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Photonics Spectra - January 2005
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Semiconductor Light Sources Move from the IR to the Visible and UV
For years, semiconductor technologies have dominated applications of light sources in the infrared region. For example, fiber communications makes use of light in the mid-IR range (1700 to 980 nm), and CDs and DVDs use light in the near-IR to deep red (800 to 650 nm). In both cases, semiconductors offer a low price/performance ratio that thus far remains unmatched. Applications for light...
Single-Frequency Fiber Lasers
Optoelectronics and fiber optics technology experienced significant advances in the 1990s, driven largely by well-funded innovation in the telecommunications, semiconductor and consumer electronics...
New Spectroscopy Methods Discover the Tiniest Particles
As recently as a few decades ago, most manufacturing industries worried only about those contaminants in their processes that were large enough to cause product failure or customer complaints. In...
New Environments Pose New Challenges for Imaging Components
The world of automated imaging has expanded substantially from its origins in scientific and industrial machine vision applications, and it will continue to advance into new markets in the coming...
LEDs Continue to Advance
LEDs have entered the mainstream in many applications as a result of the increases in their luminous flux, the availability of an extensive range of colors, and their inherent technological benefits...
Advances in Optical Filters for the Life Sciences
Photonics technologies find application in many analytical instruments in the life sciences. In drug development, for example, photonics enables high-specificity, high-throughput screening for the...
Digital X-Ray Detectors Continue to Thrive in Medical Industry
Digital flat panel x-ray detectors illustrate how an established technology can penetrate a new, high-growth market. This is apparent in their use in medical imaging, where they continue to show...
NIST Symposium Reports Advances in Fiber Optic Measurements
In the even-numbered years since 1980, optoelectronics metrologists have met in Boulder, Colo., for the Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements (SOFM). Representing industry, academe and government,...
Developing Standards for the Automated Imaging Industry
One of the greatest challenges to automated imaging manufacturers is to build equipment to widely accepted standards, thereby assuring compatibility, reduced costs and increased market acceptance....
New Opportunities for Terahertz Research
The “terahertz gap” occupies frequencies between 300 GHz and 10 THz and lies between the traditional microwave and optical regions. The term “gap” derives from the historical inaccessibility of this...
New Technology Moves LEDs into Consumer Applications
Major advancements in LED technologies are making new lighting products and effects possible. Over the past few years, we’ve witnessed the advent of seven colors and a white LED in high-power...
Smaller, Cheaper, Better: Photo ICs Come of Age
A current trend in the optical detector industry involves the need for photodetectors that feature added capabilities. It used to be the case that the most efficient setup was a simple photodiode...
Technology Trends for Digital Cameras
Two trends are at work as automated visual inspection systems continue their rapid progress. First, it is demanded that smaller features be inspected on larger targets. Representative applications...
Military Project Aims to Improve Diode Laser Efficiency
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Super High Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) program is a military undertaking with huge implications for the commercial laser marketplace. SHEDS’ goal...
Optimizing and Stabilizing Diode Laser Spectral Parameters
The stated goal of the Super High Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) program is to develop superefficient diode lasers, which, in turn, will lead to efficient, high-power solid-state lasers. The...
Addressing Inefficiency in Laser Diodes
At the time the Super High Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) program started in September 2003, nLight’s highest-performing 940-nm semiconductor lasers operated near 50 percent overall efficiency. In...
Transverse Bragg Resonance Lasers: A New Approach to Mode Control in Semiconductor Lasers
In the pursuit of a large-area, high-power diode laser that maintains efficient single-mode operation, we have proposed a device that lases in a fundamentally different manner, the transverse Bragg...
Radically Asymmetric Wavelength-Stabilized Lasers Reduce Loss
As part of our ongoing involvement in the development of potentially industry-changing advanced technology, we at JDS Uniphase Corp. have been working since January 2004 on the Defense Advanced...
Modeling High-Power Solid-State Lasers
Unlike other contributors to the Super High Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) program, we are not addressing the efficiency of semiconductor lasers in our laboratory at the University of Central...
Improving the Power Conversion Efficiency of Diode Lasers
The heart of a diode laser is the gain medium, known as the quantum well, which is buried inside a waveguide in the middle of a semiconductor junction. The quantum well has appropriately tailored...
Measuring High-Power Diode Laser Efficiency
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been tasked by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency with providing wall-plug efficiency and spectral measurements of high-power,...
