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Photonics Enables Conservators to Get a Clearer Picture of Art
Art Institute of Chicago, Fourier transform infrared microscopy, Raman microscope equipped with an...

Laser Micromachining Keeps the Olympic Torch Burning
Prior to every Olympic Games, a handheld torch is lighted by the sun shining through a parabolic...

Lidar Spots Bomb-Sniffing Honeybees
Bees aren’t busy just for the sake of being busy. The constant foraging for pollen by honeybees...

Laser Spots Unique Codes in Materials
As identity theft becomes more common, security companies are seeking advanced tools to help guard...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)

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LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULATORS
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH

DIAMOND LENSES
Element Six BV

CCD CAMERAS
Kappa opto-electronics GmbH

FLUOROSPECTROMETER
NanoDrop Technologies, Inc.

SMART CAMERA
Vision Components

PULSED UV LED SOURCES
PicoQuant GmbH

HIGH-POWER UV LASER
General Atomics

PROBE STATIONS
Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc.

MOTORIZED OPTICS MOUNTS
Optical Surfaces Ltd.

SOFTWARE UPDATE
Las-Cad GmbH

MOTION CONTROL
Newport Corp.

LINE-SCAN CAMERAS
Dalsa

LED RINGLIGHT
Dazor Manufacturing Corp.

MID-IR FIBER
IRphotonics, Inc.

WAFER INSPECTION
KLA-Tencor Corp.

POSITIONING STAGE
New Scale Technologies, Inc.

HIGH-POWER DIODE LASERS
Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH

MACHINE VISION
MVTec Software GmbH

LIGHT SOURCE
Heraeus Nobelight GmbH

POINT SOURCE EMITTER
Clairex Technologies, Inc.

BEAM PROFILING
Photon, Inc.

Q-SWITCHED LASER
Kromascience inc.

THERMAL MEASUREMENT
Advanced Thermal Solutions (ATS)

SLIDE IMAGE ANALYSIS
Aperio Technologies, Inc.

CCD CAMERA
Adimec

LASER-SAFETY CURTAIN
Laservision GmbH

MOTION CONTROL
New Focus, Inc.

PRECISION MACHINING
Kern Micro- und Feinwerktechnik GmbH & Co.

TE-COOLED LASER
Laserex Technologies Pty Ltd.

SERVO AMPLIFIER
Aerotech, Inc.

PHOTO IC DIODE
Hamamatsu Corp.

EMCCD CAMERA
The Cooke Corp.

OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Scifeye LLC

LIGHT TESTING
Labsphere, Inc.

TWIN-ROD LASERS
GSI Lumonics, Inc.

DESIGN SOFTWARE
LightTrans GmbH

LASER TRIMMER
W.M. Hague Co.

SMART CAMERA
Matrox Imaging

WAFER INSPECTION SYSTEM
Olympus Integrated Technologies America, Inc.

FIBER OPTIC MODE PROFILING
Arden Photonics Ltd.

PULSE MEASUREMENT
Keithley Instruments, Inc.

LASER ASSEMBLY
Avo Photonics

SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE
AccuSoft Corp.

STEERABLE BORESCOPES
Sunoptic Technologies LLC

LOGIC SIGNAL CONVERTERS
Highland Technology, Inc.

PROBE SYSTEM
Suss MicroTec AG

CO2 LASERS
Universal Laser Systems, Inc.

POLARIZATION GENERATOR
General Photonics Corp.

FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY
Schott North America, Inc.

OPTICAL TABLES
Kinetic Systems, Inc.

THERMAL IMAGER
Cedip Infrared Systems

DIRECT DIODE LASERS
IPG Photonics Corp.

FTIR SYSTEM
Jasco, Inc.

FIBER CLEAVERS
Fujikura Europe Ltd.

LINEAR, ROTARY SCALES
Sony Manufacturing Systems America, Inc.

TRANSMITTERS, RECEIVERS
Versitron, Inc.

SOFTWARE UPGRADE
Photon Design

DISPLACEMENT SYSTEM
Optiphase, Inc.

