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Photonics Spectra - November 2011
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Fully Featured Machine Vision Software Drives Manufacturing
Cameras are ubiquitous on the factory floor, and for good reason: Robots, heavy machinery, raw goods, containers and finished products fly around at breakneck speed, while fewer people than ever are...
Smart, Self-Healing Fibers Laugh at Danger
Light, sturdy fiber optic sensors can help monitor conditions in power plants, on airplane wings, on dams and in other hard-to-reach places. The composition of fiber optic sensors enables them to...
Extreme Ultraviolet: A New Frontier for Lasers
Advances in compact EUV lasers could benefit industries from semiconductor manufacturing to medicine. Compact lasers that operate in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths – 5 to 50 nm...
Aspheric Optics: Ask for What You Want
Advances in production make aspheres more readily available and usable at shorter wavelengths, but the methodology is distinctly different from that of spherical optics. It is vital to understand the...
Editorial
Doing What Needs to Be Done
I work in an office, but I have a real fondness for the noise and commotion of a manufacturing plant – the energy and activity of things being made – so I was excited to attend the inaugural Lasers for Manufacturing Event (LME), produced by the Laser Institute of America (LIA) in Illinois in September. The mission for the show was “to provide a one-stop event for companies...
Laser Safety
Doing What Needs to Be Done
I work in an office, but I have a real fondness for the noise and commotion of a manufacturing plant – the energy and activity of things being made – so I was excited to attend the...
BMW Headlights to Get Lasers
BMW will incorporate lasers into its headlights for the first time, using its new concept vehicle, the i8, to demonstrate. The lasers, which are 1000 times more intense than conventional LEDs, are...
Tech Pulse
Designer surfaces rewrite laws of refraction and reflection
A new technique called phase discontinuity helps light break the age-old laws of reflection and refraction – and could lead to the development of flat lenses that can focus images with no aberrations. For centuries, it has been recognized that light travels at different speeds through different media. Reflection and refraction occur whenever light encounters a material at an angle, because...
IR camera senses hot spots to aid firefighters, military pilots
Firefighters and military pilots often use very cold, cumbersome infrared devices to detect hot spots and see through smoke, but a technology that uses gallium nitride (GaN) could eliminate the need...
Organic electronics printed on CDs, DVDs
A new patterning technique uses commercially available technology to print conducting polymers using an infrared laser onto standard CDs and DVDs, a feat that could propel current proof-of-concept...
“Optical switch” could make quantum computers more stable
An optical switch that allows one photon to control the quantum state of another could yield a quantum computer that offers stability and control. Quantum particles have an odd property that...
Squeezed light helps measure gravitational waves
A new “squeezed light” method improves the sensitivity and accuracy of the interferometers used to measure gravitational waves. Observing the gravitational waves that result from...
Holographic lithography boosts plasmonic nanogap array production
A technique based on methods from holographic lithography has been developed to demonstrate a new approach for scaling up the fabrication of plasmonic nanogap arrays while simultaneously reducing...
Universal digital simulator holds promise for quantum computers
A new digital approach enables universal quantum simulation in a system of trapped ions that can in principle simulate any physical system efficiently, allowing researchers to explore the dynamics of...
Tunable graphene device puts terahertz to work
A microscale graphene device that responds strongly to terahertz light and that can be precisely tuned is the first tool in a kit for putting terahertz light to work. At the heart of the...
Through thick and thin: Microscopy reveals fluid viscosity patterns
A high-speed microscopy technique explains the behavior of fluids by observing how micron-size suspended particles dance in real time. Knowledge of how fluids work will help scientists and engineers...
Gas detector lights up around CO
2
An inexpensive new material can quickly and accurately detect carbon dioxide (CO2) under a variety of circumstances, enabling the development of easy-to-use CO2 monitors. Methods to detect...
Tamed light pulses control electrons
Physicists have controlled the field of white light pulses on a timescale shorter than an optical oscillation, a step forward in light technology and ultrafast photonics that could lead to...
light speed
Lasers are sparking Poland’s photonics future
As far as science in Poland is concerned, Nicolaus Copernicus may forever be the center of the universe, but many luminous researchers orbit that center centuries after the great astronomer’s...
