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Photonics Spectra - January 2006
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Doped ZnSe Nanocrystals Offer Alternative to CdSe
Scientists at the University of Arkansas and at NN-Labs LLC, both in Fayetteville, Ark., have produced ZnSe nanocrystals doped with copper and with MnSe. They suggest that these alternatives to CdSe...
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 tiny objects must be organized into a structure, which is not easy to do with lithographic methods or...
Nanoscale Organic LEDs Demonstrated
Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington have reported the fabrication of electrically driven organic LEDs in which the active material is incorporated into holes as small as 60...
ZnO Nanowire LEDs Have UV Output
In a continuation of their work with LEDs based on ZnO nanostructures embedded in polymer, scientists at Portland State University in Oregon have obtained emission centered at 393 nm from the...
‘Lotus Effect’ Studied in Real Time
As a result of its novel ability to resist getting dirty, the lotus is symbolic worldwide of spiritual purity. The microstructured surface of hairy bumps on lotus leaves causes water droplets that...
Optical Microscopy Employs ‘Nanoantenna’
New optical microscopy techniques such as near-field scanning, Förster resonance energy transfer and structured illumination can detect features smaller than the optical diffraction limit. These...
Toward Room-Temperature Quantum Information Processing
Quantum spin states in semiconductors have generated considerable interest for their potential use in quantum information processing. By imaging and manipulating single electron spins in diamond...
Microscopy Tip Enhances Quantum
Quantum dots are valuable as fluorophores because they have a broad excitation spectrum and a relatively narrow emission spectrum that depends on the size of the particles. Because of 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 University in Durham, N.C., have fabricated field-effect transistors based on partially suspended carbon...
Nanophotonics with Surface Plasmons -- Part I
In this first of two articles on optical technologies that manipulate photons at the nanoscale, we discuss how surface plasmons are analogous to photons and how they may be used to efficiently guide...
The Future of Lasers in the Automotive Industry
The global automotive industry has been a pioneer in adopting laser technology into the manufacturing process, perhaps starting as early as 1973 when Ford Motor Co. purchased an underbody laser...
Can Photonics Satisfy Moores Law?
For semiconductor makers, Moore’s law is more than an interesting observation of the rate of the doubling of transistor counts. It is the road map to commercial survival. The increase in...
Design Possibilities with LEDs
Full-color LED displays evolved out of a need for much brighter and more rugged displays than were possible using other technologies. First introduced in the mid-1990s, they now are a mainstream...
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 region, the range of wavelengths from roughly 1525 to 1565 nm known as the C-band has historically...
OLED Market Finding Its Way
With organic LEDs (OLEDs) used primarily as replacements for LCDs, the market faces several challenges, says the most recent edition of “Organic Light-Emitting Diode Displays,” a semiannual report...
Weighing In on the Digital Projection TV Market
The projection television market is expected to grow rapidly as the price of microdisplay projection models drops in comparison with LCD units, according to a report titled “Future Prospects of...
High-End Television Growth Reported
Flat panel and microdisplay rear-projection televisions may be pricey, but they are gaining market share. “Quarterly Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report” from DisplaySearch of Austin, Texas, says...
The Bright Side of the LED Market
High-brightness LEDs are riding a growing wave because of increasing brightness and decreasing costs, according to “The Global Market for High-Brightness LEDs,” a report from NanoMarkets LC of Glen...
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 per year, reports “LED2Light: HB-LEDs for General Illumination & Automotive Lighting.” The...
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 one. According to “Image Sensors 2005: Camera Phones Drive CMOS Past CCDs in 2004,” a report from...
Nanoelectronics Materials and Equipment Market to Grow
Materials, tools and equipment for the burgeoning nanoelectronics market are forecast to reach $4.2 billion by 2010, reports “Global Nanoelectronics Markets and Opportunities,” released by...
Flat Panel Display Materials on the Rise
The growing flat panel display market involves a wide range of materials, including liquid crystal, filters, polarizers, LEDs, microelectromechanical systems and nanomaterials. According to “Major...
