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Photonics.com - February 2009
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Photonics Booming in Canada
The photonics industry is booming in Canada, which just might give new meaning to the phrase "northern lights." The nation has 370 photonics companies that employ 20,000 people, and the industry...
Photonics Booming in Canada
The photonics industry is booming in Canada, which just might give new meaning to the phrase "northern lights." The nation has 370 photonics companies that employ 20,000 people, and the industry...
Research & Technology
Bendable Display Screens
Screens typically used on mobile phones, laptops and televisions have consistently become sharper and thinner and are changing the way we send and receive information. Now, a breakthrough in flexible display technology has demonstrated a screen that is as thin as a piece of paper and that can bend like one, too. By using flexible components, a team at Arizona State University’s Flexible Display...
NSB Mulls Spending NSF's $3B
Deliberations about spending and oversight of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) $3 billion portion of the economic stimulus package are expected today at the National Science Board’s (NSB)...
Obama, Don't Let Pot Research Go Up In Smoke
Try as they might, researchers in the United States have a hard time obtaining permits to grow marijuana. Take University of Massachusetts professor Lyle Craker, for instance. He did win a...
News & Features
Imaging Macular Degeneration
There is a layer of “dark cells” in the retina that is responsible for maintaining the health of the light-sensing cells in our eyes. These dark cells have now been imaged in a living retina for the...
Cheaper Solar? Try Plastic
The development of inexpensive, mass-produced plastic solar panels is a goal for many of the world's scientists and engineers because of the high cost and shortage of the ultra-high purity silicon...
Bioluminescent Light Switch
The mystery of how some marine animals produce light has come one step closer to being solved. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have discovered that krill, the luminous crustacean, can use...
World's Smallest Periscopes
The world’s smallest version of the periscope, invented by a team of scientists at Vanderbilt University, is being used to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once. ...
The Universe Used as a Lens
Scientists are harnessing the cosmos as a scientific “instrument” in their quest to determine the makeup of the universe. The University of Chicago’s Evalyn Gates calls the instrument “Einstein’s...
$18M Deal for Photonics Mast
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems Inc., through Digital System Resources Inc. of Fairfax, Va., is being awarded an $18,054,166 modification to a previously awarded contract...
Bendable Display Screens
Screens typically used on mobile phones, laptops and televisions have consistently become sharper and thinner and are changing the way we send and receive information. Now, a breakthrough in flexible...
IPG Q4 Profit Up 9 Percent
Fiber lasers and amplifiers maker IPG Photonics Corp. has reported that its net income for 2008 increased by 23 percent, to $36.7 million, compared with $29.9 million last year, while net income for...
Optics Firms Transfer Tech
Communications products maker Anritsu Corp. will transfer selected optical instruments and technology to France-based fiber optic test and measurement (T&M) equipment manufacturer Yenista Optics...
Safe Luminescent Nanoflakes
Nanoscale materials are the topic of much debate because they often are considered too poisonous for use in humans. Now a team of scientists has created minuscule flakes of silicon that glow...
NSB Mulls Spending NSF's $3B
Deliberations about spending and oversight of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) $3 billion portion of the economic stimulus package are expected today at the National Science Board’s (NSB)...
Pittcon Adds Nano Symposia
Fifty-five symposia, more than 100 short courses, 15 workshops, 111 oral sessions, 80 poster sessions and 14 new product forums will be featured during the 60th annual Pittsburgh Conference and...
BAE Wins $45M Army Contract
BAE Systems, specializing in defense and aerospace, will equip US Army Stryker combat vehicles and M-1 Abrams tanks with thermal cameras so that combat crews can “see” outside while remaining inside...
T. rex or T. anorex?
Scientists are using laser imaging and three-dimensional computer modeling to investigate how fat – or fit – Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) and his fellow dinosaurs were. Karl Bates and his...
