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Photonics Spectra - May 2003
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Getting the Most Out of Your Image
For developers of scientific or industrial image-processing applications, robustly and accurately extracting the vital information contained in each pixel presents a constant challenge. Recent developments in camera, frame grabber and algorithm technologies have contributed to raising the standards for picture quality, data rates, processing capabilities, robustness and accuracy. The front of...
Getting the Most Out of Your Image
For developers of scientific or industrial image-processing applications, robustly and accurately extracting the vital information contained in each pixel presents a constant challenge. Recent...
Maximize Color and Contrast in Multimedia Images
After scanning a color photograph into a computer, one assumes it will reproduce well on the screen and on those to which it has been sent via the Internet. The ease with which this can now be done,...
CWDM: A Low-Cost Alternative for Increased Capacity
Cost savings realized in deploying coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) systems have helped this transport architecture gain acceptance as a viable alternative to dense WDM (DWDM) in...
Never Too Thin
To paraphrase the Duchess of Windsor, displays can never be too thin or too rich. Flat panel displays take up less room and consume less power than their cathode-ray-tube kin. However, in the past,...
Optical Engineering for Beam-Matrix Art
Artistic use of lasers can take various forms. The best-known form is the laser show, which is typically accompanied by music, and uses scanning, diffraction and other effects to project constantly...
Lasers Play a Bigger Role in Biomedical Applications
The laser is now well-established as a critically enabling tool in biomedical applications that range from research and clinical work at the molecular level to direct human applications for medical...
Taking a Closer Look at Camera Specifications
Purchasing a camera for high-performance imaging applications can be confusing and time-consuming. Manufacturers lack clear and consistently defined specifications, which makes it difficult to...
In Search of Calcium Fluoride
Anyone who has ever owned a PC is familiar with the problem of technological obsolescence. Faster models hit the market almost before people have had the opportunity to turn on their new computers....
Tech Pulse
Photobleaching Offers Coded Microspheres
Using a technique they call spatial selective photobleaching, scientists at Ghent University and at Tibotec in Mechlin, both in Belgium, are producing optically encoded polymer microspheres that may find use in biomedicine, chemistry and anticounterfeiting applications. In contrast to other proposed color-coding schemes, they say, the new method yields massive numbers of unique patterns that are...
Castings Replicate Si-Template Optical Properties
Sensing and drug-delivery applications may someday benefit from a technique that replicates the optical properties of a porous Si template in polymer castings. The fabrication process, devised at the...
Polymer Incorporates Alq3 for Organic LEDs
As the market for alternative display technologies grows, aluminum tris(8-hydroxyquinoline), or Alq3, continues to enjoy the attention of researchers for its excellent optical properties....
Stoichiometric Crystal Promises Laser Uses
A team of researchers from Germany and Spain is investigating the properties of a stoichiometric crystal for use in face-cooled lasers, such as thin-disc and microchip designs. The crystal, KYb(WO4)2...
Soft Lithography Reproduces Microlenses
As we move from the electronics to the photonics age, micro-optics are finding a place in more and more applications. Now researchers have introduced a soft lithography process that they hope will...
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DuPont Sees Future in Telecom
Just at a time when many companies are getting out of the telecommunications sector, DuPont of Wilmington, Del., is entering it. The company has announced the formation of DuPont Photonics Technologies LLC as part of DuPont Ventures, which focuses on emerging technologies. Although some would argue that telecom is anything but emerging, Drew Weber, general manager of Photonics Technologies,...
Broadband Decision: An Unbundle of Joy?
After the woeful performance of the telecommunications sector during the past year, the industry has been looking for any glimmer of hope that might restore investor confidence and return revenues to...
Scotland to Open Packaging Facility
Scotland continues to cement its role as a key European hub for optics with word that an optoelectronics packaging facility will open this summer in Livingston. According to Chris Gracie, chief...
