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Photonics Spectra - October 2005
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Automotive Night Vision Enhanced by Near-Infrared Technology
Driving becomes more difficult after sunset. Not only is visibility generally reduced, but an even more serious challenge on unlighted roads are the headlamps of approaching vehicles, which can dazzle a driver’s eyes. Night-vision systems can help drivers navigate in the dark, but to be of real help, they must be able to see both in the light and in the dark. They also must produce...
Photonics Measures the Quality of Automotive Paint
Some people like bright colors and high gloss on their cars for the appearance of cleanliness and newness. As a result, US automakers have used metallic paints for more than 50 years, enhancing gloss...
Machine Vision Checks Chicken and Confirms Cookies
John Stewart would like to make your next meal of chicken strips or nuggets cheaper and healthier. Stewart, a research engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta, is working on a machine...
Superluminescent LEDs Enter the Mainstream
Superluminescent LEDs, also known as high-power LEDs and “laser diodes operating below threshold,” are semiconductor light sources that have a broadband output optical spectrum, like LEDs, at high...
Research and Development of Left-Handed Materials Continues
Researchers are considering the optical equivalent of the Zen koan about the sound of one hand clapping. In optics, however, there’s a twist: It isn’t the use of two hands that is the norm....
Nanoparticle White-Light Emitter Based on Up-Conversion Demonstrated
Alternative sources of white light, such as LEDs and organic LEDs, are under investigation for applications ranging from the backlighting of displays to general lighting. Now scientists at the...
LEDs Steer Microscopic Beasts of Burden
At Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., scientists have reported that microorganisms can play the part of “microoxen,” being hitched to a load, directed to pull it to the desired location and...
Controller Speeds Atomic Force Microscopy
The speed of operation of the atomic force microscope (AFM) is being pushed in biological and other applications where milliseconds count. Obtaining accurate sample profiles is still a limiting...
Solid Immersion Microscopy Images Quantum Dots
Researchers at Boston University and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., have used a lens that increases numerical aperture with solid immersion microscopy to...
Electron Microscopy Images Working Nanodevices
To enable a better understanding of the behavior of electronic and mechanical systems constructed of nanoscale parts, a research team at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Lawrence...
InAs Quantum Dots Self-Organize on Microdisks
A self-organization process identified by scientists at Stanford University’s Solid State and Photonics Laboratory in California promises to facilitate the fabrication of devices in which quantum...
Patterned Metal Films Focus Surface Plasmon Polaritons
A team of investigators at the University of California, Berkeley, has demonstrated that circles and ellipses milled in silver films can focus surface plasmon polaritons. The development may enable...
Quantum-Dot Films Display Strong Photoluminescence
A sol-gel fabrication technique developed at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Ikeda, Japan, yields thin films of quantum dots that exhibit photoluminescent...
Tech Pulse
Photonics Goes Underground in Silicon
A research group at the University of California, Los Angeles, has demonstrated the fabrication of optical devices — specifically, a microdisk resonator and coupling waveguides — beneath the surface of a silicon substrate, leaving the surface clear for the implementation of electronic circuitry. The scientists believe that their technique could lead to monolithic electronic/photonic integrated...
Novel Technique Monitors Carbonyl Sulfide
Researchers at Universität Düsseldorf in Germany have developed a technique that they call cavity leak-out spectroscopy, a variation of cavity ringdown spectroscopy (see “Through the Looking Glass...
Toyota CRDL Demonstrates Inexpensive Bidirectional Fiber Communications
Plastic optical fibers are beginning to replace electrical wiring harnesses in many automotive applications because of their low cost, light weight and immunity to electromagnetic interference....
Room-Temperature 9.5-µm Quantum Cascade Lasers Produce >100 mW
As part of the Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy program funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., have demonstrated quantum...
Four-Wave Mixing Trumps Homogeneous Gain in Erbium Laser
Although current wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) systems require a different laser for each wavelength transmitted over an optical fiber, engineers envision more-efficient systems in which a...
