Photonics.com - February 2010

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Cornell’s Bazarov Wins DoE Grant Determining the brightness limits of electron beams in X-ray synchrotron radiation facilities will be the focus of a five-year research project by Ivan Bazarov, assistant professor of physics at Cornell University. The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced that it is awarding him $750,000 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) as part of DoE's new Early Career...

OCE, OptoNet Pen Optical Technology Deal Ontario’s recognized expertise in the field of photonics has been given a major shot in the arm with the signing of an agreement between Ontario Centers of Excellence (OCE) and Opt...

MRC Optics Nabs Lockheed Contract MRC Optics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Photonics Products Group Inc. (PPGI), has been awarded firm-fixed price contracts for precision optical components from Lockheed Martin’s Missile and Fire...

Cilas Unveils Optical Coatings Machine

Cilas has started up its new optical coatings machine, PACA2M, said to be the largest in Europe using magnetron sputtering technology. The new machine is now operational in its Aubagne site in...

Azores Enhances 24-hour Tech Support Azores Corp, manufacturer of advanced photolithography steppers for mobile display and X-ray sensor applications, has enhanced its 24-hour technical support service by adding regional staff located...

Laser Photonics Taps New CEO Laser Photonics, a maker of fiber and CO2 laser equipment for material processing, announced that David Porter has been named CEO. Prior to joining Laser Photonics, Porter worked for more than...

LightPath Reports Demand for Molded Aspheres LightPath Technologies Inc. has reported an increase in demand in the market of molded aspheres for consumer and industrial laser tools. According to the company, current open orders for these...

SVTC, AMST Partner for Anti-Stiction Coating SVTC Technologies, a commercialization service provider for emerging silicon-based technologies in areas such as CMOS, MEMS, photovoltaics and other related nanotechnologies, and Applied...

Tessera CTO Honored on Postage Stamp

China’s government has named Robert Yung, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Tessera Technologies Inc., as one of its Top 60 World Chinese. As part of this honor, Yung will...

Laser Pioneers Honored at LaserFest Event The organizers of LaserFest, the celebration in 2010 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first working laser, together with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Hist...

LightWorks Optics Opens New Facility

LightWorks Optics Inc., a custom precision optical components and advanced integrated optics solutions company, will open a new 14,000-square-foot office and manufacturing facility this month,...

Flir Expands to California

Flir Systems Inc., a designer of thermal imaging devices for commercial and military applications, has acquired two buildings from the Sares Regis Group, a real estate company head...

LaserMotive Appoints Two Top Execs. LaserMotive, an independent R&D company specializing in laser power beaming technology, has announced the appointment of company co-founder Tom Nugent as president and technology industry veteran...

ficonTec Moves Headquarters ficonTEC Service GmbH has announced it has moved its corporate headquarters to Achim, Germany. With an increased demand for solutions of automated photonic assembly projects, the company needed...

NKT Taps Global Distribution Partners NKT Photonics A/S, manufacturer of supercontinuum sources and fiber lasers, is expanding its global distribution partner’s network. The partners include Photonic Solutions Plc. (UK...

Bruggeman Named CEO of SVTC SVTC Technologies, a commercialization service provider for emerging silicon-based technologies in areas such as CMOS, MEMS, photovoltaics and other related nanotechnologies, announced Bert Bruggeman...

UOttawa Chair Awarded to Berini Dr. Pierre Berini, a professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering, has been awarded the University of Ottawa Chair in surface plasmon photonics. Establishe...

PETEC Joins FDC The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University has announced that the Printable Electronics Technology Center (PETEC) has become an associate member to collaborate o...

Call for Papers for euroLED Birmingham Science Park Aston (formerly Aston Science Park) is looking for speakers to contribute to the euroLED 2010 conference program. Last year, the event attracted 1340 delegat...

Industry Mourns Laser Pioneer

Daniel J. Bradley, physicist and laser pioneer, died Feb. 7, 2010, in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland. Bradley held chairs at Queen’s University in Belfast from 1966-1973, Imperial College London...

