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Photonics Spectra: November 2005

Photonics Spectra
November 2005

FEATURES

The Quest to Siliconize Photonics

The siliconization of electronics over the past few decades has changed the face of the world. It has not only made what was once considered supercomputer-level computing readily available to almost anyone, it also has given us the ability to communicate through mobile phones, to document our lives with digital cameras, to enjoy feature films in which every frame is computer-generated, and to...

Have Silicon Lasers Come of Age?

Compound semiconductors have long been the workhorse for light generation and amplification in optoelectronic devices, whereas silicon has been the de facto standard for electronic integrated...

Silicon Lasers Poised for Multiple Applications

It traditionally has been considered impossible to make a laser from silicon because it is an indirect bandgap semiconductor. Using a silicon waveguide fabricated with standard CMOS technology, Intel...

Toward Your Very Own Genome

The cost of sequencing an individual’s genome today is at least $10 million, which is much too high to allow studies of the genetic basis for disease or to make genomic sequencing part of standard...

The Merits of Various Types of CCDs for Spectroscopy Applications

Recent developments in CCD detectors for spectroscopy have produced a bewildering range of options, from the standard, front-illuminated CCD with its moderate quantum efficiency and limited...

Bigger Is Not Always Better in Optical Coating Production

In the world of optical thin films, exciting challenges to production are rapidly emerging. Digital imaging and high-definition projection television are becoming common, redefining the demand for...

Motion Application Mistakes ... and How to Avoid Making Them

Growing concurrently with the discovery and development of nanophotonic devices, silicon lasers, microelectromechanical systems technology and ultrafast techniques is the need to incorporate...

Hybrid LEDs Offer Full-Color Emission

Using the down-conversion of ultraviolet radiation by polyfluorene materials, a team of scientists at Imperial College London and at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK, has generated blue,...

Electrochemical Display Switches Between Emissive, Reflective Modes

A display technology demonstrated at the Chinese University of Hong Kong promises to combine the benefits of organic LED and liquid crystal devices by operating in both emissive and reflective...

UV LEDs Excite Biological Fluorophores Researchers at the Institute of Materials Science and Applied Research at Vilnius University in Lithuania have used deep-ultraviolet LEDs to perform frequency domain fluorescence measurements for the...

Single Molecules Tell Two Tales A team of scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., has shown that, with the right photonic equipment, a molecule can tell two versions of the same story at once. The group,...

Femtosecond Laser Used for ZnO Nanowire Synthesis

A laser-assisted nanowire growth process reported by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., employs a high-power femtosecond source to reduce the formation of...

Heat-Transfer Fluids Cut Cost of Quantum Dots Quantum dots may be tiny, but they are hugely important for their optoelectronic properties. A drawback, however, is that they typically cost thousands of dollars per gram. Approximately 90...

Rapid Quantum Dot Synthesis Suggests Biomedical, Optoelectronic Uses

Scientists at State University of New York at Buffalo have developed rapid, single-pot methods for the chemical synthesis of InP and PbSe quantum dots. The work promises to have an effect on the...

‘Nano3 Photonics’ Demonstrated with Single Gallium Nanoparticle Photonic devices are coming in smaller and smaller packages, giving rise to a demand for nanoscale components. To that end, investigators at the University of Southampton in the UK are working on an...

Nanoscale Belts Have Display Applications

Researchers at National Taiwan University and at Academia Sinica, both in Taipei, have come up with the latest nanofashion accessory: a nanobelt. Built of CdSe, it is strongly photoluminescent, has a...

Fluorescence Lifetime Microscope Offers Picosecond Resolution

Scientists at Riken research institute in Wako, Japan, have developed a fluorescence lifetime imaging microscope that incorporates a Kerr cell to offer picosecond temporal and micrometer spatial...

TECH PULSE

Erbium Fiber Laser Generate Supercontinuum

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have demonstrated a compact, self-contained supercontinuum laser based on the addition of a length of highly nonlinear dispersion-shifted fiber inside the resonator of an erbium-doped fiber ring laser. The laser’s output is continuous-wave rather than the pulsed output more common to supercontinuum sources. Because of its relative simplicity and small size,...

Intracavity Raman Laser Is Continuous-Wave

Although pulsed Raman lasers have been thoroughly investigated during the past two decades, only a few continuous-wave devices have been built. While such non-pulsed lasers would be useful in many...

