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Photonics Spectra - November 2004
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Optically In-Well-Pumped VECSELs: An Attractive New Source in the Near-IR
Think fast: If you needed a wavelength-tunable laser with good beam quality in the near-infrared, what would you choose? A Ti:sapphire or a dye laser probably immediately springs to mind, but each...
Riding a New Speedy Bus for Image Acquisition
First the balloon popped, and then the eyes did. All the audience had seen was the balloon, full of water, disappear, to be replaced in an instant by red rubbery fragments and a splash. The sequence...
Thin Films Sing a New Tune
The growth of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) fiber optic networks greatly accelerated the demand for tunability in components such as optical channel monitors, add/drop data filters, lasers...
Monolithic Optics Enable Next-Generation Designs
The traditional design paradigm that optical and optomechanical engineers use to develop optical assemblies is fairly straightforward and compartmentalized. It starts with the optical design of a...
Advances in Optical Device Simulation Software
Simulation software is a well-known tool that can dramatically speed up product engineering and development. In recent years, technology computer-aided design (TCAD) has been put to use in the...
Automated Positioning Meets Microspectrophotometry
The number of manufacturing applications where spectral analysis of minute samples or areas is required is on the rise. To meet the demands of high throughput and precision, many companies,...
Controlling and Calibrating Optics
Accommodating the spreads of component characteristics in electro-optic assemblies is one of the biggest challenges facing manufacturers today. This applies to test instruments, telecom equipment,...
Finding the Missing Link for High-Power Fiber Lasers
Despite their record performance, high-power fiber lasers have made little progress in penetrating the marketplace. Fiber lasers must become cost-competitive if they are to replace the existing...
Tech Pulse
Nanoribbon Waveguides Suited for Photonic Circuits
A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has demonstrated that crystalline oxide nanoribbon waveguides can be used with other nanowire optical components to create rudimentary systems that suggest the feasibility of nanowire-based photonic integrated circuitry. Photonic integrated circuits promise applications as active and...
Nanotube Films Suggest Alternative to ITO
Transparent electrically conductive materials have found application in a variety of products, from solar cells and detectors to flat panel displays. Currently, indium tin oxide is the material of...
Tiny Tip Couples Diode Laser to Single-Mode Fiber
The inefficient coupling of a diode laser's power into a single-mode fiber has been a major stumbling block in modern fiber optic telecommunications systems. These coupling losses are one of the...
Combs May Have Navigation and Display Applications
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., have demonstrated a near-field optical device that could have far-reaching applications, from navigation systems to display...
Scanning Laser Produces 3-D Microstructures
A team of engineers at Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation and at the department of manufacturing engineering at Boston University, both in Boston, has reported the rapid fabrication...
Aluminate Glass Suitable for Optical Uses
Aluminum oxide is the material of choice for use in demanding applications, such as in the protective tiles on space probes, the supports for catalytic reactor systems and gas turbines. Its benefits...
Microlaser Generates Microwatts
Researchers at Riken, the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research in Wako, Japan, have demonstrated an approach to the construction of tiny lasers that is likely to find application in miniature...
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IBM, Kodak Collaborate on CMOS Sensors
IBM has been in the chip manufacturing business for 40 years, but a recent agreement with Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., spells change for the veteran. The terms of the agreement enable Kodak to take its portfolio of image sensor technology to IBM's CMOS fabrication facility in Burlington, Vt. Although both companies have experience with CCDs, they see value in developing high-quality...
Companies Partner to Enhance Lithography Tools
ASML MaskTools, a business unit of ASML Holding NV of Santa Clara, Calif., has forged a mul-tiyear agreement with Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, to further develop the capability of...
Aculight Wins Government Contracts
Under the Small Business Innovation Research program, Aculight Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has received a Phase II contract from the US Department of Energy for $750,000 and a Phase I contract from the...
Journal Solicits Papers on Machine Vision
Original papers are sought by Computers in Industry, an international application-oriented research journal, for an issue that will be devoted to machine vision technology and its industrial...
Photonics Firms Benefit from ATP Awards
The Advanced Technology Program (ATP) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology recently announced 32 awards to 43 companies. Selected from 870 proposals, several of which involve...
