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Photonics Spectra - October 2006
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Smart Cameras Are Earning a Niche in Machine Vision
With apologies to Forrest Gump: Smart is as smart does. As the cost of memory and processor chips has dropped, camera vendors have crammed more and more intelligence into their devices. Consequently,...
Slab-Coupled Optical Waveguide Lasers Emerge from a Multimode Sea
Since the invention of diode lasers in 1962, researchers have sought to increase the power available from them in a single spatial mode. Because of their high brightness, single-mode diode lasers...
Selecting the Best Optical Mount
There are many types of mounts that can be used to hold and adjust mirrors, beamsplitters, lenses and other round, thin optics. Companies offer an extensive array of such products, from inexpensive...
Novel Technology Could Increase Thermal Imaging Use
The desire to “see” in complete darkness or through obscurants such as smoke or fog has driven the development and adoption of thermal imaging technology in numerous industries. Thermal imaging...
Two-Photon Polymerization: A New Approach to Micromachining
The rapid technical development of ultrashort laser systems is creating exciting possibilities for very precise localization of laser energy in time and space. These achievements have triggered novel...
Seeing More with Less
When it comes to fluorescence microscopy, a team of investigators has shown that you can see more with less. Scientists at the Janelia Farm Research Campus of Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
Electron Tomography for Integrated Circuit Analysis
To better detect nanoscale defects in integrated circuits, researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., are exploring...
Titanium Nanoparticles Produced by Laser Ablation in Liquid Are Studied
As applications of nanoscale materials continue to be developed, a fundamental understanding of how changes in the processes that create those materials affect their resulting properties is required....
Photoluminescence Reveals Properties of Single CdS Nanowires
Although advancements in CdS nanowire synthesis and device fabrication have led to such optically driven applications as lasers, photodetectors and waveguides, there is little information on the...
Quantum-Confined Excitons Produce Luminescence in Silicon Nanowires
Light emission from silicon nanowires has been demonstrated previously, but there has not been conclusive evidence that the emissions can be obtained from quantum-confined excitons within the...
Doped Nanorods Produced by Wet Chemistry
Two researchers affiliated with Tsinghua University in Beijing and with Anhui Normal University in Wuhu, China, have reported a relatively simple wet chemistry method for the production of...
Near-IR Spectroscopy Analyzes Sesame Seeds
One of the oldest known condiments, sesame seeds are a good source of dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals, including manganese and copper. Recently, sesame oil received attention as a source of...
FTIR spectroscopy detects drinking water pathogens
Testing the safety of drinking water using conventional microbiological techniques is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, especially because traditional methods require further identification...
Adding Muscle to Displays
For truly full-color displays, scientists at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have devised a technology that is based on tunable diffraction controlled by artificial “muscles.” The...
OLED Exhibits ~10 Percent External Quantum Efficiency
Scientists at Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd.’s Advanced Energy Research Center in Hirakata, Japan, have obtained an external quantum efficiency of 9.9 percent from a green fluorescent organic LED (OLED)....
Suitability of Nanotube Films Depends on How They Are Made
At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, scientists have reported that not all carbon nanotubes are equal as replacements for the transparent ITO electrodes in organic LEDs (OLEDs)...
Tech Pulse
Identifying Counterfeit Cognac
In the food and drink industry, counterfeit products are a big problem. In the spirits industry alone, annual losses due to counterfeiting are about €725 million worldwide, according to the...
Microlens Arrays Produced by Soft Lithography
A team of scientists at Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon and at LG Chem Ltd.’s Research Park in Taejon, both in South Korea, has fabricated two-dimensional arrays of microlenses by soft lithography,...
Sniffing out an ill wind
Volatile sulfur compounds are found in polluted waters and garbage heaps and are the major component of halitosis — your own bad breath. Two of these compounds — dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and methyl...
Stepping out of the Shadows Using Polarized Light
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have demonstrated a machine vision technique that untangles multiple overlapping shadows within a scene, improving a camera’s ability to...
Bistable LCD Switches Optically
With the popularity of portable electronic devices that incorporate LCDs, researchers have been exploring ways of reducing power consumption to enable those cell phones, laptop computers and personal...
