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Photonics Spectra - August 2004
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Small Design Changes Can Pump Up Ti:Sapphire Laser Power
Ti:sapphire laser oscillators and amplifiers are the dominant sources for ultrafast applications because they can deliver ultrashort (<100 fs), widely tunable pulses and high pulse energies at...
The Promise and Challenges of Short-Wave IR Imaging
Although applications for the mid- and long-wave thermal bands are well-established, short-wavelength infrared holds great promise for military and commercial imaging applications. But we have work...
Plug-and-Play Metrology
The field of metrology historically has been saturated with complicated, proprietary solutions. With such specialization, integration of machine vision into an application has been an expensive and...
Trends in Camera Design Increase Functionality
Commercially available camera sensors are shrinking, perhaps driven by the camera-phone craze. Now common are 3-μm pixels with megapixel sensors that measure less than half an inch. Although...
The Future of High-Speed Smart Cameras: Tomorrow's Interconnect
In recent years, the high-performance camera market has enjoyed an explosion in new technology. With both CCD and CMOS sensors offering acceptable image quality and increasingly high frame rates,...
A Smart-Camera Implementation of a Hardware-Based Neural Network
Although machine vision technology that can solve simple problems has long been available, no machine vision system, until recently, could match a human’s ability to handle highly complex tasks that...
Camera Memory Allows Rapid Data Transfer
In scientific and imaging applications, there is a trend toward CCD and CMOS camera systems with higher spatial resolution and frame rates. Designers have responded to the demand for greater detail...
Solid-State Heat-Capacity Lasers: Good Candidates for the Marketplace
Under the support of the US Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, and in collaboration with industrial partners Boeing, General Atomics, DRS, Decade Optical Systems and others, we are developing...
LEDs Meet Solid-State Electronics
LEDs, once considered low-flux optosemiconductors, are now finding use in traditional, everyday lighting applications. Substantial increases in power efficiencies have enabled their use in traffic...
Siloxanes Find Niche in High-Brightness LEDs
Solid-state lighting, such as LEDs, is an emerging platform that, in some cases, will replace conventional incandescent and fluorescent lighting. This technology has many benefits: It will increase...
Industrial MicroscopyGets Down to Work
It's a three-dimensional world for industrial microscopy these days, whether it is used to help monitor thin-film deposition processes or to inspect bumps on a circuit board. Regardless of the...
Total Interference Contrast Aids Thin-Film Engineering
Many materials manufacturing applications today, including coating deposition, semiconductor production, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and micromachining, require precision surface...
Differential Interference Contrast Adds Confocal Imaging Flexibility
Confocal laser scanning microscopy continues to make inroads into industrial inspection applications as diverse as printed circuit boards and automotive components. A key reason is the technique’s...
3-D Coordinate Measuring Helps Inspect IC Packaging
Semiconductor companies currently produce a large assortment of three-dimensional architectures for semiconductor integration and packaging. End users rely on diverse stacking strategies to conserve...
Technique Maps Complex Microsurfaces
Recently there has been much interest in various noncontact methods for measuring surface profiles.1 One new technique, based on low-coherence scanning interference microscopes, offers several...
Laser Writes Ferroelectric Domains in a Confocal Microscope
Confocal microscopes are powerful tools for three-dimensional imaging on the submicron scale and, when combined with fluorescence and/or Raman spectroscopy, can yield local information about chemical...
Fiber Bragg Gratings: A Versatile Approach to Dispersion Compensation
Chromatic dispersion compensation is recognized as one of the main challenges in high-data-rate optical communications systems. Dispersion directly affects the quality of the data transmission and...
Nanocrystalline Cerium Oxide Improves Glass Polishing Operations
Performance improvements are increasingly being sought in a variety of technologically advanced polishing applications related to the optics and microelectronics industries. From the production of...
Optical Ceramics Look to Commercial Applications
Stopping a projectile traveling at 2000 feet per second is no easy task. To do so, manufacturers of bullet-resistant glass rely on extra-thick glass and plastic laminates. But more thickness means...
