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No Longer Walking the Line
Jeff Cullison might be excused for aching feet, at least in a figurative sense. Cullison works for...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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LIGHT GRID SENSORS
Sick Inc.
POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING FIBERS
Nufern
CMOS COLOR CAMERAS
Mightex Systems
SOLAR DESIGN TOOLS
Optical Research Associates
SINGLE-MODE LASER DIODES
Intense Ltd.
PICOSECOND AMPLIFIER
High Q Laser Production GmbH
FTIR SOFTWARE
ABB Inc.
405-NM LASER
Coherent Inc.
SCANNING LENSES
Edmund Optics Inc.
ICCD CAMERA
JAI Inc.
TEMPERATURE CONTROL
Arroyo Instruments
DIGITAL CONTROLLER
Maxon Precision Motors Inc.
LINE-SCAN CAMERAS
Basler Vision Technologies
PULSE GENERATOR
Berkeley Nucleonics Corp.
SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE
B&W Tek Inc.
PIEZO SLIDE
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
SILICON CAMERA
Ophir-Spiricon Inc.
LED DRIVER
National Semiconductor Corp.
MULTICHANNEL TIMER
PicoQuant
BEAM EXPANDERS
Special Optics Inc.
MONOCHROMATORS
Princeton Instruments
OPTICAL FILTERS
Semrock Inc.
CAMERA SERIES
Stemmer Imaging GmbH
NANOPOSITIONER
piezosystem jena GmbH
IMAGE SENSOR
NoblePeak Vision Corp.
FIBER-COUPLED LASER
StockerYale Inc.
THERMAL IMAGING
OptoTherm Inc.
ILLUMINATION SYSTEM
Optical Building Blocks Corp.
PORTABLE SPECTROMETER
Bruker Optics Inc.
FREQUENCY CONTROL
Toptica Photonics AG
INTERFACE CARDS
Matrox Imaging
INDUSTRIAL CAMERA
Lumenera Corp.
HALF-BALL LENSES
Moulded Optics GmbH
TURBOPUMPS
Pfeiffer Vacuum Inc.
RAMAN SYSTEM
Lambda Solutions Inc.
FIBER-COUPLED MODULE
nLight Corp.
THERMAL IMAGER
FLIR Systems Inc.
SENSOR PACKAGING
Tessera Technologies Inc.
LASER WORKSTATION
Rofin/Baasel Lasertech
HYPERSPECTRAL SENSOR
Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc.
DEVELOPER’S KIT
Agilent Technologies Inc.
VIDEO CAMERA
Olympus Industrial America Inc.
INSPECTION SYSTEM
Epix Inc.
SINGLE-PART FILTERS
Tecan Ltd.
COMPACT LASERS
RPMC Lasers Inc.
RAMAN LASER
PD-LD Inc.
BORESCOPE
Titan Tool Supply Inc.
PIEZO AMPLIFIER
Viking Industrial
SCREEN PRINTER
DEK International
VACUUM CUBE
Turbo Vacuum
SPECTROMETER
Ultrafast Systems LLC
HIGH-SHEAR PROCESSOR
Microfluidics
IR CAMERA
Thermoteknix Systems Ltd.
FILTER WHEEL
Terahertz Technologies Inc.
LED DESIGN
Cypress Semiconductor Corp.

Cameras
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Building Better Solar Cells with Cameras
As a result of the world’s climate situation and the rising cost of fuel, “clean” methods of energy...
Quality Down to the Last Detail
Today’s automobile manufacturing plants bear little resemblance to those in use less than a...
Dual-Line CMOS Image Sensors Accelerate Postal Sorting
With faster innovation cycles, shorter times to market and higher investment costs, the pressure...
Shock Waves: Faster Than the Speed of Sound
A high-speed camera is a necessary tool for studying phenomena such as flying projectiles and...
Simultaneous Ultrafast Framing and Streak Imaging
The ability to record framing and streak images simultaneously has long been a requirement in the...
Bringing Criminals to Heel
The perfect crime is all but impossible because every criminal leaves at least a trace of evidence...

