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Photonics.com - March 2009


Research & Technology
Silicon Emits Visible Light Physicists at the University of Sydney discovered that silicon photonic crystals, which slow laser light, can convert IR wavelengths to green light.
$1.2B Allocated to Science $1.2 billion in new science funding, allocated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, was announced by Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The amount includes support for research...
'Rogue' Light Waves Tamed Rare and explosive flare-ups known as "rogue" light waves have been tamed to produce brighter, more stable white light sources.
The Entrepreneur and the Environment In the October/November issue of EuroPhotonics, we met four researchers-turned-entrepreneurs and explored the role that the environment played in fulfilling their goals. This time, we examine that...
News & Features
Light Activates Medications An emerging practice of drug delivery uses light to activate medications inside the body, a study reported.
Ocean Spins Off Films Div. Optical sensing systems supplier Ocean Optics created a separate company called Ocean Thin Films from its thin films division.
$150M NY Nanotech Expansion The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University of Albany officially opened a $150 million expansion at its nanotech complex.
SPIE CEO Urges Action SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs urged a commission reviewing the US-China trade and economic relationship to take aggressive action to revive photonics innovation.
GI Eyes Damaged by Lasers Laser "friendly fire" incidents are on the rise in Iraq, with inflicted damage ranging from severe migraines to partial blindness, the military reported.
Tool Aims to Reduce Biopsies A handheld microscope that uses laser light to form an image of the skin's cellular structure could someday reduce the number of biopsies needed to diagnose skin cancer. Biopsies -- invasive, often...
OFC Day 3: Ready for Business The OFC/NFOEC 2009 exposition came to a close yesterday. Although overall attendance was down – organizers announced a preliminary registration total of 9500 (the official final attendance tally for...
Silicon Emits Visible Light Physicists at the University of Sydney discovered that silicon photonic crystals, which slow laser light, can convert IR wavelengths to green light.
Fairchild Closes Wafer Plant Fairchild Semiconductors will close its Mountaintop, Pa., site by June 2010, eliminating 200 jobs, and will streamline its manufacturing operations in South Korea.
Fuel Improves Medical Imaging A new technology that dramatically improves the sensitivity of magnetic resonance techniques also will have major implications for scientific research. Based on manipulating parahydrogen, the method...
Agilent Restructuring EM Because of revenue losses as high as 50 percent, Agilent Technologies will cut 2700 jobs in the electronic measurement and semiconductor divisions, bringing its job loss total to 3800, or 20 percent...
Products, Tech Debut at OFC A number of new optical communication technologies and capabilities, particularly those for 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s optical links, were unveiled by companies such as Finisar, JDSU, NeoPhotonics, Bookham...
OFC Report: Day 1 'Dismal' At the end of Day One of the OFC/NFOEC 2009 exposition, exhibitors were left scratching their heads, wondering where all the attendees were.
Blind Fish Inspire New Sensor Blind fish that have evolved a unique technique for sensing motion may inspire a new generation of sensors that perform better than current active sonar, say researchers at the Georgia Institute of...
Security Takes Center Stage Although the world economy appears bleak, SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing 2009 will offer attendees access to more than 500 exhibiting companies, 2100 technical presentations and 57 professional...
Thorlabs Acquires Covega Photonics equipment maker Thorlabs Inc. acquired Covega Corp., a provider of optoelectronic components and modules, for an undisclosed amount.
GigOptix Slashes Salaries Optoelectronics maker GigOptix Inc. reduced salaries from 10 to 18 percent in an effort to cut expenses during challenging economic times.
Students Awarded at Show At 2009 OFC/NFOEC conference in San Diego, awards will be announced for the Infinera Outstanding Student Recognition prize, for study related to optoelectronic devices and photonics integration, and...
$1.2B Allocated to Science $1.2 billion in new science funding, allocated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, was announced by Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The amount includes support for research...
Nanospheres ‘Cook’ Cancer By attaching a short peptide to hollow gold nanospheres, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, developed a way for the particles to seek out and “cook” cancer cells.
Big Boost for Blue OLEDs Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory reported that they have designed, synthesized and tested new , more efficient host materials for blue phosphorescent organic LEDs that improve the...
NASA Awards Solar Contracts NASA selected three teams to design and build science instruments for a proposed European-led solar mission. The instruments, with a total value of approximately $81 million, are part of NASA’s...
