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Photonics Spectra - July 2006


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Subdiffraction-Limit Microscopy Exposes Vesicle Dynamics Using a variant of fluorescence microscopy that enables subdiffraction-limit resolutions, scientists at Max Planck Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen, Germany, have imaged synaptic vesicle recycling in cultured neurons. The demonstration shows that at least some constituents of these structures — which ferry the neurotransmitters that enable neurons to communicate among themselves...
Feedback-Based Imaging Enables Miniature Scanning Confocal Microscopes As part of their work toward the development of a handheld scanning confocal microscope, researchers at Institut Femto-ST (Franche-Comté Electronique Mecanique Thermique et Optique — Sciences et...
Photonic Crystal Improves Output of Quantum Dot Films The addition of a 2-D photonic crystal to the surface of LED structures boosts the output of these devices by freeing light that otherwise would be trapped inside. A team of scientists from the...
Microscopy Probes Dielectric Constant of Nanostructured Films Using near-field scanning optical microscopy, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois have imaged the interference patterns of surface plasmons on silver nanostructured thin films,...
Cryogenic Laser Photolithography Finds Quantum Dot Registration In quantum dot information processing, it is critical to be able to register the position of a single quantum dot with respect to the antinode of a defect (missing hole) in a photonic crystal to...
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Exposes Self-Assembly
of Mesoporous Thin Films The low index of refraction and ultralow dielectric constant of mesoporous ceramic thin films make the materials of interest for a variety of applications in optics and electronics. Now a...
Time-Resolved Near-IR Spectroscopy Probes Potential Jump at Electrochemical Interface The electrochemical interface where a solid meets a solution is of interest in the development of biosensors and fuel cells because it is where electron transfer occurs between electrodes and...
Polymer OLEDs Match Small-Molecule Efficiencies Researchers from Universität zu Köln and Universität Potsdam, both in Germany, have developed polymer-based organic LEDs (OLEDs) that display an internal quantum efficiency approaching 100 percent...
Nanotube Sheet Employed as OLED Electrode Organic LEDs (OLEDs) incorporating an anode made from a thin sheet of single-walled carbon nanotubes display performance similar to that of devices that employ indium tin oxide, report investigators...
PCI Motion Control in Microscope Automation Over the past 15 years, microscopes have been transformed from devices for which the operator had to adjust the stage position, focus, filters and shutters by hand, into advanced systems in which...
How Much Energy Are You Throwing Away? The Gaussian beam profile of a TEM00 laser is suitable for many applications. For targeting and alignment, the peaked Gaussian beam enables pinpoint precision. However, it is not ideal for other...
Darkness on the Edge of Your Images Numerous image sensor manufacturers are producing digital sensors that match the size of slide and negative films. Such sensors work with standard camera peripheral equipment such as lenses and...
Measuring 3-D Semiconductor Packaging Since the early 1900s, science and industry professionals have been using optical measurement and inspection for a clearer view of their products for research, development and manufacturing. These...
Aluminum Nitride LED Produces 210-nm Radiation Suggesting applications in the elimination of environmental toxins, investigators at NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Atsugi, Japan, have reported the development of an AlN PIN homojunction LED...
Phosphor Placement in White LED Packages To be useful in lighting applications and to compete with traditional light sources, the white LED must show further increases in luminous efficacy and in the amount of light generated by a single...
LED Lighting Gaining in Cost-Effectiveness A number of developments are converging to stimulate widespread replacement of traditional incandescent and fluorescent bulbs with LEDs in many general illumination applications. Some call it a...
Cost-Effective Light Sources Created for Rear-Projection TV Television in the US is going digital as of Feb. 17, 2009, when, under a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandate, the analog television broadcast will end. The FCC has further mandated that,...
Outlook Brightens for LEDs in the Lighting Market As the LED comes closer to becoming tomorrow’s general lighting source, several factors will determine its rate of adoption in the market. Predicting that rate is complex because LEDs are not a...
The Transistor Laser: A Natural for Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits Since it was first demonstrated by John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain in 1947, the transistor has spawned a $300 billion semiconductor industry and has made possible our digital way of life,...
