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Photonics Spectra: January 2012

Photonics Spectra
 January 2012


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Surprising Surges, Cautious Expectations, Positive Outlooks A Q&A roundtable on the state and future of the photonics industry The economy grew tremendously in 2010, according to leaders of companies in all areas of photonics – lasers, optics, imaging and beyond – who report high expectations that this growth is set to continue, especially in industrial sectors. In some cases, the growth came so suddenly that manufacturers were unprepared,...
Mass-Market Imaging Systems Cut Time, Cost, Size “Smaller,” “cheaper” and “faster” seem to be the current buzzwords in the imaging industry – and some of the imaging components on the horizon may allow us...
Putting More Than Glass in the Toolbox Plastics, glass, metamaterials, anisotropic materials – even smartphones – are teaming up to create a future where optical systems will be smaller, cheaper, lighter and more capable....
Medical Markets and New Niches Drive Laser Advances Laser makers increasingly are turning to the medical device industry for innovation – but don’t discount other interesting applications on the horizon. The past year has been a tumultuous...
A Brave New World of Photonics We’ve talked about current trends in the industry, about the optics of tomorrow. But what about tomorrow’s tomorrow? What technologies will shape our lives in the next 20 to 50 years?...
EDITORIAL
Who Has the Conn? The “conn” is the area of the submarine from which the rudder is controlled and where the periscope is located. Fans of sub movies – and any submariners among our readers – know that “Who has the conn?” is never in question, as ownership is announced out loud and repeated every time that responsibility changes. This is a position of critical importance, as the...
LASER SAFETY
Tokyo gears up for Photonix Expo Photonics industry members from around the world will converge on Tokyo Big Sight conference center April 11-13 for the Photonix Expo & Conference. The show will be held concurrently with the 22nd FINETECH Japan, a flat panel display exhibition and conference; FilmTech Japan, an expo on film technology; and Plastic Japan, which focuses on the raw materials for plastics and plastics-related...
TECH PULSE
Zinc oxide microwires boost LED performance Microwires made of zinc oxide can enhance LED performance, improving the efficiency at which LEDs convert electricity into ultraviolet light. LEDs may be the first to be enhanced by the creation of an electrical charge in a piezoelectric material using the piezo-phototronic effect. A mechanical strain to the microwires creates a piezoelectric potential – an electrical charge – in the...
Spin lasers could push data into the fast lane A new concept for ultrafast semiconductor lasers uses the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons – also known as spin – to break previous speed barriers, with the potential to achieve...
Chemically assembled metamaterials pave way for superlenses A new metamaterial can self-assemble 3-D structures with nanoscale features, a feat that could make “superlenses” to image proteins, DNA and viruses. Metamaterials offer new ways to...
People warm to white light from four-color diode lasers Step aside LEDs, there’s a new light source in town. A new four-color laser source can produce high-quality white light that is appealing to the human eye. LEDs – widely accepted as...
Super absorber could boost efficiency in solar cells A new material that absorbs a wide range of wavelengths could lead to more efficient, less expensive solar technology. Solar cells are only as efficient as the amount of sunlight they collect....
Lasers give rise to spider robots for dangerous missions Chemical spill? Gas leak? Mine collapse? Send in the spiders. Laser-based 3-D printing can help fabricate mobile robot spiders that can explore environments considered unreachable by or too...
Piece of energy puzzle could lead to better OLEDs and solar cells Scientists have put together a couple more pieces of the puzzle to explain how energy levels align in a critical group of advanced materials, which could have implications for developing sustainable...
Compact laser frequency comb could go places A new compact laser frequency comb is no larger than a shoebox and has a high-quality optical cavity just 2 mm wide. Until now, frequency combs have been delicate lab instruments, bulky – about...
Technology tracks movements of individual athletes In team sports, single players can sometimes get lost on the crowded field. But a new system can follow multiple players at once, even when they’re buried under a pile of bodies in a football...
LIGHT SPEED
2011 Prism Award Finalists Announced The finalists for the 2011 Prism Awards for photonics innovation have been announced in nine categories by co-sponsors Photonics Media and SPIE, and feature a wide range of products, from eyeglasses that automatically change focus to the first product to incorporate artificial muscles with optics. Winners will be announced during a gala dinner at SPIE Photonics West 2012 in San Francisco. The...
Tokyo gears up for Photonix Expo Photonics industry members from around the world will converge on Tokyo Big Sight conference center April 11-13 for the Photonix Expo & Conference. The show will be held concurrently with the...
