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Photonics.com - October 2009
Business
Acal Acquiring BFi Optilas
Electronic components manufacturer Acal agreed to acquire France-based electronic and photonic components distributor BFi Optilas for €10 million ($14.7 million) in cash and 2 million shares of stock.
Raytheon Opticals Nab $6.9M
The Office of Naval Research has awarded defense contractor Raytheon Co. a $6.9 million, Phase II contract to develop a new class of nanocomposite optical materials, the company announced today....
Zygo CEO to Retire
Zygo Corp. of Middlefield, Conn., has announced that CEO J. Bruce Robinson will retire when a successor is named, which is expected to happen during the second half of the fiscal year. Robinson, who...
Morse to Advise Dynasil
Kenneth P. Morse, founding managing director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, has been hired by West Berlin, N.J.-based Dynasil Corp. of America to help commercialize its technology portfolio, the...
PerkinElmer, Corning Partner
PerkinElmer and Corning will partner to develop next-generation detection technologies for life sciences research, the businesses announced today. The agreement brings together Corning’s optical...
Laser Light Engines Hires CEO
Laser Light Engines of Salem, N.H., has hired Doug Darrow as CEO, the company announced this week, replacing company founder Bill Beck, who will remain as executive vice president of business...
Litho Process Awarded $900K
Cornell scientists who have invented a way of processing organic devices with a patent-pending process called orthogonal lithography have received a $900,000 grant from the National Science...
Hudson Heads BAE Systems in US
England-based defense contractor BAE Systems plc announced today that Linda Hudson will serve as president and CEO of its US subsidiary, BAE Systems Inc. of Rockville, Md. Hudson, who also was named...
IRphotonics Opens Apps Center
IRphotonics of Hamden, Conn., a manufacturer of infrared-based materials and systems, has announced the opening of its first Application Engineering Center dedicated to the development and...
$7M Hybrid PV Grant for UCF
The University of Central Florida was awarded a $7.5 million research grant to study ways to make photovoltaic solar cells more efficient in capturing and converting solar energy into electricity,...
Irish Fund Young Researchers
The Irish government awarded €7.9 million (about $11.8 million) to 15 young researchers at seven colleges and institutes in Cork, Dublin and Galway to support their ongoing work in semiconductor...
Fraunhofer USA Turns 15
Fraunhofer USA, the US arm of Germany’s Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft applied research lab, celebrated its 15th anniversary in Washington, DC, this week. Today six Fraunhofer centers closely cooperate with...
Schott Plant to Add 150 Jobs
A contract to manufacture transparent glass-ceramic armor for the defense industry will mean the addition of 150 new jobs by 2010 at its Vincennes facility, Schott North America officials said...
Raydiance Sets Milestone
Petaluma, Calif.-based laser company Raydiance Corp. announced it has made a major breakthrough in manufacturing a wide variety of bioabsorbable materials with precise, micron-resolution feature...
Byer to Chair Mobius Board
Mobius Photonics of Santa Clara, Calif., a producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources, has named company co-founder Robert L. Byer chairman of its board of directors. Byer is the 2009 winner of the...
Dymax Names LaCroce Director
Dymax Corp., manufacturer of advanced light-curable adhesives, coatings and curing equipment, announced the appointment of Stephen LaCroce as director of applied technology. LaCroce, who has more...
Sumitomo Acquires Aviza
Sumitomo Precision Products Co. (SPP), a semiconductor technology company based in Japan, announced that it has acquired the majority of the assets of Aviza Technology Inc. effective Oct. 16....
Spectros Names Distributors
Spectros of Portola Valley, Calif., a developer of advanced molecular sensing and imaging devices for detecting ischemia and cancer, announced it has signed exclusive distribution deals for its...
StockerYale Sells to Coherent
Laser, optical fiber and LED maker StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., announced today that it has sold its North American operations to Santa Clara, Calif.-based laser company Coherent Inc. for $15...
