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Photonics Spectra: February 2010

Photonics Spectra
 February 2010


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Prism Awards Winners: Photonics West 2010 The photonics industry last month took an evening off from the bustle of the show floor to celebrate innovation at the Photonics West 2010 trade show and conference. Ten companies ...
Lighting the Way The lighting industry is in transition. The formerly ubiquitous incandescent bulb has already been banned in Europe and will be phased out in the US beginning in 2012, all part of ...
Making electro-optical sense with Zinc Oxide ZnO has many properties that make it attractive for optoelectronic applications. It has a bandgap of 3.37 eV – the same as gallium nitride (GaN) – and an excitation binding energy of about 60 meV. It...
The art of microspectroscopy Martin noted that both spectra and high-resolution digital images can be acquired with the company’s microspectrophotometers, also known as microspectrometers (including its QDI 2010 model), which...
Beaming through to NOVEL USES for HOLOGRAPHY Typically, green, simple three-dimensional images of objects on flat paper are not unknown to today’s kids – or to anyone who has grown up during the past few decades. We encountered them first as...
The struggle to keep research real Beneath a scientist’s lab coat beats a human heart. So it should be no surprise that researchers sometimes fudge – or outright fake – their data. Often, this manipulation takes the form of a...
EDITORIAL
Finding falsification – and fighting it Allegations of fraud can take a long time to show up and can take even longer to investigate and prove. But the process is worth it: Innovation will falter without integrity. On page 57 of this issue, editor Hank Hogan takes an in-depth look at research misconduct, from the difficulties associated with identifying it, to how scientists in our industry can educate themselves (and others) on...
TECH PULSE
New system lets world monitor California forest fires When wildfires forced a group of Northern California students from their homes last year, they decided to work to keep the same thing from happening to others. Ranging in age from 10 to 13 years old, the grade-schoolers came up with the idea for Forest Guard, an early detection system for forest fires that relies on a new 360° solar-powered camera and Wi-Fi technology. The idea won the...
QCL peak power record smashed Only a year ago, the peak output power of a quantum cascade laser (QCL) was 34 W. Today, thanks to researchers at the Center for Quantum Devices at Northwestern University, peak power of 120 W from a...
Cold atoms + lasers = synthetic magnetic field Thanks to lasers, researchers have persuaded ultracold, neutral atoms to do something new: respond as if they were charged particles to a magnetic field that isn’t there. This synthetic magnetic...
Terahertz laser tuning comes down to the wire The progress of terahertz technology continues its steady march with news of a tunable terahertz laser developed by a group at MIT. Tunable terahertz lasers are particularly use...
The ins and outs of adjustable microlenses Adjustable microlenses now have a new knob that can be turned, courtesy of a research team led by Yanchun Han of Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry. The group demonstrated two new types of...
NIR spectroscopy to predict pill quality The quality-testing process for pharmaceuticals raises drug costs, according to pharmacy professor Stephen Hoag, but he says that evaluation with near-infrared spectroscopy could help lower those...
Graphene: The rising star in Raman spectroscopy With its numerous appealing qualities, including biocompatibility, chemical inertness and abundance, graphene has long been a popular metal among chemists and physicists alike. Thanks to these...
LIGHT SPEED
Optical coatings: Designs for growth Innovation is critical for revenue growth in the optical coatings industry, according to the market analysis firm BCC Research. New applications, where coatings have a new advantag...
ESA Offers Contract The European Space Agency has offered Midaz Lasers Ltd. €150,000 for the development of an engineered version of the diode-pumped Alexandrite laser. The performance benefits of the Alexandrite laser...
New Location Mobius Photonics, a producer of short-pulsed fiber laser sources, has moved its corporate headquarters to a facility in Mountain View, Calif., that is larger than its former Santa Clara location. The...
$10M Venture Funding QD Vision Inc. of Watertown, Mass., has received $10 million in venture funding from North Bridge Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners and the CIA’s investment arm, In-Q-Tel. The company will...
New US Subsidiary Gera, Germany-based Präzisionsoptik Gera GmbH has formed a US subsidiary, Precision Optics Gera Corp., with sales offices in Florida and Colorado. The custom and standard microstru...
LED Installation LED lighting company Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., has announced that LR24 recessed LED luminaires have been installed in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington....
Distributor Appointed Diode laser company Dilas of Mainz, Germany, has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with LxRay Co. Ltd. of Saitama, Japan, to serve the Japanese market. The latter, a technical oriented...
