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Photonics.com - May 2008
Research & Technology
Northrop Grumman, UCF Ink Development Deal
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. announced today it is forming a partnership with the University of Central Florida in Orlando to develop advanced optic and photonic technologies for...
Active Multipass Geometry Boosts Pulse Energy
Scientists from the University of Konstanz and from Trumpf Laser GmbH + Co. KG in Schramberg, both in Germany, have achieved pulse energies of more than 13 μJ from a thin-disc laser operating in...
Interferometer Investigates MEMS Vibrations
Two scientists from Helsinki University of Technology in Finland have developed an instrument that probes surface vibrations of frequencies up to 6 GHz, detecting amplitudes down to 1 pm with a...
Photoacoustic Shear Waves in Gold Nanocrystals
Scientists from Université du Mains in Le Mans and from Université de Caen, both in France, and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., USA, have generated and detected...
NIR Spectroscopy Monitors Wood
A team from the Competence Centre for Wood Composites and Wood Chemistry in Linz and from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna, both in Austria, and from Technical...
Diffractive Fluorescence Multiplex Assay
A 14-member team from the University of Southampton and from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, both in the UK, has combined microscopic bar codes and fluorescent biomolecules in a rapid,...
News & Features
Imaging Critical for Space Shuttle Re-entry
On Saturday, May 31, 2008, the space shuttle Discovery is scheduled for lift-off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and when it does its successful re-entry will rely on its capability to capture images of the shuttle’s exterior condition. Shuttles are equipped with heat shields, which serve as a safeguard during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. Made from ceramic heat-resistant...
Films Reveal Explosives
New spray-on films that glow blue under ultraviolet light and can distinguish between different types of volatile chemicals are being used to quickly and easily detect explosives. A recent episode of...
Tower Cuts 170 Jobs
Chip maker Tower Semiconductor Ltd. has cut 170 jobs -- about 11 percent of its work force -- as part of plan to reduce costs by $40 million a year. The positions were eliminated primarily in...
Theory Applies to All Lasers
Unlike standard lasers, nanofabricated diffusive random lasers (DRLs) don't contain mirrors to trap light, making it hard for physicists to apply conventional laser theory and predict the wavelength...
Leica MS Buys Bal-Tec
Leica Microsystems Inc. announced it has acquired Liechtenstein, Germany-based Bal-Tec AG, a maker of mechanical and cryo sample preparation equipment for scanning electron microscopy and...
Optical Pacemaker
According to a study published in the Optical Society of America’s (OSA) Optics Express, a group of scientists at Osaka University in Japan, have created the world’s first optical pacemaker. The...
Nano Pioneers Awarded $1M
Scientists from the US and Japan who discovered quantum dots and carbon nanotubes, respectively, are among seven inaugural recipients of $1 million Kavli prizes, biannual awards for outstanding...
SCs Share Magnetism
New iron-based superconductors share similar unusual magnetic properties with previously known superconducting copper-oxide materials, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has...
Light Powers Nanobrake
A tiny light-powered "molecular brake" that works at room temperature has been developed by researchers in Taiwan and could be used to stop future nanomachines on demand. Jye-Shane Yang, PhD, a...
Gold Nanoparticles Fight HIV
Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that gold nanoparticles are helping a once-failed drug to safely stop HIV from invading the body’s immune system. The original drug,...
Photonics North Topics Set
The most rapidly evolving markets and how photonics will provide solutions to problems of global economic importance will be topics at the fourth annual Executive Symposium on Photonics...
Particles Detect Cancer
The smallest magnetic nanoparticles created to date can be sent on such seek-and-find missions for tumor cells and emit signals MRI scans can detect. Brown University chemist Shouheng Sun and a team...
Lasers to Map Mayan Ruins
Archaeology -- often slow-paced, precise work unless your name is Indiana Jones -- is going high tech, with lasers set to unlock the secrets of the Maya civilization hidden by dense forest...
Star Death Seen From Start
Images captured by NASA's Swift satellite have allowed an international team of astronomers to observe, for the first time, a star just as it started to explode. Thousands of previous observations of...
Wide-Ranging Crystals
Crystals with a tunability range of as much as 460 nm -- about triple those of earlier crystals -- have the widest bandwidth and the most NIR-shifted wavelength range for laser operation ever...
IR Laser Efficiency Doubled
The efficiency of certain infrared lasers has been doubled, making them more useful for defense-based applications such as missile diversion and explosives or toxins detection. Over the last...