A Little Hole in an Optical Fiber Has Many Uses
Scientists at Aston University in Birmingham, UK, have fabricated a microchannel across the diameter of a single-mode fiber and used the tiny device to measure the refractive index of a fluid pumped...
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Quintessence to Produce Optical-Sensing Lasers
Quintessence Photonics Corp. of Sylmar, Calif., has won a contract to develop and produce optical-sensing lasers based on its recently released semiconductor lasers, which employ proprietary internal gratings. The grating technology is expected to have numerous applications in military and industrial settings.
DataLase Opens US Headquarters
Formerly Sherwood Technology, DataLase Ltd. of Widnes, UK, has opened a North American headquarters in Atlanta under the name DataLase Inc. It will function as a sales office as well as a...
Sandia Grants License to E M Optomechanical
In Albuquerque, N.M., Sandia National Laboratories has provided a license to E M Optical Inc. to produce products based on a new configuration for interference microscopy that was developed by Sandia...
Texas Photonics Receives DARPA Contract
BAE Systems of Lexington, Mass., has awarded Phase II funding of approximately $705,000 to Texas Photonics Inc. of Rowlett for the purchase of 1050 optical detectors to be used on the seeker head for...
NI, Agilent Technologies Ally to Create Drivers
Test and measurement companies National Instruments Corp. of Austin, Texas, and Agilent Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., will collaborate to create National Instruments’ LabView plug-and-play...
Company to Develop Silicon Modulators
Structured Materials Industries Inc. of Piscataway, N.J., has received a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer program award from the US Air Force to produce silicon photonic modulators. The...
Flexible Displays Poised for Growth
Flexible displays are expected to take off by 2009 and to reach revenues of nearly $2 billion by 2015, according to a report recently released by DisplaySearch of Austin, Texas. Barry Young, senior...
Spectroscopy Market Shows Endurance and Growth
The US market for spectroscopic instruments is on the rise, according to a new market research report published by BCC Research of Norwalk, Conn. Updating a study published in 2003, it examines...
OSA Foundation Funds Educational Programs
Four grants to educational programs for schoolchildren designed to increase awareness of and interest in optics and photonics have been announced by the Optical Society of America’s Foundation....
Dynasil Acquires EMF
An agreement has been signed under which Dynasil Corp. of America of West Berlin, N.J., will acquire 100 percent of the stock of Evaporated Metal Films (EMF) Corp. of Ithaca, N.Y. Dynasil...
National Science Foundation Awards Research Grants
The National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va., has awarded research grants to five engineering research centers that will develop cross-disciplinary programs to address societal problems and to...
Companies Ally Again to Develop Lithography
Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials, a Marlborough, Mass., supplier of lithography materials for the semiconductor industry, and Dow Corning Corp. of Midland, Mich., have renewed their joint agreement...
Photonic ‘Firewall on Chip’ Funded by European Union
The European Union has allotted €2 million for a three-year project to develop a reconfigurable photonic “firewall on a chip” to provide high-speed data security for global optical networks. The...
Business Support Centers Opened by Fujitsu
Fujitsu Ltd., a Tokyo-based supplier of optical components, has opened offices in Singapore and in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to strengthen its presence in Asia and in Europe, respectively. The...
Siemens Buys Optical Inspection Business
In Germany, Siemens Automation and Drives Group of Nuremberg has acquired Opto-Control Elektronik Prüfsysteme GmbH. The Bochum-based company supplies precision optical inspection systems that use...
Aculight Receives SBIR Fiber Laser Awards
Aculight Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has obtained four Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) awards — totaling $2 million — that will enable the company to enhance the capacities of its...
Structured Materials Obtains NIST Grant
Structured Materials Industries Inc. of Piscataway, N.J., has received a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The grant...
Cree Purchases Intrinsic Semiconductor
Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., a supplier of semiconductor materials and electronic devices made from silicon carbide (SiC) has acquired Intrinsic Semiconductor Corp., a developer of low-defect-density...
