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Photonics Spectra - May 2013
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Trilinear Cameras Offer High-Speed Color Imaging Solutions
With high color quality and speed – and low cost – trilinear color cameras provide an attractive performance-to-cost ratio in line-scan color imaging for automatic optical inspection. High-speed color imaging plays an important role in machine vision. Some objects are nearly indistinguishable in gray-scale monochrome imaging. Industrial line-scan color cameras, using either...
Photonics Steals the Show
The entertainment industry owes a lot to photonics: From laser light displays at concerts to new lens technology for 3-D and other special effects in movies, photonics adds the “wow”...
120-W ArFi Laser Makes Higher-Dose Lithography Possible
A new flexible 90- to 120-W ArFi excimer laser system enables high-volume multiple-patterning manufacturing as well as 450-mm wafer applications. Demand for increased semiconductor device...
Hybrid Laser Improves Micromachining Throughput, Quality
A new laser system based on a fiber seed and a DPSS power amplifier produces UV and green wavelengths, allowing manufacturers to reduce costs while increasing volume and precision. Over the past...
Laser Gain Media: A Diverse Family of Materials
Various gain media used in laser technologies differ greatly in essential properties such as wavelength ranges and tunability, pumping options, efficiency, and capability for energy storage and high...
Editorial
Sensors, Everywhere
The image sensor market could reach $10.75 billion by 2018, according to a new report from MarketsandMarkets. The report says that image sensors have shown recent steady growth across a number of industries, with major applications in the consumer, automotive, surveillance and medical segments. Huge demand for mobile phones with cameras has driven consumer segments to the top of the leaderboard,...
Shop Safety
Safety in motion: Avoiding hazards in the optical shop
The first installment of this series addressed the organizational aspects of shop safety: policy statement, hazard awareness training, documentation, the safety team and its activities, coordination with outside agencies and facilities features. This installment covers hazards related to motion. Shop machinery contains gears, belts, pinch points, electricity, and heavy or fast-moving parts...
Tech Pulse
IR holography helps firefighters blinded by the light
Firefighters may have a new tool when it comes to finding a person hidden in a thick veil of smoke and intense flames: lensless infrared digital holography. The new imaging method can...
Vacuum-based electron acceleration may be useful for laser plasma fusion
A proof-of-principle test has demonstrated that an electron beam can be accelerated by a laser in free space, a feat never before accomplished at such high energies. The breakthrough may have...
Carbon nanotube detector works in the infrared at room temperature
A photodetector that uses carbon nanotube films of varying widths can gather light in and beyond visible wavelengths, a finding that promises to make possible a unique set of optoelectronic devices,...
Sandia houses world’s largest fiber optic network
The largest fiber optic local area network (LAN) in the world, pioneered by Sandia National Laboratories, is expected to reduce energy costs by 65 percent when fully operational. The network pulls...
Virtual photons become real in a vacuum
By changing the position of a mirror inside a vacuum, virtual particles can be transformed into real photons that can be experimentally observed. In a vacuum, there is energy and noise, the existence...
Graphene highly efficient at converting light to electricity
Graphene is even more efficient at converting light to electricity than was previously known, making it an ideal building block for any device that relies on such conversions, a new international...
Light’s polarization states measured directly
There may be a way around Heisenberg’s famous Uncertainty Principle, a law of the quantum world that says precise measurement is impossible. The solution could be a method developed at the...
Spectroscopy method could lead to better optical devices
A new spectroscopy method takes advantage of a fundamental property of thin films – interference – and could help optical devices like LEDs and solar cells make better use of these...
light speed
An Interview with …
Milton Chang is the managing director of Incubic Management LLC and the author of Toward Entrepreneurship. He is a former president of Newport and New Focus, and he took both public. He is currently director of MBio Diagnostics and Aurrion as well as a member of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies; a trustee of the California Institute of Technology; a fellow of IEEE, The...
Image sensor market will grow 3.9% through 2018
The image sensor market will grow between 2013 and 2018 – it won’t be huge, but it will be growth, according to the report Global Image Sensor Market (2013-2018), published in February by...
