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Photonics Spectra - May 2004
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Scaling Single-Mode Photonic Crystal Fiber Lasers to Kilowatts
The first rare-earth-doped fiber lasers, which produced a few milliwatts at a wavelength of around 1 μm, were operated in the early 1960s. For the next several decades, fiber lasers were little...
Procuring Custom-Designed Lenses: How to Reduce Risk and Improve Results
When lens development programs go awry, the results often include blown schedules, ill-defined nonrecurring engineering programs, overpriced prototypes, rework and worse. To avoid such problems,...
Micromirror Technology Enables More Than Projectors
Digital light processing (DLP), which has gained wide acceptance in light modulation for video and data projectors and big-screen high-definition TVs, now enables dozens of emerging applications,...
Uncooled IR Detectors Maintain Sensitivity
There is a common belief that it is necessary to cool long-wavelength IR photodetectors to achieve high sensitivity. The radiation is characterized by low photon energy; thus, detection requires...
Machine Vision Lighting: A Study in Contrast
In its most basic sense, the lighting strategy for almost any machine vision inspection will use fiber-optic-based, light-emitting-diode, fluorescent or structured laser light sources. The question...
Optics and Illumination Go Hand in Hand
There are many things to consider from an optical perspective when designing the illumination for a machine vision system. Some are as simple as the use of low-cost optical filters to increase...
Fiber Optics Guide Intense Light to the Target
In machine vision applications, lighting strategies based on the use of fiber optics can range from directional-front to diffuse-axial, coaxial, backlit, polarized-front, ring-bright-field and...
LED Lighting Heats Up
There is no question that LED lighting is continuing to make inroads into the machine vision market, mainly because the technology’s strengths outweigh its inherent weaknesses in a variety of general...
How an Imaging Sensor Feeds Off Light
Today, most machine vision systems still rely on some type of CCD imaging sensor, although CMOS devices also are gaining favor. The primary lighting-related differences between these types of sensors...
Material Affects Lighting Setup
A key step in developing the illumination strategy for any machine vision application is to determine how the component being inspected will reflect and transmit light. Some aspects of this are...
Measuring Laser Power
Where laser precision is imperative, testing the laser power is a necessity. Whether in industrial, medical or environmental applications, ensuring that the power level falls within certain...
Integrating Spheres Boost Repeatability of Diode Tests
In the past few years, laser applications and, consequently, laser manufacture have experienced a significant increase. Although the upsurge has been driven primarily by telecom’s explosive growth,...
Thermal Power Meters Advance in Small Steps and Big
Lasers, like other technologies, are continuously changing and progressing as a result of developments in other areas, such as in new solid-state or fiber technologies. As a result, power meters have...
Calibration and Traceability Ensure Measurement Accuracy
Researchers, scientists, test engineers and technicians who perform absolute power measurements expect them to be accurate and consistent. As lasers become more powerful, there is increasing concern...
The US Photonics Job Market: Is It Getting Better?
As you talk with people in the photonics industry, you detect a hint of optimism regarding business for the rest of 2004. Some companies have started to see an upswing, which is beginning to be...
Advanced Instrumentation Benefits Microelectronics Manufacturing
Laser-based processing has been a key enabling technology in improving the quality and reducing the size of devices such as cell phones, laptop computers, digital cameras and MP3 players. As...
Tech Pulse
High-NA Fibers Enable High-Power Lasers
A research group at the University of Bath in the UK has analyzed and demonstrated techniques to fabricate photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with a numerical aperture as high as 0.9. The techniques may dramatically affect the efficiency and power of fiber lasers and may be useful in collecting radiation in fluorescence-monitoring applications. A simple optical fiber consists of a high-index core...
New Structure Improves Telecom Lasers
Many researchers are aggressively developing wavelength-tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) as optical sources for fiber optic...
