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Photonics Spectra - April 2010
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Seeing Better to Shoot Better
With better eyes in the sky and on the ground, soldiers soon will see the battlefield more clearly than ever. Thanks to sensor innovations, screen improvements, faster digital processing and other advances, military imaging systems will capture and reveal critical information that cannot be caught or displayed today. Night-vision light-enhanced photography showing US Army Sgt. 1st Class...
A better eye in the sky
For military imaging, a space-borne perch offers an overwhelming advantage, said John Silny of Raytheon Co. “You have the highest vantage point, the ultimate high ground, to view from.” ...
Efficient and uniform illumination with microlens-based band-limited diffusers
Uniform illumination over a certain target area is a common requirement in many applications, and oftentimes schemes must be devised to ensure that this requirement is achieved. In display systems,...
Advantages of Polymer and Hybrid Glass-Polymer Optics
Polymer materials with optical properties are being thrust into the design forefront for new, sophisticated electro-optical applications, enabling commercial markets and applications including...
Quantum Dots Are Finding Their Place in the World
There has been a panoply of research into the next big thing in quantum dots – those semiconducting artificial atoms that are ubiquitous in fluorescence imaging, biological and chemical...
Crystal-Clear Research
Exciting new findings about crystals – on subjects as diverse as diamonds, peptide nanofibers and colloids – could prove useful in science and industry, perhaps leading to new nanoscale...
Judging ARPA-E
Created under the Bush administration, the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) actually set up shop only last year, when it received $400 million in funding under the American...
Editorial
Discretionary spending
With its proposed Department of Defense budget for 2011, the Obama administration explicitly states that it wants to reform how the US agency operates – how it takes care of its people, how it enhances capabilities for current and future conflicts, how it supports troops in the field and how it does business. And because the department deals with a wide range of photonics technologies and...
Tech Pulse
Developing attosecond spectroscopy for lasers with longer pulse durations
The development of high-speed photography in the 19th century demonstrated to equestrians and other interested parties that all four of a horse’s hooves leave the ground when it runs, presumably settling bar bets from Saratoga, N.Y., to Louisville, Ky. Similarly, in the 1980s, the emergence of laser pulses lasting only a few femtoseconds (10—15 s), enabled researchers to record the...
"Totally new physics" yields first germanium laser
It’s the very first germanium laser capable of emitting wavelengths useful for optical communications. It’s also the first operable at room temperature. And this new laser not only holds...
Time shifts with faster-than-light photons
Experiments with faster-than-light photons are highlighting the weird world of quantum tunneling. Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have boosted single photons to seemingly...
Cooling goes cryogenic
All-solid-state laser cooling, or “optical refrigeration,” a technique that can be applied to airborne and space-borne sensors, has been demonstrated by a team at the University of New...
Giving a lift to thin films
If you have ever played with one of those desk ornaments with the suspended metal balls called a Newton’s cradle, you know that when you pull back and release one or more balls on one side, an...
Dialing up the laser power
Over the past 20 years, physicists have been steadily stepping up the power of lasers from the previously impressive terawatt level to the recently realized petawatt level. Now, researchers at the...
LEDs lead to change for some silver
Adding a touch of silver can improve several photonic endeavors, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering, surface-enhanced fluorescence and surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. The metal...
Hitting the light switch for magnetic manipulation
Reversing the magnetic properties of materials is the underlying reality behind computer hard drives, audiotape and other recording media. For these purposes, changing the magnetic state of...
Optical WLAN is fast, secure and green
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated optical wireless transmission using a diffused light setup with speeds exceeding 1 Gb/s, opening the door for bandwidth-hungry...
light speed
3-D: Coming soon to a TV near you?
The development of 3-D television has become an area of intense interest to manufacturers, according to market analysis firm DisplaySearch in its Quarterly TV Design and Features Report. The company notes that the manufacturers are seeking to retain consumer interest in the sets, for which average selling prices are expected to fall for the first time since the beginning of the flat panel model...
Eco-friendly lighting will shine at show
Green lighting technologies will be featured at the second LED/OLED Lighting Technology Expo – also known as Lighting Japan 2010 – which will be held at Tokyo Big Sight, the nickname for...
Fiber Distribution
3SAE Technologies Inc. of Franklin, Tenn., a manufacturer of large-diameter fiber fusion splicing and preparation technologies, has signed a consulting and distribution agreement with DPM Photonics...
Distribution Agreement
Fremont, Calif.-based Solyndra Inc., a cylindrical photovoltaic systems manufacturer, has signed a distribution agreement with Advanced Green Technologies of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a renewable energy...
Headquarters Relocated
FiconTec Service GmbH has moved its corporate headquarters to Achim, Germany, because of the increased demand for automated photonic assembly projects solutions. The new facility offers sufficient...
Solar Purchase
Zhejiang Hongchen Photovoltaic Energy Co. Ltd. of Zhuji City, China, has purchased additional PV1200 photovoltaic metallization lines from DEK Solar, a screen printing specialist based in Zurich,...
