High performance electronic and electro-optic components supplier GigOptix Inc. announced the openin... | Professor Theodor W. Hänsch has been named honorary chair professor at National Chiao Tung Univ... |
Nikon Metrology Inc. recently announced the opening of its new Western regional sales office in Irvi... | Industry veteran Shawn Murphy was recently appointed as regional sales manager for the Southeastern ... |
The Colorado Photonics Industry Association (CPIA) has named Research Electro-Optics (REO) as the 20... | Lockheed Martin received a $15.6 million contract to produce paveway II Enhanced Laser Guided Traini... |
Zygo Corp., supplier of optical metrology instruments and high-precision optical systems, announced ... | Gooch & Housego, formerly ChromoDynamics, announced that its Life Sciences Division was awarded ... |
Edmund Optics Inc. announced recently that Dr. Thomas Kessler will advance to the position of execut... | BP Chemicals is using Flir Advanced Thermal Solutions’ GasFindIR cameras to visualize and docu... |
Together with its longstanding partner Kantum Electronics Co. Ltd., Jenoptik is expanding its presen... | LightPath Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of patented optical components and assemblies, announced... |
ProPhotonix Ltd., formerly StockerYale Inc., has announced that its subsidiaries, StockerYale and Ph... | CEA-Leti, coordinator of the European HELIOS project to accelerate commercialization of silicon phot... |
The Laser and Materials Processing division of Jenoptik has expanded their current distribution agre... | MRC Optics, a subsidiary of Photonics Products Group Inc. of Northvale, N.J., announced recently tha... |
Seoul Semiconductor Corp., a LED supplier, announced an agreement with Singapore-based Vertex Ventur... | GSI Group Inc. announced that John Roush has joined the company as its next CEO.
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A retired Columbia University professor who held the sole patent covering a method of producing LEDs... | TT electronics Optek Technology announced its recent franchise agreement partnership with passive, i... |
High-power fiber lasers and amplifier provider IPG Photonics Corp. and Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc... | Integrated optical components manufacturer LigthPath Technologies Inc. announced it has increased si... |
Optomec Inc. announced the recent addition of Dr. David Bohling as its vice president of engineering... | MBF Bioscience and SVI (Scientific Volume Imaging BV) of the Netherlands announced today that MBF Bi... |
Three employees of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have received the 2010 Robert H Goddard ... | Liverpool John Moores University has equipped its Photonics in Engineering (PiE) research laboratory... |
High power optical components and coatings manufacturer Precision Photonics Corp. (PPC) announced th... | Nikon Instruments Inc. has begun direct sales and technical support for its BioScience microscopes, ... |
Universal Display Corp. has announced that it is establishing a South Korean subsidiary, Universal D... | G-S Plastic Optics has announced an upgraded metrology laboratory with the addition of a PerkinElmer... |
STMicroelectronics announced the recent appointment of Didier Lamouche as its new chief operating of... | AU Optronics Corp. announced that it will showcase a deadzone-free naked-eye 3-D notebook panel at F... |
Telops announced that it was awarded a $1.8 million contract from the Military University of Technol... | Raytheon Co.’s Airborne Optical Sensor system is now an integral part of the Missile Defense... |
The International Commission for Optics donates this year’s ICO prize to Reinhard Kienberger f... | Investment banking firm Newbury Piret & Co. Inc. and management consulting firm Ceres Technology... |
Two visually stunning and scientifically captivating entries have won joint first place in the first... | The Flexible Display Center (FDC), a government/industry/academia partnership at Arizona State Unive... |
The Optical Society of America (OSA) board of directors announced recently the election of James P. ... | Keithley Instruments, which specializes in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, will br... |
Universal Display Corp., the company enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its Univer... | The Institute of LSI Testing (ILSIT) announced recently that DCG Systems and Hamamatsu Photonics hav... |
Tessera Technologies Inc. announced the recent appointment of John Keating as its interim executive ... | Organic LEDs (OLEDs) are seen as the basis for a new generation of lamps, but are still very expensi... |
High performance solid-state light source manufacturer Luminus Devices, announced that the United St... | JDSU announced it has opened a new facility in Suzhou, China, to manufacture high-precision optical ... |
Syndiant, a manufacturer of high-resolution microdisplays for pico projectors, is holding a contest ... | QD Vision Inc. and Solvay have signed an agreement under which they will develop a printable electro... |
Effective Oct. 1, 2010, Volker Schmidt assumed the newly created position of chief technology office... | Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd. announced the appointment of Bert Loburg to its newly created positio... |
DARPA has awarded HRL Laboratories LLC a $500,000 contract to develop Phaser, or photonic analog sig... | The 16th International Workshop on Single Molecule Spectroscopy (SMS) and Ultra Sensitive Analysis i... |
During the Association of the US Army’s annual meeting in October, Flir Systems Inc. introduce... | Microvision Inc. has purchased more than 190 patents from Motorola Inc. to extend its intellectual p... |
A pair of Nobel-winning honorees created a memorable atmosphere at the Laser Institute of America&rs... | The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded e2v a contract to develop a CCD imaging sensor for the o... |
Klastech Laser Technologies GmbH, a diode-pumped solid-state laser technology provider, announced th... | Octopus Investments Ltd. announced an investment of £1.7 million into Michelson Diagnostics Lt... |
