Photonics Spectra

Universities Forge Agreement for Optical Sciences Courses
In a collaborative agreement between the institutions, the University of Arizona’s College of...

Melles Griot Upgrades Equipment, Revamps Catalog Sales
In Rochester, N.Y., Melles Griot Optics Group, a provider of optical components and coatings to...

Micro-Photon-Devices Selects 3 Agents
A supplier of solid-state photon-counting detector modules, Micro-Photon-Devices of Bolzano, Italy,...

Phasebridge Wins Contract from US Navy
Phasebridge Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., has received a contract from EDO Corp. to develop and...

Obzerv Sells Surveillance System to French Army
Based in Quebec City, Obzerv Technologies Inc. will supply a laser-range-gated night-vision...

Direct Global Power Creates Subsidiary
Direct Global Power Inc. of Niskayuna, N.Y., has formed a subsidiary, Prism Solar Technologies...

Universal Display Garners Contract for LEDs
Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., a developer of organic LED technology for displays,...

Feinfocus and Innov-X Systems Collaborate
Feinfocus GmbH, a business unit of Comet North America Inc. based in Garbsen, Germany, and Innov-X...

Purex Opens Office in North America
Purex International Ltd. of Rotherham, UK, has opened an office in Gurnee, Ill., to support its...

Optical Society of America Bestows Honors on 15
The Washington-based Optical Society of America has announced the recipients of 15 of its most...

IPG Photonics Sells System to US Navy
IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., will supply a 10-kW continuous-wave ytterbium fiber laser...

Continuum Photonics, Polatis Agree to Merge
Continuum Photonics Inc. of Billerica, Mass., and Polatis Ltd. of Cambridge, UK, finalized their...

Companies Collaborate for Imaging Measurement
Hinds Instruments Inc. of Hillsboro, Ore., a developer of birefringence measurement tools, and...

Roper Scientific Opens Life Sciences Division
In Germany, Roper Scientific GmbH of Ottobrunn has opened a life sciences division in Göttingen to...

Micron Technology Expands in Asia
Memory and image sensor provider Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, has enlarged its Micron...

Companies Join Forces for Eye-Tracking
Applied Science Laboratories of Bedford, Mass., and Mindware Technologies Ltd. of Gahanna, Ohio,...

DOD Renews Funding to Princeton Lightwave
Princeton Lightwave Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., has received additional funding from the US Department...

Companies Partner for Mini Technology
New Scale Technologies Inc. of Victor, and Infotonics Technology Center Inc. of Canandaigua, both...

Metrology Resource Opens in Detroit
Metrology Resource Co., vision system products, turnkey installation and support for a broad range...

JAI Pulnix Relocates to Larger Quarters
JAI Pulnix Inc., a subsidiary of JAI A·S of Copenhagen, Denmark, has moved to a new facility in San...

Ondax Wins Multiline Filter Contract
To develop and produce multiline rejection filters, Ondax Inc. of Monrovia, Calif., has received a...

Ortec Signs Agreement for Radiation Detection Technology
Based in Oak Ridge, Tenn., Ortec Products Group of Ametek Advanced Measurement Technology has...

Intopii and Cognex Cooperate for Surface Inspection
Intopii Oy of Oulu, Finland, has agreed to work with Cognex Corp. to develop analysis and...

JDSU to Acquire Agility Communications
In California, JDSU of San Jose has agreed to purchase Agility Communications Inc., a Santa...

Nozomi Photonics Appoints European Agent
Nozomi Photonics of San Jose, Calif., and Kawasaki City, Japan, has selected Photline Technologies...

Isra Vision Wins Order for Inspection Systems
Isra Vision Systems AG of Darmstadt, Germany, has received a follow-on order for optical inspection...

Sabeus Secures Aragon Technologies
In California, acoustic sensing and telecommunications subsystems supplier Sabeus Inc. of Calabasas...

Feature Articles

The Quest to Siliconize Photonics
The siliconization of electronics over the past few decades has changed the face of the world. It...

Have Silicon Lasers Come of Age?
Compound semiconductors have long been the workhorse for light generation and amplification in...

Silicon Lasers Poised for Multiple Applications
It traditionally has been considered impossible to make a laser from silicon because it is an...

Toward Your Very Own Genome
The cost of sequencing an individual’s genome today is at least $10 million, which is much too high...

