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Photonics.com - November 2009
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Tessera Names Cassidy EVP
Tessera Technologies Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based company dealing in miniaturization technologies for next-generation electronic devices, announced that Bernard J. Cassidy, senior vice president...
DARPA Selects Sensors Unlimited
Sensors Unlimited Inc., part of Goodrich ISR Systems, has been chosen by DARPA to further develop its short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) imaging technology for enhanced night-vision capability. Under...
Solyndra Pens $105M Agreement
Solyndra Inc., a manufacturer of proprietary photovoltaic systems for commercial rooftops, announced it has signed a new multiyear framework agreement worth up to $105 million with solar integrator...
IEEE Honors OneChip Photonics
OneChip Photonics of Ottawa announced it has received the 2009 Outstanding Technology Company Award from the IEEE Ottawa section. The award was presented Nov. 20 in Ottawa during the 65th Annual...
Voltaix Names Interim CEO
Voltaix, a semiconductor chip and solar cell company located in Branchburg, N.J., announced that Mark K. Fine will become interim chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1, 2010. Fine, 49, has more...
Michelson Wins Grant for OCTs
Michelson Diagnostics Ltd., the London-based manufacturer of optical coherence tomography (OCT) products, has been awarded a grant worth more than $41,500 from the UK government’s Technology Strategy...
Presstek Selling Lasertel
Digital offset printing products maker Presstek Inc. announced Monday it will sell its Tucson, Ariz.-based laser diodes subsidiary, Lasertel Inc., to Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems Inc. for $10...
Keithley Sells RF to Agilent
Electronic test systems maker Keithley Instruments Inc. announced that it is selling its radio-frequency product line to Agilent Technologies Inc. for $9 million in cash.
JDSU Brands Holography Platform
JDSU, an optical products company based in Milpitas, Calif., has announced a new name for its holographic technology platform. Now called IconiGram, the technology includes new features that enhance...
Hamamatsu Opens New Facility
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. announced the completion of its new facility for the development of portable products, which combine optical systems with photonic devices. Dubbed the Business Promotion...
Gulf Fiberoptics Adds New Div.
Gulf Fiberoptics, an Oldsmar, Fla.-based manufacturer of fiber optic products for the medical, industrial and visual illumination markets, has announced that it is adding a new photonics division....
Leadership Changes at Lockheed
Lockheed Martin Corp., based in Bethesda, Md., has announced several leadership appointments and a realignment within its Electronic Systems business area. The actions are effective in early 2010....
Applied Cutting 1300+ Jobs
In the wake of posting a net loss of $305 million for 2009, chip-making equipment manufacturer Applied Materials said it will cut between 1300 and 1500 jobs, or 10 to 12 percent of its work force,...
Sick Launches New Web Site
Sick, a Minneapolis-based manufacturer of sensors, safety systems and automatic identification products for industrial applications, has launched a new Web site at www.sickusa.com. Using the enhanced...
Draka’s Fiber Powers Rwanda
Optical fiber and cabling company Draka Communications announced that it is in the deployment phase of a nationwide project to install fiber optic infrastructure throughout the Republic of Rwanda....
GigOptix Acquires ChipX
Optoelectronics maker GigOptix Inc. has announced that it acquired fabless integrated circuits supplier ChipX on Nov. 9, a move expected to double its revenue and significantly expand its product...
IPG Founder Wins LIA’s Top Honor
Valentin Gapontsev, founder, chairman and CEO of high-power fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., has received the 2009 Arthur L. Schawlow Award, the highest honor given by the...
Senate Confirms 14th NIST Director
The US Senate recently confirmed Dr. Patrick D. Gallagher as the 14th director of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by unanimous consent. Gallagher has...
Hamamatsu Licenses JDSU IP
JDSU announced it has licensed patent rights for fundamental picosecond laser technology to Hamamatsu Corp. for the development of microelectronic products.