Tech Pulse
Singularity Theory Yields Elegant Description of Polarized Sunlight
Scientists have long been intrigued by the polarization of light in the daytime sky. In 1863, Sir David Brewster noted the similarity of the phenomenon with that produced by refracting crystals. Less than a decade later, Lord John W.S. Rayleigh proposed that the polarization was the result of scattering by molecules in the atmosphere, leading to Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's description in the...
Photonic Crystal Laser Generates Ultraviolet Output
Photonic crystal lasers have potential as small and versatile sources in numerous applications. Such lasers with infrared output have been demonstrated in several laboratories around the world, but...
Students Build a Rover for Remote Mine Exploration
Because exploring mines can be dangerous, two students at the University of Arizona in Tucson devised an 18-in.-long, radio-controlled rover to remotely investigate a mine's nooks and crannies....
New Pump-Probe Technique Improves Imaging Spectroscopy
Pump-probe spectroscopy offers details about photochemical or photophysical reactions in a narrow slice of time, but reconstructing a reaction sequence takes a series of exposures, leading to...
Waveguide Has Been Developed for Terahertz Waves
Terahertz waves, or T-rays, fall between microwave and infrared radiation on the electromagnetic spectrum. Some metals and other electrical conductors are opaque to T-rays; however, as with x-rays,...
With Polarization Studies, Astronomers Creep Closer to Black Holes
By measuring the polarization of radiation from distant objects to an accuracy of better than 1/20 of a percent, astronomers have pushed their observations perhaps 100 times closer to the edge of a...
Femtosecond Laser Selects Nanoparticle Size
Scientists with Italy's National Institute for the Physics of Matter have found that, when it comes to nanoparticle films, size matters. Because of that, laser attributes are also important. The...
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Flir to Supply Laser Designator Systems on US Navy Ships
Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., will deliver three Brite Star airborne thermal imaging laser designator systems under a fixed-price contract from Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., which has...
L-3 Acquires Raytheon Commercial Infrared
L-3 Communications Corp. of New York has purchased the Raytheon Commercial Infrared business of Raytheon Corp. of Waltham, Mass., for approximately $42 million in cash. The unit, which is located in...
ILX Lightwave Opens Customer Service Center in China
ILX Lightwave Corp. of Bozeman, Mont., and ETSC Technologies Co. of Wuhan, China, have agreed to establish a center in Wuhan to provide enhanced customer service for ILX's instrumentation and test...
Harvard Researchers Win PI NanoInnovation Grant
The $25,000 PI (Physik Instrumente) NanoInnovation Grant has been awarded to John S. Eid, Jérôme Mathé and Amit Meller from the Rowland Institute at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., for a...
EMVA Initiates Standard for Cameras and Sensors
The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has released a preliminary version of its Standard 1288 "Standard for Measurement and Presentation of Specifications for...
Glass Research Center Is Funded by NSF
Lehigh University of Bethlehem, Pa., has received a five-year, $3.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation of Arlington, Va., to establish a center for glass research. The...
Ball Aerospace to Design Laser Spot Tracker
Under a contract from the US Air Force's Warner Robins Air Logistics Center at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., the Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., will develop a sensor for the...
Jena-Optronik Secures Aerospace Contract
Space travel specialist Jena-Optronik GmbH of Jena, Germany, has received an order from Eads Space Transportation for 12 rendezvous sensors for six space transporters. Based on a laser optic system,...
Scientific Imaging Degree Is Offered
An associate degree program in scientific imaging has been launched by Cuyahoga Community College at its Western Campus in Parma, Ohio. Graduates will be prepared to work as scientific imaging...
Sensors Unlimited Garners US Air Force Contract
Sensors Unlimited Inc. of Princeton, N.J., has been awarded a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the US Air Force to research and design a communication device that can be added...
IPG Laser Selects Chinese Distributor
Manufacturer of industrial fiber lasers IPG Laser GmbH of Burbach, Germany, has appointed HM Laser as its representative in China. The Beijing-based company, which distributes and integrates...
Redlake and AOS Forge Marketing Agreement
Redlake of San Diego and AOS Technologies AG of Baden-Daettwil, Switzerland, have formed a partnership for product development and for the worldwide distribution of AOS' high-speed motion cameras....
Vertilas and Thorlabs Cooperate
Vertilas GmbH of Garching, Germany, will present its long-wavelength surface-emitting laser diodes in the catalog of Thorlabs, a company based in Karlsfeld, Germany, and in other countries. The...
Company Supplies Laser for Physics Research
Thales Laser, which has offices in Europe, Asia and the US, has received a $1.8 million contract to install a 100-TW Ti:sapphire laser in the physics department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln....
