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Photonics.com - November 2007
Research & Technology
Aculight Promotes Robert Afzal, Hires CFO
Laser maker Aculight Corp. of Bothell, Wash., announced this week that Robert Afzal, PhD, formerly director of technology development, has been promoted to vice president of research and development. Prior to joining Aculight a year ago, Afzal was vice president of research and development for Spectra Systems Corp. Previously, he held several positions within NASA, including scientist at the...
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QPC Wins $12M Laser Contract
QPC Lasers Inc. announced today it has won a contract to develop its BrightLase semiconductor lasers for use in rear-projection televisions. The contract has an initial value of $12 million over the...
T-rays Safer for Screenings
A portable new device that uses T-rays -- a much safer form of radiation than x-rays -- to see through leather, fabric, cardboard and other materials could eliminate the hassle of taking off shoes...
Crash Warning System Tested
A laser-based ranging system has been developed to assess the performance of automobile collision warning systems. The technology could also be used to create new systems that can warn drivers of...
Buckyball Formation Observed
A Sandia National Laboratories researcher looking for flaws in nanotube durability was unexpectedly able to experimentally confirm a hypothesis about how Buckyballs form. “We have now the first...
Precision Optics to Cut Jobs
Precision Optics Corp. Inc. announced it will reduce its work force as a result of operating losses it expects to continue through 2008. Last week the Gardner-based manufacturer of advanced...
U-M Invests in Arbor Photonics
A student-managed venture capital seed fund at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business will provide $85,000 to Arbor Photonics, an Ann Arbor developer of technology that originated in...
3-D Photonic Crystals Sought
Photonic crystals, which contain properties that give butterfly wings their shimmering colors, are being used to revolutionize the future of telecommunications by making systems smaller, faster and...
Korea Funds Nanotech Work
A team of nanotechnologists in the US and Korea has been selected to receive a $5 million grant from the Korea Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) to advance research in hybrid microcomposites...
Olympus to Buy Gyrus Group
Olympus Corp. of Japan announced that it will acquire Gyrus Group PLC, a UK-based manufacturer of devices that enable less invasive surgeries, for $1.9 billion in cash. Gyrus Group is based in...
Sensor Maker Acquires Visyx
Sensor and sensor-based systems manufacturer Measurement Specialties Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of California-based Visyx Technologies. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed....
General Dyamics Awarded
General Dynamics C4 Systems and General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems recently announced contract awards from the US Army and Navy for $78 million and $91 million, respectively, one for work...
Particles Send Drugs Remotely
Remotely controlled nanoparticles that, when pulsed with an electromagnetic field, release drugs to attack tumors have been devised at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in research that could...
Verizon Tests 100 Gb/s
Verizon said it completed the first field test of 100 Gb/s optical transmission, on a live, in-service 312-mile (504 km) network route between Tampa, Fla., and Miami. The test, which used a live...
Raydiance, Rutgers Collaborate
Raydiance Inc., an ultrashort-pulse (USP) laser startup founded by Internet entrepreneur and former AOL chief executive Barry Schuler, announced today it will collaborate with Rutgers University and...
Light Manipulation Improved
A special hollow-core photonic crystal fiber has been used to manipulate light a million times more efficiently than ever before. The research by a team at the University of Bath, England, led by...
Arasor, ZTE to Make Displays
Arasor International Ltd. of Mountain View, Calif., an Australian-based maker of an optoelectronic chip that drives laser-based display applications (so-called "laser TV"), has entered into a $300...
QD Spins Made Identical
Scientists are closer to developing novel devices for optics-based quantum computing and quantum information processing as a result of a new understanding of how to make all the spins in an ensemble...
Sun's Twin Discovered
The sun’s chemical composition may not be unique, as some previously thought. Peruvian astronomers Jorge Melendez of the Australian National University and Ivan Ramirez of the University of Texas...
