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Photonics Spectra: March 2010

Photonics Spectra
 March 2010


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Silicon photonics could save the computer industry The future of computing may need a light touch – literally. As chips move more and more data around, the metallic wiring on and between them eventually won’t be able to keep up. The solution may be silicon photonics, a technology that employs silicon as an optical material. If compatible with standard CMOS semiconductor processing, silicon photonics promises inexpensive optical devices, easy...
MOCVD Systems Meet LED Demand Explosive growth in the backlighting market for televisions, displays, handheld devices and more is creating a ripple effect throughout the LED industry. LEDs are sought after for backlighting...
Planar Lightwave Circuits Enable Next-Generation 40G/100G Networks Many new systems rely on advanced modulation formats such as differential phase shift keying and differential quadrature phase shift keying to complement traditional architectures such as dense...
The Year in Stimulus Funding: The impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on biomedical research Dr. Francis S. Collins had, as they say, his work cut out for him. In early August 2009, the former head of the Human Genome Project was sworn in as the 16th director of the NIH and thus was charged...
Specialized “shutters” capture superquick phenomena Remember when “faster than a speeding bullet” was exciting news? At about 2700 mph, the quickest ammo is moving turtle-slow when compared with the rates needed to study physical phenomena at the...
EDITORIAL
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TECH PULSE
Laser pulses reveal contact mechanics The next time you are sitting at your desk full of papers, pens, files and perhaps a coffee mug, take a closer look at the points where these objects meet the desk. What do you see? If you could magnify the nanoscale interface of where the object meets the desk, you would actually see a world of mountain ridges and deep valleys.
Imaging microcavities sheds light on random laser operation Researchers from the University of Utah’s Dixon Laser Institute have managed to visualize the microscopic cavities responsible for laser action in random lasers, helping to explain how this...
Zooming in on plumes to improve mass spectroscopy By using a high-speed camera to study plumes created by a tunable infrared laser, researchers at Louisiana State University have revealed some of the mechanisms involved in material ablation. The...
Ultrasensitive sensor causes stir at show A prototype laser spectroscopy platform developed by electrical engineers at Princeton University attracted a lot of attention when it was demonstrated during SPIE Photonics West 2010 in January. The...
Laser trapping gets tighter grip on larger particles Using light to trap particles as small as atoms has been popular with researchers for some time, a technique that enables optical cooling and trapping, as recognized by the 1997 Nobel Prize in...
LIGHT SPEED
Outlook opportunistic for active optical cables Active optical cable revenue is expected to grow significantly over the next five years, according to a report from Information Gatekeepers Inc. (IGI) of Boston, a publisher and consultancy in fiber...
Phase I Projects Boston Micromachines Corp. of Cambridge, Mass, a microelectromechanical systems-based deformable mirror provider, has received two Phase I contracts totaling about $200,000 from NASA’s Small Business...
Wafer Bonding Agreement 3M of St. Paul, Minn., an advanced materials supplier for the semiconductor industry, and Tazmo Co. Ltd. of Okayama, Japan, an LCD manufacturing equipment and semiconductor supplier, have announced...
Licensing Agreement The University of California, San Francisco, has given Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH license to commercialize a superresolution microscopy technique developed by scientists at the university. Called...
Imaging Division Formed Irvine Sensors Corp. of Costa Mesa, Calif., a vision systems company, has announced that its new subsidiary, Thermal Imaging Div., will be managed by company vice president Peter Kenefick. Irvine...
Distribution Agreement AMS Technologies AG of Martinsried/Munich, Germany, has finalized an agreement with Interfiber Analysis LLC of Livingston, N.J., to distribute the latter’s Refractive Index Profiler in all European...
$20 M Solar Order Coherent Inc. has secured multiple orders totaling more than $20 million from crystalline silicon solar cell manufacturers for laser-based process tools. Three months after the release of its Equinox...
UK Distribution Elliot Scientific Ltd. of Harpenden, UK, has signed a distribution agreement with Akela Laser Corp. of Monmouth Junction, N.J., a high-power laser diodes and optomechanical subassemblies...