Bruker Names New Officers
Bruker Corp., a provider of scientific instruments and solutions based in Billerica, Mass., announced that its board appointed Bill Knight as chief operating officer and Brian Monahan as chief...
Vision Market on the Upswing
The machine vision industry has been hit hard by the economic downturn, but many exhibitors at the Vision 2009 trade show in Stuttgart, Germany, shared the view that the crowd was surprisingly...
Show Plans Laser Tribute
Special events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the laser, including a “Cirque du Lasaire” reception, will mark SPIE Photonics West’s first year in San Francisco. The primary...
Walmart Selects Cree LEDs
Cree Inc., an LED manufacturer located in Durham, N.C., has been selected to provide energy-efficient lighting for Walmart renovations and new construction. Walmart plans to install LRP-38 lightbulbs...
Omicron Names Singapore Rep.
Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH of Rodgau, Germany, has expanded its worldwide sales network by adding photonics specialist Photonitech as its distributor in Singapore and Malaysia, the company...
Flir Delivers 100,000th IR Camera
Camera maker Flir Systems Inc. of Wilsonville, Ore., said it will deliver its 100,000th commercial-use infrared camera this week. The Flir thermal imager, used for building inspection, was sold by...
AMD Lasers Forms Alliances
Indianapolis-based AMD Lasers announced strategic partnerships with 1-800-Dentist, Fortune Management and Cetylite Industries, in a move aimed at providing more value for dental professionals that...
Changelight Orders Aixtron System
Semiconductor technology company Aixtron AG of Germany announced that LED developer Changelight Co., based in China, has ordered a planetary reactor system for the production of gallium arsenide...
CDI Awarded Nanotech Patent
Carbon Design Innovations Inc. (CDI) of Burlingame, Calif., has announced that it has received a key technology patent for the fabrication of carbon nanotube devices. US Patent No. 7,601,650 was...
Veridiam Names New CFO
Veridiam of El Cajon, Calif., announced that Robert Mazzacavallo has been named its chief financial officer. Veridiam is a contract manufacturer of high-precision fabricated assemblies and metal...
Momentive Awarded $4.5M
Momentive Performance Materials was awarded $4.5 million by the US Department of Energy to develop crystal growth technology aimed at accelerating low cost mass production of LED-based solid-state...
Machine Vision Standards Set
Machine vision trade groups European Machine Vision Association, Japan Industrial Imaging Association and the Automated Imaging Association signed an agreement Tuesday at the Vision 2009 show in...
Cree LED Bulb Breaks Records
Cree Chairman and CEO Chuck Swoboda demonstrated an A-lamp LED lightbulb with the highest lumen output and efficacy reported in the industry at the annual Cree shareholder meeting in Durham, N.C.,...
Research & Technology
Multibeam Lasers Emit in IR
An international team of applied scientists demonstrated compact, multibeam and multiwavelength lasers emitting in the infrared. Typically, lasers emit a single light beam of a well-defined...
Nanowire Transistors Realized
A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after researchers at IBM, Purdue and UCLA learned how to make them...
LHC Smashes Speed Record
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) outside Geneva became the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator by accelerating its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV, breaking the previous...
Telling Tom Turkey from Tina
A novel approach to classifying the gender of 6-week-old turkey poults could save millions of male chicks from being killed shortly after birth, according to Dr. Gerald Steiner and his team from the...
Virtual Brain Surgery
Jin U. Kang, an electrical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, has spent years tinkering with lasers and optical fiber – studying what happens when light strikes matter. Now, he has built a tool to...
Photoswitch Paralyzes Animals
An internal on-off “switch” that paralyzes animals when exposed to a beam of ultraviolet light has been developed by a team of scientists in Canada. The animals stay paralyzed even when the light is...
LHC: The Beams are Back
Particle beams are once again circulating in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), 14 months after an electrical failure caused serious damage to the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, which...
