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Photonics Spectra - January 2003


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Applications Surge for High-Power LEDs Until recently, LEDs were best-known as the ubiquitous indicator lights on computers, printers and other electronic equipment. Their small footprint, energy efficiency and long life have posed...
Ultrahigh-Performance Ion-Etched Holographic Diffraction Gratings Up until the mid-1960s, mechanically ruled diffraction gratings with approximately 1800-g/mm ruling density were considered to be the state of the art in spectroscopy. By the late ’60s,...
Surface and Wavefront Interference Testing Interference testing continues to expand in support of fields that are confronting increasingly stringent manufacturing tolerances, including the automotive, data storage, semiconductor and optical...
Uncooled IR Photodetectors Get a Performance Boost Within the next year or so, end users can expect significant performance improvements in medium-wavelength IR (3 to 5 µm) and long-wavelength IR (8 to14 µm) photodetectors operating without cryogenic...
VCSELs Expand Communications Potential It is fair to say that the introduction of vertical-cavity self-emitting laser (VCSEL) technology in the mid- to late 1990s enabled the widespread deployment of fiber optic links within an...
Quantum-Dot Lasers’ Performance Makes Great Gains The evolution of laser diode design has proved critical to the advancement of low-cost, high-performance transmitters for telecom and datacom networks, especially in light of the downturn in the...
Solid-State UV Photodetectors Search for a Niche Commercial solid-state UV photodetectors did not exist until around 1996 when Cree Research in Durham, N.C., began production of silicon carbide photodiodes. Since then, additional materials have...
Trends in Deep-UV Excimer Light for Photolithography The use of deep-UV excimer light sources in semiconductor chip manufacturing has grown dramatically in the last five years. More than half of the lithography exposure systems shipped since 2000...
Ultrafast Laser Systems Find Work Outside the Lab Two basic types of amplified ultrafast Ti:sapphire laser systems are commercially available: individual component systems, such as the Titan or Odin from Quantronix Corp., where the mode-locked...
Organic LEDs Get Brighter, Sharper Organic light-emitting diodes are the hottest new display technology. Incredibly, it can often take 20 to 30 years to fully commercialize a display technology, but these devices are already ahead of...
The Quest for Athermal Solid-State Etalons Because of the stringent requirements for frequency stability in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems, demand is continuing to grow for passive optical telecommunications components...
CMOS Challenges, What’s Next for CMOS Image Sensors? The use of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication processes to produce image sensor array chips was first demonstrated in the late 1980s. Since then, the goal of integrating all...
Alcatel Optronics The 1910 TWV eight-channel, wavelength-independent multiplexer from Alcatel Optronics, headquartered at Nozay, France, demonstrates the concept of integrated planar lightwave hybridization. It is...
Calient Networks The DiamondWave all-optical photonic switch offers 256 x 256 transparent switch capacity and GMPLS networking capability in a single package that is half the size of an industry-standard rack....
Coherent Inc. A hands-free, single-box, ultrafast Ti:sapphire laser from Coherent Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif., the Chameleon provides femtosecond-pulse tuning from 720 to greater than 930 nm. Developed primarily...
Crystal Fibre A/S Crystal Fibre designed its highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with zero-dispersion wavelength at 1.55 µm to facilitate the evolution from low-bit-rate electro-optical networks to high-bit-rate...
Eastman Kodak Co. - Image Sensor Solutions Imaging applications are often limited by low light levels or by lengthy exposure times that inhibit throughput and efficiency. The KAF-3200ME full-frame sensor employs microlens technology that...
Farfield Sensors Ltd. The AnaLight Bio200 from Farfield Sensors Ltd. features patented sensing technology for real-time analysis of the structure, function and conformational changes of proteins. The Salford, UK, company...
FLIR Systems Inc. The ThermaCAM E2 handheld infrared camera weighs just 1.5 lb and offers state-of-the-art thermal imaging, noncontact temperature measurement and in-field jpeg image storage. It is designed to detect...
Given Imaging Ltd. A video camera in an ingestible capsule that measures only 11 x 26 mm, the M2A provides physicians with an accurate view of the small intestine, which is only one-third accessible with conventional...
Honeywell International-VCSEL Optical Products The growth of gigabit optical networking relies on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for implementing parallel optical interfaces. Traditional manufacturing of VCSELs has suffered from...
IMRA America Inc. The development of a "temporally tailored" laser source that produces a rectangular pulse shape with real-time tunable pulse duration between 4 and 20 ns at 20-kHz rates was made possible by...
