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Photonics Spectra: September 2012

Photonics Spectra
 September 2012


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Head-Up Displays Keep Speed and More in Sight Despite current issues, including cost, experts say projecting information on a windshield is a future safety must-have for drivers. Keeping your eyes on the road could get easier, thanks to advances in automotive head-up displays, or HUDs. They are becoming more capable, with color imagery depicting speed, lane location, turn direction, radio setting and other information. All of this...
Laser Car Ignition Dream Sparks Multiple Approaches Laser car ignition systems promise better fuel efficiency and lower pollution than conventional ones – as long as the technology continues to develop. As calls for improved energy...
New Smart Cameras Provide Quality Control in a Box PC cameras are compact vision systems that can deliver up to 90 gigaflops of processing power to support full image-processing libraries and sensor resolutions of 5 megapixels or more. If the...
DPSS Lasers Overcome Glass Process Challenges Industrial laser glass processing holds promise for an increasing range of applications, including biomedical and solar panel manufacturing. Higher-power and higher-beam-quality lasers continue...
DLC Coatings Enhance IR Cameras Applying new diamondlike carbon multiple-layer coatings to front-surface forward-looking infrared lens assemblies drastically reduces the Narcissus effect without compromising durability. In...
EDITORIAL
A New Initiative for the Future of Photonics As we worked to get this issue ready for press, the US National Academy of Sciences National Research Council released its long-awaited report, Optics & Photonics: Essential Technologies for Our Nation. In it, the council recommends a national photonics initiative: an organized effort of academia, industry and government to steer federal research and development funding and activities. The...
LASERS IN USE
Designing a Laser Lab: What to Do – and What Not to Do Laser lab design can be tricky. Even when lab construction falls to a project manager, he/she often will rely on the laser user (many times a postdoc or grad student) and someone from the Environmental Health and Safety Division for design help. These folks are not always appreciative of each other’s needs and requirements. The postdoc, grad student or even a senior researcher has a firm...
LASER SAFETY
Designing a Laser Lab: What to Do – and What Not to Do Laser lab design can be tricky. Even when lab construction falls to a project manager, he/she often will rely on the laser user (many times a postdoc or grad student) and someone from the Environmental Health and Safety Division for design help. These folks are not always appreciative of each other’s needs and requirements. The postdoc, grad student or even a senior researcher has a firm...
TECH PULSE
New class of 3-D optical cavities demonstrated Nanoscale three-dimensional optical cavities made from metamaterials can generate the most powerful nanolaser beams to date. This new class of optical cavities, with remarkable electromagnetic...
I can’t see the rain … against my headlights Driving at night through a downpour or a heavy snowstorm could become much easier if a sophisticated headlight system created at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute becomes...
Terabits transmitted by twisted light Do you ever wish you could download that Netflix movie you’ve been dying to see in a matter of just a few seconds rather than those 15 long, grueling minutes, or watch the latest viral YouTube...
“Spintronic” OLED promises brighter displays A new “spintronic” OLED that produces an orange color holds promise for brighter, cheaper and more environmentally friendly LEDs than the ones typically used in television and computer...
Robotic camera mimics eye movement Piezoelectric materials that allow a robot’s camera eye to replicate the muscle motion of a human eye could help make safer, more effective robotic tools for MRI-guided surgery and robotic...
Portrait of a single atom The shadow of a single atom was photographed for the first time using a superhigh-resolution microscope, a discovery that could help scientists confirm their understanding of atomic physics and...
Doping MOFs leads to red, blue emission A new technique that employs a nanoporous material to efficiently identify neutrons could provide a more effective and less costly way for homeland security inspectors to detect radiation in cargo...
Computer chips made rewritable with light A technique for making rewritable computer chips uses laser light to control the spin of an atom’s nucleus to encode information, bringing ultrafast quantum computing a step closer to reality....
Atoms signal their entanglement Two atoms 20 m apart have signaled their entanglement, a significant step forward for the study of quantum entanglement and the development of practical applications such as quantum computing and...
Plasma’s potential for photolithography pursued Work over the past decade to harness the energy-generating mechanism of the sun has yielded bright high-energy light needed to etch smaller microchips. The microchip industry now uses 193-nm UV...
LIGHT SPEED
Same economy bears different results Three top photonics companies recently announced quarterly results, and the mixed results reflect the industry’s ongoing attempts to recover from the 2008 downturn. Coherent Strong sales in the microelectronics market, particularly those of excimer laser annealing systems for flat panel displays, contributed almost half of Coherent’s third-quarter revenue of $196.4 million,...
Mars! Cameras! Action! NASA’s Curiosity rover landed safely on Mars on Aug. 5 – with no fewer than 17 cameras onboard. The rover’s mast features seven cameras: the Remote Micro Imager, part of the...
Turbulence predicted for LED front-end equipment market “The LED front-end equipment market will experience turbulent investment cycles in the coming years,” wrote Yole Développement of Lyon, France, and EPIC (European Photonics...
GREENLIGHT
Laser probes pollution particles The most detailed images to date of airborne soot particles, generated with x-rays from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), will have important implications for climate modeling and human health,...
Silicone eyed for extending solar cell lives Coating photovoltaic cells with liquid silicone could yield more robust, sustainable solar cells at a fraction of the cost of traditional ones. If solar panels are to exceed life spans of 25...
LIGHTER SIDE
Fiber optic sensors set sail To win races through wind, waves and inclement weather, sailors need nerves of steel. But it turns out that their boats need “nerves of glass.” A new fiber optic sensor system for racing yachts could alert crew members when a craft reaches its structural limits. Such a system is designed to measure in real time the oceanic forces that act on hulls, masts and sails. The...
