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Light Sheets and Cameras Track Fluid Flow
At Dantec Dynamics A/S in Skovlunde, Denmark, they like to go with the flow -- and to help others...
Computer-Controlled Machine Sees No Need for Vision
With apologies to Shakespeare, Phoenix-based TLC International was recently faced with a question:...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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QUANTUM DOTS
Evident Technologies
AREA-SCAN CAMERA
Dalsa Corp.
HIGH-POWER GREEN LASER
Spectra-Physics
IMMERSION MICRO-OBJECTIVE
Corning Tropel Corp.
SPECTROMETRY SYSTEM
Ocean Optics, Inc.
SMART CAMERAS
Matrox Imaging
POLARIMETER
Axometrics, Inc.
CYLINDRICAL OPTICS
Berliner Glas Group
VIOLET LASERS
Melles Griot Electro-Optics Group
LED RINGLIGHT
Schott North America, Inc.
IR OPTICAL COATING
ZC&R Coatings for Optics Inc.
FIBER SUBASSEMBLIES
Nufern
NOTCH FILTERS
Semrock, Inc.
IMAGING SOFTWARE
Diagnostic Instruments, Inc.
HORIZONTAL STACK
Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH
FIBER OPTIC CLEANER
AFL Telecommunications
LASER-GRADE WINDOWS
Newport Corp.
STEREO CAMERA
SeeGrid Corp.
VCSEL SIMULATION
RSoft Design Group, Inc.
IR FILTERS
Sunex, Inc.
EXTERNAL-CAVITY LASER
Teralux Corp.
DISPLAY MEASUREMENT
Optronic Laboratories, Inc.
PHOTODIODE
Three Five Compounds, Inc.
OPTOELECTRONIC SIMULATION
Integrated Systems Engineering
MOLECULAR ANALYSIS
PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences
IR CAMERA
Thales Angenieux
IR SPECTROMETER
Infrared Fiber Systems, Inc.
SHUTTER
Vincent Associates
DIODE LASER
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
MULTIMODE COMBINERS
ITF Optical Technologies, Inc.
ANTI-ETCHANT COATINGS
Brewer Science
LASER MARKER
Alase Technologies
INTERFEROMETER
QED Technologies
BEAM COMBINATION
Quantronix Corp.
OPTICAL SWITCHES
Continuum Photonics, Inc.
VGA CAMERA
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
LIGHT SOURCES
Spectra-Physics
OPTICAL POLISHING
Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.
BEAM CIRCULARIZATION
Lightpath Technologies, Inc.
ENCODERS
MicroE Systems Corp.
HOLLOW-CORE FIBERS
BlazePhotonics Ltd.
Ti:SAPPHIRE LASER
FemtoLasers Produktions GmbH
DIGITAL CAMERA
Redlake
DISPENSING SYSTEM
EFD, Inc.
SINGLE-MODE FIBER
Fibercore Ltd.
LASER TECHNOLOGY
Peleton
OPTICAL SPECTROMETER
Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems
WAVE PLATES, MOUNTS
Cleveland Crystals, Inc.
AQUAMARINE LASER
PicoQuant GmbH
TRANSCEIVER MODULES
Bookham Technology
CAMERA CONFIGURATION
Coreco Imaging
SUPERLUMINESCENT LEDs
Exalos AG
OPTICAL ANALYZER
FiberWork Optical Communications
FIBER ARRAYS
Arrayed Fiberoptics Corp.
OPTICAL POWER METER
Advantest Corp.
FLUORESCENCE IMAGING
Stanford Photonics Inc.
LASER METERS
Coherent Molectron
LENS COATING
Melles Griot Optics Group
MULTICHANNEL DETECTION
Del Mar Ventures
VIDEO BOARD
Absolute Machine Vision
COMPONENT TESTING
Luna Technologies, Inc.
LASER DIODE MODULES
Frankfurt Laser Co.
PHOTODETECTORS
Alphalas GmbH
STABILIZED LASER
Alfalight, Inc.

FastTrack (Business News)
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OFC Attendance Climbing, but Still Has a Long Way to Go
Before the telecom market slump, the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) was probably the hottest,...
PI Establishes US Company
To focus on its North American nanopositioning customers, PI (Physik Instrumente) GmbH & Co....
Dow and Osram to Develop Polymeric LED Display Technology
Dow Chemical Co. of Midland, Mich., has signed an agreement with Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of...
Agiltron Licenses MEMS Attenuator Technology
Fiber optic components manufacturer Agiltron Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., has entered into a...
Forum Suggests Lithography Driven to Drink
The water's fine. That consensus emerged from a meeting held in Los Angeles in January that was...
Digilab to Distribute Near-IR Spectrometers
Digilab LLC of Randolph, Mass., and Infrared Fiber Systems Inc. of Silver Spring, Md., have formed...
CorActive Wins Patent License for Production of Mid-IR Fiber
Under an exclusive patent license agreement, CorActive High Tech Inc. of Quebec City will...
DiOP to Manufacture Surveillance Systems for US Air Force
Diversified Optical Products Inc. (DiOP) of Salem, N.H., has received a $2.78 million contract from...
Goodrich to Provide Laser Altimeters for Combat Air Systems
Chicago-based Boeing has selected Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., to supply laser altimeters for...
Alliance Formed to Propel Australian Photonics Research
Swinburne University of Technology TAFE Centre for New Manufacturing in Hawthorn, Australia, will...
Heraeus Noblelight Purchases Light Sources Company in UK
Precious metals and technology company Heraeus Noblelight GmbH, based in Hanau, Germany, has...
NuSil Technology Acquires Lightspan
Silicone compound manufacturer NuSil Technology of Carpinteria, Calif., has obtained Lightspan LLC...
UK Company Gains Funding to Develop 3-D Imaging System
In Glasgow, UK, Iris-3D Ltd., a 3-D imaging systems spin-out of the University of Strathclyde, has...
Companies Partner to Provide Ethernet Connectivity Products
Under a collaborative agreement to provide Gigabit Ethernet connectivity products for industrial...
Kopin to Supply Displays for Night-Vision Binoculars
Kopin Corp. of Taunton, Mass., has received an order to supply Flir Systems AB of Danderyd, Sweden,...

