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More than 1000 companies from all over the world will showcase their newest products and technology during SPIE Photonics West 2008, Jan. 19-24 in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Some exhibitors will offer demonstrations of their latest products, while others will make major announcements.

SPIE Photonics West is the most important North American exhibition on optics, lasers, biomedical optics, optoelectronic components, and imaging technologies and is located in the center of the world's hottest technology market, Silicon Valley. The conference and exhibition attracts more than 17,000 attendees from 50 different countries representing all areas of the photonics industry. (See also Hot Topics, Bright Minds at PW, and Photonics.com's Photonics West Sneak Previews: Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3| Issue 4 | Issue 5)

The three-day Photonics West exhibition (Jan. 22-24) is the place for application and design engineers, system integrators, test and measurement engineers, product and process developers, corporate executives and others to see the newest trends, technology and techniques in optoelectronic components, fiber optic components and devices, lasers (solid-state, fiber, gas, diode and crystal), lenses and coatings, LEDs, photonic packaging, microscopes, communication devices and materials, nanotechnology, MEMS/MOEMS (microelectromechanical systems/micro-optoelectromechanical systems) components and applications, micromachining, microsystems and microfabrication.

The chance to see new products as they make their debut is always a Photonics West exhibition draw, as are major announcements such as new partnerships, acquisitions, or consolidations or the first appearance of a company since a major merger or acquisition. Companies from the same country sometimes exhibit together in a cluster to give visitors a chance to better realize the collaboration and investment opportunities available.

This year, UbiFrance, which develops partnerships between French companies, has arranged for 15 French organizations to participate in the trade show. The UbiFrance pavilion is at Booth 1307 in Hall 2 and Booth 6150 in the South Hall. The 15 participating companies will present their new products ranging from biomedical optics and imaging technologies to optoelectronic components, fiber optics, lasers, lenses and coatings, and nano- and microtechnologies.

France's exhibitors will include: Teem Photonics, a maker of Q-switched microlasers and ion-exchange integrated optics; Silios Technologies, a manufacturer of micro-optics, diffractive optics, miniature spectrometers and optical instrumentation; Sedi Fibres Optiques, an optical fibers, cables and components manufacturer; Savimex, a maker of optical components in thermoplastic polymer materials by injection, as well as optical thin-film coatings and optomechancial subsystem assemblies; Phasics, a maker of high-resolution wavefront sensors; iXFiber, a producer of active and passive specialty optical fibers, components based on Bragg grating technology and subassembly modules; metrology systems provider Fogale Nanotech; scientific instrumentation company Fastlite; and Impulsion, an optics competitiveness cluster in Saint-Etienne that deals with businesses microstructuring substrates by laser with ultrashort pulses of all types of materials and businesses that make femtosecond lasers, among others.

Gooch & Housego of Ilminster, England, recently announced it is consolidating its photonics and optoelectronics companies -- Gooch & Housego UK, Cleveland Crystals, Neos Technologies, Landwehr Electronic and Sifam Fiber Optics -- under the Gooch & Housego brand (See Gooch & Housego Consolidates) and will be based in England. The integrated business will make its debut at Photonics West (Booth 1013). The company said its combined product portfolio offers a broad range of optical components which act as enabling technologies for photonics-based systems in industries such as laser, automotive, aerospace, environmental sensing, imaging, energy research, scientific and medical. The company is debuting two products at Photonics West: A 16-channel, frequency-synthesized driver module used to drive its broadband acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF), and an ultrasmall, compact Q-switch driver capable of delivering up to 24 W at 24, 27.12 or 40.68 MHz.

Industrial laser diode maker Bookham of San Jose announced this week it will enter the biomedical illumination market with its ZoroLight LED multiplexing technology, which it will showcase at the BiOS (Jan. 19-20, Booth 8636) and Photonics West (Booth 1207) exhibitions. The compact LED-combining module uses Bookham filter technology and is designed for bio-analytical applications and medical instrumentation. Also during the Photonics West exhibition, Bookham will show the first range of products from its new 808-nm multimode high-power laser diode bar platform, which deliver in excess of 60 W in continuous wave (CW) operation for pumping and fiber-coupled applications. The company said the gold-tin hard-soldered laser diode bars enable higher efficiency and increased power, resulting in reduced energy consumption and thermal loads.

Photonics West 2008 exhibitors will include:

For more information about the Photonics West exhibition, visit: http://spie.org/x7766.xml



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