Optical components and assemblies manufacturer LightPath Technologies Inc. announced Tuesday it has ... | Electron optical equipment and instrumentation provider JEOL USA Inc. announced that the David H. Ko... |
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced its new optical waveguide switch consumes only half the power of... | PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., a manufacturer of piezo ceramic actuators and precision motion-control... |
Pacific Media Associates (PMA), a global market information firm, has reported that the worldwide ma... | Electro Optic Systems Holdings Limited (EOS), developer of products that incorporate advanced electr... |
Spectranetics Corp. announced the recent appointment of Maria Sainz and Daniel A. Pelak to its board... | Optical products manufacturer LightPath Technologies Inc. announced that it signed a supply agreemen... |
Taking the first steps of what could be a major historical advance in the science of measurement, th... | Sandia National Laboratories announced that four of its researchers have received three-year grants ... |
New research in optical measurement technologies enabling applications in industry, research modelin... | The finalists have been named for the 2010 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, an international c... |
Ophir Laser Measurement Group has launched a new social media program focused on laser measurement. ... | Confirming its commitment to the Korean market, Tessera Technologies Inc. announced it has opened a ... |
Next-generation LED lighting manufacturer Lunera Lighting Inc. announced that former Hewlett Packard... | Universal Display Corp. announced significant advances in the performance of its UniversalP2OLED sol... |
Raydiance Inc. announced today that it has been awarded three competitive government contracts total... | As part of a plan to increase its business in Asia, laser maker Coherent will acquire Malaysia-based... |
Unidym, a majority owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research, announced that it signed an agreement wit... | Dilas, a high-power, high-brightness semiconductor laser components manufacturer, announced the rece... |
Carl Zeiss SMS GmbH and Synopsys Inc. announced a collaboration to support the Zeiss tool family for... | Solyndra Inc., a manufacturer of cylindrical photovoltaic (PV) systems for large commercial rooftops... |
The IEEE has named Dr. Reza Zoughi as the recipient of the 2011 Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrume... | The Optical Society of America (OSA) announced recently that its members have elected Donna T. Stric... |
The high value of the laser industry to Scotland’s economy has been revealed in a major new... | A bright spot in Corning’s weak third quarter sales report was news that its Specialty Materia... |
Digital optical networking systems company, Infinera, has appointed Kambiz Hooshmand as chairma... | Physical Optics Corp. (POC), dealing in small system integration for military, aerospace, homeland s... |
Oerlikon Solar, maker of thin film silicon photovoltaic production equipment, announced it received ... | Optical components maker Rocky Mountain Instrument Co. will pay the federal government $1 million to... |
International defense electronics company Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it received various cont... | Computer Modules Inc. announced recently that it has changed the name of its imaging division from Q... |
In October, Eindhoven saw the kick-off of the international R&D project Paradigm (Photonic Advan... | Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has reported that the market for materials used in OLED lighting w... |
Acquired by e2v in 2008 and now part of e2v aerospace and defense inc., QP Semiconductor was establi... | High technology optics and digital imaging products provider Jenoptik, through its digital imaging d... |
Rice University start-up, Rebellion Photonics, is this year’s grand prize recipient of the $50... | Source Photonics Inc. has been acquired for an undisclosed amount by technology-focused private equi... |
Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. reported Monday that revenue surged for the third quarter of 2... | Business
A new system of lasers is being tested that would “hear” gravitational waves, or ripples... | Sensor Electronic Technology Inc. (SETI), together with Stanford University and National Security Te... |
By combining atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) technol... | CEA-Leti, coordinator of the European HELIOS project to accelerate commercialization of silicon phot... |
By devising a way to cool and control light at the same time, a "gas" of photons was made to form th... | Kotura Inc., a manufacturer of Silicon Photonics products, announced that it has demonstrated an ult... |
Sunlight represents the cleanest, greenest and far and away the most abundant of all energy sources,... | Researchers have demonstrated a new imaging tool for rapidly screening structures called single-wall... |
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a medical imaging technology used to image organs and soft tissues... | Three employees of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have received the 2010 Robert H Goddard ... |
Microvision Inc., a supplier of ultraminiature projection display technology, has successfully integ... | Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has introduced the ML501P73, a 638-nm red laser diode with an output power... |
Ultrashort x-ray beams produced at the University of Michigan could one day serve as more sensitive ... | Theoretical physicists have taken the idea of creating an invisibility cloak and broadened it to inc... |
University of Pittsburgh researchers have created a nanoscale light sensor that can be combined with... | Using pioneering biophotonics technology, researchers at Northwestern University and NorthShore Univ... |
