Photonics Spectra

2006

January

January 2006

Accent on Applications
Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)
FastTrack (Business News)
Feature Articles
LED Focus
Microscopy Focus
Nanophotonics
New Media
Peregrinations
Presstime Bulletin
Research
Technology

Accent on Applications

Fluorosensor Reveals Seafloor Habitats
Robert C. Aller likes to muck about when he works. He studies worms, clams and other animals that...

Spectroscopy Reveals Details of the Hope Diamond
The Naval Research Laboratory in Washington has been synthesizing diamonds since the mid-1980s,...

Lasers Listen to Vortices from Airplane Wing Tips
At Flight Safety Technologies Inc. in Mystic, Conn., senior vice president for technology Neal Fine...

Bright Ideas (Innovative Products)

LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE
Carl Zeiss Jena

FLUORESCENCE FILTER SET
Semrock, Inc.

INTELLIGENT CAMERA SERIES
Basler AG, Vision Components Div.

GIGABIT ETHERNET CAMERA
Matrix Vision GmbH

ABSOLUTE SPECULAR REFLECTANCE
Thermo Electron Corp.

UNIFORM BACKLIGHTING LEDS
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH

SILICA MICROSPHERES
Fiber Optic Center, Inc.

Nd:YAG LASER
Big Sky Laser Technologies Inc.

WIDEBAND SOURCE
Amonics Ltd.

SMART CAMERA
AnaLogic Computers Kft

LASER DIODES
Opnext, Inc.

ACOUSTO-OPTIC MODULATOR
Gooch & Housego plc

SPECTROPHOTOMETERS
Beckman Coulter, Inc.

SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS
Holoeye Photonics AG

TEMPERATURE CALIBRATION
Luxtron Corp.

ETHERNET INTERFACES
Imperx, Inc.

LASER DELIVERY
Fiberguide Industries, Inc.

MODELING SOFTWARE
Comsol, Inc.

TRANSMISSION GRATINGS
Ibsen Photonics A/S

ULTRASONIC RECEIVER
Bossa Nova Technologies, LLC

FIBER LASERS
Foba Technology + Services GmbH

ACOUSTIC ENCLOSURES
Halcyonics GmbH

MEGAPIXEL CAMERA
Toshiba Teli America, Inc.

TUNABLE LASER
NetTest A/S

PHOTOMULTIPLIER
Hamamatsu Corp.

VOLUME PHASE GRATINGS
Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc.

PHOTOTRANSISTORS
Optek Technology Inc.

LINEAR ACTUATORS
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

IMAGE PROCESSOR BOARD
Dalsa Corp.

FIBER LASERS
Fianium Ltd.

CCD CAMERA
The Cooke Corp.

SPECTROSCOPY SOFTWARE
Ocean Optics, Inc.

TUNABLE LASER
Santec Corp.

IR CAMERA
Flir Systems, Inc.

TELECENTRIC LENSES
Thales Optem, Inc.

CMOS IMAGE SENSOR
Micron Technology, Inc.

SOFTWARE INTERFACE
Tattile Srl

COMPONENT ANALYZER
Agilent Technologies, Inc.

MEASURING SYSTEM
Ono Sokki Technology, Inc.

POWER MODULE
Alfalight, Inc.

TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER
Femto Messtechnik GmbH

IMAGING SOFTWARE
Nikon Instruments, Inc.

USB 2.0 CAMERAS
Lumenera Corp.

LASER MIRRORS
Precision Photonics Corp.

FRAME GRABBER
National Instruments

RAMAN ACCESSORY
Thermo Electron Corp.

CMOS CAMERAS
Framos Electronic Vertriebs GmbH

BEAMSPLITTERS
Rolyn Optics Co.

STEPPER MOTOR CONTROL
Advanced Micro Systems (AMS)

COMBINATION MICROSCOPE
Olympus America, Inc.

ATOM PROBES
Oxford nanoScience Ltd.

CURABLE ADHESIVE
Epoxies Etc.

LASER TRACKERS
Leica Geosystems' Metrology Div.

SPECTRORADIOMETER
Analytical Spectral Devices, Inc.

REFERENCE DRIVE
Toptica Photonics AG

NEAR-IR CAMERA
Intevac, Inc.

ULTRAFAST LASER
Coherent, Inc.

IR SPECTROMETERS
PerkinElmer, Inc.