Signal Mixer Made from Laser Electrical engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have made a microwave signal mixer from a tunnel-junction transistor laser, an innovation that should lead to higher-speed...
Landings Hard for Some Bats Brown University researchers have used motion-capture cameras to document that the impact with which a bat lands varies according to its species. Two cave-dwelling species landed with an impact...
OneChip Photonics Nets $19M Optical tranceiver startup OneChip Photonics of Ottawa announced that it has secured $19.5 million in venture capital funding, enabling it to market integrated FTTH tranceiver technology.
Eco-Friendly Photoconductors Photoconductors, which are found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets, are considered a green technology in performance because they convert light into electricity. However, to...
Sound Waves Generate Light High frequency sounds have been converted into light for the first time by reversing a process that changes electrical signals into sounds. The new tool might be used to enhance the way computer...
Spray-On Solar Cells Pursued Creating solar cells you can wear, fold, and bend -- and even spray onto surfaces -- is the goal of a four-year research program set to begin next month under a consortium of eight UK universities.
AFM Images Breathing Bacteria A combination of atomic force and optical microscopes revealed that common soil bacteria can “inhale” toxic metals and “exhale” them in a nontoxic form, researchers at Ohio State University said. The...
Cooper Buys LED Maker IMS Electrical equipment maker Cooper Industries acquired Irvine, Calif.-based Illumination Management Solutions Inc. (IMS), a provider of specialized optics and systems designs for LED fixtures, for an...
UV Light Cuts TB Spread Installing simple ultraviolet C (UVC) lights in hospitals could help reduce the transmission of tuberculosis, including the drug-resistant strains, by 70 percent, according to a study led by Imperial...
Universal Display Loses $19M Phosphorescent organic LED (PHOLED) maker Universal Display Corp. reported a net loss for 2008 of $19.1 million, or 53 cents a share, an increase of 16.5 percent over 2007’s $16 million loss.
Laser Contract Awarded Schafer Corp. of Chelmsford, Mass., was awarded a $9.8-million contract from the US Navy for research and development into directed energy and electric weapon systems that could be used to detect and...
Early Bone Growth Imaged The earliest stages of bone formation have been imaged for the first time in high resolution. The work provides an improved understanding of bone, tooth and shell formation, which has applications in...
National Cuts 1725 Jobs Chip maker National Semiconductor Corp. will cut 26 percent of its work force and close two plants after third-quarter earnings plummeted 71 percent from a year ago, the company announced last week....
Polarizers Spy Perilous Chems Remote chemical detection is typically done using a technique called laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). This method enables chemists to analyze the composition of a suspected bomb without...
Provost Picked for Power Post Johns Hopkins University Provost and electrical engineer Kristina M. Johnson will be nominated to serve as undersecretary of the Department of Energy, President Barack Obama announced yesterday....
Nanowire-Enhanced Fuel Cells Platinum nanowires are improving the efficiency and longevity of fuel cells, which could lead to the development of commercially viable fuel cells in the near future. Nanowire-enhanced fuel cells...
Wearable Electronics Advance Technologists in Belgium have slimmed down a chip package to less than 60 µm and integrated it onto a low-cost, flexible substrate. The resulting ultrathin chip package (UTCP) with embedded...
Aixtron 2008 Revenue Up 28% Higher sales of compound semiconductor equipment led to a 28 percent increase in 2008 revenue over the previous year, Aixtron AG reported today. The increase was driven primarily by rising demand for...
QD 'Doughnuts' Control Light Doughnut-shaped byproducts of quantum dots have been used to slow and even freeze light. While others have used varying exotic states of matter to dramatically slow the progress of light, this is the...
OSHA May Lower UR Lab Fines A tentative agreement between the University of Rochester and OSHA would lower fines imposed over safety violations at the university’s laser lab that left a worker paralyzed.
Lasers Improve PV Efficiency The $7.5 million SOLASYS project, a consortium of European laser system developers, solar cell manufacturers and others, will use a laser-based materials processing tool to make solar cells more...
Brighter Nanotubes Unveiled Chemists have found a way to increase the luminescence efficiency of single-walled carbon nanotubes, a discovery that could have significance in medical imaging, homeland security, and biological...
