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Measuring and Improving Mixing Times with Image Analysis
Industrial engineers and others often characterize the performance of agitating impellers using...
Optical Techniques Gauge Champagne Bubble Stability
The hallmark of a good glass of champagne is a stable ring of bubbles — called a collar — at the...
Studying Engines in Action
Although it was enough for a famous “little engine” to think it could, more than wishful thinking...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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MICRODISPLAYS
Holoeye Systems Inc.
LASER FILTERS
Semrock Inc.
NAVIGATION SENSOR
Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
WHITE LIGHT
Koheras GmbH
HIGH-POWER SOLID-STATE LASERS
Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH
GALVANOMETER-BASED SCANNER
Cambridge Technology Inc.
YTTERBIUM FIBER LASER
Nufern
DPSS UV LASER
Spectra-Physics
PHOTODIODE ARRAYS
Albis Optoelectronics AG
SPUTTERING PROCESS
Omega Optical Inc.
DISK LASER
Trumpf Laser GmbH + Co. KG
STEREO CAMERA
Point Grey Research Inc.
AIR-BEARING STAGES
Aerotech Inc.
INTERFEROMETER SOFTWARE
Norland Products Inc.
AQUA GREEN LED
Ledtronics Inc.
FRAME GRABBER
BitFlow Inc.
LAB NOTEBOOK
LabTrack LLC
LED DRIVER
Catalyst Semiconductor Inc.
FIBER LASER
Menlo Systems GmbH
MICROPOSITIONERS
Alio Industries
LENS COATING
Lambda Research Optics Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH
SLED MODULES
DenseLight Semiconductors
PROJECTOR OPTICS
Oerlikon Optics
TERAHERTZ SYSTEM
Picometrix LLC
MID-IR LASER
Cascade Technologies Ltd.
EXTENSION KIT
Thorlabs Inc.
GLASS MOLDING
Dyna Technologies Inc.
LASER MODULE
Lumics GmbH
UV CURING SYSTEM
Xenon Corp.
FIREWIRE CAMERAS
Baumer Optronic GmbH
POLYMER LASER
Elk Industries LLC
LEDS
Schott North America Inc.
SPECTROFLUOROMETER
Horiba Jobin Yvon Inc.
MICROSTRUCTURES
TelAztec
SPECTROMETER SOFTWARE
Photon Control Inc.
11-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA
Lumenera Corp.
FIBER TRANSMISSION
American Fibertek Inc.
HEAT SINKS
LEW Techniques Ltd.
LED LIGHT SOURCE
CoolLED Ltd.
OXYGEN SENSOR
Sentronic GmbH
DPSS LASERS
Oxxius Inc.
PIEZO AMPLIFIER
piezosystem jena GmbH
CMOS CAMERAS
JAI Inc.
ANALYSIS TOOL
Philips Lumileds Lighting Co.
LIGHT MEASUREMENT
Labsphere Inc.
FBG ANALYZER
BaySpec Inc.
SERVO CONTROLLER
National Aperture Inc.
LENS DESIGN
Jacobsen Lenticular Tool & Cylinder Engraving Technologies Co. (JacoTech)
FILTER EXCHANGERS
Sunex Inc.
FTIR SYSTEM
Jasco Inc.
Nd:YVO4 LASER
Advanced Optical Technology Ltd.
ILLUMINATION
Volpi USA
MEASURING MACHINE
Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH
SOFTWARE
Wolfram Research Inc.
POWER METER
Newport Corp.
PULSED GREEN DISK LASER
Innovavent GmbH
3-D GIGABIT CAMERA
Sick Inc.
SWIR VIDEO CAMERA
Sensors Unlimited Inc.
SINGLE-EMITTER MODULE
Bookham Inc.
DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Vertilon Corp.
LED SYSTEM
Edmund Optics Inc.
SINGLE-FIBER ADAPTER
Phrontier Technologies LLC
MOUNTING FIXTURE
ILX Lightwave Corp.
LOW-NOISE CAMERA
SVS-Vistek GmbH
WORKSTATION
Kinetic Systems Inc.
COLOR SENSOR
Hamamatsu Corp.
3-D INSPECTION
Micro Photonics Inc.
EMCCD CAMERA
Andor Technology plc
NEAR-IR LENSES
Navitar Inc.
LASER COMBINER
Olympus Life and Material Science Europa GmbH
MOTION CONTROLLER
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE
Veeco Instruments Inc.

