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Photonics Spectra: June 2007

Photonics Spectra
June 2007

FEATURES

A Small and Cheap Spectrometer

For spectrometers, it is better to be small and cheap than big and bulky — provided that one’s optical performance targets are met. Now a team of researchers from Delft University of Technology and from TNO Institute of Science and Technology, both in Delft, the Netherlands, have developed one that measures just 3 × 3 × 11 mm. This small instrument has produced some big results, achieving 3-nm...

Photonics for Art’s Sake

Art may be for art’s sake, but that doesn’t mean that paintings and other works of art can’t benefit from photonic-based tools and equipment. For example, the challenge of preserving and restoring...

Lasers May Brighten the Solar Cell Market

It is hard to ignore the many news stories about rising oil prices, higher energy costs, severe weather and concerns over global climate change. The emerging consensus is that we must reduce our...

Seven-Year Update Drives National Laser Safety Standard Forward

As a result of advances in laser devices and their applications both experimentally and in the field, the first update in seven years to the American National Standard for Safe Use of Lasers (ANSI...

Diverse Photonics Research Part of University's Curriculum

The Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) has been in existence since 1986 at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando and recently morphed into the first US...

Integrated Wavelength Control for Diode-Pumped Lasers

Diode-pumped solid-state laser systems are replacing flashlamp-pumped lasers in many applications because diode pumping results in better overall wall-plug efficiency and beam quality than lamp...

Market Forecast: Positive for Machine Vision

The machine vision and imaging industry experienced strong growth in 2006, a trend that is expected to continue in 2007, according to a study published recently by the Automated Imaging Association...

Interlaced Goes Digital

Although industrial digital cameras for the machine vision market were introduced nearly 20 years ago, about 65 percent of all camera units sold in North America are still analog, according to the...

Car Dashboard Tested with Robotic Vision

Safety and quality requirements of automotive dashboards are becoming increasingly complex. As a result, a large number of parts must be tested to ensure that they are present, are fitted correctly,...

Gigabit Ethernet Cameras Inspect Paper and Steel

Paper and steel manufacturing pose a variety of challenges for inspection systems. Endless streams of material must be checked for flaws early on before the material is packaged, bundled or processed...

Internal Digital Signature Enables Data Protection

In this age of increasing security needs, data authentication is increasingly important. In the past, methods such as computer-based cryptography were used, but the image and the related data could...

Building Better Nanotubes for Displays

Carbon nanotubes could become the basis of improved video displays if manufacturing problems are solved. Now a group of researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing has demonstrated the...

Analytical Method for Computing Color Patterns in LEDs

The use of solid-state lighting is expanding, with arrays of LEDs found in everything from automotive to medical to architectural applications. This is due in large part to the fact that LEDs have...

Measuring LED Junction Temperature

Although LED performance has improved tremendously in the past 10 years, thermal management remains a major concern for manufacturers and end users alike. Running LEDs at elevated junction...

Hyperlens Achieves 130-nm Resolution

Because metamaterial-based lenses can overcome the diffraction limit of light waves, they may enable optical imaging of objects much smaller than typical lenses can resolve. Researchers from the...

Microscope Slide Enables ~70-nm Resolution

Conventional optical microscopes can resolve objects on the order of only 200 nm because they are limited by the diffraction of light waves, meaning that small things such as DNA and viruses cannot...

Getting the ‘Hole’ Picture Up Close

Plasmons — local electron oscillations in metal films — hold great promise as the basis for sensors and optical switches. A challenge with such substrates has been pinpointing the location of the...

Ultrabroadband Light Source Helps Pinpoint Structure of Organic Semiconductors

Organic semiconductor materials — used to make photovoltaic cells, LEDs and similar devices — can be quickly and efficiently made but often have surfaces composed of both amorphous and crystalline...

A Crane for Very Small Construction Sites

It is always best to have the right tool for the job at hand. Unfortunately, researchers investigating the high-resolution positioning of single nanoparticles have lacked the proper equipment. As a...

