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Thermal Imaging Takes the Guesswork Out of Feeder Cattle Sizing
In the feeder cattle industry, sizing considerations are extremely important. Sending animals to...
Cell Phone Camera Integrates Xenon Flashlamp
For cell phone manufacturer Kyocera Corp., the solution to its camera problem came in a flash....

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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COLOR FILTER WHEELS
Bookham Inc.
100-W DIODE LASER ARRAY
nLight Corp.
PHOTON DETECTION IN THE VISIBLE
id Quantique SA
CCD CAMERA WITH HIGH-SPEED USB
Matrix Vision GmbH
LASER FUSE PROCESSING
GSI Lumonics, Inc.
TUNABLE BLAZE DIFFRACTION
Horiba Jobin Yvon Ltd.
TOF DETECTOR
Burle Electro-Optics, Inc.
CAMERA SYSTEMS
Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.
AR COATINGS
Advanced Technology Coatings Ltd.
SPOT-CURING SYSTEM
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering, Inc.
MULTIMETER
General Photonics Corp.
SCANNING MICROPROBE
JEOL USA, Inc.
PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERAS
Imperx, Inc.
MEMS MODULE
Comsol AB
VISION SENSORS
Cognex Corp.
OPTICAL MICROMETER
Keyence Corp. of America
ULTRAFAST FIBER LASERS
Imra America, Inc.
VACUUM COATING SYSTEM
BOC Edwards
PHOTOMETER PROXY
Gigahertz-Optik, Inc.
IMAGE-ACQUISITION BOARD
Coreco, Inc.
LASER LENSES
Mate Laser Technologies
SINGLE-CRYSTAL FIBERS
Fibercryst
MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE
MVTec Software GmbH
ANALYZER SYSTEM
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
COLOR LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Basler AG, Vision Components Div.
LASER PROFILING
Photon, Inc.
PHOTON-COUNTING CARD
Pacer Components plc
WHITE LIGHT MEASUREMENT
Metrology Resource Co.
NANOPOSITIONING STAGE
Prior Scientific, Inc.
VISION SYSTEM
Omron Corp.
SPECTRUM IMAGING
Optical Insights LLC
PLASMA SPECTROSCOPY
StellarNet, Inc.
INFRARED CAMERA
Flir Systems, Inc.
FIBER LASER MARKING
Precision Technology Group
ACHROMATIC WAVE PLATES
Tower Optical Corp.
BLUE LED CHIPS
Showa Denko KK
2-D ARRAY SCANNER
VisiTech International Ltd.
OPTICAL SYSTEM
Olympus America, Inc.
CMOS CAMERAS
Photonfocus AG
LASER DIODE DRIVERS
Thorlabs GmbH
DUAL SENSOR CAMERA
Sensors Unlimited, Inc.
DUAL-BEAM LASERS
PRC Laser Corp.
MICROSCOPY CAMERA
PixeLink
EPOXY
Master Bond, Inc.
VISION CONNECTIVITY
Pleora Technologies, Inc.
DATA CODE READER
Euresys SA
CCD CAMERA
JAI Pulnix, Inc.
CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE
Leica Microsystems AG
Ti:SAPPHIRE LASER
Tekhnoscan JSC
LASER DIODES
Toptica Photonics AG
LED WAFER SCRIBING
JPSA Laser
LENS METROLOGY
Zygo Corp.
HANDHELD OTDR
AFL Telecommunications
CMOS CAMERA
C-Cam Technologies
LIQUID CRYSTALS
CRG Industries LLC
RAMAN LASERS
Ahura Corp.
CAMERA DEVELOPER KIT
Intevac, Inc.
99-DIE LED ARRAY
Opto Diode Corp.
OPTOCOUPLERS
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
DIODE LASER STACKS
Coherent, Inc.
WAVE PLATES
Gooch & Housego PLC
STYLUS PROFILER
Tamar Technology
LASER MODULE
Lumics GmbH
THIN-FILM METROLOGY
KLA-Tencor Corp.
ADAPTIVE MIRROR
Kugler GmbH
TUNABLE WAVE PLATES
Alphalas GmbH
CROSS LASER
Laser Components IG, Inc.
CMOS CAMERAS
Kamera Werk Dresden GmbH
MEDIATING CONNECTOR
g2 Engineering, Inc.
SUPERLUMINESCENT LEDs
InPhenix, Inc.
REFLECTOMETER STANDARD
Taliescent Corp.
AXOSCAN MAPPING SPECTROPOLARIMETER
Axometrics Inc.
INFRARED TRANSMISSION FIBER
CorActive High-Tech Inc.
DC-170-40-YB DOUBLE-CLAD FIBER
Crystal Fibre A/S
SWISSRANGER 3-D CAMERA
CSEM SA
E 3100 OPTICAL TWEEZER SYSTEM
Elliot Scientific Ltd.
FEMTOSOURCE SCIENTIFIC XL ULTRAFAST OSCILLATOR
FemtoLasers Produktions GmbH
HOLOGRAPHIC DIFFRACTION GRATINGS
Headwall Photonics Inc.
LUMIBRIGHT LED
Innovations in Optics Inc.
YLR-600 YTTERBIUM FIBER LASER
IPG Photonics Corp.
SUPERK SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCE
Koheras A/S
STACCATO LASER
Lumera Laser GmbH
TLM-8700 TUNABLE LASER MODULE
New Focus
LUXXMASTER VBG VOLUME BRAGG GRATING
PD-LD Inc.
PI CERAMIC MONOLITHIC ACTUATORS
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
QA-1000 TERAHERTZ IMAGING SYSTEM
Picometrix Inc.
BRIGHTLINE MULTIBAND FLUORESCENCE FILTERS
Semrock Inc.
PLµ 2300 OPTICAL IMAGING PROFILER
Sensofar-Tech SL
DATALASE
Sherwood Technology Ltd.
BROADLIGHTER-890
Superlum Diodes Ltd.
GRENOUILLE MODEL 8-20
Swamp Optics LLC
IMIC MICROSCOPE
Till Photonics GmbH
FIRSTLIGHT ILLUMINATOR
UVP Inc.
Z-SNAPPER 3-D CAMERA
ViaLux GmbH

