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The article forecasts structured optical metamaterials as basis for a superlens that can image at beyond the diffraction limit and that can operate in the optical regime and are practical to fabricate into a superlens. The researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey are developing the concept that can be either be applied to imaging in one dimension, similar to a cylindrical lens or imaging in two dimensions like a spherical lens.

The article highlights the conference on Executive Panel: Market Direction and Implications for the World of Photonics in Bridgewater, New Jersey. According to Giorgio Anania, president and CEO of Bookham Inc., photonics companies must look beyond the communications industry to industries with healthy market size and longevity. It offers information about the availability of a working model of an illumination-delivery system.

Focuses on a solid-optics component, termed an X-cube developed by researchers at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. Functions of the solid-optics component; Description of the X-cube.

The article reports that precision optics manufacturer, Navitar, has acquired Special Optics in Wharton, New Jersey. Also presented are the benefits of the acquisition as stated by Julian Goldstein and Jeremy Goldstein, co-presidents of Navistar. Special Optics president David Manzi explains that the company will now be able to accommodate anything from custom optical assemblies used in long distance surveillance or unmanned aerial vehicles to more than 100 units for precision lenses.

The article reports on the electro-optical laser-diode modules for positioning and machine vision offered by Edmund Optics Inc. in Barrington, New Jersey. The laser-diode modules provides stabilized output power and incorporate collimating optics within compact, lightweight anoized aluminum housings. The modules also operate on 5 volts direct current with maximum operating current from 50 to 100 milliamps.

The article reports that Edmund Optics in Barrington, New Jersey has won a ManTech contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop tools to produce complex conformal and advanced optical elements. The goal of the contract is to create inexpensive tooling method for low- and mid-volume lens production runs.

This article presents information on beam expanders with high-performance optical designs packaged in a precise optomechanical platform. The optical device is from Edmund Optics Inc., which is based in Barrington, New Jersey. The precise focusing mechanism keeps optics from rotating. This helps maintain bore sight accuracy and a minimally aberrated focused beam.

Reports that researchers at Somerset, New Jersey-based NanoOpto Corp. have developed more-robust immersion nanogratings that can have their trenches filled with a variety of materials through atomic layer deposition (ALD). Functions of the ALD process; Addition of antireflection coating.

Discusses an e-mail concerning a Clifton, New Jersey-based optics company Chiral Photonics. Receipt of $2 million grant to finance its research; Success the company in twisting fiber optic strands into helical shapes to create unique structures that can filter, polarize or scatter light.

Evaluates the square and rectangular hollow glass tubes that preserve polarization for light and allow wet-chemistry coatings, fabricated by researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Factor which causes tubes to transmit light with little polarization loss; Attenuations of the tube; Contact information for more of the research.

Provides information on a study by the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey that combined free-space optics with guided-wave optics to produce a hybrid circuit that has the advantages of both. Names of the researchers which developed the optics; Overview of the process of combining the optics; Limitation of the circuit system.

Describes a new optical switch controlled entirely by light which is much faster than electronic switches, according to researchers at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Optical circuitry; How the switch works; Outlook for an all-optical computer; Comment of Alan Huang.