Gratings Couple Optical Fibers to Silicon Photonic Devices

Advances in silicon photonics have ignited an intense interest in optical devices based on silicon (see pages 53, 62 and 68). An inherent problem with the application of this technology, however, is...

Low-Temp Fabrication of Piezoelectric Microactuators Demonstrated Scientists at Pennsylvania State University in University Park have produced flextensional microactuators the width of a human hair using a low-temperature bonding process. The devices feature a...

Probe Array Patterns and Images Nanoscale Features

As reported in the October issue of Nano Letters, researchers at the cat Urbana-Champaign have designed and fabricated a multifunctional probe array for direct chemical pattern generation and...

LIGHT SPEED

US Commerce Report Finds German Optics Strong A report released by the US Department of Commerce paints a rosy picture of optics in Germany. Optical sales, for example, were valued at close to €37.5 billion in 2004. Approximately 16 percent of...

OSHA and LIA Ally for Laser Safety The Washington-based Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Laser Institute of America of Orlando, Fla., have joined forces to provide access to safety and health training to those...

Predictions Made for Fiber Optic Sensor Industry Global revenues for fiber optic sensors are projected to rise to $304.3 million in 2006, from a current estimate of $288.1 million, according to a report from Business Communications Co. Inc. of...

Photonics Recognized in Transportation Bill The Optical Society of America has noted that the US Congress and the Bush administration have recognized the importance of optics and photonics to transportation needs. On Aug. 10, the president...

Study Shows Laser Shipments Sound Following the release of a report by the Laser Systems Product Group of the Association for Manufacturing Technology in McLean, Va., Dave Plourde, chairman of the association and vice president of...

Pirelli Subsidiary Launched Pirelli Broadband Solutions SpA, a company within the Pirelli Group of Milan, Italy, was officially launched at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) in September. The company...

Redlake Cameras Hit the Road Redlake MASD LLC of San Diego has entered into an agreement with General Motors Corp. of Detroit to provide several models of its high-speed cameras for vehicle crash testing. To comply with...

Ocean Optics Appoints Representatives in Europe Ocean Optics Inc. of Dunedin, Fla., has chosen Kutay Laboratory Equipment of Istanbul, Turkey, and LAO Industrial Systems of Prague, Czech Republic, as European distributors. Kutay, with five offices...

Growth Forecast for FO Test Equipment Markets Revenues for fiber optic test equipment markets totaled $610 million in 2004 and are expected to reach $880 million in 2011, according to research analysis conducted by Frost & Sullivan. The...

Universities Forge Agreement for Optical Sciences Courses In a collaborative agreement between the institutions, the University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences in Tucson will offer distance learning classes to students at China’s Changchun...

Melles Griot Upgrades Equipment, Revamps Catalog Sales In Rochester, N.Y., Melles Griot Optics Group, a provider of optical components and coatings to OEMs, has put into use a subaperture stitching interferometer from QED Technologies Inc. Working in...

Micro-Photon-Devices Selects 3 Agents A supplier of solid-state photon-counting detector modules, Micro-Photon-Devices of Bolzano, Italy, has entered into exclusive distribution agreements with PicoQuant GmbH of Berlin, Optoelectronic...

Phasebridge Wins Contract from US Navy Phasebridge Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., has received a contract from EDO Corp. to develop and manufacture integrated fiber optic transmitters and receivers for the AN/ALR-95 system on the P-3C maritime...

Obzerv Sells Surveillance System to French Army Based in Quebec City, Obzerv Technologies Inc. will supply a laser-range-gated night-vision surveillance system under a contract from the French army’s Parisian Expertise Center. The ATV-2000i...

Direct Global Power Creates Subsidiary Direct Global Power Inc. of Niskayuna, N.Y., has formed a subsidiary, Prism Solar Technologies Inc., to commercialize its patented holographic-based photovoltaic module technology. The entity was...

Universal Display Garners Contract for LEDs Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., a developer of organic LED technology for displays, lighting and other optoelectonic products, has been awarded a nine-month, $98,894 Small Business Innovation...

Feinfocus and Innov-X Systems Collaborate Feinfocus GmbH, a business unit of Comet North America Inc. based in Garbsen, Germany, and Innov-X Systems of Woburn, Mass., have formed an alliance to offer advanced technology for analysis of the...

Purex Opens Office in North America Purex International Ltd. of Rotherham, UK, has opened an office in Gurnee, Ill., to support its customers in the US, Mexico and Canada. Along with a sales and support team, the facility will house a...