Hoffman Establishes New Company
Hoffman Engineering Corp. of Stamford, Conn., has formed SphereOptics Hoffman LLC in Contoocook, N.H., to manufacture, market and sell its precision radiometric and photometric integrating sphere...
Dalsa Receives Sensor Production Order
A producer of broadcast television cameras has placed an order worth more than $5.5 million with Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, for the production of high-performance image sensors. The...
Toptica Photonics Creates a Base in the US
Toptica Photonics AG of Munich, Germany, has opened an office for US sales and OEM customer support in Westfield, Mass. Alain Bourdon, who has nearly 20 years of experience in the area of scientific...
Indigo Wins Contract to Provide IR Sensors for Aircraft
Indigo Systems of Goleta, Calif., has received a contract from Baltimore-based Northrop Grumman Corp. Electronic Systems to develop megapixel-class IR integrated detective assemblies for the...
Electro-Optic Test Equipment Company Expands
Santa Barbara Infrared Inc. has relocated to a 25,000-sq-ft facility in Santa Barbara, Calif., increasing its space by more than 50 percent, to accommodate its growth over the past two years. The...
Acquisition to Boost Optical Component Integration
NeoPhotonics Corp. of San Jose, Calif., a developer of nanomaterials-based photonics technologies, has purchased Lightwave Microsystems Corp., combining that company's passive integration technology...
Agility Wins Government Contract to Advance Tunable Lasers
Agility Communications Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif., has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under its chip-scale wavelength division multiplexing program to...
Mitsubishi Opens Semiconductor Division
Mitsubishi Electric & Electronic USA Inc. of Cypress, Calif., has established a division to supply compound semiconductors in discrete and modular form to optoelectronics and microwave/RF...
UConn Joins Companies in Developing Optical Encryption System
The University of Connecticut in Storrs has signed a memorandum of understanding with two companies to develop its patented Secure Ultra-Fast hardware-based optical system, which offers encryption,...
Company Expands into Optical Components, Modules Industry
SK Opto-Electronics Inc., which is based in Warren, N.J., has announced its entry into the optical components and modules business. The company, which has divisions in active devices, precision...
Evident Opens Plant to Produce Nanocrystals
Nanotechnology materials manufacturer Evident Technologies Inc. of Troy N.Y., has opened a facility in Watervliet, N.Y., that is equipped to produce kilogram quantities of EviDots quantum dot...
Linos AG Receives Order for Components, Expertise
Under a €30.6 million contract from a Turkish multiproduct electronics company, Linos AG of Göttingen, Germany, will transfer knowledge, supply optical components and provide services such...
Firm Sets Up Office on West Coast
InP-based photonic products supplier DenseLight Semiconductors Private Ltd. of Singapore has incorporated in the US and established an office in Campbell, Calif., in addition to its East Coast...
Raytheon Wins Contract for Laser-Guided Bomb
The US Air Force has awarded Raytheon Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., a $173.7 million contract for the production of Paveway II laser-guided bomb kits. The semiactive weapons, of which Raytheon is a legacy...
Companies Ally to Market on-Wafer Optical Probing System
Suss MicroTec AG of Munich, Germany, and LNL Technologies Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., have agreed to market and sell LNL's optical probe technology. Integrated with a Suss probe system, the technology...
Nanopositioning Specialist Granted Supply Contract for Large Telescope
Physik Instrumente GmbH & Co. of Karlsruhe, Germany, will supply more than 280 custom nanopositioning actuators and multiaxis motion controllers under a contract from SALT, the Southern African...
Optical Parts Manufacturer Awarded Contract
KSaria of Wilmington, Mass., will develop automation equipment for the manufacture of fiber optic cable assemblies and patch cords for US Navy and other Department of Defense systems under the first...
CRL Opto Uses Moxtek Components in Single-Channel Display
To give customers a high-performance single-channel display system, CRL Opto Ltd. of Hayes, UK, has entered into a strategic alliance with Moxtek of Orem, Utah. CRL Opto will provide...
