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Photonics Spectra: May 2008

Photonics Spectra
May 2008

FEATURES

Putting All of the Sunshine to Work in Solar Cells

Despite extensive research and development, solar cells still fall woefully short of perfection. Commercially available units convert only about 15 percent of the light that falls on them into electricity. Now a team from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, led by professor Prashant V. Kamat, has deposited quantum dots of various sizes onto TiO2 nanotubes. The resulting device generated...

Another Way to Build a Better White Light

When it comes to replacing today’s white lights, don’t count out solid-state light-emitting electrochemical cells. Researchers from National Taiwan University in Taipei recently demonstrated that...

Spreading Out Laterally Enables a Phosphor-Free White LED

Conventional white LEDs are actually blue or ultraviolet sources, with added phosphor shifting the light to white. However, the converter degrades over time, the wavelength shifting is inefficient,...

FPGA TRAINING Matrox Imaging offers online field-programmable gate array (FPGA) training programs. They are intended for software developers who need to interface, control and create array configurations with the...

Solar Cells of Stainless Steel

The ongoing search for less-expensive solar cells has led researchers in Finland to consider a material that is as plentiful as it is durable: stainless steel. Traditional solar cells use glass as...

Improving Solar Efficiency Through Tandem Design

Organic solar cells have several potential benefits. Compared with their nonorganic brethren, they are lightweight, inexpensive and easy to produce. Unfortunately, they remain relatively ineffective,...

‘Giant’ Nanoparticles May Offer Improved Performance

Although nanocrystal quantum dots offer a host of advantages and continue to be explored for a range of imaging applications, these tiny optical probes do come with some baggage. They are, for...

Ivy’s Secret Is in Its Secretions

As anyone knows who has ever been to Wrigley Field in Chicago, ivy climbs, it covers and it spreads over almost anything in its path. The plant’s famed surface-climbing ability has made it a...

High-Quality NSOM Aperture Probes Made More Cheaply

Near-field scanning optical microscopes (NSOM) have not been used widely or routinely because of difficulties producing high-quality probes at a reasonable cost. The technique uses probes with holes...

Visible and Nonvisible Imaging Techniques

The field of industrial microscopy has evolved from simple bright-field on-axis imaging to that of nonvisible and confocal-based technologies. Bright-field is a resolution-limited technique that uses...

Practical Nanotomography

The applications of focused ion beam-based nanotomography already are quite diverse and are expanding quickly. Materials science applications range from analysis of volumetric fractions of...

Economic Challenges for Machine Vision

If you produce it, will customers buy it? As with other firms, machine vision companies are wondering how the products they manufacture will sell in the current economy. The concern is well...

Leaves Its Print on Surveillance

For better or worse, security is increasing, and that means new opportunities — and challenges — for machine vision. Cameras and systems developed originally for inspecting widgets now are being...

Array of Tiny Quantum Cascade Lasers Provides Tunable Mid-IR Output

Unlike the near-infrared and visible spectral ranges, where diode lasers provide compact and reliable sources, the mid-infrared range — 3 to 15 μm — lacks good lasers. A breakthrough in this...

Focusing High-Power, Single-Mode Laser Beams

New generations of thin-disk and fiber lasers are combining excellent beam quality — M2 typically between 1.2 and ∼8 — with kilowatts output power. This combination brings the...

Caution: Beam Crossing Ahead

There are times when a laser beam must cross between tables or must even travel from one room to another. This presents an interesting traffic flow and safety challenge to both the laser safety...

Scanning Impedance Probe Microscopy

Mapping physical properties of various materials at high resolution has been pursued for decades in the microscopy world, and new challenges are added by the semiconductor and materials industries,...

Near-IR Spectroscopy Gauges Tastiness of Plums

Consumers judge stone fruits such as plums by appearance and texture, seeking sometimes subtle clues about the flavor that awaits beneath the fruit’s flesh. Before you see or feel the fruit at the...

Cavity Leak-Out Spectroscopy Aids Ethane Detection

Ethane is an important chemical that is used in several industrial processes, such as the manufacturing of ethylene, but it also is an important biomarker for human health. Trace amounts of the...