Two visually stunning and scientifically captivating entries have won joint first place in the first... | Organic LEDs (OLEDs) are seen as the basis for a new generation of lamps, but are still very expensi... |
A pioneering lighting system that can kill hospital superbugs — including MRSA and C.diff &mda... | The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded e2v a contract to develop a CCD imaging sensor for the o... |
Aston University is strengthening its photonics research with two new international partnerships set... | By discovering how to couple light and vibrations, scientists have built a device in which a beam of... |
Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory have discovered a new... | Through the use of visible light and existing telescopes, a detailed blueprint has been created to g... |
Quantum information has been stored using two entangled light beams, researchers at the Niels Bohr I... | Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced its new optical waveguide switch consumes only half the power of... |
A team of Italian scientists has fired a laser beam into a chunk of glass to create what they believ... | University of Manchester scientists have created a new material which could replace or compete with ... |
Just like an electrical switch allows the flow of electricity into electrical circuits, relativistic... | The finalists have been named for the 2010 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, an international c... |
Gold nanoparticles can induce luminescence in leaves, which could lead to more environmentally sound... | Universal Display Corp. announced significant advances in the performance of its UniversalP2OLED sol... |
Using tiny atoms that can interact with light, researchers at the University of St. Andrews have dev... | Scientists at Brookhaven and Los Alamos national laboratories have fabricated transparent thin films... |
Which are the best pieces of pork, what their texture is, how moist they are — the secrets pig... | By integrating microscopically small lasers with thin film-light guides on silicon, Duke University ... |
Using two grants from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnersh... | Holographic imaging technology that can depict a scene in another location and updates every two sec... |
An innovator in the field of optoelectronics, Amnon Yariv has been named one of 10 recipients of the... | Scientists from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena were successful in improving a fabrication proces... |
Laser light has successfully been combined with trapped electrons to detect and control the electron... | Novel cooling technologies used to improve the power and efficiency of jet engines has been used to ... |
The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is using the... | Research & Technology
M3-F is a high-resolution focus module for use in miniature board-mounted camera applications. Ideal... | Trig polishes bare fibers at user selectable angles with high repeatability. Video monitoring provi... |
The new Firefly-IR brings a unique blend of capabilities to remote sensing and molecular spectroscop... | Brimrose Corporation of America is a manufacturer of very fast, solid state Hyperspectral AOTF Image... |
NEP is offering standard and custom Infrared Detectors. Room temperature and TE cooled assemblies ar... | Photonics Industries RG-H Series high pulse energy (HPE)/high rep rate ps laser achieves more than 4... |
Stellar’s high power submounts for laser diodes offer planarized copper metallization on AIN o... | Our Materials Division offers a wide range of deposition materials for all optical applications incl... |
Legend Elite Duo-HP Ti:S ultrafast amplifiers now offer enhanced performance with a range of availab... | ProEM 1600 cameras are the most advanced spectroscopy EMCCD cameras on the market. The 1600x200 and ... |
Image-Pro Insight software offers a wide range of tools for capturing and analyzing images. Designed... | Acton Optics & Coatings provides customized optics and coatings engineered to your unique applic... |
Scepter™ is PC controlled for Telcordia compliant polishing of optical connectors, Mil-spec te... | TracePro’s new interactive optimizer is specifically designed for non-sequential design of LED... |
Organizers of the Vision 2010 trade show have announced that the show attracted more exhibitors and ... | Precision machined sapphire optical pieces as well as parts from other technical ceramics useful for... |
Remtec manufactures metallized ceramic substrates with PCTF® (Plated Copper on Thick Film) for t... | • Laser Dyes
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The Fogale Lenscan systems allow direct measurement of the position and the center thickness of all ... | TRUST your demanding processes to nmLaser high damage threshold, high irradiance laser shutters. Dur... |
The Xsquared™ High Extinction Plate Polarizer (XEP) is a polarizing plate beamsplitter with an... | G-S PLASTIC OPTICS manufactures optics for imaging, scanning, detection, and illumination applicatio... |
New research in optical measurement technologies enabling applications in industry, research modelin... | Fiber optic bundles and assemblies engineered to meet customer requirements. From preform manufactur... |
Measure wavelength of CW or modulated DWDM lasers to an accuracy as high as +/- 0.3 pm and a confide... | EO’s Plastic Hybrid Aspheres, featuring diffraction-limited designs, are molded aspheric-diffr... |
Syntec Optics is the largest independent custom manufacturer of plastic optics in the US providing p... | The LDP-3832 Pulsed Quantum Cascade Laser Current Source is specifically designed for controlling qu... |
Wordingham Technologies is Your Mechanical Partner to the Optical World providing precision machined... | The FPM-8220 Fiber Optic Power Meter combines accurate, repeatable power measurements with low polar... |
Sofradir-EC has introduced a range of high-performance infrared detectors, engines and cameras that ... | It was 50 years ago that Spectra-Physics became the first commercial laser company - the pioneer and... |
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