FastTrack (Business News)
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Lambda Research Names Distributor
Lambda Research Corp., a developer of optical design software in Littleton, Mass., has announced...
Fujifilm Digital Camera to Use Kopin Viewfinder
Fujifilm Corp. of Tokyo will integrate the CyberEVF 230K-NF electronic viewfinder from Kopin Corp....
MilComm to Represent Miniflex on West Coast
Miniflex Ltd. of Framlingham, UK, has appointed MilComm Engineering & Technical Sales Inc. of...
Samsung and 3M Partner
Samsung Electronics America Inc. of Anaheim, Calif., and 3M of St. Paul, Minn., have collaborated...
OCS Checkweighers and SICK Collaborate
SICK Inc. of Minneapolis and OCS Checkweighers GmbH of Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, have signed an...
MIT Recognizes Novotech for ‘Green’ Innovation
In Massachusetts, Novotech Inc. of Acton has received recognition from MIT of Cambridge for its...
Optimax Obtains Funding for Training Programs
Under the Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development initiative, the federal government...
Companies Make Distribution Agreement
Test Equipment Connection Corp. of Lake Mary, Fla., will market in the US instruments from Rohde...
Oerlikon Optics and Microvision Collaborate
Oerlikon Optics of Balzers, Liechtenstein, is collaborating with Microvision Inc. of Golden, Colo.,...
Polatis Builds Production Facility in Poland
Polatis Inc. of Billerica, Mass., will open a production plant in Poland. The facility, designed...
KVH Industries to Supply Gyros
A US military customer has placed a $1.1 million order with KVH Industries Inc. of Middletown,...
Sol Buys Advanced Science and Technology
In Florida, Advanced Science and Technology Inc. of Stuart has been bought out by Sol Inc. of Palm...
MEV Elektronik Service and Firecomms Partner
MEV Elektronik Service GmbH of Hilter am Teutoburger Wald, Germany, will sell high-speed plastic...
Flir Awarded Contract
Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., has received a $6 million contract from the US Customs and...
JDSU Orders TeraXion Filters
TeraXion Inc. of Quebec City will supply JDSU Inc. of Milpitas, Calif., with...
Aculight Receives Military Laser Subcontract
The Penn State Electro-Optics Center in Freeport will award Aculight Corp. of Bothell, Wash., a...
Program Identifies Four Technology Areas of National Interest
The Advanced Technology Program (ATP) of the US Commerce Department is managed by the National...
SPIE Changes Name
SPIE has retired The International Society for Optical Engineering as its official business name...
Carl Zeiss to Supply Tools for Photomask Metrology
A team of manufacturers led by Sematech of Austin, Texas, has selected Carl Zeiss SMT AG of...
Demand Prompts Expansion of TMC
Technical Manufacturing Corp. of Peabody, Mass., has expanded for the fourth time in 15 years in...
Trumpf Opens Office in South Korea
Trumpf GmbH + Co. KG of Ditzingen, Germany, has established offices in Seoul for its Trumpf Korea...
Trumpf and Jenoptik Establish Joint Venture
Trumpf GmbH + Co. KG of Ditzingen and Jenoptik AG of Jena, both in Germany, have announced their...
Companies Sign Definitive Merger Agreement
In California, Oplink Communications Inc. of Fremont will acquire Optical Communication Products...
Heptagon Creates Base in Singapore
A supplier of wafer-scale micro-optics, Heptagon Oy of Espoo, Finland, has opened a 20,000-sq-ft...
Nexxus Lighting Plans LightWild Acquisition
Nexxus Lighting Inc. of Charlotte, N.C., has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to acquire...
Optical Society of America Bestows 17 Awards
The Washington-based Optical Society of America (OSA) has announced the names of the 17 scientists...
New Imaging Company Launched in the UK
Mark J. Riches has launched Invisible Vision Ltd., an imaging company in Norwich, UK. The company...
Corning Collaborates with Alcatel-Lucent
Corning Cable Systems of Hickory, N.C., part of Corning Inc.’s telecommunications segment, and...
Head-Up Displays
ABI Research of Oyster Bay, N.Y., predicts that automotive head-up displays will be a $400 million...
M Squared Moves Headquarters
M Squared Lasers Ltd. of Glasgow, UK, has moved to a 4500-sq-ft building in the West of Scotland...
FiberOptic.com, Artisan Sign Distributor Pact
In Pennsylvania, FiberOptic.com, The Fiber Optic Marketplace LLC, of Breinigsville will be the...
AP Technologies to Distribute for Fox
The Fox Group Inc. of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada, has appointed AP Technologies Ltd. of Bath,...
GSI Group Buys Thales Optronics’ Beryllium Unit
GSI Group Inc. of Assumption, Ill., has purchased a beryllium mirrors and structures business from...
QPC Lasers Wins Contract for Industrial Lasers
QPC Lasers Inc. of Sylmar, Calif., has been awarded a follow-on contract from a European customer...