Lightbit Corp. The BandXchange is a "pure optical" processor capable of all-optical wavelength band conversion, phase conjugation and spectral inversion with bit-rate and protocol transparency and negligible added...
MPB Communications Inc. The Super Raman Fiber Laser from Montreal-based MPB Communications Inc. is a pump source that provides distributed Raman amplification in transmission spans of telecommunications systems via...
OFS-Specialty Photonics Div. The RightWave tunable dispersion-compensating module enables transmission systems to operate at ultrahigh data rates of 40 Gb/s. Its manufacturer, OFS, Specialty Photonics Div. of Somerset, N.J.,...
Point Source The iFlex-2000 combines 405-nm laser diode technology with single-mode polarization-maintaining fiber to produce a pure Gaussian beam for high-resolution imaging applications. Many applications at...
Positive Light Inc. Positive Light Inc. designed the Indigo-DUV all-solid-state 193-nm laser source to fill the need for an optical metrology tool for at-wavelength characterization of deep-UV optics and detectors. The...
Renishaw plc-Spectroscopy Products Div. This instrument, a collaborative effort between Renishaw plc of Wotton-under-Edge, UK, and Nanonics Imaging Ltd. of Jerusalem, combines the chemical sensitivity of Raman spectroscopy with the...
Roper Scientific Inc. Roper Scientific Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., designed and manufactured the CCD-based Photometrics Cascade camera for low-light live-cell microscopy. It enables microscopists to boost signal as much as...
Sabeus Photonics Inc. Cold writing technology allows sensors to be written directly into a fiber's core without compromising its integrity, tensile strength or durability. The technique does not require stripping and...
Santur Corp. The TL1010-C is a 10-mW CW laser source designed for DWDM transmission systems. It provides distributed feedback laser performance with no mode hopping and high output power with no semiconductor...
Spectra-Physics Built in response to the need in microelectronics and industrial manufacturing to process materials with smaller features, tighter tolerances and higher speeds, the Hippo (high-intensity peak-power...
Sumita Optical Glass Inc. Sumita Optical Glass Inc. developed its K-PG325 Super Vidron optical glass to replace the less durable plastic now used in optical molded parts. This material can be precision-molded at approximately...
3M Co.-Film and Light Management Thin, high-performance UV-reflective filters from 3M are constructed from engineering-grade polymers and do not require a substrate. Based on the St. Paul, Minn., company's Multilayer Optical Film...
3M Co.-Optical Components Program The Pulse Compressor from 3M Co. of Austin, Texas, manages the chromatic dispersion that can limit transmission speeds in optical communications systems. Earlier solutions required the use of bulky...
Toshiba America-Electronic Components Inc. Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. of Irvine, Calif., has produced a phosphor-integrated white LED that emits light at a peak wavelength of 380 nm. Designated the TLWA1100, its color is...
Tech Pulse
Semiconducting Wires Improve Polymer LEDs European researchers have performed a balancing act that may lead to inexpensive and large-scale illumination, low-power and expansive flat panel displays, and other applications of polymer light-emitting devices. Traditionally, polymer LED design balances effective charge transport against efficient light emission. Now the researchers have developed and demonstrated a scheme that is good at...
Encapsulation Key to In Vivo Imaging Recent research indicates that quantum dots could someday replace fluorescent markers, such as organic dyes and fluorescent proteins, in some biological imaging applications. To compete, though,...
New Materials Enable Dense Data Storage A team at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has discovered a class of materials that may offer an efficient and robust method of...
Nd:YVO4 Laser Offers 200 kHz Advanced Optical Technology Ltd. of Basildon, UK, has reported the development of a 200-kHz electro-optically Q-switched laser. Such high-repetition-rate devices may find use in industrial, medical...
Electronic Nose Uses Standard Monitor An electronic nose under development at Linköping University in Sweden may be able to detect the odors of spoiled food in your kitchen before you catch a whiff of them. An offshoot of the scanning...
Reflectivity Yields Fresnel Lenses Continuing their work with photoinduced reflectivity, scientists at W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford University in California have produced transient diffractive optical...
Plastic Electro-Optic Modulators Show Potential Although the need for modulation at terahertz rates for telecommunications may be years away, researchers at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., are working on plastic electro-optic...
Efficient Silicon LED Demonstrated Researchers at STMicroelectronics in Catania, Italy, have reported the development of a silicon LED with what they claim is a world-record emission efficiency. To make the device, Salvo Coffa and his...
X-Ray Laser Funding Approved A group of researchers at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park, Calif., are looking forward to seeing the world in a new light with the Linac Coherent Light Source. The x-ray...
