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Photonics.com - September 2010
Business
Coherent Supports Holst Centre Research
Coherent, a laser-based solutions provider, and Holst Centre have announced their cooperation in the field of flexible electronics. The Holst Centre is an initiative of IMEC of Belgium, a micro- and nanoelectronics research center, and TNO, the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research. Coherent’s picosecond laser source will be integrated into the Holst Center...
IDS Anticipates Sales Record in 2010
Camera manufacturer IDS Imaging Development Systems has announced a successful first half in 2010. Sales in the period ending in August were up by 60 percent year-on-year and the sales target for...
Display Week 2011: Final Call for Papers
The Society for Information Display (SID) encourages the submission of original papers on all aspects of research, engineering, applications, evaluation and use of electronic information displays for...
Alleged Laser-wielder Indicted
A Warwick man was indicted by a federal grand jury and arraigned in US District Court in Providence on charges of willfully interfering with the safe operation of an airborne commercial aircraft and...
PowerSafe Unit Wins SBIR Night Vision Grant
PowerSafe Technology Corp.’s wholly owned subsidiary, Amplification Technologies Inc. (ATI) was selected by the US Army for a new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant for...
Matrox Imaging Offers Workshops
Matrox Imaging and North Coast Technical Sales are offering free three-hour workshops on the Matrox Iris GT smart camera and Design Assistant software to coincide with Matrox Imaging exhibiting at...
Projector Market Predicted to Grow 40% Annually
The global front projector market will grow to 8.65 million units in 2010 from its 2009 level of 6.33 million, according to Pacific Media Associates (PMA). Although some of the growth is because of...
Qualcomm Appoints Mollenkopf EVP, Group President
Next-generation mobile technologies company Qualcomm Inc. announced recently the promotion of Steve Mollenkopf to executive vice president and group president. The promotion recognizes...
Applied Energetics to Open Washington Office
Applied Energetics Inc. will open a business development office in Washington D.C. and has hired Alan Womble as vice president of business development to lead the effort. Opening Oct. 4, 2010,...
Finisar Acquires Broadway Networks
Finisar Corp. announced the acquisition of Broadway Networks Ltd., for an undisclosed amount in an all-cash transaction. Started in 2006, Broadway developed transceiver products that incorporate...
Asylum Research Offers AFM Class
Asylum Research, the technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (AFM/SPM) announces its AFM in Biology class to be held Nov. 3-5, 2010, in Santa Barbara. The class is open to all AFM...
Krivanek Elected Royal Society Fellow
It was a problem that remained unsolved for 50 years: Aberrations made the images produced by electron microscopes “fuzzy.” But in the mid 1990s, a team led by Ondrej Krivanek designed...
Global PV Demand Up 54% in Q2
Global photovoltaic demand rose to 3.82 GW (an increase of 54 percent) in Q2 from a much weaker first quarter in 2010, according to a report issued by Solarbuzz, an international solar energy market...
Bodkin Design Awarded Phase II Grant for Polarimeter
Bodkin Design & Engineering (BD&E) LLC has received a $750,000 Phase II SBIR contract from the US Navy for the development of a compact polarimetric imager for infrared and visible...
Energetiq Implements Clean Manufacturing
Ultrahigh brightness light source manufacturer Energetiq Technology Inc. announced recently that it has built a clean manufacturing facility at its Massachusetts location. The 800 sq. ft. clean...
Palomar to Launch Home-use Laser by Spring
Palomar Medical Technologies Inc., a developer of light-based systems for cosmetic treatments, announced that it would move the launch of its patented, home-use laser for the treatment of periorbital...
LightPath Completes SBIR Phase II Navy Contract
LightPath Technologies Inc., an optical components and assemblies manufacturer, announced that it has completed a $750,000 Phase II SBIR contract award from the US Navy, under the direction of the...
EnergyMatrix Partners with SRE Solutions
EnergyMatrix, a division of Innovation Matrix Inc., announced its partnership with SRE Solutions LLC of Milpitas, Calif.. to develop energy saving solar powered street lights. The LED...
Kodak Reveals 3-D Technology
Eastman Kodak Co. announced that it has developed laser projection technology that delivers both 2-D and bright 3-D images within today’s stringent technical standards for digital motion...
Q-Cells, ATS Join for PV Growth in Ontario
Q-Cells SE, one of the largest photovoltaic companies in the world providing solar power plants, modules and cells, and ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc., a global provider of innovative, custom...
JPSA Shipments Up 250%
JP Sercel Associates (JPSA), a manufacturer of laser scribing and laser liftoff systems for LED production, announced that its 2010 shipments of laser processing systems for LEDs is up 250 percent in...
Zygo Receives Order for Helmet-Mount Displays
Zygo Corp.’s Optical Systems Div. was awarded a $4.7 million continuation contract for advanced helmet mount displays (AHMD) from L-3 Communications, Link Simulation and Training Div. in...
