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Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)

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Miniature Ceramic Motor
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

Large-Format Lens
Navitar Inc.

Vertical Diode Laser Stack
Dilas

Infrared Temperature Sensors
Keyence Corp. of America

Photovoltaic System
Craic Technologies Inc.

CCD Cameras
Princeton Instruments

Industrial Laser
Spectra-Physics Lasers Div. of Newport Corp.

Mini Laser Bars
Osram Opto Semiconductors

LED Driver
National Semiconductor Corp.

Laser Scanner
Leica Geosystems Metrology

Digital Cameras
Vision Research Inc.

Laser Profile Sensors
Bytewise Measurement Systems

Fiber Laser
GSI Group’s Laser Div.

Print Quality Inspection
Lake Image Systems Inc.

5-Megapixel Image Sensor
OmniVision Technologies Inc.

Machine Vision Cameras
Dalsa Corp.

Reactive Ion Etching
Plasma Etch Inc.

3-D Surface Measurement
Zemetrics

Air-Bearing Actuators
Airpot Corp.

Photon Detector
SmartQuantum Inc.

Power Supplies
UltraVolt Inc.

Fiber Optic Analysis
Promax Electronica SA

Mid-IR Laser
NovaWave Technologies

Aluminum Breadboards
Newport Corp.

Temperature Controllers
Arroyo Instruments

Machine Vision Cameras
Edmund Optics Inc.

LED Package
TT electronics Optek Technology

Fiber Bundles
CeramOptec Industries

Area-Scan Cameras
Basler Vision Technologies

Fiber Optic Amplifiers
Pepperl+Fuchs

High-Speed Camera
SVS-Vistek GmbH

Short-Pulse Diode Driver
OptiSwitch Technology Corp.

CCD Camera
Sick Inc.

High-Definition Video Camera
Sony Europe’s Image Sensing Solutions Div.

Motor Stages
Dover, a Danaher Motion Company

LED Lamps
LEDtronics Inc.

Three-Axis Scan Head
Nutfield Technology Inc.

Sensors and Modules
Saelig Co. Inc.

Metrology System
Rudolph Technologies Inc.

Streak Camera
Hamamatsu Corp.

Editorial

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Things are looking up
The word from Washington and Wall Street these days is that better days are ahead. From President...

Education Wavefront

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The value of discovery
More than 40 years ago, Frank Oppenheimer, a physics professor at the University of Colorado and...

EuroPhotonics

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Alice and Bob talk quantum encryptedly across Vienna

Wish upon a star

Whale spotting via IR

Catching photons in a bottle

A screen for all places

Imaging: The big picture

Make green energy, not war

LED Backlighting
Osram Opto Semiconductors

All-in-One Microscope
Olympus Life Science Europa GmbH

Beam Combiners
Edmund Optics Inc.

Laser Stacks
Dilas

Polarization Microscopy
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH

Vacuum Pump
Edwards

Alignment Detection
Applied Scintillation Technologies Ltd.

Laser Bar
Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH

Ruby Laser
Klastech Karpushko Laser Technologies GmbH

Rod Fiber
NKT Photonics A/S

Industrial Laser Modules
Photonic Products Ltd.

Radiation Controller
Scitec Instruments Ltd.

Industrial Laser Chip
Lumics GmbH

3-D Software
Hitachi High-Technologies Corp.

10-mW Green Laser
Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd.

Fiber Laser
SPI Lasers UK Ltd.

Dimensional Measurement
Stil SA

Real-Time Measurement
ThetaMetrisis

CW Fiber Laser
Laser Division of GSI Group Ltd.

Solar Filter
Optics Balzers AG

Low-Energy Sensor
Bfi Optilas International SAS

Data Transfer
Carl Zeiss Ltd.

Measurement Technology
Docter Optics GmbH

Multiaxis Controller
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

Fiber Splicing
Vytran

LED Spot
IB/E Optics

Surface Analysis
Mitaka Kohki Co. Ltd.

Laser Diodes
Mitsubishi Electric Europe BV

CCD Camera
Hamamatsu Photonics UK Ltd.

SLM Laser
InnoLas Laser GmbH

Ethernet Cameras
The Imaging Source

Industrial Cameras
Basler Vision Technologies GmbH

CO2 Laser
Coherent Inc.

Slide Scanner
Leica Microsystems GmbH

GigE Cameras
Baumer Ltd.

Machine Vision
MVTec Software GmbH

Cell Monitoring
PhaseView

Digital Interface
BMC Messsysteme GmbH

Reflective SOA
CIP Technologies

CMOS Sensor
e2v

Laser Line Generator
StockerYale Inc.

Burst Generation
Time-Bandwidth Products

Electronic Testing
Seica SpA

FastTrack (Business News)

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Nanophotonics market: Upward bound
The value of the global nanophotonics component market is expected to reach $3.6 billion by 2014,...

SBIR Funding
SCI Engineered Materials Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, has been awarded a two-year Phase II Small...

Phosphorescence Licensing
Performance Indicator LLC of Lowell, Mass., has acquired an international nonexclusive license for...

