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Photonics Spectra - February 2009
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The Prism Awards
Somewhere between the Golden Globes in January and the Academy Awards in February, the glitz and glamour of awards season made a temporary move from Hollywood to San Jose, Calif. The reason? The...
Harvard Spinoff Company Takes on $200 Billion Global Market for Silicon
Imagine if a new substance could replace silicon, a material that is used in almost every electronic device on the market today. SiOnyx Inc. plans to do just that with its new material, black...
Keeping an Eye on the Bad Guys with GigE
For the military, knowing the location of your troops – and of the enemy – can be the difference between a successful operation and defeat. In modern warfare, that difference appears in the form of...
The Science of a Nearly Full Retreat
When a liquid film meets a solid surface, all heck breaks loose as film particles cling, drag, shift, lift upward and, eventually, settle. If, however, the particles don’t attach firmly enough, they...
Weathering the Storm
“Financial crisis.” “Economic meltdown.” “The end of Wall Street.” Call it what you will. By now everyone knows what it is: upheaval in our financial center fueled by a hemorrhaging market that, so...
Germany: Moving Ahead in Markets and Technology
Germany holds a strong position in optics and photonics technologies, including test and measurement, imaging and optical manufacturing. Here is what I see as the most interesting market and...
Ireland: Getting a Boost from Academe
A close working relationship between industry and academe characterizes photonics in the Emerald Isle. An example: Several photonics start-up companies have been spun off from research centers...
Spain: Counting on Growth in Photonics
Although Spain hosts few large photonics companies, it is home to many smaller – and growing – ones. Best of all, the Spanish government actively supports the development of photonics in the belief...
France: Europe's Overlooked Powerhouse
When most people think of France, their thoughts turn to wine and food – for which the French are rightly famous. Seldom does the imagination gravitate to business and, in particular, to high-tech...
UK: Infrared Imaging Gives UK Dentists a Better Look
A team of dentists and physicists in the UK is developing an infrared imaging system for dentistry that avoids the risks associated with x-rays. Professor John Girkin and Dr. Simon Poland at the...
The Doctor Will See You Now
If the old saying is right and an ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure, then some of the latest medical imaging breakthroughs could represent tons of prevention and even more of cure....
OSA Student Chapters Light the Way for Young Investigators
At Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., some graduate students do more than research and study – they teach optics and photonics to the world. The university’s student chapter of the Optical...
Editorial
A tribute to the winners
Last month during SPIE’s Photonics West 2009 in San Jose, Calif., we were proud to honor 10 companies whose products were announced as the winners of the 2008 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation. The Prism Awards, a joint collaboration of Laurin Publishing and SPIE, were created to represent the premier global awards in the photonics industry. Judged by a panel of 28 independent judges –...
Tech Pulse
Neighborhood watch, sans neighbors
Humans in general are pretty good at identifying people and things that don’t belong in a given scene. That’s the theory behind the neighborhood watch concept – that neighbors can pick out people who are acting in an unusual manner. This model doesn’t work as well in busy environments, however, where the amount of information to sort through increases exponentially. Security personnel in...
Laser vision for robots
Modern-day soldiers are trained in urban warfare. They know how to maneuver the streets of a strange city, where the enemy is likely to hide, and how to avoid booby traps. Many technological advances...
View atoms moving in real time with this microscope
It’s one thing for scientists to ponder the nature of materials indirectly – and quite another to watch those materials change before their eyes. The electron microscope has enabled scientists to...
Grenade cam would let military launch and look
So much can be inspired by a simple cup of tea. Just ask the late author Marcel Proust, whose novel “Remembrance of Things Past” draws upon a memory that floods back when a madeleine is dipped into a...
GPS could help football refs make calls
This Super Bowl Sunday, imagine if referees could make more accurate calls using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or GPS technology. Priya Narasimhan is making this dream a reality. “We can track the wide...
light speed
Ashkin Talks About the Optical Trap
Although many scientists now use laser light to manipulate and confine biological cells and other transparent objects, only one person believed in the phenomenon 39 years ago. His name is Arthur Ashkin, and he is now 86 years old. To demonstrate that light could move or trap particles, Ashkin had to prevent heat from the laser from burning the particles, so he used objects that are transparent...
Optical coatings industry: The picture looks bright
Driven by demand in the nanotechnology, display and biotechnology sectors, the optical coatings industry is projected to reach $7.4 billion by 2012, according to a report by Global Industry Analysts...