Cree Adds Green Jobs in NC
Cree Inc., a manufacturer of LED lighting products based in Durham, N.C., announced the expansion of its manufacturing capacity in 2009 with the addition of 275 green jobs in Durham. The market for...
Universal Display Nabs DoE Grants
Ewing, N.J.-based Universal Display, developer of OLED technologies and materials, has been awarded two new US Department of Energy (DoE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grants for...
UV Curing Makes Inroads into PV Materials
UV curing of polymers is well-known for many applications, including wood coatings, graphic arts, electronics and optics. In the photovoltaics (PV) industry, however, with some notable exceptions, UV...
360º IR Sensor Flown on UAS
Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md., has announced that it has successfully tested a new infrared sensor turret aboard its Desert Hawk III unmanned aircraft system (UAS), marking the first time a small...
Osram Sylvania Launches Contest
Automotive lighting maker Osram Sylvania of Hillsboro, N.H., and the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit officially launched the first annual Osram Automotive Lighting Design Challenge...
Masters of Light Garner Nobel
Three “masters of light” considered the fathers of fiber optics and digital imaging were honored Tuesday with the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Charles K. Kao...
Dilas Celebrates 15th Anniversary
Dilas, a diode laser company located in Mainz, Germany, is celebrating its 15-year anniversary. What started as a company of nine people in 1994 has grown to over 200 employees in manufacturing and...
IQE to Acquire NanoGaN
Semiconductor wafer maker IQE plc said it will acquire UK-based NanoGaN Ltd for approximately $5.7 million in stock and cash. As part of the deal, professor Wang Nang Wang, CEO of NanoGaN and...
NIST Using Optronic Light Source
Optronic Laboratories, located in Orlando, Fla., has delivered a specially designed version of its popular OL 490 agile light source to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in...
Mobius Laser Used at Max Planck
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mobius Photonics, producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, green, and UV), announced that its G1+ laser system has been used in stimulated emission depletion (STED)...
Sharp Opens 10th-Gen. LCD plant
Operations have started at the new Sharp Display Products Corp.’s 10th-generation LCD panel plant in Sakai City, Japan, the company announced Thursday. Construction on the manufacturing complex began...
Asylum Orders Surge 60% in Q3
Atomic force and scanning probe microscope maker Asylum Research said its orders for the third quarter are up more than 60 percent, driven largely by the introduction of a new high-resolution AFM,...
Kodak Amends CEO's Contract
Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., announced that its board of directors and Chairman and CEO Antonio M. Perez have mutually agreed that he will remain in charge of the company at least until Dec....
Research & Technology
Photon Race Ends in Dead Heat
Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA’s orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The...
PerkinElmer, Corning Partner
PerkinElmer and Corning will partner to develop next-generation detection technologies for life sciences research, the businesses announced today. The agreement brings together Corning’s optical...
Spintronics Go All-Electric
An innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means has been created for the first time. A multidisciplinary team of University of Cincinnati...
Nanopillars Demystified
The physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision and in potentially limitless patterns, was realized by scientists at the California...
Litho Process Awarded $900K
Cornell scientists who have invented a way of processing organic devices with a patent-pending process called orthogonal lithography have received a $900,000 grant from the National Science...
Shrimp Eyes That Polarize
Mantis shrimp, found on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, have the most remarkable and complex vision systems known to science. They can see in 12 colors – humans see in only three – and can...
Irish Fund Young Researchers
The Irish government awarded €7.9 million (about $11.8 million) to 15 young researchers at seven colleges and institutes in Cork, Dublin and Galway to support their ongoing work in semiconductor...
Linear Nanowires Kinked
Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, Harvard University scientists determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging 2- and...
Optical Trap Holds Viruses
A Spain-Canada research collaboration developed a new method to gently trap, manipulate and study tiny, active objects as minuscule as viruses without inflicting any damage. The team demonstrated...
PV Energy Paths Controlled
University of Florida chemists have pioneered a method to tease out promising molecular structures for capturing energy, a step that could speed the development of more efficient, cheaper solar...
