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Photonics Spectra - October 2011
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The Rise of the Service Robot
Industrial robots revolutionized manufacturing, and service robots are set to rise up and do the same in such diverse areas as medical care, surveillance and the military – and also in domestic...
Quantum Dots Warm Up LED Lighting
Quantum dots could solve the major problems that are blocking LEDs from broader adoption – but issues related to color, lifetime, cost and mass production must be solved. Quantum dots and LEDs...
5-W Green Q-Switched DPSS Laser Improves Marking
In an industrial environment, various components must be marked prior to, during and after production so that they can be identified and traced throughout their entire life cycle. For more than 40...
The Birth – and Growth – of Glass Ceramics
When glass ceramics were first created in the 1950s, these novel optical materials rightfully caused a stir, and they remain widely desired today for a range of semiconductor, military sensing and...
CMOS X-Ray Sensors Sharpen Astronomical Imaging
There still are many unanswered questions in high-energy astrophysics: What is happening in the universe to produce so much gamma-ray energy? What happens to the surrounding environment near solar...
Something OPSL, Something New
The latest optically pumped semiconductor lasers (OPSLs) enable full-color laser light shows with high electrical efficiency in large outdoor locations, even with challenging weather conditions...
Editorial
Photonics for a Better World
I like the sound of that. I think it could be a great tag line for the industry: “Photonics, for a Better World.” In reality, “Photonics for a Better World” is the name of a special pavilion at SPIE Optics & Photonics, which was held in August in San Diego. The pavilion, which made its third appearance at the annual event, is the brainchild of Pamela Robertson,...
Tech Pulse
Polymer LEDs could stretch the potential of electronics
An intrinsically stretchable polymer LED that can be lengthened by as much as 45 percent has the potential to change the direction of the field of stretchable electronics. The new device could be used in wearable electronics, “smart skins” and minimally invasive biomedical devices that can move with the body. Conventional inorganic electronic devices are brittle yet have a certain...
Structural transformations observed in single nanocrystals
For the first time, scientists have observed a single copper sulfide (Cu2S) nanocrystal, an important semiconductor expected to play a big role in future energy technologies as it undergoes...
Nanostructures enable chip-scale light propagation
New optical nanostructures can slow down photons and fully control light dispersion, a big step forward in figuring out how to carry information on photonic chips without losing control of the phase...
Nanodiamonds are a circuit’s best friend
Diamonds are now an electrical engineer’s best friend: The iridescent, sturdy diamond can improve the design of computer chips and electronic circuitry for extreme environments. Vanderbilt...
Light antennas assemble themselves
New photosynthesis-inspired nanomaterials can control and direct energy absorbed from light – and can even build themselves into light-harvesting antennas. For years, nanotechnologists...
Hybrid graphene films could lead to flexible displays
Graphene-based electrodes could revolutionize touch-screen displays, LED lighting and solar panels, bringing flexible, transparent electronics closer to reality. The thin films created in the...
FBG sensors monitor high-speed rail system
Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor systems installed along several lengths of China’s fast-expanding high-speed rail system help monitor the safety and structural health of the rails. The...
Light isolated on photonic chips for next-gen computing
A new technique that isolates light onto a photonic chip could pave the way for faster computers and reduced data loss when connected to the global fiber optic network. California Institute of...
Quick color-changing lenses catch military’s eye
Lenses that change color rapidly based on the amount of voltage passing through them could have important military and civilian applications as well as uses for energy-saving windows and custom...
Special optoelectronic properties make 3-D photonic crystals shine
A newly demonstrated 3-D photonic crystal with exceptional optical and electrical properties will open new avenues for solar cells, metamaterials, lasers and more. “For many years, people...
Nano whispering gallery reduces semiconductor emission lifetime
Applying the concept of whispering galleries to nanoscale devices drastically reduces emission lifetimes, a key property of light-emitting semiconductors, and shows great potential for the...
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OLED companies draw closer to the heart of the industry
Despite a consumer market wary of spending cash on high-ticket items, organic LED (OLED) makers are set for a surge in sales, which will be great news for South Korea, the growing home of OLED manufacturing. Featuring ultrasharp resolution and incredible flexibility, OLEDs are used primarily for displays or for general lighting applications. The thin-film-based technology is used in...
Photonics West to feature 4100 research papers
If you want to tour the world of photonics, flip through the technical program and exhibitor list for SPIE Photonics West. The annual trade fair brings together a wide-ranging conference program, a...
UTC Buying Goodrich for $18.4B
United Technologies Corp. (UTC) plans to buy Goodrich Corp. for $18.4 billion in cash, or $127.50 per share; the company expects the acquisition to strengthen its position in the aerospace and...
