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Photonics Spectra - September 2008
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Fiber Lasers: Not Just for Materials Processing Anymore
Fiber lasers, once laboratory curiosities, evolved first into the workhorses of telecommunications. In their second transformation, they found work in a host of marking, welding and cutting...
That’s Entertainment!
Machine vision applications used to be all work and no play. No longer the case, researchers and vendors now are setting their sights on games, rides and other entertainment, including automated...
An Eye for Quality
For years now, computer numerical control (CNC) machines have been producing parts for a variety of industries. An important element in the process is an experienced machinist who knows that, to meet...
Technology highlights in advanced optical manufacturing
The optical industry covers an enormous range of applications and uses many manufacturing technologies. Optical manufacturing machines typically can be divided into two approaches: dedicated...
Fuel from the Abyss
Many scientists carry out all of their research in the lab. Others leave the lab to go on adventures. Some of the men and women who study bacteria that thrive in extreme conditions live like Indiana...
Analyze This.
Whether atop microscope slides or inside shopping malls, people and objects are constantly in motion, and savvy researchers around the globe are watching closely, using digital cameras and, often,...
Microdisplays: Coming Soon to an Eye Near You?
Imagine strolling past a restaurant and having its menu hover translucently in your field of vision, or getting a call from friends and having a GPS-like map appear in front of you as a guide to...
Look, Up in the Sky
Long familiar in a military setting, UAVs now are being used to map pollutants in the sky and to track wildfires at a distance. If some regulatory-related issues could be resolved, certain small UAVs...
Editorial
A kinder, gentler globalization
Of all the big winners in India, Infosys, the country’s second largest software service company, has been one of the first to embrace the predicament of global haves and have-nots. In a country predicted to become one of the top economic world powers in the next few decades, globalization already has brought enormous change, but in some cases at a price much too dear.“There is one part of India...
Tech Pulse
Volcanoes Erupt Under Ice and Water
Under the Arctic ice, a group of scientists has made a startling discovery, courtesy of a new camera. Studying an ultraslow-spreading midocean ridge, the team found evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions on the seafloor. Such eruptions were believed impossible at these depths because scientists had thought the ridges did not have the needed carbon dioxide, said team member and Woods Hole...
Detecting Explosives at a Distance with Light
By taking advantage of an accidental discovery, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have demonstrated a detector that can spot explosives at distances of more than 20 yards....
Here Comes the Sun
The shows ran concurrently and in the same convention center in San Francisco in July. The worst of times are currently found in the traditional semiconductor equipment market. According to...
light speed
Hexagon Acquires Measurement Company
Hexagon Metrology of North Kingstown, R.I., has acquired Advanced Digital Measurement Works LLC of Santa Ana, Calif., a provider of industrial measuring, reverse engineering and inspection services. The purchase will expand Hexagon’s offering of contract metrology services.
Test, Measurement and Medical Driving the Global LED Market
The global consumption value of packaged LEDs used in selected test and measurement equipment and in medical science devices and equipment is projected to increase to $34.18 million in 2012, up from...
States Take Solar Energy Initiative
Achieving low-cost renewable energy will take efforts from many sides. Two US states recently enacted legislation that moves us closer to a greener tomorrow. Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick...
Philips Electronics to Move Headquarters
Philips Electronics North America — a unit of Royal Philips Electronics of Eindhoven, the Netherlands — has announced the relocation of its headquarters. Originally based in New York, the division...
Opnext to Acquire StrataLight
Eatontown, N.J.-based Opnext Inc., a designer and manufacturer of optical modules and components, has reached an agreement to acquire privately held StrataLight Communications Inc. of Los Gatos,...
Goodrich Acquires Recon/Optical
Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., has signed an agreement with Bourns Inc. of Riverside, Calif., to purchase the Chicago Aerial Industries and Pacific Optical Div. assets of the California company’s...
Research Grant Program Launched
Veeco Instruments Inc. of Plainview, N.Y., a provider of nanoscience instrumentation, has introduced the Veeco Labs Research Grant Program. The project will sponsor selected early adopters of the...
QPC Lasers Receives $3.5 Million Contract
QPC Lasers Inc. of Sylmar, Calif., has won a $3.5 million contract to develop high-power integrated RGB lasers. An unnamed domestic company in the video gaming and entertainment industry will use the...
Dynasil Acquires RMD
Dynasil Corp. of America of West Berlin, N.J., has acquired the stock of Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc. and specific assets of RMD Instruments LLC, both in Watertown, Mass. The purchase price,...
Cymer, Toshiba Reach Agreement
Cymer Inc. of San Diego has reached a multiunit agreement with Toshiba Corp. of Tokyo. Under the terms, the latter will include the American company’s krypton fluoride and argon fluoride light...
Adept Expands into India
Adept Technology Inc. of Livermore, Calif., has expanded into India and signed Menzel Vision and Robotics Pvt. Ltd. of Mumbai, India, as its exclusive distributor in the western and northern areas of...
