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Photonics Spectra - July 2005
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Raman Lasers Offer Power and Wavelength Versatility
Have you ever wanted to convert your laser to another color at the flick of a switch? Perhaps you are a dermatologist, wanting to quickly move from treating spider veins on the nose to acne or spots of hypopigmentation on sun-damaged cheeks. The ability to change the laser from hemoglobin-absorbing yellow to melanin-absorbing green and thence to the red for photodynamic therapy would reduce...
The Pros and Cons of Protected and Surface Coatings for High-Phase-Thickness Applications
Metal salt compounds, or dielectrics, produce thin-film coatings with precise spectral control. Because they are soft and require glass coverslips laminated to the coating substrate to protect them...
Getting the Picture on Imaging Software
To hear Kyle Voosen tell it, there are really only two places to be when talking about industrial and machine vision applications. Machine vision products manager at National Instruments Corp. in...
Understanding Lenses: Aplanats and Achromats
Optics terminology can be confusing, but it is critical to be fluent in the language when searching for and specifying optical components. This is especially true for multielement lenses, the two...
Virtual Photodetectors: Building Your Own Detector
Photodetectors are available in multiple configurations, with point, quadrant, linear and 2-D arrays being among the better known. These devices offer optimal performance for dedicated tasks, and...
Photonic Instrumentation Aids Cosmetic Measurements
As with all manufacturers of colored products, cosmetics companies use specialized measuring instrumentation to assist in quality control. However, cosmetics present unique challenges: Lipsticks and...
The US Photonics Job Market
Research on people’s views of their job brings out some interesting perceptions, and this year’s US photonics job salary study is no different. After several years of small gains in salary for most...
Quantum Dots: Small Structures Poised to Break Big
Imagine a mechanical part that can tell when it is worn out. Or an ink that is impossible to counterfeit. Or an infrared paint that can help to distinguish friends from enemies using night-vision...
How Can Quantum Dots Be Used?
Quantum dots are so versatile that most of their applications have not yet been realized. A few in development are: Solar cells. Solar cells made from silicon can be stable and efficient, but they...
Making Light from a Grain of Sand
LED manufacturers have been working for years to replace the incandescent light. Among their many challenges is that LEDs dissipate a lot of heat, making them inappropriate for some applications....
Get a Charge, Get a Quantum Dot
Researchers at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., have demonstrated carbon nanotube-based quantum dots that can be defined and controlled electrostatically and could be used for quantum...
Quantum-Dot Focal Plane Array Has Two-Color Capability
Mid- (3 to 5 μm) and long-wave (8 to 12 μm) infrared focal plane arrays have found a place in numerous security and military applications that require night-vision capability. Single-color...
Quantum Dots and Quantum Wells Go Head-to-Head
In the pursuit of more efficient GaAs-based emitters for telecommunications applications, researchers at Laboratorio Nazionale TASC-INFM and the University of Trieste, both in Italy, have performed a...
Excimer Laser Produces Nanobump Arrays
Two-dimensional arrays of 260-nm-diameter silicon bumps have been fabricated by exposing 1-μm-diameter polystyrene beads on silicon wafers to ultraviolet radiation from a KrF laser. Researchers...
Painting Nanowires Yields High-Speed Circuits
The production of circuits and processors from silicon substrates is expensive, and the required high-temperature fabrication process is not always compatible with a variety of materials. Researchers...
Alternate Packaging Improves White LEDs
Various techniques for boosting the performance of white LEDs are being considered to reach the target of luminous efficacy of 150 lm/W by 2012. Investigators at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s...
Cree and Sumitomo Expand Distribution Agreement
LED manufacturer Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., has announced that Sumitomo Corp. of Tokyo will purchase $200 million of its products during Cree’s fiscal year ending June 2006. The distribution...
Polymer Microlenses Added to Micropixelated UV LED
Proposed applications of LEDs having micron-scale pixel elements include microdisplays and biological and chemical sensors. Now scientists at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK, have...
