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Microvision Forms Alliance for Automotive Displays
A specialist in light scanning technologies for display and imaging products, Microvision Inc. of...

Laser Development Grant Disbursed
A £5 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of Swindon, UK, will...

USI and PhotonIC Form Alliance
Universal Semiconductor Inc. (USI) of San Jose, Calif., has partnered with PhotonIC Corp. of Culver...

Lumera Receives Order from Lockheed Martin
A nanotechnology specialist, Lumera Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has received a purchase order from...

Olympus Microsystems America Relocates
A developer of MEMS-based wavelength-selective switches, Olympus Microsystems America Inc. has...

II-VI Subsidiary Partners with Fuxin Electronics
Marlow Industries Inc., a Dallas-based subsidiary of II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., has signed a...

4D Technology Opens Sales Office in Connecticut
4D Technology Corp., based in Tucson, Ariz., has opened a sales and support office in East Hampton,...

New Scale Technologies to Open Manufacturing Center
New Scale Technologies Inc. of Victor, N.Y., has announced plans to create a $1 million center for...

GE Renames LED Subsidiary
GE Consumer & Industrial of Cleveland has renamed its LED business Lumination LLC, reflecting...

Royal Philips Merges with TIR Systems
The Dutch company Royal Philips Electronics of Amsterdam has announced that it will acquire TIR...

DRS Technologies to Supply IR Systems for Combat Vehicles
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., was awarded a $124 million contract to provide...

AccuCoat Relocates
AccuCoat Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., a manufacturer of optical coatings for glass, polymer and metal...

RPMC to Distribute Beamtech Optronics
RPMC Lasers Inc. of O’Fallon, Mo., will distribute lasers from Beamtech Optronics Co. Ltd. of...

Nanoident Technologies Opens New Facility
Nanoident Technologies AG of Linz, Austria, has opened a new facility, Nanoident Organic Fab GmbH,...

Market Tech to Distribute Onefive Product Line
Onefive GmbH of Zurich, Switzerland, has appointed Market Tech Inc. of Scotts Valley, Calif., as...

Cornes Dodwell Selected as Intense Agent in Japan
Semiconductor laser developer Intense Ltd. of Glasgow, UK, has picked Cornes Dodwell of Tokyo to...

Synova and Kataoka Form Partnership
Synova SA of Lausanne, Switzerland, and Kataoka Corp. of Kyoto, Japan, have signed a licensing...

Konica Minolta, GE Ally for Organic LED Lighting
Imaging specialists Konica Minolta Holdings Inc. and Konica Minolta Technology Center Inc., both in...

Agilent Technologies Creates Unit
Agilent Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has announced its establishment of the Materials...

Optical Component Market Will Grow
Communications Industry Researchers Inc. of Glen Allen, Va., has predicted that, by 2012, the...

Avago Technologies Buys Fiber Business
Avago Technologies Ltd. of San Jose, Calif., has acquired the Polymer Optical Fiber business of...

Bristol Instruments Moves to New Locale
Bristol Instruments Inc. has moved to a larger facility in Victor, N.Y., to accommodate its growing...

Soliant Energy Partners with Solar Power Installers
In California, Soliant Energy Inc. of Pasadena, formerly known as Practical Instruments Inc., has...

DoE Promotes Solid-State Lighting
The US Department of Energy (DoE) is stepping up efforts to promote solid-state lighting, an...

Trumpf Opens Plant in Monterrey, Mexico
Trumpf Inc. of Farmington, Conn., has opened a sales, service, demonstration and production...

Market Forecast for Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers
ElectroniCast Consultants of Upper Lake, Calif., has released a 10-year market forecast study on...

Sub 1 Optics Moves to a Larger Facility
Sub 1 Optics LLC has moved its operations to Colfax, Calif., to expand its manufacturing space and...

Northrop Grumman to Close Massachusetts Facility
Northrop Grumman Corp. will close its Fibersense Technology facility in Canton, Mass. The plant has...

What’s in Your Wallet?
It isn’t only the makers of film who should fear digital photography. It’s also the bills in your...

Siskiyou to Manufacture Optics Mounts
Siskiyou Corp. of Grants Pass, Ore., has been selected by the Fusion Research Center at the...

Feature Articles

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Laser-Induced Fluid Flow
Lasers can do many things, including pushing particles and trapping them. Theoretical physicists...

Following Flow by Mapping Heat
Researchers at Zhejiang University of Technology in Hangzhou, China, have found that a little bit...

Laser Heat Forms Nanobubbles
Boiling water was thought to be a well-understood phenomenon until we entered the age of...

Thin-Disk Lasers Come of Age
The thin-disk laser is a diode-pumped solid-state laser that produces high output power with both...

