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Photonics Spectra - January 2007
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A Hybrid Silicon Laser
Silicon photonics holds the potential to create low-cost, highly integrated optical components using the same CMOS-based manufacturing techniques that have revolutionized the electronics industry...
Current Trends in Machine Vision
More than 25 years after machine vision appeared in the industrial automation marketplace, the technology has established itself as a necessary part of high-quality, cost-effective manufacturing....
Machine Vision in Germany and Europe
Machine vision technology remains the key to quality, productivity and competitiveness in production. It also is extending beyond the traditional factory applications and beginning to conquer new...
New Laser Export Controls Set to Take Effect
The Wassenaar export controls exist to limit the shipment of products that have potential military applications to non-Wassenaar countries whose military and/or political motivations are unclear. The...
Converging Complexity Challenges Educators to Prepare Tomorrow’s Innovators
Although there is much publicity and debate in the US over the outsourcing of engineering jobs to countries that pay lower wages, the problem is the dearth of graduating engineers for those jobs.1...
A Wealth of Opportunities from a Little Generosity
At heart, I’m a scientist and an engineer. I enjoy the process of figuring out how things work and how various pieces fit together to make an efficiently functioning system. The challenge of solving...
Fast Light, Slow Light and Optical Precursors: What Does It All Mean?
The speed of light in vacuum (c ≈ 3 × 108 m/s) is an important physical constant that appears in Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism. For this reason, scientists have endeavored to...
Forecast for 2007: Nano Gets Big
Not long ago, nanometer-scale positioning was a laboratory curiosity. Today, the robust and responsive nanopositioning provided by piezoelectric actuation is more vital than ever in the lab and has...
A Laser’s Force Dampens Cantilever Action
David M. Weld and Aharon Kapitulnik of Stanford University in California recently demonstrated that even low-power lasers pack a punch. Using laser-driven radiation pressure force-feedback, they...
Sharp Corners and Kaleidoscopes Lead to Novel Microscopy Techniques
Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston have developed two microscopy techniques: a near-field method that offers potentially better performance than other superresolution techniques and a...
Intrazeolite PbS Quantum Dots with Nonlinear Properties Observed
At Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, scientists have successfully incorporated lead sulfide quantum dots into zeolite-Y films and found high levels of third-order nonlinear optical activity....
Silicon Nanowires Act as Nanoscale Avalanche Photodetectors
Researchers at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., have synthesized PIN silicon nanowires with single-crystal structures and uniform diameters that demonstrate potential for use as avalanche...
White Polymer LEDs Incorporate New Dopant
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and at the University of California, Los Angeles, have demonstrated white LEDs that feature emission layers of the orange-emitting polymer...
Playing Rough to Get the Light Out
Researchers at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Daejeon, South Korea, have shown that, when it comes to getting a silicon quantum dot LED to shine, it helps to play rough...
Searching for the Source of Stradivari’s Sublime Sound
Musicians and listeners alike have debated for centuries why instruments crafted by Italian master Antonio Stradivari have such a sublime sound. Modern technology may at last have found the...
Cavity-Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy
Detects Geothermal Gases
Gas phase chromatography and mass spectrometry often are used to analyze volcanic emissions because of their ability to detect low levels of trace gases. However, these techniques are limited by...
Transient Form of Two-Dimensional IR Spectroscopy
Shows Molecules in Motion
Understanding the way that molecules operate means digging deeply — examining not only their structures, but also how they change shape under various conditions. Techniques such as nuclear...
Correlating Excitation and Emission Wavelengths Yields Analysis of Complex Chemical Environments
Spectroscopically scrutinizing chemicals within complex environments — such as inside cometary matter or combustible materials — is challenging because many molecules absorb and emit at similar...
