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Photonics Spectra - August 2003
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Colorimetry, Anatomical Studies Advance
Color vision has long fascinated scientists, providing topics for research in psychology and physics, as well as in anatomy, physiology and medicine. Substantial information has been gathered over...
Optical Profiling Applications Expand
Optical profiling (white-light interferometry) is a noncontact technique for determining surface texture and shape, from nanometer-scale roughness through millimeter-scale step heights. The strengths...
Laser Technology Targets Microelectronics Defect Detection
Using optical extension techniques, ArF lasers at 193 nm already produce features as small as 0.1 μm on today’s microchips. The challenges will only increase as the industry moves to the...
Flat Panel Display Metrology Finds More than Meets the Eye
Popularity has its drawbacks, which for the increasingly popular flat panel display industry means that both production efficiency and quality control must be maintained. The two are not always...
Paintballing with Light
Paintballing techniques are well-established military training tools, but by using laser simulation devices, one can “paintball” with light. To make the training as representative as possible of the...
Hollow-Core Fibers Seek the 'Holey' Grail
Photonic crystal fibers are glass fibers with a fine array of airholes running down their length. They can exhibit photonic bandgaps, and the more-than-a-decade-old concept of using a two-dimensional...
Tech Pulse
Optical Switch Uses Thin Film and Mirror
Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn and Khunat Chaitavon of Thailand's National Science and Technology Development Agency and Ministry of Science and Technology, both in Pathumthani, have developed a novel...
Co-Doping Drives 2-µm Fiber Laser
A group of scientists at the University of Sydney in Australia has demonstrated the use of ytterbium as a sensitizer in a holmium-doped fiber laser. Although Yb3+-Ho3+ sensitizing-lasing systems have...
Origin of 'Fiber Fuse' Is Revealed
In the argot of fiber optics engineers, a "fiber fuse" occurs when a fiber, overloaded with optical power, fails catastrophically. Several mechanisms have been suggested to explain the phenomenon,...
All-Fiber, Q-Switched Laser Generates 1.8 mW
A team of scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei has designed and demonstrated an all-fiber, Q-switched laser. High-power, single-frequency oscillation is obtained...
Q-Switched Ho:YAG Laser Produces 50-mJ Pulses
Eye-safe pulsed lasers operating in the 2-µm spectral region are useful in ranging, remote sensing and laser radar applications. Moreover, if they have high peak powers, their outputs can be...
Researchers Demonstrate Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
A fiber laser capable of producing a train of picosecond, wavelength-tunable pulses at gigahertz frequencies would be a useful source for wavelength division multiplexing telecommunications and could...
Femtosecond Pulses Write Fiber Bragg Gratings
A group at the Communications Research Centre Canada in Ottawa has presented an alternative means of writing fiber Bragg gratings that uses femtosecond pulses of 800-nm radiation from a Ti:sapphire...
External Cavity Controls Transverse Mode in VCSEL
The fundamental transverse mode of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) produces a high-quality Gaussian beam, as it does with any laser. As the bias current of the device is increased,...
light speed
JAI Purchases Pulnix America
JAI A*S of Copenhagen, Denmark, has purchased machine vision component supplier Pulnix America Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., including its shares, intellectual property, camera technology and sales and...
Indigo's Software Division Relocates to Florida
Indigo Advanced Systems, a recent acquisition of Indigo Systems Corp. of Goleta, Calif., has moved to a 5000-sq-ft facility in Niceville, Fla., where it develops IR camera acquisition, calibration,...
Cierra Photonics Bought by UK Company
Bookham Technology plc of Oxfordshire, UK, has agreed to acquire the business, assets and certain liabilities of Cierra Photonics Inc. of Santa Rosa, Calif., a designer and manufacturer of thin-film...
Company to Build Dual-Mode Camera
Sensors Unlimited Inc. of Princeton, N.J., will develop a combined imaging/rangefinding camera under the first phase of an advanced detector technology program contract funded by the US Department of...
