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Photonics Spectra - June 2009
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The Answer Is Blowin’ in the Wind
Although Dr. Anna Michel of Princeton University was in Beijing last summer during the Olympics, her visit definitely was not all fun and games. Michel, a postdoctoral researcher at MIRTHE (the Center for Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment) arrived in Beijing in June 2008 as part of an international air quality monitoring project. Even before her plane touched down, it...
Fireproofing The Firefighting Robot
Some machines can be used to find fires or to extinguish them from afar, but saving the lives of people trapped within a burning building requires a machine that can take a little singeing. A...
Homeland Security with a Light Touch
From identification to communication, photonics technologies play a key role in homeland security. That contribution is expanding, thanks to a variety of innovations. For example, advances in...
A Nanotechnology Face-Lift for MCPs
Although microchannel plate (MCP) electron multiplier technology has been around for about 50 years, advances in performance have been very slow. Today, because of advanced semiconductor deposition...
Seize the Night
With two wars raging in the Middle East, North Korea launching missiles, and pirates taking sailors hostage off the Horn of Africa, the need for nighttime surveillance has never been clearer. Often...
LED Lighting Ready for Takeoff
LED lighting systems are showing promise for applications at airports and on aircraft, both in the military and commercial sectors. Their attributes are well-known – crisp lighting, energy...
Light at the End of the Tunnel Seen for German Photonics Industry
Whether it refers to microscopes or cars, the phrase “German engineering” is synonymous with quality. Ten percent of all Nobel prizes ever awarded have gone to German scientists. Albert...
Just how dangerous are Foreign Researchers?
Through the years, a variety of forces have compelled the US government to place restrictions on immigration and on visas issued to scientists and other workers from foreign nations: the Cold War,...
Entrepreneurship 101: From Idea to Start-up
During the telecom bubble of the 1990s, the photonics industry was euphoric, with people barely out of school getting funded to start companies. But the free economy is simply too efficient to allow...
Editorial
A gentleman remembered
Francis T. Laurin, president of Laurin Publishing, passed away on April 28 after a long illness. After college and military service during World War II, Mr. Laurin obtained his professional engineering license and pursued a career as a design engineer and exporting coordinator with paper-making machinery producer E.D. Jones of Pittsfield, Mass. In 1974, Mr. Laurin took early retirement from...
Tech Pulse
Throwing curved light bullets
Researchers have devised a way to curve laser beams in the air by converting a standard directional beam into a self-bending Airy beam. The development may help with atmospheric applications,...
Guiding reindeer through a warming world
While most Americans think of reindeer only in conjunction with holiday joy, the real animals and their herders live in the Arctic year-round and are experiencing global warming’s serious effects on...
On the trail of arsenic
In stories of murder by poisoning, both fictitious and real, arsenic has long been a key player. Just the mention of the word brings to mind dark deeds, secret plans and – the family deck?...
Get ready for laser-powered 3-D TV
Last October, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America Inc. announced that it was bringing to market laser-powered television. Called LaserVue, it lights up the screen with high-color-purity red, green...
When things don’t go swimmingly
Tiny single-celled creatures known as phytoplankton form the base of the ocean’s marine food web and, together, produce half the world’s oxygen. Generally speaking, if all goes well, these creatures,...
A handy way to detect life
The next time the soil of an alien world is examined for life, scientists may already have a good idea where to dig. Thanks to a new technique, they might be able to remotely detect life from the...
light speed
Motion control industry: Looking to better times
The total worldwide revenues for the motion control equipment industry were estimated at $9.9 billion in 2007, representing an 11.9 percent increase over the 2006 levels, according to IMS Research, a...
The advance of photonics
In a move to better represent its vision, mission and scope, the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) has decided to incorporate the term “photonics” into its name. The nonprofit...
Australians seek to save the planet with photonics
Australia’s future has gotten brighter, thanks to the launch of the Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) at the University of Sydney – the only one of its kind in the country. The new...
Laura Marshall is named managing editor
Laura Marshall has been promoted from features and news editor to the position of managing editor for Photonics Spectra and BioPhotonics magazines. In her new position, Marshall will supervise...
Software Interface Development
PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass., is developing an interface to enable the EZChrom Elite software from Agilent Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., to control the former company’s Clarus gas...
