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Photonics Spectra: June 2013

Photonics Spectra
 June 2013


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Farmers Fuel Growing Market for Imaging Systems As imaging systems improve, they are increasingly taking to the fields and the skies to send back crucial pictures of crop health. Climate change, population growth and increasingly scarce...
Optical Sensors Watch What We Eat Optics technologies are advancing food safety applications. Natural pathogens. Food fraud and adulteration. Bioterrorism. Food safety is more of a concern today than it’s ever been before....
Quantum Computers Appear – and Are Put to Work Actual quantum computers are likely a decade or more away, but advances today are bringing them closer and closer. You can’t yet buy them online or at a big box store, but the day of...
CO2 Composite Cleaning Critical for Photonic Devices Advanced CO2 composite spray cleaning is an efficient and adaptable process for build-clean and maintain-clean protocols. A common aspect of photonic devices is the presence of critical...
The Road from R&D to Commercialization Technology transfer programs in the US and abroad are champions to entrepreneurship, offering an effective model of how to turn ideas and innovation in photonics into commercial success. When US...
Short-Pulse Q-Switched Lasers Enhance Precision Marking Applications A new subnanosecond operating regime outperforms fiber lasers – at a lower cost than ultrafast, mode-locked lasers. The demand for high-precision marking continues to grow, particularly driven...
EDITORIAL
Tech Transfer via the Moon Photonics Media is pleased to once again be the media sponsor of the Technology Transfer Program, to be held on the CLEO:2013 show floor from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 13. This year’s program features a tutorial, a showcase of technologies available for transfer, and a keynote speaker as well as tabletop displays during exhibit hours. To kick off the program, Photonics Media...
WORKFORCE OF TOMORROW
ABET-ing on Accreditation The new ABET accreditation for optics/photonics engineering is good news for universities offering such programs as well as for the students who will attend those universities and the companies that will hire them. But by a trickle-down effect, it’s good for the rest of us, too. Raising awareness of optics and photonics as a separate and important engineering discipline can only help those...
TECH PULSE
Glasses-free 3-D could be coming to a mobile display near you While developing optical interconnect technology, engineers at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories realized what they had created could be much more: a multiangle, glasses-free 3-D display technology for mobile devices. Dr. David Fattal is a member of HP’s Information and Quantum Systems Lab. “I realized that the grating coupler technology we were developing to connect optical...
Printable library makes one-of-a-kind optics affordable Inspired by the need for optics used in a specialized tool for photovoltaic research, a professor at Michigan Technological University has created an open-source optics library that is gaining...
Plasmonics help ‘bulk’ silicon emit visible light A commonly used form of silicon has been made to emit broad-spectrum, visible light, but challenges remain before it can form practical electronic-photonic devices. As engineers move ever closer...
Atoms hollowed by laser form novel plasma A highly unusual plasma composed of hollow atoms has been created using one of the world’s most powerful lasers. The surprising result shows that a little-explored region of physics is now...
Metamaterials observe photonic spin Hall effect A metamaterial surface constructed of V-shaped gold nanoantennas was used to obtain the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect – a quantum mechanical optical phenomenon that...
Electronic chips heal after laser blasts A new self-healing integrated chip could recover in microseconds from problems ranging from low battery power to total transistor failure. Engineers at California Institute of Technology...
Efficiency record set in ultrahigh-speed communications Ultrafast supercomputers that operate at speeds 100 times faster than current systems may now be one step closer to reality, thanks to researchers at IBM working on a DARPA-funded program. They...
FAMOS aims to make OCT light sources more compact Optical coherence tomography light sources will shrink to one-fifth the size of conventional devices with the help of a tapered laser being developed by the European Union project FAMOS (Functional...
Novel use of EMCCD sharpens images Sharper microscopic images may be in sight with a new method that uses standard low-light electron multiplying CCD (EMCCD) cameras in a new way to reduce noise and minimize image deterioration. ...
New metamaterials are easily manufactured By combining theory and practice, two groups of Penn State scientists have designed low-loss optical metamaterials that are easily manufactured for custom applications with dispersions that can be...
‘Metascreen’ forms ultrathin invisibility cloak A new invisibility cloak can hide 3-D objects from microwaves while in their natural environment, in all directions and from all of the observers’ positions. Most invisibility cloaks up to...