Optical Society of America Bestows Honors on 15 The Washington-based Optical Society of America has announced the recipients of 15 of its most prestigious awards. Selected for their vision, dedication and inventiveness, the 2005 honorees are...

IPG Photonics Sells System to US Navy IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., will supply a 10-kW continuous-wave ytterbium fiber laser system under a commercial procurement contract awarded by the US Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane,...

Continuum Photonics, Polatis Agree to Merge Continuum Photonics Inc. of Billerica, Mass., and Polatis Ltd. of Cambridge, UK, finalized their merger in September. They will combine their personnel and product lines to create a single business,...

Companies Collaborate for Imaging Measurement Hinds Instruments Inc. of Hillsboro, Ore., a developer of birefringence measurement tools, and Cambridge Research & Instrumentation Inc., a supplier of liquid crystal-based imaging products, have...

Roper Scientific Opens Life Sciences Division In Germany, Roper Scientific GmbH of Ottobrunn has opened a life sciences division in Göttingen to provide sales, service and application support in Germany and other European countries for...

Micron Technology Expands in Asia Memory and image sensor provider Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, has enlarged its Micron Semiconductor Asia PTE Ltd. plant in Singapore by 40 percent. The 264,778-sq-ft facility expansion...

Companies Join Forces for Eye-Tracking Applied Science Laboratories of Bedford, Mass., and Mindware Technologies Ltd. of Gahanna, Ohio, have partnered to combine Applied Science’s Mobile Eye wearable eye-tracking system with MindWare’s...

DOD Renews Funding to Princeton Lightwave Princeton Lightwave Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., has received additional funding from the US Department of Defense’s High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office to further develop scalable eye-safe...

Companies Partner for Mini Technology New Scale Technologies Inc. of Victor, and Infotonics Technology Center Inc. of Canandaigua, both in New York, have partnered to produce prototypes of miniaturized products. The companies will work...

Metrology Resource Opens in Detroit Metrology Resource Co., vision system products, turnkey installation and support for a broad range of sensors, including surface scanners and single-point sensors. Besides its own brand, the company...

JAI Pulnix Relocates to Larger Quarters JAI Pulnix Inc., a subsidiary of JAI A·S of Copenhagen, Denmark, has moved to a new facility in San Jose, Calif. The larger, refurbished plant includes a Class 1000 cleanroom and 14,000 sq ft of...

Ondax Wins Multiline Filter Contract To develop and produce multiline rejection filters, Ondax Inc. of Monrovia, Calif., has received a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Science Foundation of Arlington,...

Ortec Signs Agreement for Radiation Detection Technology Based in Oak Ridge, Tenn., Ortec Products Group of Ametek Advanced Measurement Technology has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore National...

Intopii and Cognex Cooperate for Surface Inspection Intopii Oy of Oulu, Finland, has agreed to work with Cognex Corp. to develop analysis and classification tools for the Natick, Mass., company’s SmartView surface-inspection system. The addition of...

JDSU to Acquire Agility Communications In California, JDSU of San Jose has agreed to purchase Agility Communications Inc., a Santa Barbara-based provider of widely tunable laser products for optical networks. The combined company expects...

Nozomi Photonics Appoints European Agent Nozomi Photonics of San Jose, Calif., and Kawasaki City, Japan, has selected Photline Technologies to distribute its high-speed optical switches in Europe. Based in Besançon, France, Photline...

Isra Vision Wins Order for Inspection Systems Isra Vision Systems AG of Darmstadt, Germany, has received a follow-on order for optical inspection systems from beverage can manufacturer Ball Corp. of Broomfield, Colo. The contract for the Can...

Sabeus Secures Aragon Technologies In California, acoustic sensing and telecommunications subsystems supplier Sabeus Inc. of Calabasas has purchased Aragon Technologies Inc. of Van Nuys. The acquired company, founded in 2002, has...

ACCENT ON APPLICATIONS

Camera System Makes Tennis Calls

At the US Open in 2004, Serena Williams lost a tennis match in which the chair umpire ruled that her return had landed out of bounds. Television replays showed that the umpire’s call was incorrect. Some understandably declared the bad call a travesty, but officiating errors are to be expected. After all, with tennis balls moving at up to 150 mph, they can cross the court in a fraction of a...

Looking at Clouds from Both Sides Now

Clouds, as Joni Mitchell sang, get in the way. They block incoming sunlight and outgoing radiation, playing key roles in weather and in the transfer of heat in the atmosphere. They also influence...

