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Photonics Spectra - September 2003
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Solid-State Lasers Are Gunning for Argon-Ion's Place
Frequency-doubled diode lasers that produce blue light at or near 488 nm have emerged over the past couple of years, potentially affecting the multibillion-dollar instrumentation market based on the...
VCSELs Go Long-Wave
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are now routinely used in photonics applications such as telecommunications, primarily at 850 nm. Their long-wavelength cousins — 1300- and 1550-nm...
Multilayer Dielectric Gratings Enable More-Powerful High-Energy Lasers
Over the past 20 years, the use of chirped-pulse amplification has enabled lasers to produce powerful pulses in the femtosecond and picosecond time regime. The development of higher-energy lasers...
Frame Grabbers Fine-Tune Machine Vision
Frame grabbers convert video images from cameras into digital format and transfer these digital images to PCs, which use the converted data to make decisions about the objects being inspected....
Making Connections: Real-World Telecom Component Production
Today’s telecommunications market requires reliable, low-cost transmitters and receivers. But for the mass deployment of optical connection technology, optical communications technologies must be...
Selecting Lenses to Maximize IR Camera Performance
Many factors must be considered when choosing an infrared lens for a thermal imaging camera. These include knowledge of the technology being used and of the intended application for the imager. It is...
Tech Pulse
Heat Spreader Boosts Laser Power
Optically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers are attractive in a number of applications but have suffered from thermal loading because the pump beam is focused to such a small spot -- typically 100 µm -- in the lasers' gain region. Scientists at the University of Strathclyde's Institute of Photonics in Glasgow, UK, have enhanced the performance of one of these GaAs-based...
Bidirectional Multiplexer Features Six-Port Circulators
Unidirectional optical add/ drop multiplexers are common elements in fiber optic networks, but bidirectional designs have been complex and generally lack flexibility. A team of engineers at the...
Diffractive Microlens Cuts Laser Costs
Assembly and alignment are major cost drivers in the fabrication of photonic components. Nowhere is this more evident than in the packaging of laser modules for metropolitan optical networks, for...
Fresnel Optics Investigated for Next-Generation Lithography
Achromatic Fresnel optical sys-tems under development at Xradia Inc. of Concord, Calif., promise to compete with mirror-based solutions for next-generation extreme-ultraviolet lithography in the...
Twin-Detector Receiver Detects Single Photons over 100 km
A low-noise receiver developed by a team of scientists at NEC Corp. and Japan Science and Technology Corp., in collaboration with the Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan, has enabled...
Noncritical Phase Matching Yields 236-nm Radiation
Investigators at Aculight Corp. in Bothell, Wash., have employed noncritical phase matching to obtain 236-nm radiation by twice frequency-doubling a Q-switched, 946-nm Nd:YAG laser. They generated 43...
Calibration Method Enables Alignment down to 1 µm
Alignment of tiny objects is an important task in the photonics industry. Fibers, waveguides and microlenses must be adjusted to maximize light throughput or to prepare for gluing or welding....
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Fairchild Imaging Licenses CMOS Sensor Technology
Fairchild Imaging of Milpitas, Calif., and Agilent Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., have signed an agreement under which Fairchild will hold an exclusive license to the technology, designs,...
RPC Photonics Opens Its Doors
RPC Photonics Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., a producer of optical components for illumination, display and other light-control applications, has begun operations. The company fabricates continuous-tone...
PCO Computer Optics Acquires Cooke
To strengthen its presence in North America and to improve its customer service internationally, scientific camera developer PCO Computer Optics GmbH of Kelheim, Germany, has purchased The Cooke...
Kopin Wins Defense Contract for Microdisplays
Kopin Corp. of Taunton, Mass., under a contract from Raytheon Co. of Lexington, Mass., will supply its CyberDisplay 640M microdisplay systems for military applications. Kopin's active-matrix liquid...
Austrian Laser Company Opens US Office
Ultrafast oscillator and amplifier supplier FemtoLasers GmbH of Vienna, Austria, has formed FemtoLasers Inc. in Harvard, Mass., to oversee its business activities and customer service in the US,...
