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Dual Laser Pulses Enable Portable Lead Testing
To diminish the negative effect that the metal lead has on public health, the US Environmental...
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Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
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MICRO STAGE
Steinmeyer Inc.
DRIVER SOFTWARE
Basler Vision Technologies
FIBER LASER
Fianium Ltd.
LCD CONTROLLER
Digital View Inc.
VISION SENSORS
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
SPECTRORADIOMETER
FluxData Inc.
DOUBLE-CLAD FIBER
Nufern
DPSS LASERS
Snake Creek Lasers
SPECTROMETER
BaySpec Inc.
INLET TRAP
Mass-Vac Inc.
MICROSCOPE STAGE
Prior Scientific Inc.
INDUSTRIAL IMAGING
Matrox Imaging
INSPECTION SYSTEM
Complete Inspection Systems Inc.
SCANNER
Neoteric Concepts LLC
DISPLAY ALIGNMENT
Mersive Technologies
SPLICER
Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd.
CAMERA CABLE
3M Electronic Solutions Div.
OPTICAL DESIGN
RSoft Design Group Inc.
METAL-CORE LAMINATE
Laird Technologies Inc.
RED LASER DIODE
Opnext Inc.
3-D OPTICAL SENSORS
PhaseView USA
COOLER ASSEMBLY
IRnova AB
CMOS SENSOR
NoblePeak Vision Corp.
INDUSTRIAL CAMERA
Dalsa Corp.
CCD MICROSCOPY CAMERA
Lumenera Corp.
DIAMOND MILLING
Kaleido Technology ApS
LED ARRAY MODULES
CoolLED
CHIP SET
Texas Instruments
MODULAR VISION SENSOR
LMI Technologies Inc.
POLYCARBONATE RESIN
Bayer MaterialScience LLC
LASER POWER METER
Rofin-Baasel UK Ltd.
POLYMER SYSTEM
Master Bond Inc.
LED LIGHTING
Seoul Semiconductor
REFLECTOMETER
Luna Technologies Inc.
OPTICAL TABLES
Newport Corp.
NEAR-IR ANALYZER
Foss NIRSystems Inc.
LIGHT SOURCE
Enfis Ltd.
DIAMOND TURNING
G-S Plastic Optics
DESIGN SOFTWARE
Trace Technologies Ltd.
PCI DIGITIZER
Agilent Technologies Inc.
DPSS LASER
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH
SOLAR CELLS
Spire Semiconductor
SPECTROMETER
Bruker AXS
CURING SYSTEMS
Xenon Corp.
RAMAN LASERS
B&W Tek Inc.
LED LIGHT SOURCE
Photonic Optische Geräte GmbH & Co. KG
Z-AXIS STAGE
Nanomotion Inc.
IR LASER
Klastech Karpushko Laser Technologies GmbH
LIGHT SOURCE
Energetiq Technology Inc.
METROLOGY SYSTEM
n&k Technology Inc.
LASER MARKING
Lasit USA
DESIGN SOFTWARE
Future Lighting Solutions
POSITIONING
Directed Perception Inc.
THERMAL IMAGER
L-3 Communications Infrared Products
CALIBRATION STANDARD
Pyser-SGI Ltd.
RAMAN CONVERTER
Light Age Inc.
SPECTROPHOTOMETER
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc.
LED DRIVERS
Zetex Semiconductors plc
FREQUENCY DOUBLER
Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH
DIAMOND FILM
3M
PARTICLE ANALYSIS
FEI Co.
PICOSECOND SEED LASER
Toptica Photonics AG
MATERIALS ANALYZER
Polychromix Inc.
LASER CUTTING
Laser Photonics LLC
5-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH
LASER DIODE DRIVER
Portable Power Systems Inc.
VIDEO RECORDING
NorPix Inc.
SPECTROMETER
TeraView Ltd.
LASER SCANNING
Optech Inc.
PULSED LASERS
PyroPhotonics Lasers Inc.
LASER CRYSTAL
Elk Industries LLC
PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION
rap.ID Particle Systems GmbH
LASER SCANNER
K-Tek Corp.
LASER DIODE MONITORING
Hamamatsu Corp.
ISOLATION PLATFORMS
Klughammer Industrie GmbH
VACUUM PUMPS
Edwards
DISPERSION COMPENSATOR
TeraXion Inc.
ND:YAG LASERS
Quantel Group’s Industrial & Scientific Laser Div.