Vulcan Heats Volumes
Laser fusion is a step closer after intense laser pulses from the Vulcan petawatt laser facility heated significant volumes of solid-density matter to 10 million K -- hotter than the sun. The...
Nanotubes the New Asbestos?
Nanotubes may be tiny, but they are super strong carbon fibers that play an important role in the advancement of nanotechnology. However, researchers are now saying that the long, thin multi-walled...
Chemical Laser Fired
Boeing Co. reported it fired a high-energy chemical laser last week aboard a C-130H aircraft in ground tests for the first time, under the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) advanced concept technology...
Beetle Scales Ideal Crystals
The ideal photonic crystal, a diamond-like structure that manipulates visible light, has eluded creation in the lab, but now chemists have discovered that nature has already done the work by forming...
Flir Award Tops $45M
Flir Systems Inc. announced today it has been awarded a performance-based logistics (PBL) support contract for up to $60.5 million from the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command in Huntsville,...
Omega Laser - Petawatt Power
The Omega EP has quadrillion watts of power that can focus on a target just a millimeter across. Using four ultra-high intensity laser beams, the Omega EP’s petawatt power could open the door to a...
Computers Use Quantum Photonics
What was once considered more theoretical than practical, computers based on the powerful properties of quantum mechanics now have the potential to revolutionize information technology and security....
StockerYale Pursues Virtek
StockerYale has offered to buy Waterloo, Ontario-based Virtek Vision International Inc. for $22 million in stock and cash, or 65 cents a share. Salem-based StockerYale makes structured light lasers,...
Component Channels LED Light
LEDs are more energy-efficient than light bulbs, but fall short when it comes to light output. But a new optical component could change that by concentrating LED light like a spotlight and directing...
Laser THz Source Demo’d
A room-temperature electrically pumped semiconductor laser source of terahertz (THz) radiation, reportedly the first of its kind, has the potential to become a standard source and could support...
Fujitsu to Spin Off Photonics
Fujitsu Ltd. said it will spin off, through a simple absorption-type separation, its photonics manufacturing and photonics product development divisions for the Japanese market and transfer the...
Ultrathin Films Resist Bacteria
Inexpensive, easy-to-produce, ultrathin films made of polymers could be applied to medical devices and other surfaces to control microbe accumulation. They could also help reduce the spread of...
Planetary 3-D Roadmaps
A team of researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) led by scientist Donald Figer, are developing an image detector that is out of this world. The new Lidar (light detection and ranging)...
Leica Micro Buys Coretech
Leica Microsystems announced today it acquired, on May 14, the assets of St. Louis, Mo.-based Coretech Holdings and McCormick Scientific LLC (Coretech), a maker of instruments and consumables for...
IPG Unveils CO2 Gas Lasers
Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics of Oxford, Mass., said it has developed a line of CO2 gas lasers that will allow it to enter new markets and applications. IPG said it expects to market the new...
Photonic System Wins $4.3M
Electrical engineers at the University of Southern California (USC) have received $4.3 million to design a photonic communications system that makes data as easy to transmit by light as it is by...
Laser Melts Chip Defects
As microchips shrink, even tiny defects in the lines, dots and other shapes etched on them become major barriers to performance. Princeton engineers have now found a way to literally melt away such...
JDSU OKs Stock Buyback
JDSU said today its board has authorized a program to repurchase up to $200,000,000 of its common stock through open market or private transactions during a two-year period ending May 14, 2010....
LED Lasers Cost Less
Plastic lasers that convert light from LEDs and can be tuned to every color of the rainbow can be created at a fraction of the cost of existing technologies, said the physicists who developed them at...
Fabs Assess Quake Damage
Semiconductor manufacturers with plants in Chengdu were still assessing damage today in the wake of a magnitude 7.9 earthquake that hit there Monday afternoon. State media in China are reporting...
GaN Transistor Bests Silicon
A new gallium nitride (GaN) -based transistor, the first GaN metal/oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) of its kind, performs better than silicon transistors in high-power and...
Lasers Align Molecules
Scientists have eliminated the need to crystallize human proteins for synchrotron x-ray diffraction by using lasers to align large groups of the molecules. With approximately one million human...
Complicated Pulses Measured
A device that reveals spherical aberrations in optical components could help biologists, chemists, and other nonlaser scientists easily measure complicated ultrashort laser pulses. Lasers that...
