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March 2007

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Newly Created Molecules Drive Lithography Technique

New two-photon absorbing molecules that are sensitive to light at short wavelengths are helping to produce 3-D polymer line structures as small as 65 nm wide. The 3-D multiphoton lithography technique could compete with existing processes for making nanoscale electronic, photonic and microfluidic devices.A Georgia Institute of Technology research team led by Joe Perry (left, with researcher...

Cutting-Edge Research to be Discussed at CLEO/QELS 2007 One of the industry's leading events on laser science, CLEO/QELS (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference), will present more than 1500 talks...

OFC/NFOEC: 'Cool' Fiber Light Source Inspected A light source based on fiber-optic technology that could improve the inspection of food, produce, paper, currency, recyclables and other products was the topic of a presentation at OFC/NFOEC 2007....

Siemens Suspends Employee After Searches Siemens AG said Thursday it suspended another employee after the Munich Office of Public Prosecution conducted another search, at the beginning of the week, in conjunction with the "known...

Barloworld: Melles Griot Sale Being Finalized Industrial brand management company Barloworld Ltd. announced yesterday that negotiations for its Melles Griot subsidiary have reached an "advanced stage" and are expected to be concluded soon....

MRI Creator, Nobel Laureate Paul Lauterbur Dies

Paul C. Lauterbur, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2003 for his pioneering work in the development of magnetic resonance imaging, died Tuesday at his home in Urbana, Ill., from kidney disease. He...

Force of Light Sets Fluid in Motion

By shining a laser beam through a soapy liquid, an international research team has shown that it is possible to manipulate small quantities of liquid using only the force of light. The technique...

OFC/NFOEC: 25.6 Tb/s Transferred A record 25.6 terabits per second (Tb/s) of optical data was reportedly transferred over a single fiber strand, using 160 wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) channels -- enough bandwidth to...

Optium to Acquire Kailight Photonics Optium Corp., a supplier of high-performance optical subsystems for the telecom and cable TV industries, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Kailight Photonics Inc., a...

Strong Technical Program Highlights Pittcon 2007 Organizers of the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon 2007) said today that 22,213 conferees and exhibitors representing more than 85 countries attended...

Konica Minolta, GE Form OLED Alliance Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., Konica Minolta Technology Center Inc. and General Electric Co. announced Monday they have signed an agreement to jointly accelerate the development and commercialization...

Verizon Wireless Awards Alcatel-Lucent $6B Contract Verizon Wireless will expand its network with a $6 billion agreement with Alcatel-Lucent, its primary network supplier, to supply a wide variety of network equipment, software and services. Verizon...

Alcatel-Lucent Unveils CMOS Optical Filter Alcatel-Lucent announced today it has demonstrated what it says is the first CMOS silicon-based tunable optical waveguide equalizer, "a major step in the industry’s drive toward sophisticated,...

NSB to Award RPI’s Jackson

Shirley Ann Jackson, who has led a national movement to respond to what she calls a "quiet crisis" in the science and engineering work force, will receive the Vannevar Bush Award for a lifetime of...

Molecular 'Scissors' Work in Response to Light

A pair of molecular-scale "scissors" has been developed that open and close in response to wavelengths of light, representing the first example of a molecular machine capable of mechanically...

Intel To Build Fab in China Intel Corp. announced today it plans to build a 300-mm wafer fabrication facility (fab) in the coastal Northeast China city of Dalian in Liaoning Province. The $2.5 billion investment for the...

Holography Helps Measure Drug Action in Cells

Using a laser and the same microchip found in digital cameras, a new digital holographic imaging system peers inside tumor cells and produces real-time, 3-D images that can be used to measure...

Partnership Seeks to Advance Medical Tomography A new research partnership between the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and a Rochester-based startup company led by former Eastman Kodak Co. executives will apply new image processing...

Genetic Enhancements Make Mice See Red

Researchers have transformed the limited color vision of mice by introducing a single human gene into a mouse chromosome. The gene codes for a light sensor that mice do not normally possess, and its...

Infotonics Center Awarded $3M The Infotonics Center in Canandaigua has been awarded a $3 million grant from the Economic Development Administration in the US Department of Commerce. The funds will help the center incubate...

Lab-Created Lithoparticles Could Have Many Uses

Billions of fluorescent microscale particles in the shapes of all 26 letters of the alphabet have been designed and produced in the lab. The letters are made of solid polymeric materials dispersed in...