CCDs in Space
Chelmsford, UK-based e2v will use the Kepler spacecraft, launched by NASA in early March, to help locate Earth-size planets orbiting stars to determine where liquid water, and perhaps life, could...
Collaboration for Microscopy
JEOL USA of Peabody, Mass., and the College of Microscopy, the education division of the McCrone Group of Westmont, Ill., have strengthened their partnership to improve the study of microscopy. The...
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit Design Agreement
In Colorado, FirstPass Engineering of Castle Rock, a custom application-specific integrated circuit design company, has been selected by Cray Inc. of Denver to provide the logic design and...
Navy Grant Awarded
DSPCon Inc. of Bridgewater, N.J., has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Naval Air Warfare Center. The $80,000 award will enable the company to develop a small and...
Telecom Purchased
Thorlabs Inc. of Newton, N.J., has acquired the assets of Covega Corp. of Jessup, Md. The latter, formerly owned by Gemfire Corp. of Fremont, Calif., is a provider of indium-phosphide and...
Energy Harvesting Contract Awarded
The US Navy has given a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant to MicroStrain Inc. of Williston, Vt., a manufacturer of inertial measurement systems, microdisplacement transducers and...
New Name for Diamond Company
A Cambridge, Mass.-based supplier of diamond supermaterials for use in optical and mechanical applications, Harris International has announced that it is changing its name. The company will be known...
Microspectroscopy Agreement Signed
In San Dimas, Calif., microscopy and microspectroscopy company Craic Technologies Inc. has been awarded a contract by the US General Services Administration. This enables federal agencies and...
Division Spins Off
The Thin Films Div. of Ocean Optics Inc., based in Dunedin, Fla., has become a separate entity. Ocean Thin Films will design and manufacture dichroic filters and precision optics for use in...
GreenLight
Forecast: partial sun in China
“The move toward renewable energy is the clean way to go for any country, but it’s especially needed in China.” On the one hand, China is a notorious polluter, with coal-burning plants spewing carbon into the atmosphere at astonishing rates. On the other hand, China is a world leader in solar module production. Unfortunately, most solar panels produced in China have been exported and have...
From battlefield to lighting fixture
Rather than diverting laser-guided weapons, a technology developed under a US Air Force contract is now blending and controlling multiple LEDs in civilian applications. The military effort...
Betting on solar
One company that believes the solar industry is poised for explosive growth is Dow Corning Corp. of Bay County, Mich. The company has its hand in the solar materials supply chain – from polysilicon...
Not just for your nose
What you put on your nose to protect you from the sun at the beach also can be beneficial for photodetectors, say researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago. Making photodetectors with...
How green is your widget?
It takes far more energy to make microchips than to make manhole covers per kilogram of product, according to a recent study by a group from MIT in Cambridge. It seems that, the smaller the widget,...
Slices from the Breadboard
Patent Reform Act of 2009: benefit v. detriment
If put into effect, the Patent Reform Act of 2009 will change US patent law considerably for the first time since 1952. Already the bill has ignited a conflict between those who say it will improve...
Brookhaven laboratory patents metal coating
In Upton, N.Y., scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have been awarded US Patent No. 7,507,480 for their method of coating metal surfaces with an ultrathin film...
DNA separation cartridge patented
Microfluidic Systems Inc., a Fremont, Calif.-based company focused on the development of microfluidic systems for the automatic preparation of biological samples, has developed a cartridge designed...
Viralytics strengthens portfolio
In Sydney, Australia, Viralytics Ltd. has received a US patent for the use of Echoviruses, including the proprietary Evatak formulation of Echovirus Type 1, to treat all cancers expressing the...
Lighter Side
Still life, until seen
On artist Rufus Butler Seder’s broad tableaux of glass tiles, you perceive a snowy owl opening its wings, wolves lifting their heads to howl and a dolphin swimming forward to have a closer look at you, then splashing its way up through waves. These optically animated installations can be viewed in venues such as the Taiwan Aquarium, the North Carolina Zoological Society in Asheboro, the...
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RESONANT OPTICAL SCANNER
The SC-3 subminiature non-MEMS resonant optical scanner, an electromagnetically driven moving mirror device that deflects a light beam with continuous sinusoidal motion, has been unveiled by...