Laser China trade show diversifies
The wide-ranging world of photonics will be on display March 20-22, 2012, at the seventh annual Laser World of Photonics China at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. The trade fair will...
Resonetics Opens Facility
Resonetics LLC has relocated its offices to a 50 percent larger facility in Nashua, N.H., to accommodate the significant growth of its medical division. The company plans to double its size again in...
Zygo Receives $3M Order
The Optical Systems Div. of Zygo Corp. has been awarded a $3 million continuation order from Commissariat à l’énergie atomique for its meter class laser fusion amplifiers. The...
Green LED Demonstrated
RoseStreet Labs of Phoenix has demonstrated a long-wavelength LED device with low-cost silicon wafer substrates that could improve solid-state lighting, LED backlighting and next-generation display...
Julabo Opens New Facility
Julabo USA Inc. of Allentown, Pa., celebrated the grand opening of its new North American headquarters in June. The facility features a warehouse service, and manufacturing, testing, storage,...
Company Expands Bibliography
Specialised Imaging Ltd. of Tring, UK, has extended its online bibliography of research articles, application notes, videos and images of applications to demonstrate the range of applications that...
Telops Awarded Contract
Telops Inc., a Quebec City supplier of IR cameras and hyperspectral imaging systems, has been awarded a $1.6 million contract by 13936%%SpecTIR LLC of Reno, Nev. It includes the initial delivery of...
Tyndall Launches Spinout
Tyndall National Institute UCC of Cork, Ireland, has launched InfiniLED Ltd., a spinout that will commercialize a new generation of LED technology that significantly extends the battery life for...
EWI Adds Green Laser to Lab
To increase its capability for noncontact joining of small conductive parts, EWI of Columbus, Ohio, has acquired a Miyachi Unitek LW2AG laser for its welding lab. The company will use the 532-nm...
Infinera Opens Hong Kong Office
To demonstrate its commitment to providing support to customers in the Asia-Pacific region, Infinera of Sunnyvale, Calif., has opened a full-service facility in Hong Kong. The office will provide a...
Intevac Photonics Secures Contract
Intevac Photonics, a subsidiary of Intevac Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has received a $9.6 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from the US Navy’s Naval Air Systems...
Labsphere Signs LED Measurement Deal
Labsphere Inc. of North Sutton, N.H., a Halma company, has signed a cooperative agreement with National Lighting Test Centre in Shanghai, China. The partnership was facilitated by Labsphere...
CMED, Leica Microsystems Collaborate
China Medical Technologies Inc. (CMED) of Beijing and Leica Biosystems, a division of Leica Microsystems of Wetzlar, Germany, will collaborate to develop and market FISH kits for the Leica Bond...
NASA Makes Optical Tech Available
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is offering its advanced optical technologies for licensing and partnership opportunities. Wavefront sensing and adaptive optics...
NDC Infrared Secures IRM Group
NDC Infrared Engineering of Irwindale, Calif., has acquired the IRM Group of Alleur, Belgium, a manufacturer of high-tech measuring systems for the metals industries. Under the agreement, IRM will...
NSF Aims to Bring Innovations to Market
The National Science Foundation, based in Arlington, Va., has announced a program to help develop scientific and engineering discoveries into useful technologies, products and processes. The NSF...
Optimax Celebrates Anniversary
Optimax Systems Inc. is celebrating 20 years of innovative optics manufacturing by focusing on maintaining its corporate culture of continuous learning, the company has announced. This year, it...
QD Vision Awarded Contract
QD Vision Inc. of Watertown, Mass., has been awarded a $900,000, 12-month R&D development contract from DARPA to advance its quantum dot-based infrared materials and to deliver two prototype...
GreenLight
Coming to a Printer Near You: Flexible Lightweight Solar Cells
Solar cells could someday be as easy to produce as corporate memos. Just ask a team at MIT, whose chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique allows arrays of photovoltaic (PV) cells to be printed on ordinary untreated paper – including tissue, printer, tracing, even newsprint with the printing still on it. Printing the active components of a photo-voltaic system onto flexible substrates...
Lighter Side
LEDs coax plants to grow
Does talking to plants really help them grow? That’s debatable. But most people would agree that plants need adequate light, water and minerals to reach their full potential. Sometimes natural light is not a practical solution – as with vertical “skyscraper” farms, greenhouses and growth chambers – but now, indoor gardeners can turn to LED lighting designed to...
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Infrared OD 4 bandpass filters that provide the high transmission and deep rejection necessary to isolate narrow spectral regions have been unveiled by Edmund Optics. They are durable, and their...
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BaySpec Inc. has released its next-generation FirstGuard dispersive multiwavelength handheld Raman analyzers. Features include excitation wavelengths of 532, 785 and 1064 nm; a high-power ~490-mW...