Arbor Photonics Wins Fiber Laser Funding
Fiber laser solutions provider Arbor Photonics Inc. has received SBIR Phase IB funding from the National Science Foundation for its work on “High Power Pulsed Fiber Lasers for EUV...
Luminus Devices Appoints New CFO
Luminus Devices Inc. announced recently the appointment of Walter A. Shephard as its chief financial officer. Responsible for the company’s worldwide finance, administrative, legal and IT...
Keithley Earns Metrology Reaccreditation
Keithley Instruments Inc., an advanced electrical test instruments and systems provider, announced that its Metrology Services department has achieved renewal of its ISO 17025 accreditation after...
LightPath Asphere Sales in China More Than Double
Optical components and assemblies manufacturer LightPath Technologies Inc. announced recently that sales of its precision molded aspheres and optical assemblies in China have more than doubled over...
NIST Selects JEOL Microscope for Federal Facility
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) placed an order for JEOL’s atomic resolution analytical JEM-ARM200F transmission electron microscope (TEM) through a competitive award...
ASU Forms Center for Photonics Innovation
The Arizona Board of Regents recently approved the establishment of the Center for Photonics Innovation, a center that will combine the Arizona State University’s research and teaching...
e2V Awarded ESA Contract
e2v technologies plc has received a €1 million contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a family of compact satellite communication electronic subsystems. Under the...
Coherent Ships 1000th Laser for MPE Imaging
Laser-based products maker Coherent Inc. announced the shipment of its 1000th Chameleon laser utilized for multiphoton excitation (MPE) microscopy. Key in bioimaging applications, the tunable...
3-D Ear Canal Scanner Gets Funding
Lantos Technologies Inc. has announced that it has closed on $1.6 million in a Series A financing to develop its novel 3-D ear canal imaging technology. Braintree-based Catalyst Health Ventures led...
Lockheed Fiber Laser Nabs $14M Contract
The US Army awarded Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin a $14 million contract to design, develop, build and test a high-power fiber laser-based system suitable for military applications. The...
CERN Approves Revised Plan
During an intense series of meetings, the CERN Council overwhelmingly approved the laboratory’s revised Medium Term Plan for the period 2011-2015. The plan was originally presented at the...
Optics Balzers Breaks Ground on New HQ
Optics Balzers announced the groundbreaking at its new headquarters, a project that is expected to show the direction for the further growth of the company. Optics Balzers executive members break...
Finisar, Source Photonics Settle Patent Dispute
Finisar Corp. announced recently its entrance into a settlement and cross license agreement with Source Photonics Inc. to resolve the lawsuit it filed claiming infringement on its portfolio of...
Dalsa Nabs Large Digital Imaging Order
Digital imaging and semiconductor provider Dalsa Corp. announced it received a new order valued at over CAD $3 million for inspection equipment to be used in a new Asia-Pacific flat panel display...
Samsung Uses Gorilla Glass in New Smartphone
Corning Inc. has announced that its Gorilla glass has been designed into the Samsung Electronics Galaxy S, a newly released smartphone. The Samsung Electronics Galaxy S features Corning Gorilla...
Avizo Software Brought to Penn State
Visualization Sciences Group (VSG) has announced a campus-wide rollout of the company’s Avizo 3-D visualization software at Pennsylvania State University. The rollout leverages existing use by...
Bioimaging Concept SPADnet Funded
SPADnet (Fully Networked, Digital Components for Photon-starved Biomedical Imaging Systems) is a new collaborative research project funded by the European Union within the Information and...
Sick To Host Forum in Atlanta Sept. 22
Sensors, safety systems and automatic identification products manufacturer Sick announced the 2010 Sick Solutions Forum in Atlanta at the Atlanta Northeast hotel Sept. 22, 2010. The forum will...
Laser Components, PicoQuant to Develop Photon Counters
Laser and optoelectronic components and services manufacturer Laser Components GmbH announced it has forged a strategic alliance with PicoQuant GmbH of Berlin, to develop and commercialize photon...
LightPath, UCF Ink Research Pact
LightPath Technologies Inc. announced Thursday its entrance into a research agreement with the University of Central Florida’s (UFC) College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) to develop new...
Andor Aids Chinese Astronomers
Four highly sensitive frame-transfer CCD cameras from Andor are helping Chinese astronomers scan the night sky above the South Pole for faint, transient sources of light, such as supernovae,...
Nichia Files Patent Suits in US, Japan
LED and laser diode maker Nichia Corp. announced this week that it filed an LED patent infringement lawsuit against hand tools maker Wilmar Corp. of Renton, Va., in the US District Court for the...
Realistic Robotic Arm Within Reach
Lightning-fast fiber optic connections between robotic limbs and the human brain may be within reach for injured soldiers and other amputees with the establishment of a multimillion-dollar...
Olympus to Sell and Service Close to Home
In a further expansion of its sales and service capabilities in the northeast, Olympus America Inc. has announced that it will begin selling and servicing scientific equipment directly in the region...
Carl Zeiss Ships First PROVE System
Carl Zeiss recently reported the delivery of the first PROVE Registration and Overlay Metrology System for photomasks to NuFlare Technology, the world leading supplier of mask writers based on...
