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Photonics Spectra: October 2010

Photonics Spectra
 October 2010


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On the Road with Junior: A tale of optics and driverless cars Once accessible only to the likes of David Hasselhoff and Batman, autonomous driving is now finding its way into a range of consumer vehicles. Here, in following a car named Junior and its various...
Confirming Optical System Performance In today’s global economy, optical components and systems are purchased from sources around the world, so the need for performing incoming inspection rapidly and efficiently has never been...
Diode-Pumped Solid-State UV Lasers Improve LED Sapphire Wafer Scribing The green movement, energy conservation efforts and global warming headlines have made the world aware of the need for more energy-efficient lighting alternatives. The range of applications for...
Specialty Optical Fibers for Harsh Environments Fiber optic sensing is one of the fastest developing technologies today, and fiber sensors have seen increased acceptance and widespread use in many commercial applications. These include structural...
Photonics Clusters: You get what you give By joining a regional organization of like-minded entities – and, more importantly, by participating in their activities – you will increase your standing as a technology company,...
CMOS X-ray Imaging Shores Up Oil and Gas Operations Current events have spotlighted the deep-sea oil and natural gas industry and have drawn attention to the importance of nondestructive testing (NDT) of critical oil and gas field equipment. For many...
EDITORIAL
Look, Ma! No hands! I watch in amazement as the woman in the television commercial pushes a button on her dashboard and sits back, gleeful, while her car parks all by itself. And not a simple diagonal parking job, mind you, but the hair-raising parallel kind. The kind we sweated over in driver’s ed. It looks as if parallel parking, the motorist’s right of passage, will soon take its place in the museum...
TECH PULSE
Beam control system to help laser weapon protect soldiers The High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator is continuing on track to become the centerpiece of the US Army’s laser-based defense capabilities. The project, which includes components from...
Terahertz detection at a distance When it comes to safe screening and detection, terahertz imaging offers considerable advantages but one major drawback. Terahertz waves occupy a large segment of the electromagnetic spectrum between...
Laser breakthrough could soon enable 1-TB optical storage Numerous research labs are looking for ways to increase the amount of information one can store on a CD-ROM or related optical disc, but the equipment needed to push past the boundaries of Blu-ray...
A better limiter for laser light Fifty years after the birth of the laser, there may be better protection against the light fantastic, reports a team of researchers. They have found that nanographene, a form of carbon that comes in...
Controlling a deformable mirror with light Adaptive optics are likely to get a boost through new technology using light instead of electricity to control a deformable mirror (DM) that comes with a continuous membrane rather than segmented...
A notch above for single nanoparticle detection Working in the field of single nanoparticle detection, researchers have demonstrated strong optical coupling between an on-chip notched microring resonator and a nanoparticle in the notch....
LIGHT SPEED
HB-LED driver integrated circuits: High rise The global consumption value of high-brightness (HB) LED driver integrated circuits in selected lighting applications is expected to rise to $3.88 billion in 2016, up from $891.62 million in 2009,...
Software Deployment Software editor Optis has announced that the US Air Force Research Laboratory at Brooks City-Base in San Antonio has chosen its light and color simulation software, OptisWorks, to simulate laser...
Supplier Award EOSP, the Singapore branch of optical components provider Edmund Optics Inc. of Barrington, N.J., has received the Supplier Excellence Award for Optics Commodities from Life Technologies of Carlsbad,...
Photonics Cluster Ten European silicon photonics research teams have formed the European Silicon Photonics Cluster, aimed at speeding the transfer of knowledge and technology to the European electronics industry. The...
Delivery Milestone High-performance imaging sensors manufacturer e2v technologies plc of Essex, UK, has delivered more than 150 CCD imaging sensors for the European Space Agency’s galaxy mapping mission, Gaia....
Manufacturing Facility Opens In North Sutton, N.H., Labsphere Inc. has expanded its presence in Asia with the opening of a sales and service facility in Shanghai, China. Operating under the name Shanghai Lanfei Optical Equipment...
New Operations Ahrensburg, Germany-based Allied Vision Technologies has announced that its new subsidiary, Allied Vision Technologies Asia Pte. Ltd., began operations July 1, 2010. Incorporated in Singapore in...
MEMS Inspection Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Flanders, N.J., a provider of process characterization equipment and software for wafer fabs and advanced packaging facilities, has announced that Fraunhofer Institute...
