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AT-Fachverlag GmbH

AT-Fachverlag GmbH is a well established German publishing house, publishing trade journals in the area of optical technologies since 1968. "Photonik" is the leading German technical magazine (circulation 20,000, 6 issues per year) covering optical technologies, such as optical metrology, laser technology, machine vision, fiber optics, photonics components, microscopy, spectroscopy, optical design, etc... Photonik provides technical articles, product information as well as business and R&D news for developers, manufacturers and vendors (www.photonik.de).

"Nanotechnik", established in June 2002, is a supplement to the magazine Photonik, covering nanotechnology (www.photonik.de/magazin/nanotech).

"Photonik international" is the English annual (circulation 20,000) of the German language magazine Photonik. About 30 selected technical articles of the previous year provide a broad overview of current knowledge in photonics worldwide (www.photonik-international.com).

Bayerisches Laserzentrum gGmbH

The Bavarian Laser Centre (BLZ) is committing itself since 1993 with its entire expertise to the development of new ideas and products in the domain of laser technology. The field of activity of the BLZ comprises the complete spectrum of laser material processing and metrology both in the micro and in the macro sphere. Some examples are the technique for joining micro-parts such as electronic and mechatronic components, the laser welding of synthetic materials, the accurate laser adjustment of micro-parts, the use of laser radiation in medical technology as well as laser-assisted rapid prototyping and rapid tooling processes. The BLZ does not only work on publicly subsidised research and development tasks but it also cooperates with business companies both at regional and national level. As their engineering-partner, it offers assistance in the development of processes and systems up to their launch. This includes for example the handling of orders, the production of sample parts and pilot lots as well as the introduction of new technologies into the production process.

Education and further training are a matter of particular interest to the BLZ. In cooperation with the universities, the Bavarian Laser Centre qualifies students within the context of their diploma theses and research projects and offers them interesting possibilities for a practical training. Furthermore, the BLZ arranges events to provide information for students and teachers. In close collaboration with the LGA Bayern the BLZ qualifies skilled personnel from industry and trade as laser safety commissaries. With its national and international conferences, seminars and workshops the Bavarian Laser Centre brings together researchers, developers and users within the scope of applied laser technology with the aim to further develop this key technology in a forward-looking way. Eventually, the active participation of the BLZ in a series of networks of the optical technologies is further ensuring the transfer of knowledge from research to industry.

Beijing Golden Way Scientific Co., Ltd.

Beijing Golden Way Scientific Co., Ltd., established in 1994, has more than 30 staff, and 10 engineers among them. Owing to the effort of our staff, the company has been developed a lot in Optical Components, Optical Products, Optic-electric Instruments. We have a whole set of optical processing facilities, from cutting, grinding, polishing, fine molding to coating.

Off the Shelf, Custom manufacturing and OEM production of high precision optical components and micro-optical components, including lenses, prisms, filters, filter glass, windows, precision optical flats, etc., the material used includes optical glass, fused silica, color glass, CaF2, MgF2, Sapphire, etc.

BIAS - Bremer Institut für angewandte Strahltechnik

Carl Zeiss SMT AG

Carl Zeiss offes high quality optical and precision mechanical products for the life sciences, the semiconductor industry, metrology and eye care. In microscopy, industrial measuring technology, optical systems for microchip production, surgical microscopes and instruments for diagnosis and therapy in ophtamology, Carl Zeiss is one of the world's leading optical companies. The company's headquarters are in Oberkochen, Germany.

Club Laser et Procédés c/o CLFA

Le Club Laser et Procédés, association pour le développement et la promotion des applications industrielles des lasers, développe des liens entre industriels, chercheurs et formateurs dans le domaine des procédés lasers.

Le CLP compte actuellement près de 200 membres actifs dont 30 % issus des PME-PMI, 40 % des grandes industries et 30 % des milieux de la R&D et du transfert de technologie.
Le CLP fédère un réseau de compétences dans les domaines des applications indus-trielles du laser:

- recherches de base,
- recherches appliquées et développements,
- systèmes et applications,
- études de faisabilité,
- expertises,
- transfert de technologies,
- assistances techniques,
- formation.

CNRS - CERLA

CNRS - INSTITUT FRESNEL

Originally, Marseille played host to a few first-rate laboratories, among which the Thin Films and Surface Optics Laboratory, the Signal and Image Laboratory and the Electromagnetic Optics Laboratory. Bringing these three laboratories together into a single structure, while restructuring higher education and research in Marseille, was aimed at giving science and technology better consistency as well as more clout in such prominent areas as optics, electromagnetism and image processing.

The Fresnel Institute, placed under the joint authority of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille (ENSPM), Aix-Marseille University and the University of Provence, gathers 70 researchers, research faculty, engineers and PhD students.
One of the Institute's prime missions is to design and construct objects or object distributions capable of monitoring light or waves with the use of image and signal processing techniques. Thus, specific research fields have been defined and assigned to 6 different groups within the Institute:

CLARTE: Control of Light and Analysis of Radiation: Treatment with Electromagnetics
MAP2: Random Media and High Power Photonics
FTI: Physics and Image Processing
COM: Micro-Structured Optical Components
TEM: Remote Sensing and Micro-Wave Experiments
RCMO: Materials and Technologies for Thin Film Optics