Silicon Carbide Is Poised to Enter the Mainstream
NASA systems designers are always looking to minimize mass on solar system exploration projects because every gram comes at a stiff price. When they found a lightweight material that could be used to...
Tech Pulse
Nonlinear Behavior in Quantum-Well IR Photodetector Is Studied
Although the potential of quantum-well infrared photodetectors for thermal imaging has been known for some time, significantly less research has been focused on the nonlinear behavior of these...
Microscale Actuators Drive Macroscale Optical Element
A team of engineers has reported the development of a rigid-body motion generator based on a two-dimensional array of deformable micromembrane actuators. The generator has a variety of potential...
Eye-Safe Laser Generates 7 W of Average Power
Eye-safe lasers with output in the 1.5-µm regime are in demand for rangefinding, lidar and other remote-sensing applications. Most of them have depended on awkward nonlinear optics or on complex...
Micromachining Yields Compact FT Spectrometers
Fourier transform spectroscopy is poised to take the next step forward. Thanks to silicon micromachining techniques, high-resolution spectrometers will soon move out of the lab and into commercial...
light speed
SPIE Bolsters Awards Program
As SPIE approaches its 50th anniversary, the society has reportedly taken measures to increase the depth and horizon of its awards, scholarships, grants and fellowships. According to Osuk Kwon, chairman of the awards committee and director of international business for Space Imaging in Denver, an ad hoc advisory committee on scholarships, awards and sponsorships has been put in place to...
Florida University Strengthens Photonics Education
In a move that highlights its commitment to optics education, the University of Central Florida in Orlando has become the first major US university to officially designate its optics and photonics...
All-Optical Signal Regenerator to Be Commercialized
San Jose, Calif.-based electronics contract manufacturer Sanmina-SCI Corp. and Kailight Photonics, which has operations in Dallas and Rehovot, Israel, have partnered to design, manufacture and market...
Axsys Technologies Procures Telic Optics
Axsys Technologies Inc. of Rocky Hill, Conn., a supplier of precision optomechanical components and assemblies for the aerospace, defense and commercial markets, has purchased the stock of Telic...
Carl Zeiss Buys Bio-Rad's Confocal Microscopy Unit
Life sciences research products supplier Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. of Hercules, Calif., has sold its confocal microscopy business, based in Hemel Hempstead, UK, to Carl Zeiss GmbH of Jena, Germany....
HiTek Power Opens Facility in Japan
HiTek Power of Littlehampton, UK, a manufacturer of low- and high-voltage power supplies for OEM applications, has established a company in Osaka, Japan. HiTek Power Japan Ltd. will serve current...
BAE Systems Receives Contracts for Defense
BAE Systems of Farnborough, UK, was awarded a supply contract for Helicopter Integrated Defensive Aids Systems for the Kuwait air force's Apache helicopters. The US Army is responsible for producing...
Synrad Forms Partnership with Benelux Company
To handle the distribution of its laser products in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, Synrad Inc. of Mukilteo, Wash., has formed a distribution partnership with Laser 2000 Benelux CV, which is...
Kaston Selects Rocotech as UK Distributor
A Macau-based producer of high-grade crystals for laser applications, Kaston Optronics Manufacturing Ltd. has appointed Rocotech International Ltd. of Gerrards Cross, UK, as its exclusive distributor...
L-3 Acquires Two Companies
L-3 Communications of New York has bought Brashear LP of Pittsburgh for roughly $36 million. Also, its intended acquisition of Cincinnati Electronics of Mason, Ohio, from CMC Electronics Inc. of...
Gooch & Housego Gets NIF Contract
Under a contract valued at more than $700,000, optical components manufacturer Gooch & Housego plc of Ilminster, UK, will supply quartz wave plates for the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence...
Precision Photonics to Develop Optical Frequency Metrology
Precision Photonics Corp. of Boulder, Colo., plans to develop high-speed optical frequency metrology for spectroscopy, interferometry and optical communications under a two-year, $2 million award...
