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Photonics Spectra - March 2008
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Fiber Pulling Profits from Precise Positioning
The advent of tunable narrowband lasers in the 1970s gave scientists a powerful tool to control and probe atoms and molecules, opening the door to an exciting world of quantum physics. When atoms and molecules are exposed to the intense electromagnetic fields created by laser light, they can be cooled and trapped, becoming prime objects for studying and illustrating interactions between light and...
Optical Filters Go Deeper
The importance of optical applications in the middle-ultraviolet spectral region — between about 200 and 320 nm — continues to increase with the advent of new excitation light sources in this range,...
What’s Next for Solid-State Lasers?
Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2008 was held Jan. 27 to 30 in the Noh Theatre of the Nara Prefectural New Public Hall in Japan. It was the first time the conference had been held in Japan, and...
Saving Money with Laser Processing
Flat panel displays are one of the great modern engineering success stories. They are everywhere — in mobile phones, public displays and even sports arenas. In fact, even now there is a fair chance...
Total Internal Reflection Interrogates Nanoparticles in
Microfluidic Chips
Whereas traditional methods for measuring nanoparticle dispersions involve time-consuming sample preparation and image analysis, a novel microfluidic device can characterize nanoparticle dispersions...
Nanobeads Prove Useful for Making Optical Molecular Sensors
Optical chemical sensors are employed for testing in numerous fields, from marine research to the aerospace and automotive industries to medicine and biotechnology. Such sensors often consist of...
Photocurrent Altered with Nanoparticles
Sprinkling nanoparticles over the active face of photodetectors and solar cells could be a relatively easy and inexpensive way to enhance the performance of these devices. But exactly what effect...
Nanoparticle Plasmons Used to Enhance Solar Absorption
Researchers seeking to improve solar absorption for the next generation of photovoltaic technology are exploring whether surface plasmon resonances of gold nanoparticles can augment the conversion of...
A Simpler Fabrication Technique for LEDs
The final step in fabricating an LED involves packaging the bare LED chip in an epoxy encapsulation. The epoxy not only protects the chip physically but also serves as a lens to focus the light...
Quantum Dot-Based Displays Benefit from Misty Deposition
LED displays made with nanocrystal quantum dots are enticing because they may offer higher efficiency, brightness and color saturation than existing LED technologies. However, although they have been...
A Small Temperature Probe with a Bright Future
To measure temperature on the nanoscale, you need a minuscule thermometer. Now a group of researchers has demonstrated that a fluorescent particle glued to the end of a sharp tip of an atomic force...
Lensless Soft X-Ray Microscopy System Achieves 70-nm Resolution
Although x-ray crystallography can reveal the structure of molecules, numerous molecules cannot be crystallized and are not found naturally in crystallized form. A relatively new technique called...
MEMS Technology Tackles Food and Agricultural Challenges
The food and agriculture industry contributes significantly to the nation’s economy but often is an overlooked sector, particularly where advanced technology development is concerned. The nation is...
Measuring Food Packaging Materials
Packaging is an important aspect of the food industry, especially for frozen items. Packaging that is too thin or that is not made of the right materials could lead to “freezer burn”; on the other...
Light Management for Controlled-Environment Agriculture
Imagine harvesting crops in New York state in the dead of winter. At Cornell University, a hydroponic greenhouse project is making that happen. In the controlled environment, it takes 35 days to grow...
Food and Water Safety
Molecular sensors can detect trace amounts of molecules present in food and water that signal the presence of danger to humans. The target may be the toxic molecule itself, as in the case of...
Slicing and Dicing Food and Agricultural Data
Farming has gone high-tech, with optical monitoring taking place from the air and from satellites, on planting and harvesting equipment, and on ground-based sensors. The food and beverage industry...
Detecting Biofouling in Food Processing Systems
Biofilms typically are bacterial and/or fungal organisms that colonize in slime films on the inside surfaces of pipes, vessels and equipment that handle and process liquids. They result from...
VGA Imagers in Camera Phones
Early cell phones had very low resolution imagers, typically 0.1 megapixels. This resulted in barely acceptable picture quality. Consequently, the imager resolution moved quickly from the common...