ArF LIGHT SOURCE
Cymer, Inc.

THIN-FILM ADHESIVES
NuSil Technology, Inc.

VIS LASER DIODES
High Power Devices, Inc.

OPTICS DESIGN SOFTWARE
RSoft Design Group, Inc.

PASSIVE COARSE WDM
ghip systems GmbH

LASER SAFETY
Laser Institute of America

SPECTROMETER UPGRADES
Craic Technologies

MACHINE VISION
ipd

INFRARED DETECTOR
Ulis

SMART CAMERA
Imperx, Inc.

MIRROR MOUNT
J.P. Sercel Associates

PULSE GENERATOR
Agilent Technologies, Inc.

UV-CURED ADHESIVES
Devcon

DYNAMIC MOTION ANALYSIS
Renishaw, Inc.

RGB LED
LEDtronics, Inc.

MULTICHANNEL RADIOMETER
Miltec UV

AUTOMATED SORTING
General Inspection LLC

DELAY-PULSE GENERATION
Berkeley Nucleonics Corp.

LINEAR SCALE
Heidenhain Corp.

PHASE NOISE TESTING
Aeroflex Test Solutions

LIGHT ANALYZER
Gigahertz-Optik, Inc.

GLASS CUTTER
TLC International

SPECTROGRAPHS
Andor Technology Ltd.

LASER DIODE
Osram Opto Semiconductors, Inc.

SCAN HEAD
Scanlab AG

LASER MIRRORS
Precision Photonics Corp.

OPTICAL BEAM HANDLING
Owis GmbH

ADD-ON MODULE
RSI

POLARIZATION CONTROL
Phoenix Photonics Ltd.

OEM DIODE LASERS
Melles Griot Laser Group

FastTrack (Business News)

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Philips Acquires Shares in Lumileds
Royal Philips Electronics has purchased shares in Lumileds Lighting of San Jose, Calif. Through the...

Danaher Buys Leica Microsystems
Danaher Corp. of Washington has purchased Leica Microsystems AG of Wetzlar, Germany, from LM...

Analysis Finds Strong Optoelectronics Market
One of the strongest years in the past decade for the optoelectronics market was 2004, according to...

E2v technologies Purchases Company
In the UK, e2v technologies plc of Chelmsford has acquired Gresham Scientific Instruments Ltd. of...

ILX Lightwave Donates Equipment to Universities
ILX Lightwave of Bozeman, Mont., has donated one of its LTS-9110 laser diode test systems to the...

OIDA Supports Common InP Foundry Model
The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) has devised a road map for the...

Goodrich Supplies Laser Warning Systems
Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., will supply initial production quantities of laser threat...

Companies Ally for Video Capture Technology
Moritex Europe Ltd. of Cambridge, UK, has entered an OEM arrangement with Tropin Corp. of Stuart,...

Aculight Gets Defense Contract for Laser System
Under a $1.08 million contract from Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md., Aculight Corp. will deliver a...

Till Photonics Wins Award for Live-Cell Screening
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has awarded Till Photonics GmbH €2.5...

Srico to Develop Sensor System for Military Pilots
Srico Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, will develop an optical electroencephalogram sensor system to monitor...

Ametek Acquires Spectro Analytical
Ametek Inc. of Paoli, Pa., has acquired Spectro Beteiligungs GmbH, the holding company of Spectro...

Picarro and Stanford Extend Patent Agreement
In California, Picarro Inc. of Sunnyvale and Stanford University have agreed to extend an exclusive...

Eastman Kodak and TSMC Collaborate on Sensors
Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) of...

Optech Combines Two Divisions
A supplier of laser-based survey instruments, Optech Inc. of Toronto has merged its Laser Imaging...

Sagitta and FOC Launch Laser Cleaving System
Fiber optic process equipment supplier Sagitta Inc. of Hauppauge, N.Y., has formed a partnership...

Imra Obtains Patent Rights for Customers
As part of a program to provide customer support in precision materials processing applications,...

