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UV Laser Ablation Studies Volcanic Hazard
Laser ablation technology used by investigators at The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, offers...
Microscope Examines Raw Materials
In the constant battle to stay ahead of the competition, a recognized leader in the development of...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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AREA-SCAN CAMERAS
Dalsa Corp.
OPTICAL HEAD TESTING
4D Technology Corp.
DIRECT-DIODE LASERS
Dilas Diodenlaser GmbH
RADIOMETERS/PHOTOMETERS
Optronic Laboratories, Inc.
SINGLE-BOARD CAMERA
Vision Components GmbH
SILICON LENSES
Schott Corp.
CAMERA SERIES
Imperx, Inc.
LIGHT SOURCE
Femtolasers Produktions GmbH
DISPERSION COMPENSATOR
TeraXion, Inc.
3-D GEOMETRY SCANNING
Polytec, Inc.
LENS SPECTROGRAPH
Princeton Instruments
MICRO CUVETTE
Hellma Cells, Inc.
VIDEO MICROSCOPE
Special Application Products Ltd.
RAMAN MICROSCOPE
Witec Instruments
LASER FILTER
LaserVision GmbH
SCAN HEAD
Scanlab AG
GOLD COATINGS
Evaporated Metal Films
CCD ICP SYSTEM
Spectro Analytical Instruments, Inc.
SPECTRAL SEARCH SYSTEM
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
LASER CUTTING
NTC America Corp., Laser Group
SURFACE ABSORBERS
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
SUPERLUMINESCENT LED
Exalos AG
FUSION SPLICER
Ericsson Network Technologies AB
SPM SENSOR
Pacific Nanotechnology, Inc.
LONG PERIOD GRATINGS
Chiral Photonics, Inc.
SPECTROMETER
Horiba Jobin Yvon, Inc., Optical Spectroscopy Div.
COATING SYSTEM
Leybold Optics GmbH
CCD IMAGING CAMERA
Optronics
MULTIWAVELENGTH LASER
Peleton
DIGITAL CCD CAMERAS
QImaging
MOTION PROCESSORS
Performance Motion Devices, Inc.
NANOPOSITIONING
piezosystem jena GmbH
SCAN HEAD
GSI Lumonics, Inc.
MODULAR LASER SYSTEM
Jmar Technologies, Inc.
DIGITAL PAN AND ZOOM
Imaging Solutions Group of New York, Inc. (ISG)
IMAGING SYSTEM
Thales Optem, Inc.
LASER MARKER
Unitek Miyachi Corp.
MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE
DVT Corp.
AMPLIFIED PHOTODIODE
Phresh Photonics
LINEAR FOCUS ACTUATOR
Equipment Solutions, Inc.
SPECTROMETER
Ocean Optics, Inc.
2-D FIBER ARRAYS
Arrayed Fiberoptics Corp.
ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
Carl Zeiss SMT, Inc.
MINIATURE FTIR SPECTROMETER
Smiths Detection
OPTICAL BACKSCATTER REFLECTOMETER
Luna Technologies, Inc.
LASER MEASUREMENT
Automated Precision, Inc.
LIGHT SOURCE
B&W Tek Inc.
PHASE SHIFTERS
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
PUMP LASER MODULE
Bookham, Inc.
PHOTODIODE
Albis Optoelectronics AG
IMAGING SYSTEMS
Eastman Kodak Co., Scientific Imaging Systems Group
CCD CAMERA
Lambert Instruments
3-D MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
FARO Technologies
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PPT Vision, Inc.
POLISHED COMPONENTS
General Optics
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Concoa
THIN FILMS
SAES Getters Group
FT SPECTROMETER
Newport Corp.
PULSED DYE LASER
Lambda Physik Inc.
CONNECTOR CLEAVER
Sagitta Ltd.
PULSE GENERATORS
Quantum Composers, Inc.
EPOXY ADHESIVE
Master Bond, Inc.
LED LAMPS
III-N Technology, Inc.
SCANNING SYSTEMS
Westwind Air Bearings Ltd.
DIGITAL LINE-SCAN CAMERAS
Sensors Unlimited, Inc.
WAFER PROFILING
Thermo Electron Corp.
INTERFEROMETER MIRRORS
Bristol Instruments, Inc.
SINGLE-EMITTER DIODES
nLight Corp.
LASER WELDING SYSTEM
Chuxing Optical Fiber Application Technologies Ltd.
INDEX-MATCHING MATERIALS
NuSil Technology, Inc.
MOTION CAMERAS
Redlake
OPTICAL FIBER
Nufern
BLUE-VIOLET LASER DIODE
Photonic Products Ltd.
WAFER PROCESS
austriamicrosystems AG

