
Designing with LEDs for Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter Displays
A time multiplexed optical shutter display is an optical system that uses a thin polymeric film as...
A Preference for High-Power Polarizers
As laser energies have increased throughout the years, the selection of appropriate polarization...
Accurate Transmission Measurements of Translucent Materials
Unlike transparent materials that transmit light with no appreciable attenuation or absorption,...
Thin-Film-Coating Nuances of UV Optics
Over the past decade, thin-film coating technology and designs have improved significantly,...

Microscopy Focus
Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Reveals Laser Control of Nanochannels
Scientists are interested in optoelectronics applications, such as optical memory storage, and in...
Gaining High Resolution with Nanoaperture Grid
Researchers at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have demonstrated a...

Nanophotonics
Quantum Systems Directly Probed by Photons
Microcavity systems that track and measure the quantum interactions that occur between light and...

New Media
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LASER DIODE GUIDE
Intense Ltd.
CAMERA PHONES
The International Imaging Industry Association
PATCH TRANSDUCERS
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
3-D CAMERAS
Sick/IVP
CRI, LEDs
US Department of Energy
TOPICAL SECTION
American Institute of Physics
IMAGING ACCESSORIES
Vision Research Inc.
UV PRODUCTS
Spectronics Corp.
SPECTROSCOPY
Springer
LASER SAFETY
Laser Institute of America
MICROSTRUCTURES
POG Präzisionsoptik Gera GmbH
DIODE LASER SITE
Dilas Diode Laser Inc.
POSITIONING SYSTEMS
Steinmeyer Inc.
REMOTE SENSING
CRC Press

Peregrinations
This Pen Is a Real Pal
Will the venerable ballpoint pen be going the way of the quill and inkwell?The Livescribe smartpen,...
Ancient Mummies Tell Hair-Raising Tale
About 9000 years ago, a group of people living in South America, near what is now the border...

Presstime Bulletin
Global Photovoltaic Initiative Is Created
In an effort to promote the growth of the solar industry, SEMI has created a global photovoltaic...
Humidity Colors Moisture-Sensitive Hologram
“It’s not the heat; it’s the humidity” has become a popular response to the sweltering heat of...

Research
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Tiny Mach-Zehnder Modulator Operates at 10 Gb/s
Silicon photonics offers the potential of combining the speed and compactness of photonics with the...
Microring Modulator Points to Greater Integration of Electronics and Photonics
Although the Mach-Zehnder modulator in the previous report boasts a tiny footprint and avoids the...
Plastic NIR Photodetector Created with Low Bandgap Polymer
Although inorganic photodetectors are finding their way into myriad applications, relatively little...
Yb-Fiber Laser Is Efficiently Pumped at an Oblique Angle
Fiber lasers can be optically pumped by coupling the pump light directly into the fiber core, but...
A Viable Commercial Alternative to the Ti:Sapphire Laser?
The venerable Ti:sapphire laser has always been the workhorse of ultrafast technology, but it is an...
VECSEL and Its Pump Laser Monolithically Integrated
Compact and efficient green lasers have multiple applications, from laser-projection systems to the...

Solar Photonics
Which Way Out? Solar Cells That Trap Light
Although the supply of sunlight is endless, the ability to effectively harness this vast power...
Solar Cells Constructed with Silicon Nanowires
Although most photovoltaic cells are constructed from traditional crystalline silicon, researchers...

Spectroscopy Focus
Quantum Cascade Laser Array Provides Flexibility
for IR Spectroscopy

Quantum cascade lasers — devices that can operate at infrared and terahertz wavelengths — are the...
FCS Helps to Track Individual Molecules
During Polystyrene Formation

Polymers are very important, whether they are artificial (plastics) or natural (proteins). Various...

Technology
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SERS in a Capillary Could Aid Biochemical Sensing on the Lab-on-a-Chip Scale
Raman spectroscopy is useful for applications where high-specificity biological or chemical sensing...
With a Pulse of Light, Focused Ultrasound Spots Small Cracks
What you can’t see can hurt you — at least indirectly. Surface defects and cracks are among the...
Watching Electrons on the Move
Using ultrafast infrared spectroscopy, researchers at Pennsylvania State University in University...
Photodetector Operates to ~200 nm
In semiconductor manufacturing, what is small today will seem large tomorrow, which is true as much...
Q: What Did the Scientist Say to the LED? A: Don’t Be Square
A major issue with gallium-nitride LEDs is that, although they efficiently generate...