FastTrack (Business News)
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Flir to Supply Laser Designator Systems on US Navy Ships
Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., will deliver three Brite Star airborne thermal imaging laser...
L-3 Acquires Raytheon Commercial Infrared
L-3 Communications Corp. of New York has purchased the Raytheon Commercial Infrared business of...
ILX Lightwave Opens Customer Service Center in China
ILX Lightwave Corp. of Bozeman, Mont., and ETSC Technologies Co. of Wuhan, China, have agreed to...
Harvard Researchers Win PI NanoInnovation Grant
The $25,000 PI (Physik Instrumente) NanoInnovation Grant has been awarded to John S. Eid, Jérôme...
EMVA Initiates Standard for Cameras and Sensors
The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has released a...
Glass Research Center Is Funded by NSF
Lehigh University of Bethlehem, Pa., has received a five-year, $3.25 million grant from the...
Ball Aerospace to Design Laser Spot Tracker
Under a contract from the US Air Force's Warner Robins Air Logistics Center at Robins Air Force...
Jena-Optronik Secures Aerospace Contract
Space travel specialist Jena-Optronik GmbH of Jena, Germany, has received an order from Eads Space...
Scientific Imaging Degree Is Offered
An associate degree program in scientific imaging has been launched by Cuyahoga Community College...
Sensors Unlimited Garners US Air Force Contract
Sensors Unlimited Inc. of Princeton, N.J., has been awarded a $750,000 Small Business Innovation...
IPG Laser Selects Chinese Distributor
Manufacturer of industrial fiber lasers IPG Laser GmbH of Burbach, Germany, has appointed HM Laser...
Redlake and AOS Forge Marketing Agreement
Redlake of San Diego and AOS Technologies AG of Baden-Daettwil, Switzerland, have formed a...
Vertilas and Thorlabs Cooperate
Vertilas GmbH of Garching, Germany, will present its long-wavelength surface-emitting laser diodes...
Company Supplies Laser for Physics Research
Thales Laser, which has offices in Europe, Asia and the US, has received a $1.8 million contract to...
SEC Will Distribute Yamaha Die Mounter
Semiconductor Equipment Corp. (SEC) of Moorpark, Calif., will distribute the Yamaha i-Cube II...
VueMetrix Expands Production Facility
VueMetrix of Sunnyvale, Calif., has enlarged its production and test operations with the purchase...
Michigan Aerospace Wins NASA Contract
An optical products and engineering company, Michigan Aerospace Corp. of Ann Arbor, has received a...
Imra and Fianium Resolve IP Conflict
Settlement of a potential intellectual property conflict has been reached between Imra America Inc....