Opportunity in the Indian RE sector
Now then, let's look at one other opportunity story in the Indian renewable energy (RE) sector. This time, it is Sunil Jain, COO of Greeninfra Ltd., who said that the total RE capacity was only 9...
QDs Improve Medical Imaging
Changes in a living cell that take place over a long period of time are difficult to scrutinize and require high-spatial-resolution imaging. But new research now makes it possible to analyze...
Light Moves Nanostructures
With a bit of leverage, Cornell researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 mW of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nm. That’s enough to completely switch the optical...
Complex Solar Surface Imaged
The most detailed images to date of the sun's grainy-looking surface were produced by the Sunrise balloon-borne telescope, a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research...
Virtual Cloaking Unveiled
Researchers at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology created a virtual visualization tool that shows what a partially or completely cloaked object would really look like. Even as an...
Mess-Free Graphene Growth
A research team at Cornell University invented a simple, less expensive way to make graphene electrical devices by growing graphene -- one-atom-thick layers of carbon -- directly onto a silicon wafer.
Light Squeezed Even Tighter
Scientists at the University of Adelaide proved that light can be squeezed into much tighter spaces than previously thought, thanks to new breakthroughs in the theoretical understanding of how light...
Laser Charts Green Protein
Chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered the secret to the structural changes that green fluorescent proteins (GFPs), used in biological studies, undergoe when they fluoresce.
Finding Life in Martian Ice
Doctors with the Kinohi Institute and the University of Innsbruck in Austria devised an imaging technique to detect bacteria in frozen Antarctic lakes, with the ultimate goal of using the technology...
Capsules Mock Photosynthesis
German chemists report progress toward achieving artificial photosynthesis by packing thousands of similar molecules together to create a tiny capsule, then using a different kind of molecule as a...
Senate Confirms 14th NIST Director
The US Senate recently confirmed Dr. Patrick D. Gallagher as the 14th director of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by unanimous consent. Gallagher has...
Show Plans Laser Tribute
Special events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the laser, including a “Cirque du Lasaire” reception, will mark SPIE Photonics West’s first year in San Francisco. The primary...
T-ray Tool Up and Running
A new terahertz ray (T-ray) instrument installed at Iowa State University will allow scientists to take a unique look at material reliability, biofuel combustion, cancer screening, and other science...
Atom Imaged in Ultracold Gas
A high-resolution microscope was developed to image individual atoms in an ultracold quantum gas, marking the first time scientists detected single atoms in a crystalline structure made solely of...
3-D PV Cell Folds, Travels
A new technology for growing nanostructures on optical fibers can be used to make 3-D photovoltaic systems foldable and portable, no longer confined to traditional locations such as rooftops.
Flir Delivers 100,000th IR Camera
Camera maker Flir Systems Inc. of Wilsonville, Ore., said it will deliver its 100,000th commercial-use infrared camera this week. The Flir thermal imager, used for building inspection, was sold by...
Scope-Headed Rats Roam Free
By building a tiny laser microscope small enough to mount on a rat’s head, researchers found a way to solve the puzzle of recording meaningful signals from brain cells that calculate perception and...
Momentive Awarded $4.5M
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Flipping Photonic Shock Waves
Speedy electrons or other charged particles can briefly outrun light in matter, producing a shock wave in the form of a cone of light known as Cerenkov radiation. For the first time, physicists have...
T Cell Trigger: Sheer Force
An array of techniques including optical tweezers were used to find the "switch" that can swiftly change a T cell – a white blood cell that patrols the bloodstream and organs for signs of disease –...
Frequency Comb Shows Teeth
The first optical frequency comb that actually looks like a comb has been built and demonstrated by scientists in the US and Germany. The "teeth" of the new comb – a tool for precisely measuring...
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Virtual Brain Surgery
Jin U. Kang, an electrical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, has spent years tinkering with lasers and optical fiber – studying what happens when light strikes matter. Now, he has built a tool to...
