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Photonics Spectra: September 2013

Photonics Spectra
 September 2013


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Photonics Helps Create Greener Airways Laser and imaging technologies are helping aircraft manufacturers make their processes more eco-friendly. White contrails in the sky could soon be tinged green, thanks to increased airplane...
Plastics Additives Allow Inkless Marking The development and refinement of plastics additives or laser sensitivity enable high-contrast marking of plastics in combination with a suitable laser beam. Here’s how to choose the right...
Active Pulse Management Enables Femtosecond Athermal Ablation In extremely short pulses, generally in the several-hundred-femtosecond regime, light interacts with matter fundamentally differently from the way other forms of energy do. This interaction allows...
Raman Overcomes Challenges for Industry Raman spectroscopy is becoming increasingly prevalent in commercial applications. Challenges include making remote measurements of chemical species in high-pressure or high-temperature environments...
Better Materials Mean Better Solar Cells Innovation in materials research is revealing a future in which solar power is inexpensive and efficient, and sunlight-harvesting thin films cover everything from airplanes to buildings. Crystalline...
LEDs Offer a Lighting Makeover New materials and manufacturing techniques are bringing LEDs closer to cost-effectiveness. The venerable lightbulb is going high-tech, thanks to LEDs: Light-emitting diode products are more...
EDITORIAL
Light Brings Greener Skies, Manufacturing’s Future “The people in manufacturing need to reinvent themselves. They need to rethink the way they’re doing things.” Those strong words come from AV&R president Eric Beauregard at the end of Contributing Editor Hank Hogan’s article in this issue about eco-friendly processes being introduced into aircraft-parts manufacturing. And it seems that many manufacturers are getting...
SHOP SAFETY
Avoiding Chemical and Thermal Dangers The two previous installments of this series addressed safety administration and inertial hazards in the optics shop. This installment covers chemical and thermal issues. Chemicals present hazards in several ways: contact, ingestion, inhalation or reactive combination. Their results can be acute, chronic or delayed – even by decades, in the case of accumulated exposure to carcinogens or...
WORKFORCE OF TOMORROW
PHOTON Projects Connect Industry, Academia and Government While some companies cite a lack of skilled high-tech workers, others are collaborating with educational institutions to address the need for more graduates in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields. The projects of the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) have enlisted industry cooperation for an often unseen and underappreciated component of higher education: community...
STARTUP INSIGHTS
Focus on the Customer In this new regular column, Photonics Spectra brings pragmatic advice to startups on writing business plans, attracting investors and choosing partners from some of the top entrepreneurs in photonics. They’ve seen it all and weathered all kinds of storms, from economic ups and downs to takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, and now the giants of photonics will pass on their wisdom to our...
TECH PULSE
Fiber design could boost Internet bandwidth A new kind of optical fiber stable enough to transmit donut-shaped laser beams called optical vortices, or orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams, promises to increase bandwidth dramatically to meet today’s ever-increasing demand for data-intensive activities like video streaming. “For several decades since optical fibers were deployed, the conventional assumption has been that...
Optical chip enables affordable holographic displays When Daniel Smalley saw the Mark II holographic video display at MIT, he had to have one. And he will, thanks to a new approach he devised that could produce reasonably priced standard-definition,...
Optical microphone listens with light A nearly 1-mm-thick optical sensor that measures minute movements and extremely quiet sounds could improve the sensitivity of microphones and give them a sense of direction. The technology could...
Tabletop device accelerates electrons to 2 GeV Until recently, if you wanted to speed up electrons to 2 gigaelectron volts (GeV), you needed a multimillion-dollar accelerator nearly 200 m long. But not anymore: Now you just need a tabletop...
Microscopy technique could help make 3-D components A technique developed several years ago to improve optical microscopes has now been applied to monitoring the next generation of computer chip circuit components, providing a crucial tool for...
New photodetector makes do with few photons The fundamental probabilistic nature of light makes it impossible to perfectly distinguish light from dark at very low intensity. Low power and high fidelity in reading data are especially important...
