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Photonics Spectra - January 2004
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Camera Technologies Advance and Expand
Users of detectors for all wavelengths of the spectrum have the same demands year in and year out: faster cameras, better resolution, improved sensitivity, smaller packages and easier-to-use software that will integrate seamlessly with a myriad of applications. Although it may be easy to predict customers’ needs, delivering detectors that exceed — not just match — these expectations is the hard...
Coating Equipment Advances Thin-Film Applications
Even as the telecom market bubble burst, advances in optical coating technology developed for telecom applications began fueling advances in other application areas. Dense wavelength division...
Photonic Solutions for Transportation
The US transportation infrastructure, already dependent in many ways on optics and photonics, will become even more so in the future, according to attendees of a workshop held last month in...
Digital Imaging from the Inside Out
Companies that develop systems for medical imaging are motivated not only by the demand by hospitals for faster results at lower cost, but also by new imaging technologies. Radiology, like many...
Violet Diode Lasers See Broadened Application Base
The recent availability of GaN-based laser diodes, nurtured by a strong and flourishing LED market, has opened up a host of new applications. The optical storage market, essentially the raison d’être...
Microlithography Faces a 157-nm Question
When Intel Corp. announced its intention to bypass 157-nm lithography last spring, it raised more questions than it answered for many in the lithography industry. However, it is important to...
Miniaturization and Powerful Software Drive Photonics Industry
Despite the less than stellar performance of recent years, the outlook for photonics looks bright. New technologies offer the promise of lower-cost bandwidth and simplified communications for...
LEDs Open New Doors
The possibility of widespread use of white-light inorganic light-emitting diodes in architectural spaces is generating a great deal of optimism in some government and industry circles. Some within...
'Smart' Cameras Broaden Applications for Machine Vision
In its early days, machine vision was considered expensive, in need of more power, and difficult to learn and use. In recent years, however, the advent of “smart” cameras has ushered in an era of...
VECSELs Expand into New Applications
Vertical-extended-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) will enable advancements in several important applications in 2004 and beyond. Laser-projection systems can take advantage of the technology...
Thin Films Support Projection Display Market and Beyond
Today a typical thin-film device consists of a multilayer stack of alternating high- and low-index dielectric films, each with a typical thickness of 50 to 100 nm. The number of layers depends on the...
Miniature Fiber Optic Spectroscopy Comes of Age
In little more than a decade, miniature fiber optic spectroscopy has evolved from a technological curiosity to a proven technique that has helped make possible thousands of optical-sensing...
IR Thermographic Cameras Are Moving into New Areas
Ten years ago, it was ”one size fits all.” We offered infrared technology in a box and hoped to figure out a way to make it work for everybody. But that’s not what today’s market needs. What we...
Fiber Lasers Show Industrial Potential
The current generation of fiber lasers offer benefits such as low cost of ownership, compact size and ease of integration, which already make them competitive with YAG lasers, especially in materials...
Integrated Optics Make Inroads
This year, integrated optics will begin to gain a significant foothold in commercial optical circuits, both in telecom and consumer electronics. Two years from now, they will most likely be...
Digital Radiography Gains Ground
Flat panel digital detectors were introduced in the 1990s as an alternative technology to traditional film, computed radiography and image intensifiers for diagnostic medical imaging. As their...
Disk Lasers Enable Application Advancements
The driving factor in the development of lasers for industrial materials processing is the demand for higher power levels combined with improved beam quality. Achieving this goal with conventional...
Actuality Systems Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The Perspecta spatial 3-D system is a combination of software and hardware that enables the use of standard modeling applications to create high-resolution 3-D images. The system generates images...
Apollo Instruments Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Apollo Instruments Inc.’s F40-xxx-1 laser diode produces 40 W with ~4-MW cm–2 sr –1 brightness. The Irvine, Calif., company says that this is a magnitude high-er than other fiber-coupled laser...
Corning Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The OptiFocus Lensed Taper from Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., focuses light to very small spot sizes farther from the lens, thus avoiding yield loss and a greater amount of light being reflected off...
