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Photonics.com - July 2008
Research & Technology
Understanding Smog by Measuring Light Absorption
Haze lingering over cities may look fairly similar from place to place, but its composition can vary greatly. In some regions, industrial coal smoke predominates, whereas in others, automotive exhaust makes significant contributions. Researchers from Paul Scherrer Institut in Villigen and from the University of Bern, both in Switzerland, used aerosol light absorption to elucidate regional...
Detecting Nanoparticles in a Flame
A team of scientists from Università di Napoli and from Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione, both in Italy, and from Lund University in Sweden has directly measured combustion-generated...
Laser Analysis of Strawberries
Phenolic compounds in fruits and vegetables enhance their nutritional value, so it is useful to identify and quantify the various native compounds. Scientists from Leibniz Institute for Agricultural...
Observing Laser-Shocked Tin Substrates
When a shock wave generated by a laser beam or similar concentrated force bounces off a free surface, the material can undergo shock-induced fragmentation. Although commonly encountered in...
Laser Sorts Moving Droplets in Lab on a Chip
A paper by three physicists from Université Bordeaux I in France describes a new and highly effective method of sorting and routing nanolitre droplets flowing through microchannels. The technique...
News & Features
Painted-over Portrait Probed
An international research team has used synchrotron x-rays from a particle accelerator to reveal the portrait of a woman hidden beneath Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Patch of Grass" for 121 years. It's well known that Van Gogh often recycled his canvases, painting over older works. Experts estimate that about one-third of his early paintings conceal other compositions. In the case of "Patch of...
Tight Squeeze on Light
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to squeeze light through an opening that is only five times the width of a single piece of DNA. According to lead researcher,...
Hot Topics in Optics at FiO
This fall's platform for the latest trends in optics is the Frontiers in Optics 2008 and Laser Science (FiO/LS) XXIV conference in Rochester, N.Y. From October 19-23, optics and photonics industry...
Intevac Nets $1M Contract
Intevac Photonics, a division of Intevac Inc., announced today that its DeltaNu business unit has been awarded a $1 million contract from the Department of Defense to develop advanced Raman...
Corning Forecasts Weaker 3Q
Specialty glass and ceramics maker Corning Inc. today announced second-quarter net income of $3.2 billion, up from $489 million a year ago thanks to one-time tax-related gains and strong market...
KLA-Tencor Buying Vistec Unit
KLA-Tencor, a maker of equipment to detect defects in integrated circuits, today announced it will acquire the Microelectronic Inspection Equipment (MIE) business unit of Vistec Semiconductor...
On-chip Microscope Developed
Computer chip technology has been combined with microfluidics to create a tiny lenseless microscope small enough to fit on a fingertip and with magnifying power that rivals top optical microscopes....
NEMS Scale Weighs Gold Atom
A nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) has been fashioned that can function as a scale sensitive enough to weigh a single atom of gold. Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of...
SC Laser Beam Sharpened
A highly directional semiconductor (SC) laser has been developed that could be used for long range chemical sensing in the atmosphere, including homeland security and environmental monitoring,...
Lockheed Acquiring Aculight
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced today it will acquire privately held laser maker Aculight Corp. for an undisclosed amount. Bothell, Wash.-based Aculight, which was founded in...
Telescope Embedded in Lens
A wide-field telescope made of straight and curved mirrors and embedded into what appears to be a typical pair of glasses could make activities that require sharp distance vision, such as driving,...
Flexible Display Flaw Fixed
A critical flaw to producing transistors for flexible displays from networks of carbon nanotubes -- namely that the metallic nanotubes in the network can cause short circuits -- has been overcome by...
The Dancing Aurora Borealis
Space scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) believe they have solved some of the mystery behind the northern lights phenomenon. For the past 30 years, there have been two...
PGT, CyOptics to Merge
Pirelli Group's photonics company, PGT Photonics, will merge with privately held optical components company CyOptics, the companies announced yesterday. As part of the deal, Italian industrial...
Corning Selling Steuben
Specialty glass and ceramics maker Corning Inc. said it will sell its 90-year-old Steuben glass division to a private equity company for an undisclosed amount. Corning said it will maintain a...
Wrong Laser Aimed at Crowd
A powerful pulsed laser intended for overhead use only was pointed into a crowd attending a music festival outside Moscow earlier this month, allegedly causing retina damage in dozens of people. A...
Boeing Designs Laser Weapon
Boeing has successfully completed the preliminary design of their beam control system for the U.S. Army’s High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL TD) program. The objective of the HED TD...
Image Sensors Snag IEDs
Researchers at University of California, San Diego, are using statistical pattern recognition and image processing to help the U.S. military better detect hidden roadside explosives. Since the...
Laser Dentist Drill
The dreaded dentist drill may have finally met its match. Thanks to a team of researchers at King’s College in London, a painless new treatment has been developed using Raman spectroscopy. Raman...
LEDs Created on Silicon
By using inexpensive silicon wafers instead of pricey sapphire as a foundation for creating LEDs, researchers said they have overcome a major obstacle keeping solid-state lighting from becoming more...
