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Photonics Spectra - February 2007
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The Evolution of Automotive Displays
Automotive displays have come a long way from the analog electromechanical needle moving in front of printed numerals on a contrasting background. The mechanical modification of the indicator dials is a story in itself, with dark lettering on a light background changing to the reverse and back again. More recently, changes have come in the form of employing different light sources and display...
Ambient-Light Sensors Mimic the Eye
Brightness and readability in direct sunlight are key factors in the performance, safety and aesthetic appeal of automotive interior displays. These factors determine whether or not a display is used...
The Importance of Color in Delivering Information
Advancements in lighting sources and display technologies have enabled the development of new PDA-size automotive instrument clusters. In a space of just 3 to 4 inches, graphical symbols and...
Turning the Windshield into a Display
A major problem with ever-more-sophisticated automobiles is the growing amount of information provided to drivers. Increased information in dashboard displays diverts eyes from the road, creating a...
Futuristic Instrument Panel
One problem with using display technology such as LCDs to relay necessary information to a driver is that some controls benefit from or even require physical knobs and dials. These can be difficult...
Automakers Are Keeping a Sharp Eye on Flexible Displays
One exciting area in the flat panel display industry is the emergence of flexible displays. In recent years, LCDs have dominated the industry, but they are glass-based solutions. Hundreds of...
Light Wreaks Havoc with Automotive Display Standards
The display that a driver sees inside a vehicle differs vastly from one car model to the next. Display standards — in terms of luminance, legibility, contrast, font size and more — are of concern to...
High-Power LEDs Pose Safety Hazards
Because LEDs are so often used as indicator lamps on electronic equipment and in low-power lighting applications such as flashlights, Christmas decorations or rear lamps on bicycles, you might think...
Making Lasers from Dust
Anyone with optics experience knows that dust should be avoided as much as possible. It can contaminate optical surfaces, degrading performance and, sometimes — on the output facet of a diode laser,...
Designing Fiber for Better Lasers
Fiber lasers are becoming increasingly popular alternatives for applications that require high power — hundreds of watts to kilowatts — such as materials processing, surgery and biochemistry. Their...
Trends in Laser Damage
The demand for high-energy laser systems has increased steadily in recent years, driven by applications in defense, semiconductor processing and basic research, among others. The systems range from...
IR Emission Spectroscopy for Harsh Environments
A promising new approach to traditional infrared emission spectroscopy has been developed by a team of researchers who maintain that their prototype allows for quicker time resolution, can be...
Better Lasers and Atomic Traps Yield Better Timekeeping
Investigators from JILA, a research institute jointly administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado in Boulder, have developed the basics...
LED Light Combiner Allows High-Intensity Headlight Design
High luminosity, low power consumption and longevity are among the characteristics that make LEDs ideal lighting sources for applications such as automobile headlights. However, several hurdles...
New LED Format Is the Pits
The latest LED innovation literally is the pits. Researchers in Takashi Egawa’s group at Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan have increased the efficiency of gallium nitride LEDs by fabricating...
Detecting Mercury with Gold
As evidenced (albeit comically) by Lewis Carroll’s madcap hatter, mercury exposure can have serious health consequences, such as tremors, memory loss and personality changes. Free mercury can arise...
Zinc Phosphide Nanowires for Photon Detection
Although not dirt, zinc phosphide is cheap and abundant. Carefully synthesized structures of the material also have good optical efficiency and resist the buildup of an oxide layer on their surface....
Making a Different Point for Better Images
Takashi Kodama and Hiroyuki Ohtani at Tokyo Institute of Technology made a point of improving microscopy imaging by developing a novel probe for apertureless near-field scanning optical...
Nanoantennae Show Promise for Subwavelength Optical Microscopy
Researchers have fabricated optical nanoantennae on the end face of a near-field probe. Using single fluorescent molecules, they measured the antennae’s resonance, excitation conditions and field...
