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RGB Source Powers Up Laser Projection Displays Despite being considerably more expensive than TV sets, liquid crystal display projectors are findin...	Light Tamers From sophisticated deep-UV steppers to indoor-outdoor lighting applications, passing through rear-pr...
Cleaning Standards for Fiber Optic Connectors Promise Time and Cost Savings A cleaning standard for fiber optic connectors could save industry millions of dollars annually. Con...	Slashing the Costs of High-Precision Micromachining Nanosecond pulses from Q-switched, solid-state lasers have long been used in a variety of machining ...
Tunable Telecom Lasers Promote Flexibility First With the telecom market showing signs of improvement, interest in tunable lasers is growing. Service...	Manufacturing Strategy Combats Laser Price Pressures The manufacturing yield of single-mode lasers for modern fiber optic communications systems is surpr...
Standardizing Tunable Lasers In 2001, when the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) in Fremont, Calif., began work on a tunable la...	Manufacturing Matters with Tunable Lasers One problem faced by manufacturers of full-band-tunable laser modules is the need for close cost par...
Nondestructive Inspection: Choosing the Right Microfocus X-ray Source and Detector Of all nondestructive test methods, only x-ray technology enables visual detection of defects beneat...	The Human Visual System Provides Clues to Better Object Recognition Machine-based vision systems, such as those used in the factory, at security checkpoints and in smar...
Electron Multiplication CCDs Offer a Flexible Solution A recent advance in CCD technology is the introduction of electron multiplication or charge carrier ...	Resolution Considerations for Color Imaging Technique Among the methods for color image creation and sampling, two popular techniques in common use are si...
CCDs Outperform Film in Rotating-Mirror Cameras Historically, the fastest framing cameras have been rotating-mirror film cameras, which can capture ...	Femtosecond Lasers Carve out a Niche in Micromachining The drive for miniaturization in electronics, photonics and biomedical devices is spurring an ever-g...

VCSEL for Telecom Features Curved Mirror for Single-Mode Operation Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are ...	Fiber Laser Offers New Approach to 488-nm Emission Solid-state laser sources at the argon-ion wavelength of 488 nm find many applications in medicine, ...
Nonlinear Lidar Detects, Identifies Bio-Aerosols As world governments have grown more attentive to the potential threat of biological weapons, a prem...	Optical Metrology Reconstructs Audio Recordings Under an interagency agreement, the Library of Congress in Washington and Lawrence Berkeley National...
Nd-Doped Fiber Laser Generates 360-fs Pulses at 900 nm Femtosecond lasers are useful in machining applications as well as in medicine, precise rangefinding...

Nanoptek Relocates Nanoptek Corp. has moved to Clock Tower Place, a Maynard, Mass., corporate complex that provides the...	BU Is Building Nanophotonics Lab The Photonics Center at Boston University has begun construction of the $1.5 million NanoPhotonics L...
Michigan Company to Develop Lidar System for High-Altitude Wind Measurement Under a two-year, $2.1 million contract from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, as part of a...	Companies Form OPO Distribution Agreement Sacher Lasertechnik LLC, a Buena Park, Calif.-based service site for diode laser products, and GWU L...
Cree Buys Gallium-Nitride Substrate Business For $10.25 million, Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., has acquired the gallium-nitride substrate and epitax...	Ohio Firms to Develop Flexible Plasma Displays Imaging Systems Technology (IST) of Toledo and Extreme Photonix of Cincinnati have joined forces to ...
Raytheon Wins Contract for Weapon Guidance The US Air Force has awarded Raytheon Co. of Waltham, Mass., the maximum available share of three co...	Semiconductor Fabrication Comes Roaring Back To everything there is a season, and now is the time to build -- at least as far as the semiconducto...
Flir to Provide Cameras for Air Base Security Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., has received a $7.2 million order for its ThermoVision Sentry I...	BAE Systems Opens Laser Centre of Excellence in UK The Laser Centre of Excellence has been opened in Edinburgh by BAE Systems Avionics Group of Basildo...
Dalsa Wins Contracts for Customized Cameras The Application Specific Contracts group of Dalsa Corp., which is based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada...	Companies Merge to Develop IR Instrumentation Wilks Enterprise Inc. of South Norwalk, Conn., and Optical Coating Corp. of Natick, Mass., have merg...
British Alliance Formed To combine the technical expertise of the Centre for Integrated Photonics of Ipswich with the market...	Varioptic Defends Its Liquid Lens Patent Rights Varioptic of Lyon, France, has announced that it will enforce the patents it holds on the use of ele...
GSI Lumonics Agrees to Buy MicroE Systems GSI Lumonics Inc. of Billerica, Mass., has signed a definitive agreement under which it will purchas...	Mözak to Represent Dyntest in US and Asia Dyntest, a Grassau, Germany-based manufacturer of scriber/breaker systems for compound semiconductor...

Antimissile Laser Downs Large-Caliber Rocket Northrop Grumman Space Technology of Redondo Beach, Calif., has announced that the Mobile Tactical H...	Tonks-Girardeau Quantum Gas Created Reporting in the May 20 issue of Nature, physicists from Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Ludwi...
GaN Superior for Short-Wavelength LEDs A team of researchers from General Electric Global Research Center in Niskayuna, N.Y., and from AXT ...	Fluidic Lens Forms Different Lens Types A fluidic adaptive lens developed at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla transforms...

Periodically Poled MgO:LiNbO3 Generates High-Power Green Although green powers in excess of 1 W have been generated with periodically poled LiNbO3 (PPLN), th...	Left-Handed Materials Research Advances The ability of left-handed materials to focus electromagnetic waves in unusual ways promises unique ...
New Resin Suitable for Multiphoton Polymerization Scientists at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and at Boston University have developed an acr...	Quantum Cryptography Used to Transfer Funds Researchers at Universität Wien and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria, the Austria...

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