Lasers Measure 1-Neutron Halo
Using lasers, scientists in Germany have precisely measured the single-neutron halo of the isotope beryllium-11 for the first time, work that may help them gain a better understanding of the forces...
Self-Assembled Nanostructure
By manipulating the magnetization of a liquid solution, researchers from Duke University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have for the first time coaxed magnetic and nonmagnetic materials...
Virtual Telescope Sees Stars
Interferometry is a technique that combines the light from several telescopes, resulting in a vision as sharp as that of a giant telescope with a diameter equal to the largest separation between the...
Grading Structure Traps Light
The ability to catch light – and then let it go – will lead to improvements in telecommunication networks and other optical applications, according to researchers at Lehigh University’s Center for...
A Quantum Synchronized Spin
An international team of scientists led by a Princeton University group recently discovered that, on the surface of certain materials, collective arrangements of electrons move in ways that mimic the...
Raytheon Wins $180M Contract
The US Navy has awarded defense contractor Raytheon Co. a single-source, indefinite-delivery and -quantity contract worth up to $180 million. Raytheon is to procure, deliver, maintain and provide...
Navitar Sells Coatings Div.
Precision optical systems maker Navitar Inc. has announced the sale of its coatings division, Navitar Coating Labs of Newport Beach, Calif., to its president, Dan Coursen, for an undisclosed amount....
Sci-Fi, Science Collide at CERN
When officials at CERN were contacted by Sony Pictures in early 2007 about filming part of the upcoming Tom Hanks movie "Angels & Demons" there, the lab, home to the Large Hadron Collider...
Lasers Map Health of Habitats
Restoring habitat for spawning species of fish, such as Atlantic salmon, starts with a geological inventory of suitable rivers and streams, and the watershed systems that support them. But the...
InnoLas Spins Off 3 Units
InnoLas GmbH has announced that it has spun off its three business units as independent companies. As of Jan. 1, the units began operating as InnoLas Systems GmbH, InnoLas Semiconductor GmbH and...
Nanocrystals Improve PV Cells
It is now possible for solar cells to create more than one unit of energy per photon, increasing the energy output of solar cells. According to a team of Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers,...
Qioptiq Merges Optics Units
Two years after Qioptiq Group acquired Germany-based Linos AG, the company announced that it has consolidated its two North American optical systems operations by merging Qioptiq Imaging Solutions of...
Agiltron Buys SensArray
Agiltron Inc., a manufacturer of fiber optic and infrared imagers and detection products, has announced that it has expanded its detector offerings by acquiring privately held SensArray Infrared for...
IR Light Used to Read Minds
A team of researchers at Bloorview Kids Rehab, Canada’s largest children’s rehabilitation hospital, has used optical brain imaging to develop a technique for decoding the preferences of those who...
New Light Beamed on Life
Using "hotspots" of bright white light generated when silver nanoparticles are hit with infrared laser light, a new microscopy method reveals the internal structure of nearly opaque biological...
Photonics Speeds Up Wireless
With high-frequency wireless communication on the rise, a team of EU-funded researchers is looking to develop components for wireless connections in the extremely high frequency (EHF) bands, running...
Intel Investing $7B in US
Intel announced today that it will spend $7 billion to upgrade facilities in the US over the next two years to make them capable of building its latest generation of processors — 32-nm chips that are...
Laser Exposes Photosynthesis
Instant pictures showing how the sun's energy moves inside plants have been taken for the first time, according to a newly released study. The images unravel some of the inner workings of the most...
Nine Join Telescope Project
Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Arizona are among the nine astronomical research organizations from the US, Australia and Korea that have signed an agreement to...
Astrophotonics Shows Promise
The emerging field of astrophotonics could prove particularly beneficial to next-generation extremely large telescopes (ELTs). Because future ELTs will house mirrors half the size of a football...
JDSU Reports $705M Loss
Optical communications company JDSU today reported a net loss of $705.3 million, or $3.28 per share, for the second fiscal quarter of 2009, due primarily to impairment charges of nearly $700 million....