NanoDynamics Inc. Subsidiary Wins Contract for IR Windows Material
Nanomaterials manufacturer NanoDynamics Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., has announced that its subsidiary, MetaMateria Partners of Columbus, Ohio, has received a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation...
Datacube Joins Raytheon's Seaport Enhanced Team
Image processing hardware, software and systems supplier Datacube Inc. of Danvers, Mass., was chosen by Raytheon Co. of Waltham, Mass., to be a part of its SeaPort Enhanced team. Representing a...
High Q Laser to Distribute Oscillators for APE
High Q Laser (US) Inc. of Watertown, Mass., has entered into an agreement with APE of Berlin, under which it has become the exclusive distributor of that company's picosecond optical parameter...
Manufacturers Release Common Specifications for Optical Devices
A group of optical chip and module manufacturers has released common specifications for optical devices based on a 10-Gb/s Miniature Device multisource agreement. The specifications are intended for...
Alpine Research Optics Wins Contract from NIF
Under a contract valued at more than $1 million, Alpine Research Optics of Boulder, Colo., will supply laser optics to the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of...
Riegl Relocates to Larger Facilities in Florida
To increase its sales, service, administrative, distribution and research and development capabilities, Riegl USA has relocated to expanded corporate facilities in Orlando, Fla. The company...
INO and Opto Biometrics Partner to Develop Optical Correlator
Under a signed transfer agreement, INO of Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada, has granted Opto Biometrics Inc. of the Quebec City area an exclusive worldwide license for the use, commercialization and...
Accent on Applications
Hybrid Laser Process Cuts Medical Stents
In recent years, medical stents have revolutionized the treatment of arteriosclerosis and other vascular diseases. Designed to improve blood flow in vessels, these complex mesh tube structures are manufactured from very heat sensitive materials, such as Nitinol shape-memory alloy. As with all applications of this type, biocompatibility is paramount. Fine surface finishes without edge cracks or...
Submillimeter Camera Is Under Development
There's more to the night sky than meets the naked eye. Some of the most scientifically fascinating objects and processes aren't visible at all, prompting an interest in submillimeter astronomy, in...
NIR Imaging Detects Cracks in Silicon Wafers
Silicon wafers are the fundamental building blocks of the microelectronics industry. The size of those used in fabricating integrated circuits has steadily increased because larger wafers yield more...
Presstime Bulletin
Liquid Crystal Electrically Tunes Photonic Crystal Laser
In the July 19 issue of Applied Physics Letters, scientists at California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both in Pasadena, Calif., presented the results of their experiments with the electrical tuning of a photonic crystal laser infiltrated with liquid crystal. The ability to electrically tune such emitters may enable the study of various optical phenomena as well as...
Photonic Crystal Acts as Visible-Wavelength Superprism
Researchers from the University of Southampton and from Mesophotonics Ltd., both in Southampton, UK, have reported the fabrication of a photonic crystal superprism that operates at visible...
Five-Photon Entanglement Could Benefit Quantum Communications
Emerging strategies for distributed quantum information processing will require some type of teleportation protocol. One option is open-destination teleportation, where an unknown quantum state of a...
Products
SURFACE AND THICKNESS MEASUREMENT
With all-fiber construction and no moving parts, the DI 330 multilayer thickness and surface measurement system from Lumetrics Inc. performs noncontact online measurement of optics, optical assemblies and coated optics. The dual-interferometer engine uses a 1310-nm LED to create reflections off single- and multilayer surfaces, and a 1550-nm internal laser measures the reflections and converts...
Lumetrics
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PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERAS
Three ultracompact high-speed video cameras have been announced by Sony Electronics Inc. The XC-HR57 and XC-HR58 have a 1/2-in. progressive-scan CCD, and the XC-56 features a 1/3-in....
Sony Electronics Inc., Visual Imaging Products Group
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LASER DIODE DRIVERS
The 500B series laser diode drivers unveiled by Newport Corp. are available in four models that offer up to 0.1, 0.5, 2.5 or 6.0 A of maximum output. All can be operated in constant-current or...
