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Seeking a Smoother Way to Measure Roughness
Christopher A. Brown, a professor of mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in...
Keeping a Puzzle Together
In some ways, excavating rock is the reverse of assembling a jigsaw puzzle. Rock, after all, is not...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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5-MEGAPIXEL CAMERAS
JAI Inc.
OPTICAL TRANSMITTANCE SPECTROMETER
Ocean Optics Inc.
GALVANOMETER MIRRORS
Reynard Corp.
LIGHT SOURCE MODELING SOFTWARE
Radiant Imaging Inc.
SOFTWARE PLATFORM
National Instruments Corp.
INTELLIGENT CAMERAS
PPT Vision Inc.
HYPERSPECTRAL SENSOR
Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc.
5-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA
Basler Vision Technologies
MICROSCOPE
Olympus Life Science Europa GmbH
OSCILLATORS
Aculight Corp.
SPOT CURING
Dymax Corp.
CCD LINE CAMERA
Mightex Systems
SOFTWARE
Labsphere Inc.
IMAGE SENSOR
OmniVision Technologies Inc.
WHITE LED
Luminus Devices Inc.
LASER MIRRORS
Edmund Optics Inc.
OPA
Quantronix Corp.
POWER, ENERGY METERS
Newport Corp.
OPTICAL FIBER
StockerYale Inc.
LIGHT SOURCE
StellarNet Inc.
3-D METROLOGY
PhaseView
PATTERN INSPECTION
Nikon Instruments Inc.
LENS CLEANER
Laser Research Optics
SENSORS
Pepperl+Fuchs
LENS MODULE
Innovative Nano Systems Pte. Ltd.
LASER WORKSTATION
J P Sercel Associates (JPSA) Inc.
POSITIONING SYSTEM
Technical Manufacturing Corp. (TMC)
LASER MARKER
Automated Laser Corp.
FIREWIRE HUBS
Point Grey Research Inc.
LED MEASUREMENT
UDT Instruments
OPTICAL TOOLS
Rapt Industries Inc.
LASERS
Universal Laser Systems Inc.
MULTICHIP LED
Cree Inc.
MICROSCOPE SYSTEM
B&W Tek Inc.
PHOTON DETECTOR
Amplification Technologies Inc.
BEAM PROFILER
Ophir-Spiricon Inc.
NEAR-IR PROBE
Foss NIRSystems Inc.

Editorial
A kinder, gentler globalization
Of all the big winners in India, Infosys, the country’s second largest software service company,...

Everything is Illuminated (Tips & Techniques)
Curtains.
You may want to consider the use of laser curtains, made of fabric and usually hung from a ceiling...