SEC Will Distribute Yamaha Die Mounter
Semiconductor Equipment Corp. (SEC) of Moorpark, Calif., will distribute the Yamaha i-Cube II high-speed automatic die mounter in Mexico and North America under a contract with Tsuneji Togami,...
VueMetrix Expands Production Facility
VueMetrix of Sunnyvale, Calif., has enlarged its production and test operations with the purchase of a facility adjacent to its engineering development site. The expansion is in response to the...
Michigan Aerospace Wins NASA Contract
An optical products and engineering company, Michigan Aerospace Corp. of Ann Arbor, has received a two-year, $600,000 contract from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., to develop a...
Imra and Fianium Resolve IP Conflict
Settlement of a potential intellectual property conflict has been reached between Imra America Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Fianium, which is based in Southampton, UK, and in other countries....
Accent on Applications
Thermal Imaging Takes the Guesswork Out of Feeder Cattle Sizing
In the feeder cattle industry, sizing considerations are extremely important. Sending animals to slaughter that are not the correct size can be a costly mistake for a producer, yielding lower-quality...
Cell Phone Camera Integrates Xenon Flashlamp
For cell phone manufacturer Kyocera Corp., the solution to its camera problem came in a flash. Kyocera, based in Kyoto, Japan, turned to the Fremont, Calif.-based optoelectronics division of...
Presstime Bulletin
Femtosecond Laser Investigated for Lightning Control
Since the early 1970s, scientists have considered the potential of lasers to manipulate the path of lightning bolts. Such a capability might enable public utilities, airports and other sensitive sites to save billions of dollars per year by avoiding disrupted services and eliminating damage associated with lightning strikes. Researchers associated with the joint French/German Teramobile...
A Snip in Time May Save Lives: Laser-Cut Nerves Regenerate
Scientists at Stanford University in California, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a femtosecond laser technique with potential in...
Flexible Image Scanner Developed from Organic Transistors and Photodiodes
At the 2004 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting last month in San Francisco, scientists from the University of Tokyo reported the development of a flexible image scanner that integrates...
Lighter Side
Light Makes a Splash
The play of water has an almost universal appeal, whether in the natural grandeur of a waterfall or in the manmade artistry of fountains and reflecting pools. In the 1920s, a German inventor, Otto...
3-D Imaging System Monitors Pig Growth
Barnyard denizens, take note: “Pig Brother” is watching you. Scientists at Silsoe Research Institute and the University of Glasgow, both in the UK, have developed a 3-D imaging system that may...
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100-W DIODE LASER ARRAY
Cascades, a water-cooled, 1-cm diode laser array from nLight Corp., provides 100 W of CW output in the 790- to 815-nm range. It is suitable for next-generation diode-pumped solid-state lasers for...
nLIGHT Inc.
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PHOTON DETECTION IN THE VISIBLE
The SPDM-VIS family from id Quantique SA has been expanded to include the id100 and id150 compact single-photon-detection modules. Timing resolution is 40 ps, and detection efficiency is up to 40%...
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CCD CAMERA WITH HIGH-SPEED USB
The mvBlueFox industrial CCD camera announced by Matrix Vision GmbH features a high-speed USB 2.0 interface that achieves data transfer rates of up to 480 Mb/s. Available resolutions are 640 × 480 up...
MATRIX VISION GmbH
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CAMERA SYSTEMS
PPT Impact camera systems from Edmund Industrial Optics Inc. incorporate a high-speed microprocessor, 128 MB of solid-state memory, Ethernet and serial interfaces, and a real-time operating system....
Edmund Optics Inc.
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SPOT-CURING SYSTEM
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has introduced the OmniCure series 200 UV/VIS spot-curing system for medical device, microelectronics and optoelectronics manufacturing applications. It delivers...
EXFO Inc.
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MULTIMETER
General Photonics Corp. has released the PolaChex PDL/IL/DOP multimeter, which it says can measure polarization-dependent and insertion losses, optical power and degree of polarization of any device...
General Photonics Corp.
SCANNING MICROPROBE
The JAMP-9500F scanning Auger microprobe for high-resolution surface analysis of microareas from JEOL USA Inc. is suitable for identifying killer defects in interfaces and for analyzing coatings and...
JEOL USA Inc.
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PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERAS
Suitable for applications such as high-resolution and medical imaging, 11-megapixel progressive-scan cameras from Imperx Inc. incorporate a 4000 × 2672-pixel Kodak interline transfer CCD and operate...