Accent on Applications
Airborne Laser Illuminator Delivered
The US Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency has made some strides in developing optical technology for antimissile systems. The latest achievement is Northrop Grumman Corp.'s beacon...
Excimer Laser Restores Paintings
With funding from the European Commission, Art Innovation BV of Hengelo, the Netherlands, and its partners have developed a laser workstation for cleaning artwork. It removes years of dirt, oil and...
Fiber Bragg Gratings Track Fatigue in Aircraft
Luna Innovations Inc. has devised a photonic solution to monitoring structural fatigue in aircraft. By replacing the traditional electrode sensors with a strand of optical fiber, the Blacksburg, Va.,...
Technique Monitors Oxidative Stress
Julio F. Turrens and his colleagues at the University of South Alabama in Mobile are exposing liposomes, amino acids and proteins such as bovine serum albumin to different peroxides to identify the...
Presstime Bulletin
3-D Structures Offer Efficient Mixing
Complex three-dimensional structures of 10- to 300-µm-diameter microchannels fabricated in a photocurable resin mix fluids more efficiently and in a smaller footprint than 2-D and 1-D devices, report...
Surface-Quenched Hairpins Detect DNA
A biosensor developed at the University of Rochester in New York that uses its gold substrate to quench fluorophore-functionalized DNA hairpins on the surface promises to detect complementary...
Energy Transport Observed
Using near-field optical microscopy to excite fluorescent nanospheres atop chains of rod-shaped silver nanoparticles, a team of scientists at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and at the...
Cantilever Epitaxy May Improve LEDs
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., have developed a process for depositing layers of GaN that span etched trenches in sapphire substrates. The process, which they call...
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PIRANHA2 6k- and 8k-resolution cameras are available in two- or four-output models at 40 MHz per tap. Delivering 8- or 10-bit (selectable) data with CDS, programmable flat-field correction and the...
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CCD485 Solid-State Full-Frame Sensor
Fairchild Imaging Inc., the leading designer and manufacturer of CCD technology, offers its CCD485, a solid-state, full-frame sensor intended for high-resolution scientific, industrial and commercial...
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High-speed PMT Modules for Photon Counting
Hamamatsu Corp. is offering high-speed near-IR photomultiplier tube (PMT) modules for photon counting. The H9170-45/H9170-75 PMT modules are extremely well-suited for photoluminescence, singlet...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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OmniLED
Labsphere's OmniLED LMS system for LED measurement enables users to measure LEDs farther upstream in the production process and provides greater accuracy in the lab. The new OmniLED addresses LED...
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New Piezo Tuning Wizard
National Instruments (NI) extends the power of LabVIEW and motion control software with the new Piezo Tuning Wizard. Using this free LabVIEW application, motion control developers can easily tune and...
National Instruments Corp.
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CUSTOM AMPLIFIERS
Femto Messtechnik GmbH produces custom-designed amplifier and photoreceiver modules. Optical receivers for various wavelengths, sensitivities and bandwidths are offered. Preamplified detectors that...
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AMPLIFIER/DISCRIMINATOR
Advanced Research Instruments Corp. has unveiled a pulse preamplifier discriminator for processing low-level pulses from a photomultiplier tube, an electron multiplier or a Channeltron at count rates...
Advanced Research Instruments Corp.
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COLOR SENSOR
Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions Inc. (Taos) offers a programmable color light-to-frequency converter that integrates red, green and blue filters on a single die. The TCS230 combines...
AMS-TAOS USA Inc.
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PIN PHOTODIODE
The G8370-10 InGaAs PIN photodiode from Hamamatsu Corp. is suitable for laser diode applications, including design into power monitors. The device has a spectral response of 0.9 to approximately 1.7...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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DETECTOR HEAD
A volume-absorbing head for use with high-energy pulsed lasers is available from Ophir Optronics Inc. The Model 30(150)A-HE-DIF detector head provides average continuous or intermittent power...
