Useful Links

Important Optoelectronics sites, Associations, etc.

Trade magazines and other resources:

• Biophotonics
• Compound Semiconductor
• Fiberoptic Technology
• Fiber Optics Online
• Europhotonics
• FibreSystems Europe
• Laser Focus World
• Lightwave Magazine
• Optoelectronics World
• Opto & Laser Europe
• (Japanese) Optronics
• Photonics Online
• Photonics Spectra
• International Fiber Optics Yellow Pages

Optoelectronic industry associations and alliances--worldwide and regional:

• Hong Kong Optoelectronics Association (HKOEA)
• Korea Association for Photonics Industry Development (KAPID)
• OpTech-Net (Germany)
• Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association (OITDA)-Japan
• Photonics Association (Singapore)
• Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA)-Taiwan
• Scottish Optoelectronics Association (SOA)-Scotland

 

• Arizona Optics Industry Association
• Colorado Photonics Industry Association (CPIA)
• Florida Photonics Cluster
• New Mexico Optoelectronics Industry Association (NMOIA)
• Ontario Photonics Technology Industry Cluster (OPTIC)
• New York Photonics Industry Association(PIANY)
• Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster

Related industry associations and alliances:

• American Precision Optics Manufacturers Association (APOMA)
• Coalition on Photonics and Optics
• Infrared Data Association (IrDA)
• Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits (IPC)
• International Commission for Optics (ICO)
• International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA)
• Laser and Electro-Optic Manufacturers' Association (LEOMA)
• Laser Institute of America (LIA)
• National Storage Industry Consortium (NSIC)
• Optical Disc Manufacturing Association (ODMA)
• Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA)
• Optics and Electro-Optics Standards Council (OEOSC)
• Photographic and Imaging Manufacturer's Association (PIMA)
• Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
• SEMATECH
• Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI)
• Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
• Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)
• Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
• United States Display Consortium (USDC)

Related professional and technical organizations:

• American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, Inc.
• European Optical Society (EOS)
• Fiber Optics Association (FOA)
• IS&T--Society for Imaging Science and Technology
• International Biomedical Optics Society (IBOS)
• Lasers and Electro-Optics Society of IEEE (LEOS)
• Optical Society of America (OSA)
  OpticsNet
• Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T)
• Society for Information Display (SID)
• SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering (Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers)
  Optics.Org--The Photonics Resource Center

Government-related sites in the U.S.:

• Department of Commerce
  • NIST Optoelectronics Division (U.S. Department of Commerce)
  • NIST Advanced Technology Program (U.S. Department of Commerce)
• Department of Defense
  • DARPA and the Electronics Technology Office and its effort inOptoelectronics
  • DARPA CO-OP Program (managed at George Mason University)
  • Naval Research Laboratory including Imaging on the Internet
  • National Technology Transfer Center
• Department of Energy
  • Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) - Building Technologies Program
  • Alliance for Photonic Technology (a partnership of U.S. national labs, universities, and industry)
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Laser Programs
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratories and its Oak Ridge Photonics Initiative
  • Sandia National Laboratories'program in Solid State Lighting
  • Sandia National Laboratories' program in Microelectronics & Photonics
• NASA
  • Ames Research Center Photonics Group and Vision Group
  • Goddard Space Flight Center Laser Altimetry Development Lab
  • Langley Research Center Lidar in orbit
• National Science Foundation
  The MOSIS prototyping service at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California
• Office of Science and Technology Policy (U.S. Executive Office of the President)
• State Science and Technology Institute

Government-related sites in Canada:

• Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
• National Optics Institute - Institut national d'optique (Province of Quebec)
• National Research Council Canada - Counseil national de recherches Canada
  • Photonic Systems Group
  • Institute of National Measurement Standards
• Photonics Research Ontario
• Telecommunications Research Laboratories (TR Labs), including Photonics Research

Other useful sites:

• European ACTS Horizon Program
• Japan External Trade Organization and the Japan Economic Foundation
• Japanese optoelectronics laboratories (Japan's Real World Computing Partnership)
• Japanese government offices, companies, universities, and gateways to information on science and technology. (NSF's Tokyo office)
• Real World Computing Partnership (Japan Ministry of International Trade and Industry)
• opto-forum archives (the archives from the former Internet listserv)