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Photonics.com - July 2009
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Infinite Optics Hires Sales Manager
Infinite Optics has hired Stan King as global sales manager. King, who recently returned to the US after spending four years in Europe managing electron-beam gun sales for Ferrotec UK in London,...
Agilent Buys Varian for $1.5B
In a move designed to bolster its transformation into a bioanalytical measurement company, Agilent Technologies said it will buy medical device maker Varian of Palo Alto, Calif., for $1.5 billion in...
Sick Names Sales Channel Partner
Minneapolis-based Sick, manufacturer of sensors, safety systems, machine vision and automatic identification products for industrial applications, has named automation solutions provider Technology...
Infinera CEO Stepping Down
Infinera Corp. of Sunnyvale, Calif., announced that Chairman and CEO Jagdeep Singh plans to step down Jan. 1, 2010, as leader of the day-to-day operations of the company and become executive...
Stimulus Funds Rice Facility
Rice University physics researchers will no longer have to wait until the dead of night to conduct experiments with instruments highly sensitive to vibration, thanks to $11.1 million in federal...
Oclaro Named Strategic Supplier
Oclaro Inc. of San Jose, Calif., announced today that it has received official designation as a strategic supplier by telecom solutions provider Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. of Shenzhen, China. The...
Fay Named NeoPhotonics CFO
NeoPhotonics announced it has appointed interim chief financial officer J.D. Fay to the post permanently, effective immediately. Fay, who joined NeoPhotonics in May 2007 as vice president of legal...
E-paper Device Maker Folds
Polymer Vision, maker of the rollable e-paper display Readius, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and shuttered its UK offices, putting 50 people out of work, according to media reports.
ILX Secures Development Grant
ILX Lightwave Corp., located in Bozeman, Mont., has announced it has received a grant from the Montana Board of Research and Commercialization Technology for the development of high-accuracy optical...
Intersolar Show Size Triples
Today's show is brought to you by the numbers two and three. The Intersolar show just held here tripled in size in a year, expanding from a single floor to an entire convention hall. The number...
Jenoptik Optical Systems Formed
Jenoptik subsidiaries, Coastal Optical Systems and Liebmann Optical Company have merged to form Jenoptik Optical Systems Inc. The new company has 70,000 sq ft of optical manufacturing space and 100...
Deep Photonics Opens New Lab
Deep Photonics, a developer of ultrafast fiber lasers for the semiconductor, electronics and photovoltaic markets, has opened a new materials processing applications lab at its corporate headquarters...
QPC Laser Sales Expanded
Germany-based AMS Technologies and Laser Operations LLC of Sylmar, Calif., have expanded their distribution agreement for the high-brightness product line of QPC Lasers to include the UK/Ireland,...
RMI Files for Bankruptcy
Optical components maker Rocky Mountain Instrument Co. (RMI) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing the recession and a 2007 federal raid on the business as the contributing factors.
Chroma Introduces New Subsidiary
Chroma Technology Corp., manufacturer of precision optical filters, announced the launch of 89 North, a wholly owned subsidiary. Located in Burlington, Vt., 89 North will develop products for the...
Bostock Joins Bridgelux as CFO
LED-based lighting sources supplier Bridgelux Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has hired Neil Bostock as chief financial officer. Bostock joins Bridgelux with more than 35 years of experience in finance...
Han's Begins Laser Dealer Program
Houston-based industrial laser maker Han's Laser Technology Corp. has announced its new dealer/rep program for defined territories throughout North America. The program will offer independent dealers...
Corning Sells Glass to Samsung
Specialty glass maker Corning Inc. announced that its Gorilla™ glass was selected as the protective cover glass for Samsung Electronics’ UltraTouch mobile phones. Gorilla glass, available in...
Microvision Awarded $1M for Eyewear
Microvision Inc. of Redmond, Wash., was awarded a $1 million subcontract by Lockheed Martin Corp last week as part of DARPA’s Urban Leader Tactical Response, Awareness & Visualization (ULTRA-Vis)...
Sick's Gökstorp Elected EMVA President
The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) executive committee elected Dr. Mats Gökstorp of Sick Inc. as its new president last month. He replaces Gabriele Jansen, who served as president for the...