Machine Vision Market Shows Progress
The machine vision market saw strong growth in 2004, and the Automated Imaging Association in Ann Arbor, Mich., expects that 2005 also will prove to have been a positive year, although not at the...
Evaluating LED Performance in Projection Systems
Although they have yet to replace high-intensity lamps, LEDs increasingly are being used as illumination sources in projection systems. The report “LED Projection Systems” issued by Insight Media...
Demand Propels Growth in Fiber Optic Test Equipment
High-speed networking drives the fiber optic test equipment market, notably optical time-domain reflectometers, optical light sources, optical power meters and optical loss test sets. “World Fiber...
Photonics and Engineering Drive German Marke
According to “Industry Report 2005: The Optical, Medical and Mechatronical Industry in Germany,” released by Spectaris eV of Berlin, approximately 55 percent of business conducted in these sectors in...
German and European Vision Markets Post Gains
The European Machine Vision Association in Frankfurt, Germany, recently released a report on the machine vision market in Europe, while the German Manufacturing Federation released a complementary...
Excitonic Circuits: New Tools for Manipulating Photons
Electronics uses electrons. Photonics uses photons. Recently, the new field of spintronics has been defined, which uses spins for signals. Could we eventually have excitonics, circuits based on the...
Tech Pulse
Novel Camera Employs Microlenses
Researchers at Stanford University in California have found that one lens may be good but that thousands of lenses are better for taking pictures. The group at Pat Hanrahan’s lab has developed and field-tested under a variety of conditions a device that looks and functions like a typical digital camera except that it lets the user choose what is in focus after the fact. This can extend the...
Software Fills the Blanks in Imagery
As satellite-borne sensors have become more sophisticated, a wealth of data has become available to Earth scientists. Unfortunately, the level of detail these sensors afford carries a downside: It...
Photonic Crystal Array Lases at Stanford
Lasers based on nanocavities in photonic crystals have been widely investigated because of the high density of states associated with these tiny devices, which leads to low lasing thresholds and to...
Integrated Fiber Monitors Itself for Thermal Leakage
If there are failures in the high-power fiber optic lines used in medical, industrial and defense applications, the problems can be huge. It is, therefore, important to be able to predict and prevent...
Self-Assembled Nanoprisms Form Smectic Crystal
Building nanometer-scale devices such as photonic crystals requires assembly techniques of unprecedented accuracy. Developing these techniques can be as difficult as designing the devices and, thus,...
CW Yb:LuVO4 Laser Produces More Than 1 W
The vanadate crystals YVO4, GdVO4 and LuVO4 are good host materials for diode-pumped neodymium-doped lasers because they have large absorption and emission cross sections, have broad bandwidths and...
Sensitive Intrusion Detector Relies on Fiber Optic Reflectometer
Optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) is a well-established technique for detecting faults and discontinuities in long stretches of optical fiber. A short optical pulse is injected into one end of...
Simple Technique Tunes a Fiber Lasers Wavelength
The broad spectral linewidths of fiber lasers make them attractive candidates for versatile, wavelength-tunable sources, but the wavelength-tuning mechanisms — often involving multimode fiber Bragg...
Femtosecond Technique Probes Photochemistry
After seven years of effort, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy instrument capable of illuminating chemical reaction...
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Phase I Small Business Awards Announced
NASA recently awarded Phase I contracts to 251 small businesses through the 2005 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. The research program encourages...
International Photonics Commercialization Alliance
The International Photonics Commercialization Alliance held its inaugural meeting and discussions Nov. 9 at the Photonics Center at Boston University, a day prior to the center’s ninth annual...
Bruker AXS Acquires Microanalysis Businesses
To strengthen its presence in the nanotechnology and advanced materials research markets, Bruker AXS Inc. of Madison, Wis., has acquired Roentec AG, a Berlin-based x-ray microanalysis instrumentation...