Imperx Inc.
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MEMS MODULE
Comsol AB has announced the Femlab MEMS Module with multiphysics capabilities for designing MEMS. Featuring a CAD editor, high-performance solvers and a graphical interface, the add-on to the Femlab...
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VISION SENSORS
The In-Sight 5100C color vision and 5101 high-resolution models have been added to Cognex Corp.'s line of industrial-grade vision sensors. Meeting IEC specifications for shock and vibration, the...
Cognex Corp.
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OPTICAL MICROMETER
Keyence Corp. of America has introduced the LS-7010 optical micrometer system, which provides 0.01-µm resolution with a repeatability of ±0.06 µm. It samples 2400 targets per second and incorporates...
Keyence Corp.
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ULTRAFAST FIBER LASERS
Measuring 145 × 98 × 40 mm, the Femtolite Ultra fiber lasers from Imra America Inc. are suitable for use in demanding applications where space is tight. The lasers' ultrarobust design is tested to...
IMRA America Inc.
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PHOTOMETER PROXY
Gigahertz-Optik Inc. has released the GJ18 system for industrial, automotive and aircraft lighting applications. The X1-1 optometer features a high-contrast four-line LCD with detector ID that...
Gigahertz-Optik Inc.
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SINGLE-CRYSTAL FIBERS
Single-crystal fibers up to 1 m in length and with section diameters between 0.2 and 2 mm are suitable for use in optical devices such as lasers, second-harmonic generators and modulators....
Fibercryst
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MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE
MVTec Software GmbH has released version 3.0 of its ActivVisionTools software, which supports multiple images from frame grabbers and directly connected cameras. It includes an ActiveX user interface...
MVTec Software GmbH
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ANALYZER SYSTEM
Designed to monitor pulsed industrial Nd:YAG and diode lasers for a range of parameters, the BA500 laser beam analyzer system from Ophir Optronics Inc. measures average powers of up to 1500 W and...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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COLOR LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Basler Vision Components has introduced the L304kc color line-scan camera, which is suitable for applications such as print inspection, document scanning, and food and forestry products inspection....
Basler AG
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PHOTON-COUNTING CARD
Suitable for single-molecule detection, high-throughput DNA sequencing, lidar, optical rangefinding and adaptive optics, the SPCM-AQ4C four-channel photon-counting card is available from Pacer...
Pacer Components Ltd.
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NANOPOSITIONING STAGE
The Prior NZ100 nanopositioning piezo Z-stage, designed for deconvolution and 3-D imaging, is available from Prior Scientific Inc. It features 100-µm travel, 1-nm repeatability and closed-loop...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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VISION SYSTEM
Omron Corp. has introduced the F500 network-ready vision system with digital I/O and both a serial and a high-speed Ethernet port. It can handle two high-resolution digital cameras based on the...
Omron Automation
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PLASMA SPECTROSCOPY
StellarNet Inc. and Kigre Inc. have introduced the Porta-LIBS-2000 portable element analyzer for identifying compounds in biological, chemical, forensic and other analyses. The device integrates...
StellarNet Inc.
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INFRARED CAMERA
Offering high-performance thermal sensitivity, visible and audible alarming, a thumbnail image gallery, up to 200 jpeg storage and automated text comment functionality, the ThermaCam E65 is available...
FLIR Systems
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ACHROMATIC WAVE PLATES
Providing a 23-mm clear aperture to accommodate large laser beams from tunable laser sources, achromatic wave plates from Tower Optical Corp. are designed to maintain a constant retardation....
Tower Optical Corp.
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2-D ARRAY SCANNER
The vtInfinity 2-D array scanning laser confocal microscope is available from VisiTech International Ltd. for studying dynamic processes in living cells. The company says that the device offers fast...
VisiTech International Ltd.
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CMOS CAMERAS
Photonfocus AG has announced the Thunder and Hurricane series of fast CMOS cameras suitable for industrial image-processing applications. Providing a dynamic range of up to 120 dB, the cameras have a...
Photonfocus AG
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LASER DIODE DRIVERS
Thorlabs GmbH introduces blue laser diode support for its LDC200 driver series. The units provide 200-mA, 500-mA and 1-A maximum drive current with 10-V compliance voltage. An intelligent cooling...
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DUAL-BEAM LASERS
The Dual Beam series lasers from PRC Laser Corp. are suitable for cutting, welding, perforating, slitting, micromachining and web-based processing of materials where multiple beams are required. The...
