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161 TECHNEWS

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34 1 FASTfRACK Business and Mwkeis

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55 1 GRHNLlGHT

by Marie Freebody, Canlributing Editor

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SURPRISING SURGES. CAUTIOUS EXPECTATIONS, POSITIVE OUTLOOKS by Laura 5. Marshall, Manoging Edifar

leadlng

lighls of the

photonies industry

shore Iheir perspecti~es on the market's current and luture health.

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MASS-MARKET IMAGING SYSTEMS CUT TIME, COST, SIZE by Marie Freeb.ody, Contributing Editor

liquid lenses, 3-D

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cameras are helping brlng ta fruilion applications such as stretchable optoeleetronies and robots Ihal guide the blind.

78 !PUTTING MORE THAN GLASS lN THE TOOLBOX by Hank Hogan, Cantributing Edilor

Alternalive optical

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systems that con do more ln a sm aller space.

86 1 MEDICAL MARKETS AND NEW NICHES DRIVE LASER ADVANCES by Lynn Sovoge, Feolures Editor

The health 01 laser manulacluring is lairly robust, thanks

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and biomedlcal research.

94 1 A BRAVE NEW WORlD OF PHOTONICS by Gary

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Contributing Edifor

Photonics experts

predict which vislonary applications in the automobile, solar,

delense

and Iighting industries could become a reallty in 20 ta 50 years.