National Academy of Sciences goes Hollywood
Look out, Hollywood, the scientists are coming. Fed up with science fiction that’s a little too heavy on the fiction, the National Academy of Sciences is sending a dedicated task force into the...
Image sensor market: changing, but moving upward
The value of the world image sensors market is expected to rise to $11.7 billion by 2012, according to a report from Global Industry Analysts Inc. of San Jose, Calif. Titled “Image Sensors: A...
Sensing and Imaging Graduate Program
The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $3.2 million for the establishment of a computational optical sensing and imaging graduate program. Those disciplined...
Sofradir Acquires IR Equipment Developer
Sofradir of Paris, an infrared manufacturer for military, space and industrial applications, has acquired Electrophysics Corp. of Fairfield, N.J., a developer of high-performance IR equipment. The...
Moving to Camarillo
Founded in Thousand Oaks, Calif., OptoTest Corp., a provider of fiber optic test solutions, has moved its operations to Camarillo, also in California. The new facility offers more than three times...
Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industry Facility
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. of Waltham, Mass., has constructed a 12,000-sq-ft facility in Reinach, Switzerland, to house its analytical instrument operations and to consolidate the product lines of...
Intellectual Property Portfolio Acquired
Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, a pharmaceutical and chemical organization, has acquired the intellectual property portfolio of OLED-T Ltd. of Enfield, UK, a developer and manufacturer of organic...
Infrared Space Contract Awarded
Sofradir of Veurey-Voroize, France, has signed a contract with Astrium SAS of Paris, a supplier of satellites and space equipment. Under the terms of the €6.7 million agreement, the former will...
Mouser Signs International Contracts
Mouser Electronics Inc. of Mansfield, Texas, an electronic component distributor, has finalized global distribution agreements with Axsem AG of Dübendorf, Switzerland, and SiTime of Sunnyvale,...
Buying Japanese Lighting
Schott, a manufacturer of fiber optic light- and image guides based in Mainz, Germany, has acquired a majority stock interest in Moritex Corp. of Tokyo, a provider of lighting systems based on LED...
New Metrology Headquarters
Opto-Alignment Technology Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., an engineering and optical metrology firm, has relocated to a 6000-sq-ft facility south of Charlotte, N.C. The new plant offers a 1300-sq-ft...
LED Light for You
Optek Technology of Carrolton, Texas, has been named a certified partner in Osram Opto Semiconductors’ “LED Light for You” network. The latter company, based in Regensburg, Germany, created the...
Better to See You With
In Barrington, N.J., Edmund Optics has been awarded $2.32 million in federal funding by the US Army. The company will put the money toward improving manufacturing technologies for infrared aspheric...
Delaware Science Facility
DuPont of Wilmington, Del., and the state of Delaware have unveiled their $80 million Innovation Center partnership. It includes opening a business incubator at the company’s research and development...
Poor Economy Affects Lighting
Industry Cymer Inc. of San Diego has announced that it will be decreasing its work force by approximately 8 percent to align its cost structure with its forecasted earnings. The changes will save the...
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Greening the Job Market
Reducing greenhouse gas is a mandate of governments worldwide and, key to accomplishing that goal, is being smarter about energy generation and use. With jobs falling off in so many industries, the...
From Autos to Solar
There is nothing like making the best of a bad situation. Solar company Infinia Corp. of Kennewick, Wash., may be able to take advantage of the downward spiral of the auto industry. It makes a unique...
Thicker than Thin
Bringing down the cost of solar has many manufacturers looking at new materials and novel processes. NanoGram Corp. of Milpitas, Calif., specializes in a process called laser reactive deposition...
The Rippling Silicon Market
So much can change in such a short time. Back in July, we reported that photovoltaic (PV) grade silicon was in short supply and that cell and wafer manufacturers were signing long-term contracts or...
Lighter Side
Educating with Art
Although there currently is a $50 billion global market for nanotechnology products, a 2007 poll found that 70 percent of Americans know “just a little” or “nothing at all” about nanotechnology. Some scientists are trying to increase awareness about nanotechnology through art. One of those scientists, A. John Hart of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has produced tiny works of art...
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LED SOURCE
Thorlabs GmbH has released the LEDD3, a modulating LED source for frequency-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging and other microscopy applications that require modulated high-brightness LED sources....
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X-RAY CCD CAMERA
Sydor Instruments LLC has introduced a vacuum-compatible x-ray CCD camera with flexible binning and region-of-interest readouts for use in plasma physics, deep-UV lithography, x-ray microscopy and...