C-Band Er/Yb Fiber Laser Generates 43 W
Tunable lasers in the eye-safe, 1.5- to 2.0-µm region are useful for remote optical sensing, range-finding and free-space communication. Erbium-doped fiber lasers have the necessary gain bandwidth to...
Hollow Glass Waveguides Maintain Polarization of CO2 Laser Beam
Hollow glass waveguides, whose inside surfaces are coated to reflect 10.6-µm radiation, often are employed to deliver the beam from an industrial CO2 laser to the workpiece. In many cases, such as...
Double-Clad Photonic Crystal Fiber Laser Is Side-Pumped
Probably the most common technique for pumping fiber lasers is to pump them through the ends of the fiber, focusing the light into the inner cladding. A drawback of this is that it does not tolerate...
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Optra Wins Contract for Particle Analyzer
The US Navy has awarded Optra Inc. a $300,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant to produce an open-path particle analyzer based on laser scattering for use with gas turbine engines....
Russian Company Expands Production with MOCVD Tool from Veeco
Veeco Instruments Inc. of Somerset, N.J., has received an order from Elma-Malachit for a TurboDisc D180 GaN metallorganic chemical vapor deposition tool. Based in Zelenograd, Russia, Elma-Malachit...
Document Reports on Demands for Optical Component Manufacturers
The introduction to a report titled "Optical Components Strategies and Forecasts to 2007" notes that optical component manufacturers are increasingly required to integrate components into single,...
UK Organizations to Develop Technology for Surface Processing
The incubator for the optoelectronics industry in Wales, OpTic Technium of Cardiff, will help researchers from University College London and Cranfield University to advance processing technology for...
Boston University's Photonics Center and French Consortium Collaborate
As part of an initiative to further develop business between France and the US, Francis Mer, France's minister of economy, finance and industry, toured the Photonics Center at Boston University and...
Institute of Optics Group Plans Expansion
The University of Rochester in New York has scheduled the groundbreaking for its BME/Optics building for Oct. 10. The ceremony for the combined biomedical engineering and optics research facility...
Rofin-Sinar Obtains 90 Percent of Optoskand
In a cash transaction, Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH of Hamburg, Germany, has acquired 90 percent of the common stock of Optoskand AB. Permanova Holding AB secures the remaining stock. The acquired...
GSI Lumonics Gains Order for Laser Trim Systems
GSI Lumonics Inc. of Billerica, Mass., has received a multisystem laser trim order from Analog Devices Inc. of Norwood, Mass., and is expected to deliver its WaferTrim M310 systems by midyear. Laser...
Emcore and Corona Sign Cross-Licensing Agreement
In a partnership accord for parallel optical transmitters and receivers, Emcore Corp. of Somerset, N.J., has gained an exclusive license to produce and sell the OptoCube 40 modules of Corona Optical...
Ophir Optics Unveils IR Lens Building
Infrared lenses and lens assemblies producer Ophir Optics Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., has inaugurated an 18,000-sq-ft facility that houses computer numerical controlled grinding, polishing and...
NSF Center Opens at Old Dominion
The National Science Foundation has established an Industry/ University Cooperative Research Center for Lasers and Plasmas for Advanced Manufacturing as part of the Applied Research Center at Old...
Increased Use of Pump Laser Diode Modules Is Predicted
According to the "Pump Laser Diode Module Global Market Forecast" from ElectroniCast Corp. of San Mateo, Calif., global consumption of the devices will reach $255 million by 2008. In 2003, sales of...
Industrial Laser Shipments Hold Steady in 2003
Level with the previous year, 2003 shipments of industrial laser equipment and systems within North America together with US exports totaled $422 million, according to a report from the Laser Systems...
Companies Ally to Produce Ultrastable Light Sources
To develop ultrastable laser light sources based on stabilized cavity diode lasers, Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH of Marburg, Germany, and Triad Technology Inc. of Longmont, Colo., have formed a...
Bookham Expands into China
As part of its strategy in the Asian and Pacific regions, where it has seen increased revenue for its optical and RF components, modules and subsystems, Bookham Technology plc of Abingdon, UK,...
