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CLEO '97: R&D Expands Applications When the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (CLEO/QELS '97) kicks off this year, the tens of thousands of attending researchers and developers can be sure of one thing: It’s not just more of the same.In addition to offering researchers insight into how to handle and develop their intellectual property through the Laser Electro-optic Application Program,...
Quantum Dots The techniques used to manufacture computer chips have created a wealth of optoelectronic devices with remarkable features. These heterostructures (sandwiches created by alternating layers of two...
Fiber Optic Smart Structures: Imagine a world where buildings are their own watchmen, aircraft twist themselves into optimal aerodynamic shapes and pipelines find and report their own leaks. On a limited -- and often experimental...
Position-Sensitive Clothing manufacturers have long recognized that a completely automatic measuring system could revolutionize the apparel industry. Not only could a consumer be sure that mail-order clothing would...
Quake Alert: At 5:45 p.m. on January 17, 1995, school children busily jumped rope and played hide and seek near their homes in Kobe, Japan. Mothers handled the business of the home and fathers put the finishing...
Industry, Science The ultimate light source is a flexible device that OEMs could plug into machines that cut steel and aluminum, assay chemical or biological samples, produce printing plates, communicate from...
Machine Vision System Inspects Displays Online Portable equipment such as mobile telephones, electronic organizers and handheld games has become widely available. Most of this equipment uses displays that have been custom made to suit each...
Tech Pulse
Amplifier Promises To Improve Charge-Coupled Devices LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- A charge-coupled device (CCD), the component that converts light into electronic signals in scientific and commercial imaging instruments, is only as good as its amplifier. A new...
Laser-Chilled Atoms Sit for Ultrafast Portrait Physicists from the University of Michigan recently fired 70-fs pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser to control the random movements of atoms in a potassium-tantalite crystal. The laser was split in two...
Spectroscopy Gauges Blast Potential ATLANTA -- When FBI agents rush into the hideouts of terrorist groups, they often find jars of chemicals that could be explosive. Some explosives are so dangerous that they would be downright deadly...
Don't Blink! Ultrafast Diffraction Captures Complex Phenomena PASADENA, Calif. -- Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have demonstrated a technique for producing light in femtosecond pulses, giving molecular chemists a peek at previously...
Infrared Camera Decloaks Invisible Flames A shoebox-size infrared camera could be a firefighter's most effective weapon in avoiding deadly invisible flames from hydrogen or alcohol fires. Engineers at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in...
Colorful Laser Aims at Inspection, Displays LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- Laser displays and semiconductor inspection could be the future applications for a fiber-based solid-state laser that emits in the red, orange, green or blue.The discovery was, in...
Cryogenic Expansion Blurs Hubble Images Expanding nitrogen used to cool infrared detectors inside the Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer has caused one of the instrument's cameras to go out of...
Diode Lasers Are at the Heart of Cardiac Monitoring System CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Since 1970, doctors have injected patients with iced saline to measure their hearts' blood output. Periodic injections provide reliable results but do not allow doctors to...
Multibeam Technique Improves Eye Surgery, Machining WERMELSKIRCHEN, Germany -- Many excimer laser beams are better than just one, at least for laser eye surgery and for precise laser machining, according to the scientists who developed a new excimer...
Sapphire Could Become Interferometry's Crowning Jewel NEDLANDS, Australia -- The gemology community considers sapphire to be one of the most precious stones on Earth, and researchers believe that the blue crystals' use as beamsplitters in laser...
Lab Wants to Slap Enemies Senseless LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- Some folks think that the US military's vast stockpile of so-called antiquated weapons should be destined for the trash bin, when all they really need is a good slap. Scientists...
Laser Machines Microthrusters LOS ANGELES -- As part of a program to create a mass-producible nanosatellite, scientists at the Aerospace Corp. are developing batch material processing techniques that use UV lasers to create...
Silver 'Mirrors' Reflect Single Molecule's Wild Dance Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a way to identify the structure of a single molecule, knowledge that could prove invaluable for biomedical applications such...
Frequency-Doubled Red Diode Laser Produces Ultraviolet Light Efficiently Japanese researchers have taken another step toward a compact ultraviolet light source that has great potential in high-density optical storage and biomedical applications. Scientists at Matsushita...
