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Photonics Spectra: May 2012

Photonics Spectra
 May 2012


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Hitting Every Angle with Autostereoscopic 3-D Displays Clever use of electro-optics, lens arrays, diffusers and software advances the multidimensional way of seeing The broad field of autostereoscopic display – the creation of imagery that appears three-dimensional without requiring the use of additional eyewear1,2 – is evolving. Optical engineers continue to push 3-D display technologies to match depictions in science fiction movies....
Time Delay Integration Speeds Up Imaging Using a sensor architecture that permits photoelectrons generated from multiple exposures to be summed with no additive noise enables high-speed imaging under light-starved conditions. This...
Wafer-Etching Process Brightens Future for LEDs With far higher etch rates and per-unit cost savings, high-temperature wet etching of sapphire wafers is giving dry etching a run for its money. LED manufacturers today can choose between two very...
193-nm Lithography Opens Doors for Diffractive Micro-Optics Design considerations and fabrication affect performance for a near-IR large-angle homogenizer for use in 3-D sensors based on time of flight. The field of diffractive micro-optics is playing an...
Vision Software Enables NASA Robonaut to See The first robotic visitor to the International Space Station performs difficult visual and tactile tasks in service to the human crew. The first humanoid robot astronaut boarded the International...
EDITORIAL
Transfer Technology and Grow CLEO:2012 is right around the corner, and Photonics Spectra will be there. This year, we are proud to be the media sponsor for the annual Technology Transfer Program, which will take place on Thursday, May 10. We have attended this event each year since its inception and are pleased to play a more active role this time around. Working with OSA, we produced a webinar on May 2 about the CLEO...
LASERS IN USE
How to Develop a Laser Safety Culture What is the most important measure of a laser safety program’s success? Developing a true culture of laser safety is the ultimate goal of any serious laser safety officer. The art of inspiring and coordinating people’s activities beyond the enforcement dictated by rules and regulations translates into a cultural asset that leads to tangible performance excellence. A laser safety...
LASER SAFETY
How to Develop a Laser Safety Culture What is the most important measure of a laser safety program’s success? Developing a true culture of laser safety is the ultimate goal of any serious laser safety officer. The art of inspiring and coordinating people’s activities beyond the enforcement dictated by rules and regulations translates into a cultural asset that leads to tangible performance excellence. A laser safety...
TECH PULSE
Supercapacitors created from laser-scribed graphene A novel graphene-based electrode, produced with a standard LightScribe DVD optical drive, ends the search for an optimal electrochemical capacitor. The discovery could pave the way for a new class of...
Hidden 3-D objects imaged A new ultrafast time-of-flight imaging technique uses reflections from a nonmirrored surface to recover 3-D shapes hidden from sight, essentially allowing the camera to capture images around...
Star comb aids search for exoplanets A new laser frequency comb soon may be able to answer one of the most intriguing scientific questions: Are there other earthlike planets in our galaxy capable of supporting life as we know it? A...
Tsunami mapped with laser scanners Using eyewitness video and terrestrial lasers to map the epic March 2011 Tohoku tsunami could produce flooding forecasts that influence future evacuation plans and building designs and could help...
Camera captures atoms moving in a molecule The first real-time image of two atoms vibrating in a molecule was recorded with a new ultrafast camera. A team from Kansas and The Ohio state universities used ultrafast laser pulses to knock one...
Microlens arrays from a test tube Simple calcium carbonate precipitation at ambient conditions can produce microlens arrays of uniform size and focal length. The process offers a cheaper alternative to lithographic techniques used to...
Lab lightning strikes same place more than twice With the help of a laser-based lightning rod, laboratory-generated lightning was coaxed to strike the same place not just twice but numerous times, and contrary to the path of least resistance. This...
Attosecond laser takes aim at “holy grail” of chemistry research Ultrafast pulses of laser light fired at oxygen, nitrogen and carbon monoxide molecules could pave the way toward imaging the movement of atoms and their electrons as they undergo chemical reactions...
LIGHT SPEED
OSA Forms Section in Egypt The Optical Society (OSA), based in Washington, has established the Alhazen Egyptian OSA Local Section, the society’s first in the Middle East. The Cairo-based group has been approved by the OSA Member and Education Services Council. Professor Mohamed Abdel Harith of the National Institute of Laser Enhanced Science at Cairo University will serve as president of this section, which is a...
Arden Photonics Names Distributor Optical fiber company Arden Photonics Ltd. of Solihull, UK, has appointed OgMentum Inc. of State Line, Nev., as its sales and marketing partner for China and the western US. OgMentum will provide...
EMagin Granted Microdisplay Contract EMagin Corp. of Bellevue, Wash., has received a $1.12 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the US Special Operations Command to optimize its WUXGA organic LED microdisplay...
