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Allan Kreutzer Joins EO as Global Sales VP Allan Kreutzer was recently named vice president of global sales at Edmund Optics, a Barrington, N.J.-based optics, imaging and photonics technology provider for research, electronics, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, biomedical and military markets. A 30-year veteran of the optics industry, he was formerly vice president of sales and marketing at Lambda Research Corp., where he managed the team...
News & Features
Sens. OK NY Nano Funding The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at the University at Albany has been allocated $1 million in funding from the Senate Appropriations Committee to create a national nanotechnology research center through a partnership between the National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST) and CNSE. The New York Center for National Competitiveness in Nanoscale Characterization would...
Future Bright for Nano-Light A biofriendly nano-sized light source capable of emitting coherent light across the visible spectrum could result in single-cell endoscopy and other forms of subwavelength bioimaging, integrated...
Carolinas Consortium Formed Bridging the gap between research and commercialization is the goal of an agreement by members of the Carolinas Photonics Consortium (CPC): the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), North...
Migration Impetus: Family More than a third -- 37 percent -- of immigrant scientists and engineers say the most important reason they came to the US was family-related, the National Science Foundation (NSF) revealed today....
Particles Paired to Proteins Gold nanoparticles have been strategically attached to proteins to form sheets of protein-gold arrays. The nanoparticles and methods to create nanoparticle-protein complexes can be used to help...
Adept to Cut Jobs by 15% Adept Technology Inc., a provider of production automation products, said today it plans to cut its work force by 15 percent and to close its Quebec and Southbury, Conn., facilities "due to North...
Northrop SSL Enters Test Northrop Grumman Corp. has entered the integration and test phase for the Joint High-Power Solid-State Laser Development (JHPSSL) Phase 3 program after meeting demonstration requirements for the...
CARS Reveals Myelin Clues A new imaging technique called coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering, or CARS, has lead to the discovery that calcium ions could play a crucial role in multiple sclerosis (MS) by activating enzymes...
X-Ray Laser on Course The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) undulator system, which will be the first x-ray free-electron laser, is on course for completion in March 2009, said Argonne National Laboratory, a partner lab...
Cannon Shock Absorbed A critical adjustment to a laser ignition system at the heart of a cannon being developed for the US Army was devised by what Sandia National Laboratories calls its "light wizards." The...
Hologic to Acquire BioLucent Hologic Inc., a Bedford, Mass., provider of diagnostic imaging and digital imaging systems geared toward women’s health, announced Monday it will acquire BioLucent Inc. and its MammoPad breast...
Science and AWE Journalists attending a briefing on AWE's science program today saw how the site's work underpins the stewardship of the UK's nuclear weapons stockpile. The briefing at AWE headquarters in...
AMD May Seek Fab Partner Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) may be looking for a partner to build a $3.2 billion microchip plant at Luther Forest Technology Campus in Malta, N.Y. in Saratoga County, the Albany Business Review and...
25,000 Attend LASER 2007 LASER 2007.World of Photonics has closed its doors, and organizers are saying it was the most successful since the trade show began in 1973, with the number of visitors up more than 10 percent and a...
Liquid Telescope Progresses An idea to build a highly reflective liquid-mirror telescope on the moon became a little more practical this week with an international team of researchers' announcement that they have achieved an...
PerkinElmer to Open India HQ Life science and photonics technology developer PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass., said Wednesday it has acquired the remaining minority interest in PerkinElmer India Pvt. Ltd., a direct sales,...
Room-Temp Nanolaser Built A highly efficient, room-temperature nanometer-scale laser has been built that produces stable, continuous streams of near-infrared laser light. The design should prove useful in future miniaturized...
HiRise Returns Mega Terabits Onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the HiRISE camera offers unprecedented image quality, providing a view of the Red Planet in a way never before seen, said the HiRise Operations...
Lasers Inject Live Cells Femtosecond near-infrared lasers can preserve the integrity of cells when used as a microinjection method, a new study has found. The technique could one day allow doctors to perform nanosurgery on...
Aculight Takes on Laser Work Aculight Corp. announced it was awarded a $2.6 million subcontract from Pennsylvania State University's Electro-Optics Center (EOC) to make two types of semiconductor lasers used in advanced...