Osram Opto Semiconductors Names New CEO
Osram Opto Semiconductors announced that Aldo Kamper will succeed Dr. Rüdiger Müller as its president and CEO, effective Oct. 1, 2010. Dr. Rüdiger Müller (right) will hand...
AMD Lasers Enters Canadian Market
AMD Lasers LLC announced recently that it has received clearance to sell its Picasso brand of dental lasers and accessories in the Canadian market, effective immediately. The entrance into...
Updated EMCCD Brochure Available from Princeton Instruments
Princeton Instruments announced the release of an updated 48-page ProEM EMCCD camera brochure—a high performance EMCCD camera platform available to the scientific imaging market. The latest...
Dynasil Awarded 7 Phase II SBIR Grants
Dynasil Corporation of America announced recently that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has approved seven of its Phase II SBIR projects for awards ranging from $750,000 to $1 million each. ...
OEwaves to Develop EMP-Immune Receiver Under DARPA Contract
Microwave photonic products and solutions provider OEwaves Inc. received recently a Phase II contract from DARPA to develop an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) immune all-dielectric RF photonic receiver....
BAE to Acquire Oasys Technology
Defense contractor BAE Systems Inc. recently announced it will acquire Oasys Technology, a privately owned company that manufactures electro-optical systems and subassemblies for aerospace, defense,...
UKIVA to Present CMOS Seminar at Sensing Tech Exhibition
The UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA) announced it will contribute to the seminar and workshop activities at the new Sensing Technology exhibition which will take place at the NEC in...
Forum to Explore Gigapixel Imaging
Scientists who are pioneering the use of gigapixel imagery will discuss how they are leveraging this new technology Nov. 11-13 at the first Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for...
Renishaw, UWarwick to Hold Raman Seminars
An exciting line up of world-class speakers will be passing on their experience and expertise in the upcoming “Inside Raman” event at the University of Warwick. This event, jointly...
Dymax Partner Expands in Asia
Dymax Corp. announced its key sales partner, Blaze Technology Pte Ltd., has moved into new headquarters in Singapore, expanding its operations in Asia. Blaze Technology employees at their new...
Ellsworth Adhesives Launches Website in Finland
Adhesive products and equipment distributor Ellsworth Adhesives AB announced recently the launch of a new website in Finnish. The new site, www.ellsworth.fi, is the second site for the...
Elliot Scientific Named Mad City Rep in UK, Ireland
Mad City Labs Inc. announced recently the appointment of Elliot Scientific Ltd. as the distributor of its products within the UK and Ireland. The manufacturer of flexure-based nanopositioning...
LightPath Adds 2 VPs
LightPath Technologies Inc., an optical components and assemblies manufacturer, announced Wednesday its appointment of two vice presidents. Brian Soller, PhD, a former executive at Luna Innovations,...
OSI Nabs $4M Optoelectronic Sensors Order
OSI Systems Inc. announced recently that OSI Optoelectronics, a business within its optoelectronics and manufacturing division, received orders valued at approximately $4 million from a major...
Segner Named CTO of Veeco’s Solar Equipment Biz
Veeco Instruments Inc. announced that Johannes Segner, Ph.D, recently the company as chief technology officer for its Solar Equipment business. In other news, the company hosted a solar...
Agilent Teaching Solutions on Curriculum in Malaysia
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced its recent agreement with the Multimedia Development Corp. (MDeC) Malaysia to provide curriculum-based teaching solutions focused on electronic test and...
BAE Awarded $123M for Thermal Weapon Sights
BAE Systems received a $123 million contract from the US Army for continued production of thermal weapon sights (TWS) that improve situational awareness and survivability for men and women in combat....
Biolase Names Pignatelli Executive Chairman
Biolase Technology Inc., announced the appointment of Federico Pignatelli as its executive chairman, effective Aug. 24, 2010. Pignatelli will take over for David M. Mulder, who resigned as...
Corning, Oerlikon Boost PV Cell Efficiency 11.9%
Corning Inc. and Oerlikon Solar announced today that they achieved a record-breaking 11.9 percent stabilized conversion efficiency in a silicon-tandem, research-sized photovoltaic cell that combines...
Grant to Fund Single-Molecule Microscope
An Iowa State University researcher received a state grant to develop an instrument that reveals single molecules. Sanjeevi Sivasankar, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy,...
Flir Awarded $27M for EOS System
Flir Systems Inc. has received a $27,099,732 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division of Crane, Ind., for the...
Laser Services Expands Capabilities
Laser cutting, drilling, scribing, etching and welding service provider Laser Services announced recently the expanded capabilities in both ceramic materials inventory and its laser-based machining...
JDSU Debuts CPV Cell Technology
Communications test and measurement provider JDSU announced its entry into the solar photovoltaic market on Wednesday with a new concentrator solar cell product that converts up to 40 percent of...
Shasta Crystals Nabs Phase II SBIR Grant
Crystal growth company Shasta Crystals Inc. announced Monday that it was awarded $493,883 from the National Science Foundation for a Phase II project. Titled, “Low Cost High Quality...
