Business
A stitching technique that improves large asphere measurement and wavefront sensing for the measurem...
Schott North America Inc. met with congressional leaders early last week to discuss the importance o...
The display manufacturer will provide proprietary UniversalPholed phosphorescent OLED materials to F...
The optoelectronic products supplier received a follow-on, 21-month, $1.5 million contract from the ...
To strengthen its position in the manufacture of prism-based-line scan cameras, the machine vision c...
In 2013, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) will take place June 9-14 to accommodate...
The single-use medical device developer’s GlideLight Laser Sheath for the removal of cardiac leads h...
Students at the University of Utah recently won $100,000 and first place in the regional CU Cleantec...
Sales in Idex Corp.’s Health and Science Technologies segment, which includes its Optics and...
The wholly owned subsidiary of Tessera Technologies Inc. has licensed its Face Tracker technology to...
To market and sell its solutions for preclinical in vivo fluorescence imaging, the France-based fluo...
The Optical Society will be a partner and exhibitor at the USA Science and Engineering Festival from...
The medical technology supplier has received conditional approval from the FDA to initiate a clinica...
The laser measurement company was honored as the outstanding technology business of the year by the ...
The optics manufacturer has expanded into the LED market with the development of a state-of-the-art ...
The Celliant technology manufacturer has appointed Drs. Michael R. Hamblin and Lawrence A. Lavery to...
Abbott’s iFS advanced femtosecond laser has received FDA clearance for use in corneal and cataract s...
The optical instruments manufacturer announced a $1,032,000 customer order for endoscopes based on i...
William Morgan has returned to the precision optical subassemblies manufacturer to lead its new busi...
In response to the growing demand for protection against laser designation and ranging systems, the ...
The laser manufacturer announced it designed, integrated and CE-certified an OEM medical laser syste...
Carlos Lee was appointed as the next director general of EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Conso...
Visiopharm and Hamamatsu have announced a nonexclusive worldwide OEM agreement and reseller partners...
RPO held a ribbon cutting ceremony April 11 to celebrate its newly expanded 107,500-sq-ft facility a...
The radiation-hard solar cells manufacturer was awarded a $6 million, two-year contract by Ball Aero...
Ghent University and imec have launched IPKISS, an open source software platform that enables the in...
Loic Premartin was appointed vice president of sales for Flir Commercial Systems’ EMEA region.
To grow its business and to serve its growing customer base in Israel, the laser diode manufacturer ...
Photonics technology company Newport Corp. reported Wednesday that it will expand its capabilities i...
The laser-sintering systems manufacturer filed a patent lawsuit on March 5 against Phenix Systems fo...
The optical components manufacturer has launched the Norman Edmund Inspiration Award to honor the co...
Space Systems/Loral will partner with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to host a laser communicati...
The LED manufacturer has secured an additional $9.3 million in funding to develop its lighting fixtu...
To honor professor Michael Feld’s fundamental contributions in the fields of laser science and appli...
The projection display technology company signed definitive agreements with Pioneer Corp. of Kanagaw...
Idex Corp. has acquired optical components maker Precision Photonics Corporation (PPC) for $20 milli...
The intraoperative wavefront measurement technology company announced it closed a $16.5 million fina...
The NanoFabrication Systems Div. of NanoInk Inc. announced that Osaka University’s Photonics Advance...
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments opened the Shimadzu Center for Advanced Analytical Chemistry at the ...
A new laser system that measures gravitational waves directly will be integrated into a gravitationa...
Pilot Photonics Ltd., a spinout company of Dublin City University and the Tyndall National Institute...
The optics maker said it will focus on products for the infrared market, including low-cost molded I...
Hamamatsu Corp. announced that its NanoZoomer product line, which previously was distributed through...
DigitalOptics Corp. and MMD-Monitors and Displays Taiwan Ltd. have partnered to deliver the first mo...
Following the acquisition of ILX Lightwave in late December, the photonics technology company announ...
To support its growth into Europe and North America, the fiber Bragg gratings manufacturer appointed...
The silicon photonics manufacturer announced that Nissho Electronics will distribute its entire suit...
To further strengthen its international machine vision illumination sales operation, the laser modul...
In a move to form local operations in key geographic markets, Radiant Zemax has established a China ...
Sven Klette-Matzat has replaced Martin Scharfe as sales director of camera manufacturer Vision Compo...
The optoelectronics supplier signed a value-added reseller agreement with Automation and Control Tec...
The company’s Laser Systems business unit announced that its All Semiconductor Airborne Laser Threat...
The scientific instruments and solution provider has acquired all the shares of SkyScan NV, which wi...
Dr. Gemma De las Cuevas received this year’s Dissertation Prize from the AMOP section of the German ...
Citing decreased defense spending, Applied Energetics Inc. said it is suspending most of its governm...
The quantum cascade laser and FTIR spectrometer engineering and development company was awarded a ch...
Samsung Display Co. Ltd., a spinoff from Samsung Electronics, has launched as a new corporation. It ...
The digital camera manufacturer reported an 8 percent increase in revenue for fiscal year 2011, maki...
As one of six prime contractors selected by the US Army Research, Development and Engineering Comman...
Research & Technology
A stitching technique that improves large asphere measurement and wavefront sensing for the measurem...
A new portable, miniature microscope could reduce the time it takes to diagnose oral cancer.
An inexpensively producible, stable solar cell made from small nanocrystals suspended in a liquid so...
The viability of a multiple-camera system designed for future NASA space vehicles was subject of a t...
New details about the structure of one of the most efficient photovoltaic materials could inform the...
Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could bring the future of medical imaging into focus throu...
New flexible nanofibers that can self-assemble under a flash of light combine the best advantages of...
Students at the University of Utah recently won $100,000 and first place in the regional CU Cleantec...