Laser Safety
LASER SAFETY Part of the Optical Science and Engineering series, Laser Safety Management is a guide for implementing safety programs in various environments. Authored by an experienced laser safety officer, the 296-page volume includes sample forms and checklists for a program management system, a chapter on laser safety calculations, a list of Web resources and a 16-page color insert with 30 illustrations....
Tech Pulse
Helium Is Good for Silicon Lasers Recently, several research groups demonstrated Raman lasers in silicon, perhaps bringing the union of photonics and microelectronics one step closer. To perform these experiments, however, they have...
Metamaterials May Be Used to Make Objects Invisible Sir John B. Pendry of Imperial College London and collaborators David R. Smith and David Schurig of Duke University in Durham, N.C., and Ulf Leonhardt of the University of St. Andrews in the UK have...
IR Radiation Breaks Si-H Vibrational Stretch Mode Scientists from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, both in Tennessee, have achieved the room-temperature...
Adaptive Lens Employs Liquid Crystal Researchers at the University of Central Florida in Orlando have constructed a tunable-focus lens by using an electric field to vary the concentration of a liquid crystal material, which creates a...
Passivated Carbon Nanoparticles Show Promise for Multiplexed Biolabeling Although semiconductor quantum dots have shown promise as bright fluorescent labels, concerns about their toxicity remain, particularly for biological uses. Now a group of scientists at Clemson...
Superconducting Detector Collects Terahertz Radiation Detecting terahertz radiation is a chore. Terahertz waves are of interest for a variety of imaging applications because they do not interact strongly with many materials, but if they are not...
light speed
LIA and FMA Acquire Laser Workshop The Laser Institute of America (LIA) of Orlando, Fla., and the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association International (FMA) of Rockford, Ill., have purchased the Automotive Laser Applications Workshop (ALAW) from Frank DiPietro, who founded the event in 1992. The workshop is targeted to those with an interest in flexible applications for automotive laser materials processing systems. ALAW...
Growth Predicted for OLED and Paperlike Displays Organic LED (OLED) and paperlike display technologies are finding opportunities in the display industry, according to a report from NanoMarkets LC, a market research firm based in Glen Allen, Va. The...
Report Issued on European Laser Welding Market Laser welding has a niche in the automotive industry, but opportunities exist elsewhere for its expansion, according to the “European Laser Welding Equipment Markets” report released earlier this...
Imra America to Build Lab with German Groups Imra America of Ann Arbor, Mich., has entered into an agreement with Lehrstuhl für Lasertechnik RWTH University Aachen and Fraunhofer Institut für Lasertechnik of Aachen, Germany, to create the...
Bae Institute Wins Grant from NASA Young K. Bae of the Bae Institute in Tustin, Calif., has received a $75,000 grant from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts to develop an ultrahigh-precision spacecraft formation flying method....
Siemens Communications Buys Photonic Bridges Siemens Communications Group of Munich, Germany, has purchased Photonic Bridges of Shanghai, China, a developer of optical transmission systems for ranges up to 200 km. Siemens, which offers...
PicoQuant Announces Young Investigator Award PicoQuant GmbH of Berlin has announced that a young investigator award will be presented at the session on ultrasensitive and single-molecule detection technologies at the 2007 SPIE Photonics...
EPIC Releases European Laser Market Analysis The European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) has announced the publication of “Laser Applications in Europe.” This market study is the compilation of findings from a workshop, interviews with...
BFi Optilas Completes Management Buyout BFi Optilas International SAS of Evry, France, has acquired a majority stake in its company from Avnet Corp.’s European electronics marketing group. For the past 10 years, the French company has...
Center Is Established for Chemical Sensors The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a research center at Princeton University in New Jersey for the development of sensors that can detect minute amounts of chemicals and that are...
Laserscope Buys InnovaQuartz Laserscope of San Jose, Calif., has acquired InnovaQuartz Inc. of Phoenix. The Arizona company, operating as a wholly owned subsidiary, will contribute licensed technology, vertically integrated...
