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Photonics Spectra: January 2011

Photonics Spectra
January 2011

FEATURES

Imaging Trends: A Vision of the Future

Vision systems can be as important to manufacturing businesses as the manufactured products themselves. For products ranging from semiconductors to solar cells, and from pharmaceuticals to vehicles,...

Optic Trends: More Than Meets the Eye for Optics

For Samuel P. Sadoulet, one of the most important trends in optics can’t be seen – literally. As executive vice president of engineering and manufacturing at Barrington, N.J.-based...

Laser Trends: Laser Companies Look to Rocket Out of the Recession

Lasers are tools, no more and no less. They are used to illuminate and to burn, to mark items and to measure them. In many ways, they are as ubiquitous as knives and tape measures, and they are...

New Dimension Trends: Photonics Enters New Dimensions

Optics and photonics are everywhere. Not just in industrial settings or research environments or the medical arena. Everywhere. And with each new day, they are becoming more integral to how we live...

EDITORIAL

Trending Now: Security and Peace of Mind Late last summer, I was wading through the security line at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago when the woman in front of me posed an interesting question. Upon noticing that the wait time to pass through the full body scanner was shorter than that for the conventional metal detector, she turned to me and asked, “Can you see yourself when you go through the full body...

TECH PULSE

Synchrotron x-rays from a tabletop source

A tabletop instrument in development may have the potential to produce bright, spatially coherent synchrotron x-rays similar in energy and quality to those generated by some of the largest x-ray facilities in the world. Such x-rays could enable imaging of complex systems on nanometer and femtosecond scales, accommodating a variety of applications not feasible with the larger-scale facilities....

3-D interior modeling: A virtual walk on the inside

A laser-equipped backpack worn by a human operator has provided 3-D modeling of interior sections of a campus building at the University of California, enabling a virtual walk through the academic...

Thin-film laser takes a practical approach to silicon photonics

Scientists have successfully built a thin-film laser onto silicon that demonstrates the lowest threshold current densities to date for lasers on silicon integrated with waveguides. The Duke...

Gaining chirped pulse amplification with fiber only

Optical parametric amplification is a common method for improving laser-based telecommunications by boosting signal strength across long lengths of fiber optics. If you chirp the signal pulses...

Disposable sensor detects “shoe bomb” explosive

A new disposable postage stamp-size colorimetric sensor array can detect a high explosive in its vapor phase, even at very low concentrations. The scientists at the University of Illinois at...

Telecom tech could protect aircraft

Infrared supercontinuum laser technology could soon help protect military helicopters from heat-seeking missiles designed to home in on IR radiation emitted by a helicopter’s engine. Built with...

Single photons retain character as wavelength changes

The wavelength of a single photon can be changed significantly without destroying its fundamental quantum character, researchers have reported. This finding has application in the developing field of...

Single-shot 3D imaging matrix offers stealth capabilities

Researchers have demonstrated a single-pulse active 3D imaging matrix operating in the infrared. The imaging matrix can produce a three-dimensional image of a distant object with only a single laser...

Quantum cloning: Radiometry on a small scale

Measuring the luminous power of light is a basic task in physics laboratories and telecom applications. Until recently, however, measuring light energy in an absolute manner has required the complex...

LIGHT SPEED

Lasers ready to flourish again in 2011

If there is a recession, somebody needs to remind the laser industry. Despite a miserable two years for most industries – especially real estate, banking and automotive – most companies...

2010 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation: The Finalists

The finalists have been announced for the 2010 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, an international competition sponsored by Photonics Media and SPIE to recognize photonic products that test...

Licensing Agreement Fiber optic cable maker Tratech Fiberoptics of Bend, Ore., will manufacture and distribute Meight detachable optical fiber connectors and associated components under a licensing deal with Mobius...

Distribution Contract Expansion The Lasers and Material Processing division of Jenoptik has expanded its current distribution agreement with RPMC Lasers Inc. of O’Fallon, Mo. In addition to high-power laser diodes and...

Global Partnership IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., and Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. of Cleveland have announced the formation of a strategic partnership to explore global opportunities in the high-power laser...

Deformable Mirror Technology Aid Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based deformable mirror provider Boston Micromachines Corp. (BMC) of Cambridge, Mass., announced that it has signed a consulting agreement with Bridger Photonics...

$4.3M DARPA Grant A new class of sensors that can detect multiple biological and chemical threats simultaneously with unprecedented performance may soon be within reach, thanks to the establishment of a multimillion...

Asset Acquisition Zygo Corp. of Middlefield, Conn., a high-precision optical components and optical metrology instruments provider, has announced that it will buy ASML US Inc.’s optics facility in Richmond,...