Tech Pulse
Laser Ablation Technique Reveals Ancient Dietary Behaviors
Paranthropus robustus, a hominin that existed ~1.8 million years ago, has been thought to have followed a fixed diet. Recently, researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Utah at Salt Lake City, Texas A&M University in College Station, Ohio State University at Columbus and the University of Bradford in the UK, have suggested that P. robustus did not adhere to a...
A Squirt of Water Writes Waveguides
Photonic integrated circuits will surely replace electronic chips in the coming decades, and although simple versions have already entered the commercial mainstream and have earned their own...
Building a Better Infrared Detector
If Robert Frost had been an optical engineer and not a poet, he might have said “good barriers make good detectors” upon seeing the work of Shimon Maimon and Gary W. Wicks of the University of...
White Light-Emitting Fluorophore Has Solid-State Applications
White light emitted from displays is traditionally made by mixing red, green and blue light, but a novel class of fluorophores that radiate white light could one day provide another source,...
Focusing from Infinity to Here, Almost
What do cell phone camera users and eyeglass wearers have in common? Both could benefit from recent work by research scientist Hongwen Ren and optics professor Shin-Tson Wu of the University of...
Wrinkles Improve Fiber Optic Strain Sensor
Fiber sensors are excellent detectors of both strain and temperature — and that can be a problem. They respond to both environmental variables, making it difficult to tell which one is changing. To...
Birefringent Fiber Enhances Fiber Optic Strain Sensor
There are multiple solutions to the dilemma posed by a fiber sensor’s response to both temperature and strain (see Wrinkles Improve Fiber Optic Strain Sensor, page 27). For example, another recent...
light speed
Supreme Court Hears Patent Case Involving Test for ‘Obviousness’
On Nov. 28, 2006, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. et al case (No. 04-1350). At issue is whether to change the test used by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the federal courts to determine whether an invention is “obvious” and thus unpatentable under 35 USC §103(a) of the patent laws. Though the patent at issue involves an accelerator...
Polychromix Provides Spectrometers for NASA
Polychromix Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., has partnered with NASA to provide digital transform spectrometers, powered by microelectromechanical systems, to identify the presence of water ice on the...
Hexagon Metrology Moves Unit to North Carolina
Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, R.I., has relocated one of its US hexagon precision centers to a new, larger facility in Huntersville, N.C., where it will be more accessible to its...
Imra America Partners with Aculight
Imra America Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., has signed an agreement that licenses its amplification technology to Aculight Corp. of Bothell, Wash. The Washington company will have access to a domestic...
Free-Electron Laser Produces 14.2-kW Beam in the IR
The free-electron laser supported by the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Va., has achieved 14.2 kW of average power at a wavelength of 1.61 μm. Located at the US Department of Energy’s...
Central Florida University, Powerlase Collaborate
Powerlase Ltd. of Crawley, UK, has partnered with the University of Central Florida in Orlando to further develop a high-power laser-produced plasma extreme-UV source. Their aim is to create high...
SAIC Wins Contract with Air Force
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) of San Diego received a contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory and Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland AFB, N.M., to supply a...
DRS Technologies to Provide Infrared Sensors
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received a $7 million contract from the Belcamp, Md.-based California Microwave Systems unit of Northrop Grumman Corp. to produce lightweight...
NeoPhotonics Acquires Paxera’s Product Line
NeoPhotonics of San Jose, Calif., a supplier of optical networking components for long-haul, metro and access networks, has expanded its line of reconfigurable dense wavelength division multiplexing...
Oxford Lasers Acquired by Management Team
Oxford Lasers Ltd. of Didcot, UK, has been wholly acquired by its management team. The company designs and manufactures imaging and micromachining systems for clients in industry and academe.
Fiber Optic Connector/Splice Market Growing
A market study of the global value and technology trends of communication fiber optic connectors and mechanical splices has been released by Electronicast Consultants of Upper Lake, Calif. The...
Arcelor Mittal and Noble Join Laser Welding Forces
Arcelor Mittal and Noble International Ltd. of Warren, Mich., have agreed to combine their laser-welded tailored blank businesses to strengthen their positions in the global automotive...