Dalsa Wins Contract to Supply Sensor Chips
Under a five-year contract valued at $20 million, Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, will supply CCD image sensor chips to Tokyo-based Mamiya. The 22 million pixel chips will be used in...
Lens Processing Companies to Merge
Schweiter Technologies AG of Horgen, Switzerland, has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire the LOH Group of Wetzlar, Germany, for cash and stock in the company. LOH, which treats lens surfaces...
Intense Photonics Gains Funding for Development
Intense Photonics Ltd. of Glasgow, UK, has secured $9.2 million for business development from all of its financial investors. The funding will enable the company to expand its project-based...
Second-Quarter Laser Shipments Up from 2003
At $173.6 million, second-quarter shipments of industrial laser equipment and systems for North America and US exports were up about 75 percent compared with corresponding 2003 figures, according to...
Konarka Takes On Siemens' Organic Photovoltaic Program
Konarka Technologies Inc. of Lowell, Mass., has acquired the organic photovoltaic research activities of Siemens AG, which is based in Munich, Germany. The purchase consolidates the companies'...
Horiba Jobin Yvon Is New Company Name
Jobin Yvon, a Horiba Group company with research centers in Edison, N.J., Longjumeau, France, and other parts of the world, has changed its name to Horiba Jobin Yvon to reflect its greater...
Fiber Optic Communities Launch Organization
Communities living with a fiber optic infrastructure have established a nonprofit organization to educate homeowners and businesses about the benefits of optical access networks. The goal of the...
Nuvonyx Secures US Air Force Contract
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., has awarded Nuvonyx Inc. of Bridgeton, Mo., a five-year contract totaling $3,770,084 to help develop...
Accent on Applications
Dual-Cavity Lasers Keep Up with the Flow
Fluid-flow analysis is critical in the aeronautical, automotive, biomedical, chemical, meteorological and environmental industries. Turbulence in pipes or valves can change the flow rate, which can...
Available for Hire: Robot with 20/20
High repeatability is a prerequisite in any highly functional manufacturing operation. In machine vision applications, being able to select parts off a conveyor belt in the same way with the same...
Presstime Bulletin
The Little Engine That Could (Theoretically)
Zhisong Wang, a professor of physics at Texas A&M University in College Station and at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, has engineered a molecular locomotive. Powered by nothing more than light, the machine would chug along a miniature track and deliver molecular building blocks with nanometer accuracy. Before a ticket can be booked on the molecular express, though, there's the small...
Bragg Cladding Waveguides Demonstrated
In the Oct. 4 issue of Optics Express and in the Oct. 11 issue of Applied Physics Letters, scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge describe silicon-based, on-chip Bragg...
Infrared Photodetector Features No Dark Current
Researchers at Thales Research and Technology in Orsay, France, and at Université Paris 7 have reported the development of an infrared detector based on the generation of an electronic displacement...
Laser/Plasma Control Enables Monoenergetic Electron Beams ...
In recent years, physicists have explored the possibility of using ultrashort laser pulses to accelerate electrons or positrons in the wake of waves generated in jets of ionized gases. Initial...
... as Do Plasma Channels Created Using Three-Pulse Technique
Another laser wakefield approach also displays promise for the development of tabletop particle accelerators. The Sept. 30 issue of Nature features the findings of investigators at Lawrence Berkeley...
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FIVE-MEGAPIXEL CMOS SENSOR
Based on proprietary OmniPixel technology, the OV5610 small-scale five-megapixel CMOS image sensor launched by OmniVision Technologies Inc. has 2.775-µm pixels and a 1/1.8-in. footprint. It incorporates a 2592 × 1944 image array and an on-chip 10-bit A/D converter that operates at up to 4 fps in full resolution. Advanced algorithms cancel fixed pattern noise, eliminate smearing, reduce blooming...
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BENCHTOP LASER MODULE
NP Photonics has enhanced the benchtop version of its Scorpion erbium microfiber laser module. The system includes the Scorpion fiber laser and controller housed in a self-contained unit with...
NP Photonics Inc.
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730- to 1120-nm LASER DIODES
Power Technology Inc. is offering laser diodes with wavelengths from 730 to 1120 nm and output from 10 mW to 2 W. The company can incorporate the single-mode distributed feedback (DFB), distributed...
