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Photonics Spectra - May 2009
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The View from Wall Street
To turn an old adage on its head, if things go down, must they come up? For stocks, the answer has been yes, historically, although it can take a long time. A look at – and from – Wall Street shows...
Can Remote Sensing Find bin Laden?
Despite seven years of espionage and the offer of a $25 million reward, Osama bin Laden remains at the top of the FBI’s most-wanted list. Professors Thomas Gillespie and John Agnew and some...
The Shapes of Things to Come
They can be in the form of rods or rice, cups or cubes, spheres, stars – even shells. No, they’re not new marshmallow shapes for kids’ cereal, they’re nanoparticles, incredibly small structures said...
Making Laser Safety a Priority
Writing in an online forum, “Franz” confides that he injured his eye when installing an infrared laser for a customer. It was only a Class 1M, 16-mW laser, but he looked at it through a telescope...
Clothing is not just becoming smarter, but healthier
Clothing serves many purposes – it keeps the wearer warm, protects skin from the sun’s damaging rays and even allows people to make a statement about who they are. Now researchers are working to make...
Czeching out photonics from Prague to Kiev
Within the central and eastern European regions, photonics research is strong in various countries, including the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine, according to Dr. Pavel Tománek, who...
Fiber Lasers Cut Into New Industries
In all lasers, a substance is stimulated to make the laser beam. This substance is called the active gain medium. In fiber lasers, the active gain medium is the optical fiber itself, and the glass,...
Smart Cameras image a better Laser Weld
Laser welding has long played a role in auto manufacturing. Rapid control of the laser’s output power to maximize quality has been the goal of manufacturing engineers seeking high-quality welds in a...
Editorial
The More Things Change …
In an opinion poll about the economy, our readers said they opposed government protection for the US auto industry. Nearly half of respondents said they believed that the recession would be only moderate, while 4 percent thought it would be as bad as the 1930s. More than eight out of 10 thought that their income has not kept pace with cost-of-living increases. Most said they would rather see the...
Tech Pulse
Camera chips survive bus blast and tell a tale
After the bus blew up, the search was on for survivors. However, the goal was not to rescue people. Instead, the objective was memory chips. Before the blast, the chips had been in cameras mounted...
Building better optical components using plasmonics
A team of European researchers has demonstrated what could be the basis of novel photonic components. Through the exploitation of plasma oscillations, these and other plasmonic devices potentially...
Smart homes take care of their elderly residents
In the future, instead of leaving the comfort of home, the elderly may be able to live on their own with the assistance of sensors within the residence that monitor them continuously and...
No more buffing: self-healing coatings
We’ve all had it happen at least once. You make your way out to the parking lot, figure out where you left your car, reach for the door handle – and freeze. That scratch wasn’t there when you left...
Energy-efficient microchip provides fresh slate for students in India
According to the District Information System for Education, which tracks statistics on education in rural India, nearly 106 million schoolchildren do not have access to electricity, and more than...
Passive optical networks, higher power lasers keys to broadband service in rural areas
The benefits of high-speed Internet – videoconferencing, high-definition television, interactive online gaming – often are not available to rural dwellers, those who live well beyond the limits of...
light speed
Laser China trade show: Here we grow again
Keeping in line with China’s status as a growth market, Laser World of Photonics China was bigger than ever this year. The show, held March 17 to 19 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center,...
Photonics applications highlight Munich
Photonics applications will be the headliners when Laser World of Photonics 2009 convenes next month. The show, to be held at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre from June 15 to 18, will give...
LLS: A next-gen for machine vision
Longer life, lower energy consumption, higher performance: These features are always in demand for machine vision components. They also are features of the new LED light source (LLS) introduced...
Auto displays: Hitting the high road
Despite economic woes in the automobile industry, the automotive display market remains a fast-growing segment for small- to medium-size displays. It is the second largest application area for...
Cooperative microfluidics
Suss MicroTec of Munich and iX-factory of Dortmund, both in Germany, have agreed to work together on microfluidics and integrated optical applications. The companies say that the partnership will...
Unmanned aircraft services
Prioria Robotics Inc. of Gainesville, Fla., has created a UAS (unmanned aircraft system) Services Division. The branch will assist customers with product design, technology integration and data...
Frequency Control Agreement
In Mansfield, Texas, Mouser Electronics Inc. has signed another worldwide distribution agreement. The company now will stock crystal oscillators and surface acoustic wave products produced by Vectron...
