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Photonics Spectra - November 2007
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Stacked Pixels
In the past 10 years, the image sensor market has grown tremendously, fueled in part by the combination of CMOS image sensor technology and the proliferation of camera phones. More recently, the rate of innovation in image sensors has stabilized and resulted in a relatively standard set of technologies for producing high-quality, low-cost image sensors for high-volume markets. Many in...
Advances in Camera Phone Picture Quality
As camera phones become ubiquitous, consumer demand for a photographic experience similar to that of traditional digital cameras is growing. Coupled with the ready availability of high-definition...
Big Challenges of Small Pixels
The burgeoning camera phone market is creating a growing need for very compact high-megapixel sensors. Highly shrunken pixel designs for such sensors present challenges such as reducing pixel...
Open-Loop Image Control
Because of the current trend of decreasing pixel size to increase pixel count on CMOS imaging sensors, autofocus is becoming necessary to maximize the use of the sensor in its full-resolution...
Phone Enables Instant Image Capture
Some mobile phone camera users want a device with true point-and-shoot ability — a camera that captures high-quality images over a wide variety of object distances with no time delay. Whether...
Optimizing an EMCCD for Spectroscopy
Since it was introduced to the analytical research industry, electron-multiplying (EM) CCD technology has been successfully employed in a variety of spectroscopy applications, and its use has led to...
Organic Thin-Film Solar Cell Research Conducted at Stanford University
Global energy consumption is inexorably increasing, driven by population growth and the wave of industrialization in developing countries. Today the world uses about 13 TW of power. Projections are...
A New Approach to Adaptive Optics for Materials Processing
When it comes to shaping the intensity patterns or wavefronts of light, fixed lenses are convenient, but often the need for frequent reshaping requires adaptive optical elements. There are a number...
Suspended in Film and Placed Over Microcavities, Quantum Dots Become Brighter
According to a group of researchers comprising members from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, from Iowa State University in Ames and from Agiltron Inc. of Woburn, Mass., suspended quantum...
Joining Optical Components with Silica Nanoparticles
Assembling optical components requires some type of bonding mechanism, often using epoxies, glass frits or other materials to join two or more pieces. No matter what type of bonding material or...
Quantum Dots as Tiny Thermometers
As technology gets smaller and smaller, it is becoming increasingly difficult to take accurate temperature readings in systems that are measured in the micro- and nanometer ranges. Researchers...
Efficient Deep-Blue Organic LED Created
An efficient deep-blue organic LED (OLED) that could be used for display applications has been created by researchers in Taiwan. Although a number of such devices have been fabricated in recent...
Portable Ozone Detection Without the Heat
Too much ozone can cause breathing problems, especially among asthma sufferers, because it irritates the lungs. Concerns over ground-level emission of ozone, by common devices such as early-model...
Rapidly Counting Graphene Layers, One by One
Carbon someday could rival silicon in forming the basis for miniature electronics. Two-dimensional sheets of carbon called graphene are promising candidates because they are stable and they move...
Team Develops Electron Microscope with 0.5-Å Resolution
Although studying how atoms come together to form matter is a central goal of science, it is difficult to study the particles because they measure only about 1 Å. For reference, 500,000 to one...
Searching for the Ultimate Sensitivity of Surface Absorption Spectroscopy
Surface absorption spectroscopy is used for everything from industrial applications to environmental studies to biotechnology, as well as for basic research of thin-film growth and of light-matter...
Finding a Way to Predict How Good a Cup o’ Joe Will Be
The difference between a great-tasting cup of coffee and a bland one depends on many factors, including the coffee plant species, the steps taken to produce the plants and, perhaps primarily, the...
Tech Pulse
$100 Bill to Be Safeguarded with Photonics Technology
In an effort to get ahead, and to stay ahead, of increasingly sophisticated counterfeiters, the US government is looking to a refractive lens technology that will provide additional security for the...
Flexible and Freestanding Photonic Crystals
Researchers from Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, Italy, have created photonic structures in freestanding polymer films. The process of fabricating the films is relatively simple, and...