Photonics Booming in Canada
The photonics industry is booming in Canada, which just might give new meaning to the phrase "northern lights." The nation has 370 photonics companies that employ 20,000 people, and the industry...
Wings Inspire Solar Cells
The discovery that butterfly wings have scales that act as tiny solar collectors has led scientists in China and Japan to design a more efficient solar cell that could be used for powering homes,...
Blue Light Zaps Infection
Blue light can destroy antibiotic-resistant staph infection (Staphylococcus Aureus), according to a recently published paper. Two common strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus,...
Schott Marks 2 Milestones
Schott Worldwide celebrated its 125th anniversary, and the 40th anniversary of its Advanced Optics facility in Duryea, Pa., at SPIE Photonics West by introducing several new products to the North...
Speed-reading Optical Data
Optical data speed is now catching up to the latest technology. Currently, millions of phone calls and cable television shows per second are dispatched through fibers in the form of digital zeros...
Cool Nanocar Rolled Out
The drivers of Rice University's nanocars were surprised to find modified versions of their creation have the ability to roll at room temperature. While practical applications for the tiny machines...
Mars Tech Images Inauguration
Using the same NASA technology that Mars rovers routinely use to image the Red Planet, photographer David Bergman created an unprecedented 1474-megapixel panoramic photo of President Barack Obama's...
UV Light Detects Salmonella
After the recent outbreak of Salmonella in the US, which has sickened more than 500 people and killed eight, the federal government has launched a criminal investigation that will be carried out by...
PerkinElmer Buys LED Maker
Health sciences and photonics company PerkinElmer Inc. announced today that it is acquiring Opto Technology Inc., a Wheeling, Ill.-based supplier of LED-based lighting components and subsystems, for...
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...
World's Smallest Nanoletters
Stanford researchers have reclaimed bragging rights for creating the world’s smallest writing, a distinction the university first gained in 1985 and lost in 1990. The letters in the words are...
acquisitions
Navitar Sells Coatings Div.
Precision optical systems maker Navitar Inc. has announced the sale of its coatings division, Navitar Coating Labs of Newport Beach, Calif., to its president, Dan Coursen, for an undisclosed amount. The company said it based its decision to sell the division on the success of Special Optics, a Wharton, N.J., firm Navitar acquired a year ago that has quadrupled the company’s optical design...
Agiltron Buys SensArray
Agiltron Inc., a manufacturer of fiber optic and infrared imagers and detection products, has announced that it has expanded its detector offerings by acquiring privately held SensArray Infrared for...
PerkinElmer Buys LED Maker
Health sciences and photonics company PerkinElmer Inc. announced today that it is acquiring Opto Technology Inc., a Wheeling, Ill.-based supplier of LED-based lighting components and subsystems, for...
Products
785-nm Fiber Laser
FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 27, 2009 – BaySpec Inc. has introduced a 785-nm fiber laser for use in biomedical applications. The compact laser produces up to 500-mW maximum power. The side mode suppression ratio is 40 dB, and typical...
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LED Narrow-Beam Bulb
TORRANCE, Calif., Feb. 27, 2009 – LEDtronics Inc. has announced its latest generation narrow-beam (15 degrees) PAR30-style LED spotlight bulb. The general-purpose bulb comprises five 3-W high-power LEDs and replaces filament-based...
LEDtronics Inc.
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Optical Network Systems, Modules
MILPITAS, Calif., Feb. 27, 2009 – JDSU has released additions to its WaveReady product line of scalable optical transport solutions designed for access and metro optical networks. Added to the portfolio are a 10-Gb/s tunable...
Lumentum Operations LLC
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Wide-field Imaging Systems
WETZLAR, Germany, Feb. 24, 2009 – Leica Microsystems GmbH has launched its MM AF imaging systems powered by MDS Analytical Technologies’ MetaMorph software. The product line provides a range of solutions for wide-field imaging in...
