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Tasting the Fizz of Soda Pop
Flat soda tastes different from fresh, and Kenneth S. Suslick, a chemistry professor at the...
Machine vision helps create a smart dartboard
An interdisciplinary group of students from Technical University of Munich in Germany recently put...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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ACTIVE FIBERS
Nufern
MARKING WORKSTATION
Trumpf Inc.
ANALOG AND DIGITAL MODES
Lightspeed Technologies
BEAM EXPANDER
CVI Laser LLC
LASER SCANNING CONTROLLER
Cambridge Technology Inc.
LASER BARS AND STACKS
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
REMOTE HEAD CAMERA
Toshiba America’s Imaging Systems Div.
EMISSION MICROSCOPE
IRLabs Inc.
WAFER TRANSFER
CyberOptics Semiconductor Inc.
DIODE LASER
Alfalight Inc.
ILLUMINATION DESIGN
Optical Research Associates
TELELENS
Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG
HEAT SINKS
Advanced Thermal Solutions Inc.
LINEAR SENSORS
Sarnoff Imaging Systems
MOBILE WORKSTATION
Analytical Spectral Devices Inc.
SOFTWARE INTERFACE
MVTec GmbH
OPTICAL GLASSES
AFO Research Inc.
CAMERA LINK ANNOTATOR
Ionetrics Inc.
COATING
Applied Scintillation Technologies
PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERAS
Audio Video Supply Inc.
TEST OPTICS
Melles Griot Optics Group
LINE SENSORS
Hamamatsu Corp.
INDUSTRIAL ALIGNMENT
Pinpoint Laser Systems Inc.
THIN-FILM COATINGS
Deposition Sciences Inc.
MOTION CONTROL
National Instruments
SPOT LAMP
Dymax Corp.
PROFILING SOFTWARE
Coherent Inc.
3-D MICROSCOPE
Heliotis Inc.
QUARTZ CRYSTALS
Inficon
TERAHERTZ LASER
M Squared Lasers Ltd.
OPTICAL TRAP DETECTORS
Spectrum Detector Inc.
MICROSTEPPING DRIVER
Intelligent Motion Systems Inc.
NIR SPECTROMETER
Ibsen Photonics A/S
DOUBLE-CLAD FIBERS
OFS Specialty Photonics
DEUTERIUM LAMP
Heraeus Noblelight GmbH
DIODE LASER MODULES
Jenoptik unique-mode GmbH
POWER METER
Gentec Electro-Optics Inc.
PRODUCTION PLATFORM
Veeco Instruments Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Kappa opto-electronics GmbH
LASER MARKER
Alltec GmbH
DETECTOR ARRAY
Andor Technology
DIODE LASER BAR
Dilas Diode Laser Inc.
COMPATIBLE MODULES
Liekki Corp.
HIGH-POWER LASERS
Cobolt AB
ANALYZER
Fiberpro USA
CCD IMAGER
Intevac Inc.
CURING ADHESIVE
Master Bond Inc.
FIBER LASER
Lumics GmbH
OPTICAL COMPONENTS
Edmund Optics Inc.
SPECTROSCOPY SOFTWARE
Ortec Products Group
VIDEO MICROSCOPE
LabSmith Inc.
FIBER LASER
Apollo Instruments Inc.
OPO
Aculight Corp.
UVA LED MODULES
Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH
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Princeton Instruments/Acton
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Photron Inc.
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Nanomotion Inc.
NANOPOSITIONING
Owis GmbH
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Elk Industries LLC
LASER SERIES
DPSS Lasers Inc.
VISION SYSTEM
Sirius Advanced Cybernetics (SAC) GmbH
LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Toshiba Teli America Inc.
LEDS
LedEngin Inc.
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Continuum
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Femtochrome Research Inc.
ROUTING DEVICE
PicoQuant GmbH
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Redlake
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Origin Laboratories LLC
ZOOM LENS
Navitar Inc.
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Ophir Optronics Ltd. Inc.
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Neoptix Fiber Optic Sensors Inc.

