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Photonics Spectra - February 2006
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Commercial Applications of Optoelectronics
Optoelectronics is at the crossroads of electronics and optics. Using optical and electronic means, it generates, manipulates and converts light. Photonic devices process, store, transmit and display...
Molded Chalcogenide Optics Reduces Cost of Infrared Imaging and Sensing
With the recent development of less costly uncooled infrared detector technology, expensive optics are among the remaining significant cost drivers. For many years, germanium has been the critical...
Nanophotonics with Surface Plasmons - Part II
Plasmonics has fascinated people for centuries, although they didn’t always fully understand its unique effects. During the Middle Ages, for example, infusions of colloidal metal particles in glass...
Excimer Lasers: Rugged Reliability Is Key to Applications Growth
Excimers are pulsed gas lasers that deliver high pulse energies and high average output at ultraviolet and deep-ultraviolet wavelengths. As a result, the list of applications for excimer lasers...
Designing with Diffractives
Diffractive optical elements offer the optical system designer powerful and often unique functionality in a compact package. For example, diffraction gratings can produce a large angular spread...
Microstructured Fibers: Design and Applications
Holey fibers, in which airholes are introduced in the cladding region and extended in the axial direction of the fiber, have been known since the early days of silica waveguide research.1 Early work...
USB Improves Functions and Portability for Beam Profilers
In consumer products, the universal serial bus (USB) increases convenience and improves function, and it has enabled the widespread adoption of new technologies. For example, USB connectivity in...
Green LEDs Take a Semipolar Route
Green LEDs, which comprise thin films of GaN doped in various ways, present problems when the upper films are grown along a polar direction of the GaN crystal. For example, strong...
Tilted Quantum Wells Produce Rainbow of Colors
In pursuit of nitride-based white LEDs, scientists at Kyoto University and at Nichia Corp.’s Nitride Semiconductor Research Laboratory in Tokushima, both in Japan, have achieved a rainbow of colors...
Flexible Polymer Microcavity LEDs Use Polymer Mirrors
LED displays are getting larger, brighter, thinner and flexible to the point where they can be shaped and wrapped in unique ways. To do this, the LEDs must be made of a pliable material. Now a group...
Inexpensive Laser Technique Finds Circuit Hot Spots
Each year, integrated circuits grow in on-chip density, complexity and cost. Increasing the density means that current must be carried by smaller structures that are susceptible to thermal damage,...
Polarized Raman Confocal Microscopy Maps Nanowires
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, also in California, and Université Bordeaux 1 in Talence, France, have reported that polarized Raman...
Photoluminescence Acts as Scanning Near-Field Microscopy Probe
A highly localized light source shows promise for use in scanning near-field optical microscopy. Developed by scientists at the University of Melbourne in Australia and at Virginia Polytechnic...
Nanolithography Techniques Produce Freestanding Components
A research team at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science in Taejon and at Sogang University in Seoul, both in South Korea, has developed nanolithographic techniques that yield tiny...
Nanocrystal Emission Rate Probed
Scientists at the Institut d’Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie in Lille, France, and at Utrecht University and the Mesa+ institute at Universiteit Twente in Enschede, both in...
FRET Detects Molecules with Multiple Quantum Dots
When it comes to rapidly detecting toxins and small molecules in soil, water and food, luminescent semiconductor quantum dots could hit the spot. A team from the US Naval Research Laboratory in...
Tech Pulse
Distances of Millimeters Measured with Picometer Accuracy
For those who need a ruler with exceedingly fine gradation, physicist John R. Lawall of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., has the tool for you. He has...
Hybrid Nanowire Components Show Promise for Photonics
To advance the development of ultrasmall nanowire-based photonic devices, a research team at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., has incorporated single CdS nanowires into lithographically...
Optical Vortex May Enable Imaging of Extrasolar Planets
Despite the nursery rhyme, that star twinkling in the night sky is far from little. Moreover, any planets that orbit the star are exceedingly dim and tiny in comparison, making it difficult for...
Silver Halide Fibers Under Development for Mid-IR Imaging
Continuing their efforts to develop fibers that transmit mid-IR radiation for endoscopic imaging applications in medicine and industry, a team of scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel has...
Short-Wave IR Tunable Filters Fabricated on HgCdTe
Researchers from the University of Western Australia in Crawley, in collaboration with DRS Infrared Technologies LP in Dallas and the University of Texas at Austin, have designed and fabricated a...
Single-Lens System Offers Simultaneous Fields of View
Optical zoom lenses can provide variable magnification, so a single system can generate images of low magnification and large field as well as images with high magnification and a narrow field. It...
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MITs Communications Technology Roadmap Moves to Phase II
MIT’s Microphotonics Center, operating within the Cambridge, Mass., institute’s Materials Processing Center, recently launched the second phase of its Communications Technology Roadmap (CTR) program. The role of CTR II is to coordinate and carry out the pre-competitive, collaborative research projects identified in the initial phase and to continue charting a course for the future. In its...
