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FireWire Camera Removes Bottlenecks in Astroimaging
Obtaining high-resolution photographs of planets and other interstellar objects is the quest of...
Capturing Corrosion, One Pixel at a Time
It’s not just power that corrupts: Moisture or active reagents also can do the trick, at least in...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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VISION SENSOR
Sick Inc.
PORTABLE BEAM PROFILER
Ophir-Spiricon Inc.
CMOS CAMERA WITH LIQUID LENS
IVA Corp.
FIXED-FOCAL-LENGTH LENSES
Navitar Inc.
VIBRATION CANCELLATION
Technical Manufacturing Corp.
GLASS MANUFACTURING
Schott Advanced Optics
SPECTROMETER
Infrared Systems Development Corp.
X-Y STAGE
Applied Scientific Instrumentation
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Point Grey Research Inc.
SHUTTER SYSTEM
Picard Industries
OPTICAL SWITCH
Melexis Microelectronic Integrated Systems
SCANNING MICROSCOPE
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc.
BEAM SHAPER
MolTech GmbH
LIGHT ENGINE
OptoElectronix Inc.
STAGE CONTROLLER
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
830-NM LASERS
Modulight Inc.
UV SCANNING LENSES
Special Optics
NIR/SWIR CAMERAS
Sensors Unlimited Inc.
WHITE LEDS
Avago Technologies Ltd.
GigE VISION CAMERAS
Princeton Instruments
AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES
Voxtel Inc.
EXCIMER LASER
Coherent Inc.
FUSED SILICA DIFFUSERS
Edmund Optics Inc.
LED TESTING
Orb Optronix Inc.
CMOS CAMERA
Toshiba Teli America Inc.
PROJECTION LED
Osram Opto Semiconductors
ILLUMINANCE SENSOR
Hamamatsu Corp.
VIDEO IMAGING SYSTEM
Photron Inc.
LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Dalsa Corp.

FastTrack (Business News)
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Growth Predicted for Process Spectroscopy Market
The value of the global market for process spectroscopy is projected to reach $1.2 billion in 2008,...
LCD TVs Drive Strong Panel Sales
With growing interest in large-screen flat panel televisions, the market for thin-film transistor...
DuPont, Dainipponto Collaborate
DuPont of Wilmington, Del., and Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co. Ltd. of Kyoto, Japan, will form...
Sole US Distributor Named for Nanoplus Diodes
Photonic Component Group of Little Rock, Ark., will serve as the sole US distributor of nanoplus...
DoE to Form Advisory Committee
The US Department of Energy plans to create an advisory committee for its solid-state lighting...
EV Group to Open Subsidiary in Korea
EV Group, a supplier of wafer-bonding and lithography equipment that is based in St. Florian,...
LCD Association Gains Members
In Beaverton, Ore., LCD TV Association, a global not-for-profit marketing trade group, has accepted...
StockerYale to Pursue Virtek Vision Acquisition
StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., has announced its intention to make an offer to acquire all issued...
Rapt Industries, Cranfield University Collaborate
Rapt Industries Inc. of Fremont, Calif., and Cranfield University’s Precision Engineering Centre in...
Shimadzu Partners with Thomas Scientific
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments of Kyoto, Japan, has partnered with Thomas Scientific of...
Teradyne Relocates Headquarters in Japan
Teradyne Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductor testing systems for image sensors, has announced...
Modulight, Vaisala Extend Agreement
In Finland, Modulight Inc. of Tampere, a provider of solutions for optical applications, and...
Leica Acquires Bal-Tec
Leica Microsystems Inc. of Bannockburn, Ill., has acquired Bal-Tec AG of Liechtenstein, a...
Schawlow Winner Chosen
The 2008 Arthur L. Schawlow Award will be presented to Eckhard Beyer, a professor at the University...
Premier Acquires RDS
Minneapolis-based Premier Precision Group has acquired RDS Machine Inc. of Newport, N.H., a...
Veeco Acquires Mill Lane
Veeco Instruments Inc. of Plainview, N.Y., a provider of solutions for the solar, semiconductor and...
Ametek Acquires Vision Research
Vision Research Inc. of Wayne, N.J., a manufacturer of high-speed digital imaging systems for...
Bavarian Laser Centre, INO Plan Joint Research
Bavarian Laser Centre GmbH, a photonics microsystems research center in Erlangen, Germany, has...
Northrop Grumman Chooses AOptix
AOptix Technologies Inc. has been selected by Northrop Grumman Corp. to design and build free-space...
CDGM Opens Facility
CDGM Glass Co. USA of Rochester, N.Y., the exclusive distributor of optical glass products for CDGM...
Partner Network Expands
Initiated in 2006 by Osram Opto Semiconductors, the “LED Light for You” Internet-based network...
J.P. Sercel Expands into Malaysia
J.P. Sercel Associates of Manchester, N.H., has opened a customer service and support office in...
AMS, Siskiyou Enter into Agreement
Siskiyou Inc. of Grants Pass, Ore., a producer of precision mechanical components, has selected AMS...
AiDi Expands Offices Globally
AiDi Corp., which offers passive optical network products and services suitable for harsh...
Cognex, Pleora Integrate Products
Pleora Technologies Inc. of Ottawa, a supplier of Gigabit Ethernet video connectivity products, has...
Advanced Photonix Lands Navy Contract
A custom photodiode produced by Advanced Photonix Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., a supplier of...
Glimmerglass Joins AFCS
Glimmerglass of Hayward, Calif., a provider of intelligent optical switches, has become a charter...
Ciba, CSEM Sign Collaboration Agreement
Ciba Holding AG of Basel and CSEM (Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology) of Neuchâtel,...
Photline, AdLightec Merge
In France, Photline Technologies, a supplier of optical modulation solutions based in Besançon, has...
Point Grey Relocates,Expands German Office
Point Grey Research GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Point Grey Research Inc. of Vancouver,...
Sunovia Signs Volume Purchase Agreement
Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc. of Sarasota, Fla., has signed an agreement to provide the Varon...
Companies to Develop Cooled SWIR Sensor
Nextreme Thermal Solutions Inc. of Durham, N.C., has joined forces with Princeton Lightwave Inc. of...
Fox Group Licenses Patents
The Fox Group Inc. of Montreal has signed a nonexclusive license agreement with a European company...
Foundation Names Leibinger Award Winner
Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH of Ditzingen, Germany, has selected the recipient of its Berthold...

