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Photonics Spectra - May 2007
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Laser-Induced Fluid Flow
Lasers can do many things, including pushing particles and trapping them. Theoretical physicists from the University of Chicago predicted that lasers also can influence fluid flow. Together with...
Following Flow by Mapping Heat
Researchers at Zhejiang University of Technology in Hangzhou, China, have found that a little bit of warmth can go a long way when it comes to understanding the distillation process. The group used a...
Laser Heat Forms Nanobubbles
Boiling water was thought to be a well-understood phenomenon until we entered the age of nanomaterials. Now the concept of nanobubbles, which collect on a surface when it is heated to boiling, is...
Thin-Disk Lasers Come of Age
The thin-disk laser is a diode-pumped solid-state laser that produces high output power with both high efficiency and excellent beam quality. Since the first demonstration of the principle, by Adolf...
Are Quantum Dots on the Brink of Their Big Break?
The period at the end of this sentence would be colossal next to a quantum dot — like a flea clinging to a good-size dog. As many as a million quantum dots could perhaps fit within the narrow...
Fiber Laser Simulators: Challenges and Opportunities
From micron-size transistors to jumbo jets, all technological marvels have been simulated at some point in their development. And not only technology: Weather, stock markets and even the future of...
Eye Safety in the Laser Lab
Thinking about installing a laser safety interlock on the door to your Class 4 laser lab? If so, you might want to give that decision some careful consideration. A safety interlock that stops the...
Selecting the Appropriate Optical Mount
When engineers are choosing optics, a common mistake they make is overlooking the integration of optical mounts into their systems. There are a variety of mounts available for holding lenses, prisms,...
Three-Band White LED Shows Stability and High Color Rendering Index
LED technology has advanced to the point where white LEDs are bright enough for general illumination, yet they are not without problems. Traditionally they have been developed by combining red, green...
Annealing and Activating Silicon Nanowires with a Laser
In electronics, smaller is almost always better. That has been further illustrated by a recent study on annealing silicon nanowires by University of California, Berkeley, researchers in collaboration...
Seeing Smaller Features with Surface Plasmons
Imaging using surface plasmon resonance — electron oscillations induced by light at a metal/dielectric interface — can reveal hidden features such as minute changes in biochemical structures....
Identifying Atoms by Feel
Atomic force microscopes (AFMs) and other scanning probe devices can map surfaces on an atomic scale but have not been able to distinguish one type of atom from another using purely mechanical means....
Silver Nanostructures with Unique Optical Properties Created
Silver nanobars and nanorice with the ability to scatter and absorb light in the near-infrared have been produced by controlling the assembly of silver atoms in solution. These nanostructures could...
Nanoscale ‘Pins’ Enhance SERS
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is still a young technique, but it shows promise for elemental and chemical analysis in the semiconductor and biology fields, among others. It has been well...
Ensuring Garbage In, Good Food Out
In sustainable and organic agriculture, farmers typically add carbon-rich soil amendments to boost nitrogen and to maintain organic matter levels. These amendments -- manure and decaying plants --...
Twisting the light away
Reducing the size of spectroscopic biosensors by integrating waveguides into microchannel systems is generally a good idea, but it is limited because the beam from the light source typically...
Tech Pulse
Sheep Horns Reveal Diet
Jörg Feldmann, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Aberdeen in the UK, could someday look at your fingernails in much the same way he has already examined the horns of seaweed-eating sheep. He and his colleagues at the university and at the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Dundee have demonstrated that trace elements can be monitored in sheep horns by using chemical...
Molecular Machine Opens and Closes in Response to Light
Equipped with tools that can manipulate single molecules, researchers may be able to construct molecular robotic devices for numerous applications. Although a number of groups have produced tools...
Sunglasses Developed with Adjustable Shade and Color
Tired of fumbling to find the right eyewear to meet the ever-changing intensity of the sun? Having trouble finding a pair of shades to complement the latest fashion? Researchers at the University...
High-Gain and Low-Power ZnO Nanowire Photodetectors
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is frequently used as an alternative to GaN in optoelectronics because of its low cost, ease of manufacturing and wide bandgap. The proliferation of ZnO nanowire devices such as...
Virtual Reality on a Vast and Vivid Scale
The Virtual Reality Applications Center at Iowa State University in Ames has created what it claims is the highest resolution and most realistic virtual reality room — known as the C6 — in the...
Tapered Waveguide Answers Perplexing Question
There are occasions in medicine — dentistry, in particular — when it is desirable to focus a laser beam to a small, intense spot some distance behind a small aperture. Root canal surgery is one...
Can Laser Propulsion Stabilize Satellites?
Laser-propelled spacecraft have been around in science-fiction comic books for years, but now an independent scientist has seriously proposed laser propulsion as a technique to stabilize rock-solid...