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FO SWITCH/CONVERTER
An eight-way fiber optic remotely controlled switch/converter has been released by Electro Standards Laboratories. The QuickSwitch 5191 acts as a signal source and prevents optical signal loss. The...
Electro Standards Laboratories
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EDFA GAIN BLOCK
An ultracompact erbium-doped fiber amplifier gain block has been released by Lightwaves2020 Inc. Designed for single-channel or band amplification in the C-band, the device offers 10-dBm output power...
Lightwaves2020 Inc.
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FIBER LASER
NP Photonics' Scorpion SMPF-2030 microfiber laser module produces 10 mW and operates in the C-band from 1530 to 1560 nm. This erbium fiber laser measures 168 x 70 x 19 mm and has a linewidth of <3...
NP Photonics Inc.
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TUNABLE FILTER
Santec Corp's OTF-400 optical tunable filter comprises a bandpass filter mounted on a precision motor. The company says the filter has half the insertion loss of other tunable devices and maintains...
Santec USA Corp.
MICROSCOPY SOFTWARE
Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH has launched version 3.2 of its software for use with the LSM 510 Meta confocal laser-scanning microscope. The software includes an online fingerprinting mode for separating...
Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC
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METALLURGICAL MICROSCOPE
The LX-31 inverted metallurgical microscope from Leco Corp. has a solid-cast aluminum frame and user-friendly design features, including ergonomically placed controls for adjusting light intensity...
LECO Corp.
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UV CAMERA
Sarnoff Corp. has introduced a 14-bit CCD UV camera module with a fill factor of 100% for applications such as evaluating optical coatings and developing subsystems for submicron IC inspection...
SRI International, Integrated Systems & Solutions
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FRAME GRABBERS
The AccuStream 170 frame grabber and video streamer from Foresight Imaging delivers ±0.5-ns pixel jitter, a signal-to-noise ratio of 47 dB, and gain, black level and phase adjustments. The...
Foresight Imaging, TIMS Medical
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LOW-LIGHT IMAGE SENSOR
A back-thinned CCD sensor optimized for low-light imaging has been launched by e2v technologies. The CCD60's 128 x 128-pixel format provides 1000 fps with quantum efficiency of >90%. It employs...
Teledyne e2v - UK
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CCD CAMERA
JAI's CV-M2 is a two-megapixel progressive-scan CCD camera that offers 1600 x 1200 resolution and 7.4 x 7.4-µm pixels. This digital monochrome camera provides 10-bit video output via a Camera...
JAI A/S
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RAMAN MICROSCOPES
Renishaw plc's inVia range of Raman microscopes includes an entry-level version and the automated inVia Reflex. The modular systems feature a kinematic mounting system that allows components to be...
Renishaw Inc.
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CCD LENSES
Tevidon CCD lenses that provide nearly distortion-free performance have been realeased by Docter Optics Inc. Suitable for 1/3-, 1/2-, 2/3- and 1-in. image formats, the lenses have six- or...
Docter Optics Inc.
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DIGITAL IMAGING
Pulse Instruments' PI-41000 digital acquisition card features twin 100-MHz inputs that can acquire digital data at rates up to 100 Mb/s, and provide one 32-bit or two 16-bit channels. The device is...
Pulse Instruments Co.
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OPTICAL MODELING
Version 7.5 of Asap optical modeling software has been launched by Breault Research Organization. This version features a primer that provides basic information on the software's structure and...
Breault Research Organization Inc.
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DIAMOND DICING SAW
The Accu-Cut model 5255 from Aremco Products Inc. is designed for diamond dicing of ceramic, ferrite, quartz and semiconductor substrates such as silicon, GaAs and bismuth telluride up to 6 x 6 x 1...
Aremco Products Inc.
