Full company details
Wasatch Photonics Inc.
1305 N 1000 W
Suite 120
Logan, UT 84321
United States
Phone: +1 435-752-4301
Fax: +1 435-752-4306
Prism Awards Showcase Photonics Innovation
BioPhotonics
Jan 2017
Winners of the 2016 Prism Awards. Courtesy of SPIE. Courtesy of SPIE.
Photonics West 2017 is a time for networking, sharing products and research, and learning. It’s also a time when the world’s top innovators take center stage in the annual Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation. Sponsored by SPIE and Photonics Media, this annual event recognizes the industry’s top companies and products. This year’s finalists, chosen from hundreds of entries, represent all fields of photonics. And the competition is fierce.
Finalists are:
Biomedical Instrumentation
Company: EyeQue Corp. (California, U.S.)
Website: www.eyeque.com
Product: Personal Vision Tracker
The Personal Vision Tracker enables measurement of refractive errors and ordering of corrective eyewear. This new device “helps cut cost significantly and will help those in need to achieve clear vision, reducing productivity loss due to impaired vision.” The tracker is a self-administered refraction system that uses a miniscope optical device to estimate the user’s refractive error, based on an inverse Shack-Hartmann principle. The compact miniscope works with iOS and Android smartphones, and enables self-administered measurements of refractive errors through an interactive mobile application.
Company: Rapid Biosensor Systems (Cambridge, England)
Website: www.rapidbiosensor.com
Product: TB Breathalyser
The first biophotonics system available for noninvasive testing for active infectious diseases (namely tuberculosis), the TB Breathalyser system integrates laser, optical and engineering design with medical requirements for fast, breath-based testing. It will be effective for screening people in rural communities, and in Europe and North America it has the potential to support screening programs at ports of entry, prisons, military establishments and schools, ultimately prompting lower health care costs. The system comprises evanescent wave fluorimetry confined in a disposable medical device. Specifically, the Breathalyser detects fluorescence light from a small number of actual tuberculosis bacilli present in a breath sample using photonics techniques. It enables the user to quickly collect a cough sample for interrogation, obtaining test results sooner and sometimes before symptoms are present.
Company: Wasatch Photonics (Utah, U.S.)
Website: www.wasatchphotonics.com
Product: MicroAngio
The MicroAngio platform is a next-generation Fourier-domain OCT technology that provides a new imaging modality for a wide variety of applications, impacting diagnosis, drug discovery and fundamental understanding of disease mechanism. The system is designed to help patients suffering from cancer, visual disorders and skin burns. It employs broadband light source and spectral interferometry to extract phase and intensity variation of incident light. Changes are analyzed using statistical algorithms, which extract the information of red blood cell motion in the arteries and veins while ignoring the bulk motion of the surrounding tissue. This provides a depth-resolved map of the vascular structure without any external contrast agents.
Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing
Company: Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies (Leicestershire, England)
Website: www.hybridmanutech.com
Product: AMBIT Industrial 3D Printing System
Company: Multiphoton Optics (Würzburg, Germany)
Website: www.multiphoton.net
Product: LithoPro3D
Company: PolarOnyx Inc. (California, U.S.)
Website: www.polaronyx.com
Product: Tungsten-LAM
Detectors and Sensors
Company: Aeris Technologies Inc. (California, U.S.)
Website: www.aerissensors.com
Product: MIRA Analyzer
Company: ALPhANOV (Talence, France)
Website: www.alphanov.com
Product: GoSpectro
Company: Hesai Photonics Technologies Co. (Shanghai)
Website: www.hesaitech.com
Product: Drone-mounted Natural Gas Surveillance System
Company: Luxmux Technology Corp. (Alberta, Canada)
Website: www.luxmux.com
Product: BeST-SLED
Imaging and Cameras
Company: e2V (Chelmsford, England)
Website: www.e2v.com
Product: 3D Time-of-Flight Solution and 3D Vision Systems
Company: TAG Optics (New Jersey, U.S.)
Website: www.tag-optics.com
Product: TAG Inspector
Company: TruTag Technologies Inc. (Hawaii, U.S.)
Website: www.trutags.com
Product: Handheld Hyperspectral Imager Model 4100
Industrial Lasers
Company: Amplitude Systèmes (Pessac, France)
Website: www.amplitude-systemes.com
Product: Tangor 100W
Company: Photonics Industries International (New York, U.S.)
Website: www.photonix.com
Product: RGH Series/Pulse Picker
Company: QD Laser (Kawasaki, Japan)
Website: www.qdlaser.com
Product: Ultra-short Pulsed Seeder for Fiber Laser
Materials and Coatings
Company: Crystalline Mirror Solutions (Vienna)
Website: www.crystallinemirrors.com
Product: XTAL MIR
Company: Element Six (Luxembourg)
Website: www.e6.com
Product: Single Crystal Synthetic Diamond
Company: InVisage Technologies Inc. (California, U.S.)
Website: www.invisage.com
Product: NIR QuantumFilm Sensor
Metrology
Company: 4D Technology Corp. (Arizona, U.S.)
Website: www.4dtechnology.com
Product: 4D InSpec Surface Gauge
Company: 8tree (Konstanz, Germany)
Website: www.8-tree.com
Product: dentCHECK
Company: Leica Geosystems (Heerbrugg, Switzerland)
Website: www.leica-geosystems.com
Product: Leica BLK360 Imaging Laser Scanner
Optics and Optical Components
Company: ContinUse Biometrics (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Website: www.cu-bx.com
Product: Opto-phone
Company: Nufern (Connecticut, U.S.)
Website: www.nufern.com
Product: NuBEAM Flat-Top
Company: SoraaLaser (California, U.S.)
Website: www.soraalaser.com
Product: LaserLight SMD
Scientific Lasers
Company: Integrated Optics (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Website: www.integratedoptics.com
Product: MatchBox2 Laser Series
Company: Thorlabs Inc. (New Jersey, U.S.)
Website: www.thorlabs.com
Product: Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum Laser
Company: TRUMPF Scientific Lasers (München-Unterföhring, Germany)
Website: www.trumpf-scientific-lasers.com
Product: Dira 200-1