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High-Speed Imaging Probes Mysteries of Spreading Metal
When Eduardo Saiz, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.,...
Vision System Performs License Plate Verification
Border crossings, secure areas, parking facilities and even highway speed traps are places where...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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HANDHELD COLORIMETER
Konica Minolta Photo Imaging USA, Inc.
DIGITAL FIBER OPTIC UV SENSOR
Keyence Corp. of America
EXCIMER LASERS
Lambda Physik Inc.
NANOPOSITIONING STAGES
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
BEAM-PROPAGATION MEASUREMENT TOOL
Photon, Inc.
LASER DIODE BAR
Bookham, Inc.
LASER DIODE MODULES
Photonic Products Ltd.
ILLUMINATION DESIGN
Optical Research Associates
SPECIALTY FIBER ASSEMBLIES
Stratos Lightwave LLC
MINI COLOR CAMERA
Videor Technical
VACUUM COATING SYSTEMS
Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH
MOTION CONTROL
Performance Motion Devices, Inc.
INTERFEROMETER
Polytec, Inc.
OPTICAL PACKAGE
Anteryon BV
FABRY-PEROT LASER DIODES
Frankfurt Laser Co.
DICHROIC BEAMSPLITTERS
Semrock, Inc.
RECIRCULATING CHILLERS
PolyScience
LARGE-AREA POLARIZER
InfraSpecs
INTELLIGENT CAMERA
Vision Components GmbH
VIDEO SERVER
Sensoray Co. Inc.
MACHINE VISION SENSORS
Vision Control
TI:SAPPHIRE OSCILLATOR
Femtolasers Produktions GmbH
COLOR CCD CAMERA
3D Plus
SAMPLING SYSTEM
Particle Measuring Systems
LASER ALIGNMENT KIT
Pinpoint Laser Systems
COLOR BALANCING
Radiant Imaging, Inc.
MARKING WORKSTATION
Unitek Miyachi Corp.
5-MEGAPIXEL CCD CAMERA
Soft Imaging System Corp.
OPTICAL FILTERS
Omega Optical, Inc.
LIGHT SOURCE
Schott North America, Inc.
LASER DIODE DRIVER
Zarlink Semiconductor, Inc.
ANGLE ENCODERS
Renishaw, Inc.
VIDEO BOARD
Matrox Imaging
PULSED FIBER LASER
Aculight Corp.
3-D GRAPHICS API
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
CMOS IMAGE SENSOR
Micron Technology, Inc.
LASER ADDITIVES
BASF Aktiengesellschaft
HIGH-SPEED SENSOR
LMI Technologies USA, Inc.
OPTICAL INSPECTION
Viscom AG
SPECTRORADIOMETER
International Light, Inc.
FIBER COLLIMATOR
Photop Technologies, Inc.
LASER BEAM PROFILERS
Spiricon, Inc.
APODIZING FILTERS
Reynard Corp.
CMOS SENSOR
FillFactory NV
PROTOTYPING SOFTWARE
Lambda Research Corp.
INFRARED ARRAY
Santa Barbara Focalplane
MACHINE VISION INSPECTION
Southern Vision Systems, Inc.
LASER INTERFEROMETER
Canon USA, Inc.
OPTICAL SENSORS
Precitec Optronik
NANOPOSITIONING STAGE
Prior Scientific, Inc.
FLUORESCENCE ILLUMINATOR
Nikon Instruments, Inc.
SOLID-STATE LASER
Bavarian Photonics GmbH
MONOCHROME CAMERA
DVC Co., Inc.
MULTIPLEXER SOFTWARE
Signal Recovery
UV CURING
UV Process Supply, Inc.
VISION SENSORS
Cognex Corp.
LINUX DRIVER LIBRARY
PicoQuant GmbH
HIGH-POWER LED
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER
High Q Laser
VACUUM-SAFE ACTUATOR
Newport Corp.
NIR ANALYZERS
Axsun Technologies, Inc.
MOTORIZED FOCUS LENS
Cedip Infrared Systems
MICROMETER STAGES
Specialty Motions, Inc.
CONTROL DESIGN SOFTWARE
National Instruments Corp.
HIGH-SPEED CAMERA
Weinberger Deutschland GmbH
DLC COATINGS
Morgan Advanced Ceramics
MICROTRANSLATION STAGE
Standa Ltd.
EYE-SAFE LASER
Cobolt AB
OEM DIODE MODULES
Laserline GmbH
FLUORESCENT TARGETS
Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.
FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY
Carl Zeiss Ltd.
BEAM-SHAPER MODULES
Limo-Lissotschenko Microoptik GmbH
PHOTODIODE HEAD
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
CCD CAMERA
Lumenera Corp.
DUAL-WAVELENGTH CAMERA
Sensors Unlimited, Inc.
VISION SOFTWARE
Adept Technology, Inc.
LINEAR STAGE
Nanomotion, Inc.
HIGH-SPEED CAMERA
JAI Pulnix, Inc.
ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS
Acton Research Corp.
SURVEILLANCE LENS
Fujinon, Inc.
FLEXIBLE LIGHTGUIDES
Moritex Europe Ltd.
POSITIONING STAGE
attocube systems AG
FUSION SPLICER
Future Instrument Fiber Optics AB
DATA AND IMAGE ANALYSIS
AccuSoft Corp.
MOTION CONTROL CARDS
Innovation Matrix, Inc.
TTL TRIGGERING
Avantes BV