Sydor to Supply Picatinny Arsenal
The US Army Contracting Command, Joint Munitions and Lethality Contracting Center have selected diagnostics solutions provider Sydor Instruments to receive a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) in...
Using Reverse Engineering to Discover Patent Infringement
Fundamental to building and executing any successful patent licensing program is the ability to find and prove evidence of infringement, often through reverse engineering methods. This article...
Research & Technology
Artificial Leaf Produces Electricity
In a discovery inspired by nature, a team of researchers have found that water-gel-based solar devices, or artificial leaves, can act like solar cells to produce electricity. According to the team...
Quantum Signals Converted to Telecom Wavelengths
Using optically dense, ultracold clouds of rubidium atoms, advances have been made in three key elements needed for quantum information systems – including a technique for converting photons carrying...
Physicists Win MacArthur Grants
An optical physicist at Cornell University working to develop silicon-based devices that harness the information-processing capabilities of light and an MIT physicist whose research links the worlds...
Bodkin Design Awarded Phase II Grant for Polarimeter
Bodkin Design & Engineering (BD&E) LLC has received a $750,000 Phase II SBIR contract from the US Navy for the development of a compact polarimetric imager for infrared and visible...
JPL Gets ‘Photon Gun’ to Study Martian Rocks
The ChemCam instrument has completed the first short leg of its long trip to Mars, arriving at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from Los Alamos National Laboratory for installation aboard the next Mars...
Light Workout: Optogenetics Stimulates Mouse Muscles
Light has been used to effectively stimulate muscle movement in mice optically, rather than electrically. In a study involving bioengineered mice whose nerve-cell surfaces are coated with...
Exploring Batteries at the Nanoscale
As industries and consumers increasingly seek improved battery power sources, cutting-edge microscopy performed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is providing...
Atomic Behavior Recorded in Real Time
IBM announced a breakthrough to its 20-year-old scanning tunneling microscope technology on Friday that gives scientists the ability to record, study and visualize the extremely fast spin of...
He+ Microscope Refines Patterning
Scientists are investigating new uses for helium-ion microscopy in nanopatterning. Since it is not limited by the proximity effect of conventional electron-beam lithography, helium-ion technology...
Image Sensors Made for Extreme Temps
Car manufacturers are increasingly equipping their vehicles with image sensors to register the presence of pedestrians or vehicles in the blind spot or to detect obstacles when parking. The...
Nano Antenna Captures Light
Antennas capture aerial signals that make devices, such as radios and cell phone, work better. Now, a lab at Rice University has built an antenna that captures light in the same way, at a small scale...
Sensor Measures Eensy Weensy Forces Fast
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used a small crystal of ions to detect forces at the scale of yoctonewtons. Measurements of slight forces — one...
NSF Awards $1.72M to Keck I
The W. M. Keck Observatory has received a $1.72 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design the first near-infrared tip-tilt sensor used to correct for the turbulence in...
Lasers Cool, Control Molecules
While laser cooling techniques that produce ultracold atoms have been around for decades, it has not extended to molecules because of their complex internal structure. Now physicists at Yale...
Pocket Projector Realized
The projector of the future, 1 cm³ of technology that can be integrated into a portable computer or mobile telephone, is about to take the market by storm. Lemoptix, a spinoff of École...
ASU Forms Center for Photonics Innovation
The Arizona Board of Regents recently approved the establishment of the Center for Photonics Innovation, a center that will combine the Arizona State University’s research and teaching...
3-D Ear Canal Scanner Gets Funding
Lantos Technologies Inc. has announced that it has closed on $1.6 million in a Series A financing to develop its novel 3-D ear canal imaging technology. Braintree-based Catalyst Health Ventures led...
PV System Self-assembles and Self-repairs
MIT scientists have created a set of self-assembling molecules that can turn sunlight into electricity, much like plants that convert sunlight into stored energy. These novel molecules can be...
Tractor Beam Becoming a Reality
Using a specially designed laser beam, researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have developed the ability to move particles over large distances. Professor Andrei Rode’s...
Image Sensors for Extreme Temperatures
Image sensors used as parking aids in cars or used for quality control in production systems must be able to withstand the very high temperatures that often prevail in these environments. Now,...
FRET Tracks Single Enzyme
Thanks to a single-molecule imaging technique developed by a University of Illinois professor, researchers have revealed the mechanisms of an important DNA-regulating enzyme. Helicase enzymes...
Phase-change Nanobeans Store Mega Data
The ability of phase-change materials to transition between different phases has made them valuable as a low-power source of non-volatile or “flash” memory and data storage. Now an entire...
Need Water? Just Add UV Starlight
The European Space Agency’s Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key ingredient for making water in space. It is the only explanation for why a...
Laser Backpack Improves 3-D Mapping
A portable, laser backpack for 3-D mapping has been developed at the University of California, Berkeley, where it is being hailed as a breakthrough technology capable of producing fast, automatic and...
