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Photonics Spectra - October 2007
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Building a Nanostructure Array One Slice at a Time
Researchers at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., have employed a nanoscale version of skiving — cutting a material into thin layers — to create large-area arrays of patterned metallic...
Defining the Relationship Between Nanotube Length
and Optical Response
Single-walled carbon nanotubes have numerous optical properties of interest to physicists and electronics engineers. However, whereas these nanometer-scale constructs have been well-studied regarding...
Spotting Very Thin Graphite Layers
Researchers are focusing on graphite monolayers, called graphene, because of their electrical and optical properties. In their quest to use graphene to build devices, however, they confront a basic...
Microscopy Used to Profile Refractive Index
A microscopy technique that measures the refractive index profile of an optical waveguide has been devised by researchers in Taiwan. An accurate profile is used, in turn, to determine the mode...
LEDs in High-Definition Television
Recent improvements in light output have enabled new applications for LEDs such as automotive lighting, traffic signals and, more recently, television displays. Improvements in manufacturing the...
Patterning Technologies for Gen-10 Thin-Film Transistor LCD Manufacturing
Used in almost every imaginable electronic display application, thin-film transistor LCD modules will generate more than $80 billion of revenue in 2007. Much of the LCD market growth is being driven...
Getting a Better View from Above
If events go as planned, by mid-October a new eye in the sky will be beaming down views of the Earth that are more accurate than ever. In addition, a new generation of mapping and remote sensing...
Carbon Dioxide Lasers: Still the Most Successful in Industrial Applications
The success of any laser in industrial applications depends on how well it can produce economically positive results for its owner. Despite recent innovations such as disc and fiber lasers, the CO2...
Manufacturing Microelectronics Using ‘Lase-and-Place’
Microelectronic circuits traditionally are fabricated by placing packaged components, such as integrated circuits and surface-mount devices, on the surface of a circuit board and connecting the...
Photonics with a French Twist
An official competitiveness cluster since 2005, the Route des Lasers (or Laser Highway) operates similarly to a trade association. Located in the Aquitaine region of France, stretching from the city...
Laser Safety and the Optical Table
Optical tables and your bed at home have several things in common. You spend a great deal of time with both. In addition, just like your bed, many things find their home on or underneath your optical...
Low-Temperature Flexible Sensors Use Ink-Jet Patterning
Flexible electronics are used in supermarket labeling and in identification tags and could be used in large sensors for scanning cargo or packaging. As flexible electronics find their way into new...
With Emission, Building a Better Liquid Crystal Display
Researchers at Brown University in Providence, R.I., may have come up with a solution to a fundamental problem with LCDs. Many such displays have a backlight that shines through the liquid crystal...
Cree Reports Laboratory Advances in High-Power LEDs
Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., has achieved higher efficacy from packaged high-power LEDs. The results have been verified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, based in Gaithersburg, Md....
Supercontinuum Light Source Simplifies Detection of Multiple Fluorophores
By taking a holistic approach, researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have developed a multicolor fluorescence detection scheme that uses a fast, broadband white light to excite...
What Can You See in 10–18 Seconds?
Most scientific endeavors seek to add to the collective understanding of a topic, whether it is the origin of a disease, the basis of human communication or the techniques that will improve the...
Seoul Semiconductor, Osram to Share Patents
Seoul Semiconductor Inc. of Seoul, South Korea, and Osram GmbH of Munich and its subsidiary, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, both in Germany, have signed a cross-license agreement under...
A Simplified Organic LED
Although the efficiency of organic LEDs (OLEDs) has improved steadily in recent years, it remains challenging to manufacture the intricate, multilayered devices. Researchers at the Institut für...
Laser Safety
Laser Safety and the Optical Table
Optical tables and your bed at home have several things in common. You spend a great deal of time with both. In addition, just like your bed, many things find their home on or underneath your optical table. What does an optical table have to do with laser safety — or with safety in general, for that matter? Any horizontal surface provides an inviting storage space for all manner of odds and...
Tech Pulse
An Easier Way to Simulate a Foggy View
Insofar as a computer simulation is concerned, where there’s smoke, there’s not a fire but a large computational burden. Rendering smoky, foggy or cloudy scenes is difficult because the process...