Photonics Inspects Space Shuttle

Before starting out on a long trip, travelers examine their vehicle to make sure there will be no problems, particularly important when the mode of transportation is as complex as the space shuttle...

PRESSTIME BULLETIN

Micron-Scale Modulator Is Based on Silicon In the Oct. 27 issue of Nature, scientists at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., report the operation of a micron-scale optical modulator that is compatible with silicon CMOS fabrication techniques. The result is an important step in the effort to bring photonics functionality into the world of silicon electronics. Although silicon-based modulators have been demonstrated before, earlier...

Integrated Electro-Optic Modulators/Nanowire Lasers Demonstrated In the Oct. 10 issue of Applied Physics Letters, scientists at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., report the integration of electro-optic modulators with lasers based on crystalline nanowires....

High-Contrast Organic LED Design Targets Displays Researchers at National Taiwan University in Taipei and at Industrial Technology Research Institute’s Electronics Research and Service Organization in Hsin-chu, Taiwan, have demonstrated an organic...

LIGHTER SIDE

Fleece Doctors Sheep fleece is often marred by thorns, seeds, burrs and other vegetative matter that must be cleaned out before the wool can be used. Traditional methods of combing or using acids to remove the debris can damage the fiber or result in a substantial loss of wool. Researchers at A.N. Kosygin Moscow State Textile University have come up with a very promising cleaning technique. After washing the...

Power Accessories

For many, the cell phone has become as much a fashion statement as a communication device, and there is a large market for decorative covers and carrying cases. But the truly techie fashionista might...

Toad Trapper

Ultraviolet lights — similar to the “black” lights used in discotheques — may prove a fatal attraction for cane toads (Bufo marinus). The pesky amphibians were introduced into Australia in 1935...

INDUSTRY EVENTS

Power Accessories

For many, the cell phone has become as much a fashion statement as a communication device, and there is a large market for decorative covers and carrying cases. But the truly techie fashionista might get a bigger charge out of new accessories that are not just for looks, but also for staying connected. Doctoral student Joe Hynek and colleagues at Iowa State University in Ames have used...

PRODUCTS

MAGNETIC FIELD CANCELLATION

Technical Manufacturing Corp. (TMC) is offering a dynamic, continuously monitoring magnetic field cancellation system that compensates for the interference that affects the performance of scanning...

LARGE-FORMAT CAMERA LENSES

Edmund Optics Inc. has designed and manufactured large-format lenses for use in line- and area-scan cameras. They are compatible with 12k-pixel cameras and produce space resolution of up to 100 line...

Edmund Optics Inc.

TRACE GAS MEASUREMENT

Based on cavity ringdown spectroscopy technology, the ESP-1000 unveiled by Picarro Inc. is an ultrasensitive instrument for the measurement of trace gas. Applications include semiconductor...

FIBER-COUPLED LASER DIODE SYSTEMS

For plastic welding, soldering and microheat applications, Dilas Diodenlaser GmbH has launched a series of fiber-coupled laser diode systems with a 400-µm core and a 0.22 NA. Available in 100-, 200-...

DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH

NANOPOSITIONING STAGES

The P-628 series manufactured by PI (Physik Instrumente) LP comprises compact, piezo-driven, closed-loop nanopositioning stages that, via their friction-free and stiff flexure system and...

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics

LASER MEASUREMENT

The LT-9000 series laser confocal displacement meters from Keyence Corp. of America perform accurate 0.01-µm thickness measurements on transparent objects via a single sensor head, even when the...

VIDEOSCOPES

Titan Tool Supply Inc. has introduced its V series portable videoscopes for remote visual inspection. They feature a CCD solid-state camera and a metal-halide lamp to provide high-resolution images...

Titan Tool Supply Inc.

OPTICAL DESIGN Zemax Development Corp. has announced that its optical system design software now supports up to eight CPUs per machine for use on the most advanced computing workstations. Multithreading -- tracing...

Zemax, Optical Product Design Software

SPECTROGRAPHY SOFTWARE

Verity Instruments Inc. offers version 4.11 of its SpectraView software for use with the SD1024D series spectrographs. The Spectral Viewer feature has two windows that allow the user to view trend...

Verity Instruments Inc.

STEREOMICROSCOPE

The Stereo Discovery V.12 stereomicroscope has been unveiled by Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc. A new optical design provides up to 20% more image information and produces high-contrast, high-resolution...

Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC

LASER SCANNING Scanlab AG has introduced varioScan 40Flex, a laser scanning system that combines high performance for positioning the laser focus along the optical axis with an additional motorized lens for...

TEST PATTERN GENERATOR

The CLS-211 Camera Link simulator from Vivid Engineering generates video test patterns for development, test, integration and field service applications that require base, full or medium Camera Link...

Vivid Engineering

OPTICAL PROFILER MODULE

The Wyko NT series of optical profilers has been extended by Veeco Instruments Inc. with its Through Transmissive Media (TTM) module, which permits high-resolution, noncontact measurement of samples...

Veeco Instruments Inc.

MEASUREMENT HEAD The RLD10 differential measurement head, used with Renishaw plc’s RLE system, is a fiber-optic-launched laser interferometer encoder for precision motion applications in vacuum and other...

Renishaw PLC, Spectroscopy Products Div.

FTIR PHOTODETECTOR

Vigo System SA has announced the PCI-2TE-13, a photodetector suitable for FTIR applications. The apparatus features a spectral bandwidth of 1 to 13 µm, a broad linear output range and a built-in...

LINEAR STAGES Owis GmbH has expanded its Limes series with the introduction of the Limes 60 and 80 highly precise linear stages. Limes 60 is 70 mm wide, and Limes 80, 90 mm wide. A bellows cover protects the...

LASER AMPLIFIER

Toptica Photonics AG has introduced BoosTa,an optical diode laser module that provides amplification of near-diffraction-limited laser beams without losses in spectral or spatial quality. Operating...

Toptica Photonics AG

PRINT INSPECTION

PQEye from the Value Engineering Alliance (VEA) is a machine-vision instrument for inspecting print quality. Measuring 50 × 50 × 170 mm, including the lens, the device is suitable for narrow web...

Value Engineering Alliance

SPECTROMETER SYSTEM

The CompactSpec II from tec5USA Inc. is a UV/VIS/NIR spectrometer system suitable for such demanding process applications as chemometrics, as well as for color, concentration and film-thickness...

BROADBAND SPECTROMETER StellarNet Inc. has released the EPP2000-UVN-SR,a broadband spectrometer that operates in the 200- to 1100-nm range and that can be calibrated for precision measurement of absolute and low-level...

StellarNet Inc.

FLUORESCENCE FILTER SETS

Three BrightLine multiband “Pinkel” optical filter sets optimized for real-time analysis of living cells labeled with multiple fluorescent proteins have been introduced by Semrock Inc. The...

IDEX Health & Science - Semrock Optical Filters

THREE-AXIS SYSTEMS

Raylase AG has redesigned its Axialscan three-axis systems to include the RLT-19 linear translator to increase processing speed by more than 60%. Speeds of more than 16 m/s in a 500 × 500-mm field...

INFRARED CAMERA

XenICs has released the XS-FPA, a robust, easy-to-use digital IR camera that produces 14-bit images at a frame rate of 60 Hz. The device covers the 0.9- to 1.7-µm spectral range using an array of 320...

LASER DIODE MODULE The LDM405D.100 from Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH is a single-mode, 405-nm, TE-cooled laser diode module with a round beam profile. It achieves modulation times of 500 MHz digital and up to...

Omicron-Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH

TELECENTRIC LENSES

Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG has developed double-sided telecentric lenses for line and matrix cameras. Telecentricity on both sides of the lens softens the edge response symmetrically during...

BEAM STABILIZATION MRC Systems GmbH has developed the Dynamic model fast laser beam positioning system that automatically adjusts the beam to a defined direction and stabilizes its position in real time, compensating...

MRC Systems GmbH

VISIBLE RED LASER

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH has introduced the SPL CG65, a 650-nm visible red laser designed for CW operation, with a lateral stripe width of 100 µm and an optical output of 500 mW. Its typical...

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH

MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE MVTec Software GmbH has released version 7.1 of its Halcon machine vision software, which runs on the Professional ×64 edition ofMicrosoft Windows XP. The algorithms can be executed faster using the...

MVTec Software GmbH

C-MOUNT LENSES

The Cinegon CNG 1.9/10 and CNG 1.8/16 unveiled by Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH are C-mount lenses for use in machine vision applications. They feature a 16-mm image circle, and vision system...

Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, Industrial Solutions

VIDEO CAMERA Offered by Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc., the Hyper Vision HPV-1 CCD video camera can record 312 × 260-pixel-resolution images at rates from 30 to 1 million frames per second. Up to 100 10-bit...

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc.

HIGH HEAT LOAD

A high-heat-load package is being offered by nLightCorp. for its high-brightness, single-emitter, multimode diode lasers, which range in power from 0.5 to 5 W and in wavelengths from 635 to 980 nm....

HANDHELD MICROSCOPE

The Amp Netconnect division of Tyco Electronics has added a handheld fiber optic microscope to its product line. The ~7-in.-long device weighs <0.5 lb and offers 2003 magnification, a 500-µm field...

Tyco Electronics, Communications & Industrial Solutions

NANOPOSITIONING STAGES

The nanoSX nanopositioning stages have been unveiled by piezosystem jena GmbH. They are 10 mm tall and have a free center hole of 12.5 mm and outside dimensions of 60 × 60 mm. Based on the...

piezosystem jena GmbH

IMAGING SOFTWARE

Ophir Optronics Inc. has released software version 1.10 for its BeamStar FX series FireWire beam profilers. Upgrades include report generation, measurement along major/minor axes instead of X and Y,...

MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement

EPOXY ADHESIVE Master Bond Inc. has announced EP30, a two-component epoxy for high-performance bonding applications. The low-viscosity adhesive provides high bonding strength even when cured at ambient...

Master Bond Inc.

GALVANOMETER

The QuantumScan-10 (QS-10) launched by Nutfield Technology Inc. is a galvanometer that delivers state-of-the-art scanning speed and accuracy in a compact package. The device, for use with mirrors...

FARO Technologies Inc., Photonics

MICROSCOPY SOFTWARE

PixeLink has unveiled its PixeLink Capture Standard Edition software application for use with microscopes and the company’s digital cameras. Features include fast live preview of image data from the...

RAY TRACING The OpenRT real-time, comprehensive ray tracing device manufactured by inTrace GmbH is offered by Mercury Computer Systems Inc. The technology is a 3-D rendering technique that is used to produce...

Mercury Systems Inc.

Optek Technology has developed an infrared surface-mount LED in a 0805 chip package. The OP200 is a GaAlAs device that is RoHS-compliant and compatible with high-speed automated placement systems....

Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control

VUV, EUV MONOCHROMATOR The model 225 1-m monochromator from McPherson Inc. performs rapid data collection and simplified spectral analysis, and features a built-in calibration port. Suitable for experimental physics...

GREEN LASER

Released by Miyachi Unitek Corp., the LW2AG is a visible-light-pulsed Nd:YAG welding laser for applications based on highly reflective materials such as gold, copper or copper alloys. Its 532-nm...

AMADA WELD TECH Inc.

MEMS CHARACTERIZATION The Environmental MEMS Chamber released by MicroPhotonics Inc. allows users to control environmental conditions while performing in-plane and out-of-plane stroboscopic interferometric microscopy....

Micro Photonics Inc.

TEST LIGHTS

For testing of optodetectors and CCD and CMOS image sensors, opsira GmbH offers customized test and control illumination sources. The devices’ 12-bit drive enables an arbitrarily precise setting of...

DIGITAL MICROSCOPE Leica Microsystems AG has introduced the DMI5000 M inverted digital microscope, which brings intelligent automation to applications such as quality control inspections in industry and materials...

Leica Microsystems AG, Microscopy Div.

FLIP-CHIP MATERIAL Hysol FP4548FC is a high-purity liquid epoxy encapsulant material from Henkel Corp.’s Electronics Div. that is designed as an underfill for flip-chip devices that require crack and fracture...

Henkel Adhesives

SOFTWARE TOOL KIT

Matrox Imaging has released a new version of its Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) software development tool kit for machine vision, medical imaging and image analysis applications. Running on Microsoft...

ANGULAR POSITIONER DTI-NanoTech, a division of Discovery Technology International (DTI) LLLP, has launched RoboMate, a motorized positioning system that provides rotational and linear motion. With the device, a tool’s...

DTI Nanotech (See Discovery Technology International)

POWER SUPPLIES

M.A.P.S. modular power supplies from Kurt J. Lesker Co. are used for heating and evaporation in a vacuum environment. Model HTR is for substrate heating with quartz lamps or with custom elements such...

Kurt J. Lesker Co.

