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Photonics Spectra: April 2008

Photonics Spectra
April 2008

FEATURES

Lasers Support Emerging Solar Industry Needs

Despite its multibillion-dollar size, the solar industry exhibits many characteristics of an emerging sector in terms of manufacturing and product standardization. Indeed, rapid growth in solar cell...

Sunlight, Dyes and Inexpensive Semiconductors

In recent decades, the photovoltaic market has experienced tremendous growth — about 20 to 25 percent per year. The growth occurred because of the pressing need to establish renewable energy around...

Improving Solar Efficiency with Organic Dyes

Although many people regard solar power as a near-perfect form of energy, investigators first will have to overcome two stubborn problems if the renewable resource is ever to move into the...

Solid-State Lighting on the Fast Track

One thing true in the semiconductor industry is that, when a problem is well-defined, the solution will be at hand shortly. A few years ago, the LED sector of the semiconductor industry turned its...

Performance Metric for Lighting Fixtures

As the performance of white LEDs has improved, general lighting has become one of the next target applications for LEDs. Although general lighting applications requiring large amounts of light output...

LED Backlighting in Large-Screen Displays

LEDs have been the standard backlighting source in mobile devices for several years. Now televisions, monitors and notebooks all are starting to move toward LED backlighting. Although LEDs cost...

LED Characterization for Production Quality Control

LEDs have evolved rapidly from use as simple indicator lights to use in more complex arrays and assemblies for illumination, displays, instrument panels, projectors, backlights, and medical and...

Watching What Happens During Attoseconds in Solids

New insight into ever-smaller structures of matter and their ever-faster dynamics holds great promise for pushing the frontiers of many fields in science and technology. The speed of electronic...

Laser Beams Aren’t the Only Hazards in the Laboratory

The ANSI Z136.1 standard has a sizable section about non-beam hazards in the photonics laboratory. What it tells us is that tunnel vision can be dangerous. If we’re focused only on hazards associated...

Flexible LED Fashioned with Inorganic Nanowires

An inorganic LED that is flexible and potentially stretchable has been developed with ZnO nanowires serving as the optically active component. In a continuation of their previous work, where an...

Carbon Nanotube Spheres Fabricated with Light

As more potential photonic applications are being explored for carbon nanotubes, which are valued for properties such as ultrafast recovery times and optical nonlinearity, the construction and...

Coming Attractions: Holographic Movies

Moving 3-D displays may no longer be science fiction, thanks to researchers from the University of Arizona in Tucson and from Nitto Denko Technical Corp. of Oceanside, Calif. They recently...

Want a White Light? Print It.

It someday may be possible to produce white organic LEDs via printing, courtesy of researchers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who have described using organic vapor jet printing to...

Making Movies with Nanoscale Resolution

In an example of an extreme movie close-up, researchers have used a subwavelength-resolution technique to track synaptic vesicle movement at video rates. Scientists from Max Planck Institute for...

Fluorescence Shows How Cheeses Change Properties After Exposure to Light

Have you left the cheese out on the kitchen counter again? You may wish that you hadn’t — cheeses become discolored, change flavor and lose nutrients when exposed to light, mostly because of...

River Organic Matter Changes with the Seasons

The vast amounts of dissolved organic matter that flow through the Amazon River and its network of tributaries play a significant environmental role in one of the world’s great ecosystems and beyond....

TECH PULSE

Plant Leaves Reveal Clues About Crop Health

For many farmers, the possibility of crop failure from diseases such as root rot is an ever-present worry. The anxiety is compounded by the fact that, by the time corn, potatoes, cotton and other...

Visualizing a Laser’s Polarization

One of the oldest tricks in the book is checking a laser beam’s polarization with a microscope slide: You stick the slide, oriented at Brewster’s angle, into the beam and then rotate it around the...

Making a Microlens Array with Micromirrors

The best way to make a microlens may be to use a micromirror, according to researchers from the University of Texas at Austin. Associate professor Shaochen Chen and graduate student Yi Lu used a...