Chromux Technologies and NP Photonics Forge Agreement
Chromux Technologies Inc. of Oxnard, Calif., will manufacture and market worldwide optical channel monitoring and analysis products that are based on a compliant microelectromechanical systems...
Isra Vision Systems Acquires Lasor
In Germany, Isra Vision Systems AG of Darmstadt, a supplier of products for the optical quality inspection of technical surfaces, has acquired Lasor AG of Oerlinghausen, a specialist in the surface...
Olympus Creates Optical Foundry Services
The Olympus Partnership Development Group, based in San Jose, Calif., announced that Olympus Corp. of Tokyo has established its Optical Foundry Services unit, which will include the company's...
IR Measurement and Spectroscopy Companies Collaborate
Three companies have allied to formulate, design and manufacture compact, cost-effective infrared measurement instruments for applications-specific spectroscopy. Contributing to the effort is IR...
Keithley Instruments to Work with Nanotech Center
Measurement specialist Keithley Instruments Inc. of Cleveland will partner with the Albany NanoTech Center at State University of New York at Albany to share research information and to develop a...
Dalsa to Supply Cameras for Flat Panel Display Inspection
Dalsa Corp., based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has received an order for electronic cameras valued at $1.3 million from an Asian supplier of flat panel display inspection equipment. Under the...
Thorlabs Purchases UK Manufacturing Facility
Optical technologies company Thorlabs Inc. of Newton, N.J., has bought Melles Griot Ltd., a facility in Ely, UK, that specializes in systems for nanopositioning and vibration isolation, and in...
Accent on Applications
In Automated Proofreading, One Equals Four
One machine eye equals four human ones. That's the formula used by manufacturers when following US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines for proofreading the inserts, labels, regulatory directives or other materials that accompany pharmaceuticals. Because the agency wants to ensure that such printed matter is accurate without fail, it mandates that materials destined for the public be...
Fourier Transform Spectrometer Measures 193-nm Wavelength Standards
Using a novel Fourier transform spectrometer optimized for ultraviolet wavelengths, Gillian Nave and Craig J. Sansonetti of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg,...
Excimer Laser Powers Phase-Shifting Interferometer
An interferometer that promises to improve the characterization of phase-shift masks for use in semiconductor lithography has been developed by researchers in Germany. The instrument, which uses an...
Presstime Bulletin
Lithography Yields Micro-Optics Imaging System
Researchers at the University of Arizona in Tucson and at the University of Oulu in Finland have fabricated a micro-optics imaging system for a miniature microscope using a gray-scale lithographic...
Molecules Display Optical Switching
In the April 9 issue of Science, a team from the University of Groningen and from Syncom, both in Groningen, the Netherlands, has described a self-assembling molecular system that exhibits novel...
Laser Technique Generates 1.77-nm X-rays
A team of scientists at Technische Universität Wien in Austria, Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching, Germany, and Universität Würzburg in Germany has reported the generation of coherent...
Femtosecond Laser Facility Planned for Canada
The Canada Foundation for Innovation in Ottawa has announced the allocation of almost C$21 million for construction of the Advanced Laser Light Source. The facility, which will be located in Varennes...
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UV AND NEAR-IR POLARIZERS
Edmund Industrial Optics has released TechSpec polarizers for the UV and the near-IR. The company says that, because the devices are made with uniformly stretched silver nanoparticles embedded in...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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VISION SENSORS
Cognex Corp. has expanded its family of In-Sight vision sensors with the addition of the In-Sight 5100 and 5400 models. Both meet IEC specifications for shock and vibration, and achieve an IP67 (NEMA...
Cognex Corp.
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DESIGN, ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
Version 5.0 of Optical Research Associates' LightTools illumination design and analysis software features shortcuts that increase ray trace speed from four to 60 times, depending on the model. This...