Arden Selected as Distributor
Arden Photonics Ltd. of Birmingham, UK, a supplier of products and services to the optical fiber and photonics industries, has been selected by Engineering Synthesis Design Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., to...
Leica, North West to Collaborate
A formal collaboration between Leica Geosystems of Heerbrugg, Germany, and North West Geomatics Ltd. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has been created to develop an enhanced work flow for airborne...
DRS Technologies Receives $11.4 Million Order
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has been awarded an $11.4 million follow-on contract from Selex Galileo of Edinburgh, UK. The American company will produce fine track sensor kits for use...
BKM Purchases Scanner Assets
Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Flanders, N.J., has sold its lead scanner assets and licensed its related intellectual property — acquired from RVSI Inspection LLC in January 2008 — to BKM Technology...
Picarro Names Japanese Distributor
Picarro Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has selected Sanyo Trading Co. Ltd. of Tokyo as distributor of its series of gas and isotope analyzers for environmental applications, such as detecting greenhouse...
Nu Horizons, Osram Enter India
A distribution agreement between Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. of Melville, N.Y., and Osram Opto Semiconductors of Regensburg, Germany, has been expanded to include sales in India. The American...
Laser Photonics Lab Completed
An applications laboratory measuring more than 65,000 sq. ft. has been completed by Laser Photonics LLC of Lake Mary, Fla. Eventually, the site will include more than 20 laser systems, enabling the...
Clear Skies Solar Expands
Clear Skies Solar Inc. of New York has opened a corporate office in Larissa, Greece. The company also will serve as the exclusive supplier of renewable energy technology and installation to Aspen...
Certification Reimbursed for Veterans
The State of Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs in Orlando has approved the reimbursement of fees associated with becoming a Certified Laser Safety Officer and Certified Medical Laser Safety...
Integrated-Photonics Alliance Created
Pirelli & C. SpA of Milan, Italy, has teamed up with CyOptics Inc. of Breinigsville, Pa., to form an alliance in integrated photonics. The agreement foresees the integration of Pirelli’s...
Slices from the Breadboard
Got an idea? Want to patent it? Read this first.
Have an invention that needs a patent but unsure how to go about getting one? Well, this article is for you. We will take you step-by-step through the requirements of applying for a patent. First,...
Beta-Kramer Files 100th Patent
Beta-Kramer of Sturtevant, Wis., a Ruud Lighting company that provides luminaires for exterior and interior lighting applications, has filed its 100th patent application, which is for an off-axis...
Optical Access Key Patent Issued
The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent No. 7,374,106 (Triggered Flickering Tag) to Nicholas S. Bromer of Marietta, Pa. Fourth in a family of patents, it broadly covers the use of...
Orbid Settles Patent Infringement
Orbid Corp. of San Francisco, a provider of fingerprint and unique identity solutions, has agreed to settle a patent infringement case relating to its 2DMI technology. The suit originally was against...
Accent on Applications
Seeking a Smoother Way to Measure Roughness
Christopher A. Brown, a professor of mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, also could be thought of as a topographic mapmaker working on a very fine scale...
Keeping a Puzzle Together
In some ways, excavating rock is the reverse of assembling a jigsaw puzzle. Rock, after all, is not a big monolith. Instead, it’s full of breaks and cracks, discontinuities that can cause problems...
Everything Is Illuminated
Curtains.
You may want to consider the use of laser curtains, made of fabric and usually hung from a ceiling track or similar system, as a way of containing laser beams. There are several vendors of laser curtains, all with some proprietary technology involved and usually in the compostion of the surface exposed to the laser beams. Many contain a metal foil sandwiched between layers of fabric. Where...
Lighter Side
Science at the Crack of the Bat
If you’re a baseball fan, you’ve seen bats splintering all over major league parks the past couple of seasons. Not just cracking or breaking into two pieces, becoming expensive kindling, but shattering into shards that have sliced, stabbed or broken the bones of players, umps and fans in the stands. Mark DeRosa of the Chicago Cubs splinters his bat during a game in 2007. The alleged...
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JAI Inc. has introduced 5-megapixel progressive-scan cameras with a GigE Vision digital interface. Based on the proprietary C3 core camera concept, the BM-500GE monochrome and BB-500GE raw Bayer...
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OPTICAL TRANSMITTANCE SPECTROMETER
For repeatable real-time transmittance measurement of ophthalmic lenses and optical coatings, filters, glass and windows, Ocean Optics Inc. has introduced a compact optical transmittance spectrometer...
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SOFTWARE PLATFORM
National Instruments Corp. has introduced LabView 8.6, the latest version of its graphical system design platform for control system development. The software enables engineers to take advantage of...
National Instruments Corp.
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HYPERSPECTRAL SENSOR
The Hyperscan hyperspectral sensor for stationary and airborne applications is available from Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc. The system combines an imaging spectrometer, thermoelectrically cooled CCD...
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5-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA
Basler Vision Technologies has introduced the pilot 5-megapixel GigE vision camera based on Sony’s ICX625 CCD sensor, which delivers resolution of 2456 × 2048 pixels and operates at 12 fps. The...
