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Photonics Spectra: December 2008

Photonics Spectra
 December 2008


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Speeding fresco reconstruction Computer scientists at Princeton University in New Jersey have developed an automated system that could speed a painfully slow task facing archaeologists – reconstructing ancient artifacts from thousands of tiny, often-eroded pieces. David Dobkin, computer science professor and dean of the faculty at Princeton, got the inspiration for the project after visiting the archaeological site of...
Virtual dinosaur stomping grounds Many among us, from children on up, are fascinated by dinosaurs and long to know more about them. Photonic instrumentation has been used to help document the remains of these creatures and to...
Under the briny sea In the second century of the common era, three Roman ships sank beneath the waters off the coast of Neapolis, now the site of the modern Italian city of Naples. Fourteen centuries later, off the...
Putting the Squeeze on Optical Microlithography Integrated circuits routinely produced by microlithography have feature sizes as small as 65 nm, well below the traditional diffraction limit for the exposure wavelength of 193 nm. Achieving this...
The Making of a Computer-Generated Hologram Computer-generated holograms (CGHs) play an important role in the modern optics used for generating application-specific optical fields and functions. Their ability to transform incident beams into...
Fiber Sensors Go 3-D Optical fibers make ideal physical sensors. Light, rugged and immune to interference from stray electrical signals, they respond to a variety of external stimuli – qualities that have spawned...
Boldly going where no one has gone before The Phoenix Mars Lander has scoured the surface of the red planet’s Arctic circle for signs of life. On July 9, the robot took the first atomic force microscope (AFM) image ever recorded on another...
Some Like It Hot For military and industrial applications, shortwave infrared (SWIR) has emerged as a key technology, an enabler of a variety of military and industrial imaging and sensing applications. The SWIR...
Freeze Frame Researchers Ala Hijazi and Vis Madhavan at Wichita State University in Kansas wanted to study the high strain rate deformation that occurs in high-speed machining by recording a series of microscopic...
EDITORIAL
Byproduct of the bailout Maybe the idea of bailing out the Big Three automakers is not appetizing for anyone but, say, the Big Three. Just the same, the simultaneously declared bankruptcy could sink a long list of businesses, employees and industries, not the least of which is our own. That’s because we’re keeping company with the same auto suppliers, communities and regions perched on the brink by reports of the...
TECH PULSE
Imaging a disaster It started with a request from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC was looking for two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to shoot images of disaster areas. But the way David...
Science needs a feminine touch Despite the debate over its cause, there is general agreement that women are underrepresented in the fields of science and engineering. Theories about the cause of the discrepancy range from lack of...
A step closer to stopping E.coli To prevent Escherichia coli from reaching consumers, scientists have developed a method of detecting and detaining one of its more common virulent strains, serotype O157:H7. This bacterium is found...
Solving a sticky problem in power plants As energy costs rise and the economy falls, there is no room for inefficiency in power production. In coal-fired power plants, a problem known as slagging occurs when coal ash minerals get sticky...
Revealing the hidden spectrum Much like fishermen wear polarized sunglasses to see past the reflective glare of the water’s surface to spot their sport, astronomers use polarized filters in telescopes to isolate the reflected...
Liquid lens: water + sound = fast focusing An adaptive liquid lens that is powered by water, sound and surface tension can capture 250 pictures per second using very little energy, and its ability to focus extremely quickly (in 0.01 seconds)...
Semiconductor manufacturing goes green A recent symposium conducted by ISMI, the Austin-based Sematech manufacturing subsidiary, yielded good news. The industry is going green, with environmentally friendly factories springing up around...
Laurin names new senior editor Charles Troy has rejoined Laurin Publishing as Senior Editor for the company’s print magazines. A veteran of both technology and consumer news reporting and writing, Troy first joined Laurin...
LIGHT SPEED
LEDs light the way to energy savings LEDs in niche lighting markets now save consumers nearly $1 billion in electricity costs – and if switched over entirely to LEDs, consumers collectively could save more than $20 billion, according to...
Fiber optic sensors market seen hitting $1.6 billion mark The US fiber optic sensors market is expected to reach $1.6 billion in 2014, up from $235 million in 2007 with a compound annual growth rate of 30 percent, according to a fall 2008 technical market...
Funding for Efficient Thin OLEDs The US Department of Energy (DoE), under the auspices of its solid-state lighting program, has offered an SBIR Phase I grant of almost $100,000 to Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J. The company...
