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Photonics Spectra - June 2006
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Photonic Crystals Enable Single-Mode Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) has been the subject of intense research since its development in 1977.1 The standard device structure consists of a doped, highly reflective bottom...
GaN LEDs Incorporate Laser Liftoff and Photonic Crystal
The material of choice for solid-state lighting solutions from the ultraviolet to the blue-green region of the spectrum has been GaN. As with all LED materials, however, the relatively high...
White LEDs Approximate Daylight
In pursuit of alternative material systems for white LEDs, scientists at National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, at Sharp Corp. in Mihara and at Fujikura Ltd. in Sakura, all in Japan,...
Fluorescent/Phosphorescent White Organic LEDs Employ Singlets and Triplets
In their continuing pursuit of a replacement for the incandescent light bulb, researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey and at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, with the...
FTIR Spectroscopy Measures Sugars in Apples
One quantitative measure of the quality of fruit that can be employed to determine the optimum harvest time, to validate storage methods and to monitor processing is the relative amount of glucose,...
Frequency Comb Improves Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy
Spectral discrimination reveals band structures to identify analytes, but accessing spectral information has been challenging, as spectroscopists have been forced to balance the parameters of...
Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Images Buried Nanoscale Features
Thanks to researchers at the University of Rochester in New York, looking below the surface may be easier — at least on a small scale. Using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, the group has mapped...
IR Spectroscopy Maps Linker Films
In fields as diverse as genomics and defense, surfaces must be scanned for traces of chemicals and other substances. The use of self-assembled monolayers is an effective method of modifying the...
In Situ Process Promises Mass Production of Nanowire-Based Photodetectors
A fundamental hurdle in the race to develop viable optoelectronic devices based on nanoscale structures is finding an easy way to place those structures as desired and to connect them with much...
Microscale Tubes Incorporate Quantum Dots
A team at Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart, Germany, has produced InGaAs/GaAs tubes with InAs quantum dots embedded in their walls. The structures suggest the feasibility of...
Dots Within Dots May Hit the Spot
Like nested dolls, quantum dots can reside inside microspheres. Quantum dots are a few nanometers in diameter and have bright, size-dependent emission. A single wavelength can be used to excite dots...
Nano-Raman Images on the Nanoscale with a Light Touch
When dealing with something delicate, you must be gentle. Researchers at Vanderbilt and Fisk universities, both in Nashville, Tenn., and at Istituto di Struttura della Materia del Consiglio Nazionale...
Laser Acts as Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope Probe
Researchers in China have demonstrated a near-field scanning optical microscope that employs a very small aperture laser diode as the probe, rather than a tapered optical fiber with a...
UV Thermal Lens Microscope Shows Promise for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications
The miniaturization of various analytical systems greatly simplifies chemical and biochemical research. Because such lab-on-a-chip solutions involve microscale sample volumes and device dimensions,...
Innovative Technology Enables a New Architecture for the World’s Largest Laser
The world’s largest laser, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., is 85 percent complete (Figure 1). When operational, its 192...
Channeling Surface Plasmons
Modern communications systems must deal with huge amounts of data at ever-increasing speeds. In doing so, they try to use the best features of electronic and optical circuits. Electronic circuits are...
A New Look at Risley Prisms
With more and more applications requiring laser beams to be aimed at distant targets, such as for line-of-sight communications, aircraft-to-satellite secure communications, and laser weapons and...
Lasers Emerge as a Tool for the Direct Study of Electrons in Solids
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is the most direct way to observe the quantum-mechanical structure of electrons in solids and one of the key tools used to understand the complex electronic...
Photonics Set to Rescue Microprocessor Clocking
In the fast-paced and ever-changing microprocessor world, there is one undeniable truth: Photonic clocking will happen. It is just a question of when. The International Technology Roadmap for...
The Best of Both Worlds for Spectroscopy
Spectroscopists continue to push the boundaries of technology as they seek to learn more about life’s building blocks. From understanding how the human body works in minute detail to discovering and...