Company Prepares for Relocation JP Sercel Associates Inc. has purchased a 35,000-sq-ft facility in Manchester, N.H., in preparation for a move from its current location in Hollis, N.H. Prompted by the need for increased office and...
Report Forecasts Boom for Displays, Digital Signs The Quarterly FPD Public Display Shipment and Forecast Report from DisplaySearch, a display market research company based in Austin, Texas, indicates that worldwide revenues for flat panel displays...
General Atomics Appoints Japanese Agent The Commercial Laser Group of General Atomics, based in San Diego, has forged an agreement with Kantum Electronics Co. Ltd. to distribute its laser products in Japan. The Tokyo-based company provides...
NIST Launches Test Protocol Facility A facility has been established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in response to the lack of standard tests to verify manufacturers’ performance specifications of...
Schott Expands Capacity for Backlight Glass Schott AG of Mainz, Germany, has started construction of three melting tanks in Valasské Mezirici, Czech Republic. The manufacturing facilities will expand production capabilities for the glass...
Hologic Acquires AEG Elektrofotografie Hologic Inc. of Bedford, Mass., a provider of diagnostic and digital imaging systems for women’s health, has acquired AEG Elektrofotografie GmbH. Based in Warstein, Germany, the privately held...
SMI to Develop Silicon-Based Laser The US Air Force has awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer grant to Structured Materials Industries (SMI) Inc. of Piscataway, N.J., to develop a silicon-based laser. The project will...
Kansas Group Designs Remote Sensing Tool Researchers at Kansas State University in Manhattan have developed a prototype for an unmanned aerial vehicle to collect environmental data, as part of a three-year project that began last fall with...
Halma Acquires Mikropack Mikropack GmbH of Ostfildern, Germany, has been acquired by UK-based Halma plc and will join Halma’s Ocean Optics Inc. in Dunedin, Fla. The German company manufactures components for analytical...
Planning Force Acquires Quintessence Photonics Planning Force Inc. of Spokane, Wash., has acquired Quintessence Photonics Corp. (QPC) of Sylmar, Calif., in a reverse merger and will now be called QPC Lasers Inc. The company replaced its officers...
Cree to Supply LEDS to Seoul Semiconductor Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., and Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd. in South Korea have signed two agreements that will increase cooperation. According to a five-year supply contract, Seoul Semiconductor...
G-S Plastic Optics Installs Coating Equipment G-S Plastic Optics, a Germanow-Simon company in Rochester, N.Y., has announced the installation of precision optical coating equipment. The Citation I optical box coater built by Vacuum Process...
Cognex to Acquire AssistWare Cognex Corp. of Natick, Mass., has announced its plans to acquire AssistWare Technologies Inc. of Gibsonia, Pa. The acquired company was the developer of the Lane Departure Warning system, which...
Modulight to Develop Atomic Clock Laser Modulight Inc. of Tampere, Finland, has received a $364,000 contract from the European Space Agency to develop lasers for compact laser-pumped ceslum-beam atomic clocks. The clocks will be used...
Barr Associates to Buy Optical Coating Barr Associates of Westford, Mass., has agreed to acquire the assets of the Natick, Mass.-based Optical Coating Corp., whose operations will be integrated with Barr’s Westford facilities. Both...
Companies Sign Marketing Pact Analytical Spectral Devices Inc. of Boulder, Colo., has signed a worldwide marketing agreement with Dynea Oy of Helsinki, Finland, for near-IR analysis technology aimed at the wood panel market. The...
Jenoptik Opens Production Center The Jenoptik Group of Jena, Germany, has opened a production center for plastic optics and optical systems in Triptis, Germany. This plant is being opened by the subsidiary Jenoptik Polymer Systems...
Daylight Solutions Focuses on Chemical Detection Daylight Solutions Inc. of Poway, Calif., has received a Phase 1 award from the US Department of Energy. It will build a high-power, widely tunable, mid-infrared laser based on quantum cascade...
Accent on Applications
IR Spectroscopy Tests Charcoal for Tennessee Whiskey To enable distillers of Tennessee whiskey to produce a better and more uniform product, scientists at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and at the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service’s...