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Microvision Forms Alliance for Automotive Displays
A specialist in light scanning technologies for display and imaging products, Microvision Inc. of Redmond, Wash., has entered into a product development agreement with a global automotive supplier. It will work with the partner to create projection-based displays based on PicoP, an ultraminiature full-color laser projector powered by the company’s Integrated Photonics Module technology. The...
Laser Development Grant Disbursed
A £5 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of Swindon, UK, will fund a cooperative effort to develop sources of protons, ions and gamma rays for medical,...
USI and PhotonIC Form Alliance
Universal Semiconductor Inc. (USI) of San Jose, Calif., has partnered with PhotonIC Corp. of Culver City, Calif., and Honolulu to expand its semiconductor and photonic production capabilities in the...
Lumera Receives Order from Lockheed Martin
A nanotechnology specialist, Lumera Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has received a purchase order from Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md., for its high electro-optic activity polymer materials. The terms of...
Olympus Microsystems America Relocates
A developer of MEMS-based wavelength-selective switches, Olympus Microsystems America Inc. has expanded with moves to a new headquarters in Redwood City, Calif., and to a new research and development...
II-VI Subsidiary Partners with Fuxin Electronics
Marlow Industries Inc., a Dallas-based subsidiary of II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., has signed a partnership agreement with Guangdong Fuxin Electronic Technology Ltd. Co., of Foshan, China. The...
4D Technology Opens Sales Office in Connecticut
4D Technology Corp., based in Tucson, Ariz., has opened a sales and support office in East Hampton, Conn., to serve its growing base of East Coast customers. The company’s optical interferometers use...
New Scale Technologies to Open Manufacturing Center
New Scale Technologies Inc. of Victor, N.Y., has announced plans to create a $1 million center for the manufacture of its patented piezoelectric Squiggle motors. The 15,000-sq-ft facility will allow...
GE Renames LED Subsidiary
GE Consumer & Industrial of Cleveland has renamed its LED business Lumination LLC, reflecting the unit’s intent to strengthen its position globally in the white LED general illumination market...
Royal Philips Merges with TIR Systems
The Dutch company Royal Philips Electronics of Amsterdam has announced that it will acquire TIR Systems Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for Can $74 million in cash. The latter...
DRS Technologies to Supply IR Systems for Combat Vehicles
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., was awarded a $124 million contract to provide horizontal technology integration second-generation forward-looking infrared sighting systems to the US Army....
AccuCoat Relocates
AccuCoat Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., a manufacturer of optical coatings for glass, polymer and metal components, has relocated to a new facility. The building — at the company’s existing address —...
RPMC to Distribute Beamtech Optronics
RPMC Lasers Inc. of O’Fallon, Mo., will distribute lasers from Beamtech Optronics Co. Ltd. of Beijing. Among the technologies produced by Beamtech are Q-switched, flash-pumped and long-pulsed Nd:YAG...
Nanoident Technologies Opens New Facility
Nanoident Technologies AG of Linz, Austria, has opened a new facility, Nanoident Organic Fab GmbH, for the high-volume manufacture of printed semiconductor-based optoelectronic sensors. Located in...
Market Tech to Distribute Onefive Product Line
Onefive GmbH of Zurich, Switzerland, has appointed Market Tech Inc. of Scotts Valley, Calif., as distributor in North America of its entire product line. The Swiss company develops and manufactures...
Synova and Kataoka Form Partnership
Synova SA of Lausanne, Switzerland, and Kataoka Corp. of Kyoto, Japan, have signed a licensing agreement under which the Japanese company will integrate Synova’s Laser MicroJet technology into its...
Konica Minolta, GE Ally for Organic LED Lighting
Imaging specialists Konica Minolta Holdings Inc. and Konica Minolta Technology Center Inc., both in Tokyo, and lighting products supplier General Electric Co., based in Fairfield, Conn., have signed...
Agilent Technologies Creates Unit
Agilent Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has announced its establishment of the Materials Science Solutions unit within its Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis business. The unit will...
Optical Component Market Will Grow
Communications Industry Researchers Inc. of Glen Allen, Va., has predicted that, by 2012, the market for optical networking components will have grown from approximately $2.8 billion in 2007 to $7.9...
Avago Technologies Buys Fiber Business
Avago Technologies Ltd. of San Jose, Calif., has acquired the Polymer Optical Fiber business of Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany. The business, based in Regensburg, produces multimedia...
Bristol Instruments Moves to New Locale
Bristol Instruments Inc. has moved to a larger facility in Victor, N.Y., to accommodate its growing business in the photonics research market. It will use the increased space for manufacturing...
Soliant Energy Partners with Solar Power Installers
In California, Soliant Energy Inc. of Pasadena, formerly known as Practical Instruments Inc., has partnered with three installers of solar power systems: Energy Options of Tujunga, Permacity Corp. of...