Crystal Fibre A/S Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Crystal Fibre A/S of Birker/od, Denmark, designed its AIR-12-1060 air-guiding fiber to transmit around the Nd:YAG wavelength of 1060 nm. The fiber, which uses the photonic bandgap principle to trap...
Eastman Kodak Co., Image Sensor Solutions Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The KAF-22000CE CCD large-format color image sensor from Eastman Kodak Co.’s Image Sensor Solutions of Rochester, N.Y., has 22 million pixels that produce high-resolution, high-quality images...
4D Technology Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The ultrahigh-speed PhaseCam 4000 interferometer system from 4D Technology Corp. of Tucson, Ariz., captures high-accuracy, quantitative optical phase measurements. It uses a computer-generated...
Elektronik Laser System GmbH Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The VersaDisk-515 is a frequency-doubled Yb:YAG thin-disk laser for general-purpose scientific applications, including atomic traps, laser tweezers, laser Doppler velocimetry, interferometry,...
Hamamatsu Corporation Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Manufactured from a single 12-in. silicon wafer using conventional CMOS processes, the C7930DP flat panel sensor was developed by Hamamatsu Corp. of Bridgewater, N.J., for low-energy mammography,...
Hinds Instruments Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The development of lithography has been hindered by the lack of a deep-ultraviolet tool to measure birefringence in optical materials such as calcium fluoride. Visible measurement has encountered a...
IPG Photonics Wins Circle of Excellence Award
A line of industrial low-order-mode ytterbium fiber lasers that produce 4 kW of continuous-wave output and that operate at 1060 to 1090 nm combine the power of single-mode monolithic diode-pumped...
JDS Uniphase -- OCLI Products Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The television industry is making a transition into liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) projection systems, especially for rear-projection TV. To meet the demand for higher uniformity and contrast in...
Konoshima, Chemical/Baikowski Group Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The polycrystalline ceramic YAG was designed as an inexpensive high-power replacement YAG, according to its developer, Konoshima Chemical Co. Ltd. of Kagawa, Japan. It offers five times the fracture...
Lumileds Lighting LLC Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The Luxeon warm white LED light source combines the benefits of solid-state lighting and the white color of incandescent lamps. The light provides 3200 K warm white light with a typical...
NanoOpto Corp. Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Offering a building block for optical on-a-chip integration, the Subwave Retarder wave plates fabricated by NanoOpto Corp. of Somerset, N.J., are passive optical components that provide precise phase...
Newport Corp. Wins Circle of Excellence Award
A flexible, powerful approach to optical spectrum processing for applications in remote fiber optic sensing, telecommunications and the life and health sciences is embodied in the LambdaCommander...
Novalux Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Novalux Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., developed its Protera 488 laser system as a solid-state replacement for the air-cooled argon-ion laser used in bioanalytical instrumentation. Its advantages over...
Ocean Optics Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Researchers can achieve real-time measurements of trace elements in solids, liquids and gases with the broadband LIBS2000+ laser-induced breakdown spectrometer from Ocean Optics Inc. of Dunedin, Fla....
OraSure Technologies Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the OraQuick rapid HIV-1 antibody test provides results with greater than 99 percent accuracy in 20 minutes, according to its producer, OraSure...
PerkinElmer Optoelectronics Wins Circle of Excellence Award
A real-time imaging technology designed for vascular diagnostics, the fully digital Angio 41 detector from PerkinElmer Optoelectronics of Fremont, Calif., provides physicians with high-resolution...
QED Technologies Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The subaperture stitching interferometer is a six-axis, computer-controlled workstation that enables affordable, automated, high-precision characterization of large-clear-aperture and...
Semrock Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Using the latest advances in thin-film filter technology, Semrock Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., has combined its modern ion-beam sputtering, sophisticated designs and proprietary deposition control...
Veeco Instruments Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Responding to the needs of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) manufacturers for an effective and dynamic measurement technique, Veeco Instruments Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., has developed the Wyko...