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MICROSCOPE
Olympus Life Science Europa GmbH has unveiled an infrared confocal laser scanning microscope for nondestructive observation of the interior of silicon wafers, integrated circuit chips and...
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OSCILLATORS
Aculight Corp. has expanded its Argos family of CW optical parametric oscillators with the addition of versions to accommodate applications such as spectroscopy, atom trapping and chemical sensing....
Lockheed Martin Laser and Sensor Systems
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SPOT CURING
Dymax Corp.’s BlueWave high-intensity spot-curing system now is CE-marked, making it available globally. It generates light via an array of surface-mount LEDs rather than the traditional metal halide...
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CCD LINE CAMERA
The TCN-1209-U introduced by Mightex Systems is a 2048-pixel 12-bit CCD line camera for machine vision applications. Maximum scan rate is 3300 lines per second, and external trigger capability...
Mightex Systems
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SOFTWARE
Labsphere Inc. has released the MtrX-Spec light metrology software for research and development, quality control and production of LEDs, solid-state lighting and other light sources. It offers...
Labsphere Inc.
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IMAGE SENSOR
The OV3647 1/4-in. 3-megapixel image sensor from OmniVision Technologies Inc. supports the mobile display digital interface, a high-speed serial interface promoted by Qualcomm Inc. for use with its...
OMNIVISION
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LASER MIRRORS
Edmund Optics Inc. has introduced ultrafast Ti:sapphire laser mirrors that keep pulses together with flat group velocity dispersion curves centered around 800 nm and flat over the 700- to 900-nm...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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POWER, ENERGY METERS
Newport Corp.’s 1936-C and 2936-C optical power and energy meters perform power measurements of 11 fW to 20 kW and energy measurements of 7 μJ to 20 kJ, with measurement repetition rates of up...
MKS/Newport
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LIGHT SOURCE
A miniature deuterium/tungsten light source that covers the 200- to 1700-nm spectral range has been released by StellarNet Inc. The SL4-DT has a shutter button on the front panel that blocks the...
StellarNet Inc.
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3-D METROLOGY
The SurPhase sensor introduced by PhaseView performs high-speed 3-D measurements on the shop floor or on the production line. It measures roughness with Ra <1 nm and profiles up to 400 μm...
PhaseView
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PATTERN INSPECTION
The APM-3000 series automated pattern profile inspection device has been unveiled by Nikon Instruments Inc. Comprising an optical system with a polarizer and a high-numerical-aperture objective, it...
Nikon Instruments Inc.
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LENS CLEANER
Laser Research Optics, a division of Meller Optics Inc., has introduced a lens cleaning kit designed to prolong the life of CO2 laser optics used in harsh industrial environments. The kit features...
Laser Research Optics
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SENSORS
The compact PMI14V-F112-U-V3 flush-mountable inductive linear measurement sensors unveiled by Pepperl+Fuchs measure 35 mm wide × 41 mm deep and offer a 14-mm sensing range with resolution of up to...
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
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POSITIONING SYSTEM
Technical Manufacturing Corp. (TMC) has launched the PEPS II, a digital noncontact precision electronic positioning system for pneumatic vibration isolators. The company says that the system improves...
TMC
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LASER MARKER
Manufactured by Automated Laser Corp., the LSG-10 is an air-cooled CO2 laser marker that operates at 300 characters per second with a mean time between failures of 20,000 h. It features a marking...
Automated Laser Corp.
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FIREWIRE HUBS
Point Grey Research Inc. has added a two-port repeater and a five-port hub to its line of FirePro IEEE-1394b FireWire components. The repeater extends FireWire devices beyond the standard 4.5-m cable...
Teledyne FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions
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LASERS
Universal Laser Systems Inc. has unveiled three new members of its VersaLaser family. The VLS3.60, VLS4.60 and VLS6.60 models use proprietary and patented Rapid Reconfiguration technology, which...
Universal Laser Systems Inc.
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MULTICHIP LED
Cree Inc. has enhanced its XLamp LED family with the introduction of the multichip XLamp MC-E LED. At 9.8 W, the 7 × 9-mm device provides up to 790 lm at 6000 K and up to 605 lm at 3000 K. It is...
Wolfspeed Inc.
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MICROSCOPE SYSTEM
B&W Tek Inc.’s BAC151 video microscope sampling system accepts standard microscope objectives. It features a color video camera for alignment and viewing of the measurement field, an X-Y-Z...
B&W Tek LLC
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PHOTON DETECTOR
Amplification Technologies Inc. has developed a discrete amplification photon detector that senses low-level light signals. The DAPD10C solid-state photomultiplier offers spectral response from the...
Amplification Technologies Inc.
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BEAM PROFILER
The USB L11058 large-format beam profiling camera with analysis software has been announced by Ophir-Spiricon Inc. Designed to measure large ultraviolet laser beams, it has a 4008 × 2672-pixel format...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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