FastTrack (Business News)
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European Group Develops Plasmonics
The Centre Suisse d’Électronique et de Microtechnique SA of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, is leading the...
Lidar Elevation Mapping Requested for FEMA
A National Research Council report requested by Congress says that the Federal Emergency Management...
Companies Collaborate in Laser Production
Syntune AB of Kista, Sweden, a supplier of single-chip tunable lasers and transmitters, and...
Intevac to Supply Modules for NATO Use
Intevac Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has delivered the first pilot production quantities of its...
Newport Initiates Fiber Laser Business Group
Newport Corp. of Irvine, Calif., has established a fiber laser business group within its...
Florida Photonics Center to Establish Laser Technology Program
The Florida Photonics Center of Excellence, FPCE, was awarded $4.5 million in state funding to...
PI/Acton Expands in Canada, Asia
Princeton Instruments/Acton of Trenton, N.J., a supplier of cameras, spectrographs and optics-based...
Partnership Formed to Produce Liquid Lenses in China
Varioptic SA of Lyon, France, and Creative Sensor Inc. of Taiwan have formed a partnership to...
Cambridge Technology Moves to Larger Quarters
Cambridge Technology Inc. has relocated to a facility in Lexington, Mass., that is twice the size...
Halma Purchases Labsphere from X-Rite
Safety, health and sensor technology group Halma plc of Amersham, UK, has acquired Labsphere Inc....
Companies Develop Automotive Head-Up Displays
Microvision Inc. of Redmond, Wash., and Visteon Corp. of Van Buren Township, Mich., are...
Lancer Systems Buys Units from Greene Tweed
Lancer Systems LP has purchased the defense and fiber optics businesses of Greene Tweed & Co....
Companies to Develop Compact Projectors
SpatiaLight Inc. of Novato, Calif., SI InfoComm Inc. of Korea and Scram Technologies Inc. of Bowie,...
Agilent Acquires Product Line from GE
Agilent Technologies Inc. has acquired the chemiluminescence product line of GE Analytical...
Thorlabs Secures OFR
Optical technologies supplier Thorlabs Inc. of Newton, N.J., has acquired OFR Inc., a manufacturer...
RPI Licenses Microscope Technology to Thorlabs
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N.Y., has licensed its adaptive scanning optical...
Lighting Science, Philips Sign Distribution Pact
Lighting Science Group Corp. of Dallas, a provider of LEDs, has signed a distribution agreement...
Heptagon Establishes US Subsidiary
Heptagon Oy of Rüschlikon, Switzerland, has expanded its operation with the establishment of a US...
Oki Electric and ZyCube Agree to Market Image Sensors
Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. has signed an agreement with ZyCube Co. Ltd. to jointly...
Carlisle Enterprises Secures UVP
Carlisle Enterprises LLC, a private equity investment firm, has acquired UVP Inc. of Upland,...
Imagine Optic Opens US Office
Based in Orsay, France, Imagine Optic, a provider of Shack-Hartmann wavefront analysis and adaptive...
Companies to Partner on Precision Optics
Advanced Photonics Solutions LLC of Rocklin, Calif., has entered into a strategic alliance with...
Obzerv Technologies Wins Canadian Defense Contract
Quebec City-based Obzerv Technologies Inc. has announced a contract with Defense Research and...
FiconTec Secures Newport Business Units
FiconTec GmbH of Bremen, Germany, has acquired the automated fiber alignment and laser welding...
RSL Fiber Systems Gains Contract for Naval Project
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Pascagoula, Miss., has contracted with RSL Fiber Systems LLC to...
Micralyne to Expand
Micralyne Inc. has broken ground for a 10,000-sq-ft expansion of its facility in Edmonton, Alberta,...
JAI Names Sales Representatives
JAI Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has appointed automated imaging specialist 1stVision Inc. of Andover,...
Photo-Sonics/IMC to Distribute for NAC
Instrumentation Marketing Corp. (IMC), a subsidiary of Photo-Sonics Inc., has been selected as the...
Ametek Forms New Division
Ametek Inc. of Paoli, Pa., has formed a new division, Ultra Precision Technologies, that combines...
NEC to Merge Subsidiaries
NEC Akita Ltd. and NEC Kagoshima Ltd. will merge with their parent company, NEC LCD Technologies...
J P Sercel Moves to New Facility
J P Sercel Associates Inc., a supplier of UV laser technology, has completed its move into a larger...
Adhesives Business Relocates
Dymax Corp., a manufacturer of solvent-free adhesives and light-curing equipment, has moved its...
CAO Group Selects Distributor
CAO Group Inc. of West Jordan, Utah, has selected Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group...
EV Group and GenISys Form Partnership
EV Group of St. Florian am Inn, Austria, has formed a partnership with GenISys GmbH of Munich,...
Plextronics Awarded Phase II Contract
Plextronics Inc. of Pittsburgh has been awarded a $1.8 million Phase II contract for the continued...
Mikron to be Acquired by LumaSense
LumaSense Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., is acquiring Mikron Infrared Inc. of Oakland,...
Companies Partner in Fusion Splicing
Furukawa America Inc. of Peachtree City, Ga., and 3SAE Technologies Inc. of Franklin, Tenn., have...
Safety Vision, Flir Systems Collaborate on IR Camera
Safety Vision LP, a Houston-based supplier of mobile digital video products, has entered into an...
Aculight Increases Manufacturing Space
Aculight Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has relocated its corporate headquarters to a facility with 60...
NanoOpto and Sumitomo Form Partnership
NanoOpto Corp. of Somerset, N.J., and Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. of Tokyo have formed a...

