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US Commitment Lags in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences
The US government must deepen its commitment to research in atomic, molecular and optical sciences...

Laser Use Grows in Japan
The demand for CO2, YAG, THG YAG, and fiber and disk lasers is accelerating in Japan, according to...

Photonics Industry Workshop Invites Participation
Presentations are invited for the workshop “Profitable Component Manufacturing in Europe,” which is...

Frankfurt Laser Appoints Agent in Japan
Frankfurt Laser Co. has appointed T.E.M. Inc. of Tokyo as its distribution partner for its...

Asylum Research Forms Company in UK
Asylum Research Corp., a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based supplier of atomic force microscopes and...

RPMC to Represent Arctic Photonics
Arctic Photonics of Espoo, Finland, has selected RPMC Lasers Inc. of O’Fallon, Mo., to represent...

Tessera Secures Digital Optics
A supplier of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry, Tessera Technologies Inc....

Powerlase Supplies DPSS Lasers
Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea, has purchased volume orders of the Starlase series AO6...

Breault to Fabricate Airborne Detector
Under a contract from Synodon Inc. of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Breault Research Organization Inc....

Hyphenated Systems, Purdue Microfluidics Collaborate
Hyphenated Systems LLC, a provider of hybrid microscopy products for 3-D imaging and metrology in...

Universal Display Awarded Grants from the US Department of Energy
Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., has been awarded two Phase I Small Business Innovative...

Qioptic Group to Acquire Linos AG
The Qioptic Group, a supplier of optical components and modules for military and commercial...

UK Company Acquires Atmel Grenoble
A supplier of electronic tube and sensor components and subsystems, e2v technologies plc of...

Electrophysics Granted Contract by NAVAIR Weapons Division
The Naval Air Warfare Center (NAVAIR) weapons division of China Lake, Calif., has purchased seven...

Unaxis Optics Signs Agreement with 3M Precision Optics
Unaxis Optics of Balzers, Liechtenstein, has signed a nonexclusive technology license agreement...

Feature Articles

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Advances in LED Automotive Forward-Lighting Providing Catalysts for Change
Given the styling flexibility, unique brand-image possibilities and the increased performance...

UV-Shifted Silicon Devices for Imaging and Detection
Ultraviolet and vacuum UV detection and imaging sensors are required for scientific instrumentation...

Remote Laser Welding in Industrial Applications
The market for industrial laser systems is very mature and has been growing steadily for almost 30...

Improving Optical Free-Form Production
Production of free-form optics is one of the most challenging areas in the precision optics...

Visionary Hookups
The good thing about standards, it has been said, is that there are so many to choose from. That is...

Robust Light Propagated in Ultralarge-Mode-Area Fibers
In the past few years, ytterbium-doped fiber lasers have achieved diffraction-limited outputs at...

LED Focus

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Bright LEDs Made on Side Facets of GaN Stripes
LEDs are fabricated by growing epitaxial layers along the direction of the crystal polar axis....

Circular Bragg Grating Boosts LED Output
A team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., has...

Microscopy Focus

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Lensless X-ray Microscopy Images Nanocrystals
Scientists at the University of Illinois in Urbana have used coherent hard x-rays to produce 3-D...

Images Reveal Shape, Orientation of Nanoparticles
Using a variant of confocal microscopy that illuminates samples with higher-order laser modes,...

Nanophotonics

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Plasma Deposition Yields Thin Films of Optically Active Dyes
Scientists in Europe have reported the development of a single-step, room-temperature...

Suspended Nanotubes Imaged by Photoluminescence
The luminescent response of optically pumped single-walled carbon nanotubes may be used to create...

Enabling Subcellular pH Sensing
A team of scientists at Rice University in Houston has reported that gold nanoshells — structures...

New Media

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ARRAY SPECTROMETER
Instrument Systems GmbH

MALDI RECIPES
National Institute of Standards and Technology

ASTRONOMY FILTERS
Omega Optical Inc.

DIGITAL CAMERA SITE
Andor Technology plc

PLATE READER
Wyatt Technology Corp.

LEAK DETECTION
Vacuum Instrument Corp.

SPATIAL FILTERS
Melles Griot

ENDOSCOPES
Moritex Corp.

LASER RELIABILITY
ILX Lightwave Corp.

LASER IMAGING
DataLase

OPTICAL BEAM SITE
Owis GmbH

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES
Academic Press

Peregrinations

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Lasers Serve the Muse
Paula Dawson, a pioneer and reknowned exponent of using holographic images as a fine art form, has...

Presstime Bulletin

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Formulating Lenses that Focus on Their Own
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised some smart microlenses that change...

Research

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Sorting Atoms for Quantum Computing
Strings of laser-trapped atoms can be useful for storing and processing quantum information....

VECSEL Generates Watt-Level Blue-Green Output
Compact and efficient blue-green lasers have numerous potential uses, including in displays, data...

Mirrors play key role in terahertz communications
The potential of terahertz technology in communications applications is contingent upon the...

Combination Filter Isolates Telecom Channels
Researchers at the University of Central Florida and at OptiGrate, both in Orlando, have...

Tiny Silicon Chip Provides Broadband Gain at Telecom Wavelengths
Although gain at telecom wavelengths has been demonstrated in silicon-on-insulator photonic...

Wedged Etalon Simplifies Wavelength Tuning of Miniature Laser
Solid-state microchip lasers, in which all the resonator elements — gain medium, resonator mirrors...

Spectroscopy Focus

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Making Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Flexible
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy helps to shed light on the behavior of molecules in aqueous...

Technology

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Fluorescence correlation helps resolve mystery over asphaltene
From the well to the refinery, the flow of crude oil is impeded by asphaltene, a heavy, aromatic...

Reduced Symmetry Enhances Nanoparticles
Plasmon resonance, a governing factor in optical properties of metallic nanoparticles, relies...

Paint-on Photodetectors Are Devised
Because of their use in digital cameras and in night-vision and security systems — all growing...

Raman Amplifier in Silicon Generates Electrical Power
In the quest to integrate photonics and electronics in monolithic devices, several laboratories...

IR Imaging Studies Solid-Phase Monolayers on Water Surfaces
To promote a better understanding of the environmental effects of pollutants, researchers at...

A Groovy Optical Switch — with Plasmons
A team from the Grenoble-based Laboratoire d’Études des Propriétés Electroniques des Solides, part...