Accu-Scope to Distribute Illuminators
LED light source provider 2987%%CoolLED Ltd. of Andover, UK, has named Accu-Scope Inc. of Commack, N.Y., as the master US distributor of its pE-100 illuminators for fluorescence and light microscopy....
Avo Photonics to Package Products
Avo Photonics of Horsham, Pa., a Halma company, was selected by PulseTor Inc., a Pennington, N.J., provider of detectors, preamplifiers and digital pulse processors, to advance the performance,...
Bandgap Engineering Issued Patents
Silicon nanowire solutions supplier Bandgap Engineering of Woburn, Mass., has secured two patents that represent breakthroughs in solar energy conversion efficiency and cost. Titled “Designing...
Bridgelux Demonstrates New Level for LEDs
LED light technology provider Bridgelux Inc. of Livermore, Calif., has broken its record for highest lumen per watt values for gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si). Using buffer layer technology,...
Bruker Wins JPEO-CBD Contract
Bruker Detection Corp. of Billerica, Mass., has received a contract for 40 systems from the Improved Point Detection System – Lifecycle Replacement (IPDS-LR) program through the Joint Program...
Precision Optics Sells Patents
Precision Optics Corp. Inc. of Gardner, Mass., has received $2.5 million from Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., for all of its currently issued and nonexpired patents and...
Carl Zeiss Receives Order, Licenses Technique
To meet immediate deployment requirements, the German army has ordered panoramic reconnaissance and surveillance systems from Carl Zeiss Optronics GmbH of Oberkochen, Germany, for use in protecting...
RIO Expands Sales Channel
Redfern Integrated Optics (RIO) Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has added 14766%%TeraComm LLC of Guilford, Conn., to its North American sales network. The latter company will represent RIO’s...
SoloPower Secures Loan for Solar Plants
SoloPower Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has received a $197 million loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy that will support construction of three facilities that are expected to produce...
Cree Inks Deal with Mouser, Acquires LED Maker
Semiconductor and electronic components distributor 18910%%Mouser Electronics Inc., a subsidiary of TTI Inc., has signed a global distribution agreement with Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., an LED...
Spectra-Physics Gets Imaging Patent
Spectra-Physics of Santa Clara, Calif., a division of Newport Corp., has announced the issuance of US patent No. 7,962,046 for its DeepSee multiphoton imaging technology. Used in the Mai Tai DeepSee...
StellarNet Marks 20 Years in Spectroscopy
StellarNet Inc. of Tampa, Fla., announced its celebration of a 20-year milestone in the spectroscopy industry. Over the past two decades, it has pioneered innovations such as the world’s first...
Optical Design Awardees Announced
Synopsys Inc. of San Diego has chosen two University of Rochester doctoral candidates as winners of the 2011 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition. Bin Ma was recognized for his work...
Thermo Fisher Secures Phadia
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. of Waltham, Mass., has acquired Phadia of Uppsala, Sweden, a provider of blood tests for the clinical diagnosis and monitoring of allergies and autoimmune diseases....
Philips Bulb Wins DoE L Prize
The US Department of Energy (DoE) has named Philips Lighting North America of Somerset, N.J., as the first winner of the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize (L Prize) competition. The contest challenged...
VSG, Xradia Ink OEM Deal
Visualization Sciences Group (VSG) of Merignac, France, and Xradia Inc. of Pleasanton, Calif., have signed an OEM partnership agreement in which the latter company will offer VSG’s Avizo Fire...
Ellsworth Adhesives Partners with Dymax
Ellsworth Adhesives of Germantown, Wis., has announced that its Australian entity, Ellsworth Adhesives Australia Pty Ltd., is an authorized distributor for 3927%%Dymax of Torrington, Conn., an...
WOP, U Southampton Develop Z Polarizers
Workshop of Photonics (WOP) of Vilnius, Lithuania, has collaborated with the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton in the UK to develop a direct laser writing...
Expansion Seen for Photonic Crystals
Market According to a report from the London- based companiesandmarkets.com titled “Photonic Crystals: Materials, Technologies and Global Markets,” the photonic crystals market is growing...