Fluorescent fingerprint tag IDs ‘hidden’ prints Criminals might want to think twice before touching anything, now that a new fluorescent tagging technique could yield more usable results from latent fingerprints on metal surfaces. The odds that...
Multiview 3-D photography simplified A small checkerboard-patterned plastic film inserted beneath the lens of an ordinary camera can transform the device into a light-field camera capable of producing multiperspective images. Current...
Laser-guided codes advance THz imaging A single-pixel imaging technique uses laser-guided codes to quickly and efficiently manipulate stubborn terahertz waves, producing clear images in a matter of seconds. Imaging and sensing using...
LIGHT SPEED
3 Questions Interview Dr. Thomas M. Baer is a major force in photonics. He’s the executive director of Stanford University’s Photonics Research Center and co-founder of Arcturus Bioscience Inc., which he established in 1996; he was the company’s chairman and CEO until January 2005. He has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and The Optical Society of...
Optics scholarship established to honor Edmund Edmund Optics CEO Robert Edmund has made a gift to the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences in honor of his father, the late Norman Edmund. The permanent endowment establishes the Norman...
Optics students win IBM’s ‘Battle of the Brains’ Three students from St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) in Russia were named world champions at the 37th annual Battle of the Brains...
Gigaphoton reports 2-h-straight run for EUV source Gigaphoton Inc.’s extreme UV (EUV) laser-produced plasma (LPP) light source has achieved 2-h continuous operation. The milestone was confirmed using a prototype LPP system that generates EUV...
Laser cutting market could hit $3.77B in 2018 The laser cutting market is expected to reach $3.77 billion in 2018, according to MarketsandMarkets of Dallas. The value of that market was $2.08 billion in 2012 but will reach nearly $4 billion in...
Biolase gets gold medal for medical design excellence California-based Biolase Inc.’s EPIC 10 soft-tissue diode laser platform was awarded the gold medal for the Dental Instruments, Equipment and Supplies category at the 15th annual Medical Design...
LPKF sues cellphone maker for infringement LPKF Laser & Electronics AG of Garbsen, Germany, is suing an undisclosed mobile-phone manufacturer for infringing on its patented laser direct structuring antenna manufacturing process for...
Patents VI Systems GmbH of Berlin has acquired an exclusive silicon photonics patent license for applications in sensing, data communications and illumination using vertical-cavity LED structures. The patent...
Collaborations Ewing, N.J.-based Universal Display Corp. and IDD Aerospace/Zodiac Lighting Solutions of Redmond, Wash., have partnered to design and demonstrate an energy-saving shelf utility white OLED lighting...
People In The News REO of Boulder, Colo., has appointed Patrick Casnedi as its sales representative in France. He has held several senior management roles in the photonics industry at companies ranging from component...
Moves & Expansions Laser beam measurement products supplier Gentec Electro-Optics Inc. of Quebec City has opened a laser calibration center in Japan. The Tokyo facility will offer calibration services to the entire...
GREENLIGHT
Solar cells get skinny Most efforts to improve photovoltaics have focused on increasing energy conversion efficiency or lowering manufacturing costs, but what would happen if the size of the cell were shrunk? Engineers at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., are using computer modeling to help answer that question, aiming to produce the thinnest and most lightweight solar panels possible. Such panels, which have the potential to...
LIGHTER SIDE
Decoration deciphered on Stradivari violin Historians, artists and music lovers have long debated the merits of a Stradivari violin: Are the materials or the methods responsible for the unsurpassed sound quality, or did the 17th-century master just have a sixth sense that told him how best to construct each instrument? A recent paper offers a scientific look at the materials. Marco Malagodi and colleagues at the Università degli...
PRODUCTS
9.2-Megapixel Sensor Artemis CCD Ltd. has launched the FS92 9.2-megapixel sensor for its FS series cooled CCD camera line for low-light applications, including fluorescence and chemiluminescence imaging, and optical...