Linear Optical Amplifier Generates Multiple Wavelengths Simultaneously
The previous report describes a technique to finesse mode competition in a homogeneously broadened erbium-fiber laser. Researchers at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Kowloon, China, have taken...
Self-Assembled Films Display Structural Color
Scientists at Keio University in Yokohama, Japan, have developed a colloidal “ink” that becomes iridescent upon drying as a result of diffraction. Such materials that produce colors structurally have...
Bad Tunnel Diode Enables Good Millimeter-Wave Sensor
By realizing that a bad tunnel diode could form the basis for a good sensor, researchers at Ohio State University in Columbus, the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington and the University of...
Pinhole Camera Targets New Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
A research fellow at the University of Sydney in Australia has developed a field-widened pinhole camera for the guidance and stabilization of miniature unmanned aerial vehicles with wingspans of tens...
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Philips Acquires Shares in Lumileds
Royal Philips Electronics has purchased shares in Lumileds Lighting of San Jose, Calif. Through the transaction, the Netherlands-based company gains a controlling 96 percent interest in Lumileds,...
Danaher Buys Leica Microsystems
Danaher Corp. of Washington has purchased Leica Microsystems AG of Wetzlar, Germany, from LM Investments Sarl of Luxembourg for approximately $550 million, including assumed debt, pension...
Analysis Finds Strong Optoelectronics Market
One of the strongest years in the past decade for the optoelectronics market was 2004, according to a report from the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association. Market analysis revealed...
E2v technologies Purchases Company
In the UK, e2v technologies plc of Chelmsford has acquired Gresham Scientific Instruments Ltd. of High Wycombe, a manufacturer of x-ray detectors and related items for energy dispersive x-ray and...
ILX Lightwave Donates Equipment to Universities
ILX Lightwave of Bozeman, Mont., has donated one of its LTS-9110 laser diode test systems to the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics on the campus of Huazhong University of Science and...
OIDA Supports Common InP Foundry Model
The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) has devised a road map for the indium-phosphide technology market. Among its recommendations for streamlining operations, it suggests that...
Goodrich Supplies Laser Warning Systems
Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., will supply initial production quantities of laser threat warning systems for US Army Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters under a contract from Lear Siegler Services...
Companies Ally for Video Capture Technology
Moritex Europe Ltd. of Cambridge, UK, has entered an OEM arrangement with Tropin Corp. of Stuart, Fla., with the aim of supplying affordable digital image capture and archiving technology to the...
Aculight Gets Defense Contract for Laser System
Under a $1.08 million contract from Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md., Aculight Corp. will deliver a rugged, compact, diode-pumped solid-state laser for the US Army’s Non-Line-of-Sight -- Launch...
Till Photonics Wins Award for Live-Cell Screening
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has awarded Till Photonics GmbH €2.5 million for its biophotonics network proposal. The Gräfelfing-based company’s live-cell screening...
Srico to Develop Sensor System for Military Pilots
Srico Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, will develop an optical electroencephalogram sensor system to monitor gravity-induced loss of consciousness in military pilots, under a Phase I Small Business Innovation...
Ametek Acquires Spectro Analytical
Ametek Inc. of Paoli, Pa., has acquired Spectro Beteiligungs GmbH, the holding company of Spectro Analytical Instruments GmbH & Co. KG and its affiliates. A global supplier of atomic spectroscopy...
Picarro and Stanford Extend Patent Agreement
In California, Picarro Inc. of Sunnyvale and Stanford University have agreed to extend an exclusive licensing agreement on Stanford patents for a minimum of five years. The patents, eight issued and...
Eastman Kodak and TSMC Collaborate on Sensors
Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) of Hsinchu, Taiwan, have signed a licensing agreement for the manufacture of next-generation CMOS image...
Optech Combines Two Divisions
A supplier of laser-based survey instruments, Optech Inc. of Toronto has merged its Laser Imaging and Industrial Products divisions to form the Industrial & 3-D Imaging Div. The units share...