Bayer Makes Flame-retardant Polycarbonate for LEDs
Bayer MaterialScience LLC has developed a flame-retardant polycarbonate plastic that enables LED and other electronics manufacturers to slim down lenses and covers. Makrolon FR7067...
Putting a Spin on Light and Atoms
Magnetometers, which measure magnetic fields, come in many shapes and sizes. An ordinary handheld compass is the simplest. Among the most sensitive, however, are alkali-vapor magnetometers, which use...
Sick To Host Forum in Atlanta Sept. 22
Sensors, safety systems and automatic identification products manufacturer Sick announced the 2010 Sick Solutions Forum in Atlanta at the Atlanta Northeast hotel Sept. 22, 2010. The forum will...
NIR Light Enables Deep Look at Cells
A “game-changing” technique using near-infrared light enables scientists to look deeper into the guts of cells, potentially opening up a new frontier in the fights against cancer and many...
Finding E. Coli in Beef Faster
Infrared spectroscopy can detect Escherichia coli faster than current testing methods and can cut days off investigations of outbreaks, according to a study performed at Purdue University. Lisa...
Fiber Optic Fence Performance Impresses
In mid 2009, a fiber optic intrusion detection system was installed on McAllen-Miller International Airport's perimeter fence in McAllen, Texas. The system, known as Secure Fence, was developed by...
Quantum Optical Chip Ramps Up Computing
A new approach to computing that uses a quantum optical chip could soon be used to perform complex calculations that cannot be done by today’s computers, according to an international research...
Color Nanofilter Advances Displays
In a step toward more efficient, smaller and higher-definition display screens, a University of Michigan professor has developed a color filter made of nanothin sheets of metal with precisely spaced...
Imaging System Inspects Capsules
The pharmaceutical corporation Boehringer Ingelheim now uses digital cameras from Allied Vision Technologies GmbH for quality assurance in the manufacture of medication capsules. Few industries...
Nichia Files Patent Suits in US, Japan
LED and laser diode maker Nichia Corp. announced this week that it filed an LED patent infringement lawsuit against hand tools maker Wilmar Corp. of Renton, Va., in the US District Court for the...
Realistic Robotic Arm Within Reach
Lightning-fast fiber optic connections between robotic limbs and the human brain may be within reach for injured soldiers and other amputees with the establishment of a multimillion-dollar...
Hackers Test Quantum Cryptography Security
A new technique that exploits imperfections in quantum cryptography systems has been developed and tested by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the University of...
Nanotube Solar Funnel Concentrates Light
Chemical engineers at MIT have used hollow tubes of carbon atoms to concentrate solar energy 100 times more than would a regular photovoltaic cell. Such nanotubes could form antennas that capture and...
Quantum Dice Generate Truly Random Numbers
In classical physics every event can be explained in mathematical terms, but researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light have reportedly constructed a device that works on the...
Dynasil Awarded 7 Phase II SBIR Grants
Dynasil Corporation of America announced recently that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has approved seven of its Phase II SBIR projects for awards ranging from $750,000 to $1 million each. ...
Light-Activated Sutures for War Wounds
A new, light-activated nanosuture technology known as photochemical tissue bonding may soon facilitate more effective treatment of traumatic battlefield injuries sustained by Airmen. Developed...
IU Gets New 3-D Microscope
A new laser-equipped microscope at Indiana University, Bloomington’s Light Microscopy Imaging Center makes it possible to examine biological samples with unprecedented detail in three...
Forum to Explore Gigapixel Imaging
Scientists who are pioneering the use of gigapixel imagery will discuss how they are leveraging this new technology Nov. 11-13 at the first Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for...
Renishaw, UWarwick to Hold Raman Seminars
An exciting line up of world-class speakers will be passing on their experience and expertise in the upcoming “Inside Raman” event at the University of Warwick. This event, jointly...
Traffic Pollution Analyzed by IR Sensing
Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid are testing infrared (IR) remote sensing technology to evaluate the pollutant emissions associated with motor vehicle traffic. The technology could...
Light on Chip Slowed to a Crawl
A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1200. Each of the 32 units fabricated on...
Piezoelectric Effect Controlled in QDs
The generation of an electric field by the compression and expansion of solid materials is known as the piezoelectric effect, and it has a wide range of applications ranging from everyday items such...
Device Improves Global Data Transmission
Researchers have developed a new data transmission system that could substantially improve the transmission capacity and energy efficiency of the world's optical communication networks. Working...
Scope Reveals New Physics of Graphene
Using a one-of-a-kind scanning-probe microscope, an international team of researchers discovered that electrons in graphene, which comprise four quantum states, can split into different energies when...
‘Quantum Cats’ Made of Light
"Quantum cats" made of photons have been created at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), boosting prospects for manipulating light in new ways to enhance precision measurements...
LEDs: Not So Green After All?
Solid-state lighting pioneers long have held that replacing the inefficient Edison light bulb with more efficient solid-state LEDs would lower electrical usage worldwide, not only decreasing the need...