Tech Pulse
Laser Technique Accurately Measures Turbine Tip Clearance
The clearance between a turbine blade and its housing is critical to the machine’s performance. Too large a spacing results in detrimental leakages, but contact between the blade and housing could destroy the machine. Because the spacing varies with temperature and pressure during operation, optimal performance requires real-time monitoring of the clearance. In industrial practice today, most...
Phase Mask Increases Depth of Focus
Anyone who has taken a picture with a camera only to find some features out of focus will appreciate the recent efforts of a team from Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan and from Tel Aviv University,...
Liquid Crystal Lenses May Replace Bifocals
By age 50, some people notice that their arms have become too short to hold a newspaper or book where they can read it. That’s a consequence of presbyopia, an age-related inability of the eye to...
Photonic Crystal Improves IR Sensor Performance
Scientists at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have reported that the addition of a two-dimensional hexagonal photonic crystal to a...
Noise Links Digital Images to Camera
Digital forensics has taken a step forward, thanks to a technique developed at State University of New York at Binghamton. A group of researchers led by Jessica Fridrich, associate professor in the...
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Agilent Technologies Opens Optics Shop to External Customers
In response to customer requests, Agilent Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., has opened its precision optics and design capabilities to outside customers. The custom capabilities have been developed in-house for almost 40 years to support the company’s laser interferometry business and a limited number of customers. After opening the shop to selected new customers, it was determined that...
Rofin-Sinar Gains Stake in H2B Photonics
Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. of Plymouth, Mich., has purchased a 40 percent stake in H2B Photonics GmbH of Garbsen, Germany. The latter develops, manufactures and sells laser-based systems that are...
Schott Plans Additional Facility in Germany
Schott Solar Inc. of Rocklin, Calif., will build a €60 million facility in Jena, Germany, for producing thin-film solar electricity modules based on amorphous silicon. The manufacturing method, in...
Coherent Opens Office in Seoul
Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has opened an office in Seoul, South Korea, to support local customers. Coherent Korea will provide industrial sales and all service, while Wooyang Trading Co.,...
NASA Presents Phase 2 Tech Awards
NASA has selected 14 small high-technology businesses in eight states for Phase 2 of its 2004 Small Business Technology Transfer awards. The selected companies’ projects have a total value of...
Grand Challenge Scheduled for 2007
DARPA plans to hold its third Grand Challenge competition for autonomous ground vehicles Nov. 3, 2007. Vehicles in the Urban Challenge will execute simulated military supply missions in a mock urban...
CVI Acquires Quality Laser Optics
CVI Technical Optics Ltd. of Onchan has announced the acquisition of Quality Laser Optics of Ballasalla, both on the Isle of Man, UK. The purchase will increase CVI’s European manufacturing capacity...
Networking Groups Merge
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF), a nonprofit organization including carriers, component manufacturers and system vendors, and the Network Processing Forum (NPF), an international consortium...
Eye-Tracking Technologies Project
The five-year Communication by Gaze Interaction (COGAIN) project was established to extend the potential and to lower the cost of eye-tracking technologies for people with disabilities. Supported by...
Researchers Receive DoD Award
Two researchers at the University of Central Florida in Orlando have won an award of $309,600 from the US Department of Defense under its Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, which...
Umicore Expands IR Glass Capabilities
L-3 Communications Corp.’s Infrared Products Div. of Dallas will sell intellectual property, equipment and materials associated with chalcogenide infrared optical glass and lenses production...
NEC Tokin Transfers Optical Device Business
In Japan, NEC Tokin Corp. of Miyagi will transfer its optical device business to Seikoh Giken Co. Ltd. of Chiba. The former intends to focus on PC-related equipment, mobile phones, digital consumer...
Moritex Opens Office on East Coast
Moritex USA Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has announced the opening of an East Coast office in Natick, Mass., to provide sales and support services. The company offers fiber optic, machine vision,...