Kappa Opto-Electronics Hires Sales Manager
Kappa Opto-Electronics GmbH, a Gleichen, Germany-based maker of cameras and systems, has appointed Alexander Berg as sales and marketing manager. Berg, formerly CEO of a software development company...
Sandia Appoints New VP
Carolyne Hart has been selected as vice president of weapons engineering and product realization, Sandia National Laboratories Director Tom Hunter announced Thursday. Hart has been a member of...
JDSU Buying Finisar's Tools
In a move expected to expand its lab test market presence, JDSU announced it will acquire the Network Tools business of fiber optics subsystems provider Finisar Corp. for $40.6 million in cash before...
Photronics Closes Shanghai Facility
Photronics, a supplier of imaging technology solutions located in Brookfield, Conn., announced it is closing its integrated circuit photomask manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, in an effort...
Oclaro, Newport Finalize Deal
Under the agreement Newport has acquired the New Focus business of Oclaro’s Advanced Photonics Solutions division in exchange for the Newport Spectra Physics high power laser diodes business in...
Amtech Appoints Hwang to BoD
Amtech Systems Inc., a Tempe, Ariz.-based supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, announced the appointment of Dr. James (Jeong Mo)...
Bruker Gets EPR Spectrometer Order
Bruker BioSpin of Karlsruhe, Germany, announced its first order for an Elexsys™ E780 system, the first commercial mm-wave 263-GHz EPR (electron paramagnetic resonance) spectrometer and its EPR...
Dugan Named DARPA Director
Regina E. Dugan has been appointed as the 19th director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Defense (DoD) announced. DARPA is the principal agency within the...
Kennedy Hired as President, EO Japan
Optical components provider Edmund Optics (EO) of Barrington, N.J., announced the appointment of Timothy Paul Kennedy as president, Edmund Optics Japan. Kennedy replaces veteran Isao Wakasa, who...
UK, China Fund Spintronics Study
A team of researchers from the University of Surrey and two other institutions have been awarded a grant of around £430,000 (about $704,000) to develop prototype ultrasmall-scale silicon structures...
Universal Display Nabs $750K Contract
Phosphorescent organic LED (PHOLED) provider Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., has been awarded a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract from the US Air Force...
Toptica Buys Till Photonics
A German consortium led by Toptica Photonics AG of Munich has acquired bioimaging specialist Till Photonics GmbH from Agilent Technologies. The transaction concluded June 30; financial terms were not...
Laser Show Bolsters Industry
While overall attendance at Laser World of Photonics 2009 was down about 10 percent from 2007, the number of exhibitors, quality of contacts made, and innovations shown on the show floor had...
Newport Relocating Lasers HQ
Newport Corp. will relocate and consolidate its Spectra-Physics Lasers Div. headquarters from its five-building campus in Mountain View, Calif., to a single new facility in Santa Clara, Calif., that...
Research & Technology
Diffract-and-Destroy Imaging
A particle gun that fires liquid droplets less than a millionth of a meter in diameter, faster than hundreds of thousands of times a second, is poised to revolutionize biological imaging. Tested at...
Viable Organic PV Realized
A new class of economically viable solar power cells – cheap, flexible and easy to make – has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the National Institute of Standards and...
Eye-Catching Vision Discovery
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine discovered in fish yet another type of cell that can sense light and contribute to vision.
Nanolaser Size Limit Broken
An international research collaboration is reporting advances in breaking previous limitations on how small lasers can be made. The work opens up possibilities for using nanoscale lasers to...
Beetle Bares Photonic Secrets
In discovering how the jeweled beetle, Chrysina gloriosa, creates its striking colors using a unique helical structure that reflects the light of two specific colors but of only one polarization,...
Nanoscale Mass Spectrometer
Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule in real time.
Cell Interactions Revealed
New findings that suggest putting lipids and other cell membrane components on manufactured surfaces to control like-charge attraction could lead to new classes of self-assembling materials for use...
Stimulus Funds Rice Facility
Rice University physics researchers will no longer have to wait until the dead of night to conduct experiments with instruments highly sensitive to vibration, thanks to $11.1 million in federal...
Cell Phone Fluoromicroscopy
In what is being seen as a major step forward in taking clinical microscopy out of specialized labs and into the field, UC Berkeley researchers developed the CellScope, a cell phone turned into a...