DIODE LASERS

The Lepton IV series TE-cooled, turnkey, diffraction-limited diode lasers introduced by Micro Laser Systems Inc. operate from 375 to 1550 nm at power levels from 3 to 150 mW. Output is a 4-mm...

Micro Laser Systems Inc.

LENS DESIGN SOFTWARE

Oslo 6.3.3 has been released by Lambda Research Corp. and is available on Windows and Linux platforms, including RedHat 8.0 and SUSE 9.1. Enhancements in this version of the lens design software...

Lambda Research Corporation

MICROSPECTROMETERS Headwall Photonics has launched a family of compact microspectrometers. The Nanospec VIS covers the 350- to 1000-nm range; Nanospec NIR, 900 to 1700 nm; and Nanospec SWIR, 1600 to 2500 nm. All...

Headwall Photonics Inc.

LINEAR MOTORS

With a proprietary manufacturing process and laminated iron-core design, the BLMFS5 flat linear motors from Aerotech Inc. provide 25% more power than other models of a similar size. The moving...

UV SPOTLIGHTS

Hamamatsu Corp. has introduced the L9566 LC8 Lightning cure series, RS-232-controlled UV spotlight sources that include a 200-W Hg-Xe lamp that outputs 3500 mW/cm2 at 365 nm. The devices have a...

Hamamatsu Corporation

PICOSECOND LASER A diode-pumped Nd:YV04 picosecond laser, the Staccato from Lumera Laser GmbH provides 10 W of output at 1064, pulse energy up to 300 µJ, beam quality of M2<1.5 and up to 100-kHz repetition...

Coherent Kaiserslautern GmbH

CCD IMAGE SENSOR A 4-megapixel, full-frame CCD monochrome image sensor for industrial and medical applications has been released by Dalsa Corp. The FTF2020M is a TrueFrame image sensor with 12-µm-square pixels. It...

Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components

OBJECTIVE LENSES

The Asio microscopic objective lenses produced by Janos Technology Inc. support imagers with a standardized back-working distance, stop location and f number for midwave infrared systems. The lenses...

Janos Technology LLC

DETECTOR LAMPS

Available from Andrews Glass Co. are photoionization detector lamps for laboratory instruments used to analyze and monitor samples for volatile organics, for field monitoring of air and soil, and for...

Andrews Glass Co. Inc.

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY The EZ-Raman spectroscopy systems from Enwave Optronics Inc. are fully integrated, compact and portable devices suitable for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and other academic, research and...

EnWave Optronics Inc.

PATTERN GENERATOR

Holo-Or Ltd. has enhanced its Multi Spot series with the introduction of a 9 × 9 beam pattern generator for 1064-nm lasers. The separation angle between the beams is 0.25°, projecting the 81 beams in...

IR FURNACES The CF and CDF series infrared firing and drying/firing furnaces manufactured by Despatch Industries are ergonomically designed for use in semiconductor, hybrid microelectronics, electronic materials...

ITW EAE - Despatch

The Avia 355-20 manufactured by Coherent Inc. is an all-solid-state Q-switched laser that offers 20 W of 355-nm UV output at 100kHz for micromachining applications. The frequency-tripled vanadate...

NANOPOSITIONING STAGE Dynamic Structures and Materials (DSM) LLC has introduced the CZSA-1000 flexure-guided nanopositioning Z-stage for scanning, metrology, inspection and similar applications. The 25 × 62.5 × 125-mm...

Dynamic Structures & Materials LLC (DSM)

HIGH-POWER LED The XLamp3 7090 high-power LEDs have been unveiled by Cree Inc. in a full range of colors. The white version of the 3-W, 700 mA devices produces average luminous flux of 85 lm and maximum of more...

PIV LASER SYSTEM Big Sky Laser Technologies has launched a dual-pulsed Nd:YAG laser system for use in particle image velocimetry (PIV). The Ultra PIV 180 outputs two collinear 180-mJ pulses at 532 nm, up to 15 Hz....

Keopsys by Lumibird

FIBER LASERS

Koheras A/S has introduced rugged OEM versions of its distributed-feedback fiber lasers. The Boostik E15, C15 and Y10 produce up to 2 W of CW optical output and are packaged in a carbon-shielded...

NKT Photonics A/S

REPLACEMENT LENSES Archer OpTx has announced that it is offering Kodak replacement lenses. The company has engineered the designs of the Kodak A414, A365, A375, A390 and A397 models for its high-precision molding...

Archer OpTx Inc.

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