Report Issued on Emerging Lighting Systems
The lighting industry is flourishing, according to a recently released report from Frost & Sullivan of London. The report focuses on the emergence of solid-state lighting and looks specifically...
Osram Advances Work on OLEDs
Osram Opto Semiconductors Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has announced progress on its white organic light-emitting diode (OLED) project. The project, funded by a $4.65 million grant from the US...
Japanese Organization Established for Industrial Imaging
The Japanese Industrial Imaging Association was launched in December at the International Technical Exhibition on Image Technology and Equipment in Yokohama, Japan. The purpose of the international,...
Consortium Awards Contract for OLEDs
The US Display Consortium, a San Jose, Calif., public/private partnership for developing the flat panel display infrastructure, and Plextronics Inc., a Pittsburgh developer of organic electronic...
Landrex Chooses N.E. Representative
Landrex Technologies Inc., a test solutions provider in Santa Clara, Calif., has named Ascentech LLC of Essex, Conn., as sales representative for its New England territory. The California company...
Nanoident Builds Organic Fabrication Unit
Nanoident AG, a nanotechnology company in Linz, Austria, will build a factory for organic semiconductor sensors where it will print organic materials onto thin, flexible plastic films using...
Roper Industries Acquires Medtec
Roper Industries Inc. of Duluth, Ga., has acquired Medtec Inc. for $150 million in cash. The Orange City, Iowa, company designs, develops and distributes technologies for the diagnosis and treatment...
Lynx Photonic Networks Secures DWDM Order
Lynx Photonic Networks of Calabasas Hills, Calif., has won a contract from the Moscow-based Rostelecom, a national long-distance telecommunications operator. It will provide the organization with...
GSI to Supply Laser Fuse Processing Platform
GSI Group Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., will supply its next-generation M455 Green Laser WaferRepair systems to a manufacturer of memory chips under a purchase order valued at more than $13 million. The...
Kopin Wins Contract for Display Subsystems
Kopin Corp. of Taunton, Mass., has received a production contract from ITT Industries Night Vision of Roanoke, Va., for display subsystems to be used in the US Army’s enhanced night-vision goggle...
JMar Expands Sales Network
To broaden the market for its photonic products, JMar Technologies Inc. of San Diego has appointed Lot-Oriel Ltd. of Darmstadt, Germany, Lastek Pty Ltd. of Thebarton, Australia, and SP Systec Ltd. of...
Collaboration to Improve Laser Cutting Technology
Applied Photonics Inc., a supplier of laser-based solutions to the semiconductor and flat panel display industries with headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Jenoptik Automatisierungstechnik GmbH of...
Hamamatsu Photonics Expands PMT Production
In Japan, Hamamatsu Photonics KK of Hamamatsu intends to double the production of its photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) and related products with the opening of its new facility in Toyo’oka, which is the...
Axsys Technologies Wins Order for IR Lenses
Axsys Technologies Inc. of Rocky Hill, Conn., has received a $3.8 million follow-on order from BAE Systems Inc. of Rockville, Md., for infrared lenses for the US Army’s thermal weapon sight II...
Zeiss and UCI Develop Research Center
Carl Zeiss SMT Inc., a semiconductor and nanotechnology instrument manufacturer in Thornwood, N.Y., and California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at the University of...
Khatod Optoelectronic Selects Agent
Khatod Optoelectronic srl of Milan, Italy, has appointed Alliance Electronics Corp. of Wilmington, Del., as its distributor in North America. It manufactures synthetic lenses, circuit board and LED...
Companies Sign Global Licensing Agreement
Unaxis Balzers Ltd., a manufacturer and developer of components for projection display systems in Balzers, Liechtenstein, and Premier Image Technology Corp., a digital still and compact camera...
BFi Optilas Wins Distribution Contracts
BFi Optilas International SAS of Evry, France, has formed European distribution agreements with three US companies. It will distribute and service products for Ocean Optics Inc. of Dunedin, Fla.,...
Schott Increases Production Capacity
Schott AG, an international technology company with headquarters in Mainz, Germany, is investing $80 million in the construction of its second thin-film transistor melting tank in Jena, Germany. The...
Dalsa Wins Contract for Dental X-Ray Gear
Dalsa Corp., a semiconductor and electronics company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has received a contract to develop custom CCD image sensor chips for an Asian manufacturer of dental x-ray...
Lasertel and SelexSign Supply Agreement
Lasertel Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., has signed a 15-year contract to be the primary supplier of semiconductor laser diode arrays for military applications to Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems. The...
Polytec Opens Office on East Coast
Polytec Inc., a provider of light-based vibration, speed, length and topography measurement systems in Tustin, Calif., has opened a regional office in Hopkinton, Mass. The facility will have an...
Henkel Acquires Sharesin Huawei Electronics
The Henkel Group, a worldwide provider of material sets for semiconductor packaging, board level assembly and advanced soldering systems, has acquired a majority of shares in Huawei Electronics Co....