Materials Mimic Mechanics
Astronomical phenomena such as black holes could be studied in a tabletop laboratory setting if the nascent field of artificial optical materials is combined with celestial mechanics, researchers...
'Drops' of Gold Burn Tumors
French researcher Romain Quidant proposes applying laser light to gold nanoparticles inserted into tumor cells, heating the particles to such a degree that the damaged cells would be completely burnt.
Storing Sunlight for Soldiers
New technologies for capturing sunlight and storing it as energy in flexible and wearable solar cells are being pursued by the Air Force Research Laboratory to help soldiers on the ground and those...
Fine-tuning Ultracold Atoms
Scientists at MIT devised how to relay the successful storage of light in a form of quantum memory based on a cold-atom gas, while scientists in Brazil reported the controllable formation of quantum...
ILX Secures Development Grant
ILX Lightwave Corp., located in Bozeman, Mont., has announced it has received a grant from the Montana Board of Research and Commercialization Technology for the development of high-accuracy optical...
Electronic Metamaterial Made
Physicists and chemists in Switzerland defied the belief that electrical resistance of a material can't be adjusted by developing thin films with controllable electronic properties. The discovery...
OLED Efficiency Improved
A research team at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) has discovered surface plasmon-enhanced spontaneous emission based on an organic LED (OLED), a finding expected to...
Photonics Right Technology for Government to Invest in Next Generation
The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, and Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent’s research arm, recently signed a research...
Repulsive Light Force Rules
Yale University researchers who had previously discovered an attractive force of light and showed how it could be manipulated to move components in semiconducting micro- and nanoelectrical systems...
PECASE Funds Photonics Work
Scientists and engineers focused on photonics-related work were among the 100 named by President Barack Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers...
Microvision Awarded $1M for Eyewear
Microvision Inc. of Redmond, Wash., was awarded a $1 million subcontract by Lockheed Martin Corp last week as part of DARPA’s Urban Leader Tactical Response, Awareness & Visualization (ULTRA-Vis)...
Invisible with Visible Light
A device, called a dc metamaterial, has been theorized by a group of researchers at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Acting as a kind of invisibility cloak, it can make objects invisible under...
Polarized Light Rules Qubits
One of the great challenges in creating a working quantum computer is maintaining control over the carriers of information, the ‘switches’ in a quantum processor, while isolating them from the...
Ion Trap Senses Force, Light
Miniature devices for trapping ions are common components in atomic clocks and quantum computing research. Now, a novel ion trap geometry demonstrated at NIST holds promise as a stylus for sensing...
Bruker Gets EPR Spectrometer Order
Bruker BioSpin of Karlsruhe, Germany, announced its first order for an Elexsys™ E780 system, the first commercial mm-wave 263-GHz EPR (electron paramagnetic resonance) spectrometer and its EPR...
Dugan Named DARPA Director
Regina E. Dugan has been appointed as the 19th director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Defense (DoD) announced. DARPA is the principal agency within the...
UK, China Fund Spintronics Study
A team of researchers from the University of Surrey and two other institutions have been awarded a grant of around £430,000 (about $704,000) to develop prototype ultrasmall-scale silicon structures...
NIH Review Changes Outlined
NIH’s James Bjork outlined upcoming changes to the institute’s peer-review process, which he said is essentially to "fund the best science, by the best scientists, with the least amount of...
European Laser Market
Advances in technology are creating new opportunities in certain segments of the laser market, despite the current economic slowdown. What follows are reports on some of those areas where those...
Photonics Technologies....An Important Driver in the German Economy
With photonics, innovations are no longer used simply to fix limited problems in other industries. There is a significant amount of technology cross-fertilization, where the combination of several...
Light Made Audible
Using a process that makes light audible, bioengineers in Germany developed a technique that allows 3-D optical and fluorescence imaging of tissue to a depth of several centimeters, allowing...
News & Features
Guiding Light Revealed
Using a composite metamaterial to deliver a complex set of instructions to a beam of light, Boston College physicists have created a device to guide electromagnetic waves around objects such as the corner of a building or the profile of the eastern seaboard.