FastTrack (Business News)
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JDS Uniphase Purchases Lightwave Electronics
In California, JDS Uniphase Corp. of San Jose will purchase Lightwave Electronics Corp. of Mountain...
Satisloh Formed by Merger
Satis Vacuum of Baar, Switzerland, and Loh Optikmaschinen AG of Wetzlar, Germany, have merged and...
Growth Is Predicted for Nanophotonics Market
The global market for nanophotonic devices is projected to rise from $420.7 million in 2004 to more...
QImaging, Roper Scientific to Distribute CRI Filters
QImaging of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, and Roper Scientific Inc. have signed an agreement...
UK University Secures Funding
Two teams at the University of Southampton in the UK have received five-year research awards under...
Bookham Licenses Patents to Kotura
In California, Bookham Inc. of San Jose has nonexclusively licensed patents on silicon photonics to...
Bodkin Design Wins Navy Grant to Develop Camera
Based in Wellesley, Mass., Bodkin Design and Engineering LLC has received a six-month, $70,000...
Jenoptik Diode Lab to Construct Plant
Jenoptik Diode Lab GmbH of Berlin plans to construct a local facility for the production of...
Gamma Scientific Opens East Coast Office
Gamma Scientific of San Diego has opened an office in Malden, Mass., to supply technical,...
Companies Partner in Single-Photon Detection
Id Quantique SA of Geneva, Switzerland, and Becker & Hickl of Berlin have agreed to collaborate...
Toptica Photonics Relocates
Diode laser supplier Toptica Photonics AG has moved to a new 2500-sq-m building in Gräfelfing,...
Jmar Technologies Develops X-Ray Source
The San Diego-based Research Div. of Jmar Technologies Inc. has received a $3.5 million contract...
Averna Technologies Buys Vision & Robotics Group
Averna Technologies of Montreal has purchased the Vision & Robotics group of London-based...
InnovaQuartz Purchases Multimode Fiber Unit
InnovaQuartz Inc. has acquired 3M Co.'s TECS multimode optical fiber production business in West...
Berliner Glas Acquires Optical Coating Company
To add an optical coating service to its technical glass division, Berliner Glas KGaA Herbert...
JML Optical Industries Looks to Larger Plant
In New York state, JML Optical Industries Inc. of Rochester plans to relocate to expanded quarters...
Cree and Nichia Establish Patent Agreement
Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., has entered into a patent cross-license agreement with Nichia Corp. of...
Aculight Secures Contract from NASA
Aculight Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has received a $70,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research...
Bell Labs Ireland Opens
Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs, based in Murray Hill, N.J., has officially opened Bell Labs...
Dalsa Agrees to Acquire Coreco
Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding...
Northrop Grumman Lands Government Contracts
Northrop Grumman Corp., based in Los Angeles, has been awarded a $142 million follow-on contract...
InterSense to Develop Cockpit Helmet Tracking System
To develop a cockpit helmet tracking system using miniature inertial reference sensors, InterSense...