PRC Laser Corp.
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MICROSCOPY CAMERA
Suitable for bright-field microscopy, the PL-A686 digital camera features a 1-in. CMOS sensor with 3.5-µm square pixels that provides 2208 × 3000-pixel resolution in color and monochrome. The device,...
Pixelink
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EPOXY
Master Bond Inc. has introduced a two-component epoxy adhesive, sealant and coating that provides good chemical resistance and high thermal stability. EP21ARHT-1 offers long-term resistance to fuels,...
Master Bond Inc.
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VISION CONNECTIVITY
Pleora Technologies Inc. has announced enhancements to its iPort vision connectivity solution for Gigabit Ethernet imaging systems. The added features include an encoder input for tracking changing...
Pleora Technologies Inc.
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DATA CODE READER
The EasyMatrixCode enhanced 2-D data matrix code reader from Euresys sa is suitable for use in applications where noise, focus and distortion cause problems with traditional readers. It overcomes low...
Euresys SA
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CCD CAMERA
JAI Pulnix Inc. has announced a monochrome CCD version of its neural-network-based ZiCam smart camera. The Zi-640PC features an integrated circuit called ZISC (zero instruction set computing) that...
JAI Inc.
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CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE
Incorporating a microscopy technique that merges spherical waves of two objectives to produce a single round wave, the TCS 4Pi confocal microscope is available from Leica Microsystems AG. The device,...
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LASER DIODES
Toptica Photonics AG offers DFB laser diodes in virtually any wavelength between 760 and 1600 nm for applications such as spectroscopy, gas sensing and lidar seeding. With stock availability in...
Toptica Photonics AG
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Providing full 3-D surface and wavefront maps, and radius of curvature of lenses and lens systems, PTI 250 interferometers from Zygo Corp. are suitable for process control in high-volume production...
Zygo Corporation
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HANDHELD OTDR
AFL Telecommunications has released the OFL 200 handheld optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) for qualifying, troubleshooting and documenting fiber optic networks. The device provides an...
AFL
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CMOS CAMERA
Measuring 50 X 50 X 53 mm, the BCi4-6400 CMOS camera manufactured by C-Cam Technologies features 3.5-µm square pixels that can be used to define a window of interest within a 2208 × 3000-pixel area....
C-Cam Technologies
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RAMAN LASERS
Ahura Corp. has announced three miniature, high-performance external-cavity lasers for Raman spectroscopy. Offering high efficiency, high wavelength and power stability and a small footprint, the...
Thermo Scientific
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99-DIE LED ARRAY
A 99-die LED array product line launched by Opto Diode Corp. features a 110° beam angle. The six devices are available in wavelengths with typical peak responsivity of 405, 470, 525, 610, 830 and 870...
Opto Diode Corporation
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DIODE LASER STACKS
Coherent Inc. has released the LightStack family of high-power diode laser stacks. Featuring the 80-W LightStone, which is based on the industry-standard, macrochannel-cooled platform, the lasers are...
Coherent Inc.
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WAVE PLATES
High energy density threshold wave plates are available from Gooch & Housego PLC in broadband and V and W coatings, as well as in coatings for high-power applications. The wave plates are...
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LASER MODULE
The LU0808M040 unveiled by Lumics GmbH is a laser module with up to 4 W of output from a multimode fiber. It is supplied in a cooled, low-profile, 14-pin butterfly package coupled with a 100-/125-µm...
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ADAPTIVE MIRROR
Kugler GmbH's CNC-controlled adaptive mirror with a 90° diverting angle features PLVCu, a plastic material that provides high reflectivity of the copper material for the CO2 beam radiance and a...
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TUNABLE WAVE PLATES
Tunable zero-order wave plates from Alphalas GmbH can be adjusted for wavelengths in the 150- to 7000-nm and 1- to 19-µm ranges. The bandwidth varies from 100 to 300 nm, depending on the...
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CROSS LASER
Laser Components IG Inc. has introduced a laser diode module with a diffractive element attachment that produces a cross. Flexpoint is used with either circular or elliptical beam profiles. The...
Laser Components USA Inc.
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SUPERLUMINESCENT LEDs
For use in optical coherence tomography and biomedical imaging systems, fiber optic sensors and optical test instruments, InPhenix Inc. has released a line of high-power, wide-bandwidth 1300-nm...
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AXOSCAN MAPPING SPECTROPOLARIMETER
Axometrics Inc. of Huntsville, Ala., developed its AxoScan Mapping SpectroPolarimeter so that liquid crystal display manufacturers could detect spatial variations that are common in polarizer and...