Visx Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The CustomVue laser wavefront system is an ophthalmic laser surgery device that combines new photonics technologies to provide personalized laser vision correction for both nearsightedness and...
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The ApoTome optical sectioning device from Carl Zeiss was designed to make it fast and easy to generate optical sections of biological fluorescence specimens. This optoelectronic add-on device for a...
Tech Pulse
Machine Vision System Scans Baked Goods
Engineers at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta are working on a way to give everyone perfect buns -- sandwich buns, that is. In collaboration with researchers at Baking Technology Systems Inc. (Bake-Tech) of Tucker, Ga., they are developing a machine vision system that continuously inspects fresh-baked buns to ensure the proper and uniform color, shape and seed distribution. A...
Photonic Crystal Enables Flat-Lens Imaging
A team of scientists at Northeastern University in Boston has demonstrated that it is possible to image using a flat photonic crystal lens that displays negative refraction. The work illustrates the...
Tunable Source Produces Microsecond Pulses in the Mid-IR
A collaboration among scientists at Nederlands Centrum voor Laser Research bv and the University of Twente, both in Enschede, the Netherlands, and at Laser Zentrum Hannover eV in Germany has resulted...
Laser Strums Silicon 'Nanoguitar'
A team of scientists at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has employed a laser to pluck the strings on a microscopic guitar. The demonstration illustrates the potential of optically driven...
Researchers Around the World Obtain Vanadate Improvements
Neodymium-doped vanadate has become the crystal of choice for many diode-pumped lasers, primarily because the absorption cross section for 808-nm laser-diode pumping to the neodymium upper laser...
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Optoelectronics Sales Expected to Flatten
The global market for optoelectronic components is slackening because of reduced demand from end users, but new high-speed applications will revive the industry over the next five years. So says consulting firm Frost & Sullivan of Palo Alto, Calif., which estimates in a new report that overall sales of optoelectronic parts will rise from $4.23 billion in 2002 to $7.22 billion in 2009. In...
Photonics Education Is Boosted by Business Collaboratives
At a time when job prospects are nonexistent for many recent college graduates, technical majors are still finding employment, according to David Brady, professor and director of the Fitzpatrick...
Media Cybernetics, Smithsonian Collaborate for Image Analysi
Under a partnership agreement, the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Materials Research and Education will work with software packages from Media Cybernetics Inc. of Silver Spring, Md. The tools...
AFOP Agrees to Purchase Ritek's Photonics Unit
To expand its product line and increase its manufacturing capability, Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc. (AFOP) of Sunnyvale, Calif., has agreed to acquire most of the assets of Ritek Corp.'s...
SBG Labs Secures DigiLens' Trademarks
SBG Labs Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has purchased the patents and trademarks of DigiLens Inc., also of Sunnyvale, a former developer of optical components based on electrically switchable Bragg...
Degussa and Germanium Ally to Provide Materials
A partnership to supply silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4) and germanium tetrachloride (GeCl4) to the international fiber optics manufacturing industry has been formed between Degussa AG of...
Companies Integrate Machine Vision, Software
Machine vision manufacturer DVT Corp. of Atlanta has agreed to private-label the InteractX human-machine-interface software from CTC Parker Automation of Milford, Ohio. The arrangement will allow DVT...
Hitachi Obtains Laser Processing Technology
Hitachi Digital Graphics (USA) Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has acquired patents and trademarks for high-speed laser processing technology from NanoVia LP of Londonderry, N.H. To support Hitachi's...
Company Wins Contract to Improve Mirror Coatings
To improve its silver coatings for lightweight military mirror applications, Evaporated Metal Films Corp. of Ithaca, N.Y., has received a Phase 1 contract sponsored by the Missile Defense Agency's...
Accent on Applications
BMW Adopts Scanning Method for Spot Welding
Changing the tooling and equipment of a factory requires an investment that few manufacturers are willing to consider -- unless the benefits of the retrofit are so significant that the eventual reward far outweighs the immediate expense. Consequently, when a major automobile manufacturer adopts a new generation of industrial automation equipment, people take notice. Recently, BMW AG of Munich,...