Leica Microsystems GmbH
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Libra HE
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 24, 2009 – The Libra HE from Coherent Inc. is a one-box ultrafast Ti:sapphire amplifier that delivers higher pulse energy and shorter pulsewidths than earlier Libra models, while still offering the associated...
Coherent Inc.
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Medical Lasers
BERLIN, Germany, Feb. 20, 2009 – Lumics GmbH is expanding its family of 10-W 808- and 980-nm medical laser modules with the introduction of 30- and 40-W modules at 808, 940 and 980 nm. They are suitable for OEM applications in...
Lumics GmbH
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Single-Channel Benchtop Optical Meter
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 17, 2009 – Newport Corp. has expanded its optical power meter and detector family with the introduction of the 1928-C single-channel benchtop optical meter. The compact power meter interfaces with all of the...
MKS/Newport
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Wafer Inspection System
FLANDERS, N.J., Feb. 13, 2009 – Rudolph Technologies Inc. has announced that its NSX series wafer inspection system now includes WaferWoRx probing process analysis, which identifies the cause of probe test failure mechanisms,...
DigiPol Technologies
Fiber Optic Cassette
CRANSTON, R.I., Feb. 13, 2009 – Electro Standards Laboratories has introduced its Model 6008 high-density, pre-terminated fiber optic cassette. It breaks out one MTP eight-strand fiber cable into eight ST military style connectors....
Electro Standards Laboratories
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Reflective Object Sensor
CARROLLTON, Texas, Feb. 11, 2009 – Optek Technology has released a reflective object sensor in a miniature surface mount package for non-contact sensing of reflective objects. The OPB733TR device uses a lensed infrared LED and...
Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control
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Light-curing Wand
HAWTHORN WOODS, Ill., Feb. 11, 2009 – The SunSpot-SM ultra-high output UV spot-cure wand system was introduced by LuminDynamics Inc. for 3 to 8 mm diameter spot exposure applications. Offering the capability of utilizing bifurcated and...
LuminDynamics
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Atomic Force Microscope
PLAINVIEW, N.Y., Feb. 10, 2009 – Veeco Instruments Inc. has released its Dimension Icon atomic force microscope (AFM). Building upon a large-sample platform, the microscope delivers high resolution, ease-of-use and fast...
Veeco Instruments Inc.
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Fiber-Coupled, Multibar Module
MAINZ, Germany, Feb. 10, 2009 – Dilas Diodenlaser GmbH has announced its newest fiber-coupled multibar modules that feature a compact footprint and convenient aiming beam. They deliver 500-W output at 976 nm through a...
DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH
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Color Sensor Evaluation Kit
CARROLLTON, Texas, Feb., 5, 2009 – To provide design engineers with a simplified means of evaluating colors in various applications, TT electronics Optek Technology has developed a color sensor evaluation kit. It includes the OPB780...
Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control
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Genesis Green Laser
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 4, 2009 – The Genesis 532-2000 S green laser now available from Coherent Inc. is suitable for scientific and OEM applications. Using a proprietary optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL) technology, the...
Coherent Inc.
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Nanopositioning Products
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 4, 2009 – Newport Corp. has announced a line of nanopositioning piezo stages and a three-axis controller and driver. The family offers reliable, multi-layer, low-voltage piezoelectric transducers and...
MKS/Newport
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Gas Cell
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Feb. 3, 2009 – CIC Photonics Inc. has released the Ranger-EN14 14.4 m long-path gas cell for semiconductor plant monitoring, moisture analysis, continuous emissions monitoring and other corrosive and toxic gas...
CIC Photonics Inc.
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Imaging Spectrograph
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Feb. 3, 2009 – Andor Technology plc has released the latest edition of its Shamrock series of high performance spectroscopy detection solutions. The Shamrock SR-500i imaging spectrograph offers users enhanced...
Andor Technology
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