Tech Pulse
Roughing Up Silicon Improves Near-Infrared Performance
Despite its electronic and visible spectrum prowess, silicon is an infrared weakling. Beyond 1100 nm, the material absorbs little radiation and, therefore, the response of silicon-based photodiodes fades to almost nothing. Now a research team from Harvard University in Cambridge and Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc. in Watertown, both in Massachusetts, have developed a technique that uses a...
MEMS Microlens Has Adjustable Focal Length
MEMS photonic devices have proved useful in many applications, including telecom, displays and imaging. But developing an efficient and reliable microlens, one whose focal length can be easily...
Two VECSEL Chips Are Better than One
Invoking a concept that dates from the early days of Nd:YAG lasers, when engineers aligned multiple laser rods in the same resonator, a collaboration between researchers in the US and Germany has...
Matchmaking: Holey Fiber Meets Conventional Fiber
Holey fibers — or photonic crystal fibers — possess many characteristics that make them potentially useful in a host of applications. They can be designed with customized dispersion characteristics,...
Optical Fiber Sensors Detect Cryogenic Hydrogen
The low flammability limit and ignition energy of molecular hydrogen make it an ideal fuel source for rocket engines. However, these combustion properties also are a risk to human safety and call for...
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Cellular Phones Drive Image Sensor Market
Cellular phones have developed as the largest market for image sensors and have become the primary application for CCD and CMOS image sensors, according to a report from iSuppli Corp. of Segundo,...
Spectrum Detector Launched
Don Dooley, founder of Scientific Spectrum Inc. and Molectron Detector Inc., has formed Spectrum Detector Inc. in Lake Oswego, Ore. The new company will design and manufacture high-performance...
Goodrich Receives IR Sensor Contract
Goodrich Corp.’s Sensors Unlimited Inc. team in Princeton, N.J., will develop and fabricate a shortwave infrared sensor for the US Air Force unmanned aerial vehicle battlelab at Nellis Air Force Base...
NanoOpto and Moxtek Form Partnership
NanoOpto Corp. of Somerset, N.J., and Moxtek Inc. of Orem, Utah, have partnered to develop nanotechnology-based optical products for display and telecommunications applications. Among the products...
PXIT Optical Transceiver Assets Sold to Agilent
Agilent Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has purchased the assets of the optical transceiver test segment of PXIT Inc. in Lexington, Mass. The latter company develops and manufactures signal...
Exotic Electro-Optics Awarded $2.2 Million
Exotic Electro-Optics Inc. of Murrieta, Calif., a subsidiary of II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., has received a $2.2 million follow-on award from the US Air Force Research Laboratory through the...
Trumpf Constructing Laser Facility
Trumpf Inc. of Farmington, Conn., a subsidiary of the Trumpf Group of Ditzingen, Germany, has begun construction of a $20 million 83,000-sq-ft development and production building. Solid-state and CO2...
Lumics Opens California Sales Office
Lumics Inc. of Berlin, a manufacturer of fiber-coupled laser modules, has opened a sales office in Los Angeles to meet increasing demand for its products in North America. The company plans to extend...
SPI Lasers Expands into China
To offer a wide range of local sales and support services, SPI Laser plc of Southampton, UK, has opened an office in Shenzhen, China, in cooperation with Hong Kong-based A&P Instrument Co. Ltd....
CorActive and INO Ally for Optical Fiber Products
In Quebec City, CorActive High-Tech Inc., a supplier of specialty optical fiber products, has entered into an exclusive worldwide partnership with INO (National Optics Institute), a Canadian center...
KDF Secures Orders for Sputtering Systems
KDF Electronic & Vacuum Services Inc. of Rockleigh, N.J., has received two orders for its 654ix sputtering systems for use in the production of high-brightness LED lights. The undisclosed...
SAIC Forms Marketing Pact with Zebra Imaging
Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego has entered into a marketing agreement with Zebra Imaging Inc. to advance its 3-D holographic imaging technology applications. The Austin, Texas,...
NSF Funds Improvements to Keck Interferometer
The W.M. Keck Observatory in Kamuela, Hawaii, has received a three-year, $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation of Arlington, Va., to enhance the sensitivity and resolution of the Keck...