TECH PULSE

Gas-Assisted Embossing and UV Curing Combine to Make Microlens Arrays

Individual microlenses may be small, but a large array of them can have a big impact — and present some big challenges. Because microlens arrays are a key optical component in large-format LCD TVs and elsewhere, there is a need for low-cost and high-throughput manufacturing methods. As a variety of techniques have been tried, the challenges of each have become apparent. The least expensive...

For a Cheaper Camera, Use Curved Silicon

For all the benefits silicon brings to imaging, it does have a drawback: Silicon sensors are flat. Now a group from Stanford University in California has demonstrated a way to curve monolithic...

Capturing the Colors of a Plastic Bubble

Everyone loves the bright rainbow colors of a soap bubble, and young children often cry when these delicate objects burst. However, Fumiyoshi Ikkai of Nihon L’Oreal KK in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan,...

A Simpler Way to Build an Optical Acidity Detector

A team of researchers in Spain has devised a fluorescent surface molecular sensor for the detection of acidity. The sensor could find application in industry, clinical analysis and environmental...

Choosing the Better Bus Standard Which bus standard is better for machine vision? A recently released study by Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (Fraunhofer IPMS) in Dresden, Germany, tries to answer that question....

LIGHT SPEED

Srico Awarded Contract Srico Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract by the US Air Force Research Laboratory. Worth $100,000, the contract enables Srico to work with its strategic partner, Spectrum Detector Inc. of Lake Oswego, Ore., to develop ultrasensitive pyroelectric detectors targeted at terahertz applications.

Sales of Optical Components Rise The sale of optical components during the last quarter of 2007 rose slightly and the industry fared better overall than it did in 2006, according to a report, “Market Share: 4Q07 and 2007 Global OC,”...

Microsharp Installs Coating Line in Europe Microsharp Corp. Ltd. of Watchfield, UK, a developer of technologies for the display and media industries, has installed a precision microstructure coating line at its Oxfordshire manufacturing unit....

Osram Opto Opens Asia Headquarters Osram Opto Semiconductors, a subsidiary of Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany, has opened a regional headquarters in Hong Kong. The office will house staff to coordinate sales and marketing activities in...

Thin Film Technology Awarded $9.8 Million Thin Film Technology Inc., a unit of Williams Advanced Materials Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., has been awarded $9.8 million in contracts from DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J. The contract, good...

Emcore to Purchase Intel Segments Emcore Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., a provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the satellite and terrestrial solar power markets, has announced an agreement with Intel...

Rohm and Haas Acquires Gracel Display Rohm and Haas Co. of Philadelphia, a developer of technologies for the specialty materials industry, has gained controlling interest in Gracel Display Inc. of Seoul, South Korea, a developer and...

US Invests in Solar

The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced that it will invest up to $13.7 million over three years in 11 university-led solar photovoltaic technology projects. This investment is part of the...

Spire, Jiangxi Gemei Sign Contract Spire Corp. of Bedford, Mass., a provider of turnkey solar factories and capital equipment, has received a contract from Jiangxi Gemei Sci-Tech Ltd. of Fuzhou, China, to build a combined solar module...

Emcore Garners $4.6 Million Order Emcore Corp. of Albuquerque, N.M., a provider of semiconductor-based components and subsystems, has been awarded a $4.6 million follow-on production order for solar cell receiver assemblies from...

SensL Signs Contract SensL of Mountain View, Calif., has signed a contract with Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility of Newport News, Va., to collaborate on the optimization of low-light silicon detectors. The...

Sunovia Creates Infrared Division Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc. of Sarasota, Fla., a renewable energy and energy conservation company, has established an infrared materials and systems integration division for cadmium telluride...

Axsys Receives $11.3 Million Order Axsys Technologies Inc. of Rocky Hill, Conn., a developer of surveillance cameras and imaging systems, has received an order for infrared lenses for the US Army’s Thermal Weapon Sight II Bridge...

Reflex Photonics Moves Headquarters Reflex Photonics, originally of Montreal, a developer of optical connectivity solutions for semiconductor packaging and data transfer applications, has moved its headquarters to Mountain View, Calif....

Quintiq Opens Office in North America Quintiq of ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, a provider of planning, scheduling and supply chain optimization solutions, has opened an office in Wayne, Pa., called Quintiq Inc. It will be the...

Digital Light to Distribute for 3DIcon Digital Light Innovations of Austin, Texas, has signed a worldwide distributorship agreement with 3DIcon Corp. of Tulsa, Okla., a development-stage company focused on creating full-color volumetric...