FastTrack (Business News)
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Growth in Imaging Market Forecasted
The global market for imaging components is expected to jump from $35.5 billion in 2005 to more...
LED Report Finds Need for Development
Solid-state sources for general lighting have gained much interest worldwide, but many...
PicoQuant Establishes Entity in North America
In Berlin, PicoQuant GmbH, a provider of diode lasers and time-resolved fluorescence systems, has...
MIT, Fraunhofer to Form Solar Research Center
MIT in Cambridge, Mass., and Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems of Freiburg, Germany,...
Coherent to Sell Auburn Optics Assets
Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has signed an agreement to sell assets of its Auburn Optics...
Trumpf Expands Facility
Trumpf GmbH + Co. KG of Ditzingen, Germany, has expanded its US location with the opening of a...
FEI and Imago Form Alliance
Imago Scientific Instruments Corp. of Madison, Wis., has announced a comprehensive collaboration...
ILX Lightwave Donates to University of Texas
ILX Lightwave Corp. of Bozeman, Mont., has donated $10,000 worth of laser diode instrumentation to...
IMRA Acquires Laser Machining License
In Ann Arbor, Mich., IMRA America Inc. has signed a licensing agreement with the University of...
Zeiss Opens Headquarters in North America
Oberkochen, Germany-based Carl Zeiss SMT AG has opened its North American headquarters in Peabody,...
Kopin Wins Army Contract
The US Army has awarded the first phase of a three-phase program costing $4.2 million to Kopin...
Alpao Created
In France, Floralis of Gières, which is the technology transfer subsidiary of University Joseph...
Qioptiq to Supply Defense Equipment
Qioptiq Ltd. of St. Asaph, UK, has received a multimillion-pound contract to supply its...
Magnolia Receives DARPA Funding
Magnolia Optical Technologies Inc. of Woburn, Mass., has received a contract from the US Army as...
Applied Energetics Wins $4.5 Million Contract
In Tucson, Ariz., Applied Energetics Inc. has been awarded a sole-source contract worth $4.5...
$101 Million Contract for DRS Technologies
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received an initial order of $36.4 million on a...
Point Grey Appoints Distributor
A supplier of digital camera systems, Point Grey Research Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia,...
Tamar Garners NSF Funding
Tamar Technology of Newbury Park, Calif., has been awarded a Phase II grant from the National...
Companies to Develop Nanoimprinting
Suss MicroTec Inc. of Waterbury Center, Vt., a supplier of technology for the 3-D,...
GE Becomes Shareholder in Sofradir Subsidiary
Based in Chatenay-Malabry, France, Sofradir, a manufacturer of cooled IR detectors for military,...
Group Receives Grant to Study Heat Transfer
A research team led by an assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering at the...
Survey Finds LEDs Gaining Popularity
A consumer survey commissioned by Arrow Electronics Inc. of Melville, N.Y., has found that...
Carestream Launches Manufacturing Business
Carestream Health Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., formerly Eastman Kodak Co.’s health group, has launched...
Acuity, Lighting Science to Develop LEDs
Acuity Brands Lighting Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Acuity Brands Inc. of Atlanta, will...
Touch International Acquires LCD Assets
In Austin, Texas, Touch International Inc. has acquired the specialized LCD enhancement assets of...
US Research Well in Danger of Running Dry
Budget requests. Appropriations. Continuing resolutions. Capitol Hill jargon like this used to mean...

Feature Articles
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Through a Lens, Wetly
If you want a variable lens in the future, you may have to get wet. That is the hope of several...
EMCCD Technology Moves Beyond Standard Products
The ultralow-noise and high-speed capability of electron-multiplying CCD (EMCCD) technology has...
Strategically Placed Cameras Track Pharmaceuticals
Manufacturing of pharmaceuticals is an important and evolving industry. With the advent of...
Precise Positional Adjustments with Laser-Induced Shock Waves
The trend in manufacturing today is to make everything smaller. Electronic gadgets, mechanical...