TECH PULSE

Reflection of Multilayered Surfaces Measured

Beetles’ rigid forewings, called elytra, often display multilayered structures and iridescent metallic colors. As one might imagine, their refractive index proves hard to measure accurately. To help...

Natural Fiber Optic Plates

A research team has discovered that cells in the retina of vertebrates function like fiber optic plates, yet the ways in which they differ from man-made materials could provide clues for building...

Short Laser Pulses Facilitate Hybrid CARS Technique

Although not a widespread disease, anthrax remains a central concern for many microbiologists because of its potential use as a bioweapon. Conventional spectroscopic methods, such as infrared...

Linking Perceived Surface Properties to Image Statistics

Scientists have discovered a great deal about how the brain perceives objects. Less clear is how it identifies what these objects are made of based on their surface appearance. Understanding how...

Ultrafast Laser Achieves Quill-like Writing

Lasers have been used for years to inscribe words and other designs. But things are starting to get a little fancy. By using ultrashort light pulses on transparent materials such as silica glass,...

Optical Techniques Reveal Clues about Ancient ‘Comb Jelly’ Embryos

The Meishucun assemblage of fossils in southwestern Shaanxi, China, documents the beginnings of the Cambrian explosion of animals roughly 540 million years ago — a period in which the diversity of...

LIGHT SPEED

IEC Issues Revised Laser Safety Standard The IEC, based in Geneva, has released the second edition of the IEC-60825-1 standard Safety of Laser Products — Part 1: Equipment and Classification Requirements, replacing the first, which was...

Rofin-Sinar Acquires Companies in US, UK Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc., with headquarters in Plymouth, Mich., and Hamburg, Germany, has acquired 100 percent of the common stock of Corelase Oy of Tampere, Finland. The latter company...

OFS Adds Distributor With the opening of an office in Milan, Italy, SEDI Fibre Ottiche has joined Fort Fibre Ottiche of Bergamo, Italy, as a distributor for OFS Specialty Photonics Div. of Avon, Conn. Chosen for its...

Plextronics Receives Grant A $340,500 grant has been awarded by the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center to Plextronics Inc., both of Pittsburgh, for the continued commercial development of the latter’s Plexcore...

Optikos Relocates In Massachusetts, Optikos Corp. has moved its headquarters from Cambridge to Wakefield. The company, which manufactures devices used to measure and test the imaging quality of optical and...

NASA Chooses Aurora to Develop Optics Aurora Design & Technology of Clearwater, Fla., has announced that it will design and develop optics for NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite Mission. The mission, scheduled to...

Mouser to Distribute LedEngin Products Mouser Electronics Inc. of Mansfield, Texas, and LedEngin Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., have signed a distribution agreement. The California company manufactures LED components and light source...

IPG Photonics Expands in China IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., has opened an office in Beijing to provide local support and service for its fiber lasers and amplifiers. The company created the unit in conjunction with the...

Fox Group, Opton Laser Sign Agreement The Fox Group Inc., based in Deer Park, N.Y., and Montreal, has selected Opton Laser International of Orsay, France, as the exclusive distributor of its LED lines in France. The French company will...

Townes Laser Institute Dedicated in Florida

The Townes Laser Institute was dedicated as a new laser technology Center of Excellence within the University of Central Florida’s College of Optics and Photonics in Orlando on May 4 in honor of...

NASA Chooses Sensor Manufacturer NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Pasadena, Calif., has chosen Tower Semiconductor Ltd. of Migdal Haemek, Israel, to manufacture CMOS image sensors for use in the development of its advanced...

Olympus to Distribute for Hamamatsu Olympus America Inc. of Center Valley, Pa., has signed an agreement with Hamamatsu Corp. of Bridgewater, N.J., to distribute the latter’s Nanozoomer digital pathology system in the US and Canada. The...