Feature Articles
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LED Metrology Keeps Pace with Application Demands
Advances in technology have made it possible for LED light sources to replace conventional lighting...
Giving Machine Vision Much-Needed Depth Perception
For cameras, the lack of depth perception presents a depth of problems. Two-dimensional machine...
Annular Bragg Resonators: Beyond the Limits of Total Internal Reflection
Circular resonators are key ingredients in the realization of many basic components for advanced...
Distortion Control Offers Optical System Design a New Degree of Freedom
To the human eye, distortions of less than a few percent typically are not visible. In precision...
The Evolution of Diamond for Optical Component Finishing
Monocrystalline diamond abrasives, both natural and synthetic, are used widely in the lapping and...
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Promises a Quicker, More Thorough Analysis of Martian Rock
One thing was clear from the surface images provided by the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Exploration...

LED Focus
Growth Technique Yields P-Type ZnO
A multi-institution research effort in Japan has resulted in the production of P-type ZnO using a...
Production-Scale Vapor-Phase Deposition Demonstrated for Organic LEDs
Organic LEDs have intrinsic characteristics that make them promising for such applications as flat...

New Media
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ANALYTICAL SCIENCES
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
PIEZO ACTUATORS
PI Ceramic
LASER PRINCIPLES
Cambridge University Press
IMAGING SYSTEMS
The Cooke Corp.
MEASUREMENT
Artech House Inc.
LIGHT SOURCE SITE
The Light Source Communicators Group
TELECOM RESOURCE
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
EYE PROTECT
LaserVision GmbH
VACUUM PRODUCTS
Pfeiffer Vacuum Inc.
PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBES
Photonis Imaging Sensors
OPTICAL SYSTEMS
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
GAS PRESSURE
Concoa
STEPPING MOTORS
Intelligent Motion Systems Inc.

Peregrinations
AERIAL ANT-ICS
Among the dwellers of the tropical forest are various species of canopy ants that live in colonies...
SHOW OF FORCE
Students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge use computer-generated...

Presstime Bulletin
Four Lasers Used for Color-Blind DNA Sequencing
Increasing the speed and accuracy of DNA sequencing and decreasing its cost are necessary for it to...
UV Radiation Controls Shape-Memory Polymers
Researchers from GKSS Research Center Geesthacht GmbH in Teltow, Germany, RWTH Aachen and...
Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy Approaches Visible Range
Reporting in the March 31 issue of Nature, scientists from the University of California, Berkeley,...

Research
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Fiber Ring Laser Generates 50 Simultaneous Wavelengths
A scientist at Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. in Vanier, Quebec, Canada, has demonstrated a...
Multiwavelength Laser Utilizes Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier
Multiwavelength lasers are important for testing wavelength division multiplexing...
Plasma Treatment Fine-Tunes Micro-Ring Resonance
Waveguide micro-ring resonators are attractive components for many integrated optical applications,...
Theorists Propose an All-Optical Transistor
Optical computers -- computers in which photons replace the electrons of today's machines -- are...
Condensates Coaxed to Exhibit Unique Interference
Thomas Young's classic setup for the demonstration of interference features light from one source...
Silver Superlens Enables Subdiffraction-Limit Imaging
Lens resolution can never be too flat or too thin. At least, that's one conclusion that can be...

Technology
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Gas Sample Cell Based on Photonic Bandgap Fiber
By splicing a single-mode fiber to each end of a gas-filled, hollow-core, photonic bandgap fiber,...
Ink-Jet Technique Produces Microvessels and Microlenses
Researchers at Max Planck Institut für Polymerforschung in Mainz and Universität Siegen, both in...
Silicon Nanowires Make Ultratiny Directional Couplers
As several laboratories around the world pursue silicon lasers, other researchers are exploring a...
Diamond Grown on Optical Fiber for Waveguiding
Scientists at the University of Melbourne in Australia report in the March 28 issue of Applied...
Thinking Beyond Stripes in Flat Panel Displays
Thomas L. Credelle, vice president of engineering at Clairvoyante Inc. in Cupertino, Calif., has...