Power Technology Inc.
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TWO-AXIS PIEZOSCANNER
The PXY 16 OEM piezoscanner introduced by piezosystem jena GmbH is a two-axis linear device with a positioning and scanning range of up to 16 µm. Its parallel-kinematics-order design provides higher...
piezosystem jena GmbH
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LASER MODULES
Innovative Photonic Solutions (IPS) has developed spectrum-stabilized diode laser modules that provide single-frequency output with high beam quality at wavelengths from 700 to 2400 nm. In contrast...
Innovative Photonic Solutions
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LASER UPGRADE
Coherent Inc. has released a version of its Chameleon-XR laser designed to maximize the performance and flexibility of multiphoton excitation microscopes. The upgraded model offers a wider tuning...
Coherent Inc.
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GRINDING SYSTEMS
Lapmaster International has introduced its Melchiorre fine-grinding systems for flat finishing. Tolerance control to ±1 µm is achieved for part-to-part size, load-to-load size and parallelism, with...
Lapmaster Wolters Ltd.
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MACRODEFECT INSPECTION
The WaferView 325 system from Rudolph Technologies Inc. provides high-throughput, automated detection and classification of macro and submicron defects on the front, back and edge of 300-mm wafers....
Rudolph Technologies Inc.
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FIBER OPTIC AMPLIFIERS
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.'s SU16 series fiber optic amplifiers deliver high-performance scanning in a 10-mmprofile package. They are available in high-power and -sensitivity models, or in ultrafast models...
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
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FOCAL PLANE ARRAY
Santa Barbara Focalplane has announced the SBF191, a digital 640 × 512 high-speed, infrared focal plane array that offers 14-bit digital output at up to 42.5 million pixels per second. It includes...
Santa Barbara Infrared Inc.
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SPECTROPHOTOMETERS
The ChemusB2 series spectrophotometers manufactured by Ocean Optics Inc. are PC-based systems for chemical absorbance measurements. The UV-VIS systems comprise a spectrometer, a deuterium tungsten...
Ocean Optics - Part of Ocean Insight
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LINEAR GUIDANCE SYSTEM
The Minimodule compact linear guidance system from Schneeberger Inc. features a Minirail miniature ball guideway and tooth belt drive. The device has a compact cross section and is the same height as...
Schneeberger Inc.
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FDTD SOFTWARE
Optiwave Corp. has released OptiFDTD 5.0, an upgrade to its finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation tool. The simulation engine employs the plane wave expansion method to analyze 1-, 2- and...
Optiwave Systems Inc.
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GLASS POLARIZERS
Laser Components IG Inc.'s colorPol IR 1550 BC4 and colorPol IR 1310 BC4 high-transmittance glass polarizers have contrast ratios of >10,000:1 and loss of <0.1 dB at 1550 and 1310 nm,...
Laser Components USA Inc.
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NANOPOSITIONER
Mad City Labs Inc.'s Nano-LP200 nanopositioning system is available with a standard travel range of 200 × 200 × 200 µm and nanometer accuracy under closed-loop control. The Nano-LP series' slim 20-mm...
Mad City Labs Inc.
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PUMP LASER
Lumics GmbH has introduced the LU0975M004 laser that delivers up to 4 W from a multimode fiber. Housed in a cooled, low-profile 14-pin butterfly package coupled with a 100/125-µm multimode fiber that...
Lumics GmbH
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COLOR CAMERA
Point Grey Research Inc. has unveiled a color version of its Flea IEEE-1394 digital camera. The device features a 12-bit ADC and a 1/3-in. color Sony CCD sensor available in 640 × 480 resolution at...
Teledyne FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions
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HIGH-POWER LASER
Advanced Optical Technology Ltd. has introduced the AOT-YAG-10QHP high-power, short-pulse Nd:YAG laser that produces a TEM00 beam of up to 1200 mW at 1064 nm and ~1.5-ns pulses at 2.5 kHz. It offers...
Advanced Optical Technology Ltd.
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LIGHT SOURCE
B&W Tek Inc. has announced the BWC-SLD-1D, a 1300-nm superluminescent diode broadband light source. It offers a FWHM bandwidth broader than 100 nm, output of up to 10 mW and ripple of <0.2 dB....