Raydiance Sets Milestone
Petaluma, Calif.-based laser company Raydiance Corp. announced it has made a major breakthrough in manufacturing a wide variety of bioabsorbable materials with precise, micron-resolution feature...
Electrons Lured From Graphene
Rutgers researchers discovered novel electronic properties in 2-D sheets graphene that could one day be the heart of speedy and powerful electronic devices. The new findings, previously considered...
Molecules Made Mini Lasers
A new optical microscopy technique squeezes photons out of nonfluorescent molecules to provide 3-D images of living cells and tissues for applications in medical imaging and biological research.
Yale Engineer Wins Fellowship
Yale University in New Haven, Conn., announced that Hong Tang, an assistant professor of engineering at its School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS), is one of 16 US scientists selected as...
Neuroscience Show a Big Draw
Neuroscience 2009, the Society for Neuroscience's 39th annual meeting, provides the world's largest forum for neuroscientists to debut research and network with colleagues from around the world. The...
Lasers Twist Fly Memories
Light has been used to manipulate the memories of fruit flies, allowing them to learn from mistakes they never made and scientists to pinpoint the nerve cells that regulate such actions. The work...
Silicon Chips May Go 'Green'
Harvesting optical energy currently lost through heat dissipation in optoelectronic devices could allow them to actually generate more power than they use and help make silicon chips and compound...
A Closer Look at Betelgeuse
Two independent teams of astronomers have obtained the sharpest-ever views of one of the biggest stars in the sky – a red supergiant called Betelgeuse. One of the most luminous stars known,...
FiO: Notes from the Crucible
“Whoa, whoa, whoa,” I thought. “Whoa.” I had just stumbled across a page on the Frontiers in Optics Web site collecting blog postings about the (then) upcoming meeting. “We can’t have people just...
FiO: Notes from the Crucible
‘Whoa, whoa, whoa,’ I thought. ‘Whoa.’ I had just stumbled across a page on the Frontiers in Optics website collecting blog postings about the (then) upcoming meeting. ‘We can’t have people just...
Small (and Big) Talk at FiO
The superbig and the supersmall were the subjects of two plenary sessions Monday at Frontiers in Optics 2009. In the first session, Andrea M. Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, a...
Small (and Big) Talk at FiO
The superbig and the supersmall were the subjects of two plenary sessions Monday at Frontiers in Optics 2009. In the first session, Andrea M. Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, a...
Nanostrings Serve as Probes
New fabrication techniques have enabled the development of on-chip mechanical elements with dimensions on the nanometer scale. Their application, however, has been limited by the lack of sufficiently...
UV Curing Makes Inroads into PV Materials
UV curing of polymers is well-known for many applications, including wood coatings, graphic arts, electronics and optics. In the photovoltaics (PV) industry, however, with some notable exceptions, UV...
Quantum Signatures of Chaos
No one has produced experimental evidence that chaos occurs in the quantum world – the world of photons, atoms, molecules and their building blocks – until now. In a series of experiments, professor...
Seeing Inside a Living Cell
Electron microscopes are the most powerful type of microscope, capable of distinguishing even individual atoms. However, these microscopes cannot be used to image living cells because the electrons...
360º IR Sensor Flown on UAS
Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md., has announced that it has successfully tested a new infrared sensor turret aboard its Desert Hawk III unmanned aircraft system (UAS), marking the first time a small...
Machine Mimics Human Vision
Human vision is designed to look at the rough outlines of the various objects before examining the details. This improves the speed and accuracy of our image recognition, while machine vision...
Light Travels a One-Way Road
A new magnetic class of photonic crystals developed by physicists at MIT allows electromagnetic waves to flow freely in one direction only, a phenomenon that could lead to photonic devices, such as...
Masters of Light Garner Nobel
Three “masters of light” considered the fathers of fiber optics and digital imaging were honored Tuesday with the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Charles K. Kao...
