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April 2010

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Laservision to Hold Laser Safety Officers Workshop Laservision announced that it will participate in the annual Laser Safety Officers Workshop July 27-29 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The company will exhibit at the workshop, as well as conduct a mini-workshop on its EyePro software. The free software is available to assist in the selection of suitable laser safety products to meet specific laser requirements. The annual LSO event...

Olympus Canada to Distribute Hitachi Tabletop SEM Hitachi High-Technologies Canada has partnered with Olympus Canada Inc., naming the latter company as the exclusive distributor of its TM3000 tabletop scanning electron microscope (SEM) in Canada....

Renesas Electronics Enters Blue-Violet Laser Market

Semiconductor solutions provider Renesas Electronics Corp. announced the release of its first blue-violet semiconductor laser diode with a wavelength of 405 nm and a new structure that incorporate an...

Women’s Hall of Fame Welcomes Poyneer

Lisa Poyneer has been inducted into the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame for her work in adaptive optics and the development of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), which will be the...

Hybridyne Medical Imaging System OK’d by FDA Hybridyne Imaging Technologies Inc. announced it has received FDA clearance for its ProxiScan system. Using planar imaging techniques, the system can be used in imaging the distribution of...

Management Change at SME Sharp Microelectronics Europe (SME) has announced that with the beginning of the new financial year starting April 1, it has added new management to the company. David Woodward, the former vice...

Plasma-Therm Sells 3 Versaline PECVD Systems Plasma process equipment supplier, Plasma-Therm LLC announced that it has sold three Versaline PECVD systems to a South Korean LED manufacturer. The systems were purchased to meet the capacity...

Flir Q1 Profit Up Slightly Flir Systems reported net income of $55.9 million for the first quarter of 2010, up only slightly over the $54.3 million it reported in the first quarter of 2009. Earnings for both quarters amounted...

Optimax Makes Toroidal Optics for BNL Optimax Systems Inc., a precision optical components provider, announced that it has developed the capabilities to manufacture synchrotron mirrors for Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The...

Genesis Photonics Orders Multiple Veeco MOCVD Systems Veeco Instruments Inc. has received orders for multiple TurboDisc K465i gallium nitride (GaN) metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems from Genesis Photonics Inc. (GPI) of Taiwan. ...

Avantes Adds Sales Application Engineer To continue to provide its customers with sales and technical support, Avantes BV has expanded its US headquarters team with the addition of a new sales engineer. Paul Murphy has joined the company...

32M LED LCD TV Market Forecast for 2010 Displaybank, a market research and consulting company for the display and solar industries, has announced that the edge-type LED BLU (backlight unit) technology used in LED LCD TVs is showing rapid...

Thermo Fisher Opens Global Response Center

The science serving company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced a global food testing laboratory has been opened to help solely contain costly and life-threatening chemical contamination crises....

Kopin Displays Target 3-D Market Kopin Corp., a manufacturer of mobile display technology, has begun volume production of its CyberDisplay VGA (video graphics array) and WVGA (wide video graphics array) LVS displays. With 3.75...

Bruker Nabs NIST Contract for AFM

Bruker has announced that it has been awarded a $1.1 million contract to supply a customized N8 Titanos large-sample atomic force microscope (AFM) to the National Institute of Standards and...

Keithley to Host Free Webinar on Characterization Keithley Instruments Inc., an advanced electrical test instruments and systems provider, announced it will broadcast a free, web-based seminar titled, “Fundamentals of Ultrafast I-V Device...

Ignacio Cirac Wins Catalan Culture Award

Professor Ignacio Cirac, director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and leader of the Theory Division, has been honored with the National Culture Award from Catalonia (Premi Nacional de...

Shasta Crystals Nabs $150K NSF Grant Crystal growth company Shasta Crystals announced that it has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the Phase I project entitled, “Potassium lithium niobate...

NanoImaging Receives $200K SBIR Grant NanoImaging Services Inc. has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health through the National Center for Research Resources to develop a new...

Picoprojectors Drive Green Laser Market

Yole Développement released its new markets & technological study dedicated to green laser devices for projection applications. In this report, the company announces that picoprojectors...

Kodak Board Elects Green as VP The Eastman Kodak Co. board of directors has elected Stephen Green as a vice president, effective immediately. Green has served as the regional managing director of sales and customer operations for...

Dymax Marks 30 Years

Dymax Corp., a manufacturer of advanced light-curable adhesives, coatings, and sealants and light-curing equipment, has celebrated its 30-year anniversary this year. Dymax celebrates 30 years of...