Newport's Ophir Acquisition Closes Ophir Optronics Ltd. shareholders have approved the electro-optics systems maker’s acquisition by 10218%%Newport Corp., and regulators have approved the $230 million deal. The Jerusalem-based...
QD Vision Relocates To support the launch of new products in 2012, QD Vision Inc. has relocated to a high-volume production facility in Lexington, Mass. The new complex houses its global headquarters as well as its...
Skorpios Technologies Closes Funding Round Skorpios Technologies has closed a $19 million Series B round of financing, which will be used to expand its infrastructure and to complete the commercialization of its technology. Ericsson, Nokia...
Precision Optical Relocates Precision Optical has moved to a 42,000-sq-ft facility in Costa Mesa, Calif., about five miles from its previous location. The plant more than doubles its office and manufacturing space. The company...
SETi to Expand UV LED Production Sensor Electronic Technology Inc. (SETi) of Columbia, S.C., will expand its R&D efforts and make the transition to becoming a high-volume manufacturer of ultraviolet LEDs shorter than 365 nm....
Telops Secures Contract, Selects Rep Infrared camera and hyperspectral imaging systems provider Telops Inc. of Quebec City has received a contract for a cooled infrared camera by the Patuxent River Infrared Signature Measurements...
Cubic Wins $19M for Laser-Based Trainer Cubic Defense Applications, a unit of Cubic Corp., has won a $19 million competitive contract for the Instrumentable Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System Individual Weapons Systems (I-MILES...
Ilumisys Grants License to LED Optics Ilumisys Inc., a supplier of solid-state lighting technology, has granted a license for LED fluorescent tube replacements to LED Optics of Boca Raton, Fla., a manufacturer of replacement LED T8...
MicroVision Receives $3.5M Order Micro-Vision Inc. of Redmond, Wash., has received a $3.5 million follow-on order from ESPlus Co. Ltd. for its PicoP laser projection display engine. The order is scheduled for shipment to the Kimpo...
Cree Subsidiary to Add Jobs Ruud Lighting of Racine, Wis., recently acquired by Cree Inc., plans a 208,000-sq-ft expansion to its manufacturing facility and a $24.5 million investment in the fabrication and assembly of LED...
Navitar Licenses Technology to Carl Zeiss Optical technology provider Navitar Inc. has agreed to license its Hoffman Modulation Contrast (HMC) to German optics manufacturer 17822%%Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH. Zeiss will manufacture...
Zephyr Photonics in Transition Research and development company Zephyr Photonics, recently acquired by Torch Hill Investment Partners, a Washington-based private equity firm, is making the transition to becoming a commercial...
FEI Buys Till Photonics Scientific instruments maker FEI has purchased 15034%%Till Photonics GmbH of Munich for €14.5 (about $20 million). Till provides digital light microscopes and high-speed imaging systems for...
Leica Acquires Labindia Unit Leica Micro-systems of Wetzlar, Germany, a provider of microscopy systems and histology solutions, has purchased the microscopy and histopathology business of Labindia Instruments Pvt. Ltd., a Delhi,...
Coatings Drawn at 2500 m/min Nextrom of Vantaa, Finland, recently combined its OFC 20 draw process technology with DSM Functional Materials’ DeSolite supercoatings. The result was process speeds of 2500 m/min – 50...
Picometrix Receives Development Contract Picometrix, a subsidiary of 303%%Advanced Photonix Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., has received a follow-on $600,000 Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer government contract from NASA to further...
BaySpec Expands Production Capacity Miniature spectral engines supplier BaySpec Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has expanded production capacity for its optical channel performance monitors (OCPMs). The IntelliGuard series OCPMs, which are...
Oxford Instruments Buys Company Oxford Instruments plc of Abingdon, England, has acquired Platinum Medical Imaging LLC of Deerfield Beach, Fla., and Vacaville, Calif. Oxford Instruments said it was attracted to Platinum Medical...
SiOnyx Wins $3M Contract SiOnyx Inc., maker of a patented material known as black silicon, will develop technologies for sensing laser light in targeting systems under a new $3 million multiphase contract with the US...
Emcore Bolsters Cable Production Emcore Corp. of Albuquerque, N.M., has announced full-scale production of its new 56-Gb/s 14 data rate (FDR) active optical cables for Ethernet router and switch applications, and computing. The...