'Rogue' Light Waves Tamed Rare and explosive flare-ups known as "rogue" light waves have been tamed to produce brighter, more stable white light sources.
Method Images the Invisible Using a novel, nondestructive approach that combines scanning-probe microscopy with ultrasound and holography for the first time, researchers at Northwestern University viewed subsurface particles as...
Nanocircuit Switch Found? Simply pushing or pulling a molecular junction turns the electrical resistance flowing through the nanometer-scale circuit on or off, researchers have discovered. The feature could be exploited as a...
The Art of Nano-origami As if the ancient art of origami isn’t difficult enough, now researchers are bending and folding objects that are a hundred times thinner than a human hair and then putting them to use as electronic...
FBI Probes NASA Theft The FBI searched the office of Samim Anghaie, a scientist at the University of Florida (UF), amid a probe alleging that he and his family stole “hundreds of thousands of dollars of illegally obtained...
Heat Tracked in Nanotubes In a landmark study in the field of nanoelectronics, IBM Research scientists have announced the development and demonstration of techniques that measure the distribution of energy and heat in powered...
Fotowatio Buys US Solar Biz Fotowatio, one of Spain’s largest independent solar power producers, has agreed to purchase the core US solar power assets – including the largest US solar photovoltaic installation, at Nellis Air...
Products
Fiber Lasers for Annealing OXFORD, Mass., March 30, 2009 – IPG Photonics Corp. has announced a new line of cost-effective fiber lasers designed for cladding, brazing, hardening and annealing applications in the automotive, aerospace and oil industries. The company says that the custom lasers are better suited to these applications than are fiber-delivered direct diode types. The YLS-CL series lasers are available operating at 2, 3 or 4 kW and feature a...
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Phast Fiber Adapter SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31, 2009 – Phrontier Technologies LLC has introduced the Phast fiber adapter for Camera Link base, medium and full interface cameras. It supports demanding 10 tap × 8-bit configurations at up to 85 MHz. It...
Phrontier Technologies LLC
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Genesis 355 UV Lasers SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31, 2009 – The Genesis 355 lasers manufactured by Coherent Inc. are all-solid-state devices that provide true continuous-wave output in the ultraviolet (355 nm).  Based on proprietary optically pumped...
Coherent Inc.
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Sideways-Illumination LEDs MELAKA, Malaysia, March 30, 2009 – Dominant Semiconductors has introduced high-intensity white (DSW-NJG) and warm-white (DSF-NJG) versions of its right angle DomiLED series, replacing the existing DSW-USD device and completing the...
DOMINANT Opto Technologies
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Handheld Raman Analyzer FREMONT, Calif., March 27, 2009 – BaySpec Inc. has introduced a third-generation handheld battery-operated Raman system engine based on proprietary ruggedized volume phase gratings. The TRicorder-1 measures 230 × 110 × 65 mm and...
BaySpec Inc.
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Phantom v640 Camera WAYNE, N.J., March 27, 2009 – Vision Research Inc. has unveiled the Phantom v640, a 4-megapixel digital high-speed camera offering 6-gigapixel/s throughput and enhanced light sensitivity. Targeted at industrial, military, and...
Vision Research Inc., Phantom Digital High-Speed Cameras
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Flexible Workstation PEABODY, Mass., March 26, 2009 – Carl Zeiss SMT has introduced its Auriga CrossBeam focused ion beam/scanning electron microscopy (FIB/SEM) workstation. To characterize samples on the nanometer scale, it performs chemical analysis...
Carl Zeiss Ltd.
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Iris Ultrafast Laser Source MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 25, 2009 – Newport Corp.’s Spectra-Physics Laser Div. has released the Iris optical parametric oscillator (OPO), a tunable, ultrafast laser source for advanced imaging and spectroscopy applications. ...
MKS/Spectra-Physics
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980-nm Pump Laser Modules NOZAY, France, March 24, 2009 – The 1999 HEP series 980-nm pump laser modules have been unveiled by 3S Photonics. Operating at an internal temperature of 45 °C, the modules do not require a thermoelectric cooler and can deliver...
3SP Technologies SAS
Fluid Sensors CARROLLTON, Texas, March 24, 2009 – Providing design engineers with a simplified means of detecting the presence of fluid in transparent tubing, TT electronics Optek Technology has expanded its family of fluid sensors to include...
