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Photonics.com - January 2009
Research & Technology
Stretchable Electronics
A new design for stretchable electronics that could be used to improve eye cameras, smart surgical gloves, body parts, airplane wings, back planes for liquid crystal displays and biomedical devices...
New LED Drops the 'Droop'
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have developed and demonstrated a new type of LED with significantly improved lighting performance and energy efficiency. The new...
New Cloak vs. Cloak Classic
A new type of device that can render an object invisible in visual light has been revealed by the same research team that constructed the first prototype in 2006. The new device is significantly more...
Seeing Machine for the Blind
A visually challenged MIT poet has unveiled a “seeing machine” that allows some people who are blind or visually challenged to be able to see. Elizabeth Goldring, also an artist and a senior fellow...
Dreadlocks with Kung Fu Grip
Researchers have found that dunking synthetic, nanosize hairs into a liquid and allowing the liquid to evaporate can coax the nanobristles to twist together like dreadlocks, sticking to each other or...
Repulsive Casimir Measured
For the first time, physicists have measured a repulsive Casimir force that could be tailored for a wide range of new nanotechnology applications. The study, which builds on previous work on the...
Laurin Names New Senior Editor
Charles Troy has rejoined Laurin Publishing as Senior Editor for the company’s print magazines. A veteran of both technology and consumer news reporting and writing, Troy first joined Laurin...
Stereo Displays: Trading the Movies for Real-World Applications
Most people were exposed to stereo displays through 3-D movies, which were the rage in the 1950s and now are enjoying a revival, thanks to the Imax process and animated films. Today, however, the...
News & Features
Optimistic Mood on Show Floor
“Cautiously optimistic” was a phrase heard a lot in the aisles of the Photonics West 2009 exhibition when talking about the state of the economy as it relates to the photonics industry. “One reaction to the worldwide financial crisis that’s going on is to actually offer new products that are very interesting for the industry, because there’s always opportunities, and that’s what we are...
Prism Award Winners Unveiled
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Laurin Publishing, publisher of Photonics Media, have named Luxtera’s “Blazar” entry as the overall best of show winner in the 2008 Prism...
Record-Small Quantum Dots
Researchers at the National Institute for Nanotechnology and the University of Alberta have unveiled quantum dots composed of a single atom of silicon and measuring less than 1 nm in diameter, making...
Ethics and Nanotechnology
Recent action in Congress to reauthorize the US federal nanotechnology research program offers the chance to address the social and ethical issues concerning the emerging scientific field, experts...
StockerYale Expands SOF Unit
On opening day of SPIE Photonics West 2009, StockerYale Inc., a manufacturer of structured light lasers, LED modules and specialty optical assemblies for industrial OEMs, and medical and defense...
Glowing Proteins See Cells
New fluorescent proteins have been discovered that allow scientists to noninvasively visualize the structures and processes in living cells at the molecular level. Researchers at Gruss Lipper...
Biomedical Optics Crowd Is Huge
SPIE Photonics West 2009 is once again drawing a large regional and international crowd to learn about photonics technologies that can cut costs in industry and pave the way for new products and...
Spiral Microlasers Theorized
Theoretically, disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information through optical computers. Typically, a perfect disk will spray light out, not as a beam, but rather in...
Dynasil Pens $5.6M Contract
Photonic products manufacturer Dynasil Corp. of America has announced that Radiation Monitoring Devices (RMD) Inc., its research subsidiary, has been awarded three research and development contracts...
Drell to Present at WiO
The first hard x-ray free electron laser (FEL) will be turned on at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park. Persis S. Drell, director of SLAC at...
OSHA Cites, Fines Laser Lab
The University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) was cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for nine alleged serious safety violations and could be fined...
Device Filters Photons
Quantum technologies just got a boost from a recent demonstration of an optical device that filters two particles of light (photons) based on the correlations between their polarization that are...
Intel Closing Five Plants
Microchip maker Intel Corp. has announced that it will stop production at five facilities in Asia and the US, including its Santa Clara headquarters, affecting between 5000 and 6000 employees. By...
Stretchable Electronics
A new design for stretchable electronics that could be used to improve eye cameras, smart surgical gloves, body parts, airplane wings, back planes for liquid crystal displays and biomedical devices...
Cell Imaging with Liquid Stem
A new imaging method has emerged that allows scientists to see cell molecules more clearly. Niels de Jonge and colleagues at Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have...
Bleeding Hearts Revealed
Images now reveal bleeding that occurs within the heart after a patient has suffered a heart attack. The extent of the bleeding can indicate how severely the heart is damaged. Researchers from MRC...
Graphene's Nature Controlled
Researchers now can tune graphene’s electrical properties by growing it on different surfaces, a discovery that could bring the mass production of graphene-based nanoelectronics one step closer to...
OFC/NFOEC 2009
Featuring technology from around the world and every sector of optical communications, the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference...