Spectrophotometer Observes Radiation from Rocks
A few years ago, Friedemann Freund, a professor at San Jose State University in California, embarked on the study of rock deformation. When you squeeze a rock very hard, asked the physicist, what are...
Mars Spectrometer Employs Hollow Retroreflectors
The European Space Agency's Mars Express, which was scheduled to reach Mars on Christmas Day, is expected to collect the most detailed measurements of that planet to date. Besides solving the mystery...
Presstime Bulletin
Subwavelength Silica Wires Display <0.1 dB/mm Optical Loss
Researchers at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, have produced subwavelength-diameter silica waveguides that...
Optics Coalition Discontinues Operations
As of December 2003, the member board of the Coalition for Photonics and Optics (CPO) has dissolved the association. Robert P. Breault, 2003 CPO chairman, reported that the organization's mission...
Light Pulse Halted
Using an effect related to electromagnetically induced transparency, scientists at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., have stopped pulses of light in an atomic medium and released them a few...
Micron Technology Offers Megapixel CMOS Image Sensors
Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, has announced the development of two- and three-megapixel CMOS image sensors. Previous products were aimed primarily at lower-end applications, but Micron is...
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Newest 12-bit Area-Scan Camera
DALSA introduces its high-speed, high-dynamic-range area-scan camera. It provides an economical and compact solution ideally suited to high-fidelity applications such as automated x-ray inspection,...
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0.08X MVO Telecentric Lens
Edmund Industrial Optics' newly designed and manufactured 0.08× telecentric lens offers a huge 80-mm field of view (on a 1/2-in. sensor) or 110-mm field of view (on a 2/3-in. sensor) at a 170- to...
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CMOS 2K.LS Camera
Fairchild Imaging announces the CAM/ CMOS 2K.LS, the first in a family of high-performance cameras for industrial inspection, metrology and machine vision. The CAM/CMOS 2K.LS uses advanced "active...
BAE Systems Sensor Solutions
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High-Speed Position and Moving-Object Detection
Hamamatsu Corporation's S9132 profile sensor provides numerous advantages over conventional CMOS area image sensors and two-dimensional position-sensitive detectors in detection applications. The...
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Matrox Imaging Library: 10 Years of Innovation
For 10 years, the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) has been the central structure for a vast number of industrial and scientific imaging applications. The industry's first hardware-independent library,...
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Machine Vision Tools
National Instruments' PCI-7342 motion control board is a low-cost option for servomotor control. This new board features dual-axis control, easy integration with data acquisition and vision systems,...
National Instruments Corp.
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Cooled, Monochrome Digital Camera
QuantiFIRE is a versatile, quantitative, megapixel, 2k × 2k, cooled, monochrome digital camera with a 500% increase in field of view. It incorporates a patented, TEC-cooled system that develops...
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ILP LED Linear Backlight
Volpi is the leader in reflected-light LEDs and fiber optic light lines for the machine vision industry. Light lines that appear uniform in reflected light are uneven when used as backlights. Most...
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STEPPER MOTOR CONTROL
Prior Scientific Inc.'s ProScan II controls up to six stepper motors, a motorized stage, a focus motor, three filter wheels and three shutters. The system can be programmed and controlled via the USB...
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MACHINE VISION CAMERA
Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. has launched the IK-TF5, a color camera that, in partial-scan mode, reads out at up to 180 fps. It has an RS-232C remote control port and rear-panel switching...
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SMART CAMERA
The Pictor M1248/E smart camera from Vision & Control GmbH operates at 100 fps and is equipped with Ethernet, digital input/output and fast trigger input for image acquisition. The system is...
Vision & Control GmbH
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4-mW BLUE LASER
Power Technology Inc.'s 4-mW blue IQ laser diode module is a lower-noise alternative to 473-nm Nd:YAG lasers. The instrument-quality device operates at 473 ±5 nm and has a precision current...
Power Technology Inc.