Mitsubishi Electric Names New CEO Electrical and electronic equipment manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has announced Kenichiro Yamanishi as its new president and chief executive officer. Effective April 1, Yamanishi will...

Oerlikon Expands Into Spanish Market Oerlikon Solar Ltd., a thin film silicon photovoltaic (PV) production equipment supplier, has announced that Gadir Solar of Madrid, Spain, has used its amorphous thin film silicon PV technology at...

Cornell Group Nabs Semiconductor Award A team of Cornell University researchers that includes Mike Thompson, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has received the 2009 Semiconductor Equipment and Ma...

Mitsubishi Electric Sets PV Record By reducing resistance loss in the cells, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., an electronic equipment manufacturer, has announced it has set two world records for photoelectric conversion efficiency in...

Sony Enters Flow Cytometry Business Sony Corp. has acquired iCyt Mission Technology Inc. of Champaign, Ill., a producer of high-performance cell sorters used for stem cell and disease research, through its US subsidiary, Sony Corp. of...

II-VI Inks $40M Deal Crystal growth technology company, II-VI Inc., announced an agreement between its subsidiary Exotic Electro-Optics and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control for the purchase of sapphire windows...

2010 Wolf Prize Winners Announced Three scientists will share the 2010 Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics for their contributions to the foundation of quantum physics, specifically for an increasingly sophisticated series of tests of...

NSF Award for Deep UV LEDs Sensor Electronic Technology Inc. (SETI), announced that is has been awarded a Phase II SBIR award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $500,000 to further advance its De...

Philip Koen Joins Infinera Board Digital optical networking systems company, Infinera, announced that Philip Koen has joined the company’s board of directors. Koen was CEO of Savvis, an IT infrastructure services company, from...

Kyocera Sets Conversion Efficiency Record Kyocera Corp. announced that it has achieved a new world record of 16.6 percent module efficiency (aperture-area efficiency of 17.3 percent) for multicrystalline silicon solar modules using 54 cells...

Stratophase Nets £2.5M from Investor

Stratophase Ltd., a specialist in real-time chemical and biochemical measurement and detection, has secured £2.5 million (about $3.9 million) in follow-on funding from existing inv...

Corning Projects Growth in 2010 Consumer demand for LCD televisions, notebook computers and other personal communication devices has lead Corning Inc., to project an increase in sales and earnings for 2010. According to the...

T-Ray Science, ULeeds Collaborate T-Ray Science Inc. has entered into a research collaboration with the University of Leeds in the UK to develop low-cost, pulsed and continuous wave (CW), fiber-coupled terahertz (THz) spectrometers...

JDSU Buying Agilent's 4G Test Unit JDSU today announced that it will acquire the Network Solutions communications test business of Agilent, including its 4G network verification and deployment products, for $165 million in cash. ...

Keithley Reports Profitable Q1 Keithley Instruments Inc., a developer and producer of advanced electrical test instruments and systems, has announced results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter, ending Dec. 31, 2009. Net sales...

Linden Buys Hycor from Agilent Linden LLC, a Chicago-based health care private equity firm, has purchased Hycor Biomedical Inc. from Agilent Technologies for an undisclosed amount. Hycor, located in Garden Grove, Calif.,...

Specialised Imaging Opens US Office Specialised Imaging Ltd. is set to launch a North American partner company – Specialised Imaging Inc. – as of April this year. The new business will expand and develop support for the company’s...

NanoTech Alliance Tackles EUVL Challenges Sematech, a global consortium of semiconductor manufacturers, and ASML, provider of lithography systems for the chip industry based in The Netherlands, announced they have joined forces at the...

3S Displays Stable 1064nm Laser at High Power

French manufacturer of optical and optoelectronic components for telecommunication networks, 3S Photonics, demonstrated reliable pulsed-operation of its 1064nm wavelength-stabilized diode lasers at...