CyOptics Acquiring Apogee CyOptics Inc., a maker of indium phosphide (InP) optical chips and components used in fiber-optic networks, today announced it is acquiring fellow InP-based device provider Apogee Photonics of...

Enablence to Buy Albis Enablence Technologies Inc., an Ottawa developer of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) transceivers for optical modems, announced Monday it will acquire Albis Optoelectronics AG, a Zurich, Switzerland,...

Grant Funds Use of Biology to Advance Quantum Electronics The US Department of Defense has awarded a team of nine professors from six universities $6 million over five years to exploit precise biological assembly for the study of quantum physics in...

No Carrier Necessary: This Drug Delivers Itself

The problem of efficiently delivering drugs, especially those that are hydrophobic -- or water-repellant -- to tumors or other disease sites has long challenged scientists to develop innovative...

Single-Photon Server Created From an Atom

Physicists have succeeded in turning a rubidium atom into a single-photon server, which could allow scientists to generate high-quality photons with consistent energy levels for use in quantum...

SD-OCT Could Help Nip Cancer in the Bud

Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD–OCT) in human tissue is demonstrating exciting capability to detect precancerous changes to cells years before tumors develop. SD-OCT can probe 3 mm...

Purdue Awarded $100M for Biomed Research

The Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering has announced a $100 million gift to endow an Alfred Mann Institute at Purdue University. The university-based institute is designed to enable the...

New Terahertz Device Created A device for manipulating terahertz (THz) radiation created at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) could be the basis for novel electronics and photonics applications such as new imaging methods...

Teen's Spectrograph Wins $100K Science Scholarship

A 17-year-old girl who built an accurate spectrograph that identifies the specific characteristics, or "fingerprints," of different kinds of molecules was named the top winner of the Intel Science...

‘Ultrachron’ Reveals Drama of Being a Rock

Assigning dates to the events in the life of a rock -- for example, a collision with a piece of continent, or a journey through the Earth’s crust -- has long challenged geologists, as the events...

Plans Developed for Lensless 'Ultimate Microscope' Scientists have developed an innovative way to take images of atoms in living cells without using a lens. They now plan to use the technique to develop the ultimate x-ray microscope, which could be...

Waveform Project May Advance Photonic Computers

The dream of photonic computers -- devices run using light rather than electronics -- could be nearing our desktops. Physicists at the University of Bath will be looking at developing attosecond...

Rofin-Sinar Laser Buys 80% of m2k-laser GmbH Laser maker Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH announced yesterday that it has acquired 80 percent of Freiburg, Germany-based m2k-laser GmbH in a cash transaction. Specific terms were not disclosed....

13 Solar Energy Projects to Receive up to $168M from DoE US Department of Energy (DoE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman announced last week the selection of 13 industry-led solar technology development projects to negotiate with the department for as much as...

1-nm Optical Imaging is CAREER Awardee's Goal

Producing optical images at resolutions as low as one nanometer is the goal of Virginia Tech College of Engineering researcher Yong Xu, who has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty...

Cree Acquiring LED Maker Cotco for $200M LED lighting maker Cree Inc. announced today it will acquire privately held Cotco Luminant Device Ltd. of Hong Kong for $200 million in a stock-and-cash transaction. Cree said in a statement that...

Nanorods' Assembly Could Spur Nanodevice Creation

Chemists have discovered that tiny building blocks known as gold nanorods spontaneously assemble themselves into ring-like superstructures. The finding could potentially lead to the development of...

Model Simulates Atomic Processes in Nanomaterials

Researchers from MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University have developed a new computer modeling approach to study how materials behave under stress at the atomic level,...

BOC Edwards Unit Sold to Private Equity Firm Linde AG, the world's biggest producer of industrial gases, announced today it has sold part of its BOC Edwards subsidiary to private equity firm CCMP Capital, through affiliates CCMP Capital...

Zeiss MicroImaging Buys Instrument Biz for $12.5M In a move the company said will strengthen its commitment to the growing field of clinical cancer diagnostics and cancer research, microscopy solutions provider Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH has...

Hydrogel Microparticles Pave Way for Bedside Diagnostics

An inexpensive method has been created to screen for millions of different biomolecules (DNA, proteins, etc.) in a single sample -- a technology that could make possible the development of low-cost...

Solar Cell Scientists Share in $1M Prize Two scientists at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) who pioneered the multijunction solar cell have been named Dan David Prize laureates for 2007. Jerry Olson...