Luxtera Receives Phase II Defense Contract
Luxtera Inc. of Carlsbad, Calif., has received a Phase II grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to further develop a 40-Gb/s dense wavelength division multiplexing single CMOS chip...
Greene, Tweed Establishes Defense and FO Business
Greene, Tweed of Kulpsville, Pa., is launching Lancer Systems, a stand-alone company that will service and supply elastomers, composites, fiber optics, and molded and machine plastics for military...
Fraunhofer USA Receives Development Awards
Fraunhofer USA, a subsidiary of the German research and development organization Fraunhofer-Gesell-schaft, has won four awards totaling $2.9 million from the Michigan Economic Development Commission....
Avian Opens Production Facility
Avian Technologies LLC of Wilmington, Ohio, has opened a 2000-sq-ft production facility in Sunapee, N.H. The plant will be used to produce and apply the company’s line of diffuse reflectance coatings.
Avanex Joins Consortium to Develop Firewall
Avanex Corp. of Fremont, Calif., has joined a consortium seeking to develop a reconfigurable photonic firewall subsystem on a chip. The system would allow optical data inspection using security...
Zia Laser Purchased
NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH of Dortmund, Germany, has acquired Zia Laser Inc. of Albuquerque, N.M. The American company makes quantum dot semiconductor lasers.
EFW Helicopter System Selected by US Army
EFW Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas, has been selected to supply the helmet display and tracking system for the US Army’s new armed reconnaissance helicopter. The system will project flight information...
Azores Sells Systems to Asian Firm
Azores Corp. of Wilmington, Mass., a manufacturer of photolithography steppers for mobile display applications, has received an order for seven units of its model 6700 PanelPrinter. The order came...
Rochester Precision Acquires Tricon
Rochester Precision Optics of West Henrietta, N.Y., has purchased Tricon Machine LLC of Rochester, N.Y. The machining company, whose employees and equipment now will occupy the larger facility,...
Andor Technology Establishes China Office
Andor Technology of Belfast, UK, has opened an office in Beijing. The manufacturer of digital cameras for scientific research, instrumentation, space and security applications will work with its...
Oerlikon Buys Exitech
Oerlikon Corp. Ltd. of Pfäffikon, Switzerland, has acquired the technology, staff and equipment of Exitech Ltd. of Yarnton, UK. The former concern will use the British company’s knowledge and nano-...
Airbus Selects NI Software for Wind-Tunnel Tests
Airbus, a manufacturer of aircraft based in Toulouse, France, has selected Austin, Texas-based National Instruments’ DIAdem data analysis and report generation software as its standard tool in Europe...
Photon and TeraComm Announce Representation Agreement in US
Photon Inc. of San Jose, Calif., a manufacturer of beam-profiling instrumentation, has selected TeraComm LLC of Guilford, Conn., as its representative in several mid-Atlantic and southeastern states.
Alfalight Expands to UK and Israel
Alfalight Inc. of Madison, Wis., a manufacturer of diode lasers, has named Pacer International of the UK and Appletec Ltd. of Israel as distributors in their respective countries. The latter...
StockerYale Purchases Photonic Products
StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., a provider of photonic-based products, has acquired the privately held Photonic Products Ltd. of Hatfield Broad Oaks, UK, for $9.4 million in cash, stocks and bonds....
Company to Supply Filters for Telescope Imager
Barr Associates Inc. was selected by Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md., to supply filters for the James Webb Space Telescope near-IR camera, which covers the spectral range of 0.6 to 5.0...
SPI Lasers Moves to New Facility
SPI Lasers LLC, a unit of SPI, based in Southampton, UK, has relocated to a 3500-sq-ft facility in Santa Clara, Calif., to accommodate the demand for CW fiber lasers for a variety of machining...
