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Tokyo Firm Puts Detectors to Work in Healing Sick Building Syndrome
Energy conservation efforts in the home or office often entail sealing up buildings, which can trap...
Fluorescence Tracks Down Hidden Bacteria
Bacteria are everywhere. They are in the water, they are in the ground and they are all over you....

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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FIBER-BASED INDUSTRIAL LASER
Coherent Inc.
COMPACT RGB LED
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
POLARIMETER
Lightwaves2020 Inc.
LIGHT PIPES
Docter Optics GmbH
LASER WORKSTATIONS
JP Sercel Associates (JPSA)
TUNABLE FILTER
Santec Corp.
PEDESTAL CUBE
Newport Corp.
SPECTROMETER
Arcoptix SA
CMOS SENSOR
Thomson
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Imperx Inc.
PROCESS DESIGN KIT
austriamicrosystems AG
GIGABIT ETHERNET CAMERAS
Kappa opto-electronics GmbH
SPECTROMETER
HiperScan GmbH
NEAR-IR CAMERAS
FJW Optical Systems Inc.
532-NM LASER
Cobolt AB
PATTERN MATCHING
LMI Technologies Inc.
MICROPHOTOMETER
Craic Technologies Inc.
EPOXY ADHESIVE
Master Bond Inc.
SEEDING MATERIAL
Microsphere Technology Ltd.
SPECTROCOLORIMETER
Stil SA
1550-NM LASERS
Dilas
OBJECTIVE LENSES
Edmund Optics Inc.
PHOTODIODE ARRAYS
Sensors Unlimited Inc.
DPSS LASER
Newport Corp.
MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE
Special Optics Inc.
DESIGN SOFTWARE
Lambda Research Corp.
PRODUCTION TESTING
Radiant Imaging Inc.
LASER DICHROICS
Semrock Inc.
CCD CAMERAS
FluxData Inc.
AFM TECHNIQUE
Veeco Instruments Inc.
IMAGE ENHANCEMENT
Tessera Technologies Inc.
INTERFEROMETER
Interferometric Optics
LED DESIGN
Optical Research Associates
EMCCD CAMERA
Salvador Imaging Inc.
SPECTROMETER
DeltaNu Inc.
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Toshiba Teli America Inc.
IMAGE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
Matrox Imaging
UV/VIS SPECTROPHOTOMETERS
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
MICROFOCUS LASERS
StockerYale Inc.
BLACKBODIES
HGH Systèmes Infrarouges
CMOS SENSORS
Awaiba Lda.
FOURIER OPTICS KIT
Cambridge Correlators Ltd.
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piezosystem jena GmbH
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Catalyst Semiconductor Inc.
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Toshiba Imaging Systems Div.

FastTrack (Business News)
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Future Lighting Competition
The US Department of Energy recently announced the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize competition,...
3-D Trend in TV and Movies
High-definition has a new feature: Now viewers can have their media in three dimensions. An...
Axsys Receives $13.5 Million Order
Axsys Technologies Inc. of Rocky Hill, Conn., a designer and developer of surveillance cameras,...
Toyo Ram to Sell Zecotek Products in Israel
Zecotek Photonics Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has signed an exclusive sales and...
Snake Creek Lasers,Alps Electric to Partner
Snake Creek Lasers LLC of Hallstead, Pa., and Alps Electric Co. Ltd. of Tokyo have jointly...
Z-Laser Opens Office in Britain
Laser manufacturer Z-Laser Optoelektronik GmbH of Freiburg, Germany, has opened a sales office in...
Areté, RPMC Lasers Sign Agreement
RPMC Lasers Inc. of O’Fallon, Mo., and Areté Optical Systems Research of Longmont, Colo., a...
AmberWave Acquires Aonex Technologies
In Pasadena, Calif., Aonex Technologies Inc., a California Institute of Technology spin-out...
Optomec, Manz to Partner
Optomec Inc. of Albuquerque, N.M., a producer of printed electronics, has entered into an exclusive...
DuPont to Build Facilities
DuPont, headquartered in Wilmington, Del., plans to construct a research center in Hong Kong and a...
Cymer Completes Manufacturing Site
In San Diego, Cymer Inc. has completed the construction of its extreme-UV manufacturing facility....
Team to Develop Solar Cells
NASA has awarded the second phase of a Small Business Technology Transfer program to Kopin Corp. of...
Applied Analytics Opens Production Facility
Applied Analytics Inc. of Concord, of Mass., a manufacturer of process analyzers, has opened a new...
IMRA America to Expand Michigan Facilities
A developer of ultrafast fiber laser technologies for commercial applications, IMRA America Inc. of...
BAE Licenses Patents to Tannas
Tannas Electronic Displays of Orange, Calif., has resolved its legal disputes with BAE Systems plc...
INO Signs Technology Transfer Agreement
In Quebec City, INO (Institut National d’Optique) has signed a technology transfer agreement with...
Sony and 3M Sign License Agreement
Sony Corp., based in Tokyo, and 3M, based in St. Paul, Minn., have signed a license agreement that...
Gyrocam Systems Secures Defense Contract
The US Army has awarded Gyrocam Systems LLC of Sarasota, Fla., a $302 million contract for Phase II...
Bookham Secures Laser Controller Line
Bookham Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has acquired the LB1005 high-speed servo controller product line...
Photonics Society Formed in Poland
Representing an evolution of the SPIE Poland chapter, the Photonics Society of Poland, based in...
Sydor Optics Completes Relocation of Units
A supplier of flat-surfaced parallel and wedged optics, Sydor Optics of Rochester, N.Y., has added...
Government Awards GeoEye $22 Million
GeoEye Inc. of Dulles, Va., has received awards totaling $22 million to supply geospatial products...
LightWorks Garners Lockheed Martin Contract
LightWorks Optics Inc. has won a third contract from Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md., for...
Sunovia Energy Awarded Contract
Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc. of Sarasota, Fla., has been awarded a contract by the city of...
Axsun Technologies, Lantis Laser Sign Pact
Axsun Technologies Inc. of Billerica, Mass., has entered into a multiyear, multimillion-dollar...

