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Photonics Spectra: August 2008

Photonics Spectra
 August 2008


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Hot Rockets! Without a doubt, rocket engines are hot. Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rockets fire continuously during a mission; therefore, a proper thermal system is needed to dissipate the waste heat and maintain a stable steady-state operating temperature. To design an optimal lightweight cooling system, accurate measurement of the heat inside the engine is crucial. Ad Astra Rocket Company in...
Going Deep Thanks to advanced sensor and camera technologies, scientific low-light imaging detectors now boast more than 90 percent quantum efficiency, <1 electron root-mean-square read noise and negligible...
Eliminating Systematic Errors in Cylindrical Surface Measurements Interferometric metrology is the standard process for topographic measurements in the optical shop environment as well as in quality assurance laboratories. In all interferometric instruments, the...
High-Throughput Optical Coating Sputtering processes for thin-film deposition are naturally energetic and generally do not require additional heat input to generate good morphology. As a result, sputtering is a suitable deposition...
Landslide Monitoring Loose sediment, rocks and weathered material usually remain stationary and stable on a slope. However, matter can be disturbed naturally by earthquakes or heavy rainfall, or by human activity such as...
Particles Could Enable Tougher Encryption As we search for ways to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, solar cells have become ever more attractive. However, existing solar cells do not convert solar energy to electricity as efficiently as...
Better Doping Detection The Olympics and other sporting events are all about competition. Unfortunately, the desire to gain an edge can lead to doping — the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Because some of these...
Silicates Get Denser When You Go Deeper Far below the Earth’s surface, where pressure and temperature escalate ferociously at the border between the mantle and the core, lies the history of primordial chemical differentiation. Molten...
Silver Accentuates Flexible OLED Design Improved organic LEDs (OLEDs) and photovoltaic devices are sought after by researchers and commercial product developers because they are lighter and more energy-efficient than standard displays and...
Back-Illuminated Image Sensors Come to the Forefront Demand for higher throughput inspection systems with improved resolution is growing in the machine vision and industrial imaging industries. Traditionally, front-illuminated CCD or CMOS sensors are...
Making the Invisible Visible Since the early part of the 20th century, streak cameras have offered the fastest way to capture an optical waveform consisting of both a time and an intensity profile. Early models consisted of a...
TECH PULSE
Launching Lasers to Mars Scheduled for launch five years from now, the ExoMars spacecraft is designed to study the Martian environment, from the planet’s tectonics to its geochemistry. One of the primary goals, in fact, is to search for signs of past or present life. To accomplish its objectives, the spacecraft’s lander will carry a wide assortment of detection and analysis instruments, many of which are...
Nanopatterning with Lasers and Microspheres Although it concerns the very small, optical nanopatterning has some very big problems. Available techniques are slow, hard to use, expensive or limited in what they can produce. Now Princeton...
Building a Remote Refractive Index Sensor with Quantum Dots Whispering works best if done correctly and up close. That’s one explanation for a new type of remote refractive index sensor developed by a group from Texas A&M University in College Station....
Flexible Connections for Flexible Solar Cells While today’s solar cells are costly and made out of silicon, tomorrow’s may be made out of plastic and be very inexpensive. However, these polymer solar cells must be flexible. That’s a problem for...
Laser Pas de Deux Enhances Resolution in Time and Space To completely grasp the physics underlying such phenomena as cellular function, chemicals changing from one state to another, or the formation of cracks and fissures in polymer thin films, one must...
LIGHT SPEED
Growth Predicted for Process Spectroscopy Market The value of the global market for process spectroscopy is projected to reach $1.2 billion in 2008, up from $945.9 million in 2006, according to a technical market research report from BCC Research,...
LCD TVs Drive Strong Panel Sales With growing interest in large-screen flat panel televisions, the market for thin-film transistor LCD panels is on the upswing. But as the industry moves from eighth- to 10th-generation...
DuPont, Dainipponto Collaborate DuPont of Wilmington, Del., and Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co. Ltd. of Kyoto, Japan, will form an alliance to develop integrated manufacturing equipment for printed organic LED displays. In...
Sole US Distributor Named for Nanoplus Diodes Photonic Component Group of Little Rock, Ark., will serve as the sole US distributor of nanoplus laser components. A division of Power Technology Inc., the group’s customers now will have access to...
DoE to Form Advisory Committee The US Department of Energy plans to create an advisory committee for its solid-state lighting commercial product testing program (Caliper), which was established in 2006. The committee, which will...