Shielding Orion
Armstrong Optical Ltd. of Northampton, UK, and Sydor Optics Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., have been awarded a contract to supply optical debris shields for Project Orion, the Atomic Weapons...
Preferred Supplier
Meiji Techno of Axbridge, UK, a supplier of light microscopes and accessories, has appointed Buehler Ltd. of Lake Bluff, Ill., as its preferred supplier of metallurgical microscope solutions for the...
Optical Merger
Linos Photonics Inc. of Milford, Mass., has merged with Qioptiq Imaging Solutions of Fairport, N.Y. The new company, Qioptiq Linos Inc., will be based in Fairport, with satellite offices in New...
Security Award
Axcess International Inc. of Addison, Texas, has won a $3.5 million competitive procurement contract to provide security infrastructure solutions for the port at Port-of-Spain, the capital of...
Research Call
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a research call to DOE and federal laboratories for solid-state-lighting core technologies. Industry, universities and other interested research...
Microscopy Development
In Germany, Carl Zeiss SMT AG of Oberkochen has created a technology development project for low-voltage transmission-electron microscopy. Together with CEOS GmbH of Heidelberg and the University of...
German Merger
InnoLight GmbH and Lumanova GmbH, both of Hannover, have merged. The combined companies will operate as InnoLight and will focus on diode-pumped solid-state lasers.
Licensing Agreement
Murata Power Solutions of Mansfield, Mass., has signed a licensing agreement with Lineage Power Corp. of Dallas for the latter’s Tunable Loop products. The agreement enables Murata to manufacture and...
Accelerometer Partnership
Micronor of Regensdorf, Switzerland, an automation components supplier, is partnering with Optoacoustics Ltd. of Or-Yehuda, Israel. The Swiss company will sell and support the Israeli company’s line...
GreenLight
Don’t give up on solar
While the global economy may be taking a nosedive, it surely does not spell doomsday for the solar industry. Sure, solar stocks are down, as are installations, and financing has slowed to a...
Backing for solar ripens in Napa Valley
One way developers are getting around the credit crunch is by financing their own projects. The practice makes sense, thanks in part to the federal government’s recent eight-year extension on solar...
Agents of change
Solar panels produce DC power that must be converted to AC to feed into the electrical needs of a home or building, or back into the grid. In this traditional solar design, all panels are connected...
Solar research marches on
Lowering the cost and increasing the performance of solar cells is the solar industry’s holy grail. Even in these turbulent economic times, research and innovation continue toward this end. Kender...
Art meets solar
It seems obvious, pairing stained glass with solar cells. It’s a wonder it hasn’t been done more. A 40-ft-tall tower on the campus of Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, stands as...
Camera makers find a niche in the solar market
Imperfections in solar cells often can’t be seen with the naked eye, but they can cause real problems when the cell is installed in a photovoltaic module. Inconsistencies or failures jeopardize...
Slices from the Breadboard
Buying and selling shares outweighs patenting
According to a study performed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology, more people consider buying and selling components within a market than developing an entire intellectual...
Rudolph Wins Patent Infringement Verdict
A jury has awarded Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Minneapolis approximately $6.8 million in a patent infringement suit against Camtek Ltd. of Migdal Ha’Emeq, Israel. The jury ruled that all models of...
US Patent Issued to Brookhaven Lab, BioSet
Brookhaven Science Associates, which operates and manages the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Biosurface Engineering Technologies Inc. (BioSet) have been issued a US...
Seoul to Protect InGaN LED Patent
Companies manufacturing or packaging blue, green, white or UV LED devices made from semiconductor indium gallium nitride may be subject to patents owned by Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd., an LED...
Austriamicrosystems files lawsuit against Melexis
Global analog integrated circuit designer-manufacturer austriamicrosystems AG of Unterpremstätten, Austria, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit for its magnetic encoder products against Melexis...
MorphoSys Strengthens European Patent Position
MorphoSys AG of Martinsried/Munich, Germany, a biotechnology company that generates fully human antibodies, has been granted a divisional patent from the European Patent Office stemming from its base...
Lighter Side
To a tee
If you still haven’t achieved that perfect golf swing, advanced vision technology soon could be available to help you reach that ultimate goal. A dozen Swing&See digital camera systems from R&D Vision of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France, have been installed in French golf courses to provide recreational golfers with immediate feedback on the quality of their swing and on how to improve...