Acquisition Finalized Amersham, UK-based Halma plc, a global safety, health and sensor technology group, has acquired SphereOptics of North Sutton, N.H., a custom light-measurement technologies manufacturer. Halma’s group...
New Facility LightWorks Optics Inc., a custom precision optical components and integrated optics solutions provider, has opened a 14,000-sq-ft office and manufacturing facility adjacent to its headquarters in...
Production Expansion Machine and laser systems manufacturer LPKF Laser & Electronics AG has announced plans to double its production capacities for cutting and structuring lasers in Germany by the end of the first...
Global Distribution In Birkerød, Denmark, NKT Photonics A/S, a supercontinuum sources and fiber laser manufacturer, has announced the expansion of its global distribution partner’s network with Photonic Solutions plc of...
Glass Partnership Holographic photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer Prism Solar Technologies Inc. of Highland, N.Y., and PPG Industries of Pittsburgh, a global paint, coatings and optical products supplier, have...
Optics Award Photonics Products Group Inc. (PPGI) has received firm-fixed-price contracts for precision optical components from Lockheed Martin’s Missile and Fire Control Business Unit in Orlando, Fla. The...
€2.5 M Contract Sofradir, an advanced infrared detectors manufacturer in Paris, has received an additional €2.5 million contract to provide a second batch of 15-µm-pitch multilinear short-wavelength infrared (SWIR)...
European Expansion Optical Zonu Corp. of Los Angeles, a supplier of Gigabit Ethernet and SONET/SDH single-fiber, full-duplex, coarse wavelength division multiplexing tranceivers, passives and testers, has announced the...
GREENLIGHT
Sensing the rain The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a project run jointly by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to monitor and study tropical rainfall. When tropical cyclone Laurence hit Australia in December 2009, TRMM determined that total rainfall exceeded 150 mm. The three primary instruments onboard the satellite are precipitation radar, a microwave imager, and a visible and...
Restoring vision with photovoltaic optoelectronics As life expectancy increases, our eyes bear the brunt of aging; many of the elderly suffer from vision problems. One of the leading causes of eye problems in the Western world is macular...
Peptides do windows Nobody really likes washing windows. And dirt and grime – the kind you find on windows – are the bane of a solar panel’s existence. The good news is that a group of researchers at Tel Aviv University...
EDUCATION WAVEFRONT
From the Industrial Age to the Nano Age Neal C. Gallagher was enjoying being a parent. Retired, the one-time engineering professor wanted to get more involved with his two young children’s schooling. He approached his son’s first-grade teacher about instructing students in the gifted program about science and engineering, and she welcomed the idea.
LIGHTER SIDE
OCT provides new tool for art historians Scientists in Poland have described how optical coherence tomography (OCT) – a technique most often used in medical imaging – can be used to reveal the forgery of an artist’s signature or changes in inscriptions on 100-year-old paintings. Shown is “Saint Leonard of Porto Maurizio,” an 84 x 121-cm oil-on-canvas picture that hangs in the Franciscan Church of St. Bonaventure in Pako, Poland. Circles...
PRODUCTS
Nanosecond Lasers The Blaze series nanosecond lasers from Lumera Laser GmbH feature patented SpotLock pumping technology and are available in 1064- and 532-nm wavelengths for precise machining of various materials. The pumping technology minimizes thermal effects in the laser crystal and enables the spot size and focal position to remain constant over the entire repetition range. The lasers produce pulse duration...
Coherent Kaiserslautern GmbH
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Uniform AR Coatings on Ball Lenses Deposition Sciences Inc. offers durable antireflection (AR)-coated ball lenses in diameters from 200 µm to 10 mm. The IsoSphere lenses are created using a proprietary low-pressure chemical vapor...
Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI)
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Laser Oscillator Fusion M1, introduced by Femtolasers Produktions GmbH, is an ultracompact Ti:sapphire laser oscillator with mode-locked average output power of >1 W, pulse duration of <12 fs, pulse energy of...
