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Photonics Spectra - April 2009
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State of the Economy
“Innovation” and “collaboration” are some key words that executives are throwing around these days. Although there’s no denying the recession, companies are looking to make the best of the economic situation rather than being dragged down by fear and frustration. “Warren Buffett said we’d look back on it as a period that led to the greatest innovation of our lifetime,” said Robert Edmund, CEO...
Blurry Future for Russian Laser Optics Market
The vast landscape of the Russian Federation is home to more than 800 laser-related organizations and companies spread over 85 cities in 57 regions. Along with other functions they perform, these...
LEDs Go Organic
Thirty years after the discovery of organic LED (OLED) electroluminescence, OLEDs still have not fully penetrated either the display or lighting markets. With the exception of a few handheld mobile...
Cockpit Electronics Hit the Road
The old adage “Keep your eyes on the road” has taken on new meaning, thanks to sophisticated in-car displays. Today’s instrument clusters tell you how fast you’re going, how much gas you have left,...
Light Sources Help Fight Crime
Like the actors on the television show CSI, real-life crime scene investigators and policemen often use special light sources to reveal hidden trace evidence. In fact, forensic light sources can...
Military Photonics: The Art of Seeing Without Being Seen
From optics to organic LEDs (OLEDS) to lasers, many sophisticated photonics technologies are being developed to help soldiers fire without drawing enemy fire, or to get a better understanding of the...
Astrophotonics Propels Next-Gen Telescopes
Astronomy may be the oldest science, but today it’s driving development of the newest instrumentation, coatings and optical components. In part these advances are due to the intersection of astronomy...
Editorial
Patent anxiety
In February, 130 U.S. manufacturers sent a joint letter to President Obama that voiced their concerns about reintroducing patent reform legislation that came before the 110th Congress last year. If passed, the undersigned claimed, the legislation would benefit only a handful of large companies in two industries: high-technology and financial services. “We feel strongly that the prosperity of a...
Tech Pulse
All the world’s a screen
Put away those phones, and forget the laptop. You won’t need them in the future if an MIT project succeeds. Using a camera, a projector and a mobile computing device, researchers there have turned...
Imaging elusive winter sprites
“Sprites,” or upper-atmospheric lightning that occurs high above thunderstorm clouds, are a natural phenomenon that have caught the attention of Colin Price, professor and head of the geophysics and...
Quantum communication, without – and with – delay
When it comes to computing, some of the lessons we learned in kindergarten really do apply. Algorithms have to take turns. Otherwise, final calculations could be wrong. Such data flow control is...
Food safety just got smarter
The hot-button issue of food contamination, it seems, is never far from the headlines, but until now, avoiding it has depended to a great extent upon the decidedly low-tech expiration date. However,...
Practice mirror goes 3-D
For a musician, the traditional optical device is the mirror. A violinist stands in front of one while practicing to visualize whether his bow is parallel to the bridge and his instrument positioned...
Tinier quantum dots
Quantum dots are fascinating – thousands of atoms, acting together as one, bring us closer and closer to true quantum computing. As amazing as they are, though, they still have their problems,...
light speed
Miracle in Jena: The Story of Carl Zeiss and Schott
Did you know that Carl Zeiss, Otto Schott and Ernst Abbe knew each other? In fact, the three men went into business together. They came together because “there was a technological challenge,”...
“Localize” to Make the Most of Opportunities in Japan
Like the rest of the world, Japan is experiencing its share of economic setbacks. Despite the recent announcement of a fourth-quarter 2008 decline in gross domestic product at a 12.7 percent annual...
Machine vision market: Weathering the storm
In the opinion of John Morse, senior market analyst for the Automation and Control division of IMS Research, the machine vision sector will be slightly more resilient to the adverse market conditions...
Company Expansion
Rogue Valley Micro-devices of Medford, Ore., has completed construction on its metal foundry and has added physical vapor deposition capabilities to its line of service offerings. Because it has...
Space Contract
Paris-based Sofradir, a developer and manufacturer of infrared detectors for military and space applications, has signed a contract with Galileo Avionica of Campi Bisenzio, Italy, a supplier of space...
Italian Distribution
LMI Technologies Inc. of Delta, British Columbia, Canada, specializing in machine vision, has established a partnership with Visionlink of Milan, Italy, which will provide vision component...
Lighting License
Nichia Corp. of Anan City, Japan, a worldwide white LED provider, has established a cross-licensing and manufacturing partnership with Luminus Devices Inc. of Billerica, Mass., a large-chip...