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A noncontact high-precision sensor that provides thickness measurement of infrared silicon and other semi-conductor substrate wafers, doped or undoped, has been unveiled by Precitec Optronik and is...
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Microspectrophotometer
For the semiconductor industry, Craic Technologies Inc. has developed the 20/20 XL, a film thickness measurement tool. The microspectrophotometer nondestructively analyzes and images microscopic...
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Fast Scanning
Bruker Corp. has announced fast scanning capabilities for the MultiMode 8 atomic force microscope (AFM). The system's new Scan-Asyst-HR feature provides a direct sixfold increase in imaging rate for...
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Single-Photon Counting
The COUNTblue series single-photon counting modules manufactured by Laser Components GmbH achieve a quantum efficiency of 60% in the blue spectral range and 70% in the yellow and green wavelengths....
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Microplate Spectrophotometer
BioTek Inc.'s Eon microplate spectrophotometer combines high performance and high value in microplate-based absorbance readings. Its monochromator-based optics allow flexible, filter-free 200- to...
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Ultranarrow-Linewidth Lasers
Coherent Inc. has expanded its Sapphire line of compact, continuous-wave visible lasers with several ultranarrow-linewidth models. The new Sapphire SF lasers are available at wavelengths of 488 and...
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Fiber-Coupled Multibar Modules
Dilas has announced fiber-coupled multibar modules that deliver up to 1-kW output from a 400-m core diameter fiber at 976 nm. The high-brightness, high-power modules offer a compact footprint and a...
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CCD USB 2.0 Camera
Lumenera Corp. has released the Infinity2-5, a digital CCD USB 2.0 scientific camera engineered for qualitative image archiving in life sciences, clinical and materials sciences applications that...
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Laser Diode Drivers
The all-purpose iC-NZN and iC-NZP drivers from iC-Haus GmbH operate laser diodes in continuous-wave and spike-free pulse modes with up to 155 MHz and with either optical output power or current...
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Industrial Camera
Imaging Development Systems GmbH has announced the UI-5480CP industrial camera, which offers a 5-megapixel 1/2-in. CMOS sensor, Power over Ethernet (PoE) and 14-fps image capture at 2560 x 1920-pixel...
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Automated TEM
A 200-kV transmission electron microscope (TEM) manufactured by JEOL USA Inc. performs high-throughput nanoanalysis for process and quality control of mass-produced semiconductor and materials...
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Waveguide Design Software
Lumerical Solutions Inc. has released Mode Solutions 5.0, an upgrade to its fast broadband omnidirectional waveguide design software. The upgrade includes both an eigensolver and an electromagnetic...
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Soldering System
The NanoRapid from nanosystec GmbH is a high-speed selective laser soldering system that is suited for high-volume production. Selective laser soldering has advantages for connecting electrical...
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Green Laser Module
Power Technology Inc. has introduced a green wavelength version of its PNF structured-light series laser module for 3-D machine vision applications. The device delivers 20-mW output power at 515 nm....
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Smart Camera
Microscan has announced its Vision Mini smart camera, an ultracompact integrated vision system designed for reliable performance in embedded clinical and laboratory automation applications and for...
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Universal Polishing Fixture
Krell Technologies Inc.'s UVG universal workholder polishes any fiber optic component that incorporates a UPC-style ferrule with a diameter between 1.25 and 3.2 mm. This includes industry-standard...
KrellTech
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Variable-Bandwidth Filter
SuperK Varia, manufactured by NKT Photonics A/S, is a computer-controlled variable-bandwidth filter that turns a supercontinuum white-light source into a powerful single-line laser. Designed for use...
NKT Photonics A/S
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Focus Module
New Scale Technologies Inc. has provided new repeatability data for its miniature M3-F focus module and upgraded its lifetime specification. The new device replaces fixed lens holders in compact...
New Scale Technologies Inc.
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High-Speed Photoreceiver
New Focus, a Newport Corp. brand, has introduced the GHz Nirvana, a high-speed photo-receiver with automatic signal balancing that provides high bandwidth and fiber coupling. The patent-pending...
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Linear Stages
Newport Corp. has launched the FMS series precision linear motion control stages. Designed for use in surface profiling, tribology, and contact (stylus) and noncontact metrology (white-light...
MKS/Newport
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Picosecond Pulsed Diode Lasers
PicoQuant GmbH has unveiled 500- and 510-nm picosecond pulsed diode laser heads. Green laser emission is not generated by wavelength conversion techniques but directly by a semiconductor laser diode....
PicoQuant GmbH
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Infrared Emitter
The ChipLED SFH 4053 infrared emitter from Osram Opto Semiconductors provides high output for superlow-profile optical touch screens and is suitable for use in small- and medium-size touch displays....
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