Synopsys Inc., Optical Solutions Group
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SCANNING STAGE FOR MICROSCOPES
A motorized scanning stage for upright microscopes, the ES111 OptiScan from Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd., is designed as a low-cost alternative to the company's ProScan stages. It has an...
Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd.
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OPTIC MOUNTS
New Focus Inc. has unveiled a line of ultrastable kinematic optic mounts that feature a retention system that optimizes stability and minimizes wavefront distortion, ensuring that the mirrors are...
Newport - New Focus
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PIN PHOTODIODE
The G-9287-14 receiver optical subassembly (ROSA) launched by Hamamatsu Corp. is designed for 850-nm SDH and SONET applications. It has a 10-Gb/s response time to meet the bandwidth requirements of...
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MARKING ADDITIVE
Sherwood Technology Ltd.'s DataLase is a nontoxic, environmentally friendly additive designed to change color when exposed to the output of a low-power CO2 laser. Suitable for addition to inks,...
DataLase Ltd.
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LED TESTING
Gamma Scientific has released LED test sockets for use with spectroradiometer and photometer systems. The sockets hold LEDs in place to enable precision measurements of spectral characteristics such...
Gamma Scientific
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MINI SPECTROMETER
The HR4000 high-resolution miniature fiber optic spectrometer from Ocean Optics Inc. has a 3648-element CCD array detector that provides optical resolution of 0.02 nm FWHM, and spectral response is...
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POWER DETECTOR
The LP-9930 from Gigahertz Optik Inc. is a broad-spectrum, dual-sensor, integrating-sphere-based power detector that measures the output of bare and connected fibers, laser diodes and LEDS from 1 nW...
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FIBER LASER
Lumics GmbH has introduced the LU0546M005, a miniature green laser module that outputs up to 5 mW at 546 nm from a single-mode fiber at 1-W consumption, typical. Optical stability is <2%, beam...
Lumics GmbH
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SINGLE-MODE FIBER
StockerYale Inc. has announced its SM-1310-P1 polyimide-coated single-mode fiber for optical sensor systems that operate at between 1310 and 1550 nm in harsh environments within the oil and gas...
ProPhotonix Ltd.
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GFP FILTERS
Semrock Inc. has expanded its BrightLine family with single-band fluorescence filters for enhanced green fluorescent protein (GFP) and a variety of alternative fluorophores, including Alexa Fluor...
IDEX Health & Science - Semrock Optical Filters
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BLUE LASER DIODES
Micro Laser Systems Inc. offers 473-nm laser diodes for applications in fluorescence spectroscopy, microscopy, genomics, materials analysis, metrology and basic research. The emitters are packaged in...
Micro Laser Systems Inc.
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OTDR MEASUREMENT
New measurement capabilities directly on the 1383-nm water peak have been added to the 8000 OTDR from Photon Kinetics. To meet the needs of applications that have emerged since the introduction of...
Photon Kinetics Inc.
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MODULAR AMPLIFIERS
Coherent Inc. has released Hidra, a family of high-energy Ti:sapphire amplifiers that offer selectable repetition rates from single shot to 20 Hz and pulse widths from 35 fs to 2 ps. Output energy is...
Coherent Inc.
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INTERFEROMETER
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has announced the reintroduction of the Burleigh RC-110 Fabry-Perot interferometer for high-resolution spectroscopy. The RC-110's plano mirror cavity design...
EXFO Inc.
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POLARIZATION SWITCH
The all-fiber polarization switch from Phoenix Photonics Ltd. is designed to provide a flexible and compact means of converting polarization for applications in telecommunications, test and...
Phoenix Photonics Ltd.
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NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING
The Tempo laser interferometer/vibrometer is an instrument that can remotely measure subnanometer amplitude vibrations at frequencies ranging from kilohertz to gigahertz. Offered by Bossa Nova...
