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Photonics Spectra - September 2007
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The Making of a Flexible Active-Matrix OLED Display
Imagine a display as thin as paper that can be rolled into a small tube, wrapped around objects such as a cell phone, dropped on the ground or even hammered and yet still function. In addition, the...
LCD Panel Market Readjusts
When consumer demand is up for large-size televisions, it would seem logical that profits for all components would be up as well. However, according to the electronics industry market analysis...
In a Disaster, Robots Go Where Humans Cannot
Disaster City, a 52-acre training facility in College Station, Texas, was the setting for a mock-disaster exercise in June. Train wrecks, collapsed buildings and piles of rubble with realistic...
Double-Pulse Format for Improved Laser Drilling
Lasers have been used to produce high-aspect-ratio holes — i.e., holes whose depth-to-diameter ratio is much greater than 10:1 — for applications that include oil galleries in engine blocks,...
Germanium Quantum Wells for High-Performance Modulators in Silicon Photonics
Silicon electronics technology dominates information processing and offers a remarkable way to make very complex systems for very little cost. Many of the waveguide passive optical components used...
Attracting More Girls to Science: Hands-on Experiences and Mentors Are Key
When Thomas M. Baer took his daughter Christina to the annual meeting of the Optical Society of America in 1997, he never realized that he would be shaping the 14-year-old’s career path. At the time,...
Chalcogenide Glass, Advanced for All-Optical Processing
To operate at high bit rates of 160 Gb/s and beyond, optical communications systems must be able to process signals entirely in the optical domain, thereby overcoming the speed limitations associated...
Tuning LEDs Is Like Mixing Paints
To get the right light for displays and other devices, you need the proper mix of red, green and blue. Now a team from MIT in Cambridge, Mass., has demonstrated that the same idea can be applied when...
Using Lithography to Enhance LED Efficiency
To increase the brightness of LEDs, the devices’ current-spreading layers can be synthesized from indium tin oxide instead of nickel and gold. Texturing the surface of the indium tin oxide layers can...
Patterning Films with Fewer Steps
A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and from Anvik Corp. of Hawthorne, N.Y., has demonstrated a fabrication technique that inscribes patterns onto thin films of...
Solar Cells, Array Films Constructed from Nanotubes
Thin-film solar cells have been fabricated from double-walled carbon nanotubes, a material that is relatively untapped in photovoltaic designs but that offers high photoconductivity, mobility and...
The Electronic Paper Chase
The growth of flat panel displays over the past decade has been a remarkable story and has enabled the proliferation of flat screens into a number of product categories. Flat panel displays are used...
Flat Panel Displays Go Green
The LCD is now the dominant flat panel display and continues to take market share from other technologies. These displays span from small units for handheld devices to large panels for wall-mounted...
Thin, Colorful Carbon Films
A research group comprising members from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, and from Peking University has found that when a thin anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) film on an aluminum substrate is coated...
Scanning Light Microscopy Uses Nonlinear Properties of KNbO3 Nanowires
Efficient second harmonic generation and wave mixing make potassium niobate (KNbO3) nanowires ideal sources of tunable, coherent light and instruments for subwavelength microscopy, according to...
Developing a Nondestructive Way to Characterize Cement Alternatives
The production of Portland cement — with which concrete is made — is responsible for about 5 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions. Among the efforts to reduce anthropogenic carbon emissions is the...
Monitoring — and Possibly Improving — Superconducting Films
Researchers at Stanford University in California have devised a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) reflectivity monitoring technique that determines simultaneously the temperature and optical...
130-W Single-Frequency Laser Tunes Between 1040 and 1085 nm
Wavelength-tunable, narrow-bandwidth lasers are indispensable tools for high-resolution spectroscopy and other scientific pursuits, such as radiation cooling and trapping of ions or atoms. Two years...
Laser Safety
LASER SAFETY FORUM
The Board of Laser Safety, an affiliate of the Laser Institute of America, has introduced an online forum for sharing information, concerns and new ideas relating to laser safety. This global channel...
