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Photonics Spectra: September 2010

Photonics Spectra
 September 2010


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Future Projections: Cell Phone Market Poised for Projectors The market for tiny handheld projectors, known as pico projectors, began in earnest a few years ago, with companies like Microvision Inc., Explay and 3M introducing prototypes at industry events such as the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Shortly after, industry wags began writing that consumers would soon be able to buy cell phones and other electronic devices containing embedded...
For Nonlinear Optical Processing, Things Do – and Don’t – Add Up Sometimes you don’t want 2 + 2 to equal 4. Instead, it would be nice if the result were a lot more – or a lot less. That’s the basis for nonlinear optical processing, where a...
Putting the “Eye” in CSI Forensic investigation hasn’t yet achieved the sci-fi type of technological sophistication seen on CSI and other television crime shows, but it’s getting there. Having seen what is...
Monolithic Photonic Integrated Circuits for 10G Passive Optical Networks Continually escalating demands for broader penetration of higher bandwidth, faster performance and rich-media applications are driving the ongoing worldwide deployment of fiber-based services. Even...
High-Energy Laser Optics Require Coatings in Their Own League Sure, your laser pointer doesn’t have the power to punch through the wall, but high-fluence CO2 and other heavy-duty beasts of burden can carve through sheet metal, slice 1/4-in. steel into...
EDITORIAL
Group publisher joins Photonics Media As we at Photonics Media celebrate the laser’s 50th anniversary this year, we remain mindful of the impact of such important technological advances on the industries and the lives they touch. For the past 60 years, Laurin Publishing Company and Photonics Media have chronicled the greatest strides in harnessing and focusing light for industry and life, and we will continue to do so into the...
TECH PULSE
Curved light bends the rules Conventional thinking leads us to believe that light only follows a straight path and that it diffracts as it travels. But some scientists are breaking all the rules by creating a new class of nondiffracting optical beam that can bend around corners. These rays are called “Airy beams,” a name that honors the English astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy for his studies of the parabolic...
Sound helps make a better optical clock Optical fibers are commonly used to transmit information and data via modulated light pulses. Now, however, three researchers at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), working with optical...
Applications abound for newly licensed microLEDs Communications and life sciences can expect a boost from a newly formed company in Glasgow. In a spinout deal, the University of Strathclyde has formed mLED Ltd., a company dedicated to...
Nano light mill motor controlled by wavelength changes A newly developed light mill could lead to a whole new crop of nanoscale devices, including nanoscale solar light harvesters, nanoelectromechanical systems, and nanobots that could manipulate DNA and...
An unexpected dark pulse laser Sometimes what isn’t there can be as interesting as what is. In working to develop mode-locked quantum dot diode lasers, researchers have discovered something unforeseen: a dark pulse laser....
LIGHT SPEED
Machine vision growth in view In North America, overall machine vision sales increased by 34.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010 over weak sales that occurred in the first quarter of 2009, according to a new report from the Automated Imaging Association (AIA). Titled Quarterly Machine Vision Sales Tracking Report – First Quarter 2010, the study showed that, as a whole, major vision component sales increased 57.2...
Hybrid Photodiodes Electro-optic manufacturer Photonis USA has announced that it will provide hybrid photodiodes and their power supply units to the Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass experiment. Conducted by the Cosmic...
US Distribution Precision Solutions of Stevenage, UK, has appointed Metrology Concepts LLC as its US distributor for the Interfire II family of infrared interferometers. Based in Rochester, N.Y., the latter company...
Interferometer Acquisition Optical test equipment maker Trioptics GmbH of Wedel, Germany, has acquired the μPhase product line of interferometers from Switzerland-based Fisba Optik AG, along with Fisba’s Berlin-based...
New Company A new venture, Next Instruments Pty Ltd., has been launched to provide analytical and process instruments developed by universities, government research organizations and small high-tech companies to...
Warranty Expanded Miniature-spectroscopy company Ocean Optics of Dunedin, Fla., has expanded its three-year warranty beyond its spectrometers to include light sources and other accessories. Effective July 1, light...
European Consortium The Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) SA will spearhead the Plasmonic Innovative Sensing in the Infrared project, which has been awarded a €2.8 million grant from...
Company Rebrands Point Source of Hamble, UK, a member of the Qioptiq Group, has changed its name to Qioptiq, effective immediately. The decision is part of the group’s strategy to operate under a single brand...
1000th Laser Sold Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., announced that it has shipped more than 1000 of its Paladin series quasi-CW, high-power ultraviolet lasers. Available with a choice of 2, 4, 8, 10 or 16 W of...
Image Sensor Expansion Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, a digital imaging provider, has expanded its capabilities to include back-side illumination in custom image sensors for aerospace applications in Earth...
Companies Merge Leoni Fiber Optics GmbH of Berlin acquired RoMack Inc. of Williamsburg, Va., for an undisclosed amount this month. The acquisition was made through Leoni’s US subsidiary, FiberTech USA Inc. of...
GREENLIGHT
Solar design triumphs through thick and thin The quest for high power-conversion efficiency in most thin-film solar cells has often been hindered by the “thick and thin” challenge, in which a cell must be thick enough to collect a sufficient amount of light, yet thin enough to extract current. Now a novel solar cell devised by physicists at Boston College in Chestnut Hill and inspired by the coaxial cable resolves this dilemma...
SLICES FROM THE BREADBOARD
Photonics in South Korea and Singapore: People and places As is well known, South Korea is a high-tech industrialized nation and currently among the world’s 20 largest economies. Gwangju, its sixth largest city, was home to the World Photonics Expo 2010 in the spring and is the seat of the Korea Association for Photonics Industry Development (KAPID). The cluster organization in connection with industry, academia and government was founded to...
