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Laser Scanning Helps Shrink Digital Projector
Projectors are no longer large, clumsy boxes. They have slimmed down so much that some digital...
Atomic Force Microscopy Acquisition Rates Accelerate
Because they are mechanical devices, conventional atomic force microscopes (AFMs) can see fine...
Optical Cooling Applied to Microlever
A team of physicists at Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich, Germany, has employed a laser...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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FIBER-COUPLED LASER DIODES
Coherent, Inc.
INTEGRATED SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM
Acton Research Corp.
UV ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS
CVI Laser LLC
WIDE-DYNAMIC-RANGE CCDS
Hamamatsu Corp.
SCAN LENSES FOR 1064 nm
Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG
DIODE LASER MODULE
Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH
OPTICAL GLASSES
IMM Messtechnologie GmbH
EPOXY RESIN POLYMER
Master Bond, Inc.
LASER STACK ARRAYS
nLight Corp.
MOTION CONTROLLERS
Varedan Technologies
FIBER COUPLER
Toptica Photonics AG
ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY
Veeco Instruments, Inc.
RAMAN SPECTROMETER
Headwall Photonics
THIN-DISK LASER
Electronic Laser System (ELS)
COLOR IMAGING
Optronics
HIGH-VOLTAGE MODULE
Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp.
DIODE LASER
Point Source Ltd.
IMAGE PROCESSING
Pixel Velocity, Inc.
OPTICAL FIBERS
Fujikura Europe Ltd.
PHASE MASKS
Ibsen Photonics A/S
THROUGH-BEAM SENSOR
Balluff, Inc.
PULSED LASERS
LightTime LLC
VIDEO IMAGING SYSTEM
Photron USA, Inc.
SIMULATION SOFTWARE
RSoft Design Group, Inc.
IR ACQUISITION
Cedip Infrared Systems
SPECTROPHOTOMETERS
Biochrom Ltd.
LASER DIODE ARRAYS
Nuvonyx, Inc.
OPERATING SOFTWARE
Signal Recovery
CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE
Nikon Instruments, Inc.
IMAGE-CAPTURE SYSTEMS
Baumer Optronic GmbH
SURFACE MOUNT PACKAGE
Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc.
OPTICAL PROFILER
Tamar Technology
CCD CAMERA SYSTEMS
Photonic Science Ltd.
UV-CURE ENCAPSULANTS
Henkel Corp.
PUMP LASER
Lumics GmbH
LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Tattile srl
FLUORESCENCE UPGRADE KIT
PicoQuant GmbH
LASER SINTERING
EOS GmbH
DIODE LASER
Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH (Limo)
MEGAPIXEL CAMERA
Epix, Inc.
REFLECTANCE COATINGS
OptoPolymer
MINICAMERA
Sensors Unlimited, Inc.
EDGE FILTERS
mso jena GmbH
PCI DIGITIZER
National Instruments Corp.
OCT LIGHT SOURCE
NP Photonics, Inc.
PICOSECOND LASER
Lumera Laser GmbH
LIVE-CELL IMAGING
Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
LASER DIODE ARRAY
Osram Opto Semiconductors, Inc.
HIGH-SPEED CAMERAS
Redlake
ROTARY CLEAVER
3SAE Technologies, Inc.
FARADAY CAGES
Kinetic Systems, Inc.
LASER DIODE MODULE
Power Technology, Inc.
X-RAY FLUORESCENCE
Thermo Electron Corp.
MOUNTING ADHESIVE
Aremco Products, Inc.
HIGH-HEAT CAMERAS
Infrared Solutions, Inc.
BEAM DELIVERY
Southampton Photonics, Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Sony Electronics, Inc.
ILLUMINATION SOFTWARE
Lambda Research Corp.
NANOSENSOR
LMI Technologies (USA), Inc.
FUSION SPLICER
Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd.
MULTILINE DPSS LASER
Cobolt AB
SPECTROSCOPY CCD
Andor Technology Ltd.
HIGH-RESOLUTION LENSES
Fujinon, Inc.
FIBER OPTIC ILLUMINATOR
Axometrics, Inc.
COMPACT SPECTROMETER
Wilks Enterprise, Inc.
FRAME GRABBER
Euresys SA
MACHINE VISION CAMERAS
Industrial Vision Systems Ltd.
FOUR-WAVELENGTH OTDR
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering, Inc.
SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT
Gamma Scientific Inc.
CCD CAMERA
Point Grey Research, Inc.
LITHIUM-ION BATTERY
StellarNet, Inc.
FTIR SPECTROMETER
Thermo Electron Corp.
LASER SPOT TRACKER
Analog Modules, Inc.
SWEEP ENGINE
Optiphase, Inc.