Exfo Acquires Navtel Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. of Quebec City has acquired all shares of Navtel Communications Inc. of Markham, Ontario, Canada, a provider of protocol test solutions for network equipment...

Zeiss Opens Demo Facility Carl Zeiss AG of Oberkochen, Germany, has opened the Carl Zeiss Advanced Imaging Centre Singapore, which offers customers the opportunity to view and experience the full range of the company’s micro-...

LightMachinery Acquires Product Lines from GSI LightMachinery Inc. of Ottawa, a manufacturer of lasers and fluid jet polishing equipment, has agreed to purchase the Impact and LaserMark product lines from GSI Group of Billerica, Mass. The...

Unidym, Nippon Kayaku to Collaborate Unidym Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corp., will collaborate with Nippon Kayaku Co. of Tokyo. The companies will work to integrate the American...

L-3 to Buy Segment of Northrop Grumman L-3 Communications of New York, a provider of imaging solutions and sensors, has agreed to acquire the Electro-Optical Systems business of Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles. The business will be...

Novaled Opens Asian Subsidiary Novaled AG of Dresden, Germany, a provider of organic LED structures and solutions, has opened a branch office in Tokyo to accommodate a technology support service for existing customers. It also...

Ascent Awarded US Air Force Contract Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. of Littleton, Colo., has been awarded the second phase of the US Air Force’s high-efficiency solar cell program. The company expects the contract’s value to be...

Lumera Receives Government Contract Lumera Corp. of Bothell, Wash., a designer of telecommunications technologies, has been awarded Phase III of a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The yearlong award...

Ball Selects Barr for Filter Arrays Barr Associates Inc. of Westford, Mass., has been chosen by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., to develop, manufacture and test multispectral filters for the Operational Land...

LG Chem, Universal Display to Collaborate LG Chem Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea, and Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., have signed a nonexclusive joint development agreement to combine the former company’s electron transport and hole...

BBN Technologies Awarded $5.7 Million BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., a technology solutions firm, has been awarded $5.7 million by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the Dynamic Multi-Terabit Core Optical Networks:...

Dilas to Expand in China Dilas, a developer and manufacturer of semiconductor laser components and systems based in Tucson, Ariz., will open its first manufacturing facility in China. The company currently has a sales office...

Supertex, Varioptic Collaborate Supertex Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Varioptic of Lyon, France, have agreed to collaborate on the production of a driver and a liquid lens to add autofocus capability in cellular phone and PDA...

DRS Technologies Receives Contract from US Marine Corps DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received a $19 million, five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract from the US Naval Surface Warfare Center of Crane, Ind. The company...

Optimum Optical Systems Receives Army Contract Optimum Optical Systems Inc. of Camarillo, Calif., has received a contract from the US Army for the infrared mast-mounted sight dual-field-of-view lens assembly to be used on the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior...

Lambda Names Distributor Lambda Research Corp. of Littleton, Mass., has selected Alpha Precision Instrumentation Corp. of Taipei, Taiwan, as a distributor of its TracePro and OSLO optical design software products in Taiwan...

Sun Microsystems to Develop On-Chip Optical Networks The US Department of Defense has awarded Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., $44.29 million to develop computer microchip interconnectivity through on-chip optical networks enabled by...

ACCENT ON APPLICATIONS

Dual Laser Pulses Enable Portable Lead Testing

To diminish the negative effect that the metal lead has on public health, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set a limit of 15 parts per billion (ppb) by weight of the metal in drinking...

Imaging Shows How Bats Share Vital Flying Trait with Insects

According to conventional aerodynamic theory, the wings of bees and other insects should not generate enough lift, especially during hovering and slow flight. Nonetheless, insects do fly. Various...

PRESSTIME BULLETIN

Roundness (and Mass) Redefined

Most spheres look round enough to the unaided eye. But study a marble, a bowling ball or even a distant planet closely enough, and it quickly becomes apparent that its roundness is full of...

Bolometer-Based System Images Items at Terahertz Range A technology developed to help ground-based telescopes discern tiny fluctuations in stellar radiation may also become useful for medical and security applications. Scientists at the National...

INSIGHTS & ENTERPRISE

The Importance of Trust

Howard R. Schlossberg is program manager for Basic Research in Lasers and Optics in the Physics and Electronics Directorate of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). He also is the program manager for the Medical Free Electron Laser Program. He received a PhD from MIT and has been a visiting fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He worked for AVCO Everett Research Laboratory...

