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Azores Corp.
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Edmund Optics Inc.
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Hamamatsu Corp.
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Powerlase Ltd.
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Coherent Inc.
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Heidenhain Corp.
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Master Bond Inc.
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Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
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Schott North America Inc.
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M2 Optics Inc.
LASER SAFETY
Laservision USA
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
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National Instruments Corp.
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Leica Geosystems Inc.
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ACS Motion Control Inc.
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Semrock Inc.
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Princeton Instruments Inc.

Editorial
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Change is Good
Practically 40 years ago I would come home after school to see the colossal mess my mother had made...

Everything is Illuminated (Tips & Techniques)
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History
From the article Match the Emitter to the Task In 1860, Gustav Kirchhoff...
Match the Emitter to the Task
Often a scientist or engineer is tasked with developing a spectroscopic system for which he must...

FastTrack (Business News)
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LCD Sales: Big Wave Coming Ashore
Sales of thin-film transistor (TFT) LCD manufacturing equipment are expected to surge 58 percent to...
The Road Leads Up for the LED Backlight Unit Market
By 2012, the large-format LED backlight unit (BLU) market is expected to reach 182 million units –...
Janos Acquired by Fluke
Janos Technology of Keene, N.H., a manufacturer of custom precision optics, thermal imaging lenses...
DeltaNu Receives DoD Contract
The DeltaNu business unit of Intevac Photonics of Santa Clara, Calif., has been awarded a $1.029...
Andlinger Acquires VPT
Vacuum Process Technology (VPT) of Plymouth, Mass. has been purchased by principals of Andlinger...
nLight Acquires Interest in Optotools
Vancouver, Wash.-based nLight Corp., a supplier of high-power semiconductor lasers and fibers, has...
Edmund Optics to Celebrate Anniversary
Edmund Optics Inc. of Barrington, N.J., is planning a celebration to mark the 15th anniversary of...
Vitex and Novaled to Collaborate
Vitex Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif., which specializes in thin-film encapsulation, and Novaled...
Danaher Motion Joins MathWorks
Danaher Motion of Santa Barbara, Calif., has become a member of the MathWorks Connections Program,...
LightWorks Optics Wins Lockheed Martin Contract
A multimillion-dollar sales contract has been awarded to LightWorks Optics Inc. of Tustin, Calif.,...
Bruker Closes S.I.S. Purchase
Bruker AXS GmbH of Aachen, Germany, has closed on its acquisition of S.I.S. Surface Imaging Systems...
Olympus, Digital Surf to Partner
Olympus Life Science Europa GmbH of Hamburg, Germany, and Digital Surf sarl of Besançon, France,...
License Signed by Konica, Universal Display
Konica Minolta Holdings Inc. of Tokyo and Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., have signed a...
Point Grey Expands Its Headquarters
Point Grey Research Inc., a developer of digital camera technology, has relocated its headquarters...
SemiConductor Devices Receives $1.75 Million Contract
DARPA has awarded a Phase I contract worth $1.75 million to SemiConductor Devices of Haifa, Israel,...
Jenoptik Names American Distributor
Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH of Jena, Germany, has named RPMC Lasers Inc. of O’Fallon, Mo., as the...
Transmission Project to Begin in California
The Optical Internetworking Forum in Fremont, Calif., has outlined the details for its 100-Gb...
Applied Energetics Receives Army Contract
The US Army has awarded a follow-on contract to Applied Energetics Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., for the...
Octillion to Team with Oakland University
Octillion Corp. of Auburn Hills, Mich., an alternative and renewable energy technology company, has...
NanoSight Opens California Office
NanoSight Ltd. of Salisbury, UK, a provider of optical detection instruments, has announced the...