Candela Acquires Inolase Aesthetic laser maker Candela Corp. announced yesterday that it will acquire Inolase Ltd. of Netanya, Israel, for $16.5 million in a cash. Inolase manufactures Pneumatic Skin Flattening (PSF), a...

Laser Speckle Shimmers on Cell Movement

The response of tumors to anticancer drugs has been observed in real-time 3-D images using a laser and a CCD, the same microchip used in household digital cameras, to see inside tumor cells. The...

FTTH Council Calls for '100-Megabit Nation' Underscoring the importance of higher bandwidth to America’s future competitiveness, the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council today urged the US Government to adopt a “100-Megabit Nation” policy aimed at...

Latest Defense Products, Trends Featured at Symposium The latest developments in detectors, sensors, cameras, imaging equipment and more will be revealed to more than 6000 engineers, military personnel, technical managers and scientists at the 2007 SPIE...

Light-Activated Compound Calms Nerves

A compound that halts nerve cell activity in the brain only when exposed to light is showing promise as a potential treatment for epilepsy. "This is daydreaming at this point, but we might one...

Avanex Divests Opto Fabs Avanex Corp., a provider of photonic solutions for fiber-optic communications, announced that it will sell 90 percent of its interest in its subsidiary, Avanex France SA, including its indium...

Nanoelectronic Switch Works Like Frozen Lightning

Researchers have demonstrated a prototype nanoscale electronic switch that works like lightning -- except for the speed. Their proof-of-concept experiments reported last month demonstrate that...

'Electronic Gridlock' Blocks Cuprates Superconductors Superconductivity, the conduction of electricity with zero resistance, can sometimes seem to be stalled by a form of electronic "gridlock." A possible explanation is offered by new research at...

Microprocessing Technique Yields Ultrathin Membranes

Using a fabrication method for producing microprocessors, scientists have created what they said is the thinnest material that will ever exist: Carbon membranes that are only one atom thick. The...

Optical Coating Reflects Virtually No Light

Scientists have created an optical coating from a material that reflects virtually no light. The research could lead to the development of much brighter LEDs, more efficient solar cells and a new...

ACQUISITIONS

CyOptics Acquiring Apogee CyOptics Inc., a maker of indium phosphide (InP) optical chips and components used in fiber-optic networks, today announced it is acquiring fellow InP-based device provider Apogee Photonics of...

Cree Acquiring LED Maker Cotco for $200M LED lighting maker Cree Inc. announced today it will acquire privately held Cotco Luminant Device Ltd. of Hong Kong for $200 million in a stock-and-cash transaction. Cree said in a statement that...

PRODUCTS

HOTLink Serial Link Analyzer

The HSLA captures and analyzes 8B/10B traffic on a link, including all data and special characters. The HSLA works with HOTLink and HOTLink 2 systems with link speeds between 160 Mb/s to 1.5 Gb/s,...

Great River Technology Inc.

ARINC 818 Development Suite

ARINC 818 (Avionics digital video bus) is the new standard developed for mission critical, uncompressed video. ARINC 818 is becoming the de facto standard for high performance military video...

Great River Technology Inc.

Seoul Optodevice UV-LEDs

VIENNA, Austria, March 30, 2007 -- Roithner Lasertechnik GmbH, the European distributor for Seoul Optodevice ultraviolet (UV) LEDs, said it is offering new UV-LEDS at 255, 265, 280, 310 and 340 nm, in diverse packages, including S8,...

Roithner Lasertechnik GmbH

Opnext HL6750MG 685nm Laser Diode

HERTFORDSHIRE, England, March 30, 2007 -- Optoelectronics manufacturer Photonic Products Ltd., an authorized distributor, said it is offering the Opnext HL6750MG 685 nm laser diode for use in medical and biomedical applications such as x-ray...

Photonic Products Ltd.

E-536 AFM Scanner Controller

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, a leading manufacturer of nanopositioning and piezo-based precision motion-control equipment for bio- and nanotechnology, photonics and semiconductor applications,...

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

Narrow-Linewidth Laser

TeraXion has developed a laser source that allows single-frequency operation of a semiconductor distributed feedback (DFB) laser diode. The TN-NLL system enables reduction of the optical linewidth of...