'Trapped Rainbow' Slows Light
A new technique proposes using metamaterials that refract light negatively to slow down, stop and capture light in a "trapped rainbow." The work is being called a step toward much faster optical...
Aixtron to Install OLED Tool
Aixtron AG, an Aachen-based provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, has received an order for a system to fabricate OLED lighting and organic photovoltaic products from the...
Science Network On Track
Two of the nation’s leading research networks -- the US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and Internet2 -- announced today that they have completed five interconnected rings,...
CTS to Cut 103 Jobs
CTS Corp. announced this week it intends eliminate 103 jobs by the end of the year as part of a plan to realign some of its manufacturing operations. CTS is based in Elkhart and manufactures...
Force to Be Reckoned With
Advances such as miniscule submarine-type machines that destroy cancer cells could be one result of work to harness the Casimir force, which was accurately measured just a decade ago. A...
Hot Topics, Bright Minds at PW
The hottest topics, trends and developments in biomedical optics, lasers, LEDs, fiber optic components and devices, nanotechnology, microfabrication and more will be presented during Photonics West...
GD to Make Navy Consoles
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems was awarded a contract potentially worth $83 million to make common enterprise display system (CEDS) consoles for US Navy Ships from the Naval Sea...
Raytheon Buys Sarcos Unit
Raytheon Co. announced this week it has acquired the robotics technologies and capabilities of Sarcos Inc., a Salt Lake City, Utah, developer of microelectromechanical systems technology. Terms of...
UK Examines PET Utility
Positron emission tomography, or PET scans, can help clinicians diagnose and treat some cancers, but it is not clear yet whether the imaging technology helps people with cancer live longer and...
Babies Drive Robots
Small robots ringed with sensors are allowing infants with special needs to be in the driver's seat, literally, when it comes to moving independently to explore their world. The interdisciplinary...
LHC Detector Installed
One of the most fragile detectors for the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment has been installed in its final position. LHCb is one of four large experiments at CERN1’s Large Hadron...
Luxtera Demos 40-Gb OAC
Luxtera Inc. announced today it has sampled a 40-Gb optical active cable (OAC), which it is demonstrating at the International Conference for High Performance Computing (SC07), being held this week...
Mini Oven Heats Fluids for LoC
By embedding a thin-film microwave transmission line between a glass substrate and a polymer block, scientists have created what could be the world's smallest microwave oven. The tiny mechanism can...
Hot Embossing Rivals Molding
Hot embossing, a recently optimized technology in which glass is heated to high temperatures and molded on both sides, has been found to be up to 10 times faster and 70 percent cheaper than precision...
MKS Buys Yield Dynamics
MKS Instruments Inc. announced today that it has acquired privately held Yield Dynamics, a provider of yield management technology based in Sunnyvale, Calif. According to an MKS quarterly report...
QD Advancements on Agenda
The Quantum Dots 2007 conference will bring together manufacturers, materials and equipment suppliers and end users to discuss recent market developments and technology advancements critical for the...
UNC Symposium Attracts 100
More than 100 members of the optoelectronics community attended the sixth annual symposium of the Charlotte Research Institute (CRI) Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, held last...
CyOptics Acquires PLC Maker
CyOptics Inc., a developer of indium phosphide (InP) optical chip and component technologies, today announced it has expanded its photonic integrated circuits (PICs) technology platform by acquiring...
BAE Wins $18M Contract
BAE Systems has received an $18.5 million, 30-month contract from DARPA to develop an imaging system that can continuously detect and track the presence and motion of thousands of targets over an...
STM Made 100 Times Faster
A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has been developed that can image individual atoms on a surface at least 100 times faster than a traditional instrument. It may also allow researchers to...
'Smart' Optical Chip Proposed
A new theory could lead to "smart" optical microchips that adapt to different wavelengths of light, potentially advancing telecommunications, spectroscopy and remote sensing. Drawn by the promise...