Feature Articles
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Laser Beam Characterization of a Diode Stack
The characterization of diode lasers becomes more and more important with the increasing number of...
CCDs Aid Exploration
Whether imaging the galaxy or intracellular activity, cameras based on CCD sensors continue to...
CCD Cameras Tune in to Scientific Imaging
Since their first appearance some 30 years ago, CCDs have been embraced by the scientific imaging...
Image Intensifiers Multiply Photons
Originally developed to enhance night vision in military applications, image intensifiers combined...
CCDs Capture Dynamic Motion
Whether the application involves high-speed machine vision, live-cell imaging or surveillance,...
Vacuum Sealing Adds Life to Scientific CCDs
Perhaps a key question for any scientific imaging application is how long the CCD camera will last...
Interline CCDs Serve Machine Vision Applications
Many industrial manufacturers use machine vision systems to control the quality of their products....
Diamond Turning Enters a New Era
Single-point, diamond-turned optics, if programmed and fixtured properly, can typically be produced...
Strengthening Global Surveillance and Security
Patrolling national borders, detecting explosives and weapons in luggage and cargo and scanning...
Spectroscopy Takes Security into the Field
With important advances in the miniaturization, cost and performance of optoelectronic devices and...
Fluorescence Microscopy Becomes Portable
A centimeter-wide “lab-on-a-chip” has been developed by engineers at the University of California,...
Long-Range Surveillance Day or Night
Law enforcement and security professionals who safeguard borders, ports, nuclear power and chemical...
Imaging Systems Gain a Brain
The use of video surveillance as a security tool historically has been plagued by multiple...
High-Speed Optical Sensor for Security Applications
In today’s world, with its increasing demand for security, passive optical sensors are helping to...
X-ray System Provides Improved Baggage Screening
Ensuring the safety of airline passengers has created a demand for larger, more robust security...
Testing the Water
Shortly after Sept. 11, an incident arose in which a water reservoir had been tampered with. The...
3-D Multispectral Imaging Cameras Go Airborne
Attaching a camera to the end of a missile to help guide the missile to a target might sound a...
Outsourcing: A Growing Trend for Optomechanical Assemblies
One area of the optics industry that continues to experience growth is that of precision...
Near-Field Holography Manufactures Submicron Gratings
Gratings with a 200- to 600-nm pitch are necessary for telecommunications devices such as passive...
Closed-Loop Control Boosts AFM Functionality
Many atomic force microscopes (AFMs) and scanning probe instruments that provide usable images do...

Presstime Bulletin
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Attosecond Method Captures Electron Movements
A group of scientists at Technische Universität Wien in Austria, Universität Bielefeld in Germany...
Ion-Photon Entanglement Demonstrated
Researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, have demonstrated quantum entanglement...
Quantum Dots Emit Single Photons at High Temps
In the Feb. 23 issue of Applied Physics Letters, Richard P. Mirin of the National Institute of...
Cavity-Cooling Technique Cools Single Atoms
At Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching, Germany, researchers have developed an optical...

Research
All-Optical Amplifiers Enable 20,000-km Link
Tackling two fundamental problems at the same time, scientists at Kailight Photonics Ltd. in...
Study Probes High-Temp Superconductivity
The results of infrared spectroscopy experiments with a bismuth-containing copper oxide known as...
Photonic Bandgap Fiber Eyed for Telecommunications
Researchers at BlazePhotonics Ltd. and at the University of Bath, both in Bath, UK, have fabricated...

Technology
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Tiny Measurements Present Big Challenges
In semiconductor manufacturing, photonics is used not only for imaging circuit layers, but also for...
Mirror Enhances Diode Laser Bar's Beam
The diode laser bar, which consists of multiple diode lasers on a single substrate, is the...
Spectroscopy Detects, Counts Toxic Molecules
A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., Eindhoven...
Fiber Laser Produces 2.5 W in the 3-µm Region
Lasers that operate in the 3-µm region of the mid-infrared have many applications in remote...
InGaN Laser Diodes Are Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Researchers at Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd. in Oxford, UK, have reported the successful...
Tunable Distributed Bragg Reflector Lasers Introduced at OFC
Two vendors introduced similar, widely tunable, monolithic lasers at the Optical Fiber Conference...