Bossa Nova Vision
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MACHINE VISION
In-smart Pro, produced by in-situ GmbH & Co. KG, is a dual-camera high-resolution machine vision system designed for various applications, including quality assurance and dimensional measurement....
in-situ GmbH, Vision & Sensor Systems
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SUBSTRATE POLISHERS
Engis (UK) Ltd. offers the Microtech CMP-D polishing systems for the surface planarization and polishing of compound semiconductor, sapphire, silicon carbide and other substrates. The polishers...
Engis UK Ltd.
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EPOXY DISPENSERS
The Ultra 2400 series dispensing systems from EFD Inc. are designed to provide accuracy and process control to benchtop assembly processes where epoxies, adhesives and other fluids must be applied in...
Nordson EFD
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MULTISENSOR METROLOGY
The SmartScope Quest 650 multisensor metrology system from Optical Gaging Products Inc. enables users to measure a wider variety of features on a manufactured part in a single setup. The system...
OGP (Optical Gaging Products)
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AUTO MEASUREMENT
A software extension for Soft Imaging System Corp.'s analySIS software enables wafer and lithography mask navigation. Dubbed WaferNavigator, it expands the functions of a scanning electron...
Olympus Soft Imaging Solutions Corp.
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PULSED ULTRAVIOLET LASER
The Triton from Spectra-Physics GmbH is a frequency-tripled, Q-switched Nd:YLF laser intended for applications in the biosciences, such as analyte detection and laser microdissection. The company...
Newport Spectra-Physics GmbH, Photonics Solutions Div.
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PULSED LASER DIODES
Pulsed laser diodes at 905 and 1550 nm that have applications in range-finding, law enforcement, laser radar, security scanners, laser light curtains, and test-and-measurement systems are offered by...
Laser Components USA Inc.
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LASER DIODES
Monocrom SL has developed a series of high-power pulsed laser diodes that utilize a new clamp technology in a solder-free mount. The laser bars are mounted within water-cooled copper blocks that act...
Monocrom
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MEASUREMENT HEADS
For applications requiring the measurement output of broadband light sources, Ophir Optronics Inc. offers the PD300-BB radiometer head, which has a spectrally flat response from 400 to 1000 nm,...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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BENDER ACTUATORS
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP's P-871 closed-loop piezo bender actuators feature a high-resolution position feedback sensor that provides 20 times greater linearity, accuracy and repeatability than...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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DFB AND DBR DIODES
Frankfurt Laser Co. has launched a line of high-power laser diodes for applications including spectroscopy, metrology, direct frequency doubling, Raman laser seeding and telecommunications....
Frankfurt Laser Company
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CERAMIC CAPACITORS
High-voltage laser discharge ceramic capacitors are available from Morgan Electro Ceramics Ltd. for use in gas lasers, high-energy pulsed-power supplies, DC and x-ray power supplies, and lightning...
Morgan Technical Ceramics (See CeramTec)
STEREOSCOPE AUTOMATION
Based on proprietary DC servomotor technology, Applied Scientific Instrumentation's SZ-2000 automates the focus, zoom and filter controls of stereoscopic microscopes, and a motorized X-Y stage can be...
Applied Scientific Instrumentation Inc.
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FAULT LOCATOR
Terahertz Technologies Inc.'s VLF-275 visible fault locator is a handheld, battery-operated, stabilized fiber optic laser source that emits visible light at 650 nm. The single- and multimode device...
Terahertz Technologies Inc.
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DIODE LASER
Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH has released a Littrow-configured external-cavity diode laser suitable for optical Raman spectroscopy, optical cooling and trapping, and other applications requiring high...
Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH
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IMMERSION PROBE
A transmission probe that has an adjustable light path has been developed by Hellma GmbH & Co. KG for manual use in the laboratory. The miniature immersion device has removable spacers, which can...
Hellma GmbH & Co. KG
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VERTICAL FIBER INTEGRATION
Arrayed Fiberoptics Corp. has introduced vertical fiber integration technology for the passive alignment and packaging of a variety of fiber optic components on a full-wafer scale, rather than...