The Remote-Controlled Airplane Grows Up
The latest wildfire-fighting aircraft is not designed to carry water. Instead, it is loaded with a thermal-infrared detection system. Because wildfires generate a lot of smoke and often burn in...
Looking at Polymers in Three Different Lights
The industrial use of polymers is growing, but still required are models that account for physical phenomena such as temperature dependence, thermomechanical coupling and aging. Such models ideally...
Quantum Dots as Building Blocks for High-Security Computers
The allure of a quantum computer is powerful. The device, theoretically, could process certain types of information at such an accelerated pace that the classical computers now in use might seem in...
All-Optical Transducer Designed for High-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging
High-frequency ultrasound has been used for applications such as imaging skin and eyes. Behind this medical procedure is a tiny transducer that converts signals and makes the creation of a picture...
For a Little Light, a Microlens
Gallium nitride LEDs are useful but suffer from a significant drawback: Their external quantum efficiency is low because the refractive index of GaN, which is 2.5, is very different from that of air,...
light speed
US Government Initiatives Promote SSL
The US Department of Energy (DoE) hosted two workshops on solid-state lighting (SSL) to promote the use of high-performance products. The first workshop was held in Pasadena, Calif., in April, and a second took place in Boston in July; the second was co-hosted by the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships. The workshops brought together organizations, utilities, designers, manufacturers and...
Laser Program Targeted for Cuts
A 20-year-old medical laser research program could be cut by the US Department of Defense unless members of Congress vote to save it. The Medical Free-Electron Laser program is a $16 million annual...
Carolinas Photonics Consortium Announces Funding for Projects
The Carolinas Photonics Consortium (CPC) Pilot Funding Program is set to award five projects with seed money to support commercialization and business development of light-based technologies....
Smart Vision Lights Established to Create LED Lights
A company has been formed to manufacture LED lights for use in the machine vision industry, manufacturing exclusively high-current LED lights for cameras in the vision inspection industry. Smart...
SensL Opens US Office
SensL, a provider of low-light detectors and modules based in Cork, Ireland, has opened an office in Mountain View, Calif. SensL said that the location will provide direct sales and technical support...
Silicon Photonics Association Is Formed
The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) of Washington has formed the Silicon Photonics Alliance (SPA) to focus on market and business issues on behalf of its members who are...
Adept and LMI Sign Pact on Software License
An agreement has been signed between Adept Technology Inc. of Livermore, Calif., a provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and services, and LMI Technologies Inc. of Delta, British Columbia,...
Infrared Technologies Opens in New Jersey
Infrared Technologies Inc. has been formed in Franklin Lakes, N.J. The company will offer consulting services on temperature-measurement instrumentation to manufacturing industries for which heat is...
Omniprobe Buys Ascend
Omniprobe Inc. of Dallas, a supplier of nanoscale failure analysis and process control solutions for nano-scale analysis, has acquired the assets of Ascend Instruments LLC of Beaverton, Ore., a...
Electro Scientific Acquires Company for $36 Million
Electro Scientific Industries Inc. of Portland, Ore., a provider of photonic microengineering solutions, has agreed to acquire New Wave Research (NWR) Inc. of Fremont, Calif., a developer and...
New Scale Technologies Adds Distributors
Victor, N.Y.-based New Scale Technologies Inc. has added in Europe three new distributors for its patented piezoelectric Squiggle motors. Joining the company’s pan-European representative — Cedrat...
Physik Instrumente Awards a $25,000 NanoInnovation Grant
Auburn, Mass.-based PI (Physik Instrumente) has awarded a $25,000 NanoInnovation Grant to Andrea Lelli, Eric A. Stauffer and Jeffrey R. Holt of the University of Virginia Medical School in...
Moritex Opens Office in Germany
Moritex Europe Ltd. of Cambridge, UK, has formed a subsidiary in Munich to serve the company’s growing customer base in Germany, including systems integrators, scientists, engineers and technicians...
