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Portable Fiber Laser Cleans Ancient Tomb
The conservation of an Egyptian tomb is a delicate, painstaking process. Dirt must be removed...
Interferometry Measures a Bubble Without Bursting It
Guy Ropars, a researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at Université de...
Digital Imaging Enables Researchers to Take a Kiln’s Temperature Without Getting Burned
Carl Duchesne, a professor of chemical engineering at Université Laval in Quebec City, and graduate...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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OPTICAL BANDPASS FILTER
Deposition Sciences Inc.
IR CAMERA MODULE
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH
UV-CURING CONTROL
International Light Technologies (ILT) Inc.
ALL-SOLID-STATE UV LASER
Coherent Inc.
FIBER-COUPLED LASER MODULES
Lumics GmbH
ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEM
NanoIdent Technologies AG
OSCILLATOR
Newport Corp. - Spectra-Physics Div.
3-D IMAGE ACQUISITION
Sick IVP AB
SERVO CONTROLLER
Precision Photonics Corp.
PROBE STATION
Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc., Desert Cryogenics Div.
LASER AMPLIFICATION
Toptica Photonics AG
MICROSCOPE CONTROL
Veeco Instruments Inc.
LINEAR MEASUREMENT
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
LENS DESIGN SOFTWARE
Lambda Research Corp.
IMAGING SYSTEM
UVP Inc.
WAVELENGTH METER
Bristol Instruments Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERA
Point Grey Research Inc.
WIDE-FIELD IMAGING
Andor Technology’s Microscopy Systems Div.
MINI SPECTROMETERS
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
NANO STAGES
Physik Instrumente LP
OPTICAL ENCODERS
Renishaw Inc.
LENS FLANGE
JAI Pulnix Inc.
IMAGE PROCESSING
Vision Components GmbH
RETRACTABLE CABLE
Telescent LLC
LASER EXPOSURE SENSOR
Optra Inc.
HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER
UltraVolt Inc.
MINIATURE CAMERA
OmniVision Technologies Inc.
NIR SPECTROMETERS
StellarNet Inc.
INSPECTION MICROSCOPES
Olympus Micro-Imaging
INFRARED CCD
Newport Corp
LED PACKAGES
TT electronics Optek Technology
SOFTWARE DRIVERS
Photonfocus AG
COLOR CONTROLLER
Avago Technologies
2-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA
Lumenera Corp.
QUARTZ GROWTH
Sawyer Technical Materials LLC
FIBER OPTIC CABLES
Timbercon Inc.
FRAME GRABBER
Matrix Vision
DESIGN, ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
Optical Research Associates (ORA)
IMAGE PROCESSORS
Olympus Life and Material Science Europa GmbH
POSITIONING SYSTEM
Luminos Industries Ltd.
METROLOGY SYSTEMS
Rudolph Technologies Inc.
VIDEO CAPTURE BOARD
Euresys sa
SILICONE MATERIALS
Dow Corning Corp.
SOFTWARE DRIVER
Quantum Composers Inc.
ROTARY STAGES
Aerotech Inc.
3-D IMAGE SYSTEM
Micro Vision Systems Inc.
STOP-ACTION CAMERAS
Dalsa
SPECTROMETER
m·u·t GmbH
SOFTWARE
Norland Products Inc.
MODE-LOCKED LASERS
NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH
SAPPHIRE TUBES, RODS
Meller Optics Inc.
INTELLIGENT CAMERA
PPT Vision Inc.
3-D LASER SCANNER
Leica Geosystems Inc.
GIGABIT ETHERNET DRIVER
Matrox Imaging
LINEAR MOTOR
New Scale Technologies Inc.
SINGLY RESONANT OPO
Linos Photonics GmbH & Co. KG
PHOTON COUNTER
id Quantique SA
DISK LASER
Trumpf Inc.
ULTRAFAST AMPLIFIERS
Newport Corp. - Spectra-Physics Div.
LED MULTIPLEXER
Bookham Inc.
UPGRADE KIT
4D Technology Corp.
ILLUMINATOR
Dolan-Jenner Industries
STAGES WITH ENCODER
Velmex Inc.
INDUSTRIAL ENDOSCOPE
Moritex USA Inc.
LENS PRODUCTION
Satisloh GmbH
CONTINUUM GENERATOR
Del Mar Photonics Inc.
INDUSTRIAL CAMERAS
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH
LENS MOUNTS
Newport Corp.