$23.8M ARC Funding CUDOS – the Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems – has secured major funding for the next seven years. Totaling $33 million AUD, including $23.8...
Supplier Appointment The digital imaging business unit of Jenoptik Optical Systems GmbH has received the Preferred Supplier Award from Leica Camera AG of Solms, Germany. Appointed preferred supplier, Jenoptik received...
Spot Curing IRphotonics of Hamden, Conn., an infrared-based materials and systems manufacturer, announced that its iCure spot curing system has completed qualification and production acceptance with an...
Laser Positioning Anniversary Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Scanlab AG of Puchheim, Germany, has grown over the past two decades from a small alternative to the monopolists of that era into a laser positioning and deflection...
Circular VCSEL VI Systems GmbH of Berlin has released the first circular chip arrays of its vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) designed for wire- and flip-chip bonding. With seven channels for data...
Company Acquisition In Denmark, Foss A/S of Hillerød has become the main shareholder in 6423%%Ibsen Photonics A/S of Farum through the purchase of an additional 73 percent of shares from existing shareholders....
Lighting Company Founded The Zenaro Lighting Alliance has announced a startup, Zenaro Lighting GmbH. With headquarters in Kamp-Lintfort, Germany, the new company will develop and sell LED luminaires and systems for the...
$34 Million Contract The US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., has selected general contractor E.W. Howell of Plainview, N.Y., to construct laboratory office buildings for the...
Website Unveiled Precision optical solutions manufacturer Research Electro-Optics (REO) Inc. of Boulder, Colo., has announced a new website to provide technical reference and educational information on optics and...
Feature Film Camera High-definition (HD) camera technology provider Toshiba Imaging Systems Div. of Irvine, Calif., announced the recent use of its IK-HD1 camera as part of a rig that captures background plates for...
GREENLIGHT
Erasing carbon’s footprint with sunshine The key to rolling back climate change could be the sun, according to George Washington University researchers who have demonstrated a carbon capture process that promises to use solar power to remove carbon dioxide from the air. As a bonus, the technique could generate a profitable product. “Because the process simultaneously uses both solar thermal and solar visible, it captures and uses...
LIGHTER SIDE
Riding the waves to ready a ship for sailing If you haven’t taken your favorite old car out for a spin in several months, you might first clean it up, change the oil, check the brakes and top off the coolant to assure a pleasant ride. If you are taking the world’s last remaining wooden whaling ship out for a sail for the first time in decades, you’ll want to go over it with a fine-tooth comb. The dry-docked whaling ship...
PRODUCTS
LED Measurement Labsphere Inc.’s TOCS (thermal/optical/electrical) LED measurement systems conform to IESNA LM-79 and LM-80 recommendations for LED characterization. To more easily meet new reporting...
Labsphere Inc.
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CMOS Sensor IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH has unveiled high-speed cameras with a 1.3-megapixel global shutter CMOS sensor. The sensor, developed by e2v technologies, operates at up to 60 fps and combines...
IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
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Positioning Stages Airex Corp. has released the P3 Series plug-and-play linear motor positioning stages with design features to handle the high-duty-cycle operations required in competitive precision manufacturing...
Airex Corp.
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LED Lamp Cree Inc. has announced the commercial availability of its new RoHS-compliant XLamp MX-3 LED, which offers enhanced uniform angular chromaticity and LED-to-LED color consistency. The flattop plastic...
Wolfspeed Inc.
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HD Cameras Optronics has added the Microcast HD Pro-Lite and Print Pro camera models to its line of full 1080-pixel high-definition (HD) digital microscope camera systems. They are designed to provide end-user...
Optronics
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LED Driver Phihong USA has unveiled the PSM090-240P LED driver, which supplies 90 W of power for use in indoor lighting applications. The power supply’s open-frame design allows for ease of integration...
Phihong USA Corp.
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Achromatic Lenses Edmund Optics is expanding its selection of TechSpec MgF2-coated achromatic lenses. Consisting of two optical components cemented together to form an achromatic doublet, the lenses include fast...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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QCL Driver For absorption spectroscopy using quantum cascade lasers (QCLs), ILX Lightwave Corp. has introduced the LDP-3832 pulsed quantum cascade laser driver that provides peak current up to 5 A with a...
Newport - ILX Lightwave, Photonics
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Air-Bearing Stages Newport Corp. has announced the SinguLYS family of single-axis air-bearing stages. The new stage and bridge configurations combine high performance with modularity, making them suitable for...
