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Photonics.com - August 2008
News & Features
Seeing the Sky in 3-D
Meteorologists in western Switzerland will now use light to detect temperature and humidity in the atmosphere. Designed by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and funded by the Swiss...
Janos Acquired by Fluke
Precision infrared optics manufacturer Janos Technology of Keene, N.H., announced today it has been acquired by electronic test tools and software maker Fluke Corp., a Danaher company. Specific terms...
Breathalyzer for Cancer
Studies have shown that dogs can detect cancer by smelling certain gasses on the breath of patients, but unfortunately dogs can’t tell us exactly what gasses they smell. Intrigued by the concept of...
Coherent Lays Off 144
According to documents filed with California’s Employment Development Department, Coherent Inc. laid off 144 employees at its manufacturing operation in Auburn on Aug. 23, 2008. Coherent, a major...
StockerYale Loses Virtek Bid
StockerYale’s cash bid for Virtek Vision International Inc. has been rejected for the third time this year after the minimum 66.6 percent of shares were not tendered. The bid expired at 11:59 p.m....
Lab to Reopen After Injury
Three weeks after one of its senior engineers was seriously injured, the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester is scheduled to reopen. The return to operations this week...
Newport Unit to Cut 80 Jobs
Newport Corp.'s Spectra-Physics facility in Tucson has laid off 29 of its 200 workers and will let about 50 more go through the first quarter of 2009, according to media reports. The Arizona...
Seeing an Extreme Universe
Passing its first orbital checkpoint with flying colors, NASA’s Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) has revealed an entire gamma-ray sky. More than two months ago, NASA launched the GLAST...
Virtual Fitting Rooms
Fitting rooms may soon become a thing of the past. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute HHI, have developed what they have dubbed the “virtual...
Photolysis Extracts Hydrogen
Hydrogen is the most plentiful gas in the universe and having only one proton, it is the simplest element known to man. As a gas, hydrogen is lighter than air and rises into the atmosphere, which is...
Semicon Europa Relocates
Semicon Europa trade show has a new home in Silicon Saxony, Europe’s leading microelectronics center. SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International) will host the global event starting in...
Micro Manufacturing Show
The MMLive 2008, the first ever micro manufacturing machine show in England, will be held October 21-22, at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. Product designers and manufacturers will be able to see a...
Motorized Nano-Positioners
Engineers at Purdue University have created a monolithic comb drive, a tiny motorized positioning device that could be used as a “nanoscale manipulator” that precisely moves or senses movement and...
Cutting Cancer by Color
The key to a successful cancer surgery is the removal of all of the diseased tissue, but sometimes tumor boundaries can be difficult to track. However, researchers in Massachusetts have developed a...
Lasers Tune Quantum Dots
In what could be a key development in cryptography applications, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative...
Nanochain Faster Than Light
According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, the speed of light in a vacuum is the same for all observers, regardless of their relative motion or of the motion of the source of the light. In other...
Laser Fits Fresco Fragments
A new approach that combines a laptop computer, flatbed scanner, and a turntable with a laser rangefinder automates a painfully slow task facing archaeologists -- reconstructing ancient artifacts...
X-ray Laser Progress Updated
Progress toward producing the first-ever functioning x-ray laser in Ireland is being presented this week during an international conference on x-ray lasers at Queen's University Belfast. Leading...
Cancer Probe Trials Funded
A new grant will allow a researcher to continue developing and testing a device that uses light to detect skin cancer without the need for an invasive biopsy. University of Texas at Austin...
Bruker AXS Buying AFM Maker
Analytical x-ray systems manufacturer Bruker AXS GmbH of Karlsruhe, Germany, announced it will acquire the German company SIS (Surface Imaging Systems) GmbH, a maker of advanced atomic force/scanning...
Eyeing the Biological Clock
Our biological clock tells us when to eat, sleep, and when to wake up. Though we have evolved to coordinate our activities with the day/night cycle caused by the earth’s rotation, there is now...
Nano Shock Absorbers
The market is hot with ultratiny electronic devices. Cell phones, mp3s, and cameras, for example, have enjoyed a fresh, new compact design, but with that comes a price – fragility. A team of...
