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At the Bottom of the Sea
As Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner noted, there is water everywhere in the ocean, but...
NIR Imaging for Deep Space
What is dark energy? How much is there? And what is it doing to the universe?A growing number of...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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DIODE LASERS
Lumics GmbH
IR CAMERAS
Electrophysics
SPECTROPHOTOMETER
NanoDrop Technologies Inc.
LED LIGHT SOURCE
Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd.
CMOS CAMERA
Media Cybernetics Inc.
BEAMSPLITTER CUBES
Precision Photonics Corp.
UV ADHESIVE
MY Polymers Ltd.
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Dalsa Corp.
HOT MIRROR FILTERS
Deposition Sciences Inc.
POWDER BLENDING ANALYSIS
getSys
EDGE-BLACKENED OPTICS
Edmund Optics Inc.
OPTICAL FIBERS
OFS Specialty Photonics Div.
UNCOOLED LASER
Opnext Inc.
INTENSIFIED CCD CAMERAS
Hamamatsu Corp.
SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT
microSpectral Sensors
1.25-Gb/s RECEIVER
A3PICs
FLUORESCENT LED
Ledtronics Inc.
X-RAY STREAK CAMERA
Sydor Instruments LLC
FO ILLUMINATOR
BEA Fiber Optics
ULTRAFAST LASER
Coherent Inc.
NANOSCALE MICROSCOPE
FEI Co.
REMOTE NIR ANALYSIS
Foss North America
LENSLET ARRAYS
Moulded Optics GmbH
CMOS CAMERA
Intevac Scientific & Commercial Imaging
COLOR MEASUREMENT
HunterLab
CALIBRATION TOOL
Alltec GmbH
DUAL-MODE FIBER
NTT Photonics Laboratories
UV CURABLE SYSTEM
Epoxies Etc.
USB CAMERAS
Imaging Development Systems GmbH
POWER LEDS
Philips Lumileds Lighting Co.
3-D TOPOGRAPHY
PhaseView
CHIRPED MIRRORS
Newport Corp.
DATA LOGGING
National Instruments
PHOTODIODE
Opto Diode Corp.
X-RAY CAMERA
Rad-icon Imaging Corp.
DESIGN SOFTWARE
Lambda Research Corp.
PORTABLE SPECTROMETER
Avantes BV
DEPOLARIZER WORKSTATION
Nyfors Teknologi AB
DIODE LASER
Lissotschenko Mikrooptik (Limo) GmbH
HOLOGRAPHIC GRATING
Wasatch Photonics Inc.
IR IMAGING SYSTEM
Cedip Infrared Systems
NANOTRANSLATORS
Aerotech Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERA
Point Grey Research
MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE
MVTec Software GmbH
TI:SAPPHIRE LASER
Del Mar Photonics Inc.
BORESCOPE
Titan Tool Supply Inc.
LIGHT SOURCE
Chroma Technology Corp.
INDUSTRIAL LENS
The Schneider Group
COMPACT-HEAD CAMERA
Redlake
DIRECT AND MASK WRITING
Vistec Electron Beam GmbH
RESEARCH SYSTEM
Illumina Inc.
DIODE LASER ASSEMBLIES
Melles Griot Laser Group
FILTER SETS
Semrock Inc.
BEAM PROFILING SOFTWARE
Photon Inc.
ANALYTICAL SEM
JEOL USA Inc.
INTERFEROMETER
Sios Messtechnik GmbH
THERMOGRAPHY CAMERA
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH
FLUORESCENCE FILTERS
JDSU
LASER SCAN SYSTEM
Scanlab AG
CHEMICAL IMAGING
Renishaw plc
CIRCUIT MATERIAL
MH&W International Corp.
TUNABLE TRANSMITTER
Syntune AB
DESIGN SOFTWARE
VPIsystems Inc.
LED DESIGN KIT
Optek Technology
IR SOURCE
Scitec Instruments Ltd.
EMCCD CAMERA
Princeton Instruments/Acton
LIGHT SOURCE
OneLight Corp.
NETWORK CAMERA
Lumenera Corp.
FUSION SPLICER
Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd.
RAMAN SYSTEM
B&W Tek Inc.
EMISSION MICROSCOPE
IRLabs Inc.
PRISM ADAPTERS
Moritex USA Inc.
LASER MARKING SYSTEM
Videojet Technologies Inc.
WAFER LOADER
McBain Instruments
MOLDABLE GLASS
IRphotonics Inc.

