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Image sensor market: Looking forward to better times
After a short downturn, the worldwide image sensor market, which consists of more than 11 billion...

Changing spaces
PhD-level women with established private sector careers in the sciences, technology, engineering...

VCSEL contract awarded
Princeton Optronics Inc., a privately held company that develops and manufactures vertical-cavity...

Canada’s first 10-kW fiber laser
Canada just got its first 10-kW fiber laser. IPG Photonics Corp. recently delivered the laser to...

Novotech Adds Product
Novotech Inc. of Acton, Mass., a infrared-grade germanium and silicon provider, has added the...

Frontier Development
Brookhaven National Laboratory of Upton, N.Y., has been selected by the US Department of Energy...

New Name
SmartSpark Energy Systems of Austin, Texas, has changed its name to better reflect its focus on the...

Software Purchase
Siemens AG of Munich, Germany, has expanded its industrial portfolio by purchasing Elan Software...

Distribution Agreement Signed
Mouser Electronics Inc. of Mansfield, Texas, and Osram Opto Semiconductors of Sunnyvale, Calif.,...

Looking for UXOs
The US Army has offered a contract to Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc. of Charlotte, N.C., under which...

Semiconductor Distribution
AMS Technologies AG of Martinsried, Germany, has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement...

Biofuels Office
Wilks Enterprise Inc. of South Norwalk, Conn., has opened a West Coast office in Boulder Creek,...

Lighting Application Support
In Sunnyvale, Calif., Bridgelux Inc. has launched a lighting services group. The company, a...

Photonics in Asia
SPIE has announced the launch of the Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore, which has roots in...

Licensing Nanotechnology
Reactive NanoTechnologies Inc. of Hunt Valley, Md., has signed a licensing agreement with Thermal...

Expanding Camera Company
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH of Ahrensburg, Germany, has expanded its office space in...

New Company
The Optoelectronics Co. Ltd., based in Henham, UK, has been created by the founders of Photonic...

Solid-State Lighting Funding
QD Vision of Watertown, Mass., a developer of nanotechnology-based products for lighting and...

Feature Articles

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Optical Power Meters: Versatile and Economical
Complex experiments, safety and environmental requirements demand optimum, low-cost optical devices.

Commercializing the Nobel-Winning Discovery of the Bose-Einstein Condensate
Bose-Einstein technology reduces production time and cost for "ultracold" matter experiments.

Seeing Clearly: The Latest in Machine Vision Software
3-D vision, large-image processing, bar and data codes, and an integrated development environment make up Halcon 9.0.

A Wave Plate for Every Application
The applications for wave plates are many and varied. They can find use in areas such as power...

Into the photon detector’s tool kit
Vacuum tube technology has always preceded its solid-state counterpart. The most familiar example...

Profiting from telecom investments: Taking advantage of the NIR First Overtone and Raman’s Spectral Fingerprints
Instrumentation professionals have long recognized great potential for near-infrared/Raman...

Avoiding failure: Advanced metrology finds tiniest defects in semiconductor materials
Chip features are small, and the defects that make them fail, even smaller. What is more,...

Australian Agenda: No Great Barriers?
With the launch of the Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) in April 2009, scientists...

Getting By with the Help of Your Friends at SPIE and OSA
Optical scientists and engineers have a lot to celebrate as Galileo’s telescope turns 400 this year...

Greenlight

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Solar from space
The sun shines 24/7 in outer space, so it is not surprising that solar power seekers worldwide are...

Concentration boosts photovoltaics’ potential
Solar farms with concentrating solar technologies have the potential to contribute greatly to the...

Lighting up lives
Solar lanterns are doing more than just bringing light to the poor in India. They also have...

Battling outdoor light
The battle against light pollution recently had a mathematical model added to its arsenal....

New Media

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OPTICS WEB SITE
JML Optical Industries Inc.

SOLAR OPTICS
Edmund Optics Inc.

SENSOR SYSTEM DESIGN
John Wiley & Sons Inc.

DC-AC INVERTERS
Endicott Research Group (ERG) Inc.

LASER OPTICS
Laser Research Optics

SOLAR TECH SITE
Schott Solar

VIDEO GALLERY
Specialised Imaging Ltd.

LASER SAFETY
The Laser Institute of America

EXCIMER LASERS
Coherent Inc.

MOTION SYSTEMS
Steinmeyer Inc.

Peregrinations

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A Slice of Everyday Life
How would you balance your interests if you were an artist-turned-medical-student? You could forego...

Slices from the Breadboard (Patent News)

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Patented genes impede cancer diagnosis
What if you requested a genetic test to check your risk of having a hereditary form of cancer but...

Aperio Awarded CBIR Patent
Aperio Technologies Inc. of Vista, Calif., a digital pathology provider for the health care and...

Izon Patents Resizable Nanopores
Izon Science Ltd. of Christchurch, New Zealand, presented its patented resizable nanopore...

Brookhaven Applies for Nonprovisional Patent
A physicist at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., has...

Mobius Receives Power Control Patent
US Patent No. 7,529,281, titled “Light source with precisely controlled wavelength-converted...

Technology

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Making nanotubes respond to rainbows
Taking their cue from the eye, researchers have constructed a carbon nanotube that responds to all...

A closer look at our ancestor
Discovered in 1974, the 3.2-million-year-old bones of the fossil Lucy could give us more insight...

Holographic disc can store 100 DVDs
GE Global Research, the technology development unit of General Electric, has created a disc that is...

Detecting melamine in food
Researchers at Purdue University are using infrared lasers and light spectroscopy methods to...

Fingerprint tech gets tested
The characteristics that help to differentiate one set of fingerprints from another were first...

Schott Solar opens in Albuquerque
Schott Solar, the first facility in the world to produce both concentrated solar power receivers...

To the moon and back, many times a minute
The moon is spiraling away at 3.8 cm, or about an inch and a half, a year. But don’t worry. Given...

Unscrambling holograms gains high-res images
There’s a catch-22 to cameras. Either they have high resolution and a narrow field of view, or they...

Special effects captured in a whole new light
Imagine an imaging system that doesn’t require a camera or reflective markers but instead uses...