April/May 2008

By Gary Wagner, president, Ophir-Spiricon

If you have a photonics innovation, how do you persuade a distributor to take on your product? Warren Clark finds out

David Robson discovers how spectrometers are being applied in quality control for industry

Nanophotonics is moving out of the computational simulations and taking over the labs. Gemma Simpson looks into some of the facilities being spawned by the next small thing in photonics

William Payne assesses the impact of photonics on materials processing

John Murphy meets the team at Gentec, a Canadian company with a strong reputation in power and energy meters