Light Blue Optics Signs Licensing Agreement
In Cambridge, UK, Light Blue Optics Ltd., a developer of miniature laser projection technology, has signed an exclusive licensing agreement on a patent with Cambridge Enterprise Ltd., the technology...
Cedrat Named Distributor for New Scale
New Scale Technologies Inc. of Victor, N.Y., has named Cedrat Technologies of Meylan, France, as European distributor of its patented ceramic piezoelectric Squiggle motors. The tiny ultrasonic linear...
Micron Acquires Avago Technologies
CMOS image sensor supplier Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, has acquired the image sensor business of Avago Technologies, which has headquarters in Singapore and San Jose, Calif. Through the...
Sabeus Garners Grant to Improve Production
Sabeus Corp. of Calabasas, Calif., has received an Innovation Adoption Award from Innovation Works, a Pittsburgh-based Ben Franklin Technology Partner. The company operates a manufacturing facility...
DRS Technologies Wins Defense Contract
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., was awarded a $6.3 million contract to develop a near-midwavelength IR active detection receiver system that will be based on the company’s HgCdTe electron...
Digital Surf Technology to Power nanoJura Profilometers
In Besançon, France, Digital Surf and nanoJura have entered into an agreement under which Digital Surf’s MountainsMap analysis software and Nobis optical distance gauges will be integrated into...
Coherent and Osram Sign Technology Agreement
Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has signed a licensing agreement allowing Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany, to use its optically pumped semiconductor lasers in consumer laser-based projection...
Adelphi University Plans Master’s Program in Optical Physics
Beginning this fall, Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., will offer a master’s degree program in physics with a concentration in optics. The research-oriented 30-credit program is targeted to...
RPI Licenses Microscopy Technology to Thorlabs
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N.Y., has licensed its adaptive scanning optical microscope technology to Thorlabs Inc., a manufacturer of photonics products based in Newton, N.J. The...
Matrox Imaging Selects CRI Jolanta as Agent
Matrox Imaging of Dorval, Quebec, Canada, has appointed CRI Jolanta as its distributor in Poland. Based in Gliwice, CRI will sell the Canadian company’s hardware and software components for...
IntraLase Awarded Defense Contract
IntraLase Corp. of Irvine, Calif., has been awarded a five-year contract worth up to $45 million by the Defense Logistics Agency for the procedures, maintenance and support of its FS lasers for US...
Nu Horizons Electronics to Distribute JAI Products
Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. of Melville, N.Y., will distribute industrial camera products from JAI Inc. of San Jose, Calif., throughout North America. Under the terms of a channel partnership...
Companies to Develop Optical Sensor
CyberOptics Corp. of Minneapolis has partnered with Juki Corp. of Tokyo to develop a version of the former’s LaserAlign optical sensor. The Japanese company will incorporate the sensor into its chip...
Tamar Receives Grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded Tamar Technology of Newbury Park, Calif., a grant to develop a measurement device for semiconductor silicon wafers. Tamar hopes to create a system that can...
MVTec Establishes American Plant
A German company specializing in machine vision software has expanded its operation into the US with a subsidiary in Cambridge, Mass. MVTec Software GmbH of Munich said that the subsidiary, MVTec...
PerkinElmer Purchases Triton Product Line
PerkinElmer Inc. of Wellesley, Mass., has purchased a line of thermal analysis products from UK-based Triton Technology Ltd. The Dynamic Mechanical Analysis 8000 is used by scientists in the polymer,...
Pacer Establishes Office
Pacer International of Concord, Calif., has opened Pacer USA LLC in Blue Bell, Pa. The facility will serve as its North American headquarters and will provide sales and technical support services for...
Edison Opto Opens Plant in China
Edison Opto Corp., a Taiwan-based manufacturer of high-power LEDs, has opened a production facility in Dongguan, China, to expand its services in optical, mechanical and electronic design and thermal...
Optiwave and Zemax to Design Interface
Optiwave Systems Inc. of Ottawa and Zemax Development Corp. of Bellevue, Wash., have announced their collaboration to create an interface that will allow data exchange between the optical engineering...