Photoswitch Paralyzes Animals
An internal on-off “switch” that paralyzes animals when exposed to a beam of ultraviolet light has been developed by a team of scientists in Canada. The animals stay paralyzed even when the light is...
LHC: The Beams are Back
Particle beams are once again circulating in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), 14 months after an electrical failure caused serious damage to the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, which...
Presstek Selling Lasertel
Digital offset printing products maker Presstek Inc. announced Monday it will sell its Tucson, Ariz.-based laser diodes subsidiary, Lasertel Inc., to Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems Inc. for $10...
Keithley Sells RF to Agilent
Electronic test systems maker Keithley Instruments Inc. announced that it is selling its radio-frequency product line to Agilent Technologies Inc. for $9 million in cash.
QDs Improve Medical Imaging
Changes in a living cell that take place over a long period of time are difficult to scrutinize and require high-spatial-resolution imaging. But new research now makes it possible to analyze...
Light Moves Nanostructures
With a bit of leverage, Cornell researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 mW of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nm. That’s enough to completely switch the optical...
Complex Solar Surface Imaged
The most detailed images to date of the sun's grainy-looking surface were produced by the Sunrise balloon-borne telescope, a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research...
Virtual Cloaking Unveiled
Researchers at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology created a virtual visualization tool that shows what a partially or completely cloaked object would really look like. Even as an...
Mess-Free Graphene Growth
A research team at Cornell University invented a simple, less expensive way to make graphene electrical devices by growing graphene -- one-atom-thick layers of carbon -- directly onto a silicon wafer.
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Scientists at the University of Adelaide proved that light can be squeezed into much tighter spaces than previously thought, thanks to new breakthroughs in the theoretical understanding of how light...
Laser Charts Green Protein
Chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered the secret to the structural changes that green fluorescent proteins (GFPs), used in biological studies, undergoe when they fluoresce.
Applied Cutting 1300+ Jobs
In the wake of posting a net loss of $305 million for 2009, chip-making equipment manufacturer Applied Materials said it will cut between 1300 and 1500 jobs, or 10 to 12 percent of its work force,...
Finding Life in Martian Ice
Doctors with the Kinohi Institute and the University of Innsbruck in Austria devised an imaging technique to detect bacteria in frozen Antarctic lakes, with the ultimate goal of using the technology...
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German chemists report progress toward achieving artificial photosynthesis by packing thousands of similar molecules together to create a tiny capsule, then using a different kind of molecule as a...
GigOptix Acquires ChipX
Optoelectronics maker GigOptix Inc. has announced that it acquired fabless integrated circuits supplier ChipX on Nov. 9, a move expected to double its revenue and significantly expand its product...
Hamamatsu Licenses JDSU IP
JDSU announced it has licensed patent rights for fundamental picosecond laser technology to Hamamatsu Corp. for the development of microelectronic products.
Vision Market on the Upswing
The machine vision industry has been hit hard by the economic downturn, but many exhibitors at the Vision 2009 trade show in Stuttgart, Germany, shared the view that the crowd was surprisingly...
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GigOptix Acquires ChipX
Optoelectronics maker GigOptix Inc. has announced that it acquired fabless integrated circuits supplier ChipX on Nov. 9, a move expected to double its revenue and significantly expand its product portfolio. ChipX is a mixed-signal, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) company. Its products are used in industrial applications, medical equipment and military/aerospace systems. A...
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Mamba Green
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BABB Objective Lens
WETZLAR, Germany, Nov. 24, 2009 – The Leica Microsystems HCX APO L20×/0.95 IMM is a dedicated BABB (Benzyl Alcohol Benzyl Benzoate, 1:2) objective lens for neuroscience and developmental biology applications. Designed for use in...
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Variable Optical Attenuator
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Leica DFC345 FX
WETZLAR, Germany, Nov. 18, 2009 – For detection and documentation of low-light fluorescence signals in live-cell experiments, Leica Microsystems GmbH has added the Leica DFC345 FX to its line of digital cameras. In addition to...
