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Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)

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COMPACT REMOTE-HEAD CAMERA
JAI Inc.

FIXED-FOCAL-LENGTH LENSES
Edmund Optics Inc.

DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA
Photron Inc.

FIBER OPTIC ROTARY ENCODER
Micronor Inc.

PIEZO LINEAR ACTUATORS/MANIPULATORS
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

NANOPOSITIONING PIEZO STAGES
Newport Corp.

OPEN FRAME DIODE
Lumics GmbH

LASER CUTTING SYSTEM
Laser Photonics LLC

STRAIN ANALYZER
Omnisens

CHIP SET
Luminus Devices Inc.

HIGH-SPEED LENSES
Westech Optical Corp.

INTERFEROMETER
QED Technologies

LIGHT SOURCES
Welch Allyn Lighting Products

WAFER ANALYZER
PANalytical

LASER MIRRORS
Saint-Gobain Crystals

STEREO CAMERA
Vision Components GmbH

PUMPING STATION
Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH

DIODE LASER
Alfalight Inc.

LED CONTROLLER
austriamicrosystems AG

Editorial

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Careful with that eradication
This is what can happen when you mess with Mother Nature. In 1985, Australian scientists developed...

FastTrack (Business News)

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Before Newton, there was Alhazen
A millennium ago, an Arab scientist authored more than 100 works on optics, astronomy, mathematics...

Flat panel displays: Green expectations
By 2012, 70 percent of flat panel display shipments are expected to feature environmentally...

Expansion seen for UV LED market
Considering the strong potential of the UVA LED business in UV curing, augmented by the growing...

Searching for a smoother ride
Potholes had better watch out. Their days of delivering jarring jolts to cars could be shortened if...

Feature Articles

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New Solutions for working with Solutions
When creating a new technology – or tweaking an old one – you always end up starting from the...

For microscopes, a new way is at hand
Sometimes a picture is worth more than a thousand words – or a thousand dollars. That’s the case...

Looking to attract venture capital?
If you want venture capital this year, it would be wise to consider going into clean technology....

Heat & Motion Duke It Out
The dominant cause of error in most motion applications is temperature or, more precisely,...

Optical Fiber Market
According to the FttH Fact Book 2009 by BuddeComm and Chiltern, more than 40 million people...

Greenlight

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Light pollution: the good, the bad and the just-too-bright
Four hundred years ago, Galileo made his first astronomical observation through a telescope. Today...

Looking for light in all the wrong places
Creatures in the wild that follow natural light cues to negotiate their environment are sometimes...

Greening the Great White Way
Broadway, long known for its egregious use of lights, launched the “Broadway Goes Green” initiative...

Environmental signage: the great oxymoron
As ad budgets are cut, what better way to broadcast a message than to install a large flat panel...

New Media

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MULTIPHYSICS MODELING
Comsol Inc.

FILTERS CATALOG
Edmund Optics Inc.

IMAGING OPTICS
Navitar Inc.

MICROSCOPE UPGRADES
FEI Co.

OPTICAL TABLES
Advanced Design Consulting USA Inc.

DIGITAL IMAGING
Integrated Design Tools (IDT) Inc.

OPTICS CONTENT
SPIE

OPTICS REVIEW
The Optical Society of America

Peregrinations

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Pretty in optical fibers
Attention, contemporary Cinderellas: Lighting up the dance floor may no longer be merely a figure...

Slices from the Breadboard (Patent News)

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Beware patent trolls
These trolls may not be the characters you read about in fairy tales, but their intentions are...

3M, EV Group Settle Patent Infringement Suit
3M of St. Paul, Minn., a product research and development company, and EV Group of St. Florian,...

Surface-Mountable LED Chip Patented
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Bridgelux Inc., an LED technology supplier, has been awarded a US patent...

Crimson Trace, LaserMax Patent Infringement
In Oregon, Crimson Trace Corp. Inc. of Wilsonville, a handgun laser sighting systems manufacturer,...

Technology

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Protecting aircraft with photonics technology
Shoulder-fired missiles, or man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), have been used by...

Night-vision goggles no longer just for military
Pilots flying aircraft at night and during low-light conditions know how difficult it can be to...

Controlling a computer with a gesture
A very simple principle is at the heart of Dr. Manolya Kavakli’s high-tech computer interfacing...

Product reviews in the palm of your hand
With so many options to choose from, how do you pick the best digital camera? You could close your...

Industrial lasers shine at Photonics West
According to Tesko Laser, a company in the Chicagoland area that provides laser cutting and metal...

Next-Gen researcher
The life of the stereotypical 14-year-old girl revolves around friends, fashion and boys. However,...

Teleporting a step closer to quantum computing
It’s not “Star Trek,” but it does seem like science fiction. Researchers from the Joint Quantum...

An underground fiber optic fence
Tunneling to circumvent borders could be a thing of the past, thanks to a fiber optic-based...