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PUMP LASER MODULE
3S Photonics
WIDE-ANGLE AND NONGLARE LENSES
Docter Optics
ROTARY TORQUE TRANSDUCERS
Sensor Technology Ltd.
LED ENGINEERING KIT
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE
Vision Components GmbH
CO2 LASER OPTICS
Laser Research Optics
FIZEAU INTERFEROMETER
Rolyn Optics Co.
GALVO SCANNER
Dilas Industrial Laser Systems
SPOT CURING SYSTEM
IRphotonics
VIDEO CAPTURE CARD
Matrox Imaging
USB CAMERAS
VRmagic GmbH
PLUGGABLE TRANCEIVER
Applied Optoelectronics Inc.
BRIGHT LED ARRAY
Enfis Ltd.
REMOTE WELDING
Rofin Laser Macro Group
COLOR MEASUREMENT
Hunter Associates Laboratory Inc.
ACRYLIC FOAM TAPES
Scapa North America
SPOT ANALYZER
Ophir-Spiricon
CYLINDRICAL LENS
Avantes BV
2-MEGAPIXEL CCD CAMERA
Prosilica Inc.
DPSS LASER
Cobolt AB
ILLUMINATOR
Dolan-Jenner Industries
TOUCH SCREEN
Ocular Inc.
SAFETY GLASSES
Laservision USA
C-MOUNT CAMERAS
Basler AG
FIBER OPTIC CABLES
Electro Standards Laboratories
LED LIGHTING
Moritex
CWDM TRANSCEIVERS
GAO FiberOptics Inc.
ENERGY SENSOR
Coherent Inc.
SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENTS
Cognex Corp.
LENS CAPS
Schott Electronic Packaging
STEP MOTOR
Technosoft
ACCESS CONTROL KIT
Laser Safety Systems
OPTOCOOLER SERIES
Nextreme Thermal Solutions Inc.
DEPTH SENSING
Nanovea Div. of Micro Photonics Inc.
PULSE GENERATORS
Quantum Composers Inc.
SOFTWARE
Photon Engineering LLC
FIBER-COUPLED LASER DIODES
Apollo Instruments Inc.
PICOSECOND LASERS
Photonics Industries International Inc.
LASER CUTTING
Synrad Inc.
MDU CONNECTIVITY
Prysmian
LASER MARKING
Miyachi Unitek Corp.
BEAMSPLITTER
Union Optic Inc.
NANOPOSITIONING STAGE
piezosystem jena GmbH
HYBRID PLATFORM
CIP Technologies
SOLAR MODULE
REC Group

Editorial
Byproduct of the bailout
Maybe the idea of bailing out the Big Three automakers is not appetizing for anyone but, say, the...

FastTrack (Business News)
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LEDs light the way to energy savings
LEDs in niche lighting markets now save consumers nearly $1 billion in electricity costs – and if...
Fiber optic sensors market seen hitting $1.6 billion mark
The US fiber optic sensors market is expected to reach $1.6 billion in 2014, up from $235 million...
Funding for Efficient Thin OLEDs
The US Department of Energy (DoE), under the auspices of its solid-state lighting program, has...
Evaluating Optical Communications
AOptix Technologies Inc. of Campbell, Calif., has announced a program to test and evaluate the...
Expanding the Map
ESRI of Redlands, Calif., has signed an enterprise license agreement with Navteq of Chicago, a...
Measuring Atmospheric Carbon
Measuring Atmospheric Carbon Daylight Solutions Inc. of Poway, Calif., has received a Phase I Small...
Institute for Environment and Society
The University of Arizona has established an environmental science facility in Tucson that will...
Irish Expansion
StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., has opened a facility in Cork, Ireland. The site will function as...
Multimillion-Dollar Video System
DARPA has awarded a $6.7 million Phase I contract to Kitware Inc. of Clifton Park, N.Y., for its...
Distribution in the US
Sedere Sa of Alfortville, France, has selected Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. of Columbia,...
Army Orders Monocular Unit
The Night Vision unit of ITT Corp. of Roanoke, Va., has been awarded an order from the US Army...
Motion Sensor Franchise
Colibrys Ltd. of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas of Phoenix have...
Russian Transportation
After a series of tests conducted by Komset of Moscow, a scientific and testing center authorized...
Developing Frequency Filters
Structured Materials Industries Inc. of Piscataway, N.J., has received Phase II funding from the US...
Supplying Solar
Two contracts totaling $85 million have been awarded to Carbone Lorraine of St. Marys, Pa. The...
Relocating in Canada
Avo Photonics of Horsham, Pa., a provider of optical packaging and contract manufacturing, has...
New Business Unit
Nextreme Thermal Solutions of Durham, N.C., has created a thermal management products business unit...
A Separate Company
A group of investors has acquired Salvador Imaging Inc. of Colorado Springs, Colo. Led by David...