Incoherent Detection of Airborne Pollutants
Researchers and regulators have a new tool when it comes to detecting airborne pollutants and pinpointing their source, thanks to a group from University College Cork in Ireland. The group’s members...
Infrared Spectroscopy Checks on Diet Drinks
Sugar is sweet but aspartame is sweeter, permitting it to be used as a low-calorie sugar substitute in diet soft drinks and other foods. However, some people believe that aspartame’s metabolic...
Tech Pulse
Spectroscopy Can Help Bakers Make Bread
When bread dough rises in a small amount of time, the yeast does not produce much carbon dioxide gas, resulting in bread that is too flat and too hard. Longer rise times, however, result in bread...
Adding Teeth to Spectroscopic Detection
With conventional broadband spectroscopy techniques, detecting optical frequencies can be performed to a resolution of ~10 MHz. Now, however, researchers at the National Institute for Standards and...
Getting Semiconductors Ready to Take a Spin
For semiconductors, the hope is that everything will not be just about electron charge in the future. Instead, having devices also exploit electron spin — resulting in new kinds of memory and logic...
Speedy and Colorful Terahertz Scanning
When it comes to nondestructive screening and testing, terahertz time-domain spectroscopic imaging offers significant advantages but one considerable drawback. Lying between infrared and microwave...
light speed
Gemfire and Covega Have Merged
Gemfire Corp. of Fremont, Calif., has completed its merger with Covega Corp. of Jessup, Md., a provider of indium-phosphide and lithium-niobate components and modules for the telecommunications,...
Boeing Receives $49 Million Contract
Boeing Co. of St. Louis has been awarded a $49 million contract by the US Air Force. The company will support research, design, development and testing of gas, hybrid electric-gas and chemical...
Firecomms Selects Representative
Firecomms Ltd. of Austin, Texas, a developer of plastic optical fiber transceivers and surface-emitting lasers, has signed a representative agreement with ESA Technical Marketing Inc. of Naperville,...
Cergence Re-Enters Fiber Optic Industry
Cergence Inc., formerly LightMatrix Technologies LLC, of West Chester, Pa., has re-entered the fiber optic component industry. The company’s initial product portfolio offers integrated and packaged...
Indium to Open Korean Facility
Indium Corp. of Clinton, N.Y., a supplier of materials for the electronics assembly and solar photovoltaic markets, plans to open a facility in Cheongju City, South Korea. The plant, scheduled to...
Qioptiq to Acquire Point Source
Qioptiq Group of Fairport, N.Y., a designer and manufacturer of optical solutions, has agreed to acquire Point Source Ltd. of Hamble, UK, a producer of lasers and fiber optic laser delivery systems...
Luminit to Collaborate with Asahi Kasei
Luminit LLC of Torrance, Calif., a provider of custom and standard holographic diffusers, has entered into an agreement with Asahi Kasei Corp. of Tokyo, a provider of products for the fiber,...
Trumpf Acquires Segments of Fisba
Trumpf Laser GmbH + Co. KG of Ditzingen, Germany, has acquired the laser plastic welding and selective laser soldering segments of Fisba Optik AG of St. Gallen, Switzerland, a producer of...
Northrop Grumman Awarded MDA Contract
Northrop Grumman Corp. of Redondo Beach, Calif., has received a contract from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for the second phase of a program to develop the Advanced Track Illuminator Laser. The 5...
Solar Energy Project to be Launched in the United Kingdom
Durham University in the UK will lead a four-year solar energy research project with a focus on producing thin-film photovoltaic cells. The £6.3 million study, known as PV-21, will get under way this...
Salvador Imaging Awarded Contract from Raytheon
Salvador Imaging, a subsidiary of Photon Dynamics Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has been awarded a contract by Raytheon Co. of Waltham, Mass., to supply high-performance surveillance cameras for a...
Crystal Systems Receives $250K for Crystal Growth Project
Crystal Systems Inc. of Salem, Mass., has received $250,000 from the French Institute de la Lumiere Extreme project. The funding will be used to scale up the heat exchange method process of crystal...
Road Map for European Photonics Available
The Merging Optics & Nanotechnologies (MONA) project based in Grenoble, France, has published “A European Roadmap for Photonics and Nanotechnologies,” a market report resulting from a two-year...