FastTrack (Business News)
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IEC Issues Revised Laser Safety Standard
The IEC, based in Geneva, has released the second edition of the IEC-60825-1 standard Safety of...
Rofin-Sinar Acquires Companies in US, UK
Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc., with headquarters in Plymouth, Mich., and Hamburg, Germany, has...
OFS Adds Distributor
With the opening of an office in Milan, Italy, SEDI Fibre Ottiche has joined Fort Fibre Ottiche of...
Plextronics Receives Grant
A $340,500 grant has been awarded by the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center to...
Optikos Relocates
In Massachusetts, Optikos Corp. has moved its headquarters from Cambridge to Wakefield. The...
NASA Chooses Aurora to Develop Optics
Aurora Design & Technology of Clearwater, Fla., has announced that it will design and develop...
Mouser to Distribute LedEngin Products
Mouser Electronics Inc. of Mansfield, Texas, and LedEngin Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., have signed...
IPG Photonics Expands in China
IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., has opened an office in Beijing to provide local support and...
Fox Group, Opton Laser Sign Agreement
The Fox Group Inc., based in Deer Park, N.Y., and Montreal, has selected Opton Laser International...
Townes Laser Institute Dedicated in Florida
The Townes Laser Institute was dedicated as a new laser technology Center of Excellence within the...
NASA Chooses Sensor Manufacturer
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Pasadena, Calif., has chosen Tower Semiconductor Ltd. of Migdal...
Olympus to Distribute for Hamamatsu
Olympus America Inc. of Center Valley, Pa., has signed an agreement with Hamamatsu Corp. of...
OSA Joins Research Site
The Optical Society of America in Washington has joined 12 other scientific, engineering and...
Photon Dynamics, Salvador Imaging Create New Company
Photon Dynamics Inc. of San Jose, Calif., and Salvador Imaging Inc. of Colorado Springs, Colo.,...
MVTec Appoints Distributor in India
MVTec Software GmbH of Munich, Germany, has appointed Lucid Imaging Pvt. Ltd. of Bangalore, India,...
Asylum Research Invests in German Distributor
A manufacturer of atomic force microscopes, Asylum Research of Santa Barbara, Calif., has purchased...
Photo Research Appoints Midwest Distributor
Photo Research Inc. of Chatsworth, Calif., has appointed BEA Electro Sales of Elk Grove Village,...
Satisloh Enlarges Precision Optics Unit
A supplier of technology for ophthalmic and precision optics manufacturing, Satisloh AG of Baar,...
Photon Partners with Telepro
Photon Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has announced that Telepro Inc. of Verdun, Quebec, Canada, will...
CVI Laser to Acquire Melles Griot
CVI Laser LLC of Albuquerque, N.M., has signed an agreement to acquire Melles Griot, a deal...
Manz Licenses Synova Technology
Manz Automation AG of Reutlingen, Germany, has initiated an exclusive agreement to license MicroJet...
Excellon Taps Viking
Excellon Automation of Rancho Dominguez, Calif., has appointed Viking Ltd. of Houghton Regis, UK,...
Indeco to Represent Toptica in Japan
Toptica Photonics AG of Gräfelfing, Germany, has strengthened its presence in Japan with the...
Onefive Teams with M Square
Onefive GmbH of Zurich, Switzerland, has named M Square Corp. of Tokyo as distributor of all its...
Company to Acquire Eastman Kodak Unit
Rohm and Haas Co. of Philadelphia has agreed to acquire Eastman Kodak Co.’s Light Management Film...
3S Photonics Is Launched
Avanex Corp. of Fremont, Calif., has sold its subsidiary Avanex France SA to its director, Didier...
Ionatron Receives Naval Contract for Technology
The federal government has granted Ionatron Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., a contract to continue...
Catalyst, Leadis Form LED Driver Partnership
Catalyst Semiconductor Inc. of Santa Clara and Leadis Technology Inc. of Sunnyvale, both in...
Veeco Instruments, Leica Microsystems Ally for Research
Veeco Instruments Inc. of Woodbury, N.Y., a supplier of nanoscience instrumentation, and Leica...
Infotonics Center Employs Suss MicroTec Tools
The Infotonics Technology Center of Canandaigua, N.Y., has selected Suss MicroTec America Inc.’s...
Coast Composites, CCAT to Fabricate Molds
Coast Composites of Irvine, Calif., and the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Inc. of East...
Microvision Awarded Laser Projection Contract
Microvision Inc. of Redmond, Wash., has announced that it will develop a projection-based display...
ITW Purchases Cal Sensors
Illinois Tool Works (ITW) of Glenview, Ill., has acquired Cal Sensors Inc. of Santa Rosa, Calif.,...
Companies Will Supply Compatible Devices
A group of optical chip and module manufacturers has agreed to supply compatible sources of optical...