Optical Conveyor Belt Transports Submicron Objects
Investigators at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Brno and at the University of St. Andrews in the UK have used a sliding standing wave formed by counterpropagating Bessel beams to...
Tech Pulse
Laser Ultrasound Sensor Tested in Paper Mill
Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., have completed a full-scale demonstration of a noncontact laser ultrasound sensor designed to inspect moving sheet...
Single-Photon Source Is a Tall Order
Towering above the crowd helps in basketball. Now investigators at Cambridge-based Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. and at Cambridge University, both in the UK, have shown that it also is the key to an...
Nanoscale Structures Act as Photonic Antennas
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have observed far-field modulated fluorescence lifetimes indicative of dipole-dipole coupling...
Novel Enhancements Demonstrated for Intracavity Nonlinear Optics
Intracavity nonlinear optics has long been the pathway to additional wavelengths from established lasers. The most common example is the internally doubled neodymium laser in laboratories and...
Actuated Microdisk Is a Wavelength-Selecting Optical Switch
Microdisk and microring resonators have been widely studied because they can perform many of the basic functions required in photonic circuits and because they are much smaller than conventional...
Holey-Fiber Raman Laser Generates 3.6 W
Researchers at Imperial College London have designed and operated what they believe is the first CW holey-fiber Raman laser constructed in an all-fiber configuration. Holey-fiber Raman lasers are...
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OSA and SPIE Go to Congress
Members of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE took up the cause of increasing US government investment in research and development by going to Washington to meet with members of Congress. The group joined more than 200 scientists, engineers and business leaders for the 10th annual Congressional Visits Day held May 10 and 11 and sponsored by the Science-Engineering-Technology (SET) Work...
A Map to the Future
The photonics industry needs some way to bring everything together, according to Lionel C. Kimerling, director of the Microphotonics Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge....
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Bestows Grants
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, based in Washington, has announced the recipients of its Futures awards to support interdisciplinary research on nanoscience and nanotechnology. The...
OmniVision Acquires CDM Optics
OmniVision Technologies Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has acquired the privately held CDM Optics Inc. for $10 million in cash and approximately 515,000 shares of OmniVision common stock. Now a wholly...
Nikon Combines Metrology, Inspection Businesses
Nikon Instruments Inc. of Melville, N.Y., has integrated high-precision industrial metrology business units. Semiconductor Inspection and Nexiv Vision Measuring Systems under the new Sitech Div. in...
Redlake Collaborates with Geospatial Systems
Redlake of San Diego and Geospatial Systems Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., have partnered to focus on aerial and terrestrial surveillance systems for military and commercial applications. Using digital...
ITT Wins Defense Contract for Night-Vision Goggles
ITT Industries' Night Vision Div. in Roanoke, Va., will provide enhanced night-vision goggles under a contract from the US Army Research, Development & Engineering Command Acquisition Center. The...
PicoQuant Relocates
To accommodate the increasing number of sales, product developments and employees, PicoQuant GmbH has moved to expanded quarters in Berlin-Adlershof, Germany. The 1000-sq-m plant houses the...
Matrix Vision Chooses North American Agent
Matrix Vision GmbH has selected Digital Network Vision of Waltham, Mass., to represent its products in North America. The Oppenweiler, Germany, company supplies hardware and software for the machine...
Highwave Purchases Northlight Optronics
A supplier of active-fiber-based components and subsystems for the industrial, defense and telecommunications markets, Highwave Optical Technologies of Lannion, France, has announced that its...
Fabrinet Is Acquiring JDS Plant in China
Engineering and electromechanical manufacturing services company Fabrinet of San Francisco intends to acquire the JDS Uniphase Corp. manufacturing plant in Fuzhou, China. It will purchase all assets...
Spectra Couleur Picks Agent for North America
Spectra Couleur GmbH, a Berlin-based supplier of visible up-conversion fiber laser systems for OEM, research and life sciences applications, has selected Market Tech Inc. as its exclusive distributor...