NSF Research Grant Vixar of Plymouth, Minn., has received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation for the development of integrated wafer-scale vertical-cavity...
$11M Grants The Australian Solar Institute (ASI) will provide $11 million to help fund five research and development projects that will support and accelerate the growth of Australia’s solar technology sector....
Unified Subsidiaries Mems Optical Inc. of Huntsville, Ala., and Jenoptik Polymer Systems Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., have merged with Jenoptik Optical Systems Inc. of Jupiter, Fla., to create a single corporation for the...
Exclusive Distribution Lake Oswego, Ore.-based Spectrum Detector Inc., a manufacturer of standard and custom detectors, is now the exclusive marketing, sales and distribution agent in the US and Canada for Laserpoint srl...
Subsidiary Acquisition Optical and optoelectronic components manufacturer 3S Photonics of Nozay, France, has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire Avensys Group subsidiaries Avensys Inc. and ITF Laboratories...
Andor Acquires Bitplane Andor Technology plc of Belfast, UK, a digital camera manufacturer, has acquired microscopy image analysis software company Bitplane of Zurich, Switzerland, for £7.46 million in cash and 283,851...
Patent Acquisition Optics for Hire (OFH) of Arlington, Mass., an optical product development company, has completed its acquisition of the patent portfolio and other assets developed and owned by Actuality Systems...
Photonics Company Established Key Photonics Ltd. of Cambridge, UK, has been formed to service the optics and photonics requirements of UK industrial and research companies. The company, specializing in the design and supply of...
LED Plant Opens Osram Opto Semiconductors of Sunnyvale, Calif., has completed construction and process-testing of its LED chip production plant in Penang, Malaysia. The facility will make InGaN semiconductor chips...
License Agreement Varioptic of Lyon, France, a liquid lens provider, and Cognex Corp. of Natick, Mass., a machine vision sensors and systems manufacturer, have announced a partnership and licensing agreement for the...
GREENLIGHT
US PV market watch The US financial world was anything but rosy in 2009, with the possible exception of the solar sector. According to a December 2009 market report by GTM Research of Cambridge, Mass., grid-connected photovoltaics (PVs) grew from 320 MW in 2008 to 440 MW in 2009 – and could go as high as 545 MW by the end of this year. Titled The United States PV Market through 2013, it also states that, from...
Solar-heated bridges, roads In January, we reported on the Solar Roadways project (“Pushing the envelope: Trends in green research and technology,” p. 45), which is working toward using road surfaces as giant...
Imaging PV cells Researchers and manufacturers of concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) cells have recently achieved record solar cell conversion efficiencies of 41 percent by overlaying three semiconduc...
LIGHTER SIDE
Depending on the kindness of strangers With the help of hundreds of people you’ve never met, you might be able to get a grand view of a tourist destination you’ve never visited. Imaging science has led to ways to create detailed recordings of famous landmarks, including the Colosseum in Rome and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Such recordings provide exquisite three-dimensional views but require painstaking measurement via laser or...
PRODUCTS
Machine Vision Camera Viewbits, a division of Computer Modules Inc., has launched a 12-megapixel, 25-fps machine vision camera with a 1.9-in. monochrome progressive-scan CMOS sensor. The Iyeron is compact and shock-resistant. The window of interest partial scanning mode delivers the fast frame rate and can be programmed to display up to 28 square windows within one image, and the user can select certain ones to be...
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Optical Design Software CODE V 10.2 optical design software from Optical Research Associates has enhancements that simplify use and provide greater flexibility. Improved ray tracing algorithms accommodate design of optical...
Synopsys Inc., Optical Solutions Group
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Antivibration Workstations Ergonomic ScienceDesk workstation frames and accessories have been announced by Thorlabs Ltd. The second-generation products have been upgraded with improvements to the durable welded steel...
Thorlabs Ltd.
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Single-Mode Pulse Amplifier Fiber NKT Photonics A/S has introduced a new version of its double-clad rod-type fiber for use in fiber amplifiers. The DC-285/100-PM-Yb-ROD is based on proprietary and patented Crystal Fibre air-clad...
NKT Photonics A/S
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Thermopile Detectors Newport Corp. has expanded its 818P series thermopile detectors with the fan-cooled 818P-500-55, the water-cooled 818P-3KW-060 and the high-sensitivity 818P-001-12NIR. The first handles up to 500 W...