Diffract-and-Destroy Imaging
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QD Core Given Gold Shell
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Eye-Catching Vision Discovery
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine discovered in fish yet another type of cell that can sense light and contribute to vision.
Nanolaser Size Limit Broken
An international research collaboration is reporting advances in breaking previous limitations on how small lasers can be made. The work opens up possibilities for using nanoscale lasers to...
Agilent Buys Varian for $1.5B
In a move designed to bolster its transformation into a bioanalytical measurement company, Agilent Technologies said it will buy medical device maker Varian of Palo Alto, Calif., for $1.5 billion in...
Beetle Bares Photonic Secrets
In discovering how the jeweled beetle, Chrysina gloriosa, creates its striking colors using a unique helical structure that reflects the light of two specific colors but of only one polarization,...
Twinkle, Twinkle Lil' Diamond
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Nanoscale Mass Spectrometer
Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule in real time.
Cell Interactions Revealed
New findings that suggest putting lipids and other cell membrane components on manufactured surfaces to control like-charge attraction could lead to new classes of self-assembling materials for use...
Stimulus Funds Rice Facility
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'Drops' of Gold Burn Tumors
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Storing Sunlight for Soldiers
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E-paper Device Maker Folds
Polymer Vision, maker of the rollable e-paper display Readius, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and shuttered its UK offices, putting 50 people out of work, according to media reports.
Fine-tuning Ultracold Atoms
Scientists at MIT devised how to relay the successful storage of light in a form of quantum memory based on a cold-atom gas, while scientists in Brazil reported the controllable formation of quantum...
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Intersolar Show Size Triples
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Optics Innovator Hopkins Dies
Robert E. Hopkins, widely characterized as the “father of optical engineering” and recognized as an expert and innovator in optical instrument design, aspheric optics, interferometry, lasers and lens...
Semicon: Some Good News
In one of the booths at this year's Semicon West, the assets of Germany-based bankrupt semiconductor maker Qimonda were for sale. That included the campus, buildings, and everything in them....
QPC Laser Sales Expanded
Germany-based AMS Technologies and Laser Operations LLC of Sylmar, Calif., have expanded their distribution agreement for the high-brightness product line of QPC Lasers to include the UK/Ireland,...
RMI Files for Bankruptcy
Optical components maker Rocky Mountain Instrument Co. (RMI) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing the recession and a 2007 federal raid on the business as the contributing factors.
Herschel Images Bright Future
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Repulsive Light Force Rules
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PECASE Funds Photonics Work
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Invisible with Visible Light
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Polarized Light Rules Qubits
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Nanosensors Spy Drug Uptake
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NEWBURY PARK, Calif., July 30, 2009 – Micronor Inc.’s MR318 fiber optic rotary encoder is designed specifically for use as feedback in motion control systems operating in extreme electromagnetic fields. The sensor's 100 percent passive sensing optical design and nonmetallic construction have no effect on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or nuclear magnetic resonance system operation or measurements. The multiturn encoder system...
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9520 Pulse Generator
BOZEMAN, Mont., July 29, 2009 – Quantum Composers Inc. is offering the Model 9520 digital delay pulse generator as a cost-effective instrument that provides solutions to generate and synchronize multiple pulses and triggers for a...
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OVS5MxBCR4 Series LEDs
CARROLLTON, Texas, July 28, 2009 – Providing lighting design engineers with an LED source suitable for large or small, conventional or specialty lighting applications, TT electronics Optek Technology Inc. has developed a miniature...
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The Sapphire 561
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 27, 2009 – Coherent Inc. has unveiled a new series of yellow 561-nm lasers that produce high power and offer high efficiency. The Sapphire 561 is an optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL) that offers a...
Coherent Inc.
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Outdoor TEC Cooler Assemblies
CHESTERFIELD, MO., July 27, 2009 – Laird Technologies Inc. has announced the introduction of its newly modified air-to-air outdoor thermoelectric cooler assemblies. The series was modified to expand its applications, particularly...
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HydraHarp 400
BERLIN, July 24, 2009 – PicoQuant GmbH has announced an extended version of its HydraHarp 400 multichannel picosecond event timer and time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) system that now can accommodate up to...