Miniaturized Airborne Instruments Provide Maximum
Atmospheric Data Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a professor of applied ocean sciences and of atmospheric sciences and director of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University...
Presstime Bulletin
Quantum Cascade Detectors Demonstrated for Mid-IR In the June 12 issue of Applied Physics Letters, scientists at the Institut de Physique at Université de Neuchâtel in Switzerland describe the development of quantum cascade detectors designed to...
Nanocrystal-Based LEDs Offer More Efficient Color Conversion As part of an effort to improve the performance of potential solid-state replacements for general lighting applications, investigators at Los Alamos National Laboratory and at Sandia National...
Membrane Has Photoswitchable Surface Properties By grafting a photoactive vinyl monomer to a synthetic ultrafiltration membrane, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., have produced a material whose protein adsorbability...
Thin-Film Device Senses Texture by Touch Engineers at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln have developed a large-area, thin-film-based touch sensor with spatial resolution of about 40 μm — comparable to that of a human fingertip. As...
CO2 Has Glassy Form Similar to Silica Confirming theoretical predictions and potentially opening the door to novel, ultrahard optical materials, a collaboration of scientists in Italy and France has produced “amorphous carbonia,” a...
Tandem Blue OLEDs Display High Efficiencies Researchers from Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, N.Y., have reported luminous efficiencies of 20 and 38 cd/A with external quantum efficiencies of greater than 11 percent from tandem organic LEDs...
Lighter Side
Harnessing Technology to See Elizabeth Goldring, a senior fellow at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in Cambridge, Mass., and visually impaired herself, has spearheaded the development of a seeing machine. She has worked...
Stalking the Elusive Ball Lightning German researchers have found a reliable way to simulate ball lightning by producing clouds of plasma above a water surface. Ball lightning has intrigued scientists for centuries, in part because it...
Products
LASER STABILIZATION Orbits Lightwave Inc. has announced that its patent-pending StableLase technology is available in its Ethernal fiber lasers, providing high stability and low noise under adverse conditions such as temperature cycling, shock and vibration. Based on a patented virtual ring architecture, the lasers operate from 1530 to 1656 nm and offer state-of-the-art signal-to-noise ratios and side-mode...
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BEAM PROFILER Coherent Inc. has announced that its LaserCam-HR high-resolution laser beam profiler now features the 4.3.X version of BeamView-USB software, which includes an improved interface for increased speed...
Coherent Inc.
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PC DRIVER Unveiled by Pleora Technologies Inc., the patent-pending eBus PC driver uses half the CPU of traditional filter drivers while streaming imaging data to PC memory at the full 1-Gigabit-Ethernet rate....
Pleora Technologies Inc.
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ALUMINUM NITRIDE WAFERS Crystal IS Inc. has made available its ultralow-defect density (typically in the range of 1000/cm2) 2-in. native aluminum nitride (AlN) wafers for the AlN/AlGaN market. The substrates are suitable...
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LASER MIRRORS Flat mirrors for general-purpose beam steering in ultraviolet excimer laser-based applications such as microlithography, micromachining, materials processing and lasik have been announced by Alpine...
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MOTION CONTROL The Ensemble Epaq released by Aerotech Inc. is a next-generation stand-alone motion controller for lab experimentation, general-purpose positioning and advanced OEM systems. It provides up to six...
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CMOS CAMERA Photonfocus AG’s MV-D750E series CMOS camera for industrial vision applications features high image contrast achieved using the configurable LinLog response curve for a dynamic range of up to 120 dB,...
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WIDE-TEMPERATURE LCDS Kopin Corp. has announced its active-matrix LCD technology for military and industrial applications. Its 640 × 480-pixel-resolution displays operate at temperatures as low as –40 °C with near...
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XENON FLASHLAMPS Available from Specialised Imaging Ltd. are multihead xenon flashlamps for use with ultrafast cameras that have short recording times. The SIL 500 Joule lamps generate high-intensity illumination in...
Specialised Imaging Inc.