Distribution Reorganization In Mainz, Germany, Dilas, a high-power, high-brightness semiconductor laser components manufacturer, announced the recent reorganization of its distribution channel in France. Since Oct. 1, 2010, all...

Company Relaunch In Waltham, Mass., the former Illumination and Detection Solutions business unit of PerkinElmer Inc. has been formally relaunched as Excelitas Technologies Corp. The newly named company, now owned by...

Photovoltaic Pilot Production QuantaSol Ltd. of Kingston-upon-Thames, UK, has announced that it will move into pilot production following a successful period of global customer sampling. The independent manufacturer of tunable...

Stent Cutting Venture High Q Laser Production GmbH of Rankweil, Austria, and Swisstec AG of Schaan, Switzerland, have joined forces to serve the stent cutting market with compact cutting machines equipped with femtosecond...

West Coast Sales Nikon Metrology Inc. has opened a Western regional sales office in Irvine, Calif. The facility will serve as a sales and demonstration center for current and potential customers in Arizona, New...

OLED Partnership The Flexible Display Center, a collaboration of government, industry and academia at Arizona State University, has announced that AU Optronics, also of Tempe, is now an industry partner. The two...

Facility Expansion Lumenera Corp. of Ottawa has announced a 70 percent expansion of its manufacturing facility to meet market demand for its custom and OEM cameras and services. An increase in orders drove the need for...

PV Production Doubles In response to growing European demand for photovoltaic (PV) panels, Sharp Manufacturing UK has announced that it will invest $56 million to double its production of solar panels at its plant in...

€5M Optical Fiber Investment ZJF Group of Zhejiang, China, an integrated plastic optical fiber systems and solutions provider, has acquired Cork, Ireland-based Firecomms Ltd., a manufacturer of transceivers for consumer plastic...

Rooftop PV Collaboration Solyndra Inc. of Munich, Germany, a cylindrical photovoltaic (PV) systems manufacturer, has announced a multiyear sales agreement with Sika Services AG of Baar, Switzerland, a roofing materials...

LED Partnership LED lighting solutions manufacturer Lunera Lighting Inc. of Redwood City, Calif., will partner with Armstrong Ceiling and Wall Systems of Lancaster, Pa., to provide its 5400 series digital LED...

Preferred Supplier Program MRC Optics, a subsidiary of Photonics Products Group Inc. of Northvale, N.J., announced that its Sarasota, Fla., facility had been approved for Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control...

GREENLIGHT

Jet engine technology boosts LED output

General Electric Co.’s product mix runs from jet engines to lightbulbs. Now one is benefiting from the other, after scientists combined jet engine cooling technology with LED bulbs. The researchers, from GE’s Global Research and Lighting divisions and the University of Maryland in College Park, have developed a 1500-lm LED bulb as part of a two-year solid-state lighting program...

Making the light right for LEDs

We’ve all experienced it. When we look over the meat display at the supermarket, all the cuts are a mouth-watering red. However, once in the cart, the meat is a different shade of red. Why?...

IR technique senses traffic pollution

A rapid and nonintrusive method to analyze traffic pollution based on the open-path Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) technique has passed a road test in two Spanish towns. The technique, which...

LIGHTER SIDE

Let It Snow!

Crystals show up everywhere in the photonics world and are vitally important to the laser and optics fields in particular. But crystalline silica, sapphire and other materials are not as fragile and transitory as water ice crystals: snow. People become fans of snow at a young age – if they live in the right regions to be exposed to it. They may even remain fans after they grow up and have...

PRODUCTS

Photoluminescent Solution

Hamamatsu Corp.’s Quantaurus-QY is a compact, integrated solution for quickly and easily measuring the quantum yield and other properties of photoluminescent materials. It measures fluorescent probes, dye-sensitized photovoltaic materials, LED phosphor, organic metal complexes, organic LED materials and quantum dots. The device performs absolute (not relative) measurements quickly, without...

Hamamatsu Corporation

Cylinder Lenses

Suitable for UV beam shaping and for use in harsh environments with large temperature variations, Edmund Optics’ TechSpec UV fused silica PCX cylinder lenses provide good UV transmission with a...

Edmund Optics Inc.

Photodiode Detector

Ophir-Spiricon LLC’s Laser Measurement Group has announced the FPS-1, a fast photodetector designed to measure the temporal pulse shape of lasers or other light sources. A high-speed photodiode...

MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement

EMCCD Technology

Andor Technology plc has introduced the iXon X3, an ultrasensitive electron-multiplying CCD (EMCCD) scientific camera platform. The quantitative digital camera delivers fast frame rates, and...

