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Measuring Colloidal Travel Through Sand Using Fluorescence
The poet William Blake evoked the image of seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, but some...
Testing Methanol-Based Fuel Cells Using FTIR Spectroscopy
Lithium-ion batteries are used to power devices ranging from cell phones to laptops, but...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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MULTIPIXEL PHOTON COUNTER
Hamamatsu Corp.
HIGH-ENERGY UV POLARIZERS
Precision Photonics Corp.
SPECTROMETERS
Newport Corp.
OPTICAL DESIGN SOFTWARE
Photon Engineering LLC
ASPHERIC LENSES
Edmund Optics Inc.
LED ARRAY MODULES
CoolLED
MICROTOOLS
Teneo Micro Instruments LLC
COLORIMETER
Advanced Measurement Systems (Admesy)
DESIGN LIBRARY
Dongbu HiTek Co. Ltd.
ID READERS
Cognex Corp.
CO2 LASER
Coherent Inc.
COLOR CAMERAS
Imaging Development Systems (IDS) GmbH
DEFORMABLE MIRROR
Alpao
SPECTROMETER
Sensor Technologies LLC
NANOPOSITIONING STAGE
SmarAct
IR CAMERA SOFTWARE
Flir Systems Inc.
DIGITAL METERS
Spectronics Corp.
MEGAPIXEL VIDEO CAMERA
Photron Inc.
OBJECT SENSOR
Optek Technology Inc.
JOULEMETERS
Spectrum Detector Inc.
CO2 LASER
Synrad Inc.
OPTICAL TABLES
Kinetic Systems Inc.
IMAGE PROCESSING
Stemmer Imaging GmbH
785-NM LASER
Torsana Laser Technologies A/S
SPECTROMETERS
Avantes BV
OPTICAL ISOLATOR
Agiltron Inc.
CCD SPECTROMETER
B&W Tek Inc.
SUBMOUNTS
Remtec Inc.
NANOPOSITIONING STAGE
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
PULSE GENERATOR
Berkeley Nucleonics Corp.
HDR LENSES
Docter Optics Inc.
POSITIONER
attocube systems AG
SLIM BORESCOPES
Gradient Lens Corp.
INCREMENTAL ENCODERS
Sick Stegmann Inc.
CMOS CAMERA
Intevac Inc.
FRAME GRABBER
Alacron Inc.
MONOLITHIC LASER
Arctic Photonics
LED EMITTER
LedEngin Inc.
PIEZO STAGE
Technobis Mechatronics BV
IMAGE PROCESSING
Euresys sa
NEAR-IR PROBE
Foss NIRSystems Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERA
IVA Corp.
FIBER-COUPLED LASERS
QPC Lasers Inc.
OPTICAL ELEMENTS
Holoeye Photonics AG
MOTION CONTROLLER
Precise Automation Inc.
PHOTODIODE
International Radiation Detectors (IRD) Inc.
CONNECTION ADAPTER
Elite Thermal Engineering
PROBE STATION
Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc.
CCD CAMERA
Kappa opto-electronics GmbH
LASER MARKING
Laser Photonics LLC
PROFILER
Micro Photonics Inc.
SURFACE MEASUREMENT
PhaseView USA
DESIGN SOFTWARE
Optiwave Systems Inc.
TEMPERATURE CONTROLLERS
Arroyo Instruments’
COOLING MODULES
Nuventix Inc.
MEGAPIXEL LENSES
Navitar Inc.
ACQUISITION SOFTWARE
PicoQuant GmbH
CLEANING SOLUTION
Photonic Cleaning Technologies
16-MP CAMERA
SVS-Vistek GmbH
405-NM LASER
Ondax Inc.
UV RADIOMETERS
Kipp & Zonen BV
SOLVENT PACKAGING
MicroCare Corp.
LASER CHIP
Modulight Inc.
FINGERPRINT PROCESSOR
Fingerprint Cards AB
LED INDICATORS
Dialight Corp.
METROLOGY SYSTEM
Optical Gaging Products (OGP) Inc.
FIREWIRE CAMERA
QImaging
LASER SCANNER
Kreon Technologies
SPECTROMETERS
StellarNet Inc.
SOFTWARE
Eutecus Inc.
MICROPIXEL APDs
Zecotek Photonics Inc.
POLARIZATION ROTATORS
Photline Technologies
MULTILASER ENGINE
Point Source Ltd.
GIGABIT ETHERNET CAMERAS
PixeLink
IMAGE SENSOR PIXELS
Tower Semiconductor Ltd.
IMAGING SOFTWARE
Radiant Imaging Inc.
SMART CAMERAS
Siemens AG
TUNABLE DIODE LASERS
Toptica Photonics AG
SIMULATOR
GiDel Ltd.
CANTILEVER HOLDER
Asylum Research Corp.
COLOR CAMERA
Leutron Vision AG
TRANSMITTANCE ANALYZER
Labsphere Inc.
4-MEGAPIXEL CCD
Dalsa Corp.
FIBER LASER
Amplitude Systèmes
TELECENTRIC LENSES
Schneider Optics Inc.