Feature Articles
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Putting the Whole Experiment in an Enclosure
Commercial lasers are designed in protective cases that ensure that the beams emerge only from...
New Technologies Power New Eyes
on the Sky
A science that studies exploding stars is itself exploding. Over the next decade, astronomers will...
The Expanding Role of Lidar at NASA
The growing importance of laser-based remote sensing instruments to NASA scientists and space...
Building a Pocket-Size Electron Accelerator
Might it be possible to combine today’s commercial laser technology with micro- and nanoscale...
Radiation from free electrons
A high-energy electron deflected from a straight-line trajectory emits electromagnetic radiation...
Vision Sensors Hit the Road
No longer confined to the factory floor, machine vision technology is going for a spin. The same...

Insights & Enterprise
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Meeting Challenges, Taking Risks
Arthur Chester retired in 2002 after 14 years as president and general manager of HRL Laboratories,...

LED Focus
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Color Quality and Spectra
The primary motivation for development of solid-state lighting is the potential for huge energy...
Measuring LED Junction Temperature
Manufacturers and solid-state lighting developers are driving LEDs to higher power levels. As more...
Polarition LEDs Deliver Quantum Efficiency
A new generation of light emitters based on hybrid half-light, half-matter quasiparticles called...
LEDs in the Greenhouse
Plants contain photosensors that respond to parts of the spectrum from the UV to 740 nm and that...

Microscopy Focus
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Determining the Composition of Quantum Dots from Top to Bottom
Quantum dots may shine, but shedding light on their make-up has proved to be difficult because they...
Confocal Microscopy Enables Direct Observation of Photonic Nanojets
If you shine a beam of light onto a sphere just a few microns in diameter, an unusual effect takes...

Nanophotonics
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Building Quantum Dots Slowly
Quantum dots are small, with sizes measured in nanometers. And the size is important because it...

New Media
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MOTION CONTROL
Aerotech Inc.
METAL COMPOUNDS
Alfa Aesar
PULSE TESTING
Avtech Electrosystems Ltd.
DIMMING LEDS
US Department of Energy (DoE)
LED MEASUREMENT
Orb Optronix
ROBOTICS INDUSTRY
Robotic Industries Association

Peregrinations
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Supercomputing May Require Bugs
If you were looking for a diamond in the rough, would you think to look on the backs of beetles?...
An Open Letter to Google
Google.com frequently celebrates historic people and events on its home page, showcasing art by the...

Presstime Bulletin
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Two-Beam Technique Stores Slow-Light Images in Atomic Vapor
If you shine a flashlight’s beam into a fog, you will see the light reflect softly as it disperses...
New Guide Helps Check Vision of Search-and-Rescue Robots
Once the sole province of science fiction writers, robots of the stage, screen and written page...

Research
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Parabolic Reflector Couples Between Fiber and Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguide
Optical fibers and silicon-on-insulator waveguides both are crucial to today’s photonic systems,...
Mode-Matching Technique May Enable Broad Telecom Bandwidths
Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) are widely credited with enabling the huge growth of fiber...
Multimode Fiber Laser Generates Single-Mode Output
Single-mode fiber lasers have the high beam quality required for many applications, but as their...

Solar Photonics
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Is Solar Thermal Power the Answer?
The sun is the source of virtually all of the energy we use. Fossil fuel energy started out as...
Popcorn-Style Solar Cells
The sun, as the primary source of energy for all organisms on Earth and as a carbon-neutral power...
Solar Up, Silicon Down
It is no secret that the growth in solar technologies will greatly affect energy use, but it also...

Spectroscopy Focus
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Raman Spectroscopy Detects First Signs of Tooth Decay
Dentists commonly use x-rays and metal picks to detect cavities, but Raman spectroscopy could...

Technology
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An LCD Built with Graphene
According to a team of researchers from the UK and Russia, thin sheets of carbon could improve...
High-Speed Nanoimprinting Gets on a Roll
Se Hyun Ahn and L. Jay Guo of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, are on a nanopatterning roll....
Defect-Free Structures May Pave the Way to GaAs Lasers
If you are an optoelectrical engineer trying to create semiconductor devices that emit light, here...
LED-Pumped Polymer Laser Emits at 568 nm
Semiconducting conjugated polymer materials are easy to fabricate into photonic devices, and their...
Fabricating Photonic Quantum Circuits in Silicon
The future of quantum technologies could be written in sand, according to researchers from the...