Artemis CCD Ltd. (See Atik Cameras)
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Incubation System Olympus Europa Holding’s cellVivo incubation system delivers environmental control of advanced live-cell imaging in a “one size fits all” concept. Adapters for various IX73 and IX83...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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Bidirectional Optocoupler Avago Technologies has released the ACSL-7210, a dual-channel bidirectional digital optocoupler with a data rate from DC to 25 megabaud (MBd). The device is optimized for bidirectional...
Broadcom Inc.
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Liquid Lens Evaluation Varioptic, a business unit of Parrot, has released an evaluation kit that enables camera designers to quickly develop liquid lens camera prototypes. It combines a proprietary Caspian optical...
Corning Varioptic Lenses
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Vision System Cognex Corp.’s Advantage 100 vision system enables OEMs to use the company’s vision and code-reading technology in space-constrained applications including the printing, kiosk and medical...
Cognex Corp.
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Diode Lasers Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH has introduced the LuxX+ diode laser series, which extends the functionality of its predecessor, the LuxX. The device is suitable for microlithographic and...
Omicron-Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH
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Bearing-Based Rotator The ECR5050 bearing-based rotator from attocube systems AG allows clockwise and anticlockwise rotation with torques up to 4 Ncm for positioning applications. The device is available with an...
attocube systems AG
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Diode Laser Dilas has released the Compact Evolution, a fiber-coupled, CW diode laser system for scanner-based plastics welding, thin-metal welding, heat treatment selective soldering, brazing and scientific...
DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH
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Optical Sensor Carl Zeiss has introduced a FalconEye optical sensor that can be used on stepping, articulating probe holders and is suitable for complex measuring and quality assurance tasks in the automotive...
Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH
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Flat-Top Microscope Stage Prior Scientific Inc. has extended its line of motorized high-precision microscope stages with the H101F flat-top stage for upright microscopes. The device’s design incorporates a...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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Atomic Force Microscope Asylum Research’s new MFP-3D Origin atomic force microscope (AFM) has full upgrade potential to the MFP-3D and its complete range of environmental and advanced application accessories. ...
Asylum Research
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2-D Piezo Scan/Positioning Stage The Scan XY40 piezoelectric actuating stage from piezosystem jena offers a travel range of 40 µm per axis and is suitable for 2-D scanning applications as well as applications that require low...
piezosystem jena GmbH
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USB Mini Camera IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH’s XS mini camera combines a standard consumer camera with the versatility of an industrial camera to enhance image quality under difficult lighting and...
IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
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594-nm Laser Coherent Inc. has enhanced its Sapphire series lasers with a 594-nm instrument that can excite a range of red fluorescence fluorophores, including Texas Red and Alexa Fluor 594, and the new mFruit...
Coherent Inc.
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2.8-MP Camera Point Grey Research Inc. has added a 2.8-MP camera to its Grasshopper3 USB 3.0 scientific imaging family. The new model, GS3-U3-28S5, is suitable for life sciences applications including...
FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions
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Anti-Counterfeit Laser Product development firm Cambridge Consultants and brand protection company Ingenia Technology have developed a high-speed laser scanner for use in brand protection, product authentication and...
Cambridge Consultants Ltd.
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UV Spectrometer Ibsen Photonics has unveiled the Freedom UV spectrometer for OEM integrators of analytical instruments. The compact device offers flexibility in choice of detector systems, and its robustness...
Ibsen Photonics A/S
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Digital Microscope Systems Leica Microsystems’ new DMS300 and DMS1000 digital microscope systems are suited for a range of R&D, life science and industrial tasks. The systems operate without an eyepiece and...
Leica Microsystems AG, Microscopy Div.
CW Laser Series Spectra-Physics, a Newport Corp. brand, has extended the Excelsior One CW laser series with the release of three new wavelengths: 515, 553 and 594 nm. The expanded series of 14 diode-pumped...
Spectra-Physics
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Fiber Laser The Rofin Macro Group has enhanced its FL series fiber lasers with the compact 2-kW FL 020. Suitable for cutting, welding, surface-modification and scanner-based applications, the system can be...
Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH
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