Dec 1, 1998 — Flir Systems Inc. has unveiled its UltraForce, a dual-sensor airborne imager with four-axis gyrostabilization for providing stable images through 360° of rotation, interchangeable payloads to tailor the system to the mission, and a dual sensor system for day and night imaging. With applications in law enforcement, electronic news gathering and paramilitary surveillance, the system incorporates uncooled infrared technology to deliver high-resolution images with virtually no cool-down time.

Dec 1, 1998 — Meller Optics Inc. is offering optical lenses, domes, windows, and square or rectangular substrates made from a variety of materials: sapphire, ruby, YAG, fluorides, germanium, silicon, fused silica, quartz, zinc selenide, zinc sulfide, laser...

Dec 1, 1998 — The InstruNet series from Omega Engineering Inc. is a high-accuracy, distributed data acquisition system. Designed for Windows 95/NT and Macintosh computers, this system features a topology that uses a controller board plugged into the computer and...

Dec 1, 1998 — The model 722 CompactPCI display controller from Sensoray Co. Inc. is an adapter for CRT displays and LCDs. The device can make color and brightness corrections to compensate for variations in the display. Featuring 24-bit true color and 2 MB of...

Dec 1, 1998 — Piranha is the name of Dalsa Inc.'s high-speed line-scan camera family. These cameras boast a 60% increase in data rate over previous generations, resolutions up to 4096 with two to four outputs, line rates exceeding 79 kHz and total data rates up...

Dec 1, 1998 — Hamamatsu Corp. has introduced three front-illuminated FFT CCD area image sensors for scientific applications such as fluorescence and Raman spectrometry, optical and spectrophotometric analysis and other applications requiring detection of very low...

Dec 1, 1998 — Ocean Optics Inc. has unveiled the PC2000, a plug-in spectrometer that offers greater sensitivity than its predecessor, the PC1000. It is mounted on a half-length ISA bus A/D card that installs in an ISA bus slot in a PC. Invisible to the end user...

Nov 1, 1998 — Banner Engineering Corp. has unveiled its D11 and D11Expert sensors. They feature a visible red, green or blue LED light source for maximum sensitivity to all colors. Suitable for product sensing and color mark registration control, the devices...

Nov 1, 1998 — Sensoray Co. Inc. has unveiled the model 311 PC/104+ frame grabber, which converts video camera signals into digital data for image processing and display. The device can accommodate up to three cameras: two with composite video and one with an...

Nov 1, 1998 — The VC series of industrial smart cameras from Vision Components now has a megapixel model that features 1280 x 1024 pixels, enabling the detection and classification of smaller defects, more accurate measurements, and more reliable character and...

Nov 1, 1998 — Hamamatsu Corp. has developed two multichannel detector heads that can be combined with InGaAs linear image sensors for complete image detection capability for NIR spectroscopy, radiation thermometry, nondestructive inspection and optical fiber...

Nov 1, 1998 — The EPP2000 miniature fiber optic spectrometers from StellarNet Inc. cover the 200- to 1600-nm range. Features include a 2048-wavelength scan memory, 4-ms spectral data acquisition from a CCD detector or photodiode array, and 0.4-nm resolution at...

Oct 1, 1998 — The Series 3000.4GX high-speed infrared temperature transducers from Everest Interscience Inc. have a response time of 20 ms and a turn-on time of 10 ms. These small infrared thermometers give precision temperature readings in rapidly moving...

Sep 1, 1998 — New Focus Inc. has introduced three photodetectors that run on battery power and come in compact packages. The femtowatt photoreceiver has a gain of 1011 V/W, making it suitable for low-light and fluorescence detection. The large-area photoreceiver...

Sep 1, 1998 — Ocean Optics Inc. has released a fiber optic oxygen sensor designed for on-line, laboratory or field applications. Dubbed Foxy, it couples to the company's high-sensitivity miniature fiber optic spectrometers for real-time analysis of dissolved or...

Sep 1, 1998 — Surface Optics Corp. has unveiled a field-portable reflectometer for mapping the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) of surfaces whose removal to a lab would alter their reflectance properties or harm the equipment. The model...

Sep 1, 1998 — Optek Technology Inc. has introduced a reflective sensor that operates at a distance of ±0.5 in. compared with a maximum distance of 0.125 in. for typical sensors. The OPB715 sensor, based on Optek's Photologic technology, is characterized for use...

Sep 1, 1998 — The LCP-3215 from Wavelength Electronics Inc. offers temperature control in laser diodes and detectors. Stability of <0.005° is reached when the device is interfaced with thermistors. Measuring 6.1 x 6.25 x 2.5 in., the 1.5-A, bipolar, 10-W...

Aug 1, 1998 — The SP-Eye is a compact monochrome camera system from Photonic Science capable of producing images from both video rate bright-field and integrated low-light fluorescence applications. It features a Peltier-cooled CCD sensor to improve...

Aug 1, 1998 — The Fuga 15 camera with a PCI bus interface from C-Cam Technologies offers a resolution of 512 x 512 pixels. Available in monochrome and in color, the camera has a dynamic range of 120 dB. The color version, the Fuga 15RGB, uses a Fuga 15d sensor...

Aug 1, 1998 — The Model PD300 Series photodiode detector from Ophir Optronics Inc. is now offered with a 7-mm aperture option. In compliance with the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, the detector measures the dynamic range from nanowatts to 3 W of...

Jul 1, 1998 — The LS-450 blue LED from Ocean Optics Inc. is designed for high-sensitivity emission fluorescence measurements. The device produces a pulsed spectral output at 450 nm and has an SMA connector for coupling to sampling optics. The excitation sources...

Jul 1, 1998 — A line of high-performance digital line-scan cameras, designated the L120, L130, L140 and L160, are available from Basler Vision Technologies. With pixel rates varying from 20 to 62.5 MHz, these CCD sensors include 1024 or 2048 sensor elements. They...

Jul 1, 1998 — Elliot Scientific Ltd. has released the Dali E-2100 device alignment instrument. The unit includes a three-channel piezo driver for 0 to 150-V piezos, menu-driven alignment functions and an IEEE 488.2 interface. Optical power is received from a...

Jun 1, 1998 — Pulse Instruments' PI-4005 is designed specifically for the acquisition of data from CCDs, IR detectors and focal plane arrays. It consists of a set of low-noise mainframes, the host computer, and software to set up and control acquisition of data....