LASER SAFETY CD
“Limits: Laser Safety in Industry and Research — An Interactive Training System” is an English and German language multimedia CD from Laservision GmbH & Co. KG. Consisting of nine sections as...
Tech Pulse
Nanotube Arrays Make Droplets Jump or Jiggle
Since they were first synthesized, carbon nanotubes have attracted considerable attention from the research community for, among other things, their ability to form arrays with nanoscale roughness. This property encourages the entrapment of air within the nanopores, which can give surfaces coated with the arrays an exceptionally water-repellant nature. Although researchers have tested this...
Can Lasers Help Decrease Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels?
It has been estimated that the solar power impinging on Earth in a single hour could satisfy mankind’s energy needs for more than a year. Nonetheless, solar energy today provides less than 0.1...
Superparamagnetic Nanoclusters Form Photonic Crystals
Photonic crystals hold promise in optoelectronic applications that require the manipulation of photons, as in telecommunication devices and sensors. Although a desirable photonic crystal will have a...
CO2 Laser Generates 3 kW in Cylindrically Polarized Beam
A collaboration of European scientists has recently generated what they believe is the highest power ever achieved in a radially polarized laser beam, by fitting a commercial Trumpf CO2 laser with a...
Coming Clean with a Shock
Semiconductors must be extremely clean during processing. Cleaning issues account for a majority of chip yield problems in factories, according to figures presented at an April conference in Austin,...
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Novera Optics and ADC Enter into OEM Agreement
Novera Optics Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., will distribute the PONy Express 16 in North America, Europe and South America. The access transport platforms, from ADC of Minneapolis, are based on passive optical network and dense wave division multiplexing. They allow up to 16 users to connect to an optical network simultaneously and offer each user up to 1 Gb/s of dedicated, symmetrical bandwidth....
LED Backlighting Market Grows, Thanks to Applications in Larger Displays
The market research company IMS Research forecasts that the market for semiconductors in backlighting applications (including LEDs, LED-associated driver integrated circuits and ambient light...
Companies Form Strategic Alliance
Value Engineering Alliance of Cambridge, Mass., has partnered with Lensation of Karlsruhe, Germany, to make the latter company’s lenses and optical component design services more widely available....
Zyberwear Awarded Phase I Contract
Zyberwear Inc. of Ocoee, Fla., has received a $100,000 Phase I US small business innovation research contract to develop a focal plane array for thermal infrared video imaging applications. The...
Plextronics Receives Solar Energy Funding
The US Department of Energy has awarded Plextronics Inc. of Pittsburgh up to $3 million as part of its Solar America Initiative. Over the course of 18 months, the company will use the funding to...
Arasor Signs Agreement to Acquire Alfalight
Arasor International Ltd. of Mountain View, Calif., a supplier of optical and wireless solutions, has entered into an agreement to acquire Madison, Wis.-based Alfalight Inc., a maker of high-power...
CAO Group Selects Agent
In Utah, CAO Group Inc. of West Jordan has appointed DH Marketing of Park City to represent its products locally and in Idaho and Montana. DH Marketing will handle the company’s optoelectronics and...
BAE Systems Obtains US Army Contract
BAE Systems of Nashua, N.H., has received $54 million in US Army contracts. The company will provide the military with four multiband lasers, which will replace infrared jam laser and flashlamp...
ASML Selects Cymer for EUV Light Source
In the August story on laser-derived extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) photon sources, a spokesman for semiconductor scanner maker ASML Netherlands BV in Veldhoven said that the company would someday...
Goodrich to Design Sensor for Space
An imaging sensor made by Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., will be modified for use in space. The company was awarded a contract by the US Naval Research Laboratory to adapt its electro-optic...
Alloptic, Sofab to Make Security Systems
Alloptic Inc. of Livermore, Calif., and Sofab Industries of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, have formed a partnership to provide optical communications access equipment for security applications. Gigabit...