Sagitta and FOC Launch Laser Cleaving System
Fiber optic process equipment supplier Sagitta Inc. of Hauppauge, N.Y., has formed a partnership with Fiber Optic Center Inc. (FOC) of New Bedford, Mass. Under the agreement, FOC will distribute...
Imra Obtains Patent Rights for Customers
As part of a program to provide customer support in precision materials processing applications, Imra America Inc. has secured micromachining patent rights from the University of Michigan; both are...
Raylase Names US Agents
A supplier of modular components and subsystems for laser beam deflection, Raylase AG of Wessling, Germany, has appointed sales and marketing agents in the US. Blue Hill Optical Technologies of...
GSI Changes Its Name
GSI Lumonics Inc. of Billerica, Mass., has changed its name to GSI Group Inc. and has listed a new trading symbol, GSIG, on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The business will continue to be led by the same...
Cymer and Carl Zeiss Form New Business
Cymer Inc., a supplier of deep-UV sources used in semiconductor manufacturing, and Carl Zeiss SMT AG, a manufacturer of optical systems for chip manufacturing and process control, have created a...
Ushio Is New Partner in Xtreme
Ushio Inc. of Tokyo has acquired all shares in Xtreme technologies GmbH held by Lambda Physik AG of Göttingen, Germany. Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH of Jena, Germany, continues to hold the...
Michigan Aerospace Wins NOAA Contract
An engineering services and products company, Michigan Aerospace Corp. of Ann Arbor has received a one-year, $2.1 million contract from the University of New Hampshire in Durham as part of a larger...
Dalsa Supplies Cameras for Display Manufacturing
Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has received custom development contracts valued at $1.4 million to provide electronic cameras and related components to a supplier to the flat panel display...
Companies Collaborate on Microfluidics, Optics
Wahl optoparts GmbH, a Jenoptik subsidiary based in Triptis, Germany, and Weidmann Plastics Technology AG of Rapperswil, Switzerland, have agreed to cooperate in the area of micro-optics and...
ADC Secures Fiber Optic Network Solutions
ADC of Eden Prairie, Minn., has purchased Fiber Optic Network Solutions (Fons) Corp., a Marlborough, Mass., supplier of passive optical components and fiber optic cable packaging, distribution and...
Edmund Optics Forms On-Site Service Team
Edmund Optics of Barrington, N.J., has created the Vision Integrated Partners (VIP) team to provide on-site vision system integration services globally. The company has joined with Epic Vision...
Alfalight Develops Laser Diodes for SHEDS
Alfalight Inc. of Madison, Wis., was awarded $1.4 million in funding for Phase II of the Super High Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) program, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
Micro-Photon-Devices and PicoQuant Collaborate
Micro-Photon-Devices of Bolzano, Italy, has selected PicoQuant GmbH of Berlin as the sole European distributor of its PDM series single-photon sensitive avalanche photodiodes. The partnership...
Kitco Awarded Training Contract
In Virginia, Kitco Fiber Optics of Virginia Beach has received a five-year contract from Northrop Grumman in Newport News to provide training in shipboard fiber optics to the latter companys...
Optical Research Names Design Contest Winners
Optical Research Associates of Pasadena, Calif., has announced the winners of its annual Student Optical Design Competition, in which awards totaling $4000 are granted. The allotments are presented...
Companies Sign Joint Venture Agreement
CI Systems of Westlake Village and Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc. of Torrance, both in California, have agreed to jointly make bids and to sell products developed by each company. Opto-Knowledge...
MVTec Software Names Representative
MVTec Software GmbH has appointed Lambda Photometrics Ltd. of Harpenden, UK, as its distributor in the UK and Ireland. The Munich, Germany, company’s software tools for machine vision have...
Agilent Joins Forces with Asylum Research
In California, Agilent Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto and Asylum Research of Santa Barbara have allied to develop technologies and applications in the area of nanotechnology measurements. Agilent is...
Germany Reports on Its Technology
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Bonn recently published technology reports based on information gathered through its Networks of Competence initiative. The networks,...
Sensors Unlimited Merges with Goodrich
Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., has agreed to acquire Sensors Unlimited Inc. of Princeton, N.J. The $60 million cash transaction will give Goodrich controlling ownership of the company, which...