Femtolasers Aid Space Mission
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has helped to establish that femtosecond comb lasers can provide accurate measurement of absolute distance in formation flying space missions. The benefit of...
NIST Using Optronic Light Source
Optronic Laboratories, located in Orlando, Fla., has delivered a specially designed version of its popular OL 490 agile light source to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in...
Graphite Proves Ferromagnetic
In what could be promising results for new applications in nanotechnology, such as biosensors and detectors, researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology showed for the first time why ordinary...
Stellar Jet Recreated in Lab
Astronomers will tell you that the vast amounts of matter that certain stars stream into space create some of the most beautiful structures observed by telescopes, but they have a hard time...
News & Features
Acal Acquiring BFi Optilas
Electronic components manufacturer Acal agreed to acquire France-based electronic and photonic components distributor BFi Optilas for €10 million ($14.7 million) in cash and 2 million shares of stock.
Photon Race Ends in Dead Heat
Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA’s orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The...
Raytheon Opticals Nab $6.9M
The Office of Naval Research has awarded defense contractor Raytheon Co. a $6.9 million, Phase II contract to develop a new class of nanocomposite optical materials, the company announced today....
Spintronics Go All-Electric
An innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means has been created for the first time. A multidisciplinary team of University of Cincinnati...
Nanopillars Demystified
The physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision and in potentially limitless patterns, was realized by scientists at the California...
Shrimp Eyes That Polarize
Mantis shrimp, found on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, have the most remarkable and complex vision systems known to science. They can see in 12 colors – humans see in only three – and can...
$7M Hybrid PV Grant for UCF
The University of Central Florida was awarded a $7.5 million research grant to study ways to make photovoltaic solar cells more efficient in capturing and converting solar energy into electricity,...
Irish Fund Young Researchers
The Irish government awarded €7.9 million (about $11.8 million) to 15 young researchers at seven colleges and institutes in Cork, Dublin and Galway to support their ongoing work in semiconductor...
Linear Nanowires Kinked
Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, Harvard University scientists determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging 2- and...
Optical Trap Holds Viruses
A Spain-Canada research collaboration developed a new method to gently trap, manipulate and study tiny, active objects as minuscule as viruses without inflicting any damage. The team demonstrated...
Fraunhofer USA Turns 15
Fraunhofer USA, the US arm of Germany’s Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft applied research lab, celebrated its 15th anniversary in Washington, DC, this week. Today six Fraunhofer centers closely cooperate with...
PV Energy Paths Controlled
University of Florida chemists have pioneered a method to tease out promising molecular structures for capturing energy, a step that could speed the development of more efficient, cheaper solar...
Schott Plant to Add 150 Jobs
A contract to manufacture transparent glass-ceramic armor for the defense industry will mean the addition of 150 new jobs by 2010 at its Vincennes facility, Schott North America officials said...
Electrons Lured From Graphene
Rutgers researchers discovered novel electronic properties in 2-D sheets graphene that could one day be the heart of speedy and powerful electronic devices. The new findings, previously considered...
Molecules Made Mini Lasers
A new optical microscopy technique squeezes photons out of nonfluorescent molecules to provide 3-D images of living cells and tissues for applications in medical imaging and biological research.
Neuroscience Show a Big Draw
Neuroscience 2009, the Society for Neuroscience's 39th annual meeting, provides the world's largest forum for neuroscientists to debut research and network with colleagues from around the world. The...
Lasers Twist Fly Memories
Light has been used to manipulate the memories of fruit flies, allowing them to learn from mistakes they never made and scientists to pinpoint the nerve cells that regulate such actions. The work...
Silicon Chips May Go 'Green'
Harvesting optical energy currently lost through heat dissipation in optoelectronic devices could allow them to actually generate more power than they use and help make silicon chips and compound...
Road to Exascale Computers
Exascale computers, which would be 1000 times more powerful than today’s fastest supercomputers, will need to have optics playing a bigger role, said Jeffrey Kash of IBM Research during a...