Jenoptik Laser, Optik,Systeme Opens Office
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH of Jena, Germany, has established a research and development office in Munich, Germany, where its optical development and design engineers will work to improve the...
Microimaging Applications Group
Four imaging companies have formed the Microimaging Applications Group. The partners —Photometrics, Gatan Inc., Media Cybernetics Inc. and QImaging Corp. — all operate within the Scientific &...
DRS Receives Contract from National Guard
Parsippany, N.J.-based DRS Technologies Inc. received an $8 million contract from the US Army’s Research, Development and Engineering Command’s Acquisition Center in Maryland on behalf of the...
Photonics Industries Opens Japanese firm
Photonics Industries International Inc. of Bohemia, N.Y., has formed a wholly owned subsidiary in Tokyo. The company, Photonics Industries Japan Co. Ltd. — also called Photonics Industries Kabushiki...
Osram to Focus on OLED Lighting Solutions
Osram Opto Semiconductors of Santa Clara, Calif., will stop producing passive matrix displays based on organic LEDs at year’s end. The 270 employees working on the display manufacturing line in...
Molex Secures Polymicro Technologies
Electronic components company Molex Inc. of Lisle, Ill., has acquired Polymicro Technologies LLC, a Phoenix-based manufacturer of silica capillary tubing and specialty optical fibers, optical fiber...
Foss NIRSystems Selects Agent
To provide sales and support to its growing customer base in Western states, Foss NIRSystems Inc. of Laurel, Md., has appointed Dennis Mayfield and his Braddock Group, of San Francisco, as its...
Tessera and Alps Sign a Licensing Agreement
Tessera Technologies Inc. of San Jose and Alps Electric Co. Ltd. of Campbell, both in California, have signed a joint licensing agreement allowing Alps to mass-produce and sell wafer-level optics...
Lighthouse Technologies Opens Office in Singapore
LED screen manufacturer Lighthouse Technologies Ltd. of Hong Kong has opened an office in Singapore to provide sales, product and technical support for increasing business in India, Australia, the...
RED-C Taps JDSU
JDSU Inc. of Milpitas, Calif., will supply Red-C Optical Networks Ltd. of Chicago with optical components for incorporation into its erbium-doped fiber and Raman amplifiers, integrated subsystems and...
Photon Dynamics Buys Salvador Imaging
Photon Dynamics Inc. of San Jose, Calif., a manufacturer of flat panel display products, has acquired all of the outstanding shares of the digital camera supplier Salvador Imaging of Colorado...
CVI Laser Acquires Melles Griot
CVI Laser LLC of Albuquerque, N.M., has completed its purchase of Carlsbad, Calif.-based Melles Griot from Barloworld Scientific Ltd. of Sandton, South Africa. The company will operate under a...
Carl Zeiss SMT Moves Headquarters
Carl Zeiss SMT Inc. of Oberkochen, Germany, has moved its American headquarters from Thornwood, N.Y., to Peabody, Mass. The facility covers 53,000 sq ft and houses an application development and...
Abrisa Industrial Glass Makes Acquisition
In California, Abrisa Industrial Glass Inc. of Santa Paula, a manufacturer of flat glass components for OEMs and contract manufacturers in the electronics, lighting and optical fields, has acquired...
Advanced Photonix Receives Military Contract
A military customer has awarded a two-year, $2.6 million contract to Advanced Photonix Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich. Under the terms of the agreement, the company will supply photodetector assemblies used...
Keico Hightech, Lumidigm Sign Agreement
Lumidigm Inc. of Albuquerque, N.M., will supply fingerprint sensors to Keico Hightech Inc. of Seoul, South Korea. The latter will incorporate the sensors into its access control, and time and...
Cedip Joins R&D Group
Cedip Infrared Systems of Croissy-Beaubourg, France, has been retained as a partner in the System@tic Paris-Region competitiveness cluster to develop thermal imaging sensors. The cluster’s more than...