Emcore to Sell Fiber Optics Interest Emcore Corp., a provider of compound semiconductor-based components, subsystems and systems for the fiber optic and solar power markets, announced that investment company, Tangshan Caofeidian...

Fluke Wins $1.4M Federal Grant Fluke Corp., a producer of handheld electronic test and measurement technology and electrical calibration, will receive $1.4 million in federal funds to create calibration tools fo...

Franco-American Optical Alliances

Last night, after the first day of the Photonics West Exhibition had wound down to a close, a gathering of Francophiles occurred at the nearby Westin Hotel. About 50 people arrived...

Photonics West 2010 Sets Records

SPIE Photonics West completed its debut at the Moscone Center in San Francisco last week with the final attendance count at 18,327, a record for the event. The new venue was a hit with attendees, and...

Bruker Promotes Managers, Reports on Q4 Provider of high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular and materials research, Bruker Corp. has announced management changes and its preliminary operating results for its...

LightPath Achieves First Profitable Quarter For the first time in the company’s history, LightPath Technologies Inc. has reported a positive net income of $42,000 for the second quarter of the fiscal 2010. LightPath, a manufacturer of...

Invest in Photonics Announces Speakers Invest in Photonics, a two-day international partnering convention that brings together leaders in the photonics industry to meet with emerging photonics companies seeking financia...

Prysm Appoints Scorse to VP, GM Prysm, provider of Laser Phosphor Displays (LPD’s) for large format display applications, announced Steve Scorse has been appointed as vice president and general manager, EMEA, based in the UK. The...

3SAE, DPM Photonics Partner 3SAE Technologies Inc., an advanced fiber optic fusion splicing solutions provider, has signed a consulting and distribution agreement with DPM Photonics of Vernon, Conn., a consul...

FDA Clears Stretch Mark Laser Women worldwide who have unwanted stretch marks can rest easy. The FDA has cleared Palomar Medical Technologies Inc.’s Lux1540 fractional non-ablative laser handpiece for the treatment of striae...

LightCounting Reports Optical Transceiver Recovery LightCounting LLC, an optical transceiver company, has released a sales report that predicts its first quarter sales from 2010 will match pre-crisis levels. After declining 20 percent in the...

Executive Appointments Announced at Intense

Next generation semiconductor lasers, systems and solutions developer, Intense Ltd., has announced three new executive appointments. Berthold Schmidt has been named the chief ex...

AIA Names 2010 Chair

Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the industry’s trade group, has elected Rusty Ponce de Leon, president of Phase 1 Technology Corp. of Deer Park, N.Y., as its 2010 chairman. ...

Coherent Secures $20M in Solar Cell Tool Orders Coherent Inc. has secured multiple orders totaling in excess of $20 million from crystalline silicon solar cell manufacturers for laser-based process tools. These orders make up th...

Aixtron to Build New R&D Campus Germany-based Aixtron AG, a provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, announced it will build a state-of-the-art research and development campus in Herzogenrath-Kohlscheid. ...

Si Photonics Breakthrough at Kotura Kotura Inc., a silicon photonics product provider, has announced its demonstration of a modulator with two-volt, peak-to-peak driving voltage. Permitting the use of inexpensive ...

Andor Appoints ALPAO as Reseller Andor Technology plc of Belfast, UK, a scientific imaging, spectroscopy solutions and microscopy systems provider, has appointed ALPAO as its new value added reseller for the adaptive optics market....

Andor Launches Imaging Contest Andor Technology plc has announced a new worldwide competition rewarding visually stunning and scientifically captivating images, spectra, graphics and movies. The Andor Insight Awards are open to...

Solar Cell Partnership Formed Acceleware Corp. has announced a partnership with Crosslight Software of Vancouver, British Columbia, to deliver acceleration for thin-film solar cell and image pixel sensor simula...

Luxtera Announces Optical Collaboration Luxtera Inc., a silicon CMOS photonics manufacturer, has announced its collaboration with Watertown, Conn.-based Siemon, a network cabling solutions provider. Based on the...