NIST Launches Iris Recognition Challenge
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, based in Gaithersburg, Md., has announced the Iris Challenge Evaluation, a large-scale assessment of iris recognition. Analogous to fingerprint...
Accent on Applications
Photonics Enables Conservators to Get a Clearer Picture of Art
Art Institute of Chicago, Fourier transform infrared microscopy, Raman microscope equipped with an Andor CCD detector, a holographic notch filter and various dispersion gratings. She also uses...
Laser Micromachining Keeps the Olympic Torch Burning
Prior to every Olympic Games, a handheld torch is lighted by the sun shining through a parabolic mirror at the original site of the event in Olympia, Greece. In a relay that has come to symbolize...
Lidar Spots Bomb-Sniffing Honeybees
Bees aren’t busy just for the sake of being busy. The constant foraging for pollen by honeybees enables the hive to exist. This industriousness also has been proposed as a means to locate land...
Laser Spots Unique Codes in Materials
As identity theft becomes more common, security companies are seeking advanced tools to help guard against fraud in such documents as passports, identification cards, credit cards and banknotes....
Presstime Bulletin
MEMS Structures Used to Injection-Lock Miniature Laser
In the Sept. 5 issue of Applied Physics Letters, investigators at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore report the development of a 3 × 2 × 0.6-mm injection-locked InGaAsP/InP laser system that incorporates microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. Such lasers, they suggest, may have applications in optical switching for telecommunications and in portable atomic clocks. A...
Plasmon Behavior Analogous to Electron Dynamics
Scientists at Rice University in Houston, Trinity University in San Antonio and Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, have discovered that plasmons in a metallic nanoparticle...
Simulation, Experiment Probe Shocked Nanocrystalline Metals
Using computer models and experiments with a high-power laser, a team of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., in collaboration with Paul Scherrer Institut of...
Lighter Side
Dental Detectives Dig Up Diet Data
Animals not only are what they eat, but also wear what they eat — into their tooth enamel. Scientists from a group of institutions are using scanning confocal microscopy and specialized software to...
Kicking Off the GMT
The laboratory in the underbelly of the University of Arizona’s football stadium was the site of an unusual kickoff this summer as researchers got started on what could be a half-billion-dollar...
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PicoQuant GmbH has introduced 280-, 295-, 310- and 340-nm pulsed LED sources as replacements for nitrogen and excimer lasers and flashlamps in bioanalysis, biochemistry, genetics, optical storage,...
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HIGH-POWER UV LASER
Commercial Laser Group of General Atomics has added the Everest 355-8 to its series of solid-state, diode-pumped Q-switched lasers. The device is a high-power neodymium laser that puts out 0.8 mJ per...
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SOFTWARE UPDATE
Las-Cad GmbH has released version 3.3 of its laser cavity analysis and design software program Lascad. The software takes into account full 3-D temperature distribution obtained from finite element...
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Dalsa announces its Piranha HS camera series, which is based on next-generation time delay and integration technology. The company says that the line-scan cameras provide 100 times greater...
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MACHINE VISION
MVTec Software GmbH has announced that its Halcon comprehensive, flexible, general-purpose software for machine vision applications now interfaces to the micro-Enable III frame grabbers from Silicon...
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Developed by Heraeus Noblelight GmbH, FiberLight is a light source for use in biotechnology and deep-sea research. It is an RF-excited deuterium lamp without electrodes, mounted on a circuit board....
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POINT SOURCE EMITTER
Clairex Technologies Inc. has introduced the CLE333, an 850-nm collimated radiation point source emitter with a beam angle of <±1° at the half-power points. The lens is designed to provide a...
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Advanced Thermal Solutions (ATS) Inc. says that its thermView liquid crystal system enables noninvasive temperature mapping to 0.1 °C with spatial resolution in microns, more precise than that with...
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Adimec USA’s MX12D series cameras with frame transfer CCD technology are an upgrade of its MX12P models, offering a 65-dB dynamic range, 14-bit digital processing and 1024 × 1024-pixel resolution at...