Axometrics Inc.
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INFRARED TRANSMISSION FIBER
Infrared transmission fiber manufactured by CorActive High-Tech Inc. of Quebec City is an optical fiber that offers ultralow-loss, high-power transmission in the mid-IR wavelengths from 2 to 6 µm. It...
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SWISSRANGER 3-D CAMERA
CSEM SA, headquartered in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, has developed the SwissRanger 3-D camera that simultaneously measures the local brightness in a scene and the complete distance map of the...
CSEM SA
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E 3100 OPTICAL TWEEZER SYSTEM
Optical tweezers are used in biophysics, biology, chemistry and physics for cell sorting, to measure properties of DNA and to perform spectroscopy of trapped particles. A fully interlocked optical...
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FEMTOSOURCE SCIENTIFIC XL ULTRAFAST OSCILLATOR
Although the feasibility of using femtosecond laser pulses for a broad range of machining applications has been known for a decade, the technology's widespread implementation in industry has been...
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HOLOGRAPHIC DIFFRACTION GRATINGS
The LPDL 900/1100 series holographic diffraction gratings developed by Headwall Photonics Inc. of Fitchburg, Mass., have a frequency of 900 and 1100 grooves per millimeter and 90 to 95 percent...
Headwall Photonics Inc.
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LUMIBRIGHT LED
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YLR-600 YTTERBIUM FIBER LASER
The YLR-600, a high-power single-mode ytterbium fiber laser from IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., has demonstrated enhanced cutting, welding and scribing performance in industrial...
IPG Photonics Corporation
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SUPERK SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCE
An ultracompact supercontinuum light source with broadband, diffraction-limited output from the UV to the IR (400 to beyond 2000 nm), the SuperK manufactured by Koheras A/S of Birkerød, Denmark, is...
NKT Photonics A/S
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STACCATO LASER
Offered as an industrial micromachining alternative, the Staccato Nd:YVO4 laser from Lumera Laser GmbH of Kaiserslautern, Germany, provides the same high-quality results on metal as femtosecond...
Coherent Kaiserslautern GmbH
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TLM-8700 TUNABLE LASER MODULE
The TLM-8700 tunable laser module produced by New Focus, a division of Bookham in San Jose, Calif., combines ultrafast, ultrawide and mode-hop-free tunability with narrow linewidths, low noise, and...
Newport - New Focus
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LUXXMASTER VBG VOLUME BRAGG GRATING
Volume Bragg grating elements that transform high-power laser diodes or diode bars into narrowband emitters have been designed by PD-LD Inc. of Pennington, N.J. The LuxxMaster VBG technology locks...
Necsel IP Inc.
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PI CERAMIC MONOLITHIC ACTUATORS
The speed and resolution of piezo stages and mounts make them a cornerstone of ultraprecision applications. At their heart is the piezoceramic actuator, a sophisticated sandwich of ferroelectric...
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BRIGHTLINE MULTIBAND FLUORESCENCE FILTERS
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PLµ 2300 OPTICAL IMAGING PROFILER
Sensofar-Tech SL of Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, a spinoff company founded in 2001 from the Technical University of Catalonia, has launched an optical imaging profiler that measures from the same...
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DATALASE
A color-change process for high-speed printing of images using low-power laser light has been introduced by Sherwood Technology Ltd. of Cheshire, UK. DataLase is a patent-pending technology that can...
DataLase Ltd.
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GRENOUILLE MODEL 8-20
Since the 1960s, ultrashort laser pulses have been measured using autocorrelators. Unfortunately, autocorrelators yield only rough measurements of the pulse length and give no information regarding...
Swamp Optics LLC
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IMIC MICROSCOPE
The iMIC microscope is an optomechanical platform for extending a computer into the world of imaging. Designed by Till Photonics GmbH of Gräfelfing, Germany, the instrument provides a modular,...
FEI Munich GmbH
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FIRSTLIGHT ILLUMINATOR
The FirstLight FI-26X UV illuminator from UVP Inc. of Upland, Calif., produces highly uniform 302-nm ultraviolet excitation light. Using a high-density, proprietary grid lighting system with a tuned...
Analytik Jena US LLC
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Z-SNAPPER 3-D CAMERA
To capture 3-D data with speed, resolution and ease, ViaLux GmbH of Chemnitz, Germany, designed the z-Snapper camera for machine vision applications. The instrument encompasses the company's newly...
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