Ametek Acquires Precitech
Ametek Inc. of Paoli, Pa., has purchased Precitech Inc. of Keene, N.H., a manufacturer of single-point and multiaxis diamond turning machining systems for the nanotechnology, military and ophthalmic...
Companies Offer Light- Measurement Solutions
Gamma Scientific, a manufacturer of light-measurement instrumentation, and UDT Instruments, a provider of electro-optical devices, both in San Diego, have allied to create a broader, innovative range...
Point Grey Research Opens Office in Germany
Digital camera technology specialist Point Grey Research Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has opened a sales office in Munich, Germany, to serve its expanding European customer base,...
Sofradir to Supply Large-Format IR Detectors
Sofradir, based in Chatenay-Malabry, France, has signed a $1.3 million contract with a global supplier of electro-optic space and defense systems under which it will supply large-format,...
Smiths Detection, Telops Enter Partnership
Smiths Detection of Watford, UK, a provider of chemical, biological and explosives detectors and x-ray screening equipment has signed a technical and marketing agreement with Telops Inc. of Quebec....
Optical Communication to Manufacture in China
Fiber optic component manufacturer Optical Communication Products Inc. has signed an agreement with Hong Kong-based SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of TDK Corp. of Tokyo. The...
Advanced Design Wins NASA Contract
Under a contract with NASA, Advanced Design Consulting USA Inc. will collaborate with the agency’s Langley Research Center to develop a device to facilitate research in electron-beam free-form...
Tower and SuperPixForm Partnership
Tower Semiconductor Ltd. of Migdal Haemek, Israel, has formed a partnership with SuperPix Micro Technology Co. Ltd. of Beijing to produce two imaging products: a 2-megapixel UXGA sensor and a VGA...
Princeton Lightwave Awarded Laser Diode Pact
Princeton Lightwave Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., has received a $730,000 contract from the US Army to develop high-power pump laser diodes. The company will focus on production of more powerful and...
Teledyne Contracted to Develop Sensors
Teledyne Imaging Sensors of Camarillo, Calif., a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Inc. of Los Angeles, has been awarded a $3.8 million contract to deliver prototypes of dual-band IR imaging...
Axiom Electronics Completes Buyout
Axiom Electronics LLC of Beaverton, Ore., has completed a management buyout from its former parent company, Ambitech International of Chatsworth, Calif. Axiom Electronics provides manufacturing...
Veeco to Supply MBE Systems
Veeco Instruments Inc. of St. Paul, Minn., has received requests for four of its molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) devices. The orders comprise four models, each optimized for particular functions....
Goodrich Receives IR Sensor Contract
Goodrich Corp.’s Sensors Unlimited Inc. team in Charlotte, N.C., will develop a shortwave IR sensor for the US Air Force Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. The...
Lumics Opens California Sales Office
Lumics Inc. of Berlin, a manufacturer of fiber-coupled laser modules, has opened a sales office in Los Angeles to meet increasing demand for its products in North America. The company plans to extend...
Agilent to Purchase PXIT Optical Transceiver Assets
Agilent Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has agreed to purchase the assets of the optical transceiver test segment of PXIT Inc. in Lexington, Mass. The latter company develops and...
Exotic Electro-Optics Awarded $2.2 Million
Exotic Electro-Optics Inc. of Murrieta, Calif., a subsidiary of II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., has received a $2.2 million follow-on award from the Air Force Research Laboratory through the University...
Trumpf ConstructingLaser Facility
Trumpf Inc. of Farmington, Conn., a subsidiary of the Trumpf Group of Ditzingen, Germany, has begun construction of a $20 million, 83,000-sq-ft development and production building. Solid-state and...
NanoOpto and Moxtek Form Partnership
NanoOpto Corp. of Somerset, N.J., and Moxtek Inc. of Orem, Utah, have partnered to develop nanotechnology-based optical products for display and telecommunications applications. Among the devices the...