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The 721 series laser spectrum analyzers from Bristol Instruments Inc. combine Michelson interferometer-based technology with digital processing to perform wavelength and spectral characterization of continuous-wave and high-repetition-rate pulsed lasers that operate from 1.3 to 11 μm. Absolute laser wavelength is measured to an accuracy of ±0.2 parts per million (±0.001 nm at 5...
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FIBER-COUPLED DIODE LASER BAR
Dilas has launched a fiber-coupled diode laser bar that enables unpolarized output. Its polarization scrambler achieves random polarization. Up to 40-W modules are available at 808, 880, 915, 940 and...
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SPECTROMETER ADAPTER
The Remora from Ocean Optics Inc. is a compact plug-and-play adapter for connecting via a USB interface to the company’s HR4000, HR2000+ and QE65000 spectrometers. It can be accessed over a Wi-Fi or...
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MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE
Cognex Corp.’s VisionPro 5.2 hardware-independent machine vision software offers an easier-to-use version of the patented PatMax technology, enhanced color tools and an enhanced architecture to...
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4-MEGAPIXEL DIGITAL CAMERA
Vision Research Inc. has unveiled the Phantom v640, a 4-megapixel digital camera offering 6-gigapixel-per-second throughput and enhanced light sensitivity. Operating at >1400 fps at full 2560...
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VGA CAMERAS
Basler Vision Technologies is releasing four scout cameras based on Sony’s ICX618 sensor. Available in monochrome and color and with a Gigabit Ethernet or IEEE 1394b interface, the scA640-120 cameras...
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INFRARED LASER
Coherent Inc. has expanded its Verdi family of solid-state lasers with the introduction of an IR version that produces 25 W of single-mode continuous-wave output at 1064 nm. The Verdi IR 25 has a...
Coherent Inc.
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SOLAR FAULT DETECTIONS
Andor Technology plc has announced that it is entering into the solar research and production in-line cell inspection market with its iKon-M 934 BR-DD and Luca R cameras. The former, a megapixel CCD...
Andor Technology
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TELECENTRIC LENSES
Large-format telecentric lenses that eliminate the perspective error found in conventional lens systems are available from Edmund Optics Inc. The lenses can accommodate image sensors with diagonals...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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MULTIMODE DIODE LASERS
The 63×× series near-IR high-brightness multimode diode lasers from JDSU produce 10 W of continuous-wave power at 915, 940 or 976 nm from a 100-μm emitting aperture. Metallorganic chemical vapor...
Lumentum Operations LLC
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LED DRIVER
The AS1116 from austriamicrosystems AG is an ultrasmall multiplexed LED driver that uses a single 2.7- to 5.5-V power supply and requires a supply current of 0.6 mA during operation and of 200 nA in...
ams OSRAM
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SPOT LAMP
Dymax Corp. has released a high-power spot lamp for bonding applications. The BlueWave 75 transmits less energy onto the substrates, producing cooler cures. The RoHS-compliant UV curing spot lamp is...
Dymax, Headquarters
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RAMAN ANALYSIS
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.’s Omnic Specta software improves the ease of gathering and analyzing sample information contained in Raman spectral data. Enhanced data presentation features for...
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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SCAN HEAD
Scanlab AG says that its varioScan 20i digitally controlled three-axis scan heads deliver twice the Z-focus shift of previous models. The digital encoder feedback and control system offers improved...
SCANLAB GmbH
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EMCCD CAMERAS
Manufactured by Princeton Instruments, the ProEM professional-grade electron-multiplying (EM) CCD cameras are suitable for use in low-light applications in single-molecule fluorescence, astronomy and...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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LED SPOTLIGHT BULB
LEDtronics Inc.’s 15° narrow-beam PAR30-style spotlight bulb is made up of five 3-W high-power LEDs. The nondimmable bulb consumes 10 W, maximum, and replaces up to 75-W halogen lamps. It produces...
LEDtronics Inc.
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COOLED CAMERA
Spot Imaging Solutions has launched the Pursuit, a 1.4-megapixel cooled digital CCD camera. It features a 1360 × 1024-pixel-resolution interline CCD, 62% peak quantum efficiency, an extended near-IR...
SPOT Imaging
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PHOTOVOLTAIC INSPECTION
Dalsa Corp. has entered the solar cell inspection market. The company is working in line-scan, area-scan and embedded processing, using its time delay integration technology to deliver image capture...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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X-RAY CAMERA
The Remote RadEye200 x-ray camera from Rad-icon Imaging Corp. features a detachable x-ray sensor module that can be coordinated externally. Mounted on a 5-m cable to facilitate installation in tight...