IMRA, Jenoptik Pen Fiber Tech Deal IMRA America Inc. (IMRA), developer of ultra-fast fiber lasers, and Jenoptik, an optoelectronic components and systems company based in Germany, have concluded a license agreement for IMRA high power...

Lebby Resigns as OIDA President The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) announced that Michael Lebby has stepped down as its president and chief executive officer to return to industry after serving at OIDA...

Raydiance Promotes Mielke, Hires Flood

Next-generation laser company Radiance Corp. announced that it has promoted its Vice President of Engineering, Dr. Mike Mielke, to chief scientist, and has hired Tim Flood to fill Mielke’s...

Edmund Optics Engineer Speaks at Bio-optics Symposium

Amber Czajkowski, a thin-films engineer at Edmund Optics Inc. in Pennsburg, Pa., was invited to speak at the Symposium on Advanced Bio-optics and Related Medical Device Regulatory Considerations in...

Ametek Acquires Imago Ametek Inc. has announced that it has acquired Imago Scientific Instruments, a privately held manufacturer of 3-D atom probes. "Imago Scientific Instruments significantly broadens our technical...

IPG Acquires Laser Welding Tools Maker Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. announced Tuesday it has acquired privately-held Germany-based Cosytronic KG (Cosy), a manufacturer of laser welding tools. The acquisition allows IPG to make a...

Trumpf Laser Div. Makes Personnel Changes Trumpf Inc. has announced several changes within its laser division. David Havrilla, formerly manager, high power lasers, has been promoted to manager of products and applications. Havrilla,...

Coherent Opens Laser Lab in Beijing Laser maker Coherent Inc. said it has opened a new CO2 laser applications laboratory in Beijing to give its customers in the rapidly growing Chinese materials processing and microelectronics markets...

Applied Materials Opens Singapore Hub Applied Materials Inc. announced it has opened its first facility in Asia for manufacturing its advanced semiconductor equipment. The new Singapore Operations Center, located in the Changi...

GigOptix Seeks $5M in Federal Funding GigOptix Inc., a fabless manufacturer of electronic engines for the digital industry, announced that US Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) has requested $5 million in government funding for the development...

Avago Nabs $40M Optical Finger Contract Avago Technologies, a Calif.-based supplier of analog interface components for wired and wireless communications, industrial and consumer applications, has received a further order for Optical Finger...

L-3 Acquires Insight Technology L-3 Communications announced that it has completed the acquisition of Insight Technology Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Renamed L-3 Insight Technology Inc., the newly...

Andor Acquires Photonic Instruments Andor Technology plc, specializing in scientific imaging, spectroscopy solutions and microscopy systems, has acquired Saint Charles, Illinois-based Photonic Instruments Inc. The existing management...

SensorDymanics Enters Gyroscope Market SensorDymanics, a micro and wireless semiconductor products manufacturer, has launched its two- and three-axis gyroscopes. Its patented sensor elements are fabricated by the PSM-X2 MEMS...

Biolase Awarded Laser Diode Patent Dental laser company Biolase Technology Inc. announced it was awarded a new patent based on its patent application that was filed in 2007 for technology utilized in its ezlase and iLase diode lasers....

Merck, Plastic Logic Partner for Displays Merck KGaA and Plastic Logic GmbH of Dresden have announced plans to jointly develop Merck’s organic semiconductors for Plastic Logic’s displays. Production and launch are planned for...

Universal Display Wins SBIR Contract Universal Display Corp., a N.J.-based developer of organic light emitting device (OLED) technologies, has been awarded a $499,999 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract from the...

OKI Opens New LED Production Facility OKI Data Corp., an OKI Group company that specializes in print business, announced that its LED development subsidiary, OKI Digital Imaging has started operations at its newly-acquired production...

Power Technology Now ITAR Registered Laser manufacturer Power Technology Inc. announced it is now International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) registered, expanding the choices of lasers available to military and defense customers....

Essen Instruments Changes Name, Relocates Life science research tools and discovery services provider Essen Instruments Inc. has announced a corporate name change to Essen Bioscience Inc. Additionally, the company has moved its world...

Cambrios Awarded DoD Contract for PV Cells Cambrios Technologies Corp. announced that it has been awarded a Department of Defense contract to produce lightweight, flexible solar energy photovoltaics (PV). The contract represents the...

Zeiss Launches Femtosecond-Only Laser Vision Corrections Carl Zeiss Meditec AG announced that ReLEx, the first femtosecond-only method of laser vision correction, is now available for sale outside the United States. The new application, ReLEx, allows...

Fiber-Based Solar Cell Earns Patent A promising new solar cell, developed out of Wake Forest University, has received its first formal patent from the Euopean Patent Office. According to Dr. David Carroll, the director of Wake...

