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Laser Engraving Makes Robust Bar Codes on Automotive Parts
Automotive manufacturers cannot afford even short delays on the production line, and each part must...
Picking Cotton — and Nothing Else
Before cotton becomes the fabric of our lives, it must be picked. The problem, however, is that...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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OPTICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY
Nanolane; Distributor: Micro Photonics Inc.
OPTICAL FIBER ASSEMBLIES
Ocean Optics Inc.
SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULES
Quintessence Photonics Corp.
ELECTRON-MULTIPLYING CCD CAMERA
Photometrics
MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE UPGRADE
National Instruments
INTERFEROMETER
3D Shape GmbH
OEM MOTORS
New Scale Technologies Inc.
PHOTOELECTRIC SENSORS
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
HIGH-POWER LEDS
Moritex Corp.
FIBER SPLICING
3M
COLD PLATE
Elite Thermal Engineering
DETECTOR/AMPLIFIER
Opto Diode Corp.
PULSE GENERATOR
Quantum Composers Inc.
THERMAL IMAGER
Land Instruments International
CONVERTER PAIR
Terahertz Technologies Inc.
CONDUCTION-COOLED LASER
Coherent Inc.
OPTICAL INSPECTION
NexTech Solutions Inc.
SOFTWARE CONSOLE
Cedip Infrared Systems
DIGITAL CAMERAS
QImaging
TERRAIN MAPPER
Optech Inc.
ISOLATORS
Electro-Optics Technology Inc.
MEGAPIXEL IMAGE SENSOR
Micron Technology Inc.
FIBER LASER WELDERS
Miyachi Unitek Corp.
PHASE MASKS
StockerYale Inc.
LED-BACKLIT LCDs
Kyocera Corp.
CONFOCAL SCANNER
VisiTech International
LED TESTER
Acorn Technology
MICROSCOPY SOFTWARE
SVision LLC
BROADBAND EMITTER
Cal Sensors Inc.
UV/VIS LIGHT SOURCE
Ushio Europe BV
CONVERTERS
Emco High Voltage Corp.
COAXIAL ILLUMINATION
Volpi USA
IR DETECTORS
Ulis SAS
MOTION TRACKING
InterSense Inc.
MOTORIZED STAGE
Prior Scientific
TELECENTRIC ILLUMINATION
Ing.-Büro Eckerl (IB/E)
COATINGS
Braggone
LINE-SCAN CAMERAS
Chromasens GmbH
COLD MIRRORS
Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI)
ORGANIC EVAPORATOR
Oxford Applied Research
DIGITAL IMAGING
Photron Inc.
LINEAR STEPPER STAGES
H2W Technologies Inc.
FIBER IDENTIFICATION
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc.
ZINC SULFIDE OPTICS
Laser Research Optics
LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Vision Components GmbH
CURING SYSTEMS
NovaCentrix Corp.
SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTER
id Quantique SA
SIGNAL CONDITIONER
Fiso Technologies Inc.
OPTICAL INSPECTION
Navitar Inc.
SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT
Opsira GmbH
DESIGN KIT
Osram Opto Semiconductors Inc.
AUTOCOLLIMATOR
Equipment Solutions Inc.
GLASS CUTTING
H2B Photonics
OPTICAL SOFTWARE
Optical Research Associates
SPECTROMETER
Avantes BV
CAMERA SENSOR
OmniVision Technologies Inc.
COLORED FILTERS
Tempotec Optics Co. Ltd.
POLARIMETER
Jasco Inc.
BEAMSPLITTERS
Edmund Optics Inc.
FIBER-COUPLED LASER
Lumics GmbH