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A high-speed motion control system has been unveiled by New Focus, a division of Bookham Inc. The actuator technology offers submicron positioning accuracy, full speed and acceleration profile...
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Providing high accuracy over 500 mm of travel, the Pyramid-Nano was developed by Kern Micro- und Feinwerktechnik GmbH & Co. KG for high-precision machining. It is equipped with hydrostatic drives...
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TE-COOLED LASER
The LDM-10 manufactured by Laserex Technologies Pty Ltd. is a temperature-stabilized thermoelectrically (TE) cooled laser with AR-coated optics and high-speed modulation. It can be set for CW output...
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A discrete drive option for the Automation 3200 motion system, the Ndrive MP digital servo amplifier from Aerotech Inc. drives brushless, DC brush-type servomotors and stepper motors. Measuring 41 ×...
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PHOTO IC DIODE
Hamamatsu Corp.’s S9648 photo IC diode offers spectral response close to that of the human eye. Covering the 320- to 820-nm range, the device has a peak spectral response at 560 nm without the need...
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LIGHT TESTING
Labsphere Inc. has released a family of integrating sphere spectral lamp measurement systems, including the SLMS-1000, -2000, -4000, -6500 and -7600 models. The company says that the systems provide...
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Version 2.2 of LightTrans GmbHs VirtualLab wave-optical design and analysis software has become available. Among the new or improved features, the complex amplitude field generators dialogues...
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SMART CAMERA
The Iris P-series programmable smart cameras have been enhanced with Matrox Imaging’s release of the Iris P300H, which includes a high-speed monochrome 1/3-in. CCD sensor that operates at 100 fps and...
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FIBER OPTIC MODE PROFILING
The MPX-2 launched by Arden Photonics Ltd. is a system for measuring mode power distribution, encircled flux and mode transfer function in graded-index multimode fibers at 1300 nm. With the included...
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PULSE MEASUREMENT
Keithley Instruments Inc. has released the model 4200-SCS semiconductor characterization system for pulse generation and measurement. Its integrated PIV (Pulse I-V) package provides accurate...
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Avo Photonics now provides laser assembly services ranging from package design to prototype development to volume production. It specializes in laser assembly for high-frequency RF designs, suitable...
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Sunoptic Technologies LLCs Copperhead borescopes can be remotely steered to allow the user to view otherwise inaccessible areas with patent-pending two- and four-way Dura-Flex articulation....
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The J720 electrical-to-optical and the J730 optical-to-electrical converters unveiled by Highland Technology Inc. convert logic levels to fiber optic media for fast, low-noise transport over long...
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Optimized for easy integration into all types of OEM system configurations, a line of CO2 lasers has been announced by Universal Laser Systems Inc. The instruments cover a wide range of power levels...
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POLARIZATION GENERATOR
General Photonics Corp. presents the PolaPal PSG-101, a high-speed polarization-state generator that produces six states of polarization (−45, 0, 45, 90, and right- and left-hand circular)...
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Schott North America Inc. has introduced high-resolution fiber optic faceplates and tapers based on a multistep fiber drawing process. Its heating method produces fibers with diameters ranging from...
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OPTICAL TABLES
For applications in which magnetic fields, Kinetic Systems Inc. has unveiled nonmagnetic optical tables manufactured of industry-standard nonmagnetic stainless steel or aluminum. Their epoxy-bonded...
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DIRECT DIODE LASERS
IPG Photonics Corp. has announced a family of direct diode laser systems that operate from 900 to 1000 nm and that deliver up to 20 W of optical power via a 100-µm multimode fiber core, with a...
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A system available from Jasco Inc. combines the company’s supercritical fluid chromatography/extraction technology with its compact high-performance Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer,...
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FIBER CLEAVERS
Fujikura Europe Ltd. has launched the CT30 series high-precision fiber cleavers for fiber fusion splicing. They are half the size of their predecessor, CT20, with preloaded spring action to provide...