Moves & Expansions
Tokyo-based distributor Opto-Line Inc. has signed agreements with CVI Laser Optics and Melles Griot KK of Japan – two brands of the Idex Optics & Photonics (IOP) platform – to carry...
Inrad Optics trims workforce by 9%
Optical component and crystalline device manufacturer Inrad Optics Inc. of Northvale, N.J., has trimmed its workforce by about 9 percent by cutting eight employees at production facilities in...
People In The News
The 2013 Materials Research Society conferred its Outstanding Young Investigator Award to Alexandra Boltasseva, a Purdue University assistant professor, for developing novel materials for advanced...
Collaborations
Magnolia Solar Inc., a subsidiary of Magnolia Solar Corp., has demonstrated a flexible copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cell with 13 percent efficiency. The new cell, made using thin,...
UKIVA members out in force for Total 2013
Nearly 40 percent of UKIVA (UK Industrial Vision Association) members will exhibit at the 2013 Total Processing and Packaging Show June 4-6. The commitment is in response to the increasing importance...
GreenLight
Real-time detection useful in controlling pollutants
A new infrared camera that detects pollutants such as sulfur dioxide – a major cause of acid rain – could help scientists identify and control such emissions before significant damage is done. Sulfur dioxide is considered one of the most problematic contaminants, and it is particularly harmful in India, Japan and China; the latter, the greatest producer of SO2 worldwide, has...
Lighter Side
Football + camera = touchdown!
Some football fans can never get close enough to the action – even if they happen to score front-row seats on the 50-yard line, they want to be right on the astroturf instead. For those fans, there’s BallCam. The prototype, developed by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, features a camera embedded in a plastic foam...
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Linear Stage
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PC Oscilloscope
Saelig Co. Inc. is distributing Pico Technology’s PicoScope 3207A and PicoScope 3207B, the first PC oscilloscopes to offer a USB 3.0 interface. The PicoScope 3207A has two channels,...
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Pulsed Laser Diode Driver
Analog Modules Inc. has released its high-current pulsed laser diode driver, Model 773. A low-cost, compact low-voltage DC input power converter/laser diode driver, it supplies high-pulsed...
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Photocouplers
Semiconductor solutions provider Renesas Electronics Europe has announced two photocouplers with high-speed switching operation and an integrated insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) protection...
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Fiber Recoating System
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Beam Profiler
The Beam Analyzer Touch stand-alone unit from Duma Optronics Ltd. is a multiple-scanning knife-edge beam profiler featuring a built-in touch screen and measuring head. The device features...
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Frame Grabber
When combined with analog cameras, the VRmDAVC-2 intelligent USB frame grabber from VRmagic GmbH provides a platform that performs image processing tasks autonomously. The programmable...
VRmagic Imaging GmbH
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UV-Curable System
Master Bond Inc.’s UV25 offers a one-part, no-mix system and rapid cures upon exposure to UV light. It features high temperature resistance and optical clarity with high light transmission...
Master Bond Inc.
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Interface for Motion Control
Kollmorgen has expanded its Kollmorgen Automation Suite (KAS) motion control platform with the addition of a Profinet interface option. Available from motion control specialist Heason...
Kollmorgen Corp.
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Refractive Index Detector
Wyatt Technology Corp. has launched a refractive index detector for use with ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatograph (UHPLC) systems using columns packed with small beads. The Optilab...
Wyatt Technology Corp.
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Optical Substrates
Meller Optics Inc. has announced a full line of precision optics that can be supplied uncoated, specifically for optical coaters, or coated to specification for OEMs and end users. The...
Meller Optics Inc.
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Photoelectric Sensor
The WTB4 multiline photoelectric sensor from Sick Inc. uses specially designed optics to create two line-shaped light spots to continuously detect objects with large gaps, such as PCBs, or products...
SICK Inc.
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Line-Scan Cameras
Basler has enhanced its 2k and 4k racer line-scan cameras with models offering resolutions of 6k, 8k and 12k. Available with either a Gigabit Ethernet or Camera Link interface, the cameras provide...