Toyoda Gosei and Philips Share LED Patents
Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. of Aichi, Japan, and Philips Lumileds Lighting Co. of San Jose, Calif., have entered into an agreement under which the companies and their subsidiaries will share patents for...
OIDA Commissions Lumera, Duke University
Lumera Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has announced that it has received an order from the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA). OIDA administers the Photonics Technology Access Program...
West Penn Power Invests in Plextronics
The West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund has provided $500,000 to Plextronics Inc. of Pittsburgh, a developer of active-layer technology enabling broad market commercialization of printed...
PI Wins Contract for Positioning Systems
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP of Auburn, Mass., has received an order to supply 25 six-axis hexapod alignment systems and motion controllers to Vertex Antenna Systems, a unit of General Dynamics C4...
kSaria and DRS Announce Agreement
KSaria of Lawrence, Mass., and DRS Laurel Technologies plan to construct an automated center at DRS’ 130,000-sq-ft facility in Johnstown, Pa., for the manufacture of fiber optic cables. The center...
Pacer Acquires Rocotech Distribution Business
In the UK, Pacer Components plc of Reading has acquired the distribution unit of Rocotech International Ltd. of Gerrards Cross. As a result of the transaction, Pacer is now the exclusive distributor...
Comsol Names Distributor in China
Comsol Inc. of Burlington, Mass., has chosen ZhongFang Information Technology Ltd. of Shanghai, China, to provide marketing, sales, local training and support for the company’s product line and...
Veeco to Support Lighting Research
To develop materials and device technology for high-efficiency solid-state lighting, Veeco Instruments Inc. of Woodbury, N.Y., a provider of metrology and process equipment solutions for the...
ASI/Silica to Supply Vapor Deposition Units
ASI/Silica Machinery LLC of North Hills, Calif., has received a multimillion-dollar order for 16 outside vapor deposition systems. The sale includes dual-spindle upgrades to existing cladding and...
DuPont and Fraunhofer Collaborate
DuPont Semiconductor Packaging & Circuit Materials of Research Triangle Park, N.C., has formed an alliance in which Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM of Berlin will...
Ametek Creates Materials Analysis Div.
Ametek Inc. of Paoli, Pa., has combined recently acquired Spectro Analytical Instruments GmbH & Co. KG of Kleve, Germany, and Edax of Mahwah, N.J., formerly a unit of the company’s Process &...
Georgia Tech, Solvay Collaborate on OLEDs
Solvay of Brussels, Belgium, a chemical and pharmaceutical group, has signed a three-year commitment with Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) to fund...
Finetech Appoints Representatives
Arizona-based Finetech Inc. has chosen Hattas and Associates of Mundelein and Technology Plus of McHenry, both in Illinois, to serve its customers there and in Wisconsin. The Arizona company...
Optech Collaborates with Applied Imagery
Optech Inc.’s Industrial & 3D Imaging Div. in Toronto will incorporate its automated alignment functionality, standard in its intelligent laser ranging and imaging systems, in Applied Imagery’s...
Vistec Semiconductor Systems Is Launched
Vistec Semiconductor Systems GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany, unveiled its new corporate identity, including its new name and logo, at the Semicon Europe show in Munich, Germany, in April. Formerly known as...
Coastal Optical Systems Becomes Jenoptik Agent
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH of Jena, Germany, has appointed Coastal Optical Systems Inc. as its North American distributor. The West Palm Beach, Fla., company will represent Jenoptik’s...
nm Laser Relocates
Laser shutter producer nm Laser Products Inc. has moved to a custom-designed facility in San Jose, Calif., a short distance from its original headquarters in Sunnyvale. The new facility is equipped...
Bodkin Awarded Navy Contract
Bodkin Design & Engineering LLC of Newton, Mass., has received a $70,000 contract from the US Navy to develop a compact hyperspectral digital imaging camera for use on unmanned aerial vehicles....