MKS/Newport
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Laser Software Ophir-Spiricon’s StarLab 2.01 laser power/energy measurement software converts a PC into a multichannel laser power/energy station. Features of the newest version of the software include...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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Integrating Sphere OptoTest Corp. has launched the S-RHIS smart remote head integrating sphere designed to accurately measure absolute power and insertion loss. It also is suitable for assessing all types of bare...
Santec California Corp.
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Microgage Receiver Pinpoint Laser Systems is introducing a new four-axis microgage receiver that provides useful information for evaluating and correcting machinery alignment problems. The 4D Microgage Receiver...
Pinpoint Laser Systems
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Light Engine OptoElectronix Inc. has unveiled its LED-based plug-and-play ULE5000 LightDisc light engine that enables luminaire manufacturers to accelerate adoption of low-power solid-state lighting for...
OptoElectronix Inc.
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Laser Diode Drivers The PPS-150 series laser diode drivers manufactured by Portable Power Systems provide up to 150 A of continuous-wave or pulsed current at various compliance voltages. The units are...
Portable Power Systems Inc.
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IR Sensors Raytek has introduced the MI3 series infrared temperature measurement sensors. They perform noncontact temperature monitoring for OEM applications and manufacturing processes. Combining a rugged IP65...
Fluke Process Instruments
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Laser Marking RMI Laser LLC has released the U-20, a 20-W diode-pumped solid-state Q-switched laser marking system for high-volume throughput. It can be used on all metals, most plastics, composites, ceramics and...
Rocky Mountain Instrument Co. (RMI)
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Bar-Code Scanners The CLV503 and CLV505 miniature bar-code scanners from Sick Inc. are barely larger than a USB plug and easily can be installed where space is limited. The CLV500 series also is easy to configure via...
SICK Inc.
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Photonic Curing Xenon Corp. has launched the Sinteron 2000 system for sintering, or annealing, conductive nanoparticles on heat-sensitive materials at low cost. Performing pulsed-light photonic curing, the system...
XENON Corporation
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Rotation Stage Intellidrives Inc.’s RTHM-174 micro rotation stages are designed to rotate optical components and small tooling in confined spaces, such as laser cavities, disk texturing machines, and...
IntelLiDrives Inc.
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Imaging Workstation Till Photonics Inc.’s iMIC-Andromeda imaging workstation combines a broad range of imaging applications. The modular approach enables integration of methods such as total internal reflection...
FEI Munich GmbH
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Quartz Lenses Universe Kogaku America has added a 12-mm lens to its quartz line, with iris and focus lock for imaging applications in the nonvisible light spectrum. Available from stock in a wide range of focal...
Universe Kogaku (America) Inc.
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Vertical Lift Stages Aerotech Inc.’s ANT130-5-V mechanical bearing linear-motor-driven wedge-style vertical lift stages provide the high resolution, accuracy and in-position stability required in nanopositioning...
Aerotech Inc.
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Optical Spectrum Analyzer Exfo Inc. has announced a significant processing speed increase for its FTB-5240S optical spectrum analyzer, which is purpose-built for fast and accurate dense wavelength-division multiplexing...
EXFO Inc.
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Polarization Microscope Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc. has introduced the Axio Lab.A1 microscope for use in polarization microscopy, student education and routine laboratory applications. This upright microscope suits...
Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC
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Laser Sensors Coherent Inc. has expanded its PowerMax-USB/RS series laser power measurement products with the addition of several new sensors. Introduced in December 2009, the power meters were the first to...
Coherent Inc.
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Imaging Software Craic Technologies Inc. has released the 64-bit version of its ImageUV imaging software package, designed to collect, analyze and process images from the company’s microscopes and...
CRAIC Technologies
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Photon Counting Pairing with PicoQuant GmbH, Laser Components IG Inc. has developed a photon counting module that can achieve a quantum efficiency >70% in the red region, and a higher quantum efficiency in the...
Laser Components USA Inc.
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Pulsed Laser System DPSS Lasers Inc.’s Titan UV series pulsed 355-nm solid-state laser systems are available from AMS Technologies AG. With up to 5 W of average power, they are typically used in applications...
DPSS Lasers Inc.
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Cold FEG A new cold field emission gun (FEG) from JEOL USA Inc. enhances the ultrahigh atomic-level resolution of the company’s JEM-ARM200F aberration-corrected scanning/scanning transmission electron...