BEAM EXPANDERS
Edmund Industrial Optics, Inc.

DIGITAL CAMERAS
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH

PHOTODIODES
Princeton Lightwave, Inc.

OPTICAL ELEMENTS
Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH (Limo)

MACHINE VISION CAMERA
Leutron Vision, Inc.

BEAM PROFILER
DataRay, Inc.

ECHELLE SPECTROGRAPH
Princeton Instruments

OPTICAL PLATFORM
NSG Europe

ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS
Burle Electro-Optics, Inc.

LINE GENERATOR
StockerYale, Inc.

FILTER INSPECTOR
Olympus Life and Material Science Europa GmbH

COLOR 3-D SENSOR
Micro-metric Vision Technologies, Inc.

SUPERLUMINESCENT LEDS
Exalos AG

CW LASER
Koheras A/S

WAFER INSPECTION
KLA-Tencor Corp.

FORENSIC LASER SYSTEM
Newport Corp. - Spectra-Physics Laser Div.

FIBER-COUPLING STAGE
Standa Ltd.

CCD CAMERA
Prosilica, Inc.

TUNABLE LASER
Intune Technologies Ltd.

M2 MEASUREMENT
Photon, Inc.

COLD PLATE
Elite Thermal Engineering

SPINDLES
Aerotech, Inc.

HIGH-SPEED CAMERAS
Epix, Inc.

CCD IMAGE SENSOR
e2v technologies, Inc.

PAN-TILT UNITS
Directed Perception, Inc.

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE
Andor Technology Ltd.

MICROCHIP LASERS
Alphalas GmbH

CMOS CAMERA BOARD
Videology Imaging Solutions, Inc.

LASER CRYSTALS
Casix, Inc.

ROTATION STAGE
attocube systems AG

FastTrack (Business News)

Phase I Small Business Awards Announced
NASA recently awarded Phase I contracts to 251 small businesses through the 2005 Small Business...

International Photonics Commercialization Alliance
The International Photonics Commercialization Alliance held its inaugural meeting and discussions...

Bruker AXS Acquires Microanalysis Businesses
To strengthen its presence in the nanotechnology and advanced materials research markets, Bruker...

Coherent to Buy Iolon
In California, Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara has agreed to purchase Iolon Inc. of San Jose in a cash...

2005 European Research Awards Announced
Twenty-five winners of the 2005 European Young Investigator awards received diplomas in recognition...

Companies Ally for Solid-State Lighting
TT electronics Optek Technology of Carrollton, Texas, and Lednium, an LED technology company based...

Wahl Adds Packaging, Interconnection Unit
Wahl optoparts GmbH of Triptis, Germany, has created a department dedicated to packaging and...

Avo Photonics Expands Medical Product Services
A specialist in radio-frequency products and optical packaging, Avo Photonics of Horsham, Pa., has...

Nuvonyx Purchases Thales Laser Diodes
Nuvonyx Inc. of Bridgeton, Mo., has acquired Thales Laser Diodes of Orsay, France, as a subsidiary...

Mouser and Taos Sign Distribution Agreement
Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions (Taos) Inc., a manufacturer of integrated optoelectronic...

Companies Collaborate on Receiver Components
Optoelectronic components provider u2t Photonics AG in Berlin has been working jointly on a...

Asylum Research Licenses Technology
Atomic force microscope manufacturer Asylum Research of Santa Barbara, Calif., has signed an...

CRI and Hinds Instruments Forge Agreement
Cambridge Research & Instrumentation (CRI) Inc., a provider of liquid-crystal-based imaging...

Laboratory Opens at Lehigh University
The Center for Optical Technologies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., has opened a laboratory...

View Engineering Acquires Micro-Metric
In California, View Engineering of Simi Valley has purchased Micro-Metric Inc. of San Jose, a...

Newport Agrees to Sell Robotics Operation
Newport Corp. of Irvine, Calif., has entered into an agreement to sell its robotic systems...

Quantum Leap Packaging Buys Connector Products
Quantum Leap Packaging Inc., which supplies electronic component packaging using its Quantech...

Creative Technology Lasers Chosen as Agent
Snake Creek Lasers LLC of Hallstead, Pa., has selected Creative Technology Lasers to represent its...

Schneider Lenses Used in NASA Shuttle
NASA has selected Schneider lenses for two space shuttle flight safety systems as part of its...

