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Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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PANORAMIC CAMERA
HGH Infrared Systems
SPECTROCOLORIMETER
StellarNet Inc.
IMAGING MODE
Andor Technology plc
7-kW LASER
Trumpf Inc.
ENGINEERING SERVICES
Danaher Motion
OPTICAL FLATS
Tower Optical Corp.
SILICON ETALONS
Precision Photonics Corp.
MOTION CONTROLLER
ACS Motion Control Inc.
LIGHT SOURCE
Gamma Scientific
SOFTWARE
BioTek Instruments Inc.
OPTOMETER
Gigahertz-Optik Inc.
LASER DIODE DRIVER
Wavelength Electronics Inc.
FIBER OPTIC PROBE
Ocean Optics Inc.
OPTICAL DESIGN
Radiant Imaging Inc.
HD CAMERA
Toshiba Imaging Systems Div.
RADIOMETER
Dymax Corp.
SOFTWARE
RSoft Design Group
WORKSTATIONS
Spectronics Corp.
CLEAR ADHESIVE
ITW Devcon
VOLTAGE AMPLIFIERS
UltraVolt Inc.
SPECTROMETER
Princeton Instruments
COMPACT LASER
Cobolt AB
POWER SUPPLIES
Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp.
ILLUMINATOR
Edmund Optics Inc.
DPSS LASER
Snake Creek Lasers LLC
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Point Grey Research Inc.
CHROMATOGRAPHY
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
DIGITAL READOUTS
Heidenhain Corp.
AMPLIFIER
Femto Messtechnik GmbH
ANALYZER
Anritsu Co.
PHOTODIODE-PREAMP
Opto Diode Corp.
RAMAN SPECTROGRAPH
BaySpec Inc.
FO ASSEMBLIES
CeramOptec Industries Inc.
COLD PLATE
Elite Thermal Engineering
LASER PROCESSING SYSTEM
Newport Corp.
BORESCOPES
Titan Tool Supply Inc.
DIODE LASERS
JDSU
RED LEDS
LedEngin Inc.
CAMERA
Instrument Systems GmbH
MASK ALIGNER
Suss MicroTec AG
MULTISENSOR CAMERA
VRmagic GmbH
MICROCHIP LASERS
Teem Photonics
MICROSCOPY CAMERA
Olympus Life Science Europa GmbH
LED DRIVERS
Diodes Inc.
GONIOMETERS
Aerotech Inc.
SOFTWARE
Optech Inc.
GENE EXPRESSION
Affymetrix Inc.

Editorial
Whatever it takes
Funny that it took this long for Congress to vote on extending the 30 percent federal investment...

Everything is Illuminated (Tips & Techniques)
Making a MEMS
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) can be built either through bulk micromachining or surface...

FastTrack (Business News)
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Growth spurt seen for MEMS
LYON, France – The value of the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) market is expected to reach...
Quantum dots point to a $721.1 million market
WELLESLEY, Mass. – The value of the global market for quantum dot technology is expected to reach...
Lockheed Martin acquires Aculight
BETHESDA, Md. – Global security company Lockheed Martin has acquired Aculight, a Bothell,...
Crane & Co. banks on Visual Physics
DALTON, Mass. – Crane & Co. Inc., manufacturer of the nation’s paper currency, has signed an...
Caltech awarded $20 million
PASADENA, Calif. –California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena has been awarded a $20...
Ion Source Purchased
General Plasma Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., a vacuum thin-film coating company, has acquired the ion...
Optical Fiber License Granted
In Ann Arbor, Mich., Arbor Photonics Inc. has signed an exclusive license agreement with the...
Hybrid Sensing Collaboration Formed
SensorTran Inc. of Austin, Texas, has signed a cooperative agreement with Micron Optics Inc. of...
Solar Partner Chosen
Nanogram Corp. has selected OTB Group BV of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, as one of the contributing...
Camera Companies Combine
Prosilica Inc. of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, has been purchased by Allied Vision...
Partners for Thin-Film Solar
Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. of Plymouth, Mich., a manufacturer of laser beam sources and...
Bitflow Names Canadian Distributor
Cooper Vision Technologies of Ottawa has signed an agreement with Bitflow Inc. of Woburn, Mass., a...
Optical Components Company Created
In Manchester, N.H., a company has been set up to design, produce and verify high-precision molded...
Terminal Solutions to Merge
TXP Corp. of Richardson, Texas, and Cambridge Industry Group of Shanghai, China, have signed a...
Teaching in Taiwan
Lam Research Corp. of Fremont, Calif., a supplier of semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment and...
Monkeying with Solar
Solar Monkey of Irvine, Calif., a provider of grid-tied solar power solutions, has signed a...
Face the Nation
The Ministry of Interior of the United Arab Emirates has formed a partnership with CryptoMetrics...
Certified by the FBI
Suprema Inc., a supplier of fingerprint recognition technology based in Seoul, South Korea, has...
Surveillance Companies Team Up
A technology alliance has been formed between ioimage of Herzliya, Israel, a supplier of...
DoE Supports Superconductive Wire
In Columbus, Ohio, SCI Engineered Materials Inc., a manufacturer of ceramics and metals for...