SmartKem Appoints Griffiths as Senior Scientist

The developer of novel materials and processes that create high-resolution microelectronic components directly onto thin flexible printed electronics, SmartKem Ltd. announced it has appointed Russell...

JPK Appoints Sales Manager

JPK Instruments, a manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, has announced the appointment of Dr. Robert Field as sales manager for the UK and...

Cornell Funds Nanoscience Projects The Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science has named Paul McEuen, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics, as the director, while David A. Muller, associate professor of applied and...

Optelecom-NKF Sells EO Unit to Nufern Video surveillance equipment maker Optelecom-NKF Inc. announced Monday it will sell its Electro Optics coil manufacturing business to Nufern for $1.4 million. The Electro Optics unit makes...

Key Photonics Technology Forum to Open in Brussels SPIE Photonics Europe announced that it will provide a forum for discussion of the latest developments in key enabling technologies identified by the European Commission held April 12-16 in the...

SPIE DS&S: New Tech, New Uses

"We are in a period of significant change and uncertainty," said Zachary J. Lemnios during his symposium-wide plenary lecture Tuesday morning at the SPIE Defense, Security & Sensing conference...

Bruker Forms Chemical Analysis Div. Bruker Corp., a provider of high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular and materials research, announced it has created a Chemical Analysis Division within its Bruker...

Edwards Receives FPD Orders from China

Edwards Ltd., a supplier of vacuum and abatement equipment and services, announced the sale of multiple dry pumps and turbomolecular (TMP) vacuum pumps to two flat panel display (FPD) manufacturers...

CEA-Leti Project Aims to Improve Sub-28nm Node Yields CEA-Leti, a global research center committed to creating and commercializing innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, announced that its Hybrid Metrology Project has developed a way to reduce...

Microvision Nabs $8.5M Order for PicoP Microvision announced that it has received an $8.5 million purchase order for its new ultraminiature PicoP laser projection display engine from a consumer electronics customer. The OEM plans to embed...

Martinson Joins Schott Lighting and Imaging The Lighting and Imaging Business Unit of Schott North America Inc. announced it has appointed Karl Martinson as its defense division manager. A graduate of UMass Lowell, Martinson brings to Schott...

FEI Files Suit to Collect $2.4M Debt Scientific instruments provider FEI Co. announced it has filed suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to collect approximately $2.4 million of receivables owed...

Resolve Inks HUD Camera Supply Deal with Sekai

Resolve Optics Ltd. announced it has received a contract to supply Sekai Electronics Inc. of La Mirada, Calif., with an optimized second generation version of the miniature varifocal zoom lens...

Asylum, ORNL to Hold SPM Workshop The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Asylum Research are co-organizing the International Workshop for Scanning Probe Microscopy for Energy...

$38.7M Awarded to Universities for Equipment The Department of Defense (DoD) announced its plan to award $38.7 million to academic institutions to support the purchase of research instrumentation. The 166 awards to 96 academic...

Nikon Forms Metrology Co. Nikon has announced it has formed Nikon Metrology Inc., a new company that combines Nikon Instruments Inc.’s industrial instruments business with the former Metris business, which was acquired...

Mitsubishi Electric to Sell TFT-LCDs in Americas Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA Inc. announced that it now sells thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) modules for industrial applications in North, Central and South...

Luminus Introduces its First UV PhlatLight LED Big-chip PhlatLight LED developer Luminus Devices Inc., announced the UV CBT-120, its first big-chip ultraviolet LED built on PhlatLight technology. Suitable for UV applications that demand a...

FLIR Nabs $13.5M Navy Order Flir Systems Inc. announced that it has received a $13.5 million order from the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Crane Division for its Brite Star II multisensor target designa...

Artemis Optical to Host Thin Film Course Artemis Optical Ltd., a high precision, optical thin film coatings provider, has announced it will host a course titled, “Practical Design and Production of Optical Thin Films,” led by Ron Willey, a...

Kyocera to Acquire TFT LCD Plant from Sony Kyocera Corp. has agreed to purchase part of the thin-film transistor (TFT) LCD design and manufacturing business of Sony Corp. and its subsidiary Sony Mobile Display Corp. Kyo...

Jenoptik Medical Laser Order Tops $16M Following the large traffic safety order announced at the beginning of March, Jenoptik has received another major order to deliver lasers for medical use to a US-based client. ...

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY

Laservision to Hold Laser Safety Officers Workshop Laservision announced that it will participate in the annual Laser Safety Officers Workshop July 27-29 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The company will exhibit at the workshop, as well as conduct a mini-workshop on its EyePro software. The free software is available to assist in the selection of suitable laser safety products to meet specific laser requirements. The annual LSO event...

