San Jose, CA--If you are attending CLEO/QELS: 2010 and are musically talented, don't miss your chance to shine on the LasersRock! stage.

Santa Clara, CA--Intevac Photonics received a $3.5M subcontract award from the U.S. Army for the development and evaluation of a 2 Mpixel night-vision camera to be integrated onto the Apache helicopter.

Los Angeles, CA--APIC announced that NAVAIR released $9 million in funding for Phase IIC development of dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM)-based avionics networks, or the NEW-HIP project.

Gainesville, FL--Fullerenes can be ignited using a low-power laser, opening the door to new technologies in health care, computing, and automotive design.

Integrating spheres present a dizzying array of specifications and an infinite number of configurations. Here’s where to start to narrow down the choices.

Santa Barbara, CA--An exoplanet the size of Jupiter, and in the temperate range around its parent star, has been discovered.

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.