Are Quantum Dots on the Brink of Their Big Break?
The period at the end of this sentence would be colossal next to a quantum dot — like a flea...

Fiber Laser Simulators: Challenges and Opportunities
From micron-size transistors to jumbo jets, all technological marvels have been simulated at some...

Eye Safety in the Laser Lab
Thinking about installing a laser safety interlock on the door to your Class 4 laser lab? If so,...

Selecting the Appropriate Optical Mount
When engineers are choosing optics, a common mistake they make is overlooking the integration of...

LED Focus

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Three-Band White LED Shows Stability and High Color Rendering Index
LED technology has advanced to the point where white LEDs are bright enough for general...

Annealing and Activating Silicon Nanowires with a Laser
In electronics, smaller is almost always better. That has been further illustrated by a recent...

Microscopy Focus

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Seeing Smaller Features with Surface Plasmons
Imaging using surface plasmon resonance — electron oscillations induced by light at a...

Identifying Atoms by Feel
Atomic force microscopes (AFMs) and other scanning probe devices can map surfaces on an atomic...

Nanophotonics

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Silver Nanostructures with Unique Optical Properties Created
Silver nanobars and nanorice with the ability to scatter and absorb light in the near-infrared have...

Nanoscale ‘Pins’ Enhance SERS
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is still a young technique, but it shows promise for...

New Media

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NANOPHOTONICS
Intertech-Pira

EP-IR ANALYSIS
Aspectrics Inc.

SENSORS, CAMERAS
Framos Electronic Vertriebs GmbH

MACHINE VISION
Firstsight Vision Ltd.

FILTERS/FLUOROPHORES
Omega Optical Inc.

PHOTONICS TEXTBOOK
John Wiley & Sons Inc.

FIELD SPECTROSCOPY
Analytical Spectral Devices Inc.

DATA ACQUISITION
Keithley Instruments Inc.

MEASURING MACHINES
Hexagon Metrology Inc.

PLATE READER
Wyatt Technology Corp.

Peregrinations

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Solar Spin Machine
Sure, most governments twist events to their advantage when necessary. But the sun, it turns out,...

Science Student Scores with Spectrograph
It’s safe to assume that the average teenager has, at best, only a vague idea of what a...

Presstime Bulletin

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Light Controls Actuators
For years, chemists have tried to make materials that change shape in directed ways, but, for the...

Research

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Generating High Green Power Without the ‘Green Problem’
Intracavity frequency-doubled neodymium lasers are attractive sources of green power, which is...

Why ‘Divide and Conquer’ Works in Photonics, Too
Chirped-pulse amplification has become the tried-and-true technique for amplifying short laser...

Single Longitudinal Mode Oscillates in Q-Switched Fiber Laser
Q-switched fiber lasers are useful in many applications, including metrology and nonlinear...

Quasi-Phase Matching Effective in Microring Resonator
Quasi-phase-matched second-harmonic generation in crystals has evolved into a successful technique...

Making Fiber Act like a Pockels Cell
Researchers at Acreo AB in Stockholm, Sweden, have recently demonstrated an all-fiber device that,...

Two Q-Switched Fiber Lasers Generate Terahertz Radiation
Between the optical and radio-frequency wavelengths, there is that mysterious gap of terahertz...

Outputs of Fiber Lasers Combined Coherently
The largest barrier to increasing the power from fiber lasers is the onset of nonlinear effects and...

Raman Laser Provides Unique Ultraviolet Wavelengths
Ultraviolet lasers have many important applications in biohazard detection and environmental...

Spectroscopy Focus

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Ensuring Garbage In, Good Food Out
In sustainable and organic agriculture, farmers typically add carbon-rich soil amendments to boost...

Twisting the light away
Reducing the size of spectroscopic biosensors by integrating waveguides into microchannel systems...

Technology

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Sheep Horns Reveal Diet
Jörg Feldmann, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Aberdeen in the UK, could...

Molecular Machine Opens and Closes in Response to Light
Equipped with tools that can manipulate single molecules, researchers may be able to construct...

Sunglasses Developed with Adjustable Shade and Color
Tired of fumbling to find the right eyewear to meet the ever-changing intensity of the sun? Having...

High-Gain and Low-Power ZnO Nanowire Photodetectors
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is frequently used as an alternative to GaN in optoelectronics because of its low...

Virtual Reality on a Vast and Vivid Scale
The Virtual Reality Applications Center at Iowa State University in Ames has created what it claims...

Tapered Waveguide Answers Perplexing Question
There are occasions in medicine — dentistry, in particular — when it is desirable to focus a laser...

Can Laser Propulsion Stabilize Satellites?
Laser-propelled spacecraft have been around in science-fiction comic books for years, but now an...