Mini DIL Pump Laser with 220W BERLIN, March 28, 2007 -- Fiber-coupled laser device maker Lumics GmbH announced the improved version of its successful 980-nm mini DIL pump-laser product line. The next generation LU0977M200-2002F41A uncooled pump laser...

OpTIC RS1080 Thermal Imaging Modules The OpTIC RS1080 line of optical thermal imaging camera modules is the only solution for OEMs who want to quickly introduce a thermal imaging camera with a previously unheard of price-performance...

RedShift BioAnalytics Inc.

Lone Star Shatter Shield Displays & Optical Technologies Inc. (DOTI), a manufacturer of massive, lightweight optics, announces the development of a glass lamination process we call Lone Star Shatter Shield (LS³), which...

Displays & Optical Technologies Inc.

Photonics Modeling Software

Photon Design provides a wide variety of photonics modeling software for integrated and fiber-based component design, including: Fimmprop bidirectional optical propagation tool Fimmwave 3-D mode...

MPM-2000 Optical Multiplexer

DUNEDIN, Fla., March 26, 2007 -- To tie together multiple sampling points requiring spectroscopic measurement with various probes, Ocean Optics’ Mikropack office in Germany introduces the MPM-2000 fiber-optic multiplexer. The...

Conversion Screens

HUDSON, N.H., March 26, 2007 -- Laser Components IG Inc., a provider of optical and optoelectronic components and modules, announced it is expanding its product range of conversion screens with a new model suitable for high-power...

Laser Components USA Inc.

Miniature Raman Systems; CCD Spectrometers

Horiba Jobin Yvon's OEM Group makes custom, compact Raman spectrometer systems or components. A variety of lasers and sensors are available. The Spectro3, its most compact USB spectrometer with...

HORIBA Scientific

Optical Channel Performance Monitor

DiCon Fiberoptics' optical channel performance monitor (OCPM), based on its MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) tunable filters and its MEMS 1xN switches, is part of its reconfigurable network...

DiCon Fiberoptics Inc.

Brochures for Lens and Optical Component Lines SCHÖFFENGRUND, Germany, March 23, 2007 -- Moulded Optics GmbH has recently introduced multipage brochures describing its "new" standard line of precision-molded micro half-ball lenses, its standard line of aspheric lenses and its line of...

Moulded Optics GmbH

VR4NTSC VisionRecorder

The VR4NTSC VisionRecorder from Boulder Imaging includes up to four NTSC, PAL, RS-170 or CCIR inputs, compared to just one input and features full-resolution recording without any degradation due to...

Boulder Imaging Inc.

1-CH MEMS ROADM

DiCon Fiberoptics Inc. introduces an ultracompact 1-CH MEMS ROADM (reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer). This unique product demonstrates the strength of DiCon's fiber-optic MEMS...

DiCon Fiberoptics Inc.

AFCT-5745/594x Series of Transceivers Avago Technologies, a leader in the fiber optics industry, will showcase its AFCT-5745 and AFCT-594x series of OC-48 SFP transceivers which are part of the company’s extensive Metrak family of...

Titanium IR Cameras

Introducing Titanium, the latest in advanced high-quantum-efficiency infrared imaging from Electrophysics. Titanium is a family of highly rugged, field-ready infrared cameras designed for a wide...

Silver 220S Infrared Camera Electrophysics will showcasing its Silver 220S high-performance, short-wave infrared (IR) camera, designed for applications including spectroscopy, laser beam analysis, R&D and target signature...

NFTS-6000 Nanotech Fast Tool Servo

Introducing the Nanotech Fast Tool Servo with NanoCAM Freeform programming software. The NFTS-6000 is a single-axis fast tool servo with 6 mm of travel. The system incorporates porous air bearings...

Moore Nanotechnology Systems LLC

Single-box, femtosecond ti:sapphire lasers Single-box, 12-15fs ti:sapphire lasers – Reaching >30nJ. KMLabs’ Griffin-C and Cascade-C modelocked and cavity-dumped femtosecond, ti:sapphire lasers are now more turnkey, user-friendly, and...

KMLabs Inc (Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories)

AstroScope Night-Vision Kit

AstroScope is a high-performance night-vision kit that incorporates a state-of-the-art GEN III image intensifier that turns dark scenes into bright, high-resolution imagery. The AstroScope...

Titanium IR Cameras

Introducing Titanium, the latest in advanced high-quantum-efficiency infrared imaging from Electrophysics. Titanium is a family of highly rugged, field-ready infrared cameras designed for a wide...