Feature Articles
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Spectral Methods for Biological Analysis
An exciting development in light microscopy is the increasing availability of signal detection...
Wafer-Level Camera Technologies Shrink Camera Phone Handsets
Wafer-level optics is a novel technology that is designed to meet the demand for smaller form...
Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers Light Up All-Optical Signal Processing
For many years, optics scientists have been looking for all-optical signal processing materials...
Helium-Ion Microscopy
When it comes to imaging at high magnifications, the traditional optical microscope has given way...
Glass Molding Makes Aspheric Lenses a Practical Choice
In the early 1970s, Eastman Kodak developed precision glass-molding technology to make 3- to...
Eye Safety in the Laser Lab
One of the most ubiquitous items on the optical table is the beam block. It gets moved around,...
Supreme Court Decision Impacts High-Tech Patenting
The increasing prominence of intellectual property (IP) in society has prompted the US Supreme...
Building a Telescope to Supplant Hubble
In 2013, the James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled for launch. Three months later, it will settle...
Electron-Multiplying CCD Camera in X-ray Imaging
With the onset of improved, patient-specific treatments for vascular disease, along with advancing...

LED Focus
Efficient Semipolar Blue LEDs Created on Freestanding Substrate
Blue LEDs with high quantum efficiency and significantly reduced polarization-related internal...
Scattering Filter Improves Organic LED
Researchers at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., have created an efficient and saturated deep-blue color by...

Microscopy Focus
Tracking Nanoparticles the Easy Way
Visualizing single nanoparticles and following them in three dimensions is useful for scientific...
Adding Depth to Spectroscopy Imaging
Conventional spectrometers examine just one location that scientists hope is representative of a...

Nanophotonics
Infrared Detection at Room Temperature with Single-Electron Resolution
Infrared signals with wavelengths longer than 1.2 μm often are excluded by the selectivity of...
Electrified Liquid Crystals Make Nanorods Stand Up
Unlike spherical and otherwise-shaped nanostructures, semiconductor nanorods cause light to...
Detecting Motion, No Matter How Small
A virus isn’t big. A few years ago, a nanomechanical sensor found that one tipped the scale at a...

New Media
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LASER SAFETY
Laser Institute of America
PHOTONIC DEVICES
Hamamatsu Photonics KK, Electron Tube Div.
DYE SELECTION
Olympus Life and Material Science Europa GmbH
IMAGE PROCESSING
Matrox Imaging
MACHINE VISION
Dalsa Corp.
LINEAR ENCODERS
Heidenhain Corp.
DIFFRACTION
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
COMPONENTS CATALOG
Mouser Electronics Inc.
LED DESIGN
Future Electronics
LASER PHYSICS
Wiley-VCH
OPTICAL FILTERS
Chroma Technology Corp.
SPECIALTY GLASS
Schott North America Inc.
FO SPECTROSCOPY
Avantes BV

Peregrinations
Carbon Nanotubes Outstick Gum-Footed Gecko
Sorry, gecko. Your reign as the undisputed climbing king may be over.But take comfort. Your fabled...
Tweezers Pluck Top Science Award for Teenager
When you think of high school science projects, the inevitable volcano that puffs plumes of white...

Presstime Bulletin
Ink-Jet Technique Yields Microlenses of Various Focal Lengths
Microlenses, which are used for technologies such as CCD cameras and laser beam collimators, can be...
Organic Solar Cell Achieves Higher Efficiency
Organic solar cells that convert 6.5 percent of incoming light into usable power have been created...

Research
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Grating Is Written Directly into Ytterbium-Doped Silica Fiber
Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are frequently used as the reflectors on fiber-laser resonators. These...
New Saturable Absorber Material Q-Switches Vanadate Laser
Passive Q-switching has found broad acceptance with diode-pumped solid-state lasers because...
Cylindrical Polarization: the Path to High Power
Scientists at the Soreq Nuclear Research Center in Yavne, Israel, have previously demonstrated that...
Short Q-Switched Fiber Laser Generates Millijoules in Nanoseconds
Fiber lasers have displaced conventional solid-state lasers in many continuous-wave industrial...

Spectroscopy Focus
Tracking Cotton Trash via Fluorescence
Cotton producers are plagued with trash -- the bits of leaf, stem, hull, seed coat, bract and other...
NIST Develops Calibration Tools for Fluorescent Instruments
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., have...

Technology
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Lasers Increasingly, if Indirectly, Used as Semiconductor Lithography Light Sources
Laser makers are being confronted with novel semiconductor lithography technology. Dubbed...
Liquid Lenses Take Various Forms
Having the potential to allow compact adaptive optical features in many settings, liquid lenses...
Imaging a Spinning Star
To borrow from an old saying, four telescopes are better than one. Thanks to long-baseline optical...
Lunar Telescope to Have Liquid Mirror
Thanks to out-of-this-world thinking and down-to-earth materials research, scientists — from...