Counting Atoms — and Defects — in Semiconductors
For semiconductors, the mantra is “smaller, faster, cheaper.” Continuing shrinkage of transistors has allowed industry to follow the axiom known as Moore’s law for decades. Eventually, transistors...
Getting an Edgy View of the Rings of Uranus
Like its neighbor and fellow gas giant Saturn, Uranus is ringed. Although not gaudy, its rings are full of surprises, say researchers. At the University of California, Berkeley, at the Space...
Moving Droplets of Liquid with Light
Pumps are fine for moving everyday volumes of liquid, but something different is needed to move nanoliter quantities of fluids on lab-on-a-chip analyzers. Now researchers have demonstrated a...
Quantum-Dot-Based Camera Images Two Colors
Infrared imaging is a familiar tool in applications as diverse as firefighting and military patrols. But because most focal plane arrays currently in use for such imaging can capture only a single...
light speed
Growth Is Forecast for Laser Markets
The $1 billion market for telecom and datacom lasers will grow to nearly $2.9 billion by 2012, according to a report prepared by CIR Inc. of Glen Allen, Va. Several factors will drive the growth, including the replacement of copper by optics in many networks. Additionally, storage networks are transitioning from copper to fiber, 10 GigE is the first Ethernet that is predominantly optical, and...
Optical Components Market Sees Decline, Some Gains
At $941 million, second-quarter 2007 revenues for optical components were down 4 percent from the first quarter and down 1 percent from second-quarter 2006, according to a second-quarter market share...
Optoelectronics Industry Enjoying Steady Growth
The optoelectonics industry enjoyed robust growth in 2006, and a market report projects that steady expansion will continue over the next decade. The report, compiled by the Optoelectronics...
Report Forecasts Increased Use of Photonics in Cars
LEDs, LCDs and other photonics technologies increasingly will be used in the systems of future automobiles, according to a market report prepared by Frost & Sullivan, a global technology-research...
FLIR to Acquire Cedip Infrared Systems
FLIR Systems Inc. of Wilsonville, Ore., has agreed to buy a controlling interest in Cedip Infrared Systems of Croissy-Beauborg, France, a supplier of infrared cameras and stabilized systems. FLIR...
CVI Melles Griot Buys Coherent Subsidiary
CVI Melles Griot has purchased Coherent Imaging Optics Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif. The acquired company is a supplier of infrared optical components for...
Laser Cutting Certificate Program Is Offered
The Industrial Laser Community of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has established a laser cutting certificate program in response to the industry need for skilled technicians. Targeted...
BAE Systems Wins Army and Navy Contracts
At its unit in Lexington, Mass., the London-based BAE Systems plc will design and develop a digitally enhanced night-vision goggle under a contract from the US Army. Incorporating the company’s...
Lockheed Martin Receives NASA Contract
Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md., has been awarded an instrument contract from NASA, in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational...
Ocean Optics’ Founder Starts Up SpectrEcology
In Dunedin, Fla., Michael Morris, former president and CEO of Ocean Optics Inc., has founded SpectrEcology LLC, a business that will distribute Ocean Optics’ miniature spectrometers, fiber optics,...
Imperx Partners with North Coast Technical
A supplier of digital cameras and frame grabbers for machine vision, Imperx Inc. of Boca Raton, Fla., has expanded its market presence in the Midwest. It is partnering with North Coast Technical Inc....
IPG Photonics Wins US Navy Contract
Expanding its presence in government applications, IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., has received a $3.8 million contract from the US Navy to supply a 44-kW fiber laser system to the Naval...
VueMetrix Appoints Sole Distributor in UK
VueMetrix Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has appointed Laser Lines Ltd. of Banbury, UK, as its exclusive distributor in the UK for its line of laser diode controllers. The US company’s products address...
Mercury Computer Selected for Zero-Visibility Landing System
Mercury Computer Systems Inc. of Chelmsford, Mass., has been selected by BAE Systems of Rockville, Md., to provide a synthetic vision display to land helicopters in rotorcraftbrownout conditions. It...