Corning to Expand Facility in China
Corning Inc. of New York has announced plans to expand its optical fiber manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China. The company said that the decision is based on continued growth in the Chinese...
Hamai Enters Partnership
Machine tool builder Hamai Co. Ltd. of Tokyo has formed a distribution and cobranding agreement with Lapmaster International LLC of Mount Prospect, Ill. Under the arrangement, equipment will be sold...
NET to Expand In Near Future
New Electronic Technology GmbH of Finning, Germany, will build a 7535-sq-ft addition to its headquarters. The expansion will approximately double the size of the digital camera manufacturer’s office,...
Teledyne Wins Contract for High Stare program
Teledyne Scientific & Imaging LLC, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Inc., both of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has been awarded a five-year contract for the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s High...
Laser Market Data Survey Released
The Association for Manufacturing Technology of McLean, Va., has launched its Web-based benchmarking survey of order data from North American industrial laser producers and suppliers. Covering...
Seoul Semiconductor and Avnet Sign Distribution Agreement
Seoul Semiconductor of South Korea, an LED supplier, has signed European and Asian distribution agreements with Avnet Inc.’s Electronics Marketing division of Phoenix. The division serves electronic...
Holochip Buys Liquid Lens Patents
The University of Central Florida in Orlando has signed a licensing agreement with Albuquerque, N.M.-based Holochip Corp., which gives Holochip exclusive rights to the adaptive lens patents held by...
STMicroelectronics and Varioptic Sign an Agreement
A licensing agreement has been signed between Varioptic SA, based in Lyon, France, and STMicroelectronics of Geneva, providing the latter with the use of Varioptic’s liquid lenses in its products....
Horiba Jobin Yvon Creates New Department
Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS of Longjumeau, France, has created a department offering customers laboratory supplies and services. Among the products available will be standard and custom-made samples for...
Laser 2000 to Distribute for Photonic Products
Photonic Products Ltd. of Hatfield Broad Oak, UK, and Laser 2000 GmbH of Munich, Germany, have signed an exclusive distribution agreement. Under its terms, the German manufacturer of optical...
Colibrys Appoints Japanese Distributor
Colibrys Ltd. of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, has appointed Midoriya Electric Co. Ltd. of Tokyo as the Japanese distributor of its line of microelectromechanical systems products. The Swiss company said...
DuPont to Lead Solar Cell Research
DuPont of Wilmington, Del., will manage prototype development and applications testing for the DuPont-University of Delaware Very High Efficiency Solar Cell Consortium. The group received a $12.2...
NASA Taps Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.
NASA of Washington has chosen Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., to supply the space administration with an instrument for its satellite-based Landsat Data Continuity Mission,...
Accent on Applications
Tracking Mercury as It Goes Up in Smoke
Along with visible smoke, coal-burning plants produce invisible pollutants, including elemental mercury and mercuric chloride. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted rules designed to...
Optical Technique Could Improve Forensic Information
Gained from Fingerprints
Fingerprint analysis is one of the oldest techniques used by forensic scientists and police to identify suspects. However, the method is not always reliable and gives information only about what the...
Presstime Bulletin
Scientists Produce ‘Schrödinger Cats’ from Light Waves
Erwin Schrödinger famously related the idea of a cat simultaneously dead and alive to the idea that particles behaving according to quantum physics can occupy simultaneously two opposite states. Now...
Looking Inside Baseballs for Home Run Secrets
The players themselves may not be the only factor in the ever-increasing tendency for home run records to be knocked out of the park. Recent computed tomography (CT) studies have found changes in the...
Wrinkles That Reveal Neither Wisdom Nor Angst
Scrutinizing wrinkles probably won’t tell you a person’s exact age, but as researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found, it may very accurately reflect the properties of thin...
Observing Heat Move Through Molecules
In molecular electronics, long-chain molecules bound to electrodes are used as tiny switches. However, where electrons flow, heat goes, and the manner in which heat moves at the molecular level...
