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Photonics Spectra: April 2012

Photonics Spectra
 April 2012


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Connected and Smarter, Cameras Keep Watch Digital network cameras are increasingly coming into play for surveillance and security applications. Fading fast are the days of closed-circuit television, yesterday’s video surveillance...
Conscripting Terahertz Sensors Imaging and spectroscopy in the terahertz frequency range eventually will give troops a welcome advantage in the field. Terahertz waves are short enough to provide resolution of less than 1 mm,...
Multiband Optical Filters Find Applications Outside Fluorescence Whether used for imaging cells or astronomical bodies, multiband filters can improve signal-to-noise ratio while reducing cost, size, and setup and data-acquisition times in optical systems and...
The Night Glows Brighter in the Near-IR The night sky is never absolutely dark, even after removing the influence of starlight and diffused sunlight from the other side of the globe. Spectral irradiance, caused by airglow, is several times...
How to Evaluate a Measurement Application’s Requirements Precision noncontact metrology application factors can seem complicated, especially when 3-D or multispectral measurements are involved. Here’s how to ensure a robust and otherwise optimized...
Defense, Security Show Targets Baltimore SPIE moves its DSS conference and trade show to the Charm City to maximize exposure to governmental agencies, military institutions and research organizations. At the mention of Baltimore, certain...
EDITORIAL
Rare Earths Trade Issues Move to WTO What’s a manufacturer to do? The pricing and availability of rare earths such as cerium oxide, used in optical production, have been a concern for many companies in our industry for years now, and the underlying issues remain unresolved. Companies whose products and processes depend on rare earth materials continue to cut back on production and the amount of material used, seek out...
TECH PULSE
Avalanche of emissions creates first atomic x-ray laser The shortest, purest x-ray laser pulses ever achieved fulfill a 45-year-old prediction and could open the door to new materials, medicines and devices. Physicists from Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) created the pulses, which were around 40 fs, by aiming the center’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at a capsule of neon gas, setting off an avalanche of x-ray emissions to...
Tunable optical filter uses nanoantennas A new tunable color filter based on optical nanoantennas can precisely control color output, enabling its use for display and bioimaging applications and for marking currency. By precisely...
New resonator overcomes obstacle to ultimate nanolaser Two very low power lasers that produce the smallest continuous-wave, room-temperature telecommunications frequency demonstrated to date may be a step closer to creating virus-size nanolasers. The new...
Handheld rainbow could spawn multispectral tools A new kind of polymer that is cheap and easy to make and reflects many different wavelengths of light when viewed from a single perspective could form the basis of handheld multispectral imaging...
Instrument to assess aurora’s Alfvén effect on GPS A small rocket recently was launched into the aurora borealis in an attempt to discover how the northern lights affect signals on global positioning system satellites and other spacecraft. The...
Lidar uncovers hidden earthquake damage A new tool reveals how earthquake faults behave and how, down to a few inches, earthquakes change the landscape. A team of geologists from the US, Mexico and China has reported the most...
New bandgap boundaries could boost electronics A new layer-by-layer growth technique that reduces the bandgap of complex metal oxides by 30 percent could improve the performance of solar cells, LEDs, displays and other electronic devices. ...
Lasers probe planet formation Experiments using high-power lasers could help scientists understand how planets are formed. Phase changes in liquid magmas at pressures and temperatures that exist deep inside Earth-like planets...
Nanomaterial combinations enhance IR photodetection Improved infrared photodetector technology that uses ultrathin layers of materials should have an impact on critical applications ranging from national defense to medical diagnostics. Arizona State...
Laser-induced heat can record information A revolutionary magnetic recording method that uses an ultrashort heat pulse to switch magnetic polarity enables information processing hundreds of times faster than current hard-drive technology. ...
ESA pursues 3-D imaging lidar The European Space Agency (ESA) is developing 3-D imaging light detection and ranging (lidar) as a navigation aid for deep-space exploration. Lidar operates in the same fashion as radar but...