Feature Articles
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Light Armor Keeps Workers Safe from Harm
The factory floor hums with human and mechanical activity. Industrial robots weld steel, conveyors...
Optics Make Lasers Safer in the Long Run
Originally characterized as a solution in search of a problem, lasers now are the answer to a host...
The Silicon-Sapphire Breakup
Traditionally, LEDs are fabricated by growing heterostructures on either sapphire or silicon...
The Great White Organic Hope
The world is coming to the realization that solid-state lighting offers the promise of a green...
For LEDs, Maybe size Does Matter
In the lighting and display product markets, the buzz has been about LEDs, which have experienced...
Building a Rainbow with RGB LEDs
In a world that is becoming more and more green-oriented, makers of LEDs are looking at red, green...
Helping LEDs Keep Their Cool
In the general illumination market, LEDs are winning acceptance and experiencing phenomenal growth....
Every Photon Counts, So Count Every Photon
Every photon does count, not only in research but also, increasingly, in business. Single-photon...
Fatal Attraction
Since their advent in the 1980s, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), micro-size machines with...
Color Analyzers
Color analysis is a powerful detection tool. Its ability to ferret out information about the...
How they work
From the article Color AnalyzersPerhaps the most basic approach to color analysis is a commercial...
O Stars in the Firmament, Release Your Secrets
Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo Galilei kicked the development of optical telescopes into high gear....

Greenlight
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Lighting Up the Underdeveloped World
In India, sub-Saharan Africa and other underdeveloped areas of the world, interior lighting is...
An Olympian Feat in the Sky
The 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing showcased world-class athletic prowess side by side with...
Shine On, New Bulb
Based on a whole new technology, it starts with a standard glass bulb that is coated on the outside...
Thin Is In
Analysts predict that the future solar landscape will be painted with thin-film solar cells rather...
Sunny Days for Solar
All eyes are on the solar market, watching to see when supplies will meet growing demand and when...

Peregrinations
Seeing the light
Scientists have long assumed that, because C. elegans lives in the soil and spends most of its life...
No space suit needed
In September 2007, while sun worshippers on Earth were warding off sunburn, tiny water-dwelling...

Resource Guide New Media
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DISPLAY STANDARDS
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI)
PHOTONICS BASICS
SPIE
THERMOPLASTICS
Zeon Chemicals LP
MACHINE VISION
Moritex Corp.
IMAGE PROCESSING
Toshiba Teli America Inc.
SPECTROSCOPY
Jasco Inc.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Ocean Tomo Auctions LLC
CALIBRATION MATERIALS
National Institute of Standards and Technology
OPTICS CATALOG
Pembroke Instruments LLC

Slices from the Breadboard (Patent News)
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Make proofreading patents a priority
So you’ve gone through the grueling patent application process of hiring a lawyer, compiling the...
Seoul Semiconductor defends lawsuit
LED manufacturer Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea, has announced its plans to...
Portable light device patent awarded to Cyberlux
Cyberlux Corp. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., an LED lighting solutions provider, has been...
Nanocrystal patents licensed
Evident Technologies Inc. of Troy, N.Y., a semiconductor nanocrystal developer, and Philips...
Spectrum Acquisition announces patent assignment
Austin, Texas-based holding company Spectrum Acquisition Holdings Inc. has announced the assignment...
HRDT Technology patent granted
Syntec Optics of Pavilion, N.Y., an independent manufacturer of custom plastic optics, has received...
Zecotek Photonics receives Chinese patent
Zecotek Imaging Systems Singapore Pte. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Vancouver, British...
Pulse Rate, Pressure and Heart-Condition Monitoring Glasses (US 7376238)
A pair of health glasses powered by a battery and solar cell has been invented to monitor the...
Apparatus to Detect and Measure Saccade and Pupillary Changes (US 7380938)
A tracking system has been developed that employs a first-line camera to track horizontal eye...
Method and Apparatus for Using Thermal Infrared for Face Recognition (US Patent No. 7406184)
Inventors have patented an apparatus and methodology that incorporate thermal infrared imaging into...
Method for Photocuring Polymerizable Compositions with Pulsed Light (US Patent No. 7407616)
A method has been invented for curing polymerizable compositions by irradiating them with pulsed...
Group calls for biotech companies to end culture of patent protectionism
“If biotech companies enter into partnerships through which they share their knowledge with other...

Tech News
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Almost valet service
CENTURY CITY, Calif. – Finding an empty spot in a parking garage can be a pain. You drive up and...
Voters approved after a quick scan
RALEIGH, N.C. – The same technology that helps keep inventories straight in stores is now being...
It may sound corny, but …
JOHNSTON, Iowa – Out in Iowa, where the cornfields flow off into the horizon, researchers from...
Face to face: forensic artists
DUNDEE, Scotland – Beauty, they say, is skin deep. Identity can go right down to the bone.When a...
Upgrading the precision of a nanopositioner
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The common laboratory nanopositioner moves very small items easily and...
Congress fast-tracks laser weapons
WASHINGTON – As part of the $612.5 billion 2009 defense appropriations bill signed into law by...
Plutonium scare drives NIST overhaul
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – According to a Sept. 1, 2008, report by Tim Kauffman of the Federal Times, a...
Eyeballing security
HAMAMATSU, Japan – Our unconscious eye reflex movements are unique to each of us, so unique that...