Accent on Applications
Chemiluminescence Determines Whether Water Is Safe
Arsenic does not just kill people in murder mysteries. The metalloid is poisonous, and long-term exposure at low levels leads to health problems such as skin, bladder, lung and prostate cancer. Arsenic exposure has been linked to a host of other ailments and developmental problems. A team from Texas Tech University in Lubbock and the US Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory in...
Building a Better Wheelchair for Car Drivers
Powered wheelchairs both help and hinder users. Over short distances, the conveyances help people get around. However, for longer distances, where one typically would use a car, wheelchairs get in...
Crop-Spraying System Targets Weeds
When farmers want to spray their crops, they can either blanket spray the entire field, or spray spots by hand. Blanket spraying is not only detrimental to the environment, but also leads to yield...
Pulsed Light Peels Away Poisonous Paint
Removal of lead paint — a material that was banned in the US in the late 1970s — is difficult and dangerous work, not to mention costly. Traditional removal methods, such as sanding, heat stripping...
Taking a Laser’s Temperature Remotely
It is not just people who get hot and bothered; the same is true for high-power laser diodes, where the buildup of heat leads to thermally induced changes in the refractive index. Such changes can...
Presstime Bulletin
Transmitting Light Through a Coaxial Cable
Taking a cue from radio and microwave transmission lines, researchers at Boston College in Chestnut Hill and at NanoLab Inc. in Newton, both in Massachusetts, as well as at the Center of Advanced...
Image Storage, but Not Without Delay
Slow and steady really does win, according to University of Rochester researchers. The group slowed images carried on photon pulses in a hot gas of atoms and then showed that the image information...
Lighter Side
The Entrepreneurs’ New Cloth
Unlike the emperor’s new duds that were a clever hoax, entrepreneurs are coming up with seemingly miraculous innovations in cloth and clothing manufacture that are quite real. Textile-related...
Not Just Flaky Research
The commonly held belief that no two snowflakes are alike may be true in the latter stages of the crystals’ development, but at their early stages, the hexagonal prisms are similar. Jon Nelson, a...
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PYROELECTRIC DETECTOR LINE
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Control Micro Systems Inc. has introduced another generation of its printed circuit board laser markers. The Gen4 line marks and verifies ECC200 data matrix symbology as well as other machine code...
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FILTER WHEEL
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Veeco Instruments Inc. has launched the Dektak 150 surface profiler for research and industrial metrology applications. Its cast aluminum frame and rigid support elements improve repeatability and...
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HGH Systèmes Infrarouges has unveiled the RCN600N05, a compact high-temperature-cavity blackbody. An infrared reference source with a 12.5-mm-diameter aperture, it handles up to 600 °C temperatures....
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LASER POWER METER
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LASER SOURCE
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Alacron Inc. has introduced a series of frame grabbers and vision processors. The Fast-X is a PCI Express bus-based product with four Gigabit Ethernet ports and/or three basic 85-MHz Camera Link...
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ILLUMINATION
Edmund Optics Inc. has released ChamelEOs, an LED-based illumination delivery system that will replace the use of quartz halogen in a variety of applications from machine vision to security to...
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COMPACT CCD CAMERAS
The Lm series cameras from Lumenera Corp. provide CCD-level imaging for applications with severe space constraints. Measuring only 44 × 44 × 56 mm, the devices use a single USB 2.0 connection to...
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FIBER LASERS
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FAULT LOCATOR
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Roithner Lasertechnik GmbH has released 670-nm red vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for integration into portable medical devices. The 0.5-mW VCSELs operate at up to >50 °C, have...
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WATERPROOF CAMERA
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CALIBRATION BALL
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STREAK CAMERA
The Optoscope SC, a streak camera manufactured by Optronis GmbH for time-resolution measurements from 2 ps to milliseconds, is available through IMC/Photo-Sonics Inc. It operates in single-shot and...
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NANOPARTICLE SYSTEM
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Edax Inc., in partnership with Carl Zeiss SMT, has unveiled 3-D visualization software for its orientation imaging microscopy electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) instrument. Within the OIM 3D,...
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