MKS/Newport
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SHORT-WAVE PASS FILTERS
A family of Tech Spec short-wave pass filters, available singly or in a kit containing all seven, has been introduced by Edmund Industrial Optics for fluorescence applications, for separating...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASER
Koheras AS has launched a high-power version of its Boostik single-frequency distributed feedback fiber laser. Producing up to 3 W of output, the 19-in. turnkey rack system offers selectable...
NKT Photonics A/S
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FO SPECTROMETER
Avantes BV has introduced the AvaSpec-2048TEC, a thermoelectrically cooled fiber optic spectrometer suitable for low-light-level applications that require integration times of >5 s, including...
Avantes BV
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PULSED FIBER LASER
Available from Aculight Corp. is a pulsed fiber laser that generates eye-safe, short pulses over a wide repetition rate range. Model PF1550-30 is suitable for laser-rangefinding, range-imaging-lidar,...
Lockheed Martin Laser and Sensor Systems
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CCD CAMERA
The TM-6760 series has been added to JAI Pulnix's line of AccuPixel digital cameras. Based on a Kodak 1/2-in. progressive-scan image sensor, the miniature device operates at 60 fps with 648 ×...
JAI Inc.
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SAPPHIRE WINDOWS
For use in military navigation and targeting systems, Meller Optics Inc. has announced custom-fabricated large sapphire windows up to 18 in. in diameter by 1/4 in. thick. They offer Moh 9 surface...
Meller Optics Inc.
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FLUORESCENT BACKLIGHTS
StockerYale Inc. has launched its large-area ML series fluorescent light panels for machine vision, frame grabbing and process inspection. The backlights' two T5 fluorescent lamps provide 5000-K...
ProPhotonix Ltd.
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SPECTROGRAPHS
Headwall Photonics has added the VS25 and VS50 to its Hyperspec family of concentric imaging spectrographs. The VS25 operates from 400 to 1000 nm with 2- to 3-nm resolution, suitable for air- and...
Headwall Photonics Inc.
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HANDS-FREE LASER
The Chameleon-XR, launched by Coherent Inc., is a hands-free ultrafast laser that tunes from 720 to 980 nm and that is suitable for multiphoton excitation microscopy. The company says that the longer...
Coherent Inc.
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SHUTTER CONTROLLER
The SC-2000 shutter controller has been announced by Applied Scientific Instrumentation. The two-channel illumination control device activates the shutter from a front panel switch, from TTL signals,...
Applied Scientific Instrumentation Inc.
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IR DETECTOR
Sofradir has developed a 640 × 512, TV-format, 15-µm-pitch mid-infrared detector for use by defense and security equipment manufacturers in portable thermal imagers and missile seekers, as well as...
Lynred
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ICP SPECTROMETERS
Spectro Analytical Instruments Inc.'s new induction-coupled plasma (ICP) spectrometers provide 125- to 770-nm analytical coverage, enabling 98% use of all prominent emission lines. The Ciros...
Spectro Analytical Instruments Inc.
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FOCUSING OPTICS
For its Professional and XL series lasers, Universal Laser Systems Inc. has announced a High Power Density Focusing Optics option that is interchangeable with the standard lenses included with the...
Universal Laser Systems Inc.
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CALIBRATION FILMS
Polystyrene calibration films for FTIR spectrophotometers are available from International Crystal Laboratories. They come with a 38-µm pathlength or in sets of two pathlengths for more precise...
International Crystal Laboratories
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VIOLET MODULATOR
AA Opto-Electronic SA has unveiled a violet modulator designed for 405-nm HeCd lasers. Operating from 405 to 442 nm, it has typical transmission and diffraction efficiencies of 95% and 90%,...
AA SA, Opto-Electronic
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VISCOMETER
Wyatt Technology Corp. designed its ViscoStar, an online viscometer with a proprietary transducer protection system and software-selectable delay volumes of 15, 8 and 4 ml, so that users won't have...