Lighter Side
Virtual Investigations
Video games have come a long way since Pong. Many kids — and more than a few adults — entertain themselves for hours by battling invading aliens, pretending to be rock stars or gunning the...
Welcome to Science TV
Is photonics going Hollywood? The science of light and optics is being packaged, produced and projected onto television screens across the US. Producers hope that the segments, currently aired on...
Products
CALIBRATION SYSTEM
The XL-80 portable laser interferometer calibration system launched by Renishaw Inc. achieves linear measurement speeds to 4 m/s, produces 1-nm resolution and ±0.5-ppm accuracy, operates over a...
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IR OPTICAL COATINGS
Deposition Sciences Inc. now offers thin-film coatings that operate in the 3- to 5-μm and in the 8- to 12-μm IR spectral regions. They are designed to be durable for military, aerospace and...
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CAMERAS
GeviCam Inc. has introduced the GD series dual-tap Gigabit Ethernet cameras for industrial applications. They offer 1-Gb/s point-to-point transmission, automatic channel balance and a software...
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HIGH-POWER LASERS
EdgeWave GmbH has announced the HD401-E and HD601-E high-power Innoslab lasers with average power of 400 and 600 W, respectively. Beam profiles include circular, line-shaped 1-D top hat and 2-D top...
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LENSES
Edmund Optics Inc. has released two TechSpec fast fixed-focal-length lenses that achieve object-space resolution of better than two line pairs per millimeter and that are available in focal lengths...
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FIBER PROBE
The RMP-210 portable Raman spectrometer system has been introduced by Jasco Inc. It includes a 100-mm-focal-length holographic grating spectrometer, the RMP-100 microprobe, a small X-Y-Z stage, a...
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LASER LOCKING
Toptica Photonics AG has announced a digital feedback “controlyzer” for fast and low-noise tunable laser frequency stabilization and control circuit analyzing. The DigiLock 110 performs digital...
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OSCILLATOR
Available through RPMC Lasers Inc., Arctic Photonics Corp.’s miniature Q-switched oscillators feature the laser head and diode housed together in a high-heat-load package for increased temperature...
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WARM WHITE LEDS
Avago Technologies has introduced the HLMP-CYxx series high-brightness warm white through-hole LEDs in 5-mm round packages for use in solid-state lighting and illumination applications. They offer...
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DIGITAL CAMERAS
Imperx Inc. has announced that its Lynx line of Gigabit Ethernet cameras for machine vision applications now is fully compliant with the GenI- Cam and the GigE Vision interface standards. GigE Vision...
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CAMERA SOFTWARE
Because it integrates both a GigE Vision and IEEE-1394 interface, the pylon 1.0 driver package from Basler AG supports the company’s scout and pioneer cameras, as well as older camera families such...
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DPSS LASERS
Lasag AG has announced the DQS 200 series diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers for microdrilling and ablation of metals and ceramic materials. The DQS 200 MD5 is a 40-W nanosecond short-pulse laser...
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AREA-SCAN CAMERA
Dalsa Corp. has introduced additional features to its Falcon 4M60 area-scan camera that are designed to expand its applicability to the electronics inspection, machine vision and imaging industries....
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LIGHT SOURCE
Avantes BV has added the DH-Bal balanced deuterium/halogen light source to its AvaLight line of sources to extend the dynamic range of its AvaSpec spectrometers. The device eliminates the D-alpha...
Avantes BV
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SPECTROGRAPHS
Andor Technology has launched the Shamrock SR-500 and SR-750 spectrographs, which can be used for Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy. Proprietary software enables the combining of spectra as well as...
Andor Technology
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DIODE LASERS
Visotek Inc.’s Ultra High Brightness series fiber-coupled diode lasers operate at 792 and 976 nm and offer output powers from 50 to 75 W with a 100-μm fiber and from 250 to 350 W with a...