The Merits of Various Types of CCDs for Spectroscopy Applications
Recent developments in CCD detectors for spectroscopy have produced a bewildering range of options,...

Bigger Is Not Always Better in Optical Coating Production
In the world of optical thin films, exciting challenges to production are rapidly emerging. Digital...

Motion Application Mistakes ... and How to Avoid Making Them
Growing concurrently with the discovery and development of nanophotonic devices, silicon lasers,...

LED Focus

Hybrid LEDs Offer Full-Color Emission
Using the down-conversion of ultraviolet radiation by polyfluorene materials, a team of scientists...

Electrochemical Display Switches Between Emissive, Reflective Modes
A display technology demonstrated at the Chinese University of Hong Kong promises to combine the...

UV LEDs Excite Biological Fluorophores
Researchers at the Institute of Materials Science and Applied Research at Vilnius University in...

Microscopy Focus

Single Molecules Tell Two Tales
A team of scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., has shown that, with the...

Fluorescence Lifetime Microscope Offers Picosecond Resolution
Scientists at Riken research institute in Wako, Japan, have developed a fluorescence lifetime...

Nanophotonics

Femtosecond Laser Used for ZnO Nanowire Synthesis
A laser-assisted nanowire growth process reported by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National...

Heat-Transfer Fluids Cut Cost of Quantum Dots
Quantum dots may be tiny, but they are hugely important for their optoelectronic properties. A...

Rapid Quantum Dot Synthesis Suggests Biomedical, Optoelectronic Uses
Scientists at State University of New York at Buffalo have developed rapid, single-pot methods for...

‘Nano3 Photonics’ Demonstrated with Single Gallium Nanoparticle
Photonic devices are coming in smaller and smaller packages, giving rise to a demand for nanoscale...

Nanoscale Belts Have Display Applications
Researchers at National Taiwan University and at Academia Sinica, both in Taipei, have come up with...

New Media

OPTICS RESOURCE
Edmund Optics Inc.

MASS SPECTROMETERS
Pfeiffer Vacuum Inc.

FILTERS, CHOKES
Schaffner EMC Inc.

COMPONENT TESTING
Agilent Technologies Inc.

Peregrinations

Fleece Doctors
Sheep fleece is often marred by thorns, seeds, burrs and other vegetative matter that must be...

Power Accessories
For many, the cell phone has become as much a fashion statement as a communication device, and...

Toad Trapper
Ultraviolet lights — similar to the “black” lights used in discotheques — may prove a fatal...

Presstime Bulletin

Micron-Scale Modulator Is Based on Silicon
In the Oct. 27 issue of Nature, scientists at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., report the...

Integrated Electro-Optic Modulators/Nanowire Lasers Demonstrated
In the Oct. 10 issue of Applied Physics Letters, scientists at Harvard University in Cambridge,...

High-Contrast Organic LED Design Targets Displays
Researchers at National Taiwan University in Taipei and at Industrial Technology Research...

Research

Superlensing Demonstrated in the Mid-IR
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and at Case Western Reserve University in...

External Resonator Sharpens Diode Array Bandwidth
Monolithic arrays of laser diodes find wide application as pumps for solid-state lasers, but their...

New Nonlinear Crystal for Infrared OPOs
A collaboration of scientists in France, Russia and Germany has demonstrated an optical parametric...

Parametric Amplifier Shows Potential for Telecom
The erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) was one of the most important enabling technologies behind...

Tungstate Laser Generates Raman Output
The family of ytterbium-doped potassium tungstate lasers has been frequently investigated in recent...

Technology

Erbium Fiber Laser Generate Supercontinuum
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have demonstrated a compact, self-contained supercontinuum...

Intracavity Raman Laser Is Continuous-Wave
Although pulsed Raman lasers have been thoroughly investigated during the past two decades, only a...

Gratings Couple Optical Fibers to Silicon Photonic Devices
Advances in silicon photonics have ignited an intense interest in optical devices based on silicon...

Low-Temp Fabrication of Piezoelectric Microactuators Demonstrated
Scientists at Pennsylvania State University in University Park have produced flextensional...

Probe Array Patterns and Images Nanoscale Features
As reported in the October issue of Nano Letters, researchers at the cat Urbana-Champaign have...