FastTrack (Business News)
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Srico Awarded Contract
Srico Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research...
Sales of Optical Components Rise
The sale of optical components during the last quarter of 2007 rose slightly and the industry fared...
Microsharp Installs Coating Line in Europe
Microsharp Corp. Ltd. of Watchfield, UK, a developer of technologies for the display and media...
Osram Opto Opens Asia Headquarters
Osram Opto Semiconductors, a subsidiary of Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany, has opened a regional...
Thin Film Technology Awarded $9.8 Million
Thin Film Technology Inc., a unit of Williams Advanced Materials Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., has been...
Emcore to Purchase Intel Segments
Emcore Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., a provider of compound semiconductor-based components and...
Rohm and Haas Acquires Gracel Display
Rohm and Haas Co. of Philadelphia, a developer of technologies for the specialty materials...
US Invests in Solar
The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced that it will invest up to $13.7 million over three...
Spire, Jiangxi Gemei Sign Contract
Spire Corp. of Bedford, Mass., a provider of turnkey solar factories and capital equipment, has...
Emcore Garners $4.6 Million Order
Emcore Corp. of Albuquerque, N.M., a provider of semiconductor-based components and subsystems, has...
SensL Signs Contract
SensL of Mountain View, Calif., has signed a contract with Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator...
Sunovia Creates Infrared Division
Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc. of Sarasota, Fla., a renewable energy and energy conservation...
Axsys Receives $11.3 Million Order
Axsys Technologies Inc. of Rocky Hill, Conn., a developer of surveillance cameras and imaging...
Reflex Photonics Moves Headquarters
Reflex Photonics, originally of Montreal, a developer of optical connectivity solutions for...
Quintiq Opens Office in North America
Quintiq of ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, a provider of planning, scheduling and supply chain...
Digital Light to Distribute for 3DIcon
Digital Light Innovations of Austin, Texas, has signed a worldwide distributorship agreement with...
Exfo Acquires Navtel
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. of Quebec City has acquired all shares of Navtel...
Zeiss Opens Demo Facility
Carl Zeiss AG of Oberkochen, Germany, has opened the Carl Zeiss Advanced Imaging Centre Singapore,...
LightMachinery Acquires Product Lines from GSI
LightMachinery Inc. of Ottawa, a manufacturer of lasers and fluid jet polishing equipment, has...
Unidym, Nippon Kayaku to Collaborate
Unidym Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corp., will...
L-3 to Buy Segment of Northrop Grumman
L-3 Communications of New York, a provider of imaging solutions and sensors, has agreed to acquire...
Novaled Opens Asian Subsidiary
Novaled AG of Dresden, Germany, a provider of organic LED structures and solutions, has opened a...
Ascent Awarded US Air Force Contract
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. of Littleton, Colo., has been awarded the second phase of the US Air...
Lumera Receives Government Contract
Lumera Corp. of Bothell, Wash., a designer of telecommunications technologies, has been awarded...
Ball Selects Barr for Filter Arrays
Barr Associates Inc. of Westford, Mass., has been chosen by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp....
LG Chem, Universal Display to Collaborate
LG Chem Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea, and Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., have signed a...
BBN Technologies Awarded $5.7 Million
BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., a technology solutions firm, has been awarded $5.7 million by...
Dilas to Expand in China
Dilas, a developer and manufacturer of semiconductor laser components and systems based in Tucson,...
Supertex, Varioptic Collaborate
Supertex Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Varioptic of Lyon, France, have agreed to collaborate on...
DRS Technologies Receives Contract from US Marine Corps
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received a $19 million, five-year indefinite...
Optimum Optical Systems Receives Army Contract
Optimum Optical Systems Inc. of Camarillo, Calif., has received a contract from the US Army for the...
Lambda Names Distributor
Lambda Research Corp. of Littleton, Mass., has selected Alpha Precision Instrumentation Corp. of...
Sun Microsystems to Develop On-Chip Optical Networks
The US Department of Defense has awarded Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., $44.29...

Feature Articles
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Economic Challenges for Machine Vision
If you produce it, will customers buy it? As with other firms, machine vision companies are...
Leaves Its Print on Surveillance
For better or worse, security is increasing, and that means new opportunities — and challenges —...
Array of Tiny Quantum Cascade Lasers Provides Tunable Mid-IR Output
Unlike the near-infrared and visible spectral ranges, where diode lasers provide compact and...
Focusing High-Power, Single-Mode Laser Beams
New generations of thin-disk and fiber lasers are combining excellent beam quality — M2 typically...
Caution: Beam Crossing Ahead
There are times when a laser beam must cross between tables or must even travel from one room to...

