Photonics Spectra

2000

June

June 2000

Accent on Applications
Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
FastTrack (Business News)
Feature Articles
Presstime Bulletin
Technology

Accent on Applications

Hyperspectral Imaging Leads to New Art Form, Greener Lawns
England's fields may soon stay green even when the grass is dead, thanks to hyperspectral imaging...

Plant-Monitoring Fluorometer Has Its Day in the Sun
Through the ages, plants -- and particularly crops -- have evolved to survive adverse conditions,...

Optical Sensor Bridges Gap for Robotic Welders
Two robotic welders at Vauxhall Motors Ltd. complete about 300 wheel arches a day on models such as...

Superdry Optics Stand up to Er:YAG Energy
Emitting at 2.94 µm, Er:YAG lasers offer some very promising solutions for a broad range of...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)

MINI SPECTROGRAPH
Jobin Yvon Inc./Horiba Group

PHOTOSENSOR MODULES
Hamamatsu Corp.

PHOTON COUNTER
C&L Instruments Inc.

QUADRANT PHOTODIODE
Pacific Silicon Sensor Inc.

BROADBAND SOURCE
MPB Technologies Inc.

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER
E-Tek Dynamics Inc.

MULTIPLEXER SYSTEMS
Arroyo Optics Inc.

OPTICAL SWITCH
Nanovation Technologies Inc.

FIBER FILTERS
Sifam Fibre Optics Ltd.

TRANSMITTER/RECEIVER
JDS Uniphase Corp.

COLOR CCD
Basler AG, Vision Components Div.

IMAGE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
Clemex Technologies Inc.

IR CAMERA FOR THERMAL MEASUREMENT
Nikon Corp.

BALLISTIC-RANGE CAMERA
DRS Hadland Ltd.

VISION SOFTWARE
HexaVision Technologies Inc.

ANTIREFLECTIVE COATINGS
Thin Film Technology

OPTICAL ADHESIVE
Master Bond, Inc.

TEMPORARY ADHESIVE
Summers Optical

DC POWER AMPLIFIER
Trek Inc.

SPECTRUM EQUALIZER
Corning Inc., Optical Networking Devices

PULSED UV-VIS CURING
Xenon Corp.

LOW-SCATTER INFRARED LIGHT PIPES
Epner Technology Inc.

TEMPERATURE CONTROLLER
Wavelength Electronics, Inc.

DEEP-UV SOLID-STATE LASER SOURCE
Positive Light Inc.

DIODE LASER MODULES
Limo GmbH

FIBER LASER
SDL Inc.

LASER STARTER KIT
Alpes Lasers SA

MICROMACHINING LASER
Lambda Physik Inc.

MIDINFRARED TUNABLE LASER SOURCE
Science & Engineering Services Inc.

LASER MODULES
Lucent Technologies Inc., Microelectronics Group

LASER PROCESSING SYSTEM
PhotoMachining Inc.

PUMP LASER
Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Corp.

RING-BEAM DRILLING
National Aperture Inc.

VIOLET DIODE LASER
PicoQuant GmbH

DARK-FIELD ILLUMINATION
StockerYale, Inc.

SOLID-STATE CHILLER
ThermoTek Inc.

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR
Analog Devices, Inc.

SOFTWARE RESOURCE
LTR Publishing Inc.

ASPHERIC LENSES
Moritex Europe Ltd.

BALL LENSES
Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.

COATING MATERIALS
Indium Corp. of America

DWDM GRATING
Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc.

ENLARGING LENSES
Rodenstock Precision Optics Inc.

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS
Richardson Grating Laboratory

INTEGRATING SPHERES
Labsphere, Inc.

PHASE MASKS
Lasiris Inc.

OPTICS POLISHING
Meller Optics, Inc.

QUARTZ LENSES
Universe Kogaku (America) Inc.

MINI GUIDEWAY
Schneeberger, Inc.

POSITIONING SYSTEMS
Mad City Labs, Inc.

SERVO CONTROLLER
Applied Cybernetics

THREE-AXIS POSITIONER
Melles Griot Ltd.

COLOR TESTER
Eldim SA

UV DOSE MEASUREMENT
UV Process Supply, Inc.

ECHELLE SPECTROGRAPH
Catalina Scientific Corp.

EDFA/DWDM TEST AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT
ILX Lightwave Corp., Boulder Div.

HIGH-FREQUENCY SWITCH
National Instruments Corp.

ION/PHOTON COUNTING
Fast ComTec GmbH

WAVELENGTH METER
Burleigh Instruments, Inc.

OTDR ANALYSIS
Agilent Technologies, Inc.

SMALL SPECTROMETERS
Spectroscopic & Analytical Developments

FastTrack (Business News)

Electronic Display Materials Push Ahead
Business Communications Co. Inc. of Norwalk, Conn., predicts that global shipments of electronic...

Los Alamos Donates Equipment
Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will donate its excess labora-tory equipment to...

Tantalum Basks in Telecom Spotlight
ARLINGTON, Va. -- It's nice to be sought after -- especially when you're named for the king of...

Surveillance Booms
Business Communications Co. Inc. of Norwalk, Conn., predicts that the visual surveillance market in...

Calimetrics Licenses Near-Field Technology
Polaroid Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., has granted Calimetrics Inc. of Alameda, Calif., an exclusive...

Corning to Acquire Datacom Company
Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., has agreed to purchase the remaining equity in NZ Applied...