Film Captures Proteins' Work If a picture is worth a thousand words, than a moving picture should be worth considerably more. While science may play a limited role in most Hollywood films -- except for the mad scientists who...
Liquid 'Legos' Sense Light A unique microscopic light sensor uses millimeter-sized water droplets and hair-thin electrodes to turn water droplets into protocells: empty, artificial cells that can be filled with different...
3-Quark Baryon Reported A new heavy particle has been discovered: the Ξb (pronounced "zigh sub b") baryon, with a mass of 5.774±0.019 GeV/c2, approximately six times the proton mass. The electrically charged...
Suspended Sentence in Physicist's Death A Hanoi court has handed down a one-year suspended sentence in connection with an accident that killed a prominent Vietnamese physicist, local news outlets reported yesterday. Electrician Dang...
Philips to Buy Color Kinetics Boston-based Color Kinetics Inc., a maker of LED lighting systems and technologies, announced today it has approved an acquisition bid by Royal Philips Electronics. Philips, based in Amsterdam,...
Laser Makers Form New Co. The Trumpf Group and Jenoptik AG announced today they will expand their six-year partnership and form a joint venture company to create new laser components. Financial details of the agreement were...
Tech, Sci Medalists Named Photonics-related research pioneers are among recipients of National Medals of Science and Technology announced recently by President Bush. Winners of the 2005 National Medal of Technology...
Products Debut at LASER 2007 Products representing the entire spectrum of light measurement will be on display this week at LASER 2007.World of Photonics at the Munich Trade Centre, where visitors will get the opportunity to...
Show Theme 'Light at Work' "Light at Work' is the theme of LASER 2007. World of Photonics, the largest photonics event in Europe, and its exhibition, workshops, conference and special show promise to cover every facet of laser...
Sensor Sees in Dim Light Eastman Kodak Co. today introduced an image sensor that it said is at least twice as sensitive to light as those currently found in any digital camera. Image sensors act as the "eye" of a digital...
Zink to Buy KMMU Plant Waltham, Mass.-based Zink Imaging, developer of "zero ink"  technology that enables printing of color images and photos without ink, ribbons or toner from mobile electronic devices, announced today...
Thales Wins Laser Contract The French defense procurement agency (Délégation Générale pour l'Armement, or DGA) has selected Thales to lead an advanced research project on new laser sources for military applications, the...
Zyvex Splits into 4 Units Molecular nanotechnology provider Zyvex announced today it is splitting the company into four separate businesses. "Restructuring the company into four units will allow us to leverage our strong...
Shaping Up Carbon Nanotubes A new method boosts the density of carbon nanotube bundles by five to 25 times, creating efficient conductors that could one day replace copper as the primary interconnects used on computer chips and...
Biomedicine Grants Awarded The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today it will provide $20.65 million in grants to fund cutting-edge equipment required to...
Colleges Put on Spy Alert Universities have been warned to be on the alert for "foreign spies or potential terrorists who may be trying to steal unclassified, yet sensitive, research," the Associated Press (AP) reported...
Lasers to Enhance Movies Swansea University in Wales is developing new laser display technologies to enhance movie-projection quality as part of a £1.9 million (about $3.8 million) project funded by the United Kingdom's...
Hiper Enters Prep Phase The proposed European High Power Laser Energy Research (Hiper) facility -- a device intended to demonstrate the feasibility of laser-driven fusion as an energy source -- is entering the preparation...
Spectroscopy Tools Developed Calibration tools have been developed to help correct and confirm the performance of analytic instruments that identify substances based on fluorescence. Recent years have seen a significant...
Luminus Gets MassDev Loan Woburn, Mass., LED maker Luminus Devices Inc. announced today it has received a $2.5 million loan from the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency’s Emerging Technology Fund which the company said...
OptoGaN Raises $6.7M Gallium nitride-based LED maker OptoGaN Oy announced it has raised €5 million (approximately $6.7 million) in its latest funding round, led by the Nordic venture fund Via Venture Partners. The money...
Cable Theft Costs Vietnam $6M It will take at least a month to fix undersea fiber optic cable damaged by local fishermen seeking to sell it as scrap, Vietnam officials said this week, and could cost at least $5.8 million. "We...
