Photonics Spectra

Applicants Are Being Sought for PI NanoInnovation Grant
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP of Auburn, Mass., has announced the third annual PI NanoInnovation...

Quantum Composers Relocates
Instrumentation and laser systems manufacturer Quantum Composers has moved to a 5400-sq-ft plant in...

Irvine Sensors Acquires Optex Systems
Irvine Sensors Corp. has purchased 70 percent of the stock of Optex Systems Inc., a Richardson,...

Ground Testing Done on Airborne Laser
Led by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems in St. Louis, the Airborne Laser team completed tests...

Fairchild Semiconductor Divests LED Product Lines
Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. of South Portland, Maine, has sold its LED and LED display product...

CCD Inventors Are Honored
The inventors of the imaging microchip, otherwise known as the CCD, received the 2006 Charles Stark...

ILX Lightwave Allots Equipment to University
ILX Lightwave Corp. of Bozeman, Mont., has donated $10,000 worth of LDC 3700B series precision...

Williams Advanced Materials Secures Cerac
Williams Advanced Materials Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., has purchased Cerac Inc. The acquired company...

NAC Selects Agent in Canada
NAC Image Technology of Simi Valley, Calif., has signed a distribution agreement with Integrys...

Firecomms Expands Its Operations
Firecomms Ltd., a compound semiconductor company in Cork, Ireland, has opened regional offices in...

Ingeneric Selects Distributors
Ingeneric GmbH of Aachen, Germany, has chosen Lahat Technologies Ltd. of Tel Aviv, Israel, and...

IPS Chosen to Develop Tunable Laser System
Innovative Photonic Solutions (IPS) of Monmouth Junction, N.J., has been selected to provide an...

Lightspeed Technologies Appointed US Distributor
Elliot Scientific Ltd. of Harpenden, UK, and Photon Control of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada,...

Thermal Imager Study Is Proposed
The National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., has submitted...

Preco Opens Contract Facility in China
Preco Inc. of Lenexa, Kan., has announced the opening of a contract manufacturing facility in...

Canadian Photonics Research-Industry Program Formed
The Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations of Quebec City has launched a program designed to...

Cymer Funds Scholarships
Cymer Inc. of San Diego has awarded $175,000 to the Jacobs School of Engineering Scholars Program...

Omron Division Purchases Aduro
Omron Corp., based in Kyoto, Japan, has acquired Aduro Inc., a manufacturer of high-speed optical...

LIA Establishes Michigan Chapter
The Laser Institute of America, based in Orlando, Fla., has formed the Michigan Chapter, which...

Ophir Receives Grant to Study Turbulence Detection
Ophir Corp. of Littleton, Colo., has received a $99,000 grant from the National Science Foundation...

Dalsa Wins Camera Contracts for Display Inspection
Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has garnered contracts totaling CAD $1.3 million from...

Redlake Collaborates with Geospatial Systems
Redlake of Tucson, Ariz., and Geospatial Systems Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., have partnered for the...

LMI Augments Partnership with Edixia
A supplier of 3-D machine vision products, LMI Technologies Inc. of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, has...

Omega Optical Filters Serve on Space Mission
In January, NASA’s Stardust satellite returned to Earth with dust from the tail of comet Wild 2....

kSaria to Develop FO Cable Manufacturing Technology
Under a $2 million contract, with options, awarded by Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md.,...

Benchmark to Sell Replication Technology
Benchmark Technologies Inc. of Lynnfield and Holographix LLC of Hudson, both in Massachusetts, have...

UK University Launches Research Center
The Photon Science Institute, a £40 million facility for research on light and laser technologies,...

Emcore Takes Over K2 Optronics
Emcore Corp. of Somerset, N.J., has acquired K2 Optronics Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., in a merger...

Plextronics Wins Grant to Develop Semiconductor
Plextronics Inc. of Pittsburgh has received a $1 million award from the Pennsylvania Energy...

Elbit and Subsidiary Acquire Panoptes
In Israel, Elbit Vision Systems Ltd. of Yokneam and its subsidiary, ScanMaster Systems (IRT) Ltd....

Feature Articles

Slow Light: From Basics to Future Prospects
The speed of light in a vacuum is a quantity that defies human comprehension. A flash of light...

Vision’s New Gig
Robert Eastlund, vice president of sales at Graftek Imaging Inc. in Austin, Texas, naturally...

The Dirt on Cleaning Optics
Anyone who has worn glasses or driven a car knows the detrimental effects of dirt on the...

Silicon Photonics Poised to Invade Local Area Networks
The time for the mainstream adoption of optical links in the local area network (LAN) has...

Remote Sensing Applications in Regional Emergency Management
Optical remote sensing exploits reflected and emitted light within and beyond the range detectable...