QED Opens New Facility QED Technologies International Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., has opened a renovated manufacturing facility for its new division, QED Optics. The plant is equipped with magnetorheological finishing (MRF),...
Cobolt Completes Expansion Diode-pumped solid-state laser manufacturer Cobolt AB of Stockholm has completed a 40 percent expansion of its cleanroom production facilities and made investments in new manufacturing and test...
Imra America Partners with MagArray Imra America Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., and MagArray Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., are collaborating to develop MagArray’s magneto-nanoparticle immunoassay technology, which is based on research...
LumaSense Buys Thermal Imaging Assets To enhance sales, support and aftermarket services for its line of thermal imaging devices, LumaSense Technologies of Santa Clara, Calif., has acquired the thermal imaging and services assets of...
Heraeus Opens Center in Singapore Heraeus of Hanau, Germany, a developer of front- and back-side silver pastes for crystalline solar cells, has opened its Asian Photovoltaics Center in Singapore. The center will be the...
Zygo Receives Order, Contract The Optical Systems Div. of Zygo Corp. has been awarded a $4 million order from a major medical device manufacturer to produce high-precision assemblies used in an ophthalmic medical instrument. The...
Rofin-Sinar Opens Subsidiary in India To meet the demands of its growing Indian markets, laser source and laser-based system solutions manufacturer Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. recently opened a subsidiary in India. Rofin Baasel Laser...
MEMS Display Prototypes Created Pixtronix Inc. of Andover, Mass., and Chimei Innolux Corp. (CMI) of Taiwan have developed 5-in.-diagonal microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) display prototypes. The companies previously developed...
Optim Acquires Company Endoscope manufacturer Optim LLC has acquired Precision Endoscopic Technologies, formerly Max Endoscopy of Mentor, Ohio. The new company, called Precision Endoscopic Technologies LLC, will operate as...
Calient Funding Round Raises $19M Calient Technologies Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif., a specialist in photonic switching, has raised $19.4 million in venture financing from new and existing internal investors. The company will use...
Companies Ink Micromachining Deal Applied Energetics Inc. (AE) of Tucson, Ariz., and 8059%%Laser Light Technologies Inc. of Hermann, Mo., will jointly develop ultrashort-pulse lasers and processes for the laser machining market. AE...
Prysm Adds $100M in Funding Digital display provider Prysm Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has received more than $100 million in new capital since its launch, bringing total financing to more than $135 million. The financing has...
Lighthouse Imaging Secures Patent Lighthouse Imaging Corp. of Portland, Maine, has announced that a key element of its Endolume endoscopic testing device has been issued Patent No. 8040496 by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The...
GREENLIGHT
Sensor Reveals 1000 Colors Across Land, Sea, Space It can be used underground, underwater and even in space. A versatile new system, it comprises innovative optics that can be used with any spectrometer, can collect more than 1000 colors and is so stable and reliable that it can be used to detect contaminants and other environmental hazards almost anywhere and in real time. The fore optics (the optics in front of the sensor) were developed by...
LIGHTER SIDE
To seek out the soft glow of new life and new civilizations The search for life on alien planets focuses largely on radio signals – on keeping an ear out for transmissions from far-off civilizations. But what if we kept an eye out instead, in the hope that the aliens literally have left a light on? If intelligent beings have indeed evolved around distant stars, they likely have developed artificial lighting systems for the dark hours, and those...
PRODUCTS
Readout Circuit The NSC1101 from New Imaging Technologies is a high-dynamic-range readout circuit that interfaces with photodiode arrays through flip chip bonding. In VGA format, it has 640 x 512 pixels with a 15-µm pitch. It can accept a photodiode array with p-on-n or n-on-p. Because of its proprietary Native Wide Dynamic Range of more than 120 dB, the sensor does not require any setting or exposure time...
New Imaging Technologies (NIT)
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Data Analysis Software Menlo Systems GmbH is taking orders for the Tera-Lyzer terahertz (THz) data evaluation software developed by LyTera. It enables advanced data analysis and brings terahertz time-domain spectroscopy...
Menlo Systems GmbH
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LED Evaluation Services Cree Inc. has unveiled its Tempo (thermal, electrical, mechanical, photometric and optical) services, a comprehensive set of quantitative and qualitative tests and analyses for LED-based lighting...
Wolfspeed Inc.
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Intracavity Mirror Coating Ophir Optronics Ltd. has announced that the CO2 Laser Optics Div. of its Optics Group has developed an MMR-P intracavity mirror coating for use in high-power CO2 laser systems based on...