Subsurfaces Seen Sharply
The high penetration power of x-rays has been combined with diffraction imaging to create a novel x-ray microscope that makes it possible, for the first time, to view the detailed interiors of...
Purdue Panel Finds Misconduct
A Purdue University panel has found that two allegations against a scientist who claims to have achieved "tabletop" fusion in collapsing bubbles constitute research misconduct. Purdue has been...
X-Ray Lightning
According to the National Weather Service, an average of 62 people are killed each year by lightning in the United States. In a single week this July, which typically is peak lightning season, five...
Mobile MRI Images Arctic Ice
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, familiar to many as the gigantic, expensive machines found in hospitals, are going mobile. They're also not just for medicine anymore: German researchers...
NY Nanotech Nets $1.5B
Significant new investments by IBM and the state of New York will accelerate its leadership in nanotechnology research and development and create up to 1000 new high-tech jobs upstate, New York Gov....
Laser Blamed, Drugs Eyed
Moscow ophthalmologists are questioning Russian officials’ determination that retina damage in young people at a techno music festival was due to improper use of a laser gun reportedly directed...
Revellers' Retinas Wrecked
More than 30 audience members at a techno music festival may have permanently lost much of their vision after a laser used during the concert burned their retinas, a Russian newspaper reported...
PV & Semiconductor Synergy
Today marks the beginning of Semicon West 2008, North America’s largest event dedicated to the global semiconductor photovoltaic (PV) and microelectronics manufacturing supply chains. From now until...
Entegris Buying Poco
Entegris, a maker of products for semiconductor and flat panel display processes, today announced it will acquire privately held Poco Graphite Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at $158 million....
Gooch Acquires General Optics
Gooch & Housego, a maker of optical components and systems, announced it will acquire General Optics from GSI Group for $21 million in cash. As a volume manufacturer of optical components and...
Stained Glass Solar Panels
As Photovoltaic (PV) technology continues to evolve there are two obvious focal points that continue to garner the most attention – cost and efficiency. Reports of a new approach to harnessing...
Galactic Theory of Relativity
Turns out Einstein was right - go figure. His general theory of relativity has recently been confirmed by a group of researchers that used a unique binary pulsar star system to confirm his findings...
High-end Hybrid Goes Solar
Amid record high oil prices and the global push to reduce carbon emissions, Toyota Motor is planning to install solar panels on their high-end, third-generation Prius hybrids, slated for release next...
Fine-lined Lithography
Researchers at MIT have made a significant advance in nanoscale lithographic technology. They have discovered that by using finer patterns of lines over larger areas they could offer more economical,...
Photovoltaic Valley
SVTC Technologies' solar business unit has launched the Silicon Valley Photovoltaic Development Center, which will provide the burgeoning solar industry with the infrastructure – including...
Gas Laser Pioneer Dies
William R. Bennett Jr., a physicist and inventor who helped develop the first gas laser nearly 50 years ago at Bell Laboratories, died on June 29, at his home in Haverford, Pa, at the age of...
Seeing an Invisible Frontier
Simply by default, NASA’s twin STEREO spacecraft detected never-before-seen particles from the far reaches of the solar system. The region is actually invisible to optical telescopes, but can be...
ISP Optics Buys Coatings Unit
Infrared optical components maker ISP Optics Corp. announced this week it has acquired the infrared optical coating assets of Opticorp Inc., of Chelmsford, Mass. Financial terms were not disclosed....
Dynasil Acquires RMD for $20M
Photonics company Dynasil Corp. of America announced July 2 that it acquired advanced instruments maker Radiation Monitoring Devices (RMD) and assets of RMD Instruments LLC for $20 million in cash...
Staff Exposed to Plutonium
Medical tests have indicated internal plutonium exposure in a small number of personnel at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) due to a June 9 plutonium spill in a laboratory...
Carbon-detecting Laser
Acquiring carbon offsets is an essential component for reducing global warming. As more organizations and businesses start trading in carbon offsets, the need for accurate measurement of carbon...
Light Pulse Speed Record Set
Researchers have set a new record in ultrafast metrology, producing the first light pulses lasting only 80 attoseconds (a billionth of a billionth of a second). Electrons move at awesome speeds,...
Oerlikon Divests Magnetic IP
Switzerland-based high technology company Oerlikon Balzers Ltd. is selling its magnetic media equipment assets and intellectual property (IP), the buyer, Intevac, announced last week. Financial terms...
acquisitions
Lockheed Acquiring Aculight
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced today it will acquire privately held laser maker Aculight Corp. for an undisclosed amount. Bothell, Wash.-based Aculight, which was founded in 1993 and has 90 employees, makes laser systems for defense, aerospace and medical applications. It will become a new business unit of Lockheed Martin and will report to its Maritime Systems &...
