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Lasers Assist the Blind
A Pennsylvania inventor has developed a laser-based device that surpasses the traditional canes...
Holography Offers Eye-Safe IR Networking
The wireless home and office are upon us, with computers and peripheral components connected by...
Spectra of Leaves Is Tied to Development of Primate Vision
The origin of the human eye has long been a bone of contention between evolutionists and their...
Laser Scanner Reverse-Engineers Automotive Panels
Aftermarket automotive manufacturers usually must visit automaker facilities to preview new...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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LIQUID CRYSTAL POLARIMETER
Meadowlark Optics
IR PHOTODIODES
OSI Fibercomm
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES
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PHOTODIODE ARRAY
Sensors Unlimited, Inc.
LASER ENCODER
Canon USA, Inc.
SPECTROMETER
Bruker Optics, Inc.
OPTICAL COLLIMATORS
CeramOptec Industries Inc.
COLLIMATOR LENSES
Leister Process Technologies
LINEAR VARIABLE FILTER SPECTROMETERS
IR Microsystems
COOLED CCD CAMERA
PerkinElmer Optoelectronics
SPECTROPHOTOMETER
Spectrolab Analytical Ltd.
INFRARED DETECTOR
OEC
MACHINE VISION
ipd
FIBER COLLIMATORS
Koncent Communication Inc.
OPTICAL OSCILLOSCOPE MODULES
Tektronix Inc.
CUSTOMIZED FIBER
kSaria
MULTIMODE FIBERS
Nufern
FIBER OPTIC PROBE
Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc.
FO CONNECTOR
Greene, Tweed
FIBER DEPOLARIZERS
Phoenix Photonics Ltd.
NONLINEAR FIBER
FiberLogix Ltd.
CWDM MODULE
Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc.
FIBER SENSOR
Insensys
PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERA
Vision Components
DIGITAL CAMERAS
PixeLink
CCD CAMERA
Spiricon, Inc.
DIGITAL MICROSCOPY
Olympus America, Inc.
FTIR IMAGING
Digilab
ADHESIVE DISPENSING
EFD, Inc.
POLYMER SYSTEM
Master Bond, Inc.
TEMPERATURE CONTROL
ILX Lightwave Corp.
BANDPASS FILTERS
Ocean Optics, Inc.
UV/VIS CURING
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering
LASER CAPACITORS
High Energy
FIBER LASER
NP Photonics, Inc.
LASER DIODE DRIVER
Directed Energy, Inc.
DWDM LASERS
K2 Optronics
VIOLET LASERS
Coherent, Inc.
LASER ABLATION SYSTEM
Cetac Technologies
GREEN LASER
Spectra-Physics
LASER DIODE DRIVERS
Komlas
Nd:YAG LASER
New Wave Research
LASER WELDING
CanLas
LASER DIODE SOURCES
Oz Optics Ltd
DIODE-PUMPED LASER
Pro-Lite Technology LLP
TUNABLE LASER
Santec Corp.
POWER PROBE
Directed Light Inc.
FIBER-COUPLED LASER
Nuvonyx, Inc.
GREEN LASER
New Laser Generation GmbH
DPSS LASER SYSTEM
JPSA Laser
LIGHT SOURCE
TuiLaser AG
COMPACT LED
Osram Opto Semiconductors, Inc.
UV INSPECTION LAMP
Spectronics Corp.
THIN-FILM COATING SYSTEMS
Leybold Optics GmbH
THIN-FILM EDGE FILTERS
Semrock, Inc.
OPTICAL MOUNTS
Newport Corp.
LASER LINE FILTERS
Rolyn Optics Co.
193-nm OPTICS
Alpine Research Optics
ALUMINUM MIRRORS
Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.
DEPOSITION CONTROLLER
Sigma Instruments
INTEGRATING SPHERES
Gigahertz-Optik, Inc.
REFERENCE FLATS
Optical Surfaces Ltd.
OPTICAL COATINGS
Kaufman & Robinson
ETCHING/DEPOSITION
Unaxis Semiconductors
PHOTORECEIVER
Femto Messtechnik GmbH
4-in. WAFERS
MetroPhotonics
SIX-AXIS POSITIONING SYSTEM
Melles Griot
GANTRY SYSTEM
Anorad Corp.
POSITIONING CONTROL
Polytec PI Inc.
STEP MOTOR CONTROL
Performance Motion Devices, Inc.
ROTARY ENCODERS
Renishaw, Inc.
PREAMPLIFIER
Goodrich
TIMING GENERATOR
Sira Electro-Optics
MICROSCOPE SYSTEMS
O.C. White Co.
SPECTROMETER
Spectro Analytical Instruments, Inc.
OPTICAL ALIGNMENT
Palomar Technologies Inc.
PARTICLE ANALYSIS
Dantec Dynamics
RAMAN IMAGING
Jobin Yvon Ltd.
ILLUMINATION SOFTWARE
Optical Research Associates
PARTICLE ANALYSIS
Dantec Dynamics
OPTICAL ANALYSIS
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
MOISTURE ANALYSIS
Tiger Optics LLC
PARTICLE ANALYSIS
Beckman Coulter, Inc.
POWER MEASUREMENT
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
SPECTROPHOTOMETER
Biochrom Ltd.
3-D SURFACE PROFILER
Taylor Hobson Ltd.
COLOR MEASUREMENT
HunterLab
MICROSCOPE TIPS
nPoint, Inc.
SPECTRORADIOMETER
International Light, Inc.