Tiny Pen Prints Olympic Logo
Nanoscientists have created a lithography technique that can print on the nanometer, micrometer and millimeter length scales quickly, easily and inexpensively through arrays of tiny polymer pens. In...
SPIE Show Soars
This year’s SPIE Optics+Photonics symposium was the largest meeting of the annual symposium thus far. The show, which ends today, enjoyed sessions on nano and solar technologies, strategies for...
Optrode Detects Toxin Traces
You may never look at caviar the same way again: Researchers have created a fiber optic tool capable of detecting a range of harmful chemicals by using environmentally sensitive, days-old fish...
Lockheed Buys Nanotech Unit
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced it has acquired the government business unit of privately held Nantero Inc., a Woburn, Mass.-based company that has developed methods and processes...
Solar Cotton & Castor Beans
After being held in the utmost secrecy for 18 months, BioSolar Inc. has unveiled a protective covering for photovoltaic (PV) solar cells made from cotton and castor beans. While not revealing core...
Plexus Closing Mass. Plant
Plexus Corp. announced today it will close its Ayer, Mass., manufacturing facility by March 2009, eliminating 170 jobs, and move products made there to other locations, primarily Neenah, Wis....
UAV Measures Olympic Smog
Perhaps one of the most spectacular Olympic venues, Beijing is also marred by some of the world’s worst air pollution. While perched on a global stage, Beijing is being observed by scientists who are...
Closing in on Invisibility Cloak
The idea of an invisibility cloak certainly pushes the edge of plausible, however a group of scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, have come one step closer to being able to render...
The Incredible, Edible Optic
Sophisticated optical devices currently under development could allow you to safely eat that piece of cake and the sensor, too. Using fibers from silkworms to develop platform devices, scientists...
Graphene Atomic Balloon
The world’s thinnest balloon is just one atom thick. Developed by researchers at Cornell University, this balloon is made of a single layer of graphite and it is impermeable to even the tiniest...
Serious Injury Closes Lab
Operations have been suspended at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) following an accident there Wednesday night that left a senior lab engineer seriously...
Engineer Hurt in Laser Lab
A senior lab engineer at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) was seriously injured Wednesday night after a heavy piece of equipment fell on him, according to media...
Event Adds Investment Forum
A technology investment forum arranged in partnership with the Photonics Cluster (UK) will be one of the highlights of the new and improved Photonex 2008 when it is held Oct. 15 and 16 at Stoneleigh...
Harmonic Oscillators
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) researchers have made a major breakthrough in experimental quantum mechanics. UCSB physicists Max Hofheinz, John Martinis and Andrew Cleland have...
Silicon Camera Mimics Eye
The human eye's ability to use a curved surface to capture images has stumped research groups trying to reproduce it for the last 20 years. But now engineers report they have solved the problem by...
Ultracold Atomic Gases
A newly discovered method of photoemission spectroscopy may soon help create a more efficient transmission of electricity across powers grids, and could eventually serve as a building block for some...
QD Laser Maker Secures $13M
Innolume, a maker of quantum dot (QD) -based lasers and laser modules, said it has secured approximately $13.3 million (€8.6 million) after a Series C funding round led by S-Group Capital Management....
Light Project Awarded $1.5M
A Stanford University researcher has received a $1.5 million grant to support his project aimed at using light to control a variety of cells. Dr. Karl Deisseroth, PhD, assistant professor of...
Micron-sized X-ray Holograms
A group of scientists have produced two of the brightest, sharpest x-ray holograms of microscopic objects ever made. Working at both the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the US Department of Energy’s...
LightPath Raises $2.9M
LightPath Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of precision optical products, announced that it has raised approximately $2.9 million for working capital through the sale of 8 percent convertible...
Corning Buying Component Biz
Specialty glass and ceramics giant Corning Inc. will acquire Optimum Manufacturing Corp. for its Specialty Materials unit,the company announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
Priceless Nanojewels
Before light even reaches our eyes, it has to go through a submicroscopic maze of nanostructures in order to deliver dazzling color. While nature achieves this process effortlessly, recreating it has...
Inventor Mulls Widening Case
An inventor who holds the sole patent covering a method of producing LEDs and laser diodes widely used in consumer electronics is considering adding more companies to her patent infringement case in...