Evaluating Optical Communications AOptix Technologies Inc. of Campbell, Calif., has announced a program to test and evaluate the optical portion of a long-distance combined optical and radio-frequency system. AOptix, which is under...
Expanding the Map ESRI of Redlands, Calif., has signed an enterprise license agreement with Navteq of Chicago, a provider of digital map data. The contract allows Navteq to use ESRI’s ArcGIS technology to build...
Measuring Atmospheric Carbon Measuring Atmospheric Carbon Daylight Solutions Inc. of Poway, Calif., has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award from the US Department of Energy. The award will be used to...
Institute for Environment and Society The University of Arizona has established an environmental science facility in Tucson that will include 150 faculty members disciplined in the natural, physical, social and behavioral sciences as...
Irish Expansion StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., has opened a facility in Cork, Ireland. The site will function as an LED production facility and as a research and development center in support of the company’s...
Multimillion-Dollar Video System DARPA has awarded a $6.7 million Phase I contract to Kitware Inc. of Clifton Park, N.Y., for its Video and Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool program. The award will fund the development of a video...
Distribution in the US Sedere Sa of Alfortville, France, has selected Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. of Columbia, Md., to sell and distribute its Sedex 80LT and 85LT evaporative light-scattering detectors in the US....
Army Orders Monocular Unit The Night Vision unit of ITT Corp. of Roanoke, Va., has been awarded an order from the US Army Research, Development & Engineering Command Acquisition Center. The order, valued at $153 million,...
Motion Sensor Franchise Colibrys Ltd. of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas of Phoenix have signed a franchise agreement for North America. Under the terms of the agreement, the Swiss company’s...
Russian Transportation After a series of tests conducted by Komset of Moscow, a scientific and testing center authorized by the Russian Telecommunications Ministry, PGT Photonics SpA of Milan has received authorization to...
Developing Frequency Filters Structured Materials Industries Inc. of Piscataway, N.J., has received Phase II funding from the US Army Research Office. The award, worth $750,000, will enable the company to develop a class of...
Supplying Solar Two contracts totaling $85 million have been awarded to Carbone Lorraine of St. Marys, Pa. The agreements call for the company to supply isostatic material to a polysilicon producer for use in solar...
Relocating in Canada Avo Photonics of Horsham, Pa., a provider of optical packaging and contract manufacturing, has announced the relocation of its Toronto facility. The branch, which has optoelectronic characterization...
New Business Unit Nextreme Thermal Solutions of Durham, N.C., has created a thermal management products business unit which will support the company’s focus on thermal management products and its intention to...
A Separate Company A group of investors has acquired Salvador Imaging Inc. of Colorado Springs, Colo. Led by David Gardner, Salvador’s founder and current president, the group purchased 100 percent of the outstanding...
GREENLIGHT
State of the Streetlight Driving down the highway, zinging by countless streetlights, we rarely consider the technology behind them, their cost or how much energy they consume. Not much has changed in streetlights in...
Record, Record, Who Has the Record? When two US government agencies claim to have broken the solar cell efficiency record set by Spectrolab in 2006, it begs the question: Who is measuring what and how? In August, the US National...
PV Blows Out the Walls Greenpeace and the European Photovoltaic Industry Association have worked together for seven years examining the potential of photovoltaics (PV) to solve the world’s energy crisis. Their latest...
Putting Solar to the Test Harnessing photovoltaics for electrical generation can make it to the big time only if cells and modules meet stringent standards and pass safety tests. All across the globe, solar power is...
SLICES FROM THE BREADBOARD
NASA sells patent licenses NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has set 25 patent assets on a course for technology commercialization. Eleven of those assets were grouped into one lot and sold at a live intellectual property...
Canadian Patent Awarded to SpectraScience Medical device company SpectraScience Inc. of San Diego has received a Canadian patent for its optical biopsy system and methods for tissue diagnosis. The patent will provide protection of tissue...
Fraunhofer, Plan Optik Sign Patent Agreement In Germany, Plan Optik AG of Elsoff, a wafer manufacturer, has signed an agreement with Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology in Itzehoe for the exclusive use of patented production processes,...
Universal Detector Designed A team of researchers in the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics Group at the University of California, San Diego, have created a universal detection system that tests for contamination on any surface. To...
ESA Celebrates 400th Anniversary of Telescope In Noordwijk, the Netherlands, a conference at the European Space Agency/European Space Research and Technology Centre titled “400 Years of Astronomical Telescopes – A Review of History, Science and...