EOS Receives Space Contract
Electro Optics Systems (EOS) Holding Ltd. of Canberra, Australia, has been awarded a $3 million Department of Defence Concept Technology Demonstrator contract to demonstrate that its electro-optic...
Photonics, Optics Certifications Available
The Electronics Technicians Association International of Greencastle, Ind., has created photonics technician and precision optics technician certification programs. They were developed by the Florida...
DuPont Acquires Innovalight
DuPont of Wilmington, Del., has acquired Innovalight Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., a provider of silicon inks and process technologies that increase the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells....
Companies Partner to Standardize 3-D Glasses
Three manufacturers of 3-D displays have announced their intent to collaborate on a standardized type of 3-D glasses to facilitate cross-display compatibility. Panasonic Corp., Samsung Electronics...
Solvay Invests in Plextronics
To support the acceleration of Pittsburgh-based Plextronics Inc.’s technology development and delivery of its innovative products, Solvay S.A. of Brussels, Belgium, has provided the company...
BMW Headlights to Get Lasers
BMW will incorporate lasers into its headlights for the first time, using its new concept vehicle, the i8, to demonstrate. The lasers, which are 1000 times more intense than conventional LEDs, are...
AE Photonics Expands in Greece
Photovoltaic wholesaler and solar power plant constructor AE Photonics GmbH & Co. KG of Dresden, Germany, has opened an office in Athens, Greece. A 100 percent subsidiary of AE Photonics, AE...
Applied Energetics Opens Facility
Applied Energetics Inc.’s Laser Applications Center is now open and available for customer demonstrations. It contains high-energy, high-average-power, ultrashort-pulse (USP) laser system...
GreenLight
Could optofluidics solve the energy challenge?
Optofluidics could be poised to revolutionize energy production, according to Demetri Psaltis, dean of the engineering school at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Optofluidics is the combination of optics and microfluidics, the delivery of fluids through extremely small channels or tubes. Optofluidic principles for energy production can already...
Lighter Side
Cold hands, safe code?
Those of us who will soon experience winter’s wrath can perhaps take small comfort in the thought that our cold hands could help deter the theft of our security codes from bank ATMs. You see, warm hands and thermal imaging can help thieves steal personal identification codes from ATMs, safes, car doors or building access control points. This frame of an ATM keypad was captured by a thermal...
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Fizeau Interferometer
The AccuFiz Fizeau, a compact interferometer manufactured by 4D Technology Corp., offers accuracy, quality and value for surface shape and transmitted wavefront quality measurements of optical...
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Absolute Encoder
Avago Technologies has unveiled a high-resolution absolute optical encoder for high-performance servo and motor feedback applications. The AEAT-9000 ultraprecision absolute encoder provides high...
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Achromats and Doublets
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Polarization Imaging
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Machine Vision Software
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High-Speed Camera
Photron USA Inc.’s high-definition, high-speed Fastcam SA6 camera is suitable for use in automotive, military, broadcast, particle velocimetry and digital image correlation applications. It is...
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Laser Diode Drivers/Controllers
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CCD Cameras
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Pulse Generators
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Benchtop Laser Modules
Redfern Integrated Optics Inc.’s Orion laser module platforms are available in a fully integrated and compact benchtop configuration. They are designed for research and development, and...
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Lenses for SWIR Sensors
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UV Viewing Cabinet
The Spectroline CL-150 Series UV workstations offered by Spectronics Corp. enable laboratory technicians to view, analyze and photograph fluorescent samples with both epi-illumination and...
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Illumination Analysis
Synopsys Inc. has enhanced its LightTools illumination design and analysis software, resulting from its acquisition of Optical Research Associates. LightTools 7.2 offers features that will help users...
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Gel Visualization
UVP LLC has announced enhanced visualization and imaging capabilities with new Visi-Blue technology. Visi-Blue transillumination is recommended for viewing a wide range of fluorescent stained gels...
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Enhanced Spectrometers
B&W Tek Inc. has introduced its enhanced Sol series thermoelectrically cooled fiber-coupled InGaAs array spectrometers. The devices offer an extended spectral range, high spectral resolution...