Quantum Dot Company Licenses Technology
Evident Technologies of Troy, N.Y., has licensed a water-soluble preparation from Rockefeller University of New York that enables the company's quantum dots to be used in biological applications and...
Canadian Universities Link to Microchip Testing Equipment
Canada has launched the National Microelectronics and Photonics Testing Collaboratory, a $23 million virtual laboratory that uses the Internet to link Canadian researchers and graduate students to...
Carl Zeiss Opens Assembly Facility
In a formal ceremony in June, the Carl Zeiss Group unveiled a microscope assembly hall at its factory in Göttingen, Germany. The facility produces microscope systems and components for applications...
Raytheon Wins Helicopter Sensor Contract
The US Army's Special Operations Command has awarded Raytheon Co. of El Segundo, Calif., a $110.8 million contract for the design and delivery of 128 electro-optic sensor systems for helicopters. The...
Veeco, Schott Ally to Upgrade Photomask Technology
To advance photomask technology and particle reduction for next-generation photomask blanks, Schott Lithotec AG of Jena, Germany, and Veeco Instruments Inc., whose Process Equipment Div. is in...
Media Cybernetics Puchases DataCell's Image Analysis Assets
Analytical imaging software provider Media Cybernetics Inc. of Silver Spring, Md., has bought the scientific image analysis assets of DataCell Ltd., its exclusive value-added reseller of image...
3M Foundation Helps Fund Laser Training
The 3M Foundation, based in St. Paul, Minn., has donated $70,000 to Linn State Technical College to support the Laser/Photonics Technology program offered at the Advanced Technology Center in Mexico,...
ILX Lightwave Wins Testing Contract
Under a test service contract with ABB Bomem of Quebec City, ILX Lightwave Corp. of Bozeman, Mont., will perform parametric and optical characterization on approximately 200 free-space, TO-can laser...
Advanced Photonix to Supply Detector Technology for Missile
Advanced Photonix Inc. of Camarillo, Calif., will provide Raytheon Co. of Lexington, Mass., with detector/preamplifier assembly for the active optical target detector used in the Rolling Airframe...
Pulse Instruments Partners with Software Company
Pulse Instruments of Torrance, Calif., a commercial test equipment manufacturer for infrared and CCD imaging technologies, has entered into an agreement to combine its PI-2005 digital pattern...
Glasgow Company Wins Laser Contract
Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global Ltd. of Glasgow, UK, has won a contract to supply 780-nm laser diodes to the European Space Agency's (ESA) European Space & Technology Centre in...
Veeco Gets MBE Processes
The University of California, Santa Barbara, will transfer molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth processes for wireless and optical telecommunications devices to the new epitaxial Process Integration...
Laser 2003 Shows Optimism
The number of visitors and exhibitors at Laser 2003, held at the Munich Trade Fair Centre in June, indicates great optimism in the industry. The show drew nearly 850 exhibitors, an increase of 8...
Alliance to Develop Sensor Technology
Micron Optics Inc. of Atlanta and LxSix Photonics of St. Laurent, Québec, Canada, have agreed to collaborate on the development of cost-effective optical sensing technology. Compatibility...
IR Detector Contract Goes to Ohio Firm
CMC Electronics Cincinnati of Mason, Ohio, will supply megapixel IR detector assemblies for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft under a contract with the Baltimore-based Northrop Grumman Corp.'s...
Irish Photonic Test Companies Consolidate
The merger of Dublin-based Tsunami Photonics Ltd., a supplier of fast test system software for photonic components, and PXIT of Dun Laoghaire, a manufacturer of modular test systems, both in Ireland,...
Accent on Applications
Laser Ablation Enhances Uranium Dating
To gain a better understanding of the history of the Earth, scientists have learned to peel back the layers of time, observing the growth rings of once-living organisms or the layers of sediment in a road cut. Another such dating technique uses mass spectrometry to investigate the uranium decay chain in coral reefs, and excimer laser technology is improving the sampling process. Corals are...
NIR Reflectance Spectroscopy Analyzes Grain
Advances in genetics and biotechnology have made it possible to manipulate the chemical constituents of poultry and swine feed to increase the value of a unit of grain. As a result, the traditional...