Wyatt Technology Corp.
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CODE-READING SOFTWARE
IDMax from Cognex Corp. is Data Matrix code-reading software based upon proprietary, patented PatMax technology and designed for direct part mark identification. Parts are directly marked with...
Cognex Corp.
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FO TRANSMISSION
The 485 and 487 series RS-485 data systems from American Fibertek Inc. transmit and receive RS-485 signals over optical fiber and come in single or multimode versions for use in network-based...
American Fibertek Inc.
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DIODE LASER
The Compact ZC diode laser from Z-Laser Optoelektronik GmbH is available in 5- and 24-VDC versions. The laser projection can be continuously adjusted at the corrugated front part of the housing. The...
Z-LASER GmbH
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TEC CONTROLLER
Alpha Omega Instruments' series 850 rack-mounted, thermoelectric cooler controllers offer full PID linear temperature control with automatic tuning and provide long-term temperature stability of...
Alpha Omega Instruments Corp.
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MIRRORS AND SCANNERS
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP has added a device with an optical deflection range of 6° to its line of ultrafast piezo-driven steering mirrors and scanners. Piezoceramic actuators provide acceleration...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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LASER SPECTRAL ANALYSIS
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering's Photonic & Life Sciences Div. has announced a software package that automates laser spectral analysis. Used with a Fabry-Perot interferometer-based laser...
EXFO Inc.
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BEAM PROFILERS
Ophir Optronics Inc. has introduced its BeamStar FX series digital laser beam profilers with FireWire interface. They work with laptop or desktop PCs and provide profiles of pulsed and CW lasers from...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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VOLUME PHASE GRATINGS
Applications for Wasatch Photonics' advanced volume phase holography grating components include fingerprint identification, head-up displays, hyperspectral imaging, biochemical sensing with Raman...
Wasatch Photonics Inc.
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SPECTROMETRY ACCESSORY
The VeeMax II accessory for FTIR spectrometers has been updated by Pike Technologies Inc. to provide improved attenuated total reflection capability and continuous variable angle of incidence....
PIKE Technologies Inc.
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HIGH-SPEED CMOS CAMERA
The ultima APX-RS digital camera produced by Photron USA Inc. delivers 3000 megapixel images per second and achieves 10,000 fps at 512 × 512-pixel resolution. Its maximum speed is 200,000 fps at...
Photron USA Inc.
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METAL-MATRIX COMPOSITE
For optoelectronic housings and lids, CPS Corp. is offering a metal-matrix composite, aluminum silicon carbide (AlSiC) that enables a tailored coefficient of thermal expansion and exhibits a high...
American Technical Ceramics
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TRANSMITTER SUBASSEMBLY
Hamamatsu Corp. has introduced its L9279-14 transmitter optical subassembly, an 850-nm VCSEL diode that the company says enables short, low-cost fiber communications links. Designed for Gigabit...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY
A molecular beam epitaxy system for materials research and test production of compound semiconductors has been released by Veeco Instruments Inc. The Gen20 system, which has a manual wafer transfer...
Veeco Instruments Inc.
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ALUMINA CERAMIC
Aremcolox 502-1400-BF is a bisque-fired, machinable, low-density, 96% pure alumina ceramic manufactured by Aremco Products Inc. for use in industrial applications to 1430 °C. Specifications include...
Aremco Products Inc.
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MACHINE VISION CAMERAS
Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.'s Digital Solutions Div. has released the IK-52N and IK-53N machine vision cameras. Measuring 29 square millimeters and weighing 1.59 oz, the "ice-cube"...
CANON MEDICAL COMPONENTS U.S.A., Video Sensing Devices
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SPECTROPYROMETER
The FMP-RS spectropyrometer unveiled by FAR Associates is designed for research and development applications. Besides temperature, it displays and stores the accuracy of the temperature measured, the...
Far Associates
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LENS-QUALITY TESTING
Trioptics GmbH has launched ImageMaster Pro, a high-speed automated MTF system for testing the quality of mobile phone camera lenses. The device can measure lenses at 9 to 13 field points at best...