MKS/Newport
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Scanning Probe Microscope The MultiMode 8 scanning probe microscope launched by Veeco Instruments Inc. employs two proprietary and patent-pending technologies, ScanAsyst and PeakForce QNM. The former has an automated imaging...
Veeco Instruments Inc.
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Medical Imaging Rad-icon Imaging Corp., a division of Dalsa Corp., has released the Helios10 MD panel, the first product in the company’s new Helios camera family. With an active sensing area of 20 x 25 cm, the CMOS...
Teledyne Rad-icon Imaging
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Power Meters The Flash handheld power meters manufactured by Gentec Electro-Optics Inc. deliver a response time that the company says is at least two times shorter than that of most other models on the market....
Gentec Electro-Optics Inc.
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HD Video Sensor A high-definition (HD) video sensor has been unveiled by OmniVision Technologies Inc. The compact OV9726 delivers 720-pixel HD video at 30 fps and is suitable for use in notebooks, netbooks, webcams,...
OmniVision Technologies Inc.
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Deconvolution Software Scientific Volume Imaging BV has released version 3.5 of its Huygens 3-D deconvolution, visualization and analysis software. This version includes the newly developed object stabilizer tool that can...
Scientific Volume Imaging
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CO2 Laser Coherent Inc. has unveiled the pulsed Diamond E-1000, a compact sealed 1-kW CO2 laser suited for use in small machines and for space-sensitive applications involving cutting, perforating and drilling...
Coherent Inc.
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Gigabit Ethernet Multispectral Cameras FluxData Inc. has added Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to its FD-1665 three-CCD multispectral imaging cameras, supplied in the same 121.9 x 88.9 x 111.8-mm form factor as the company’s FireWire...
FluxData Inc.
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Gigabit Ethernet Multispectral Cameras FluxData Inc. has added Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to its FD-1665 three-CCD multispectral imaging cameras, supplied in the same 121.9 x 88.9 x 111.8-mm form factor as the company’s FireWire...
FluxData Inc.
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Spectrometers Ocean Optics Inc. has expanded the wavelengths of its XR series miniature monolithic fiber optic spectrometers to cover from ~200 to 1050 nm. The newly developed XR-1 grating overcomes the challenges...
Ocean Insight
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Sample Prep Kit To simplify quality assurance and UVA protection factor analysis in the development and testing of sunscreen and cosmetics using Labsphere’s UV-2000S transmittance analyzer, the company has...
Labsphere Inc.
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Flattop Motorized Microscope Stage Prior Scientific Inc. has introduced the H117P2IX flattop stage for the Olympus IX series inverted microscopes. Suitable for all high-precision biomedical and materials sciences scanning operations,...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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Ductless Fume Hood Air Science USA has introduced the Purair 20, a ductless fume hood that protects operators using hazardous substances. A face velocity at 100 ft/min ensures containment of fumes, and an alarm alerts...
Air Science USA LLC
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Pan and Tilt Mounts The APT series pan and tilt mounts unveiled by Aerotech Inc. are designed for use in positioning applications in the security, defense and surveillance markets. The drive mechanism has a gear...
Aerotech Inc.
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Blackbody Source The BBS-200 blackbody source from Optikos Corp. is a reference source of infrared radiation similar in geometry to the primary standard of the UK’s National Physical Laboratory. Designed to emit...
Optikos Corporation
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Thermoelectric Controller A high-power thermoelectric cooler controller has been launched by Elite Thermal Engineering. The MC-1000 is configurable to drive all of the company’s thermoelectric cold plates with up to 600 W of...
Elite Thermal Engineering LLC
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Linear Stage The PA 30x40-SM01 from Steinmeyer Inc. is a single-axis precision linear stage used in miniature robotics, pick-and-place devices, specimen handling for life sciences and scientific applications...
Steinmeyer Inc.
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Glass Filter Laservision USA has introduced a glass and nanospec laser safety filter that covers OD 7+ from 190 to 535 nm and OD 6+ from 1030 to 1064 nm. The 00530 is a thin-film filter with a dielectric...
laservision USA
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Tunable Diode Lasers Toptica Photonics Inc. has announced that its DL pro ultrastable tunable diode lasers are now available at all diode wavelengths between 372 and 1670 nm. The design of the new version, called the DL...
TOPTICA Photonics Inc.
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Micropositioning X-Y Stages Micropositioning X-Y stages from IntelLiDrives Inc. have integrated micropositioning multiaxis X-Y-Z systems built with LSMA-173 series motorized actuators to provide up to 200-mm travel. Driven by a...