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BEAM PROFILING CAMERAS
Coherent Inc. has introduced two laser beam profiling cameras. The LaserCam-HR-UV operates from 190 to 355 nm and records beam characteristics at the third, fourth and fifth harmonics of Nd:YAG...
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THERMAL IMAGING
Thermoteknix Systems Ltd.’s VisIR 640 and Condition RED database and software integrate a thermal camera and asset database to create an automated data storage, image analysis, route planning and...
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EUV SPECTROMETER
McPherson Inc. has introduced the 251MX x-ray and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectrometer for wavelength dispersive spectral measurements from 0.6 to 20 nm. A selection of diffraction gratings...
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CONVERTERS
Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp.’s UMW series modular sheet metal-enclosed converters based on surface-mount technology output 8 to 20 kV. CE-listed and RoHS-compliant, they are available in...
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EYEPIECES
Tele Vue Optics Inc. has developed the 100° Ethos series eyepieces for visual instrument applications in astronomy, surveillance and scientific instrumentation. They feature a 15-mm eye relief and a...
Tele Vue Optics Inc.
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LINE-SCAN ILLUMINATOR
Chromasens GmbH has released the Corona, an LED line-scan illuminator. Available in lengths of 340 and 680 mm, it can be equipped with white, red, IR, green or blue LEDs with intensity of up to...
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CCD CAMERA
JAI Inc.’s 16-megapixel progressive-scan CCD camera has a Kodak dual-tap sensor that delivers full 4872 × 3248-pixel resolution at 3 fps. The AM-1600CL monochrome and AB-1600CL raw Bayer color models...
JAI Inc.
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PYROELECTRIC DETECTOR
The PE50-DIF pyroelectric detector announced by Ophir-Spiricon Inc. measures high-repetition-rate lasers from 193 nm to 2.94 μm, and a single diffuser covers the UV, visible and near-IR. For...
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AMPLIFIER
An ultrafast 5-mJ amplifier, the Femtopower, has been announced by Femtolasers Produktions GmbH for use in attoscience, high harmonic generation, time-resolved ultrafast spectroscopy, femtochemistry,...
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MICROWATT LASER
Combining passively Q-switched microchip laser technology with fiber amplification, the PicoSpark from Teem Photonics USA is a microwatt laser that generates picosecond pulses with hundreds of...
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RADIOMETER/PHOTOMETER
Users of Gigahertz-Optik Inc.’s P-9802 optometer can add from two to 36 light detectors for use in their radiometric and/or photometric applications that require multiple detection and...
Gigahertz-Optik Inc.
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BEAMSPLITTERS
Newport Corp. has introduced low-group-velocity-dispersion 50/50 beamsplitters for P-polarized light. They minimize pulse dispersion of reflected and transmitted ultrafast laser pulses and enable the...
MKS/Newport
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LIGHT MEASUREMENT
Labsphere Inc. and Otsuka Electronics Co. Ltd. have developed a light-measurement system for manufacturers of LEDs, light fixtures and displays. The HalfMoon total forward spectral flux measurement...
Labsphere Inc.
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DIGITAL CAMERAS
Point Grey Research Inc. has expanded its Firefly MV FireWire digital camera line with the addition of USB 2.0 models. The cameras use the same 1/3-in. CMOS sensor and support 480 Mb/s data transfer...
Teledyne FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions
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LASER DIODE MODULES
Bea Laser Inc. has introduced heavy-duty laser diode modules with red or green beam output. Suitable for applications where alignment, targeting and positioning are highly important, including metal...
BEA Lasers
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SPECTROMETER
A compact fiber optic spectrometer that measures near-IR spectra within milliseconds has been unveiled by B&W Tek Inc. The BTC262E, suitable for materials research, process monitoring and control...
B&W Tek LLC
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LIGHTING-CLASS LEDS
From Cree Inc. comes high-volume availability of its XLamp XP-E lighting-class LEDs with output up to 122 lm. The company’s cool-white (5000 to 10,000 K correlated color temperature) LEDs are...
Wolfspeed Inc.
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CAMERA SYSTEM
The Cooke Corp. has introduced the pco.dimax, a 4-megapixel digital high-speed CMOS camera system with a 12-bit dynamic range. It provides 2012 × 2012-pixel resolution at a rate of 1100 fps,...
PCO-TECH Inc.
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