Raylase Names US Agents
A supplier of modular components and subsystems for laser beam deflection, Raylase AG of Wessling,...

GSI Changes Its Name
GSI Lumonics Inc. of Billerica, Mass., has changed its name to GSI Group Inc. and has listed a new...

Cymer and Carl Zeiss Form New Business
Cymer Inc., a supplier of deep-UV sources used in semiconductor manufacturing, and Carl Zeiss SMT...

Ushio Is New Partner in Xtreme
Ushio Inc. of Tokyo has acquired all shares in Xtreme technologies GmbH held by Lambda Physik AG of...

Michigan Aerospace Wins NOAA Contract
An engineering services and products company, Michigan Aerospace Corp. of Ann Arbor has received a...

Dalsa Supplies Cameras for Display Manufacturing
Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has received custom development contracts valued at $1.4...

Companies Collaborate on Microfluidics, Optics
Wahl optoparts GmbH, a Jenoptik subsidiary based in Triptis, Germany, and Weidmann Plastics...

ADC Secures Fiber Optic Network Solutions
ADC of Eden Prairie, Minn., has purchased Fiber Optic Network Solutions (Fons) Corp., a...

Impex HighTech Buys Princeton Scientific
Laser and optical components manufacturer Impex HighTech Inc. of Rheine, Germany, has purchased...

Edmund Optics Forms On-Site Service Team
Edmund Optics of Barrington, N.J., has created the Vision Integrated Partners (VIP) team to provide...

Alfalight Develops Laser Diodes for SHEDS
Alfalight Inc. of Madison, Wis., was awarded $1.4 million in funding for Phase II of the Super High...

Micro-Photon-Devices and PicoQuant Collaborate
Micro-Photon-Devices of Bolzano, Italy, has selected PicoQuant GmbH of Berlin as the sole European...

Kitco Awarded Training Contract
In Virginia, Kitco Fiber Optics of Virginia Beach has received a five-year contract from Northrop...

Optical Research Names Design Contest Winners
Optical Research Associates of Pasadena, Calif., has announced the winners of its annual Student...

Companies Sign Joint Venture Agreement
CI Systems of Westlake Village and Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc. of Torrance, both in California,...

MVTec Software Names Representative
MVTec Software GmbH has appointed Lambda Photometrics Ltd. of Harpenden, UK, as its distributor in...

Agilent Joins Forces with Asylum Research
In California, Agilent Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto and Asylum Research of Santa Barbara have...

Germany Reports on Its Technology
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Bonn recently published technology...

Sensors Unlimited Merges with Goodrich
Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., has agreed to acquire Sensors Unlimited Inc. of Princeton,...

NIST Launches Iris Recognition Challenge
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, based in Gaithersburg, Md., has announced the...

Feature Articles

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Automotive Night Vision Enhanced by Near-Infrared Technology
Driving becomes more difficult after sunset. Not only is visibility generally reduced, but an even...

Photonics Measures the Quality of Automotive Paint
Some people like bright colors and high gloss on their cars for the appearance of cleanliness and...

Machine Vision Checks Chicken and Confirms Cookies
John Stewart would like to make your next meal of chicken strips or nuggets cheaper and healthier....

Superluminescent LEDs Enter the Mainstream
Superluminescent LEDs, also known as high-power LEDs and “laser diodes operating below threshold,”...

Research and Development of Left-Handed Materials Continues
Researchers are considering the optical equivalent of the Zen koan about the sound of one hand...

LED Focus

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Nanoparticle White-Light Emitter Based on Up-Conversion Demonstrated
Alternative sources of white light, such as LEDs and organic LEDs, are under investigation for...

LEDs Steer Microscopic Beasts of Burden
At Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., scientists have reported that microorganisms can play...

Microscopy Focus

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Controller Speeds Atomic Force Microscopy
The speed of operation of the atomic force microscope (AFM) is being pushed in biological and other...

Solid Immersion Microscopy Images Quantum Dots
Researchers at Boston University and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in...

Electron Microscopy Images Working Nanodevices
To enable a better understanding of the behavior of electronic and mechanical systems constructed...