Coherent to Buy Iolon
In California, Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara has agreed to purchase Iolon Inc. of San Jose in a cash transaction valued at approximately $5 million. Coherent plans to use Iolon’s optical component...
2005 European Research Awards Announced
Twenty-five winners of the 2005 European Young Investigator awards received diplomas in recognition of their project proposals at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest on Nov. 9. Each will...
Companies Ally for Solid-State Lighting
TT electronics Optek Technology of Carrollton, Texas, and Lednium, an LED technology company based in Mooroolbark, Victoria, Australia, have formed an R&D, manufacturing and marketing...
Wahl Adds Packaging, Interconnection Unit
Wahl optoparts GmbH of Triptis, Germany, has created a department dedicated to packaging and interconnection technologies. The addition enables the complete production of optoelectronic systems, such...
Avo Photonics Expands Medical Product Services
A specialist in radio-frequency products and optical packaging, Avo Photonics of Horsham, Pa., has expanded its facilities to include full-service medical device contract manufacturing support. It...
Nuvonyx Purchases Thales Laser Diodes
Nuvonyx Inc. of Bridgeton, Mo., has acquired Thales Laser Diodes of Orsay, France, as a subsidiary and has renamed the entity Nuvonyx Europe SA. The acquisition enables Nuvonyx to expand its...
Mouser and Taos Sign Distribution Agreement
Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions (Taos) Inc., a manufacturer of integrated optoelectronic products in Plano, Texas, has entered into a distribution contract with Mouser Electronics, a...
Companies Collaborate on Receiver Components
Optoelectronic components provider u2t Photonics AG in Berlin has been working jointly on a development project with Lucent Technologies of Murray Hill, N.J. Lucent’s Bell Labs passed the first...
Asylum Research Licenses Technology
Atomic force microscope manufacturer Asylum Research of Santa Barbara, Calif., has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Institut Curie of Paris for its patent on magnetic-actuated cantilever...
CRI and Hinds Instruments Forge Agreement
Cambridge Research & Instrumentation (CRI) Inc., a provider of liquid-crystal-based imaging technology, and Hinds Instruments Inc., a Hillsboro, Ore., developer of birefringence measurement...
Laboratory Opens at Lehigh University
The Center for Optical Technologies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., has opened a laboratory to enable researchers to make and analyze new classes of optical materials and to design and...
View Engineering Acquires Micro-Metric
In California, View Engineering of Simi Valley has purchased Micro-Metric Inc. of San Jose, a supplier of high-magnification, noncontact, critical dimension and coordinate metrology systems for the...
Newport Agrees to Sell Robotics Operation
Newport Corp. of Irvine, Calif., has entered into an agreement to sell its robotic systems operation, which has been discontinued since the first quarter of 2005. Located in Richmond, Calif., the...
Quantum Leap Packaging Buys Connector Products
Quantum Leap Packaging Inc., which supplies electronic component packaging using its Quantech liquid crystal compound, has purchased the connector-in-package product line from Silicon Bandwidth Inc....
Creative Technology Lasers Chosen as Agent
Snake Creek Lasers LLC of Hallstead, Pa., has selected Creative Technology Lasers to represent its products in the US, including the MicroGreen and MiniGreen 532-nm lasers in 5.6- and 9-mm-diameter...
Schneider Lenses Used in NASA Shuttle
NASA has selected Schneider lenses for two space shuttle flight safety systems as part of its Shuttle Return to Flight program. It will use a Xenoplan f/2.8, 50-mm compact C-mount lens from Jos....
DRS Technologies Garners Orders for Sensors
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received contracts valued at $38 million to develop infrared sensors for next-generation imaging systems on geostationary operational environmental...
Sandia and Aerospace Collaborate
Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., has signed a memorandum of understanding with The Aerospace Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., as part of an agreement to identify scientific areas for...
Nippon Sheet Glass Allies with Optical Zonu
Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd., creator of the Selfoc lens and a supplier of gradient index lenses, has partnered with Optical Zonu, a Van Nuys, Calif., manufacturer of fiber interface modules. The...
nLight Selects Distributor in Australia
A manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers in Vancouver, Wash., nLight has selected the Lastek Group of Companies to distribute its products in Australia and New Zealand. Based at the...