CAO Group Restructures Optoelectronics Operation
CAO Group Inc. of West Jordan, Utah, has restructured its optoelectronics sales and marketing into three separate business units: components, solid-state signage and solid-state lighting. The company...
Industrial Laser Orders Rise in Second Quarter
Representing a 14.7 percent increase from the first quarter, second-quarter 2007 orders of industrial laser equipment and systems reached $141.5 million, according to a report from the Association...
Display Consortium Gains Members
The Micro Device Display Consortium, a group focusing on the microdisplay television market, has gained 10 members, including Fujinon Corp. of Saitama, Japan, and Colorlink Inc. of Boulder, Colo. The...
AccuSoft Partners with House of Tools
A reseller partnership has been established between AccuSoft Corp. of Northborough, Mass., and House of Tools GmbH of Bremen, Germany. The latter company will sell and support ImageGear and VisiQuest...
Aerotech Opens Branch In Japan
Aerotech Inc. of Pittsburgh has opened a subsidiary in Tokyo. Aerotech KK will provide demonstrations, training, customer service and applications assistance throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
French Companies Create US Subsidiary
Amplitude Systèmes of Bordeaux, a developer and manufacturer of ultrafast diode-pumped solid-state lasers, and Amplitude Technologies of Evry, a maker of ultrahigh-energy Ti:sapphire lasers, have...
IDS Opens New Office
Imaging Development Systems GmbH (IDS) of Obersulm, Germany, a supplier of machine vision and image processing components, has opened a branch in Cambridge, Mass. The subsidiary, IDS Inc., will...
Northrop Grumman Names StockerYale
StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., has been selected by Northrop Grumman Newport News, a subsidiary of the Northrop Grumman Corp., to provide optical fiber for the next three Virginia class attack...
SpectralSight Receives Grant from NSF
The National Science Foundation has awarded a nearly $500,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant to SpectralSight, a company spun off by Infotonics Technology Center, both of...
NuCrypt Awarded Challenge Grant by HSIEC
NuCrypt of Evanston, Ill., has been awarded a challenge grant by the Homeland Security Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (HSIEC) at Northwestern University, in partnership with the Illinois...
Laser Lines, V-gen Announce Agreement
Banbury, UK-based Laser Lines Ltd., an independent supplier of lasers and accessories, has announced a distribution agreement with V-gen Electro Optics Ltd. of Ramat-Gan, Israel. Under the terms of...
University and Imago to Open Research Facility
The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and Imago Scientific Instruments of Madison, Wis., have announced plans to create a facility for atom probe tomography research, where they will collaborate on...
Sanyo Appoints Power Technology as Distributor
Power Technology Inc. of Little Rock, Ark., a designer, manufacturer and distributor of laser diode products for OEM analytical, biomedical and industrial applications, has been appointed as a...
Saint-Gobain Buys Alpine Research Optics
Saint-Gobain Crystals, a producer of optical raw materials that is headquartered in Paris, has bought Alpine Research Optics of Boulder, Colo., a supplier of high-performance coated optics. The...
II-VI to Acquire Majority Interest in Highyag
A wholly owned subsidiary of II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., will purchase a 74.9 percent interest in Highyag Lasertechnologie GmbH of Stahnsdorf, Germany, developers of automated equipment that...
Hexagon to Distribute for Mycrona
North Kingstown, R.I.-based Hexagon Metrology Inc., a provider of measurement products and services, has announced an exclusive distribution agreement for North America with Elgin, Ill.-based Mycrona...
PaZaM-tech to Represent Meller Optics in Israel
Meller Optics Inc. of Providence, R.I., has appointed PaZaM-tech Ltd. of Jerusalem as its exclusive representative in Israel. Formerly Storch & Storch Ltd., the Israeli company offers...
Advanced Photonix Awarded $2 Million in Contracts
Advanced Photonix Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., has received a $1 million order from the US military for LED arrays used in night-vision displays. The display allows soldiers to see in all types of...
Thorlabs and Boston Micromachines Partner
Thorlabs Inc. of Newton, N.J., and Boston Micromachines Corp. of Watertown, Mass., have formed a partnership that will enable the latter company, a supplier of microelectromechanical systems-based...