Spectra-Physics Vienna
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Color Smart Camera Dalsa Corp. has announced a color version of its BOA integrated smart camera for color inspection applications in the automotive, food, packaging and pharmaceutical industries. It can be used for...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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Piezomotor Rotary Stage A 15-mm direct-driven high-speed rotary stage based on proprietary PILine piezomotor drive technology has been introduced by PI (Physik Instrumente) LP. The MM-660 operates at 720°/s and achieves...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Laser Beam Analysis System Ophir-Spiricon LLC has added the BeamGage Professional to its family of next-generation laser beam analysis systems. It features the BeamMaker beam simulator, automatic camera control, comprehensive...
Ophir, Photonics
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Industrial Laser Spectra-Physics, a Newport Corp. brand, has announced an addition to its Pulseo family of Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state industrial lasers. The rugged and reliable Pulseo 355-10 provides 10 W of...
Spectra-Physics
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Microscope Upgrade Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc. has expanded the functions on its Axio CSM 700 confocal light microscope to enable materials scientists to measure the 3-D topography over large sample areas. A motorized...
Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC
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Raman Microscope The Nomadic multiwavelength Raman microscope has been unveiled by BaySpec Inc. Equipped with 532-, 785- and 1064-nm excitation sources, it provides molecular fingerprint information on every point of...
BaySpec Inc.
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Multichip LED The multichip XLamp MPL EasyWhite LED manufactured by Cree Inc. is suitable for directional lighting applications, including PAR- or BR-style lightbulbs. The company says that the device can deliver...
Cree Inc.
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Lens Measurement Instrument Optikos Corp. has introduced the LensCheck lens measurement instrument for production and prototype lens qualification. It features high-resolution USB motorized stages, 12-bit real-time video output...
Optikos Corporation
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Light-Measurement System For spectroradiometric analysis of LEDs, lamps, flat panel displays, solar radiation and other radiant sources, Ocean Optics Inc. has released the Jaz-ULM-200. Jaz is a family of stackable components...
Ocean Insight
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Bright-Field Objectives The MPLAPON line of plan apochromatic objectives has been unveiled by Olympus Europa Holding GmbH for use in industrial imaging applications. The devices provide good chromatic aberration correction...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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UV Light Source The Lightning-cure LC-L3, a UV spot light source introduced by Hamamatsu Corp., features nine UV LEDs that emit at 365 or 385 nm, depending upon the model. It delivers intensity of 250 mW/cm2 at 365...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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Thermal Imaging Lenses LightPath Technologies Inc. has introduced athermalized f/1.0, 10.63-mm-focal-length long-wave infrared lens assemblies for thermal imaging using 8- to 12-µm infrared signatures. Designed for...
LightPath Technologies Inc.
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Colored-Glass Alternative Filters A line of colored-glass alternative filters that exhibit durability and wavelength stability in any environment has been introduced by Newport Corp. Available are 34 long-wave-pass thin-film filters...
MKS/Newport
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Laser Diode Series Alfalight Inc.’s 808C single-emitter laser diodes have a center wavelength at 808 ±3 nm and 3.5 W of output power. Operating current is 4.1 A, forward voltage is 1.7 V, threshold current is 0.7 A,...
Alfalight Inc.
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Luminescence Sensors The DK50-UV series luminescence sensors has been released by Pepperl+Fuchs Inc. for error checking, sorting, measuring and positioning materials that blend into a background or that are invisible....
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
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Compact Laser Packages TeraXion Inc. has introduced compact versions of its distributed-feedback PS-LM and narrow-linewidth PS-NLL PureSpectrum specialized semiconductor laser modules. The company says that the new package...
TeraXion Inc.
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Kinematic Mirror Mount Thorlabs has released Polaris, an ultrastable kinematic mirror mount for 25.4-mm-diameter optics. Fabricated from heat-treated stainless steel that minimizes temperature-dependent hysteresis, it...
Thorlabs Inc.
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Zoom Lenses Resolve Optics Ltd. supplies OEM quantities of zoom lenses for specific applications that cannot be served by off-the-shelf types, such as high-definition and large-image formats, operation in the UV...
Resolve Optics Ltd.
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