FastTrack (Business News)
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Program Seeks to Illuminate Poorer Regions with LEDs
Almost everyone in developed regions of the world has come to take artificial light for granted. It...
Optoelectronics Industry Accelerates in New Areas
Optimistic about the future, the Washington-based Optoelectronics Industry Development Association...
Companies to Develop Silicone Lenses
NuSil Technology LLC, a Carpinteria, Calif., manufacturer of silicone-based materials for health...
Companies Form Market Alliance in North America
Global distributor Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. of Melville, N.Y., and Osram Opto Semiconductors...
Time-Bandwidth Products Sets Up US Office
Time-Bandwidth Products AG of Zurich, Switzerland, has opened an office in Westfield, Mass., to...
Foresight Imaging Names International Distributor
In Massachusetts, Techexport Inc. of Burlington has been appointed international distributor of all...
Essex Acquires Adaptive Optics
Essex Corp. of Columbia, Md., has acquired Adaptive Optics Associates Inc. of Cambridge, Mass.,...
GfE Coating Materials Secures Agent in US
Advanced Glass Industries of Rochester, N.Y., and GfE Coating Materials, an R&D unit of GfE...
Company Gets Contract for Terahertz Source
Teraphysics Corp. of Cleveland has received a $730,000 Phase II contract from the US Army Research...
Newport Acquires Picarro Business
Newport Corp. of Irvine, Calif., has acquired the Laser Products division of Picarro Inc. The...
Companies to Develop Systems to Aid Drivers
Tyzx Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif., is working with I.M.A. of Rottbach, Germany, to develop a...
Ionatron Garners Added Funding
A developer of Laser Guided Energy and related products for defense and security applications,...
Lytron Expands Facilities
Lytron Inc. has announced the opening of a factory and corporate office next to its existing...
PSI-Tec Reports High Thermal Stability
PSI-Tec Corp. has announced that test results on the thermal stability of Perkinamine electro-optic...
Synova to Open Micromachining Centers
Synova of Lausanne, Switzerland, which specializes in water-jet-guided laser technology, plans to...
Dalsa Drops Coreco Logo and Brand
Dalsa Corp., a manufacturer of digital imaging products, has eliminated the Dalsa Coreco logo and...
USAF, Boeing Fire Laser with Recycled Chemicals
A laser using recycled fuel was fired recently in New Mexico by the US Air Force and the Boeing...
Optical Society of America Confers Honors
The Optical Society of America in Washington has honored 20 individuals with its annual awards,...
Labs to Develop Nanoplasmonic Devices
The European Commission Framework Programme 6 project, Polymer-Based Nanoplasmonic Components and...
BFi Optilas Signs Two Agreements
BFi Optilas International SAS of Evry, France, will serve as the exclusive distributor in the UK...
Gould Technology Buys Power Splitter Line
Gould Technology LLC of Millersville, Md., has purchased the PLC power splitter module product line...
Microvision Allies to Make Head-Up Displays
A supplier of light scanning technologies for display and imaging products, Microvision Inc. of...
Cascade, Lucent Sign Licensing Deal
Cascade Technologies of Stirling, UK, has signed a licensing deal regarding lasers developed and...
Contract Granted for UV Laser Drilling Systems
Electro Scientific Industries Inc. of Portland, Ore., will supply multiple orders of its new model...
New Wave Awarded Phase II Grant
New Wave Research, a Freemont, Calif.-based manufacturer of lasers and laser-based systems for the...
Marubeni to Market n&k Products
Products from n&k Technology Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., will be marketed and distributed in...
Axsun Technologies Expands in Europe
A manufacturer of MEMS-based micro-optoelectronic spectrometers and optical channel monitors, Axsun...
Companies Enter Into Microbolometer Production Agreement
AMI Semiconductor of Pocatello, Idaho, a supplier of integrated mixed-signal and structured digital...
Andor Appoints Distributor in UK
Andor Technology of Belfast has selected Gilden Photonics Ltd. of Helensburgh, both in the UK, to...
LabSmith and Micronit to Standardize Microfluidic Tools
LabSmith Inc. of Livermore, Calif., and Micronit Microfluidics BV of Enschede, the Netherlands,...
Avantes Opens Chinese Subsidiary
To meet growing demand in Asian markets, Avantes BV of Eerbeek, the Netherlands, has opened a...
Cedip Awarded Second Contract
Cedip Infrared Systems of Croissy-Beaubourg, France, through its US distributor, Electrophysics,...
DRS Technologies Receives Military Orders
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received two military-related orders worth $42...
IMRA and SPI Announce Licensing Agreement
Imra America Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., a developer of ultrafast fiber lasers, has signed an...
Companies Reinforce Alliance for OLED Development
Konica Minolta Technology Center Inc. of Tokyo and Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., have...
Nikon and Brion Form Partnership
Nikon Corp. of Belmont, a supplier of lithography equipment for microelectronics manufacturing, and...
Zygo Receives Laser Contracts
Zygo Corp. has received $6.8 million in contracts to supply the optics for laser-initiated fusion...

