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OSA Names New Chief Operating Officer
Sean Bagshaw has stepped into the role of chief operating officer for The Optical Society. He will continue on as chief information officer, a post he has held for the past five years. Since 2009, Bagshaw as CIO has managed software and web development, business systems analysis, and technological infrastructure and support. In his additional role as COO, he will run the finance, legal and...
Cyros Receives 2014 AIA Achievement Award
Years of dedication to the vision and imaging industry have earned Michael Cyros, chief commercial officer of Allied Vision Technologies, the 2014 AIA Achievement award. Cyros received the honor,...
Intevac Names Cho Executive VP
Intevac Inc. has appointed Jay C. Cho as executive vice president and general manager of its thin-film equipment division. Reporting directly to President and CEO Wendell Blonigan, Cho will lead the...
Concept Laser Opens New Development Center
Concept Laser has opened a new development center at its headquarters, increasing its capacity for testing and advancement. The 600-m2 R&D lab facility enables further development of the...
SPIE Hires Strategist
Photonics technology development veteran Bob Hainsey has joined the SPIE staff as science and technology strategist. The former senior director of central research, development and engineering at...
CyberOptics Acquiring 3-D Metrology Firm
Sensors and inspection systems maker CyberOptics Inc. is acquiring Laser Design Inc. (LDI), a 3-D metrology company also based in Minneapolis, for $3 million in cash, CyberOptics said Tuesday....
Infinera Names Feller Senior VP of Finance
Photonic integrated circuit maker Infinera has appointed Brad Feller as senior vice president of finance. On March 1, he also will assume the position of chief financial officer, replacing Ita...
Laser Components Hires New Head of Optics Production
Laser Components GmbH has appointed Uwe Schallenberg as its new head of production for the optical technologies department. Schallenberg will lead feasibility studies for new designs and evaluations...
Ametek Signs Blue Scientific as UK Distributor
Ametek Inc. has signed Blue Scientific as its exclusive distributor of scientific instruments and software in the UK. Blue Scientific, a new UK-based distribution company that specializes in...
Laser Research Optics Offers Credit for Damaged Lenses
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 14, 2014 — Laser Research Optics will offer a credit of up to 20 percent toward new CO2 lenses if purchasers return their damaged 1.5- and 2-in. zinc selenide lenses. The...
Hamamatsu Factory in Beijing Completed
Construction of Building No. 2 at Hamamatsu Photonics KK’s Beijing subsidiary is now complete. Operations at the new facility, located at the Langfang factory, are scheduled to begin in February. The...
Research & Technology
OSA Names New Chief Operating Officer
Sean Bagshaw has stepped into the role of chief operating officer for The Optical Society. He will continue on as chief information officer, a post he has held for the past five years. Since 2009,...
SPIE Hires Strategist
Photonics technology development veteran Bob Hainsey has joined the SPIE staff as science and technology strategist. The former senior director of central research, development and engineering at...
Infinera Names Feller Senior VP of Finance
Photonic integrated circuit maker Infinera has appointed Brad Feller as senior vice president of finance. On March 1, he also will assume the position of chief financial officer, replacing Ita...
Laser Components Hires New Head of Optics Production
Laser Components GmbH has appointed Uwe Schallenberg as its new head of production for the optical technologies department. Schallenberg will lead feasibility studies for new designs and evaluations...
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Laser Research Optics Offers Credit for Damaged Lenses
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 14, 2014 — Laser Research Optics will offer a credit of up to 20 percent toward new CO2 lenses if purchasers return their damaged 1.5- and 2-in. zinc selenide lenses. The...
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3-D Profiling Advances Automation
There is a rapidly growing interest in using 3-D machine vision to address automation requirements, including new types of inspections. Many wildly differing techniques exist to obtain a 3-D scan of a scene or object for subsequent analysis. The prevailing technique for industrial applications involves imaging a beam projected onto an object as the object moves across the beam, or vice versa....
Getting the Picture on Camera Selection
If seeing is believing, it’s easy to understand why industrial inspection needs vision. Imaging a part may be the only way to monitor production as it occurs and check final output quality....
Vision Systems Automate Industrial Inspection
Industrial settings can often benefit greatly from machine vision technology. These industries often have been producing their goods the same way for many decades. Introducing machine vision systems...
Products
AccuFiz 6-MP Laser Interferometer
4D Technology Corp. has introduced the AccuFiz 6-MP laser interferometer for measuring steep slopes, spheric and aspheric optics and molds, and small-diameter optics. The instrument has a 2400 × 2400-pixel sensor that doubles the measurable spatial frequency range and quadruples the sampling capability of standard Fizeau interferometers. The added resolution makes it possible to...
4D Technology Corporation
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WLS qFlash Vision System
Hexagon Metrology’s WLS qFlash stereo vision system uses blue-light technology to capture 3-D measurements on the shop floor for industrial measurement applications. The portable system...
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
Cobolt Pulsed Lasers
A new family of pulsed lasers by Cobolt AB consists of two series: the Thor Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser series and the Odin compact, tunable mid-IR laser series. The Thor series...
Cobolt AB
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Thin-Film Coatings
Precision Glass & Optics has released a line of optical thin-film coatings for imaging, display, projection, scanning, defense, biomedical, aerospace and other industrial instrumentation...
Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O)
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IMX174 CMOS Sensor
Point Grey Research Inc. has added Sony’s IMX174 2.3-MP global-shutter CMOS sensor to its Grasshopper3 line of USB3 Vision cameras, suitable for machine vision, industrial and scientific...
Teledyne FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions
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SAM Inductive Sensor
Sick Inc. has launched the SAM inductive sensor for speed and acceleration monitoring in factory and logistics automation applications. The device gives both a raw pulse output and a...
SICK Inc.
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KT230-EDLM X-Y Stage
The KT230-EDLM linear positioning stage from Steinmeyer Inc. is driven by an ironless core three-phase linear motor and includes an electromagnetic brake as a safety feature in the event of a power...
Steinmeyer Inc.
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EXC-Series AC Servomotors
ElectroCraft’s EXC-Series AC servomotors, available from Servo2Go.com Ltd., incorporate electromagnetic components to create high continuous torques with low inertia for rapid acceleration in...
Servo2Go.com Ltd.
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ProMetric I2 Imaging Colorimeter
The ProMetric I2 imaging colorimeter by Radiant Zemax is suitable for color and luminance uniformity testing in flat panel displays, light measurement and characterization of LED products, and other...
Radiant Vision Systems, Test & Measurement
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Laser Fiber Packaging
OSI Laser Diode Inc. has introduced laser fiber packaging options for its CVD (chemical vapor deposition) high-power laser line. The packaging is suitable for use in optical sensors, cloud...
OSI Laser Diode Inc.
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MotionBlitz CVR Compact Versatile Recorder
Mikrotron GmbH has released the MotionBlitz CVR compact versatile recorder for video capture in industrial and research applications. The device captures up to 12 s of 2336 × 1728-pixel...
Mikrotron GmbH
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