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IR Right-Angle Prisms
BARRINGTON, NJ, July 23, 2009 – Edmund Optics Inc. has introduced its infrared right-angle prisms that are used to achieve a 90º light path bend. They are available in three substrate options to cover a wide variety of...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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FlexPoint Mini LD Modules
HUDSON, N.H., July 21, 2009 – Laser Components IG Inc. has introduced its FlexPoint laser diode module Mini series. Measuring 15 mm long and 8 mm in diameter, the compact modules include protection against voltage peaks, surge...
Laser Components USA Inc.
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Matrox Iris GT1900
DORVAL, Quebec, Canada, July 21, 2009 – Matrox Imaging has added a higher-resolution sensor to its line of Matrox Iris GT smart cameras. The sensor on the Matrox Iris GT1900 is a 1600 × 1200-pixel 1/1.8-in. monochrome CCD that operates at...
Matrox Imaging
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Code V 10.1
PASADENA, Calif., July 20, 2009 – Code V 10.1, the newest release of the optical design software from Optical Research Associates, delivers tools that increase the accuracy and ease of use of the program’s diffraction analysis...
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Molded Glass Asphere Lenses
ORLANDO, Fla., July 15, 2009 – LightPath Technologies Inc. has introduced a new line of molded glass aspheric lenses designed specifically for use in today’s high-performance laser tools and measurement systems. Laser tools...
LightPath Technologies Inc.
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VivoSight
KENT, England, July 14, 2009 – Michelson Diagnostics Ltd. has launched the VivoSight multibeam optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanner that provides high-resolution state-of-the art subsurface images of skin and other tissue in...
Michelson Diagnostics Ltd.
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Paladin Advanced UV Lasers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 14, 2009 – Two new quasi-continuous-wave ultraviolet lasers have been released by Coherent Inc. The Paladin Advanced 355-10000 and Paladin Advanced 355-16000 are mode-locked, frequency-tripled, diode-pumped...
Coherent Inc.
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QDI 2010 Film Microspectrophotometer
SAN DIMAS, Calif., July 13, 2009 – Craic Technologies Inc. has launched the QDI 2010 Film microspectrophotometer that measures the thickness of thin films of photovoltaic cells rapidly and nondestructively. It can analyze films of...
CRAIC Technologies
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ODD-660W Photodiode
NEWBURY PARK, Calif., July 13, 2009 – Opto Diode Corp. has announced the third in a series of selective-wavelength photodiodes. The ODD-660W operates from 550 to 720 nm, with peak response at 660 nm, and features a spectral bandwidth of...
Opto Diode Corporation
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Matrix 355-1.5-70
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 8, 2009 – Coherent Inc. has expanded its family of Matrix solid-state Q-switched lasers with an ultraviolet model optimized to produce 1.5 W of average power at a repetition rate of 70 kHz to support...
Coherent Inc.
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40-W Arrays
MERCERVILLE, N.J., July 8, 2009 – Princeton Optronics Inc. has introduced 40-W continuous-wave conductively cooled arrays for pumping applications. The backreflection-immune 808-nm (PCW-CA1-40-W0808) and 976-nm (PCW-CA1-40-W0976)...
Princeton Optronics Inc.
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Series 9500+
BOZEMAN, Mont., July 7, 2009 – Quantum Composers Inc. has released an improved version of the Series 9500+ digital delay pulse generator that eliminates the need to combine several instruments to gate, trigger, delay and time...
Quantum Composers Inc.
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JPK Opens Offices in Japan
Berlin-based JPK Instruments, manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announced the opening of their first offices in Japan, as well as the...
Bruker Nano GmbH, JPK BioAFM
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QuasarBrite SMT
PALATINE, Ill., July 1, 2009 – Lumex has launched the QuasarBrite narrow-beam surface-mount-technology (SMT) LEDs that provide users with a tight beam of high-intensity red, green or blue light. They offer a light beam of +/-6° to...
Lumex
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Firefly MV USB 2.0
RICHMOND, BC, Canada, July 1, 2009 – Point Grey Research Inc. has expanded its Firefly MV line of FireWire and USB digital cameras with the introduction of a 1.3-megapixel USB 2.0 model. The FMVU-13S2C is designed around the color...
Teledyne FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions
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