FastTrack (Business News)
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Strong Growth Predicted for European Photonics
European photonics continues to perform well in several sectors of the market but controls only a...
DoE Completes Latest Round of Testing of Solid-State Lighting
As solid-state lighting products begin to arrive on the market, standards-setting organizations,...
Gooch & Housego Consolidates
Five players in the photonics industry are being brought together under the Gooch & Housego...
Intevac to Acquire Display Company
Intevac Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has signed an agreement to acquire Creative Display Systems...
Photonic Component Group Created
Power Technology Inc. of Little Rock, Ark., has created the Photonic Component Group, a division...
US Industrial Laser Orders Fall in Third Quarter of 2007
Sales of industrial laser equipment and systems in North America fell to $116.6 million in the...
Updated Report Available on Laser Projection Systems
An updated market report on the use of lasers as an illumination source for projection systems has...
Graduate School Created for Photonics
A graduate research school for photonics has been created by Friedrich Schiller University in Jena,...
Naked Optics Signs Distribution Agreement
Glass and IR materials supplier Naked Optics Corp. of North Branch, N.J., has signed an exclusive...
Multiwave Photonics Adds Distributor
Multiwave Photonics SA of Maia, Portugal, a company that develops and produces pulsed fiber lasers...
Isra Vision Acquires Metronom Automation
Isra Vision AG of Darmstadt, Germany, has finalized its acquisition agreement with Metronom...
CyOptics Announces Acquisition
CyOptics Inc. of Breinigsville, Pa., a developer of indium phosphide optical chip and component...
Companies to Develop Single-Photon-Counting Module
Princeton Lightwave Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., and id Quantique SA of Geneva, are collaborating to...
Chinese Firm Enters Solar Market
XinAo Group of Heibei, China, announced that it is entering the solar energy market with a plan to...
Laser Energetics Wins Contract
Laser Energetics Inc. of Princeton, N.J., has received a contract valued at more than $480,000 for...
Sales Agencies Signed
Adept Technology Inc. of Livermore, Calif., a provider of vision-guided robotics, has signed two...
JDSU to Acquire Holograph Company
JDSU of Milpitas, Calif., has announced an agreement to acquire American Bank Note Holographics...
ChemImage Awarded Grant
ChemImage Corp. of Pittsburgh has received a small business innovation research grant to study...
Optek Technology Names Distributor
Optek Technology Inc. of Carrollton, Texas, has selected NRC Electronics Inc. of Boca Raton, Fla.,...
Matrox Imaging Selects Brazilian Distributor
Matrox Imaging of Dorval, Quebec, Canada, has announced that InviSys SVC Ltda of Curitiba, Brazil,...
QPC Receives $12 Million Contract
QPC Lasers Inc. of Sylmar, Calif., has been awarded a contract for BrightLase semiconductor lasers...
El-Mul Acquires QuantomiX
QuantomiX of Rehovot, Israel, developer of a capsule technology that enables direct imaging of wet...
LED Light from Single High-Brightness Chip
LEDs have been around for close to half a century and have made steady progress, not the least of...

Feature Articles
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Machine Vision Adapts to Harsh Environments
Exploding beer bottles, tsunamis and flour may not seem to have anything in common, but they are...
Fabricating Flat Panel Displays with Lasers
Flat panel displays are sophisticated devices and require sophisticated manufacturing techniques....
Laser Dicing Technique Cuts Wafers from the Inside Out
Wafer fabs continually face challenges in manufacturing semiconductor devices because the devices...
The Fuss About Quantum Dots
It is hard to think about a life without semiconductor technology: The entire global information...
A Better View of the Ocean
With the new year, there will be new scientific outposts in the ocean. Unlike floating buoys or...
Will Changing Machine Vision Standards Cut Costs and Boost Performance?
Upcoming changes in the communications standards that drive machine vision could mean cheaper and...
Bragg Grating Waveguides: Extending Bragg Technology into Three Dimensions
Conventional optical waveguides are transparent structures, providing a refractive index contrast...
Busting Myths About LED Reliability
The marketing hype touting LEDs as having a useful lifetime of more than 100,000 h simply is not...
Matching Driver to LED
LED lighting offers many potential benefits over incandescent, halogen, fluorescent and gas/arc...
LED Light from Single High-Brightness Chip
LEDs have been around for close to half a century and have made steady progress, not the least of...
The Chip-on-Board LED Module
Cold-cathode fluorescent lamps still are the industry standard for backlighting color LCD monitors...
A New Material for Red LEDs
The general illumination market has seen the rapid evolution of white and blue LEDs, whereas...
The different forms (allotropes) of silicon
From the article Fabricating Flat Panel Displays with Lasers Most semiconductor applications...