Insights & Enterprise
Meeting the Challenge and Keeping a Balance
John Marsh is chief technical officer and co-founder of Intense Ltd. as well as professor of...

LED Focus
Phosphor-Coated LED Converts Blue Light to White
Coating LEDs with phosphors to create a whiter color is nothing new. But a variety of techniques...
Controlled Growth of ZnO Microcrystals Achieved
Although ZnO-based microcrystals hold promise in a number of applications, current fabrication...

Microscopy Focus
For a Real Close-up, a Little Light
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have shed new light on near-field scanning...

Nanophotonics
Quantum Dots Created from Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes are proving useful for sensing applications because they produce a strong Raman...
Socks with Nanosilver Could Present Problems
The saying “It all comes out in the wash” could take on a whole new meaning as nanoparticles become...

New Media
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OPTICAL COMPONENTS
Edmund Optics Inc.
OPTICAL DESIGN
Lambda Research Corp.
VIBRATION ISOLATION
Technical Manufacturing Corp.
FABRY-PEROT
Scientific Solutions Inc.
LASER MEASUREMENT
Ophir-Spiricon Inc.

Peregrinations
Eyeing Perfection
Athletes who can sink a basket from 20 feet out, hit a blistering fastball or throw the perfect...
I’ve Got You in My Sights — Now Say ‘Cheese’!
Sunglasses — check. MP3 player — check. Digital camera — check.Now, where are you going to carry...

Presstime Bulletin
Smart Greenhouse Uses Liquid Crystal
Liquid crystal technology is being used in a greenhouse project launched jointly by Cleveland...
From Infinitesimal Seeds, a Mighty (If Tiny) Forest Grows
Using chemical vapor deposition, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made...

Research
Adding Laser Beams: The Best of Both Worlds
The combined illumination provided by two automobile headlights is twice that provided by a single...
Easy-to-Tune All-Fiber Bandpass Filter
Tunable bandpass filters are crucial components in numerous photonic applications, including...
Dual-Wavelength Ring Laser Is Step-Tunable Across 20 nm
Stable, single-mode, dual-wavelength lasers have important applications in fiber sensors, in...

Solar Photonics
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Photovoltaic Test Performance
The sun’s energy is abundant, and turning it into electrical power is not only good for the...
Hybrid Solar Lighting
Hybrid solar lighting systems focus highly concentrated sunlight into a fiber optic bundle to...
Nanowires Used to Push Solar Efficiency
Solar cell design is critical to how efficiently incoming sunlight is transformed into usable...
Photovoltaic Technologies
In the 1950s, scientists at Bell Labs serendipitously discovered that silicon doped with certain...
Organic Photovoltaics
Photovoltaics based on crystalline silicon dominate the commercial solar energy industry; however,...

Spectroscopy Focus
Bringing Feed Analysis from the Lab to the Production Line
Stock animals such as cows, pigs, rabbits and chickens that are raised in large agricultural...
Breaking Down Corn Improves Hyperspectral Image Analysis
Hyperspectral imaging once was used primarily in satellite-based remote sensing applications, but...

Technology
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Powerful Femtosecond Laser Induces ‘Electrical Effects’ during Thunderstorms
Although considerably less destructive than earthquakes, lightning is nonetheless one of the great...
Highly Conductive and Color-Coded Carbon Nanotubes Produced
The explosive growth of flat panel displays and other electrochromic devices has been fueled in...
Etching with Gold Enables Improved Deep-UV Antireflective Optics
The ability to diffuse or eliminate reflections is an important part of optics involving...
Image-Processing Methods Reconstruct Archival Audio Recordings
Point-and-click mp3 files make it hard to appreciate the first attempts to capture sound on glass,...