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IMAGE EVALUATION
DxO Labs has launched Analyzer version 3.1, an image quality evaluation tool that incorporates improvements in noise and color sensitivity assessment under low-light conditions, depth-of-focus...
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SENSORS
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc. has announced that its V18 series photoelectric sensors are available in fiber optic and background-suppression models. The visible red and Class 2 laser light sources offer...
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
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UV LASER
Coherent Inc. has released a Q-switched frequency-tripled solid-state laser that delivers >7 W of average power at 355 nm. The Avia 355-7 achieves highest average power at repetition rates near 60...
Coherent Inc.
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MOTION CONTROL
A four-axis vision-guided motion control system has been unveiled by Precise Automation Inc. The Guidance System can be placed at the point of use and is connected to motor and logic power supplies,...
Precise Automation Inc.
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SOFTWARE UPGRADE
Vertilon Corp. has upgraded its PhotoniQ software for high-speed imaging applications. Version 2.1 is compatible with existing PhotoniQ multichannel photomultiplier tube data acquisition systems and...
Vertilon Corp.
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NIR SERIAL SPECTROMETERS
Linos Photonics GmbH & Co. KG has introduced two high-end NIR serial spectometers for fully automatic measurement. The Tristan NIR-HR-U operates from 900 to 1700 nm at a 5-nm resolution, while...
Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG
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FRINGE PATTERNING
Indizen Optical Technologies has released a fringe pattern processing library called XtremeFringe. The software features fringe pattern filtering, demodulation from a single image with closed or open...
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INDUSTRIAL LASER
The Highlight series multikilowatt direct diode laser systems from Coherent Inc. can be used for cladding, heat treating, brazing and welding. The 805- and 940-nm lasers output >4 kW. The CW...
Coherent Inc.
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WHITE LEDS
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. has introduced the TLWK1100B white LED. Suitable for automotive lighting designs, LCD backlighting and panel indicators, the device delivers 1500 mcd from a...
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc.
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DIGITAL CAMERA
Point Grey Research Inc.’s Grasshopper digital cameras have 800-Mb/s IEEE-1394b digital interfaces and large-format progressive-scan Sony CCD image sensors. Available in 1.4-, 2- and 5-megapixel...
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VACUUM OPTOMECHANICS
McPherson Inc. has launched customer-specified optomechanical components and standard beam delivery accessories for ultraviolet applications requiring clean, inert purge, vacuum and ultrahigh-vacuum...
McPHERSON
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LCD SYSTEM
Apollo Display Technologies LLC has introduced kitted thin-film transistor LCD equipment. The systems include an Apollo LCD, an adapted industrial single-board computer from Ibase Technology USA, a...
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GRAPHICAL SOFTWARE
National Instruments’ LabView 8.5 graphical system design platform combines high-level design tools with low-level multicore support. Designed for test, control and embedded systems development, the...
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NIR/SWIR CAMERA
The SU-LDH digital line-scan shortwave infrared camera from SUI (Sensors Unlimited Inc.), part of Goodrich Corp., is designed for spectroscopy and machine vision applications. Suitable for optical...
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SENSOR CONTROL
A control unit for the PCS series perceptive industrial color sensors has been released by Silicann Technologies GmbH. With the PCS-Control Box, colors and parameters can be adjusted, enabling the...
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AIR-BEARING STAGE
Designed for scanning and inspection applications, the ABL1500 series linear air-bearing stage from Aerotech Inc. features subnanometer resolution and travel up to 500 mm. Suitable for heavy or...
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224-NM FILTER
Semrock Inc. has unveiled an extension to its UV filter line with ion beam sputtered filters in wavelengths below 230 nm. The company offers the RazorEdge ultrasteep long-wave pass Raman spectroscopy...
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DIGITAL CAMERAS
Baumer Optronic GmbH has extended its TX and F series digital matrix cameras to include models equipped with a 5-megapixel progressive-scan CCD sensor and FireWire or Gigabit Ethernet interface....