Jenoptik Acquires Epigap Optoelektronik
In Germany, Jenoptik AG of Jena has purchased all shares in Epigap Optoelektronik GmbH of Berlin to strengthen its optical systems division, Jenoptik Polymer Systems GmbH of Triptis, a provider of...
Osram Grants License to PerkinElmer
Osram Opto Semiconductors, a subsidiary of Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany, has granted a license to PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass. Under the terms of the license, the latter gains nonexclusive,...
Applied Analytics Moves Its Headquarters
Applied Analytics Inc., a provider of process analyzers and sampling systems for production and environmental applications, has moved its headquarters from Maynard to Concord, both in Massachusetts....
Cree to Purchase LED Lighting Fixtures
Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., a provider of LED solid-state lighting components, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LED Lighting Fixtures Inc. of Morrisville, N.C. The latter company, which...
Edmund Optics Opens Larger Office in Germany
Edmund Optics GmbH, a subsidiary of Edmund Optics Inc., has moved to a larger facility in Karlsruhe, Germany, to keep pace with increased growth in the market. The office will accommodate the...
Aspectrics Picks Qwest as Western Distributor
Aspectrics Inc. of Pleasanton, Calif., a provider of encoded photometric infrared and near-infrared spectroscopy analyzers, has concluded an agreement with Qwest Scientific Group of Redondo Beach,...
Arasor Buys Novalux
Arasor International Ltd. of Mountain View has acquired the assets of Novalux Inc. of Sunnyvale, both in California, for $7 million in stock and the assumption of debt. The purchase will enable...
Optical Research Assoc. Names Agent in Europe
Optical Research Associates of Pasadena, Calif., has appointed Light Tec of Hyères, France, to distribute and support its Code V optical and LightTools illumination design software in Europe,...
USDA and ChemImage to Collaborate
ChemImage of Pittsburgh, a developer of chemical imaging technology, will collaborate with the US Department of Agriculture’s research service to develop high-speed imaging technology for monitoring...
Rudolph Technologies Secures RVSI Inspection IP, Assets
Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Flanders, N.J., has acquired all intellectual property and selected assets from RVSI Inspection LLC of Hauppauge, N.Y. The New Jersey company provides process...
Optikos Expands Development Services
Optikos Corp. of Wakefield, Mass., a manufacturer of equipment for the measurement of optical image quality, has expanded its optical product development services to provide product design,...
Tessera to Buy FotoNation
Tessera Technologies Inc. of San Jose, Calif., a provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry, has agreed to acquire FotoNation of Burlingame, Calif., a provider of embedded...
Glasstech Forms Solar Business Unit
Glasstech Inc. of Perrysburg, Ohio, a developer of glass bending and tempering equipment, has created a business unit to focus on solar energy systems. The division will market the company’s systems...
ICP Solar and Schott Sign Agreement
ICP Solar Technologies Inc. of Montreal, a developer and manufacturer of solar products, has signed a multiyear agreement with Schott Solar GmbH of Alzenau, Germany. The Canadian company will use...
Lumera Secures Order from Lockheed Martin
Lumera Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has received a purchase order from Lockheed Martin, based in Bethesda, Md., for its high electro-optic activity materials. The term of the existing agreement between...
Powerlase Partners with Irish Laser Center
Powerlase Ltd. of Crawley, UK, and the National Centre for Laser Applications of the National University of Ireland in Galway will collaborate to develop novel techniques for laser-based materials...
DRS Technologies Garners Defense Contract
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received a $23 million contract from the US Army’s Aviation and Missile Command in Huntsville, Ala., to provide engineering and field service support,...
Navitar Purchases Special Optics
Navitar Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., a designer and distributor of optics and optomechanical assemblies for machine vision and digital projection, has bought Special Optics of Wharton, N.J. The latter is...
Corning to Expand Facility
Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., has announced plans to expand its LCD glass substrate manufacturing facility in Taichung, Taiwan. The $453 million expenditure will provide greater manufacturing...
Isra Vision Expands into South America
A global supplier of machine vision systems for surface inspection and robot guidance, Isra Vision AG of Darmstadt, Germany, has opened a sales and distribution office in São Paulo, Brazil, from...
Object Video Receives DARPA Contract
ObjectVideo Inc. of Reston, Va., a provider of intelligent video systems, has received a contract from DARPA to provide the ground station component for a new class of aircraft-based surveillance...