Rohm and Haas Cuts 900 More
Specialty chemicals maker Rohm and Haas Co. today announced it will cut another 900 jobs, idle or close underutilized plants and freeze salaries and discretionary spending in response to the...
$1B Boost for Neutron Science
The US Department of Energy (DoE) has given initial approval to plans for a second target station for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), expanding the world’s most powerful pulsed neutron...
NIST Funds Sensor Research
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced nine awards for new research projects to develop advanced sensing technologies. Development would enable timely and detailed...
New LED Drops the 'Droop'
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have developed and demonstrated a new type of LED with significantly improved lighting performance and energy efficiency. The new...
New Cloak vs. Cloak Classic
A new type of device that can render an object invisible in visual light has been revealed by the same research team that constructed the first prototype in 2006. The new device is significantly more...
Lasers Help Restore Amazon
A 2000-year-old painted Roman statue thought to represent an Amazon warrior is being restored to its original glory with advanced laser scanning and computer modeling techniques. A 2000-year-old...
Flexi Detectors Sharpen Pics
The photo distortion created by conventional photo lenses could be eliminated by new curved photodetectors made from extremely thin, flexible sheets of germanium, a light-sensitive material often...
Seeing Machine for the Blind
A visually challenged MIT poet has unveiled a “seeing machine” that allows some people who are blind or visually challenged to be able to see. Elizabeth Goldring, also an artist and a senior fellow...
3-D MRI Extends to Nanoscale
The creation of a microscopy tool with ultrahigh resolution, combined with an advanced 3-D image reconstruction technique, has enabled scientists to demonstate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on...
Wireless Grippers Grab Cells
Johns Hopkins researchers have invented dust-particle-size devices that can be used to grab and remove living cells from hard-to-reach places without the need for electrical wires, tube or batteries....
Prism Awards Finalists
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Laurin Publishing, publisher of Photonics Media, have announced the 67 finalist companies for the 2008 Prism Awards for Photonics...
Abbott Acquires AMO
Abbott and Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) have announced a definitive agreement for Abbott to acquire AMO for $22 per share in cash, for a total transaction value of approximately $2.8 billion,...
Group Assails Project's EMFs
A coalition of seven counties and five citizens' groups has filed testimony with the New York Public Service Commission (NYPSC) saying that a proposed high-voltage transmission line will affect...
Dreadlocks with Kung Fu Grip
Researchers have found that dunking synthetic, nanosize hairs into a liquid and allowing the liquid to evaporate can coax the nanobristles to twist together like dreadlocks, sticking to each other or...
Grand Canyon Goes Solar
The Grand Canyon’s Visitor Center, located near the Canyon’s south rim, soon will have a portion of its energy provided by the sun. Eighty-four photovoltaic (PV) solar panels installed on and...
ON Semi Cuts Jobs, Lowers Outlook
ON Semiconductor Corp. said it will cut 1500 jobs, speed up factory closures, initiate a hiring freeze and take other cost-cutting measures as worldwide demand for its chips continues its downward...
Emcore Sells Shares of WWAT
Emcore Corp., a provider of semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite and terrestrial solar power markets, has announced that it has completed the first...
Triphoton Squeezed to Limit
A new technique squeezes light to the fundamental quantum limit, a finding that has potential applications for high-precision measurement, next-generation atomic clocks, novel quantum computing and...
Fake Light Fools Critters
Animals that rely on light cues to navigate their environment are being affected by man-made light sources that can alter natural light cycles. A collaboration of ecologists, biologists and...
Repulsive Casimir Measured
For the first time, physicists have measured a repulsive Casimir force that could be tailored for a wide range of new nanotechnology applications. The study, which builds on previous work on the...
StockerYale Inks Biomed Deal
StockerYale Inc. announced it has signed its largest biomedical contract to date, a multimillion-dollar deal to supply medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. with optical assemblies for medical...
Viking Trade Route Revealed
Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington have analyzed the contents of Viking swords from the Wallace Collection fine arts museum in London, shedding new light on trade...
'Superbug' Zapper Tested
A technology that uses a narrow spectrum of visible light to photodynamically inactivate the deadly skin staph infection MRSA and other so-called "superbugs" is now undergoing major hospital trials....
Luminetx Sues AccuVein
Hailed by Time magazine as one of "The Most Amazing Inventions of 2004," the VeinViewer from Luminetx Corp. of Memphis, Tenn., uses infrared light to reveal veins underneath the skin that are hard...
FEI Acquires Intellection
High-resolution imaging and analysis systems maker FEI Co. announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Intellection Holdings Pty. Ltd. of Brisbane, Australia, for about $2.8...
3-D DNA Nanotubes
Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) have revealed, for the first time, three-dimensional characters of DNA nanotubes, rings and spirals, each a few hundred thousandths the diameter of a...