Laser Blinds Heat-Seeking Missiles
New laser technology is being developed that will protect helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles. "Battlefield terrain in places like Afghanistan and Iraq can be so rough that our troops...
“Greening” Your Flat-Screen TV
Researchers at Tel Aviv University developed an environmentally friendly organic LED light source for home electronics, medicine and clean energy. The new light source applies a discovery in...
Listening to Ancient Colors
A technique known as photoacoustic infrared spectroscopy can be used to identify the composition of pigments used in artwork that is decades or even centuries old, a team of McGill University...
Sputtering Technique Ups Coating Efficiency
Sputtering is the phenomenon that occurs when energy-rich ions hit a solid object and cause atoms to be released from its surface. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Thin Film and Surface...
Laser ‘Bottle’ Gravity Test Proposed
A new experiment proposed by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may allow researchers to test the effects of gravity with unprecedented precision at very short...
'Piezotronic' Logic Device Devised
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic devices in which current is switched by an electric field generated by the application of mechanical...
Using Reverse Engineering to Discover Patent Infringement
Fundamental to building and executing any successful patent licensing program is the ability to find and prove evidence of infringement, often through reverse engineering methods. This article...
AMS Arrives at Kennedy Space Center
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, arrived recently at the Kennedy Space Center as it moves forward on its journey to the...
acquisitions
Finisar Acquires Broadway Networks
Finisar Corp. announced the acquisition of Broadway Networks Ltd., for an undisclosed amount in an all-cash transaction. Started in 2006, Broadway developed transceiver products that incorporate additional “system level” functionality for FTTx networks. It has developed a pluggable transceiver that incorporates an EPON ONU in an SFP and enables switches, routers and other customer...
Products
XPS-DRVP1 Piezo Driver
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 30, 2010 — Newport Corp. has introduced the XPS-DRVP1, an XPS-compatible driver card for the piezoelectric stack-based nanopositioning line of subnanometer resolution stages. It complements the other XPS driver...
MKS/Newport
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Process Imager and Software
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Sept. 30, 2010 — Raytek Corp. has unveiled the ThermoView Pi20 process imager and intuitive DataTemp Pi (DTPi) software. Designed for automated monitoring and control of continuous or stationary targets, the...
Fluke Process Instruments
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ACE Lasers Updated
BASILDON, England, Sept. 29, 2010 — Advanced Optical Technology Ltd. now offers special versions of its ACE solid-state short-pulse electro-optical Q-switched Nd:YVO4 lasers operating beyond 100 kHz, the maximum of the standard range....
Advanced Optical Technology Ltd.
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SpectraRad Irradiance Meter
RAMSEY, N.J., Sept. 29, 2010 — Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc. has partnered with 1426%%B&W Tek Inc. to introduce a low-cost option for LED characterization. The thermoelectrically cooled miniature midrange spectral...
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc.
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InTouchScope SEM
PEABODY, Mass., Sept. 28, 2010 — The InTouchScope scanning electron microscope (SEM) from JEOL USA Inc. features a multitouch interface. The analytical, low-vacuum instrument features integrated energy dispersive spectroscopy...
JEOL USA Inc.
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Custom Sapphire Optics
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Sept. 28, 2010 — Custom fabricated sapphire optics that can replace CaF2 or MgF2 and other softer optical materials in applications from the ultraviolet to the infrared are available from Meller Optics Inc. The...
Meller Optics Inc.
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Shack-Hartmann WaveSensors
WEDEL, Germany, Sept. 27, 2010 — The Shack-Hartmann WaveSensor wavefront sensors made by Trioptics GmbH measure the wavefront and lens shape of spherical and aspherical lenses in real time. High accuracy and a large dynamic range of...
TRIOPTICS GmbH
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LightLine AC-Input LED Drivers
BROOKLYN, N.Y., Sept. 27, 2010 — Recom Power Inc. has developed a series of constant-current LED drivers with universal AC input, power factor correction and UL certification. The first two products in the LightLine RACD...
RECOM Power Inc.
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QuasarBrite RGB LED
PALATINE, Ill., Sept. 24, 2010 — Lumex has launched the through-hole QuasarBrite four-leaded RGB LED with a 120° viewing angle. It is suited for applications that require high intensity light in spatially restricted spaces. ...
Lumex
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eXcelon CCD Technology
TRENTON, N.J., Sept. 24, 2010 — Princeton Instruments has introduced eXcelon deep-depletion CCDs and cameras for low-light, near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy. Improvements over standard deep-depletion technology include...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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Krome Orange Dye
BREA, Calif., Sept. 23, 2010 — Beckman Coulter Inc. has introduced Krome Orange, a violet-excited organic dye that expands the range of available choices and dye sensitivity limits for violet lasers. Common gating markers can be...
Beckman Coulter Inc., Diagnostics Div.
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LuxxMaster Raman Laser
PENNINGTON, N.J., Sept. 23, 2010 — For use in medical technology, industrial and military applications and available through Laser Components UK Ltd., PD-LD Inc. has released the LuxxMaster fiber-coupled Raman laser that it says is...