LIGHT SPEED
Newport Acquiring ILX Lightwave Photonics technology company Newport Corp. reported Wednesday that it will expand its capabilities in photonics test and measurement by acquiring ILX Lightwave Corp. of Bozeman, Mont., for $9.3...
Making Ottawa the world’s photonics center “[Photonics] is having a transformative impact on our daily lives, from bar codes to flat-screen televisions, from advanced laser surgery to telemedicine and sophisticated security systems. I...
FDA Approves Brain Injury Detector A handheld device intended to aid in the detection of life-threatening bleeding in the skull has been approved by the FDA. The device, called the Infrascanner Model 1000, can help health care...
AMS Technologies Acquires Azpect AMS Technologies AG has acquired Sweden-based Azpect Photonics AB, creating the largest pan-European provider of products for optical, power and thermal management technologies, AMS said. Specific...
Companies Settle Dispute In California, Optovue Inc. of Fremont and Carl Zeiss Meditec Inc. of Dublin have signed a settlement agreement resolving two pending US District Court patent infringement cases. Specific terms of...
Gooch & Housego Leads Project Gooch & Housego of Somerset, UK, will lead a €4.5 million (about $5.9 million) collaborative European Union-funded FP7 project titled “Integrated disruptive components for 2 µm...
Siemens Unit Sets Record Osram, a subsidiary of Siemens AG of Munich, has developed an organic LED (OLED) that generates 32 lm/W, making it more efficient than a halogen lamp. Osram researchers have produced a flexible OLED...
Radiant Zemax Secures Company To strengthen its European presence, Radiant Zemax LLC of Redmond, Wash., has acquired its longtime UK-based distributor 11013%%Optima Research Ltd.
Grant Program Open The optical components company is now accepting applications for its 2012 Higher Education Grant Program, which will award $80,000 in products worldwide.
Zecotek Commercializing Photodetectors The photonics technology company achieved commercial production status for its solid-state micropixel avalanche photodiode photodetector, the MAPD-3N.
Companies to Develop Laser Projection The entertainment company selected Barco to co-develop new laser projection technology that implements exclusively licensed patents from Eastman Kodak Co. for its IMAX theaters.
Armstrong Optical to Represent Ophir Optics Effective immediately, the metrology supplier will be the sales representative for the Infrared Optics Group’s thermal imaging lens systems and optical imaging components.
Bridgelux Attracts $25M Investment Kaistar Lighting (Xiamen) Co. Ltd. will invest $25 million in the LED lighting solutions manufacturer to drive down the cost of solid-state technology for general lighting.
Jenoptik Wins Order for Traffic Monitors The optoelectronics company’s Traffic Solutions Div. will install up to 550 traffic monitoring systems in Malaysia and will support the operation over a five-year period.
Vixar Wins VCSEL Contract The National Science Foundation awarded Vixar the contract to demonstrate the feasibility of a composite resonator vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser that can achieve a 40- to 100-Gb/s serial...
NeoPhotonics Completes Phase The photonic integrated circuit module manufacturer completed the first phase of its plan to increase production capacity of narrow-linewidth tunable lasers.
Carl Zeiss SMS Opens South Korea Office The metrology company will provide spare parts and on-site activities at its new office in the Bundang province of South Korea.
OLED Glass Venture Formed Combining Corning’s Lotus Glass substrate technology with Samsung’s OLED displays, the Korea-based entity will supply OLED backplane glass substrates for Samsung Mobile Display as well as the broader...
Power Technology Adds Branch The laser diode manufacturer established a its first sales center in Germany, to be led by the founders of Photonic Products Ltd.
PPGI Becomes Inrad Optics Seeking to capitalize on its longevity in the industry, Photonic Products Group has changed its name to Inrad Optics Inc., restoring its original name. “The original Inrad organization...
Nanopatterning Agreement Signed EV Group (EVG) has signed a joint development and licensing agreement with Eulitha AG to establish a low-cost-of-ownership nanopatterning solution for high-brightness LED manufacturing. EVG will...
