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Small Block Cameras Tackle Tough Tasks They go where humans can’t. Sometimes they go where no camera has gone before. Often they go w...	A Model of Efficiency Product advances based on classical illumination technology have primarily correlated with advances ...
To Manufacture More, Automate The rapid expansion of dense wavelength division multiplexing telecommunications networks has create...	Small Optics Offer Big Correction At the heart of many photonics projects is a microlens or an array of microlenses. Whether one is at...
Managing Polarization Mode Dispersion The increasing demand for bandwidth is driving most telecommunications operators toward the deployme...	Integrating Spheres Create ’Artificial Sunshine’ When testing a camera system or a material’s weathering performance, researchers need a stable...
Telecom Test Equipment Takes to the Outdoors The ever-growing demand for more bandwidth is creating a breakneck pace in the development and imple...

3-D Crystals Created for the Visible Spectrum OXFORD, UK -- One of the main challenges the photonics industry faces is the development of a three-...	Bell Labs Extends 3-Tb/s Transmission Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., has announced successful long-distance transmission at triple-terabi...
Biocavity Laser Could Fill a Void ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Today’s surgeons are, in some ways, blind. Because they can’t see h...	Butterfly Aids Color Research EXETER, UK --What do a TV set, a Georges-Pierre Seurat painting and an emerald swallowtail butterfly...
Chalmers Develops 49-dB Optical Parametric Amplifier A team at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, has developed a fiber-based op...	New Material Cools to -100 °C EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Many applications await the development of efficient, inexpensive, low-temper...
Film Selectively Darkens Light UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Intense light sources can cause damage to eyes and other optical sensors: a ...	LEDs Benefit from Interface Engineering A research group from the UK, Germany and Singapore describes the production of efficient polymer LE...
Through the Left-Handed Looking Glass SAN DIEGO -- Researchers at the University of California have constructed a breakthrough material th...	A Little Hard Time Does Photochemistry Good NEW ORLEANS -- A technique under development at Tulane University and the University of British Colu...
Lucent Upgrades WaveStar to 320-Channel, 800-Gb/s Transmission Lucent Technologies Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., has announced an upgrade to its WaveStar OLS 400G den...	Optics Center Refines Confocal Grinding The University of Rochester’s Center for Optics Manufacturing in New York is testing a prototy...
New Process Developed for Telescope Mirror Manufacture HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Advanced Optical Systems Inc. has teamed with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in T...	Astronomers Discover Distant Quasar Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico have announc...
Researchers Find New Uses for an Old Semiconductor ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are putting an old alloy to work in ...	Physicists Play Ring-Around-the-Atom NORMAL, Ill. -- Electrons racing about their atomic nuclei at nearly the speed of light bring new pe...
Schott Turns Out Glass for Ignition Facility Following months of cooperative research with Hoya Corp. of Fremont, Calif., Schott Glass Technologi...	Scientists Observe Motion of Individual Atoms PASADENA, Calif. -- In a development that could have far-reaching ramifications for single-atom scie...
SDL Tests Raman Amplifiers Researchers from SDL Inc. of San Jose, Calif., and AT&T Labs-Research of Red Bank, N.J., have re...	Small Particles Could Find Big Uses URBANA, Ill. -- At the University of Illinois, a researcher may be on the way to something big by st...
Space-Based Laser Boosts Power An April 24 test of the megawatt-class hydrogen-fluoride chemical laser known as Alpha increased the...	Synchrotron Produces Femtosecond Pulses A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Advanced Light Source in Berkeley, Calif., r...
Laser Tweezers Test Kramers’ Theory EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Nearly 60 years after Hendrik A. Kramers described the thermally driven trans...	Computer Vision-Based System Gauges Fuel Levels UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Most conventional fuel gauges rely on a sensor with low-voltage electrical l...

Electronic Display Materials Push Ahead Business Communications Co. Inc. of Norwalk, Conn., predicts that global shipments of electronic dis...	Los Alamos Donates Equipment Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will donate its excess labora-tory equipment to nonprof...
Tantalum Basks in Telecom Spotlight ARLINGTON, Va. -- It’s nice to be sought after -- especially when you’re named for the k...	Surveillance Booms Business Communications Co. Inc. of Norwalk, Conn., predicts that the visual surveillance market in ...
Calimetrics Licenses Near-Field Technology Polaroid Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., has granted Calimetrics Inc. of Alameda, Calif., an exclusive li...	Corning to Acquire Datacom Company Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., has agreed to purchase the remaining equity in NZ Applied Technologie...
Free-Space Optical Network Planned Lucent Technologies Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., and TeraBeam Networks of Seattle have announced that ...	Nakamura Orders GaN Platform The University of California at Santa Barbara’s Shuji Nakamura, the inventor of the blue, gree...
Newport Receives Orders Totaling $7 Million for Specialized Precision Optics Products Newport Corporation has announced that it has received orders totaling $7 million from three major s...	Lucent: For Sale to Good Owner MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies Inc. has announced plans to sell about a dozen of its 17 US...
Vision Suit Continues US District Court Judge Philip Pro in Reno, Nev., denied three motions of the Lemelson Medical, Educ...	Survey: Mergers Displace Business Leaders ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Chamber of commerce executives are generally upbeat folks, faithfully pitching th...
Trimedyne Insider Trading Proves Too Tempting IRVINE, Calif. -- The events of one day in March 1996 proved just too tempting for two individuals. ...	Projectors Brighten Texas Instruments’ Future Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas has announced that first-quarter shipments of its Digital Light Pro...
’Weird’ Science Grants Announced by Innovation Initiative An initiative by the government, universities and scientific organizations in The Netherlands will g...

Hyperspectral Imaging Leads to New Art Form, Greener Lawns England’s fields may soon stay green even when the grass is dead, thanks to hyperspectral imag...	Plant-Monitoring Fluorometer Has Its Day in the Sun Through the ages, plants -- and particularly crops -- have evolved to survive adverse conditions, no...
Optical Sensor Bridges Gap for Robotic Welders Two robotic welders at Vauxhall Motors Ltd. complete about 300 wheel arches a day on models such as ...	Superdry Optics Stand up to Er:YAG Energy Emitting at 2.94 µm, Er:YAG lasers offer some very promising solutions for a broad range of med...

Consortium Advances Fiber-Based Local Area Networks Fourteen Taiwanese networking manufacturers, representing approximately 25 percent of the global pro...	Flir to Supply Cameras for Inspection Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., has signed a $4.7 million deal to supply multispectral imaging ...
JDS Uniphase Announces Plans to Acquire Casix JDS Uniphase Corp. of Nepean, Ontario, Canada, has announced an agreement to purchase Casix Laser In...	Nortel Consolidates Components Businesses Nortel Networks Corp. of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, has formed High Performance Optical Components S...
Polaroid Sells Laser Business Boston Laser Inc. of Norwood, Mass., has agreed to purchase the laser diode development and manufact...

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