Applied Analytics Secures Larger Facility
Applied Analytics Inc. has moved to a larger plant in Maynard, Mass., to accommodate increased production of its process analyzers, as well as expansion of its R&D operations for a new product...
Advanced Illumination Opens Office in China
A supplier of LED lighting products for the machine vision industry, Advanced Illumination Inc. of Rochester, Vt., has established a distribution network in China, with a central office in Shenzhen....
PSI-TEC to Collocate with N.J. Company
PSI-TEC Corp., a subsidiary of PSI-TEC Holdings Inc., has entered into a collocation agreement with a New Jersey-based micro-optics company, securing a fabrication plant for its product...
Applied Image Partners with Imatest
Rochester, N.Y.-based Applied Image Inc. has signed a partnership agreement with Imatest LLC of Boulder, Colo., under which Applied Image is packaging the Imatest Pro and Light software with its test...
Zeon to Build Plant in Himi City, Japan
Tokyo-based Zeon Corp. has announced plans to construct a plant in Himi City, Japan, for its wholly owned subsidiary Optes Co. Ltd. in response to demand for its Zeonor Film for LCD televisions....
Uvex Purchases Trinity Technologies
Trinity Technologies LLC of St. Paul, Minn., has announced that Uvex Safety Group of Fürth, Germany, has taken over a majority interest in its company. The acquired company will complement the laser...
LIA Extends Support
The Laser Institute of America, of Orlando, Fla., and the European Laser Institute, of Aachen, Germany, will increase their cooperative activities. The European group will now support conferences...
Vgoal to Distribute for Acol Technologies
Acol Technologies SA of Geneva, Switzerland, and Vgoal, a subsidiary of Kuen Chaang Uppertech Corp. of Taiwan, have entered into a distribution agreement under which the latter company will...
Laser Company Secures Flextronics Photonics
Semiconductor laser supplier nLight Corp. has acquired the assets of Flextronics Photonics PPT Inc. of Hillsboro, Ore., adding fiber-coupled and hybrid microelectronic products to its portfolio. The...
IPG Photonics Opens Office in Michigan
Based in Oxford, Mass., IPG Photonics has opened a sales and service office in Wixom, Mich., to strengthen support for its customers in the Midwest. The company supplies fiber lasers and amplifiers...
JPK Instruments Buys Nanoinstrumentation Firm
In Berlin, JPK Instruments AG, a supplier of scanning probe microscopes for life sciences and soft matter applications, has acquired light power instruments GmbH, a developer of optical...
Optikos to Develop System for Focus Verification
Optikos Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., received a $3.4 million contract from ITT Corp. of White Plains, N.Y., to develop an optical focus verification system for telescope-to-film and telescope-to-CCD...
Fiberguide Industries Gains European Agent
Fiberguide Industries Inc., a Stirling N.J., manufacturer of specialty optical fibers and OEM assemblies, has signed an exclusive distributor agreement with AMS Technologies AG, which offers...
Student Design Winners Announced by ORA
Optical Research Associates (ORA) of Pasadena, Calif., has chosen the winners of its annual Student Optical Design Competition. The awards, totaling $4000, are granted to students who use the...
Boeing and US Air Force Redirect Laser Beam
Using their aerospace relay mirror system, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems of St. Louis, and the US Air Force have demonstrated that a laser beam can be redirected to hit a target. Suitable for use...
Accent on Applications
Optical Vortex Traps Tiny Droplets
For Daniel T. Chiu, a chemistry professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, all but the smallest drops of fluid are too big and more than one, too many. Therefore, he developed a method to...
Oxygen Measured in Water by Making Movies
When asked to describe a new technique that measures sedimentary oxygen content arising from the activity of burrowing animals, researcher Lubos Polerecky of Max Planck Institute for Marine...
Presstime Bulletin
Silicon-Based Chip Produces a Laser Beam
A collaboration between the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., has produced what is thought to be the first electrically pumped, hybrid silicon/indium-phosphide laser. The continuous-wave device consists of a semiconductor quantum-well region bonded to a silicon waveguide. Radiation generated in the quantum-well region is evanescently coupled into the...
