Most optical engineers can adequately perform their engineering tasks by assuming that the light propagating through their systems is either totally spatially incoherent or coherent.

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.

Version 5.7 of BeamGage laser beam analysis software adds advanced image processing features, including fast, off-axis correction of distorted beam images.

Zemax 12 optical and illumination design is available in SE, EE, and IE editions, with new lens design capabilities.

Lichtenfels, Germany--Laser cusing or fusing techniques are being used to create dentures at half the cost of milled versions.

MAPS (Modular Automated Processing System) provides a correlative workflow that lets researchers see both large-scale context and small-scale detail in one overview.

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

Salisbury, England--Radboud University Nijmegen is applying nanoparticle tracking analysis from NanoSight for the characterization of self-assembled nanomotors.

The Quasar app for Android smartphones and tablets displays laser meter data when connected to the company's Quasar wireless power and energy meter via Bluetooth.

SAN JOSE, CA--Cisco says it is buying privately held Lightwire, which manufactures CMOS-based optical interconnects for high-speed networking applications.

Garching, Germany--A new cooperation agreement pairs SUSS MicroTec lithography mask aligner exposure optics tools with Layout LAB simulation software from GenISys GmbH.

San Francisco, CA--Laser Focus World attempted to capture the essence of some of the best showings on both the BiOS and Photonics West 2012 exhibit floors.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (Cambridge, MA) have developed two algorithms that are faster than the fast Fourier transform (FFT) for all sparse signals.