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LASER PUMP REFLECTORS
Labsphere’s Spectralon diffuse reflectance laser pump reflectors offer beam stability and uniformity for lamp, diode-pumped and dye lasers. Greater than 99% reflectance and near-Lambertian...
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HEATED WINDOWS
Using conductive materials, Reynard Corp. creates custom optical heated windows for keeping imaging planes or optical instrumentation windows free of moisture and fog. Available types include solid...
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CCD CAMERA
The PI-Max intensified CCD camera manufactured by Princeton Instruments Inc. uses the Gen III filmless intensifier for >50% quantum efficiency and subnanosecond gate speeds. The camera offers...
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RED LASERS
Designed for applications such as photodynamic therapy, metrology and surface inspection, the ChiliLase high-power red laser diodes have been unveiled by Modulight Inc. They operate from 635 to 690...
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JOULEMETER PROBES
Spectrum Detector Inc. has introduced a family of NIST-traceable USB-powered digital joulemeter probes featuring single- and two-channel LabView applications software for laser energy measurements...
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IMAGE SENSOR
OmniVision Technologies Inc. has launched the OV3640, a fully integrated 3-megapixel CameraChip sensor in a 1/4-in. format. Based on the 1.75-μm OmniPixel3 architecture, the device fits the...
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LASER DIODES
Mitsubishi Electric Europe BV’s ML5xxx series high-power laser diodes typically are used in stacks for diode-pumped solid-state lasers to achieve output of several thousand watts. The ML5CP8, ML5CP9...
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CCD CAMERAS
The PL-B900F series FireWire CCD digital cameras manufactured by PixeLink for machine vision and industrial inspection applications are available in color and monochrome versions, with 1024 × 768-,...
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SINGLE-BOX LASER
The Wyvern, a single-box regeneratively amplified laser system, has been introduced by Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories Inc. It employs patented downchirped pulse amplification and produces 20 μJ at...
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TEMPERATURE SENSOR
The PalmSense handheld fiber optic temperature sensor from Photon Control Inc. is battery-operated to allow movement between critical sensing points as well as data storage in its internal 20-Mb...
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FERRULE INSPECTOR
The Centroc1000 is designed for the quality control of fiber optic connector ferrules. Available from Norland Products Inc., the instrument automatically measures bare ferrules in less than 5 s for...
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THERMAL IMAGER
FJW Optical Systems Inc. is offering model 85770, a handheld thermal imager manufactured by Irisys. The system includes an infrared camera, a battery, an AC adapter, a USB cable, a 31/2-in. color LCD...
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MICROSCOPE
The Innova scanning probe microscope has been released by Veeco Instruments Inc. for use in physical, materials and life sciences applications. It performs low-noise closed-loop scanning and offers...
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GREEN LASER
Photonic Products UK Ltd. has launched the 300-0331-00, a diode-pumped solid-state green laser diode that offers a circular output beam of ∼2.7 mm in diameter, a 5-m working distance and a...
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OPTICAL TRACKING
The V100 series cameras announced by NaturalPoint Inc. produce real-time 3-D data for motion capture and tracking applications. The Flex:V100 offers adjustable resolution of 640 × 480, 320 × 240 or...
NaturalPoint Inc.
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FRAME GRABBER
Epix Inc. has introduced the Pixci EC1 ExpressCard/54 frame grabber that supports notebook computers and all full-, medium- and base-configuration Camera Link cameras with bandwidth requirements of...
EPIX Inc.
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BLUE LEDS
Cree Inc. has launched blue XLamp XR-E LEDs that are 70% brighter than its previous blue LEDs and that produce maximum luminous flux of 42 lm at 350 mA. The RoHS-compliant devices have an...
Wolfspeed Inc.
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LIFE TESTING
An independent and certified testing house for semiconductors and other electronic components, microtec GmbH offers laser and vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) life-testing services....