Frozen Smoke in 3-D
For the first time, scientists have discovered a way to perform high-resolution x-ray diffraction imaging of an aerogel. Sometimes referred to as “frozen smoke,” aerogels are solid nanoscale...
Products
Ultrafast Amplifier Systems
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 28, 2008 – Coherent Inc. has introduced two new Legend Elite ultrafast amplifiers that offer specified pulse widths of less than 25 femtoseconds. The Legend Elite USX-HE delivers pulse energies over 2.5 mJ,...
Coherent Inc.
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PCI Express Frame Grabber
TIGARD, Ore., Aug. 28, 2008 – Sensoray Co. Inc. has announced the addition of the Model 817 PCI Express JPEG frame grabber to its line of OEM video capture cards. The 817 PCI Express x1 card captures 16 separate channels of...
Sensoray Co. Inc.
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Heated Petri Dish
BERLIN, Aug. 26, 2008 – JPK Instruments AG has released a Petri dish heater solution for live cell imaging using the company’s NanoWizard BioAFM and CellHesion product lines. The heater system can apply standard imaging...
Bruker Nano GmbH, JPK BioAFM
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Polarizers
BARLEBEN, Germany, Aug. 25, 2008 – Codixx AG has added the colorPol IR 1550 BC4 T2 HT polarizer to its colorPol HT family developed for telecommunication applications. The polarizer has a thickness of 0.2 mm, an extinction ratio...
CODIXX AG
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UV Photodiode
KYOTO, Japan, Aug. 20, 2008 – Kyosemi Corp. has unveiled its KPDU37S1 UV photodiode that offers high responsivity for the detection of UV light at wavelengths from 360- to 380 nm. The photodiode has a responsivity of up to 140...
Kyoto Semiconductor Co. Ltd.
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Wire-Grid Polarizers
BARRINGTON, N.J., Aug. 19, 2008 – Edmund Optics Inc. has introduced IR holographic wire-grid polarizers designed to polarize light from unpolarized infrared lasers sources and ideal for attenuating light from polarized sources. The...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Water Isotope Analyzer
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 19, 2008 – Picarro Inc. has introduced the Picarro L1102-i water isotope analyzer equipped with an integrated robotic autosampler and vaporization accessory to allow samples to be analyzed in a single...
Picarro Inc.
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OEM Thermoelectric Cold Plate
BOTHEL, Wash., Aug. 14, 2008 -- Elite Thermal Engineering (ETE) has released the OCP-150, a compact high power 150w OEM cold plate for cooling the most demanding high power fiber coupled lasers. It has mounting patterns for...
Elite Thermal Engineering LLC
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Precision Optical Positioning
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 13, 2008 – Developed for precision optical positioning applications, Equipment Solutions’ LFA-1012 linear focus actuator features a patented zero-translation tangential flexure for high-speed travel. The...
Equipment Solutions Inc.
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Frequency-Tripled DPSS Laser
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 13, 2008 – Coherent Inc., has introduced the new Matrix 355 BE, a frequency-tripled DPSS (diode-pumped solid-state) laser that delivers a unique combination of low output noise and low beam divergence. ...
Coherent Inc.
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360 Panoramic IR Camera
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 11, 2008 – HGH Infrared Systems, manufacturer of infrared cameras and thermal imaging products and systems, has introduced the new IR Revolution 360, a 20° vertical, 360° horizontal field of view (FOV)...
HGH Infrared Systems
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Cooled CCD Camera
BRIDGEWATER, N. J., Aug. 6, 2008 – Hamamatsu Corp. said its ORCA-R2 cooled CCD camera offers high sensitivity from visible to near-infrared light, high dynamic range, fast readout speed and low noise. The camera contains an ER-150...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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TFE Scanning Microscope
PEABODY, Mass., Aug. 4, 2008 – JEOL USA has released the JSM-7600F thermal field emission scanning electron microscope to minimize beam damage on heat sensitive samples and to offer improved stability on long-term, unattended data...
JEOL USA Inc.
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Rapidly Curing Epoxy
HACKENSACK, N.J., August 1, 2008 – Master Bond Inc., has introduced a new high performance, low viscosity epoxy adhesive called EP41SMED for fast, room temperature curing, bonding applications. This compound has a 5 to 1 mix ratio by...
Master Bond Inc.
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