OFS Donates Fiber Optics to University of West Georgia
OFS, a supplier of fiber optic products based in Norcross, Ga., has donated fiber optic cable valued at more than $217,000 to the University of West Georgia in Carrollton. The cable is expected to...
Intematix Launches Technology Center in Taiwan
Intematix Corp. of Fremont, Calif., a supplier of phosphors for solid-state lighting applications, has launched the Intematix Technology Center in Yang Mei, Taiwan. The unit will serve as a marketing...
Applied Kilovolts Acquires Brandenburg
High-voltage power supply specialist Applied Kilovolts Ltd. of West Sussex, UK, has acquired Brandenburg Ltd., a manufacturer of power supplies used in applications such as mass spectrometers,...
LuminentOIC and Fiberxon Names Are Changed
Source Photonics will now be the joint company brand name for LuminentOIC Inc. and Fiberxon Inc., both wholly owned subsidiaries of MRV Communications Inc. of Chatsworth, Calif. The name change...
Laird Technologies, Iteq Leverage Resources
Laird Technologies, a St. Louis-based supplier of components and systems for electronics and wireless products, has signed an agreement with Iteq Corp. of Taoyuan, Taiwan, under which it will have...
SKC, Rohm and Haas Form Joint Venture
In Pennsylvania, Rohm and Haas Co. of Philadelphia and SKC Inc. of Eighty Four have formed a partnership to develop, manufacture and market optical and functional films for use in the flat panel...
RNT and Kurt J. Lesker Form Distribution Pact
Reactive NanoTechnologies Inc. (RNT) of Hunt Valley, Md., has joined with Kurt J. Lesker Co. of Clairton, Pa., to expand the worldwide sales and distribution of its NanoFoil product and associated...
Goodrich to Develop Night-Vision Technology
Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to continue developing indium gallium arsenide visible and shortwave infrared focal plane arrays...
Photon Signs Distribution Agreement
Photon Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has signed an agreement with BFi Optilas of Evry, France, to distribute its products in Switzerland and Italy. The California company, which manufactures...
University of Wisconsin Offers Laser Welding
Two laser welding certification programs are being offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The accredited laser welding professional program focuses on the design, engineering and/or...
JPK Instruments Names Asia-Pacific Distributors
JPK Instruments AG of Berlin, a supplier of scanning probe technology for the soft matter and life sciences sector, has named distributors for its products in India and Australia. Inkarp Instruments...
Ionatron Receives Phase II Contract from US Army
Tucson, Ariz.-based Ionatron Inc., developer of Laser Guided Energy and related products for defense and security customers, received a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer Research contract...
Schott to Close Auburn, N.Y., Facility
Schott North America Inc. has announced that its Auburn, N.Y., plant will cease fiber optic and LED production for medical and industrial applications by the end of 2008. After the closure, which the...
Fogale nanotech Opens First US Office
Fogale nanotech Inc. of Nimes, France, has opened an office in Los Angeles, its first North American location. The company, which makes sensors for a variety of metrology applications, said that the...
StockerYale Subsidiary Is Awarded Contract
Photonic Products Ltd. of Hatfield Broad Oak, UK, a subsidiary of StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., has been awarded a contract to supply a manufacturer of point-of-sale systems with more than 100,000...
Haas Laser Announces Distributor in China
Flanders, N.J.-based Haas Laser Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of custom laser beam delivery components, has announced A&P Instrument Co. Ltd. as its product line distributor in China. A&P...
Hexagon Buys CogniTens
Hexagon AB of Stockholm, Sweden, and North Kingstown, R.I., a provider of metrology hardware, software and accessories, has entered into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of the...
Camera Phones Dominate Image Sensor Market
In-Stat of Scottsdale, Ariz., a provider of research on business, product and technology decisions, reported that the 2006 image sensor market saw strong growth, primarily thanks to the camera phone,...
PhaseView of France Opens Office in the US
PhaseView of France has announced the opening of its office in San Diego. The new office is staffed and available to provide sales and technical support for the company’s line of patented 3-D digital...
L-3 to Provide Sensors to French Gendarmerie
Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH, based in Donauwörth, Germany, has selected L-3 Wescam, a subsidiary of L-3 Communications of New York, to provide 12 MX-15i electro-optic infrared imaging sensors to the...