ATC and Oxley Ally for Protective Coatings
In the UK, Advanced Technology Coatings Ltd. of Plympton and electro-optics supplier Oxley Developments Co. Ltd. of Ulverston have partnered to develop and supply laser protection coatings for the...
Flir Systems to Develop Sensor for US Army
Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., has received a contract valued at approximately $13 million from the US Army Research Development & Engineering Command to develop a stabilized...
Lambda Research Moves to Larger Facility
Lambda Research Corp. has moved to expanded quarters in Littleton, Mass. The 9000-sq-ft area will be used to accommodate new employees and to provide a larger space for customer training and seminars...
Forecasts for Nonlinear Optical Materials Market
Currently estimated at $856 million, the global market for nonlinear optical materials is expected to reach $1.66 billion by 2009, according to the report RGB-117N Non-linear Optical Materials...
IMT Masken Augments Production Quarters
With the intent of housing its essential processes under one roof, IMT Masken und Teilungen AG of Greifensee, Switzerland, has expanded its production facility. The investment encompasses increased...
JDS Uniphase Purchases Photonic Power Systems
JDS Uniphase Corp. of San Jose, Calif., has acquired Photonic Power Systems Inc., a supplier of the photonic power-over-fiber technology. The Cupertino, Calif., company's system for remote powering...
CVI Laser Secures Optical Components
CVI Laser LLC of Albuquerque, N.M., has purchased Optical Components Inc., a manufacturer of custom optical elements and coatings for such industries as the aerospace sector and for national...
Specialised Imaging Picks North American Agent
A manufacturer of ultrahigh-speed imaging systems and components for industrial, military and scientific applications, Specialised Imaging Ltd. of Tring, UK, has appointed Photo-Sonics Inc. to...
Two-Tiered LED Industry Is Forecast
By 2010, the global LED market may consist of sectors for high-technology innovations and for simple, inexpensive devices for mass-produced goods, according to a report from ABI Research of Oyster...
Evatec Buys Box Coater Evaporation Business
Evatec NA Inc. of Manchester, N.H., has acquired the box coater evaporation business of Unaxis (formerly Balzers) of Pfäffikon, Switzerland, and will support that company's approximately 200...
Lockheed Martin Picked as Integrator for Laser Defense System
General Atomics has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md., as a weapons system integrator for the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System. The San Diego company's Photonics Div. is...
Accent on Applications
Tasting Apples Without Taking a Bite
You can't compare apples to oranges. However, people do compare apples to apples, searching for fruit that looks good and that also offers consistent taste and texture. The problem lies in judging an apple without biting into it. Renfu Lu, an agricultural engineer at the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in East Lansing, Mich., hopes to solve that problem. He is...
Raman Spectroscopy Analyzes Illumination in Gutenberg Bibles
Johannes Gutenberg is considered the inventor of European printing because he was the first to use movable metal type, back in the mid-15th century. His workshop in Mainz, Germany, produced...
Ink Treatment Enables Desktop Laser-Based Paper Cutting
Olivier Acher sympathizes with anyone who has struggled to get business cards or invitations printed on short notice. These and similar tasks depend on the availability of paper that has been precut...
Presstime Bulletin
Photon-Number-Resolving Sensor Displays High Efficiency
A quantum calorimetric sensor developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., displays photon-number-resolving operation at 1550 nm with an efficiency of 88.6 percent. The scientists behind the work suggest that the instrument is suitable for fundamental physics applications, such as testing a local realism interpretation of quantum mechanics, and may have...
Gold Nanostructures Act as Optical Antennas
Researchers at Universität Basel in Switzerland and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have constructed nanoscale structures that act as optical analogues of half-wave radio antennas....
Photoresist Replicates Transmission Through Nanoholes
A team of investigators at Indiana University in Bloomington has developed a technique for mapping the 3-D spatial distribution of radiation transmitted through nanoscale apertures in which the...
Lighter Side
Bringing Antiquities to Light
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection is a treasure trove of trash salvaged in the late 19th century from huge rubbish mounds in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, and stored at Oxford University in the UK. The papyrus documents number some 400,000 fragments of text in Greek and other ancient languages. The archive is a priceless record of antiquity, including everything from dinner invitations and shopping lists...