Unaxis Optics Grants License to Technology
Unaxis Balzers Ltd.’s optics division in Balzers, Liechtenstein, has licensed its patented ColorWheels technology to Premier Image Technology Corp. of Taipei, Taiwan, for projection display...
Jenoptik Laserdiode, Kantum Form Company
Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH of Jena, Germany, and Kantum Electronics Co. Ltd. of Tokyo have founded a company named Jenoptik Laserdiode Japan Co. Ltd., expanding their existing marketing relationship....
OIDA Issues Report on Fiber Optic Sensors
The Optical Industry Development Association (OIDA) has released a report based on the results of its 2005 Fiber Optic Sensor Workshop. Available to association members, the document includes the...
Richardson Electronics Purchases Business
Richardson Electronics of LaFox, Ill., has acquired the Image Systems division of Communications Systems Inc. of Hector, Minn., to augment its portfolio of display-based products for the health care...
Cedip Infrared Secures Company
Cedip Infrared Systems of Croissy-Beaubourg, France, has acquired PolyTech AB of Stockholm, Sweden, a manufacturer of gyro-stabilized airborne platforms. The acquisition represents an advance for...
Emcore Purchases Phasebridge
Emcore Corp. of Somerset, N.J., has purchased privately held Phasebridge Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., including its specialty products, technologies and business. It will integrate the operation into...
Contract for Encoders
GSI Group Inc. of Billerica, Mass., has signed a three-year aerospace contract valued at $6 million with Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., to provide MicroE Systems...
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 live in aquatic sediments. These creatures create complex, three-dimensional chemical microenvironmental and transport path networks that Aller, a marine sciences professor at Stony Brook University in New York state, likens to tree roots or ant tunnels. By measuring solute distributions, such as pH,...
Spectroscopy Reveals Details of the Hope Diamond
The Naval Research Laboratory in Washington has been synthesizing diamonds since the mid-1980s, hoping to use them as thermal, optical and electrical semiconducting materials for a variety of US...
Lasers Listen to Vortices from Airplane Wing Tips
At Flight Safety Technologies Inc. in Mystic, Conn., senior vice president for technology Neal Fine is working to ease airport congestion while increasing safety. His company is using a laser-based...
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 enable the design of CMOS image sensors with a higher performance than today’s chips and using a fraction of the power. Mark F. Bocko and Zeljko Ignjatovic of the university’s department of electrical and computer engineering have found that they can incorporate an oversampling sigma-delta modulator...
Entanglement Demonstrated Between Remote Ensembles
A team of researchers at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., has reported the entanglement of ensembles of cesium atoms separated by 2.8 m and the...
Hybrid Technique Enables Single-Molecule Absorption Spectroscopy
By combining rear-illumination, rapid excitation modulation and lock-in amplifier detection, investigators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have used scanning tunneling microscopy to...
Lighter Side
Spotting an Endangered Species
Could astronomy save the whale shark Rhincodon typus from extinction? A NASA astrophysicist and a marine biologist from the University of Murdoch in Australia think so. The researchers have...
Polymer from the Sea
There is nothing fishy about research on DNA as a biopolymer for photonics applications — except for the source material. Scientists at the US Air Force Research Laboratory and at the Universities of...
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LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE
Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH has combined its LSM 510 Meta and LSM 5 Live confocal laser scanning microscopes to form the LSM 5 Duo for fast line scanning, ultraprecise point scanning, and spectral and...
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FLUORESCENCE FILTER SET
Semrock Inc. has expanded its family of BrightLine filters with the introduction of a quad-band fluorescence filter set. The company says that the six-filter DAPI-FITC-TRITC-Cy5 Pinkel set has up to...