Feature Articles
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Semiconductor Light Sources Move from the IR to the Visible and UV
For years, semiconductor technologies have dominated applications of light sources in the infrared...
Single-Frequency Fiber Lasers
Optoelectronics and fiber optics technology experienced significant advances in the 1990s, driven...
New Spectroscopy Methods Discover the Tiniest Particles
As recently as a few decades ago, most manufacturing industries worried only about those...
New Environments Pose New Challenges for Imaging Components
The world of automated imaging has expanded substantially from its origins in scientific and...
LEDs Continue to Advance
LEDs have entered the mainstream in many applications as a result of the increases in their...
Advances in Optical Filters for the Life Sciences
Photonics technologies find application in many analytical instruments in the life sciences. In...
Digital X-Ray Detectors Continue to Thrive in Medical Industry
Digital flat panel x-ray detectors illustrate how an established technology can penetrate a new,...
NIST Symposium Reports Advances in Fiber Optic Measurements
In the even-numbered years since 1980, optoelectronics metrologists have met in Boulder, Colo., for...
Developing Standards for the Automated Imaging Industry
One of the greatest challenges to automated imaging manufacturers is to build equipment to widely...
New Opportunities for Terahertz Research
The “terahertz gap” occupies frequencies between 300 GHz and 10 THz and lies between the...
New Technology Moves LEDs into Consumer Applications
Major advancements in LED technologies are making new lighting products and effects possible. Over...
Smaller, Cheaper, Better: Photo ICs Come of Age
A current trend in the optical detector industry involves the need for photodetectors that feature...
Technology Trends for Digital Cameras
Two trends are at work as automated visual inspection systems continue their rapid progress. First,...
Military Project Aims to Improve Diode Laser Efficiency
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Super High Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) program...
Optimizing and Stabilizing Diode Laser Spectral Parameters
The stated goal of the Super High Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) program is to develop...
Addressing Inefficiency in Laser Diodes
At the time the Super High Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) program started in September 2003,...
Transverse Bragg Resonance Lasers: A New Approach to Mode Control in Semiconductor Lasers
In the pursuit of a large-area, high-power diode laser that maintains efficient single-mode...
Radically Asymmetric Wavelength-Stabilized Lasers Reduce Loss
As part of our ongoing involvement in the development of potentially industry-changing advanced...
Modeling High-Power Solid-State Lasers
Unlike other contributors to the Super High Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) program, we are not...
Improving the Power Conversion Efficiency of Diode Lasers
The heart of a diode laser is the gain medium, known as the quantum well, which is buried inside a...
Measuring High-Power Diode Laser Efficiency
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been tasked by the Defense Advanced...

New Media
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USB 2.0 CAMERA
Imaging Development Systems (IDS)
OPTICAL SYSTEMS
Navitar
QUANTUM DOTS
Evident Technologies Inc.
FORENSIC ANALYSIS
JEOL USA Inc.
LIGHT SOURCES
Newport Corp.

Peregrinations
Light Makes a Splash
The play of water has an almost universal appeal, whether in the natural grandeur of a waterfall or...
3-D Imaging System Monitors Pig Growth
Barnyard denizens, take note: “Pig Brother” is watching you. Scientists at Silsoe Research...

Presstime Bulletin
Femtosecond Laser Investigated for Lightning Control
Since the early 1970s, scientists have considered the potential of lasers to manipulate the path of...
A Snip in Time May Save Lives: Laser-Cut Nerves Regenerate
Scientists at Stanford University in California, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the...
Flexible Image Scanner Developed from Organic Transistors and Photodiodes
At the 2004 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting last month in San Francisco, scientists...

Research
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Crystal Exposes Heart of Intense X-Ray Source
The Z machine at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., is the world's most powerful...
New Variable Optical Attenuator Offers Inexpensive, Reliable Solution
Variable optical attenuators are important components in wavelength division multiplexed telecom...
Gratings and Fresnel Lenses Produced with Sol-Gel Materials
Optical communication devices typically need components that are not just physically small, but...
Controlled Switching of GFP Suggests Applications in Optical Data Storage
Researchers have devoted a great deal of effort to probing the photophysical and photochemical...
Nd:GdVO4 Raman Laser Generates More than 1 W in Eye-Safe Region
Eye-safe lasers, whose output is absorbed in the cornea rather than focused onto the retina, are...
Transistor Displays Laser Operation
By incorporating quantum wells into the active region of a light-emitting transistor, scientists at...

Technology
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Singularity Theory Yields Elegant Description of Polarized Sunlight
Scientists have long been intrigued by the polarization of light in the daytime sky. In 1863, Sir...
Photonic Crystal Laser Generates Ultraviolet Output
Photonic crystal lasers have potential as small and versatile sources in numerous applications....
Students Build a Rover for Remote Mine Exploration
Because exploring mines can be dangerous, two students at the University of Arizona in Tucson...
New Pump-Probe Technique Improves Imaging Spectroscopy
Pump-probe spectroscopy offers details about photochemical or photophysical reactions in a narrow...
Waveguide Has Been Developed for Terahertz Waves
Terahertz waves, or T-rays, fall between microwave and infrared radiation on the electromagnetic...
With Polarization Studies, Astronomers Creep Closer to Black Holes
By measuring the polarization of radiation from distant objects to an accuracy of better than 1/20...
Femtosecond Laser Selects Nanoparticle Size
Scientists with Italy's National Institute for the Physics of Matter have found that, when it comes...