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Cover Story

The WIRCam of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii

News Breaks

Photons Move Faster Than the Speed of Light

Tapered Fiber Coupler Serves as Biosensor

Semiconducting Dendrimers Promise Advances in Cheap Plastic Lasers

Self-Sum-Frequency Mixing of Neodymiumgenerates Yellow Laser light

3-D Profiler Retrofits to Existing Microscopes

Hyperspectral Imager Captures Whole Spectrum without Scanning

Fingertip-Speck Chip Contains Tunable Laser and Modulator

Diode Lasers Detect Terahertz Radiation

hBN Crystal Fabricated at Atmospheric Pressure Emits at 215 nm

World News

Nonlinear Optics

Silicon Laser

Microstructured Fiber Optics

Laser Isotope Separation

Frequency Combs

Silicon Photonics

SPIE Optics + Photonics

Astronomical Imaging

Harmonic Generation

Organic Photovoltaics

VCSEL

Conference Review

Industry Reports

Lasers

Osram Exits OLED Display Business

Intense Gets ESA Contract for Laser-Diode Arrays

Philips Lumileds Delivers 100 Million LEDs

Tunable-Laser Maker Gets Funding

GKS Opens Laser-Scanning Facilities

Optics

The Compact Disc Turns 25

CPC Announces Funding Program

RIT and AmberWave Win Semiconductor Grant

China MEMS Industry Moves to High Value

Thermo Fisher System Chosen for Soil Analysis

Imaging and Detector

DARPA Selects Goodrich for Imaging Contract

FLIR Receives Navy Award for Sensors

ART, Stanford Collaborate on Breast Imaging

PDP Revenue Slides

‘Thermometer Camera’ Sees First Light

Fiber Optics

Dispersion Compensation a $755 Million Market

R&D 100 Award Goes to Amplifier Developers

MRV Communications Forms Joint Venture

Liekki Fibers Now Available Online

Telecom CAPEX to Hit $225 Billion in 2007

Features

Exotic Imaging

IR Focal-Plane Arrays Enable Imaging That is Out of This World

Short-Wave Diode Lasers

Nonpolar Gallium Nitride Laser Diodes are the Next New Blue

Next-Generation Fibers

Optical Fibers Go Nano

Detectors

Micro Cameras Ignore the Diffraction Limit

Photonic Frontiers: Photonic-Crystal Lasers

Photonic Crystals Make Nanocavity Lasers

Optoelectric Applications: Optical Communications

Fiber to the Home Finally Finds Its Footing

Nonlinear Optics

Quasi-Phase-Matched DFG Lasers for Sensing Enter the Market

Vibration-Control Systems

Negative-Stiffness Vibration Isolation Improves Reliability of Nanoinstrumentation

Columns

The Editor's Desk

Software & Computing

Marketwatch

Business Forum

Inside Imaging

In My View

Departments

Letters

New Products

Manufacturers' Product Showcase

Business Resource Center

Advertising/Web Index

Sales Offices


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