Feature Articles
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The Shape of Displays to Come
When you think of displays, you likely think of something flat – flat-screen television, mobile...
Soda Can Videos
You’ve just finished drinking your favorite soda, but before you recycle the can, imagine that it...
Interacting with the Whole Earth
Researchers at Microsoft Corp. recently revealed a device that allows users to interact with an...
Displays That Look Back
Digital signage is nothing new. Whether in New York City’s Times Square or along the highway,...
Pocket-Size Roll-Up Displays
Displays are becoming tiny, but the smaller they get, the harder it is to see a lot of information...
CHECK POINT
On Sept. 21, 2007 – just six years and 10 days after two planes took off from Boston’s Logan...
Faster, Stronger, Higher:
Lighting, specialized optics and other technologies that can be labeled “protophotonics” were being...
Spectroscopy Hunts Down Counterfeit Drugs
Consumers are using the Internet to buy prescription drugs more cheaply, sometimes without a...
Inspection in the Fast Lane
In a security-conscious age, there is a world of information to keep tabs on. Walk into an airport...
Helium: Up, Up and Away?
Refiners are struggling to keep up with demand, prices have increased dramatically over the past...
Helium for High Tech: Demand Ballooning
From the article  Helium: Up, Up and Away? Helium, especially highly...
Tiny Eyes in the Sky
The demands of military electro-optical systems designers who require the detection of very small...
Diffraction Considerations
From the article Tiny Eyes in the Sky Diffraction limits the resolution possible with an...
Brave New Virtual World: Second Life
Avatar-inhabited online worlds such as Second Life (SL) could be the next new wave of the Internet....
Optical Thin-Film Coating Methods
Chances are that this magazine comes off a press that uses components with thin-film coatings....
Taking Solar to the Extreme
When polar explorer Robert Swan – the first person to walk to both the North and South Poles –...
Mining the Moon with Solar
If NASA has its way, Solar energy and fiber optics will combine to power a high-temperature furnace...
Concentrating the Sun
Researchers worldwide are looking for the combination that will unlock the door to more efficient...
In the Spirit of Managing the Planet
Gathering satellite images of Earth is nothing new. Nor is using the information to analyze our...

Greenlight
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GM Tops It Off with Solar
In Spain, companies are encouraged to host solar energy systems that produce electricity to be sold...
MIT Brainstorms Alternative Energies
There is no shortage of great minds at work on the energy crisis. In Cambridge, the MIT Energy...
It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
The semiconductor industry knows a good thing when it sees it and is jumping on the solar bandwagon...
Solar Stats
Currently, solar does not amount to much of the worldwide power generation. In fact, a recent...
Can PV Plug the Supply Gap?
To find out what’s happening on the materials side, I spoke with Tom Earnest, marketing manager for...
LEDs Trip the Light Fantastic
New York City’s department of design and construction recently entered the second phase of the City...

Peregrinations
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'Lazybrains': A real mental workout
PHILADELPHIA – Parents who worry about video games turning their kids into mindless couch potatoes...

Profile
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The Advocate
Dr. Stamatia Destounis is a radiologist at Elizabeth Wende Breast Care LLC and an associate...

Slices from the Breadboard (Patent News)
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Gordon Gould’s Scientific “Patent” Method
In 1957, Gordon Gould, an American physicist, was inarguably the first to coin the term “laser” and...
Patent Dispute Settled
Veeco Instruments Inc. of Plainview, N.Y., a solutions manufacturer for customers in the...
PD-LD Awarded Patent for VBG Improvement
PD-LD Inc. of Pennington, N.J., a provider of custom volume Bragg grating (VBG) elements and...
Alloptic Receives Japanese Patent
Livermore, Calif.-based Alloptic Inc., an RF-over-glass and passive optical networking (PON)...
SpectraScience Patent Screens for Cancer
A patent for correcting misalignment between at least two images in a sequence of images, resulting...
Teleoperated Robotic Sorting System (US RE40394)
An automatic sorting system has been developed that allows humans to choose objects from a moving...
Single Vision Sensor Object Detection System (US 7389171)
A vehicular sensing system has been invented that includes a single vision sensor positioned to...
Multiple-Wavelength TDMA Optical Network (US 7386236)
An advanced, low-cost, high-bandwidth multiple access technology for passive optical networks (PON)...
Hologram Recording Medium (US 7385740)
A hologram recording medium has been invented. It has a recording layer at which, when illuminated...

Technology
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Give Me Some (Photonic) Skin
BRUSSELS, Belgium – A unique sensor system that combines optoelectronics and fiber optics in a...
Nanowire Arrays Help Make Less Expensive Image Sensors
Berkeley, Calif. – Cheap and disposable sensors for use almost anywhere could be within reach,...
NIWeek 2008: Many Cores and Going Green
AUSTIN, Texas – It was nothing dramatic, just a guy jogging in place. But thanks to some technical...
Rounding Out a New Way to Make an Artificial Eye
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A collaboration between researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston and at...
New global warming element
TEMPE, Ariz. – Researchers at Arizona State University have found yet another culprit in the...
Fighting crime with mass spectrometry
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – It’s tough to live a life of crime these days. Burglar alarms are fancier,...
Ice’s Secrets Hold Promise for Green Projects
LIVERMORE, Calif. – In a development that could have an impact on two vital areas – water...
Fluorescent Windshield Improves Visibility
WARREN, Mich. – Head-up automotive displays are often touted as a great safety feature because they...

Viewpoint
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A Tipping Point for Solar Energy
The US is mired in an energy crisis, and Congress has the difficult task of passing legislation...