DRS Technologies Garners Orders for Sensors
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received contracts valued at $38 million to develop...

Sandia and Aerospace Collaborate
Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., has signed a memorandum of understanding with...

Nippon Sheet Glass Allies with Optical Zonu
Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd., creator of the Selfoc lens and a supplier of gradient index lenses,...

nLight Selects Distributor in Australia
A manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers in Vancouver, Wash., nLight has selected the...

Unaxis Optics Grants License to Technology
Unaxis Balzers Ltd.’s optics division in Balzers, Liechtenstein, has licensed its patented...

Jenoptik Laserdiode, Kantum Form Company
Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH of Jena, Germany, and Kantum Electronics Co. Ltd. of Tokyo have founded a...

OIDA Issues Report on Fiber Optic Sensors
The Optical Industry Development Association (OIDA) has released a report based on the results of...

Richardson Electronics Purchases Business
Richardson Electronics of LaFox, Ill., has acquired the Image Systems division of Communications...

Cedip Infrared Secures Company
Cedip Infrared Systems of Croissy-Beaubourg, France, has acquired PolyTech AB of Stockholm, Sweden,...

Emcore Purchases Phasebridge
Emcore Corp. of Somerset, N.J., has purchased privately held Phasebridge Inc. of Pasadena, Calif.,...

Contract for Encoders
GSI Group Inc. of Billerica, Mass., has signed a three-year aerospace contract valued at $6 million...

Feature Articles

Nanophotonics with Surface Plasmons -- Part I
In this first of two articles on optical technologies that manipulate photons at the nanoscale, we...

The Future of Lasers in the Automotive Industry
The global automotive industry has been a pioneer in adopting laser technology into the...

Can Photonics Satisfy Moore’s Law?
For semiconductor makers, Moore’s law is more than an interesting observation of the rate of the...

Design Possibilities with LEDs
Full-color LED displays evolved out of a need for much brighter and more rugged displays than were...

Monolithic Tunable Lasers Master the C- and L-Bands
The low-loss transmission window for silica fiber lies between 1400 and 1650 nm. Within this...

OLED Market Finding Its Way
With organic LEDs (OLEDs) used primarily as replacements for LCDs, the market faces several...

Weighing In on the Digital Projection TV Market
The projection television market is expected to grow rapidly as the price of microdisplay...

High-End Television Growth Reported
Flat panel and microdisplay rear-projection televisions may be pricey, but they are gaining market...

The Bright Side of the LED Market
High-brightness LEDs are riding a growing wave because of increasing brightness and decreasing...

High-Brightness LEDs: The New Trend in Illumination
Over the past five years, the LED market has evolved and has grown at an average rate of 50 percent...

CMOS Gets a Leg Up on CCD
For years, people have been watching the CMOS sensor market to see when it might overtake the CCD...

Nanoelectronics Materials and Equipment Market to Grow
Materials, tools and equipment for the burgeoning nanoelectronics market are forecast to reach $4.2...

Flat Panel Display Materials on the Rise
The growing flat panel display market involves a wide range of materials, including liquid crystal,...

Machine Vision Market Shows Progress
The machine vision market saw strong growth in 2004, and the Automated Imaging Association in Ann...

Evaluating LED Performance in Projection Systems
Although they have yet to replace high-intensity lamps, LEDs increasingly are being used as...

Demand Propels Growth in Fiber Optic Test Equipment
High-speed networking drives the fiber optic test equipment market, notably optical time-domain...

Photonics and Engineering Drive German Marke
According to “Industry Report 2005: The Optical, Medical and Mechatronical Industry in Germany,”...

German and European Vision Markets Post Gains
The European Machine Vision Association in Frankfurt, Germany, recently released a report on the...

Excitonic Circuits: New Tools for Manipulating Photons
Electronics uses electrons. Photonics uses photons. Recently, the new field of spintronics has been...

LED Focus

Nanoscale Organic LEDs Demonstrated
Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington have reported the fabrication of...

ZnO Nanowire LEDs Have UV Output
In a continuation of their work with LEDs based on ZnO nanostructures embedded in polymer,...

Microscopy Focus

‘Lotus Effect’ Studied in Real Time
As a result of its novel ability to resist getting dirty, the lotus is symbolic worldwide of...