Laser Components (UK) Ltd.
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Model 6501 650-nm Laser
MELBOURNE, Fla., Sept. 22, 2010 — A compact and rugged 1-W 650-nm laser has been released by Elk Industries. The high-power semiconductor Model 6501 produces a collimated output beam that is slightly elliptical and rectangular in...
Elk Industries, R-K Manufacturing
LuOcean Diode Laser
BERLIN, Sept. 22, 2010 — Lumics GmbH has announced the release of a new diode laser for solid-state and fiber laser pumping for thulium, erbium, neodymium and ytterbium. The LuOcean emits either continuous-wave or up to...
Lumics GmbH
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Ultraslim UV Transilluminators
WESTBURY, N.Y., Sept. 22, 2010 — Measuring 29.2 × 35.6 × 5.7 cm, Spectronics Corp.’s Slimline series ultraviolet transilluminators save space in crowded research laboratories. The devices deliver a typical...
Spectronics Corp., Spectroline
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GigE Trigger Device
SOUTHINGTON, Conn., Sept. 21, 2010 — For automated industrial inspection machines and vision systems that integrate GigE cameras, network components, sensors and encoders, Baumer’s GigE trigger device can now be used to control...
Baumer Ltd.
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XLamp ML-E LED
DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 21, 2010 — Cree Inc. has released the XLamp ML-E LED half-watt LED device, a compact and cost-effective solution for distributed LED arrays that can enable them to meet the US Environmental Protection...
Wolfspeed Inc.
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Intelligent Multisensor Camera
MANNHEIM, Germany, Sept. 20, 2010 — VRmagic GmbH has announced an intelligent, freely programmable multisensor camera that performs complex image processing tasks fully independently. Up to four external sensors can be connected to the...
VRmagic Imaging GmbH
Count Photon Counters
CHELMSFORD, England, Sept. 20, 2010 — Laser Components UK Ltd.’s new Count single-photon counters achieve a quantum efficiency of >70% in the red region and, according to the company, a higher quantum efficiency in the blue...
Laser Components (UK) Ltd.
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Single Lateral Mode Lasers
TAMPERE, Finland, Sept. 20, 2010 — Modulight Inc. has announced a set of high-power single lateral mode lasers suitable for optical time-domain reflectometery and other metrology applications. They produce up to 300-mW pulsed optical...
Modulight Inc.
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DFB Quantum Cascade Lasers
WELWYN GARDEN CITY, England, Sept. 17, 2010 — Hamamatsu Photonics UK Ltd. has introduced a range of quantum cascade distributed feedback (DFB) lasers. The L10195 series is available in continuous-wave and pulsed models, with standard...
Hamamatsu Photonics UK Ltd.
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OBR 4600 Reflectometer
ROANOKE, Va., Sept, 17, 2010 — Luna Technologies, a division of Luna Innovations Inc., has launched the latest addition to its optical backscatter reflectometer product line, the OBR 4600. The instrument provides advanced...
Luna Innovations Inc.
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Ceramos RGB MultiLEDs
REGENSBURG, Germany, Sept. 16, 2010 — Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH’s Ceramos RGB (red, green, blue) multiLEDs for use in Dolby’s LED-backlit PRM 4200 professional reference monitor support high technical standards for the...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
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FieldSpec HandHeld2
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 16, 2010 — ASD Inc.’s FieldSpec HandHeld2 portable spectroradiometer for scientific and field spectroscopy applications is being used for crops and soil research; forestry, ecology, and plant physiology...
ASD Inc.
Single-Fiber Assemblies
STIRLING, N.J., Sept. 16, 2010 — Enabling the use of fiber optics in potentially damaging environments, Fiberguide Industries Inc. has introduced its new standard line of single-fiber assemblies. The company’s assemblies...
Molex, Fiberguide
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PNF Laser Module
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 15, 2010 — For machine vision applications, Power Technology Inc. has announced the PNF laser module designed for 3-D profiling and imaging, dimensional scanning, high-speed road and rail inspection, web...
Power Technology Inc.
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MEMS Optical Bandpass Filter
RICHMOND, Calif., Sept. 15, 2010 — DiCon Fiberoptics Inc. has released an update to its 50-GHz microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) tunable optical bandpass filter. The third-generation filter features the same high performance of...
DiCon Fiberoptics Inc.
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Fire Salamander Enclosures
KARLSRUHE, Germany, Sept. 14, 2010 — The compact Fire Salamander series protective enclosures manufactured by autoVimation have been developed to protect camera systems in applications with strict hygiene requirements, such as the food...
autoVimation GmbH
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Power DomiLEDs in PLCC4 Package
MELAKA, Malaysia, Sept. 14, 2010 — Dominant Opto Technologies Sdn. Bhd. has introduced high-brightness AlInGaP LED devices with extended lifetimes. The Power DomiLED series DWx-PJG and DWx-PKG, alternatives to the existing AlInGaP DWx...