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PORTABLE CHILLERS
PolyScience has enhanced its line of Durachill portable chillers with the addition of ambient temperature tracking to their standard features of air or water cooling, a 1.5- to 25-hp compressor,...
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VIBRATION ISOLATION
Halcyonics GmbH has added solid, welded support frames as standard to its Mod-1L and Mod-1XL tabletop vibration isolation systems, and is calling the two new versions Workstation 1L plus and...
Accurion GmbH
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FRAME GRABBERS
Active Silicon Ltd. has added several models to its Phoenix and LFG frame grabbers, all supported by a software developer's kit. The D24CL-PCI32 is for the standard PCI bus, and the D24CL-PMC32 and...
Active Silicon Inc.
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PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE
Suitable for low-light-level-detection applications, including fluorescence spectrophotometers and immunoassays and SO2 monitoring, Hamamatsu Corp.'s R7517 is a nine-stage photomultiplier tube with a...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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DFB TUNABLE LASER
Model TLB-390X from New Focus Inc. is a CW distributed feedback laser with mode-hop-free tunability over the C-band, from 1529 to 1563 nm. Specifications include 20 mW of output, ±1.5-GHz wavelength...
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POLARIZING BEAMSPLITTERS
Glan-Taylor and Glan-Laser calcite polarizing beamsplitters from Edmund Industrial Optics separate s-polarized light from p-polarized light, between 400 and 1700 nm. They are available with 5- or...
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PATTERN MATCHING
Cognex Corp.'s PatFlex software extends the company's PatMax suite of geometric pattern-finding technologies to new applications and, the company says, it facilitates part fixturing and system setup....
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MOTION PROCESSORS
The Magellan family of motion processors has been released by Performance Motion Devices Inc. for semiconductor, scientific and industrial applications. Available in one-, two, three- and four-axis...
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MACHINE VISION
The Halcon version 7.0 machine vision software from MVTec Software GmbH offers a component-based matching function that facilitates the detection of objects, even if they have multiple moving parts....
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SINGLE-MODE POLISHER
The SpecPro 4L fiber optic polisher from krell technologies inc. polishes up to four components simultaneously, including industry-standard connectors, multifiber ferrules, MIL-SPEC termini, optical...
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MICROMACHINING
The DP100 diode-pumped solid-state laser micromachining systems launched by Oxford Lasers Inc. include 1064-nm models for microdrilling and -cutting metals, 266-nm types for processing plastics and...
Oxford Lasers Inc.
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SPOT-CURING PLATFORM
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has released the OmniCure series 1000, a UV/VIS spot-curing platform that features a timer, process alarms, low fan noise, selectable bandpass filters, password...
EXFO Inc.
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QUADRANT DETECTORS
Electro-Optical Systems Inc. has expanded its standard product line with the addition of silicon and InGaAs quadrant detectors for applications in beam tracking and in industrial control and...
Electro-Optical Systems Inc.
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MOTORIZED ACTUATORS
The LTA-HL and LTA-HS actuators from Newport Corp. offer 7.4- and 35-nm resolution and 50- and 100-nm motion sensitivity, respectively, and feature a DC motor with a high-resolution encoder for...
MKS/Newport
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CMOS CAMERAS
Lumenera Corp.'s LU120 series 1.3-megapixel CMOS machine vision cameras are available from Framos Electronics Ltd. They come in monochrome and color versions, are USB-2-compatible and have an...
FRAMOS Electronics Ltd.
LASER CUTTING HEADS
Hypertherm Inc. offers its LH2100 and LH2125 CO2 laser heads for plate-cutting applications. Featuring the company's flow accelerated screen technology, the laser heads eliminate the stagnant zone in...
Hypertherm Inc.
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FIBER LASER PRODUCTION
3SAE Technologies Inc. has developed two technologies to assist the manufacture of large-diameter fibers for use in high-power fiber lasers for military and aerospace applications. The FSU 995...
3SAE Technologies Inc.
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FRAME GRABBERS
Grablink from Euresys sa is a family of frame grabbers for line- and area-scan cameras, supporting base, dual-base and medium Camera Link configurations. The new compact PCI digital version of the...