New Look at Bioactive Metal Complexes

Scientists at Ruhr University Bochum have accurately determined the location of metal complexes within living cancer cells using Raman microscopy. The technique provides new insights into the...

Revealing Cell Membrane Mechanics

Thanks to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, scientists now have a more complete understanding of one of the human body’s most vital structures, the red blood cell. Led by University of...

Virtually Invisible Rooftop Solar Panels

A Spanish-German partnership has developed a virtually invisible solar film for roofs for an accessible price. "You don’t see the film at all – it’s marvelous," said Francisco Ruiz...

Images of Atomic Spin Captured

A custom-built microscope with an iron-coated tip to manipulate cobalt atoms on a plate of manganese has allowed physicists at Ohio University and the University of Hamburg in Germany to image, for...

Novel Metamaterial Responds to Visible Light

An artificial optical material with a three-dimensional structure has been engineered to bend light in the “wrong” direction from what normally would be expected, irrespective of the angle of the...

Lensless Microscope Made for Telemedicine

Aydogan Ozcan, whose invention of a novel lensless imaging technology for telemedicine could radically transform global health care, has now taken his work a step further. The University of...

Lasers Promising for Chemical Decontamination

The Department of Homeland Security is funding research at Idaho National Laboratory that involves using lasers to decontaminate chemical explosion sites. Most preferred methods today employ other...

IBM Creates World’s Smallest 3-D Map

Scientists have created a 3-D map of the earth so small that 1000 of them could fit on one grain of salt. They accomplished this through a breakthrough technique that uses a tiny, silicon tip with a...

Synthetic Diamonds Key to Laser Discoveries

Richard Mildren, associate professor at the Macquarie University Photonics Research Center in Sydney, and colleagues discovered it was possible to generate a coherent laser beam from man-made diamond...

Microreactors Advance Solar Cells

A new technology that uses continuous flow microreactors to produce thin film absorbers for solar cells could significantly reduce the cost of solar energy devices and reduce material waste,...

Plastic Lab-on-a-Chip Curbs Clots

A plastic lab-on-a-chip system is being developed for fast and easy testing of thrombosis, or blood clots. An EU project that involves ten research institutes and high tech firms in eight European...

SDO Unveils Images of ‘First Light’

Spectacular “first light” images and data from three state-of-the art instruments on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) were unveiled this week. The SDO spacecraft was launched...

Spanish University Wins Nanotech PV Project

After responding to a call for proposals, a research group led by Juan Bisquert at Universitat Jaume I of Castelló has won the bid for a scientific and technological research project on new...

Correcting Vision Without Surgery

There is now a contact lens that is capable of correcting mild to moderate vision defects without surgery. This innovation has earned Jaume Pauné, a graduate of the master’s degree...

OCT Diagnoses Shaken Baby Syndrome Ophthalmologists examining infants for possible shaken baby syndrome (SBS) found that a handheld spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) device provided high-resolution images of the...

A Step Towards Quantum Computing

Physicists have discovered properties of hybrid light-matter particles, existing in the solid state matrix, which could one day lead to faster and more efficient computers and telecommunications. A...

Scanning Probe Microscope Accelerated

For more than twenty years, the scanning force microscope has been employed in research and industry. Its enormous resolution has triggered many applications in nanotechnology. There is, however, a...

HRL Designated Historical Laser Site

HRL Laboratories LLC, formerly Hughes Research Laboratories, will be designated a Physics Historical Site by the American Physical Society (APS) as the location where the first working laser was...

Instrument Pulls on Atom’s Chain

In a recent experiment researchers demonstrated a tug-of-war at the atomic scale. The group, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has built an ultra-stable instrument for...

Surveillance Applications for Iris Recognition

Researchers are expanding new miniature camera technology for military and security uses so soldiers can track combatants in dark caves or urban alleys, and security officials can unobtrusively...

Method Recovers Pricey Nanoparticles

Ounce for ounce nanoparticles can be more precious than gold, making a new-found method that recovers, recycles and reuses nanoparticles invaluable. Solar panels, flexible displays, and other...

NSF-Supported Center Moves to Houston

The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM), supported by the National Science Foundation, has relocated operations to the University of Houston (UH) from the University of Florida....

China Champions LED Tunnel Lighting

LED-based tunnel lighting for two new highway tunnels in central China is saving up to 60 percent in energy consumption and related costs over fixtures built with traditional light sources. Utilizing...

Imaging a Heart’s First Beat

Through high-resolution, non-invasive imaging, scientists are documenting the formation of the mammalian heart and are capturing video of the embryonic heart before it begins beating. Kirill Larin,...