Accent on Applications
Fitting Feet Better Using Photonics
Buying shoes for kids is common and usually challenging. It is common because children grow fast and frequently need new shoes, and challenging because they do not always sit still. Now infrared-based photonics gear developed by the defense and security technology company QinetiQ Ltd. of Malvern, UK, promises to make the task easier. The company’s device — called the FootSee — rapidly...
Presstime Bulletin
Gel with Chameleonlike Qualities Created
A photonic gel that rapidly alters color in response to external factors such as pressure, salt concentration, pH, humidity and temperature has been created by a group of researchers at MIT in...
Satellites Monitor Pesticides in Europe
Site Similarity Certification, a service developed by Spatial Business Integration GmbH under the auspices of the European Space Agency, is using satellite images to compare agricultural crop sites...
Lighter Side
Watery Laboratory Whets Interest
Aquanauts have been strapping on scuba tanks, wet suits and other gear for years to study the marine environment located about nine miles southeast of Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine...
Chair’s Light Illuminates the Not So Light
You might want to think twice before plopping down in one of these chairs. Sure, they look comfortable, and they probably are. But if you are weight-conscious (and who isn’t?) and hide your extra...
Industry Events
Laser Cutting Certificate Program Is Offered
The Industrial Laser Community of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has established a laser cutting certificate program in response to the industry need for skilled technicians. Targeted...
LASER SAFETY
A Webcast on industrial laser safety, for which the Laser Institute of America provided educational content, was hosted by Industrial Laser Solutions at its Web site in July. Sponsored by Kentek...
Products
LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Hamamatsu Photonics UK Ltd. has introduced the C10000-201, a time delay and integration board-level CCD line-scan camera. With this image acquisition method, the camera synchronizes charge transfer...
Hamamatsu Photonics UK Ltd.
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FIBER LASER SYSTEMS
The StarFiber 100 and StarFiber 200 fiber laser systems from Rofin Laser Micro provide 100 and 200 W of output power, respectively. Operating in pulsed and continuous-wave modes, both devices feature...
Rofin-Baasel Lasertech
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MONOCHROMATORS/SPECTROGRAPHS
The DeltaNu DNS series monochromators/spectrographs from Intevac Inc. includes models with focal lengths of 150, 300, 500 and 750 nm, resolution of 0.03 to 0.4 nm, and Mosir 150, 350 or 950 cameras...
Intevac Inc., Thin Film Equipment
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POSITIONING STAGES
H2W Technologies Inc.’s SR linear positioning stages are available in travel lengths as long as 3 m. The lightweight, compact single-rail stages operate at 6 m/s, with acceleration up to 12 g, load...
H2W Technologies Inc.
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CURING BELT RADIOMETER
International Light Technologies Inc. has launched the ILT490 UV curing belt radiometer, an upgrade of the IL390 Light Bug. The device offers all-in-one exposure, profile capability and ultrastable...
International Light Technologies, Gilway & International Light Divs.
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OPTICAL FIBER
OFS Specialty Photonics Div. has introduced a 62.5-μm-core optical fiber with a hard-clad silica fiber coating. The fiber/cable/connector system is suitable for high-bandwidth communication in...
OFS
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SILICONE COMPOUND
MasterSil 151, a two-component, low-viscosity silicone compound for casting, potting and encapsulation, has been released by Master Bond Inc. The substance is designed to cure at room temperature and...
Master Bond Inc.
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PHOTOELECTRIC SENSORS
Pepperl+Fuchs has introduced MLV41 series photoelectric sensors, available in versions designed for detection at 350 mm or 3 m away from the sensor. The devices have built-in crosstalk protection and...
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
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BROKEN-TOOL DETECTION
The TRS2 broken-tool detection system from Renishaw Inc. combines the laser source and detection electronics in one 83 × 38 × 73-mm unit. Typically in just 1 s, it can process tools as small as 0.2...
Renishaw Inc.
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LASER CUTTING
The TruLaser 5030 flatbed laser machine from Trumpf Inc. employs a 10.6-μm, 6000-W CO2 laser. The beam automatically changes to match sheet thickness without the need to change heads. The head...