Arrayed Fiberoptics Corp.
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MINIATURE ACTUATOR
The NSA12 actuator is among Newport Corp.'s NewStep series miniature positioning products for automating laser and electro-optic experiments and processes. Designed to replace manual micrometers, the...
MKS/Newport
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Cr:FORSTERITE LASER
The Cr:F-65/76M/P-Sesam femtosecond Cr:forsterite laser system is a mode-locked ultrashort device that produces pulses in the near-IR, ~1250-nm range. It features pulse energy of 2 nJ, typical pulse...
Del Mar Photonics Inc.
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CCD CAMERA
The TM-6710CL monochrome camera from JAI Pulnix Inc. is a version of its TM-6710 model and offers a Camera Link digital interface. Featuring noninterlace quad-speed scanning, 120 fps video at full...
JAI Inc.
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PAN-TILT UNITS
Operating at speeds of more than 300°/s and offering position control with 0.012857° resolution, the PTU-D46 computer-controlled pan-tilt units from Directed Perception Inc. are suitable for...
FLIR Motion Control Systems Inc.
POWER/WAVE HEAD
The OMH-6732B short-wavelength power/wave head from ILX Lightwave Corp. measures optical power up to 1 W from short-wavelength lasers while simultaneously measuring wavelengths from 350 to 530 nm....
Newport - ILX Lightwave, Photonics
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THERMOGRAPHY SYSTEM
Electrophysics Corp. has launched the Eztherm Pro camera, a thermography system in an IP-54-rated lightweight housing. A flip-out 3.8-in. LCD rotates to provide comfortable overhead and floor-level...
Lynred USA
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RAMAN LASER
The BRM-785 series 785-nm laser has a narrow spectral linewidth and can achieve up to 1.5 W. Designed for Raman spectroscopy applications, Cleanlaze is based on a patent-pending light-amplification...
B&W Tek LLC
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LIGHT SOURCE
For optical coherence tomography in ophthalmology and dermatology, as well as industrial and scientific applications, Femtolasers Produktions GmbH has launched the Integral OCT, a compact...
Spectra-Physics Vienna
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VOAs
The all-solid-state SS series variable optical attenuators (VOAs) manufactured by Agiltron Inc. achieve response times of <100 µs. They are suitable for continuous power regulation...
Agiltron Inc.
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LASER DIODE
The EP1530 uncooled broadband laser diode manufactured by Eblana Photonics emits at 1550 nm and is suitable for use in fiber-to-the-home, fiber-to-the-premises and passive optical network...
Eblana Photonics Ltd.
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COLOR CAMERA
New Electronic Technology Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH (NET) presents the CS6910CL color camera for machine vision and microscopy applications. The device employs CCD technology that uses hexagonal...
NET New Electronic Technology GmbH
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DIGITAL FRAME GRABBER
Active Silicon Ltd. has enhanced its line of Phoenix Camera Link digital frame grabbers with the PHX-D48CL-CPCI64-6U, a ruggedized 6U board developed for the CompactPCI bus and for use in industrial...
Active Silicon Inc.
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VIBRATION ISOLATION
Halyconics GmbH has unveiled the Vario 45 compact active vibration isolation system. It features two isolation elements and the VarioControl, an external controller that ensures automatic precision...
Accurion GmbH
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LASER SENSORS
Omron Corp. has announced its E3C-LDA photoelectric laser sensor series that provides advanced object detection, positioning and high-resolution sensing. The focal point and the optical axis can be...
Omron Automation
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SCANNING CONTROL
An improved scanning control mode has been introduced by nPoint Inc. for its atomic force microscopes and nanopositioning stages used in research and manufacturing. It incorporates digital signal...
nPoint Inc.
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DEEP-UV LIGHT SOURCE
The XLA 105 argon-fluoride excimer light source manufactured by Cymer Inc. is designed to support 65-nm photolithography applications. Based on proprietary master oscillator power amplifier...
Cymer Inc.
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