Nanowires Fabbed on Silicon
Nanowire devices have been fabricated by integrating silicon integrated circuits (ICs) manufacturing technology with photolithography. The new technique could lead to the development of a new class...
Robot Scans Silver Mine
A laser scanning robot named 3D-R1 captured more than 5 GBs of data used to create a three-dimensional map of the San Jose silver mine in Zacatecas, Mexico. 3D Laser Mapping Ltd., based in...
Light Mapped Through Holes
The question of how light squeezes through small holes has been answered by a research team successful in accurately mapping the process for the first time. The researchers -- Aurele Adam, PhD,...
The X Flies
This year's CLEO (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics) at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose went off without a hitch. Photonics enthusiasts from all over the world poured into the exhibit...
FDA OKs NIR Plaque Imager
A device that lets a doctor see inside a blood vessel to assess the fat content of plaque in arteries has been cleared for marketing by the US Food and Drug Administration. The InfraReDx LipiScan...
IPG Sales Up 27%
Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. reported this week that its revenues for the first quarter of 2008 increased by 27 percent, to $52.9 million, and net income increased by 23 percent to $8.1...
Transistor Inventor Dies
Morgan Sparks, inventor of the first practical transistor and a former director of Sandia National Laboratories, has died. Sparks died on Saturday at his daughter's home in Fullerton, Calif.,...
Display Week Lineup Viewed
Three-dimensional display technologies -- including Hollywood's use of stereoscopic 3-D in big-budget feature films -- is on the bill of topics at Display Week 2008: The Society for Information...
Solder Bumping Improves Lens
A solder technique used in electronics manufacturing is proving useful in keeping optical device lenses clear and in place when they are used inside a vacuum. When cameras and microscopes are...
Biosensors Like Bloodhounds
Olfactory cells are being integrated into tiny microsystems to give them a bloodhound-like ability to sniff out hazards such as explosive materials, biological pathogens, spoiled food or impure...
Birds May Use Molecular GPS
A sophisticated molecule may be what drives a bird's internal global positioning system (GPS). Under illumination, the molecule is sensitive to both the magnitude and the direction of magnetic...
Graphene-based LCDs Devised
Highly transparent and highly conductive ultrathin films have been produced by dissolving chunks of graphite then spraying the resulting graphene onto a glass surface.Researchers at the University of...
Kodak Posts $114M Loss
Eastman Kodak Co. today reported a first-quarter loss of $114 million, or 40 cents a share, on sales of $2.09 billion. Total sales were up slightly -- one percent -- from the first quarter of 2007,...
Faro Buys DPI Rights
Faro Technologies Inc., a maker of portable computer-aided measurement hardware and software, announced it has acquired an exclusive license from Dimensional Photonics International (DPI) Inc., a...
acquisitions
Tower Cuts 170 Jobs
Chip maker Tower Semiconductor Ltd. has cut 170 jobs -- about 11 percent of its work force -- as part of plan to reduce costs by $40 million a year. The positions were eliminated primarily in management and support and will save $14 million a year, the company said. Tower has about 1500 employees, according to its Web site. The cuts come little more than a week after Israel-based Tower...
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IK-HD1 HDTV Camera
IRVINE, Calif., April 2, 2008 -- With a 1.6-in. camera head, an ultracompact control unit and weighing just 2.3 oz, the IK-HD1 HDTV high-definition camera system from Toshiba Imaging Systems Div. is suitable for broadcast...
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Industrial Imaging Cameras
WATERLOO, Ontario, May 28, 2008 – Dalsa’s line of Genie GigE Vision-compliant cameras has two new members – the C1410 and the M1410. According to Dalsa, the cameras feature a new high quality, high sensitivity sensor and are...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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BlueWave LED System
TORRINGTON, Conn., May 28, 2008 -- The new BlueWave LED visible light, high-intensity spot curing system from Dymax Corp. generates light using an array of surface-mount LEDs instead of traditional metal halide or mercury bulbs. This...
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TechSpec Fused-Silica Rods
BARRINGTON, N.J., May 27, 2008 -- Edmund Optics Inc. said its new TechSpec ultraviolet (UV) fused-silica rod lenses are highly polished small-diameter rods that provide excellent transmission from the UV into the near-infrared (NIR)...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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IndyStar Excimer Laser
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 27, 2008 – Coherent said its new IndyStar has the longest tube lifetime of any compact industrial excimer laser, and provides increased reliability and lower overall cost. The IndyStar, which has been...
