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Photonics in: Consumer Goods People in Tokyo like to line up. They line up at 4 a.m. to obtain a box of traditional sweets or the...	Photonics Design & Solutions: Machine vision users are beginning to consider color imaging an important source of information for ...
Lab and Factory Share Lasers In the beginning, the development of scientific lasers was stimulated almost entirely by the applica...	Big Hopes for Small Lasers The growth in telecommunications, data storage and data processing is driving fiber optic data commu...
Photonics in: The Laboratory We asked laboratory managers what features they look for in photonic equipment and what they expect ...	Industrial Lasers Make Their Mark Like TV’s Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, industrial laser users demand more power from their tools...
Display Measurement: Measure What You See Significant advances in display technology have been made in recent years, creating new market oppor...	Photonics in: Medicine Photonics plays a key role in medicine and health care. Lasers, with their precise targeting of tiss...
Photonics in: Military/Aerospace The technological force that was on display during the Persian Gulf conflict in the early 90’s...	Plastic Optics Challenge Glass Injection-molded plastic optics with precision requirements were most likely first produced in high ...
Quantum Cascade Lasers Make Sense for Sensing Chemical sensing has enormous potential in environmental monitoring, medical applications and indust...	Technology Close-Up: Determining an application’s parameters and requirements is important when shopping for an ima...
Photonics in: Telecommunications The telecommunications industry is in a frenzy to deliver more bandwidth. The (mostly) all-optical n...	Opening the Terahertz Window Exploration of the far-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum has been frustrated by the di...

Infrared Sensor Watches for Black Ice CANBY, Ore. -- Black ice is a tricky thing. You’re sailing down the freeway because everything...	IR Exposes Gas-Phase Metal Carbides Researchers have produced the first direct infrared spectra of the gas-phase metal carbide clusters ...
Smaller Chips See Larger Markets New complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology from Philips Semiconductor of Eindhoven, the ...	Luminescent Materials Show Structure Damage MALVERN, UK -- Flashes of light given off by crystals as they fracture may provide clues to structur...
Scientists Resolve Ionization Debate FRANKFURT, Germany -- Since 1983, physicists have argued over how intense laser beams can multiply i...	Doped Pentacene Yields Efficient Plastic Solar Cells MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Organic solar cells have a singular advantage over their inorganic counterparts...
High-Power Lasers Do the Work of Four Santa Clara, Calif.-based Coherent Inc. has delivered prototypes of its proprietary optically pumped...	Large IR Sensor Peers Deeper into Space A 2048 x 2048-pixel infrared sensor developed by the Rockwell Science Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif...
Light Drives Molecular Motor GRONINGEN, Netherlands -- Scientists at the University of Groningen and Tohoku University in Sendai,...	Lasers Manipulate Condensate GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have used las...
One-Atom Maser Confirms Planck’s Theory Nearly a century after Max Planck explained changes in the spectra of hot radiating bodies in terms ...	Mongrel Particles Act like Bosons SOUTHAMPTON, UK -- Strange quasiparticles made of photons and electrons may lead to applications in ...
Sensitization Produces High-Efficiency Organic LEDs PRINCETON, N.J. -- Organic LEDs promise much to the commercial display industry -- cool, low-voltage...	Polarization Rotator Puts New Spin on Fiber Bottlenecks Researchers at AT&T Labs of Red Bank, N.J., have demonstrated a free-space micromachined polariz...
Researchers Probe for Good Vibrations MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that if one laser bea...	Satellite-Based Lidar May Help the Weatherman MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. -- Sending balloons into the upper atmosphere to get weather readings is deca...
Large Tiled LCDs Present Seamless Images ENDICOTT, N.Y. -- For years, manufacturers and research groups have struggled to develop effective l...

High Technology Goes on the Block HOUSTON -- Many auction houses feature art, antiques and collectibles. With the offering of rights t...	Channel Link RS-644 Advances as Standard Fourteen machine vision manufacturers met in Rosemont, Ill., to create a camera-to-frame-grabber cab...
Applied Laser Research Contest Opens The nonprofit foundation Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH of Ditzingen, Germany, has opened the comp...	Class-Action Suit Filed Against Flir Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP of San Diego has filed a class-action suit against Flir...
Forensics Professionals Dying for Hyperspectral Imaging WASHINGTON -- A new market may be emerging for photonics: Forensics. Congress is considering a...	Intel Takes Equity Stake in Optoelectronics HILLSBORO, Ore. -- Giant microprocessor manufacturer Intel Corp. has quietly been acquiring equity i...
Lord of the Photon Spins a Light Verse BALTIMORE -- Kevin Kalkhoven has had a good year, so it is understandable that he was feeling rather...	Nortel Announces Deal to Purchase CoreTek Nortel Networks Corp. of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, has agreed to acquire CoreTek Inc. of Wilmington...
OFC Advances at Light Speed BALTIMORE -- What do you say about the 2000 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) when the fi...	Premier Laser Accused of Patent Infringement BioLase Technology Inc. of San Clemente, Calif., announced that it has filed suit against troubled P...
Zygo Plans to Acquire Firefly Zygo Corp. of Middlefield, Conn., has announced plans to acquire Firefly Technologies Inc. of Hollis...

FDA Approves Expansion of Spectranetics’ Clinical Trials Spectranetics Corp. has won US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the expansion of the ...	Mobile Video Improves Paramedic Response An ambulance service in the UK recently found that 40 percent of calls for an ambulance were unneces...
Photometer Measures Automotive Lighting and Reflectors Standards for automotive retro-reflectors -- as well as signals and forward lighting -- require that...	Streamlined Optical Assembly Delivers Molecular Dynamics develops and manufactures instruments for high-throughput DNA sequencing and mole...

Cognex to Buy Machine Vision Business In an agreement valued at up to $19 million in cash, Cognex Corp. of Natick, Mass., plans to pur...	JDS Uniphase, E-Tek Merger Under Review The Antitrust Div. of the US Department of Justice has requested additional information and document...
Lucent Contracted for Chinese Networks Lucent Technologies of Murray Hill, N.J., has announced that it has signed supply contracts totaling...	Tactical Laser Concept Examined Officials from the US Department of Defense discussed the Airborne Tactical Laser concept at a confe...
IR Simulation Leaves Waco Tragedy Unresolved On March 19, eight men at Fort Hood, Texas, fired assault rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers...

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