Euresys Receives US Patent Euresys sa of Angleur, Belgium, a machine vision hardware and software provider, has been granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office for its “Method and Apparatus for Resampling Line Scan...
PROFILE
Energy Leader Dr. W.S. Sampath, a professor of mechanical engineering at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, has developed a continuous high-throughput automated manufacturing process for solar panels using glass coating with a cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin film. In a technology transfer, the university helped launch a company Sampath co-founded, AVA Solar Inc., also of Fort Collins, where...
LIGHTER SIDE
Window on Universe Maps New Vision Man’s quest to understand his origins is centuries old. Impelled by what he sees as the main schism of our time – the “battle between faith and reason” – artist Jonathon Keats has endeavored to unite the two sides with the creation of an exhibit he named the Atheon, described as a “temple of science for rational belief.” Opened in September in the new location of the Judah L. Magnes Museum –...
PRODUCTS
PUMP LASER MODULE For erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and fiber laser systems, 3S Photonics has introduced a pump laser module for terrestrial and submarine applications. The fiber Bragg grating stabilized 980-nm series, 1999 CHP, delivers 750 mW of output power. The low-profile, hermetically sealed 14-pin butterfly package includes a polarization-maintaining or standard single-mode fiber pigtail. Integrated...
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WIDE-ANGLE AND NONGLARE LENSES Docter Optics has introduced the Stilar 2.8/8 superwide-angle and the reflection-free miniature Auto-Tessar series lenses for industrial image processing applications. The Stilar lenses are designed...
Docter Optics Inc.
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ROTARY TORQUE TRANSDUCERS Sensor Technology Ltd. has introduced the TorqSense RWT320 series digital, configurable, noncontact, surface acoustic wave rotary torque transducers with integral electronics and serial output. They...
Sensor Technology Ltd.
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LED ENGINEERING KIT An LED engineering kit is being offered for sale by Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH on its LED Light for You platform. The kit includes a proprietary Ostar high-power LED, a power supply, a thermal...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
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IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE The Smart Finder software from Vision Components GmbH enables users to identify structures such as bottle labels and complex components via preset patterns. The real-time program operates with...
Vision Components GmbH
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CO2 LASER OPTICS Available from Laser Research Optics is a line of field-replaceable lenses and turning mirrors for the lower-power laser systems that are used for engraving and marking wood, plastics and light...
Laser Research Optics
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GALVO SCANNER A galvo scanner with an integrated pyrometer has been introduced by Dilas Industrial Laser Systems for use with its Compact series fiber-coupled turnkey diode laser system. Designed for use in...
DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH
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VIDEO CAPTURE CARD The Morphis Evo from Matrox Imaging is a video capture card with real-time multichannel H.264 encoding that is designed for next-generation digital video recorders. It captures from NTSC, PAL, RS-170...
Matrox Imaging
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USB CAMERAS VRmagic GmbH is offering two USB 2.0 cameras with a small form factor in board and housing versions and a C-mount connection for standard lenses. The VRmC-8+ and VRmC-9+/BW have board dimensions of...
VRmagic Imaging GmbH
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PLUGGABLE TRANCEIVER Applied Optoelectronics Inc. has introduced a small-form-factor pluggable transceiver for colorless optical networking terminals used in wavelength division multiplexed passive optical networks...
Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (AOI)
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REMOTE WELDING For high-speed remote welding, Rofin Laser Macro Group has introduced the RWSflex, a laser system with a 1450 × 3200 × 70-mm working area based on a 1600-mm focal length. With a control unit from...
Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH
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COLOR MEASUREMENT Hunter Associates Laboratory Inc. has released the MiniScan EZ portable color measurement instrument for use outdoors or on plant floors and production lines. The device, which is lightweight and...
HunterLab
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ACRYLIC FOAM TAPES Scapa North America is offering acrylic foam tapes for assembling solar panels and photovoltaic modules. Providing permanent bonds to glass, foil, metal, composite and plastic substrates, they...
Scapa Industrial
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SPOT ANALYZER The YAG focal spot analyzer from Ophir-Spiricon is a compact sampler/attenuator for camera-based laser beam profiling systems, attenuating high-power 1064-nm YAG lasers with path lengths from 50 to...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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CYLINDRICAL LENS Avantes BV has designed a cylindrical lens for its AvaSpec-128 spectrometer detector that combines increased sensitivity with a high-speed detector array (full 128-pixel spectrum in 60 μs)....
Avantes BV
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DPSS LASER Cobolt AB has released a higher-power model of its 561-nm diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) Cobolt Jive laser. Now with up to 100 mW of continuous-wave output power, it is suitable for use in...
