San Francisco, CA--The 6.43 gigawatt (GW) amount of 2009 PV installations was a 6% growth over the year before.

Pittsburgh, PA--This year, 16,876 attendees from 87 countries participated in Pittcon (February 28 to March 5, 2010; Orlando, FL).

Single-stream recycling means that we can put paper, plastic, metal, and all recyclables in the same container. But the success of this method is only as good as the machine-vision system used to sort the items that we happily mix together.

San Francisco, CA--Jeff Hecht, Boston correspondent for New Scientist magazine and contributing editor for Laser Focus World, recalls 50 years of lasers in a presentation at SPIE's Photonics West 2010.

Irvine, CA--Toshiba Imaging Systems Division has integrated its IK-TF7 3CCD camera into the new Micron III retinal imaging microscope from Phoenix Research Labs.

Salem, NH--Laser Light Engines (LLE) announced that the company has demonstrated the first laser light source to completely eliminate laser speckle ...

San Francisco, CA--At SPIE's Photonics West 2010, Vytran explained how they are moving beyond fusion splicing, Toshiba showed us their camera as it flew into space, and our videographers put together a Highlights Show to summarize the event.

Boulder, CO--Optical solutions manufacturer REO achieved record-breaking sales of over $30 million in 2009--their best year since the company was founded in 1993.

Phoenix, AZ--Researchers at Arizona State University have combined electrochemistry with microscopy to see and identify specks of TNT.

Aachen, Germany--The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology has developed a packaging process for microcomponents that is based on laser glass soldering.

Pittsburgh, PA--A "cradle-to-grave" assessment of LED streetlights shows that they have the best balance of features.

The high-brightness (HB) LED market is humming, and the nearly 3000 registrants at Strategies in Light 2010 showed that the industry recognized that hum.

San Francisco, CA--At SPIE's Photonics West 2010, Laser Focus World captured video from StellarNet, Stanford Photonics, and Newport about their latest technologies.

Albuquerque, NM--Boeing and wholly owned subsidiary Spectrolab have developed a compact, energy-efficient camera that provides 3D images for military and commercial applications.

Tokyo, Japan--Sony has developed a RGB laser light source module for large-screen projectors such as digital cinema projectors.

Yorktown Heights, NY--A silicon-based nanophotonic avalanche photodetector capable of receiving optical signals at a record rate of 40 Gbit/s was unveiled last week by IBM scientists at the T. J. Watson Research Center.

Monrovia, CA – CA - Volume holographic grating manufacturer Ondax, Inc., announced that it has received a major order for that company’s PowerLocker wavelength stabilization filters ...

Pittsburgh, PA--Omnyx and Olympus America entered into a nonexclusive licensing agreement allowing Omnyx to access Olympus virtual microscopy and digital pathology patents.

Osaka, Japan and Milpitas, CA--Sumitomo and JDSU successfully transmitted and detected 100 gigabit Ethernet traffic through Sumitomo pluggable optics using JDSU’s ONT instrument.

Bordeaux, France--Twelve photonics companies have been chosen to participate in funding opportunities at the Invest in Photonics International Partnering Convention 2010.