Nerac and Harlin to Integrate Offerings
Nerac Inc. of Tolland, Conn., a research and advisory firm for technology development companies, and Harlin Ltd. of Salisbury, UK, a marketing and business development services provider, have formed...
CoorsTek to Open Manufacturing Facility
CoorsTek of Golden, Colo., a supplier of specialty ceramics for the semiconductor manufacturing and flat panel display industries, will build a manufacturing facility in Gumi City, South Korea. The...
Manlight Names Distributor
Manlight SAS of Lannion, France, a fiber laser manufacturer, has selected RPMC Lasers Inc. of O’Fallon, Mo., as the distributor for its pulsed and continuous-wave fiber lasers, with power ranging...
Sunovia, Epir Receive NASA Contract
Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc. of Sarasota, Fla., a renewable energy and energy conservation company, has signed an agreement with Epir Technologies Inc. of Bolingbrook, Ill., a developer of solar...
Pembroke to Distribute for Avantes
Pembroke Instruments LLC of San Bruno, Calif., provides sales and application support for companies in the life sciences, physical sciences and industrial markets. The recently created company has...
Nyfors Names Distributors
Nyfors Teknologi AB of Stockholm, Sweden, has added two distributors. Fujikura Ltd. of Tokyo has been chosen to distribute the complete range of optical fiber cleavers, recoaters and testing...
Accent on Applications
Fighting Counterfeiting with the Basics
The best way to spot a fake is to check its true colors. Identifying counterfeit commercial goods may be easier in the future, thanks to Effendi Widjaja and Marc V. Garland of the Singapore-based...
The Anatomy of a Smudge
Industrial and household contaminants abound, but how these toxic substances get from their source onto human hands is less than certain. Of course, it usually requires touch, but does a moist...
Presstime Bulletin
Smile, You’re on Attosecond-Pulse Camera!
If you want to know the properties of a substance, you have to know about its molecules. If you want to know about the properties of those molecules, you have to know something about the atoms that...
Program that Images Stars Also Works in Nanoworld
If it works in the macroworld, why not in the nanoworld? Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, at Emory University and at Georgia State University, all in Atlanta, were looking for a way...
Lighter Side
Indecipherable Inscriptions no Longer Illegible
Time takes a heavy toll on everything, even gravestones. The markers in the burial ground of Old St. Luke’s Church in Scott Township, Pa., are so faded from more than two centuries of exposure to the...
Where’s Waldo?
As many children, along with their parents, well know, finding Waldo takes work, not to mention a goodly amount of patience. In the popular series of children’s books, readers are challenged to...
Products
MACHINE VISION CAMERAS
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH has introduced its Stingray series machine vision IEEE-1394b CCD cameras. The series includes six models, with resolutions ranging from VGA to 2 megapixels, and the...
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH
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SURFACE STRUCTURE
Schott Solar GmbH has developed a surface structure for its solar cells to make them more efficient. ISO Texture allows the cells to convert more of the sunlight falling upon them into energy,...
Schott Solar GmbH
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DIGITAL MICROSCOPE
The R1101 manufactured by Lyncée Tec SA is a dual-wavelength digital holography microscope for 3-D topography applications. It has wavelengths of 682.7 and 660 nm working in alternate mode but also...
Lyncee Tec SA
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WATER CHILLERS
The Hyperchill Laser nonferrous small-footprint water chillers from Parker domnick hunter are available for internal and external installation and are equipped with microprocessor intelligence. The...
Parker Hannifin Corp., Industrial Gas Filtration and Generation Div.
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INFRARED CAMERA
Infrared Cameras Inc. has released an infrared imager designed for rugged applications such as mechanical surveys and electrical and building inspections. The ToughCam has a thermal sensitivity of...
Infrared Cameras Inc.
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PELTIER ACCESSORIES
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has launched a series of compact air-cooled Peltier accessories for use with its ultraviolet/visible spectrophotometers. They deliver precise temperature control for...
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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INDUCTIVE ENCODERS
Heidenhain Corp. has launched the ECI/EQI 1300 series inductive rotary encoders. Designed for servo applications, the devices come in 19-bit single-turn resolution or in 31-bit multiturn encoder...