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INTELLIGENT CAMERA SERIES
The eXcite intelligent camera series announced by Basler AG integrates a high-quality digital camera and a high-performance PC in a compact housing. Its 1.0-GHz MIPS processor runs under Linux. Frame...
Basler AG
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UNIFORM BACKLIGHTING LEDS
The Golden Dragon Argus LEDs introduced by Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH provide uniform backlighting with high-quality color mixing for large display surfaces. Lozenge arrangements comprise two...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
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SILICA MICROSPHERES
The ÅngströmSphere line of uniform micron-scale silica spheres is available from Fiber Optic Center Inc. The spheres maintain a particle-size distribution of <10% and purity of >99.9%, and are...
Fiber Optic Center Inc.
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Nd:YAG LASER
The Centurion diode-pumped, Q-switched, pulsed Nd:YAG laser announced by Big Sky Laser Technologies delivers 45 mJ at 1064 nm in 7-ns pulses. The industrial laser’s compact head contains most of the...
Keopsys by Lumibird
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ACOUSTO-OPTIC MODULATOR
Gooch & Housego plc has introduced the M110-1×-GH1 and -GH2 all-purpose acousto-optic modulators with broadband antireflection coatings for amplitude modulation of a variety of low-power gas and...
G&H
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SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS
Two active spatial light modulators have been developed by Holoeye Photonics AG. The LC-R 768 and 720 modulate coherent or incoherent light spatially in amplitude and phase. Both have a reflective...
HOLOEYE Photonics AG
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ETHERNET INTERFACES
Imperx Inc. has announced that Gigabit Ethernet interfaces have been added to six models of its Lynx series smart cameras, enabling them to feed network spans of up to 100 m without a repeater and...
Imperx Inc.
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LASER DELIVERY
Fiberguide Industries Inc. has released a line of laser-delivery assemblies with a high-power SMA (HP-SMA) connector that uses air gap technology to eliminate energy-absorbing materials at the...
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MODELING SOFTWARE
Version 3.2 of the Comsol Multiphysics scientific-modeling package from Comsol Inc. reads geometry files created with all major CAD packages. Formerly called Femlab, the software introduces Script, a...
COMSOL Inc.
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TRANSMISSION GRATINGS
Ibsen Photonics A/S has introduced polarization-independent telecom gratings based on holographic stepper technology. The company says that the gratings, which feature 100% dielectric materials,...
Ibsen Photonics A/S
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ULTRASONIC RECEIVER
Quartet X25, a laser receiver for nondestructive testing applications, uses a patented interferometric technique based on random processing of speckle patterns with high-speed detector arrays....
Bossa Nova Vision
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ACOUSTIC ENCLOSURES
Halcyonics GmbH has announced acoustic enclosures to protect sensitive equipment from airborne noise. They are supplied for use with the company’s active vibration isolation system and can be ordered...
Accurion GmbH
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PHOTOMULTIPLIER
Hamamatsu Corp. has reduced the power consumption of its H9858 photomultiplier module by more than 90% and its weight by a third. The photosensor now can be operated for more than 1000 h on two AA...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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VOLUME PHASE GRATINGS
UltraSpec HT-940 high-dispersion volume phase gratings have been unveiled by Kaiser Optical Systems Inc. for telecommunications applications. Based on a proprietary high-throughput process, the...
Endress+Hauser Optical Analysis Inc.
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PHOTOTRANSISTORS
Optek Technology has developed a series of negative-positive-negative silicon phototransistors in 1206-chip packages. The OP520/OP521 series miniaturized surface-mount devices perform infrared...
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LINEAR ACTUATORS
The M-2× series high-precision motorized linear actuators announced by PI (Physik Instrumente) LP offer pushing forces to 120 N and speeds to 50 mm/s. The self-contained packages comprise a...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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IMAGE PROCESSOR BOARD
A PC-based real-time digital image processor board designed for x-ray imaging has been unveiled by Dalsa Corp. The XRI-1200 performs automatic noise suppression and contrast enhancement to improve...