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CONVERTER PAIR Terahertz Technologies Inc. has introduced its LTX-5525, an electrical/optical-optical/electrical converter pair that conveys 16 independent channels of digital information over fiber optic links...
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MOTION CONTROLLER The E-761 PCI bus piezo nanopositioning digital motion controller announced by PI (Physik Instrumente) LP controls three logical axes of closed-loop piezoelectric nanopositioning systems with...
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DIODE LASERS Alfalight Inc. has introduced two diode lasers that are based on its wavelength-stabilized technology. A monolithically integrated grating defines a 976-nm wavelength that is stable against changes...
Alfalight Inc.
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STEREOMICROSCOPE The SteReo Discovery.V8 microscope has been launched by Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH for modular stereomicroscopy, including routine laboratory and industrial applications, as well as for advanced...
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TORQUE MOTORS H2W Technologies Inc. is offering limited-angle torque motors that produce high acceleration and torque, and ripple-free motion. The single-phase brushless low-profile motors are vacuum-compatible to...
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INSPECTION SOFTWARE Avia inspection software released by the Value Engineering Alliance detects subtle defects in large (∼10 gigapixel) images. It compares images of items or scenes of interest with their stored...
Value Engineering Alliance
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IEEE-1394 CAMERA Point Grey Research Inc. has unveiled the Firefly MV, a small IEEE-1394 digital camera with external trigger and strobe functionality. Based on the Micron MTV9V022 1/3-in. CMOS sensor with global...
Teledyne FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions
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OPTICAL ELEMENTS Diffractive optical elements from Bea Lasers Inc. include crosses and rectangular frames that provide accurate alignment in four-corner applications that require exact 90° angles. Custom geometric...
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THERMAL IMAGING SYSTEM A thermal imaging system for long-range surveillance, tracking and target signature analysis has been unveiled by Electrophysics. The Emerald LR has a mercury-cadmium-telluride large-format focal...
Lynred USA
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AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES High-sensitivity avalanche photodiodes for high-bandwidth applications have been announced by Voxtel Inc. They deliver avalanche noise of keff <0.18 and high quantum efficiency over the near-IR...
Voxtel Inc.
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MACHINE VISION SENSORS Vision & Control GmbH has launched the S26 and S28, compact machine vision sensors that include a tutorial and that offer automatic parameter preselection. Providing full VGA resolution, they are...
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LOSS MEASUREMENT OptoTest Corp. has released the OP815D insertion loss measurement instrument for large-core optical fibers from 100 to 1000 μm, including silica and plastic types. The device can be ordered with...
Santec California Corp.
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MACHINE VISION CAMERA For fast machine vision applications, Adimec USA has released its 4050m, a 4-megapixel CMOS camera that features a burst readout mode that enables increased inspection speeds through temporary high...
Adimec Electronic Imaging Inc.
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TELECENTRIC LENSES Scientists, engineers and vision systems designers can make high-accuracy noncontact measurements of small objects with the TML-HP series telecentric lenses from Edmund Optics Inc. The lenses are...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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RESEARCH STEREOMICROSCOPES The SZX2 series research stereomicroscopes have been launched by Olympus Life and Material Science Europa GmbH. The SZX16 offers full fluorescence capability and sophisticated documentation. Its...
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VACUUM FTIR SPECTROMETER The benchtop Vertex 80v released by Bruker Optics Inc. is a high-resolution vacuum Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer for use in research applications. It rejects interference from...
Bruker Optics Inc.
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DARK-FIELD LED RINGLIGHT A high-intensity dark-field LED ringlight, available with red or white surface-mount-device LEDs, has been announced by Volpi USA. It provides intense, shadow-free and homogeneous illumination. As...
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COOLING SYSTEM Specifically for applications that require compact size and low noise, PolyScience has designed the 4200 series recirculators to provide 4500 W of heat removal for process temperatures from 16 to 40...
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PIXEL CORRECTION The DPC Processor software produced by Imperx Inc. enables users to control the process of correcting defective pixels in their camera’s CCD. Lynx series Camera Link and GigE cameras have onboard...
Imperx Inc.