Faster Testing
The Collaborative Alliance for Semiconductor Test (CAST), which provides test equipment support, is joining SEMI as a special interest group that will manage and speed up progress on critical test...
LED Purchase
PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass., a developer and manufacturer of scientific solutions for health, safety and the environment, has acquired Opto Technology Inc. of Wheeling, Ill. The acquisition...
Laser Sales
IB Laser of Berlin, a developer and manufacturer of solid-state lasers, has established a partnership with RPMC Lasers Inc. of O’Fallon, Mo., which will serve as its North American distributor of...
Distributing in Taiwan
Point Grey Research Inc. of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, has selected a new distributor. Apo Star Co. Ltd. of Taipei City, Taiwan, will be the Canadian company’s sole distributor in Taiwan and...
Gaining a Percentage
In Denmark, Foss A/S of Hillerød and Ibsen Photonics A/S of Copenhagen have agreed to a partnership. The former company has become a shareholder in the latter, owning 12.5% of the shares. The...
Metrology Partnership
Cardiff, Wales-based metaFAB has joined the CEMMNT (Centre of Metrology in Micro & Nano Technology) network of metrology companies. This agreement means that the company has opened its suite of...
Glass Structuring Agreement
MSG Lithoglas AG of Berlin has signed an agreement with Schott AG of Mainz, Germany, for exclusive use of the latter’s process and application intellectual property on the additive structuring of...
Spin-off Companies
InnoLas GmbH of Krailing, Germany, has spun off three of its business units into independent companies. InnoLas Systems GmbH, InnoLas Semiconductor GmbH and InnoLas Laser GmbH, will focus on laser...
By Any Other Name
Irvine, Calif.-based VXI Technology, a provider of instrumentation for electronic signal distribution, data acquisition and monitoring, has changed its name to VTI Instruments Corp. The company feels...
Buy and Sell
Navitar Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., has sold Navitar Coating Labs of Newport Beach, Calif. The sale was prompted by the former company’s recent acquisition of Special Optics of Wharton, N.J., expanding...
Infrared Acquisition
In Massachusetts, Agiltron Inc. of Woburn, a developer and manufacturer of photonic components for communications, sensing and imaging, has purchased the assets of privately held SensArray Infrared...
GreenLight
Clean, yes; green, maybe
Solar energy is touted as a green and clean energy source, but that may be only in comparison to fossil fuels. Looking at the life cycle of solar energy, there are many areas in which it is not so green. Solar panels are made with potentially toxic, explosive and even carcinogenic materials such as cadmium and selenium. Strict take-back and recycling policies will help prevent possible toxic...
In a word: plastics
Hybrid organic solar cells made of plastic may help “green” the solar industry. Although plastics are generally made of petroleum, one could debate whether plastic solar is moving in a cleaner,...
Mission to Earth
The environment is often studied from here on Earth. But why not a top-down rather than a bottom-up approach? NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) grew out of an idea proposed by astronaut Sally Ride,...
Solar recycling
Photovoltaic panels have a lifetime of approximately 30 years, so panels installed during the first solar boom of the 1970s are already candidates for recycling. Based on knowledge gained from the...
CO2 mission plunges
We know carbon dioxide is all around, but pinpointing its location and quantity was the focus of a recent NASA mission. Unfortunately, a satellite with instrumentation onboard to monitor carbon...
Another Olympic feat
The smog in China was such an issue before the Beijing Olympics last year that Chinese government officials placed restrictions on emissions. To determine just how much clearer the air was afterward,...
A pocket sushi probe?
Mercury is found in all sorts of things. From the fish we may eat to the fillings in our teeth, understanding just how much mercury is involved is important because of the potential health...
Slices from the Breadboard
Selling patents to survive economic hard times
More and more businesses are struggling to stay ahead of the failing economy. Even high-tech and small starter companies have not been spared from its overwhelming impact on revenue as they are forced to sell patents they have filed rather than file for more. It’s the only way to stay in business as the economic crisis bears down. Turning a profit VocalTec Communications Ltd., a worldwide...
Fianium Refutes Crystal Fibre Allegations
Fianium of Southampton, UK, an ultrafast fiber laser manufacturer, has rejected the allegations made by Crystal Fibre A/S of Birkerød, Denmark, regarding patent infringement related to Crystal...