Terahertz Astronomy at the Pole Opens New Vistas
The South Pole hardly offers a welcoming environment, even during its relatively warm summer months. For terahertz astronomers, however, the pole is an ideal location for performing observations at...
Digital Cameras Help Solve Mystery of Leaking Aqueduct
When New York's water supply began turning up in lakes and pools around Ulster and Orange counties, it was assumed that the 45-mile, 900-ft-deep upstate water tunnel had sprung a leak. But Water...
Optical Brighteners Recycle Old Colors
As plastics age, they become oxidized and yellowed through photoexposure. In consumer products, this can be a problem because containers and packaging that have lost their luster can be a...
Presstime Bulletin
Tungsten Lattice Structure May Improve Thermal Photovoltaics
A tungsten 3-D photonic crystal developed at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., may have applications in thermal photovoltaic power generation for hybrid electric automobiles and for...
High-Conductivity N-Type Diamond Demonstrated
Researchers at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique's facilities in Meudon and Grenoble, France, Technion in Haifa, Israel, and the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington report in the July...
Thermal Imaging Gets under Mars' Skin
Scientists have released the most detailed results to date from the thermal emission imaging system, or Themis, on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. Led by principal investigator Philip R. Christensen, a...
'Light Filaments' Burst Through Fog
The absorption and scattering of infrared radiation by water droplets is a serious issue for applications such as free-space optical communications and lidar-based ranging and atmospheric sensing....
Ultrafast Lasers Enable All-Optical Histology
Following work by other researchers with dielectrics, metals and various biological tissues, scientists from the University of California, San Diego, Colorado School of Mines in Golden, and Science...
Composite Molecule Promises Rewritable 3-D Optical Memory
Scientists from the University of California, Irvine, describe in the July 8 issue of PNAS a molecule for volumetric optical storage that exhibits widely separate write, read and erase bands....
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SPECTROPHOTOMETER
McPherson Inc. has released a spectrophotometer that measures reflectance, transmission, fluorescence, phosphorescence and lifetime of most samples. The Rotospec 1 can characterize metallic,...
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1310-nm VCSEL DIODE
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The LDT-1064 alignment cards from Laser Components (UK) Ltd. are able to withstand up to 150 W/cm2 of CW power, which makes them suitable for the visualization of laser beams. With an active area...
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3-D MICROSCOPY
TriMScope from LaVision BioTec GmbH, a state-of-the-art multifocal, multiphoton microscope, is based on a patented beamsplitter that can divide an incoming laser beam into 64 beamlets and scan them...
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DIODE LASERS
The HLU100F400-808 fiber-coupled diode laser delivers 100 W of optical power from a 400-µm fiber. Manufacturer Limo GmbH says the laser's 0.22 NA yields a beam source for robust industry...
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NP Photonics Inc. has introduced an amplified spontaneous emission module that can be used as a light source for fiber optic gyros and passive optical component testing, offering a broadband output...
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KINEMATIC STAGES
The X-Y-Z serial kinematic stages launched by Alio Industries offer greater precision and lower start-up costs compared with other such devices, according to the company. Designed for applications in...
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FIBER OPTIC PROBE
The RPB fiber optic Raman probe is available from InPhotonics Inc. in 785-, 633- and 532-nm wavelengths and can be directly coupled to most spectrographic designs. The fully filtered probe has hard...
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PROFILE SENSOR
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RETARDATION PLATES
Zero-order crystalline quartz retardation plates with wavelengths for first, second, third and fourth Nd:YAG harmonics are available from Standa Ltd. The company says that the plates feature...
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FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS
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COLLIMATOR
The telescope-off-axis-Newtonian series collimator has joined the Space Optics Research Labs' family of instruments. Featuring Zerodur off-axis reflective optics, aluminum hardware and flexured...
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LINEAR ACTUATORS
Del-Tron Precision Inc. has added 1 3 1-in. linear actuators to its Posi-Drive line of stages. The devices, which are available in a travel length of 0.75 in., provide 0.0005-in./in.-of-travel...