Accent on Applications
Profiling Potential Petroleum Production
Oil often has to be coaxed out of the ground, but various conditions hinder pumping and decrease production. One problem might be that the oil cannot flow freely through the rock. One way to...
Optical Methods for Air Quality Measurements
Soot, or carbon, in the air is both an environmental and a health problem. Not only do carbon-based aerosols contribute to the greenhouse effect, but also breathing in the byproducts of combustion...
Presstime Bulletin
Getting the Wide View While Keeping Lines Straight
In applications such as surveillance, security and robot navigation, it sometimes helps to get the wide picture. Unfortunately, fish-eye lenses, the traditional method for wide-angle viewing, produce...
Lasers Probe Secrets of Superfluids
Seeking to better understand the unusual properties of superfluids, researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey have devised an all-optical model that simulates the properties of these...
Lighter Side
Seeing Is Relieving
Many amputees suffer from mild to severe pain in the lost or “phantom” limb. Previous work — using a mirror box to let subjects see their intact limb move in place of the phantom — showed that the illusion could help alleviate the pain symptoms. A patient undergoes virtual reality therapy to simulate movement of his missing left arm. Courtesy of the University of Manchester. Taking this...
Stick to the Puck
Hockey goalies’ hand-eye coordination must be phenomenal to react to full-speed puck action in the midst of a scramble of players. Professor Joan Vickers has led research at the University of Calgary...
Virtual Self-Deception
A study comparing interactive — virtual reality — marketing strategies with informational presentations accompanied by static images showed that the virtual techniques boosted the subjects’ ability...
Products
WAVELENGTH ELEMENT
Holo/Or Ltd. has released an optical element that corrects chromatic aberrations in dual-wavelength laser setups. Shaped like a typical planoconvex lens, the element has an added diffractive pattern on the plano surface that corrects for chromatic aberrations when 633-nm and 10.6-μm laser lines are used concurrently in surgical or industrial applications. The unmounted ZnSe lens has an...
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MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE
Version 9.0.1 of the Common Vision Blox has been released by Stemmer Imaging GmbH. The machine vision software library now includes updates for its Image Manager, Foundation Package and Tools...
Stemmer Imaging AG
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CONTRAST MODULE
A differential interference contrast module designed for video imaging is available from Navitar Inc. When used with one of the company’s high-magnification lenses (zoom or nonzoom), it enables users...
Navitar Inc.
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SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETER
The SpecEL-2000-VIS is an easy-to-use benchtop spectroscopic ellipsometer designed for thin-film measurement. Offered by Ocean Optics Inc., the instrument is suitable for working with semitransparent...
Ocean Optics - Part of Ocean Insight
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MEASURING MICROSCOPES
The compact STM6 series microscopes from Olympus Life and Materials Science Europa GmbH are designed to measure and inspect industrial parts and electrical components. The devices offer motorized...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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ZOOM MICROSCOPE
For macroimaging applications in the biomedical and industrial markets, Nikon Instruments Inc. has announced its AZ100 multizoom microscope. Offering a wide field of view, long working distances and...
Nikon Instruments Inc.
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TABLET ANALYZER
NIR Technology Systems’ Series 2000 is a near-IR diode array spectrometer that measures pharmaceutical tablet uniformity and coating thickness. Tablets are loaded into a 16- or 28-mm-thick well that...
Next Instruments Pty. Ltd.
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CONVERTER
Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions (Taos) has introduced the TSL238T, a light-to-frequency converter that combines a silicon photodiode and a current-to-frequency converter on a single...
AMS-TAOS USA Inc.
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AR COATING
Edmund Optics has added a visible 0° antireflection coating option to its Tech Spec planoconvex and -concave, double-convex and -concave and achromatic lines. The coating features an average...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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MULTISPECTRAL SENSOR
The multispectral sensor developed by Pacific Advanced Technology Inc. has no moving parts and uses diffractive optical lenslet arrays and infrared focal plane arrays to enable rapid standoff...
Pacific Advanced Technology Inc.