IntelLiDrives Inc.
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Optical Spectrometer McPherson Inc.’s 248/130 grazing incidence wavelength dispersive optical spectrometer enables rapid analysis of spectral light in the ~1- to 300-nm wavelength region (4 to ~1200 eV). It is useful for...
McPHERSON
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Optical Spectrum Analyzer The Yokogawa Test & Measurement Div. has announced the AQ6373, an optical spectrum analyzer that measures from 350 to 1200 nm. It features a color analysis function that renders it suitable for...
Yokogawa Europe BV
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Transparent Receiver Pinpoint Laser Systems has expanded its Microgage 2D family with the introduction of a transparent receiver that allows a laser beam to pass through it while making precise position measurements for...
Pinpoint Laser Systems
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Thermal Imaging Cameras The PTI-170L series portable thermal imaging cameras released by Process Sensors Corp. have a 384 x 288-pixel UFPA detector and operate at 60 Hz. Dual vision capabilities blend high-resolution...
Process Sensors Corp., IR Temperature Div.
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Laboratory Detector Module The LDM100-GEM from the Ortec Products Group of Ametek Advanced Measurement Technology is an integrated gamma-ray spectrometer for fixed and mobile counting room applications. The compact...
ORTEC
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Shutter Systems Vincent Associates has announced three additions to its Uniblitz N-CAS DSS (design scalable shutter) series: the 10-mm-aperture DSS10, the 20-mm-aperture DSS20 and the 25-mm-aperture DSS25. The...
Vincent Associates
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Video Processors Calibre UK Ltd. has unveiled a range of HQView video processors, including models that perform sophisticated warp mapping and seamless soft-edge blending of multiple projected images. The...
Calibre UK Ltd.
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Spatial Light Modulators The Pluto phase-only spatial light modulators from Holoeye Photonics AG are based on liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplays with high-definition TV 1920 x 1080-pixel resolution, and they provide a...
HOLOEYE Photonics AG
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Fiber Collimator Micro Laser Systems Inc. has introduced the FC40 fiber collimator, which has a large 46-mm aperture and generates a beam measuring ~20 mm. It has adjustable focus with no rotation to enable fine...
Micro Laser Systems Inc.
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Software/Database Package Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. has released version 8.1 of its KnowItAll Informatics system, a fully integrated software and database package that includes database building and management, search,...
Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc., Informatics Div.
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Optical Spectrum Analyzer To facilitate network commissioning, upgrading and troubleshooting for carriers and network equipment manufacturers, Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has launched the FTB-5240BP, a field optical...
EXFO Inc.
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Crystal Imaging and Detection Rigaku Automation’s Minstrel HT UV high-throughput ultraviolet and visible crystal imaging and protein crystal monitoring system is for use in protein crystallization experiments. The robotic device...
Rigaku Americas Corp.
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Terahertz System TeraView Ltd. has unveiled the CW Spectra 499, a continuous-wave terahertz system with fiber-fed external devices. The compact and fully tunable spectrometer and detector operate in the 50- to...
TeraView Ltd.
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Wafer Inspection System Iris, a macro wafer defect inspection system launched by SemiProbe, is for use by microelectronic device manufacturers. It detects contamination, processes damage and flaws in the circuit pattern,...
SemiProbe Inc.
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Die-Bonding Materials Shin-Etsu Silicones of America has introduced the KER series, a line of silicone die-bond materials that provide advanced encapsulating performance for high-brightness LEDs. The products were...
Shin-Etsu Silicones of America
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Infrared Detector Ulis has launched a long-wave 640 x 480-pixel uncooled 17-µm-format infrared detector to upgrade the image quality of the infrared cameras used in surveillance, enhanced night driving and...
ULIS
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Lightguide Film Technology Avago Technologies has announced an ultrathin high-brightness lightguide film technology for backlighting cell phones, handheld games and global positioning systems. It enables designers to reduce...
Broadcom Inc.
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Infrared Camera Telops Inc. has developed a line of advanced infrared cameras designed for use by research scientists and infrared experts. The Hyper-Cam FAST-IR is a 1000-fps full-frame camera that enables thermal...
Telops Inc.
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Fiber Laser Diode Laser Concepts Inc. has added fiber-pigtailed diode laser systems to its product offerings with the introduction of Teleos. Delivering good optical stability and performance, the...
Diode Laser Concepts Inc.
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