Heidenhain Corporation
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LENSES AND MOUNTING
Laser Research Optics has launched a service for mounting CO2 high-power laser lenses in customer-supplied stainless steel or anodized aluminum focusing lens holders. ZnSe lenses are offered in 1.5-...
Laser Research Optics
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FIVE-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA
The Imaging Solutions Group of New York Inc. has added a five-megapixel model to its LightWise family of smart cameras. Available in color and monochrome versions, the modular LW-5-S-1394 is...
Imaging Solutions Group
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SOLID-STATE LASER
Available from Coherent Inc., the Paladin Advanced 355-8000 diode-pumped solid-state laser delivers 8 W of quasi-CW output at 355 nm. Suitable for laser direct imaging, flat panel display substrate...
Coherent Inc.
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LIGHT MEASUREMENT TOOL
Gamma Scientific Inc. has unveiled the flexOptometer, a radiometer and photometer for flexible and precise light measurements. Stand-alone or computer controlled, the full-function photometric,...
Gamma Scientific
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COATED TUBES
Deposition Sciences Inc. has developed special tooling and processes that enable coating the outside of tubes with durable and precision optical filters. The company, which coats filters from the...
Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI)
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VIDEO SENSOR
The OV9710 high-definition video CameraChip sensor for mobile handsets, laptop computers and other applications has been released by OmniVision Technologies Inc. The 1-megapixel CMOS sensor is built...
OMNIVISION
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ACOUSTIC ENCLOSURE
Herzan LLC’s NanoVault acoustic enclosure was designed to improve the accuracy of high precision measurement by damping up to 51 dB of environmental noise. Eleven distinct layers of sound damping...
Herzan
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HYDROPHOBIC TOPCOATS
Applied Multilayers Ltd. has introduced a hydrophobic topcoat for its anti-reflection coatings for consumer products, including the display windows on mobile phones and on ATMs. The coating,...
Applied Multilayers LLC
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MOLDED OPTICS
G-S Plastic Optics has released 39 types of injection-molded optic lenses. The 21 PMMA aspheric lenses have diameters of 3, 6, 12, 25 and 30 mm, with f numbers ranging from f/1 to f/6, depending on...
GS Plastic Optics
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CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM
Imagine Optic SA has unveiled the SL-Sys neo, a system for the characterization of miniature optical components ranging from 1 to 12 mm in diameter. The fully automated product houses a...
Imagine Optic
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PATTERN GENERATOR
Holo/Or Ltd. has added elements to its Multi Spot series pattern generators that produce an array of 1 × 5 points with high efficiency. The optics can be manufactured for 266-, 532-, 632.8-, 1064-,...
Holo/Or Ltd.
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CMOS CAMERA
Available in color and monochrome versions, the Lm085 mini CMOS USB 2.0 camera from Lumenera Corp. measures 44 × 44 × 56 mm. It operates at 60 fps at full 752 × 480 resolution and at 100 fps at 376 ×...
Teledyne Lumenera
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POLARIZATION CONTROL
Lightwaves2020 Inc. has unveiled a microsecond polarization controller. Driven by a 0- to 5-V direct current to produce polarization control, the device operates from 1528 to 1610 nm and has a...
Lightwaves2020 Inc.
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LIGHT SOURCE
For use in ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography, multichannel fiber Bragg grating interrogation and passive component testing, Exalos AG has introduced the EBS8505 ultrabroadband light...
Exalos AG
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SOLID-STATE LASER
Cobolt AB has released the Cobolt Fandango, a CW solid-state laser operating at a fixed wavelength of 515 nm and with an output power of 50 mW. Built on the Cobolt diode-pumped solid-state platform,...
Cobolt AB
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4096-PIXEL CAMERA
The EliiXA family of industrial inspection cameras has been launched by e2v technologies plc. The multilinear cameras have row spacing of two pixels and a line rate of up to 18 kHz. With one...
Teledyne e2v France
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OPTICAL POWER METER
The ADM-1000, manufactured by Lasermet Ltd., is an advanced handheld optical power meter for use in production calibration, in automatic laser stability testing and in pulsed laser characterization...
Lasermet Ltd.