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COLOR FILTER ARRAY
For area-scan color and monochrome inspection, Euresys Inc. has introduced the Grablink Quickpack color filter array, an image-acquisition and preprocessing board that can work with base...
Euresys Inc.
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LED MEASUREMENT
The LED-060 systems produced by Labsphere Inc. allow the user to load, light and test packaged LEDs in <5 s, with spectral results obtained in milliseconds from 350 to 1050 nm. The user snaps the...
Labsphere Inc.
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PHOTON COUNTER
Hamamatsu Corp. has unveiled the S10362-11 series multipixel photon counter, a Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode detector of ultralow-level light in applications such as positron emission tomography,...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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IMAGING SYSTEMS
The Spotlight 400 FTIR and 400N FT-NIR imaging systems from PerkinElmer Inc. are designed to increase the throughput and analysis of samples in laboratories that specialize in pharmaceuticals,...
PerkinElmer Instruments
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BLOCKING FILTERS
Deposition Sciences Inc. has designed filters that block more than 99% of ultraviolet radiation in the 200- to 380-nm range, while transmitting more than 90% of the visible wavelengths between 425...
Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI)
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CALIBRATION BALL
Optical Perspectives Group LLC has developed the CaliBall to calibrate phase-measuring interferometers. The 25.4-mm-diameter silicon nitride ball and its kinematic mount determine the errors in the...
Optical Perspectives Group LLC
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HIGHER-POWER LASERS
Coherent Inc. has extended the power range of its Sapphire series all-solid-state 488-nm lasers. The Sapphire 488 HP includes a 500-mW option in the same standard package configuration that formerly...
Coherent Inc.
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VISION CAMERAS
Basler Vision Technologies has released 30 GigE Vision- and GenICam-compliant machine vision cameras that will be marketed as the scout and pioneer series of cameras. Both have similar housings, a...
Basler AG
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LED LAMPS
A series of LEDs with applications in traffic signals, message centers, video displays and price changers has been unveiled by CAO Group Inc. The products include 30° round red and amber lamps for...
CAO Group Inc.
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MICROSCOPE ILLUMINATION
The Lumen 200 series fluorescence illumination systems from Prior Scientific Inc. were designed to replace standard microscope HBO-type mercury lamphouses. Using a 200-W metal arc lamp with a 2000-h...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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NEAR-IR APD
Voxtel Inc. has added a 200-μm InGaAs avalanche photodiode (APD) to its line of photon-detection products, which includes 25- and 75-μm versions. The model VDA-IACX-XA delivers suitable...
Voxtel Inc.
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CONTROLLER
Arges GmbH has developed a highly integrated controller for laser machinery. The device controls beam deflection systems and lasers in real time and integrates external periphery, from position...
Novanta Europe GmbH
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MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPE
The LSM 5 MP, a laser scanning microscope from Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH, is configured for multiphoton microscopy. It features objectives with optical correction for optimal use of various IR...
Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH
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NETWORK INTERFACE CARD
The Matrox Solios GigE is a Gigabit Ethernet network interface card designed for the use of GigE Vision devices such as industrial cameras in demanding imaging applications. Available from Matrox...
Matrox Imaging
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POSITIONING STAGES
The V-106 QuickScan series high-speed voice coil positioning stages from PI (Physik Instrumente) LP provide up to 20 mm of travel and up to 100-nm resolution. The closed-loop systems are driven by a...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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PHOTON COUNTERS
The id100-20 and id100-50 ultralow-noise single-photon-counting modules for the visible spectral range have been released by id Quantique SA. They offer a dark count rate of <1 Hz and of 20 Hz for...
ID Quantique
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PLL SYNCHRONIZATION
Toptica Photonics AG has added phase-locked-loop (PLL) synchronization electronics to its family of FemtoFiber scientific lasers, enabling femtosecond lasers to be synchronized to synchrotrons,...