Microscopic Flow of Non-Brownian Systems Probed

Understanding the microscopic dynamics that occur between a flowing fluid and an elastic solid, such as those that happen in plastics manufacturing and in numerous other industrial applications, can...

LIGHT SPEED

LEDs Expected to Light More Automobiles

The market for LEDs in automobiles is expected to grow in the coming years as global manufacturers increasingly turn to the technology to meet a myriad of lighting needs. Automotive LEDs are...

Solid-State Lighting Funding Announced The US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory recently announced 13 selections for Round 4 of its solid-state lighting research and development program. The program funds...

Automotive LEDs Now in Headlights

At long last, cars are driving off the assembly line with full LED headlights. According to a recently released report from IMS Research of Wellingborough, UK, the Audi R8 and the Lexus LS600h are...

Industrial Laser Orders Increase in Fourth Quarter

The “Laser Market Data Survey” released by the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) shows that the orders for industrial laser equipment and systems increased in the fourth quarter of 2007....

ZC&R, Abrisa Produce Display Glass ZC&R Coatings for Optics Inc. of Torrance and Abrisa Industrial Glass Inc. of Santa Paula, both in California, have collaborated to produce display glass, LCD glass plates, and overlay and bus...

Goodrich Creates Business Unit Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., has created ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) Systems, a business unit that encompasses the former Optical & Space Systems electro-optics...

Isra Vision Supplies Nakan with Inspection Systems A supplier of machine vision systems for surface inspection and robot guidance, Isra Vision AG of Darmstadt, Germany, has signed a cooperation agreement with Nakan of Chiba, Japan, a line integrator...

Micron Technology Launches Aptina Imaging Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, has created Aptina Imaging, which represents a separate division and a new identity for its CMOS image business. Based in San Jose, Calif., Aptina will operate...

Agilent Technologies Secures Companies Agilent Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has acquired Colloidal Dynamics, a Warwick, R.I., supplier of particle analysis instruments, and has signed an agreement to acquire Till Photonics...

Organizations Develop Molded Aspheres Edmund Optics Inc. of Barrington, N.J., has formed a cooperative agreement with Clemson University in South Carolina and with the US Army Benét Laboratories at the Watervliet Arsenal in Albany, N.Y....

KLA-Tencor to Acquire ICOS KLA-Tencor Corp. of San Jose, Calif., and ICOS Vision Systems Corp. NV of Leuven, Belgium, have entered into an agreement under which the California company will make an offer to acquire ICOS in a...

DRS Technologies Receives Contracts DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received two contracts from the Missiles and Fire Control segment of the Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin Corp. to produce infrared assemblies for...

LED Company Created LEDRunLights LLC of Mission Viejo, Calif., is a manufacturer of LED module and light products for general lighting applications. The products include energy-efficient 0.5-W and high-power 1-W LEDs,...

Schneider Group Expands in Asia Lens supplier The Schneider Group of Bad Kreuznach, Germany, has opened a subsidiary in Hong Kong to strengthen its position in the Asian market. Schneider Asia Pacific Ltd. will support and develop...

Luminos Signs Agreement with University Luminos LLC of Ann Arbor, Mich., has entered into an exclusive license agreement with the University of Pittsburgh. The company will use the university’s patented technology for the detection of...

Schott Solar, ersol Form Alliance In Germany, ersol Thin Film GmbH, a subsidiary of ersol Solar Energy AG, based in Erfurt, and Schott Solar GmbH of Alzenau have signed an agreement to jointly develop micromorphous technology for...

PPG Industries Acquires NanoProducts PPG Industries Inc. of Pittsburgh has acquired the assets and intellectual property of NanoProducts Corp. Based in Longmont, Colo., the nanoparticle technology company has numerous patents and...