Award Funds STED Microscope
A $1.1 million award from the National Science Foundation will enable the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA to acquire the first commercially available superresolution stimulated emission...
Boston Scientific Sells Units
Medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific Corp. today announced it is selling its Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery businesses to the Getinge Group of Stockholm, Sweden, a provider of health...
A Tiny Sensor for Tiny Hearts
A sensor the size of a grain of rice could reduce the cost of noninvasive biomagnetic measurements such as fetal heart monitoring and may also have applications such as homeland security screening...
LED Lighting Raises $16.5M
LED Lighting Fixtures Inc. (LLF), a developer of LED fixtures for general lighting applications, today announced that it has raised $16.5 million in an equity financing round led by private equity...
Neurons Glow in 'Brainbow'
The circuitry of the brain is being imaged as never before thanks to a multicolor fluorescent protein labeling technique called "Brainbow." Brainbow allows researchers to tag neurons with...
Digital Drives Kodak Profit
A near tripling in digital earnings over this time last year helped Eastman Kodak Co. report a $37 million profit for the third quarter of 2007, the company announced today.The 13 cents a share...
Chemtura Divests Monomers
Specialty chemical manufacturer Chemtura Corp. announced the sale of its optical monomers business to a Munich, Germany-based private equity firm in an all-cash transaction today for an undisclosed...
acquisitions
MKS Buys Yield Dynamics
MKS Instruments Inc. announced today that it has acquired privately held Yield Dynamics, a provider of yield management technology based in Sunnyvale, Calif. According to an MKS quarterly report...
CyOptics Acquires PLC Maker
CyOptics Inc., a developer of indium phosphide (InP) optical chip and component technologies, today announced it has expanded its photonic integrated circuits (PICs) technology platform by acquiring...
Products
DC-to-DC Dimmer
TORRANCE, Calif., Nov. 30, 2007 -- LEDtronics has released a DC-to-DC dimmer for LED lighting that supports 5- to 40-V applications — up to 2 amps or 24 W (part number LED-DIMMER-001) such as LED strip lights, bulbs and floodlights. The maximum load per dimmer is 24 W, with a dimming range is 0 to 100 percent of input. Input can be between 5 and 40 V DC, and output voltage is continuously adjustable between zero and full-on....
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TechSpec NIR Linear Polarizers
BARRINGTON, N.J., Nov. 30, 2007 -- Edmund Optics has introduced new TechSpec NIR (near-infrared) linear polarizers, which it said provide an extended broadband range, making them ideally suited for a multitude of fiber-optic and...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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MultiBeam SEM-FIB System
PEABODY, Mass. Nov. 29, 2007 -- JEOL USA Inc. said its new high-throughput JIB-4500 MultiBeam SEM-FIB (scanning electron microscope, focused ion beam) combines the high-resolution imaging of the JEOL LaB6 electron column with...
JEOL USA Inc.
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Piezo Force Microscopy Module
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 29, 2007 -- In the last decade, piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has emerged as the preeminent tool for nanoscale imaging, spectroscopy, and manipulation of ferroelectric materials. In response to the...
Oxford Instruments Asylum Research
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Lower-Cost Blue/Violet Offerings!
Our high-power blue/violet laser diodes are now being offered for integration with our PM module, 405 nm 60 mW, making high-power technology affordable for cost-sensitive applications requiring...
Power Technology Inc.
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Alpha500 & Alpha700 Systems
ULM, Germany, Nov. 28, 2007 -- WITec GmbH has introduced the alpha500 and alpha700 microscopy systems for automated confocal Raman imaging and atomic force microscopy (AFM) on large samples. The alpha500 and alpha700 are the...
WITec GmbH
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Chameleon OPO
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 27, 2007 -- The Chameleon optical parametric oscillator (OPO) from Coherent Inc. enables gap-free tuning across the entire 680- to 1580-nm range, making it a suitable ultrafast source for deep-tissue imaging in...