Andor Technology

Laser Machining

Coherent Inc. has expanded its family of compact, flexible laser machining centers with the MetaBeam. It delivers high-precision processing of metals with compact, sealed CO2 lasers, and it also...

Measuring Arms

Hexagon Metrology Inc. has introduced a new line of Romer Absolute Arms. Besides the previously released six-axis arm for tactile and tube inspection, it includes two seven-axis models. The new touch...

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence

Laser Micrometer

LaserLinc has announced the Triton331, a three-axis laser scan micrometer. With a 30-mm measurement window, it can make 12,000 measurements per second (4000 per axis). The higher scan rate enables...

Raman Filters

OptiGrate Corp. has unveiled a line of ultranarrow notch and bandpass filters for Raman spectroscopy applications. The filters have a bandwidth of <10 cm—1, which the company says is about...

OptiGrate Corp.

Optical Coatings

Leybold Optics USA Inc. is extending its product range with the addition of an 8-in. Helios sputtering tool for optical coatings. It features 12 substrate stations and higher throughput than the...

Buhler Inc., Business Area Leybold Optics

Thermal Interface Materials MH&W International Corp. offers U 90 silicone-free thermal interface materials with a new light-tack adhesive for high thermal conductivity where contamination threats prevent the use of...

MH&W International Corp., Thermal Products Div.

Interference Filters A new range of high-performance interference filters has been announced by Omega Optical Inc. The MegaLux optical coatings offer good spectral characteristics on a wide variety of substrate materials...

Omega Optical LLC

Troubleshooting Software

NorPix Inc. has released its TroublePix200, a high-speed, 200-fps VGA-resolution trouble-shooting system with a ruggedized laptop. Providing the ability to record for more than 2 h in high-quality...

Optical Switch

To provide machine and automation design engineers with a reliable means of noncontact interruptive object sensing, TT electronics Optek Technology has developed a low-profile switch designed with a...

Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control

Soft-Pad Silicones Shin-Etsu Silicones of America Inc. has introduced its TC-CA series low-hardness silicone “soft pads,” developed as a countermeasure against heat emanation generated by electronic...

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America

PD-LD Inc. has unveiled the volume Bragg grating (VBG)-stabilized multimode 647-nm red laser series. This product line represents the first red-wavelength-range lasers to be stabilized using the...

GigE Camera

Point Grey Research Inc. has launched its Grasshopper2 GigE Vision digital camera series. The GS2-GE models incorporate a Gigabit Ethernet digital interface and are based on monochrome and color...

Teledyne FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions

Light-Emitting Diodes

JKL Components Corp. presents a G-4 LED drop-in replacement solution for most G-4 fixtures that traditionally use 12-V halogen lamps with a bi-pin base. Offering a life span of 20,000 h, the Z-G4-WW...

JKL Components Corp.

Handheld OTDR

For installation and maintenance of today’s optical networks, Anritsu Co. has introduced the MT9090A Network Master micro-optical time-domain reflectometer (μOTDR). It provides the high...

Interrogation Monitor

Ibsen Photonics has announced the release of the I-MON 850 interrogation monitor for real-time spectrum monitoring of fiber Bragg grating sensors in the 850-nm wavelength range. High sensitivity...

Ibsen Photonics A/S

Optical Mirrors

Submillimeter optical mirrors as small as 0.2 mm in diameter are now available from Bern Optics Inc. They can be custom engineered, ground and polished in a variety of standard or custom shapes to...

Bern Optics Inc.

Photoelectron Spectrometer Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has launched an enhanced version of its K-Alpha x-ray photoelectron spectrometer, a fully integrated, monochromated small-spot surface characterization tool. It is...

Thermo Fisher Scientific

LED Series Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd.’s multichip Yi LED lighting series offers high power, high luminosity and 5-W power consumption in a compact ceramic package. The Yi LEDs are four-chip devices...

Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd.

Optics Module

LabSmith Inc. has released the EPI epifluorescence optics modules for its SVM340 synchronous video microscope. They are designed for applications that require higher wavelength discrimination and/or...

LED Backlight

Lumex has launched the QuantumBrite flexible LED backlight technology. Completely customizable in any shape, size and color, the backlights are up to 88% thinner and can cost up to 80% less than...

AFM/NSOM Instrumentation

Mad City Labs Inc.’s MadPLL is a fully integrated instrument package that allows the user to create an inexpensive, high-resolution resonant scanning probe microscope using the company’s...

Mad City Labs Inc.

Image Sensor

OmniVision Technologies Inc. has announced the OV8820, a raw CMOS image sensor that performs 8-megapixel image capture. It delivers 1080-pixel/30-fps and 720-pixel/60-fps high-definition video that...