Braunschweig Team Receives Patent Award
A team of inventors from Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany, led by Dr. Martin Koch and co-inventor Steffen Wietzke, has received first place in the IPB Patent Awards competition for...
Oxford Gene, BioArray Solutions Settle Dispute
Oxford Gene Technology of Oxford, UK, has announced the settlement of a lawsuit it filed in US federal court for the District of Delaware against Warren, N.J.-based BioArray Solutions Ltd., for its...
Seoul Semiconductor, Nichia to Cross-License
Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea, and Nichia Corp. have announced that they have settled all litigations on patent and other legal disputes pending between them in the US, Germany,...
Life Technologies Wins Verdict on Patent
A jury in the US District Court for the Northern District of California has rendered a verdict in favor of Life Technologies Corp. of Carlsbad, Calif., for its patent infringement dispute with...
3-D IC Bonding Process Licensing Development
Ziptronix Inc. of Morrisville, N.C., a low-temperature oxide-bonding technology developer, is devising strategies for licensing its patented ZiBond and Direct Bond Interconnect technologies across...
Lighter Side
T. rex or T. anorex?
The skeletal remains of dinosaurs capture the imaginations of young and old alike. We gaze on these creatures, so different and yet so similar to the animals we are used to, and imagine what they would have looked like in the flesh. Artists have created sketch renderings, animators have brought to life their concepts – and now scientists have applied laser imaging and computer modeling to reveal...
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For surface and wavefront measurements at 3.39- or 10.6-μm wavelengths, 4D Technology Corp. has introduced the PhaseCam laser interferometers. Using Dynamic Interferometry technology, the devices acquire measurement data in <1 ms, despite vibration and air turbulence. The dual-mode systems also can operate using traditional temporal phase-shifting interferometry. The turnkey infrared...
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3-W RGB LEDs
Lumex has introduced the AstraLED RGBs for use in kitchen appliances, communications equipment, medical devices, and automotive and sign applications that require bright, intense light and low power...
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CAMERA LINK CAMERA
Basler Vision Technologies has launched the A406k, a 4-megapixel camera with a Camera Link interface. It operates at 209 fps at full 2320 × 1726-pixel resolution and is available in monochrome and...
Basler AG
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COMPACT DPSS LASER
The Cobolt Zouk is a compact continuous-wave diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser operating at 355 nm. Released by Cobolt AB, it delivers 10 mW of output power and a TEM00 beam with M2 <1.1....
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HIGH-POWER DIODE LASERS
For pumping of solid-state and fiber lasers, and for optical pumping of alkaline vapors, Dilas has introduced wavelength-stabilized technology for its high-power fiber-coupled lasers. They are...
DILAS Diode Laser Inc.
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OEM CAMERA
Offered by VRmagic Holding AG for OEM applications within tight or angled installation space is a camera with an offset and freely positionable sensor that is connected to the central unit by an up...
VRmagic Imaging GmbH
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DIRECT DIODE SYSTEM
Coherent Inc. has introduced a fiber-delivered direct diode laser system for use in industrial applications. Based on closed-loop cooling, the HighLight 1000F produces 1 kW at 975 nm from a...
Coherent Inc.
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ILLUMINATION SOFTWARE
Optical Research Associates (ORA) has released its LightTools 6.2 illumination design and analysis software for applications including LEDs, displays and luminaires. Backward ray tracing capability...
Synopsys Inc., Optical Solutions Group
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LASER PROTECTION
The F08 black rubberized frame developed by Laservision is designed for people with small faces. The company says that the 134-mm-wide frame fits firmly against the face, and that the 153-mm temple...
Laservision USA
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FIBER LASER
The third generation of Boreas high-power fiber lasers has been announced by Eolite Systems. The HE (high energy) 40 operates at 1030 nm, delivers 40-W output and has a pulse duration of 7 ns and...
Eolite Lasers (part of ESI)
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LAPPING FILM
For fiber optic connector polishing, 3M has introduced its Lapping Film 865×, a long-lasting polish used in the final step. It produces consistent fiber height and good visual quality and helps the...
3M, Electronics Markets Materials Div.
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POLARIZERS
Codixx AG has introduced a new broadband antireflection coating for its colorPol polarizers, extending their transmittance from 91% (uncoated) in the infrared range to between 95% and 98% in the...
CODIXX AG
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OPTICAL FLIPPER
A motorized USB optical flipper system has been released by Picard Industries for 90° flipping of any standard 25-mm optic, including filters, mirrors and lenses, into a beam path. It is supplied...