Euresys SA
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FLUORESCENCE FILTERS
Semrock Inc. has enhanced its BrightLine series filters for optical fluorescence microscopy with the introduction of six zero-pixel-shift sets. The –Zero filters are available for all fluorescence...
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LASER MODULE
Lumics GmbH has unveiled the LU1064M150 laser module for sensing and ranging applications, including rangefinder and atmospheric lidar systems. It operates at 1064 nm, pulses at up to 1 W peak and...
Lumics GmbH
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VIDEO INSPECTION
The SmartScope MVP manual video measurement and inspection system from Optical Gaging Products Inc. comprises six benchtop models that have measurement ranges from 150 × 75 × 125 mm to 300 × 300 ×...
OGP (Optical Gaging Products)
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WAFER, FILTER INSPECTION
Soft Imaging System Corp. has introduced image analysis software for inspecting blank wafers and circular filters. AnalySis waferInspec-tor and analySis filterInspector perform fully automatic and...
Olympus Soft Imaging Solutions Corp.
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FLOW-THROUGH CELL
Hellma GmbH & Co. KG's flow-through cell has a very short light path, in the range of 0.1 mm, and is used to photometrically regulate the components of complex biological samples. It has a large...
Hellma GmbH & Co. KG
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ANGLED FIBER COLLIMATORS
Introduced by Micro Laser Systems and suitable for interferometry, long-distance sensors, free-space communications and alignment of large objects, the FC10 and FC20 angled fiber collimators have 10-...
Micro Laser Systems Inc.
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DEPOSITION SYSTEM
Structured Materials Industries Inc. has launched a plasma-enhanced static metallorganic chemical vapor deposition system and reactor for thin-film deposition on 150-, 200- and 300-mm wafers....
Structured Materials Industries Inc.
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PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERA
Unveiled by New Electronic Technology Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, the CSB 4000F is an ultrahigh-resolution progressive-scan camera with a 12.2 × 12.2-mm, 4-megapixel CMOS sensor that has 2008 × 2047...
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SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE
The USS-1200V-LL Starlight uniform source system from Labsphere Inc. is used in imaging systems and focal-plane arrays, in radiometers and photometers, and to calibrate and test UV, visible and...
Labsphere Inc.
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SPLICE ENCLOSURE
Norland Products Inc.'s P/N 20960M flexible splice enclosure for fiber optic tactical field cable protects fiber optic splices and restores cable strength. Measuring 13.25 in. long and 0.75 in. in...
Norland Products Inc.
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PHOTOMETER/RADIOMETER
The X1-1 optometer from Gigahertz-Optik Inc. is a handheld device that combines color measurement with photometer/radiometer capabilities in one instrument. It is ergonomically designed and can be...
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FUSION SPLICER
Diamond SA has released an automated fusion splicer that strips, cleans, cleaves and splices 140 fibers per hour through independent units operating in parallel mode. Power requirements are 110 to...
Diamond SA
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CUTTING LASER
Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH presents the FA 040 fast-axial-flow CO2 laser for cutting sheet metal. The DC-excited laser has an output power of 4 kW and a beam quality of 0.5, and is suitable for mounting...
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SPECTRORADIOMETER
Optronic Laboratories Inc. has announced an ultraviolet and a near-IR version of its OL 770 high-speed, USB-interface spectroradiometer. The OL 770 UV/VIS has a wavelength range from 200 to 780 nm...
Optronic Laboratories LLC
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DIGITAL MICROSCOPE
Hirox-USA Inc. offers the KH-3000 Hi-Scope Advanced dedicated digital microscopy system. The KH-3000 features a 1688 × 1248-pixel CCD camera with 30-fps S-Video or BNC output and can produce still...
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DIGITAL CAMERA LENSES
Sunex Inc. has introduced three multielement glass lenses optimized for compact megapixel CMOS/CCD digital cameras. The lenses in the DSL series are made from glass components, and all include IR-cut...
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