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Photonics Spectra - July 2010
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Displays Add a Dimension, Durability
The rumblings about 3-D that began in 2009 are starting to hit the home display market in earnest, thanks in part to the overwhelming popularity of 3-D movies such as Avatar. Besides being visually...
Spectral reflectivity and interferometry for optical lens analysis
There are more than 500 companies in the US alone that make optical equipment. The number of products with built-in lenses is increasing. Few cell phones or personal computers are sold today without...
Mounting Quality Counts
In our feature article in the March 2009 issue (“Heat & Motion Duke It Out,” p. 60), we pointed out that the dominant cause of error in most motion applications is temperature, or,...
Venture Capital
After years of sweat, toil and heavy thinking, you and your colleagues have done it – created the Next Big Thing. Now all you have to do is start a company and hold the door open for the line...
Adding Fiber Pays Off for Industry
For Electro Scientific Industries Inc. (ESI) of Portland, Ore., getting fiber into its diet has been one key to success. Among other things, the company makes a line of micromachining systems for the...
The Ti:Sapphire Laser
Since their invention in the early 1980s, titanium-doped sapphire (Ti:Al2O3 or Ti:sapphire) lasers and amplifiers have enabled countless applications in fundamental research in physics, biology and...
LIA: Becoming the Laser Institute of America
As just about everyone knows, American physicist Theodore Maiman fired the first laser in May 1960 in Malibu, Calif. What is less well-known is that, in February 1968, also in California, Maiman and...
Laser Technology
If one reviews what happened in the first 50 years of the laser’s history, it becomes quite a challenge to predict what will happen in the next 50. Lasers went from being called “a...
Editorial
Laser history goes on and on
This issue of Photonics Spectra may be the final installment of our three-month special feature article celebration of the laser’s 50th anniversary, but the party isn’t over. This month’s laser features include an article by Spectra-Physics about the development of the Ti:sapphire laser and its applications; a walk through the history of the Laser Institute of America...
Laser Safety
LIA: Becoming the Laser Institute of America
As just about everyone knows, American physicist Theodore Maiman fired the first laser in May 1960 in Malibu, Calif. What is less well-known is that, in February 1968, also in California, Maiman and other laser pioneers founded the Laser Industry Association to advocate for these endlessly fascinating tools. That group would become the Laser Institute of America (LIA) in 1972. What began as a...
Tech Pulse
Holograms lighten the payload of unmanned aerial vehicles
US Air Force scientists have devised a way to make un-manned aerial vehicles (UAVs) better eyes in the sky, besides making them lighter and more efficient. Also known as drones or pilotless aircraft,...
In focus near and far – at the same time
Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a new distance-mapping principle that delivers automatic real-time focus of both near- and far-field images, simultaneously and in high...
Microspectrographs enable deeper space exploration
As telescopes get bigger and bigger – and more complex – engineers and astronomers recognize that simply scaling up existing technology would result in instruments that are limited by...
Optical sensors let gadgets point their own way
With apologies to William Shakespeare, all the world’s a pad and all devices merely mice. At least, that could be the case if researchers Chris Harrison and professor Scott E. Hudson of the...
CVD process improves diamond quality for lasers
Diamonds could become a laser’s best friend, thanks to new methods of creating man-made versions of the gem. Researchers have proved the principle that diamonds offer high efficiency for...
Night vision: There’s an app for that
A paper-thin device that uses energy-efficient organic LED technology similar to that found in flat-screen TV and laptop computer screens soon could be made into a night vision application for cell...
light speed
Microprojectors spur development of green lasers
Picoprojectors will drive the green laser market – expected to reach about $500 million in revenue by 2016, up from an estimated $20 million in 2011 – with more than 45 million devices, according to a market analysis by Yole Développement sarl. The emerging microprojector technology has applications in mobile phones, digital cameras, media players, personal digital...
LED Innovation
In Grover Beach, Calif., Arroyo Instruments has completed a National Institute of Standards and Technology Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research program for the development of a pulse/DC...
Wafer Processing
Axus Technology and CMP Solutions have announced a partnership that expands the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) and wafer thinning process for both companies. The agreement is anticipated to link...