CyberOptics Pens OEM Solar Cell Agmt. Sensor and inspection systems maker, CyberOptics Corp., has entered into an OEM agreement with a global supplier of solutions for solar cell manufacturing. CyberOptics has received an initial order...

Gooch Renames Subsidiaries Effective immediately, Optronic Laboratories and ChromoDynamics will be known as Gooch and Housego, the parent brand of the two companies. The two will join the other Gooch and Housego UK Ltd....

Research & Technology

Undersea Optical Communication

An undersea optical communications system, complemented by acoustics, is enabling a virtual revolution in high-speed undersea data collection and transmission. The scientists a...

Ultrafast Laser Enables New Technologies

In what is being touted as a major breakthrough, University of Colorado at Boulder physics professors, Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn have built a tabletop X-ray laser for supe...

Molecules Morphed into New Material

A class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could one day be designed with the properties needed to serve as the founda...

Light Turned into Electrical Current

Using a golden nanoscale system, material scientists at the Nano/Bio Interface Center of the University of Pennsylvania are now turning light into electrical currents. The syst...

Textron Achieves Over 100 kW with Laser Textron Defense Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, announced today that its Directed Energy Weapons business line has successfully tested its Joint High-Power...

Ultrafast Lasers Benefit Optical Experiments

Until now, time-resolved optical experiments have been taking advantage of external moveable optical delay lines or two synchronized pulsed laser systems in order to achieve a defi...

Breakthrough for Hybrid Solar Cells

A method for treating the surface of nanoparticles has enabled researchers to attain an efficiency rate of 2 percent by using so-called quantum dots composed of cadmium selenide. The method was...

Atom Interferometer Tests Redshift

While airplane and rocket experiments have proved that gravity makes clocks tick more slowly – a central prediction of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity – a new experiment in an atom...

Lasers Could Speed Cancer Testing

When a tissue biopsy is sent to a lab to be analyzed for cancer, it can take hours, days or even a week to get the results. Now, a new analysis technology developed by researchers i...

VCSELs Key to High-Speed Communication Research on long-wavelength VCSELs (Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers) is aimed at finding an efficient and reliable technological answer to the ever-growing demands for bandwidth in...

‘Eye-Safe’ Laser Record Set

Laser Operations LLC, manufacturer of the QPC Lasers product line, announced new power and brightness records for lasers operating at “eye-safe” wavelengths between 1410 nm and 155...

AMS Readies for Dark-Matter Mission

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) has taken its initial steps in a journey that will take it ultimately to the International Space Station (ISS), where it will be used to look ...

Shinshu U. Picks PET Crystals Zecotek Photonics Inc.’s LFS scintillation crystals have been selected by Shinshu University in Japan for trials in its next-generation positron emission tomography (PET) medical i...

Photons Led Astray

An international team, headed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, is using polarized light (light waves that oscillate in a particular plane) to de...

Sensor Combines Images, Video

By combining off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors, researchers in England developed a revolutionary way of capturing a high-resolution ...

Toy Houses Built From Light

A team of physicists from the University of Calgary has discovered how to use quantum entanglement to stack light particles. By manipulating the quantum entanglement, this team...

Transforming Metal Oxide Observed

An international team, including Oxford University scientists, has been investigating what happens to the top layer of atoms on the surface of a material. The material is strontium titanate – a...

Diamond Device Channels Photons

A newly created diamond-based nanowire device offers a bright, stable source of single photons at room temperature — an essential element in making fast and secure computing w...

Stratophase Nets £2.5M from Investor

Stratophase Ltd., a specialist in real-time chemical and biochemical measurement and detection, has secured £2.5 million (about $3.9 million) in follow-on funding from existing inv...

INRS Develops Microring Resonator

A new, more efficient low-cost microring resonator for high-speed telecommunications systems has been developed and tested by Professor Roberto Morandotti’s INRS team in collaboration with...