Toptica Photonics AG
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FIBER-COUPLED GREEN LASER
Pavilion Integration Corp. has expanded its WhisperIT line with a fiber-coupled version of the miniature 532-nm laser module. Housed in the same package as the free-space model, with a hardwired...
Pavilion Integration Corp.
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MOTION CONTROLLER
Aerotech Inc.’s software-based motion controller, the Automation 3200, now allows the user to remotely boot the server machine from a client PC. Needing only 80 MB to run, the software uses the...
Aerotech Inc.
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NEAR-IR PHOTON COUNTER
The SU-02-SPC photon counter from Goodrich Corp.’s SUI (formerly Sensors Unlimited Inc.) is designed for single-photon counting in the near-IR region from 0.9 to 1.6 μm. Measuring 19 ×...
Sensors Unlimited Inc. - A Collins Aerospace Company
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PULSE COMPRESSION
Ibsen Photonics A/S offers pulse compression gratings in 100% fused silica with a dielectric back-side antireflection coating for femtosecond laser pulse compression at both 1064 and 800 nm. The...
Ibsen Photonics A/S
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DIGITAL CAMERAS
Imperx Inc. has added two models to its Lynx line of programmable digital cameras. The IPX-16M3-L offers an RS-232 port for control and Camera Link interface for image data, while the IPX-16MR-G...
Imperx Inc.
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INDUSTRIAL LASER
The CL-707 laser cutting system from Cincinnati Inc. features interchangeable 8 × 20-ft cutting tables and a 5000-W GE Fanuc laser resonator to boost cutting power and increase productivity. The...
Cincinnati Inc.
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MICROLITHOGRAPHY STAGE
The SF-100 rotational substrate stage from Intelligent Micro Patterning LLC enables precise maskless patterning on cylindrical surfaces. An add-on to the company’s maskless micropatterning system,...
Novanta IMS
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MINIATURE REFLECTOMETERS
Yokogawa Europe BV announces the availability of the AQ7270 fiberXplorer series miniature optical time-domain reflectometers. Suitable for use in the installation and maintenance of core, metro and...
Yokogawa Europe BV
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CMOS CAMERAS
Imaging Development Systems GmbH has introduced the uEye LE series of USB 2.0 cameras. The series includes monochrome and color models with CMOS sensors and resolutions ranging from 752 × 480 pixels...
IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
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FRAME GRABBERS
National Instruments Corp. has expanded its line of PCI Express-based frame grabbers to include models that support IEEE-1394b, Gigabit Ethernet and Camera Link. The PCIe-8255R provides image...
National Instruments Corp.
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SCAN HEAD
A three-axis scan head has been announced by Nutfield Technology Inc. The 3XB-45mm offers laser system designers smaller spot sizes, larger scan field sizes and the ability to mark contoured...
FARO Technologies Inc., Photonics
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3-D CAMERA
Vialux GmbH is offering two versions of the z-Snapper 3-D camera for machine vision and life sciences applications. The “vario” model comprises a projector and a camera that can be mounted...
ViALUX Messtechnik + Bildverarbeitung GmbH
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DIODE LASER SYSTEMS
Two OEM turnkey diode laser systems that operate from 790 to 980 nm in continuous-wave and pulsed modes have been released by Lissotschenko Mikrooptic (Limo) GmbH. The ILS Limo-1B-BT outputs 15 to 32...
LIMO GmbH
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COLOR WHEEL
As part of its ColorWheel line of color management systems, the optics division of OC Oerlikon Balzers Ltd. has introduced the WhisperWheel Mini for digital light processing projectors. It uses a...
Materion Balzers Optics
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WATER-RESISTANT LENSES
The Harsh Environmental Optics (HEO) line announced by Edmund Optics Inc. packages high-precision optical components inside sealed water-resistant optical assemblies for optimal performance in...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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NANOMETROLOGY
Farfield Scientific Ltd. has launched a benchtop nanometrology instrument for subnanometer-scale surface and interfacial measurements. The NanoFlex measures and differentiates among molecular levels...