OSA Joins Research Site The Optical Society of America in Washington has joined 12 other scientific, engineering and technological societies to create a comprehensive online research site that will allow access to their...

Photon Dynamics, Salvador Imaging Create New Company Photon Dynamics Inc. of San Jose, Calif., and Salvador Imaging Inc. of Colorado Springs, Colo., have formed Salvador Systems LLC, a Photon Dynamics Co. The new concern will produce monochrome and...

MVTec Appoints Distributor in India MVTec Software GmbH of Munich, Germany, has appointed Lucid Imaging Pvt. Ltd. of Bangalore, India, as distributor of its Halcon and ActivVisionTools software in that country. The Indian company...

Asylum Research Invests in German Distributor A manufacturer of atomic force microscopes, Asylum Research of Santa Barbara, Calif., has purchased a majority interest in Atomic Force F&E GmbH, of Mannheim, Germany, which has been its European...

Photo Research Appoints Midwest Distributor Photo Research Inc. of Chatsworth, Calif., has appointed BEA Electro Sales of Elk Grove Village, Ill., to distribute its products in the Midwest. Products include spectroradiometers, photometers,...

Satisloh Enlarges Precision Optics Unit A supplier of technology for ophthalmic and precision optics manufacturing, Satisloh AG of Baar, Switzerland, has restructured and expanded its precision optics activities to operate as an...

Photon Partners with Telepro Photon Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has announced that Telepro Inc. of Verdun, Quebec, Canada, will distribute the California company’s beam profiling instruments in Quebec, the Maritimes and Ontario.

CVI Laser to Acquire Melles Griot CVI Laser LLC of Albuquerque, N.M., has signed an agreement to acquire Melles Griot, a deal expected to bolster its optical manufacturing capacity and allow for the development of new...

Manz Licenses Synova Technology Manz Automation AG of Reutlingen, Germany, has initiated an exclusive agreement to license MicroJet technology from Synova SA of Lausanne, Switzerland. The German company will integrate the...

Excellon Taps Viking Excellon Automation of Rancho Dominguez, Calif., has appointed Viking Ltd. of Houghton Regis, UK, to sell and service its products in Europe. The California company’s products range from single- and...

Indeco to Represent Toptica in Japan Toptica Photonics AG of Gräfelfing, Germany, has strengthened its presence in Japan with the appointment of the distribution company Indeco Inc. of Tokyo. With a branch office in Osaka and more than...

Onefive Teams with M Square Onefive GmbH of Zurich, Switzerland, has named M Square Corp. of Tokyo as distributor of all its products in Japan. The former supplies femtosecond, picosecond and tunable narrow-linewidth laser...

Company to Acquire Eastman Kodak Unit Rohm and Haas Co. of Philadelphia has agreed to acquire Eastman Kodak Co.’s Light Management Film business, which produces advanced films that improve the brightness and efficiency of LCDs. As part...

3S Photonics Is Launched Avanex Corp. of Fremont, Calif., has sold its subsidiary Avanex France SA to its director, Didier Sauvage, and to Global Research Co., held by Alexandre Krivine. Based in Marcoussis, France, the...

Ionatron Receives Naval Contract for Technology The federal government has granted Ionatron Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., a contract to continue development of its laser-induced plasma channel technology. Specifically, the $9.8 million award will fund...

Catalyst, Leadis Form LED Driver Partnership Catalyst Semiconductor Inc. of Santa Clara and Leadis Technology Inc. of Sunnyvale, both in California, have formed a partnership to deploy the Quad-Mode LED driver technology throughout the global...

Veeco Instruments, Leica Microsystems Ally for Research Veeco Instruments Inc. of Woodbury, N.Y., a supplier of nanoscience instrumentation, and Leica Microsystems GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany, a manufacturer of optical microscopy imaging systems, have formed...