Glaring at the Sun with NASA’s SDO

At approximately 10:30 Eastern today, NASA launched its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the first of the space agency’s “Living with a Star” programs to blast-off. The programs are intended to...

UV Pulses for Quantum Computing

Photons are promising candidates for investigating quantum systems. German researchers demonstrated a new method for generating intense, ultrashort light pulses in the ultraviolet...

Cheap and Recyclable Lighting A super material developed by Swedish and American researchers will make lighting cheaper and fully recyclable. The invention, which paves the way for glowing wallpaper made entirely of plastic, for...

JMAR Delivers UV Laser to NASA JMAR LLC, laser-based product solutions designer specializing in microbiological detection of organisms in water, environmental gas emissions and explosives detection, announced it has developed a...

Quantum Logic Clock Tops Itself

An enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock is boasting more than twice the precision as the previous pacesetter – the original ‘quantum logic clock’ – keeping time to 1 second in 3.7 billion...

OCT Illuminates Art Forgeries

Scientists in Poland describe how a medical imaging technique – optical coherent tomography, or OCT – has taken on a second life in revealing forgery of an artist’s signature and changes in...

Tracking Particles With Gold Rods

A group of Rice University researchers, led by Stephan Link, has found a way to use nanometer-scale gold rods as orientation sensors by combining their plasmonic properties with polarization-imaging...

Franco-American Optical Alliances

Last night, after the first day of the Photonics West Exhibition had wound down to a close, a gathering of Francophiles occurred at the nearby Westin Hotel. About 50 people arrived...

Photonics West 2010 Sets Records

Pittcon Offers Instrumentation Advances

Pittcon 2010 will offer the latest advances in laboratory instrumentation, solutions for research problems, new methodologies and techniques for improved productivity, and a wide range of educational...

Nanobubbles ‘Jackhammer’ Cancer

Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice University discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them with tiny explosions. The scientists used...

Germanium Laser Redefines Physics

The first laser built from germanium that can emit wavelengths of light useful for optical communications has been demonstrated by researchers at MIT. Germanium, unlike materials typically used in...

Cell Communications Very Complex US scientists have performed an advanced study of structures inside live cells using total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy. The experiment, which was carried out...

Light Trumps Radio Waves in Security Sending information through light waves is nothing new, but there are limitations. Existing wireless systems either require direct line of sight or are diffused and have low signal strength....

All-Solid-State Cryocooler Realized

The first-ever all-solid-state cryocooler, which allows coolers to reach temperatures so cold that they can only be obtained by liquefying gases, has been created for applications in airborne and...

HESS Astrophysicists Share Rossi Prize

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded the 2010 Rossi Prize to three scientists and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) collaboration for their outstanding cont...

NIF Achieves Historic Laser Shot

Scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have delivered a historic level of laser energy – more than 1 megajoule – to a t...

On-Chip Light Speeds up Computing A new laser that allows light to be used on a computer chip has been realized by an international team of researchers, led by David Moss, associate professor and senior researcher at The University...

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Products

Non-Browning Zoom Lens

CHESHAM, UK, Feb. 26, 2010 – The Model 290 motorized non-browning zoom lens from Resolve Optics Ltd. operates in environments subject to radiation, such as nuclear fuel handling, reactor active zones and nuclear waste storage...

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Digital Thermometers

STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 26, 2010 – Omega Engineering Inc.’s CE-compliant DTG-RTD100 series digital thermometers are designed for use with resistance temperature detector (RTD) sensors and feature a large backlit display with...

Omega Engineering Inc.

Thermoelectric Cooling Units

MARTINSRIED, Germany, Feb. 25, 2010 – AMS Technologies’ SD-330 and SD-250 compact thermoelectric cooling units are suitable for laser diode modules with footprints from 50 × 100 up to a maximum of 124 × 130 mm in...

AMS Technologies AG

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White-Light Confocal System

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Feb. 25, 2010 – For performing confocal microscopy with a white light source, Andor Technology plc has launched Revolution DSD, based on a differential spinning disk optical system working in conjunction with an...