LIGHT SPEED
3 Questions Interview The first chair of Mi-Light, the Michigan Photonics Industry Cluster, Dr. Michelle L. Stock is currently a business development and marketing services consultant with a focus on the ultrafast laser market. After graduating from the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan, Stock worked for ultrafast fiber laser specialist IMRA America before co-founding Arbor Photonics,...
Michigan launches photonics cluster IPG Photonics, Rigaku and Advanced Photonix Inc. are among the members of Michigan’s new photonics industry cluster alliance. The organization, called Mi-Light, officially launched on April 10...
Otto Schott Research Award now open Schott is accepting submissions for the 13th Otto Schott Research Award, which grants €25,000 (about $33,000) for outstanding scientific achievement in glass research. The international prize,...
Lumera Laser becomes Coherent Kaiserslautern Lumera Laser GmbH has officially changed its name to Coherent Kaiserslautern GmbH. Coherent purchased the privately held business in December 2012. The company makes ultrafast solid-state lasers for...
Fraunhofer Center for Applied Photonics opens The UK headquarters for Europe’s largest contract research organization has officially opened its doors at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The Fraunhofer Center for Applied...
Patents The Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company Solar3D Inc. has filed a patent application in China to protect the design and fabrication of its next-generation 3-D solar cells. The company’s solar...
People In The News Jason Mulliner is now chief financial officer of optical components manufacturer Edmund Optics of Barrington, N.J. Mulliner was previously executive vice president of finance. Dr. Michael Evans was...
Moves & Expansions Moves & Expansions Laser measurement equipment maker Ophir Photonics of Darmstadt, Germany, has opened a new office there and hired former Synrad executive Christian Dini to serve as its general...
Collaborations Iridex Corp. of Mountain View, Calif., has announced a partnership with the privately held Peregrine Surgical Ltd. of New Britain, Pa., to expand its ophthalmology product portfolio; Peregrine will...
GREENLIGHT
Solar cells derived from trees Just as the leaves on trees capture sunlight and convert it to energy, so do solar cells – and now recyclable, sustainable and renewable photovoltaics can be made using natural substrates derived from trees. Organic solar cells have typically been fabricated on glass or plastic. Neither is easily recyclable, and petroleum-based substrates are not very eco-friendly. For instance, if...
LIGHTER SIDE
From bike reflector to virus detector You see them on spokes, sneakers, safety vests and signs, but now retroreflectors are taking on even more protective roles: detecting bioterrorism agents. “In the most likely kind of attack, large numbers of people would start getting sick with symptoms that could be from multiple infectious agents. But which one?” said project leader Dr. Richard Willson of the University of Houston...
PRODUCTS
120-W Tailored Bar Dilas has released a fiber-coupled tailored bar (T-Bar) that produces 120 W of output power at 976 nm from a 100-µm, 0.22-numerical-aperture fiber. The device is suitable for R&D use in direct diode applications and for excitation of Yb3+-doped media, such as fiber or solid-state lasers, that require robust, lightweight diode laser sources. The T-Bar monolithic source architecture...
DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH
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Laser Safety Shutters Electro-Optical Products Corp.’s SH-10-PI x-ray and laser safety shutters feature an integrated return spring that jumps to the “off” position in the event of a power failure. ...
Electro-Optical Products Corp.
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Mini Zoom Lens Resolve Optics has unveiled the ultracompact Z10 HD, a 10× C-mount mini zoom lens for small-profile cameras for applications including broadcast TV, space-restricted machine vision and CCTV...
Resolve Optics Ltd.
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Miniature Spectrometer The Embed miniature spectrometer from Ocean Optics is a small-footprint optical bench with minimal electronics for industrial process control and OEM optical measurement systems. The...
Ocean Insight
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Infinity-Corrected Objectives Edmund Optics is offering Mitutoyo glass thickness-compensated infinity-corrected objectives for bright-field microscopy applications including inspecting LCDs, semiconductor or flat screen...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Laser Module Fisba Optik AG has released the RGBeam laser module, a light engine that precisely couples three wavelengths together for life sciences, automotive, metrology and production technology applications....
FISBA AG
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Cooled Scientific Cameras Artemis CCD Ltd.’s VS line of thermoelectrically cooled scientific cameras is aimed at OEMs of integrated imaging, spectroscopy and other low-light-detection systems. The line now includes a...