Light Spots Cellular Suicide
Bioengineers now are using scattered light to help determine whether cancer cells are responding to chemotherapy. The new technology, developed by bioengineers at Duke University, is helping...
acquisitions
Abbott Acquires AMO
Abbott and Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) have announced a definitive agreement for Abbott to acquire AMO for $22 per share in cash, for a total transaction value of approximately $2.8 billion, inclusive of estimated net debt at the time of closing. Based in Santa Ana, Calif., AMO is a global company specializing in ophthalmic care, comprised of three segments – cataract surgery, laser vision...
Products
EMCCD Camera
TRENTON, N.J., Jan. 29, 2009 – Princeton Instruments has announced its ProEM electron-multiplying (EM) CCD camera platform, which is designed for use in low-light applications associated with single-molecule fluorescence,...
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Frame Grabbers
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 28, 2009 – The Imaging Source LLC has released a PCI-Express frame grabber series for applications in which analog video signal must be processed by a PC. The frame grabbers ship with various video inputs,...
The Imaging Source LLC
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GigE Cameras with IP67 Housings
SOUTHINGTON, Conn., Jan. 27, 2009 – For harsh and demanding end-use applications, Baumer Electric Ltd. has introduced GigE cameras engineered with IP67-rated enclosures that withstand both moisture and particulate contamination. All...
Baumer Ltd.
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Machine Vision Lenses
BARRINGTON, N.J., Jan. 26, 2009 – Edmund Optics has unveiled the TechSpec compact, fixed-focal-length lenses. Designed for machine vision applications, they are optically designed for the specific working distance and resolution...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Vibration-Isolation Workstation
BOSTON, Jan. 26, 2009 – An ultralow-frequency vibration-isolation workstation for lighter loads has been introduced by Kinetic Systems Inc. The 2800 series LLHP is designed to meet the requirements of sensitive equipment...
Kinetic Systems Inc.
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Fastcam SA5
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 20, 2009 – The Fastcam SA5 high-speed camera from Photron Inc. offers users 7500 frames per second (fps) at 1024 × 1000-pixel resolution. Based on proprietary high-speed video technology, the camera features...
Photron USA Inc.
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Lasiris T-MFL Laser
SALEM, N.H., Jan. 20, 2009 — StockerYale Inc. has released the Lasiris T-MFL micro-focus laser to project telecentric laser line patterns as thin as 9.0 µm at 1/e2. The laser uses refractive uniform line generator optics...
ProPhotonix Ltd.
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Class AAA Solar Simulators
STRATFORD, Conn., Jan. 19, 2009 – Newport Corp. has announced the addition of the Oriel Sol3A solar simulators to its line of photovoltaic test and measurement products. The large-area, continuous-wave sources use a xenon lamp...
MKS/Newport
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Microplate Washer Dispenser
WINOOSKI, Vt., Jan. 14, 2009 – The EL406 launched by BioTek Instruments Inc. performs fast and efficient microplate washing and reagent dispensing in 1536-well microplates as well as in 384- and 96-well formats for increased...
BioTek Instruments Inc.
Medical Laser Module
BERLIN, Jan. 12, 2009 – Lumics has introduced the Med-Laser with wavelengths of 808 and 980 nm and with maximum output power of 10 W at the fiber end. It is suitable for use in dentistry, dermatology, veterinary, hair and...
Lumics GmbH
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EUV Spectrometer
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Jan. 12, 2009 – McPherson Inc. has released an x-ray and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectrometer, the 251MX, for wavelength dispersive spectral measurements from 0.6 to 20 nm (60 to 2000 eV.) The device provides...
McPHERSON
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Aspheric Stitching Interferometer
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 12, 2009 – QED Technologies Inc. has released the Aspheric Stitching Interferometer (ASI) metrology system to measure steep aspheres. The ASI measures aspheres with as much as 1000 waves of departure from the...
QED Technologies Inc.
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Picosecond Ytterbium Fiber Lasers
The PicoFYb is a fiber coupled industrial ultrafast fiber laser (< 10 ps, 10 mW, 20 MHz, 1030 nm & 1064 nm). Applications include seeding of high power ultrafast amplifiers, ultrafast physics...
TOPTICA Photonics Inc.
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F18 Flex Technology Frame
ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 6, 2009 -- Laservision's new F18 eyewear design is light and features flex technology. According to the company, the F18 frame style offers full coverage eye protection without compromising the users view....
Laservision USA
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Ignitor Assemblies
BEDFORD, Ohio, Jan. 5, 2009 – Ceramic-to-metal assemblies offer several advantages, including better electrical properties, and impact and thermal shock resistance. Alberox, a business of Morgan Advanced Ceramics, announces its...
Morgan Technical Ceramics (See CeramTec)
HDTV Cameras
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 2, 2009 – The IK-HD1 3CCD camera and high definition IK-HR1D video camera were released from Toshiba Imaging Systems Div. The camera features clarity via the 1920 x 1080 pixel output in HDSDI. Its head can...
CANON MEDICAL COMPONENTS U.S.A., Video Sensing Devices
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