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Trilinear Cameras Offer High-Speed Color Imaging Solutions With high color quality and speed – and low cost – trilinear color cameras provide an at...	Photonics Steals the Show The entertainment industry owes a lot to photonics: From laser light displays at concerts to new len...
120-W ArFi Laser Makes Higher-Dose Lithography Possible A new flexible 90- to 120-W ArFi excimer laser system enables high-volume multiple-patterning manufa...	Hybrid Laser Improves Micromachining Throughput, Quality A new laser system based on a fiber seed and a DPSS power amplifier produces UV and green wavelength...
Laser Gain Media: A Diverse Family of Materials Various gain media used in laser technologies differ greatly in essential properties such as wavelen...

IR holography helps firefighters blinded by the light Firefighters may have a new tool when it comes to finding a person hidden in a thick veil of smoke a...	Vacuum-based electron acceleration may be useful for laser plasma fusion A proof-of-principle test has demonstrated that an electron beam can be accelerated by a laser in fr...
Carbon nanotube detector works in the infrared at room temperature A photodetector that uses carbon nanotube films of varying widths can gather light in and beyond vis...	Sandia houses world’s largest fiber optic network The largest fiber optic local area network (LAN) in the world, pioneered by Sandia National Laborato...
Virtual photons become real in a vacuum By changing the position of a mirror inside a vacuum, virtual particles can be transformed into real...	Graphene highly efficient at converting light to electricity Graphene is even more efficient at converting light to electricity than was previously known, making...
Light’s polarization states measured directly There may be a way around Heisenberg’s famous Uncertainty Principle, a law of the quantum worl...	Spectroscopy method could lead to better optical devices A new spectroscopy method takes advantage of a fundamental property of thin films – interferen...

An Interview with … Milton Chang is the managing director of Incubic Management LLC and the author of Toward Entrepreneu...	Image sensor market will grow 3.9% through 2018 The image sensor market will grow between 2013 and 2018 – it won’t be huge, but it will ...
Moves & Expansions Tokyo-based distributor Opto-Line Inc. has signed agreements with CVI Laser Optics and Melles Griot ...	Inrad Optics trims workforce by 9% Optical component and crystalline device manufacturer Inrad Optics Inc. of Northvale, N.J., has trim...
People In The News The 2013 Materials Research Society conferred its Outstanding Young Investigator Award to Alexandra ...	Collaborations Magnolia Solar Inc., a subsidiary of Magnolia Solar Corp., has demonstrated a flexible copper indium...
UKIVA members out in force for Total 2013 Nearly 40 percent of UKIVA (UK Industrial Vision Association) members will exhibit at the 2013 Total...

Real-time detection useful in controlling pollutants A new infrared camera that detects pollutants such as sulfur dioxide – a major cause of acid r...

Safety in motion: Avoiding hazards in the optical shop The first installment of this series addressed the organizational aspects of shop safety: policy sta...

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