Wafer Handler Modules

CHATSWORTH, Calif., March 20, 2007 -- McBain Instruments, a supplier of microscopes and microscopy systems to the industrial, biomedical and research and development markets, announces a newly designed lab tool, the Wafer Handler WL150...

Proview S035-MV

Rockwell Collins introduces the newly designed ProView S035-MV. This lightweight display attaches to a wide variety of protective eyewear to provide minimum obstruction of vision. Featuring...

Rockwell Collins

T-BERD 8000

The JDSU T-BERD 8000, in use by every major telecommunications operator worldwide, is the most innovative fiber field-test platform available -- easy-to-use, compact and lightweight. At OFC/NFOEC...

Lumentum Operations LLC

JDSU's 40-channel integrated PLC reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) is a critical building block for agile optical networks, making it possible for service providers to dynamically...

Lumentum Operations LLC

Red-Enhanced Bi-Cell Photodetector

NEWBURY PARK, Calif., March 19, 2007 –– Opto Diode Corp., a manufacturer of advanced performance photodetectors and visible and infrared LEDs, introduces the new red-enhanced ODD-3W-2 bi-cell photodiode. The low noise (NEP 2.5 x 10-14 W/...

Opto Diode Corporation

BOSA-C High-Resolution Optical Spectrum Analyzer

Aragon Photonics has released the BOSA-C high-resolution optical spectrum analyzer (OSA), which measures optical spectra with simultaneously high -resolution (0.08 pm /10MHz) and high dynamic range...

Aragon Photonics Labs SLU

GPX-3000 Glass Processing, Fusion Splicing Systems

Vytran’s GPX-3000 series is a versatile glass processing platform for the fabrication of splices, tapers, mode adapters, NA converters, end caps, couplers and combiners with optical fibers ranging...

FAS Automated Manufacturing System

Vytran’s FAS -- Fiber Automation System -- is a flexible automation platform that can be easily configured for a wide variety of optoelectronic manufacturing applications, such as EDFA assembly and...

Tech Spec Kinematic Optical Mounts

Our line of Tech Spec kinematic mounts includes both optical mounts and mounting table platforms. Each mount features high accuracy adjustment screws in either 2-screw (pitch and roll) or 3-screw...

Edmund Optics Inc.

'The Rock' Fiber Laser

Single-frequency fiber lasers don’t have to be sensitive to vibration: The "Rock" is a stable, single-frequency fiber laser with ultralow phase noise that is insensitive to vibration. The Rock is...

NP Photonics Inc.

SQL-3.4 Cyrogenic Squiggle Motor

This tiny Squiggle motor from New Scale Technologies is 3.4 x 3.4 mm and can be customized to operate in cryogenic environments, greatly simplifying alignment of optics in cryogenic imagers....

New Scale Technologies Inc.

Squiggle Motor Evaluation Kit

The SQ-100-N Squiggle motor OEM evaluation kit helps designers create smaller laser systems, microscopes, medical and laboratory equipment, and other scientific instruments. Replace manual or stepper...

New Scale Technologies Inc.

MicroLens LED Edge-Lighting

BRECKSVILLE, Ohio, March 13, 2007 -- Modular edge-lighting using patented MicroLens light extraction technology from Global Lighting Technologies (GLT) provides the most efficient LED-based edge lighting technology available for today’s...

Global Lighting Technologies

JSM-7001F Analytical SEM

PEABODY, Mass., March 13, 2007 -- The JSM-7001F, a new thermal field-emission analytical scanning electron microscope (SEM) from electron optical product maker JEOL USA, acquires high-resolution micrographs at up to 1,000,000X...

B3127 Series 7-LED Cluster Lamps

TORRANCE, Calif., March 13, 2007 -- LED maker LEDtronics announces the B3127 series single-contact 9-mm bayonet-based 7-LED cluster lamps for direct replacement of incandescent bulbs #6MB, 44, 47, 755 (5/6 V), 24 MB (24 V) 313, 757,...

LEDtronics Inc.

10 Gigabit Ethernet Transport Switch

Dowslake Microsystems , a provider of smart network building blocks from Ethernet to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) , has introduced the MTS1080 1U, 19-in. rack mount 10 Gigabit Ethernet...

DowsLake Microsystems Corp.