Fly-by-Night Findings
For their biannual migrations, songbirds use both the stars and the Earth’s magnetic field for navigation in the dark. Spurred by recent discoveries that birds have specialized molecules in their...
Rubbery Robot?
The discovery that some octopuses use a pair of their tentacles to “walk” on the seafloor may spur development of soft robots. Whereas most bipedal locomotion requires the support of a rigid...
Products
MULTIMEGAPIXEL DIGITAL CAMERA
Lumenera Corp. has announced its 6.6-megapixel CMOS-based camera for off-line inspection, documentation and medical applications that require high-resolution images. The USB 2-based camera provides simple plug-and-play integration with any Direct Show application, such as National Instruments' LabView. The 3000 × 2200-pixel sensor offers antiblooming and achieves a dynamic range of >100 dB....
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COMPACT CCD CAMERAS
The SVCam-CP family of compact CCD cameras unveiled by SVS-Vistek GmbH includes four models. The svs424 offers resolution of 640 × 480, has 7.4 × 7.4-µm pixels and operates at a maximum frame rate of...
SVS-Vistek GmbH
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TERAHERTZ SPECTROMETER
The TPI spectra 1000D system launched by Bruker Optics Inc. and TeraView Ltd. adds reflective sampling to the terahertz pulsed imaging spectroscopy performed by the TPI spectra 1000. Because the...
Bruker Optics Inc.
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Z-STAGES
The P-540 series microscopy nanofocusing closed-loop Z-stages announced by PI (Physik Instrumente) LP integrate into high-resolution microscopes to allow up to 100-µm travel in the Z-direction, with...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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EPOXY DISPENSER
EFD's Ultra 2800 series Positive Displacement tabletop dispenser facilitates the application of two-part epoxies and other fluids that are subject to changes in viscosity. Patented hydraulic link...
Nordson EFD
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PROBE STATIONS
The programmable VACP200 and motorized VACM200 vacuum probe stations have been launched by The Micromanipulator Co. Integrated into a vibration isolation system, they are designed to probe up to...
Micromanipulator Co. Inc.
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ASSEMBLY MACHINE
From Newport Corp. is the MRSI-M5 assembly work cell for epoxy die attach, eutectic and flip chip bonding. Combining 5-µm accuracy, speed and reliability, the machine is targeted to end users...
MKS/Newport
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SUPERLUMINESCENT LED
The EXS1305-811 from Exalos AG is a broadband superluminescent LED for fiber optic telecommunications, instrumentation, optical coherence tomography, structural sensors and fiber optic gyroscope...
Exalos AG
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AWG MULTIPLEXER
Gemfire Corp. has unveiled the Athermal Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG), a DWDM mux/demux device that operates on 200-GHz channel spacing without requiring temperature stabilization. The compact...
Gemfire Corp.
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FILTER TECHNOLOGY
Gage Applied Technologies has introduced finite impulse response filter field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology in its high-resolution 14-bit digitizers, enabling users to filter digitized...
Gage-Line Technology Inc.
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MICROSPECTROMETER
The IntegraSpec XL and XLP product lines have been introduced by Axsun Technologies Inc. The XL line is for industrial process applications, and the XLP is for pharmaceutical process analytical...
Excelitas Technologies Corp.
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CERAMIC SUBSTRATES
For electronic components, CoorsTek Inc. has introduced its SmoothEdge ceramic substrates, which the company says offer improved handling characteristics for automated production lines, truer...
CoorsTek
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IR CAMERAS
Thermoteknix Systems Ltd. has announced the Miricle 110K line of infrared cameras, which have a 384 × 288 microbolometer and exhibit <50-mK (0.05 °C) sensitivity. The company says that they...
Thermoteknix Systems Ltd.
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MARKING SOFTWARE
Developed by Raylase AG, RLScribe marking software for use with CO2 and Nd:YAG lasers is compatible with Windows XP and 2000 operating systems. The support of vector-marking fonts enables the...