Coherent Inc.
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Zygo’s NewView 7000 Series
Zygo’s NewView 7000 series provides unprecedented performance and value. Based on noncontact and proprietary scanning technology, the NewView delivers unmatched speed, precision, resolution and...
Zygo Corporation
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Trestles Finesse
Del Mar Photonics has introduced the Trestles Finesse Ti:sapphire one-box femtosecond laser system, which incorporates a Ti:sapphire oscillator and pump laser in a single-box design. Integrated...
Del Mar Photonics Inc.
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Green-Wave Spectrometers
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 16, 2007 -- StellarNet introduced 15 models of its Green-Wave fiber-optic spectrometer to measure light in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared (UV-VIS-NIR) wavelengths from 190-1150 nm. Detector...
StellarNet Inc.
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Nanona Optical Switch
WOBURN, Mass., Nov. 15, 2007 -- Boston Applied Technologies Inc. (BATi), a provider of optical devices, has introduced the Nanona, an ultrafast fiber optical switch with a switching speed of less than 50 ns. Nanona, based on...
Boston Applied Technologies Inc.
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TO-can Red Lasers
TAMPERE, Finland, Nov. 15, 2007 -- Modulight has added three single-emitter red lasers to its ChiliLase line: ML1468 (635 nm, 200 mW in a 9-mm), ML1504 (635 nm, 500 mW in a 9-mm TO-can) and ML1469 (690 nm, 350 mW in a 90mm) TO-cans...
Modulight Inc.
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ThermoVision ExaminIR Software
BOSTON, Nov. 12, 2007 -- Flir Systems said its ThermoVision ExaminIR software is compatible with Microsoft Windows XP and Vista operating systems and provides thermographic analysis and control functions for the company's SC...
Teledyne FLIR Systems Inc.
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OmniStrip 9450
MANCHESTER, N.H., Nov. 12, 2007 -- The OmniStrip 9450 is a compact, flexible cut and strip machine that can process a wide variety of wire and cable applications. Features include an indexing cutter head, flexible programming and an...
Schleuniger Inc.
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Visible and Infrared Absorbers
Exciton's new absorber dyes can provide selective or broadband light filtering throughout the visible and near infrared. Absorbers with relatively narrow absorption bands, such as those shown in the...
Exciton Dye Technologies (See Luxottica / Exciton)
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Optical Vector Analyzer ELp
ROANOKE, Va., Nov. 9, 2007 -- Luna Technologies, a division of Luna Innovations Inc., has expanded its fiber optic test platform with an optical vector analyzer (OVA) ELp designed to characterize the polarization properties of...
Luna Innovations Inc.
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Techspec Aspheric Lenses
BARRINGTON, N.J., Nov. 7, 2007 -- Techspec ultraviolet (UV) fused-silica precision aspheric lenses combine the benefits of an aspheric element with the precision of sophisticated grinding and polishing equipment. They feature low...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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PC-Controlled Optical Polisher
Scepter is PC-controlled for Telcordia-compliant connector and bare fiber polishing. It features integrated air polishing routines, and independently suspended/optically aligned workholders. Fixtures...
KrellTech
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Repair Damaged Optical Connectors
Repair scratched and damaged optical connectors and fibers with the Rev Polisher. Whether damaged by high-power lasers, repeated matings, or general handling, Rev processes components to their...
KrellTech
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P-737 PIFOC Z-Stage
AUBURN, Mass., Nov. 7, 2007 -- PI (Physik Instrumente) LP has introduced the P-737 PIFOC piezo Z-stage, a high-performance nanopositioning Z control system. The P-737 specimen Z-stage is a new entry in a large line of products...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Laser Pulse Energy Sensors
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 6, 2007 -- Two new laser pulse energy sensors from Coherent Inc. are specifically designed for use with very high energy/peak power lasers operating at low repetition rates, such as those based on Nd:YAG, ruby...
Coherent Inc.
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