ICP Solar and Ibersolar Enter into Partnership A supplier of solar panels and products, ICP Solar Technologies Inc. of Montreal has formed an alliance with Ibersolar Energìa SA of Barcelona, Spain, a distributor and supplier of solar photovoltaic...

Triumph Acquires Stake in High Tech Plastics Royal Philips Electronics of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has sold a 90 percent stake in its High Tech Plastics Optics business in Suzhou, China, to Triumph Pan-Pacific Capital Limited of Hong Kong....

Ionatron Changes Name Ionatron Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., a developer and manufacturer of lasers, high-voltage electronics and integrated guided energy systems, has changed its name to Applied Energetics Inc. The company said...

ITT Receives US Army Contract ITT Corp. of White Plains, N.Y., has been awarded a contract by Alion Science and Technology of McLean, Va., on behalf of the US Army’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate. The contract...

Gigaphoton Opens US Subsidiary Gigaphoton Inc. of Oyama, Japan, a lithography light source manufacturer for the semiconductor industry, has established a subsidiary in the US. Gigaphoton USA Inc. will be located in Beaverton,...

Pirelli Presents PGT Photonics Pirelli & C. spa, the parent company of the Pirelli Group, has introduced PGT Photonics, based in Milan, Italy, with its sales office in Atlanta. The new company will focus on creating and...

Laser Energetics Wins Contract Laser Energetics Inc. of Princeton, N.J., has been awarded a contract worth $481,268 from ITT Corp. of White Plains, N.Y. The agreement will fund the demonstration of an all-solid-state...

Koheras to Market Oscillators for Aculight Aculight Corp., a developer of laser technology in Bothell, Wash., and Koheras A/S, a manufacturer of fiber lasers in Birkerød, Denmark, have entered into an exclusive marketing agreement. Koheras...

Oki Optical Partners with Kotura In California, Oki Optical Components of Sunnyvale and Kotura Inc. of Monterey Park have partnered to commercialize new products. They plan to introduce a 10-Gb/s avalanche photodiode receiver with...

Emcore Receives $39 Million in Orders Emcore Corp. of Albuquerque, N.M., a provider of semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the solar power market, has been presented with a follow-on production order from Green and Gold...

LPKF Relocates to Larger Quarters LPKF Laser & Electronics of Tualatin, Ore., has moved to a larger facility, where it has gained more warehouse and administrative office space. It also has added four demonstration rooms for its...

LightWorks Opens Production Facility LightWorks Optics Inc. of Tustin, Calif., a developer of integrated optical systems, has opened a high-volume production facility in Vista, Calif. The 10,000-square-ft facility will enable the...

Rockwell to Acquire Segment of Cedes Rockwell Automation Inc. of Milwaukee has agreed to acquire the safety and automation business of Cedes AG of Landquart, Switzerland. The segment is a supplier of safety and measuring light curtains...

Quantel Creates Branch The Quantel Group of Les Ulis, France, a provider of laser solutions to the industrial, scientific and medical communities, has created an industrial and scientific laser division. The division...

Zecotek and Fujikura to Collaborate Zecotek Laser Systems Singapore Pte Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Zecotek Photonics Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has signed a manufacturing and commercialization agreement with...

Seiko and Varioptic Sign Agreement Seiko Instruments Inc. of Chiba, Japan, a manufacturer of semiconductors and flat panel displays, and Varioptic Lyon of Lyon, France, a developer of autofocus lenses for the camera phone industry,...

Increase in German Laser Sales Predicted The German Industry Association for Optical, Medical and Mechatronical Technologies has released predictions for the laser and optical components industries. According to the Berlin-based...

Battelle Buys Optimer Photonics In Columbus, Ohio, Battelle has acquired the intellectual property and other assets of Optimer Photonics Inc., including several US and international patents and patents pending. The portfolio...

Infotonics Technology Center Expands Infotonics Technology Center Inc. of Canandaigua, N.Y., a nonprofit corporation that operates New York state’s Center of Excellence in Photonics and Microsystems, has invested $5 million to open a...