Optical Microscopy Employs ‘Nanoantenna’
New optical microscopy techniques such as near-field scanning, Förster resonance energy transfer...

Toward Room-Temperature Quantum Information Processing
Quantum spin states in semiconductors have generated considerable interest for their potential use...

Microscopy Tip Enhances Quantum
Quantum dots are valuable as fluorophores because they have a broad excitation spectrum and a...

Nanophotonics

Doped ZnSe Nanocrystals Offer Alternative to CdSe
Scientists at the University of Arkansas and at NN-Labs LLC, both in Fayetteville, Ark., have...

Holographic Optical Traps Manipulate and Assemble Multiple Nanowires
In the nanoworld, loads of devices can be packed into a small area. But to get them there, these...

Unipolar Nanotube Devices Emit in the Near-IR
Scientists at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and at Duke...

New Media

WAVEFRONT DISTORTION
Precision-Optical Engineering

CRYSTAL OPTICS
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH

MOTION CONTROL
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY
Nikon Instruments Inc.

OPTICS RESOURCE
Optisource LLC

LOW-VOLUME OPTICS
Anchor Optical Surplus

LASERS, DETECTORS
Photonic Solutions plc

OPTICAL DESIGN
Zemax Development Corp.

NEAR-IR DYES
Epolin Inc.

STOCK OPTICS
Meller Optics Inc.

OPTICAL SUPPLIES
CVI Laser LLC

UV LIGHT CURING
Dymax Corp.

LED LIGHTING
Moritex Corp.

POWER SUPPLIES
UltraVolt Inc.

LASER RELIABILITY
ILX Lightwave Corp.

Peregrinations

Spotting an Endangered Species
Could astronomy save the whale shark Rhincodon typus from extinction? A NASA astrophysicist and a...

Polymer from the Sea
There is nothing fishy about research on DNA as a biopolymer for photonics applications — except...

Presstime Bulletin

Camera Chip Promises Higher-Quality Images at Lower Power
Scientists at the University of Rochester in New York have developed two technologies that may...

Entanglement Demonstrated Between Remote Ensembles
A team of researchers at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and at Bell Labs in Murray...

Hybrid Technique Enables Single-Molecule Absorption Spectroscopy
By combining rear-illumination, rapid excitation modulation and lock-in amplifier detection,...

Research

Electronics Integrated with Photonics in 3-D on Silicon Chip
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have realized the three-dimensional...

Photonic Rubber Sheet Displays Tunable Structural Color
An elastic photonic crystal developed by scientists at the National Institute for Materials Science...

Nanostructured Material Exhibits Negative Refractive Index in the Visible
A team of investigators at the University of Manchester in the UK, the Institute of...

Tunable Slow Light Achieved in Silicon Photonic Crystal
Scientists at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., have carefully measured...

Silicon Laser Relies on Quantum Wells
Silicon-based lasers have been much in the news recently, as some researchers have explored Raman...

Fiber Laser Generates Multiple Wavelengths
Multiwavelength fiber lasers are important for testing wavelength division multiplexing...

Three-Color Ink Proposed for Electronic Paper
The low cost and low power requirements of electronic paper displays promise to make them suitable...

Technology

Novel Camera Employs Microlenses
Researchers at Stanford University in California have found that one lens may be good but that...

Software Fills the Blanks in Imagery
As satellite-borne sensors have become more sophisticated, a wealth of data has become available to...

Photonic Crystal Array Lases at Stanford
Lasers based on nanocavities in photonic crystals have been widely investigated because of the high...

Integrated Fiber Monitors Itself for Thermal Leakage
If there are failures in the high-power fiber optic lines used in medical, industrial and defense...

Self-Assembled Nanoprisms Form Smectic Crystal
Building nanometer-scale devices such as photonic crystals requires assembly techniques of...

CW Yb:LuVO4 Laser Produces More Than 1 W
The vanadate crystals YVO4, GdVO4 and LuVO4 are good host materials for diode-pumped...

Sensitive Intrusion Detector Relies on Fiber Optic Reflectometer
Optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) is a well-established technique for detecting faults and...

Simple Technique Tunes a Fiber Laser’s Wavelength
The broad spectral linewidths of fiber lasers make them attractive candidates for versatile,...

Femtosecond Technique Probes Photochemistry
After seven years of effort, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed...