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Commercial

China Outlook Consulting -- Serves as a bridge to senior managers and executives at international technology companies looking to gain insight and a business edge in China
(www.china-outlook.com)
Christie Associates -- Recruiting nationwide exclusively within the Fiber Optics/Photonics industry since 1980
(www.christieassoc.com)
Coherent Inc. -- A leading manufacturer of laser-based solutions offering reliability, cost, and performance advantages for the widest range of commercial and scientific research applications
(www.coherent.com)
Control Micro Systems -- Provides stand-alone, turnkey, and custom-designed laser systems for fast, permanent marking, cutting, drilling, and welding of a variety of materials
(www.cmslaser.com)
ENF Industry Directory -- A worldwide photovoltaic industry directory published in many languages, showing details of over 3,000 manufacturers of PV goods and suppliers of PV services
(www.enf.cn)
Epilog Laser -- One of the leading designers and manufacturers of CO2 and fiber laser systems for engraving and cutting
(www.epiloglaser.com)
FreePatentsOnline -- A free intellectual property database containing the world's major patent collections, with account features to allow sharing of documents, and alerts for automatic patent notices
(www.freepatentsonline.com)
JDS Uniphase -- Enables broadband & optical innovation in the communications, commercial, and consumer markets
(www.jdsu.com)
Kessler Marketing Intelligence (KMI) -- Leading provider of fiberoptics and telecommunications market research
(www.kmiresearch.com)
M & K Lasers -- Providing laser cutting machines, laser engraving machines, cutting services, and equipment within the United Kingdom
(www.mklaser.com)
Micron Optics - Provider of optical sensing systems, sensors and tunable components
(www.micronoptics.com)
NextTechs Technologies LLC -- A technology intermediation firm that puts buyers and sellers together
(www.nexttechs.com)
Optical Short Course International -- Helping accelerate engineers up the steep learning curve of optical engineering technologies
(www.oscintl.com)
Perkin Elmer -- Manufactures optical sensors, digital imagers, X-Ray detectors, LEDs, and other photonics technologies for use in medical, industrial, military, and telecommunications applications
(optoelectronics.perkinelmer.com)
Strategies Unlimited -- Market research service for the optoelectronics, compound semiconductor, optical networks, photovoltaics, and RF/wireless markets
(www.strategies-u.com)
The Centre of Excellence in Micro and Nano Technologies (CEMMNT) -- Information for industry on metrology, surface analysis and systems engineering
(www.cemmnt.co.uk)

Associations & societies

Academic

Media (print & online)

BioOptics World -- A magazine, e-Newsletter, and Web site that will focus on the design, development, and utilization of optical technologies for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease
(www.bioopticsworld.com)
Lightwave Magazine -- Targeting fiberoptic communications technology and applications worldwide
(www.lightwavemag.com)
Small Times Magazine -- Business information and analysis about Micro and nanotechnology
(www.smalltimes.com)
Vision Systems Design Magazine -- Vision and automation solutions for engineers and integrators worldwide
(www.visionsystemsdesign.com)

Government & military

Other

Sam's Laser FAQ -- Website with documents and links to laser information and laser-related topics
(www.repairfaq.org/sam/lasersam.htm)

Industry Links

1394 Trade Association gives latest news, products, technical specs, and working groups on FireWire products.
(www.1394ta.org)
Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility promotes global standards and growth of identification technologies such as RFID and barcoding
(http://www.aimglobal.org/)
Automated Imaging Association (AIA) offers membership benefits, resources, technical articles, and events.
(http://www.machinevisiononline.org)
British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) provides a national forum for individuals and organizations involved in machine vision, image processing, and pattern recognition in the United Kingdom.
(http://www.bmva.ac.uk)
CV Homepage at Carnegie Mellon provides resources and information about computer vision research, listings of Computer Vision groups,CV hardware,CV software,demos,test images and CV conferences
(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/vision.html)
ERCIM-the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase cooperation with European industry.
(www.ercim.org)
EUTIST-IMV, the European Commission supported initiative, has more than 80 industrial and academic partners and develops solutions for machine vision problems.
(http://www.eutist-imv.com)
European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) site provides information on machine vision: technology trends, application examples, and company profiles.
(http://emva.org)
Japan Industrial Imaging Association (JIIA) - provides news, products, technical specs, and image processing standards - in Japanese only
(www.jiia.org)
Machine Vision Portal, written in English and German, features news, articles, a buyers guide, and an on-line news-submission feature for all those involved in machine vision.
(www.machine-vision.de/portal/)
PCI-SIG is all about PCI Express, offering data on compliance testing, specifications, a technical library, press releases, and PCI-SIG membership.
(www.pcisig.com/specifications/pciexpress)
PEIPA, an archive relating to image processing and analysis, emphasizes computer vision and provides information, datasets, and software that allow the effectiveness of algorithms to be measured.
(http://peipa.essex.ac.uk)
Society of Manufacturing Engineers--SME Forums are designed to provide an international electronic bulletin board to facilitate the exchange of manufacturing information
(http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/membhtml.pl?/html/joinsme.htm&&&SME&)
UK Imaging Faraday Partnership brings research, products, and processes to commercial markets, with special emphasis on the application of electronic imaging systems.
(www.imagingfp.org.uk)
UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA) promotes the use of vision technology by manufacturing industry in the UK.
(http://www.ukiva.org)
Vision Club of Finland (VCF), established in 1995, promotes machine-vision theory, technological development, and industrial applications.
(http://www.automaatioseura.fi/index/english.php?id=5c96c90b)