DOMINANT Opto Technologies
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Polarizing Beamsplitter Cubes
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 14, 2010 — REO offers a range of polarizing beamsplitter cubes that deliver a combination of good optical performance, high laser damage resistance, and good environmental stability and durability. In terms of...
Research Electro-Optics Inc. (REO)
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Vortis SPM Control Station
BERLIN, Germany, Sept. 13, 2010 — JPK Instruments AG has announced the Vortis Advanced fully digital scanning probe microscope (SPM) electronics control system with low noise and high signal speed. The company has used the new...
Bruker Nano GmbH, JPK BioAFM
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Photodiode Detector Family
HILLSBORO, Ore., Sept. 10, 2010 — Hinds Instruments Inc. has released a new-generation photodiode detector family, the DET-200 series. The detection systems are specifically designed for use with optical signals from DC to 1 MHz over...
Hinds Instruments Inc.
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Microgage 2D Measuring System
PEABODY, Mass., Sept. 10, 2010 — For precision measuring, machine alignment, calibration and other demanding industrial applications, Pinpoint Laser Systems Inc. has launched the two-dimensional Microgage 2D. Roll and web lines,...
Pinpoint Laser Systems
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Mid-Range Cleaver Series
SPARTANBURG, S.C., Sept. 9, 2010 — Designed for single-fiber and angled cleaves, two new mid-range cleaver series released by AFL Telecommunications, a Fujikura business, both provide high-quality cleaving at an economical price....
AFL
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Fiber-coupled Laser Diodes
CHELMSFORD, England, Sept. 9, 2010 — Laser Components UK Ltd.’s range of fiber-coupled high-power laser diodes has been enhanced with the addition of the K41 and CS405 series. At 405 nm, output power from the fiber varies from 20...
Laser Components (UK) Ltd.
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Probe4Light Spectrometer
LE BOURGET DU LAC, France, Sept. 9, 2010 — Majantys has released a new version of its miniature spectrophotometer, the Probe4Light, featuring an optical resolution down to 5 nm. The device, designed for the characterization of light sources,...
Majantys
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Synergy H1 Microplate Reader
WINOOSKI Vt., Sept. 8, 2010 — BioTek Instruments Inc. has released the hybrid multimode microplate reader, a monochromator-based instrument for ultraviolet/visible absorbance, top and bottom fluorescence, and luminescence assays....
BioTek Instruments Inc.
Aspheric Lenses
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 8, 2010 — LightPath Technologies Inc. has released a family of four aspheric lenses designed for blue laser diodes operating at 405 or 488 nm. The compact lenses are designed as the primary optics for...
LightPath Technologies Inc.
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LMF3500-HP Fiber Laser Marker
MONROVIA, Calif., Sept. 8, 2010 — Miyachi Unitek Corp. has released the LMF3500-HP, a high-power addition to its LMF family of ytterbium fiber laser markers. It provides enhanced performance for deep metal engraving applications,...
AMADA WELD TECH Inc.
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Low-SWaP SWIR Imager for UAVs
PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 7, 2010 — Goodrich Corp.’s ISR Systems’ Princeton team (formerly Sensors Unlimited Inc.) has introduced the smallest size, weight and power (SWaP) short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) camera for...
Sensors Unlimited Inc. - A Collins Aerospace Company
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Mil-Hardened 640x512 InGaAs SWIR Video Camera
PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 3, 2010 — Goodrich Corp.’s ISR Systems Princeton team (formerly Sensors Unlimited Inc.) has launched a high-sensitivity, mil-hardened, InGaAs short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) uncooled video camera for...
Sensors Unlimited Inc. - A Collins Aerospace Company
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TechSpec Achromatic Lenses
BARRINGTON, N.J., Sept. 2, 2010 — Edmund Optics is expanding its selection of TechSpec MgF2 coated achromatic lenses. Consisting of two optical components cemented together to form an achromatic doublet, the lenses include fast...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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CellSens Deconvolution
HAMBURG, Germany, Sept. 2, 2010 — Olympus Europa Holding GmbH’s cellSens deconvolution module employs a constrained iterative algorithm to remove out-of-focus blur in advanced life sciences imaging. This high-speed operation...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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µFab3D
EDINBURGH, England, Sept. 2, 2010 — For cost-effective 3-D microfabrication of microstructures, Teem Photonics has announced its 3-D microfabrication module, the µFab3D, that produces polymer, protein, metal and other biomaterial...
Photonic Solutions Ltd.
Teem Photonics
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ArcMaster Fusion Splicers
SPARTANBURG, S.C., Sept. 1, 2010 — Fujikura Ltd. is launching two new fiber optic fusion splicers, the FSM-100M and the FSM-100P, for splicing polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers. Both offer technologies to address the expanding...
AFL
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Single Axis Linear Output Tilt Sensor
HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa., Sept. 1, 2010 — The 0703-1601-99 from The Fredericks Co. is the newest member of the company’s patented state-of-the-art TrueTilt product line. It is a mid-range single-axis electrolytic tilt sensor that...
The Fredericks Co.
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