Infotonics Center Employs Suss MicroTec Tools The Infotonics Technology Center of Canandaigua, N.Y., has selected Suss MicroTec America Inc.’s bonding systems for use in its microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) packaging laboratory to provide...

Coast Composites, CCAT to Fabricate Molds Coast Composites of Irvine, Calif., and the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Inc. of East Hartford will fabricate large molds for production of aerospace structures. Coast Composites has...

Microvision Awarded Laser Projection Contract Microvision Inc. of Redmond, Wash., has announced that it will develop a projection-based display solution for a customer in the transportation sector. The system — designed for an aerospace...

ITW Purchases Cal Sensors Illinois Tool Works (ITW) of Glenview, Ill., has acquired Cal Sensors Inc. of Santa Rosa, Calif., to expand its range of highly engineered components, industrial systems, consumable systems and...

Companies Will Supply Compatible Devices A group of optical chip and module manufacturers has agreed to supply compatible sources of optical transmitter and receiver devices for use in 40-Gb/s optical transceiver modules. The initiative...

ACCENT ON APPLICATIONS

At the Bottom of the Sea

As Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner noted, there is water everywhere in the ocean, but none is fit to drink. The simple answer that the water is too salty is not informative enough for...

NIR Imaging for Deep Space

What is dark energy? How much is there? And what is it doing to the universe? A growing number of scientists is hoping to answer those complex questions as preparations are made for the 2011...

PRESSTIME BULLETIN

Ultrasound Leads to Intense Mechanoluminescence

The next time you pull off that old party trick of turning off the lights, then crunching into a wintergreen-flavored Life Savers candy until the sparks fly, you may have a deeper appreciation for the effect known as triboluminescence, or mechanoluminescence. Scientists have observed the phenomenon for more than 400 years, but it mostly has been relegated to party games because the luminescent...

US Supreme Court Weighs In on Two Patent Cases The US Supreme Court recently decided two patent cases that likely will have a significant impact on patenting and on patenting strategies for high-tech businesses. The first case, Microsoft v....

Imaging Reveals Details of Bats in Flight

Birds and bats approach flying differently. When flying at slow speeds, birds easily can separate the primary feathers on their wings to allow air through, which makes their upstroke aerodynamically...

LIGHTER SIDE

Talented Tail May Have Tale to Tell

You think your dog loves you. After all, it perks up every time you enter the room, eyes wide and tail wagging vigorously at just the mere sight of its master. Each dog was isolated in a rectangular wooden box and presented with various stimuli. The dogs’ responses were recorded with an overhead video camera. But could it all be an elaborate hoax to squeeze another bowl of tasty bits...

PRODUCTS

DIODE LASERS

Lumics GmbH has released the LU09xxC120 series fiber-coupled diode lasers, which offer up to 120 W of optical output power in CW operation from a glass fiber with a 200-μm core diameter....

The Silver series infrared cameras from Electrophysics offer frame rates that enable temperature measurement in high-speed applications. Based on a 320 × 256 InSb focal plane array sensor, the...

SPECTROPHOTOMETER

The ND-8000 eight-sample spectrophotometer from NanoDrop Technologies Inc. can measure eight samples as small as 1 μl simultaneously. Based on the ND-1000, the device can process a sample in...

NanoDrop products

CMOS CAMERA

The Infinity 1 Digital Kit from Media Cybernetics Inc. includes a CMOS color or monochrome microscopy camera, which works with the Image-Pro Plus and Image-Pro Express image processing software....

Media Cybernetics Inc.

UV ADHESIVE A UV adhesive with a 1.33 refractive index has been released by MY Polymers Ltd. The MY-133 is based on a highly fluorinated resin and can be used for fiber optic, lightguide and laser applications....

MY Polymers Ltd.

DIGITAL CAMERAS Dalsa Corp. has added three models to its Genie series GigE Vision-compliant digital cameras. Designed for high-speed industrial imaging applications, the compact Genie HM series represents the...

Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components

POWDER BLENDING ANALYSIS

The BlendAlyser from getSys offers contact-free online monitoring of powder blending processes for pharmaceutical and research applications. With NIR spectroscopy, users may conduct a real-time...

EDGE-BLACKENED OPTICS

Edmund Optics Inc. offers edge-blackening as a standard option for most of its Techspec VIS 0° achromatic lenses as well as for all transmissive components through its Quik Mod program....

Edmund Optics Inc.

OPTICAL FIBERS OFS Specialty Photonics Div. has released optical fibers with hard clad silica coating, which can withstand high power and tight bends. The performance of three types of fibers was tested on a...

INTENSIFIED CCD CAMERAS

The C10054 series intensified CCD cameras from Hamamatsu Corp. can capture stills or video with up to 480 lines of resolution. Occupying half the volume of previous models, the devices have shutter...

Hamamatsu Corporation

FLUORESCENT LED A 5-mm InGaN domed fluorescent pink discrete LED from Ledtronics Inc. has an optical-grade epoxy and produces 80-mcd illumination with a 180° viewing angle at 20 mA that is visible even in direct...

LEDtronics Inc.

X-RAY STREAK CAMERA

Sydor Instruments LLC has launched the Sydor Ross (Rochester optical streak system) 8600 x-ray streak camera for use in ultrafast diagnostic and single secondary electron detection applications....

Sydor Technologies

FO ILLUMINATOR

The BEA-150 fiber optic illuminator from BEA Fiber Optics is available with either a ringlight (60-mm inner diameter-adjustable) or 18-in. dual-chrome goosenecks with spot lenses. Suitable for use in...

ULTRAFAST LASER

Coherent Inc. has unveiled the Chameleon Ultra II laser, which produces more than 3.3 W of output power, an increase of 65% over earlier models. It provides continuous tuning over the 690- to 1080-nm...

LENSLET ARRAYS

Moulded Optics GmbH is offering precision-molded lenslet arrays made from crown, borosilicate and high-refractive-index glass materials. Available in rectangular, square or round shapes and in sizes...

Moulded Optics GmbH

COLOR MEASUREMENT

HunterLab’s UltraScan VIS spectrophotometer measures the full range of human color perception in laboratory and production environments. Meeting standard color measurement accuracy guidelines, the...

CALIBRATION TOOL A laser calibration tool has been developed by Alltec GmbH for use in laser marking systems to register and correct errors that lead to position inaccuracies during marking. It can be used on large...

ALLTEC Angewandte Laserlicht Technologie GmbH, FOBA Laser Marking + Engraving

UV CURABLE SYSTEM An optically clear UV curable system has been announced by Epoxies Etc. UV Cure 60-7108 is nonyellowing and moisture-resistant. Viscosity at 25 °C is 800 cycles per second, tensile strength is 3300...

USB CAMERAS

Imaging Development Systems GmbH has added two models to its uEye LE camera series for applications such as microscopy, and medical and security technology. The 1466LE-C and 1467LE-C board-level...

IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH

Philips Lumileds Lighting Co. has unveiled its Luxeon Rebel power LEDs that operate between 350 and 1000 mA. Warm-, neutral- and cool-white color temperatures and standard InGaN and AlInGaP colors...

CHIRPED MIRRORS

Newport Corp.’s ultrafast laser chirped mirrors compensate for group velocity dispersion with a negative dispersion correction value of up to –160 fs2 per bounce. Two or three mirrors used in...

DATA LOGGING National Instruments has extended its LabView graphic system design platform with the release of the SignalExpress interactive measurement software. Designed to simplify data logging, instrument...

National Instruments Corp.

The ODD-3W-2 bi-cell photodiode has been unveiled by Opto Diode Corp. The low-noise, 3-mm2 bi-cell detector features a spectral response of 0.55 A/W at 900 nm and high shunt resistance at 250...

