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Cover Story

News Breaks

Telescope optics correct atmospheric dispersion

Electrically excited organic diode emits coherent green light

Illumination consumes no electricity

High spectral efficiency, wide bands allow 25.6 Tbit/s data transmission over fiber

Electron spin controls terahertz plasmonic propagation

Photonic laser thruster produces 35 μN of thrust

Rubidium atom makes single-photon server

VCSEL arrays take on high-power pumping

Porous-silicon optical filter withstands wide temperature swings

World News

Metamaterials

Photolithograpy

Terahertz Imaging

Microcavity Lasers

Laser-Beam Shaping

Optical Metamaterials

Holography

Ultrafast Optics

Silicon Photonics

Medical Imaging

Atom Optics

Quantum Computing

Industry Reports

Lasers

Rofin-Sinar acquires m2k and Corelase

CyOptics to acquire Apogee Photonics

Trumpf opens new facility in Mexico

Konica, GE team up on OLED lighting

Synova teams with Kataoka on laser tools

Optics

Hubble gets help from McPherson

Nanoident to 'print' optoelectronics

Business incubator wins grant award

Agilent creates new optical business unit

Imaging And Detector

Sofradir gets LWIR detector contract

Fairchild Imaging teams with Supertex on CCDs

Headwall collaborates on spectral imaging

Solar-energy projects selected for initiative

Insight Media and USDC release 3-D report

Fiber Optics

Tyndall/IEEE awards go to Desurvire/Payne

Enablence acquires Albis, gets funding

Optium to pay $35 million for Kailight Photonics

Finisar to acquire AZNA and Kodeos

Avanex divests fabs

Features

Photonic Frontiers

Pumping up the power

Organic Leds

Doped OLEDs overcome limitations of traditional devices

MID-IR Optics

Fluoride glasses draw fiber into the mid-infrared

Semiconductor Detectors

Germanium on silicon approaches III-V semiconductors in performance

Optoelectronic Applications: Sensing/Monitoring

More complicated than it looks

Fibers For Fiber Lasers

Higher-order mode propagation may enable power scaling

Raman Spectroscopy

Spatial offset broadens applications for Raman spectroscopy

Array Optics

Despite challenges, array optics proliferate

Machine Vision

Laser projections assist machine-vision applications

Opto Electronics World

Ultrafast Optical Systems: Special supplement

Attosecond nonlinear optics open the door to coherent x-rays

Reflection grisms compensate dispersion in ultrafast systems

MIIPS characterizes and corrects femtosecond pulses

Columns

The Editor's Desk

Working The Web

Comment

Inside Imaging

Business Forum

In My View

Departments

New Products

CLEO Product Showcase

Business Resource Center

Advertising/Web Index

Sales Offices

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