Nanophotonics

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InAs Quantum Dots Self-Organize on Microdisks
A self-organization process identified by scientists at Stanford University’s Solid State and...

Patterned Metal Films Focus Surface Plasmon Polaritons
A team of investigators at the University of California, Berkeley, has demonstrated that circles...

Quantum-Dot Films Display Strong Photoluminescence
A sol-gel fabrication technique developed at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science...

New Media

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CIRCUIT DESIGN
John Wiley & Sons Inc.

IMAGE ANALYSIS SITE
Media Cybernetics Inc.

3-D SIMULATION
Field Precision

SURPLUS OPTICS
Anchor Optical Surplus

IR ANALYZER
Aspectrics Inc.

FO CONNECTORS
Telcordia Technologies

PULSE GENERATORS
Berkeley Nucleonics Corp.

COATING SYSTEMS
Diamonex Products Div. of Morgan Advanced Ceramics

OPTICAL INSPECTION
GEI International Inc.

ANALYTICAL TESTING
Micromanipulator Co. Inc.

MOTION CONTROL
Animatics Corp.

CCD CAMERAS
Kappa opto-electronics GmbH

TEST, MEASUREMENT
Keithley Instruments Inc.

OPTICAL COMPONENTS
Tower Optical Corp.

Peregrinations

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Dental Detectives Dig Up Diet Data
Animals not only are what they eat, but also wear what they eat — into their tooth enamel....

Kicking Off the GMT
The laboratory in the underbelly of the University of Arizona’s football stadium was the site of an...

Presstime Bulletin

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MEMS Structures Used to Injection-Lock Miniature Laser
In the Sept. 5 issue of Applied Physics Letters, investigators at Nanyang Technological University...

Plasmon Behavior Analogous to Electron Dynamics
Scientists at Rice University in Houston, Trinity University in San Antonio and Chalmers University...

Simulation, Experiment Probe Shocked Nanocrystalline Metals
Using computer models and experiments with a high-power laser, a team of scientists at Lawrence...

Research

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Programmable Optical Filter Uses Digital Mirror Array
Investigators at Texas Tech University in Lubbock have demonstrated a programmable optical filter...

Double Duty for MEMS-Based Optical Switch
Optical switches based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are at the heart of next-generation...

Bragg Grating Reduces OPO Bandwidth by Factor of 20
Because the wavelengths required for most spectroscopic, remote sensing and biophotonics...

Brillouin Imaging Demonstrated
Scientists at Arizona State University in Tempe have developed a confocal Brillouin imaging...

Carbon Nanotubes Mode-Lock Fiber Laser
Researchers at the University of Tokyo and at Alnair Laboratories Corp. of Kawaguchi, Japan, have...

Technology

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Photonics Goes Underground in Silicon
A research group at the University of California, Los Angeles, has demonstrated the fabrication of...

Novel Technique Monitors Carbonyl Sulfide
Researchers at Universität Düsseldorf in Germany have developed a technique that they call cavity...

Toyota CRDL Demonstrates Inexpensive Bidirectional Fiber Communications
Plastic optical fibers are beginning to replace electrical wiring harnesses in many automotive...

Room-Temperature 9.5-µm Quantum Cascade Lasers Produce >100 mW
As part of the Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy program funded by the Defense Advanced Research...

Four-Wave Mixing Trumps Homogeneous Gain in Erbium Laser
Although current wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) systems require a different laser for each...

Linear Optical Amplifier Generates Multiple Wavelengths Simultaneously
The previous report describes a technique to finesse mode competition in a homogeneously broadened...

Self-Assembled Films Display Structural Color
Scientists at Keio University in Yokohama, Japan, have developed a colloidal “ink” that becomes...

Bad Tunnel Diode Enables Good Millimeter-Wave Sensor
By realizing that a bad tunnel diode could form the basis for a good sensor, researchers at Ohio...

Pinhole Camera Targets New Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
A research fellow at the University of Sydney in Australia has developed a field-widened pinhole...