FastTrack (Business News)
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Hexagon Acquires Measurement Company
Hexagon Metrology of North Kingstown, R.I., has acquired Advanced Digital Measurement Works LLC of...
Test, Measurement and Medical Driving the Global LED Market
The global consumption value of packaged LEDs used in selected test and measurement equipment and...
States Take Solar Energy Initiative
Achieving low-cost renewable energy will take efforts from many sides. Two US states recently...
Laurin Publishing Names Group Publisher
Thomas F. Laurin, executive vice president of Laurin Publishing, has announced the appointment of...
Philips Electronics to Move Headquarters
Philips Electronics North America — a unit of Royal Philips Electronics of Eindhoven, the...
Opnext to Acquire StrataLight
Eatontown, N.J.-based Opnext Inc., a designer and manufacturer of optical modules and components,...
Goodrich Acquires Recon/Optical
Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., has signed an agreement with Bourns Inc. of Riverside, Calif.,...
Research Grant Program Launched
Veeco Instruments Inc. of Plainview, N.Y., a provider of nanoscience instrumentation, has...
QPC Lasers Receives $3.5 Million Contract
QPC Lasers Inc. of Sylmar, Calif., has won a $3.5 million contract to develop high-power integrated...
Dynasil Acquires RMD
Dynasil Corp. of America of West Berlin, N.J., has acquired the stock of Radiation Monitoring...
Cymer, Toshiba Reach Agreement
Cymer Inc. of San Diego has reached a multiunit agreement with Toshiba Corp. of Tokyo. Under the...
Adept Expands into India
Adept Technology Inc. of Livermore, Calif., has expanded into India and signed Menzel Vision and...
Arden Selected as Distributor
Arden Photonics Ltd. of Birmingham, UK, a supplier of products and services to the optical fiber...
Leica, North West to Collaborate
A formal collaboration between Leica Geosystems of Heerbrugg, Germany, and North West Geomatics...
DRS Technologies Receives $11.4 Million Order
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has been awarded an $11.4 million follow-on contract...
BKM Purchases Scanner Assets
Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Flanders, N.J., has sold its lead scanner assets and licensed its...
Picarro Names Japanese Distributor
Picarro Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has selected Sanyo Trading Co. Ltd. of Tokyo as distributor of...
Nu Horizons, Osram Enter India
A distribution agreement between Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. of Melville, N.Y., and Osram Opto...
Laser Photonics Lab Completed
An applications laboratory measuring more than 65,000 sq. ft. has been completed by Laser Photonics...
Clear Skies Solar Expands
Clear Skies Solar Inc. of New York has opened a corporate office in Larissa, Greece. The company...
Certification Reimbursed for Veterans
The State of Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs in Orlando has approved the reimbursement of...
Integrated-Photonics Alliance Created
Pirelli & C. SpA of Milan, Italy, has teamed up with CyOptics Inc. of Breinigsville, Pa., to...

Feature Articles
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Fiber Lasers: Not Just for Materials Processing Anymore
Fiber lasers, once laboratory curiosities, evolved first into the workhorses of telecommunications....
That’s Entertainment!
Machine vision applications used to be all work and no play. No longer the case, researchers and...
An Eye for Quality
For years now, computer numerical control (CNC) machines have been producing parts for a variety of...
Technology highlights in advanced optical manufacturing
The optical industry covers an enormous range of applications and uses many manufacturing...
Fuel from the Abyss
Many scientists carry out all of their research in the lab. Others leave the lab to go on...
Analyze This.
Whether atop microscope slides or inside shopping malls, people and objects are constantly in...
Microdisplays: Coming Soon to an Eye Near You?
Imagine strolling past a restaurant and having its menu hover translucently in your field of...
Look, Up in the Sky
Long familiar in a military setting, UAVs now are being used to map pollutants in the sky and to...
How it Works
From the article Fiber Lasers: Not Just for Materials Processing AnymoreIn its simplest form, a...
How it Works
From the article An Eye for Quality The vision system we used consists of a...
To Fly Like a Bird
From the article Look Up in the SkyPhotonics technologies, in addition to providing remote sensing...

New Media
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OPTICAL INSPECTION
Opto Sonderbedarf GmbH
OPTICAL FILTERS
Semrock Inc.
SENSORS CATALOG
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
VIDEO SURVEILLANCE
Panasonic Security Systems
SPECTROSCOPY TV
Ocean Optics Inc.
LED RAY DATA
Osram Opto Semiconductors

Peregrinations
Science at the Crack of the Bat
If you’re a baseball fan, you’ve seen bats splintering all over major league parks the past couple...

Slices from the Breadboard (Patent News)
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Got an idea? Want to patent it? Read this first.
Have an invention that needs a patent but unsure how to go about getting one? Well, this article is...
Beta-Kramer Files 100th Patent
Beta-Kramer of Sturtevant, Wis., a Ruud Lighting company that provides luminaires for exterior and...
Optical Access Key Patent Issued
The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent No. 7,374,106 (Triggered Flickering Tag) to...
Orbid Settles Patent Infringement
Orbid Corp. of San Francisco, a provider of fingerprint and unique identity solutions, has agreed...

Technology
Volcanoes Erupt Under Ice and Water
Under the Arctic ice, a group of scientists has made a startling discovery, courtesy of a new...
Detecting Explosives at a Distance with Light
By taking advantage of an accidental discovery, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in...
Here Comes the Sun
The shows ran concurrently and in the same convention center in San Francisco in July. The worst of...