Insights & Enterprise
The Importance of Trust
Howard R. Schlossberg is program manager for Basic Research in Lasers and Optics in the Physics and...

LED Focus
Another Way to Build a Better White Light
When it comes to replacing today’s white lights, don’t count out solid-state light-emitting...
Spreading Out Laterally Enables a Phosphor-Free White LED
Conventional white LEDs are actually blue or ultraviolet sources, with added phosphor shifting the...
FPGA TRAINING
Matrox Imaging offers online field-programmable gate array (FPGA) training programs. They are...

Microscopy Focus
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High-Quality NSOM Aperture Probes Made More Cheaply
Near-field scanning optical microscopes (NSOM) have not been used widely or routinely because of...
Visible and Nonvisible Imaging Techniques
The field of industrial microscopy has evolved from simple bright-field on-axis imaging to that of...
Practical Nanotomography
The applications of focused ion beam-based nanotomography already are quite diverse and are...
Scanning Impedance Probe Microscopy
Mapping physical properties of various materials at high resolution has been pursued for decades in...

Nanophotonics
Putting All of the Sunshine to Work in Solar Cells
Despite extensive research and development, solar cells still fall woefully short of perfection....
‘Giant’ Nanoparticles May Offer Improved Performance
Although nanocrystal quantum dots offer a host of advantages and continue to be explored for a...
Ivy’s Secret Is in Its Secretions
As anyone knows who has ever been to Wrigley Field in Chicago, ivy climbs, it covers and it spreads...

New Media
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LASER MEASUREMENT
Ophir-Spiricon Inc.
METAMATERIALS
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
OPTICS BROCHURE
Hellma Optik GmbH Jena
VISION SOFTWARE
Cognex Corp.
LASER SAFETY
Laser Institute of America
FPGA TRAINING
Matrox Imaging
PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR
Laservision•USA
LASER TECHNOLOGY
Trumpf
OEM COMPONENTS
New Focus Inc.
LED APPLICATIONS

Peregrinations
Light Turns Lethal for Feathered Friends
Many people find cell phones to be essential, something that they cannot live without. But the...
Petite Projectors Coming Soon
People already converse, e-mail, watch movies, listen to music and play games with any of a number...

Presstime Bulletin
Roundness (and Mass) Redefined
Most spheres look round enough to the unaided eye.But study a marble, a bowling ball or even a...
Bolometer-Based System Images Items at Terahertz Range
A technology developed to help ground-based telescopes discern tiny fluctuations in stellar...

Research
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Nanoantennae Direct Light from Molecules
Radio and microwave antennae enable modern conveniences such as listening to the radio, watching...
Unique Cavity Demonstrates Highest Optomechanical Coupling
Photons are nearly ideal for investigating quantum phenomena: They are easy to generate and have...
Tiny Fiber Fabry-Perot Created with Femtosecond Pulses
Most Fabry-Perot interferometers in optical fiber are intrinsic; that is, they are formed in the...
Finding Out How a Drop of Liquid Moves
When studying the interactions of liquids and solid surfaces, such as is occasionally required in...

Solar Photonics
Solar Cells of Stainless Steel
The ongoing search for less-expensive solar cells has led researchers in Finland to consider a...
Improving Solar Efficiency Through Tandem Design
Organic solar cells have several potential benefits. Compared with their nonorganic brethren, they...

Spectroscopy Focus
Near-IR Spectroscopy Gauges Tastiness of Plums
Consumers judge stone fruits such as plums by appearance and texture, seeking sometimes subtle...
Cavity Leak-Out Spectroscopy Aids Ethane Detection
Ethane is an important chemical that is used in several industrial processes, such as the...

Technology
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Gas-Assisted Embossing and UV Curing Combine to Make Microlens Arrays
Individual microlenses may be small, but a large array of them can have a big impact — and present...
For a Cheaper Camera, Use Curved Silicon
For all the benefits silicon brings to imaging, it does have a drawback: Silicon sensors are flat....
Capturing the Colors of a Plastic Bubble
Everyone loves the bright rainbow colors of a soap bubble, and young children often cry when these...
A Simpler Way to Build an Optical Acidity Detector
A team of researchers in Spain has devised a fluorescent surface molecular sensor for the detection...
Choosing the Better Bus Standard
Which bus standard is better for machine vision? A recently released study by Fraunhofer Institute...