RAYLASE GmbH
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NIGHT-VISION SYSTEM
Electrophysics Corp. is offering the AstroScope 9350, a modular night-vision system that incorporates a state-of-the-art Gen III image intensifier that transforms scenes at a light level below 1024...
Lynred USA
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IMAGING SENSOR
For standoff chemical detection and identification, remote target signature analysis, and remote mineral and surface studies, Telops Inc. has developed First (field-portable imaging radiometric...
Telops Inc.
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TCSPC DETECTOR
Boston Electronics Corp. and Becker & Hickl GmbH are offering a spectrally resolved time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) system. The PML-Spec is based on the latter's multidimensional...
Boston Electronics Corp.
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PULSED FLASHLAMPS
Xenon Corp. custom-manufactures mercury-free xenon pulsed flashlamps in point source, linear, spiral, ring and serpentine shapes. They focus high-energy pulsed light onto a specific target or optical...
XENON Corporation
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MICROANALYSIS SOFTWARE
Princeton Gamma-Tech's latest release of Spirit software for microanalysis allows the user to overlay any number of high-contrast element maps with a high-resolution scanning electron microscope...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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IR DETECTOR
Sofradir has introduced Venus, a compact, cooled, 1/4-in. TV format (384 × 288 pixels) long-wave IR detector for armored transportation, airborne vehicles and industrial control applications....
Lynred
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RAMAN ANALYZER
The R-3000 Raman analyzer system, offered from Ocean Optics Inc., performs real-time qualitative and quantitative spectral analysis of aqueous solutions, powders, tablets, gels and surface media from...
Ocean Optics - Part of Ocean Insight
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JPEG OPTION
The Imaging Solutions Group of New York Inc. (ISG) is offering cameras with onboard jpeg/motion-jpeg compression to reduce bandwidth in military applications and in the Internet monitoring, security...
Imaging Solutions Group
DIODE-PUMPED LASER
Bright Solutions' Wedge laser, available from RPMC, emits up to 4 mJ at 1047 nm with a ¾1.5-ns pulse width, resulting in a peak power of 2.66 MW. Based on a proprietary electro-optical Q-switch, this...
RPMC Lasers Inc.
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TEMPERATURE CONTROL
Wavelength Electronics Inc.'s most recent release of its WHY5640 general-purpose analog proportional-integral control loop, for use in thermoelectric or resistive heater temperature-control...
Wavelength Electronics Inc.
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ROBOTIC VISION SOFTWARE
Adept iSight, released by Adept Technology Inc., integrates PC-based vision with the company's robotic and motion control products. It works with the Cobra i-series Scara robots to facilitate vision...
Adept Technology Inc.
RAMAN MODULE
River Diagnostics BV has introduced the HPRM 2500 high-performance Raman module, optimized for confocal measurements in the near-IR. When coupled with the user's microscope, the modular and fully...
RiverD International BV
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FIBER LASER
For sensing, lidar, metrology, communications and general R&D, NP Photonics Inc. has announced the Scorpion fiber laser that delivers 0.5 to 5 W of output and operates over the eye-safe...
NP Photonics Inc.
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LIGHT SCATTERING
Wyatt Technology has launched the Dawn Heleos, a device that combines online multiangle and quasielastic light-scattering detection in a single instrument. It achieves a dynamic range of 126 dB and...
Wyatt Technology Corp.
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FEMTOSECOND LASER
Toptica Photonics AG has introduced the FemtoFiber femtosecond laser system for confocal microscopy, optical coherence tomography and generation of pulsed terahertz radiation. The fiber laser system...
Toptica Photonics AG
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SIGNAL CONVERTER
The LTX-5520 electrical-to-optical/optical-to-electrical converter pair launched by Terahertz Technologies Inc. enables 16 independent channels of digital information to be conveyed over fiber optic...
Terahertz Technologies Inc.
