Applications Surge for High-Power LEDs
Until recently, LEDs were best-known as the ubiquitous indicator lights on computers, printers and...
Ultrahigh-Performance Ion-Etched Holographic Diffraction Gratings
Up until the mid-1960s, mechanically ruled diffraction gratings with approximately 1800-g/mm ruling...
Surface and Wavefront Interference Testing
Interference testing continues to expand in support of fields that are confronting increasingly...
Uncooled IR Photodetectors Get a Performance Boost
Within the next year or so, end users can expect significant performance improvements in...
VCSELs Expand Communications Potential
It is fair to say that the introduction of vertical-cavity self-emitting laser (VCSEL) technology...
Quantum-Dot Lasers' Performance Makes Great Gains
The evolution of laser diode design has proved critical to the advancement of low-cost,...
Solid-State UV Photodetectors Search for a Niche
Commercial solid-state UV photodetectors did not exist until around 1996 when Cree Research in...
Trends in Deep-UV Excimer Light for Photolithography
The use of deep-UV excimer light sources in semiconductor chip manufacturing has grown dramatically...
Ultrafast Laser Systems Find Work Outside the Lab
Two basic types of amplified ultrafast Ti:sapphire laser systems are commercially available:...
Organic LEDs Get Brighter, Sharper
Organic light-emitting diodes are the hottest new display technology. Incredibly, it can often take...
The Quest for Athermal Solid-State Etalons
Because of the stringent requirements for frequency stability in dense wavelength division...
Agilent Technologies Inc.
The 86107A precision time-base reference module is a sampling oscilloscope accessory that addresses...
Alcatel Optronics
The 1910 TWV eight-channel, wavelength-independent multiplexer from Alcatel Optronics,...
Calient Networks
The DiamondWave all-optical photonic switch offers 256 x 256 transparent switch capacity and GMPLS...
Coherent Inc.
A hands-free, single-box, ultrafast Ti:sapphire laser from Coherent Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif.,...
Crystal Fibre A/S
Crystal Fibre designed its highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with zero-dispersion wavelength...
Eastman Kodak Co. - Image Sensor Solutions
Imaging applications are often limited by low light levels or by lengthy exposure times that...
Farfield Sensors Ltd.
The AnaLight Bio200 from Farfield Sensors Ltd. features patented sensing technology for real-time...
FLIR Systems Inc.
The ThermaCAM E2 handheld infrared camera weighs just 1.5 lb and offers state-of-the-art thermal...
Given Imaging Ltd.
A video camera in an ingestible capsule that measures only 11 x 26 mm, the M2A provides physicians...
Honeywell International-VCSEL Optical Products
The growth of gigabit optical networking relies on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs)...
IMRA America Inc.
The development of a "temporally tailored" laser source that produces a rectangular pulse shape...
Lightbit Corp.
The BandXchange is a "pure optical" processor capable of all-optical wavelength band conversion,...
MPB Communications Inc.
The Super Raman Fiber Laser from Montreal-based MPB Communications Inc. is a pump source that...
OFS-Specialty Photonics Div.
The RightWave tunable dispersion-compensating module enables transmission systems to operate at...
Point Source
The iFlex-2000 combines 405-nm laser diode technology with single-mode polarization-maintaining...
Positive Light Inc.
Positive Light Inc. designed the Indigo-DUV all-solid-state 193-nm laser source to fill the need...
Renishaw plc-Spectroscopy Products Div.
This instrument, a collaborative effort between Renishaw plc of Wotton-under-Edge, UK, and Nanonics...
Roper Scientific Inc.
Roper Scientific Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., designed and manufactured the CCD-based Photometrics...
Sabeus Photonics Inc.
Cold writing technology allows sensors to be written directly into a fiber's core without...
Santur Corp.
The TL1010-C is a 10-mW CW laser source designed for DWDM transmission systems. It provides...
Spectra-Physics
Built in response to the need in microelectronics and industrial manufacturing to process materials...
Sumita Optical Glass Inc.
Sumita Optical Glass Inc. developed its K-PG325 Super Vidron optical glass to replace the less...
3M Co.-Film and Light Management
Thin, high-performance UV-reflective filters from 3M are constructed from engineering-grade...
3M Co.-Optical Components Program
The Pulse Compressor from 3M Co. of Austin, Texas, manages the chromatic dispersion that can limit...
Toshiba America-Electronic Components Inc.
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. of Irvine, Calif., has produced a phosphor-integrated...