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Photonics Spectra - March 2006
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InGaAs Cameras See Deeper into Biological Tissue
Investigators from the Wellman Center for Photomedicine and Harvard Medical School, both at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, have demonstrated a full-field optical coherence microscopy...
Femtosecond Near-IR Cr:Forsterite Laser Employed in Multiphoton Microscopy
Scientists at Osaka University in Toyonaka and Suita, Japan, have developed a multiphoton fluorescence microscope that uses a Cr:forsterite laser as a near-infrared excitation source. They propose...
Multicolor Nanoparticles Excited with Single Wavelength
Scientists at the University of Florida in Gainesville have demonstrated that single-wavelength excitation can be used to produce multiple emission signatures from silica nanoparticles labeled with...
Photoluminescence of Gold Nanorods Probed
Gold nanorods show potential as tiny light sources for labeling and sensing applications. To better understand how the emissions of these structures depend on their size and shape, scientists at...
Photoswitchable Molecular Tip Designed for AFM Chemical Identification
Chemists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have designed and synthesized a photoswitchable molecule that they suggest could be used in conjunction...
IR Spectroscopic Techniques Probe Organic Field Effect Transistors
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., have employed Fourier...
Spectroscopy Improves Nanotube Growth
Better displays may be on the way, thanks to work on carbon nanotube growth by researchers at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea. Using optical emission spectroscopy, the scientists have...
Faster-Firing Lasers Yield Faster Mass Spectrograms
Exploiting advances in laser technology, researchers at Northeastern University’s Barnett Institute in Boston boosted the speed of a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass...
VIS/NIR Spectroscopy Spots Adulterated Crabmeat
One way that food manufacturers may seek to boost profits is to add inferior ingredients to high-end products. Doing so generally does not pose a health hazard to consumers, but the failure to...
Spectroscopy Technique Studies Uranium
Developing effective hazard control and remediation programs to deal with uranium in the environment requires an understanding of how the substrate interacts with surface water, groundwater, soil and...
Slow Light: From Basics to Future Prospects
The speed of light in a vacuum is a quantity that defies human comprehension. A flash of light travels across a football field so quickly that it appears instantaneous; it is only through the use of...
Visions New Gig
Robert Eastlund, vice president of sales at Graftek Imaging Inc. in Austin, Texas, naturally doesn’t like to disappoint a customer. Right now, however, his options for avoiding that are sometimes...
The Dirt on Cleaning Optics
Anyone who has worn glasses or driven a car knows the detrimental effects of dirt on the performance of a lens or window. The effects can be more serious in optics setups that involve laser...
Silicon Photonics Poised to Invade Local Area Networks
The time for the mainstream adoption of optical links in the local area network (LAN) has arrived. Brave optical engineers have uttered these words each time the need for more bandwidth appeared to...
Remote Sensing Applications in Regional Emergency Management
Optical remote sensing exploits reflected and emitted light within and beyond the range detectable by the human eye, which is broadly 400 to 700 nm. Above this range is the infrared, from 700 nm to...
A New Architecture for Commercial Telecommunications Networks
Over the past two decades, telecommunications operators worldwide have deployed fiber optic networks with progressively larger bandwidth capacities. Two of the most significant innovations in these...
Toward Optical Packet Switching
When we surf the Internet or when some of us place a phone call — and in the near future when we watch TV — we send and receive information from the data network (Figure 1). It is a nontrivial task...
Finding the Right Material to Resist UV-Generated Transmission Losses in LED Packaging
Dramatic improvements in the performance of LEDs have placed fresh demands on the encapsulation materials used to package these devices. Advances in LED operating efficiencies and output performance...
Tech Pulse
Efficient, Compact Laser Generates 40 mW of Yellow Output
As more and more applications have turned to diode-pumped solid-state lasers, one important region of the visible spectrum has proved especially challenging. Applications requiring yellow light — such as ophthalmology and dermatology — have for the most part relied on bulky and inefficient dye or copper-vapor lasers. Yellow solid-state lasers, some entailing remarkable technical ingenuity, have...
Folded Spectrometer Offers Range, Resolution and Speed
Spectrometer design usually involves compromises among acquisition time, spectral resolution and wavelength range. A spectrometer that was developed at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, using a...
Large-Area Color Sensor Array Has Vertical Structure
The future of optical sensors may be looking up as researchers investigate vertically integrated color imaging devices. A team from Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and Palo Alto Research Center...
Carbon Nanotubes Incorporated into Backlight Design
Scientists at Tatung University in Taipei, Taiwan, have produced a light panel that uses carbon nanotubes in the electrodes. The low-power plasma source has potential applications as a backlight for...