TRUMPF Inc., Laser Technology Center
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LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Introduced by Dalsa Corp., the Spyder 3 CL line-scan camera with a Camera Link interface is suitable for glass edge inspection, general-purpose web inspection, industrial metrology, pick-and-place...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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TRANSLATION STAGE
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP has released the M-122, a palm-top-size precision translation stage with a ballscrew drive and an optical linear encoder. It has a travel range of 25 mm and dimensions of...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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RADIOMETER/PHOTOMETER
The SC 6000 programmable radiometer and photometer has been launched by Labsphere Inc. The system controller allows for up to 100 programmed calibrations, which can be created, upgraded or expanded...
Labsphere Inc.
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CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE
Molecular Devices Corp., a division of MDS Analytical Technologies, has released the MetaMorph ICS, a confocal microscope for live cell and functional imaging, in partnership with VisiTech...
Molecular Devices LLC
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PHOTODIODE ARRAYS
The XLIN 1.7/2.2/2.5 series InGaAs linear photodiode arrays from XenICs are for IR detection. The XLIN comes with pixel counts of 128, 256 and 512. It offers a wavelength response of up to 2.5...
Xenics
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LASER SYSTEM
Vescent Photonics Inc. has launched the D2 series distributed feedback laser, a modular turnkey system that includes a laser module and controller, a spectroscopy module and locking electronics. The...
Vescent Photonics LLC
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MACHINE VISION
Dolan-Jenner Industries has introduced the Fiber-Lite DC950H fiber optic illuminator for machine vision integrators. The RoHS-compliant 150-W quartz halogen-regulated lamp with stackable heavy-duty...
Dolan-Jenner Industries Inc.
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WHITE LED
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. has expanded its line of white LEDs with the addition of a device that provides a typical flux of 30 lm from a driving current of 250 mA. The TL12W01-D...
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc.
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ETHERNET CAMERA
The uEye, a Gigabit Ethernet camera with adjustable mounting dimensions and with GPIO and RS-232 interfaces, has been released by Imaging Development Systems GmbH. The device supports a power supply...
IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
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OPTICAL DESIGN
The Code V 9.8 optical design software from Optical Research Associates includes features to improve the modeling and optimization of optical systems. It builds on the diffraction-based image...
Synopsys Inc., Optical Solutions Group
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40-Gb OPTICAL FIBER
Luxtera Inc. has unveiled Blazar, a 40-Gb optically active cable based on CMOS. It supports quad-data rate, and cables are sold in lengths from 1 to 300 m. It consumes 2.2 W per cable end, or 0.05...
Luxtera Inc.
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PULSED LASER MODULE
SPI Lasers UK Ltd. has added a 10-W pulsed laser module to its line of marking lasers. The device has a peak emission wavelength of 1064 ±5 nm, a full power range of 20 to 100 kHz and a reduced power...
SPI Lasers UK Ltd.
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VIDEO METROLOGY
Optical Gaging Products Inc. has expanded its line of SmartScope multisensor dimensional measurement systems with the addition of the SmartScope Flash 302. Offering 300 × 300 × 250 mm of X-Y-Z travel...
OGP (Optical Gaging Products)
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X-RAY DETECTORS
The Saturn 944+ and 724+, CCD-based area x-ray detectors for macromolecular and small-molecule x-ray crystallography, have been unveiled by Rigaku Americas Corp. The detectors offer a fourfold...
Rigaku Americas Corp.
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INTERROGATORS
Smart Fibres Ltd. has released the Wx series high-speed fiber Bragg grating interrogators. Applications include monitoring the structural health of civil and military aircraft. The Wx has a...
Smart Fibres Ltd.
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CONNECTION BASES
CAO Group Inc. has introduced a series of standard connection bases for its high-flux Dynasty LEDs. The series includes a single-contact miniature bayonet base, a miniature Edison (EB-10) base and a...
CAO Group Inc.
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FRAME GRABBERS
Cognex Corp. has unveiled the MVS-8600e, a family of frame grabbers that connects Camera Link imagers through the PCI Express interface. The devices are available in single- and dual-channel models...
