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Tutorial Dates for 2009:
Intensive 4 Day FRED Tutorial in Tucson, AZ (attendees can optionally attend only the first 3 days for $1400) - May 18th-21st, 2009
Intensive 4 Day FRED Tutorial in Tucson, AZ (attendees can optionally attend only the first 3 days for $1400) - July 27th-30th, 2009
Intensive 4 Day FRED Tutorial in Tucson, AZ (attendees can optionally attend only the first 3 days for $1400) - September 21st-24th, 2009
Intensive 4 Day FRED Tutorial in Wessling, Germany (attendees can optionally attend only the first 3 days) - October 20th-23rd, 2009
Intensive 4 Day FRED Tutorial in Tucson, AZ (attendees can optionally attend only the first 3 days for $1400) - November 9th-12th, 2009

Stray Light Short Course Dates for 2009:
3 Day Stray Light Short Course in Tucson, AZ - May 13-15th, 2009
3 Day Coherence in Optical Engineering Short Course in Tucson, AZ - June 17-19th, 2009
3 Day Illumination Engineering Short Course in Tucson, AZ - July 22-24th, 2009
3 Day Coherence in Optical Engineering Short Course in Tucson, AZ - August 26-28th, 2009
3 Day Stray Light Short Course in Tucson, AZ - September 16-18th, 2009
3 Day Illumination Engineering Short Course in Tucson, AZ - October 14-16th, 2009
3 Day Stray Light Short Course in Tucson, AZ - November 4-6th, 2009
3 Day Coherence in Optical Engineering Short Course in Tucson, AZ - December 7-9th, 2009

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Press Releases
Photon Engineering releases FRED Optimum 7.100.0, October 1, 2008 (PDF)
Photon Engineering releases FRED 7.50.0, May 15, 2008 (PDF)
Photon Engineering announces the hiring of Dr. John Koshel, February 4, 2008 (PDF)
Photon Engineering releases FRED 7.0.0, December 17, 2007 (PDF)
Photon Engineering releases FRED 6.100.0, October 12, 2007 (PDF)
Photon Engineering releases FRED 6.30.0, March 1, 2007 (PDF)
Photon Engineering releases FRED 6.21.0, February 1, 2007 (PDF)
Photon Engineering releases FRED 5.91.0, August 31, 2006 (PDF)
Photon Engineering releases FRED 5.50.0, April 10, 2006 (PDF)
Photon Engineering announces the hiring of Carolyn Johnson, February 1, 2006 (PDF)
Photon Engineering releases FRED 5.20.0, January 5, 2006 (PDF)
Photon Engineering releases FRED 4.100.0, September 23, 2005 (PDF)
Photon Engineering releases FRED 4.70.0, July 1, 2005 (PDF)
Photon Engineering releases FRED 4.50.0, May 3, 2005 (PDF)

Measurement versus Simulation by Customers
Download the PDF presentation by NOAO on the stray light and scatter analysis on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope here
Download the LED simulation presentation by our FRED customer LED Expert here
Download the LED source simulation presentation by our FRED customer LED Expert here

FRED in the News, Magazines and in SPIE Proceedings
Laser Focus World's March 2007 issue, "Multi-CPU architecture speeds ray tracing", by Michael Gauvin and Don Scott
Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume 6268, "Advances in Stellar Interferometry" Article - "Optical Modeling of the wide-field imaging Interferometry testbed" by Anita Thompson, Swales Aerospace
Laboratory for Laser Energetics Paper, "Correcting Pulse-Front Errors in the OMEGA EP Pulse Compressor", by Mary Brummond, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester
Laser Focus World's October 2006 issue, page 77-83, has an excellent article on how to use FRED to improve an opto-mechanical design, "UV reflective objectives benefit from design and production advances", by Samuel Sadoulet.
Laser Focus World's September 2005 issue, "Choosing Software: Different design paths lead to different solutions, Part I", by Hassaun A. Jones-Bey.
Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume 4842, "Stray light analysis of the Apache Point Observatory 3.5-meter telescope system", by Stephen M. Pompea; Richard N. Pfisterer; Jeffrey S. Morgan.
Laser Focus World's July 2003 issue, "Algorithm determines efficiency of fiber-coupling calculation", by Boyd Hunter.
Laser Focus World's December 2003 issue, "Modern ray-tracing software simplifies virtual prototyping" , by Richard Pfisterer and Daniel Dillon.

Newsletters
Photon Newsletter 1st Quarter 2009 (PDF)
Photon Newsletter 1st Quarter 2007 (PDF)
Photon Newsletter 1st Quarter 2006 (PDF)
Photon Newsletter 1st Quarter 2005 (PDF)
Photon Newsletter 4th Quarter 2004 (PDF)
Photon Newsletter 3rd Quarter 2004 (PDF)
Photon Newsletter 2nd Quarter 2004 (PDF)

Photon Engineering 2009 Trade Show Schedule
Please visit us at PhotonXpo-The Exhibit at CLEO, June 2-4, 2009 in booth 1238 at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore MD
Please visit us at the Laser 2009 exhibition, June 15th-18th in the Laser 2000 booth in Munich, Germany
Please visit us at SPIE's Optics & Photonics Exhibition, August 4th-6th, 2009 in booth at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA.

Laser 2000 GmbH 2009 Trade Show Schedule
LASER München, June 15-18, B1
ECOC Wien, Sept. 21-23
SILMO Paris, Sept. 17-20