Bruker BioSciences Buys Bruker Optics
Bruker BioSciences Corp. has purchased molecular spectroscopy company Bruker Optics Inc., for $135 million in cash and stock. The combined companies, both of Billerica, Mass. will provide...
LightWorks Optics Receives Contract
Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md., has awarded a second infrared focus assembly contract to LightWorks Optics Inc. of Tustin, Calif. According to the $3.6 million agreement, the California...
4D Technology Gets NASA Award
NASA’s Goddard Achievement in Excellence Award has been presented to 4D Technology of Tucson, Ariz., for its vibration-intensive speckle interferometer’s contribution to the James Webb Space...
LightPath Awarded Grant
The US Naval Air Warfare Center has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant to LightPath Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of precision-molded aspheric optics, Gradium glass products,...
Rudolph Receives Multiple-System Order
Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Flanders, N.J., has been awarded a multiple-system order from a US semiconductor manufacturer for its all-surface advanced macrodefect-detection system. The system...
DataLase Expands UK Headquarters
DataLase, a provider of patented laser marking solutions for product identification and anticounterfeiting applications, has augmented its facilities at its headquarters in Widnes, UK. The expansion...
OmniVision to Supply Image Sensors to Hella
OmniVision Technologies Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has been selected to provide CMOS image sensors to Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. of Lippstadt, Germany, a supplier of automotive parts and accessories....
Konica Subsidiary Launched in Europe
Konica Minolta Sensing Inc. of Tokyo has formed a subsidiary, Konica Minolta Sensing Europe BV, to sell and support industrial measuring instruments for color, light and shapes in Europe. With...
Daitron Purchases Chori America Unit
Daitron Inc. of Wilsonville, Ore., has acquired the CCD Camera Div. of Chori America Inc. of New York to expand its product line and to provide additional staff to serve its camera hardware...
Imago Purchases Oxford NanoScience
Imago Scientific Instruments Corp. of Madison, Wis., has acquired Oxford NanoScience Ltd., an atom probe company in Milton Keynes, from Polaron plc of Watford, both in the UK. Imago develops atom...
MAC to Develop Spectrometer for Aircraft
Under a $1.5 million multiyear contract with Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Michigan Aerospace Corp. (MAC), a provider of optical products and advanced...
Alfalight to Produce Multiwatt Diodes
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded $4.7 million to Alfalight Inc. of Madison, Wis., for an 18-month effort to produce a multikilowatt diode laser system. The company hopes to...
Sharp to Open Plant in Poland for LCD Screens
Sharp Electronics Corp., a global company, will build an LCD screen manufacturing facility in Torun, Poland. The screens will be exported to the company’s LCD television manufacturing facilities in...
Fujitsu and Mitsui Launch Optical Device Venture
Fujitsu Ltd. and Mitsui & Co. Ltd. of Tokyo have provided venture capital to establish an optical device company, QD Laser Inc. Using Fujitsu’s technology, QD Laser will offer quantum dot lasers...
Accent on Applications
Fluorescence Helps Measure Reactive Oxygen Species in Cigarette Smoke
The main hazard of smoking cigarettes is that it has been linked to major diseases: cancer, cardiovascular disease, emphysema and stroke among them. The connection between smoking and these diseases...
Spotting Live Bugs Keeps a Cleanroom Clean
When it comes to keeping pharmaceutical cleanrooms clean and profitable, it is important to be a good judge of the quick and the dead. Of the two classes of particles that contaminate cleanrooms, the...
Presstime Bulletin
Backward Pulses Studied in Erbium-Doped Fiber
Reporting in the May 12 issue of Science, scientists at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y., Manhattan College in New York and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor describe the observation of 1550-nm laser pulses that propagate backward through an erbium-doped fiber prepared with a negative group velocity, with the peak of a given pulse exiting the fiber before it enters. The exotic...
Metamaterials Display Negative Phase and Group Velocity
A team made up of researchers in Europe and the US has confirmed that negative-refractive-index media also can exhibit exotic pulse propagation phenomena. In the May 12 issue of Science, the...