Smoothing the Way for Flexible OLEDs

Two Fraunhofer Institutes have manufactured a flexible OLED in a roll-to-roll production and encapsulated the device in a subsequent inline-process for the first time. This process design would allow...

Closing in on Carbon Solar Cells

By attaching what amounts to a 3-D bramble patch to each side of a carbon sheet, scientists say they were able to dissolve sheets containing as many as 168 carbon atoms to make large stable graphene...

Laser Physics Turned ‘Upside Down’

Using quantum dot lasers, researchers at Technische Universität Darmstadt have found a new method for generating tunable wavelengths and for more easily switching back and forth between two...

Graphene Still a Great Thermal Conductor

The single-atom thick material graphene maintains its high thermal conductivity when supported by a substrate, a critical step to advancing the material from a laboratory phenomenon to a useful...

CEA-Leti Reveals CMOS-Compatible Laser

CEA-Leti has demonstrated a fully CMOS-compatible laser source coupled to a silicon waveguide, a major milestone toward the WADIMOS project’s goal of fabricating an optical interconnect network...

Size is Key for Hollow Nanoparticles

Size plays a key role in determining the structure of certain hollow nanoparticles, according to a new study from North Carolina State University. The researchers focused on nickel nanoparticles,...

Graphene Clears Major Fabrication Hurdle

Graphene, the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, is a potential superstar for the electronics industry. With freakishly mobile electrons that can blaze through the material at nearly the...

Third Frontier Funds YSI-UC Team The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has approved a $1,127,873 award to YSI Inc. of Yellow Springs, Riehl Engineering Ltd. of Dayton and the University of Cincinnati (UC) for their “Advanced...

Gold-Silver Nanocages Improve Imaging

An experimental ultrasensitive medical imaging technique that uses pulsed laser and tiny metallic “nanocages” might enable both the early detection and treatment of disease. The system...

Fiber-Based Solar Cell Earns Patent A promising new solar cell, developed out of Wake Forest University, has received its first formal patent from the Euopean Patent Office. According to Dr. David Carroll, the director of Wake...

Reaching Beyond the Quantum Limit

For the first time scientists have succeeded in generating multi-particle entanglement on an atom-chip. This technique opens a way to significantly enhance the precision of chip-based atomic clocks...

New Plastics for Cheaper Solar Panels

Newly produced, electricity-conducting plastics could dramatically lower the cost of manufacturing solar panels. By overcoming technical hurdles to producing plastics that are translucent, malleable...

Gold Nanoprobes Monitor Disease Tiny chemical sensors implanted into patients could help diagnose disease and track its progress, following a development by scientists. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have...

SPIE DS&S: New Tech, New Uses

"We are in a period of significant change and uncertainty," said Zachary J. Lemnios during his symposium-wide plenary lecture Tuesday morning at the SPIE Defense, Security & Sensing conference...

Combing a Qubit

By adapting an optical frequency comb researchers have found a way to manipulate quantum bits (qubits). According to physicists at the University of Maryland, this discovery will be vital for the...

New Spintronics Material for Next-Gen Chips As the electronics industry works toward developing smaller and more compact devices, the need to create new types of scaled-down semiconductors that are more efficient and use less power has become...

Nanoscale Frictional Characteristics Revealed

Friction force microscopy has been used to determine the nanoscale frictional characteristics of four atomically-thin materials, in the process discovering a universal characteristic for these very...

Ion Trap for Quantum Computing

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built and tested a device for trapping electrically charged atoms (ions) that potentially could process dozens of ions at...

Nanotubes Create Atomic ‘Black Hole’

Carbon nanotubes, long touted for applications in materials and electronics, may also be the stuff of atomic-scale black holes. Physicists at Harvard University have found that a high-voltage...

Hubble Proves Cosmic Acceleration

A group of astronomers led by Tim Schrabback of the Leiden Observatory conducted an intensive study of more than 446,000 galaxies, resulting in independent confirmation that the expansion of the...

Weak Laser Ignites Nanoparticles Using a low-power laser engineering researchers have found they can ignite certain nanoparticles, a development they say opens the door to a wave of new technologies in health care, computing and...

Nanoscience Conference Announced Veeco Instruments Inc., maker of atomic force microscopes (AFMs), has announced that it will host the “Seeing at the Nanoscale VIII” conference at the Congress Center in Basel,...

Creating Bonds with Lasers

In what was once considered a complicated and cost-intensive process, fiber-reinforced composites are now being crafted and bonded with lasers, eliminating the need for matting and resins....