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ACTIVE LAB TABLES
Developed for semiconductor, biotechnology and other cleanroom applications, Halcyonics GmbH’s Active Workstation laboratory tables are made of electro-polished stainless steel to reduce particles...
Accurion GmbH
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LASER DIODES
Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH has unveiled the LDM series, temperature-controlled laser diode modules with more than 1000 mW at 445 nm. With dimensions of 19 × 9 × 5 cm, they have applications...
Omicron-Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH
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COLLIMATOR LENSES
Anteryon BV has released aspheric collimator lens objectives for blue 405-nm diode lasers. Available in two standard designs, with and without a cover plate, the AO540 eliminates spherical...
Anteryon BV
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EDGE FILTERS
Iridian Spectral Technologies Ltd. has unveiled a line of ultrasteep short-pass edge filters for Raman spectroscopy applications. Available at 514.5, 532, 633 and 785 nm, they deliver tight edge...
Iridian Spectral Technologies
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POLISHING ABRASIVES
High-purity calcined alumina polishing abrasives that are premixed or supplied as powder for mixing with deionized water have been introduced by Meller Optics Inc. Suitable for grinding, lapping and...
Meller Optics Inc.
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MACHINE VISION CAMERA
The Iris E-Series machine vision smart cameras from Matrox Imaging include the Design Assistant intuitive software, enabling OEMs and systems integrators to develop machine vision and imaging...
Matrox Imaging
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MICROSCOPY WORKSTATION
Released by JPK Instruments AG, the BioMat workstation applies upright optical and atomic force microscopy (AFM) sequentially on the same sample spot, enabling imaging even on opaque samples. A...
Bruker Nano GmbH, JPK BioAFM
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NEAR-IR CMOS CAMERA
Intevac Inc. has introduced a back-thinned CMOS camera for low-light near-IR imaging applications. The MicroVista-NIR has proprietary antireflection coatings, a 100% fill factor and a Camera Link...
Intevac Inc., Thin Film Equipment
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VIBRATION CANCELLATION
The FloorPlatform PZT unveiled by Technical Manufacturing Corp. is an active hard-mount inertial vibration cancellation system for use with scanning electron microscopes. It provides sub-1-Hz...
TMC
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LASER DIODE MODULES
Power Technology Inc. has released a line of blue, violet and UV instrument-quality laser diode modules that operate at 375, 405, 445 and 473 nm from an 8- to 12-VDC supply and that are available...
Power Technology Inc.
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UNIVERSAL GAS ANALYZERS
Stanford Research Systems Inc. has launched the UGA series universal gas analyzer benchtop mass spectrometers. Operating from atmospheric pressure to ultrahigh vacuum with a mass range of up to 300...
Stanford Research Systems Inc.
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ULTRAFAST LASER
The s-Pulse HP from Amplitude Systemes is a compact ytterbium diode-pumped ultrafast amplified laser that has a variable repetition rate of 5 to 100 kHz, pulse durations <500 fs and pulse energies...
Amplitude
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RUGGEDIZED CAMERA
Shockproof up to 120 g, the Smize digital cameras from AOS Technologies AG are well-suited for harsh environments. Available in 24-bit color and 8-bit monochrome models with memory configurations of...
AOS Technologies AG
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DIGITIZERS
GaGe Applied Technologies Inc. has announced its Cobra CompuScope family of 8-bit high-speed digitizers. The single-slot PCI bus cards are available with one or two digitizing channels, and they...
GaGe
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REFLEX-FREE LENSES
Docter Optics GmbH has introduced the Auto-Tessar high-dynamic-range miniature lenses for use in automotive front-view and night-vision systems. The 2.3/9.6 lenses weigh 2.5 g and measure 9 mm long,...
Docter Optics SE
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PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR
The Opium, an ultrafast optical parametric oscillator that provides continuous tuning from the visible to the near-UV with a single set of optics, has been unveiled by Radiantis. The synchronously...
Radiantis
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