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FaceTime Novel technology and powerful new algorithms have facilitated a range of advances in face recogniti...	To Step Up, Semiconductor Lithography Steps Down – Way Down For semiconductors, smaller is better. That’s why the industry may soon take a big step down....
Electron-Multiplying CCD for Lidar Applications Until recently, only photomultiplier tubes were suitable for low-light imaging. However, this techn...	Lidar Reveals Hidden Aftershock Hazard in Haiti Rescue agencies the world over have rallied together in a bid to bring relief to the thousands of p...
Cut, Mark, Drill, Repeat Increasingly, the medical devices used to support good health and provide emergency and long-term c...	Listen hard, and you’ll hear the NEXT BIG THING coming! It’s still quite young, but the 21st century has yet to produce a truly life-changing technol...

Building with optical Legos Just as generations of children have enjoyed stacking and building with plastic Lego toys, scientis...	Optical gain in plasmonic waveguides opens door to subwavelength applications Researchers at the University of Iceland, in collaboration with colleagues at Germany’s Univ...
Transistor laser breaks the law A three-port quantum well transistor laser developed by Milton Feng and Nick Holonyak Jr. at the Un...	Nanoscale gold boosts infrared detection For the past decade, state-of-the-art infrared photodetectors have been based on MCT, or mercury c...
Rationally designing plasmonic devices using imaging and simulation Researchers intent on building plasmonic sensors to a set of specifications now have a new tool to ...

Fiber optics in avionics: Upward bound The total market for fiber optics in military and commercial aircraft, estimated at $306 million in...	NSF Grant Monrovia Calif.-based Ondax Inc. has received a $500,000 Phase II award from the National Science Foundation...
Lithography System Order Pennsylvania State University of University Park has ordered Vistec Lithography Inc.’s EBPG52...	Solar Plant Holzkirchen, Germany-based Carpevigo AG, an independent project developer and operator of solar pow...
European Anniversary Precision optical components supplier Edmund Optics Inc. of Barrington, N.J., has served the Europe...	LED Backlighting LED packaging house and technology provider Everlight Electronics of Taipei, Taiwan, PC monitor man...
Microscope Installation FEI Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., has completed the installation of its Titan scanning transmission elect...	$20.9M Order In Portland, Ore., Flir Systems Inc. has announced that it has received a $35.2 million firm-fixed-...
License Agreement GE Lighting, a unit of General Electric Co.’s Appliances & Lighting business, and Los Alt...	Laser Contract Mercerville, N.J.-based Laser Energetics Inc. has awarded General Dynamics Armament and Technical P...
Integration Completed The companies of the Linos Group have changed their names. Linos GmbH, formerly Linos AG, now will ...	Language Adaptation Lumenera Corp. of Ottawa, a digital camera and custom imaging solutions manufacturer, has announced...
Guide Star Facility Toptica Photonics Inc. of Victor, N.Y., has won an approximately $6.4 million contract from the Eur...	Purchase Contract The FBI has awarded a contract to Optra Inc. of Topsfield, Mass., to supply laser event recorders t...
Cooperative Agreement Optical design software maker Optical Research Associates of Pasadena, Calif., and Rochester, N.Y.-...

Sustainable photonics: A perspective The photonics industry is involved in nearly every facet of a sustainable future. Photonics technol...

For better LEDs, two V’s could mean victory For light-emitting diodes, a brighter, more efficient and groovier future may be at hand. The resul...

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