Conference Highlights Medical, Entertainment Laser Safety ORLANDO, Fla. -- A better understanding of the hazards of the surgical laser plume, real-time videos of retinal laser lesions in live animal's eyes and an in-depth examination of endotracheal laser...
Ti:sapphire Laser Amplifier Produces 5 W Average Power Scientists from Quantronix Corp. and the City University of New York's Center for Advanced Technology have developed a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser amplifier system that generates an average power...
light speed
Precision Laser Machining Consortium Fosters Diode Array Development The Precision Laser Machining Consortium is promoting the development of diode pump arrays, components critical to diode-pumped solid-state lasers. Diode pump arrays are used commercially to improve...
Crane & Co. Receives Exclusive Rights to Spectra Science's LaserPaint Spectra Science Corp. has licensed LaserPaint, a covert coding and authentication technology, to Crane & Co. of Dalton, Mass., for use in Crane's next-generation currency and secure documents...
DoE Counters Fusion Facility Injunction LIVERMORE, Calif. -- The US Department of Energy (DoE) has asked a federal district court judge to remove an injunction that keeps the agency from using a report on the technical feasibility of the...
Galileo Refocuses After Xerox Loss STURBRIDGE, Mass. -- Despite the loss of its biggest customer earlier this year and the resulting financial blow, Galileo Corp. officials are confident that the company will be able to get back on...
The Future Looks Bright for IR Plane Deicer While the FAA does not have a strict approval process like the US Food and Drug Administration, Process Technologies Vice President Tim Seel said working with the government has paid off in global...
Litton-Honeywell Legal Dispute Enters Appeals Phase Honeywell Inc. has won the latest go-around in its long-running legal dispute with Litton Systems Inc. over ring-laser gyroscope technology. The US Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of...
Litton-Honeywell Legal Dispute Enters Appeals Phase Honeywell Inc. has won the latest go-around in its long-running legal dispute with Litton Systems Inc. over ring-laser gyroscope technology. The US Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of...
Telecommunications Equipment Sales Rise, Bolstered by Internet Factory sales of telecommunications equipment rose 16 percent to $63 billion last year, spurred by rapid gains in Internet and intranet usage. The Telecommunications Industry Association reported...
Uniphase Shares Blue Laser Patents SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Biotechnology, semiconductor inspection and optical data storage are among the potential beneficiaries of a friendly agreement that allows Coherent to use some Stanford...
United States and Japan Collaborate to Form New Physics Center The Japanese Institute of Physical and Chemical Research has established a physics research center at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. The center will...
Accent on Applications
Machine Vision Ensures Quality in Bottle Tops Over 98 percent of bottles sold are returned, thanks to refundable deposits, and each one is refilled and reused by breweries 16 to 18 times. But, the wear and tear can sometimes produce almost...
Sensor Helps Scrub Away That Troublesome Lasagna Whether it's baked-on lasagna or simple chicken soup, Maytag is making use of advanced sensors and technologies to offer dishwasher owners reductions in energy use, operational costs, water...
Laser Technique Reveals Metal Contamination in Soil Commercial ships require routine repainting, and when the old paint is sandblasted from the anchors and hulls, lead and other metals contaminate the soil. Environmental assessment of these sites...
Interferometer Helps Produce Reliable Touchpad Films Acheson Colloids Co. has produced screen-printed conductive films used in touchpad keyboards such as those on computers, automated teller machines, cellular phones and microwave ovens. But when a...
Presstime Bulletin
Appeals Court to Decide Telescope's Fate Apache Indians have asked the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the construction of the $60 million Large Binocular Telescope planned for Mount Graham in Arizona. University of Arizona...
Micro-Aircraft Compete for Reconnaissance Roles Prototypes of eight micro-aircraft equipped with small engines, cameras and sensing equipment took part in the first Micro Aerial Vehicle competition on April 5 near the University of Florida in...
NASA to Study Trees With Multibeam Laser NASA has approved a $59.8 million project to study the distribution of the Earth's forests using a multibeam laser. The study is part of NASA's ambitious Mission to Planet Earth, a multipronged plan...
National Science Board Adopts New Funding Standards Flooded with nearly 30,000 proposals for funding every year, the National Science Board has adopted a new set of criteria to determine which research projects are most deserving of federal funds....
Report: Proposed Intellectual Property Laws Too Restrictive A recent report by the National Research Council says proposed changes to laws that protect intellectual property could impede the open exchange of scientific data among educators and scientists. In...