TT Electronics plc
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Line-Scan Cameras SAINT EGREVE, France, March 23, 2009 – The DiViiNA family of entry-level line-scan cameras has been launched by e2v. The cost-effective industrial inspection cameras feature 1024-, 2048- and 4096-pixel sensors running at a data rate of 40...
Teledyne e2v France
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Project Plus Software SAVOY, Ill., March 23, 2009 – For Raman spectral and microscopic data analysis, WiTec Instruments has released the WiTec Project Plus software package, which performs advanced data evaluation and chemometric image processing. It...
WITec GmbH
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Yellow DPSS Laser LANNION, France, March 17, 2009 -- Oxxius has announced the SLIM-561, a yellow diode-pumped solid-state laser that emits 150 mW of continuous-wave power at 561 nm. With its patented, alignment-free monolithic resonator, it produces...
Oxxius SA
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Photodarkening-Resistant Fibers VANCOUVER, Wash., March 16, 2009 – Available from nLight Corp. are highly doped photodarkening-resistant ytterbium fibers with up to 60 percent higher absorption at 920 nm and pump conversion efficiencies of higher than 75 percent. ...
nLIGHT Inc.
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Life Sciences AFM PLAINVIEW, N.Y., March 16, 2009 – Veeco Instruments has announced the release of its BioScope Catalyst life science atomic force microscope (AFM), which integrates atomic force and light microscopy. The system features hardware and...
Veeco Instruments Inc.
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High-Stability Infrared Laser SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 13, 2009 – Coherent Inc. has launched an infrared version of its Verdi solid-state lasers, delivering 25 W of single-mode CW output at 1064 nm. The Verdi IR 25 laser has the same diode-pumped, solid-state...
Coherent Inc.
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X-ray Camera SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 13, 2009 – Rad-icon Imaging Corp., in partnership with RSF Systems of Straubenhardt, Germany, has announced the Remote RadEye200 x-ray camera for complex imaging applications. The design separates the x-ray...
Teledyne Rad-icon Imaging
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Fiber-Coupled Diode Laser Bars MAINZ, Germany, March 12, 2009 – Dilas has launched a family of conduction-cooled high-power fiber-coupled diode laser bars that produce an unpolarized optical output beam. Within the fiber-coupled architecture, the company uses a...
DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH
JEM-ARM200F Microscope PEABODY, Mass., March 12, 2009 – JEOL USA Inc. has introduced the JEM-ARM200F atomic resolution analytical microscope. The 200-kV spherical aberration-corrected scanning/transmission electron microscope (S/TEM) achieves a high angle...
JEOL USA Inc.
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Harmonic Separators BOULDER, Colo., March 11, 2009 – Alpine Research Optics Corp. has introduced a series of high-performance harmonic separators, optimized for use with high-power solid-state lasers.  The harmonic-separating dichroic beamsplitters...
Alpine Research Optics
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QuantumBrite LED Backlights PALATINE, Ill., March 11, 2009 – Lumex has launched its QuantumBrite line of LED backlights, available in edge- lit and chip-on-board formats and in white and color options. The white versions provide high-intensity brightness of up...
Lumex
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FocusTrac Laser Autofocus SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 11, 2009 – Motion X Corp.’s FocusTrac laser autofocus provides real-time focus for most infinite conjugate microscope systems, including those manufactured by Olympus, Leica, Nikon, Zeiss and Mitutoyo. It can...
Motion X Corp.
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3-MP Vari-Focal Lens WAYNE, N.J., March 5, 2009 – Fujinon Inc. is introducing a 3-megapixel, auto iris DC-type vari-focal lens designed for day/night operation. Specialized optics in the YV2.1x2.8SR4A-SA2 provide crisp color images in daylight, and...
FujiFilm North America Corp.
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USB Cameras with GenICam Interface OBERSULM, Germany, March 3, 2009 -- For its uEye LE range of USB cameras, IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH now provides a GenICam interface, enabling increased flexibility in camera integration. In combination with the good...
IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
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Dual-Band External MIMO Antennas CHESTERFIELD, Mo., March 3, 2009 – Laird Technologies Inc. has announced the availability of two new dual-band external MIMO (multiple input/multiple output) antennas: the S245112PT Directional and the S24517PT Sector.  Both...
Laird Technologies
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