Free-Space Optical Network Planned
Lucent Technologies Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., and TeraBeam Networks of Seattle have announced that...

Nakamura Orders GaN Platform
The University of California at Santa Barbara's Shuji Nakamura, the inventor of the blue, green and...

Newport Receives Orders Totaling $7 Million for Specialized Precision Optics Products
Newport Corporation has announced that it has received orders totaling $7 million from three major...

Lucent: For Sale to Good Owner
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies Inc. has announced plans to sell about a dozen of its 17...

Vision Suit Continues
US District Court Judge Philip Pro in Reno, Nev., denied three motions of the Lemelson Medical,...

Survey: Mergers Displace Business Leaders
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Chamber of commerce executives are generally upbeat folks, faithfully pitching...

Trimedyne Insider Trading Proves Too Tempting
IRVINE, Calif. -- The events of one day in March 1996 proved just too tempting for two individuals....

Projectors Brighten Texas Instruments' Future
Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas has announced that first-quarter shipments of its Digital Light...

'Weird' Science Grants Announced by Innovation Initiative
An initiative by the government, universities and scientific organizations in The Netherlands will...

Feature Articles

Small Block Cameras Tackle Tough Tasks
They go where humans can't. Sometimes they go where no camera has gone before. Often they go where...

A Model of Efficiency
Product advances based on classical illumination technology have primarily correlated with advances...

To Manufacture More, Automate
The rapid expansion of dense wavelength division multiplexing telecommunications networks has...

Small Optics Offer Big Correction
At the heart of many photonics projects is a microlens or an array of microlenses. Whether one is...

Managing Polarization Mode Dispersion
The increasing demand for bandwidth is driving most telecommunications operators toward the...

Integrating Spheres Create 'Artificial Sunshine'
When testing a camera system or a material's weathering performance, researchers need a stable,...

Telecom Test Equipment Takes to the Outdoors
The ever-growing demand for more bandwidth is creating a breakneck pace in the development and...

Presstime Bulletin

Consortium Advances Fiber-Based Local Area Networks
Fourteen Taiwanese networking manufacturers, representing approximately 25 percent of the global...

Flir to Supply Cameras for Inspection
Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., has signed a $4.7 million deal to supply multispectral imaging...

JDS Uniphase Announces Plans to Acquire Casix
JDS Uniphase Corp. of Nepean, Ontario, Canada, has announced an agreement to purchase Casix Laser...

Nortel Consolidates Components Businesses
Nortel Networks Corp. of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, has formed High Performance Optical Components...

Polaroid Sells Laser Business
Boston Laser Inc. of Norwood, Mass., has agreed to purchase the laser diode development and...

Technology

3-D Crystals Created for the Visible Spectrum
OXFORD, UK -- One of the main challenges the photonics industry faces is the development of a...

Bell Labs Extends 3-Tb/s Transmission
Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., has announced successful long-distance transmission at...

Biocavity Laser Could Fill a Void
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Today's surgeons are, in some ways, blind. Because they can't see how deep...

Butterfly Aids Color Research
EXETER, UK --What do a TV set, a Georges-Pierre Seurat painting and an emerald swallowtail...

Chalmers Develops 49-dB Optical Parametric Amplifier
A team at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, has developed a fiber-based...

New Material Cools to -100 °C
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Many applications await the development of efficient, inexpensive,...

Film Selectively Darkens Light
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Intense light sources can cause damage to eyes and other optical sensors: a...

LEDs Benefit from Interface Engineering
A research group from the UK, Germany and Singapore describes the production of efficient polymer...

Through the Left-Handed Looking Glass
SAN DIEGO -- Researchers at the University of California have constructed a breakthrough material...

A Little Hard Time Does Photochemistry Good
NEW ORLEANS -- A technique under development at Tulane University and the University of British...

Lucent Upgrades WaveStar to 320-Channel, 800-Gb/s Transmission
Lucent Technologies Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., has announced an upgrade to its WaveStar OLS 400G...

Optics Center Refines Confocal Grinding
The University of Rochester's Center for Optics Manufacturing in New York is testing a prototype...

New Process Developed for Telescope Mirror Manufacture
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Advanced Optical Systems Inc. has teamed with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in...

Astronomers Discover Distant Quasar
Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico have...

Researchers Find New Uses for an Old Semiconductor
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are putting an old alloy to work in...

Physicists Play Ring-Around-the-Atom
NORMAL, Ill. -- Electrons racing about their atomic nuclei at nearly the speed of light bring new...

Schott Turns Out Glass for Ignition Facility
Following months of cooperative research with Hoya Corp. of Fremont, Calif., Schott Glass...

Scientists Observe Motion of Individual Atoms
PASADENA, Calif. -- In a development that could have far-reaching ramifications for single-atom...

SDL Tests Raman Amplifiers
Researchers from SDL Inc. of San Jose, Calif., and AT&T Labs-Research of Red Bank, N.J., have...

Small Particles Could Find Big Uses
URBANA, Ill. -- At the University of Illinois, a researcher may be on the way to something big by...

Space-Based Laser Boosts Power
An April 24 test of the megawatt-class hydrogen-fluoride chemical laser known as Alpha increased...

Synchrotron Produces Femtosecond Pulses
A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source in Berkeley, Calif.,...

Laser Tweezers Test Kramers' Theory
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Nearly 60 years after Hendrik A. Kramers described the thermally driven...

Computer Vision-Based System Gauges Fuel Levels
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Most conventional fuel gauges rely on a sensor with low-voltage electrical...