Ophir Optronics Solutions Ltd., Optics Group
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Acquisition Drivers for Camera Andor Technology plc has introduced acquisition drivers for its Neo scalable CMOS (sCMOS) camera within the Meta Imaging series of software for live-cell microscopy from Molecular Devices Inc. The...
Andor Technology
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Fiber Lasers NKT Photonics A/S has launched high-power Koheras BoostiK single-mode and single-frequency fiber lasers that offer up to 15-W output with low phase noise and an ultranarrow linewidth for applications...
NKT Photonics A/S
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Multidetector Accessory International Light Technologies (ILT) has launched the A803 multiplexer/data logger input accessory designed for its ILT1700 research radiometer. The device enables the radiometer to collect and...
International Light Technologies, Gilway & International Light Divs.
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1-Megapixel CCD Cameras Point Grey Research Inc. has unveiled the Grasshopper Express GX-FW series IEEE 1394b (FireWire-b) digital cameras. The series has the same compact housing as the original Grasshopper and offers new...
Teledyne FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions
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Raman Spectrometers Hamamatsu Corp. has introduced two miniature Raman spectrometers. The C11713CA and C11714CA offer spectral resolution of 0.3 nm and high throughput for Raman spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Raman...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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Imaging System UVP LLC has announced that the BioSpectrum imaging system is now configured with the new MegaCam 810 scientific-grade CCD camera. Designed for a wide range of proteomics and genomics research...
Analytik Jena US LLC
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Machine Vision Lasers The FlexPoint MVmicro and FlexPoint MVpico series machine vision lasers manufactured by Laser Components GmbH are line lasers for image processing. The MVmicro models, developed for stand-alone...
Laser Components GmbH
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3-D Video Tracker Specialised Imaging Ltd. has revealed a new version of its Trajectory Tracker video tracking system to precisely correlate high-speed video data with 3-D visualization and measurement information....
Specialised Imaging Inc.
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Laser Beam Profiler Cinogy Technologies GmbH's CinCam CMOS is a laser beam profiling system that features an ultracompact 1.3-megapixel CMOS sensor and Ray-Ci beam profiling software. It provides accurate and fast laser...
CINOGY Technologies GmbH
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Laser Diffusers Holo/Or Ltd. has announced the HM series high-homogeneity laser diffusers. They are designed to generate a well-defined beam shape — square, round or any other user choice — with a...
Holo/Or Ltd.
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Confocal Software Vortran Laser Technology Inc. has completed verification of its Stradus laser functionality with µManager open source software that controls confocal microscope systems. The software allows the...
Vortran Laser Technology
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CMOS Cameras For fast and efficient automated optical inspection of solar wafers, Baumer Ltd. USA has introduced its HXC20NIR and HXC40NIR CMOS cameras, which measure electroluminescence and deliver high...
Baumer USA
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Stepper Motor Drive The Idea stepper motor drive platform from Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions Inc. now communicates using an RS-485 data protocol that overcomes the limitations of other methods, rendering the drive module...
Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions Inc.
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Microscopy Illumination Prior Scientific Inc. has released LumenLED, an illumination system for fluorescence microscopy. It offers two modes of operation. In "constant light" mode, a photodiode provides a closed-loop...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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AFM Automation Software Asylum Research's MFP-3D and Cypher atomic force microscopes (AFMs) require no programming to perform advanced imaging and measurements. For more advanced, automated and out-of-the-box experiments,...
Oxford Instruments Asylum Research
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3-D Sensor Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH has launched the Comet 5 Eco sensor for high-precision 3-D digitization. The modular construction makes it adaptable to various measuring field sizes and enables...
Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH
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Single-Board Cameras Matrix Vision GmbH's single-board camera family, mvBlueFOX-MLC, is now available with a housing. Named the mvBlueFOX-IGC (industrial-grade compact), the series includes two models with two different...
MATRIX VISION GmbH
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Handheld Raman Spectrometer B&W Tek Inc. has launched the NanoRam, a handheld instrument for materials identification and verification within facilities that are compliant with current good manufacturing practices. It is a...
B&W Tek LLC
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Spectrometer Software Ocean Optics Inc. has expanded its software offerings with the launch of Overture, a free spectrometer operating platform for simple data and spectral collection. It is geared to users new to...