Swiss Laser Firm Acquires GigaTera
In an all-cash transaction, Time-Bandwidth Products Inc. of Zurich has purchased GigaTera Inc. of Dietikon, both in Switzerland. The companies will colocate to support the existing Ergo laser product...
A Tool to Finance Early-Stage Technology
With fiscal 2003 funding of roughly $834 million and $45 million, the US Department of Defense's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer programs collectively...
Sensor Producer Ups Its Stake in Machine Vision
Industrial sensor system producer SICK AG of Waldkirch im Breisgau, Germany, has increased its stake in Integrated Vision Products AB of Linkoping, Sweden, from 25 to 92 percent. Integrated Vision...
Joint Venture for Fiber Optics Formed
For the development and manufacture of fiber optic components, Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany, and United Epitaxy Co. Ltd. of Hsinchu, Taiwan, have formed a joint venture that will be...
Special Optics Wins Government Contract
Under a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory, Special Optics Inc. of Wharton, N.J., will design a wide-angle imaging system that operates in the...
Melles Griot Expands Optics Group
To consolidate its product portfolio and enhance customer access to its optical engineering team, Melles Griot of Rochester, N.Y., has combined the OEM industrial optics segment of its Photonics...
Boeing to Provide Test Bed for High-Energy Laser Systems
Boeing Co. will provide a mobile active targeting resource for integrated experiments (Matrix) test bed to enable the development of beam and fire control for high-energy laser weapons systems, under...
PhotoSynergy Receives 'Smart' Funding
The Scottish Executive has bestowed a 2002 Smart: Scotland award on PhotoSynergy Ltd. of Dundee, UK, to help the company commercialize its technology. Formed last year as a joint venture between...
Teltron Gains Orders for Military Sensors
Teltron Technologies Inc. of Birdsboro, Pa., has received 28 orders from the US government and military contractors to manufacture or remanufacture camera tube imaging sensors for use in hardware on...
Accent on Applications
Colored Lights Reveal Hidden Images
Color scientists at Xerox Corp.'s Wilson Center for Research and Technology in Webster, N.Y., have come up with a disappearing act that features high-quality color photographs. Under illumination with one color of light, a print reveals one detailed image, but a different image appears when the photo is illuminated by another color. Under conventional lighting, a third picture is seen against a...
Laser-Induced Incandescence Measures Soot in Jet Exhaust
When monitoring the performance of jet engines, aerospace engineers typically are concerned with intake phenomena, such as how wind velocity, rain and shock waves affect the turbine at subsonic to...
Sensors and New Materials Build Smart Bridges
Armies of workers laid 650,000 miles of road and erected 75,000 bridges from 1935 through 1939 under the Works Progress Administration. The program was an unqualified success, and these structures...
Presstime Bulletin
Molecularly Bridged Quantum Dots Transfer Spin Information
Using a two-color time-resolved Faraday rotation measurement technique, researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have observed the transfer of electron spin information between molecularly linked CdSe quantum dots at room temperature. The work, which they reported July 31 online on Sciencexpress, suggests that such structures may be suitable for the fabrication of spintronic...
Holey Fibers Enable New Wavelengths
A group at the University of Bath in the UK and at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has presented numerical simulations and experimental findings that show that controlling the chromatic...
Photons Entangled over the Danube
To demonstrate the viability of free-space configurations as an alternative to optical fiber for quantum key distribution systems, scientists at Universität Wien in Vienna, Austria, have performed a...
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MICRODISPLAYS
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NIR SPECTROMETERS
The EPP2000-NIR-InGaAs miniature spectrometers for the 0.9- to 2.2-µm range have optics with no moving parts. Produced by StellarNet Inc., the TE-cooled detectors are InGaAs photodiode arrays...
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LASER MARKING
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LARGE SPECTRAL MAPS
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FRAME GRABBER
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FIBER SENSOR
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LASER BEAM PROFILER
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WAVE LOCKING
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PULSE LASER
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