ACCENT ON APPLICATIONS

A Better Way to Take the Measure of Seawater

Time and tide wait for no man, the old saying goes. That presents a problem for those investigating the changing makeup of the sea. Renaud Vuillemin was a research engineer with the French marine...

Optical Aerosol Characterization

Although it weighs literally nothing, light packs a punch, and it can push particles around. A trio of researchers from Technical University of Munich in Germany exploited this fact to devise a...

PRESSTIME BULLETIN

A Tiny Diamond Ring

Researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia have produced a very tiny diamond ring (see figure). It does not sport the traditional rock, but it is sculpted from high-quality...

A Step Toward More Efficient Plastic Solar Cells

In the world of solar cells, those fabricated from plastic are regarded as an attractive alternative to their more costly cousins made from inorganic materials. But solar cells with one set of...

LIGHTER SIDE

Math as Muse

The inspiration of Dutch artist M.C. Escher lives on. The famous graphic artist was known for creating mesmerizing images that drew viewers in with their near-symmetrical perfection. A new...

Microbes Beware

Your throat is parched, and you could drink a gallon of water, but you’ve just arrived at a faraway destination where the local water quality comes with no guarantees. Do you: 1) Gulp down the...

PRODUCTS

IMAGING, ANALYSIS

Mercury Computer Systems Inc. has introduced the Avizo Fire Edition software, which provides 3-D visualization and quantification of materials structures. It enables data import from microscopy,...

Mercury Systems Inc.

3-D OPTICAL PROFILER

Zygo Corp.’s new generation of 3-D optical profilers measure and quantify surface roughness, step heights, critical dimensions and surface topography. The NewView 7000 series is available in two...

Zygo Corporation

FIBER POLISHER

The Radian bare fiber polishing system from Krell Technologies Inc. polishes fibers at user-selectable angles for research, development and low-volume manufacturing applications. It features a...

SPECTRAL ENGINES

The Super Gamut series NIR spectral engines from BaySpec Inc. perform real-time spectral data acquisition with millisecond response time. Designed for field use, the compact devices feature an...

FTIR SPECTROMETER

Offering full research capabilities as well as vacuum operation, the Vertex 70v Fourier transform IR (FTIR) spectrometer has been released by Bruker Optics Inc. As with other Bruker spectrometers,...

Bruker Optics Inc.

MULTIANODE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES

Voxtel Inc. has unveiled a line of solid-state silicon photomultipliers. The VIC series compact multianode avalanche photodiodes exhibit gain of ∼106, enabling single-photon detection. The...

LASER MODULES

The 1999 CHP series ultrahigh-power 980-nm terrestrial pump laser modules have been announced by 3S Photonics SA. The proprietary laser chip is fully qualified, exceeding Telcordia recommendations....

3SP Technologies SAS

INTERFEROMETER

The Mark 4 all-fiber Doppler velocity interferometer system launched by Martin, Froeschner & Associates measures and records instantaneous velocity vs. time histories and can track accelerations...

Martin, Froeschner & Associates

DETECTOR MODULES

IRnova AB has introduced a series of detector Dewar cooler assembly (DDCA) modules, with split as well as integral cooler solutions, based on its quantum well infrared photodetector technology. The...

MOTION CONTROL The Freedom Series manufactured by Maxon Precision Motors Inc. is a single-axis motion control development tool that offers users a choice of four brushless motor options ranging in size from 16 to...

TUNABLE FILTER

A laser line tunable bandpass filter unveiled by Photon etc. Inc. is based on volume Bragg grating technology and covers the 350- to 2500-nm spectral range, with available bandwidths from 0.3 to 6 nm...

CAMERA LINK CABLE A line of cables for Camera Link applications has been announced by Northwire Inc. Offered are standard and Power-over-Camera-Link (PoCL) cables with power transmission capabilities. PoCL is...