FastTrack (Business News)
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NeoPhotonics Acquires LightConnect and OpTun
In California, NeoPhotonics Corp. of San Jose, a supplier of fiber optic components and modules for...
Ametek Purchases Land Instruments
Analytical instrumentation supplier Ametek Inc. of Paoli, Pa., has acquired Land Instruments...
Companies to Collaborate on OLED Materials
Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., and Nippon Steel Chemical Co. Ltd. of Tokyo have announced...
ISP Optics Relocates, Adds Two Lathes
ISP Optics Corp. of Irvington, N.Y., has augmented its diamond-turning operation by relocating to a...
Imra Licenses Patent Rights
Imra America Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., has acquired rights to a patent held by the US Naval...
Sony, Carl Zeiss Expand Pact to Include DSLR Cameras
Carl Zeiss AG of Oberkochen, Germany, and Sony Corp. of Tokyo have expanded their collaboration in...
Edmund Expands
Edmund Optics, a manufacturer of optics, imaging and photonics components, has opened an office in...
OLED Reports Released
Displaybank Co. Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea, has issued a series of studies on organic LED (OLED)...
kSaria Granted Navy Contract
Fiber optic cable manufacturer kSaria Corp. of Lawrence, Mass., has received an $850,000 Small...
Michelson Launches Consultancy Service
Michelson Diagnostic Ltd. of Orpington, UK, has launched an instrument engineering consultancy...
Research Systems Announces Name Change
Research Systems Inc. of Boulder, Colo., will begin operating as ITT Visual Information Solutions,...
Sofradir Receives Contract
Sofradir has received a contract valued at more than €5 million to deliver 200 Mercury long-wave...
Zyberwear Garners NSF Contract
To develop a focal plane array for terahertz imaging applications, Zyberwear Inc. of Ocoee, Fla.,...
Ithaco Space Systems Expands Operations
A subsidiary of Goodrich Corp., Ithaco Space Systems Inc. is expanding its operations in Ithaca,...
Cabot Microelectronics to Purchase QED
A supplier of chemical mechanical planarization polishing slurries to the semiconductor industry,...
Pacific Silicon Appoints New England Agent
Pacific Silicon Sensor Inc. of Westlake Village, Calif., has appointed Conti-Younger Associates of...
NuSil Technology Chooses Velox as Distributor
A manufacturer of silicone-based materials for the health care, aerospace, photonics and...
OGP Relocates Western Technology Center
Optical Gaging Products (OGP) of Rochester, N.Y., is moving its Western Region Technology Center to...
Dilas Diode Laser Occupies New Plant
Dilas Diode Laser Inc. has relocated to a new facility at the University of Arizona Technology Park...
Nextrom to Supply Equipment for IRCICA
Nextrom of Vantaa, Finland, a member of the Austria-based Knill Group, has been chosen to supply...
WaveFront Sciences Moves to New Site
WaveFront Sciences Inc. has moved to a new office in Albuquerque, N.M. The company designs and...
Zygo Wins Optics Contract
Zygo Corp., headquartered in Middlefield, Conn., has received a contract for its laser fusion...
SiOptical, IME Collaborate on Silicon Photonics
The Institute of Microelectronics (IME) at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in...
Adaptif Photonics Selects Sales Representative
Adaptif Photonics GmbH of Hamburg, Germany, a company that specializes in optical polarization...
Ergolase to Distribute Corelase Products
Corelase Oy of Tampere, Finland, a manufacturer of high-power diode and fiber lasers for materials...
Laser 2000 Opens Branch in Italy
Laser 2000 GmbH of Wessling, Germany, a supplier of high-power lasers, fiber optics, sensors,...
Farfield Launches US Headquarters
Farfield Scientific Ltd., a supplier of analytical instruments for use by academic and industrial...
Exalos Relocates to Larger Headquarters
Exalos AG has moved to expanded headquarters in Schlieren, Switzerland. The new facility has twice...