Strained Silicon Enables Electro-Optic Modulator
A switchable silicon waveguide demonstrated by scientists at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet in Lyngby, Denmark, points to the possibility of integrating electronics and photonics in monolithic...
Lighter Side
Sole Searching
Scotland Yard may someday have a better way of tracking criminals — by examining the treads on their shoes. Recently, laws concerning police powers in the UK have changed to acknowledge footwear...
Laser ‘Lite’?
Imagine if one could drop in at a laser light booth and come out svelte and blemish-free! Don’t count on doing it before your next high school reunion, but studies are already in the works using a...
Products
MID-IR TUNABLE LASER SYSTEMS
Developed by Daylight Solutions Inc., the Tiny Tunables line of miniaturized mid-infrared tunable laser systems integrate quantum cascade lasers and operate at room temperature over the 4- to...
DRS Daylight Solutions Inc.
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BENCHTOP SUPERLUMINESCENT LEDS
The SLD-101S line of benchtop superluminescent LEDs designed for optical coherence tomography, for fiber sensors and gyros, and for test and measurement applications has been announced by General...
General Photonics Corp.
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11-MEGAPIXEL CCD CAMERAS
Lumenera Corp. has released the Lw11056 line of 11-megapixel CCD cameras. Featuring USB 2.0 and DirectShow connectivity, they operate at 3.5 fps at full 4008 × 2672-pixel resolution. Based on a...
Teledyne Lumenera
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CURRENT SOURCES
ILX Lightwave Corp. has introduced the LDX-3600 series current sources for controlling and testing high-power laser diodes. Five models offer currents of 10 to 120 A, with a compliance voltage of up...
Newport - ILX Lightwave, Photonics
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WAVEFRONT SENSING
Flexible Optical BV has added an alignment mode to its FrontSurfer Hartmann-Shack wavefront sensor system, which now displays real-time polar graphs corresponding to beam position, tip, tilt,...
Flexible Optical BV (OKO Tech)
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SPECTRAL SHAPING FILTER
Alpine Research Optics has launched a spectral shaping filter that produces pulses as short as 5 fs from ultrafast Ti:sapphire amplifiers. The intracavity optic is a dielectric coated filter with a...
Alpine Research Optics
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ELECTRON MICROSCOPES
The JSM-6390/64-90 series high-resolution tungsten scanning electron microscopes, featuring multiple live image displays, a streamlined graphical user interface and low-kilovolt operation, have been...
JEOL USA Inc.
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NIGHT-VISION TESTING
The OL 770-NVS test and measurement system launched by Optronic Laboratories Inc. measures lighting and displays compatible with night-vision goggles. Multichannel detection produces ultrafast...
Optronic Laboratories LLC
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METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE
CPS Corp. is offering AlSiC (aluminum silicon carbide), a metal matrix composite that is suitable for the thermal management of high-brightness LEDs. The RoHs-compliant composite enables a tailored...
CPS Technologies Corp.
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LASER CUTTING
The CL-850 high-speed laser cutting system manufactured by Cincinnati Inc. combines a 5000-W laser resonator with a third-generation linear motor drive system to deliver 10,000-in./min head...
Cincinnati Inc.
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DIGITAL CAMERAS
Available in 28 models, the Scout series digital cameras from Basler Vision Technologies offer resolutions from VGA to 2 megapixels with either a FireWire-b or Gigabit Ethernet interface. The cameras...
Basler AG
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FIBER-PIGTAILED DIODES
Modulight Inc. has released 1550-nm Fabry-Perot and distributed feedback laser diodes for analog applications. The lasers can be combined with the company’s 1310-nm models for bidirectional...
Modulight Inc.
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X-RAY SPECTROMETER
Bruker AXS Inc. has unveiled the S8 Tiger wavelength dispersive x-ray fluorescence spectrometer for elemental analysis in industrial applications such as cement, mining and petrochemistry. It...