Converged Access and Transport System

Access network operators can now offer various services and bandwidths from T1/E1, to 10/100/1000M Ethernet and connect them to a metro network using time division multiplexing (TDM) or wavelength...

DowsLake Microsystems Corp.

Perseus 8482 Eyesafe Pulsed Fiber Lasers

Aculight said its Perseus pulsed fiber lasers, available in 2- and 4-W versions, offer high-peak-power eyesafe output from a compact, rugged package. Their all-fiber design provides customers with a...

Lockheed Martin Laser and Sensor Systems

Uno Power Meter

The new Uno power meter presents the same inventive ergonomics as the Solo 2; a wide screen with large digits and easy one-finger navigation, but in a very affordable package that includes the most...

Gentec Electro-Optics Inc.

Solo 2 Power and Energy Meter

Gentec said its next-generation Solo monitor, the Solo 2, performs all of the functions of its Solo PE, with improved performances and speed. It can read both power and energy detectors and fast...

Gentec Electro-Optics Inc.

TASI-600 Thermal Hyperspectral Imaging Sensor

The TASI 600 advanced airborne hyperspectral thermal pushbroom imager features 64 spectral channels, a spectral range of 8 to 11.5 µms and 600 spatial pixels. It is well-suited to applications...

ITRES Research Ltd.

Silicon Carbide Mirror Substrates

Supersic, Poco Graphite’s high-performance silicon carbide, is an ideal material for fabricating mirror substrates. Mirrors built from Supersic substrates are stiff and lightweight with high thermal...

Poco Graphite Inc., Specialty Materials

Silicon Carbide Optical Bench

Supersic, Poco Graphite’s high-performance silicon carbide, is an ideal material for fabricating optical benches. Complex geometries are easily fabricated and then mated with silicon carbide mirrors...

Poco Graphite Inc., Specialty Materials

AvaSpec 2048 x 14 Spectrometer

The AvaSpec 2048 x 14 fiber optic spectrometer is a back thinned CCD spectrometer with high quantum efficiency and high ultraviolet (UV) sensitivity. The optical design is based on the AvaBench-75...

AvaSpec NIR256 Spectrometers

Introducing Avantes' NIR (near-infrared) spectrometers covering 1000-2500 nm. Designed both for end users and easy OEM integration, AvaSpecs are driven by AvaSoft software, or a DLL kit is available...

Microfiber Optic Polisher

Krell Technologies’ Rev polishes connectors and optical components to single-mode performance in a compact and economical package. UPC and angled fixtures are available for industry standard and...

Bare Fiber Polishing System

Krell Technologies has introduced its Trig Workstation for processing bare optical fibers. Fiber tips can be polished flat, or at user-selectable angles with high precision. Real-time video...

Microchannel cooled laser diodes

Our high powered stacks take advantage of our state-of-the-art microchannel-cooled laser diode technology. The compact arrays are available with up to 100 W continuous wave per bar in wavelengths...

Cutting Edge Optronics

RBA Gold DPSS Gain Module

The RBA Gold is the next generation of diode-pumped solid-state modules. With output powers up to 100 W, the RBA gold gain module can provide you with the "engine" for your own laser system. Comes...

Cutting Edge Optronics

Pulsed Laser Diodes and Silicon APDs Laser Components IG said its silicon avalanche photodiodes (APDs) complement its pulsed laser diodes (PLDs) at 850 and 905 nm. Both are produced in-house. The company said it offers...

Laser Components USA Inc.

Uncooled Pump Laser Module BERLIN, March 7, 2007 -- Laser diode modules manufacturer Lumics GmbH announced the release of the Telcordia-compliant LU0975T040 uncooled pump laser module. Target applications include erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA)...

Eye-Safe Optical Parametric Oscillator

Photonics Industries said its DS series optical parametric oscillator (OPO) is the first to produce pulse rates at a repetition of up to 50k Hz in a compact, industry-rugged design. These lasers...

Photonics Industries International Inc.

PocketDelta Microfactory CSEM NEUCHATEL/ALPNACH, Switzerland, March 5, 2007 -- The PocketDelta, the smallest Delta robot developed by the Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology (Centre Suisse d’ Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, or CSEM), is part of its small...

Er:Glass Microlaser

MegaWatt Laser’s ER-100 miniature eyesafe solid-state laser produces 50-KW pulses from a modified TO-3 package displacing only about one half of a cubic inch. The near-diffraction-limited, 2-ns...

MegaWatt Lasers Inc.