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COLLIMATING LENS
LightPath Technologies Inc. has unveiled the 390035 aspheric molded lens for collimating light from infrared lasers, including quantum cascade types, specifically targeting those with a wavelength...
LightPath Technologies Inc.
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OPTICAL DELAY LINE
A high-speed optical delay line, based on a tuned servo system, has been released by Mesa Photonics LLC. Offering 150-nm precision and 220-ppm long-term repeatability, the device bolts directly to an...
Mesa Photonics LLC
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DIGITAL CAMERAS
The RMV digital camera line has been launched by illunis LLC. The cameras employ industrial-rated components, military-grade design and a unique case to offer an operating temperature range of –40 to...
illunis LLC
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SLOW LIGHT LASER
Orbits Lightwave Inc. has introduced a slow light laser based on its Ethernal laser platform. The company says that the technology reduces the low-frequency relative intensity noise by nearly six...
Orbits Lightwave Inc.
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IR MICROSCOPE
The IRT-7000 multichannel IR microscope from Jasco Inc. offers two detectors for IR imaging. The 16-channel linear array, single-point mercury cadmium telluride detector and automatic sample stage...
JASCO Inc.
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PC INTERFACE
The Pulsar-4 multichannel smart head PC interface has been introduced by Ophir-Spiricon Inc. to accommodate its smart heads. It converts a PC or a laptop into a full-featured laser power/energy...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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CUTTING SYSTEM
The StencilLaser G 6080 manufactured by LPKF Laser & Electronics AG is compliant with Class 1 laser safety, and it features easy access architecture, state-of-the-art exhaust technology and...
LPKF Laser & Electronics AG
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HEAT SINKS
The RoHS-compliant Star series heat sinks released by Advanced Thermal Solutions (ATS) Inc. are designed to cool higher-power surface-mount LED packages. The 32 models in the series provide enhanced...
Advanced Thermal Solutions Inc.
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5-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA
Imaging Development Systems (IDS) GmbH has announced the uEye UI-5480-C, a 5-megapixel Gigabit Ethernet color camera that operates at up to 12 fps at full 2560 × 1920-pixel resolution. Features...
IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
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DETECTOR PROBES
The delta series analog and digital detector probes and instruments has been released by Spectrum Detector Inc. The radiometers and joulemeters in the series are small and flexible and fit easily...
Gentec-EO USA Inc.
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SPECTROGRAPH
Suitable for OEM integration into hyperspectral imaging applications, the HP series spectrographs from BaySpec Inc. have a spectral engine that employs a volume phase grating as the dispersion...
BaySpec Inc.
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LINEAR STAGE
The MM-1M-F microminiature precision motorized linear stage has been announced by National Aperture Inc. It is available in X, X-Y and X-Y-Z axes and in X-Z configuration. Resolution is 0.099...
National Aperture Inc.
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OPTICAL DESIGN SOFTWARE
Optical Research Associates (ORA) has released Code V 9.81, optical design software that simplifies the correlation of test data and design parameters to streamline the fabrication of optical...
Synopsys Inc., Optical Solutions Group
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NIR PHOTODIODE
An NIR red-enhanced photodiode-preamplifier has been unveiled by Opto Diode Corp. The ODA-5W-100K measures 5 mm2 and offers 500 MΩ gain (customized gains are available upon request), low noise...
Opto Diode Corporation
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MOUNTING BRACKET
The OMH-ML17-R rod-mount mounting bracket is available from Pepperl+Fuchs Inc. The device can be used with any M18 cylindrical or snout photoelectric sensor, including the ML17 Tru-Vue series with...
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
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LED DRIVER
An LED driver has been developed by austriamicrosystems AG and by LG Philips LCD. The AS3693 allows dimming of multiple segments of an LCD TV backlight for high contrast ratios and optimum picture...
ams OSRAM
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NIR CAMERA
Sensors Unlimited Inc., part of Goodrich Corp., has announced that a higher line rate is available for its high-resolution SU-LDH digital line-scan NIR camera. The enhanced feature increases rates...
Sensors Unlimited Inc.
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DEVICE MOUNTS
Arroyo Instruments has added the 262 and 264 LaserMounts for up to 20-A devices to its family of device mounts. They enable rapid connection to the company’s drivers and temperature controllers, and...
