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Colored Lights Reveal Hidden Images
Color scientists at Xerox Corp.'s Wilson Center for Research and Technology in Webster, N.Y., have...
Laser-Induced Incandescence Measures Soot in Jet Exhaust
When monitoring the performance of jet engines, aerospace engineers typically are concerned with...
Sensors and New Materials Build Smart Bridges
Armies of workers laid 650,000 miles of road and erected 75,000 bridges from 1935 through 1939...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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LASER DIODE MODULE
Power Technology, Inc.
DIGITAL HIGH-SPEED VIDEO CAMERA
Olympus Industrial America
400- to 1800-nm PHOTODIODES
UDT Sensors, Inc.
IMAGING SPECTROGRAPH
Andor Technology Ltd.
HIGH-SPEED CAMERAS
AOS Technologies
NARROW LINEWIDTH LASERS
K2 Optronics
LASER DIODES
Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA
INTEGRATED OSA/ASE
NP Photonics, Inc.
OPTICAL PROFILING
Ocean Optics, Inc.
NEAR-IR CAMERA
Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.
MICRODISPLAYS
Kopin Corp.
NIR SPECTROMETERS
StellarNet, Inc.
LASER MARKING
Trumpf Inc.
LARGE SPECTRAL MAPS
McPherson, Inc.
VISION INSPECTION
PPT Vision, Inc.
OPTICAL ENCODER
MicroE Systems Corp.
DISPLAY MEASUREMENT
Radiant Imaging, Inc.
DATA ACQUISITION
Pacific Silicon Sensor Inc.
LIQUID CHILLER
Melcor Corp.
TELECOM LASER
Multiplex Inc.
COATING MEASUREMENT
Soft Imaging System Corp.
OPTICAL CHOPPER
Terahertz Technologies, Inc.
POSITIONING SYSTEMS
Velmex Inc.
MACHINE VISION
National Instruments Corp.
LASER PODULE
GSI Lumonics, Inc.
FRAME GRABBER
Sensoray Co. Inc.
OPTICAL INSPECTION
Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd.
MICRO IR CAMERA
BAE Systems
LED CHARACTERIZATION
International Light, Inc.
WAVELENGTH SCANNING
Positive Light Inc.
FIBER SENSOR
Omron Electronics LLC
COLOR EVALUATION
Bossa Nova Technologies LLC
SLM GREEN LASER
Shanghai Uniwave Technology
MIRROR MOUNTS
Space Optics Research Labs (SORL)
FIBER OPTIC PROBE
InPhotonics, Inc.
DOSIMETER RADIOMETERS
Henkel Loctite Corp.
COMPACT CYAN LASER
Picarro, Inc.
INDUSTRIAL IR CAMERA
Cedip Infrared Systems
COMPACT CHILLER
PolyScience
IMAGE PROCESSING
Coreco Imaging
LASER BEAM PROFILER
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
COLOR ENHANCEMENT
ColorLink Inc.
IMAGING SPECTROMETERS
Acton Research Corp.
EHV VIEWPORTS
Ceramaseal
THREE-CCD CAMERA
Redlake MASD Inc.
CRYSTAL FIBERS
BlazePhotonics Ltd.
WAVE LOCKING
PD-LD Inc.
SAMPLE ANALYSIS
JEOL USA, Inc.
OPTICAL COATING
Applied Multilayers Ltd.
MACHINE VISION
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LASER DIODE DRIVERS
HiTek Power Ltd.
LINEAR AMPLIFIERS
Aerotech, Inc.
UV CURING
Hanovia
LED TESTING
PXIT
CCD CAMERA
Adimec Advanced Image Systems BV
WAVELENGTH METERS
Toptica Photonics AG
MICROPOSITIONER
FiberTec
MODULATOR KIT
Forth Dimension Displays Limited
ANALYZER CONTROLLER
Coherent, Inc.
MIRROR MOUNTS
Elliot Scientific Ltd.
OPTICAL MICROSCOPE
Witec GmbH
THIN-FILM DEPOSITION
INFICON
DIODE LASERS
Rofin-Sinar Inc.
OPTICAL FILTERS
York Photonic Technology Ltd.
CAMERA MODULES
Kappa opto-electronics GmbH
PULSE LASER
Elk Industries Inc.
CONFOCAL PROFILER
Atos GmbH
WAFER SCRIBING
JPSA Laser
CW LASERS
EdgeWave GmbH
BEAM EXPANDERS
Linos Photonics Ltd.
FEMTOSECOND LASER
Time-Bandwidth Products
IR CAMERA
Indigo Systems Corp.
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITOR
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc.
EXCIMER LASER
Lambda Physik Inc.
FIBER LASER MODULES
Southampton Photonics, Inc.
CMOS CAMERA
The Cooke Corp.
Ar/Kr LASERS
Lasos Lasertechnik GmbH
SCIENTIFIC CCD
e2v technologies ltd.
IC DESIGN ANALYSIS
Optonics Inc.
MACHINE VISION CAMERA
Cohu Inc., Electronics Div.
OPTICAL SYSTEM
Fisba Optik AG