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SPECTROSCOPY SOFTWARE
SpectraSuite modular Java-based spectroscopy software from Ocean Optics Inc. controls the company’s USB spectrometers and devices as well as other manufacturers’ USB instruments employing the...
Ocean Optics - Part of Ocean Insight
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TUNABLE LASER
Manufactured by Santec Corp., the TSL-510 tunable laser is a compact benchtop instrument that offers a 120-nm mode-hop-free tuning range that is selectable from 1260 to 1680 nm. Typical optical...
Santec USA Corp.
IR CAMERA
The ThermaCam SC6000 scientific-grade infrared camera announced by Flir Systems Inc. offers simultaneous and independent analog and digital output data streams for sending corrected imagery to a...
FLIR Systems
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SOFTWARE INTERFACE
Tattile Srl has incorporated MVTec Software GmbH’s Halcon interface into its Tag Gigabit Ethernet cameras. With the new interface, users of Halcon machine vision software can acquire gray-level and...
Tattile srl
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MEASURING SYSTEM
The CL-2400, a noncontact thickness measuring system offered by Ono Sokki Technology Inc., is for conductive and semiconductive materials. It calculates the thickness from gap capacitance, a method...
Ono Sokki Technology Inc., Test & Measurement Div.
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POWER MODULE
Alfalight Inc.’s Combined Power Module II (CPM-II) adds precision wavelength control via integrated temperature stabilization to the high brightness of the predecessor CPM. Available with 25 W of...
Alfalight Inc.
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TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER
The variable gain transimpedance amplifier DHPCA-100 is suitable for small currents generated by high-impedance sources, such as photodiodes and ionization detectors. Released by Femto Messtechnik...
Femto Messtechnik GmbH
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IMAGING SOFTWARE
Nikon Instruments Inc. has released its NIS-Elements imaging software for use by bioresearch, clinical, industrial and documentation professionals to deliver automated intelligence to microscopes,...
Nikon Instruments Inc.
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USB 2.0 CAMERAS
Lumenera Corp. has unveiled high-speed USB 2.0 digital cameras for industrial applications. The Lw230 board-level device uses a 2.0-megapixel CCD sensor with a resolution of 1616 × 1216 and a fast...
Teledyne Lumenera
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FRAME GRABBER
National Instruments has added the PCIe-1430 image acquisition board to its line of PCI Express frame grabbers. The dual-channel board acquires images from two independent Camera Link cameras through...
National Instruments Corp.
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CMOS CAMERAS
A CMOS USB 2.0 camera series for scientific applications has been launched by Framos Electronic Vertriebs GmbH. The Infinity 1 camera is equipped with a Sony CCD sensor and is suitable for microscopy...
FRAMOS GmbH
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STEPPER MOTOR CONTROL
The SMC-40 released by Advanced Micro Systems (AMS) Inc. is an integrated-circuit-based stepper motor controller that operates at more than 65,000 steps per second on 3.3 V and that does not require...
Advanced Microoptic Systems GmbH
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CURABLE ADHESIVE
Epoxies Etc. has developed 60-7105, a one-component UV-curable adhesive, coating and potting compound that cures within seconds when exposed to UV light. The low-viscosity urethane compound...
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LASER TRACKERS
Leica Geosystems’ Metrology Div. has announced a line of laser trackers. The LT640 performs corner cube reflector inspection within a measurement volume of up to 40 m, and the LTD640 absolute...
Leica Geosystems AG (See Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
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SPECTRORADIOMETER
A field-portable spectroradiometer has been released by Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) Inc. The FieldSpec3 expands the power and functionality of its predecessor and offers Ethernet and wireless...
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REFERENCE DRIVE
Toptica Photonics AG has unveiled its Husky reference drive for testing and quality control of Blu-ray disks and high-definition DVDs. The optical pickup head is made from stainless steel and...
Toptica Photonics AG
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ULTRAFAST LASER
Coherent Inc. has introduced the Chameleon Ultra, an ultrafast laser that tunes from 690 to 1040 nm, enabling calcium uncaging, autofluorescence techniques, and the use of green, blue and cyan...