Powerlase Expands
Powerlase Ltd. of Crawley, UK, is expanding its manufacturing and development facility by 12,800 sq ft to accommodate its R&D activities and to meet the demand for its diode-pumped solid-state...
Cree Licenses White LED Patent
Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., has licensed its white LED patent, US Patent No. 6,600,175, to Kingbright Electronic Co. Ltd., an LED chip customer based in Taipei, Taiwan. One of several that Cree has...
FJW Optical Systems Selects Agent
Infrared viewer and camera supplier FJW Optical Systems Inc. of Palatine, Ill., has selected Laser Physics UK Ltd. to represent its products. The Malpas, UK, company will provide sales, service and...
Olympus to Supply Inspection Systems
Olympus Integrated Technologies America Inc. of San Jose, Calif., a subsidiary of Olympus Corp. of Tokyo, has received a third order from a US integrated device manufacturer for its AL3100 system...
Flir Acquires Stock of Scientific Materials
Flir Systems Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of thermal imaging and camera systems for thermography and imaging applications with headquarters in Wilsonville, Ore., has acquired the stock...
Suss MicroTec Expands Training Facilities
To meet the demand for operator and maintenance training on its precision lithography systems, Suss MicroTec Inc. has augmented the training facilities at its headquarters in Munich, Germany. The...
Elbit Wins Contract for EO/IRA Imagery Systems
In Israel, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop Ltd. of Rehovot, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd. of Haifa, was selected by the Republic of Korea air force to supply real-time electro-optical/infrared...
Sharp and University Establish Research Center
The Nanoelectronics Collaborative Research Center under the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo and Sharp Corp. of Osaka, Japan, have established Todai-Sharp Laboratories for...
University of Rochester Receives Research Grant
The University of Rochester’s Center for Electronic Imaging Systems in New York has received $1 million from the New York State Office of Technology and Academic Research to develop ways of shrinking...
Xenon Relocates to Larger Quarters
Xenon Corp. has moved to a corporate facility in Wilmington, Mass., where it has tripled its manufacturing, engineering and office space. The plant is equipped with a laboratory where customers may...
Emcore Purchases Force
Emcore Corp. has purchased Force Inc. of Christiansburg, Va., including its fiber optic transport and video broadcast products, technologies and intellectual property. The Somerset N.J., company...
Cambridge University to Develop Microscopic Lasers
In the UK, Cambridge University was awarded approximately £2.4 million under the Basic Technology Research Initiative to develop microscopic lasers. Based on liquid crystals and light-emitting...
Lumera Signs Agreements
Lumera Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has signed an agreement with the Pennsylvania State University Electro-Optics Center in Freeport, Pa., by which it will develop polymer-based electro-optic modulators...
Accent on Applications
Velocimetry Follows the Flow for Clean Water
To avoid the fate of Coleridge’s ancient mariner, Fariborz Taghipour wants to make sure that there’s always a drop to drink. Taghipour, an assistant professor in chemical and biological engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and fellow researcher D. Angelo Sozzi are working to optimize the operation of ultraviolet photoreactors — devices that remove toxic organics and...
Tracking Where the Chips Fall
Where others see a work of art, Thomas J. Tague Jr. sees an opportunity — and a challenge. Art conservators, museum directors, interested individuals and sometimes the general public want to know if...
Laser Technique Facilitates Mass Spectrometry of Petroleum
For those feeling pain at the pump and hoping for less expensive fill-ups, the news from the US Department of Energy in December was not good. The department has projected oil prices to remain well...
Presstime Bulletin
Photonics Used to Study Cerebral Blood Flow
A pair of independent studies using photonics to investigate the flow of blood in the brain may enable a better understanding of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and strokes. In the...
Optical Link Established Over 24 Million Kilometers
In an experiment involving a spacecraft en route to the planet Mercury, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., have exchanged laser pulses...
Laser Plasma Channels Power Paper Airplane
A research team at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing has used self-guided plasma channels created in air by a femtosecond laser to propel a 1.32-g paper airplane...
Shocked Crystals May Emit Coherent T-Rays
Numerical experiments indicate that mechanically shocking crystalline materials may cause them to generate coherent radiation in the 1- to 100-THz frequency range, potentially enabling the...
Lighter Side
Size Matters
As with most things governed by the mind, visual perception does not conform to strict rules. A recent study by Jessica K. Witt and Dennis R. Proffitt at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville confirms that athletes perceive the ball to be larger or smaller, depending on how well they are playing. The researchers showed a chart with circles of various sizes to softball players who had...
Fast Tracks
Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College in North Mymms, UK, used high-speed video to record a significant difference in how two-legged and four-legged animals run around a track. They examined...
Fingering Security Spoofers
Whether driven by one-upmanship or by criminal intent, there always seem to be people who want to outsmart any new technology. Biometric identity systems are being used increasingly for security...
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