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SWIR LENS
Sensors Unlimited Inc., part of Goodrich Corp., has introduced a 50-mm focal length lens for shortwave-infrared (SWIR) cameras. The SWIR Solo 50 images in the 0.7- to 1.7-μm spectral range and...
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LIGHT SOURCE
Gigahertz-Optik Inc. has released an integrating sphere light source used as a calibration standard for luminance and radiance measurement instruments. The ISS-8K-100-VAHP delivers uniformity within...
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MARKING LASER
The TruMark 3010 announced by Trumpf Inc. is a diode-pumped solid-state marking laser that operates at 1064 nm. It marks on metals and plastics and in small batches or on individual workpieces. Using...
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RAMAN SPECTROMETER
A portable Raman spectrometer system with an integrated touch-screen computer has been unveiled by B&W Tek Inc. The innoRam comprises a CCD thermoelectrically cooled to –20 °C, the proprietary...
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OPTICAL COMPONENTS
Edmund Optics Inc. has introduced off-the-shelf infrared optical components designed for use in the defense industry. The company offers its lenses, windows, filters, prisms, polarizers and...
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SOFTWARE
Scientific Volume Imaging bv has released a new version of the open source web task Huygens Remote Manager for servers and clusters running multiuser high-throughput deconvolution with the Huygens...
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PARTICLE MEASUREMENT
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. has introduced a particle-size measurement principle called induced grating, which its new IG-1000 particle-size analyzer applies to measure single nanoparticles....
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GEARBOXES, ACTUATORS
Heason Technology has released a range of high-torque gearboxes and servomotor-driven rotary positioning actuators based on Spinea’s TwinSpin bearing-reducer technology. The TS50 gearbox and DS50...
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GAMMA CORRECTION
Imperx Inc. has enhanced its professional vision system video capture capability for ExpressCard/54 laptop computers. Its HD-SDI Express video capture card now is equipped with gamma correction to...
Imperx Inc.
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PUMP MODULES
The 2000 CHP series 980-nm epoxy-free pump laser modules announced by 3S Photonics deliver up to 820 mW of power for network amplifier applications. They incorporate a GaAs laser chip that uses...
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LASER FILTERS
Laservision has unveiled the 00145, a glass filter with good visual transmittance for use with Nd:YAG and Er:YAG laser applications. The visible light transmission on the clear filter is 71% for...
Laservision USA
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OPTICAL GRINDING
Novotech Inc. has added the Optipro SX 150, a precision optical grinding machine with computer numerical control to its arsenal of fabrication tools. The tool enables curve generation of blanks to...
Novotech Inc.
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INTERROGATION ANALYZER
BaySpec Inc. has introduced WaveCapture, a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) interrogation analyzer with an integrated reference source. The spectral engine simultaneously covers multiple wavelengths for...
BaySpec Inc.
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POLARIZATION TRACKER
General Photonics Corp. has released PolaStay, a polarization tracker that automatically adjusts the state of polarization a(SOP) toward a reference SOP, counteracting continuous input SOP variations...
General Photonics Corp.
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UV LASERS
The Genesis 355 all-solid-state lasers from Coherent Inc. provide true CW output in the ultraviolet. Based on proprietary optically pumped semiconductor laser technology, they are available with...
Coherent Inc.
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300-W LASER
A 300-W laser introduced by Lumics GmbH is based on individual, hermetically sealed diodes. Designed for applications such as soldering, welding and cutting, it has a sealed housing and is actively...
Lumics GmbH
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LASER MODULE
Luna Technologies has unveiled the Phoenix 1200, a tunable laser module. The miniaturized external cavity laser is tunable over the entire C-band at a rate of up to 100 nm/s. Power ranges from 3 to...
Luna Innovations Inc.
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ADHESIVE/SEALANT
Master Bond Inc. has developed EP19HT, an adhesive/sealant, impregnant and liner. The storage-stable one-component system cures at elevated temperatures to a strong and chemically resistant thermoset...
Master Bond Inc.