Bruker AXS Inc.
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RAMAN SPECTROMETER
A battery-operated spectrometer that can collect Raman spectra from 175 to 2500 cm–1 from the excitation line has been introduced by B&W Tek Inc. The MiniRam Raman spectrometer system includes a...
B&W Tek LLC
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TIMING MEASUREMENT
For precise determination of an LCD screen’s timing dependency and electro-optical specifications, Eldim SA has introduced the third generation of its OptiScope timing measurement system. The imaging...
Eldim
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LASER DIODE MODULES
Laser Components IG Inc. has expanded its Flexpoint pigtailed laser diode module series by adding 405- and 532-nm wavelengths in the blue and green spectral range. The modules are exchangeable...
Laser Components USA Inc.
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PROCESS CONTROL
The Remote-LIBS System from Lasertechnik Berlin GmbH provides control of manufacturing processes up to a few meters away from a sample. The device uses laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy to...
LTB Lasertechnik Berlin GmbH
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DATA ANALYSIS
Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. has enhanced its KnowItAll informatics system for comparative visualization, data mining and analysis to compare large amounts of spectral, chromatographic and other...
Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc., Informatics Div.
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FIBER LASER
A 4-W short-pulse ytterbium laser has been added to the family of fiber-coupled modules produced by Lumics GmbH. The LU1060F400 emits at 1060 to 1080 nm via a 1.5-m fiber with a 25-μm core that...
Lumics GmbH
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FRAME GRABBER BOARD
Matrix Vision GmbH has released the mvSigma-SQe — an updated version of its four-channel frame grabber board designed to accommodate the PCI Express bus standard. The new bus standard enables...
MATRIX VISION GmbH
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LED LIGHTGUIDES
Based on patented proprietary MicroLens technology, single-LED molded lightguides released by Global Lighting Technologies can be designed in sizes from 0.24 to 15.4-in. diagonal to provide...
Global Lighting Technologies
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IMAGE SENSORS
Hamamatsu Corp. has introduced the S9972 and S9973 series front-illuminated full-frame transfer CCDs, suitable for low-light-level detection in spectrometry, semiconductor inspection and DNA...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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NANOPARTICLE ANALYZER
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. has unveiled the SALD-7001, a nanoparticle analyzer equipped with a 405-nm violet semiconductor laser. The device continuously analyzes size distribution of fine,...
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc.
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ROTARY STAGE
Nanomotion Inc. has introduced the R150 rotary stage for applications that require precise motion control and automation. The 150-mm-diameter ceramic servo device comes with either two or four HR2...
Nanomotion Inc.
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DIODE LASER
Suitable for medical and industrial applications, nLight Corp.’s near-IR diode laser provides high power and brightness. Using the company’s proprietary BrightLife semiconductor technology, the...
nLIGHT Inc.
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OSCILLATOR
The Spectra-Physics Div. of Newport Corp. has announced the Tsunami HP, an ultrafast oscillator with a tuning range of 700 to 1080 nm. The mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser delivers pulse durations of...
MKS/Newport
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OPTICAL INSPECTION
Vision Engineering Inc. has introduced a new generation of its Mantis microscopes. The Mantis Compact and Mantis Elite are patented, ergonomically designed, eyepieceless optical inspection systems...
Vision Engineering Inc.
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ACTUATION SYSTEM SHUTTER
Vincent Associates is offering a 25-mm-aperture version of its patent-pending noncontact actuation system (N-CAS) shutter, the Uniblitz NS25. The device has no solenoids and no linkages and only six...
Vincent Associates
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LASER DIODE POWER
A 1550-nm single semiconductor diode laser manufactured by SemiNex Corp. delivers >4.5 W of power, as compared with the 0.8- to 1.5-W output of conventional diodes. Higher-power laser diodes...
SemiNex Corporation
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UV-CURABLE ADHESIVE
Master Bond Inc. has developed a one-component UV-curable polymer system for bonding, sealing and coating. UV14-3 is removable by most conventional solvents and is a 100% reactive, moderate viscosity...