Feature Articles
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Satellite Imagery Comes Down to Earth
It used to be that, to get a bird’s-eye view of your house, you had to be a bird — or somebody in...
SOLID-STATE LIGHTING: Where Are We Going, What Are We Doing?
The LED industry and its organizations seem to be approaching the problem of establishing an...
Excimer Laser Advances Enable High-Performance Flat Panel Displays
Many high-performance flat panel displays, including the latest active-matrix organic LED and...
Fizeau Interferometers Evaluated Using FlashPhase and Phase-Shift Fringe Analysis
Interferometers have been conventional tools for the optical industry and for optical engineering...
Building Semiconductor Structures in Optical Fiber
The backbone of the information superhighway comprises optical fiber. Optical fiber technology has...
Ultrasound Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
In his seminal paper1, Albert Einstein introduced the concept of stimulated emission of...

LED Focus
Oligomeric Derivatives Yield Efficient Blue OLED
In the pursuit of better blue-emitting materials for organic LEDs (OLED), scientists in China have...
Laminated OLEDs Avoid Vacuum Processing
Investigators at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, N.Y., may have found a way to make OLEDs...

Microscopy Focus
Cavity-Enhanced Evanescent Waves Trap Microparticles
Like surfers riding an ocean swell, micron-size particles respond to light and can be trapped and...
Technique Combines Atomic Force Microscopy with Near-Field Optical Imaging
As increasing attention is given to manipulating the structure and function of nanoscale materials,...
Confocal Raman Microscopy Studies Drug-Membrane Interactions
Investigating drug-membrane interactions, such as a drug’s ability to pass through a membrane or to...

Nanophotonics
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Making Gold in a Polyvinyl Alcohol Film
Fabricating gold nanoparticles in a polymer film by laser excitation is not new, but the problem...
Near-Field Technique Spectrally Maps Nanoparticles and Viruses
Apertureless near-field scanning optical microscopy produces high-resolution optical images by...
Luminescence of Sulfur-Doped ZnO Nanostructures and Powders Characterized
To better understand the potential of sulfur-doped ZnO for use in solid-state lighting...
Optical Limiting in Metal Nanowires Studied
Optical limiters transmit low-intensity but block high-intensity light, making them suitable for...

New Media
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PULSED UV LIGHT
Xenon Corp.
NANO POWDERS
Alfa Aesar
THIN FILMS
OPTICAL SUPPLIES
Edmund Optics
PROCESS CONTROL
Artech House
PHOTONICS TEXTBOOK
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
LASER PROCESSING
LaserBits
LAB TOOLS, EYEWEAR
ROVER IMAGES
Omega Optical Inc.
MACHINE VISION
FSI Technologies Inc.

Peregrinations
Arachnid Aeronautics
Spiders use silken draglines that serve as parachutes or “balloons” to help them remain airborne as...
It’s Hot and It’s Very Cool!
Imagine how nice it would be on a hot summer day to be able to automatically cool one’s environment...

Presstime Bulletin
Thanks to Fibers and Geometry — Imaging
Some researchers believe that people would benefit from more fiber — and not just in their diets....
Solution-Cast Semiconductor Outperforms Conventional Chips
In recent years, alternative methods for building electronic and optoelectronic devices have been...

Research
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Simpler Structure for Negative-Refractive-Index Media Presented
Negative-refractive-index materials bend electromagnetic waves in a direction opposite that of...
Compact Nd:YAG Laser Generates 1.25 W of Blue Light
Compact blue lasers have many potential applications, including optical displays and data storage,...
The Color Purple: It Takes Three Photons
Radiation in the violet and ultraviolet wavelength ranges is important for photolithography and...
Planar Waveguide Transmits Mid-Infrared Radiation
Because so many molecules have unique spectral signatures in the mid-infrared — generally defined...

Technology
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Synergy Improves Automated Scene Recognition
In the same way that human vision provides sensory input to our brains, effective computer vision...
Simple Wavelength Meter Has Picometer Resolution
There are many occasions in telecom, optical sensing and other applications when it is necessary to...
Color Center Laser Pumped with CW Diode Laser
Color center lasers have long provided an alternative to dye lasers as sources of tunable...
Compact Nd:YAG Laser Developed for Airborne, Space Applications
Compact, robust, efficient nanosecond sources are essential in many emerging airborne and...