DoE Promotes Solid-State Lighting
The US Department of Energy (DoE) is stepping up efforts to promote solid-state lighting, an emerging technology that has the potential to save energy. It has created the Solid-State Lighting...
Trumpf Opens Plant in Monterrey, Mexico
Trumpf Inc. of Farmington, Conn., has opened a sales, service, demonstration and production facility in Monterrey, Mexico. The 6400-sq-m plant houses the company’s equipment to produce frames for its...
Market Forecast for Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers
ElectroniCast Consultants of Upper Lake, Calif., has released a 10-year market forecast study on the global consumption of fixed, semi- and fully reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers and...
Sub 1 Optics Moves to a Larger Facility
Sub 1 Optics LLC has moved its operations to Colfax, Calif., to expand its manufacturing space and to provide room for new equipment. The company, which had been located in Chicago Park, Calif.,...
Northrop Grumman to Close Massachusetts Facility
Northrop Grumman Corp. will close its Fibersense Technology facility in Canton, Mass. The plant has 160 employees and produces fiber optic gyroscopes. It is tentatively scheduled to close in July....
What’s in Your Wallet?
It isn’t only the makers of film who should fear digital photography. It’s also the bills in your wallet, according to a recent report from the Washington-based National Research Council. The report...
Siskiyou to Manufacture Optics Mounts
Siskiyou Corp. of Grants Pass, Ore., has been selected by the Fusion Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin, to design and manufacture vacuum-compatible gimbal optics mounts for its...
Accent on Applications
Stenciling Technique Makes Nanostructures
As electronic devices get smaller and smaller, interconnecting them and addressing them electrically becomes a challenge. Single-molecule devices, for example, are of no use unless they can be...
You Are Not the Only One Who Needs Iron
It is easy to look out over the ocean and think that nothing could be less like a desert, yet the two share some things in common. For one, life may struggle in either region whenever a vital...
Presstime Bulletin
Light Controls Actuators
For years, chemists have tried to make materials that change shape in directed ways, but, for the most part, they have succeeded only in creating materials that move in a disorderly fashion. If materials are too rigid, they may break easily, and if they are too soft, they may be just an amorphous blob. Now scientists from Kyushu University in Fukuoka and from Osaka City University, both in Japan,...
Lighter Side
Solar Spin Machine
Sure, most governments twist events to their advantage when necessary. But the sun, it turns out, is the ultimate spin machine. Astronomers from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and from...
Science Student Scores with Spectrograph
It’s safe to assume that the average teenager has, at best, only a vague idea of what a spectrograph is, never mind how the precision instrument really works. But 17-year-old Mary Masterman, a...
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DISPLAY FACEPLATES
Schott North America Inc. has introduced a floating display technology that uses glass fibers to make the images on LCD and organic LED displays appear as if they are “floating” on top of the...
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LASER CUTTING
Universal Laser Systems Inc. announces the modular Professional Laser Series 4.60 computer-controlled CO2 laser cutting, marking and engraving systems, which replace the M, V and X laser systems. The...
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MICROFLUIDIC COMPONENTS
LabSmith Inc. has announced the CapTite series of standardized components for fast assembly of microfluidic setups. Designed for construction using 360-μm capillary tubing, the components...
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MICROSCOPE CAMERA
Olympus Life and Material Science Europa GmbH has announced the DP25 5-megapixel digital color camera for microscopy image acquisition, documentation, reporting and analysis. Live images at full 2560...
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DIODE LASER BARS
Coherent Inc. presents PulseLife horizontal arrays, a series of diode laser packages that deliver high-power output and that have simplified water-cooling requirements. The 808-nm lasers are...
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LENS CORRECTION
The Windows-based ImageIron software from NaturalGrafiX provides automatic correction of lens distortion on a variety of digital cameras and lenses, including shift lenses. It recognizes and...
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SAPPHIRE TUBES AND RODS
Meller Optics Inc. has introduced a line of optical-quality sapphire tubes and rods for use as plungers, tips, insulators, flow control devices, spacers and lightguides. The tubes and rods have Moh 9...
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LOW-PROFILE STAGE
Steinmeyer Inc. has released a single-axis positioning stage. The model PMT160-DC is available in five sizes and strokes ranging from 50 to 300 mm. The device is manufactured from anodized aluminum,...
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VIDEO CAPTURE
Sensoray Co. Inc. has introduced the model 2255 USB frame grabber, a multichannel, low-latency video capture unit. The device receives data from up to four composite NTSC or PAL video sources...
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INTEGRATING SPHERE
The OL 700-4pi integrating sphere from Optronic Laboratories Inc. is designed for total and partial luminous flux measurements of LEDs and on-site calibration. An internal reflectance/auxiliary lamp...
Optronic Laboratories LLC
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CMOS CAMERAS
A series of USB 2.0 CMOS cameras with built-in LED controllers for illumination have been developed by Mightex Systems. They consume ∼0.8 W, enabling incorporation of four LED controllers onto...