A Closer Look at Betelgeuse
Two independent teams of astronomers have obtained the sharpest-ever views of one of the biggest stars in the sky – a red supergiant called Betelgeuse. One of the most luminous stars known,...
FiO: Notes from the Crucible
“Whoa, whoa, whoa,” I thought. “Whoa.” I had just stumbled across a page on the Frontiers in Optics Web site collecting blog postings about the (then) upcoming meeting. “We can’t have people just...
Small (and Big) Talk at FiO
The superbig and the supersmall were the subjects of two plenary sessions Monday at Frontiers in Optics 2009. In the first session, Andrea M. Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, a...
The Power of Spectra
“I have contributed all my knowledge to laser research, yet I still get no RESPECT! But that’s going to change after I get my hands on that girl and harness her power…” I was sitting in the...
The Power of Spectra
“I have contributed all my knowledge to laser research, yet, I still get no RESPECT! But that’s going to change, after I get my hands on that girl and harness her power…” I was sitting in the...
Medal Winner Talks Lasers
2009 has been a special year of advancements for lasers, and by October 2010 the power of the sun could be ever-so-briefly generated in the laboratory. Those are some of the points made during an...
Medal Winner Talks Lasers
2009 has been a special year of advancements for lasers, and by October 2010 the power of the sun could be ever-so-briefly generated in the laboratory. Those are some of the points made during an...
StockerYale Sells to Coherent
Laser, optical fiber and LED maker StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., announced today that it has sold its North American operations to Santa Clara, Calif.-based laser company Coherent Inc. for $15...
Nanostrings Serve as Probes
New fabrication techniques have enabled the development of on-chip mechanical elements with dimensions on the nanometer scale. Their application, however, has been limited by the lack of sufficiently...
An Evening at the Races
One of the kickoff events for the 2009 Frontiers in Optics meeting in San Jose was the preliminary races of the First International Optical Society of America (OSA) Student Chapter Solar Mini-Car...
FiO Hot Topics: Hot Optics
New types of research that explore breakthroughs in medical imaging, solar power, communications and vision were presented during "What's Hot in Optics Today?" during Frontiers in Optics 2009 (FiO)...
An Evening at the Races
Two or three of the contestants tricked out their tiny solar-powered cars, hoping to gain an advantage in speed and thus edge out the competition. They introduced, for example, magnifying sheets and...
A Singular Problem
I should know better. Watching movies or TV shows I revered as a child can only end badly. As with so many things in life, the reality can never equal the paramnesia built of fading memories and...
A Singular Problem
At a plenary session at OSA's Frontiers in Optics, Dr. Andrea M. Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, described a decade of observations using the Keck telescopes and the latest advances...
Quantum Signatures of Chaos
No one has produced experimental evidence that chaos occurs in the quantum world – the world of photons, atoms, molecules and their building blocks – until now. In a series of experiments, professor...
Seeing Inside a Living Cell
Electron microscopes are the most powerful type of microscope, capable of distinguishing even individual atoms. However, these microscopes cannot be used to image living cells because the electrons...
Machine Mimics Human Vision
Human vision is designed to look at the rough outlines of the various objects before examining the details. This improves the speed and accuracy of our image recognition, while machine vision...
Light Travels a One-Way Road
A new magnetic class of photonic crystals developed by physicists at MIT allows electromagnetic waves to flow freely in one direction only, a phenomenon that could lead to photonic devices, such as...
Masters of Light Garner Nobel
Three “masters of light” considered the fathers of fiber optics and digital imaging were honored Tuesday with the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Charles K. Kao...
IQE to Acquire NanoGaN
Semiconductor wafer maker IQE plc said it will acquire UK-based NanoGaN Ltd for approximately $5.7 million in stock and cash. As part of the deal, professor Wang Nang Wang, CEO of NanoGaN and...
Femtolasers Aid Space Mission
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has helped to establish that femtosecond comb lasers can provide accurate measurement of absolute distance in formation flying space missions. The benefit of...