LIGHTER SIDE
Playing “hide and seek” with warblers – and winning Birds are creatures of habit, and they tend to have certain features in mind when seeking out places to feed or to nest. Migratory birds, such as the black-throated blue warbler, leave their Caribbean and South American homes every year for new ones in the forests and groves of North America. Ornithologists trying to predict where these warbler populations might be found each year have been...
PRODUCTS
Red Laser Diode Mitsubishi Electric Europe BV has introduced a 638-nm red laser diode. The ML520G72 offers high output power and is suited to picoprojector applications or other portable display systems requiring a...
Mitsubishi Electric Europe BV, Semiconductor European Business Group
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MOPA Laser A family of fiber-based master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) lasers has been unveiled by Genia Photonics. The lasers deliver short, high-frequency pulses in the pico-second regime and offer quick...
Genia Photonics
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LED Array Opto Diode Corp. has developed the first in a series of high-power LED arrays, the OD-850-30-030. The company says that the 30-die near-infrared LED array delivers more efficient operation and higher...
Opto Diode Corporation
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Spherical Aberration Optimized for use in collimated light with small fields of view, Edmund Optics’ TechSpec spherical aberration-compensation plates feature a precision BK7 substrate. The plates are designed to...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Imaging Software Phenom-World BV has announced the launch of a new software product, the Phenom Pro Suite, whose applications expand the functionality of the microscope by automated collection of images,...
Phenom-World BV
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Camera System The Cooke Corp. has introduced pco.edge, a camera system that performs high-fidelity scientific imaging. Based on a scientific CMOS image sensor, it delivers low noise, fast frame rates, a wide...
PCO-TECH Inc.
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Motor-Driven Stages The PRO280LM direct-drive stages from Aerotech Ltd. are available in widths of 165, 225 and 280 mm for high-accuracy heavy-load submicron positioning in harsh industrial environments. The 280-mm-wide...
Aerotech Ltd.
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Ultrafast Amplifier A new Ti:sapphire ultrafast laser amplifier from Coherent Inc., the Legend Elite Duo-HP, offers >15 W of output power and pulse energy of up to 10 mJ. The kilohertz-class thermoelectrically cooled...
Coherent Inc.
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Optical Lenses For use in analytical and medical instrumentation applications, Bern Optics Inc. has announced the availability of submillimeter optical lenses as small as 0.20 mm. These precision lenses can be...
Bern Optics Inc.
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Travel Stages Applied Scientific Instrumentation (ASI) offers an assortment of stages with flat tops and an extended range of travel for robotic loading. The MS-2500 stage provides 100 mm of Y-axis travel and 250...
Applied Scientific Instrumentation Inc.
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Laser Distance Sensor Baumer has introduced the OADM 250, an optical laser distance sensor designed to accurately detect target objects, regardless of surface properties or color, at distances from 0.2 to 4 m away. Based...
Baumer Ltd.
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DPSS Laser Cobolt AB has released a new wavelength on the single-frequency 05-01 platform released in 2009. The Cobolt Rumba diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser operates at 1064 ±0.6 nm with up to 2 W...
Cobolt AB
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PV Cell Testing For solar photovoltaic (PV) cell testing applications, Craic Technologies Inc. has unveiled the 20/20 Solar microspectrophotometer, which is designed to measure the thickness of thin films as well as...
CRAIC Technologies
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Light-Emitting Diode Hamamatsu Photonics UK Ltd. has introduced the L10762 resonant cavity LED for plastic optical fiber (POF) data communications. The company says that the red-emitting resonant cavity LED offers seven...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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Auto Gapping System CyberOptics Semiconductor Inc.’s WaferSense Auto Gapping System, the AGS300, is available in 300- and 200-mm form factors. It measures gaps that are critical to the outcome of semiconductor...
CyberOptics Corp.
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Voltage-Controlled Oscillator Crystek Corp.’s CVCO55CC-2510-2610 VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator) operates from 2510 to 2610 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.5 to approximately 4.5 V. It offers good linearity, and...
Crystek Corp
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Transparent Heater For temperature control of optical, lens and display assemblies, Dontech Inc.’s Therma Klear transparent heaters provide the warmth necessary to extend the operating temperature of LCDs in cold...
Dontech Inc.
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Pump Laser To enable low-cost Gigabit passive optical network reach extension, Innolume has released the LD-12xx-series laser platform, a new generation of pump lasers based on proprietary quantum dot epitaxial...
Innolume GmbH
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Integrating Sphere With lighting technology advancing to include larger and more complex devices, Labsphere has introduced the LMS-3M 3-m integrating sphere for complete optical characterization of these larger lamps...
Labsphere Inc.
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SWIR Imaging Enhanced 25- and 50-mm hyperspectral lenses optimized for peak short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) camera performance have been unveiled by Navitar Inc. The OptiStar lenses have a rugged design and...
Navitar Inc.
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VCSEL Driver VI Systems GmbH is offering a new ultrahigh-speed vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) driver integrated circuit that is designed for serial data rates of up to 40 Gb/s in short-reach...
VI Systems GmbH
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High-Power LEDs Lumex has extended its TitanBrite line of high-power LEDs with the introduction of 2-, 3- and 5-W models. The surface-mount LEDs provide high-intensity light of up to 58, 210 and 300 lm,...
Lumex
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SWIR Lenses Clear Align has introduced the Inspire line of high-performance, ultralightweight pre-engineered lenses for short-wavelength-infrared (SWIR) detection. Designed for high-resolution operation at low...
Clear Align
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Multichip Pump Princeton Optronics Inc. has introduced a high-power vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-based multichip laser module delivering 480 W of quasi-continuous-wave power. It has four 5 x 5-mm...
Princeton Optronics Inc.
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