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One Custom Lens or Millions
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Electronic Positioning System
PEABODY, Mass., July 29, 2008 – Technical Manufacturing Corp. has unveiled its PEPS II digital, non-contacting precision electronic positioning system for pneumatic vibration isolators. Building on the company’s PEPS technology,...
TMC
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T-flex 700
ST. LOUIS, July 29, 2008 – Laird Technologies has added the T-flex 700 for use as a thermal interface material to its T-flex gap filler line. The next generation thermal pad increases the thermal conductivity of the line to...
Laird Technologies
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Remote Sensing Targets
NEW LONDON, N.H, July 25, 2008 – Remote sensing targets for the visible and near-infrared are now available from Avian Technologies. The company used a modification of its Avian-D coating technology and a highly stable tinting...
Avian Technologies LLC
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Analytical Software
Rochester, N.Y., July 25, 2008 – Applied Image has unveiled the next generation of Imatest analytical software programs, the STUDIO 3.0, MASTER 3.0 and API 3.0, to complement the company’s variety of test target arrays. ...
Applied Image Inc.
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Flat-top Generator
Montreal, Quebec, July 24, 2008 -- StockerYale has introduced the Flat-Top Generator, a laser beam shaping module that converts a Gaussian beam into a focused, collimated, or diverging flat-top profile. This product can maintain a...
ProPhotonix Ltd.
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Optical Bandpass Filter
TAMPERE, Finland, July 21, 2008 – Oseir has unveiled a new tunable multistage optical bandpass filter for use in practical spectral two-dimensional imaging applications. The filter has a tuning wavelength range from 450 to 800 nm...
Oseir Ltd.
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Laser Alignment Eyewear
SAINT PAUL, M.N., July 17, 2008 – Laservision USA, manufacturer of laser protective products, has introduced laser alignment eyewear for laser operators, technicians, engineers, maintenance and service personnel. The eyewear is...
Laservision USA
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Smart Camera for OEMs
ETTLINGEN, Germany, July 16, 2008 – Vision Components, an image processing company, has extended their VC BoardCam range of intelligent cameras with the new VCSBC4012. This new smart camera’s 5 megapixel units are designed especially...
Vision Components GmbH
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Optical Tweezer Systems
HERTSFORDSHIRE, England, July 15, 2008 -- Elliot Scientific has announce that it has added new systems to its Optical Tweezer E3100 and E3200 ranges. Optical tweezers can measure properties of DNA, spectroscopy of trapped particles and can...
Elliot Scientific Ltd.
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Camera Gauges UV Laser Beam
LOGAN, Utah, July 14, 2008 – Ophir-Spiricon has introduced the USB L11058 Large Format Beam Profiling Camera that is designed for measuring large ultraviolet laser beams. The high resolution (4008 x 2672 pixels) format allows...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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Linear Measurement Sensor
TWINSBURG, Ohio, July 11, 2008 – Pepperl+Fuchs has introduced the PMI14V-F112-U-V3 Inductive Linear Measurement Sensors, the most compact addition to their PMI sensor family. These flush mountable sensors are just 35 mm wide x 41...
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
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Fix-Mounted Infrared
DANDERYD, Sweden, July 9, 2008 – Flir Systems has introduced the new ThermoVision A320G that is lightweight, compact and ideal for machine vision, production control and automation applications. This fix-mounted infrared camera...
FLIR Systems AB, Government Systems Sweden
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Stereomicroscope With a Brain
WETZLAR, Germany, July 9, 2008 – Leica Microsystems has introduced the Leica M205 FA Stereomicroscope that is designed and based on the flexibility of the human eye and the human brain. Just as the brain quickly calculates a 3-D...
Leica Microsystems GmbH
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HD Digital Microscope Camera
GOLETA, Calif., July 7, 2008 – Optronics has introduced a new medical grade, high definition digital microscope camera system for microscopy. This camera system has built in 1920 x 1080p image capture and has MPEG-4 progressive...
Optronics
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High-Temp.-Resistant Epoxy
HACKENSACK, N.J., July 3, 2008 – Master Bond has introduced Supreme 11AOHT, a new epoxy that has high thermal conductivity and electrical insulation properties. It 11AOHT has a service operating temperature range of -100 to +400...
Master Bond Inc.
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Image Deconvolution Software
BETHESDA, Md., July 2, 2008 -- Media Cybernetics has introduced the AutoQuant X Version 2.1 image deconvolution and 3D visualization software. AutoQuant X 2.1 now offers support for Windows Vista Business and Ultimate operating...
Media Cybernetics Inc.
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Extreme Imaging for 2008 Olympics
SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 1, 2008 – The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, will be captured in high speed, high-definition TV imagery at 5,400 frames per second. The images from the Fastcam SA1 camera, made by Photron, will be...
Photron USA Inc.
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11-MP Camera
SEEFELD, Germany, July 1, 2008 – SVS-Vistek has introduced the new 11-megapixel svs1102-12 scan camera. The camera provides 6.3 frames per second, but can achieve much higher frame rates in the partial scan mode with a reduced...
SVS-Vistek GmbH
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