Multiwatt VECSEL Output Is Wavelength-Tunable
Optically pumped, vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) produce multiwatt outputs with good beam quality, but until now their spectral characteristics have been less than...
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Film Fades Out
For old-fashioned photography buffs and those who use film for work and play, January didn’t mark a beginning — it signaled an end. Midway through the month, Nikon Corp., the Tokyo-based camera...
Goodrich to Develop VIS-SWIR Detector Array
Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., has been awarded a contract from the US Army to develop an InGaAs detector array for use in 1920 × 1080-pixel, short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) night-vision...
EPIC Reports on Photonics
The European Photonics Industry Consortium, based in Paris, works with industries, universities and the European Commission to promote the industry in Europe and throughout the world. It owns and...
Edmund Optics Wins Defense Contract
Edmund Optics Inc. of Barrington, N.J., has received $2.8 million in US Department of Defense ManTech funding to develop manufacturing tools to produce conformal and advanced optical elements such as...
Applicants Are Being Sought for PI NanoInnovation Grant
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP of Auburn, Mass., has announced the third annual PI NanoInnovation Grant, a program to support research related to nano-technology, optics and biotechnology. The program...
Quantum Composers Relocates
Instrumentation and laser systems manufacturer Quantum Composers has moved to a 5400-sq-ft plant in Bozeman, Mont. The company has upgraded its performance and environmental testing capabilities with...
Irvine Sensors Acquires Optex Systems
Irvine Sensors Corp. has purchased 70 percent of the stock of Optex Systems Inc., a Richardson, Texas-based manufacturer of optical sighting systems and assemblies, mainly for US Department of...
Ground Testing Done on Airborne Laser
Led by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems in St. Louis, the Airborne Laser team completed tests involving its high-energy laser at the Systems Integration Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base in...
Fairchild Semiconductor Divests LED Product Lines
Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. of South Portland, Maine, has sold its LED and LED display product lines to Everlight International Corp., a US subsidiary of Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd. of Taipei,...
CCD Inventors Are Honored
The inventors of the imaging microchip, otherwise known as the CCD, received the 2006 Charles Stark Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, based in Washington. Researchers Willard S....
ILX Lightwave Allots Equipment to University
ILX Lightwave Corp. of Bozeman, Mont., has donated $10,000 worth of LDC 3700B series precision laser diode control instruments to California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. The...
Williams Advanced Materials Secures Cerac
Williams Advanced Materials Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., has purchased Cerac Inc. The acquired company will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary and continue to manufacture specialty inorganic chemicals...
NAC Selects Agent in Canada
NAC Image Technology of Simi Valley, Calif., has signed a distribution agreement with Integrys Ltd., a supplier of products to OEMs and systems integrators. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada,...
Firecomms Expands Its Operations
Firecomms Ltd., a compound semiconductor company in Cork, Ireland, has opened regional offices in the US and Japan. The Firecomms North America office in Houston and the Japan office in Yokohama will...
Ingeneric Selects Distributors
Ingeneric GmbH of Aachen, Germany, has chosen Lahat Technologies Ltd. of Tel Aviv, Israel, and T.E.M. Inc. of Tokyo to represent its micro-optics and aspheres in Israel and Japan, respectively. Both...
IPS Chosen to Develop Tunable Laser System
Innovative Photonic Solutions (IPS) of Monmouth Junction, N.J., has been selected to provide an ultrastable, tunable laser system for integration into a high-performance terahertz spectrometer. The...
Lightspeed Technologies Appointed US Distributor
Elliot Scientific Ltd. of Harpenden, UK, and Photon Control of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, have named Lightspeed Technologies of Campbell, Calif., as their US distributor. The British company...
Thermal Imager Study Is Proposed
The National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., has submitted recommendations for evaluating thermal imager performance to the National Fire Protection Association in Quincy,...
Preco Opens Contract Facility in China
Preco Inc. of Lenexa, Kan., has announced the opening of a contract manufacturing facility in Tianjin, China. Preco-Miwa Laser Industries Ltd. intends to meet the demand for laser processing...
Canadian Photonics Research-Industry Program Formed
The Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations of Quebec City has launched a program designed to help the industrial sector benefit from photonics technology that is developed in university...
Cymer Funds Scholarships
Cymer Inc. of San Diego has awarded $175,000 to the Jacobs School of Engineering Scholars Program at the University of California, San Diego. The allotment will fund a $100,000 scholarship and a...
Omron Division Purchases Aduro
Omron Corp., based in Kyoto, Japan, has acquired Aduro Inc., a manufacturer of high-speed optical subassemblies. Omron’s electronic components unit in Schaumburg, Ill., assumed the assets of the...
