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Appearances Can Be Deceiving Most commercial lens assemblies such as lenses for cameras and microscope objectives are reasonably ...	Defining Performance In laser applications such as materials processing, environmental monitoring and confocal microscopy...
Great Gratings Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) is the most effective means for expanding communicatio...	How Photons Work The study of light has been inextricably linked to the advancement of scientific thought for more th...
For Pixels, Size Matters In the rat race for ever-higher pixel counts for the digital still camera market, it is clear that, ...	Photonics Rules of Thumb Scientists and engineers tend to want to answer simple relational questions with a blackboard covere...
Squelch the Noise The silicon positive-intrinsic-negative (PIN) photodiode is a ubiquitous component that detects ligh...	High-Tech ’Vision’ Test Modulation transfer function is the predominant measure of the performance of image-forming lenses ...

Laser Aims to Reduce Ceramic Costs WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Because of their exceptional hardness, resistance to wear and stability at h...	1.8-W Diode to Pump Fiber Amplifiers CANBERRA, Australia -- Researchers at Australian National University have created a high-power 980-n...
Laser Display Challenges Cathode-Ray Tubes ORLANDO, Fla. -- A new display technology is looking to upstage the cathode-ray tube. Researchers at...	Dopant Level Improves Organic LEDs A team from Ludwig Maximilian Universität in Munich, Institut Ackermannweg in Mainz and Univers...
Glasses Make Versatile Crystals SOUTHAMPTON, UK -- Photonic quasicrystals with complete bandgaps can be made in glasses that are typ...	Gold Clusters Are Optically Active ATLANTA -- Metals, as a rule, do not display optical activity. So researchers at the Georgia Institu...
IR Imager Uses Missile Technology WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A form of infrared imaging developed by the military for heat-seeking missil...	Old LPs Find New Use in X-Ray Optics STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- In trying to develop a cheap way to focus x-rays, perhaps it should be no surpr...
Lunar Glass Beads Offer Clues to Craters BERKELEY, Calif. -- Comets and asteroids have bombarded the moon and Earth over the last 3 billion y...	New Technology: Pen on Paper LUND, Sweden -- Let’s face it. No matter how much technology advances in the computer world, m...
Plastic Film Makes for Light Travel ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Moving mass into space is an expensive proposition. The Next Generation Space T...	Polymers Improve Electro-Optics SEATTLE -- Larry Dalton runs short treks into the future. It’s a world of unlimited bandwidth,...
Raman Spectroscopy Opens the Earth’s Core Researchers from the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon ...	Readers Bridge the Net and Print Gap A microelectromechanical scanning reader under development by Microvision Inc. of Bothell, Wash., pr...
Silicon Crystal Is Cheap, Simple TORONTO -- Researchers in Canada and Spain have overcome the obstacles to develop a three-dimensiona...	Laser Spot Aims at Storage Market MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- A relatively simple solution to the problem of reducing a laser’s spot si...
Sputtering Yields 3200-GHz Filter Advanced Lighting Technologies Inc. of Cleveland has announced that its subsidiary Deposition Scienc...	Strip Coating Makes the Grade A study of the reformulated Opticlean strip coating, distributed by Dantronix Research and Technolog...

Buyout Boosts Coreco’s Market Share MONTREAL -- The crowded machine vision industry got only slightly less so in June when Coreco Inc. a...	Forum Addresses Photonics Labor Shortage Representatives from the Coalition for Photonics and Optics met in Washington with public policy-mak...
Good Times Ahead for Optical Interconnects A report from ElectroniCast Corp. of San Mateo, Calif., predicts an explosion in the global market f...	Growth Expected for Materials Processing Optech Consulting of Bisingen, Germany, foresees continued double-digit growth in the global laser m...
Growth Expected for Dispersion Compensators A report released by ElectroniCast Corp. of San Mateo, Calif., predicts that the global consumption ...	Industrial Laser Shipments Up in 2000 The Laser Systems Product Group of the Association for Manufacturing Technology in McLean, Va., has ...
JDS Uniphase Courts Regulators to Win SDL SAN JOSE, Calif. -- JDS Uniphase Corp.’s $41 billion play for rival optical telecommunications...	Laser Supplier Supports Charity The MedicAlert Foundation of London announced that it has received a charitable donation of £10...
LEDs Shrink Displays Microvision Inc. of Bothell, Wash., has completed the initial tests of its miniature retinal-scannin...	Murnane Receives ’Genius Grant’ Margaret M. Murnane has been awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, als...
Nanogen Settles Patent Dispute San Diego-based Nanogen Inc. announced that it has settled a complaint with Beckman Coulter Inc. of ...	Photonics Not Lost in Space LAUREL, Md. -- The "better" part of "faster, better, cheaper" as it applies to NASA’s mandate ...
Presstek Creates Diode Unit TUCSON, Ariz. -- Digital imaging company Presstek Inc. of Hudson, N.H., is solving a supply problem ...	Up, Up and Away WASHINGTON -- Helium is so cheap and plentiful that it is used to fill Mickey Mouse balloons for chi...

Micromirrors Enable Microprojectors E-commerce notwithstanding, much of today’s work force is still mobile. Thousands of consultan...	Ringlight Remains Stable When Put on the Spot Not too long ago, computer enthusiasts were predicting that all business communication would occur e...
Software Models Electromagnetic Waves Software programming is a tedious, thankless job. Bill Gates notwithstanding, it isn’t likely ...

Boeing Plans Acquisition of SVS Boeing Co. of Seattle has announced plans to purchase photonics manufacturer SVS Inc. of Albuquerque...	CVI Opens New Manufacturing Facility CVI Laser Corporation announced the ribbon cutting on August 26, 1999, for its $4 million manufactur...
Lambda Physik Teams with European Consortium to Develop Colored Laser Decorating of Plastics Using its Diode Pumped Solid-State 1-kHz laser system, capable of emitting three wavelengths, Lambda...	Lucent Licenses Quantum Cascade Laser Applied Optoelectronics Inc. of Sugar Land, Texas, has signed a licensing agreement under which it w...
Melles Griot Announces New Business Unit Director, Capital Equipment Stephen Kidd, Ph.D, has been selected to take on the responsibilities of marketing and product manag...	Melles Griot Welcomes Tricia Dunn, SPHR as Vice President of Human Resources Tricia Dunn has been appointed to the position of Vice President of Human Resources at Melles Griot....
Contract Manufacturing Melles Griot announces contract manufacturing capability for custom photonics modules. The range of...	Newport Receives Precision Optics Orders Irvine, Calif.-based Newport Corp. has received orders for its precision optics and optomechanical s...
Spectra-Physics and GSI Lumonics Sign Supply Agreement Spectra-Physics Lasers of Mountain View, Calif., has signed an agreement with GSI Lumonics Advanced ...	Photon Tunneling Microscope Reveals Singularities A team at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands, has developed a technique that may ...

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