Graphite Proves Ferromagnetic
In what could be promising results for new applications in nanotechnology, such as biosensors and detectors, researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology showed for the first time why ordinary...
Asylum Orders Surge 60% in Q3
Atomic force and scanning probe microscope maker Asylum Research said its orders for the third quarter are up more than 60 percent, driven largely by the introduction of a new high-resolution AFM,...
3-D TV, Bio-optics Hot at FiO
The future of 3-D TV, laser fusion and exawatt lasers, bio-optics breakthroughs and illumination-aware imaging for producing better robotic vision are just a few of the hot topics to be discussed...
Stellar Jet Recreated in Lab
Astronomers will tell you that the vast amounts of matter that certain stars stream into space create some of the most beautiful structures observed by telescopes, but they have a hard time...
acquisitions
StockerYale Sells to Coherent
Laser, optical fiber and LED maker StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., announced today that it has sold its North American operations to Santa Clara, Calif.-based laser company Coherent Inc. for $15 million in cash and the assumption of some of its operating liabilities.
Products
Axio CSM 700
THORNWOOD, N.Y., Oct. 28, 2009 – Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc. has added new functions to its Axio CSM 700 confocal light microscope. Materials scientists now can measure 3-D topography over large sample areas with more convenience and flexibility. For the microscope, the company offers a motorized scanning stage with a 150 × 150-mm travel range that is suitable for materials research, quality inspection and routine...
Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC
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Oriel IQE-200
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 28, 2009 – Newport Corp.’s Oriel Instruments division has announced the Oriel IQE-200, an instrument that permits simultaneous measurement of both the external quantum efficiency (EQE) and the internal quantum...
MKS/Newport
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The Optical Wizard 2.0
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2009 – Navitar Inc. has launched its second-generation interactive online lens selection tool, the Optical Wizard 2.0 online tool. The first-generation version was used by engineers, end-users and OEMs...
Navitar Inc.
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Fiber-Coupled, Multi-Bar Modules
MAINZ, Germany, Oct. 26, 2009 – Dilas has announced its newest fiber-coupled multibar modules that deliver up to 300-W output from a 200-µm core diameter fiber at 976 nm. They feature high brightness and power and have a...
DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH
Hermetic SMT Packages
NORWOOD, Mass., Oct. 26, 2009 – Remtec Inc. has developed custom built power DC and radio frequency hermetic SMT packages for applications in the aerospace, military and high-end industrial markets. The flexibility of plated copper...
Remtec Inc.
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Luminescence Sensors
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 26, 2009 – Sick Inc. has launched two new luminescence sensors. The LUT8 and LUT9 react to luminescent pigments that are activated by a UV light source in the sensor. These cost-competitive, high-performance...
SICK Inc.
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SC2500-NIR Camera
NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., Oct. 20, 2009 – For scientific studies, R&D and critical processes, Flir Systems Inc. has announced its model SC2500-NIR (near-infrared) camera. The fully integrated camera covers the spectral range from 0.9 to...
FLIR Systems
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Handheld BTS256-LED
PUCHHEIM, Germany, Oct. 19, 2009 – Gigahertz-Optik GmbH’s handheld BTS256-LED is designed to measure luminous flux or illuminance, color data and spectral distribution of printed circuit board-mounted LEDs, discrete LEDs within a...
Gigahertz-Optik GmbH
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Sapphire 568 SS Laser
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 19, 2009 – Coherent Inc. has introduced a commercial all-solid-state laser with output at 568 nm. The Sapphire 568 is available in models offering 50, 75, 100, 150 and 200 mW of continuous-wave output, and it...
Coherent Inc.
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Nanosmart 5MP Smart Camera
WÜRSELEN, Germany, Oct. 16, 2009 – The Nanosmart-PoE, a 5-megapixel smart camera with active power over Ethernet (PoE) in an industrial housing, has been unveiled by FiberVision GmbH. At its heart is the single-board camera VCSBC4012...