Industry

Ameristar Laser Cutting
(www.laser-cutting.djmetalrep.com)
Control Micro System Inc.
(www.cmslaser.com)
Epilog Laser - Designers and manufacturers of CO2 and Fiber laser systems.
(www.epiloglaser.com)
Laser Division of GSI Group
(www.gsiglasers.com)
Laser Mechanisms Inc.
(www.lasermech.com)
Neoark
(www.neoark.co.jp)
Sigma Koki
(www.sigma-koki.com)
Yamamoto Kogaku
(www.yamamoto-kogaku.co.jp)

Associations & Societies

Laser Institute of America
(www.laserinstitute.org)
Laser Materials Processing in the Nordic Industry
(www.NORLAS.com)

Media

Canadian Trade Index
(http://www.canadiantradeindex.com)
MacRAE's Blue Book
(http://www.macraesbluebook.com)

Associations & Societies

American Academy of Dermatology
(http://www.aad.org)
American Academy of Ophthalmology
(http://www.aao.org)
American Society for Cell Biology
(http://www.ascb.org)
American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery
(http://www.aslms.org)
College of American Pathologists
(http://www.cap.org)
European Biomedical Research Association
(http://www.ebra.org)
International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) -- Furthering innovation in optics and photonics
(http://www.spie.org)
Optical Society of America (OSA) -- Promoting the worldwide dissemination of knowledge in optics and photonics
(http://www.osa.org)
Society for Molecular Imaging -- co-sponsor of the World Molecular Imaging Congress
(http://www.molecularimaging.org)
Society for Neuroscience -- Advancing the Understanding of the Brain and Nervous System
(http://www.sfn.org/)
The American Society of Clinical Oncology -- the world's leading professional organization representing physicians who treat people with cancer.
(http://www.asco.org)

Academic

Beckman Laser Institute -- University of California Irvine
(http://www.bli.uci.edu)
Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics -- Duke University
(http://www.fitzpatrick.duke.edu/)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Spectroscopy Lab -- Research in Biomedical Optics
(http://web.mit.edu/spectroscopy/research/biomedicaloptics.html)
Vanderbilt Biomedical Optics Laboratory -- Vanderbilt University
(http://www.bme.vanderbilt.edu/bmeoptics/)
Wellman Laboratory of Photomedicine -- Massachusetts General Hospital
(http://www.massgeneral.org/wellman/)

Commercial

Cambridge Technology is a supplier and developer of instrumentation products in the field of biomedical research
(http://www.cambridgetechnology.com)
Coherent Inc. -- A leading manufacturer of laser-based solutions offering reliability, cost, and performance advantages for the widest range of commercial and scientific research applications
(http://www.coherent.com)
Newport Corporation -- a leading global supplier of advanced-technology products and systems for scientific research, microelectronics manufacturing, aerospace and defense/security
(http://www.newport.com)

Government & Military

National Cancer Institute
(http://www.nci.gov)
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and BioEngineering -- to improve health by leading the development and accelerating the application of biomedical technologies
(http://www.nibib1.nih.gov)
National Institutes of Health -- One of the world's foremost medical research centers
(http://www.nih.gov)
National Science Foundation
(http://www.nsf.gov)

Technical Journals

Journal of Biomedical Optics
(http://cfs.umbi.umd.edu/jbo/)
Lasers in Surgery and Medicine
(http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0196-8092)
OCT technology and research news and updates
(www.octnews.org)

Other

ABRF
(http://www.abrf2009.org/)
SpectroscopyNow -- portal addressing mass spectrometry, NMR, MRI, x-ray, atomic, Raman, IR, UV, proteomics and chemometrics and informatics techniques.
(http://www.spectroscopynow.com)