CHANNEL MONITOR

The compact optical channel monitor released by Lightwaves2020 Inc. performs real-time nonintrusive measurement of optical channel power, wavelength and signal-to-noise ratio. Based on proprietary...

Lightwaves2020 Inc.

DIODE LASER BAR The Onyx microchannel cooled package 100-W diode laser bar manufactured by Coherent Inc. delivers 100 W of CW output power at 808 nm. Lifetime is >10,000 h, and electrical-to-optical conversion...

EDGE FILTERS Semrock Inc. says that the steepness of its E-grade long-wave-pass edge filters makes it possible now to measure Stokes-shifted Raman signals closer to the blocked laser line. The RazorEdge Raman...

IDEX Health & Science - Semrock Optical Filters

MULTIBAR MODULES

Dilas Diode Laser Inc.’s 130- and 200-W fiber-coupled multibar modules provide clad-free coupling at 808, 915, 940 and 980 nm. The devices feature 200-μm fiber with a <0.22 numerical...

DILAS Diode Laser Inc.

FIBER-COUPLED LASER An ultrahigh-brightness single-emitter-based pump block fiber-coupled laser system announced by Visotek Inc. delivers 350 W from a 200-μm fiber with a 0.2 NA. It incorporates Bookham Inc....

IMAGE SENSOR

CMOS Sensor Inc. has introduced the C640, a linear image sensor that supports destructive readout, nondestructive readout and power-down output modes. The device has 4000 photodiode elements, 7 ×...

CMOS Sensor Inc.

INTERFEROMETER

The FizCam 3000 is a Fizeau interferometer developed by 4D Technology Corp. for measurement of meter-class optics and general optical elements. It uses dynamic interferometry to acquire all...

4D Technology Corporation

FLEXIBLE AUTOMATION

Automation Engineering Inc. has released FlexLase, a flexible vision-guided laser processing platform. The system includes up to four machine vision cameras that support fully automated component...

Automation Engineering Inc.

The OCP-110 introduced by Elite Thermal Engineering is a thermoelectric cold plate for fiber laser OEM or laboratory cooling applications. It provides 110 W of cooling capacity when the set...

Elite Thermal Engineering LLC

BONDER Finetech GmbH & Co. KG has expanded its Fineplacer product line with the introduction of the Fineplacer Femto, an automated submicron bonder for assembly of optoelectronic components. It can be...

FINETECH GmbH & Co. KG

NANOTECH SPECTROMETER

Zecotek Photonics Inc. has introduced a laser spectrometer for nanotechnological applications. Model TIS/DYE-FD-08/A-scan’s widely tunable continuous-wave intracavity frequency-doubled laser and...

Zecotek Photonics Inc.

PATTERN GENERATOR Holo/Or Ltd. has added elements to its Multi Spot series pattern generators that produce a 2-D array with eight spots arranged in a 3 × 3 array with a missing spot in the center. Applications include...

FEMTOSECOND LASER

Imra America Inc. has launched the Femtolite FX-100 erbium-doped fiber-based femtosecond laser for use in terahertz, multiphoton and other OEM applications. It has a center wavelength at 810 nm,...

IMRA America Inc.

SOFTWARE/WORKSTATION A hardware solution that enables fast electromagnetic simulation of advanced semiconductor devices and of optoelectronic devices such as CMOS image sensors has been announced. It links Synopsys...

Acceleware Ltd.

ULTRAFAST DIGITAL CAMERA

Vision Research Inc.’s Phantom V12 CMOS-based high-speed digital camera achieves 1 million pictures per second at reduced 256 × 8-pixel resolution and 6315 pictures per second at full 1280 ×...

Vision Research Inc., Phantom Digital High-Speed Cameras

ROTATION STAGE Newport Corp.’s AG-PR100 is a high-precision miniature rotation stage that features the proprietary Agilis piezo step direct motor. The stage features 360° of continuous rotation for 1-in.-diameter...