OmniVision Technologies Inc.

Closed-Loop Controller

Newport Corp. has introduced the newest member of its Conex integrated stage and controller product series. The compact Conex-AGP controller is preconfigured with an Agilis AG-LS25-27P linear stage...

Laser Protection

Nanospec laser protection from Laservision is a family of high-quality reflective coatings offering the highest levels of protection and visible transmission for all laser applications. The Nanospec...

laservision USA

Microscan has announced a 3-megapixel-resolution configuration in the popular MINI Hawk series of compact direct part mark (DPM) imagers. The autofocus imager reads small DPM marks straight out of...

Omron Microscan Systems Inc.

Lighting Software

OxyTech Srl and 7923%%Lambda Research Corp. have unveiled the release of LiteStar 4D, a software program for interior and exterior lighting design. It has been completely redesigned from the ground...

Eco-Friendly Lighting GlacialLight Inc., a subdivision of GlacialTech Inc., has launched the LED Vega series, environmentally friendly replacements for halogen AR111 lamps. With a proprietary LED driver, the GL-AR111...

GlacialTech Inc.

Scientific Cameras

Oriel, a Newport Corp. brand, has introduced two scientific cameras, the InstaSpec ISX CCD and the InstaSpec ISX IR. They are available with new InstaSpec Pro software, which provides complete system...

Newport - Oriel Instruments

Photoelectric Sensors

The GLV18 series photoelectric sensors with clear object detection available from Pepperl+Fuchs use reflectors to detect transparent objects up to 2.5 m away, or opaque objects up to 5 m away. They...

Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.

Osram Opto Semiconductors has expanded its Oslon LED family with the Oslon Black Series. The first member of the new series has a metal lead frame that provides thermal stability, a compact package...

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH

Optomechanical Software Lambda Research Corp.’s TracePro 7.0 optomechanical design software increases ray tracing speeds by up to 10 times over the company’s 6.0 version using new multithreading algorithms. The...

Lambda Research Corporation

Laser Mirrors

REO has announced a series of broadband mirrors that support operation in Ti:sapphire ultrafast lasers. They offer high reflectivity of >99.7% from 650 to 1100 nm, as well as minimal group...

Research Electro-Optics Inc. (REO)

Piezo Controller

For actuators, micropositioning systems and microscope stages, PI (Physik Instrumente) LP has introduced the C-867, a two-axis digital controller for ultrasonic high-stability piezo motor stages such...

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics

Laser Diode Drivers

Portable Power Systems Inc. has unveiled the PPS series high-power touch screen laser diode drivers. The units are user-friendly and offer a large, vibrant 5.7-in., 262,000-color thin-film transistor...

Portable Power Systems Inc.

SWIR Lenses

Resolve Optics Ltd., responding to increased demand for custom short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) lenses from manufacturers of SWIR cameras and imaging systems, has developed SWIR lenses for OEM...

Resolve Optics Ltd.

Flame Photometers

Sherwood Scientific’s Model 420 and Model 425 dual-channel flame photometers now are supplied with free 420 BlueNotes software. This product launch enables the instruments to perform sample...

Sherwood Scientific Ltd.

Image Processing

For industrial image processing applications, VRmagic GmbH is offering a 3-D area sensor based on digital stripe light projection that supplies ready-calculated 3-D data records. The AreaScan3D...

VRmagic Imaging GmbH

Safety Filters

Sperian Protection Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG has launched two polymer laser safety filters providing protection levels that previously were possible only with glass technology. The company has...

Sperian Protection Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

High-speed Camera

Vision Research has unveiled the Phantom v341, a high-speed digital camera tailored to military, scientific, research and range applications. The camera incorporates a 4-megapixel 35-mm-format sensor...

Vision Research Inc., Phantom Digital High-Speed Cameras

Superresolution Microscope Nikon Instruments Inc. has released the N-SIM, a superresolution microscope that operates at speeds enabling the study of microstructures and nanostructures of fixed and living cells with...

Nikon Instruments Inc.

Fiber Laser

Toptica Photonics Inc. has announced an ultrafast fiber laser with short pulse durations. The tunable “ultra compressed pulse” model of the FemtoFiber pro series provides a supercontinuum...

TOPTICA Photonics Inc.

PV Spectrophotometer

Craic Technologies Inc. has introduced the 308 PV microscope colorimeter designed to be added to an open photoport of a microscope or probe station to provide spectroscopy, color imaging, thin-film...

CRAIC Technologies

Wavefront Sensing WaveGauge from PhaseView is a turnkey solution based on digital wavefront sensing technology to meet demanding requirements for quality assurance, R&D and production environments. In comparison...

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