Ocean Insight
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Bandwidth Enhancer Enterprise, campus and dispersed data center network expansions increasingly extend fiber links directly to the end user. Cube Optics AG has recognized the need to upgrade bandwidths and to implement...
Cube Optics AG, COM
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Terahertz Spectrometer Emcore Corp. has released its PB7200 portable frequency domain terahertz spectrometer for researchers and application developers who need to study the properties of materials at terahertz frequencies...
EMCORE Corp., Optical Devices
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LED Prototypes for Headlights Osram Opto Semiconductors has developed two LED prototypes for headlight manufacturers that combine new chip and package technologies to provide high light output, even at high currents; a uniform...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
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Frame Grabber Epix Inc.'s PIXCI E8 frame grabber supports fast Camera Link cameras and more than 900 extended, full, medium, base, dual-base and power over Camera Link configurations. The instrument offers 64-bit...
EPIX Inc.
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Wedge Prism Pairs REO is offering a family of matched Risley (wedge) prism pairs to enable high-accuracy laser beam steering in military, industrial and instrumentation applications. Beam steering accuracy with the...
Research Electro-Optics Inc. (REO)
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Plasma System Plasma Etch has introduced a plasma system that incorporates two individual plasma etching/cleaning-type-mode technologies into one complete stand-alone plasma etching/cleaning system. The PE-100...
Plasma Etch Inc.
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UV Centrifuge Cell Windows Sapphire and single-crystal quartz cell windows for Beckman and other centrifuges are available from Meller Optics Inc. The windows are made from sapphire to resist chemicals and scratching and to...
Meller Optics Inc.
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Shape Analysis Library The SAL3D enhanced 3D Shape Analysis Library from Aqsense SL is a standard software library for range maps and cloud-of-points acquisition and processing, fully oriented to 3-D machine vision...
AQSENSE SL
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Scientific CMOS Camera For high-speed live-cell fluorescence imaging, QImaging has announced the Rolera Bolt scientific CMOS camera. Designed for low-light applications, it is suited for biomedical imaging as more research...
Teledyne QImaging, Teledyne Imaging
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Thickness Measurement Lumetrics Inc. has begun shipment of its LumetriScan fully automated noncontact thickness measurement system for the medical industry. The LumetriScan 360 can be used on medical tubing up to 36 in....
Lumetrics
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Right-Angle Prisms Edmund Optics' TechSpec broadband antireflection (BBAR)-coated right-angle prisms are suitable for use with low-power lasers for a variety of applications. Exhibiting a ray deviation of 90º,...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Laser Turnkey System Integrated with the AL1500W or AL600W laser directly on the gantry, the X-Y-Z laser turnkey system manufactured by Alkras LLC includes a Dell desktop computer preconfigured with CAD and driver...
Alkras LLC
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Inspection Camera Teledyne Dalsa's BOA Pro smart camera has advanced Sherlock inspection software for industrial inspection applications. The compact vision camera provides an interface that offers maximum design...
Teledyne DALSA, X-Ray & Image Sensor Products
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Systems Processor LaserLinc has introduced µLinc, a processor designed for integration with laser and ultrasonic measurement systems. Its connectors, for all system input/outputs, are conveniently located on the...
LaserLinc Inc.
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Ultrafast Laser Vitara from Coherent Inc. is a widely tunable one-box ultrafast laser that delivers pulse widths shorter than 12 fs. It offers hands-free and fully automated operation, including wavelength tuning...
Coherent Inc.
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Interface Standard Cameras Imperx has announced a series of cameras that use the CoaXPress interface standard. The public royalty-free standard, administered by the Japan Industrial Imaging Association, supports image data...
Imperx Inc.
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Extra Large Slide Scanning Leica Microsystems GmbH's SCN400 and SCN400 F line scanners capture the largest area in digital pathology. This release in the company's total digital pathology portfolio provides a new level of...
Leica Geosystems AG (See Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
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FLCPA System Calmar Laser's Cazadero femtosecond fiber laser chirped pulse amplifier (FLCPA) system provides users with full control of pulse repetition rates and pulse energies to meet their application...
Calmar Laser
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DVI/HDMI Output for Cameras For its Linux-based intelligent cameras, VRmagic offers a back end with Picoblade connectors for Ethernet, USB 2.0 Host, RS-232 and general-purpose input/output and analog video output. A printed...