Andor Technology

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OPI1268 Optical Isolators

CARROLLTON, Texas, Feb. 25, 2010 – TT electronics Optek Technology’s OPI1268 optical isolator delivers AC and DC voltage isolation up to 16 kV while achieving digital data transmission rates of 2 MBd. It is UL-recognized and...

Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control

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CEP-Stabilized Amplifier

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 24, 2010 – Coherent Inc. has launched the Legend Elite CEP (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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Light Grids

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 24, 2010 – Sick Inc. has launched the SLG line of slim nonsafety through-beam light grids. Using only 8 mm of space for the optics, the devices can be hidden inside machines, frames, doors and other places...

SICK Inc.

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20/20 UV-VIS-NIR Microspectrophotometer

SAN DIMAS, Calif., Feb. 24, 2010 – Craic Technologies Inc. has announced the 20/20 UV-VIS-NIR microspectrophotometer that incorporates the latest technological advances in optics, spectroscopy and software and is designed to...

CRAIC Technologies

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FiberSafe Portable Microscope

SCORESBY, Australia, Feb. 23, 2010 – The KI 6610 FiberSafe microscope manufactured by Kingfisher International P/L is a handheld field-portable scope used to inspect fiber optic connector end-face quality and is used by fiber optic...

Kingfisher International Pty. Ltd.

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Black-Box Capability Software

BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 23, 2010 – Zemax Development Corp. has added black-box capability to its optical system design software to protect designers’ intellectual property. The software is used for lens design, illumination...

Zemax, Optical Product Design Software

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Adaptive Optics Kits

NEWTON, N.J., Feb. 23, 2010 – Thorlabs has expanded its line of adaptive optics (AO) kits to include the AOK2 series of mini kits. The Mini AO kits are the result of a partnership between Thorlabs and Boston Micromachines Corp....

Thorlabs Inc.

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Optical Windows, Mirrors, & Structures

ZYGO’s Optical Systems Division, a world leader in optics, manufactures high precision reconnaissance windows up to 40” in diameter, machined optical structures including RLG frames, high...

Zygo Corporation

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LightTools 7.0 Analysis Software

PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 22, 2010 – LightTools 7.0 is the new release of the illumination design and analysis software from Optical Research Associates. It supports Windows 7 and delivers expanded capabilities for both model...

Synopsys Inc., Optical Solutions Group

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Multibar Laser Modules

MAINZ, Germany, Feb. 22, 2010 – Dilas is delivering new conduction-cooled, multibar laser modules with a homogeneous top hat optical beam profile, capable of handling up to 500-W output in standard wavelengths. The...

DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH

NEW! Sticklers™ Cleaning Tools Introducing the new Sticklers™ fiber optic cleaners for perfectly clean splices and connectors at the lowest cost. Clean in seconds, clean for pennies. Free inspection light for the first 100...

MicroCare Corp., Sticklers Fiber Optic Cleaners

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Rapid Automated Modular Microscope

EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 19, 2010 – Applied Scientific Instrumentation’s RAMM (rapid automated modular microscope) system’s modular design enables and facilitates development of a custom system. The microscope is...

Applied Scientific Instrumentation Inc.

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Non-Contact Surface Metrology System UltraSurf - high precision, computer controlled 5-Axis non-contact optical 3-D scanner for measurement of complex optical surfaces such as aspheres, cylinders and conformal optics. Interchangeable...

OptiPro Systems

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Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., Feb. 18, 2010 – Alphion Corp. has announced the introduction of the 1060-nm SAX20r semiconductor optical amplifier for optical coherence tomography applications. Based on the proprietary QLight technology...

Alphion Corp.

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X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometers

WINDSOR, Conn., Feb. 18, 2010 – The FischerScope X-Ray Conti 5000 instruments manufactured by Fischer Technology Inc. are energy-dispersive x-ray fluorescence spectrometers for in-line process control. They are designed for...