Artemis CCD Ltd. (See Atik Cameras)
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Optical Wavelength Meters Yokogawa Europe has enhanced its line of optical test instruments with the AQ6150 and AQ6151 optical wavelength meters, which measure in the 1270- to 1650-nm range. The devices have many...
Yokogawa Europe BV
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Cameras for Inspection Teledyne Dalsa, which manufactures digital imaging components for the machine vision market, has expanded its Genie TS camera series with the 2M and 4M monochrome models. Reaching speeds of up to 76...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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SiC MOSFET Cree Inc.’s second-generation silicon carbide metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) delivers higher efficiency in a smaller size. The 1200-V MOSFETs enable system...
Cree Inc.
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Laser Diode Components Pangolin Laser Systems Inc., a maker of laser display software and control hardware, has expanded its Lasorb line with a series of components designed to protect 515- and 520-nm green laser diodes...
Pangolin Laser Systems Inc.
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Color Vision System Cognex Corp. has introduced the In-Sight 7010C, an entry-level color vision system that can distinguish parts by color. It features 24-bit color resolution that accurately identifies 16 million...
Cognex Corp.
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UV Laser Coherent Inc. has expanded its family of ultraviolet micromachining lasers with the Avia 355-33. Delivering 33 W of output at 355 nm (110 kHz), the laser is suitable for a variety of demanding,...
Coherent Inc.
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Particle Analyzers The DelsaMax family of particle analyzers from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences measures the size and zeta potential of nanoparticles with speed and high precision using two independent detection...
Beckman Coulter Inc., Life Science Div.
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Laser Extraction Unit Teka GmbH has launched LFE, a laser extraction unit with Control Unit 3 digital steering. The mobile high-vacuum-extraction unit can be used for engraving, cleaning and cutting; it is especially...
TEKA GmbH
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Measurement Head The ImageMaster HR camera-based modulation transfer function measurement system from Trioptics GmbH now has a standard exchangeable measurement head. Within minutes, the longwave infrared...
TRIOPTICS GmbH
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Ion Mobility Spectrometer Photonis USA and IonSense Inc. have released the Dart ion mobility spectrometer for fast, accurate analysis of solids and liquids for food safety, composition analysis, homeland security,...
Photonis Technologies
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Mini PC for IR Camera Optris GmbH has introduced the optris PI NetBox, a miniature PC for the PI infrared camera series. It upgrades the optris PI products to stand-alone solutions or acts as a USB-to-Ethernet adapter,...
Optris Infrared Sensing LLC
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Rotary Stages Aerotech Inc.’s AGR series motorized rotary stages provide greater speed, load capacity and long-term positioning performance than previous generations of worm-gear-drive stages. The...
Aerotech Inc.
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TCSPC System PicoQuant GmbH has released the TimeHarp 260, a time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) and multichannel scaling board with PCI Express interface based on a custom time-to-digital converter...
PicoQuant GmbH
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Servo Controller Designed for closed-loop precision positioning systems, the C-884, 4-axis digital servo controller from PI (Physik Instrumente) LP can control motorized linear translation stages and rotary...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Cameras with CMOS Sensor The USB 3 µEye CP camera series from IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH is available with e2v’s EV76C570 global shutter sensor. The CMOS sensor delivers the same image quality and...
IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
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Portable Raman Spectrometer B&W Tek Inc. has launched the i-Raman EX portable Raman spectrometer, an extension of its i-Raman portable spectrometer, with a 1064-nm excitation laser for biological substance and fluorescent...
B&W Tek LLC
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Capacitor Chargers UltraVolt Inc. has expanded its high-power C series capacitor charger product line to deliver 250 W of output power in a footprint 15 percent larger than previous modules. Previously, the...
UltraVolt Inc.
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Proximity Sensor Sick has launched the W27 MultiPac photoelectric proximity sensor for overhead detection of bundled objects. It uses two redundant receiver arrays to identify difficult targets such as bundled...
SICK Inc.
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Single-Mode Laser Diode A 1550-nm fiber-coupled laser diode with a 50-kHz linewidth and output power of 100 mW with fiber Bragg grating stabilization has been unveiled by Frankfurt Laser Co. It is supplied in a...
Frankfurt Laser Company
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Metallized Sapphire Windows Guild Optical Associates has found a way for metallized endoscopic optics to better withstand harsh sterilization techniques. For years, metallized sapphire windows stayed the same while autoclave...
Guild Optical Associates Inc.
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