Noise Turned into Vision

By adjusting an electrical voltage across a crystal of nonlinear material, researchers have developed a new technique for revealing images of hidden objects that may one day allow pilots to peer...

ACQUISITIONS

L-3 Acquires Insight Technology L-3 Communications announced that it has completed the acquisition of Insight Technology Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Renamed L-3 Insight Technology Inc., the newly...

OKI Opens New LED Production Facility OKI Data Corp., an OKI Group company that specializes in print business, announced that its LED development subsidiary, OKI Digital Imaging has started operations at its newly-acquired production...

Bruker Forms Chemical Analysis Div. Bruker Corp., a provider of high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular and materials research, announced it has created a Chemical Analysis Division within its Bruker...

Nikon Forms Metrology Co. Nikon has announced it has formed Nikon Metrology Inc., a new company that combines Nikon Instruments Inc.’s industrial instruments business with the former Metris business, which was acquired...

PRODUCTS

MD 1200 Adhesive

TORRINGTON, Conn., April 30, 2010 — The Dymax Corp. MD 1200 series adhesives are now available for rapid bonding of a variety of substrates found in reservoirs, plastic housings, respiratory devices, needles, syringes, tube sets,...

Dymax, Headquarters

Fiber-Coupled Laser Diodes

OLCHING, Germany, April 30, 2010 — Laser Components GmbH has extended its product offering to include BWT Beijing Inc.’s fiber-coupled high power laser diodes at 635 to 690 nm. The device features alignment of the 3 to 375...

Laser Components GmbH

ORLANDO, Fla., April 29, 2010 — LightPath Technologies’ athermalized f/1.3, 14.9-mm focal length long-wave infrared (LWIR) assembly for thermal imaging using 8 to 12 µm infrared signatures. Designed as the primary...

LightPath Technologies Inc.

ProgRes SpeedXT core Microscope Cameras

JENA, Germany, April 29, 2010 — The digital imaging business unit of the Jenoptik Optical Systems Division has added two USB camera types to its ProgRes CCD microscope camera range. The ProgRes SpeedXT core 3 and ProgRes...

Jenoptik Optical Systems GmbH, Optical Systems

The Photonics Buyers’ Guide is now mobile!

Access the Photonics Buyers’ Guide from your smartphone – whether it’s an iPhone, a Blackberry, a Droid, or almost any other device. Enjoy the same functionality as your laptop or...

Photonics Media

VAMP Series

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 28, 2010 — The Newport Corp. brand, New Focus, has released a series of semiconductor tapered amplifiers for high-power tunable and fixed-wavelength applications. Designed to accept many fiber-coupled...

Newport - New Focus

Photodiode Energy Sensor

LOGAN, Utah, April 28, 2010 — The PD10-IR-pJ photodiode energy sensor from Ophir-Spiricon is now available to measure very low energy down to 30 pJ. Part of the PD10 family of high sensitivity silicon laser sensors, the new...

MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement

Verdi G7 Laser

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 27, 2010 — Coherent Inc. has released the Verdi G7, the highest power level yet for the company’s Verdi G family of low-noise CW lasers based on next-generation optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL)...

F-Mount Periscope

CHESHAM, England, April 27, 2010 — A ruggedized F-mount periscope has been supplied from Resolve Optics Ltd. to Specialised Imaging Ltd. to provide real-time focusing of any prime lens on the latter company’s SIR3 high-speed...

Resolve Optics Ltd.

Laser Safety Dome

ST. PAUL, Minn., April 26, 2010 — Laservision has released a laser safety dome designed for the demonstration of laser applications in public areas or at trade shows. The glueless manufactured domes are made of acrylic laser...

laservision USA

Single-Mode VCSELs

HUDSON, N.H., April 26, 2010 — Polarization-stabilized single-mode VCSELs with increased output power are now available from Laser Components IG Inc. The A4-PL vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser delivers an output of 1.4...

Laser Components USA Inc.

UMR-TRA XY Stages

IRVINE, Calif., April 26, 2010 — Newport Corp. introduces the UMR-TRA XY stages, a new line of integrated YX stages built from industry-standard UMR linear stages and TRA actuators. The device’s small footprint measures...

Photologic Digital Switches

CARROLLTON, Texas, April 23, 2010 — Providing design engineers with a flexible optical device with multiple output configurations, TT electronics Optek Technology has developed a Photologic slotted optical switch in a right angle...

Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control

Part Centering Accessory

KEENE, N.H., April 22, 2010 — Ametek Precitech Inc.’s Part Centering Accessory uses a combination probe and reference surface to align the outer diameter of a vacuum-mounted, round, continuous surface component relative to...

AMETEK Precitech Inc.