SVS-Vistek GmbH’s SVS274 2-megapixel model SVCAM camera achieves 24 fps at full 1620 × 1220 resolution. Higher frame rates can be achieved in partial-scan mode or by using the half- or...

SVS-Vistek GmbH

DETECTION MODULE

The id400 single-photon-detection module released by id Quantique SA has a detection head that contains a cooled InGaAsP/InP avalanche photodiode (APD) optimized for 1064-nm single-photon detection...

LASER MARKING

Scanlab AG has introduced the Scancube 14, a 14-mm-aperture scan head for laser marking in the packaging, electronic and semiconductor industries. The device achieves good marking quality at 410...

LARGE-AREA CAMERA Andor Technology has released the iKon-L large-area high-sensitivity CCD camera with a 2048 × 2048-sensor array and 13.5-μm pixels. The camera offers a choice of forced-air or water cooling and...

Andor Technology

MULTILINE LASERS Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH has developed a combined laser beam diode module. The dual- and triple-wavelength instrument provides two or three emission wavelengths in a collinear laser beam....

Omicron-Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH

DIGITAL SLIDE SCANNER

Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc.’s Mirax Micro digital slide scanner combines a proprietary high-end microscope, a 100-W halogen source, an infinity contrast as well as a color-corrected beam path, a...

Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC

ALKALI-FREE GLASS Designed for optoelectronics applications, the AF 32 glass introduced by Schott North America Inc. is suitable for use in the wafer-level chip scale packaging and optics markets. Its coefficient of...

SCHOTT North America Inc.

PUMP DIODES The AM6-940B laser pump diodes introduced by Alfalight Inc. deliver 10 W of 940-nm light output with a high-brightness 105-μm fiber that has a 0.22 numerical aperture, with 0.15 available upon...

RADIOMETERS Spectrum Detector Inc. has announced the Trap series digital radiometers and joulemeters that deliver <1% measurement uncertainty on multiple points across the spectrum. Based on wedge Trap...

Gentec-EO USA Inc.

VIOLET-BLUE LASER

CrystaLaser has introduced a 405-nm conductively cooled turnkey laser system in two versions. The low-noise version features <0.5% output noise, <1-mm coherence length and 1% output stability...

THERMAL IMAGING Thermoteknix Systems Ltd.’s Miricle 110K-25 thermal imaging cameras use 25-μm-pitch detector technology and are driven by a pro- prietary 384 × 288 uncooled microbolometer focal plane array...

Thermoteknix Systems Ltd.

ACHROMATIC LENSES

The TechSpec aspherized achromatic lenses from Edmund Optics Inc. are designed to bridge the gap between color-corrected achromats and spherical aberration-corrected aspheres, resulting in...

Edmund Optics Inc.

Coastal Optical Systems Inc.’s 60-mm UV-VIS-IR 1:4 Apo Macro lens achieves full apochromatic correction using fluorite, quartz and high-transmission-glass elements. Covering the range from 315 to...

JENOPTIK Optical Systems LLC, Advanced Photonic Solutions

IMAGING AND MILLING

JEOL USA Inc. has announced the MultiBeam SEM/FIB for focused ion beam micromilling and high-resolution scanning electron microscopy imaging in one unit. The system features the company’s S3 serial...

DESIGN SOFTWARE Breault Research Organization has released the next generation of its Advanced Systems Analysis Program (ASAP) for virtual prototyping of optical systems and devices. ASAP 2008 includes the...

Breault Research Organization Inc.

DIGITAL MICROSCOPE

Keyence Corp. of America has upgraded its VHX-600, a digital microscope with improved graphics processing that leads to increased speed and clearer images, a real-time anti-halation display mode,...

FIBER LASER MARKING

Trotec Laser Inc.’s SpeedMarker FL, an ytterbium fiber laser for high-speed industrial product marking, operates at speeds up to 1000 characters per second. The compact, galvanometer-based device may...