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IR DETECTORS
For gas analysis and research applications, Scitec Instruments Ltd. has introduced a variety of pyroelectric detectors. The room-temperature IR sensors use modern ion-beam-etching technologies to...
Scitec Instruments Ltd.
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FO SPECTROMETERS
High-resolution fiber optic spectrometers for use in the near-IR, from 0.9 to 1.7 µm and 1.5 to 2.2 µm, are offered by StellarNet Inc. Containing no moving optical parts, the miniature, portable...
StellarNet Inc.
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FISH-EYE LENS
Sunex Inc. has launched a miniature fish-eye lens, the DSL215, that has a 185° field of view and resolution suitable for use in megapixel CMOS and CCD sensors in security, surveillance, automotive...
Sunex Inc.
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IR SENSOR
Armstrong Optical Ltd.'s IR106 infrared sensor module integrates the 160 × 120-pixel uncooled microbolometer array with state-of-the-art digital signal processing electronics. Its modular structure,...
Armstrong Optical Ltd.
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UV-CURABLE COMPOUND
Master Bond Inc. has introduced UV19, a low-viscosity compound designed for laminating, sealing, bonding and coating. Upon exposure to UV light at ambient temperatures, the optically clear mobile...
Master Bond Inc.
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THERMOPILE DETECTORS
The ST60 and ST60R silicon-based thermopile detectors have been unveiled by Dexter Research Center Inc. The former is available in three sizes: The Micro TO measures 4.09 mm in diameter, the TO-5,...
Dexter Research Center Inc.
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SURFACE ILLUMINATION
The Limo2000-Cxxx family manufactured by Lissotschenko Mikrooptik (Limo) GmbH is designed for the homogeneous illumination of surfaces. The output beam is shaped by the patented and proprietary...
LIMO GmbH
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FLUORESCENCE FILTERS
Semrock Inc. has enhanced its BrightLine fluorescence filter family with the addition of three sets created for use with UV-excitation sources. The four-filter Fura-2 set minimizes crosstalk and...
IDEX Health & Science - Semrock Optical Filters
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LINE-SCAN CAMERAS
Dalsa Corp. has expanded its Piranha3 family of line-scan cameras with the release of its 8k and 12k models. The 12k has a 5-µm-pixel pitch, the 8k, a 7-µm pitch, and both deliver 320-MHz...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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PUMP LASER MODULES
Lumics GmbH has unveiled its next-generation LU1064M200 pump laser modules with kink-free power of up to 200 mW, continuous wave, and peak power of up to 1.2 W. The 1064-nm fiber-coupled laser...
Lumics GmbH
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EXCIMER LIGHT SOURCE
Operating at a maximum repetition rate of 4 kHz and delivering up to 60 W of output power, Cymer Inc.'s XLA 200 excimer light source is designed for immersion lithography applications. The...
Cymer Inc.
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TUNABLE LASER
New Focus, a division of Bookham Inc., has announced a swept-wavelength tunable laser. The TLB-6600 performs 2000-nm/s, 110-nm-wide mode-hop-free tuning for real-time test and measurement,...
Newport - New Focus
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PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR
The Mici, an actuator designed to improve positioning accuracy for linear stages, has been unveiled by piezosystem jena GmbH. Clamped between the measuring stage and the micrometer drive, the device...
piezosystem jena GmbH
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PROGRAMMABLE CAMERA
The Dica 321 from Philips Applied Technologies is a small, programmable, fast digital camera that can be used in industrial vision applications without a PC. The sensor captures images of up to...
Philips Research
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CCD CAMERAS
The pco.4000 14-bit CCD cameras from Cooke Corp. offer integrated image memory, which enables recording at 128 MB/s. The thermoelectrically cooled devices feature low noise, 4008 × 2672-pixel...
PCO-TECH Inc.
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INTERFEROMETER
Manufactured by 4D Technology Corp., the PhaseCam 4010 is a dynamic Twyman-Green interferometer system with twice the spatial sampling of its predecessor. In a single exposure, it acquires all of the...