Tyco Buys AT&T Undersea Unit In an effort to strengthen its hold on the undersea fiber optic cable market, Tyco International Ltd. agreed to purchase AT&T Submarine Systems Inc., a manufacturer of undersea fiber optic...
Products
PHOTODETECTOR ARRAY Optek Technology Inc.'s OPR5009 SMD Optical Comparator Array is a three-channel differential photodetector hybrid array designed for high-speed, high-resolution encoder applications. Capable of a...
Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control
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PHOTODIODE SENSORS A line of silicon PIN photodiode sensors with integral preamplifiers for high-sensitivity and low-noise operation is available from Hamamatsu Corp. High-speed photodiode/preamplifiers in the S6468...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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POCKELS CELLS Lasermetrics offers its Series 1059 high-speed Pockels cells for laser Q-switching, pulse chopping, seeding, gating and modulation. The cells are fabricated with highly deuterated (98.5+%) KD*P...
FastPulse Technology Inc., Lasermetrics
FIBER OPTIC ARRAY Fiberguide Industries is offering custom ultrahigh-precision two-dimensional fiber optic arrays to be used with LSI circuits for high-speed electronic switching. These arrays comprise single-mode,...
Molex, Fiberguide
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FILTER WDMs DiCon Fiberoptics Inc. is offering 1533/1541- and 1549/1557-nm filter wavelength division multiplexers housed in 4.7 3 44-mm cylindrical packages. These instruments are used to split 1533/1541-nm...
DiCon Fiberoptics Inc.
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FIBER CHANNEL LINK The MGLM-1063 Gigabit Link Module from Methode Electronics Inc. was designed for fiber channel arbitrated loop network applications. The transmitter and receiver pair form a high-speed serial link...
NTS Baltimore
MINI OTDR Photon Kinetics and York Technology have introduced the Model 752S extended-range mini OTDR plug-in, which is designed to satisfy the requirements of long-haul fiber networks. The 752S achieves a...
Photon Kinetics Inc.
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NONADHESIVE CONNECTOR Amphenol Fiber Optic Products has added the FiberGrip connector to its interconnect product line. Featuring a collet retention mechanism, the device provides reliable, high-performance field...
Amphenol Fiber Optic Products
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FIBER OPTIC SOURCE ILX Lightwave Corp. has introduced the 79870 tunable external cavity fiber optic source module for telecommunications applications. It offers single-mode mechanical tuning from 1520 to 1560 nm and...
Newport - ILX Lightwave, Photonics
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IMAGE ACQUISITION Oxford Lasers is offering a 1000-fps digital imaging system as part of its expanding range of LIDI (laser-illuminated direct imaging) image acquisition equipment. The new system incorporates the...
Oxford Lasers Inc.
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MACHINE VISION Cognex Corp. has introduced acuReader/OCV, a PC plug-in machine vision system for verifying the print produced by laser, pad and offset printing equipment. Typical applications include verifying...
Cognex Corp.
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HIGH-RES COLOR DISPLAY Comprising 1280 3 1024 pixels, the FP1610HBMAX landscape flat-panel color display is now available from Image Systems Corp. The 16.1-in. flicker-free display features 100-fl brightness, high...
Image Systems, Canvys
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THERMAL IMAGING FLIR Systems Inc. says its new Tracer thermal imaging system is the first to record and analyze long thermal event sequences at real-time frame rates on a Windows PC. Tracer, a thermal imaging and...
FLIR Systems
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FIELDBUS INTERFACE National Instruments has introduced the PCMCIA-FBUS Foundation Fieldbus interface, which allows users to connect laptop computers to fieldbus networks for portable data logging, in-the-field...
National Instruments Corp.
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RECIRCULATING CHILLERS Lytron is offering recirculating chillers with full proportional, integral, derivative adaptive control. Designed for high-performance applications where tight temperature control is required, the...
Boyd Corp.
CLOSED-LOOP AIR CHILLERS FTS Systems Inc.'s recirculating air chillers were designed to replace costly open-loop liquid nitrogen systems used to cool handlers and semiconductor test chambers, and to reduce setup times of...