Trotec Laser Inc.

BANDPASS FILTERS For spectroscopy, plasma studies, astronomy, atmospheric research, oil and gas exploration, telecommunications and defense applications, Barr Associates Inc. is offering custom bandpass filters in...

Materion Balzers Optics

TEST SYSTEM

The LRS-9550 high-power test system released by ILX Lightwave Corp. is a life-test and burn-in system for laser diodes with drive currents up to 40 A. It can be configured with up to eight...

Newport - ILX Lightwave, Photonics

PHOTODIODE-PREAMPLIFIER The near-infrared red-enhanced 5-mm2 ODA-5W-100K combination photodiode-preamplifier released by Opto Diode Corp. offers 500-MΩ gain, low noise and a large active area. High-sensitivity near-IR...

Opto Diode Corporation

LASER MODULE

The PMi compact laser module has been introduced by Power Technology Inc. It features a precision current source that produces from 50 to 500 mA. The industrial-grade device is suitable for use in...

Power Technology Inc.

MOTION CONTROL Based on MotionChipT digital signal processing control technology, the IBL2401 manufactured by Technosoft SA is an intelligent minidrive that measures 58 × 44 × 16 mm and weighs 60 g. It controls...

ASPHERIC MEASUREMENT

Taylor Hobson Ltd. has launched a form and surface finish profiler, the Form Talysurf PGI 2540 aspheric measurement system. The instrument measures form with up to 25-mm vertical range and surface...

Taylor Hobson Ltd.

LENS SYSTEM

Qioptiq Imaging Solutions Inc.’s Optem Zoom 125C, a microimaging variable-magnification lens system for the microelectronics, telecommunications, semiconductor and manufacturing sectors, features a...

BLUETOOTH INTERFACE Ophir-Spiricon Inc. has announced Quasar, a wireless Bluetooth interface that broadcasts laser meter measurement data to any PC or laptop located within 10 m. It reduces cable clutter and...

MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement

HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS Headwall Photonics Inc. has released the Hyperspec VIS and the Hyperspec UV-VIS hyperspectral imaging instruments, which cover the visible spectral range from 380 to 780 nm and the ultraviolet to the...

Headwall Photonics Inc.

SOLDERING SOFTWARE

Seica Inc. has introduced a software update for the FireFly laser-based selective soldering system. The package’s automatic development environment reduces the program preparation time for soldering...

WHITE-LIGHT LASERS Toptica Photonics AG is offering three versions of its FemtoFiber white-light lasers: widely tunable visible, and visible and infrared supercontinuums, covering the spectral range from 485 to 2100...

Toptica Photonics AG

EXTENSION LINE

Qosina Corp. is adding light-sensitive extension lines with amber tubing to its inventory of subassembled components. The extension lines protect light-sensitive solutions or compounds. The...

MICROSCOPE CAMERA

The Paxcam2+ digital microscope camera has been unveiled by MIS Inc. Its CCD sensor captures low-light images and offers an enhanced dynamic range that produces images with more accurate color...

SPECTROMETER Ocean Optics Inc. has launched the USB2000+ miniature fiber optic spectrometer for measuring optical properties in wavelengths from 200 to 1100 nm. It can be equipped with a fixed grating that...

Gooch & Housego has combined the corrosion resistance of stainless steel with the power handling capability of aluminum in a patent-pending manufacturing technique dubbed Stallion. The first...

OSCILLATOR The AOT-YAG-10QE released by Advanced Optical Technology (AOT) Ltd. is an electro-optical Q-switched oscillator that doubles pulse energy to >150 μJ at 2 kHz. Used with the company’s standard...

Advanced Optical Technology Ltd.

STAND-ALONE LASER HEADS

MTI Instruments Inc. has expanded its Microtrak II laser triangulation product line with the introduction of a stand-alone laser (SAL) system. The SAL system uses laser triangulation technology to...

MTI Instruments Inc.

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