ORA Announces Design Competition Results
Optical Research Associates of Pasadena, Calif., has announced the winners of its annual Student Optical Design Competition. Awards totaling $4000 were presented to students in North America working...
Companies Partner for Nanopositioning Systems
The Value Engineering Alliance of Cambridge, Mass., and the DTI-NanoTech division of Discovery Technology International LLLP of Sarasota, Fla., have allied to promote the development, implementation...
DRS Technologies Awarded Navy Contract
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received a $26 million contract, with the option of an additional $23 million, to produce, integrate, test and deliver thermal imagers for the MK 15...
Northrop Grumman to Provide Laser Locators
Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles has been awarded a $17.5 million contract by the US Army to provide more than 500 handheld laser target locators to assist soldiers in identifying enemy targets....
Accent on Applications
Imaging a Nebulizer with a High-Speed Camera
Nebulizers aren't used just for dispensing drugs or treating respiratory diseases. They also are used in analytical instruments as a way to get the chemical components being studied — the analytes —...
Providing a Nondestructive Way to Analyze Historical Papers
In libraries around the world, archivists are worried about the books, maps and manuscripts under their charge. To know how to care for such historical materials, however, one must know the exact...
Presstime Bulletin
High-Energy X-Rays Used to Unroll Fragile Ancient Scrolls
At the recently held 2007 Festival of Science sponsored by the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Tim Wess and his colleagues at the UK’s University of Cardiff Institute of Vision announced that they have developed a method for reading historical documents that cannot be handled easily. Especially useful for determining the contents of scrolls that are too brittle to be unrolled...
Review Provides Blueprint for Optical Nanocircuits
Increasing the clock speed of an electronic device can affect its interaction with light and other electromagnetic waves that pass through it. Controlling light in this way may enable the creation of...
LED with Whiter Light Produced
An LED that generates pure white light could someday replace the conventional lighting sources that are found today in homes and offices around the world. But first the device must be...
Lighter Side
Milky Milk, Watery Water
Any milk drinker knows that there are three basic varieties. There is whole milk, favored by some for its rich, almost creamy, taste. Then there is regular milk, its diluted half brother. It is...
Good Movies, Bad Science
Hollywood churns out movies bursting with heart-pounding action and jaw-dropping special effects. Whether the characters are human, like Keanu Reeves, or superhuman, like Superman, their on-screen...
Industry Events
US Government Initiatives Promote SSL
The US Department of Energy (DoE) hosted two workshops on solid-state lighting (SSL) to promote the use of high-performance products. The first workshop was held in Pasadena, Calif., in April, and a second took place in Boston in July; the second was co-hosted by the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships. The workshops brought together organizations, utilities, designers, manufacturers and...
ORA Announces Design Competition Results
Optical Research Associates of Pasadena, Calif., has announced the winners of its annual Student Optical Design Competition. Awards totaling $4000 were presented to students in North America working...
High-Energy X-Rays Used to Unroll Fragile Ancient Scrolls
At the recently held 2007 Festival of Science sponsored by the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Tim Wess and his colleagues at the UK’s University of Cardiff Institute of Vision...
Products
FLUORESCENCE FILTERS
Semrock Inc. has expanded its line of BrightLine fluorescence filter sets for microscopy with the addition of the cost-effective BrightLine Basic hard-coated sets. The single-band filters offer the “no burnout” durability of the flagship filters along with optical performance that exceeds that of soft-coated fluorescence filters, according to the company. Manufactured via ion beam sputtering...
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VIDEO LENSES
Telecentric microscopic video lenses for 1-in. CCD cameras offer an NA of up to 0.25 in object space for higher resolution of smaller structures. Available from Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG in 3×,...
Sill Optics
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FRAME GRABBER
Active Silicon Ltd. has enhanced its PCI Express frame grabber offerings with the introduction of the Phoenix D36-PE1 LVDS board. It acquires digital data from digital frame capture and line- and...
Active Silicon Ltd.