Feature Articles
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LEDs in Exterior Vehicle Lighting
LED lighting is a complete paradigm shift in vehicle lighting. Filament bulbs have been the only...
Adaptive Headlights Aim to Ease Nighttime Driving Hazards
Despite the fact that the optical performance of novel headlight systems for motor vehicles has...
New Materials Advance Automotive Lighting
Automotive manufacturers have always used distinctive styling as a means of differentiating their...
Optimizing Automotive LED Lighting
Headlights and taillights have been on automobiles for about as long as automobiles have had rubber...
Adaptive Optical Solutions
The fundamental dilemma in forward lighting is the converse relationship between providing...
Measurement and Manipulation for Nanotechnology
Understanding the structure, function and stimulus response of individual molecules and other...
Perplexed by Polarizers?
When engineers, chemists and physicists discuss polarization, they could be talking about anything...
Shrinking Features, Shrinking Wavelengths
As semiconductor feature sizes shrink, manufacturers need a light touch — and at the right...
Noise in Imaging: The Good, the Bad and the Right
In digital imaging applications, noise is commonly assumed to be bad, a characteristic that makes...
3-D Vision Gets Real
Many classes of commercial and consumer products would benefit from the ability to visually sense...

LED Focus
Compound White OLED Proves Efficient
Researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor...

Microscopy Focus
Method Positions and Deposits ZnO Nanowires
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have employed electric fields to align single...
Imperfect Tapping, Imperfect Image
Despite the saying, sometimes you can’t believe it when you see it. Researchers at Université de...

Nanophotonics
Technique Creates Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Regions in Microfluidic Channels
Using a photoinitiated chemical process from polymer chemistry, a team of investigators in France...
Capturing Hot Fluorescent Images
Roberto Etchenique and Oscar Filevich of Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina were attempting...
Getting to the (Very Small) Point of Imaging
Sometimes ideas pan out better than expected. Such is the case with an imaging innovation from the...

New Media
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OPTICAL SUPPLIES
Rolyn Optics Co.
FLUORESCENCE FILTERS
Omega Optical Inc.
SPECTROPHOTOMETERS
Jasco Inc.
PHOTOVOLTAICS MARKET
Intertech-Pira
FTTH TERMINOLOGY
FTTH Council
PRECISION OPTICS
Meller Optics Inc.
PRECISION BORESCOPES
Gradient Lens Corp.
POWER SUPPLIES
Deltron Inc.
CCD ASTRONOMY
Cambridge University Press
INTEGRATED MEMS
Artech House Inc.
ULTRASHORT PULSES
Academic Press

Peregrinations
Weed ’em and Reap
Farmers may one day reap the benefit of a robot under development at the University of Illinois at...
Self-Propelling Picnic Pests
Many animals use a fight or flight response when confronted by a predator. Luckily for Odontomachus...

Presstime Bulletin
Cooling — with a Light Touch
To make a mirror really cold — and possibly help reveal quantum effects in the macroscopic world —...
New Rules Expected for Laser Exports
Because lasers are “dual use” items — they have both military and civilian applications — they have...

Research
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Output Beam from Fiber Laser Is Radially Polarized
A radially polarized laser beam, in which the electrical field is always along a line from the...
Bragg Gratings Enable Efficient Phosphate Glass Fiber Lasers
Although silica glass is the material of choice for nearly all of today’s fiber lasers, the...
Photonic Crystal Fiber Proposed for Telecom Dispersion Compensation
One strength of photonic crystal fiber is its flexibility to be designed with desirable optical...
Grating Restricts Fiber Laser to Four Closely Spaced Lines
Wavelength-switchable fiber lasers are required for flexible dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing...
Inclinometer Shows Versatility of Fiber Optic Sensors
There are a multitude of techniques with which to measure temperature, strain, pressure and other...
Noninvasive Time-Lapse Fluorescence Imaging Captures Colloid Transport
Colloidal suspensions consist of nanometer- to micron-size particles dispersed in liquid or gas....

Technology
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Structural and Photonic Properties of Butterfly Wings Replicated
The wings of the Morpho Peleides butterfly may not affect weather patterns across the world, but...
Lighting the World with a Smile
According to researchers in Germany, teeth may provide more than just a smile that helps gain...
Sending Secrets Securely
If you want to tell a secret, it is best to whisper. However, your secret is safer when people...
Assembly Technique Leads to Thermally
Responsive Microlens Arrays

A team of researchers from China and Japan has developed a technique to assemble thermally...
Light Alters Film’s Degree of Wetness
Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea have developed a film...
Generator Launches Selected Mode into Multimode Waveguide
Although large amounts of “dark fiber” — that is, unused fiber cables laid across cities, nations...