TRIOPTICS GmbH
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TUNABLE LASERS
New Focus Inc. has added long-wavelength-tunable lasers to its TLB-6300 Velocity series. They cover out to 2 µm and offer continuous mode-hop-free tuning at 20 nm/s and with high resolution, narrow...
Newport - New Focus
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MICROSCOPE STAGE
Prior Scientific Inc. has announced the H117 flat-top stage for the Nikon TE2000 and Olympus IX51/71/81 inverted microscopes. Suitable for high-precision biomedical and materials science scanning...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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IR UNIFORM SOURCE
Labsphere Inc.'s integrating-sphere source system offers uniform irradiance from the red to the IR and flux from ~0.6 to 5 µm. The USS-400-IG has a 1.25-in.-diameter exit port, a 4-in.-diameter...
Labsphere Inc.
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VIDEO SPLITTER
Vivid Engineering has released the CLV-401 Camera Link video splitter that interfaces one Camera Link camera to two frame grabbers, the second of which can be used for camera setup,...
Vivid Engineering
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SWEPT-WAVELENGTH LASERS
The si425-130 and si-425-150 high-speed swept-wavelength lasers from Micron Optics Inc. are centered at 1300 and 1550 nm, respectively. Powered by high spectral intensity at rapid sweep rates, the...
Micron Optics Inc.
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TRIPLE SPECTROMETER
The TriVista triple spectrometer introduced by Princeton Instruments allows software-based switching between additive and subtractive modes, without external hardware. Spectral resolution is...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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BROADBAND CAPACITOR
American Technical Ceramics has launched the 540L series ultrabroadband capacitor. It provides a maximum insertion loss of 1 dB over multiple octaves of frequency and is compatible with high-speed...
American Technical Ceramics
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CCD CAMERA
Basler AG has added the A102kc to its A100 family. The progressive-scan CCD camera has a 1.45-megapixel sensor and a Camera Link interface. It operates at 14.8 fps with 1392 × 1040-pixel resolution...
Basler AG
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COLOR MANAGEMENT
Users of Image-Pro software can view consistent colors across their imaging systems by using the Color-Pro plug-in module from Media Cybernetics. The module installs an International Color Consortium...
Media Cybernetics Inc.
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IMAGING SPECTROMETER
Field-portable imaging radiometric spectrometer technology (First) has been introduced by Telops Inc. According to the company, First provides data cubes with two spatial dimensions and one spectral...
Telops Inc.
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FRAME GRABBER
Matrox Imaging has introduced the Matrox Solios family of frame grabbers, which support PCI-X and FPGA technology. The XCL model supports either two independent Camera Link base ports or one Camera...
Matrox Imaging
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MICRODRILLING TOOL
For microdrilling and other delicate laser processing applications, Holo-Or Ltd. has released an optical element that creates an output spot in the form of a top hat circle with a FWHM diameter of...
Holo/Or Ltd.
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MOTION CONTROL
ServoStep from Animatics Corp. is a fully integrated motion control system that features a high-torque, 50-pole step motor, a motion controller, and a drive amplifier and encoder. The NEMA 34 frame...
Moog Animatics
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INDUSTRIAL FILTERS
Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH's industrial filters are designed to improve image quality in machine vision systems and, when attached to a CCD or CMOS camera lens, enhance image contrast, reduce...
Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, Industrial Solutions
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FIBER LASER
A high-brightness 5-kW ytterbium fiber laser suitable for remote welding has been announced by IPG Photonics Corp. Operating at 1070 nm, it offers 100-µm fiber delivery, rapid response...
IPG Photonics Corporation
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MOTION ANALYSIS
Soft Imaging System has extended its analySis platform with trackIt software for analyzing single and multiple objects in motion, automatically or manually. The program graphically displays the...
Olympus Soft Imaging Solutions Corp.
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LASER TRACKER/SOFTWARE
Faro Technologies Inc.'s laser trackers will now be shipped with HighRes Inc.'s Lite reverse engineering software modules. According to Faro, this combination allows SolidWorks, Autocad, Mechanical...