Feature Articles
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Photonics for Art’s Sake
Art may be for art’s sake, but that doesn’t mean that paintings and other works of art can’t...
Lasers May Brighten the Solar Cell Market
It is hard to ignore the many news stories about rising oil prices, higher energy costs, severe...
Seven-Year Update Drives National Laser Safety Standard Forward
As a result of advances in laser devices and their applications both experimentally and in the...
Diverse Photonics Research Part of University's Curriculum
The Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) has been in existence since 1986...
Integrated Wavelength Control for Diode-Pumped Lasers
Diode-pumped solid-state laser systems are replacing flashlamp-pumped lasers in many applications...
Market Forecast: Positive for Machine Vision
The machine vision and imaging industry experienced strong growth in 2006, a trend that is expected...
Interlaced Goes Digital
Although industrial digital cameras for the machine vision market were introduced nearly 20 years...
Car Dashboard Tested with Robotic Vision
Safety and quality requirements of automotive dashboards are becoming increasingly complex. As a...
Gigabit Ethernet Cameras Inspect Paper and Steel
Paper and steel manufacturing pose a variety of challenges for inspection systems. Endless streams...
Internal Digital Signature Enables Data Protection
In this age of increasing security needs, data authentication is increasingly important. In the...

LED Focus
Building Better Nanotubes for Displays
Carbon nanotubes could become the basis of improved video displays if manufacturing problems are...
Analytical Method for Computing Color Patterns in LEDs
The use of solid-state lighting is expanding, with arrays of LEDs found in everything from...
Measuring LED Junction Temperature
Although LED performance has improved tremendously in the past 10 years, thermal management remains...

Microscopy Focus
Hyperlens Achieves 130-nm Resolution
Because metamaterial-based lenses can overcome the diffraction limit of light waves, they may...
Microscope Slide Enables ~70-nm Resolution
Conventional optical microscopes can resolve objects on the order of only 200 nm because they are...
Getting the ‘Hole’ Picture Up Close
Plasmons — local electron oscillations in metal films — hold great promise as the basis for sensors...

Nanophotonics
Ultrabroadband Light Source Helps Pinpoint Structure of Organic Semiconductors
Organic semiconductor materials — used to make photovoltaic cells, LEDs and similar devices — can...
A Crane for Very Small Construction Sites
It is always best to have the right tool for the job at hand. Unfortunately, researchers...

New Media
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OPTICS CATALOG
Anchor Optics
LIGHTING, ENERGY
IntertechPira
NANO MEASUREMENT
Keithley Instruments Inc.
PODCAST SERIES
Lumera Corp.
NATURE AND OPTICS
SPIE Press
WEB SITE
Owis GmbH
INTERFEROMETRY
Academic Press
LASER MARKING SITE
Alltec GmbH
PHOTOVOLTAIC MARKET
Yole Développement
TELECOM TESTING
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc.
POLARIZED LIGHT
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DESIGN SOFTWARE
RSoft Design Group Inc.
PHOTONIC MATERIALS
Springer
OPTICS WEB SITE
Armstrong Optical Ltd.

Peregrinations
Talented Tail May Have Tale to Tell
You think your dog loves you. After all, it perks up every time you enter the room, eyes wide and...

Presstime Bulletin
Ultrasound Leads to Intense Mechanoluminescence
The next time you pull off that old party trick of turning off the lights, then crunching into a...
US Supreme Court Weighs In on Two Patent Cases
The US Supreme Court recently decided two patent cases that likely will have a significant impact...
Imaging Reveals Details of Bats in Flight
Birds and bats approach flying differently. When flying at slow speeds, birds easily can separate...

Research
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Going Negative in the Visible
Negative refraction — the recently realized opposite of positive refraction — is of interest...
Compact Raman Laser Generates Eye-Safe, Nanosecond Pulses
Eye-safe lasers, whose wavelengths are not transmitted through the human cornea and thus are...
Edge-Emitting Photonic Crystal Nanolaser
Tiny resonators and waveguides based on photonic crystals provide a promising approach to...
Cavity-Dumped Laser with Pulses Adjustable from 170 to 900 ns
High-power visible lasers with a high repetition rate are essential to many materials-processing...
Fiber Polarizer for Telecom Application
Polarizers often are required for fiber optic communications, but those fabricated in fibers...

Spectroscopy Focus
A Small and Cheap Spectrometer
For spectrometers, it is better to be small and cheap than big and bulky — provided that one’s...

Technology
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Reflection of Multilayered Surfaces Measured
Beetles’ rigid forewings, called elytra, often display multilayered structures and iridescent...
Natural Fiber Optic Plates
A research team has discovered that cells in the retina of vertebrates function like fiber optic...
Short Laser Pulses Facilitate Hybrid CARS Technique
Although not a widespread disease, anthrax remains a central concern for many microbiologists...
Linking Perceived Surface Properties to Image Statistics
Scientists have discovered a great deal about how the brain perceives objects. Less clear is how it...
Ultrafast Laser Achieves Quill-like Writing
Lasers have been used for years to inscribe words and other designs. But things are starting to get...
Optical Techniques Reveal Clues about Ancient ‘Comb Jelly’ Embryos
The Meishucun assemblage of fossils in southwestern Shaanxi, China, documents the beginnings of the...