Microplate/Seal Combination

LEATHERHEAD, UK, April 21, 2010 — Porvair Sciences Ltd. has announced a black microplate and seal combination that eliminates sample degradation by exposure to light, even over long-term storage periods. Manufactured from...

Porvair Sciences Ltd.

Turnkey SLD Source for Imaging

NEWTON, N.J., April 21, 2010 — Thorlabs Inc. has introduced the S5FC series of benchtop superluminescent diode (SLD) light sources that integrate proprietary indium phosphide SLDs manufactured by Covega (now known as Thorlabs...

StarCut Tube Femto

STARNBERG, Germany, April 20, 2010 — Rofin Baasel Lasertech’s stent cutting system with a femtosecond laser, the StarCut Tube Femto offers cold laser cutting for medical device manufacturing. Femtosecond lasers process...

Rofin-Baasel Lasertech

TriAngle UltraSpec

WEDEL, Germany, April 20, 2010 — The electronic autocollimators of the TriAngle UltraSpec Series from Trioptics GmbH are high-precision angle measurement systems that deliver high angle resolution and measuring accuracy. They...

6-Axis Alignment Systems

PI offers the largest selection of high-accuracy Hexapod 6-D Micropositioners -- ideal for precision alignment & handling from fibers to MEMS to heavy optics. Vacuum compatibility; very high...

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics

Introducing the VAMP™ Tapered Amplifier

For high-power tunable and fixed-wavelength applications such as atomic cooling, spectroscopy and creating Bose-Einstein Condensates, the VAMP Tapered Amplifier produces in excess of 1 W of tunable...

Newport - New Focus

Solar Application Software

LAKE FOREST, Calif., April 19, 2010 — Chroma Systems Solutions Inc. is contributing to the photovoltaic (PV) industry with the introduction of its Solar Application Soft Panel. This software tool uses the proprietary 63600 series DC...

Chroma Systems Solutions Inc.

LED-Curable Adhesive

TORRINGTON, Conn., April 19, 2010 — Dymax Corp.'s Ultra-Red 1120-M-UR is an ultrafast, tack-free, LED-curable plastic bonding medical device adhesive formulated for fast, on-demand cure with the company’s new BlueWave LED Prime...

Dymax, Headquarters

Tlam SS LLD PCB Substrate

ST. LOUIS, April 19, 2010 — Laird Technologies Inc. has released the enhanced Tlam SS LLD for use as a thermally conductive printed circuit board (PCB) substrate. The versatile, thermally enhanced PCB substrate system is...

Laird Technologies

Intelligent Camera

ETTLINGEN, Germany, April 16, 2010 — Vision Components GmbH has introduced an intelligent camera that can record and process electroluminescence images for quality checks of solar wafers and photovoltaic modules. The VC4067/NIR...

Vision Components GmbH

LSP40 Plug-and-Play Drivers

HUDSON, N.H., April 15, 2010 — Laser Components’ LSP40 series plug-and-play driver modules are used to accurately control pulsed laser diodes (PLDs). With just two resistors, the user can regulate both the operating current...

Laser Components USA Inc.

cellSens Imaging Software

HAMBURG, Germany, April 15, 2010 — Olympus Europa Holding GmbH has introduced the cellSens software for life sciences imaging applications. Available in three packages, it includes a user-definable interface. Only the required tools...

Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG

Motorized Probe Heads

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I., April 14, 2010 — Hexagon Metrology Inc. has announced new versions of the TesaStar-m and TesaStar-sm motorized probe heads for Brown & Sharpe and Sheffield branded coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). The...

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence

Thermal Laser Power Meter

LOGAN, Utah, April 14, 2010 — Ophir-Spiricon Inc. has announced a new line of compact thermal laser power sensors with powers up to 400 W. These high-performance heat dissipation sensors feature an array of pins for...

MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement

Mi Macro Imaging Station

MELVILLE, N.Y., April 13, 2010 — For maximizing information during the imaging of gross specimens in digital pathology applications, Nikon Instruments Inc. has unveiled the Mi macro imaging station that addresses the work flow...

Nikon Instruments Inc.

Super-Corrected 60× Objective

HAMBURG, Germany, April 13, 2010 — Olympus Europa Holding GmbH has introduced the PLAPON 60×OSC objective lens with an NA of 1.4, offering high levels of chromatic aberration correction for life sciences imaging applications....

Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG

Spectroradiometer System

TAMPA, Fla., April 13, 2010 — Designed to characterize and evaluate light emissions according to industry standards used for solar simulators, a new spectroradiometer system from StellarNet Inc. is a complete NIST-traceable...