B&W Tek LLC
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PARTICLE SIZE ANALYZER
Suitable for use in pharmaceuticals, metals, minerals, civil engineering and environmental applications, the SALD-3101 laser diffraction particle size analyzer from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments...
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc.
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DEVELOPMENT KIT
The OL 770-420 software development kit has been announced by Optronic Laboratories Inc. as an enhancement to the OL 770 high-speed LED measurement system. It is intended for users who want to...
Optronic Laboratories LLC
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LASER MARKING SYSTEM
The Q-switched fiber laser marking system from Laser Photonics LLC features a laser of up to 200 W, a scan head, a PCI control board, a power supply and software that is configurable to user-specific...
Laser Photonics Corp.
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IMAGE MANAGEMENT
The Pax-it image management system unveiled by Leco Corp. can measure, pretest and document image data. It acquires and archives digital and analog images using a Windows-based operating platform...
LECO Corp.
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ACOUSTIC ENCLOSURES
Technical Manufacturing Corp. (TMC) is making available custom acoustic enclosures for precision instruments. Designed to prevent background acoustic noise from disturbing delicate measurements and...
TMC
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LASER CONTROLLER
Newport Corp. says that, compared with other available devices, its new diode laser current driver circuit offers lower noise, higher stability, an expanded dynamic range, improved electrical...
MKS/Newport
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CCD CAMERAS
The IPX-VGA210 and IPX-VGA210C imagers launched by Imperx Inc. are monochrome and color versions of a CCD digital camera that operates at 210 fps with full VGA resolution, and at up to 1600 fps with...
Imperx Inc.
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PACKAGE INSPECTION
The latest member of Logos Systems International's family of inspection systems for chip-scale packages and ball grid arrays has been released. Octaveo Model 50CSP comes with a 1.3-megapixel on-axis...
Logos Systems Int'l
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LASER SAVER
The iC-WKM laser driver from iC-Haus GmbH, available as an SO-8 package, features current capacity of up to 350 mA and supply voltage of up to 15 V. It is optimized for M-type laser diodes and...
iC-Haus GmbH
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MACRO IMAGING SYSTEM
The LC-PolScope macro imaging system from Cambridge Research & Instrumentation (CRI) Inc. is designed to measure retardance and slow-axis orientation of a 40 × 30-mm sample in less than 3 s. The...
PerkinElmer
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LOW-HEAT CURING SYSTEM
A mercury-free printed wiring board curing system introduced by Xenon Corp. uses pulsed UV/VIS light to cure multifilm flexible circuit boards without damage. A xenon pulsed serpentine lamp with a 1...
XENON Corporation
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BEAM SHAPERS
Beam shaper modules unveiled by Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH (Limo) are positioned in a collimated laser beam to generate the required intensity profile at the square, rectangular or line light...
LIMO GmbH
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SOLID-STATE LED
The 7090 series XLamp from Cree Inc. is a high-power solid-state LED that was designed as an alternative to the incandescent bulb and other conventional sources in architectural lighting and general...
Wolfspeed Inc.
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OPTICAL TABLES
The 5300 series high-end vibration-damping optical tables provide maximum relative motion and dynamic deflection for high-precision applications, according to their manufacturer, Kinetic Systems Inc....
Kinetic Systems Inc.
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CCD CAMERAS
Basler Vision Technologies has replaced its A301f/fc and A302f/fc cameras with the A311f/fc and A312f/fc models because the Sony sensors used in the older products have been discontinued. The A311...
Basler AG
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MACHINE VISION
Cognex Corp. has announced that its PatMax geometric pattern-matching software is now available on its In-Sight vision sensors to provide accurate feature location despite changes in image angle,...
Cognex Corp.
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LASER-LINE FILTERS
Semrock Inc. has launched its MaxLine optical thin-film laser-line filters for laser spectral enhancement in Raman spectroscopy and fluorescence applications. Transmission is >90% at the laser...
IDEX Health & Science - Semrock Optical Filters
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BEAM COMBINING
Aculight Corp. has combined into a single light source the outputs from seven diode laser bars, each containing 200 single-mode emitters, to generate 26 W of near-diffraction-limited light at 820 nm....