Cognex Corp.
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FIBER OPTIC TESTING
The LTS-1500, an automated fiber optic loss test set, has been released by Terahertz Technologies Inc. The device characterizes single- and multimode fiber links at wavelengths of 850, 1300, 1310,...
Terahertz Technologies Inc.
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UV FLOOD LAMPS
Dymax Corp. is offering improved flood lamp bulbs for UV curing. The P/N 36970 bulb produces a broad UV spectral distribution suitable for inks and thin coatings. The P/N 38560 provides a greater...
Dymax, Headquarters
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MACHINE VISION
The NI Vision Development Module 8.5 from National Instruments provides a library of image processing and machine vision functions for multiple program languages, including NI LabView and...
National Instruments Corp.
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CAMERA UPGRADE
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH has upgraded its IEEE-1394b Pike camera family with functions that improve picture quality, optimize speed and facilitate integration of the camera into the...
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH
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UV LASER TOOLS
PhotoMachining Inc. offers UV laser micromachining using excimer and frequency-tripled and -quadrupled lasers. The company says that UV photons have advantages over the more conventional IR sources,...
PhotoMachining Inc.
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BEAMSPLITTERS
The TechSpec elliptical plate beamsplitters from Edmund Optics Inc. are designed to maximize beamsplitting efficiency while minimizing mounting space. When oriented at 45° in the optical path, the...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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SOFTWARE UPGRADE
The Halcon machine vision software library from MVTec Software GmbH now offers new interfaces. Version 7.1 and beyond interface to uEye Gigabit Ethernet cameras from Imaging Development Systems GmbH,...
MVTec Software GmbH
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MICROMACHINING
Haas Laser Technologies Inc.’s HLT1000 high-precision laser micromachining system is suitable for machining metals, polymers, ceramics and semiconductors. It integrates lasers, industry-standard beam...
Haas Laser Technologies Inc.
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FRAMING CAMERA
Specialised Imaging Ltd. has released the SIM-02, a multichannel framing camera that has up to 16 discrete intensified optical channels producing 32 separate images. Via a double-pulse technique,...
Specialised Imaging Inc.
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INSPECTION LENS
The Schneider Group has launched the MacroVaron MRV 4.5/85 CAS 0.5×-2.0× for inspection systems. An f/4.5 lens, it features continuous aberration suppression technology, which enables uniform...
Schneider Optics Inc., Industrial Optics
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SURFACE PROFILING
The Wyko SP9900 surface-profiling system from Veeco Instruments Inc. performs measurements that support high yield and device reliability for high-density interconnect packages. The optical metrology...
Veeco Instruments Inc.
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DYNAMIC INTERFEROMETER
The PhaseCam 5030 Twyman-Green interferometer from 4D Technology Corp. was developed to remotely measure meter-class optics for terrestrial and space-based telescopes. Enabling measurement during...
4D Technology Corporation
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EYE-SAFE LASER
Kigre Inc. has released the MK-88, a diode-pumped eye-safe erbium glass laser. Based on conduction-cooled high-efficiency side-pumped and diode-pumped solid-state lasers, the device is suitable for...
L3 Kigre Inc.
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SPECIALIZED COATINGS
Deposition Sciences Inc. is offering a low-pressure chemical vapor deposition process that applies durable coatings to irregularly shaped objects and that is designed for almost all types of optical...
Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI)
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5-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA
Basler Vision Technologies has added a 5-megapixel GigE Vision- and GenICam-compliant camera to its Pioneer series. The device is based on Sony’s ICX625 progressive-scan CCD sensor, which offers 2456...
Basler AG
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PAINT CHARACTERIZATION
VisiSizer automatic optical spray paint characterization systems from Oxford Lasers Ltd. can perform imaging in real time at up to 15,000 particles per second with maximum resolutions >1.3 μm...
Oxford Lasers Ltd.
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POWER DETECTOR
The 11PMK-H5 power detector from Standa Ltd. is available in models that offer maximum measurable power of 15, 30 or 150 W and maximum average power (2 min) of 23, 45 and 170 W, respectively. The...