StellarNet Inc.

Infrared Reduction Filter

SANTA ROSA, Calif., April 12, 2010 — Deposition Sciences Inc. has announced an improved filter developed to reduce the infrared and transmit the visible wavelengths in camera applications. Because CMOS sensors are particularly sensitive...

Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI)

SU320HX SWIR Video Camera

PRINCETON, N.J., April 12, 2010 — Sensors Unlimited Inc., part of Goodrich ISR Systems, has introduced a new military-hardened, uncooled, InGaAs short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) video camera for military applications. Small and...

Sensors Unlimited Inc. - A Collins Aerospace Company

Universal C-Mount Adapter

SAN DIMAS, Calif., April 9, 2010 — Craic Technologies has introduced a Universal C-mount adapter for microscope cameras and spectrophotometers. It is designed to add C-mount cameras and spectrophotometers to microscopes, to...

CRAIC Technologies

UV10TKLO-2 Adhesive/Sealant

HACKENSACK, N.J., April 9, 2010 — A one-component UV-curable adhesive/sealant developed by Master Bond Inc. meets low-outgassing requirements per NASA ASTM E-595. The UV10TKLO-2 modified epoxy system offers optical clarity, high...

Master Bond Inc.

Hinted SWIR Sensor Fusion

PRINCETON, N.J., April 9, 2010 — Sensors Unlimited Inc., part of Goodrich ISR Systems, has announced a sensor fusion imaging engine that incorporates compact, uncooled and lightweight short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) sensors based...

Sensors Unlimited Inc. - A Collins Aerospace Company

LED Module Product Line

DURHAM, N.C., April 8, 2010 — Cree Inc. has introduced a class of products designed to accelerate the adoption of LED lighting by traditional lighting fixture manufacturers and speed time-to-market for their new LED-based...

ProScan III

ROCKLAND, Mass., April 8, 2010 — Prior Scientific Inc. has launched the ProScan III microscope automation system. With its compact, modular design and its programmable TLL, it can control up to 16 axes including a motorized stage,...

Prior Scientific Inc.

IndyStar Excimer Laser

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 7, 2010 — Coherent Inc. has added a new model to its IndyStar family of compact excimer lasers that offers a 2-kHz repetition rate for increased throughput. The fully Semi S2-certified laser incorporates...

StarLab 2.00 Software

LOGAN, Utah, April 7, 2010 — Ophir-Spiricon has announced the release of StarLab 2.00 software that converts a PC into a multichannel laser power/energy station. Features include synchronization and display of multiple channels...

MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement

KD-2446 Proximity Sensor

MIDDLETOWN, Conn., April 7, 2010 — Kaman Precision Products Measuring’s KD-2446 is a high-precision proximity sensor system that offers lead-free RoHS compliance in a cost-effective compact DIN rail mount package that is easy to...

Kaman Precision Products, Measuring Systems

MEMS Optical Switch

RICHMOND, Calif., April 6, 2010 — DiCon Fiberoptics has released a new microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) 1 × 56 fiber optic switch, suitable for applications such as fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) monitoring. Housed in a compact...

DiCon Fiberoptics Inc.

Imaging-Based Plate Reader

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., April 6, 2010 — Hamamatsu Corp. has unveiled an imaging-based plate reader, the FDSSµCELL, designed for drug discovery instrumentation, and compound screening and kinetic cell-based assay development...

Hamamatsu Corporation

Extension of Microscope Series

ULM, Germany, April 6, 2010 — WITec GmbH has introduced an extension of its alpha300 microscope series. Building on the system’s inherent modularity, the company has added several new microscope versions to meet diverse...

Prizm LightTurn Connector

HICKORY, N.C., April 5, 2010 — US Conec has announced the introduction and immediate availability of the Prizm LightTurn connector, a next-generation photonic turn parallel optic interconnect solution. Designed as a...

RIP1-NJAC APD Receivers

BEAVERTON, Ore., April 5, 2010 — Voxtel Inc. has announced the release of a near-infrared avalanche photodiode (APD) receiver with 1-GHz bandwidth and a large 200-µm-diameter optical area. Suitable for laser rangefinder, laser...

FL and SemiChill Series Coolers

ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 1, 2010 — The FL and SemiChill series recirculating coolers from Julabo USA Inc. provide a wide range of liquid cooling/heating capabilities for applications in the semiconductor, laser and photonics...

Julabo USA Inc.

IMSEAL-800 Epoxy Resin

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I., April 1, 2010 — IMSEAL-800, a high-strength epoxy resin, seals visible porosity deep below the surface in castings and other metal parts, completely and permanently filling blowholes, cracks and other defects where...

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