LIGHTER SIDE

Light Turns Lethal for Feathered Friends

Many people find cell phones to be essential, something that they cannot live without. But the popular devices are having an unintended consequence, one that is taking an environmental toll. Cell...

Petite Projectors Coming Soon People already converse, e-mail, watch movies, listen to music and play games with any of a number of miniaturized electronic gadgets that can be held discreetly in the palm of one’s hand. What...

PRODUCTS

MICRO STAGE

Manufactured from anodized aluminum, the MT 130-50-DC micro-manipulator stage offers travel of 50 mm with positioning accuracy of 10 μm, and repeatability and straightness/flatness runout of ±1...

Steinmeyer Inc.

DRIVER SOFTWARE

Basler Vision Technologies has updated its pylon driver software package by adding line-scan camera support. With version 2.0, customers can use the company’s runner cameras to capture 2000 pixel...

LCD CONTROLLER

The HE-1920 by Digital View Inc. is a fully buffered multisynchronization interface controller that provides analog and digital connections for large-format, high-definition thin-film transistor...

VISION SENSORS

The multipurpose VOS300 series vision sensors from Pepperl+Fuchs Inc. combine a camera, illumination, digital outputs, process data and five evaluation methods in a single rugged housing. Suitable...

Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.

SPECTRORADIOMETER

FluxData Inc. has released the FD-1840+, a modular high-performance NIST-traceable spectroradiometer. The device features a handheld ergonomic spotting scope, 380- to 1000-nm VIS/NIR corrected...

DPSS LASERS The MiniGreen ETR100 and ETR150 diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers have been launched by Snake Creek Lasers. Insensitive to ambient temperature changes without the use of thermoelectric cooling,...

Advanced Photonic Sciences LLC

SPECTROMETER

The Super Gamut spectrometer from BaySpec Inc. is a 1024-pixel InGaAs line-scan camera with an integrated spectral engine that simultaneously covers multiple wavelengths. Its flat-field design mounts...

The MV Products Div. of Mass-Vac Inc. is offering a 16-in. vacuum inlet trap that protects vacuum pumps used in corrosive deposition processes that generate large amounts of condensable by-products....

Mass-Vac Inc., MV Products Div.

MICROSCOPE STAGE

The H117LSM ProScan II inverted motorized stage, introduced by Prior Scientific Inc., is designed for Carl Zeiss laser scanning microscopes. The flattop design enables the use of micromanipulators,...

Prior Scientific Inc.

INDUSTRIAL IMAGING The Matrox 4Sight X has been introduced by Matrox Imaging. The industrial imaging platform is built upon an embedded Intel 64-bit multicore architecture and equipped with either a Core 2Duo or a...

INSPECTION SYSTEM Complete Inspection Systems Inc. has launched Multicheck, a quality assurance and inspection system that can verify 100% of the copy and graphics on labels, cartons and other materials by performing...

Complete Inspection Systems Inc.

A scanner that enables precision machining of lasers below 700 μm has been released by Neoteric Concepts LLC. Based on standard galvanometer motors, it uses refractive optics rather than mirrors...

Neoteric Concepts LLC

DISPLAY ALIGNMENT

Mersive Technologies has launched the Sol Server 1.2, a camera-based solution that cuts alignment time in half for multiprojector ultradefinition displays. Its SolTilt feature is a robotic platform...

Mersive Technologies

The Fitel S184 wide-area plasma fusion splicer manufactured by Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. incorporates 3SAE Technologies Inc.’s three-phase arc technology, which improves thermal stability and...

American Furukawa Inc.

METAL-CORE LAMINATE

Laird Technologies Inc. has announced an environmentally friendly metal-core printed circuit board laminate to keep bright and ultrabright LED light engines burning uniformly as well as brighter and...

Laird Technologies

3-D OPTICAL SENSORS PhaseView USA offers an OEM version of its noncontact 3-D MicroPhase and SurPhase smart sensor heads that can be integrated with an optical microscope or used as stand-alone units, both supplied with...

COOLER ASSEMBLY

IRnova AB has launched a series of integral detector Dewar cooler assembly modules that are based on its quantum-well infrared photodetector technology. The IRnova384 features a 384 × 288...