Feature Articles
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Triangulation Sensors Go 3-D
Noncontact measurements determine the quality of a manufacturing process so that it can be...
Wavelength Monitors for Optical Sensing Applications
Many new applications of optical sensors have emerged in recent years. The automotive sector is...
Efficacy Limits for Solid-State White Light Sources
Several recently published road maps for solid-state light have called for systems with efficacies...
Digitizing a Century of Astronomical Images
From the early 1880s to the late 1980s, observers from Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge,...
High-Performance Silicone Materials for High-Brightness LEDs
High-brightness LEDs are increasingly being used in applications such as signs and displays, cell...
Eye Safety in the Laser Lab
If one played a word-association game with the term “laser safety,” the most common responses...
Trends in Vision
In factory automation, the constant need for productivity and quality improvement is generating a...
Automotive Sealing and Bonding
The use of sealants and adhesives is increasing as automotive designers try to improve fuel...

LED Focus
Dimpled Displays and Sensors
Exploiting an accidental discovery, researchers at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena...
Inexpensive P-Type Zinc Oxide Nanowires
LEDs and lasers used in solid-state lighting, display and other applications often incorporate...

Microscopy Focus
An Optical Superlens That Is Easy on the Eyes
Superlenses are super because they can image below the diffraction limit of the light passing...

Nanophotonics
Superstrong Nanoillumination Created Inside Metallic Structure
Unusually strong nanoillumination has been achieved by researchers using a three-step enhancement...
Turning Quantum Dots into Tiny ‘Lightbulbs’
For anyone seeking a really small light source, researchers at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., have good...

New Media
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CERAMIC COMPONENTS
CeramTec North America Corp.
USABLE LIGHT
Future Lighting Solutions
POWER SUPPLIES
Ultravolt Inc.
TESTING TUTORIAL
Keithley Instruments Inc.
OPTICS CATALOG
Rochester Precision Optics
FACTORY AUTOMATION
Panasonic Electric Works Corp. of America
STOCK OPTICS
Meller Optics Inc.
NANOPARTICLES
Alfa Aesar
PHOTONICS TOOLS
New Focus Inc.
WASHERS, SPACERS
Boker’s Inc.
OPTICAL COMPONENTS
Meadowlark Optics Inc.

Peregrinations
Modern Technology Follows Ancient Paths
For almost 2000 years, ancient Central American villagers followed narrow footpaths while making...
Sap Sampling Made Simple
Making maple syrup has long been a rite of early spring. The process is labor-intensive: tapping...

Presstime Bulletin
Nanomaterials Create Optical Coating That Is Almost Reflection Free
An optical coating engineered from nanomaterials has exhibited virtually no reflection, almost...
A Viable Substitute for the X-Ray Laser?
Practical x-ray lasers would provide a revolutionary advance in medical imaging and advanced...

Research
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Ultralow Threshold Reported for Raman Laser
How low can you go? In the quest for ever more efficient Raman lasers, investigators have achieved...
Mid-Infrared Pulses Generated from Eye-Safe Fiber
Mid-infrared sources are crucial in several applications, including molecular spectroscopy and...
Blue Fiber Laser Generates More Than 200 mW
Small blue lasers are difficult to come by but have many interesting applications, including laser...
Electrically Tunable Bragg Gratings in Polymer Fiber
The capability of fiber Bragg gratings to reflect only resonant wavelengths while transmitting all...
Active Feed-Forward Improves Linear Optics Quantum Computing
In one-way quantum computing, applying a feed-forward technique — in which each measurement is...

Spectroscopy Focus
Raman Scattering Improves When Substrates Are Adorned with Silver and Gold
Gold may glitter, but silver really shines when it comes to substrates for surface-enhanced Raman...
NIR Method Developed for Testing Frying Oil Quality
French fry lovers, rejoice! A quick, reliable and relatively easy method has been developed that...
Testing Wine in the Mid-Infrared
To the connoisseur’s standard methods of testing wine using taste, smell and sight, scientists are...

Technology
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Building a Room for a Bacterium
University of Texas at Austin researchers Bryan J. Kaehr and Jason B. Shear have developed a way to...
Taking Raman Spectroscopy to Other Worlds
When future rovers go to Mars or other planets, equipping them with instruments capable of deep-UV...
Two-Micron Fiber Laser Has Potential for
Military and Civilian Applications

Lasers emitting in the two-micron spectral region have important applications in medicine,...
Biodegradable Holey Fiber Enables Drug Delivery
Scientists at École Polytechnique de Montréal have demonstrated what they believe is the first...
Imager Eases Analysis of Space Weather
There’s more to bad weather than just wind and rain. When flares or coronal mass ejections occur on...
A New Approach to Narrowband Visible and Ultraviolet Sources
From green laser pointers to sophisticated surgical instruments, frequency-doubled solid-state...