LED Focus
Polymer Could Lead to Improved LCDs
Researchers have shown recently that an external electric field can change the alignment of the...
A Brighter Blue
Studies have suggested that colloidal nanocrystal quantum dots made up of II-VI compounds may be a...

Microscopy Focus
Combined Instrument Reveals Relationships Between Chemistry and Surface Physics
Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have combined two highly sensitive...
Nanoscale Light Sources Could Benefit Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
The probe tip traditionally used with near-field scanning optical microscopes comprises an...

Nanophotonics
Keeping an Eye on Carbon Nanotube Growth
Thanks to their electrical characteristics, high thermal conductivity and great tensile strength,...
Method Developed to Track 3-D Motion of Fluorescent Particles
Accurately measuring single fluorescent particles is often a challenge because their Brownian...

New Media
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CRYSTAL OPTICS
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH
MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
Wyatt Technology Corp.
LIGHTING STANDARDS
US DoE
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Point Grey Research Inc.
LINE-SCAN CAMERAS
Basler Vision Technologies
OPTICAL WIPING CLOTH
The Wiper Connection
IMAGE PROCESSING
CRC Press
HIGH-SPEED IMAGING
Specialised Imaging Ltd.
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Kappa opto-electronics GmbH
IR CAMERA SITE
Flir Systems Inc.
BORESCOPE GUIDE
Moritex
OPTICAL DESIGN
SPIE Press
CCD, CMOS CAMERAS
New Electronic Technology GmbH
THEORY OF COHERENCE
Cambridge University Press

Peregrinations
Solar Bug Turns Sun’s Rays into Highway Miles
Car shoppers looking for “cute” in their next purchase need look no further than the Solar Bug. It...
Dogs Edge Out Cameras to Remain ‘Man’s Best Friend’
Living amid the forested mountains and hills of Vermont and California is the rarely seen fisher...

Presstime Bulletin
A Simpler Way to Store Light
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is the bane of fiber laser researchers because it is a...

Research
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Volume Bragg Grating Narrows Parametric Oscillator’s Output
Optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) provide an important mechanism to extend and tune the...
Microchip Laser Exploits Yb:LuAG Properties
Ytterbium-doped lutetium aluminum garnet (Yb:LuAG) has several desirable qualities as a solid-state...
New Crystalline Laser Generates 1 Watt at an Eye-Safe 1.5 μm
Because the human cornea does not transmit wavelengths longer than 1.5 μm, lasers in this...
Remote Optical Control of an Optical Flip-Flop Demonstrated
All-optical switching — the switching of one beam of light by another — is an absolutely essential...

Spectroscopy Focus
FTIR Spectroscopy Separates Good Green Teas from Also-Rans
Although tea comes from just one source plant, Camellia sinensis, it can be fermented, processed...

Technology
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Electro-Optics Made Easier
Doctoral candidate Çaglar Ö. Girit and professor Alex Zettl from the University of California,...
Closing the Terahertz Radiation Gap by Way of Superconductors
Much progress is being made in using electromagnetic radiation at terahertz frequencies for...
200 Million More Things to Study
Astronomers associated with the Isaac Newton Telescope/Wide-Field Camera Photometric Ha Survey of...
Old Silicon Wafers Shine in New Role
What do you do with old computer-chip wafers? Throwing them out is no longer the answer.IBM Corp....
A Wet Way to Grow Flexible Electronics
Although modern electronics often make people move to a beat, the devices themselves can’t budge...
Lasers Test Accuracy of Car Crash Systems
For many drivers, it is their last best hope. The crash-warning systems that are increasingly...
Choosing the Right Polymer Aids Direct-Write Multiphoton Photolithography
Fabricating nanoscale polymer thin-film structures mightbecome easier, thanks to researchers from...