A new method that evaluates different conductors for use in metamaterial structures could bring clos...
By coupling two microlasers together, one would expect more light to be emitted than from a single p...
A small, flexible endoscopic medical device fitted with a femtosecond laser “scalpel” can remove dis...
Alzheimer-related changes in the visual cortex have been observed at the single-cell level using two...
What appears to be a new universal technique to decrease the work function of a conductor in printab...
A solar cell designed to be more like an LED — able to emit light as well as absorb it —...
Tuning the optical and electronic properties of metal oxides at the atomic level by creating a super...
A new full field transmission x-ray microscope now makes it possible to rapidly capture and integrat...
New technologies to improve the insertion techniques and exact fitting of cochlear implants in the i...
Improvements in microchip technology and new scientific advances that let scientists tap into the te...
A new technique can produce single photons with specific properties more efficiently and about 1000 ...
Rapid detection of malaria, particularly in remote parts of the world, is not always possible becaus...
Nitride semiconductors grow only on certain surfaces, and their utility is limited by the substrate ...
A new cost-effective process for fabricating small batches of nonspherical glass optical components ...
Hyperspectral imaging devices, calibrated to new National Institute of Standards and Technology stan...
Using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology sh...
The first laser to be mode-locked using a microcavity resonator is a giant leap forward in laser tec...
The Mosfire instrument observed the universe with its near-infrared sensing eyes for the first time ...
A new rigid frame device that securely holds a high-speed camera and an iPad can obtain field measur...
In the future, even the smallest traces of salmonella and other foodborne pathogens may be easily de...
Communications networks are vital for our day-to-day lives, and now the first prototype of a quantum...
A dye-sensitized solar cell that uses a protein-producing bacteria and synthesized dye to generate e...
A “heat spreader” that cools electronics 25 percent faster than pure copper could end the hunt for a...
A potential treatment method for drug-resistant cancer uses gold nanoparticles to convert laser ener...
Navy unmanned aircraft will be able to distinguish small pirate boats in congested coastal waters wh...
For the first time, incredibly fast laser pulses could make it possible to observe ultrarapid phenom...
For the first time, light was used to demonstrate quantum tunneling, pushing electrons through a cla...
An ultrathin flexible organic solar cell less than 2 µm thick could have implications for the design...
A new “superradiant” laser design that traps 1 million rubidium atoms into a 2-cm space between two ...
A laser with a novel mirror design was fabricated on a silicon chip using III-V semiconductor materi...
Ring resonators can be used to develop micro-optical diodes to replace or be compatible with their e...
Industry Events
Our newest ultrafast lasers–the Vitara and Legend Elite families of oscillators and amplifiers...
In 2013, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) will take place June 9-14 to accommodate...
The Sol™ 1.7 NIR Spectrometer from B&W Tek, Inc. is a high performance linear InGaAs array spectrome...
PI’s precision positioners, flexure-guided stages, piezo actuators and capacitive sensors prov...
Coherent offers high-power diode laser solutions addressing your most demanding applications, includ...
Inrad Optics offers a complete line of Pockels Cells, including KD*P, LiNbO3, BBO, single and double...
Nufern expands their range of Holmium doped active optical fibers. These fibers are used in the wo...
JULABO Recirculating Coolers and Chillers: 25 models for heat removal from 250 W to 20 kW. Instrum...
Navitar and its Special Optics division design and manufacture precision imaging and laser optics fo...
Mesa Photonics has expanded its easy to use, high accuracy ultrafast laser pulse measurement product...
Hamamatsu’s new C11293 offers high sensitivity to NIR wavelengths (1000 to 1650 nm) thanks to its de...
Bristol Instruments now offers the 821B-IR which measures absolute wavelength, to an accuracy of ± 6...
The model 721 is a unique instrument that operates as both a high-accuracy wavelength meter and a hi...
Wordingham Technologies has provided precision machined components 30+ years and is committed to pro...
Coherent offers high power diode laser solutions addressing your most demanding defense and security...
6-Axis Hexapods: for optical alignment, directed energy sources: Advantages: 6D, High Force, self-lo...
With camera modules weighing as little as 30 grams, occupying less than 30 cubic centimeters, and dr...
Navitar and Special Optics specialize in design, prototype and manufacture of standard and custom op...
Inrad Optics produces fast radii parabolic reflectors for a variety of defense, industrial and scien...
Diamond turning of large optics (up to 24" diameter), plastic molded optics and optical assemblies f...
The 6300 ComboSource is a laser driver and temperature controller in a single, compact enclosure. I...
BaySpec’s SuperGamutTM dispersive spectrometers feature ultra-high throughput Volume Phase Gratings....
LightWorks Optics delivers precision optical solutions for mission-critical defense and space applic...
Visit Booth # 923 to learn more about Sydor Instruments’ Ballistic Imaging System. It enables...
The ATOM 1024 incorporates a 1024x768 microbolometer detector (17µm pitch) to deliver extremely high...
A range of cooled infrared imaging cameras are now available for demanding scientific thermal imagin...
GPD Optoelectronics Corp. announces the availabilty of high-rel fiber pigtailed InGaAs pin photodiod...
The Measurement of High Optical Densities (up to 8 Abs) in the Near-Infrared
The optical densities of various materials used in the manufacture of laser safety eyewear have been determined in the NIR. The lens materials were...
Hollow Silica Waveguides for Mid-Infrared Power Transmission and Spectroscopy
Applications in the Mid-Infrared often require a flexible conduit for transmitting light from source to destination. Hollow Silica Waveguides with...
Clearly Superior Epoxies for Optical Applications
As technology in the optics industry continues to advance and improve, careful consideration of the properties of epoxies must be evaluated. When...
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