Prosilica Renamed
Prosilica Inc. of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, is now fully integrated into the Allied Vision Technologies group and has been renamed Allied Vision Technologies Canada Inc. Acquired in July...
Solar Contract
Singulus Technologies AG of Kahl, Germany, has received a €19 million contract from a European solar cell manufacturer to produce a new generation of thin-film solar cells. The company’s...
$5M Metrology Order
Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Flanders, N.J., a process characterization equipment and software provider, has received $5 million worth of orders from a long-standing customer for its S3000A and...
NAVAIR Contract
In Chelmsford, Mass., McPherson Inc., a manufacturer of dispersive spectrometers, has been contracted by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) for design and production of a spectral test, calibration...
Blue LED Order
Aixtron AG of Aachen, Germany, has announced that Formosa Epitaxy Inc. of Lung-Tan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, has ordered multiple metallorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactors to be used in the...
Large Order Installation
In Dresden, Germany, AIS Automation Dresden (AIS) received a large order to install its manufacturing execution system (VPC-MES) for the factory currently under construction in Arnstadt. To be used...
US Office Expansion
Specialised Imaging Ltd. of Tring, UK, has announced the opening of its North American partner company, Specialised Imaging Inc., in Simi Valley, Calif. After five years of representation in North...
PV Cell Facility Launched
Solar energy systems provider Kyocera Corp. of Kyoto, Japan, has finished construction of its solar cell manufacturing plant in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture. The facility will be the core production...
Solar Plant Built
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. of Tokyo has announced that PV (Photovoltaic) Cell Plant #2 has been built at its Nakatsugawa Works Iida Factory in Nagano Prefecture. By March 2011, the company will raise...
European Distribution
Avo Photonics Inc. and AMS Technologies AG have entered into a distribution agreement that entitles the latter to represent the former’s capabilities in the European market. Avo, of Horsham,...
Wafer Bonding Shipment
Wafer bonding and lithography equipment supplier EV Group of St. Florian, Austria, has shipped two wafer bonding systems to the University of Michigan’s Lurie Nanofabrication Facility, a center...
Insight Acquired
L-3 Communications of New York, a supplier of products and services for the aerospace and defense industries, has unveiled that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Insight Technology Inc. of...
New Company Formed
Innovation Photonics of Verona, N.J., has been established by Don Wilson, founder of Special Optics and of Optics for Research. The new company, nicknamed innpho, is engaged in optical components,...
GreenLight
Solar inspection mixes sound with imaging
Solar manufacturers have a few technologies at their disposal that can detect cracks in cells and modules. In an industry where energy efficiency is the name of the game, manufacturers want to reduce...
LED market: Looking good
High-brightness LEDs are everywhere. From general lighting to outdoor displays and signage, notebook and television displays, automotive applications and industrial lighting, it’s no wonder...
From tobacco to energy
Tobacco farmers, faced with fewer traditional buyers for their crops, are looking to the solar industry for income. Plants such as tobacco are sunlight collectors with many similarities to solar...
Backlighting fusion
Harnessing fusion energy requires achieving the milestone of fusion ignition in the laboratory. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif.,...
Lighter Side
Packaged spinach stays healthy under daylong light
Barely seven steps into most supermarkets and you are confronted with a wall of green – rows of packaged lettuce and spinach hoping to lure you toward healthy eating habits. Spinach, in particular, is full of nutrition, but how healthy can it be after being drenched in the glow of whitish-yellow fluorescent light for hours on end? According to researchers in Texas and Nova Scotia, very...
Products
Scientific Imaging Software
Princeton Instruments has released LightField, a 64-bit data acquisition software platform for use in spectroscopy and scientific imaging. It controls the company’s cameras and spectrometers via tools that streamline experimental setup, data acquisition and postprocessing. It saves data to disk during acquisition, applies a time stamp and retains raw and corrected data and experimental...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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CEP-Stabilized Amplifier
Coherent Inc. has launched the Legend Elite CEP, a carrier envelope phase-stabilized Ti:sapphire amplifier. The system amplifies the ultrafast pulses generated by the proprietary Micra CEP oscillator...
Coherent Inc.
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Mirror Tilting System
The PKS1 is a mirror tilting system developed by piezosystem jena GmbH for solid and constant positioning of an optical controlled laser. It performs precise correction of the laser adjustment by...
piezosystem jena GmbH
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Light Engine
Spectra, a light engine launched by Lumencor Inc., provides seven discrete solid-state outputs spanning the visible spectrum from 380 to 680 nm, making it a true arc lamp replacement. For use by...
Lumencor Inc.
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Miniature LEDs
For use in interior automotive and industrial applications, Avago Technologies’ PLCC-2 high-brightness miniature surface-mount-technology LEDs measure 1.0 x 2.0 x 1.3 mm. The ASMT-TxBM series...
Broadcom Inc.
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Near-UV Achromatic Lenses
Edmund Optics Inc.’s TechSpec near-UV achromatic lenses transmit in the 345- to 700-nm range and are designed to minimize the spot size for polychromatic illumination in the 345- to 550-nm...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Potting, Sealing Materials
Shin-Etsu Silicones of America has introduced silicone-based potting and sealing materials. The KE-200, -200F, -210 and -210F two-component potting materials are designed to weatherproof solar panel...