FastTrack (Business News)
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Arizona Mirror Lab Wins Contracts
The University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory in Tucson and Carnegie...
Dalsa Corp. to Purchase Coreco Inc.
Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has entered an agreement to acquire all of the issued and...
Kodak Picks Representative for CMOS Sensors
Electronic component distributor Digi-Key Corp. of Thief River Falls, Minn., will represent Eastman...
Aixtron Garners Order for MOCVD System
Aixtron AG of Aachen, Germany, has received an order from Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles for...
PixeLink Selects Representative in China
PixeLink of Ottawa has chosen Scientific Instrument Software Co. of Beijing to distribute its...
Photop Establishes Office in Germany
Photop Technologies Inc. in Fuzhou, China, has opened a sales and marketing office in Traunstein,...
Henkel Electronics Group Sets Up R&D Center
The electronics group of Henkel Corp. has established a 53,000-sq-ft facility in Irvine, Calif., to...
Wafer Production Plant Opens
Opto Diode Corp. has opened a domestic wafer fabrication facility in Newbury Park, Calif. The...
Experior Photonics Moves to Expanded Quarters
Experior Photonics Inc. of Newbury Park, N.Y., has moved into an expanded facility that...
UK Agency Funds Active Vision Research
The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has awarded a three-year grant valued at...
New Wave Research Changes Residence
New Wave Research of Fremont, Calif., has relocated to a 65,000-sq-ft facility to accommodate its...
Optics for Hire Secures Optoelectronics Projects
Hitachi Via Mechanics (USA) Inc.'s Emerging Technology Group has selected Optics for Hire of...
NI Provides Grantsfor Education
As a result of a $5 million donation from National Instruments of Austin, Texas, engineering...
Universal to Demonstrate 'Smart Windows'
Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., has entered into a $130,000 cooperative agreement with the...
Panasonic Industrial Appoints Distributor
A division of Panasonic Corp. of North America, Panasonic Industrial Co. of Secaucus, N.J., has...
Basler AG Extends Presence in Asia
Vision technology company Basler AG of Ahrensburg, Germany, has opened a sales and service office...
DRS to Supply IR Detectors for Weapons System
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsipanny, N.J., has been awarded a $9.2 million contract under the...
US Company Chooses Agent in France, Italy
To expand its network in Europe, nLight Photonics Corp. of Vancouver, Wash., has selected Optoprim...

Feature Articles
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Machine Vision Is More Than on the Mark
Northrop Grumman Corp., like any other defense contractor, needs to track parts throughout the...
In Laser Safety, Little Mistakes Can Have Big Consequences
One cannot help but wonder why laser eye accidents have not diminished in frequency as laser...
Controlling Spontaneous Emission with Photonic Crystals
Nearly two decades ago, photonic bandgap crystals were proposed as the ultimate means for...
CAD Integration Opens Up Optical Design Possibilities
The worlds of computer-aided design (CAD), manufacturing and engineering have gradually welcomed...
Design Software Meets Needs in Bio-Optics
The fields of genomics and drug discovery would not exist as we know them without the optical...
Software Speeds Measurement and Modeling of Air-Silica Photonic Crystals
Research into photonic crystals has been in vogue for some time, but real commercial use of these...
Image Fiber Delivers Vision of the Future
For remote or semiflexible viewing systems, ultrathin image fiber delivers vision to previously...
Wavelength Conversion of Slowly Varying Signals: An Implementation of Liquid Crystal Photonic Bandgap Fibers
Photonic crystal fibers, usually made from silica, have a microstructured cross section of airholes...
Single-Photon Counters Get a Second Wind
Standard PIN and linear-mode avalanche photodiodes are the devices of choice for most...

New Media
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SENSOR TECHNOLOGY
Elsevier
DATA ACQUISITION
KineticSystems Co. LLC
FO TEST EQUIPMENT
The Light Brigade
PRECISION OPTICS
Meller Optics Inc.
OPTICAL SWITCHES
Piezosystem jena
TEST, MEASUREMENT
Agilent Technologies
TESTING EQUIPMENT
Keithley Instruments Inc.
MOTION CONTROL
Danaher Motion

Peregrinations
FAT CELLS?
Can a camera phone help keep you trim? Perhaps, if it helps to keep track of what you eat. Central...
FOOD SCIENCE
The science of food preparation takes on a whole new meaning in the hands of chef Homaro Cantu of...

Presstime Bulletin
Quantum Dot Single-Photon Detector Is Studied
Scientists at Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. and at Cambridge University, both in Cambridge, UK, have...
Chip-Scale Atomic Clock Refined
At the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., researchers have developed...
Spatial Resolution, Surface Roughness Improved in Laser Fabrication
A research group at Osaka University in Suita, Japan, reports that the spatial resolution of...

Research
Rings on a Chip Portend Tiny Laser Gyroscopes
Researchers in New Mexico have designed and fabricated a pair of semiconductor ring lasers on a...
Single-Molecule Imaging Produces Nanoscale Pictures
At the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, scientists have shown that nanostructures can be...
Interferometric Measurements Set Requirements for Adaptive Optical Microscopy
Adaptive optics has a record of success with regard to improving the performance of optical systems...

Technology
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Liquid Crystal Arrays Produce Variable-Focus Lenses
Liquid crystal arrays may be used to modulate the intensity of light transmitted through a specific...
Gigahertz Semiconductor Laser Performance Surpasses Conventional Solid-State Lasers
Stable multiwatt lasers with gigahertz pulsed outputs have potential application in...
InGaN Laser Diodes Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Despite its potential advantages over metallorganic chemical vapor deposition, molecular beam...
Nanocrystals Enable Silicon Field-Effect LED
While several research teams around the globe attempt to make silicon emit light and others try to...