Improved Detection of Radioactivity’s Warm Glow
You would not want to drink radioactively contaminated water, nor would you want your children to play on radioactively contaminated soil, but it is quite possible that some uranium cannot be...
Ionic Junctions Exhibit Photovoltage and Electroluminescence
Solid-state devices such as LEDs and photovoltaic cells primarily employ electronic charge carriers (electrons and holes) that, when diffused across a PN junction, create a built-in potential that...
Lighter Side
Turbulent Art
Vincent Van Gogh is well-known for dynamic depictions of nature in such paintings as The Starry Night. Many such works were painted when the artist was in a state of derangement. Recent investigation indicates that he was not only a mad painter, but also, at least subconsciously, a bit of a mad scientist. Physicist Jose-Luis Aragón of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Queretaro...
High-Tech Highlight
Who does a computer-generated blonde turn to when she wants her hair to, like, really shine? Stephen Marschner, a computer graphics professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. He and graduate...
Color My Web Sight
Increasingly, computers are used for educational and business presentations as well as for control of industrial and other processes, and color graphics are an important part of online displays. This...
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LabSmith Inc. has released its LC220 embeddable programmable logic controller for high-speed synchronization of experimental apparatus in laser diagnostics, materials science, gas dynamics and combustion applications. The two-channel instrument can synchronize events based on real-world feedback and can coordinate laboratory tools such as flashlamps, Q-switches, shutters and flow controls....
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FIBER-COUPLED LASER DIODE MODULE
A fiber-coupled distributed feedback instrument-quality laser diode module has been announced by Power Technology Inc. The 760-nm IQμ4x(760-5) emits 5 mW of output power with a spectral width of 2...
Power Technology Inc.
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PULSED SOLID-STATE LASER
The TruPulse solid-state pulsed laser has been introduced by Trumpf Inc. for use in the manufacture of automotive sensors, actuators and fuel-injection components. A burst function briefly allows the...
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CAMERA ASSEMBLY
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INTERFEROMETER
The FizCam 2000 unveiled by 4D Technology Corp. is an on-axis vibration-insensitive Fizeau interferometer with a short-coherent-length source for measuring transparent samples and assemblies that are...
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PARTICLE SIZING
Nanosight Ltd. has released the LM10 nanoparticle characterization system. It enables real-time visualization of individual nanoscale particles in suspension, with minimal sample pretreatment, as...
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OPTICAL FIBER ARRAYS
Fiberguide Industries Inc. has released a line of V-groove high-fiber-placement-tolerance linear arrays for use with diode-pumped lasers and in applications including telecommunications, data...
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ROTARY OPTICAL ENCODER
The MBR-1000 manufactured by FSI Technologies Inc. is an industrial rotary optical encoder that features single- and dual-channel outputs and a heavy-duty 3/8-in.-diameter shaft and bearings. The...
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IMAGE PROCESSING
Vision Components GmbH is offering the Extension Lib program library to expand its image processing software package and to extend the application range for its intelligent cameras. Features include...
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INSPECTION MODULE
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VCSEL IR LASERS
Optek Technology Inc., a subsidiary of TT electronics, has developed a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) that uses lower drive currents to achieve the same power output as conventional...
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FLUORESCENCE MODELING
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LINE-SCAN LENSES
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SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM
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LASER OSCILLATOR
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Coherent Inc.
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OPTICS SOFTWARE
Optiwave Systems Inc. has introduced OptiBPM 8, a software design suite for waveguide optics engineers. According to the company, this version offers advanced LP and vector mode solvers for circular...
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LASER CONTROLLER UNIT
A CDRH-certified stand-alone controller unit for operating and controlling WhisperIT lasers has been announced by Pavilion Integration Corp. Measuring 115 × 50 × 76 mm, the controller allows simple...
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UV PRODUCTS
In response to the needs of biophotonics customers for low-autofluorescence UV optics manufactured from calcium fluoride, fused silica and more exotic materials, Edmund Optics is introducing 20...