Feature Articles
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Speeding fresco reconstruction
Computer scientists at Princeton University in New Jersey have developed an automated system that...
Virtual dinosaur stomping grounds
Many among us, from children on up, are fascinated by dinosaurs and long to know more about them....
Under the briny sea
In the second century of the common era, three Roman ships sank beneath the waters off the coast of...
Putting the Squeeze on Optical Microlithography
Integrated circuits routinely produced by microlithography have feature sizes as small as 65 nm,...
The Making of a Computer-Generated Hologram
Computer-generated holograms (CGHs) play an important role in the modern optics used for generating...
Fiber Sensors Go 3-D
Optical fibers make ideal physical sensors. Light, rugged and immune to interference from stray...
Boldly going where no one has gone before
The Phoenix Mars Lander has scoured the surface of the red planet’s Arctic circle for signs of...
Some Like It Hot
For military and industrial applications, shortwave infrared (SWIR) has emerged as a key...
Freeze Frame
Researchers Ala Hijazi and Vis Madhavan at Wichita State University in Kansas wanted to study the...

Greenlight
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State of the Streetlight
Driving down the highway, zinging by countless streetlights, we rarely consider the technology...
Record, Record, Who Has the Record?
When two US government agencies claim to have broken the solar cell efficiency record set by...
PV Blows Out the Walls
Greenpeace and the European Photovoltaic Industry Association have worked together for seven years...
Putting Solar to the Test
Harnessing photovoltaics for electrical generation can make it to the big time only if cells and...

New Media
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High-purity inorganics
Alfa Aesar
Lab mechanicals
Siskiyou Corp.
Nanotech instruments
JPK Instruments AG
Piezo stages
PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P.
Fiber solutions
CeramOptec Industries Inc.
Optics catalog
Edmund Optics

Peregrinations
Window on Universe Maps New Vision
Man’s quest to understand his origins is centuries old. Impelled by what he sees as the main schism...

Profile
Energy Leader
Dr. W.S. Sampath, a professor of mechanical engineering at Colorado State University in Fort...

Slices from the Breadboard (Patent News)
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NASA sells patent licenses
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has set 25 patent assets on a course for technology...
Canadian Patent Awarded to SpectraScience
Medical device company SpectraScience Inc. of San Diego has received a Canadian patent for its...
Fraunhofer, Plan Optik Sign Patent Agreement
In Germany, Plan Optik AG of Elsoff, a wafer manufacturer, has signed an agreement with Fraunhofer...
Universal Detector Designed
A team of researchers in the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics Group at the University of California,...
ESA Celebrates 400th Anniversary of Telescope
In Noordwijk, the Netherlands, a conference at the European Space Agency/European Space Research...
Euresys Receives US Patent
Euresys sa of Angleur, Belgium, a machine vision hardware and software provider, has been granted a...

Technology
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Imaging a disaster
It started with a request from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC was looking...
Science needs a feminine touch
Despite the debate over its cause, there is general agreement that women are underrepresented in...
A step closer to stopping E.coli
To prevent Escherichia coli from reaching consumers, scientists have developed a method of...
Solving a sticky problem in power plants
As energy costs rise and the economy falls, there is no room for inefficiency in power...
Revealing the hidden spectrum
Much like fishermen wear polarized sunglasses to see past the reflective glare of the water’s...
Liquid lens: water + sound = fast focusing
An adaptive liquid lens that is powered by water, sound and surface tension can capture 250...
Semiconductor manufacturing goes green
A recent symposium conducted by ISMI, the Austin-based Sematech manufacturing subsidiary, yielded...
Laurin names new senior editor
Charles Troy has rejoined Laurin Publishing as Senior Editor for the company’s print magazines. A...