Solar Defense
Cambrios Technologies Corp. of Sunnyvale, Calif., an electronic materials company, has announced that it has received a military contract to produce lightweight, flexible, cost-effective solar energy...
Fiber Optic Alternative
Avago Technologies of Wetzlar, Germany, an analog interface components supplier, announced the release of an embedded fiber optic solution that eventually could replace copper for handling the...
$27 Million Military Order
Display systems manufacturer Kopin Corp. of Taunton, Mass., has announced that it has received a $27 million follow-on production order for eyepieces for the US Army’s Thermal Weapon Sight...
Microscopy Acquisition
Carl Zeiss Ltd. has announced an agreement to acquire Imaging Associates (IMAS) Ltd. of Bicester, UK. As a distributor of Zeiss’ materials microscopy products since 1992, IMAS has supported...
Solar Partnership
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Coherent Inc. and Beverly, Mass.-based 17936%%SiOnyx Inc. have announced that they will partner to evaluate and develop SiOnyx’s black silicon processing, which offers...
Surgical Lighting Inroads
LED manufacturer Enfis Ltd. of Swansea, UK, and Chinese medical lighting specialist C-THME of Chongqing have collaborated on new surgical lighting technology. Enfis has produced a tailored LED light...
LED Joint Venture
Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd. of Taipei, Taiwan, an LED packaging company, has announced a joint venture in WeJiang City, China. The company will join LG Display Co. Ltd., an innovator in...
Thin-Film Company Formed
In St. Petersburg, Fla., the establishment of Labtec Sales Partners LLC has been announced. The company was formed to provide sales and marketing expertise to companies that provide processing...
Assets Acquisition
Ocean Optics Inc. of Dunedin, Fla., has acquired the assets of Sandhouse Design LLC, also of Dunedin, a manufacturer of modular mid-infrared spectrometers, LEDs, light sources and other photonic...
$7.5 M Investment
Oclaro Inc. of San Jose, Calif., an optical communications and laser solutions provider, has made a $7.5 million strategic investment in ClariPhy Communications of Irvine, Calif., a privately held...
Laser Co. Acquisition
Precision laser measurement company Ophir Optronics of Jerusalem has added scanning-slit technology to its beam profiling product line through the acquisition of 11701%%Photon Inc. Financial terms of...
Contract Award
Optical Surface Technologies (OST) has been awarded a contract with the Discovery Channel Telescope at Lowell Observatory to coat the 4.3-m primary mirror and to provide manufacturing support for the...
Licensing Agreement
Terahertz research company T-Ray Science Inc. has granted a licensing agreement to Toptica Photonics Inc. of Victor, N.Y., a terahertz source supplier. Under terms of the agreement, T-Ray will...
Worldwide Representative
Schmitt Industries Inc., a laser-based surface measurement metrology equipment supplier, has named 7923%%Lambda Research Corp. as worldwide representative for its SMS line of laser light scatter...
Sales Growth
Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG of Karlsruhe, Germany, has strengthened its European sales organization with new offices and employees. Strategically located near the UK’s Cranfield...
ITAR Certification
PhotoMachining Inc. of Pelham, N.H., has received certification from the US Department of State as an International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)-compliant manufacturer. Under registration code...
GreenLight
Thermal cameras assist solar contractors
Solar service and installation companies have known for some time that high-performance thermal cameras, capable of detecting very small temperature differences and of creating crystal clear images or video of problem areas, had enormous potential to diagnose problems on solar installation sites. Their drawback had been that they were prohibitively expensive for smaller businesses. The past few...
Lighter Side
Great balls of magnetism!
You’ve no doubt heard of ball lightning – perhaps even experienced it firsthand. But although the phenomenon has been known for millennia, it happens infrequently enough that there have always been doubts about its validity. Physicists at the University of Innsbruck in Austria think that ball lightning might just be a trick on the brain, having nothing to do with sight. The mind...
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Color Camera
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3-D Camera
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Coated Fibers
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125-A Bipolar Amplifier
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LED Driver
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Deformable Mirrors
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Ti:Sapphire Oscillator
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SLD Source
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