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Photonics Spectra - January 2009
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Editorial
A greenhouse in the White House
Here’s a cheerful tidbit. Last month when U.S. President-elect Barack Obama named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco as his top science advisers, science took back its rightful position in the White House. For the first time in eight years politics will consult with science on solutions to global warming and energy dependency. And not a moment too...
GreenLight
A global kick in the pants
Alternative energies are still just too expensive for wide-scale adoption, yet adopt we must to reduce harmful carbon emissions. But how does that happen when costs are so high? Fortunately,...
Banning the bulb
In the interest of reducing energy consumption, governments around the world are reducing use of the venerable incandescent lightbulb that has illuminated lives for more than 100 years. In the US,...
Keeping toxins at bay
One important trend affecting photonics manufacturers is the restriction of hazardous materials. Without the restrictions, hazardous materials would adversely affect workers during manufacturing and...
Welcome to Raleigh, LED capital USA
In an effort to save energy, protect the environment, reduce energy costs and provide a better quality of light for improved visibility and safety, a coalition of government and industry called the...
Slices from the Breadboard
PI Receives Patent for Piezo Actuator Technology
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP of Auburn, Mass., a manufacturer of piezo actuators and precision motion-control equipment, has received a US patent for its development of multilayer ceramic actuators....
EU Patent Awarded for Programmable Light Engine
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, OneLight Corp., a developer of digital imaging technologies for life sciences and clinical applications, has been granted a European patent for its...
Patent Design to Improve Cancer Therapy Device
At the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., four physicists have received a patent for the design of a “medical synchrotron” capable of delivering precision doses...
Patent Granted for Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis
A US patent has been awarded to MorphoSys AG of Martinsried, Germany, and the University of Melbourne in Australia for use of antibodies against granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor. In...
Rapid Method Testing Kit Wins European Patent
Rapid testing technologies researcher Rockeby biomed Ltd. of Singapore has been granted a European patent for its CanDia5 candida assay, a blood-based professional point-of-care test kit that detects...
Mobius Photonics Awarded US Patent
Mobius Photonics Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., a fiber-based laser source manufacturer for the visible and the ultraviolet, has received a US patent for its “Laser Apparatus Having Multiple...
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The Pioneer
Eva Sevick-Muraca concentrates on fluorescence-based biomedical imaging as director of the Center for Molecular Imaging at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. After earning her PhD at Carnegie Mellon University under Rakesh Jain, she did a postdoc with Britton Chance at the University of Pennsylvania and has won many...
Lighter Side
US Pulls the Plug on Tiny Island Kingdom
The tiny island of North Dumpling, which lies about a mile off the coast of Mystic, Conn., has been removed from the American electrical power grid. The three-acre island, ostensibly part of New York state, was declared an independent nation several years ago by Lord Dumpling II, who is still the island’s iron-fisted ruler. North Dumpling Island has belonged to Lord Dumpling – aka Dean Kamen...
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FIBER REPEATER
Model 4154 HP, a fiber optic repeater launched by Electro Standards Laboratories, regenerates data signals to extend the range between optically linked data terminals. Its RS-232 port and DB9...
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USB CAMERAS
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THERMAL IMAGING CAMERA
The latest version of OptoTherm Inc.’s Micro thermal imaging system for semiconductor failure analysis includes a new camera with a 320 × 240-element uncooled detector, 0.05 °C sensitivity, a...
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Opto Diode Corp. has introduced the ODA-6WB-500M, a 6-mm2 blue-green-enhanced silicon photodiode preamplifier. Typical sensitivity response at 450 nm is 140 V/W, and spectral operating range is from...
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MACHINE VISION CAMERAS
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CONTROLLER MOUNT
PSE Technology has released the LDCM-4371, a laser diode controller mount that comprises a high-bandwidth modulated laser driver, two stages of cascaded high-power temperature control and advanced...
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THERMAL ANALYSIS
Veeco Instruments Inc.’s Thermal Analysis (VITA) module has been released for the company’s line of scanning probe microscopes. The technology advances nanoscale materials identification by providing...
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SMART CAMERA
Matrox Imaging has announced the Matrox Iris GT, a smart camera for machine vision. Powered by an Intel 1.6-GHz processor and running on Windows CE 6.0, it features a graphics controller with VGA...
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OPTICAL ISOLATOR
An optical isolator made from crystal quartz and BK7 has been introduced by Union Optic Inc. It combines a polarization beamsplitter cube and a λ/4 plate. Incident light is linearly polarized by...
Union Optic Inc.
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OCT PROCESSING
Michelson Diagnostics Ltd. has announced the PS1301, a four-channel optical coherence tomography (OCT) processing system for researchers who must build swept-source experiments quickly. The system...
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LASER BAR
A 1470-nm laser bar has been added to Modulight Inc.’s RangerLase line. Model ML1818 produces up to 20 W of continuous-wave output power and also is available as a bare die with output power of 800...
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IMAGE PROCESSING
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SWIR CAMERA
An uncooled short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) InGaAs camera has been introduced by Sensors Unlimited Inc. The 25-μm-pixel SU-LDH digital line-scan camera uses an LC linear array that provides...
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PIEZO STAGE SYSTEM
The NZ250CE NanoScanZ piezo stage system from Prior Scientific Inc. produces rapid Z sections and 3-D images of live cells and other specimens grown in well plates and sample dishes. It offers 250...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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LED MICROSCOPE
Leica Microsystems GmbH has released its DM IL LED, an inverted routine microscope that combines proprietary HC optics with LED illumination. Its 10-W low-maintenance LED produces no heat buildup and...
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LASER SYSTEM
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AMBER LEDS
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Laser Components USA Inc.
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INTERFEROMETER
An infrared laser unequal path interferometer that operates at a wavelength of 3.39 μm has been developed by Optikos Corp. Featuring an internal HeNe infrared laser and an integral collinear...
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SPECTROMETER
Avantes BV has introduced the AvaSpec-2048-ULS ultralow straylight miniature spectrometer. Its optical bench design has a dual internal mode stripper along with multiple compound parabolic...
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SOFTWARE
Scientific Volume Imaging has released version 3.3 of its Huygens deconvolution, visualization and analysis software. It includes Huygens Core for web-accessible, high-throughput and low-cost remote...
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