Spectra Identify Nanotube Species Chemists at Rice University in Houston have reported that spectrofluorometry is an effective tool in identifying various species of single-walled carbon nanotubes. They suggest that the technique may...
Deposition Achieves 12 nm/cycle A team of scientists at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., has demonstrated an atomic layer deposition process that yields conformal layers of amorphous silicon dioxide and aluminum oxide...
MagiQ Readies Quantum Code System MagiQ Technologies Inc. of New York has announced plans for the commercial release of its Navajo quantum cryptography product. The quantum key distribution system will transmit entangled photons over...
Quantum Dots, Photonic Crystal Form LED Scientists at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have reported an electrically driven LED comprising InAs/GaAs quantum dots in a GaAs photonic crystal structure. They described the fabrication...
Satellite Images Plankton Bloom Images from the Envisat satellite released by the European Space Agency displayed a 300 x 200-km phytoplankton bloom in the seas off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in Canada from July 24 to Aug. 13,...
Networked Computers Support Data-Intensive Applications Massive amounts of data from multiple storage sites connected by optical networks can be interactively visualized, analyzed and correlated with the OptIPuter, a distributed computer under development...
Motion Sensors Compensate for Image Blurring Using integrated accelerometers to detect the vibration in an imaging system, suggest researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel, offers an accurate means to correct for...
Filament Cores Observed on Sun Using a new 1-m telescope on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, solar astronomers from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm have investigated heretofore-unseen structures in...
Tristable Nematic Liquid Crystals Formed Liquid crystal devices with molecules that adopt multiple stable orientations could someday help reduce power consumption of high-information-content displays. In line with this, researchers at Japan...
Diffractive Optics Produce Pseudoscopic Images Physicists at Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil have generated pseudoscopic images using a pair of diffractive optical elements and a slit. They suggest that the findings, which they...
Spectroscopy Probes Fuel Flames Rogier Evertsen of the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands has demonstrated the suitability of cavity ringdown spectroscopy for the analysis of the combustion products of fuel flames. In a...
Models Suggest Integrated Photonic Circuits A group of researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has reported in the Nov. 18 Optics Express that integrating conventional waveguides and photonic crystal structures can produce...
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Photonics Groups Combine Under Spectra-Physics Name Six Thermo Electron photonics businesses combined earlier this month under the Spectra-Physics name in a move fueled by recent research. In what company President Guy Broadbent called brand...
Photonics Firms Continue to Invest in R&D Optoelectronics companies are faced with the most difficult of challenges. They must continually design and build products for a world that doesn't yet exist. With any luck, they will emerge at the...
Photonics Lands Federal Funds Nine photonics projects have garnered awards totaling more than $20 million under the US Department of Commerce's Advanced Technology Program. Awarded by the National Institute of Standards and...
Agilent, Photonics Center Collaborate The Photonics Center at Boston University is constructing the Integrated Optics Laboratory and has worked with Agilent Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., in equipping it. The center invested a...
Slow Boat from China Just Got Slower Between 2001 and 2002, university administrators and department heads began noticing a precipitous decline in the number of Chinese students in academic programs. In response to this discovery, the...
Senate Bill 149: Down but Not Out Senate Bill 149 lapsed into oblivion during this past session of the US Congress, but with renewed impetus from the Bush administration and a Republican House and Senate, it may find new life and a...
Satellite Imagery Will Aid Nature Conservation Under terms of an agreement with The Nature Conservancy, based in Arlington, Va., Space Imaging of Denver will provide Ikonos and Indian remote sensing global satellite imagery at a discount along...
Light Systems Integration Company Relocates Sunrise Instruments Ltd. has moved from Harpswell, Maine, to Hebron, N.H., and has changed its name to Sunrise Instruments LLC. The company integrates custom light measurement systems for the LED...
Palomar Technologies Acquires Nanopositioning Products Palomar Technologies Inc., based in Vista, Calif., has acquired the fiber automation division of Axsys Technologies Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif. Renamed Palomar Photonics Automation, the...
BTG and INO Join to Broaden Photonic Applications BTG Inc. of Fairfax, Va., and INO of Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada, have allied to explore the commercial application of photonics technology. INO will have access to BTG's expertise in intellectual...
Raytheon Provides Laser for Missile Defense Raytheon Co. of El Segundo, Calif., has delivered a track illuminator laser to Lockheed Martin for use in the US Air Force's airborne laser missile defense program. The diode-pumped Yb:YAG laser will...
Optra Wins Grant to Produce Optical Spectrometer The US Air Force has awarded Optra Inc. of Topsfield, Mass., a $700,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant to deliver a low-cost, open-path Fourier transform infrared spectrometer....