Coherent Inc.
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UV Spectral Metal
SANTA ROSA, Calif., May 23, 2008 – Deposition Sciences, Inc (DSI) has announced the new UV Spectral Metal, developed for ultraviolet (UV) curing and UV printing industries. The highly durable, advanced dichroic metal coating is...
Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI)
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Exciting Texas Red
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 21, 2008 – Newport Corporation’s Spectra-Physics Lasers Division has unveiled the Excelsior-594 Laser. This multi-longitudinal mode laser with 30 mW of output power at 594 nm, is ideal for flow cytometry and...
MKS/Newport
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Tracepro 5.0
LITTLETON, Mass., May 19, 2008 -- Lambda Research Corp.'s TracePro 5.0, the latest version of its software for optical modeling, design and analysis, features new capabilities including enhanced light source modeling, the company...
Lambda Research Corp.
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Nd:YAG 50/50 Beamsplitters
IRVINE, Calif. May 14, 2008 – Newport Corporation announced its new line of high-energy Nd:YAG laser 50/50 beamsplitters that are designed for scientific research applications that use YAG lasers. These applications include...
MKS/Newport
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Talisker Fiber Laser
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 14, 2008 -- Coherent Inc. said the new Talisker combines the advantages of fiber-based and free-space lasers in a rugged industrial package that offers high power, picosecond output. With over 18 W of...
Coherent Inc.
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SWIR Linear Array
PRINCETON, N.J., May 14, 2008 -- Sensors Unlimited Inc. said its new LC series shortwave infrared (SWIR) linear photodiode array extends beyond other near-infrared (NIR) linear arrays to deliver high sensitivity for imaging...
Sensors Unlimited Inc. - A Collins Aerospace Company
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Optical Power & Energy Meters
IRVINE, Calif. May 13, 2008 -- Newport Corporation has introduced its new 1936/ 2936C Benchtop meters, and according to Newport they have superb sensitivity, accuracy and speed. These optical power and energy meters offer...
MKS/Newport
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Toshiba HD Clinical Microscopy
IRVINE, Calif. May 13, 2008 – Toshiba Imaging Systems Division is partnering with Olympus Canada to offer a new tool for clinical pathology and teaching – the High Definition Synergy-HD Microscope Imaging System. After testing...
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Piezo Motor Linear Slide
AUBURN, Mass, May 8, 2008 -- Physik Instrumente (PI) LP said its P-653 piezo motor linear slide is significantly smaller than other miniature linear stages and provides significantly higher velocities and resolution. This true...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Laser-Driven Light Source
WOBURN, Mass., May 8, 2008 -- Energetiq Technology Inc. said its new EQ-1000 LDLS (laser-driven light source) is a deep ultraviolet-visible (DUV-VIS) light source that achieves extreme high brightness and power over a broad...
Energetiq Technology Inc.
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LightTools 6.1
PASADENA, Calif., May 7, 2008 -- Optical Research Associates (ORA) said the latest version of its LightTools illumination design and analysis software, LightTools 6.1, delivers a number of advanced modeling and analysis features...
Synopsys Inc., Optical Solutions Group
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Laue Cameras
ROBERTSBRIDGE, England, May 5, 2008 -- Photonic Science Ltd. said its new generation of detectors -- Laue microdiffraction and backscattered cameras -- are designed for laboratories and synchrotrons wanting to carry out systematic bulk...
Photonic Science and Engineering Ltd.
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Illuminance Sensor
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., May 5, 2008 -- Hamamatsu Corp. said its new chip-on-board-type illuminance sensor, the S10604, displays spectral response with a sensitivity close to that of the human eye because of its reduced sensitivity to...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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HHG191 Gauss Meter
STAMFORD, Conn., May 1, 2008 -- Omega Engineering's HHG191 Gauss meter allows for measurements up to 2000 mG to 200 microtesla with a basic accuracy of 2.5% + 6-digit. It measures extremely low-frequency (30 to 300Hz)...
Omega Engineering Inc.
Electronic Balances
COLUMBIA, Md., May 2, 2008 -- Shimadzu Scientific Instruments said its new line of 12 precision balances includes TX electromagnetic force restoration balances equipped with the UniBloc aluminum integral mass sensor and TXB...
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc.
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