Master Bond Inc.
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SCANNING STAGES
Patent-pending Intelligent Scanning Technology has been added to Prior Scientific Inc.’s model H101A, H107 and H117 ProScan II series of 4 × 3-in. scanning stages. The technology allows each stage to...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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INDUSTRIAL VIDEO CAMERA
The IK-TF2 three-CCD color industrial video camera produced by Toshiba America’s Imaging Systems Div. measures 44 × 44 × 78 mm, weighs 5.47 oz and integrates easily into high-speed machine vision...
CANON MEDICAL COMPONENTS U.S.A., Video Sensing Devices
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INFRARED DETECTORS
Optek Technology Inc., a subsidiary of TT electronics plc, has developed a silicon phototransistor in a 0.10 × 0.08-in. surface-mount package. The OP570 series NPN phototransistors have an integral...
Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control
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OTDR LASERS
The Laser Diode Inc. unit of Tyco Electronics has announced its SCW series optical time-domain reflectometer lasers for optical test equipment applications. The instruments accommodate 1310-, 1550-...
Tyco Electronics, Communications & Industrial Solutions
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MOTORIZED STAGES
The M-110 series translation stages, introduced by PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, provide linear motion of 5, 15 and 25 mm. The X-, X-Y and X-Y-Z systems can be combined with the M-116 miniature rotary...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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VIBROMETERS
Sios Messtechnik GmbH has introduced the laser interferometeric vibrometer SP-S series for noncontact measurement of vibrations on surfaces with arbitrary roughness over frequencies from 0 to 500...
SIOS Messtechnik GmbH
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30° AND 60° LEDS
Osram GmbH’s Power TopLEDs, based on thin-film chip technology, produce high brightness with a 30° or a 60° beam angle. The company says that, in red and yellow, the 30° surface-mount-technology LEDs...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
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LED LIGHT
The Loctite 7703 handheld LED light source announced by Henkel Corp. immediately cures Loctite 3552 and 3553 adhesives safely and efficiently. The 9 × 1 × 3/4-in. system delivers visible light...
Henkel Adhesives
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HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES
For use with gas spectrometers, IR temperature measurement instruments, lasers, and oxygen and carbon monoxide/carbon dioxide gas detectors, Epner Technology Inc. has released its LaserGold-coated...
Epner Technology Inc.
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INDUSTRIAL CAMERAS
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH has unveiled the Pike series cameras, which use the IEEE-1394b interface. Designed for industrial use, they can be supplied with a copper daisy-chain connection or 1x...
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH
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LASER DRIVER MODULES
The compact LDR Eurocard laser driver modules announced by OptoSci Ltd. provide current and thermoelectric (TE) cooling control of laser diodes. They are designed for use with grounded cathode...
OptoSci Ltd.
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ASPHERIC LENSES
Off-the-shelf Tech Spec precision aspheric lenses with clear apertures from 15 to 25 mm and effective focal lengths form 11.25 to 37.5 mm are available from Edmund Optics Inc. The company says that...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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SCANNING STAGE
An ultracompact X-Y-Z scanning stage has been introduced by attocube systems AG. The ANSxyz100 operates with high stability and resolution and a large scan range at temperatures of less than 1 K and...
attocube systems AG
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UV CURING
Xenon Corp. is offering a curing system for Blu-ray Disc manufacturing that uses pulsed UV radiation to provide 1000-W/cm2 peak pulse power for penetrating and curing the 100-μm-thick...
XENON Corporation
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LASER MARKING
Laser Photonics has introduced i-Series, a fiber laser marking kit that includes a fiber laser integrated with a scan head power supply, a double-fast digital scanning head with a 7-mm aperture, an...
Laser Photonics Corp.