Feature Articles
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Hot Rockets!
Without a doubt, rocket engines are hot. Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rockets fire...
Going Deep
Thanks to advanced sensor and camera technologies, scientific low-light imaging detectors now boast...
Eliminating Systematic Errors in Cylindrical Surface Measurements
Interferometric metrology is the standard process for topographic measurements in the optical shop...
High-Throughput Optical Coating
Sputtering processes for thin-film deposition are naturally energetic and generally do not require...
Increased Output and Efficiency of Fiber Lasers
Fiber lasers are, in many respects, a mature technology with commercially available systems...
Landslide Monitoring
Loose sediment, rocks and weathered material usually remain stationary and stable on a slope....
Back-Illuminated Image Sensors Come to the Forefront
Demand for higher throughput inspection systems with improved resolution is growing in the machine...
Making the Invisible Visible
Since the early part of the 20th century, streak cameras have offered the fastest way to capture an...

LED Focus
Silver Accentuates Flexible OLED Design
Improved organic LEDs (OLEDs) and photovoltaic devices are sought after by researchers and...

Nanophotonics
Particles Could Enable Tougher Encryption
As we search for ways to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, solar cells have become ever more...

New Media
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SOLAR ENERGY SITE
DEK
MACHINE VISION
Moritex Europe Ltd.
NIGHT VISION
NoblePeak Vision Corp.
LIGHTING DESIGN
Philips Lumileds
BEAM MEASUREMENT
Gentec-EO Inc.
CAMERA CORE
Flir Systems Inc.
LASER CUTTING
LIA
OPTICS RESOURCE
Anchor Optics

Peregrinations
Think Green
Just in time for the Olympics, one of the world’s largest LED displays has arrived in Beijing, and...

Spectroscopy Focus
Better Doping Detection
The Olympics and other sporting events are all about competition. Unfortunately, the desire to gain...
Silicates Get Denser When You Go Deeper
Far below the Earth’s surface, where pressure and temperature escalate ferociously at the border...

Technology
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Launching Lasers to Mars
Scheduled for launch five years from now, the ExoMars spacecraft is designed to study the Martian...
Nanopatterning with Lasers and Microspheres
Although it concerns the very small, optical nanopatterning has some very big problems. Available...
Building a Remote Refractive Index Sensor with Quantum Dots
Whispering works best if done correctly and up close. That’s one explanation for a new type of...
Flexible Connections for Flexible Solar Cells
While today’s solar cells are costly and made out of silicon, tomorrow’s may be made out of plastic...
Laser Pas de Deux Enhances Resolution in Time and Space
To completely grasp the physics underlying such phenomena as cellular function, chemicals changing...

Viewpoint
Kindling a Passion for Science
The kids I speak to are mostly in grades 3 through 8, which I feel is the most approachable group....