Raman Discovery Headwall Photonics announces for general availability the Raman Discovery, a new line of high performance, portable Raman spectrometers. Based on Headwall’s patent-pending design, the Raman Discovery...

Headwall Photonics Inc.

Hyperspec-SWIR The Hyperspec-SWIR imaging sensor is based on Headwall's patented, aberration-corrected imaging design, and offers users spectral sensing capability over the spectral range of 1000 nm - 2500 nm. The...

Headwall Photonics Inc.

Advanced Lithography Service Using our thirty-plus years of experience and skills, which were developed as a photomask supplier to the semiconductor industry, Photo Sciences has proven time and again that they are unsurpassed...

Photo Sciences Inc.

Femtosecond Fiber Laser Calmar Optcom is an industrial leader in ultrashort pulse lasers, e.g. femtosecond fiber laser FPL. Two form factors are available for FPL: benchtop and OEM module. FPL has a broad range of...

PSL-40 40-GHz Direct Fiber Laser System

Calmar Optcom is an industrial leader of ultrafast fiber lasers. One of its flagship products is the PSL-40, a 40-GHz direct fiber laser. This laser provides researchers and manufacturers with the...

PulseLife Horizontal Array

Coherent Inc. now offers a new line of water-cooled horizontal linear arrays delivering up to 40 W/bar of reliable pump power for side-pumping applications. Utilizing our new PulseLife solder...

CCP Diode Arrays

Coherent Inc. releases a new generation of conductively cooled packaged (CCP) diode arrays enabling longer lifetimes in both commercial and defense environments. Utilizing our new PulseLife solder...

MK-88 & MK-81 Microlasers

Kigre Inc. has now developed the next generation megawatt class microlasers for use in enhanced laser surveillance and detection systems. These new high-power 1.5-µm laser transmitters are designated...

Flat-Top² Generator

StockerYale's Flat-Top² Generator is a laser beam shaping module that converts a Gaussian beam into a focused, collimated, or diverging flat-top profile using refractive beam-shaping optics. This...

ProPhotonix Ltd.

goLab Mobile Workstation

Taking portability another step further for Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) spectrometers and spectroradiometers is the ASD goLab Mobile Workstation. Now, technicians and researchers, armed with a...

Smart Ethernet Adapter

With the compact Smart Ethernet Adapter, designed with a specialized high-performance internal microprocessor, Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) has introduced a whole new set of capabilities for...

Universal Sentry Series

QuickSet International said its Sentry series pan/tilt from was developed with enhanced precision, accuracy and repeatability for automated long-range video surveillance applications. Its Universal...

OL 770-NVS Test & Measurement System

Optronic Laboratories has introduced the OL 770-NVS night-vision display test-and-measurement system for measurement of night-vision goggle (NVG)-compatible lighting and displays. "Compatibility...

Optronic Laboratories LLC

Microminiature Metal Bellows

Servometer/Precision Mfg. Group LLC, a maker of custom miniature metal bellows and bellows assemblies, bellows-type flexible shaft couplings, gold-plated bellows contacts and electroforms, said its...

MC-CQ-4X National Aperture's new modular MC-CQ-4XB motion control system, bundled with its Motion Console software, is designed to drive National Aperture MM series motorized stages and other systems using DC...

National Aperture Inc.

The XMV 16M is a 16-million-pixel high-resolution digital camera used in industrial, scientific and military market applications. The camera offers a resolution of 4872 (H) by 3,248 (V) in a 35-mm...

Compact Test Chamber

A MicroClimate 3 cu. ft. compact test chamber from Cincinnati Sub-Zero (CSZ) is now available in two voltages. Customers can select from 115 or 230V for additional performance. This line of...

Weiss Technik North America Inc.

Environmental Chambers & Temperature Controlled-Equipment

Cincinnati Sub-Zero (CSZ) offers standard and built-to-order environmental test chambers, including: Temperature-cycling chambersTemperature and humidity chambersThermal shock chambers, air and...

Weiss Technik North America Inc.

Precision Electroforms

Servometer-Precision Manufacturing Group LLC has refined the process for manufacturing precision, custom-designed electroforms and thin-walled, hollow metal components for use in a myriad of...

Fiber Bundles with 300W

Lumics, a manufacturer of pump laser modules and laser chips, has introduced a line of fiber-bundle lasers with up to 300 W optical output power at 0.9 µm wavelength from a fiber bundle. The...

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