EV Group to Open Subsidiary in Korea EV Group, a supplier of wafer-bonding and lithography equipment that is based in St. Florian, Austria, has announced that it will open a subsidiary in Seoul, South Korea. The office will serve as a...
LCD Association Gains Members In Beaverton, Ore., LCD TV Association, a global not-for-profit marketing trade group, has accepted four new members. Television manufacturers LG Electronics of Seoul, South Korea, and Vizio Inc. of...
StockerYale to Pursue Virtek Vision Acquisition StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., has announced its intention to make an offer to acquire all issued and outstanding common shares of Virtek Vision International Inc. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The...
Rapt Industries, Cranfield University Collaborate Rapt Industries Inc. of Fremont, Calif., and Cranfield University’s Precision Engineering Centre in the UK have collaborated on the development of the Helios 1200 reactive atom plasma machine, built...
Shimadzu Partners with Thomas Scientific Shimadzu Scientific Instruments of Kyoto, Japan, has partnered with Thomas Scientific of Swedesboro, N.J. The latter company will distribute some of the former’s spectroscopy products, including the...
Teradyne Relocates Headquarters in Japan Teradyne Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductor testing systems for image sensors, has announced that the headquarters of its legal entity in Japan, Teradyne KK, has relocated to Minato Mirai,...
Modulight, Vaisala Extend Agreement In Finland, Modulight Inc. of Tampere, a provider of solutions for optical applications, and Vaisala of Vantaa, a developer of products and services for environmental and industrial measurement, have...
Leica Acquires Bal-Tec Leica Microsystems Inc. of Bannockburn, Ill., has acquired Bal-Tec AG of Liechtenstein, a manufacturer of mechanical and cryosample preparation equipment for scanning and transmission electron...
Schawlow Winner Chosen The 2008 Arthur L. Schawlow Award will be presented to Eckhard Beyer, a professor at the University of Technology at Dresden and executive director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam...
Premier Acquires RDS Minneapolis-based Premier Precision Group has acquired RDS Machine Inc. of Newport, N.H., a manufacturer of medium- and small-size complex components for the electro-optical market.
Veeco Acquires Mill Lane Veeco Instruments Inc. of Plainview, N.Y., a provider of solutions for the solar, semiconductor and industrial markets, has acquired Mill Lane Engineering of Lowell, Mass., a manufacturer of web...
Ametek Acquires Vision Research Vision Research Inc. of Wayne, N.J., a manufacturer of high-speed digital imaging systems for motion capture and analysis, has been bought by Ametek Inc. of Paoli, Pa. The latter, a provider of...
Bavarian Laser Centre, INO Plan Joint Research Bavarian Laser Centre GmbH, a photonics microsystems research center in Erlangen, Germany, has signed a three-year agreement with the National Optics Institute (INO) of Quebec City to work jointly on...
Northrop Grumman Chooses AOptix AOptix Technologies Inc. has been selected by Northrop Grumman Corp. to design and build free-space optical terminals for the ORCA project sponsored by DARPA and administered by the US Air Force...
CDGM Opens Facility CDGM Glass Co. USA of Rochester, N.Y., the exclusive distributor of optical glass products for CDGM Glass Co. Ltd. of Chengdu, China, has relocated to a 2200-sq-ft facility. The new location, also in...
Partner Network Expands Initiated in 2006 by Osram Opto Semiconductors, the “LED Light for You” Internet-based network combines the skills of more than 60 partners worldwide to support luminaire manufacturers, lighting...
J.P. Sercel Expands into Malaysia J.P. Sercel Associates of Manchester, N.H., has opened a customer service and support office in Malaysia to provide service and spare parts for the company’s laser workstations for wafer processing...
AMS, Siskiyou Enter into Agreement Siskiyou Inc. of Grants Pass, Ore., a producer of precision mechanical components, has selected AMS Technologies AG of Martinsried, Germany, as its distributor in Germany, France and Italy. The...
AiDi Expands Offices Globally AiDi Corp., which offers passive optical network products and services suitable for harsh environments and highly populated urban centers, has launched a second factory in Zhuhai, China, to increase...
Cognex, Pleora Integrate Products Pleora Technologies Inc. of Ottawa, a supplier of Gigabit Ethernet video connectivity products, has signed a licensing agreement with Cognex Corp. of Natick, Mass., to integrate the former’s eBus...