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TEST INSTRUMENT
A fiber optic field simulation test instrument has been unveiled by M2 Optics Inc. The Fiber Lab 3200 houses four spools of fiber for users to connect in series with short patch cords via...
M2 Optics Inc.
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LINE-SCAN CAMERAS
Sensors Unlimited Inc. has introduced its SU-LDH digital line-scan short-wave infrared InGaAs camera, with rates of more than 40,000 lines per second for 1024 pixels. It is available in a variety of...
Sensors Unlimited Inc. - A Collins Aerospace Company
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DATA ACQUISITION
Vertilon Corp. has launched the PhotoniQ IQSP580 32-channel photomultiplier tube data acquisition system that achieves trigger rates approaching 1 MHz on all input channels. It interfaces to...
Vertilon Corp.
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POWER SUPPLIES
The compact and fully integrated HVPS switching mode power supplies manufactured by Diversified Technologies Inc. are for large x-ray inspection systems, particle accelerators and radar applications....
Diversified Technologies Inc.
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MONOCHROME CAMERA
SVS-Vistek GmbH has announced that its svs625 monochrome 5-megapixel camera now is available with a Gigabit Ethernet interface. It does not require a frame grabber board, and data can be transmitted...
SVS-Vistek GmbH
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INDUSTRIAL LASER
PyroFlex, an industrial pulsed laser from PyroPhotonics Lasers Inc., is a patent-pending digital control process that allows critical parameters to be specified and software-controlled independently....
ESI - Pyrophotonics Lasers Inc.
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TELEPHOTO LENS
A miniature day/night telephoto lens with megapixel resolution for CMOS and CCD cameras has been released by Sunex Inc. The DSL208 has a lens-limited field of view of 22° on a 1/3-in. sensor and 17°...
Sunex Inc.
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LINEAR-MODE APD
A near-IR linear-mode avalanche photodiode (APD) design that combines the noise characteristics of silicon with the near-IR sensitivity of InGaAs has been demonstrated by Voxtel Inc. The device...
Voxtel Inc.
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PROBE STATION
Designed for low-current, submicron positioning applications, the P300J probe station released by The Micromanipulator Co. Inc. features single- point ground, dry/dark environment and integrated...
Micromanipulator Co. Inc.
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CMOS CAMERAS
Mightex Systems has introduced USB 2.0 CMOS cameras that are designed for simultaneous image acquisition from multiple cameras. Available are 1.3-megapixel monochrome models with 8- and 10-bit gray...
Mightex Systems
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HELIUM-ION MICROSCOPE
A helium-ion microscope has been unveiled by Carl Zeiss SMT Inc. The Orion scanning ion microscope uses a beam of helium ions to image and measure, an approach that offers high resolution and an...
Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC
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ABSORPTION SENSOR
For in-line real-time process monitoring and for accurate measurement of color or color changes, optek-Danulat Inc. has released the model AF26 dual-channel absorption sensor. It uses light in the...
optek-Danulat Inc.
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COLOR SENSORS
For sorting, positioning and quality control in packaging and converting applications, Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.’s Dura-Vue DF12 series color sensors can be taught to recognize three independent colors with...
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
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TUNABLE FILTERS
Photon etc. inc.’s Tunable Top Notch Filters block a narrow bandwidth while maintaining up to 80% throughput between 350 nm and 2.5 μm. They provide access to Raman shifts as low as 10 cm–1,...
Photon etc.
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MICROSCOPIC CAMERA
The InfraSight MI thermal imaging camera has been announced by OptoTherm Inc. It detects shorts and defects on semiconductor devices and on small circuit boards, measures junction temperature,...
Optotherm Inc.
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COMPACT SENSOR
A compact and lightweight digital linear gauge sensor that can be installed easily into current production equipment and existing fixtures has been unveiled by Ono Sokki Technology Inc. Using linear...
Ono Sokki Technology Inc., Test & Measurement Div.
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HOMOGENIZING RODS
The TechSpec family of light pipe homogenizing rods from Edmund Optics Inc. is designed for OEM illumination. The rods use total internal reflection to turn nonuniform light into uniform illumination...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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808-NM LASERS
Alfalight Inc.’s AMx-808BW line of 808-nm wavelength-stabilized single-emitter laser diodes are available in 2.5-W chip-on-carrier and 2-W fiber-coupled packages. They feature peak power conversion...