LIA Establishes Michigan Chapter
The Laser Institute of America, based in Orlando, Fla., has formed the Michigan Chapter, which encompasses participation from the supporting states of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio and the province of...
Ophir Receives Grant to Study Turbulence Detection
Ophir Corp. of Littleton, Colo., has received a $99,000 grant from the National Science Foundation in Washington to conduct research on detecting and measuring turbulence ahead of...
Dalsa Wins Camera Contracts for Display Inspection
Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has garnered contracts totaling CAD $1.3 million from Next Instrument Co. Ltd., a Korean supplier of flat panel display inspection equipment. Under terms of...
Redlake Collaborates with Geospatial Systems
Redlake of Tucson, Ariz., and Geospatial Systems Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., have partnered for the exclusive development, distribution and support of Redlake’s multispectral, three-chip line of digital...
LMI Augments Partnership with Edixia
A supplier of 3-D machine vision products, LMI Technologies Inc. of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, has expanded its exclusive distribution agreement with Edixia Vision Industrielle of Vern-sur-Seiche,...
Omega Optical Filters Serve on Space Mission
In January, NASA’s Stardust satellite returned to Earth with dust from the tail of comet Wild 2. The samples were collected with the aid of filters from Omega Optical Inc. of Brattleboro, Vt., as...
kSaria to Develop FO Cable Manufacturing Technology
Under a $2 million contract, with options, awarded by Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md., kSaria Corp. of Lawrence, Mass., will advance its automated manufacturing technology for fiber optic...
Benchmark to Sell Replication Technology
Benchmark Technologies Inc. of Lynnfield and Holographix LLC of Hudson, both in Massachusetts, have entered a fabrication services agreement. Benchmark will be the exclusive worldwide distributor of...
UK University Launches Research Center
The Photon Science Institute, a £40 million facility for research on light and laser technologies, has been launched by the University of Manchester in the UK, with support from the Northwest...
Emcore Takes Over K2 Optronics
Emcore Corp. of Somerset, N.J., has acquired K2 Optronics Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., in a merger transaction. Previously an investor in K2, Emcore paid approximately $4.8 million in common stock to...
Plextronics Wins Grant to Develop Semiconductor
Plextronics Inc. of Pittsburgh has received a $1 million award from the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority in Harrisburg to develop Plexcore PV, an active layer p-type semiconductor that will...
Elbit and Subsidiary Acquire Panoptes
In Israel, Elbit Vision Systems Ltd. of Yokneam and its subsidiary, ScanMaster Systems (IRT) Ltd. of Hod Ha’Sharon, have agreed to acquire Panoptes Ltd. of Yokneam, a supplier of machine vision...
Accent on Applications
Fluorescence Spectroscopy Analyzes Cheese
Exposed to too much light and oxygen, cheese can form off-flavors, undergo changes in color and lose nutritional value. Cheese makers and distributors, therefore, search for a combination of product...
Fluorescence Technique Analyzes Fluid Mixing
When chemical engineers talk about a good mixer, they probably are describing a reactor in which liquids are brought together to manufacture a product. Reactant mixing has a large impact on the...
Presstime Bulletin
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Images Classical Shipwreck
Scientists at MIT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research have released photographs of the remnants of a Greek merchant ship that sank in the Aegean Sea more than 2300 years ago. The work, which involved the institute’s SeaBed autonomous underwater vehicle, demonstrates the potential of new technologies for use in deep-water...
High-Speed Video Captures Dynamics of Sprites
With implications for the understanding of atmospheric phenomena and chemistry, a team of researchers at Duke University in Durham, N.C., FMA Research Inc. in Fort Collins, Colo., and SRI...
Mayan Ruins Identified with Remote Sensing
Space- and aircraft-based remote sensing technologies may enable the discovery of lost ruins of ancient civilizations, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of New Hampshire...
Lighter Side
Master Meter
Meter maids, move over. Parking meter management has a new master device that aims to save meter martyrs while scourging meter cheaters. By offering multiple ways to pay — coins, phone or debit cards and a credit card swipe that avoids fines by automatically adding money — the intelligent device promises to even the parking field so that no one pays too much — or too little. Options include a...
Mining Student Engineering Skills
Under a grant from MIT in Cambridge, Mass., students at the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science in Mobile are working on a roving robot that can detect land mines. Their device is based on a...
A Fish of a Different Color
The red porgy, Pagrus pagrus, is a valuable food fish in Mediterranean and Atlantic waters. Because it grows well and has no significant disease problems in captivity, it seems to be a good candidate...
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