Rochester, NY-–Rochester Precision Optics (RPO) and subsidiary ASE Optics have launched ASE Optics Europe to strength its presence with European customers. ASE Optics Europe provides optical engineering and design for technology companies.

As the number of applications for ultrahigh-vacuum (UHV) environments increases, motion systems must be modified to manipulate optics, particle beams, and measurement devices inside UHV chambers.

The 2012 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards program is designed to honor the most timely, groundbreaking products in the field of photonics and laser science. The awards are sponsored by Laser Focus World and the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO).

Washington, DC--Next year's Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), held annually in San Jose, CA, will take place in June rather than its usual May, moving to June 9–14, 2013.

Hopedale, MA and Boise, ID--Piezosystem Jena and Focal Point announced a new partnership to deliver turnkey autofocus systems for high-speed metrology and biological imaging applications.

Boulder, CO--A new wing with advanced laboratories has been opened at JILA, a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The new six-story wing will add 56,065 gross square feet including laboratory space in the basement and first floor.

Washington, DC--BioPhotonic Solutions is the winner of this year's CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award.

Dutch researchers from the University of Twente, the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Philips Research Laboratories have created a nonimaging speckle interferometer that uses a photodiode to detect the lateral position of a scattering material at high speed over a small range to nanometer precision.

Vienna, Austria--3D objects only microns in size can be fabricated with a 3D printer that relies on two-photon lithography for its precision.

Redondo Beach, CA--The auxiliary mirrors that focus the light from the primary mirror into the science instruments on NASA's JWST have been integrated into the aft-optics subsystem and are ready for testing.

A new atomic-force microscopy (AFM) quantitative imaging (QI) mode is not a product, but a new methodology that makes it easier to image difficult samples without the need for set-point or gain adjustment while scanning.