Lockheed Martin Laser and Sensor Systems
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POWER PROBE
Ophir Optronics Inc. has introduced the Comet 1K power probe, a handheld tool that measures laser power from 20 W to 1 kW as well as the beam profile, wavelength and energy. Spectral range is from...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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LASER ABLATION
Cetac Technologies' LSX-3000 laser ablation system is now available in a 213-nm-only version for materials that are difficult to ablate, such as quartz and calcite. Via an Nd:YAG laser head, the...
Teledyne CETAC Technologies
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CCD CAMERA
Offering 2048 × 2048-pixel resolution and cooled 14-bit performance, the pco.2000 CCD camera from PCO AG is suitable for use in low-light applications. The camera features an integrated image memory...
PCO-TECH Inc.
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IMAGE ANALYSIS
SharpStack and SharpStack Plus Versions 5.0 have been released by Media Cybernetics Inc. to enable Image-Pro and Image-Pro Discovery image analysis software users to remove haze and improve...
Media Cybernetics Inc.
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BEAM HOMOGENIZERS
A line of pure fused silica homogenizers is available from Holo-Or Ltd. An optional high-power antireflection coating on both surfaces reduces backreflection to 0.2%, depending on the grade selected....
Holo/Or Ltd.
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LASER SCANNING
For remote welding, laser materials processing, rapid manufacturing and 3-D applications, Scanlab AG has unveiled the varioScan FC. The system, designed for fiber and fiber-coupled lasers, comprises...
SCANLAB GmbH
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SPECTROMETER
Lasertechnik Berlin GmbH has developed the Elias III spectrometer jointly with the Institute for Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Berlin. The echelle device quantitatively analyzes the wings...
LTB Lasertechnik Berlin GmbH
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STROBOSCOPIC CAMERA
LaVision GmbH has introduced a video stroboscopic camera system that captures high-frequency cyclical events. It comprises up to four camera heads, a phase-shifting and synchronization device, a...
LaVision GmbH
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UV MONOCHROMATOR
McPherson Inc.'s model 231 Seya-Namioka aberration-corrected VUV monochromator provides improved performance and a smaller beam shape around the focus point. It has a 1-m focal length and is suitable...
McPHERSON
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HIGH-POWER DIODE LASER
The HiWatch product family from Oseir Ltd. now includes a high-power diode laser that offers two illumination geometries: a 30 × 1-mm sheet for cross-section imaging and a 30 × 25-mm solid for...
Oseir Ltd.
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PICOMOTOR ACTUATOR
The model 8310-V closed-loop vacuum-compatible (to 1026 t) picomotor actuator, launched by New Focus Inc., has an integrated rotary encoder as well as home, forward and reverse limit switches. It...
Newport - New Focus
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BEAM EXPANDERS
Special Optics Inc. has announced a line of large-output beam expanders with 100-mm diffraction-limited clear apertures. The four available models have expansion ratios of 53, 103, 203 and 403 and...
Special Optics Inc.
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CAMERA CONTROL
Photron USA Inc. has introduced Motion Tools automated slow-motion-analysis camera control software, designed for and included with its PC-based high-speed video cameras. It provides automatic...
Photron USA Inc.
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LASER DESIGN SOFTWARE
Applied Optics Research says that its general laser analysis design software (GLAD) is a comprehensive tool that can model almost any type of laser or physical optics system with a complete...
Applied Optics Research
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TOROIDAL MIRRORS
Replicated toroidal mirrors are available from Opco Laboratory Inc. for use in optical bench designs, including Czerny-Turner-designed monochromators. The company says that replicated toroidal...
OPCO Laboratory Inc.
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SUPERLUMINESCENT LEDs
Chip-based high-power superluminescent LEDs from DenseLight Semiconductors Pte Ltd. cover the long-wave IR and are available in the O-, E-, S-, C- and L-bands. They can increase the sensitivity and...
DenseLight Semiconductors Pte. Ltd.
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CAMERA LENS
The DSL951 manufactured by Sunex Inc. is a low-profile lens for two-megapixel compact cameras that use CCD imagers with a format of up to 1 in. and CMOS imagers with formats up to 2.7 in. It operates...
