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Miracle in Jena: The Story of Carl Zeiss and Schott
Did you know that Carl Zeiss, Otto Schott and Ernst Abbe knew each other? In fact, the three men...

“Localize” to Make the Most of Opportunities in Japan
Like the rest of the world, Japan is experiencing its share of economic setbacks. Despite the...

Machine vision market: Weathering the storm
In the opinion of John Morse, senior market analyst for the Automation and Control division of IMS...

Company Expansion
Rogue Valley Micro-devices of Medford, Ore., has completed construction on its metal foundry and...

Space Contract
Paris-based Sofradir, a developer and manufacturer of infrared detectors for military and space...

Italian Distribution
LMI Technologies Inc. of Delta, British Columbia, Canada, specializing in machine vision, has...

Lighting License
Nichia Corp. of Anan City, Japan, a worldwide white LED provider, has established a cross-licensing...

Faster Testing
The Collaborative Alliance for Semiconductor Test (CAST), which provides test equipment support, is...

LED Purchase
PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass., a developer and manufacturer of scientific solutions for...

Laser Sales
IB Laser of Berlin, a developer and manufacturer of solid-state lasers, has established a...

Distributing in Taiwan
Point Grey Research Inc. of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, has selected a new distributor. Apo...

Gaining a Percentage
In Denmark, Foss A/S of Hillerød and Ibsen Photonics A/S of Copenhagen have agreed to a...

Metrology Partnership
Cardiff, Wales-based metaFAB has joined the CEMMNT (Centre of Metrology in Micro & Nano...

Glass Structuring Agreement
MSG Lithoglas AG of Berlin has signed an agreement with Schott AG of Mainz, Germany, for exclusive...

Spin-off Companies
InnoLas GmbH of Krailing, Germany, has spun off three of its business units into independent...

By Any Other Name
Irvine, Calif.-based VXI Technology, a provider of instrumentation for electronic signal...

Buy and Sell
Navitar Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., has sold Navitar Coating Labs of Newport Beach, Calif. The sale...

Infrared Acquisition
In Massachusetts, Agiltron Inc. of Woburn, a developer and manufacturer of photonic components for...

Feature Articles

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State of the Economy
“Innovation” and “collaboration” are some key words that executives are throwing around these days....

Blurry Future for Russian Laser Optics Market
The vast landscape of the Russian Federation is home to more than 800 laser-related organizations...

LEDs Go Organic
Thirty years after the discovery of organic LED (OLED) electroluminescence, OLEDs still have not...

Cockpit Electronics Hit the Road
The old adage “Keep your eyes on the road” has taken on new meaning, thanks to sophisticated in-car...

Light Sources Help Fight Crime
Like the actors on the television show CSI, real-life crime scene investigators and policemen often...

Military Photonics: The Art of Seeing Without Being Seen
From optics to organic LEDs (OLEDS) to lasers, many sophisticated photonics technologies are being...

Astrophotonics Propels Next-Gen Telescopes
Astronomy may be the oldest science, but today it’s driving development of the newest...

Greenlight

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Clean, yes; green, maybe
Solar energy is touted as a green and clean energy source, but that may be only in comparison to...

In a word: plastics
Hybrid organic solar cells made of plastic may help “green” the solar industry. Although plastics...

Mission to Earth
The environment is often studied from here on Earth. But why not a top-down rather than a bottom-up...

Solar recycling
Photovoltaic panels have a lifetime of approximately 30 years, so panels installed during the first...

CO2 mission plunges
We know carbon dioxide is all around, but pinpointing its location and quantity was the focus of a...

Another Olympic feat
The smog in China was such an issue before the Beijing Olympics last year that Chinese government...

A pocket sushi probe?
Mercury is found in all sorts of things. From the fish we may eat to the fillings in our teeth,...

New Media

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MACHINE VISION TOOL
Cognex Corp.

MICROSCOPE AUTOMATION
Prior Scientific Inc.

BEAM MEASUREMENT
Gentec Electro-Optics Inc.

LASER SAFETY
Laser Institute of America

LASER OPTICS
Elliot Scientific Ltd.

TEST, MEASUREMENT
Keithley Instruments Inc.

FILTERS
Omega Optical

GREEN PHOTONICS
Optical Society of America

VACUUM RESOURCE
Pfeiffer Vacuum Inc.

Peregrinations

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T. rex or T. anorex?
The skeletal remains of dinosaurs capture the imaginations of young and old alike. We gaze on these...

Slices from the Breadboard (Patent News)

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Selling patents to survive economic hard times
More and more businesses are struggling to stay ahead of the failing economy. Even high-tech and...

Fianium Refutes Crystal Fibre Allegations
Fianium of Southampton, UK, an ultrafast fiber laser manufacturer, has rejected the allegations...

Braunschweig Team Receives Patent Award
A team of inventors from Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany, led by Dr. Martin Koch and...

Oxford Gene, BioArray Solutions Settle Dispute
Oxford Gene Technology of Oxford, UK, has announced the settlement of a lawsuit it filed in US...

Seoul Semiconductor, Nichia to Cross-License
Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea, and Nichia Corp. have announced that they have...

Life Technologies Wins Verdict on Patent
A jury in the US District Court for the Northern District of California has rendered a verdict in...

3-D IC Bonding Process Licensing Development
Ziptronix Inc. of Morrisville, N.C., a low-temperature oxide-bonding technology developer, is...

Technology

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All the world’s a screen
Put away those phones, and forget the laptop. You won’t need them in the future if an MIT project...

Imaging elusive winter sprites
“Sprites,” or upper-atmospheric lightning that occurs high above thunderstorm clouds, are a natural...

Quantum communication, without – and with – delay
When it comes to computing, some of the lessons we learned in kindergarten really do apply....

Food safety just got smarter
The hot-button issue of food contamination, it seems, is never far from the headlines, but until...

Practice mirror goes 3-D
For a musician, the traditional optical device is the mirror. A violinist stands in front of one...

Tinier quantum dots
Quantum dots are fascinating – thousands of atoms, acting together as one, bring us closer and...