Advanced Photonix Lands Navy Contract A custom photodiode produced by Advanced Photonix Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., a supplier of optoelectronic solutions and terahertz instrumentation, has earned the company a $2.1 million contract from a...
Glimmerglass Joins AFCS Glimmerglass of Hayward, Calif., a provider of intelligent optical switches, has become a charter member of the Advanced Fiber Connectivity and Switching Forum (AFCS), a group formed to accelerate...
Ciba, CSEM Sign Collaboration Agreement Ciba Holding AG of Basel and CSEM (Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology) of Neuchâtel, both in Switzerland, have signed a mid- to long-term cooperation agreement in the fields of organic...
Photline, AdLightec Merge In France, Photline Technologies, a supplier of optical modulation solutions based in Besançon, has merged with AdLightec of Lannion, a provider of high-speed electronic modules. The agreement...
Point Grey Relocates,Expands German Office Point Grey Research GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Point Grey Research Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has relocated to Ludwigsburg, Germany. The new location is nearly twice the...
Sunovia Signs Volume Purchase Agreement Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc. of Sarasota, Fla., has signed an agreement to provide the Varon Group of Elmhurst, Ill., with LED lighting components and products. The devices will be supplied to...
Companies to Develop Cooled SWIR Sensor Nextreme Thermal Solutions Inc. of Durham, N.C., has joined forces with Princeton Lightwave Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., to develop a short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) focal plane sensor that uses...
Fox Group Licenses Patents The Fox Group Inc. of Montreal has signed a nonexclusive license agreement with a European company for various patents. The Canadian company will allow its partner to use patents related to silicon...
Foundation Names Leibinger Award Winner Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH of Ditzingen, Germany, has selected the recipient of its Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis award for outstanding research milestones in applied laser technology. It...
ACCENT ON APPLICATIONS
FireWire Camera Removes Bottlenecks in Astroimaging Obtaining high-resolution photographs of planets and other interstellar objects is the quest of many amateur and professional astronomers. With advances in digital photography and telescopes,...
Capturing Corrosion, One Pixel at a Time It’s not just power that corrupts: Moisture or active reagents also can do the trick, at least in the case of metals. Controlling the corrosion that results from such exposure is of great interest....
LIGHTER SIDE
Think Green Just in time for the Olympics, one of the world’s largest LED displays has arrived in Beijing, and it’s also one of the world’s most environmentally friendly because the sun powers the entire display. New York architecture firm Simone Giostra & Partners and London-based building engineers Arup Associates designed the massive display, which they call the GreenPix media wall. It opened to...
PRODUCTS
VISION SENSOR Sick Inc. has unveiled its Inspector, a vision sensor that can verify completeness and quality and inspect for defects, no matter which angle or orientation a product comes down the line and even if...
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PORTABLE BEAM PROFILER Ophir-Spiricon Inc. has introduced the BA150 industrial laser beam analyzer. The compact self-contained unit includes a USB 2.0 silicon CCD camera and beam analysis software. It monitors beam...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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CMOS CAMERA WITH LIQUID LENS IVA Corp. has launched a 2-megapixel CMOS digital camera with an Arctic 314 variable-focus liquid lens from Varioptic SA that enables close-up to infinity focus control. The IVIN2M-ETH imager...
IVA Corp.
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FIXED-FOCAL-LENGTH LENSES Four fixed-focal-length imaging optics designed for short-wavelength infrared cameras and applications have been introduced by Navitar Inc. Focal lengths include two 25-mm designs, a 35- and a 50-mm...
Navitar Inc.
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VIBRATION CANCELLATION The TableTop PZT from Technical Manufacturing Corp. (TMC) is an active hard-mount vibration cancellation system for small precision instruments in buildings with severe floor vibration. Based on...
TMC
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GLASS MANUFACTURING Schott Advanced Optics has developed a continuous melting manufacturing process for its LASF35 high-index-of-refraction glass. The procedure achieves higher internal transmission, especially inside...
SCHOTT North America Inc., Advanced Optics
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SPECTROMETER Infrared Systems Development Corp. has introduced an FPAS (femtosecond-pulse-acquisition spectrometer) spectrograph that provides a turnkey drop-in solution for femtosecond pump-probe 2-D vibrational...
Infrared Systems Development Corp.
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X-Y STAGE Applied Scientific Instrumentation has released its automated MS-9400 X-Y microscope stage. The unit offers a travel range of 225 × 100 mm to allow it to scan eight 25 × 75-mm slides. It employs...