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Sapphire 488 LP and 561 LP
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 17, 2009 – Two new bioinstrumentation lasers from Coherent Inc. deliver high power in a compact package. The Sapphire 488 LP offers 150 mW of continuous-wave output at 488 nm, while the Sapphire 561 LP provides...
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Compact Diode Laser System
MAINZ, Germany, Nov. 17, 2009 – Dilas Industrial Laser Systems has announced power extensions for its compact diode laser system series: 300 W out of a 200-µm fiber and 400 W out of a 300-µm fiber at 9xx nm. The fiber-coupled,...
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uEye XS USB Camera
OBERSULM, Germany, Nov. 16, 2009 – With the release of the new uEye XS model, IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH introduces a <1-cubic in. industrial USB 2.0 camera that features face tracking and image stabilization....
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Temperature Controllers
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 16, 2009 – VueMetrix Inc. has released a new product line of thermoelectric cooler temperature controllers, the Vue-TEC-15 and the Vue-TEC-24. Both models are bidirectional high-frequency switch mode DC/DC...
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GlacialLight LED Bulbs
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Nov. 13, 2009 – GlacialTech Inc. is launching the GlacialLight GL-BR20 5-W, high-brightness LED globes for AC light sockets. The bulbs have a lifetime of 20,000 h and deliver a high luminous efficacy. They reduce...
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Avia 355-5 UV Laser
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Metalized Polypropylene Capacitors
PARKESBURG, Pa., Nov. 12, 2009 – High Energy Corp. has announced the first line of high-frequency, high-power, oil-immersed and conduction-cooled metalized polypropylene robust capacitors with low stray inductance and losses that...
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ES10ZE Focus Controller
ROCKLAND, Mass., Nov. 11, 2009 – Prior Scientific Inc. has introduced a focus-only control system for modern microscopes. The ES10ZE is suitable for applications involving extended focus or Z-stacking, providing a compact low-cost...
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Leap Excimer Laser
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Coherent Inc.
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Microspectrophotometer
SAN DIMAS, Calif., Nov. 10, 2009 – Craic Technologies has announced the QDI 2010 PV, a microspectrophotometer designed to measure the transmission and reflectance of photovoltaic cells whether traditional crystalline silicon, the...
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Hyperspectral Imaging Systems
ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 9, 2009 – Optronic Laboratories LLC has announced that its HSi-300 and HSi-400 hyperspectral imaging systems now have µ-Manager plug-ins. µ-Manager is a free and open source application software platform...
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STACIS SEM-Base
PEABODY, Mass., Nov. 9, 2009 – Technical Manufacturing Corp. has expanded its STACIS active piezoelectric vibration cancellation product line with the introduction of the STACIS SEM-Base floor platform for scanning electron...
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Laser Microscopy Optical Filters
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The S-2000AC Stabilizer
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IR Camera and Lens Web Tool
BILLERICA, Mass., Nov. 5, 2009 – Flir Systems has announced an online infrared camera and lens selection tool that enables the user to compare up to three camera models with different lens configurations and camera input variables,...
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Variable Luminance Source
WAKEFIELD, Mass., Nov. 4, 2009 – Optikos Corp. has developed the VLS-100 variable luminance source, a controllable source of uniform visible illumination for testing cameras, image intensifiers and visible to near-infrared night...
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The Mercury II 5000
BEDFORD, Mass., Nov. 3, 2009 – The Mercury II 5000 manufactured by MicroE Systems is a miniature high-resolution optical encoder that provides motion system designers with good performance, accuracy, versatility, ease of use and...
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EP30LV-1 Epoxy
HACKENSACK, N.J., Nov. 3, 2009 – Master Bond Inc.’s newly developed EP30LV-1 is a low-viscosity, optically clear epoxy for general purpose bonding, coating, sealing and casting. Linear shrinkage after cure is a low 0.0003...
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