FastTrack (Business News)
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Fairchild Imaging Licenses CMOS Sensor Technology
Fairchild Imaging of Milpitas, Calif., and Agilent Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., have...
RPC Photonics Opens Its Doors
RPC Photonics Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., a producer of optical components for illumination, display...
PCO Computer Optics Acquires Cooke
To strengthen its presence in North America and to improve its customer service internationally,...
Kopin Wins Defense Contract for Microdisplays
Kopin Corp. of Taunton, Mass., under a contract from Raytheon Co. of Lexington, Mass., will supply...
Austrian Laser Company Opens US Office
Ultrafast oscillator and amplifier supplier FemtoLasers GmbH of Vienna, Austria, has formed...
Swiss Laser Firm Acquires GigaTera
In an all-cash transaction, Time-Bandwidth Products Inc. of Zurich has purchased GigaTera Inc. of...
A Tool to Finance Early-Stage Technology
With fiscal 2003 funding of roughly $834 million and $45 million, the US Department of Defense's...
Sensor Producer Ups Its Stake in Machine Vision
Industrial sensor system producer SICK AG of Waldkirch im Breisgau, Germany, has increased its...
Joint Venture for Fiber Optics Formed
For the development and manufacture of fiber optic components, Infineon Technologies AG of Munich,...
Special Optics Wins Government Contract
Under a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory,...
Melles Griot Expands Optics Group
To consolidate its product portfolio and enhance customer access to its optical engineering team,...
Boeing to Provide Test Bed for High-Energy Laser Systems
Boeing Co. will provide a mobile active targeting resource for integrated experiments (Matrix) test...
PhotoSynergy Receives 'Smart' Funding
The Scottish Executive has bestowed a 2002 Smart: Scotland award on PhotoSynergy Ltd. of Dundee,...
Teltron Gains Orders for Military Sensors
Teltron Technologies Inc. of Birdsboro, Pa., has received 28 orders from the US government and...

Feature Articles
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Solid-State Lasers Are Gunning for Argon-Ion's Place
Frequency-doubled diode lasers that produce blue light at or near 488 nm have emerged over the past...
VCSELs Go Long-Wave
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are now routinely used in photonics applications...
Multilayer Dielectric Gratings Enable More-Powerful High-Energy Lasers
Over the past 20 years, the use of chirped-pulse amplification has enabled lasers to produce...
Frame Grabbers Fine-Tune Machine Vision
Frame grabbers convert video images from cameras into digital format and transfer these digital...
Making Connections: Real-World Telecom Component Production
Today’s telecommunications market requires reliable, low-cost transmitters and receivers. But for...

Mini-Magazine
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Selecting Lenses to Maximize IR Camera Performance
Janos Technology Inc.
Custom Optics and Assemblies Production
Corning Diamond Turning Division
Wave Plates, Beamsplitters and Polarizing Optics
Lambda Research Optics Inc.
Simply Better Photonics Tools
New Focus Inc.
CleanTop II DoubleDensity Optical Tops
Technical Manufacturing Corporation
Precision Optics
Tinsley Laboratories Inc.
Standard and Custom Optical Coatings
ZC&R
ZEMAX Optical Design Program
Zemax Development Corporation
Optical Design Software
Optical Research Associates
Expanded Coating Capabilities
Precision Glass & Optics
World Leader -- Optical Components
Ross Optical Industries

Presstime Bulletin
Molecularly Bridged Quantum Dots Transfer Spin Information
Using a two-color time-resolved Faraday rotation measurement technique, researchers at the...
Holey Fibers Enable New Wavelengths
A group at the University of Bath in the UK and at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has...
Photons Entangled over the Danube
To demonstrate the viability of free-space configurations as an alternative to optical fiber for...

Research
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Feedback Stabilizes High-Power Diode Lasers
High-power, broad-area semiconductor lasers exhibit spatial and temporal instabilities due to...
Wavelength Converter Features Three-Wave Mixing Inside a Pump Laser
A research group at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has proposed and demonstrated...
High-Power Yb-Doped Fiber Laser Emits at 977 nm
Engineers at the University of Southampton and at Southampton Photonics Inc. in the UK have...
System Measures Raman Gain in Bulk Glasses
Scientists from the University of Central Florida in Orlando have developed an optical system to...
Investigations Probe Ultraslow and Superluminal Light
In the few short years following the demonstrations of the slowing and stopping of light in...
Laser Links Depend on the Weather
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel, have performed a...

Technology
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Heat Spreader Boosts Laser Power
Optically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers are attractive in a number of...
Bidirectional Multiplexer Features Six-Port Circulators
Unidirectional optical add/ drop multiplexers are common elements in fiber optic networks, but...
Diffractive Microlens Cuts Laser Costs
Assembly and alignment are major cost drivers in the fabrication of photonic components. Nowhere is...
Fresnel Optics Investigated for Next-Generation Lithography
Achromatic Fresnel optical sys-tems under development at Xradia Inc. of Concord, Calif., promise to...
Twin-Detector Receiver Detects Single Photons over 100 km
A low-noise receiver developed by a team of scientists at NEC Corp. and Japan Science and...
Noncritical Phase Matching Yields 236-nm Radiation
Investigators at Aculight Corp. in Bothell, Wash., have employed noncritical phase matching to...
Calibration Method Enables Alignment down to 1 µm
Alignment of tiny objects is an important task in the photonics industry. Fibers, waveguides and...