ELECTRO OPTICS: FEBRUARY/MARCH 2004 ISSUE
NEWS
- Competition for optics entrepreneurs
- Bookham makes progress on New Focus deal
- Berlin to build laser research centre
- Opal breakthrough via Australian beetle
- ARO completes move
- Thermal imaging cameras for next day hire
- CCDs beam back images from Rosetta mission
- Laser Components opens Canadian facility for diodes
- Management of medical imaging data solved
- PCB repair made easy
- Transistor quality assured
- Fusion splicers help Ark Royal set sail
- PLUS Courses & Conferences update, and news from SAGEM, Cedip Infrared Systems, Alrad Imaging, CEA, Photonic Products, Arden Photonics, Spectra-Physics, JVC, Applied Science Laboratories, Sanyo Semiconductor Europe, IOTA AB, Megger, Synoptics, Framos Electronics, Fairchild Imaging, Ophir Optronics, VCSEL Optical Products, Burrhart Machinery, Finisar Corporation, Mesophotonics, NP Photonics, Melles Griot and Hitachi High-Technologies.
FEATURES
Full of Eastern promise
China DaHeng is leading the charge from East to West in the optics market. John Murphy explores how academic research at China's universities is being turned into commercial reality...
Lenses ride the consumer boom
Coated lenses are the key component wherever light needs to be processed. Roy Szweda reports on the humble lens, the interface between optoelectronics and the real world...
Photonics Europe 2004
The inaugural Photonucs Europe exhibition and conference takes place from 26 to 30 April in Strasbourg. Electro Optics previews some of the exhibitors at the show, including CVI Technical Optics, GWU-Lasertechnik Vertiebsges, Imagine Optic, Micos GmbH, Micro-Controle (Newport Group), Omega Optical, Optima Research, Pyser-SGI Limited, Quality Laser Optics, Quantel, Sill Optics and Termotek AG...
Defence & Security: An Electro Optics special feature
In the run-up to this year's Defense and Security Symposium 2004, Matthew Peach takes the temperature of the various industries encompassed by this booming sector. What's hot; is there really a bottomless wallet when it comes to spending on defence and security; and what are the crossover opportunities between civil and military applications for electro optical systems?...
PLUS profiles of leading companies in the sector, including Active Silicon, Cyclone Central Research Institute, Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH, MicroOptical, Octec, Photonics Industries International, Surface Finishes, Umicore, Northrop Grumman, Sifam, AP Technologies and ELCAN Optical Technologies...
Testing times
Electro Optics takes a look at some of the test and measurement devices that have recently hit the market, with news from Coherent Molectron, Scanlab, Opsira, ActiCM, Newport Corporation, Laser Physics, ILX Lightwave, Spiricon, KLA-Tencor, Gamma Scientific, Phresh Photonics and Anritsu...
Hard Talk: The quality check query
Dr Ephraim Greenfield argues that laser beam profiling can help diagnose many laser quality issues...
PRODUCTS
This issue, we feature 40 of the latest products in:
Lasers and diodes :: Fibre optics :: Lenses and filters :: Imaging :: Software :: Opto-electronic components :: Spectroscopy :: Sensors :: Microscopes ::
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