05/10/2012
Strategies Unlimited is seeking a senior analyst to cover the laser, LED, and photonics markets. This demanding position will be responsible for collecting data on all critical market areas, and developing market forecasts that...
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04/16/2012
Featured in our April issue of Laser Focus World is an article from Philips Research (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) entitled "WEARABLE PHOTONICS: Smart photonic textiles begin to weave their magic" that shows, among other fiber-o...
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03/29/2012
Since first opening in 2006, LASER World of Photonics China has established itself as the leading lasers and optics tradeshow in China. It was very clear to me how energized the exhibitors and attendees were by the diversity an...
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03/12/2012
With its attendance increasing for the fourth year in a row, the 2012 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/ National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), held March 4-8 in Los Angeles, CA, also include...
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03/09/2012
During our Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar at SPIE Photonics West 2012, Milton Chang delivered the keynote talk on how to keep a photonics company growing. Essentially he talked about how to sustain the spirit of innovat...
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03/06/2012
For those of you who may not know, the annual Laser Focus World Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar is, per our description at www.marketplaceseminar.com, "The only event anywhere in the world that focuses on the entire ...
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02/29/2012
Photonics Building Blocks blog is a recent addition to the Laser Focus World and OptoIQ websites. Every week, contributing editor Jeff Hecht not only defines acronyms commonly used in photonics, but provides background on the t...
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02/15/2012
For the April issue of Laser Focus World, we will feature an article on "Photonics Education" that was envisioned to complement the new education resources that appear on our OptoIQ home page. If you haven't visited OptoIQ late...
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02/14/2012
If your company has an innovative product or service and will be exhibiting at The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) in San Jose, May 6-11, then now is the time to enter the Innovation Awards.Again this year, CLEO...
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02/09/2012
I've just come across a tangle of connected websites that have to do with do-it-yourself spectroscopy -- meaning REALLY do-it-yourself, like building your own video spectrometer from a DVD-R (as the grating), a USB webcam, and ...
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02/06/2012
Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comPhotonics West is such a condensed week of awesome photonics technology that it is next to impossible to describe even a fraction of the best presentations and papers....
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02/03/2012
On February 11 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award of Merit will go to ARRI, which makes professional motion picture equipment, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques (IPM). They are ...
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01/22/2012
..John Wallace..Senior Editor..Laser Focus World..johnw@pennwell.comSo I'm here at SPIE's Photonics West 2012 in San Francisco (and will be here until next Thursday), and I'm as overwhelmed as everyone else by the number and ...
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01/16/2012
Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comThere is nothing quite like opening your electric bill for the third month in a row and owing $0 (that’s a zero) dollars. This is the second winter season that o...
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01/12/2012
..John Wallace..Senior Editor..Laser Focus World..johnw@pennwell.comA team at the MIT Media Lab, led by Ramash Raskar, has developed the best way yet to visualize the passage of light as it hits and passes around or through o...
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12/16/2011
Tom Hausken Optical Networking Research Strategies Unlimited Thausken@PennWell.comIt's time to weigh in on a pet peeve of mine. The topic is the state of high-speed Internet in the U.S., in a December 4 essay in the New York...
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12/09/2011
Tom Hausken Optical Networking ResearchStrategies UnlimitedThausken@PennWell.comNow that 2011 is coming to a close we can estimate who are the leading laser suppliers for the year. Once again it looks like Trumpf and Coheren...
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12/06/2011
Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comIn the dusty little corner of the planet--the lower Mojave desert--that I call home, it's time to start raiding the just-picked lettuce and broccoli fields for the abu...
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11/23/2011
..John Wallace..Senior Editor..Laser Focus World..johnw@pennwell.comPredictions for the future of humanity range from an expansion of the human race throughout the universe to a quick self-extinction based on nuclear war or b...
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11/14/2011
Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comThe daily news posting at http://www.laserfocusworld.com/ entitled "Laser turns brown eyes blue" generated much discussion on LinkedIn. The comments weren't centered a...
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10/27/2011
..John Wallace..Senior Editor..Laser Focus World..johnw@pennwell.comOptical metamaterials are truly revolutionary: their properties (for example, a printable negative-index material) are like no other, and their nanoscale str...
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10/24/2011
Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comAh, who can forget the 2010 50th anniversary celebration of the laser? Our normally docile and academic-minded photonics industry was jumping in 2010, with jubilant ce...
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10/20/2011
John WallaceSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldjohnw@pennwell.comThe commoditization of high-tech builds on itself. For example, CMOS imagers are used in digital cameras, become cheaper to manufacture, and are used in cell phones an...
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10/14/2011
John Wallace Senior EditorLaser Focus Worldjohnw@pennwell.comAs Laser Focus World readers know, the use of the iPhone in photonics is growing. Examples include the iPhone as a source of info (geometrical optics guide; colori...
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10/11/2011
Gail Overton Senior Editor Laser Focus World gailo@pennwell.comIf you're able to attend the 2011 Frontiers in Optics conference (FiO 2011; www.frontiersinoptics.com)--the OSA's 95th Annual Meeting that ...
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10/06/2011
John Wallace Senior Editor Laser Focus World johnw@pennwell.comFirst, the science (I'll go through this quickly, because I want to get to the art). Optical contacting is a method of adhering two pieces ...
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10/04/2011
Gail Overton Senior Editor Laser Focus World gailo@pennwell.comBack in early August, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA; Washington, DC) announced its "Can you see it now?" campaign...
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09/29/2011
Conard Holton Associate Publisher, Editor in Chief Laser Focus World cholton@pennwell.comThe new Lasers for Manufacturing Event, organized by the Laser Institute of America (LIA) and held September 27-2...
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09/21/2011
John Wallace Senior EditorLaser Focus World johnw@pennwell.comWhen it comes to simple, imaginative approaches to optical design, the spherical mirror has not been left out. Or at least that's what I found when I came across...
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09/19/2011
Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comDid you know that an origami-based folding solar panel designed by Japanese astrophysicist Koryo Miura actually flew on a Japanese satellite in the 1980s and is the in...
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