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The VersiVision FVT1000 and FVR1000 series fiber optic video modems available from Versitron Inc. extend a frequency-modulation video signal over a single fiber optic cable. They provide high-quality...
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Version 3.0 of CrystalWave photonic crystal simulation software has been released by Photon Design and, the company says, is 10% to 15% faster. Losses and dispersion are handled by the calculation...
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The XLA 300, a 193-nm argon-fluoride (ArF) light source unveiled by Cymer Inc., enables volume production for 45-nm immersion photolithography applications. It offers a 6-kHz repetition rate and...
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THIN-FILM ADHESIVES
NuSil Technology now offers thin-film adhesives along with its lines of silicone-based materials for electronics, photonics, health care and aerospace applications. The adhesives are used for various...
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LASER SAFETY
The Laser Institute of America (LIA) is offering laser safety auditing to help medical facilities comply with the ANSI Z136.3-2005 Safe Use of Lasers in Health Care Facilities standard...
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SPECTROMETER UPGRADES
Craic Technologies has introduced an upgrade package that can improve UV-VIS-NIR microspectrometers. It includes a spectrophotometer, new interface optics, electronics and a computer as well as the...
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INFRARED DETECTOR
The UL 04 17 1 uncooled infrared detector from Ulis is suitable for low-cost thermal imaging applications in medicine, driver vision enhancement, security and thermography. Based on an amorphous...
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The Lynx IPX-11M5-L from Imperx Inc. is a 4000 × 2672-pixel-resolution smart camera that draws 6 W from a 10- to 15-VDC supply. Onboard intelligence adds horizontal windowing, automated iris to...
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Renishaw Inc. has released a motion analysis software package to accompany its ML10 laser-calibration system. QuickView enables real-time, high-resolution analysis of linear or angular positioning...
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A low-profile, surface-mount, full-spectrum red, green and blue LED has been announced by LEDtronics Inc. The SML5050RGB1K-TR measures 5.5 × 5.5 mm, and the red, green and blue diodes emit...
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MULTICHANNEL RADIOMETER
Miltec UV has introduced the Profiler M, a radiometer that measures peak power density and total energy simultaneously on all four channels: UVA, UVB, UVC and UVV. The device features a liquid...
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AUTOMATED SORTING
The Gi-300VE sorter from General Inspection LLC incorporates three technologies to inspect nuts and other small machined parts. Lasers determine exterior dimensions, machine vision examines recesses...
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DELAY-PULSE GENERATION
Berkeley Nucleonics Corp. offers model 565, a digital delay-pulse generator that provides up to eight outputs synchronized with a coherence of 250 ps. Each channel in the apparatus can be selectively...
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LINEAR SCALE
Heidenhain Corp. has introduced the LC 182, an absolute optical linear scale that covers measuring lengths of up to 4240 mm. A proprietary single-field scanning method has been incorporated into the...
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LIGHT ANALYZER
Gigahertz-Optik Inc.’s X4 light analyzer combines a photometric detector and a diode array spectrometer to provide absolute accurate photometric and colorimetric measurement of LEDs and other...
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GLASS CUTTER
TLC International has introduced the Gen-3 TLC Phoenix-600 glass cutter, whose operating system is PC Windows-based and whose software for cutting custom shapes interfaces with the AutoCAD platform....
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LASER DIODE
An 808-nm air-cooled version of the Sirilas laser diode has been released by Osram Opto Semiconductors for mobile applications that require less output than the water-cooled version delivers. An...
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Scanlab AG has introduced its hurryScan II 7, a 7-mm-aperture scan head that is equipped with either an analog or a digital standard interface and controlled by a proprietary RTC interface board....
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OPTICAL BEAM HANDLING
The SYS 40, SYS 65 and SYS 90 optical beam-handling systems have been launched by Owis GmbH. Based on a modular design, the system kits combine a profile rail and rider for easy replacement of a...
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POLARIZATION CONTROL
Phoenix Photonics has launched polarization controllers that offer cost-effective manual or external electronic control of the state of polarization. Each of three waveplate sections provides a full...
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