Picard Industries
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CMOS CAMERA
Toshiba Imaging Systems Div. has launched the IK-HR1S HD, a high-definition camera with a 1/3-in. 2.1-megapixel CMOS detector that offers switchable 720p or 1080i scanning operation. Measuring 1 3/4...
CANON MEDICAL COMPONENTS U.S.A., Video Sensing Devices
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SOFTWARE TOOL
To help photovoltaic manufacturers increase cell efficiency and reduce costs, Rudolph Technologies Inc. has introduced a fab management software tool. Discover Solar data management and analysis...
Rudolph Technologies Inc.
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HIGH-SPEED AFM
Veeco Instruments Inc. has unveiled the Dimension Icon atomic force microscope (AFM). Its closed-loop head scans at high speeds and delivers low drift and low noise, decreasing stabilization times...
Veeco Instruments Inc.
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DPSS LASERS
The Hippo 1064-27 and the Explorer 532-2 Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers from the Spectra-Physics Lasers Div. of Newport Corp. are for use in photovoltaic manufacturing. The Hippo...
Newport Spectra-Physics GmbH, Photonics Solutions Div.
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SLIDE LOADER SYSTEM
Prior Scientific Inc. has announced the PL-200, an automated slide loader system for microscopy applications. It uses a rotating arm design and a multiple sensory-based gripper system to interface...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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FREQUENCY MULTIPLIERS
Crystek Microwave has launched the Crystek Pocket Passive Doubler series frequency multipliers. They are designed in a rugged SMA housing for easy in-line assembly and operation in test equipment and...
Crystek Corp
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INDUSTRIAL LASER
Trumpf Inc. has introduced its latest generation of TruDisk lasers. The high-brightness fiber-delivered 4002 model has up to 16 kW of power for use in industrial applications. It maintains beam...
TRUMPF Inc.
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LASER DIODE DRIVER
Wavelength Electronics Inc.’s re-engineered FL500 laser diode driver integrates with higher-temperature RoHS-compliant manufacturing processes and is compatible with reflow processing at <250 °C....
Wavelength Electronics Inc.
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RADIOMETER
Optikos Corp. has announced the RAD-900 infrared radiometer for precise measurement of radiometric temperature and spectral radiance. Operating in both the mid- and long-wave infrared bands, it...
Optikos Corporation
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SCANNING MICROSCOPE
The LSM 700 mat laser scanning microscope unveiled by Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc. enables precise 3-D imaging of surfaces in materials research applications. The combination of fluorescence and...
Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC
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LASER LENS
Ophir Optronics Ltd.’s CO2 Optics Group has developed an ultralow-absorption lens for high-power CO2 laser systems. Clear Magic’s transparent coating enables HeNe beams to be seen on the workpiece,...
Ophir Optronics Solutions Ltd., Optics Group
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POCKELS CELL DRIVER
PCD-3kV and PCD-10kV Pockels cell drivers have been introduced by EOS Optronics GmbH to provide the fast and high-voltage switching required in high-power laser applications. Both are supplied in a...
EOS Optronics GmbH
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MOTION CONTROLLER
Newport Corp. has announced the ESP301, a motion controller and driver with standard USB and integrated manual front panel interfaces. It drives and controls up to three axes of motion using any...
MKS/Newport
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MOBILE PHONE
OmniVision Technologies Inc.’s CameraCube technology is a 3-D reflowable camera system that combines a single-chip image sensor, an embedded image processor and wafer-level optics in a compact...
OMNIVISION
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NOTCH FILTERS
Edmund Optics Inc. has introduced its TechSpec OD6 rugate notch filters, which provide 92% transmission from 350 to 2000 nm. The narrowband reflectors exhibit an OD >6 rejection for the center...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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FIBER-COUPLED LASER
BaySpec Inc.’s MiniLite 1064-nm series fiber-coupled lasers are suitable for applications in analytical Raman spectroscopy and in test and measurement. Maximum threshold current is 10 mA, maximum...
BaySpec Inc.
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LOSS MEASUREMENT
For measuring insertion and return loss on fiber optic components, OptoTest Corp. has introduced another version of the OP930 FTTX. Measuring to –80 dB, the system includes stabilized laser sources,...
Santec California Corp.
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UV LEDs
OUE8A series UV LEDs have been released by TT electronics Optek Technology for medical and industrial applications including phototherapy treatment; dentistry; fluorescence and UV/VIS spectroscopy;...
Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control
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