Alfalight Inc.
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ILLUMINATION SYSTEM
Two new motorized OptiGrid illumination system models for use with Zeiss Axio Observer and Axio Imager microscopes have been unveiled by Qioptiq Imaging Solutions. Zeiss users now can integrate...
Qioptiq
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SURFACE TESTING
Farfield Scientific Ltd. has introduced the Cellulose AnaChip, a mimetic surface on which molecular-scale behavior and reaction mechanisms of paper and fiber can be studied. AnaChip surfaces are...
Biolin Scientific
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DIGITAL CAMERA
Vision Research Inc. has introduced a firmware upgrade to its Phantom V7.3 digital high-speed camera. The upgrade, called turbo mode, enables users to capture more pictures per second. The camera now...
Vision Research Inc., Phantom Digital High-Speed Cameras
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LASER MEASUREMENT
The PAS 1000 from Quantum Northwest comprises components to perform pulsed-laser photoacoustic measurements. It combines optics, energy probes, a fast diode trigger, a precision...
Quantum Northwest Inc.
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SPECTROGRAPH
The SD1024F, released by Verity Instruments Inc., is an RoHS-compliant spectrograph for semiconductor process applications. It has a 200- to 800-nm optical system that uses a 1024-element...
Verity Instruments Inc.
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POSITIONING STAGE
The P-733.3CD three-axis nanopositioning/scanning stage launched by PI (Physik Instrumente) LP features travel ranges of 100 × 100 μm in the X and Y directions and 10 μm in the Z direction,...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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ILLUMINATION SOFTWARE
Optical Research Associates has released version 6.0 of its LightTools illumination design and analysis software. It includes a user-defined optical properties feature that provides flexibility in...
Synopsys Inc., Optical Solutions Group
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THIN-FILM TECHNOLOGY
A thin-film flip chip (TFFC) technology process introduced by Philips Lumileds Lighting Co. involves removal of the sapphire substrate and roughening of the chip’s light-emitting surface to improve...
Lumileds
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DIODE LASER
JDSU Corp. has introduced the 2495-L3 series 808-nm fiber-coupled diode laser. It incorporates new chip technology, and it optically pumps Nd-doped material to generate 1064-nm output. The 1064-nm...
Lumentum Operations LLC
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BEAM EXPANDERS
Linos Photonics GmbH & Co. KG has expanded its bm.x series beam expansion systems for use with light sources in the NIR range of 725 to 1050 nm. The systems have interchangeable, focusable...
Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG
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LABEL MARKING
Employing proprietary PowerLine E series diode-pumped solid-state lasers, the desktop LabelMarker Compact introduced by Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH achieves fast marking speeds on virtually all...
Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH
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5-MEGAPIXEL CAMERAS
The Silicon Video SV5C10 12-bit color and SV5M10 12-bit monochrome 5-megapixel progressive-scan cameras have been launched by Epix Inc. Operating at 10 fps, they deliver 2592 × 1944-pixel resolution....
EPIX Inc.
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STACK ARRAY
A quasi-continuous wave diode laser stack array is available from Dilas Diode Laser Inc. in configurations of 100 or 150 W per bar, and specific combinations of wavelength and power can be...
DILAS Diode Laser Inc.
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RADIOMETER
The Power Puck Flash from EIT Inc. is designed for use with pulsed-type UV curing systems. The self-contained, electro-optic radiometer can accommodate the rise and fall times of the pulse and can...
EIT 2.0 LLC dba EIT LLC
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METROLOGY SYSTEM
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced the ECO 3500 Fourier transform infrared metrology system, which integrates easily into automated wafer handling facilities. It incorporates a spectrometer,...
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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UV LASER
Coherent Inc. has released the Avia 355-23, a UV solid-state laser that delivers more than 23 W of Q-switched output at 355 nm. The RoHS-compliant device supports single-shot repetition rates of up...
Coherent Inc.