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TURNING MIRRORS
CO2 turning mirrors and reflectors for lasers used in etching, engraving, cutting, hole drilling and welding are available from the Laser Research Optics Div. of Meller Optics Inc. The mirrors are...
Meller Optics Inc.
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CONFOCAL OPTICAL PENS
For profilometry, microtopography, roughness, autofocus vibrometry, in-line inspection quality control and thickness measurements, Micro Photonics Inc. has released a line of confocal chromatic...
Micro Photonics Inc.
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CAMERA LENS
Volpi USA announces the FlexLens for use in multiple camera applications. It is available with one to four arms, each of which transmits images back through the system into a C-mounted camera where...
Volpi USA
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END-PUMPED LASER
Compact diode-end-pumped solid-state lasers with symmetric beam quality of M2 <1.3 have been released by EdgeWave GmbH. The IS series Innoslab lasers produce an average power of higher than 60 W...
EdgeWave GmbH, Innovative Laser Solutions
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The GeoLasPro self-contained laser ablation system for sample introduction in high-resolution laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry has been unveiled by Coherent Inc. It...
Coherent Inc.
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DIODE LASER SYSTEMS
New versions of the iPulse and iBeam diode laser systems from Toptica Photonics AG deliver 18 mW of output power at 375 nm. Other standard wavelengths available are 405, 445, 473, 640, 660 and 675...
Toptica Photonics AG
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The Nanoform DRL600 offered by Precitech Technology Inc. is an ultraprecision machining system designed for diamond turning optical microstructures on drum roll surfaces that measure 400 mm in...
AMETEK Precitech Inc.
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Using proprietary surface-forming technology, Precision Asphere LLC manufactures custom convex and concave glass aspheres with diameters from 10 to >300 mm. Aspheric surface forming is done on...
Precision Asphere Inc.
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COLOR CAMERAS
Compact Smart Cameras produced by Vision Components GmbH are now available as color cameras. The VC4016 offers a rate of 16 fps at 1024 × 768 pixels, and the VC4018 offers 32 fps at 640 × 480 pixels....
Vision Components GmbH
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LED CONTROLLERS
The Sirius universal LED controllers introduced by Mightex Systems are multichannel devices that can drive any type of LED in constant inten-sity, strobe and/or external trigger mode. They are...
Mightex Systems
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CUSTOM WAVE PLATES
Tower Optical Corp. has announced that its family of Zero Order wave plates are now available at any wavelength between 280 and 1350 nm. Using an improved manufacturing technology, the company says...
Tower Optical Corp.
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FIBER STRIPPER
A fiber stripper designed to remove polyimide and other coatings without the use of hot acid has been released by FiberLogix Ltd. The All-Strip accommodates a variety of fiber sizes up to 1 mm in...
FiberLogix International Ltd.
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LINE-SCAN CAMERA
The Imaging Solutions Group of New York Inc. has added the LW-PE-2048-1394 line-scan camera to its LightWise series. Incorporating a PerkinElmer CCD linear sensor, the device has 2048 × 1 pixels...
Imaging Solutions Group
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FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS
Acreo AB has released its Sesam 640 and Sesam 384 quantum-well infrared photodetectors-focal plane arrays, in formats of 640 × 512 and 384 × 288, respectively. The former is based on the standard...
RISE Fiberlab
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THIN-FILM DEPOSITION
Available in two models, the XTC/3 thin-film deposition controller from Inficon incorporates the ModeLock oscillator technology, which prevents film thickness errors caused by mode-hopping. The...
INFICON
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YELLOW LASER
CrystaLaser Inc. has announced a diode-pumped solid-state laser that operates at 561 nm in single longitudinal mode and that produces 60 mW of single-frequency output. It provides a...
CrystaLaser LC
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FIBER OPTIC SPECTROMETER
The EPP2000-UVN-SR fiber optic spectrometer for UV, visible and near-IR applications has been announced by StellarNet Inc. Covering the 200- to 1100-nm range, it is supplied with a high-speed USB 2.0...
StellarNet Inc.
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