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MEASUREMENT SOFTWARE
Ophir-Spiricon Inc. has introduced StarLab laser measurement software running on Windows 2000, XP and Vista. Working with proprietary smart displays and PC interfaces, it enables users to measure,...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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SOFTWARE OPTIONS
Ocean Optics Inc.’s upgraded software options are for use with the company’s Jaz modular optical sensing platform. The Jaz-IRRAD is for irradiance measurements, enabling the handheld Jaz to be used...
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COLOR SENSORS
VCS210 color sensors manufactured by Pepperl+Fuchs Inc. enable users to program, evaluate, process and display up to 255 colors. Packaged in a 3 × 1.5 × 1.5-in. housing, the sensors deliver response...
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
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TEMPERATURE CONTROLLER
Wavelength Electronics Inc. is offering its PTC-CH series temperature controllers in a compact chassis-mount package that can be paralleled to drive up to 20-A current. They operate with the PLD-CH...
Wavelength Electronics Inc.
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CAMERA SYSTEM
The SIM-D from Specialised Imaging Ltd. is a compact and ultrafast framing camera system for use in automotive testing, biomedical and combustion research, failure dynamics, impact studies and...
Specialised Imaging Inc.
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1550-NM LASER DIODE
A 1550-nm fiber-pigtailed laser diode module with output power of 1 mW has been launched by Photonic Products UK Ltd. The 300-0052-03 comprises a telecommunications-wavelength laser diode packaged in...
Photonic Products Ltd.
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OPTICAL BENCH
Avantes BV has announced a new optical bench design integrated into its AvaSpec ULS2048 fiber optic spectrometer. The AvaBench75-ULS2048 has a dual internal mode stripper and multiple compound...
Avantes BV
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WAVEFORM DIGITIZER
Alazar Technologies Inc. has released the ATS9870, a gigasample waveform digitizer based on the eight-lane PCI Express bus. Data conversion rates to PC memory are up to 1.4 GB/s, sustained over many...
Alazar Technologies Inc.
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INTERCONNECTS
All-fiber spot-size converting interconnects from Chiral Photonics Inc. provide efficient and robust coupling to photonic integrated circuits. The dual-core devices enable coupling to even...
Chiral Photonics Inc.
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GANTRY STAGE
Available in travel lengths of up to 72 in. on the X- and Y-axes, the LSS-007-12-006-XY linear stepper motor gantry stages introduced by H2W Technologies Inc. feature open-loop accuracy of 85...
H2W Technologies Inc.
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MICRO INTERFACE
Diamond SA has developed the Diamond Micro Interface, a connection system for printed circuit board applications. Based on standard 2.5-mm-diameter ferrules, the system provides a high-quality...
Diamond SA
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VIDEO CARD
The LT-100 from Enciris Technologies is a Windows Media Video/VC-1 high-definition (HD) video acquisition and compression card that reduces the bandwidth and storage requirements of HD video. The...
Enciris Technologies SAS
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X-RAY CAMERA
The SkiaGraph8 EV unveiled by Rad-icon Imaging Corp. is a large-area x-ray CMOS camera that supports energies up to 160 kVp, has a scalable active image area of up to 20 × 25 cm and delivers 2000 ×...
Teledyne Rad-icon Imaging
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ALUMINUM COATING
Saint-Gobain Crystals has introduced a high-reflectance aluminum coating for excimer laser-based scanning applications. The Alpine Research Optics brand thin film is UV-enhanced and delivers >95%...
Alpine Research Optics
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FUSED SILICA LENS
Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG has introduced a fused silica lens for use in solar cell production. The lens has a focal length of ~260 mm and a low-absorption coating. The scan area measures 156 ×...
Sill Optics
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TELECENTRIC LENSES
Available from Nanjing Kozo Optical Co. Ltd. is a range of telecentric lenses. Lenses with magnifications from 0.5× to 3× have a working distance of 100 mm. Those with magnification of 5× have a...
Nanjing Kozo Optical and Electronic Instrument Co. Ltd.
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OPTICAL LIGHT SOURCE
For telecommunications and CATV testing, GAO Fiber Optics Inc. has introduced the GAO08221 mini optical light source. It works for 40 h on three 1.5-V alkaline batteries while continuously providing...
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IR DETECTOR
Sofradir has announced an avalanche photodiode mid-wave TV-format infrared detector for amplifying low input signals in low light by a factor of 5300. The 30-μm-pitch detector is designed for...
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