Basler AG
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Adhesive-Curing Conveyors
The Edge-Carry conveyor series from Dymax Corp. is designed for rapid curing of ultraviolet and visible light-sensitive adhesives, inks and coatings where typical belt-transport-style conveyors may...
Dymax, Headquarters
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Miniature Spectrometer
Avantes has released the ULSi, an easy-to-install miniature spectrometer for industrial applications and system integration. The spectrometer houses the company’s Ultra Low Straylight...
Avantes BV
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Fiber Inspection System
AFL’s line of Noyes Focis Pro automatic fiber inspection systems provides network personnel with documentation of fiber connector cleanliness and integrity. The handheld system consists...
AFL
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Touch Screen Display
Cognex Corp. has announced the VisionView 900 industrial operator panel for the proprietary In-Sight vision systems and Ethernet-ready DataMan bar-code readers. The IP65-rated touch screen allows...
Cognex Corp.
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Ultrafast Lasers
Coherent Inc.’s new Talisker 1000 series industrial ultrafast lasers are designed for high-throughput, precision materials processing applications in the semiconductor, solar (photovoltaics),...
Coherent Inc.
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Power Supply
Diversified Technologies Inc. has released the HVPS series switching-mode, fully integrated, solid-state compact pulse power supply, which eliminates the need to connect several smaller switching...
Diversified Technologies Inc.
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Progressive Area-Scan Camera
JAI A/S has added the AT-030MCL 3-CCD color progressive area-scan camera to its Apex series prism-based industrial color cameras. The 0.3-megapixel camera delivers high frame rates and is...
JAI A/S
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Quality Control Microscope
For routine inspection and quality control, Leica Microsystems GmbH has launched the DM2700 M materials microscope. Applications include metallography, earth science, forensic investigation and...
Leica Microsystems GmbH
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Beam-Profiling Camera
Ophir Photonics Group has launched the L11059 USB large-format beam-profiling camera for measuring large laser beams that require fast frame rates, low noise and high responsivity. The camera’s...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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Laser Light Modules
Multipix Imaging is offering the 3D PRO Laser and 3D PRO Laser Mini designed by ProPhotonix for machine vision applications. The structured laser light modules are designed with a compact...
Multipix Imaging Components Ltd.
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DC/DC LED Drivers
The LD48 series available now from MicroPower Direct is a line of miniature DC/DC LED drivers designed to power and control high-brightness LEDs. They feature a constant current output up to 1 A,...
MicroPower Direct LLC
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Optical Tweezers System
JPK Instruments has launched the NanoTracker 2 optical tweezers system for quantitative measurements. Biologists and chemists need a ready-to-use system with the familiarity of a platform of a...
Bruker Nano GmbH, JPK BioAFM
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Single-Photon-Counting Module
Aurea Technology has launched the LynXéa stand-alone time-correlated single-photon-counting (TCSPC) module for lifetime and time-resolved measurements of any low-level-of-light and fast events...
Aurea Technology
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Transmission Electron Microscope
FEI Co. has unveiled its Tecnai Arctica transmission electron microscope (TEM) for structural biology research. It incorporates sophisticated automation to elucidate the 3-D structure of biological...
FEI Life Sciences (acquired by Thermo Fisher)
Aluminum Breadboard
Newport Corp. has introduced an expanded product line of aluminum breadboards and accessories for photonics research and OEM optical assemblies. The SA2 solid aluminum breadboards include more...
MKS/Newport
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High-Resolution Optical Encoder
For closed-loop applications, Nanotec Electronic US Inc. has launched the high-resolution NOE2 optical encoder. It produces a resolution up to 4000 cycles per revolutions, despite its small...
Nanotec Electronic U.S. Inc.
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Progressive-Scan Cameras
Toshiba Imaging Systems Div. has launched the IK-TF series progressive-scan cameras for color area-scan machine vision applications. The IK-TF5P2 features VGA, 659 × 494-pixel output at 59.94...
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Laser Cutting
Trumpf Inc. has introduced CoolLine, a new option for its Trumpf 2-D laser cutting machines that uses a water mist to cool material as it is cut. It is integrated into the cutting process via a...
TRUMPF Inc.
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