Shin-Etsu Silicones of America
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Optical Tweezer System
A new version of the E3500 computer-controlled multiple-trap optical tweezer system with E4100 quadrant photodetector force measurement capability has been unveiled by Elliot Scientific Ltd. The...
Elliot Scientific Ltd.
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Femtosecond Fiber Laser
Calmar Laser has released a 780-nm OEM or desktop femtosecond fiber laser for terahertz radiation imaging, optical metrology and multiphoton microscopy applications. The instrument delivers pulse...
Calmar Laser
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Rotary Positioning Stage
Nutec Corp. has upgraded its TMAX 5 low-profile, direct-drive rotary servo positioning stage for higher load capacity and improved trajectory control. Applications include laboratory testing, laser...
Nutec Components Inc.
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Cooled MWIR Zoom Lens
Omer, manufactured by Temmek Optics, is a medium-wavelength infrared (MWIR) cooled zoom lens designed for 384 x 288-pixel focal plane arrays with a 15-μm pixel pitch. The compact f/4 lens is...
Temmek Optics Ltd.
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Ultrafast Laser
The FemtoFiber pro ultrafast all-fiber laser unveiled by Toptica Photonics Inc. emits at 1560 nm with a pulse width of <100 fs and average power of >350 mW. Standard repetition rate is 80 MHz,...
TOPTICA Photonics Inc.
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Surface Metrology System
The NT9080, a surface metrology system introduced by Veeco Instruments Inc., uses white-light interferometry to measure surface topography nondestructively, from nanometer-scale roughness through...
Veeco Instruments Inc.
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Scientific Cameras
Critical Link has expanded its MityCCD back-illuminated scientific camera line with the introduction of models with front-illuminated, deep-depletion, open-electrode and InGaAs sensors. All include...
Critical Link LLC
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Wavelength-Selective Switch
The Mini 50 WSS (wavelength selective switch) announced by JDSU is a next-generation 50-GHz module that supports network traffic through more than 16 nodes, or entry and exit points in a network,...
Lumentum Operations LLC
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Inspection Station
The MT 200 compact inspection station offered by Laselec uses a Class 1 UV laser to mark cable samples, then produces an analysis report. Manufacturers can test, control and optimize the UV laser...
LASELEC Inc.
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CO2 Laser Optics
Laser Research Optics provides field-replacement CO2 optics for low-power cutting, engraving and marking lasers from a variety of companies. Optimized for use at 10.6 μm, they meet OEM and...
Laser Research Optics
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Ultraquiet Air Compressor
Newport Corp. has introduced a compact, ultraquiet air compressor that is clean, portable and more convenient than bottled air supplies. Fast-filling, the ACWS can supply air to any of the...
MKS/Newport
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Time-Delay-Integration Camera
The Piranha HS, a 12-k 90-kHz time-delay-integration camera, has been unveiled by Dalsa Corp. It delivers 12-k resolution with a 5.2-μm pixel size and operates at a line rate of 90 kHz, or 1.2...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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Image Dimension Measuring System
Keyence Corp. of America’s IM-6000 series image dimension measurement system includes pattern registration and pattern search functions that enable “place and press” measurement....
Keyence Corp.
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Ultracompact Cameras
Point Grey Research Inc.’s next generation of Flea3 cameras offers a choice of eight Sony progressive-scan CCDs in monochrome or color, and FireWire-b (800 Mb/s) or Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Mb/s)...
Teledyne FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions
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Vision Sensor
Sick Inc. has launched the Inspector 140 Flex, a vision sensor that produces VGA 640 x 480-pixel resolution. It offers Ethernet connectivity and increased storage capabilities that allow users to...
SICK Inc.
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Infrared Engine
Based on a 384 x 288 uncooled ASi 8- to 14-μm microbolometer detector with a 25-μm pitch, OpGal Optronics Ltd.’s Compact Eye low-power infrared engine is tuned to long-wave infrared with...
Opgal Optronic Industries Ltd.
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Bright Lens
For low-light imaging applications, Universe Kogaku America is offering the EL1205B, a bright CCTV lens with an f/0.95 aperture and adjustable focus and iris. The 25-mm lens is suitable for use in...
Universe Kogaku (America) Inc.
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Test Box
The Fiber Lab 800HE, a test box from M2 Optics Inc., is a rugged testing platform for engineers and technicians working with fiber optic products and networks. It holds up to 25 km of optical fiber...
M2 Optics Inc.
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Surface Inspection Software
Cognex Corp. has released VisionPro Surface, a vision software package for inspecting the surface of materials. It combines new visual defect detection and classification technology with a simple...
Cognex Corp.
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Beam Shaper
MolTech GmbH is offering improved versions of its Focal-πShaper beam shaping systems. The instruments convert a Gaussian laser beam into a beam whose shape is optimized to create a flattop, donut,...
MolTech GmbH
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