FTS Systems, Thermal Products
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ON-SITE CLEANING The new fiber optic cleaning kit from Fiber Instrument Sales Inc. contains canned air, Kim wipes, Optic Prep premoistened lens-grade tissues, nonaerosol spray alcohol bottle and 2.5-mm miniature foam...
Fiber Instrument Sales Inc.
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LASER DIODE DRIVER A 40-A, 5-V output allows users of the Model 5405 high-power laser diode driver from Newport Corp. to operate two laser diodes in a series. The system uses high-power laser diode mounts, and both...
MKS/Newport
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Nd:YAG GREEN LASER Both the DY and DYH Series green Nd:YAG lasers from Power Technology Inc. were designed with the OEM in mind but are also suitable for laboratory work. The single-piece DY Series devices operate at...
Power Technology Inc.
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MICROMACHINING SYSTEM The MicroMaster excimer laser micromachining system is now available from Resonetics Inc. The MicroMaster combines the Optec LightDeck beam delivery and control unit with the ATL SP excimer laser...
Resonetics LLC
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TURNKEY Nd:YAG LASER Continuum's Minilite II is one of the smallest turnkey Nd:YAG lasers on the market, according to the company. Based on Continuum's Surelite Oscillator design, the laser has a rugged mechanical...
Amplitude Laser Inc.
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LASER TRACKER SMX Corp.'s Tracker4500 is a laser-based portable coordinate measurement machine that offers absolute distance measurement. This upgrade to the SMX Tracker4000 allows for automated point-and-shoot...
FARO Technologies Inc.
COLD LIGHT SOURCES Volpi Manufacturing USA offers the Intralux line of ergonomically sound cold light sources. The Models 4000-1, 5000-1 and 6000-1 feature constant light-emitting angles, continuous light adjustment,...
Volpi USA
ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS Stocker & Yale Inc. has added a line of fiber optic illumination systems that provide shadow- and glare-free lighting for industrial, microscopy, medical and machine vision applications. The fiber...
ProPhotonix Ltd.
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LIGHT SOURCE Analytical Instrument Systems' D-1000 Deuterium Source is now available from Ocean Optics Inc. The high-output, high-stability, UV-optimized light source comprises a 1000-h, 25-W deuterium lamp and a...
Ocean Optics - Part of Ocean Insight
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FLUORESCENCE GLASS New fluorescence glass fiber optics from Sumita Optical Glass Inc. are based on a borosilicate glass system for multicomponent optical glass fiber and show higher fluorescent efficiency than the...
Sumita Optical Glass Inc.
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MICROSCOPE ADAPTERS Titan Tool Supply Co. Inc. has broadened its line of centering microscopes with the addition of video adapters. Users can capture images on video monitors and relay them to computers for easier...
Titan Tool Supply Inc.
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MICROPRISMS, MIRRORS LIMO Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH has introduced a line of microprisms and mirrors that can be fabricated from fused silica, silicon, germanium, plastic and all types of optical glasses. The...
LIMO GmbH
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CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE The new HiRes532 visible confocal Raman microscope from Kaiser Optical Systems Inc. provides high spectral resolution and sensitivity. It combines the company's high-dispersion transmission grating...
Endress+Hauser Optical Analysis Inc.
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IMAGE ANALYZER The AutoSEM 1 image analyzer from Advanced Research Instruments Corp. can be used with scanning electron microscopes for particle/feature size, shape and x-ray analysis. The PC-based system provides...
Advanced Research Instruments Corp.
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INTERFEROMETER SYSTEM An improved ACCIS NC-3000 automated noncontact interferometer system has been released by Norland Products. The system measures in three dimensions the microstructure and surface topography on fiber...
Norland Products Inc.
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MINIATURE SPECTROMETERS A line of monolithic miniature spectrometers from Carl Zeiss is available with Tec5 14-bit interfaces. The MMS1 module is 65 3 50 3 40 mm and consists of an input fiber optic with cross-section...
Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC
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OPTICAL ANALYSIS Breault Research Organization Inc. has released version 5.1 of its ASAP (Advanced Systems Analysis Program) optical analysis software. The new version delivers more power than its predecessors, and...
Breault Research Organization Inc.
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RAMAN MICROSCOPE Combining scanning spectroscopy and two-dimensional imaging, the Raman Imaging Microscope from Renishaw Inc. scans to a spatial resolution of 1 µm and a spectral resolution down to 0.2 cm21. The...
Renishaw Inc.
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