FastTrack (Business News)
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Report Predicts Huge Growth for Nanophotonic Devices
The worldwide market for nanophotonic devices is expected to escalate from $420.7 million in 2004...
Companies Ally to Develop Thin-Film Processes
To advance thin-film processes for a new line of precision optics box coating systems, Advanced...
Carl Zeiss Meditec Secures Laser Diagnostic
Carl Zeiss Meditec Inc. (CZM) of Dublin, Calif., has purchased Laser Diagnostic Technologies Inc....
Ball Aerospace Produces Camera for Mars Mission
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., has delivered the HiRise, or...
IPG Subsidiary Opens Kilowatt Laser Factory
IPG Laser GmbH of Burbach, Germany, has built a 20,000-sq-ft cleanroom facility there to house the...
JML to Distribute Scratch/Dig Standards
Under a signed distribution agreement, JML Optical Industries of Rochester, N.Y., will market and...
Highwave Optical Signs to Procure Northlight
Highwave Optical Technologies of Lannion, France, has signed a memorandum of understanding to...
DRS Technologies Buys Night-Vision Business
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has purchased certain assets and liabilities of Night...
Directed Energy Solutions Is Awarded Contracts
Directed Energy Solutions (DES) of Colorado Springs, Colo., has received a $4.8 million contract...
Advanced Photonix Buys Optoelectronics Company
In California, Advanced Photonix Inc. (API) of Camarillo, has purchased the outstanding capital...
Helix Technology Agrees to Purchase IGC Polycold
Vacuum and cryogenic product supplier Helix Technology Corp. of Mansfield, Mass., has agreed to...
Omega Optical Opens New Headquarters, Factory
Omega Optical Inc. has moved into a 30,000-sq-ft world headquarters and manufacturing facility in...
Andor Relocates, Benefits from IPO
Andor Technology Ltd. of Belfast, Northern Ireland, has moved into a 50,000-sq-ft facility,...
Bristol Instruments Commences Operation
A company has been formed to develop and market optically based instruments for use in engineering,...
Optimum Optical Provides Helicopter Sight System
Optimum Optical Systems Inc. of Camarillo, Calif., has received a follow-on contract from DRS...
Jenoptik Forges Marketing Agreements
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH of Jena, Germany, has selected Tecnologia Avanzada Para...
JAI Obtains Share of Technology Company
A supplier of industrial vision CCD/CMOS cameras, JAI A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark, has acquired a 35...
II-VI Acquires Marlow Industries
In a cash transaction valued at approximately $31 million, II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., has...
Flir to Develop Maritime Surveillance System
The US Department of Defense has awarded Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., an indefinite...