Sunex Inc.
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DIODE LASERS
Fiber-coupled diode lasers for brazing in production environments are offered by Laserline GmbH. Now available in up to 6000 W from a 1500-µm-diameter fiber, with an NA of 0.2, the lasers offer high...
Laserline GmbH
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MICROCAMERAS
Kappa opto-electronics GmbH has introduced a line of microcameras that combine high-quality signal processing with a small footprint. Available in five sensor sizes -- 1/10, 1/6, 1/4, 1/3 and 1/2 in....
Kappa optronics GmbH
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DETECTOR SYSTEM
LightGage, a two-plane position sensing system unveiled by Laser Tools Co. Inc., uses a dual-beam-alignment, horizontal line laser with precision optical accessories. All components are magnetic on...
Laser Tools Co. Inc.
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ZOOM SYSTEMS
Leica Microsystems (Switzerland) Ltd. has launched two apochromatically corrected and motorized zoom systems for high-precision inspections from manufacturing to integration into machine vision...
Leica Microsystems AG, Microscopy Div.
MICROGRINDER
For high-precision diamond grinding of small concave and convex aspheric optical mold inserts, Moore Nanotechnology Systems LLC has introduced the Nanotech multiconfiguration deterministic...
Moore Nanotechnology Systems LLC
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A/D POWER METER
The FieldMate laser power meter from Coherent Inc. offers both digital and analog readout, and features an analog needle for rapid and sensitive adjustments of laser output. A 26 × 89-mm LCD provides...
Coherent Inc.
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PROGRESSIVE-SCAN CAMERA
Available from JAI Pulnix Inc. is the TM-1325, a 1.4-megapixel monochrome progressive-scan CCD camera that outputs 30 fps at full resolution. Based on a 2/3-in. interline transfer sensor with 1392 ×...
JAI Inc.
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RIGHT-ANGLE PRISMS
Edmund Industrial Optics has released its high-tolerance Tech Spec fused silica right-angle prisms with 20-10 scratch-dig surface quality and surface accuracy of l/10. Angle tolerance is ±40 arc sec,...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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INFRARED CAMERA
The ThermaCam P65 infrared camera has been launched by Flir Systems Inc. It features voice recording of up to 30 s with each image, a FireWire interface for transfer of digital video at up to 800...
FLIR Systems
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Er:FIBER LASERS
Toptica Photonics AG has released its FFS Femtofiber series ultrafast Er:fiber laser systems that combine the performance of Ti:sapphire oscillators with the stability of an all-fiber laser source....
Toptica Photonics AG
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TEMPERATURE CONTROL
The PID1500 from Wavelength Electronics is a plug-and-play linear bipolar thermoelectric temperature controller that provides ultrastable, low-noise control from a single-output DC supply. An onboard...
Wavelength Electronics Inc.
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LINE-SCAN CAMERA
Dalsa Corp.'s Spyder2 line-scan camera has a Camera Link interface and single 40-MHz output. Features include flat-field pixel correction, correlated double sampling, full control of gain/offset,...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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DEFLECTOMETER
The OptiSurf 300 unveiled by Trioptics GmbH is a noncontact optical scanning deflectometer that provides high-speed surface topography measurements on a nanometer scale. It scans at a rate of...
TRIOPTICS GmbH
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ROTATION STAGES
Standa Ltd. is offering manual and motorized versions of its rotation stages. The 7R150-1 model has a 1-in. aperture, and the 7R150-30 has a 30-mm aperture. Both have a continuous rotation range of...
STANDA UAB
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MATERIALS PROCESSING
For materials processing applications with CO2 lasers, Raylase AG has launched the Axialscan -30/BO. The company says that the focused spot size of the beam-optimized system has been reduced by...
RAYLASE GmbH
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CMOS CAMERA
A megapixel CMOS camera with a fast configuration interface has been unveiled by Photonfocus AG. The MV-D1024-TrackCam, for industrial image processing, achieves a dynamic range of up to 120 dB at...
Photonfocus AG
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CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE
PicoQuant GmbH has announced its MicroTime 200 confocal microscope, with new data analysis software. The instrument contains optics and electronics for recording all aspects of the fluorescence...
PicoQuant GmbH
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