FARO Technologies
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CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY
The CGS OptoLine confocal system is designed for use with state-of-the-art fluorescence or reflected-light microscopes. Projection grid confocal technology enables it to deliver full-function optical...
Klughammer GmbH
EPOXY ADHESIVE
EP65HT-1 is an ultrafast-curing, high-temperature-resistant epoxy adhesive developed by Master Bond Inc. that bonds well to metals, glass, ceramics, woods, vulcanized rubber and most plastics. It...
Master Bond Inc.
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DIGITAL CMOS CAMERA
Vision Research Inc. has launched the Phantom v9.0 digital CMOS camera that offers a full-frame recording speed of 1000 pictures per second at 1600 × 1200-pixel resolution. Available in monochrome...
Vision Research Inc., Phantom Digital High-Speed Cameras
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THIN-FILM MAPPING
The F50 thin-film mapping system unveiled by Filmetrics Inc. measures thickness and optical constants of films between 100 Å and 450 µm and also can measure refractive index. It performs 89-point...
Filmetrics, KLA Instruments
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SPECTROFLUOROMETER
A cuvette spectrofluorometer that can detect picomolar-range concentrations of fluorophores in solutions has been introduced by Ocean Optics Inc. The fully integrated Curie fluorescence system...
Ocean Optics - Part of Ocean Insight
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VIDEO OUTPUT
Model 622, a video output board and software program from Sensoray Co. Inc., decompresses stored jpeg images and generates composite video for VHS tape recorders or a TV monitor. Unlike other...
Sensoray Co. Inc.
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OPTICAL DESIGN SOFTWARE
Lambda Research Corp. has released version 3.2 of TracePro, its optomechanical design and analysis software for optical or illumination systems. New features include an updated irradiance viewer and...
Lambda Research Corp.
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APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE
A new version of Signal Recovery's Acquire lock-in amplifier applications software can support up to 10 instruments from a computer. It has updated plotting routines and improved data export...
ORTEC
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THERMAL IMAGING SENSOR
Available from Armstrong Optical Ltd. is the IR108 sensor module for integration into thermal imaging systems. Built around a 320 × 240-pixel uncooled microbolometer focal plane array that...
Armstrong Optical Ltd.
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GREEN LEDS
Cree Inc. has expanded its family of green LEDs with the XT-290 and XB-900 models. The 527-nm XT-290 has a typical radiant flux of 9 mW at 20 mA and typical forward voltage of 3.2 V. The XB-900 comes...
Wolfspeed Inc.
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PRECISION METROLOGY
The FlashPhase system from Zygo Corp. enables precision interferometric metrology in unstable conditions, including vibration and air turbulence. The instrument gathers phase data in one camera frame...
Zygo Corporation
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CCD DETECTOR
Bruker AXS Inc.'s 4K CCD detector was designed for measuring crystal structures of organic and inorganic chemistry compounds, and new materials or minerals. Apex II features low noise, high...
Bruker AXS Inc.
MOTION ANALYSIS
A 500-fps megapixel Ethernet camera system with a built-in flash and exposure times as short as 100 ns has been introduced by Wintriss Engineering Corp. The Opsis 500fps has an onboard FPGA and a...
Wintriss Engineering Corp.
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DIODE LASERS
Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH (Limo) has released a line of compact, fiber-coupled, hermetically sealed diode lasers in standard wavelengths from 800 to 1000 nm. The high-brightness lasers feature CW...
LIMO GmbH
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ELECTRON BEAM MODULES
The EBM series triode modules have been developed by Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp. to drive electron beam columns for scanning electron microscopes. In a package made compact by...
Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp.
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Q-SWITCHED LASER
TEM00 1064-nm lasers with a pulse width of <2.5 ns at 10 kHz, manufactured by JP Innovations, are available from RPMC. With average power of 10 and 15 W, they operate with wall-plug 110-V input...
RPMC Lasers Inc.
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