4D Technology Corporation
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GREEN LASER MODULE
Laserex Technologies Pty Ltd. has released the DPGL-3000, a diode-pumped, frequency-doubled, Nd:YVO4 laser emitting at 532 nm (green). The continuous-wave laser measures 77 × 20 mm and requires no...
Laserex Technologies Pty. Ltd.
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HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS
Concave blazed holographic gratings available from Edmund Optics simplify system design and integration, decreasing instrumentation size and increasing sensitivity. Formed on concave precision glass...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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WAVELENGTH METERS
The 621 laser wavelength meter introduced by Bristol Instruments Inc. uses optical interferometry to measure wavelength with high accuracy, reliability, versatility and convenience. Model 621A...
Bristol Instruments Inc.
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VISION SYSTEM
The CV-2600 high-speed machine vision system from Keyence Corp. of America incorporates a 2-megapixel CCD (1620 × 1220) that can inspect an area four times larger than conventional cameras at the...
Keyence Corp.
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CYAN LASER
A 488-nm solid-state laser that produces 40 mW of single-mode power has been added to Picarro Inc.'s cyan laser line. Based on a proprietary doubled external cavity semiconductor laser design, the...
Picarro Inc.
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IR CAMERA
Flir Systems has unveiled the ThermaCam EX320, a handheld IR camera with a built-in 320 × 240-pixel array. It has a high-resolution, maintenance-free, uncooled focal plane array IR detector, is...
FLIR Systems
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PIEZO MOTORS
New Scale Technologies Inc. has created a division to develop and manufacture miniature piezoelectric motors for use in mobile phone cameras. The Mobacam Div. will address the emerging...
New Scale Technologies Inc.
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IR LASER DIODE
Power Technology Inc. has released a broad-area 808 ±5-nm laser diode that delivers 7 W of output from a single 200-µm emitter. The IR diode comes standard in a CCP package and can serve as a pump...
Power Technology Inc.
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BORESCOPES
Gradient Lens Corp.'s Hawkeye borescopes have been upgraded to offer lower chromatic dispersion, a wider field of view and better mirror technology. The devices have small diameters to detect...
Gradient Lens Corp.
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SPECTROMETERS
Princeton Instruments and Acton Research have announced the MicroSpec series spectrometers for microspectroscopy. The instruments offer a variety of standard and custom interchangeable...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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WAVE PLATES
Newport Corp. has expanded its line of wave plate offerings with the introduction of achromatic quartz-magnesium fluoride (MgF2) zero-order types. They are available in three wavelength ranges -- 400...
MKS/Newport
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HIGH-POWER LEDS
Without enlarging the packaging or the chip size, Lumileds Lighting LLC has increased the output performance for all of the InGaN colors (white, blue, cyan, green and royal blue) of its Luxeon I...
Lumileds
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VISION PROCESSOR
The Matrox Odyssey XD, manufactured by Matrox Imaging, is a vision processor board powered by a free-scale G4 PowerPC embedded microprocessor and an Oasis processing and router ASIC. It features 512...
Matrox Imaging
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SMART CAMERA
The XCI-SX1 smart camera made by Sony Electronics and designed for OEMs, systems integrators and vision tool manufacturers combines the imager, intelligence and interface in a single plug-in module....
Sony Electronics Inc., Visual Imaging Products Group
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GREEN LASER
ZRG, "The green Runner," from Z-Laser Optoelektronik GmbH is a diode-pumped, solid-state, passively cooled green laser measuring 40 × 332 mm and operating from 0 to 35 °C. It runs on a 95- to 265-VAC...
Z-LASER GmbH
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FRAME GRABBERS
For high-resolution, high-speed machine vision applications that require fast processing of large amounts of data, Cognex Corp. has launched the MVS-8600 series Camera Link frame grabbers. They use...
Cognex Corp.
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COLOR MEASUREMENT
Petrolab Co. has announced the Lovibond PFX195 line of automatic colorimeters, comprising instruments designed for analyzing liquid chemicals; industrial, petroleum and dark oils; fuels; fats; beers;...
Petrolab Co.
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