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THERMAL IMAGER The ThermoPro TP8 thermal imager from Armstrong Optical Ltd. incorporates a 388 × 284-pixel uncooled detector that captures high-resolution, noise-free 16-bit IR images. It also includes a full-color...
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OPTICAL SYSTEM DESIGN The OptiSystem 5.0 optical communication system design suite is available from Optiwave Systems Inc. The updated version delivers functions for the simulation and design of emerging technology,...
Optiwave Systems Inc.
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HIGH-SPEED LASER MARKER The ML-G9300 series CO2 laser marker offered by Keyence Corp. of America delivers 1-μm marking definition, 30 W of power, ±5% stability and 600 characters per second. A metallic hardware seal...
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HIGH-TEMP ADHESIVE Intertronics has released the OPT 5053-F, a two-component, low-viscosity heat-curing epoxy suitable for high-temperature applications. An improved and fast cure version of OPT 5053, the adhesive is...
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FPGA DEVELOPER’S KIT Matrox Imaging has released the Matrox FPGA Developer’s Kit for directly coding the field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that are part of the company’s hardware products. Suitable for use with the...
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DAY/NIGHT EXCHANGER The M12-EXM-IRC21, an IR cutoff filter exchanger from Sunex Inc., provides true day and night capability for cameras based on Pixim Digital Pixel System chip sets. Operation requires a mating two-pin...
Sunex Inc.
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DIGITAL CAMERAS Lumenera Corp. has announced the Lw230 series USB 2.0 digital cameras for industrial applications, particularly those in low-light conditions. The devices use a 2.0-megapixel CCD sensor with a...
Teledyne Lumenera
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THIN-FILM METROLOGY Available from Semiconsoft Inc., TFCompanion 3.0 is a powerful software package for thin-film metrology applications, including semiconductors and biotechnology. This version fully supports imaging...
Semiconsoft Inc.
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SOLID-STATE RELAYS Avago Technologies has launched two dual-channel high-speed optically isolated metal oxide silicon field-effect transistor-output solid-state relays that operate from –40 to 85 °C. The ASSR-322R is...
Broadcom Inc.
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GIGABIT ETHERNET SUPPORT National Instruments has announced that its Vision Acquisition software now supports Gigabit Ethernet cameras, enabling engineers to acquire images from thousands of cameras and to move easily among...
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UV CAMCORDER Unveiled by Oculus Photonics LLP, the UVCorder is a portable digital near-UV camcorder that is designed for viewing scenes in real time on a 3.5-in. LCD and for quick and easy acquisition of near-UV...
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PATTERN GENERATOR Holo-Or Ltd. has added a 6 × 8 high-efficiency pattern generator for lasers to its Multi Spot series. The separation angle is 0.625° pitch between the beams at 1064 nm. The same optics can be...
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DIGITAL CAMERA Dage-MTI Technologies has launched a 2048 × 2048, 12-bit-FireWire digital camera, the XLM. Based on Kodak’s KAI-4021M progressive-scan interline sensor, the camera has a high quantum efficiency and...
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OPTICAL BUILDING BLOCKS Prizmatix has announced its OptiBlocks line of modular optical building blocks that speed construction of optical setups for applications such as fiber sensors as well as imaging and multiwavelength...
Prizmatix Ltd.
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LIGHT SOURCES CE-compliant halogen light sources have been unveiled by Moritex USA Inc. in 100- and 150-W versions. The compact sources deliver stable output of ±1%, color temperature of >3000 K and a life span...
MORITEX North America Inc.
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IR CAMERA The Vigiscan11 panoramic infrared vision system released by HGH Systèmes Infrarouges is designed for surveillance of security perimeters, including refineries, power plants, airports and military...
HGH Infrared Systems
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OPTICAL SYSTEM A high-temperature optical system that has been field-proven for monitoring processes in a furnace to 950 °C without requiring cooling has been launched by Resolve Optics Ltd. Because of specially...
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BARE FIBER SHAPING The Trig Workstation from Krell Technologies Inc. is designed for processing bare optical fibers. Fiber tips can be polished flat or at user-selectable angles with high precision. The shaping process...