Obzerv Wins Contract for Cameras Obzerv Technologies Inc. received a contract from state-owned electronics company Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL) of Bengaluru, India, to supply 46 ARGC-2400 cameras, the company announced....
Laser 2000 Adds Machine Vision Team Laser 2000 GmbH, an optical technologies company, recently announced the establishment of a machine vision sales department to address increased international demand for industrial and scientific...
JDSU Acquires Dyaptive Systems JDSU announced Thursday that it has acquired Dyaptive Systems of Vancouver, Canada, a provider of capacity test products for 2G, 3G and 4G wireless networks. Specific terms of the deal were not...
Modulight Revenue up in 2011 Revenue for 2011 was up 10 percent over 2010 for laser manufacturer Modulight Inc., president and CEO Petteri Uusimaa reported in the company’s year-end newsletter. Modulight attributed its...
BMC to Improve Imaging of Exoplanets Boston Micromachines Corp. (BMC) has been awarded a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research contract for $125,000 by NASA to advance exoplanet imaging research involving deformable mirrors. One of...
PhotOral Licenses Technology Life sciences startup PhotOral has licensed patented technology from Harvard-affiliated Forsyth Institute to develop a novel intraoral device that uses blue light for targeting and obliterating...
BinOptics Attracts $13M in Funding BinOptics Corp. has closed on $13.3 million in new funding, which it will use to continue the expansion of its product lines and to accelerate the development of its new products. Five new investors...
Cree Licenses Phosphor Patents Through its newly launched remote phosphor licensing program, semiconductor solutions company Cree Inc. has granted licenses for select remote phosphor patents to five LED lighting manufacturers. The...
Affymetrix to Acquire eBioscience Affymetrix Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire eBioscience Inc. of San Diego, a privately held flow cytometry and immunoassay reagents company, for $330 million in cash subject to certain...
Datalogic Acquires PPT Vision Automatic data capture and industrial automation company Datalogic SpA acquired machine vision technologies provider PPT Vision Inc. for $5.2 million, financed with internal capital resources,...
Gigaphoton Reaches Milestone Lithography light source manufacturer Gigaphoton Inc. has shipped its 1000th excimer laser for semiconductor photolithography. Komatsu, Gigaphoton’s predecessor, marketed Japan’s first...
Company Supplies Light Sensors for Smartphones Austriamicrosystems is supplying high volumes of intelligent ambient light and proximity sensors for four Samsung Galaxy models. The sensors, which are being integrated into the Galaxy Ace, Galaxy...
SpectraFluidics Secures Contract SpectraFluidics Inc. received a $1.3 million contract from the US Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration to develop and validate a system that detects homemade...
GREENLIGHT
New solar cells are more efficient “By demonstrating this new strategy for beating the usual solar-cell efficiency limits, we’ve raised the target for everyone to aim at.” – Professor Neil Greenham, University of Cambridge A novel solar cell design could harvest energy from the sun much more efficiently than traditional devices do, dramatically improving the amount of useful energy solar panels can...
EDUCATION WAVEFRONT
Defense, Security Show Targets Baltimore SPIE moves its DSS conference and trade show to the Charm City to maximize exposure to governmental agencies, military institutions and research organizations. At the mention of Baltimore, certain...
Grant Program Open The optical components company is now accepting applications for its 2012 Higher Education Grant Program, which will award $80,000 in products worldwide.
LIGHTER SIDE
The physics behind the fizz Gorgeous floral arrangements can really brighten up a party – particularly when they’re blooming in champagne flutes. In a process invisible to the naked eye, champagne bubbles take on a flowerlike structure around bubbles collapsing on the surface of the liquid poured into a glass. © Gérard Liger-Belair. These aren’t real flowers, of course; they’re...
PRODUCTS
Fiber Optic Modules Avago Technologies has announced fiber optic modules that enable more efficient switching and greater bandwidth in data centers. The pluggable, parallel optical QSFP+ eSR4 transceiver can address 40- and 10-Gb Ethernet applications with a link distance of 400 m. This gives data center operators the flexibility to reuse the current 10-G wired infrastructure when upgrading to 40 G. The module...
