Camera Technologies Advance and Expand
Users of detectors for all wavelengths of the spectrum have the same demands year in and year out:...
Coating Equipment Advances Thin-Film Applications
Even as the telecom market bubble burst, advances in optical coating technology developed for...
Photonic Solutions for Transportation
The US transportation infrastructure, already dependent in many ways on optics and photonics, will...
Digital Imaging from the Inside Out
Companies that develop systems for medical imaging are motivated not only by the demand by...
Violet Diode Lasers See Broadened Application Base
The recent availability of GaN-based laser diodes, nurtured by a strong and flourishing LED market,...
Microlithography Faces a 157-nm Question
When Intel Corp. announced its intention to bypass 157-nm lithography last spring, it raised more...
Miniaturization and Powerful Software Drive Photonics Industry
Despite the less than stellar performance of recent years, the outlook for photonics looks bright....
LEDs Open New Doors
The possibility of widespread use of white-light inorganic light-emitting diodes in architectural...
'Smart' Cameras Broaden Applications for Machine Vision
In its early days, machine vision was considered expensive, in need of more power, and difficult to...
VECSELs Expand into New Applications
Vertical-extended-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) will enable advancements in several...
Thin Films Support Projection Display Market and Beyond
Today a typical thin-film device consists of a multilayer stack of alternating high- and low-index...
Miniature Fiber Optic Spectroscopy Comes of Age
In little more than a decade, miniature fiber optic spectroscopy has evolved from a technological...
IR Thermographic Cameras Are Moving into New Areas
Ten years ago, it was ”one size fits all.” We offered infrared technology in a box and hoped to...
Fiber Lasers Show Industrial Potential
The current generation of fiber lasers offer benefits such as low cost of ownership, compact size...
Integrated Optics Make Inroads
This year, integrated optics will begin to gain a significant foothold in commercial optical...
Digital Radiography Gains Ground
Flat panel digital detectors were introduced in the 1990s as an alternative technology to...
Disk Lasers Enable Application Advancements
The driving factor in the development of lasers for industrial materials processing is the demand...
Actuality Systems Inc.
The Perspecta spatial 3-D system is a combination of software and hardware that enables the use of...
Agilent Technologies Inc.
To address the need for speed in telecommunications systems, as is evident from research trials...
Apollo Instruments Inc.
Apollo Instruments Inc.'s F40-xxx-1 laser diode produces 40 W with ~4-MW cm–2 sr –1 brightness. The...
Corning Inc.
The OptiFocus Lensed Taper from Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., focuses light to very small spot...
Crystal Fibre A/S
Crystal Fibre A/S of Birker/od, Denmark, designed its AIR-12-1060 air-guiding fiber to transmit...
Eastman Kodak Co., Image Sensor Solutions
The KAF-22000CE CCD large-format color image sensor from Eastman Kodak Co.'s Image Sensor Solutions...
4D Technology Corp.
The ultrahigh-speed PhaseCam 4000 interferometer system from 4D Technology Corp. of Tucson, Ariz.,...
Elektronik Laser System GmbH
The VersaDisk-515 is a frequency-doubled Yb:YAG thin-disk laser for general-purpose scientific...
Hamamatsu Corporation
Manufactured from a single 12-in. silicon wafer using conventional CMOS processes, the C7930DP flat...
Hinds Instruments Inc.
The development of lithography has been hindered by the lack of a deep-ultraviolet tool to measure...
IPG Photonics Corp.
A line of industrial low-order-mode ytterbium fiber lasers that produce 4 kW of continuous-wave...
JDS Uniphase -- OCLI Products
The television industry is making a transition into liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) projection...
Konoshima, Chemical/Baikowski Group
The polycrystalline ceramic YAG was designed as an inexpensive high-power replacement YAG,...
Lumileds Lighting LLC
The Luxeon warm white LED light source combines the benefits of solid-state lighting and the white...
NanoOpto Corp.
Offering a building block for optical on-a-chip integration, the Subwave Retarder wave plates...
Newport Corp.
A flexible, powerful approach to optical spectrum processing for applications in remote fiber optic...
Novalux Inc.
Novalux Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., developed its Protera 488 laser system as a solid-state...
Ocean Optics Inc.
Researchers can achieve real-time measurements of trace elements in solids, liquids and gases with...
OraSure Technologies Inc.
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the OraQuick rapid HIV-1 antibody test provides...
PerkinElmer Optoelectronics
A real-time imaging technology designed for vascular diagnostics, the fully digital Angio 41...
QED Technologies Inc.
The subaperture stitching interferometer is a six-axis, computer-controlled workstation that...
Semrock Inc.
Using the latest advances in thin-film filter technology, Semrock Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., has...
Veeco Instruments Inc.
Responding to the needs of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) manufacturers for an effective and...
Visx Inc.
The CustomVue laser wavefront system is an ophthalmic laser surgery device that combines new...
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc.
The ApoTome optical sectioning device from Carl Zeiss was designed to make it fast and easy to...