Neptec System Boards Atlantis NASA's STS-117 mission marks the 20th flight for the Space Vision System (SVS) created by Neptec Design Group, an Ottawa developer of 3-D vision systems for military, manufacturing and aerospace...
We Forget to Remember The brain's ability to suppress irrelevant memories makes it easier for humans to remember what's really important. "Any act of remembering reweights memories, tweaking them to try to be more...
DFG OKs 11 Research Centers The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, or DFG) will establish 11 new collaborative research centers on July 1 that will receive a total of €75.5 million (approximately $102...
Space Agencies Share Strategy NASA and 13 space agencies from around the world have released the latest product of their global exploration strategy discussions. The document, "The Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for...
Laser Light Promising for Diagnosing Skin Cancer In an early step toward nonsurgical screening for malignant skin cancers, a laser-based system has been demonstrated that can capture 3-D images of the chemical and structural changes happening...
Tapping Into Dormant Spores Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has shown the alterations of spore coat and germ cell wall that accompany the transformation from a spore to a vegetative cell. Although significant progress has...
UAlbany NanoCollege Head’s Pay Examined Alain Kaloyeros, PhD, vice president and chief administrative officer of the University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (UAlbany NanoCollege), was called "New...
Harvard Licenses Nano Patents Harvard University's Office of Technology Development (OTD) has licensed more than 50 issued and pending patents of nano- and micro-scale molecular fabrication methods developed by Professor George...
Thin Foil Lamps Outshine Bulbs Lamps the diameter of a human hair, made with foil and tiny plasma arrays, are being developed for use in residential and commercial lighting and some biomedical applications. “Built of aluminum...
LightWorks Lands F-22 Work LightWorks Optics Inc. of Tustin, Calif., was recently awarded a $3.2 million contract from Lockheed Martin for increased production of missile launch detectors used in F-22 Raptor jet fighters....
Teradyne Sells Test Division Tollgrade Communications Inc. announced today it will acquire Teradyne Inc.'s Broadband Test Div. for $12 million in cash. Tollgrade said the deal will add to its European customers those for...
GSI Buys Thales Optronics' Beryllium Unit GSI Group Inc. today announced it has acquired the beryllium mirrors and structures business of Thales Optronics Ltd. of Taunton, England, for an undisclosed amount. GSI Group of Billerica...
Scientists Criticize NIF The National Ignition Facility is one of three major components of the Stockpile Stewardship Program at the Department of Energy that are all seriously over budget and behind schedule, according to a...
Navy Awards Mast Contract Kollmorgen Electro-Optical of Northampton, Mass., is being awarded a $6,580,913 contract for production of eight universal modular mast (UMM) systems by the Naval Sea Systems Command, the Defense...
LLR Tests Deemed 'Ineffective' Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has fascinated physicists and generated debate about the origin of the universe and the structure of objects like black holes and complex stars called...
Surprising Superconductor Behavior Mapped at Nanoscale A customized microscope has allowed the observation that patches of superconductivity can exist in ceramic superconductors at higher temperatures than previously thought, a discovery that may help...
Light May Control Future MEMS A beam of light has been used to change the weak attraction between close objects, making the remote operation of micromachines a possibility. A research team led by Umar Mohideen, a physicist...
5 Telcoms Win GSA Contract AT&T, Level 3, MCI, Qwest and Sprint were awarded telecommunications contracts worth up to $20 billion over 10 years by the US General Services Administration (GSA), the agency announced...
Atomic Spectroscopy Achieved with Optics on a Chip Atomic spectroscopy has been performed with integrated optics on a chip for the first time by guiding a beam of light through a rubidium vapor cell integrated into a semiconductor chip. Atomic...
Products
TechSpec Light Pipes BARRINGTON, N.J., June 28, 2007 -- Edmund Optics (EO) has released TechSpec light pipe homogenizing rods for OEM illumination which use total internal reflection to turn a nonuniform light source into uniform illumination and deliver it to the target site. The rods are suitable for applications in which point sources such as LEDs must be combined and made to deliver even lighting. Unlike traditional square integrating rods,...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Modulated Laser Systems SAN JOSE, Calif., June 27, 2007 -- Pavilion Integration Corp. (PIC), a manufacturer of high-performance laser sources, has added modulated versions to its WhisperIT product line.  WhisperIT modulated versions are available in...