Broadcom Inc.
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Polarization-Maintaining Filters Finisar Corp. has introduced two single-polarization programmable optical filters. The WaveShaper 1000S/SP and 1000M/SP are polarization-maintaining filters that provide full control of the amplitude...
II-VI Finisar
Expanded Integrating Sphere Product Line International Light Technologies has expanded its integrating sphere product offerings from two to five models. They are used for measuring a wide variety of light sources from miniature halogen...
International Light Technologies, Gilway & International Light Divs.
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Measurement System The Sarfus Mapping Lite measurement system unveiled by Nanolane, the nanotechnologies department of Eolane, accommodates any optical microscope setup functioning with reflected light. It is designed...
Nanolane
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Microscopy Cameras Finger Lakes Instrumentation has announced the MicroLine LS series of cameras for microscopy and life sciences applications. The cameras incorporate faster image capture and an expanded library...
Finger Lakes Instrumentation
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Triple Isotope Analyzer Los Gatos Research has introduced a triple isotope analyzer for direct simultaneous measurement of δ17O, δ18O and δ2H ratios in liquid water and water vapor samples. The...
Los Gatos Research Inc. (LGR)
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Sapphire Optics For use in blood gas monitors and other medical instruments, custom fabricated sapphire optics that are chemically inert and that operate over a wide spectrum, transmitting from the ultraviolet to...
Meller Optics Inc.
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Mask Alignment System For LED manufacturing, EV Group has announced the EVG620HBL, the second-generation fully automated mask alignment system for volume manufacturing of high-brightness LEDs. It delivers a tool...
EV Group (EVG)
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Spectrometer Resolution Spectra Systems has introduced the high-resolution, compact Zoom spectra spectrometer. The handheld instrument, based on proprietary SWIFTS core technology, produces resolution that...
Resolution Spectra Systems
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ArF Excimer Laser Gigaphoton Inc. is introducing the GT63A, a next-generation deep-UV ArF excimer laser for multipatterning immersion lithography scanners. The laser incorporates sMPL (spectrum multipositioning...
Gigaphoton Inc.
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Diode Laser Bars Dilas is continuing its expansion of wavelengths for its high-power diode laser bars by extending its offerings to water-cooled laser diodes for alkali laser pumping at 766, 780 and 852 nm on...
DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH
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Cameras with GigE Vision JAI Inc. has added four GigE Vision cameras to its series of industrial-grade CCD cameras built around quad-tap sensors from Kodak. The AM-201GE monochrome and AB-201GE color models are built...
JAI Inc.
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PCI Express Frame Grabber Building on the success of its Karbon-CL line of PCI Express frame grabbers, BitFlow Inc. has unveiled the model CL4-F featuring interfaces for two independent base, medium or full Camera Link...
BitFlow Inc.
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Vision System Cognex Corp. has launched the In-Sight 500 machine vision system for inspecting parts on fast production lines. The fixed-mount vision system is packaged in a rugged IP65-rated housing and...
Cognex Corp.
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Laser-Line Bandpass Filters Edmund Optics has introduced its TechSpec OD 6 laser-line bandpass filters, which provide the high transmission and deep rejection necessary to isolate narrow spectral regions for a variety of...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Optical Fibers for CO2, Er:YAG Lasers Pigtails for pump modules and medical laser systems are in increasing demand and, for these applications, Laser Components GmbH is offering Hollow Silica Waveguides (HSW) from its partner Polymicro...
Laser Components GmbH
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OS Gimbal Mirror Mounts OS mounts from Optical Surfaces Ltd. are designed to support mirrors such as off-axis parabola, spheres and flats in applications where stability is important. Constructed in black anodized...
Optical Surfaces Ltd.
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Scientific-Grade Lasers Coherent Inc. has launched several higher-power versions of its Verdi G series 532-nm scientific-grade lasers, which are based on proprietary optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL) technology....
Coherent Inc.