Opto Diode Corporation

X-RAY CAMERA

The Shad-o-Box HS x-ray camera by Rad-icon Imaging Corp. is a stand-alone, high-resolution imaging device with a 12-bit digital interface. The 49.2 × 49.2-mm sensing area consists of a 512 ×...

Teledyne Rad-icon Imaging

DESIGN SOFTWARE Developed by Brandenburg GmbH and available through Lambda Research Corp. are LucidShape 1.6 and LucidDrive 1.1, the new release of software for automotive illumination design. A ray history analysis...

Lambda Research Corporation

PORTABLE SPECTROMETER

A portable spectrometer platform with a back-thinned CCD array has been unveiled by Avantes BV. The AvaSpec-2048X14 is designed for the UV and NIR ranges. Features include high-speed USB 2.0 for...

DEPOLARIZER WORKSTATION

Nyfors Teknologi AB has developed a depolarizer manufacturing workstation. Coordinated entirely by PC, the system includes several subunits. The main unit, which includes three power meters, optics...

NYFORS Teknologi AB

DIODE LASER A high-power diode laser that produces the beam quality of a CO2 laser has been released by Lissotschenko Mikrooptik (Limo) GmbH. The LIMO50-C10×10-DL980 emits 50 W of output power and has a beam...

HOLOGRAPHIC GRATING

Wasatch Photonics Inc. has released the HD 1800 l/mm volume phase holographic transmission grating for optical coherence tomography. The device exhibits a wide bandwidth and offers peak diffraction...

Wasatch Photonics Inc.

NANOTRANSLATORS

Aerotech Inc. has introduced a nanotranslator series that features high acceleration and velocity. The Ant-LX series offers 5-g acceleration, 500- mm/s velocity and improved load capacity. It has...

DIGITAL CAMERA

Point Grey Research has expanded its Dragonfly 2 digital camera family with the addition of a 1.3-megapixel version. The DR2-13S2 generates full-resolution 1280 × 960-pixel images at 20 fps, has...

Teledyne FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions

MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE MVTec Software GmbH has released version 8.0 of its Halcon software library for use in machine vision applications. Its improved optical character reader offers several new features, including...

MVTec Software GmbH

TI:SAPPHIRE LASER

Del Mar Photonics Inc. has introduced its Teahupoo Rider femtosecond Ti:sapphire amplified laser, a fully integrated system that comprises the Trestles Mini Ti:sapphire oscillator or the Buccaneer...

Del Mar Photonics Inc.

The ES7-1350 offered by Titan Tool Supply Inc. is a fiber optic borescope with a flexible cable that maintains a fixed position until readjusted. Measuring 1350 mm long, it can reach deep into walls,...

Titan Tool Supply Inc.

LIGHT SOURCE

The PhotoFluor, a high-output light source for fluorescence microscopy, is available from Chroma Technology Corp. The device combines a metal halide lamp with a sputtered heat-blocking optic to...

Chroma Technology Corp.

INDUSTRIAL LENS

The Schneider Group has extended its line of high-resolution line-scan lenses with a 90-mm f/4.5 Apo-Componon CPN 4.5/90 model for use with next-generation cameras in industrial applications. Its...

Schneider Optics Inc., Industrial Optics

DIRECT AND MASK WRITING Vistec Electron Beam GmbH has launched the SB250 electron beam lithography system for direct and midrange mask writing applications. The system operates in the standard writing modes of variable...

Vistec Electron Beam GmbH

RESEARCH SYSTEM

The BeadXpress system for research and clinical development applications has been launched by Illumina Inc. Using proprietary VeraCode digital microbead technology, it provides high-quality data,...

FILTER SETS

BrightLine single-band fluorescence filter sets optimized for the most popular quantum dot nanocrystals have been announced by Semrock Inc. Each set comprises three filters: a universal excitation...