PRODUCTS
USB Single-Sensor Cameras VRmagic is extending its portfolio of USB single-sensor cameras with three new models with high-resolution sensors. The CMOS sensors CMV2000 and CMV4000 from Cmosis are light-sensitive and...
VRmagic Imaging GmbH
Brushless Flat Motor The ultraslim design of Maxon Precision Motors Inc.’s EC 90 flat motor is now equipped with MILE (Maxon’s Inductive Little Encoder). A small inductive rotary encoder, its operating...
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1-Megapixel Camera Vision Research extends its Phantom 1-megapixel v-Series digital high-speed cameras with the addition of the v411. It uses the same technology as other cameras in the series and delivers 4...
Vision Research Inc., Phantom Digital High-Speed Cameras
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Gradient Wheel System Picard Industries’ USB-GradientWheel system offers a compact, quiet and simple method of automating the positioning of a gradient filter disk into a beam path. The system is supplied with...
Picard Industries
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CO2 Laser Optics A line of OEM and ISO-10110-compatible CO2 replacement optics for low-power lasers used in a variety of plastics cutting applications is available for immediate delivery from Laser Research Optics, a...
Laser Research Optics
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LED Machine Vision Lighting FSI Technologies Inc. has expanded its line of machine vision services and components with its new LE line of LED light sources. The series includes LED backlights, bar lights, ringlights and square...
FSI Technologies Inc.
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HDTV Low-Noise sCMOS Camera The new high-sensitivity full HDTV low-noise cooled sCMOS (scientific CMOS) camera from Photonic Science and Defence Vision Systems delivers readout noise of 1.2 e- at 100-MHz overall scanning...
Photonic Science and Engineering Ltd.
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Precision Linear Stages PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. is offering the PI miCos line of precision linear stages. The line includes more than 20 products, starting with miniature translation stages and positioning ranges...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Frequency-Stabilized HeNe Lasers REO Inc.’s new series of stabilized helium-neon 632.8-nm lasers are available with either 1 or 1.5 mW of output power and can be frequency-stabilized to ±1 MHz over 1 h, or ±2 MHz...
Research Electro-Optics Inc. (REO)
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Blue Tunable Lasers New Focus, a Newport Corp. brand, has introduced the Vortex Plus Blue TLB-6802 series single-mode finely tunable lasers. The precision direct-diode blue lasers operate at 461 nm, the critical...
Newport - New Focus
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Integrated Vertical and Rotation Stage Newport Corp. has launched an integrated vertical and rotation stage, the ZVR, for semiconductor wafer positioning, metrology, inspection and repair. It also is useful in LED production, 3-D...
MKS/Newport
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Continuous-Wave Integrated Lasers Spectra-Physics, a Newport Corp. brand, has launched the Excelsior One continuous-wave laser series. The ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared devices integrate the laser head and controller into a...
MKS/Spectra-Physics
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Confocal Imager Leica Microsystems GmbH has introduced the TCS SP8, a confocal imager that combines optics, a fast, true confocal scanner and a sensitive detection system. The device is a single platform that...
Leica Microsystems GmbH
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X-Ray Windows Moxtek Inc.’s DuraBeryllium x-ray windows are resistant to many solvents, acids and bases, and DuraBeryllium Plus film provides maximum corrosion resistance. DuraBeryllium Plus is a low-Z...
Moxtek Inc.
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Digital Laser Diode Drivers Portable Power Systems Inc. has expanded its line of digital laser diode drivers with the introduction of the PPS series. The drivers are offered as continuous-wave, pulsed or CW/pulsed...
Portable Power Systems Inc.
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Image Capture and Markup Software Vision Engineering Ltd. has introduced its menuless and touch-screen imaging software for its stereo inspection microscopes. The software provides ease of use for image capture and dimensioning...
Vision Engineering Ltd.
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Superpolished Mirror Substrates Edmund Optics has introduced superpolished mirror substrates ready to be coated for use in a wide variety of demanding laser applications. They are available in 1- and 2-Å surface...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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1.3-Megapixel Sensor The new 1.3-megapixel EV76C661 sensor from e2v offers high sensitivity with a quantum efficiency of 80% and a dynamic range in the near-infrared spectrum of 40% at 850 nm. IDS Imaging Development...
Teledyne e2v - UK
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Inertial Measurement Unit KVH Industries Inc. has introduced the Series 1750 inertial measurement unit (IMU), a 6° of freedom sensor that integrates into stabilization, pointing and navigation applications. It...
KVH Industries Inc.
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Scientific-Grade Spectrometer Ocean Optics’ QE65 Pro scientific-grade modular spectrometer features high sensitivity and low stray light for fluorescence, Raman and DNA sequencing spectroscopy. Its new optical bench...
Ocean Optics - Part of Ocean Insight
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LED for Smartphone Camera Flash Osram Opto Semiconductors has added a new LED to its Oslux family. Designed for camera flash in smartphones, it provides a high-quality white light that illuminates the target area. Its specially...
Osram Opto Semiconductors Inc.
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Gel Imager UVP LLC’s GelMax Imager is designed for fast, easy imaging of precast and mini gels up to 11.5 × 16 cm in size for illumination, capture and analysis. Gels can be easily illuminated...
Analytik Jena US LLC
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Green Laser Monocrom has expanded its X-series with the X532CW500, a compact diode-pumped solid-state laser module with an optical power output >500 mW at 532 nm. The robust and reliable green laser has...
Monocrom
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Negative-Stiffness Optical Table In collaboration with Kinetic Systems Inc., Minus K Technology has released an ultralow natural frequency optical table isolation system for Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM),...
Minus K Technology Inc.
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