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AlN SUBSTRATES
Fabricated using a proprietary boule growth process, Crystal IS Inc.'s single-crystal native aluminum-nitride substrates can be produced with most customer-specified crystallographic orientations...
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UV LIGHT SOURCE
Heraeus Noblelight GmbH's Fiber-Light miniature UV light source is a deuterium lamp that satisfies the requirements for UV spectroscopy in situ. Small UV spectroscopy instruments equipped with the...
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BEAMSPLITTERS
Holo/Or Ltd. announces a series of double- and triple-spot beamsplitters to facilitate and accelerate high-power laser marking, scribing and other processing tasks. The company says that theoretical...
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StellarNet Inc. has unveiled an interface option for its miniature fiber optic spectrometers. The USB2EPP cable attaches to the DB25 connector on any EPP2000 spectrometer and enables the transfer of...
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Lambda Research Corp.'s TracePro 3.l is the latest version of its illumination and optomechanical analysis software. This edition features faster audit and ray-tracing times, new ray-tracing...
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The PlaceMaster from ficonTec GmbH picks and places components such as fibers, lenses, optical filters and laser diode bars with typical X-Y-placement accuracy of ±5 µm. Developed for the...
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LONG LIGHT LINES
A process for manufacturing 48-in. light lines has been developed by Fiberoptics Technology Inc. The fibers are aligned and nested in a linear array to ensure parallel fiber placement, resulting in...
Fiberoptics Technology Inc.
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FIBER LASER
The LU0546F010 green fiber laser module has been released by Lumics GmbH. The 546-nm module consists of a GaAs-based quantum well laser diode and a cooled 14-pin butterfly package with <2 m of...
Lumics GmbH
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SOLID-STATE LASERS
New Focus Inc. has unveiled its 6900 series fixed-wavelength lasers in violet, blue, green and red wavelengths. Suitable for scientific and industrial applications ranging from semiconductor...
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VOLTAGE AMPLIFIERS
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CAMERAS
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VIBRATION CONTROL
The portable 8000 series from Kinetic Systems Inc. uses active feedback to achieve high levels of vibration isolation for high-resolution instruments such as interferometers and photo-imaging...
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REFLECTANCE STANDARD
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SAPPHIRE WAVE PLATES
A line of sapphire wave plates from Meller Optics Inc. can be custom-manufactured in a variety of sizes for use in visible and IR polarization control components. They provide λ/4 and...
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FRAME GRABBERS
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Perten Instruments introduces a second-generation NIR analysis system based on a diode array. The DA 7200 can be used to measure the moisture, protein, fat/oil, fiber or sugar in food, grains, feeds,...
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FIBER LASER
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LASER BEAM SHAPER
Newport Corp.'s refractive beam shaper operates from the far-IR to the deep-UV and converts Gaussian laser beam input to produce a collimated, flattop beam that can propagate uniformly over long...
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VOLUME PHASE GRATING
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LASER EVALUATION
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Code V version 9.3 from Optical Research Associates (ORA) has a new application programming interface that enables execution of commands from any application supporting the Windows COM architecture,...
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Based upon cavity ringdown spectroscopy technology, the LaserTrace analyzer from Tiger Optics LLC can detect numerous species, including H2O, O2, CH4, H2, CO, NH4, H2S and HF. Using fiber optic...
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The PriorLux microscope for laboratory and life science applications has infinity-corrected optics and an integrated quartz halogen illuminator to ensure sharp, even images across the field of view....
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GREEN LASER
The Lasiris green laser from StockerYale Canada Inc. generates stable output power with an internal photodiode. The focusable instrument, which has applications in alignment, inspection and machine...
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MULTIMODE FIBER SHUTTER
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PICOSECOND LASER
Lumera Laser GmbH announces its Staccato picosecond solid-state diode-pumped laser, which produces 10 W at 1064 nm and can be focused to a spot diameter of <20 µm. The laser can be used for...
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TE-COOLED LASERS
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