IDEX Health & Science - Semrock Optical Filters

ANALYTICAL SEM

The JSM-7001F is a thermal field emission analytical scanning electron microscope (SEM) that acquires high-resolution micrographs at up to 1,000,000× for low accelerating voltage x-ray spectroscopy...

INTERFEROMETER

The MI series miniature retroreflector interferometers announced by Sios Messtechnik GmbH are precision length measurement systems with a range of up to 5 m and a resolution of 0.1 nm. The use of a...

SIOS Messtechnik GmbH

FLUORESCENCE FILTERS JDSU has introduced fluorescence filters based on the proprietary Ucp-1 filter deposition platform, a magnetron sputtering system that combines a high material deposition rate with a load lock that...

Lumentum Operations LLC

LASER SCAN SYSTEM

The hurryScan 30 is a modular three-axis laser scan system unveiled by Scanlab AG. It quickly and precisely deflects and positions laser beams with powers up to the kilowatt range. Water cooling of...

CHEMICAL IMAGING StreamLine technology developed by Renishaw plc produces Raman chemical images in minutes rather than the hours previously required. The system is available as an option with the company’s inVia...

Renishaw PLC, Spectroscopy Products Div.

CIRCUIT MATERIAL MH&W International Corp. has introduced Keratherm 86/77 to provide electrically conductive bonding sites on a flexible and thermally conductive material that can be attached to nonlinear...

MH&W International Corp., Thermal Products Div.

DESIGN SOFTWARE

Version 2.0 of VPI-linkConfigurator optical engineering equipment design software has been released by VPIsystems Inc. Scripting tools are more powerful, and the user interface has been updated so...

VPIphotonics GmbH

LED DESIGN KIT TT electronics’ Optek Technology and IRC Advanced Film divisions have developed an LED design kit based on IRC’s Anotherm, a thermally conductive aluminum alloy substrate. Visible LEDs and other...

Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control

Scitec Instruments Ltd. has launched a 4-W wire coil-wound broadband IR source mounted on a TO-5 header for laboratory or field use. At steady state, the coiled filament operates at ∼950 °C...

Scitec Instruments Ltd.

EMCCD CAMERA

The PhotonMAX line of high-performance cameras from Princeton Instruments/Acton has been enhanced with a frame-transfer 1000 × 1000-pixel back-illuminated electron-multiplying (EM) CCD array. The...

Teledyne Princeton Instruments

NETWORK CAMERA The Li045 network camera from Lumenera Corp. incorporates ObjectVideo video analytics, which offer automated real-time detection, tracking and analysis of objects of interest in surveillance...

Teledyne Lumenera

FUSION SPLICER

A large-diameter fusion splicer has been unveiled by Furukawa America Inc. Jointly developed by the Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. and 3SAE Technologies Inc., the instrument splices up to 400-μm...

American Furukawa Inc.

RAMAN SYSTEM B&W Tek Inc. has announced the next generation of its portable Raman system. MiniRam II is a lightweight battery-operated spectrometer with 10 cm–1 spectral resolution from 175 to 3100 cm–1. It...

EMISSION MICROSCOPE The IREM-II PE launched by IRLabs Inc. is an infrared emission microscope that provides back-side failure analysis, yield enhancement and debug in the near-IR. It uses a proprietary high-sensitivity...

Infrared Laboratories Inc.

PRISM ADAPTERS Moritex USA Inc. has expanded its line of prism adapters designed for use with micromachine lenses to manipulate the optical axis. Side-looking models enable the optical axis to be turned through 90°...

MORITEX North America Inc.

LASER MARKING SYSTEM

Videojet Technologies Inc.’s Videojet 3120 10-W laser marking system operates at a speed of up to 1200 characters per second and at line speeds of up to 10 m/s. It marks complex multiline...

FOBA Laser Marking & Engraving

WAFER LOADER

The Wafer Handler WL150 and WL200 series modules have been released by McBain Instruments. The semiautomatic wafer inspection devices offer throughput of 750 wafers per hour with smooth, reliable and...

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