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LED DIMMER Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG is offering a variable LED dimmer for use with condensers, lenses that have coaxial surface illumination, and other LEDs with current limiting and current consumption...
Sill Optics
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PULSED FIBER LASER A 1550-nm pulsed fiber laser that delivers up to 30 μJ of pulse energy has been made available by Lumics GmbH. The LU1550F015 is a short-pulse erbium-ytterbium fiber laser in master oscillator...
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SILICONE POLYMER SYSTEM Master Bond Inc. offers a one-component UV-curable/room-temperature vulcanizing silicone compound for bonding, sealing and coating. The dual-cure UV71DC polymer system reacts with UV radiation and...
Master Bond Inc.
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TRANSLATION STAGE The 7T34-20 nonmagnetic linear translation stages from Standa Ltd. can be assembled into X-Y or X-Y-Z configuration without additional elements. Only nonmagnetic materials such as brass, bronze and...
STANDA UAB
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MINI IR CAMERA Unveiled by Thermoteknix Systems Ltd., the Miricle 307K is a miniature IR camera that incorporates a high-resolution uncooled alpha-silicon microbolometer detector. The camera offers 640 × 480 VGA...
Thermoteknix Systems Ltd.
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GLASS CUTTING Fonon Technology International Inc. announces a laser scribing system for the flat panel display industry. Its new generation of laser equipment for cutting glass and other brittle materials for...
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PHOTORECEIVERS High-speed avalanche photodiode photoreceivers have been released by the New Focus Div. of Bookham Inc. for use in ultralow-light-level detection. They comprise a high-gain avalanche photodiode, a...
Newport - New Focus
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MWIR DETECTOR A compact, high-definition-TV-compatible, 1280 × 1024-pixel midwave infrared (MWIR) detector with a 15-μm pixel pitch has been produced by Sofradir. Jupiter is a third-generation...
Lynred
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FIREWIRE CAMERA The Spot RT3 launched by Diagnostic Instruments is a FireWire digital microscope camera that is available in monochrome, color and user-selectable color/monochrome slider models. Effective...
SPOT Imaging
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CMOS IMAGE SENSOR Based on the proprietary OmniPixel architecture, the OV7949 analog single-chip CMOS image sensor released by OmniVision Technologies Inc. offers low-light sensitivity and reduced blooming for use...
OMNIVISION
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ON-MACHINE INSPECTION The PowerGage measurement device from Faro Technologies Inc. adds CAD-to-part analysis capability to the company’s Gage line. Designed for on-machine inspection, the device runs on Delcam plc’s...
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OBJECTIVE POSITIONER The Mipos 100 PL piezoelectric objective lens positioning system manufactured by piezosystem jena GmbH is suitable for use in standard and inverted microscopes. The instrument enables adjustable...
piezosystem jena GmbH
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CLEANUP FILTERS MaxDiode cleanup filters have been announced by Semrock Inc. for use with laser diodes. They clean up the laser output by stripping it of undesired noise, leaving only the desired laser line. They...
IDEX Health & Science - Semrock Optical Filters
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IR DETECTOR/PREAMPLIFIER Available from Vigo System SA is an IR detector/preamplifier module for OEM applications, including noncontact temperature measurement, free-space optical communications, laser detection, gas...
VIGO Photonics
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SMART CAMERA Sony Electronics Inc. has announced a version of its XCI-SX1 smart camera that is Windows XPe-compatible. The single plug-in module features a 1/2-in. progressive-scan CCD, a processor, Compact Flash...
Sony Electronics Inc., Visual Imaging Products Group
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AMPLIFIED ULTRAFAST FIBER LASER Imra America Inc. has introduced the FCPA μJewel D-1000 ultrafast, ultrashort-pulse fiber laser based on proprietary and patented fiber chirped pulse amplification technology. Offering pulse...
IMRA America Inc.
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MOTOR CONTROLLERS New Scale Technologies Inc. has introduced a benchtop motor controller that features an ActiveX command library and a USB connection. The SQ-2300 series simplifies computer control of the company’s...
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