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ULTRAVIOLET LEDS
LedEngin Inc. has unveiled its 5-, 10- and 15-W UV LEDs with wavelengths from 390 to 410 nm. The devices are built with proprietary surface-mount ceramic packages and glass lenses. The 5-W package...
LED Engin Inc.
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DEFORMABLE MIRROR
Boston Micromachines Corp. has announced an enhanced version of its miniature deformable mirror for use by vision science and microscopy researchers in proof-of-concept experiments that require...
Boston Micromachines Corp.
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PHOTONIC COMPONENTS
Photonic Lattice Inc. has introduced a line of photonic crystal elements for generating beams with axisymmetric polarizations at 1064 nm. The PLR-1064 polarizers and the LMR-1064 laser mirrors, and...
Photonic Lattice Inc.
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SOFTWARE KIT
PixeLink is offering a software developer’s kit that provides full control of all functions of its FireWire CCD digital machine vision camera line. It includes an application programming interface...
Pixelink
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COATING CLUSTER
The Gamma XPress coating cluster for wafer bumping and for LED manufacturing applications has been launched by Suss MicroTec AG. It is offered in various configurations designed for specific...
SUSS MicroOptics SA
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LASER PROTECTION
Released by VueMetrix Inc., DiodeGuard protects diode lasers operated in series against cascade failure. Its circuitry is designed to prevent catastrophic destruction of the remaining diodes by...
VueMetrix
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INTERROGATION MONITOR
Available from Ibsen Photonics A/S, the I-Mon interrogation monitor performs real-time spectrum monitoring of fiber Bragg grating sensors. It is available as an evaluation kit, which includes an...
Ibsen Photonics A/S
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CCD MICROSCOPY CAMERA
An 11-megapixel large-format CCD microscopy camera has been developed by Lumenera Corp. The Infinity 4-11 achieves 3.5 fps at full 4008 × 2672-pixel resolution and 60 fps through binning and region...
Teledyne Lumenera
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LASER CONTROL
Wavelength Electronics Inc. has packed the FL500 low-noise laser diode driver with the WTC3243 high-stability temperature controller on a single board for use in applications such as spectroscopy,...
Wavelength Electronics Inc.
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EVALUATION KITS
Varioptic SA has created eight developer kits to facilitate the integration of liquid lenses. They support all stages of product development, from evaluation to integration to prototype and volume...
Corning Varioptic Lenses
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BLUE DIODE LASER
The iWave OEM UV/blue diode laser launched by Toptica Photonics AG offers hands-free operation and produces >40 mW of output at 405 nm, with a small linewidth of ≤0.08 nm. TEM00 beam quality...
Toptica Photonics AG
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POLYMER
Developed by Zeon Chemicals LP to address the requirement for high optical transparency, a stable refractive index and high transmittance after prolonged high-heat exposure to blue lasers in consumer...
Zeon Specialty Materials Inc.
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OPTICAL COMPONENTS
For coupling to UV solid-state lasers and laser diodes, SAES Getters spa produces extracavity optical components. Beam delivery from the source to the target is accomplished via collimating optics,...
SAES Getters Group
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BEAM SHAPERS
Wavelength Technology Singapore Pte Ltd. has launched a line of solid-state beam shapers that convert the Gaussian profile to a collimated top-hat profile. They are designed for use with lasers...
Wavelength Opto-Electronic (S) Pte. Ltd.
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SMART CAMERA
Sick Inc. has launched two new versions of its IVC-2D smart cameras. The IVC-2D Reader can read bar and 2-D data matrix codes and can perform optical character recognition and verification. Available...
SICK Inc.
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PYROELECTRIC DETECTOR
For use in infrared microscopy, Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems UK Ltd. has unveiled Wren, an uncooled single-element pyroelectric detector based on company-grown deuterated L-alanine-doped...
Leonardo UK Ltd.
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INDUSTRIAL LASERS
Manufactured by Beamtech Optronics Inc. and available through RPMC Lasers Inc., the Pohsga800 series 1064-nm Nd:YAG lasers are suitable for industrial applications including cutting and drilling,...
RPMC Lasers Inc.