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HIGH-VACUUM TRANSDUCER
Suitable for high-vacuum applications, the HPS Series 909 mini ion transducer integrates a hot-cathode sensor with an electronics control package and features a wide measurement range. The device,...
MKS Instruments Inc.
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DFB LASER DIODE SERVICE
CST Global Ltd. has expanded its device library to include distributed feedback (DFB) laser diode fabrication. The company's capabilities include design support for DFB devices and DFB process...
Sivers Photonics
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CO2 LASER
The Gem Select 100 CO2 laser from Coherent Inc. features a TEM00 spatial mode and provides >100 W at 10.6 µm. This conduction-cooled waveguide laser's low-noise spectral density makes it...
Coherent Inc.
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LASER DIODE DRIVER
The model 7701A high-power OEM laser diode driver from Analog Modules Inc. drives pulsed or CW diode-pumped solid-state lasers. It is configurable for peak output currents of 300 A with 10-µs...
Analog Modules Inc.
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Q-SWITCHED LASERS
The DS series UV diode-pumped solid-state Q-switched lasers from Photonics Industries International Inc. offer a range of pulse energies, repetition rates and widths. They provide an M2 <1.1 beam...
Photonics Industries International Inc.
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LASER POWER PROBE
LaserPoint's Fit automatic laser power probe is available from Directed Light Inc. The handheld instrument uses microprocessor-based measurement of temperature dynamics to calculate laser power with...
Directed Light Inc.
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GREEN AND BLUE LEDs
High-intensity green and blue LEDs at 430, 450 and 470 nm are available from Laser Components (UK) Ltd. Manufactured by Photonic Detectors Inc., they can be used in medical electronics equipment,...
Laser Components (UK) Ltd.
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FO ILLUMINATOR
StockerYale Inc. unveils a 150-W CE-marked halogen illuminator that provides DC-regulated output for machine vision applications. The Model 21 DC fiber optic illuminator delivers output with ±1%...
ProPhotonix Ltd.
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LIGHT MODULATOR
Boulder Nonlinear Systems has introduced a 256 x 256 analog liquid crystal spatial light modulator that offers gray-scale response with eight bits per pixel. It is suitable for applications such as...
Boulder Nonlinear Systems Inc.
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OPTICAL SYSTEM
The MonoZoom optical system from Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd. comprises zoom optics, fine-focus modules, objective lenses and camera adapters. These components can be manually operated or...
Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd.
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OPTICAL COATINGS
Spectrum Thin Films Corp. has expanded its optical coating capabilities with the addition of a coating machine with a 54-in. box evaporator and five planets for substrates up to 18 in. in diameter...
Spectrum Thin Films Inc.
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MICROPRISMS
Tower Optical Corp. has announced the MP-50 series microprisms, which can be used with the company's microminiature wave plates for fiber optics and laser sources. The company says the solid-state...
Tower Optical Corp.
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OPTICAL DESIGN SOFTWARE
Optenso has announced version 4.88 of its OpTalix optical design software. Added program capabilities include physical optics beam propagation and fiber-coupling efficiency, extended object image...
Optenso
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LENS DESIGN SOFTWARE
Lambda Research Corp. has released version 6.2.2 of Oslo lens design software. It includes updated glass catalog data, improved thermal calculations in single and multiconfiguration systems and...
Lambda Research Corp.
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MOTION PROCESSOR
The MC3110 parallel-interface motion processor chip has been added to Performance Motion Devices Inc.'s Pilot family of products. It communicates with the host processor via a 16-bit parallel data...
Performance Motion Devices Inc.
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ALIGNMENT SYSTEM
Newport Corp. has released a modular alignment and metrology system for fiber optic components, such as planar waveguides, arrayed waveguide gratings and fiber collimators. The AutoAlign Modal...
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LASER DIODE TEST
The SPA-9000 Windows-based software from ILX Lightwave Corp. is designed for use with the LPA-9080 parameter analyzer. It provides parametric analysis of laser diodes and is optimized for fast L-I...
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