Biolin Scientific
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BEAM SHAPING
Collimator and telescopic models of the πShaper beam-shaping system have been introduced by Molecular Technology GmbH. They work with lasers that output UV, visible and near-IR wavelengths as...
MolTech GmbH
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IMAGE SENSOR CHIPS
Enabling development of smaller camera modules for mobile devices, Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. has added two chips to its Dynastron CMOS image sensor line. The 3.2-megapixel ET8EE6-AS...
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc.
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DEFORMABLE MIRROR
A low-cost piezoelectric deformable mirror with 109 actuators has been released by Flexible Optical BV. The mirror has a 53-mm clear aperture, weighs approximately 650 g and measures 100 × 100 × 60...
Flexible Optical BV (OKO Tech)
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LASER CUTTING SYSTEM
An updated laser cutting system designed to make medical implants such as stents and other precision components has been launched by Rofin/Baasel Lasertech. The fifth version of its StarCut Tube...
Rofin-Baasel Lasertech
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MICROLENSES
Moritex USA Inc. has launched the HR series machine microlenses that are optimized for megapixel cameras with a CCD chip size of up to 2/3 in. They produce 0.3-μm resolution and high uniformity...
MORITEX North America Inc.
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MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE
Version 3.1.1 of the ActivVisionTools software from MVTec Software GmbH has been released and now runs also on Sony’s XCI-V3 smart camera, enabling it to function as a PC for rapid development of...
MVTec Software GmbH
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LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Dalsa Corp. has unveiled the Piranha Color camera, an addition to its Piranha family of line-scan cameras for machine vision OEMs. The camera can be used for document scanning and for patterned web,...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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WHITE LED DRIVERS
The NCP5602 and NCP5612 charge-pump dual-output white LED drivers announced by On Semiconductor produce 87% peak efficiency and deliver consistent brightness for handheld and consumer applications....
onsemi
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IR CAMERA LENSES
A line of camera lenses covering the mid-infrared region from 3 to 5 μm and the long-wave infrared from 8 to 12 μm is being offered by Wavelength Technology Pte Ltd. They are available with...
Wavelength Opto-Electronic (S) Pte. Ltd.
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SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR
Displaytech Inc. has introduced a spatial light modulator for use in holographic data storage devices. Data can be written to the storage disks, which have 10 to 100 times greater capacity than...
Micron Technology Inc.
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IR CAMERA
Flir Systems Inc. has developed the ThermoVision SC6000 HS scientific IR camera system. Featuring an InSb CMOS detector with a resolution of 640 × 512 pixels, the camera outputs 14-bit digital data...
FLIR Systems
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CONVERTER
Highland Technology Inc. has released J724, a low-profile single-channel electrical-to-optical converter. Available in 850-nm multimode and 1310-nm single-mode versions, it enables fast timing and...
Highland Technology Inc.
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LASER CUTTING SYSTEM
Alpha Laser GmbH has released the AC 200 flexible laser cutting and welding system for handling 2- and 3-D metallic materials such as steel sheets, pipes and 3-D forms. It achieves a 100-mm/s...
Alpha Laser GmbH
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CUSTOM COATINGS
Laseroptik GmbH has expanded its spectrum of custom coatings to include homogeneous dielectric and metal coatings for substrates up to 700 mm in diameter or rods 700 mm in length. Broadband coatings...
LASEROPTIK GmbH
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INTERFEROMETER
For transmission and noncontact surface testing of optics, for aligning of optical components and assemblies, and for OEM metrology integrated systems applications, Engineering Synthesis Design Inc....
Mahr Inc.
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C-MOUNT LENSES
Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH has introduced its Xenoplan and Cinegon compact C-mount lenses for use with high-resolution megapixel CCD and CMOS cameras in machine vision applications. Built-in...
Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, Industrial Solutions
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