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High-Resolution Camera Photron USA Inc. has launched the Fastcam IS-1M, an ultrahigh-speed, high-resolution camera system. The 312 × 260-pixel-resolution in situ image storage CCD sensor captures a wide range of...
Photron USA Inc.
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Radiometers/Photometers The AccuMax digital radiometers/photometers from Spectronics Corp. provide accurate readout for UV irradiance, visible illuminance and luminance light readings. The readout units are calibrated for...
Spectronics Corp., Spectroline
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Back-Thinned Spectrometer The Maya2000 Pro-VIS-NIR from Ocean Optics is a back-thinned 2-D fast Fourier transform-CCD spectrometer with high sensitivity, 80% peak quantum efficiency and good VIS-NIR response. It is suitable...
Ocean Insight
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NIR Line-Scan Camera The Piranha HS (high sensitivity) near-infrared 8k line-scan camera manufactured by Teledyne Dalsa has enhanced quantum efficiency and features time delay and integration (TDI) technology. The camera...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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Compact Raman Fiber Probe FiberTech Optica has introduced a line of compact fiber optic Raman probes. Leveraging the company’s expertise in optics, spectroscopy and manufacturing of precision fiber assemblies, the...
FiberTech Optica Inc.
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GaAsP Nondescanned Photodetector Olympus Europa Holding GmbH has released the FV10MP-BXD-GAP photodetector for enhanced sensitivity when performing multiphoton fluorescence imaging. The nondescanned detector captures very...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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Image Sensor BAE Systems Imaging Solutions has introduced the Fairchild Imaging CIS1021 scientific CMOS (sCMOS) image sensor. As a high-definition camera component designed for collecting images through a...
BAE Systems Sensor Solutions
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Laser Pump Modules Intense Inc. has released a 10-W version of its Series 8000 793-nm high-brightness laser pump modules. The medium-power pump delivers 10 W of output from a 105-μm core fiber with a 0.22 numerical...
Intense Inc.
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Laser Profiling Software Ophir-Spiricon LLC, a Newport Corp. brand, has released BeamGage version 5.7, its next-generation laser beam analysis software. The system adds advanced image processing features, including fast,...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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Medium-Emission-Angle IR LEDs Opto Diode Corp., a division of ITW and a member of the ITW Photonics Group, has introduced the third in a series of infrared LEDs, the OD-850L. Domestically manufactured using reliable liquid-phase...
Opto Diode Corporation
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TO-Can Laser Diode Test System Yelo Ltd. has designed a burn-in system to test the reliability of TO-can laser diodes. The company’s research and development engineers have reduced the time taken to stabilize devices at test...
Yelo Limited
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Ultrafast Amplifier Spectra-Physics, a Newport Corp. brand, has unveiled a compact industrial-grade ultrafast amplifier with software-adjustable repetition rates up to 1 MHz. Developed at High Q Laser (recently...
MKS Spectra-Physics
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SWIR Cameras Xenics is introducing short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) cameras for the medical, scientific and industrial markets. A new detector, the XFPA-1.7-640-LN2, is geared to low-signal-level measurements in...
Xenics
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HD LCD Digital Cameras The BLC-200 high-definition (HD) LCD cameras for microscopy manufactured by Bestscope International Ltd. combine a tablet PC and a digital camera. They preview, take snapshots and videos, and save...
BestScope International Ltd.
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Thermal Imaging Cameras Flir Systems Inc.’s SC8400/SC6500 Series thermal imaging cameras provide good thermal measurement performance and advanced connectivity. Equipped with a cooled InSb detector that produces...
Teledyne FLIR Systems Inc., OEM
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Visible SWIR Camera Raptor Photonics Ltd. has announced the release of the OW1.7-VS-CL-320 visible short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) camera. It features a Thales Alcatel 320 × 256-pixel, 30 × 30-μm...
Raptor Photonics Ltd.
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CO2 Laser Mirrors Laser Research Optics, a division of Meller Optics Inc., has introduced a full line of CO2 laser mirrors that are made from molybdenum and are suited for the low- and high-power lasers used in harsh,...
Laser Research Optics
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