Third-Quarter 2002 Industrial Laser Shipments Down from 2001 A report from the Laser Systems Product Group of the Association for Manufacturing Technology shows that, at $96.1 million for the third quarter of 2002, shipments of industrial laser equipment and...
Optomec to Develop Abrasion Repair Technology Under a contract from the Naval Air Systems Command, Optomec Inc. will use its Laser Engineered Net Shaping technology to develop a technique for leading-edge rollover abrasion on T700 US Navy...
Air Force Supports Advancement of Solid-State Laser The US Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Direc-torate has awarded a contract of $16.9 million to Raytheon Co. of El Segundo, Calif., and one of $21.3 million to TRW Inc. of Redondo...
Tunable Laser Implementation Agreement Is Completed The Optical Internetworking Forum has adopted four Physical and Link Layer Implementation agreements for tunable lasers; SFI-4, Phase 2, 10-Gb/s interface for physical layer devices; VSR4-05 OC-192...
Accent on Applications
Digital Cameras Improve Canopy Photography A successful forester must know the best conditions under which to grow a desired type of tree. For example, managing oaks in Eastern forests requires that saplings be exposed to greater than 10 percent of full sunlight to optimize selective logging and to provide biologically meaningful measurements. One method of doing this is called hemispherical canopy photography, and a variant that employs...
Pulsed Lasers Drill Rock for Fuels Once believed to be a pipe dream, drilling for oil and natural gas with lasers now shows great promise and is receiving the attention of researchers. A team at Argonne National Laboratory is...
Laser Process Cuts Thick Steel As a building material, steel is unmatched for its combination of tensile strength and flexibility and for its low cost and weight. But working the material into tools and forms that can be used on...
Cameras Monitor Rocket Launch On Nov. 20, Boeing launched its Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) rocket, which included one of the more significant advances in launch vehicle propulsion system design since the Apollo missions. To monitor the...
Sensor Tracks Soldiers' Vital Signs Battles may be won or lost on how well troops cope with stress and fatigue. In work sponsored by the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick, Md., for the Warfighter...
Presstime Bulletin
Digital Video Images Butterflies Researchers at Oxford University in the UK have used high-speed digital video to study the wing beats of red admiral butterflies. The studies, reported in the Dec. 12 issue of Nature, were conducted...
Free-Electron Laser Ionizes Clusters Investigations at Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany, into the interaction of high-intensity, deep-UV radiation from a free-electron laser with clusters of xenon suggest that...
Microdischarge Studied for Detectors Scientists at the University of Illinois in Urbana and at Ewing Technology Associates in Bellevue, Wash., are investigating the photosensitivity of silicon microdischarge devices. Experiments at the...
Coating Tested for Large Binocular Telescope Bruce Atwood and his team at Ohio State University's Imaging Sciences Laboratory in Columbus are beginning full-scale tests of coating equipment designed to aluminize the two 8.4-m primary mirrors...
Hollow Fiber Transmits CO2 Laser Radiation Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have produced wavelength-scalable hollow optical fiber that can transmit enough of the output of a 25-W CO2 laser to burn holes in...
Laser Sensors Monitor Bus Exhaust Researchers from Aerodyne Research Inc. of Billerica, Mass., the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation in Albany and State University of New York at Albany reported their findings...
Reconsidering What 'Visible' Means Laser safety standards have called the spectral band between 400 and 700 nm "visible" for Class 2 lasers since the drafting of the first ANSI Standard in the early 1970s. Although it's technically...
Microscopy measures 40-nm-diameter fluorescent objects Using spatially modulated illumination microscopy, scientists at the University of Heidelberg in Germany have measured nanoscale fluorescent objects beyond the limits of conventional high-resolution...
Few Atoms Control Light Propagation Scientists from the University of Tokyo and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., have reported that a small number of atoms in a high-finesse microcavity can...
Photon Turnstile Improves Cryptography In pursuit of more reliable quantum cryptography systems, a team at Stanford University in California and NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Atsugi, Japan, has demonstrated a system that incorporates...
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MACHINE CONTROL Model 526 for the PC/104 bus is a machine-control interface that counts encoder pulses, measures analog voltages, detects digital signals, and generates analog voltages and digital outputs. Available...
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PHOTODETECTOR An ultrawide-bandwidth PIN photodetector has been introduced by Discovery Semiconductors Inc. The DSC10W is suitable for millimeter-wave analog, high-speed instrumentation and telecommunications...