Feature Articles
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SHEDS, Part II
This month, we complete our report on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Super-High...
Overcoming Hurdles on the Road to More Efficient Diodes
Although Novalux Inc. has only recently joined the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s...
High-Power, High-Efficiency VCSELs Pursue the Goal
At Princeton Optronics Inc., we intend to meet the goals of the SHEDS program using vertical-cavity...
Superpolishing Deep-UV Optics
Demanding ultraviolet laser applications, such as microlithography and lasik, are driving the need...
Quantum Cascade Lasers: Valuable New Tools for Laser Spectroscopy
Semiconductor lasers emitting in the mid-infrared spectral range between approximately 4 and 13...
Miniature Deformable Mirrors Bring Adaptive Optics Within Reach
In 1953, astronomer Horace W. Babcock of California Institute of Technology in Pasadena proposed a...
Breaking the Single-Cycle Barrier
From Fourier theory, we know that any periodic shape may be formed by combining sinusoidal waves...
Slower Growth Forecast for Optical Microscopes
You can’t fight physics. Despite the continued and great advances made in optical microscopy over...
Single-Chip Microsystem Cuts Atomic Force Microscopy Down to Size
Scanning relatively large samples with commercially available atomic force microscopes (AFM) often...
Probe Brings Higher Throughput, Resolution to Near-Field Microscopy
A team at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, recently evaluated novel designs...
For Atomic Force Microscopy, the Beat Goes On
Researchers have found dynamic force microscopy, or atomic force microscopy (AFM), useful for...
When the Chips Are Down, It's Microscopy to the Rescue
Integrated circuits are modern miracles, cramming tens of millions of transistors into...

New Media
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ELECTRO-OPTICS
Burle Electro-Optics Inc.
MEASUREMENT
National Instruments
OPTICS, QUANTUM DOTS
Artech House Inc.
OPTICS RESOURCE
Elsevier Academic
OPTICS CATALOG
Rolyn Optics

Peregrinations
Nasal Academy
Something may be as plain as the nose on your face, but what goes on inside that nose is neither...
Turning Heat into Power, Flexibly
Besides making the man, clothing could eventually make the machine -- or, at least, power it....

Presstime Bulletin
Metrology Performed with Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Researchers at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, have demonstrated precision...
Fast Flash, Gating Image Through Turbid Media
Experiments by a team at the City College of the City University of New York indicate that the...
Shaped Silicon Suggests Photovoltaics, X-Ray Applications
Scientists at Tohoku University in Sendai and Kyoto University, both in Japan, report in the...

Research
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Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced RandomLaser Demonstrated
A team of researchers from the Ultrafast Photonics and Nano-Optics Laboratory at the University of...
Waveguide Fabricated with Femtosecond Pulses Lases at 1533 nm
Researchers in Europe have operated what they believe to be the first waveguide laser fabricated...
Bessel Beams Enable Better Interferometry
Researchers at Université Laval in Quebec City have shown that, in some situations, one arm is...
Lightguide Plate Simplifies LCD Illumination
Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are used for applications in which low weight, minimal power...

Technology
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Novel Silicon Raman Laser Demonstrated on CMOS Chip
For years, engineers and scientists have dreamed of the advantages that could be gained by...
Photonic Crystal Fiber Laser Has Low Threshold, High Efficiency
Lasers based on photonic crystal fibers offer the laser designer novel degrees of freedom not...
Sometimes It Pays to Fill the Holes in a Holey Fiber
Researchers at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have filled the holes of a holey...
Fiber Laser Generates 60-W, High-Quality Green Beam
Fiber lasers are proving capable of many tasks as the technology matures, and they are supplanting...