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LASER DIODE ARRAYS
Sirilas laser diode arrays from Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH have been combined into modular pumping lines. Each array consists of a bar with 16 individual emitters and achieves an output of 30 W....
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LASER MACHINING SYSTEM
Process Photonics Inc. has unveiled an integrated laser machining tool for high-volume production. The FP1000 features a high-peak-power RF-excited CO2 laser and is configured with galvanometer...
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VIBRATION TESTING
Polytec Inc. has released a measurement services program that provides noncontact vibration and topography measurements to engineers who occasionally require this service, reducing their need for...
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HIGH-POWER DIODE LASERS
JDSU’s 6397-L3 series fiber-coupled diode lasers provide 8 W of laser power for industrial and medical applications. With a 105-μm fiber and 0.2 numerical aperture, the lasers are available in...
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DIGITAL MINIDRIVE
The IPS210 is the most recent addition to Technosoft SA’s fully digital motion-controller family. The minidrive can be used to control stepping and DC motors up to 2 × 12 W (24 V, 0.5 A) and is...
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COLOR SENSOR
Silicann Technologies GmbH has expanded its line of color sensors with the release of the PCS-III for industrial color recognition. Although its control, handling and functionality are similar to...
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MANUFACTURING SERVICES
OpTek Systems Inc. has introduced manufacturing services for fiber optics industries, including telecommunications, military, aerospace, medical and sensing. The company provides optical fiber...
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DATA ACQUISITION
Vertilon Corp. has introduced two products targeted at applications using multianode photomultiplier tubes and avalanche photodiode arrays. The 32-channel PhotoniQ IQSP480 and the 64-channel IQSP482...
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IR SPECTROMETER
The Spectrum 400 manufactured by PerkinElmer Inc. combines optimized near- and mid-infrared spectroscopy in a single instrument. The device can switch automatically between NIR and mid-IR measurement...
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FULL-SPECTRUM RADIOMETRY
Spectrum Detector Inc. has developed a family of analog and digital radiometric detector instruments to measure radiant flux from picowatts to watts, DC to 10 MHz, and UV to far-IR. The optical...
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INDUSTRIAL CAMERAS
Carl Zeiss AG’s Camera Lens Div. has introduced Zeiss ZF lenses for industrial applications. The line features the Distagon T 2.8/25 and 2/35 models and Planar T 1.4/50 and 1.4/85 models. Each has an...
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FILTERS, BEAMSPLITTERS
POG Präzisionsoptik Gera GmbH offers customized variable metallic neutral density filters and geometric beamsplitters with variable beamsplitting ratios. Transmission and reflection in an application...
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MICROSCOPE
An inverted trinocular digital metallurgical microscope has been unveiled by Unitron Ltd. The MEC-2 offers bright-field and polarized light along with durable construction. It features achromatic...
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LASER DIODE
Alfalight Inc. has launched a 6-W fiber-coupled 976-nm multimode laser diode. The device’s increased output power and brightness are designed for pumping pulsed fiber lasers. It features a hermetic...
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ROTARY ACTUATORS
Precision rotary actuators for high-inertia applications are being offered by Heason Technologies Group Ltd. The motorized actuators produce nominal output torques from 50 to 500 Nm and feature...
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INTERFEROMETER
Matrix Inc. has purchased a uPhase interferometer from Fisba Optik AG to provide service measurements to its clients. The device can measure the optical surface of molded components and aspheres as...
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LIQUID LENS CAMERA
Varioptic SA has launched the AFCM MI285 liquid lens autofocus camera. Using the company’s Arctic 416 7.75-mm liquid lens, the two-megapixel camera module has an 8.5-mm footprint. It takes sharply...
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SENSOR SYSTEM
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ENHANCED STEPPER MOTOR CONTROLLERS
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REFLECTANCE PROBES
StellarNet Inc.’s R600 series reflectance probes offer a gain of three times the signal strength of the R400 models by increasing the fiber diameter by 200 μm. The increased capability enables...
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Sick Inc.’s Ranger high-speed three-dimensional camera for vision inspections captures up to 35,000 profiles per second and provides measurements down to <10 μm. Designed for flexibility, the...
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FIBER LASER
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MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd. and DxO Labs have introduced the MC531EA 3.2-megapixel system-on-chip imaging sensor. It features DxO’s digital optics digital autofocus extended depth-of-field priority,...
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POSITIONING CONTROL
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CRYSTAL RODS
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STACK ARRAYS
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NETWORK CAMERA
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PENTA PRISMS
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MOUNTING FIXTURE
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PRISM SYSTEMS
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BEAM DELIVERY MIRRORS
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SCANNING SYSTEM
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THERMAL IMAGING
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DIODE LASER DRIVERS
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