Pavilion Integration Corp.
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AvaSpec-NIR256-2.5 The AvaSpec-NIR256 fiber optic spectrometers is based on the AvaBench-50 symmetrical Czerny-Turner design with a 256-pixel InGaAs detector array. The spectrometer has a fiber-optic entrance connector...
Avantes USA
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2048x14 FO Spectrometer The AvaSpec-2048x14 fiber optic spectrometer uses a back-thinned CCD array with high quantum efficiency and high ultraviolet sensitivity. Its optical design is based on the AvaBench-75 symmetrical...
Avantes USA
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HDTV Camera IRVINE, Calif., June 25, 2007 -- Toshiba Imaging Systems Div. has introduced what it said is the world's smallest high-definition camera head and ultracompact control unit, the IK-HD1 3-CCD (charge-coupled device) high-definition TV...
CANON MEDICAL COMPONENTS U.S.A., Video Sensing Devices
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High-Magnification Zoom Lens ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 21, 2007 -- Navitar has expanded the capabilities of its flagship product, the Zoom 6000 high-magnification zoom lens system, to be compatible with large-format sensors up to 30 mm in. diagonal, including the...
Navitar Inc.
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Expanded Fiber Laser Line MUNICH, Germany, June 20, 2007 -- IPG Laser GmbH, a subsidiary of IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., said it is introducing new pulsed lasers targeted at marking and new materials processing applications in the manufacture of...
IPG-Laser GmbH
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Fiber-Coupled Pearl, 808-nm Laser VANCOUVER, Wash., June 19, 2007 -- High-power semiconductor laser maker nLight is launching Pearl, part of its high-power, fiber-coupled product line, at LASER 2007. World of Photonics this week in Munich, Germany. The company is also...
nLIGHT Inc.
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Large-Core Multimode Optical Fibers Fiberguide Industries will exhibit its line of large-core multimode optical fibers featuring hard plastic clad standard silica core fibers with a numerical aperture (N.A.) of 0.39 and hard plastic...
Molex, Fiberguide
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Noncontact 3-D Dynamic Imaging Sarfus technology is a powerful new optical quantitative imaging technique that creates highly precise three-dimensional thickness, roughness, profile and step height measurements at the nanometer...
Nanolane
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Micra-10 One-Box Oscillator SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 13, 2007 -- The new Micra-10 from Coherent Inc. is the first one-box ultrafast laser oscillator to deliver over 750 mW of broadband output power, the company said. As with other products in the Micra line,...
Coherent Inc.
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Falcon 4M60 Camera WATERLOO, Ontario, June 12, 2007 -- The Falcon 4M60 area-scan camera now includes new features to extend its performance to the electronics inspection, machine vision and imaging markets, said manufacturer Dalsa Corp. As a result...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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TechSpec Fast FFL Lenses BARRINGTON, N.J., June 12, 2007 -- Edmund Optics is offering two new fast, fixed-focal-length (FFL) lenses. The new TechSpec lenses offer object-space resolution better than two line pairs per millimeter and are available in popular...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Day/Night Exchanger CARLSBAD, Calif., June 4, 2007 -- Sunex has introduced a product that it said provides true day and night capability to C- and CS-mount cameras based on Pixim chipsets. The new Sunex CSS-EXM-IRC21 is compatible with C- or...
Sunex Inc.
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1520-nm Superluminescent Diodes SCHLIEREN, Switzerland, June 1, 2007 -- Exalos has released 1520-nm superluminescent LEDs (SLEDs) for fiber-optic sensor, telecommunication and instrumentation applications. SLEDs are semiconductor light sources that combine the...
Exalos AG
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Verdi V8, V10 Pump Lasers SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 1, 2007 -- Coherent Inc. has released the Verdi-V8 (8 W) and Verdi-V10 (10 W) continuous-wave 532-nm solid-state pump lasers which increase the operating efficiency of the basic Verdi system. These pump...
Coherent Inc.
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Double-Sided Telecentric Lenses ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 1, 2007 -- Navitar today introduced a line of high-resolution double-sided telecentric lenses with object and image space telecentricity that produce more accurate images than a typical object-side telecentric...
Navitar Inc.
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