FiberVision GmbH
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Quantum EnergyMax
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 14, 2009 – Three new Quantum EnergyMax sensors from Coherent Inc. enable accurate measurement of laser pulse energies down to 20 pJ, as well as measurement of the average power of pulsed systems from the...
Coherent Inc.
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Dielectric Mirrors and Laser Mirrors
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 14, 2009 – Newport Corp. has introduced ultrabroadband dielectric mirrors and Nd:YAG laser mirrors. Both thin-film coated mirrors are designed to deliver improved performance, stability and durability for...
MKS/Newport
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iBeam OEM Diode Laser
VICTOR. N.Y., Oct. 14, 2009 – Toptica Photonics Inc. has announced the iBeam smart ultracompact OEM diode laser that allows users to increase productivity and reliability in their applications, while optimizing the weight and...
TOPTICA Photonics Inc.
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LED Wall-Pak Luminaire
TORRANCE, Calif., Oct. 13, 2009 – LEDtronics has announced its first series of energy-efficient LED replacements of wall-pak luminaires for wall washing and security lighting. The high-power WWL20-24X2W-XPW-001W floodlight runs on a...
LEDtronics Inc.
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PI-MAX 3
TRENTON, N.J., Oct. 13, 2009 – Princeton Instruments has launched the PI-MAX 3, an intensified CCD (ICCD) camera that meets researchers’ continually evolving requirements for sensitivity, speed and control in time-resolved imaging...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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Visible Diode Laser Bars
MAINZ, Germany, Oct. 12, 2009 – Dilas has expanded its series of conduction-cooled visible diode laser bars that cover wavelengths 632, 635, 638, 650 and 677 nm with optical continuous-wave output power between 4 and 20 W....
DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH
XLamp XP-G
DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 9, 2009 – Cree Inc. has announced the commercial availability of the XLamp XP-G cool white LED, a bright and efficient lighting-class LED. It produces up to 367 lm when driven at 1A, at a typical efficacy of...
Wolfspeed Inc.
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FD-1665P Camera
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 9, 2009 – FluxData Inc. has introduced a compact real-time polarization camera for polarimetric imaging in surveillance, defense, medical and machine vision applications. The FD-1665P three-CCD camera...
FluxData Inc.
SHOWWX
REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 8, 2009 – A laser-based pico projector called SHOWWX has been unveiled by Microvision Inc. It uses the proprietary laser-based PicoP display engine that delivers large, colorful, bright and vivid images that...
Microvision Systems
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SkiaGraph10 EV
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 7, 2009 – Rad-icon Imaging Corp. has announced the general availability of the compact SkiaGraph10 EV, an addition to its line of very large area digital CMOS x-ray cameras. It features 25% more active area...
Teledyne Rad-icon Imaging
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Micromachining Workstation
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 6, 2009 – Newport Corp. has introduced a micromachining workstation designed for high-precision laser direct-writing and patterning. The flexible device can be integrated with several lasers to produce 2- or...
MKS/Newport
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The Matrix 532-8-100
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 6, 2009 – The Matrix 532-8-100 is a Q-switched, diode-pumped, solid-state laser designed to deliver a good cost to performance ratio for demanding micromachining tasks in solar, semiconductor and medical...
Coherent Inc.
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Nunavut InGaAs
FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 5, 2009 – BaySpec Inc. has unveiled the Nunavut InGaAs camera/detector line that enables low-light spectroscopy in the near-infrared region. Optimal cooling of the detector arrays allows for improved low-light...
BaySpec Inc.
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C10650 X-ray Camera
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Oct. 5, 2009 – The C10650 x-ray time delay integration (TDI) line-scan camera manufactured by Hamamatsu Corp. fits under a conveyor to perform rapid x-ray inspections of objects on a production line, such as...
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Microspectra 10
SAN DIMAS, Calif., Oct. 1, 2009 – Craic Technologies Inc. has announced the Microspectra 10 UV-VIS-NIR microscope spectrophotometer designed to be added to the open photoport of any optical microscope to enable acquisition of spectra...
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