Advanced Photonix Secures Reseller Optoelectronics company Advanced Photonix Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., has signed Thermo Fisher Scientific of Waltham, Mass., as its first value-added reseller for its T-Gauge industrial terahertz...
Renishaw Launches Subsidiary The global metrology and spectroscopy company Renishaw has opened a subsidiary in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico, to support its expanding customer base in Mexico and Central America. Alejandro Silva...
TU Berlin Licenses Patent The Technical University of Berlin and its partner ipal GmbH in Berlin have closed a €500,000 (about $652,000) deal with a key global semiconductor company for use of the university’s...
Thorlabs Acquires Laser Line, Expands In Newton, N.J., Thorlabs Inc. has acquired the Octavius line of ultrafast lasers and ultrafast pulse characterization products from idesta Quantum Electronics (IQE). The transaction is expected to...
Excelitas Expands in Medical Lighting Excelitas Technologies of Waltham, Mass., has augmented its lighting portfolio through the acquisition of privately held Carsan Engineering of Golden, Colo., a manufacturer of arc lamp power supplies...
North American MV Market Grew in 2011 Machine vision components and systems sales in North America increased 5 percent in 2011 to nearly $1.9 billion, according to the global trade group AIA of Ann Arbor, Mich. Machine vision components...
Boston Scientific, Lumenis Renew Deal Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. of Natick, Mass., and Lumenis Ltd. of Yokneam, Israel, have signed a five-year contract to extend their existing commercial agreement and to promote...
OLED Inventor Joins QD Vision Board Organic LED (OLED) inventor and Wolf Prize winner in chemistry Ching Tang has joined quantum-dot product supplier QD Vision Inc.’s scientific advisory board. Tang, the Doris Johns Cherry...
Kodak Selling Online Photo Service Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., has entered into an agreement with Shutterfly, an Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, for the proposed sale of certain assets of...
DOC Acquiring Camera Module Assets In a bid to grab a bigger piece of the $9 billion market for mobile phone cameras, Tessera Technologies’ DigitalOptics Corp. (DOC) of San Jose, Calif., will acquire the China-based camera...
Impact of PV Panel Penalties Pondered Smaller-than-expected duties on imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China, announced by the US Department of Commerce on Tuesday, had proponents on both sides of the issue putting...
B&W Tek Marks 15 Years Optical spectroscopy and laser systems provider B&W Tek Inc. is celebrating its 15th anniversary in the photonics industry. Established as a green laser manufacturer in January 1997, the company...
GREENLIGHT
Full spectrum boosts solar cell power Solar cell efficiency, currently hovering in the 15 to 20 percent range, can theoretically be boosted to as high as 70 percent by printing specially engineered nanostructures on the cells, researchers say.
LIGHTER SIDE
Alexander Graham Bell, we can hear you now Linguists, historians and even musicians could benefit from noninvasive optical scanning technology that enables us to hear voices and sounds that were recorded more than a century ago. Unlocking these sounds is part of a collaborative sound recovery project involving scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California and curators at the Library of Congress and the...
PRODUCTS
Fiber Optic Simulator A compact fiber optic network simulator that can be customized to emulate a physical network in the laboratory with high reliability and repeatability is available from M2 Optics Inc. The Fiber Lab 3200 is a 19-in. rack-mounted optical fiber management package that can be customized with virtually any fiber type or mix, including lengths, splices and connectors, to precisely match a...
M2 Optics Inc.
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ZnS Optics for Mid-IR Lasers REO Inc. has introduced a line of mid-infrared optics that provide a high laser damage threshold, good spectral performance, environmental stability and mechanical durability. The zinc sulfide...
Research Electro-Optics Inc. (REO)
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Microspectrometer Avantes BV’s Avabench-RS configurable miniature spectrometer allows the user to change the slit and connector on the go. In the laboratory or on the road, it takes only a screwdriver to...
Avantes BV
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Vision Sensor The IV Vision Sensor from Keyence Corp. of America combines some of the functionality of machine vision and traditional sensors in a single system. The multipurpose sensor can handle a variety of...
Keyence Corp. of America
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4-Megapixel Camera Optronis GmbH’s CL4000CXP is a 4-megapixel camera with a high-speed CoaXPress interface that the company is upgrading with the GenICam (generic interface for cameras) standard. The camera...
Optronis GmbH
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IP67 Enclosures Available in three standard sizes with a maximum length of 250 mm, the IP67 protective enclosures from autoVimation’s Orca series are suitable for all large cameras with a cross section of up...
autoVimation GmbH
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Sapphire Domes Custom-fabricated sapphire domes for protecting electro-optical devices including detectors, sensors and cameras in weapons systems are available from Meller Optics Inc. They feature Moh 9...
Meller Optics Inc.
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Widely Tunable 3.2-µm Laser Daylight Solutions Inc. has introduced the TLS-41032, an external cavity laser that offers >200 cm−1 of tunability with wavelength coverage in the 3.25 µm (3080 cm−1) region of...