Coherent Inc.
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BEAM EXPANDERS
Modular fixed-power beam expanders from Edmund Optics offer high-performance optical designs in an optomechanical platform. Two full rotations of the focus knurl provide smooth movement for the...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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OPTICAL ELEMENTS
As replacements for diffractive optical elements, Lissotschenko Mikrooptik (Limo) GmbH has released a line of monolithic high-precision refractive optical elements that illuminate hexagonal entrance...
LIMO GmbH
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BEAM PROFILER
DataRay Inc. has introduced the WinCamD-UCM portable digital beam profiling camera. It has a USB 2.0 interface and does not require an external power supply. The 1.3-megapixel field-replaceable CMOS...
DataRay Inc.
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ECHELLE SPECTROGRAPH
Princeton Instruments/Acton has released the SpectraPro HRE spectrograph, which offers high spectral resolution combined with simultaneous wavelength coverage. Suitable for use with the company’s CCD...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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LINE GENERATOR
The Lasiris reduced-speckle line generator from StockerYale Inc. emits 680- or 810-nm beams and is use-ful for increasing the accuracy of machine vision equipment where the beam is projected on a...
ProPhotonix Ltd.
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SUPERLUMINESCENT LEDS
Exalos AG has released a broadband superluminescent LED for optical coherence tomography, fiber optic telecommunications, instrumentation, structural sensors and fiber optic gyroscope applications....
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CW LASER
The Industrik HPM15 is a high-power continuous-wave laser that is based on ytterbium-doped double-clad photonic crystal fiber. Measuring 240 × 240 × 63 mm without a cooling plate, the device, from...
NKT Photonics A/S
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FIBER-COUPLING STAGE
The 7TF1 from Standa is a three-axis fiber-coupling translation stage with a compact block/flexure design and a rotation platform on the top. Travel range in X-Y-Z directions is 2 mm, sensitivity is...
STANDA UAB
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COLD PLATE
A cold plate for laser diode cooling has been released by Elite Thermal Engineering. The SCP-390 has a cooling capacity of 390 W when the set temperature is equal to ambient, and the company says...
Elite Thermal Engineering LLC
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SPINDLES
Aerotech Inc.’s ABS series direct-drive air-bearing spindles provide accurate angular positioning and velocity control for disk-drive testing, imaging and precision wafer inspection. The ABS2000 is...
Aerotech Inc.
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HIGH-SPEED CAMERAS
The Silicon Video 642M monochrome and 642C color camera systems manufactured by Epix Inc. include a plug-and-capture camera, a PIXCI SI PCI bus frame grabber, a cable and XCAP-Lite imaging software....
EPIX Inc.
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CCD IMAGE SENSOR
The CCD201 introduced by e2v technologies Inc. is a 1-megapixel CCD image sensor for low-light scientific applications. The large-format 1k × 1k 13-µm-pixel sensor provides quantum efficiency of 95%...
Teledyne HiRel Electronics
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PAN-TILT UNITS
The PTU-D300 modular computer-controlled pan-tilt units released by Directed Perception Inc. are designed for outdoor, shipboard and vehicle-mounted applications that require high payloads. They...
FLIR Motion Control Systems Inc.
MICROCHIP LASERS
Alphalas GmbH has added two models to its Pulselas-P series passively Q-switched microchip lasers. The Pulselas-P-1064-400-HP delivers pulse energy of up to 0.4 mJ with a 1-ns pulse length and peak...
ALPHALAS GmbH
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CMOS CAMERA BOARD
A 1.3-megapixel monochrome CMOS camera board with USB 2.0 output has been introduced by Videology Imaging Solutions Inc. The model 24B1.3XUSB operates at 15 fps at full 1280 × 960-pixel resolution,...
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A piezoelectric inertial nanorotation stage has been announced by attocube systems AG. The ANR30 measures 10 mm in diameter and 8.9 mm in height, and performs high-precision 360° endless rotation in...
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