FastTrack (Business News)
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MOEMS Consortium Chooses Foundry
The MOEMS manufacturing consortium recently announced that it has chosen Corning IntelliSense Corp....
Biophotonics Center Goes Interdisciplinary
In its 1998 report Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, the...
Sumitomo Mass-Produces GaN Substrate
Although confusion remains over whether Blu-ray or the Advanced Optical disc format offers the...
GSI Lumonics Acquisitions Expand Laser and Encoder Lines
Perhaps one of the few photonics companies in a strong cash position at the moment, GSI Lumonics...
Companies Contract for Defense Project
Fiberstars Inc. of Fremont, Calif., and APL Engineered Materials Inc. of Urbana, Ill., have...
Coherent to Buy Outstanding Shares of Lambda Physik
Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., the majority shareholder in Lambda Physik AG since 1981, has...
Acton Research Builds Optics Facility
Acton Research Corp. has completed work on its new facility at 15 Discovery Way in Acton, Mass. The...
Corning Contract for Optical Systems Is Renewed
Corning Diamond Turning Div. of Keene, N.H., has received its third contract upgrade from DRS...
Raytheon to Develop Optical Synthetic Imager
For the purpose of designing and demonstrating the synthetic aperture ladar tactical imager,...
Indigo Purchases Software Company
Indigo Systems of Goleta, Calif., has acquired the Applied Technology Div. of Control Systems...

Feature Articles
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Simulation Tools Streamline Photonic Component Manufacturing
Photonic component manufacturers have to meet the challenges of a commodity-market price structure...
Violet and Blue Laser Diodes Make Strides
Short-wavelength lasers in the violet and blue spectral range are playing an important role in...
Picturing the Perfect CMOS?
With larger pixel sizes, improved noise reduction, bigger arrays and other techniques, vendors are...
Holographic Data Storage: When Will It Happen?
Headlines in Photonics Spectra over the past few years have included: “New Promise for Holographic...
Optimizing Vision Systems with Specialized Lighting
Automated machine vision systems are increasingly being used to perform inspection and...
Perfect Mirrors Extend Hollow-Core Fiber Applications
Photonic bandgap fibers have been the subject of active research for several years. One result...
CO2 Lasers Make the Cut
With system revenues well above $2 billion last year, laser cutting remains the major industrial...
Violet Lasers Begin Mass Production in Japan
Nichia and Sony recently announced an agreement for mass production of blue-violet laser diodes for...

Presstime Bulletin
Single Nanotubes Yield IR Radiation
Researchers at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., have reported...
Low-Temperature-Grown GaAs LED Emits at 1550 nm
By introducing arsenic antisite deep levels into a GaAs lattice, researchers at Yale University in...

Research
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Negative Refraction Confirmed
The latest salvo in the battle over negative refractive index materials has been fired, and it has...
Magnetometer Has Subfemtotesla Sensitivity
Researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey, working with colleagues at the University of...
Fiber Laser Q-Switched by Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
Fiber lasers increasingly are becoming attractive for commercial applications because of their...
Silver Film Points to Superlenses
A team of engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles, has demonstrated the regeneration...
Superradiance in Bose-Einstein Condensates Studied
Investigating superradiance in Bose-Einstein condensates, a team at Massachusetts Institute of...
Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal Forms Tunable Photonic Crystals
Researchers from Brown University in Providence, R.I., have fabricated two- and three-dimensional...
Single Atoms Trapped up to 3 s
In the April 4 edition of Physical Review Letters, scientists at California Institute of Technology...
Far-IR Photoconductor Array to Go into Space
Scientists from the Communications Research Laboratory in Tokyo have developed what they believe...

Technology
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Laser Spike Welding Enables New Materials and Designs
Researchers from Philips Electronics Neder-land BV in Eindhoven and the University of Groningen,...
Light Scattering Technique Detects Pathogenic Aerosols
The threat of bioterrorism has inspired much research into optical techniques that can detect...
Nanowire Combs Lase in UV
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have produced novel comblike arrays of...
Quantum-Dot Composite LED Emits in IR
An electroluminescent composite that features quantum dots suspended in a semiconducting polymer...
Embedded Mirrors Improve Fiber Pumping
A new approach for injecting radiation into double-clad fiber promises significant advantages in...
Fiber Optic Sensor Measures Submicroampere Currents
Wuu-Wen Lin of Yung Ta Institute of Technology & Commerce in Linluo, Taiwan, has developed a...
Electron Beam Lithography Produces Microlenses in Hybrid Sol-Gel
In the April 21 issue of Optics Express, scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University...
Laser-Heated Diamond Cell Exposes Stability at Earth's Mantle
Using a laser heating system, a team of scientists at Carnegie Institution of Washington and at the...
Blue Polymers Live Longer
Unlike liquid crystal devices, light-emitting polymer displays require no backlight, which could...
Tunable Fiber Source Produces 30-nJ Pulses
Researchers at Tampere University of Technology's Optoelectronics Research Centre in Tampere,...
Yb-Doped Ceramic Laser Achieves 0.75 W
A diode-pumped Yb:Y2O3 ceramic laser developed by scientists at the University of...
Prototype of MEMS-Based 320 x 240 Uncooled IR Detector Demonstrated
Using an array of heat-sensitive microscopic cantilever elements on its surface, a new MEMS-based...
Micromirror System Facilitates Dynamic 3-D Holographic Imaging
Scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have constructed a...
Quantum-Dot Photodetector Takes the Heat
A quantum-dot IR photodetector with detection ability from 6.7 to 11.5 µm that can operate at...