DRS Daylight Solutions Inc.
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Spectrometer Ibsen Photonics has unveiled the Freedom spectrometer for OEM integrators of analytical instruments. The instrument combines compact size and cost efficiency with flexibility in choice of...
Ibsen Photonics A/S
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USB 3.0 Cameras IDS Imaging Development Systems has introduced the UI-3580CP-C industrial cameras offering the new Aptina 5-megapixel CMOS sensor. The color imager produces 2560 × 1920-pixel resolution at 15...
IDS Imaging Development Systems Inc.
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Grazing Incidence Spectrometer McPherson Inc.’s grazing incidence spectrometer Model 248/310 enables users to make direct optical measurements from 1 to 300 nm, to test soft XUV high-energy light sources (plasma or laser)...
McPHERSON
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Radiation-Resistant Zoom Lens Resolve Optics Ltd. has announced a longer focal length version (24 to 144 mm) of its Model 290 motorized radiation-resistant zoom lens. Presenting the same compact footprint as the standard...
Resolve Optics Ltd.
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Fluorescence Illumination System Prior Scientific Inc. has announced the newest addition to its Lumen series fluorescence illumination systems. The Lumen 200S has a robust internal high-speed shutter and a variety of control...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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Pitch-Reducing Optical Fiber Array The PROFA (pitch-reducing optical fiber array) product line is an evolution of Chiral Photonics Inc.’s spot size converting interconnects that interface standard optical fibers with photonic...
Chiral Photonics Inc.
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LEDs for Homogeneous Surface Lighting Z-LASER Optoelektronik GmbH now offers customized OEM Moodlight LEDs for industries including medical technology and architecture. An important aspect of the color surfaces is the small...
Z-LASER GmbH
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VIS Bandpass Filter Delta Light & Optics’ family of linear variable filters is extended with a sixth type — the LVVISBP visible model. A linear variable bandpass filter is a wedged filter whose...
Delta Optical Thin Film A/S
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All-Optical Switches Polatis Inc.’s Series 6000 all-optical switches are fully nonblocking single-mode matrix switches with up to 192 × 192 fiber ports and an average loss of <1 dB. Using proprietary...
HUBER+SUHNER Polatis
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UV/Si Calibrated Photodetectors Newport Corp. has introduced the 818-ST2 and 818-ST2-UV wand photodetectors. Designed with protective aluminum housing, they operate from 200 to 1100 nm. Specifications are identical to the...
MKS/Newport
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Objective Lenses Olympus Europa Holding GmbH has released its MicroProbe Objective (MPO) lenses for studying the internal biology of living organisms. The two new water-immersion lenses, the 27×...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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L-Mount Fiber-Coupled Diode Laser A new version of the L-mount fiber-coupled diode laser module has been introduced by LIMO Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH. With its 60 W of power, it delivers high output in a small fiber diameter of...
LIMO GmbH
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Forensic Glass Analyzer Craic Technologies Inc. and Laboratory Imaging sro have launched the rIQ (refractive index quantification) system for the analysis of glass trace evidence. It combines sophisticated image analysis...
CRAIC Technologies
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Scalable Matrix Optical Switch SA Photonics has introduced the compact scalable matrix optical switch (COSMOS), an all-optical switch designed for space-based communication networks. It provides the foundation for optical...
Vision Products LLC
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Power over Ethernet Cameras To simplify machine vision applications, including factory floor automation and imaging systems, Edmund Optics has announced new Power over Ethernet (PoE) Cameras. They include software that...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Broadband Visible Light Source Ocean Optics Inc.’s BluLoop compact, LED-based light source offers balanced spectral output across the visible (400 to 700 nm) range. When coupled to a miniature spectrometer, optical fibers...
Ocean Insight
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Improved 4-Axis Precision Mount Pinpoint Laser Systems is introducing an improved version of its four-axis precision mount for the Microgage laser line. It is lighter and provides finer accuracy and control. To simplify...
Pinpoint Laser Systems
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Polarized Multilaser Module Blue Sky Research is accepting orders for its new SpectraTec dual-source polarized laser module. The device integrates a precision feedback system that allows polarization-maintaining fiber to be...
Blue Sky Research
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High-Speed Camera System Photron Inc. has launched the Fastcam SA7 high-speed camera system, which uses a 1280 × 1024-pixel CMOS imaging sensor. It operates at rates of up to 3500 fps at full image resolution and...
Photron USA Inc.
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Low-Noise Microchannel Plates Photonis USA Inc. has announced a new long-life, low-noise (L3N) performance option for its microchannel plate (MCP) product line. The company says that the L3N option offers up to a 100-fold...
Photonis Technologies
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Excimer Laser for FBG Writing The new BraggStar M from Coherent Inc. is an excimer laser that delivers high pulse energy and spatial coherence for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) writing. High pulse energy is a critical advantage...
Coherent Inc.
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