Cobolt AB
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ILLUMINATOR Dolan-Jenner Industries has announced the Fiber-Lite MI-157F, a fiber optic illuminator for controlled lighting applications. Features include >1000 h of lamp life, a front-panel manual iris for...
Dolan-Jenner Industries Inc.
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TOUCH SCREEN The Crystal Touch projected capacitive touch screen from Ocular Inc. combines the optical quality of a thin-film transistor or monochrome display with autocalibration and a fast sampling rate. The...
Ocular LCD Inc.
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SAFETY GLASSES Laservision USA has developed the F10 frame style protective eyewear for people who wear prescription glasses. Designed to fit over another frame, they are lightweight, and the temple angle and...
laservision USA
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C-MOUNT CAMERAS Basler AG has introduced a C-mount option to its Gigabit Ethernet runner line-scan camera family, which features an interface that is compliant with both GigE Vision and GenICam. The six versions in...
Basler AG
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FIBER OPTIC CABLES Electro Standards Laboratories has announced the VersaLink plastic optical fiber cables with versatile link connectors. Available in standard and custom lengths with simplex or duplex UL rating, the...
Electro Standards Laboratories
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LED LIGHTING The Prelude LED lighting range, designed for integration with machine vision systems, has been introduced by Moritex. Driven by a constant voltage of 24 V, the LED features screw-in connectors and...
MORITEX North America Inc.
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CWDM TRANSCEIVERS GAO FiberOptics Inc. has released a coarse wavelength division multiplexing small-form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver series that is compatible with most popular SFPs and that supports distances... Request info >
ENERGY SENSOR Coherent Inc. has expanded its EnergyMax series laser energy sensors with the introduction of the J-10MT-10KHZ. The new model delivers a single-pulse noise-equivalent energy level of 10 nJ on 100-nJ...
Coherent Inc.
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SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENTS Cognex Corp. has unveiled VisionView 1.1 software enhancements for monitoring the production process and changing the parameters of vision systems. Engineers can choose the parameters they want to...
Cognex Corp.
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STEP MOTOR Technosoft has introduced the IS23x-MA intelligent step motor, which is adapted to distributed motion control applications. Power electronics, controller and interface are embedded in the compact...
Technosoft
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ACCESS CONTROL KIT Laser Safety Systems has unveiled the LSS-2386, a defeatable access control kit that provides controlled access to interlocked Class 4 laser areas and eliminates the need for magnetic locks. Entry...
Laser Safety Systems LLC
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PULSE GENERATORS Quantum Composers Inc.’s 9520 series digital delay multichannel pulse generators enable differing rates for all channels using new clock-divider functions. They provide up to eight independent...
Quantum Composers Inc.
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SOFTWARE Photon Engineering LLC has released version 7.100.0 of its FRED optical engineering software. The Optimum edition features a proprietary nonsequential hybrid optimizer, and both the Optimum and...
Photon Engineering LLC
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FIBER-COUPLED LASER DIODES Apollo Instruments Inc. has released high-brightness fiber-coupled laser diodes that deliver up to 80 W from a 100-μm fiber with a numerical aperture of 0.22. Many wavelengths are available to...
Apollo Instruments Inc.
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PICOSECOND LASERS The RG regenerative amplifier series diode-pumped solid-state picosecond lasers manufactured by Photonics Industries International Inc. produce more than 3 mJ per pulse at 1 kHz and more than 10 W at...
Photonics Industries International Inc.
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MDU CONNECTIVITY Prysmian has launched the CasaLight Xtreme fiber and Verticasa cabling system for multi-dwelling unit (MDU) applications. The bend-insensitive fiber reduces the minimum working bend radius to 5 mm,...
Prysmian Group
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LASER MARKING Miyachi Unitek Corp. has released the LMF1000 and 2000 series Yb:fiber laser markers. Performing high-speed, high-contrast marking on metals and plastics, the air-cooled devices offer rotary and...
AMADA WELD TECH Inc.
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BEAMSPLITTER The RoHS-compliant polarization beamsplitter from Union Optic Inc. produces two parallel output beams separated by a lateral displacement that is determined by the size of the rhomboid prism. It...
Union Optic Inc.
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NANOPOSITIONING STAGE The nanoSX 800 CAP single-axis micropositioning and nanoscanning stage from piezosystem jena GmbH offers scanning and stroke capabilities of 800 μm in open-loop and 640 μm in closed-loop...
piezosystem jena GmbH
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