Teledyne Rad-icon Imaging
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3-D SURFACE MEASUREMENT
The DCM 3D from Leica Microsystems GmbH is a measuring microscope designed for contact-free 3-D measurement and can resolve structures to an accuracy of 0.1 nm. The instrument combines confocal...
Leica Microsystems GmbH
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Nd:YAG LASER
Litron Lasers Ltd. has released the Nano TRL compact high-energy pulsed Nd:YAG laser for stone cleaning applications in the field. The device, which yields energies up to 850 mJ and repetition rates...
Litron Lasers Ltd.
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NIR PHOTODETECTORS
Voxtel Inc. has unveiled its carrier multiplication devices, a new class of near-IR photodetectors. The nanostructured InGaAs/InAlAs instruments are designed to overcome the limitations of avalanche...
Voxtel Inc.
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CALIBRATION CIRCUITRY
Requiring only an optical device and a power supply for operation, the OCB350 series fluid sensors from TT Electronics Optek Technology feature self-calibration circuitry and a preset trip level. The...
Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control
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MIRROR COATINGS
Acton Optics & Coatings, a division of Princeton Instruments, has introduced long-life laser damage-resistant mirror coatings for high-power, high-repetition-rate 355-nm Nd:YAG lasers. The hybrid...
Teledyne Acton Optics
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CONVERTER
The Model J740 optical-to-electrical converter has been announced by Highland Technology Inc. Housed in a rugged and compact extruded aluminum enclosure, it performs wideband analog conversion of...
Highland Technology Inc.
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VNIR SENSOR
The Hyperspec Extended VNIR (visible and near-infrared) sensor released by Headwall Photonics Inc. covers the spectral range from 600 to 1600 nm. The imager is intended for use in process inspection...
Headwall Photonics Inc.
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ABERRATION-CORRECTED STEM
JEOL USA Inc. has unveiled an atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). The 200-kV aberration-corrected JEM-ARM200F analytical microscope achieves high-angle annular...
JEOL USA Inc.
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MOBILITY TESTER
The LEI 1605 mobility tester from Lehighton Electronics Inc. is for use in semiconductor and solar manufacturing processes. It manually measures electron mobility through a nondestructive and...
Lehighton Electronics Inc.
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REFLECTOMETER
A portable high-resolution optical time-domain reflectometer has been released by Luciol Instruments SA. The LOR-200, based on proprietary scanning photon counting technology, distinguishes events...
Luciol Instruments SA
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TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTER
Lightwaves2020 Inc.’s fiber optic α tunable optical filter is a compact integrated module in a temperature-stabilized package. Wavelength tuning is achieved by applying a control voltage....
Lightwaves2020 Inc.
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FIXED-FOCUS LENSES
Resolve Optics Ltd. has released a series of high-performance fixed-focus radiation-tolerant lenses that range in focal length from 6 to 25 mm with fields of view up to 108°. They were designed for...
Resolve Optics Ltd.
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YTTERBIUM FIBERS
Highly doped, photodarkening-resistant ytterbium fibers are available from nLight Corp. with up to 60% higher absorption at 920 nm and pump conversion efficiencies typically greater than 75%. The...
nLIGHT Inc.
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9-MEGAPIXEL SENSOR
OmniVision Technologies Inc. has introduced the OV9810, a 9-megapixel sensor designed to work with both digital still cameras and high-definition (HD) camcorders. The sensor combines 9-megapixel...
OMNIVISION
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CAMERA SOFTWARE
SVS-Vistek GmbH has introduced a software development kit for its SVCam GigE camera lines to facilitate integration of the cameras into customers’ software. The kit supports the Borland Builder 6.0,...
SVS-Vistek GmbH
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GAS ANALYZER
The G1301-m trace gas analyzer from Picarro Inc. is a greenhouse gas monitor for CO2, CH4 and H2O that provides continuous operation while onboard aircraft at altitudes of up to 10,000 m, with...
Picarro Inc.
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NIR DYE
Using maleimide chemistry, Li-Cor Biosciences has developed IRDye 800CW Maleimide, a functional derivative of its IRDye 800CW near-infrared dye. The new version can be used to label proteins,...
LI-COR Biosciences, Biotechnology
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JOULEMETER
Spectrum Detector Inc. has released the MDJ10, a 10-channel multiplexed digital joulemeter designed to measure the pulse energy of a single laser at 10 places, or 10 lasers synchronized to one...
Gentec-EO USA Inc.
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