A New Architecture for Commercial Telecommunications Networks
Over the past two decades, telecommunications operators worldwide have deployed fiber optic...

Toward Optical Packet Switching
When we surf the Internet or when some of us place a phone call — and in the near future when we...

Finding the Right Material to Resist UV-Generated Transmission Losses in LED Packaging
Dramatic improvements in the performance of LEDs have placed fresh demands on the encapsulation...

Microscopy Focus

InGaAs Cameras See Deeper into Biological Tissue
Investigators from the Wellman Center for Photomedicine and Harvard Medical School, both at...

Femtosecond Near-IR Cr:Forsterite Laser Employed in Multiphoton Microscopy
Scientists at Osaka University in Toyonaka and Suita, Japan, have developed a multiphoton...

Nanophotonics

Multicolor Nanoparticles Excited with Single Wavelength
Scientists at the University of Florida in Gainesville have demonstrated that single-wavelength...

Photoluminescence of Gold Nanorods Probed
Gold nanorods show potential as tiny light sources for labeling and sensing applications. To better...

Photoswitchable Molecular Tip Designed for AFM Chemical Identification
Chemists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have...

New Media

UV, IR OPTICS
Präzisionsoptik Gera (POG) GmbH

PRECISION FILTERS
Omega Optical Inc.

OPTICAL FILTERS
Semrock Inc.

NIR SPECTROMETERS
Polychromix Inc.

DIGITAL CAMERAS
Andor Technology

OPTICAL SENSORS
Ocean Optics Inc.

OPTICAL SUPPLIES
Edmund Optics Inc.

OPTICS, COATINGS
Gurley Precision Instruments Inc.

GLASS COMPONENTS
Swift Glass Co., Inc

SPECTRAL LIBRARY
NIST

LASER MEASUREMENT
Ophir Optronics Inc.

Peregrinations

Master Meter
Meter maids, move over. Parking meter management has a new master device that aims to save meter...

Mining Student Engineering Skills
Under a grant from MIT in Cambridge, Mass., students at the Alabama School of Mathematics and...

A Fish of a Different Color
The red porgy, Pagrus pagrus, is a valuable food fish in Mediterranean and Atlantic waters. Because...

Presstime Bulletin

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Images Classical Shipwreck
Scientists at MIT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the Greek Ministry of Culture and the...

High-Speed Video Captures Dynamics of ‘Sprites’
With implications for the understanding of atmospheric phenomena and chemistry, a team of...

Mayan Ruins Identified with Remote Sensing
Space- and aircraft-based remote sensing technologies may enable the discovery of lost ruins of...

Research

Slow Light Observed in Biological Film
The phenomenon of slow light promises to contribute to advances in all-optical switching for...

Bistability in Microring May Facilitate Optical Packet Switching
All-optical routing of digital data in fiber optic telecommunications systems will require...

Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser Sets Power Record
Researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., have passively mode-locked an InGaAsP...

Volumetric Bragg Grating Dramatically Cuts Laser Bandwidth
The inherently broad bandwidth of solid-state lasers poses a problem for many applications — for...

Fiber Laser Has Helical Core for High Single-Mode Power
As laser designers seek ever-higher powers from single-mode fiber lasers, they encounter a...

Hollow-Core Holey Fiber Is Fabricated with Polymer
Polymer fibers generally are less expensive than silica fibers and often enable applications that...

Spectroscopy Focus

IR Spectroscopic Techniques Probe Organic Field Effect Transistors
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, the University of California,...

Spectroscopy Improves Nanotube Growth
Better displays may be on the way, thanks to work on carbon nanotube growth by researchers at Kyung...

Faster-Firing Lasers Yield Faster Mass Spectrograms
Exploiting advances in laser technology, researchers at Northeastern University’s Barnett Institute...

VIS/NIR Spectroscopy Spots Adulterated Crabmeat
One way that food manufacturers may seek to boost profits is to add inferior ingredients to...

Spectroscopy Technique Studies Uranium
Developing effective hazard control and remediation programs to deal with uranium in the...

Technology

Efficient, Compact Laser Generates 40 mW of Yellow Output
As more and more applications have turned to diode-pumped solid-state lasers, one important region...

Folded Spectrometer Offers Range, Resolution and Speed
Spectrometer design usually involves compromises among acquisition time, spectral resolution and...

Large-Area Color Sensor Array Has Vertical Structure
The future of optical sensors may be looking up as researchers investigate vertically integrated...

Carbon Nanotubes Incorporated into Backlight Design
Scientists at Tatung University in Taipei, Taiwan, have produced a light panel that uses carbon...

Multiwatt VECSEL Output Is Wavelength-Tunable
Optically pumped, vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) produce multiwatt...