INDUSTRIAL CAMERA

Dalsa Corp. has added a GigE Vision-compliant model to its Spyder 3 cameras, which incorporate the company’s dual-line scan sensor technology to provide high responsivity for industrial imaging...

Teledyne DALSA, North American Sales (Machine Vision)

CCD MICROSCOPY CAMERA

Introduced by Lumenera Corp., the InfinityX-32 is a CCD microscopy camera with pixel-shifting technology and up to 32-megapixel resolution. Designed for use in the clinical, life and materials...

Teledyne Lumenera

DIAMOND MILLING

Kaleido Technology ApS is offering diamond milling for manufacturing arrays of aspheric lens surfaces. Applications include wafer-level manufacturing as well as inserts for injection molding and hot...

Kaleido Technology ApS

LED ARRAY MODULES

CoolLED has introduced high-intensity LED array modules (LAMs) at 535, 565 and 585 nm for use with its precisExcite LED excitation system. Active cooling ensures stability and intensity. The...

The Discovery 4000 Chip Set manufactured by Texas Instruments Inc. and based on proprietary digital light processing technology features a 0.95-in. 1920 × 1080-pixel 2 × LVDS digital micromirror...

Texas Instruments Inc., DLP Products

POLYMER SYSTEM

Master Bond Inc. offers a one-component, optically clear polymer that is curable by UV light and/or heat. When exposed to UV light of adequate wavelength and intensity, it cures quickly to produce...

Master Bond Inc.

REFLECTOMETER

The PR 4400 precision reflectometer measures reflections as a function of distance in fiber optic components or assemblies. Available from Luna Technologies Inc., the high-speed inspection and...

Luna Innovations Inc.

OPTICAL TABLES

Newport Corp. has introduced the ST-UT2 series upgradable SmartTable optical tables. The doubled tables incorporate tuned mass dampers to reduce vibration and can be field-upgraded as needed with the...

DIAMOND TURNING

G-S Plastic Optics has acquired a Precitech Nanoform 200 two-axis aspheric contouring machine to perform single-point diamond turning in-house, which has several advantages over outsourcing the...

GS Plastic Optics

SOLAR CELLS Spire Semiconductor is providing dedicated large-scale contract design and manufacturing capabilities to manufacturers of solar concentrator cells. Through its Captive Custom Capacity initiative, it...

Masimo Semiconductor

SPECTROMETER

Bruker AXS has released a benchtop CCD-based optical emission spectrometer that it says provides shorter measurement cycles, better stability and precision, and lower detection limits than others on...

Bruker AXS Inc.

CURING SYSTEMS Xenon Corp. has unveiled its RC-900 series higher power pulsed UV light curing systems, which use less energy than mercury-based systems. The Blu-ray Disc increases productivity, delivering 207 J per...

RAMAN LASERS The BRM CleanLaze series USB-connectable spectrum-stabilized Raman excitation lasers from B&W Tek Inc. are available at 785, 808, 830 and 976 nm. They have spectral linewidths as narrow as...

LED LIGHT SOURCE

The LED F1 light source manufactured by Photonic Optische Geräte GmbH & Co. KG is DC-powered, resulting in ripple- and flicker-free operation. It generates a constant color temperature of...

Photonic Optische Gerate GmbH & Co. KG

Z-AXIS STAGE Nanomotion Inc. has introduced a Z-axis autofocus stage that provides positioning and focusing for microscopy and imaging applications. It uses a high-resolution encoder with an inverse piezoelectric...

Nanomotion Inc.

LIGHT SOURCE

The EQ-1000 is a compact high-brightness light product that incorporates the LDLS laser-driven light source. It can be configured for broad-spectrum output in spectroscopy, biological imaging and...

Energetiq Technology Inc.

LASER MARKING

The LaserTab compact desktop fiber laser marking system with a motorized Z-axis and 15 3/4-in. travel has been unveiled by Lasit USA. The fully enclosed Class 1 system includes a fiber laser, a galvo...

Laser Americas LLC

POSITIONING

Directed Perception Inc. has unveiled its PTU-D100 computer-controlled pan-tilt units for real-time positioning of medium payloads for fixed and mobile applications in the military and industrial...

FLIR Motion Control Systems Inc.