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BANDPASS FILTERS
Far-IR and terahertz bandpass and narrow-bandpass filters with center wavelengths from 15 to 200 μm have been released by Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc. Patterned cross-shaped holes allow...
Lake Shore Cryotronics
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INVERTED MICROSCOPES
The Axio Observer inverted research microscopes for materials microscopy from Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH are available in three configurations. The Axio Observer.A1m, Observer.D1m and Observer.Z1m...
Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC
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POLARIMETER
An in-line polarimeter has been unveiled by General Photonics Corp. The POD-101D is a digital signal processor-powered device designed for high-speed polarization analysis and monitoring. It uses...
General Photonics Corp.
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RAY TRACING SOFTWARE
Mercury Computer Systems Inc. has released a state-of-the-art software development kit for real-time ray tracing. OpenRTRT is a 3-D image-rendering application that combines physically correct ray...
Mercury Systems Inc.
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SPECTROMETER
The Super Range aberration-corrected concave grating spectrometer has been developed by StellarNet Inc. for the UV-VIS-NIR range from 200 to 1100 nm. It connects to a PC’s USB port and includes...
StellarNet Inc.
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CUSTOM BELLOWS
A&A Manufacturing Co. Inc. offers Gortite custom-designed folded bellows that provide sealed, lighttight protection for cameras and other imaging equipment, enlargers, medical x-ray equipment and...
Dynatect Manufacturing Inc., Gortite Div.
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FIBER LASER
The T-Light ultracompact femtosecond fiber laser from Menlo Systems GmbH offers suitable beam quality and a long life span. Featuring measurements of 18 × 18 × 8 cm, the instrument has a...
Menlo Systems GmbH
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TESTING SYSTEM
Dioptic GmbH has introduced the LRT (large radius test) system for interferometric characterization of spheric and toric mirror surfaces with radii of curvature up to several meters. Tuning of the...
DIOPTIC GmbH
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NANOPOSITIONER
Piezosystem jena GmbH has expanded its Mipos family of micro-objective focusing lenses with the addition of the nanoMipos400 CAP nanopositioner. Complementing the Mipos 500 piezoelectric objective...
piezosystem jena GmbH
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LWIR LENS
StingRay Optics LLC has developed a long-wave infrared (LWIR) triple-field-of-view lens for use over the 7.5- to 12-μm waveband range. Focal lengths of 75, 150 and 300 mm are achieved through a...
G&H StingRay, Optical Systems
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X-RAY GENERATOR
Bruker AXS Inc. and Incoatec GmbH have launched a superspeed x-ray source/detector combination to enhance Bruker’s crystallographic product line. The Bruker superspeed instruments are powered by...
Bruker AXS Inc.
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BEAM TWISTING
Fisba Optik AG has announced its Beam Twister (FBT), a beam symmetrization device that generates an almost symmetrical beam and that can be implemented for fiber coupling of diode laser bars. The...
FISBA AG
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PCI EXPRESS BOARD
The Grablink series manufactured by Euresys sa has been expanded with a new Camera Link PCI Express frame grabber. The Grablink Express complies with the base configuration of the Camera Link...
Euresys SA
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CCD CAMERA
A digital 1/2-in. progressive-scan CCD camera has been unveiled by JAI Inc. Incorporating the Mini Camera Link interface standard, the CM-140 MCL is a monochrome camera with 1380 × 1040 active...
JAI Inc.
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PROBE SYSTEM
Process Photonics Inc. has introduced a moving probe system for laser trimming and testing of electronic circuit boards. RapiTrim is a fixtureless system in which all probing and trimming are fully...
PPI Systems Inc.
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DRILLING HEADS
The IntelliDrill 30 series intelligent laser drilling heads for drilling circuit boards, for perforating foils and for texturing surfaces have been unveiled by Scanlab AG. The scan modules for CO2...
SCANLAB GmbH
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SILICONE MATERIALS
NuSil Technology has unveiled a line of Ultra Low Outgassing controlled volatility materials for use by the aerospace industry. The silicone adhesives and coatings retain elasticity and low modulus...
NuSil Technology LLC
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