Applied Scientific Instrumentation Inc.
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DIGITAL CAMERAS Point Grey Research Inc. has added two models to its line of Grasshopper IEEE-1394b (FireWire) 800-Mb/s digital cameras. The GRAS-03K2M/C models incorporate monochrome or color Kodak KAI-0340 640 ×...
Teledyne FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions
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SHUTTER SYSTEM Picard Industries has released the USB Quad aperture shutter system for blocking of multiple beams. It is supplied with four independently controlled pivoting-paddle USB shutters, 3-m USB cables, an...
Picard Industries
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SCANNING MICROSCOPE Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc. has unveiled the LSM 710 NLO laser scanning microscope for multiphoton microscopy. Based on highly sensitive detectors, the system acquires high-resolution images of...
Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC
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BEAM SHAPER Refractive Focal-πShaper systems from MolTech GmbH convert a Gaussian laser beam into flattop, “doughnut,” “reverse Gauss,” “trident” or rooflike intensity profiles near the focal plane of a...
MolTech GmbH
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LIGHT ENGINE Manufactured by OptoElectronix Inc. for general illumination applications, the ULE2210A LED Universal Light Engine is based on a proprietary 40-mm circular light platform. The turnkey device features...
OptoElectronix Inc.
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STAGE CONTROLLER PI (Physik Instrumente) LP has introduced the E-712 digital piezo stage controller for nanopositioning systems with up to six axes. It features a sensor update rate of up to 50 kHz, stable 20-bit...
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830-NM LASERS Suitable for industrial applications, the LumiLase 830-nm single-mode lasers from Modulight Inc. produce up to 50 mW of power. Housed in a 5.6-mm TO-can (product code ML1545), the devices also are...
Modulight USA Inc.
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UV SCANNING LENSES Four telecentric UV scanning lenses that accommodate input beam diameters of up to 17 mm and wavelengths of 266 or 355 nm have been introduced by Special Optics. Focal lengths include 34 and 50 and...
Special Optics Inc.
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NIR/SWIR CAMERAS The KT cameras from Sensors Unlimited Inc. offer near-IR and shortwave-IR imaging for unmanned aerial and ground vehicle applications. They feature night-vision and laser-detection ability and are...
Sensors Unlimited Inc. - A Collins Aerospace Company
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WHITE LEDS Avago Technologies Ltd. has added half-watt LEDs to its Moonstone series high-power LEDs for solid-state lighting applications. Available in thin packaging designed for ease of installation, the...
Broadcom Inc.
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GigE VISION CAMERAS Princeton Instruments has announced that the GigE Vision data interface is available for all of its MegaPlus cameras used in machine vision applications. Providing 1.6- to 16-megapixel resolution,...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES Voxtel Inc. offers a line of solid-state silicon photomultipliers with low dark current and a single-photon-counting dynamic range of >40 MHz. The VIC series compact multianode avalanche...
Voxtel Inc.
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EXCIMER LASER Coherent Inc.’s IndyStar is a compact industrial excimer laser that offers a long tube life and incorporates the proprietary RoHS-Almeta design, delivering several billion pulses at 193 and 248 nm....
Coherent Inc.
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FUSED SILICA DIFFUSERS TechSpec, ground UV fused silica diffusers, have been introduced by Edmund Optics Inc. The RoHS-compliant devices are available in diameters of 10, 15, 25 and 50 mm and in sizes of 25 × 25 mm and 50...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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PROJECTION LED The Ostar projection surface-mount technology LED from Osram Opto Semiconductors can be integrated into pico projectors such as the ones being fitted into cellular phones. It measures 5.8 × 4.7 × 1.5...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
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ILLUMINANCE SENSOR The S10604 from Hamamatsu Corp. is a chip-on-board RoHS-compliant illuminance sensor for large-screen television brightness control and for use as a backlight dimmer in LCDs on cell phones. It...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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VIDEO IMAGING SYSTEM The Fastcam MC2 manufactured by Photron Inc. is a high-speed video imaging system that incorporates two 35 × 35 × 35-mm camera heads, each weighing 3.2 oz. The system features a global...
Photron USA Inc.
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LINE-SCAN CAMERA Dalsa Corp. has expanded its Spyder3 series cameras to include a model with 4K resolution. The device offers a larger field of view and requires fewer cameras for a vision system. Providing high...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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