Arroyo Instruments LLC
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MODULATORS
The NIR-MX800 series from Photline Technologies is a family of LiNbO3 intensity modulators designed for operation in the 800-nm-wavelength region. The company says that the instruments offer the same...
Exail
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FIBER LASER
Perseus-TS eye-safe pulsed fiber lasers from Aculight Corp. feature 2- to 6-ns pulse durations, up to 60 μJ of pulse energy, beam quality of M2 <1.4 and up to 4 W of average power at...
Lockheed Martin Laser and Sensor Systems
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CERAMIC REFLECTORS
Morgan Technical Ceramics has launched a line of ceramic reflectors. Designed for use with solid-state lasers, flashlamps and laser diodes, the reflectors bring high reflectivity and efficiency to...
Morgan Technical Ceramics
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FIBER COLLIMATORS
Micro Laser Systems Inc. has introduced the all-fused-silica FC5 fiber collimator. The device features a 6-mm aperture, a 900- to 1100-nm-wavelength range, >97% transmission, 2-mm beam size with a...
Micro Laser Systems Inc.
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COLOR CAMERA
Toshiba Imaging Systems Div. has released the IK-TF9H9U high-resolution color camera featuring a remote head measuring 32.6 × 38.6 × 41 mm, with an output of 2048 × 1536 pixels. The...
CANON MEDICAL COMPONENTS U.S.A., Video Sensing Devices
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PHOTOMETRIC CONVERTER
Manufactured by optek-Danulat Inc., the Control 4000 is a modular microprocessor-based photometric converter designed for the company’s ultraviolet, visible and near-IR absorption-based and...
optek-Danulat Inc.
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VIDEO INSPECTION
Titan Tool Supply Inc. has expanded its Envision line with the introduction of two models of its SnakeEye III lightweight modular and portable remote video inspection system. It combines an LED...
Titan Tool Supply Inc.
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RGB LED
The OVSRRGBCC3 from Optek Technology Inc. is a surface-mount RGB LED with a 150° viewing angle. The device contains three diodes, one for each color, in a 3.2 × 1.0-mm package that is compatible with...
Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control
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NEAR-IR MEASUREMENT
Sentronic GmbH/getSys has released the getAlyser NIR 1.7 for near-IR measurements and spectroscopic analysis. It performs contact-free component and property analysis on powders, granulates and...
getAMO
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LED DRIVER
Fairchild Semiconductor has introduced the FAN5645, a single-wire programmable LED driver for use in blinking LED indicators. It records and indefinitely plays a blinking pattern, eliminating the...
Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. (See On Semiconductor)
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BEAM EXPANDERS
The compact design of the Techspec BeamX laser beam expanders from Edmund Optics Inc. makes them suitable for integration into a variety of optical systems. The expanders provide diffraction-limited...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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FIBER-COUPLED BARS
ProLite Xt Corvus high-brightness fiber-coupled diode laser bars have been announced by Spectra-Physics Lasers Div. Passively cooled, they deliver >35 W of output power from a 100-μm 0.22-NA...
MKS/Newport
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LASER DIODE CONTROLLER
The LDC501 laser diode controller unveiled by Stanford Research Systems combines a low-noise 500-mA current source and an integrated 36-W temperature controller, making it suitable for a variety of...
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Basler AG
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LASER DIODE DRIVERS
Power Technology Inc. has released a line of laser diode drivers that feature a choice of output voltage and current; an integrated enable feature; current-monitoring terminals; soft start for...
Power Technology Inc.
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MICROSCOPE AUTOMATION
Announced by Prior Scientific Inc., the NZ500CE NanoScanZ Piezo 500-μm stage system is designed for researchers using deconvolution and 3-D imaging techniques. It provides 5-nm repeatability and...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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HIGH-POWER REFLECTOR
Teraxion Inc. has introduced the PowerSpectrum-HPR, a high-power reflector for continuous-wave or pulsed fiber lasers up to 800 W. Based on fiber Bragg grating technology, the device features a 1020-...
TeraXion Inc.
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CAMERA MICROSCOPE
Available from Unitron Ltd., the RMM2 Rollscope is a portable metallurgical camera-microscope for characterizing and photographing objects that are inaccessible or too large to be placed on the stage...
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