Fischer Technology Inc.

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VersaChrome^TM Tunable Bandpass Filters Semrock has broken new ground with the release of five VersaChrome tunable bandpass filters. These filters offer wavelength tunability over a very wide range of wavelengths by adjusting the angle of...

IDEX Health & Science - Semrock Optical Filters

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LG-930 Laser Glass

DURYEA, Pa., Feb. 17, 2010 – Schott Advanced Optics is offering the LG-930 laser glass that lases at 1.5 µm, making it less damaging to the eye and rendering it suitable for use in biomedical applications such as skin...

SCHOTT North America Inc.

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Thermal Imaging Lenses

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 17, 2010 – LightPath Technologies Inc. has introduced athermalized f/1.0, 10.63-mm-focal-length long-wave infrared lens assemblies for thermal imaging using 8- to 12-µm infrared signatures. Designed...

LightPath Technologies Inc.

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UV Radiation Spectrometer

CHELMSFORD, Mass., Feb. 16, 2010 — With the model 234/302 from McPherson Inc., users can quickly and easily measure vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectral emission (signature emission from He, Ar, Xe, N2, O2 and many corrosive fluoride or...

McPHERSON

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PhaseCam 6000 Interferometer

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 16, 2010 – The PhaseCam 6000 manufactured by 4D Technology Corp. is a compact and lightweight Twyman-Green interferometer for measurement of optics and optical systems. With an easy-to-position, fiber-coupled...

4D Technology Corporation

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Interline CCD Camera Extension

BELFAST, UK, Feb. 12, 2010 – Andor Technology has expanded its Clara line of scientific interline CCD cameras with the launch of the Clara E. Based around the 1.3-megapixel ICX285 sensor from Sony, it is engineered for high...

Andor Technology

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Housing for Field Connector

SPARTANBURG, S.C., Feb. 12, 2010 — AFL Telecommunications, a division of Fujikura Ltd., is launching a keyed housing for its LC FuseConnect fusion splice field-terminated connector. Featuring just four components, the keyed LC housing...

AFL

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Auto Calibration Sensor

CARROLLTON, Texas, Feb. 11, 2010 – Providing medical design engineers with a cost-effective alternative to ultrasonic sensors, TT electronics Optek Technology’s OCB350 fluid sensor features automatic calibration circuitry and is...

Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control

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C11118GA NIR Spectrometer

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Feb. 10, 2010 – Hamamatsu Corp. has introduced the C11118GA, part of its TG series long-wavelength-type near-infrared miniature spectrometers for process measurements. Optimized for carbon-hydrogen combinational...

Hamamatsu Corporation

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Lens Measurement Instrument

WAKEFIELD, Mass., Feb. 10, 2010 – Optikos Corp. has introduced the LensCheck lens measurement instrument, a system for both production and prototype lens qualification. It features high-resolution motorized stages, 12-bit real-time...

Optikos Corporation

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Nanosecond Lasers

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany, Feb. 9, 2010 – With the introduction of its Blaze series, Lumera Laser GmbH offers high-performance nanosecond lasers. Thanks to patented SpotLock pumping technology, they produce good beam characteristics, even at...

Coherent Kaiserslautern GmbH

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Laser Safety Windows

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 8, 2010 – Laser Safety Industries has expanded its glass processing abilities to include heat-tempering and laminating of laser safety windows. These technologies make it possible for the company to offer...

Laser Safety Industries

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Eco-design Power Meters

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Feb. 8, 2010 – Chroma Systems Solutions Inc.'s 66200 series power meters meet the Eco-design Directive for measurement requirements of energy-using products (EuP) in addition to meeting Energy Star requirements and...

Chroma Systems Solutions Inc.

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PC Controlled Optical Polisher Scepter™ is PC controlled for Telcordia compliant connector and bare fiber polishing. It features integrated air polishing routines, and independently suspended/optically aligned workholders....