STANDA UAB
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SPECULAR REFLECTANCE
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has launched a series of accessories to complement its Evolution 300 and 600 UV-VIS spectrophotometers. Suitable for materials science laboratories, the accessories...
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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LOW-POWER DETECTOR
Gentec-EO Inc. has introduced a thermopile-based extreme-low-power detector. The XLP12 takes low power measurements in the micro- and milliwatt regions with low thermal drift. It features a broadband...
Gentec Electro-Optics Inc.
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CO2 LASER OPTICS
Designed to mark and trim electronic components and to dice electronic components , CO2 laser optics from Laser Research Optics can be used to steer low-power laser beams. The components meet OEM and...
Laser Research Optics
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TELECENTRIC LENSES
Linos Photonics GmbH & Co. KG has added two telecentric lenses to its line of f-Theta products. With the lenses, the laser beam is guided vertically over the scan field, providing a high depth...
Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG
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IMAGING SOFTWARE
Media Cybernetics Inc. has released AutoQuant X, version 2 of its image deconvolution and 3-D visualization software. The update offers 64-bit support and ~25% faster deconvolution than earlier...
Media Cybernetics Inc.
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DIGITIZER BOARD
Videology Imaging Solutions Inc. has introduced the 42-mm-square 60V002-USB, a digitizer board that takes any NTSC/RS-170 or PAL/CCIR video source and converts it to USB 2.0 or 1.1. Features include...
Videology Industrial-Grade Cameras
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DIODE LASER SYSTEM
Lumics GmbH has unveiled the LU09xxC300, a fiber-coupled high-power diode laser system with 300 W of optical output power. Delivered from a fiber bundle of 45 single-emitter laser diode modules...
Lumics GmbH
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BROADBAND LIGHT
Safibra has unveiled the OFLS-B series, broadband optical light sources that are equipped with superluminescent LEDs. Customers can choose SLEDs with wavelengths within the range of 750 to 1600 nm...
Safibra s.r.o.
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LED BACKLIGHTING
The SC4509 step-up converter for white LED backlighting from Semtech Corp. can drive up to five LEDs. With an integrated Schottky diode that operates with greater than 80% efficiency in a 2 × 2 ×...
Semtech Corp.
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TURBIDITY SENSOR
Optek-Danulat Inc.’s TF16-N dual-channel scattered light turbidity sensor completes in-line real-time processing in sanitary, high-pressure, high-temperature and explosion-prone situations. A...
optek-Danulat Inc.
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STEPPER MOTOR DRIVER
Kryptronic Technologies has announced the TangoStep, a single-axis intelligent stepper motor controller for industrial and laboratory applications. Suitable for long-term applications where a...
Kryptronic Technologies
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IMAGING SYSTEM
The QDI ImageUV imaging system has been released by Craic Technologies Inc. to be employed with its QDI 2010 microspectrophotometer and its UV/VIS/NIR microscopes. Users can acquire images and...
CRAIC Technologies
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UV DESIGN KIT
JKL Components Corp.’s GB-UV1 ultraviolet lamp designer kit contains 23 lamp types in wavelengths from 253.7 to 436 nm, eight inverter models, two each of six connector types, 40 ft of high-voltage...
JKL Components Corp.
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FAR-FIELD LENSES
IB/E Optics has introduced low-shading, image-sided far-field telecentric lenses designed for sensors up to 28 mm in diameter with lens arrays. The lenses have f-stops of 2.1, 2.4 and 2.7, as well as...
IB/E Optics Eckerl GmbH
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VIDEO LENSES
Navitar Inc. has added 27 fixed-focal-length lenses to its line of low-magnification video lenses. Suitable for machine vision applications, the devices feature an innovative optical design, high...
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Combining microprocessor control and advanced optics, the LF210 laser autofocus from Prior Scientific Inc. is suitable for reflective specimens. The compact module incorporates optics that adjust to...
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The Specdilas-D-BTF series from Laser Components IG Inc. is a distributed feedback diode laser for spectroscopy. Various wavelengths within the 1270- to 1854-nm range are available. The laser is...
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