European Agent
In Cambridge, UK, TeraView Ltd. has appointed a distributor for its range of terahertz solutions...

Distribution Agreement
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH of Ahrensburg, Germany, has added another distributor to its...

UK Relocation
Agar Scientific of Stansted, UK, has moved to M11 Business Link, a custom-designed business park on...

Laser Lab Opens
Miyachi Unitek of Monrovia, Calif., has opened the Midwest Laser Applications Laboratory in Wixom,...

Shanghai Subsidiary Launched
Optis France SAS of Toulon, France, has opened a wholly owned subsidiary in Shanghai, China, to...

UAV Imaging Developed
Sensors Unlimited Inc. and Cloud Cap Technology, both part of Goodrich Corp. of Princeton, N.J.,...

X-ray Center Established
Tokyo-based Rigaku Corp. has created Applied Rigaku Technologies Inc., a subsidiary focusing on...

Restructuring in Singapore
Suss MicroTec of Garching, Germany, has announced the restructuring of its Asian sales offices. The...

Exclusive Distributor
BFi Optilas International SAS of Evry, France, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with...

CAD Award
Newark, N.J.-based Simphotek Inc. has been awarded a two-year $750,000 Small Business Technology...

Slow Start
The Large Hadron Collider, run by CERN of Geneva, is planning a slow start this fall. Scientists in...

Energy Grant
In Berkeley, Calif., the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been granted $40.3 million in...

$14 Million Financing
Plextronics Inc. of Pittsburgh, a company specializing in printed solar, lighting and other organic...

Nanotube Funding
In Newhaven, UK, Surrey Nanosystems has received £2.5 million in second-round financing. Granted by...

Divisions Added
Supplier of LED products CoolLED, headquartered in Andover, UK, has added two new divisions. Its...

Global Agreement
Mouser Electronics Inc. of Mansfield, Texas, has signed a global distribution agreement with DBM...

Feature Articles

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The Search for Other Earths
In recent years, astronomers have discovered more than 350 extrasolar planets, or exoplanets. But...

The road to solar cell supremacy
The silicon traditionally used to make solar panels is costly and inefficient at converting...

A closer look at plastic solar cells
Plastic solar cells are lightweight, flexible and, most importantly, cheap to make. But so far,...

Lasers in solar cell production
Photovoltaic (PV) solar cells have been around for more than 50 years now, enjoying initial...

A New World of Fiber Sensors
Optical fiber is well-known for its ability to carry information at high speeds over long...

Getting a foot in the door: The role of photonics in modern security systems
In times past, a guard might demand someone entering his domain to “halt and be identified.” Today...

Taking Semiconductor Manufacturing to the Extreme
As consumer and enterprise demand for faster computers increases, so will the demand for faster...

Instant Revenue: Marketing and Mergers
Given the current state of the economy, any practical discussion of marketing and business...

The Photonics Industry Shines in France
“With more than 400 manufacturers of cutting-edge photonics technologies and a solid R&D base,...

Greenlight

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Making energy personal
A plan sketched out on the back of a paper placemat may one day result in portable, personal power....

Blue light and carbon capture with MgO
Before Jeffrey J. Urban began studies on the concentration, separation and sequestration of carbon,...

The greening of plastics
Plastics have changed the way we live, making possible such items as disposable diapers and...

US DoE helps flip the switch on LED streetlights
Most streetlights in the US are high-pressure sodium, but the many advantages of LEDs are pushing...

Letters

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Letters to the Editor
Benefits, not danger I read with interest the article by Gary Boas titled, “Just how dangerous...

Peregrinations

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The ‘Me-Me Switch’: A remote possibility
Ear buds fitted with infrared sensors and connected to a microcomputer that can control electronic...

Profile

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The Teacher
After earning a PhD at Caltech, Nader Engheta spent four years at Kaman Sciences Corp. before...

Slices from the Breadboard (Patent News)

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Machine vs. USPTO
By using the scientific method – careful observation, formation of hypotheses, experimentation,...

Method for Gas Chromatography Under Patent
US Patent No. 7,422,625, titled “Methods and Systems for Characterizing a Sorbent Tube,” has been...

Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer Assembly Patented
Dr. Christoph R. Englert, a space scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, has...

Optech Patents Underground Cavity Monitoring System
Optech Inc. of Toronto, a developer and manufacturer of laser-based survey instruments, has...

Technology

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Lasers light a better way to build a sub
By using laser projection instead of paper and string, an estimated half a million dollars could be...

Guiding light is not just a soap opera
Computers of the future may use light rather than electricity for logic functions. “There is this...

Satellite proves its worth
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system has been expanded by a new...

Small device prevents diode death
Electrostatic discharge (ESD), reverse bias and power surges are common causes for the malfunction...

For lasers, small and thin are in
Lasers just keep getting smaller and smaller: Recently, only a couple of months after the report of...

Single-photon converter expands IR spectrometry
A cleverly designed single-photon detector has enabled scientists at the National Institute of...

Tunable light source reaches nanoscale milestone
In the race to develop ever-smaller and -faster optical devices, researchers have built the first...