THERMAL IMAGER

L-3 Communications Infrared Products has unveiled its Thermal-Eye X-150 pocket-size thermal imaging camera, which can detect activity from >305 m in total darkness. Its focal plane array is an...

L-3 Communications Infrared Products

CALIBRATION STANDARD Unveiled by Pyser-SGI Ltd., the PS20 is designed for measurement calibration of microscopes and machine vision systems. The patterned slide includes concentric circles and squares, line gratings,...

Pyser Optics Ltd.

RAMAN CONVERTER

A multipass Raman converter introduced by Light Age Inc. provides wavelength-shift capability for most pulsed laser systems, rendering a variety of Raman shifts practical, including the ones from the...

SPECTROPHOTOMETER

The IRAffinity-1 Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer has been released by Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. The device measures 514 × 606 × 273 and weighs 35 kg. It offers resolution of...

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc.

FREQUENCY DOUBLER

For interferometry, lithography, and atom cooling and trapping applications, Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH has announced the Jaguar SYS-1000 SHG (second harmonic generation) laser cavity frequency...

Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH

DIAMOND FILM

3M has introduced its Diamond Lapping Film 660XV abrasive for fiber optics polishing. Available in 1-, 3-, 6- and 9-μm grades and with or without pressure-sensitive adhesive backing, it is...

3M, Electronics Markets Materials Div.

PICOSECOND SEED LASER

Released by Toptica Photonics AG, the FFI PicoFYb is a picosecond ytterbium fiber laser for seeding medical and industrial laser systems for applications including ophthalmology, optical sampling and...

Toptica Photonics AG

LASER CUTTING

Laser Photonics LLC has introduced the Titan FLS 48, a high-power fiber laser system that cuts metals without causing deformation or burned edges. It features a 2000-W continuous-wave ytterbium fiber...

Laser Photonics Corp.

5-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA

The Pike F-505, a 5-megapixel progressive-scan camera released by Allied Vision Technologies GmbH, has a fast FireWire 1394b interface that enables operation at 15 fps at full resolution. True...

Allied Vision Technologies GmbH

LASER DIODE DRIVER The PPS-200-5A laser diode driver unveiled by Portable Power Systems Inc. delivers up to 200 A of pulsed or 120 A of CW current at a compliance voltage of 5 V, with other voltages available upon...

Portable Power Systems Inc.

VIDEO RECORDING

NorPix Inc. has released the TroublePix150-500 for portable digital video recording. The device includes Epix Inc.’s PIXCI EC1 ExpressCard laptop-based frame grabber for base, medium and full Camera...

SPECTROMETER

The TPS spectra 3000 terahertz spectrometer developed by TeraView Ltd. performs noninvasive and nondestructive transmission and attenuated total reflection measurements. It provides rapid and...

LASER SCANNING

Optech Inc. has announced that its Ilris-3D portable laser-based ranging, imaging and digitizing system for the commercial survey, engineering, mining and industrial markets is now compatible with...

Teledyne Optech Inc.

PULSED LASERS

PyroPhotonics Lasers Inc.’s PyroFlex 2 series industrial pulsed lasers use a software pulse control process to shape parameters to exact specifications for microprocessing applications. The...

ESI - Pyrophotonics Lasers Inc.

LASER CRYSTAL

Elk Industries LLC has released its blue laser combination crystal, which produces single-longitudinal-mode radiation at 473 nm. Without requiring difficult or time-consuming alignment and mounting,...

Elk Industries, R-K Manufacturing

LASER DIODE MONITORING

Hamamatsu Corp. has unveiled several InGaAs devices for laser diode and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) monitoring. The devices include front- and back-illuminated InGaAs PIN...

Hamamatsu Corporation

ISOLATION PLATFORMS

The KL-VIP vibration isolation platforms released by Klughammer Industrie GmbH can be placed anywhere on a table or work plate to stop the transmission of vibrations into equipment such as...

Klughammer GmbH

DISPERSION COMPENSATOR

The ClearSpectrum-TDCX wavelength-tunable dispersion compensator from TeraXion Inc. is channel-plan independent and features a large dispersion tuning range and positive and negative dispersion...

ND:YAG LASERS The YG900 modular Nd:YAG lasers manufactured by the Quantel Group’s Industrial & Scientific Laser Div. are based on an active/passive mode-locked oscillator to provide high repeatability and...

Quantel laser by Lumibird

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