VRmagic Imaging GmbH
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Raman Microscope BaySpec Inc. has announced enhancements to its fully automated Nomadic Raman microscope, extending its wavelength range to the 1700-nm near-infrared. At the touch of the keyboard, customers can...
BaySpec Inc.
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Evaluation Module Texas Instruments has released the DLP LightCrafter evaluation module for integrating projected light into industrial, medical, scientific instrumentation and security applications. It was created to...
Texas Instruments Inc., DLP Products
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Reference Flats Working with high-stability materials such as glass, Zerodur and silica, Optical Surfaces Ltd. supplies high-precision reference flats that are used to measure the surface accuracy or the transmitted...
Optical Surfaces Ltd.
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Mini Viewing Cabinet The compact, lightweight CM-10MP mini viewing cabinet manufactured by Spectronics Corp. is suitable for life sciences applications that require high-contrast fluorescence analysis, for viewing...
Spectronics Corp., Spectroline
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Fiber-Coupled QCW Modules Dilas has added 500-W water-cooled stacks with a numerical aperture of 0.22 to its line of fiber-coupled laser modules. Providing a quasicontinuous-wave (QCW) operating mode with a duty cycle of up...
DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH
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IQ Laser Module Power Technology Inc. has announced an IQ (instrument quality) violet laser diode module with 250 mW of output power at 405 nm. The module delivers the accuracy and power needed to solve complex...
Power Technology Inc.
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Digital Cameras For bright-field and fluorescence microscopy imaging applications, Olympus Europa Holding GmbH has released the ultraresolution DP73 and DP73WDR digital cameras. The multipurpose microscope cameras...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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Active Coherence Stabilization Toptica Photonics Inc. has expanded its BlueMode diode laser family product portfolio to include GreenMode and RedMode. The new models deliver high power and high coherence from a single diode across...
TOPTICA Photonics Inc.
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Optical Measurement Microscope Vision Engineering's Kestrel Elite two-axis optical measurement microscope, designed for use by engineers, is rugged enough to withstand conditions on the shop floor. The high-accuracy system...
Vision Engineering Inc.
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Laser Diode Driver Analog Modules Inc. has released its Model 784 continuous-wave and pulsed laser diode driver, suitable for use in compact industrial and medical laser applications. The 50-A, 2.5-V driver requires...
Analog Modules Inc.
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Surface Imaging Software Digital Surf sarl's MountainsMap 6.2 surface imaging and metrology software integrates Chinese GB/T standard references for surface texture parameter families, extending the "right parameters...
Digital Surf
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Modulated Dual Combiner Laser Lines Ltd. is offering a modulated dual-line light engine manufactured by Cobolt AB and optimized for high-end optogenetics research. This version of the Cobolt dual combiner offers two...
Laser Lines Ltd.
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LED Flat Panel Downlights Global Lighting Technologies Inc. has introduced a 2 x 2-ft sq LED flat panel downlight assembly that it says provides a brighter, lighter-weight and more efficient replacement for the 2 x 2-ft...
Global Lighting Technologies
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Digital Cameras Vision Research has unveiled its line of Phantom Miro M-Series digital high-speed cameras, including the M110, M310 and M120. The 1-megapixel Miro M110 and M310 include a custom-designed 1280 x...
Vision Research Inc., Phantom Digital High-Speed Cameras
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Quantum Random Number Generator The PQRNG 150 from PicoQuant GmbH generates provable randomness at high bit rates. The fast photonic quantum random number generator delivers a bit rate of up to 150 Mb/s, delivered over USB, and...
PicoQuant GmbH
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Digital Color Sensors TAOS has announced the TCS3x71 and the TCS3x72 digital color RGB sensors with an infrared blocking filter and a proximity sensor. The sensors provide color measurement and, when coupled with an IR...
AMS-TAOS USA Inc.
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Spectroradiometers ASD Inc.'s FieldSpec 4 line of portable spectroradiometers is designed for fast, precise spectral data collection. The instruments operate from 350 to 2500 nm and allow researchers to cover more...
ASD Inc.
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CCD Camera The redesigned Infinity2-1 USB 2.0 microscopy camera has been unveiled by Lumenera Corp. Engineered for documentation and image analysis in life sciences, clinical and materials sciences applications...
Teledyne Lumenera
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TERS-Ready AFM System Bruker Corp.'s Nano Surfaces Div. has released the Innova-IRIS, an integrated system for correlated atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Raman spectroscopic imaging. Its ultralow closed-loop noise,...
Bruker Nano Surfaces
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