JEOL USA Inc.
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Multimode Switch For laser-enhanced 10-Gb laser applications, Electro Standards Laboratories has announced the QuickSwitch Model 6297 optical multimode 3 (OM3) LC duplex A/offline/B switch with serial remote. The...
Electro Standards Laboratories
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CCD Sensors Hamamatsu Corp. has introduced CCD linear image sensors with an internal electronic shutter function. Designed for use in spectrometers, the S11155-2048 and S11156-2048 are back-thinned and achieve...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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Developer’s Kit Developer’s kits for New Scale Technologies Inc.’s miniature M3-F focus module are available for purchase online. Each kit includes an M3-F module for precision closed-loop lens motion,...
New Scale Technologies Inc.
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Laser Diodes Oxxius SA’s LaserBoxx series laser diode modules offer high optical performance in a driver integrated compact box. Their 40 x 40 x 100-mm size enables easy integration into existing...
Oxxius SA
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Photon Counting Vertilon Corp. has launched the PhotoniQ MCPC618, an eight-channel high-speed photon-counting system for photomultiplier tubes and silicon photomultipliers. The data acquisition system uses photon...
Vertilon Corp.
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64-Channel TDC Voxtel Inc.’s plug-and-play YVX-657 time-to-digital converter (TDC) has 64 channels and provides <35-ps time resolution per channel. Available immediately for delivery to OEM systems...
Voxtel Inc.
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Platform System Prior Scientific Inc. has introduced the ZDeck Quick Adjust Platform System for Olympus BX51WI and BX61WI microscopes. It increases productivity by allowing the user to image multiple areas of...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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Aspheric Lenses LightPath Technologies Inc. has unveiled a family of four aspheric lenses designed for laser diodes operating at 405 or 488 nm and as the primary optics for collimating blue lasers in a variety of...
LightPath Technologies Inc.
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Microchip Laser RPMC Lasers Inc. has announced a new 1920-nm microchip laser. The compact device provides 2-μJ pulse energies with <20-ns pulses at repetition rates from 1 to 50 kHz in a compact FP-2 package....
RPMC Lasers Inc.
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Mounting Brackets Pepperl+Fuchs has released the OMH-RL29-06 mounting brackets for use with its Series 28 and 29 photoelectric sensors. They provide greater alignment and positioning flexibility for faster changeover...
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
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Aspheric Lenses Research Electro-Optics (REO) Inc.’s high-performance aspheric lenses are fabricated from CaF2, ZnSe and ZnS substrates. The lenses offer a combination of benefits for applications that require...
Research Electro-Optics Inc. (REO)
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Microscopy Camera Accu-Scope Inc. has announced the second-generation 319CU, a 3.2-megapixel-resolution digital microscopy camera that builds upon the architecture of its predecessor by offering faster frame rates...
ACCU-SCOPE Inc.
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Fiber Laser Marker Miyachi Unitek Corp. has launched the LMF3500-HP, a high-power addition to its LMF family of ytterbium fiber laser markers. The device provides enhanced performance for deep metal engraving...
AMADA WELD TECH Inc.
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NIR Calibrations Now available from Perten Instruments Group, the DA 7200 NIR analysis system delivers global forage calibrations that provide a complete nutritional profile of forage quality parameters. With...
Perten Instruments AB
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3-D Sensors The Gocator 2000 series 3-D laser line inspection sensors targeted at factory automation have been unveiled by LMI Technologies Inc. The all-in-one-design instruments rapidly deliver the advantages...
LMI Technologies Inc.
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GigE Cameras Baumer’s SXG Dual GigE cameras are for machine vision applications requiring high speed and resolutions. The instruments transfer data at rates as fast as 240 MB/s and at distances of up to 100...
Baumer Ltd.
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Photodiode Family Hinds Instruments Inc. has announced a new-generation photodiode detector family, the DET-200 series. The detection systems are specifically designed for use with optical signals from DC to 1 MHz...
Hinds Instruments Inc.
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UV-VIS Spectroscopy Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has introduced the Evolution 200 series next-generation ultraviolet/visible spectrophotometers. Featuring new Insight software with Customized User Environment scripting...
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Network Diagnostics Luna Technologies has launched a new addition to its optical backscatter reflectometer product line. The OBR 4600 provides advanced diagnostics and inspection capabilities to fiber optic...
Luna Innovations Inc.
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