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PHOTODIODE ARRAY Hamamatsu Corp. has unveiled a four-element GaAs photodiode array for high-speed data links and other optical communications applications. The G8921-01 delivers a response rate of 2.5 Gb/s per...
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RAMAN AMPLIFIERS The RAR series discrete Raman amplifiers introduced by IPG Photonics Corp. provide high-gain and low-noise amplification across the standard optical fiber low-loss region from 1260 to 1700 nm. The...
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10-Gb TRANSPONDERS Harris Corp. has announced the release of 16H80XX and 16H120XX 10-Gb fiber optic transponders, which operate at 1550 nm. The devices are available as time division multiplex or wavelength division...
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MODULATOR DRIVER The CMD-LN-20 compact modulator driver from Photline Technologies is suitable for medium-, long- or ultralong-haul transmission systems operating in the C- and L-bands with FEC and a 12.5-Gb/s data...
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MINI FIBER COMPONENTS Fujikura Europe Ltd. has introduced a series of miniature optical components designed for environments that are tight on space, such as metropolitan networks. Gain-flattening filters that measure 22...
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CMOS AREA CAMERA Dalsa has released an area camera that can be used in electronics manufacturing, inspection, industrial metrology and welding applications. The Dalstar 1M75-SA features a 1-megapixel CMOS image...
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CMOS CAMERA The cmosSamBa HR-130 from Sensovation AG is a 1.3-megapixel camera designed for applications where high resolution is needed but space is limited. The CMOS image sensor, which is housed in a 25 x 25...
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FAST IMAGING The Pixci CL3SD frame grabber combined with the Basler A504k camera, both available from Epix Inc., can capture images with 1280 x 1024 resolution at 500 fps. Windowing enables lower resolutions at...
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DRIVER LIBRARY PicoQuant GmbH offers a driver library for use with its TimeHarp 200 TCSPC board. The library allows custom programming with Linux versions 2.2 and 2.4 and supports the same range of functions as the...
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BALANCED RECEIVERS Model 18X7 80-MHz high-gain balanced receivers are designed for small-signal detection at low frequencies. Available from New Focus Inc., the devices are suitable for coherent heterodyne detection...
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OPTICAL ADHESIVE Electronic Materials Inc. has introduced Optocast 3421, a single-component, silica-filled, low-viscosity UV- and heat-curable epoxy for fixturing and aligning optical devices in optoelectronic...
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OPTICAL GEL The release of the optically clear LS-3238 potting gel, which is designed to protect photonic and fiber optic modules from dust, moisture, thermal or mechanical shock, has been announced by Fiber...
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LASER POWER METER Ophir Optronics Inc.'s enhanced Smart Head to USB interface supports the company's laser power/energy heads, including the pyroelectric pulsed-energy types. The interface, which can convert a...
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POLISHING MACHINE Logitech says its CDP polishing machine produces laser-quality surfaces and improves surface topography. Designed for delayering and chemical mechanical polishing, the system allows nanometer-level...
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DIGITAL DRIVES Advanced Motion Controls has added a velocity mode to its DR100 series digital drives. The velocity loop is implemented as a fully decoupled PID algorithm with feed-forward gain and runs at an update...
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PIEZOELECTRIC MOTOR Nanomotion Inc. has launched the HR8EE motor, which offers 25% more speed, force and duty cycle than its previous models. The company says the piezoelectric motor improves heat dissipation and...
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405-nm DIODE LASER A 405-nm blue diode laser with a repetition rate of 20 to 50 MHz and a pulse width of 75 to 250 ps has been introduced by Boston Electronics Corp. The model BDL-405 is housed in a 160 x 90 x 60-mm...
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LASER MACHINING CENTER The Trumpf Lasercell TLC 1005 is supplied with a separated safety cabin for dual-station operation. The user can load or unload a part on one side of the cabin, while the laser cuts, welds or surface...
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LINEAR LIGHTING Designed for machine vision, packaging, and food and beverage processing applications, the IL series industrial-grade fluorescent linear lighting products from StockerYale Inc. provide 7000 h of...
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SAPPHIRE WINDOWS Meller Optics Inc. offers large ultraflat sapphire windows with outer diameters up to 6 in. ±0.010 in. The windows can be precision-polished and are available in prototype and production...
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FLUORESCENCE FILTERS Semrock Inc.'s BrightLine filters are designed to provide up to 60% more throughput. They are suitable for flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy and high-throughput screening. The filters are...
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GONIOPHOTOMETER The Optronik SMS-10H goniophotometer has been announced by Labsphere Inc. The photometric analysis system provides automated measurement of automotive and general vehicle lamps in accordance with...
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