KrellTech

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White LED Backlight Driver

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 5, 2010 – Alpha & Omega Semiconductor Inc. has expanded its EZBoost family with its first white LED backlight driver, the AOZ1950, designed and optimized for providing backlighting solutions for the latest...

Alpha & Omega Semiconductor Inc.

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Tristar Q-Switched Lasers

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 4, 2010 – Spectra-Physics, a Newport Corp. brand, announces a new addition to its Tristar family of Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state industrial lasers. The Tristar 355-2 is suitable for high-throughput LED...

MKS/Spectra-Physics

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Sapphire 514-nm Laser

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 4, 2010 – Coherent Inc. has expanded its Sapphire family of compact continuous-wave visible lasers with the introduction of the first 514-nm (green) offering based on proprietary optically pumped semiconductor...

Coherent Inc.

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ATOM320 World’s Smallest IR Camera The ATOM320 from Sofradir-EC has been designed for integration into a wide range of size-constrained infrared imaging products. Despite its tiny size, the ATOM delivers exceptional image quality,...

Lynred USA

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Image Stabilization w/ Hexapods & Piezos

PI offers the largest selection of submicron-precision Hexapod 6D-Micropositioners & Microrobots--ideal for precision alignment & handling from fibers to MEMS to heavy optics. Load-range: 2...

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics

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High Performance IR Imaging Engine Based on cryogenically cooled MCT detectors, Sofradir-EC’s new Infrared Imaging Engines deliver exceptional sensitivity and resolution performance for SWIR, MWIR and LWIR imaging. Because of...

Lynred USA

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Pixel Sub-Stepping Improves Imaging Resolution

Low light applications and the constant need for higher output resolutions in digital imaging systems create challenges because neither the imaging chip resolution nor the exposure time for moving...

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics

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High-Performance Cooled IR Cameras Sofradir-EC has introduced a range of high-performance infrared cameras that cover the spectral band 1-to-12 microns. The feature variable frame rate and integration time, less than 20mK sensitivity...

Lynred USA

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Supercontinuum Fiber Device

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 3, 2010 – Newport Corp. has introduced a coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) optimized supercontinuum generation fiber device. Designed for use with 800-nm femtosecond lasers, the SCG-800-CARS...

MKS/Newport

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EMCCD Blue-Photon Detector

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Feb. 3, 2010 – Andor Technology plc has announced the launch of its iXonEM Blue EMCCD (electron-multiplying CCD) camera. The single-photon-sensitive low-light imaging camera is based on a blue-enhanced variant of a...

Andor Technology

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FlexLens Image Code Reader

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 2, 2010 – Sick Inc. has launched the ICR845-2L FlexLens vision-based, omnidirectional image code reader that performs high-quality reading and decoding of stationary and fast-moving bar codes. It is suitable...

SICK Inc.

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NT9080 Surface Metrology System

PLAINVIEW, N.Y., Feb. 2, 2010 – The NT9080 surface metrology system has been introduced by Veeco Instruments Inc. It uses white light interferometry to measure critical surface topography nondestructively, from nanometer-scale...

Veeco Instruments Inc.

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QDI 302 Microscope Spectrophotometer

SAN DIMAS, Calif., Feb. 2, 2010 – Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are being developed for the next generation of displays and light sources. The QDI 302 microscope spectrophotometer from Craic Technologies Inc. is designed to...

CRAIC Technologies

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Primax Two-Chip White LED

MELAKA, Malaysia, Feb. 2, 2010 – Dominant Semiconductors Sdn Bhd’s newest LED product series, Primax, is designed to provide high-intensity light output in a compact package optimized for applications where space is at a...

DOMINANT Opto Technologies

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Passively Cooled High-Power Pump Diodes Coherent recently introduced a "rainbow" version of its G-stack series of conduction-cooled laser arrays offering multiple wavelength options for temperature insensitive pumping. These rainbow stacks...

Coherent Inc.

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Bristol Instruments, Inc. - 872 Series High-Res 4/24 HP