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RAMAN WORKSTATIONS
McPherson Inc.’s Raman workstations for spectroscopy are available for wavelengths from 325 to 830 nm. For short-UV wavelengths such as 244 nm, the company’s prism predisperser is used as a sharp...
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SUPERLUMINESCENT LEDS
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LASER CUTTING SYSTEM
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HEAD ASSEMBLY FOR DEEP-UV
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MACHINE VISION CAMERA
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Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI) has released its IsoSphere antireflection-coated ball lenses in a variety of glass indexes and in new, larger sizes. The transmission values are greater than 99.5...
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LUMINESCENCE MONITOR
A multifrequency phase fluorometer announced by Ocean Optics Inc. is a frequency-domain monitor that measures luminescence lifetime, phase and intensity. It uses LED excitation, avalanche photodiode...
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AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE
The S8664-1010 silicon avalanche photodiode unveiled by Hamamatsu Corp. has a 10 × 10-mm active area and a spectral response range from 320 to 1000 nm, with peak sensitivity at 600 nm. Quantum...
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SPECTROPHOTOMETERS
Jasco Inc.’s V-600 series UV/VIS/NIR spectrophotometers feature the “IQ Accessory” function for automatic accessory recognition and the “IQ Start” function for immediate start when conducting routine...
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GAUGING PROBES
The LM series laser-interferometric motor-driven gauging probes offered by SIOS Meßtechnik GmbH are available in two models that can measure distances of up to 20 or 50 mm, respectively, with 1-nm...
SIOS Messtechnik GmbH
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MICROSCOPY SYSTEMS
The MV4000 multiprobe scanned probe microscopy systems manufactured by Nanonics Imaging Ltd. independently scan four probes with ultralow noise in a variety of imaging modalities. Proprietary and...
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BRIGHT-FIELD RINGLIGHTS
Volpi USA’s surface-mount-device LED-based bright-field ringlights are available with either red or white LEDs. The standard version has a working distance from 30 to 80 mm, and the diameter of the...
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IN-LINE POLARIMETER
General Photonics Corp. has released an in-line polarimeter designed for high-speed polarization analysis and monitoring. The PolaDetect with PolaView software (POD-101A) uses four channels to...
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SINGLE-MODE VCSEL
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BRIGHTER LEDS
Advanced Power TopLED, offered by Osram Opto Semiconductors, is based on thin-film technology and is 50 percent brighter than its predecessor. At 140 mA, it has an output of 19 lm in green and amber,...
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SOFTWARE UPDATE
Standa Ltd. has updated its 8SMC1-USBh stepper motor controller software so that it now supports the quadrature encoder for direct measurement of shaft position. The accompanying software development...
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GREEN LASER MODULE
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MULTICOLOR LED
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FLUORESCENCE FILTERS
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WELDING LASERS
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CCD CAMERA LENSES
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CURING SYSTEM
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OPTICAL MEASUREMENT
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TABLETOP ENCLOSURES
Kinetic Systems Inc. offers tabletop enclosures for optical tables, suitable for applications where the work space requires an environmentally controlled atmosphere. The lightweight enclosures are...
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INTERFERENCE FILTERS
Optometrics Corp. has unveiled a variety of interference filters that have applications in physics, engineering, communications, analytical chemistry and the life sciences. The 10-nm bandpass types...
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IMAGING SOFTWARE
Pax-it imaging software from Prior Scientific Instruments offers flexibility in image management and storage. It enables users to capture and archive image files from microscopes using an existing...
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POSITIONING CONTROL
Owis GmbH has announced the PS 90, a modular positioning control with up to nine axes, a USB 2.0 interface and up to two inputs for incremental encoder or linear measuring systems. It performs...
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LED MEASUREMENT
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TRACE GAS ANALYZER
The compact Halo trace gas analyzer, based on cavity ringdown spectroscopy, has been introduced by Tiger Optics LLC for use by gas suppliers, fabrication engineers, laboratory managers, quality...
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BEAM HOMOGENIZERS
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MODELING SOFTWARE
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LIQUID LENS IMAGING SYSTEM
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LED LIGHT SOURCE
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