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Optical Parametric Oscillator
The Chameleon Compact OPO-Vis, an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) from Coherent Inc., includes an optional fully integrated second-harmonic-generation accessory that provides automated frequency...
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Forensic Microscope
Craic Technologies Inc.’s Elixir microscope performs accurate and rapid analysis of trace evidence and offers multiple analytical techniques in a single instrument. Forensic scientists can...
CRAIC Technologies
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Video Displays
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc., has expanded its Skyquest family of video displays for air and ground surveillance. The Alpha series...
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UV Light Measurement
Dymax Corp. has released the Accu-Cal 150, a radiometer offering repeatable, NIST-traceable measurement of UV light for validating and monitoring a light-curing process. The instrument can measure UV...
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Field-Terminated Connectors
AFL’s FuseConnect MPO fusion-spliced, field-terminated connectors feature just six components. With a factory prepolished ferrule, their field-termination process eliminates polishing,...
AFL
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Laser Speckle Reducers
Edmund Optics has introduced laser speckle reducers suitable for beam homogenization, 3-D scanning, metrology, microscopy and interferometry applications. They remove local interferences and reduce...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Linear Actuator
Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions, a division of Ametek Inc., has unveiled a new version of its 36-mm G4 linear actuator. Included is an adapter plate that allows the smaller 36-mm-outer-diameter unit to...
Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions Inc.
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Miniature Spectrometer
Hamamatsu Corp. has introduced the C11697MA, a miniature spectrometer for LED testing. With its fast measurement time, it is suitable for use on production lines. Readout time is ~2 ms, and...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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USB Industrial Camera
IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH now offers its uEye ME series as board-level cameras for OEMs. With an optional lens mount, the ME features a 90° angled lens flange and is suitable for use...
IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
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Portable Spectroradiometer
International Light Technologies has released the ILT950 portable spectroradiometer. A high-speed, high-precision turnkey instrument, it is designed for a variety of standard irradiance and color...
International Light Technologies, Gilway & International Light Divs.
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Machine Vision Cameras
From high-speed automated inspection of printed circuit boards to rapid 3-D mapping of disaster areas, Imperx Inc. supports a wide range of high-resolution video-capture applications with two...
Imperx Inc.
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Hall Effect Measurement
Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc., in collaboration with Toyo Corp., has introduced the 8400 series, a Hall effect measurement system with optional AC field measurement capability. Hall mobilities down to...
Lake Shore Cryotronics
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CO
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CO2 lenses in a variety of focal lengths and low-absorption coatings for 100-W and up engraving and marking lasers are available from Laser Research Optics, a division of Meller Optics Inc. The...
Laser Research Optics
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2-Megapixel HD Cameras
JAI Inc. has introduced two 2-megapixel industrial-grade CCD cameras featuring full high-definition TV resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels) at 64 fps. The AM-201CL monochrome and AB-201CL color cameras...
JAI Inc.
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Explosion-Proof LED
Larson Electronics’ Magnalight has released an explosion-proof LED light fixture with UL certification and a Class 1, Division 1 and 2, and a Class 2, Division 1 and 2, rating. The 4-ft-long...
Larson Electronics LLC
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Solar Simulator Measurement
Ocean Optics’ RaySphere measures absolute irradiance over spectral ranges from the UV to the NIR (380 to 1700 nm), including solar simulators and other radiant sources. The portable system is...
Ocean Optics - Part of Ocean Insight
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LED Driver
LEDdynamics Inc. has expanded its LUXdrive line of high-power, constant-current drivers with the release of the A011 FlexBlock. The LED driver, configurable in either boost-only or buck-boost modes,...
LEDdynamics Inc.
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Linear Motor Stages
Newport Corp. has announced its stand-alone IMS-LM-SA series long-travel linear motor stages. Based on a stiff body design, the self-supporting stages are available in 800-, 1000- and 1200-mm travel...
MKS/Newport
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DPSS Laser Amplifier
Microchip lasers with subnanosecond-pulse duration at 50 kHz and 200-mW output power have been amplified to >15 W using the Midaz Lasers Ltd. Model A50-A diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) air-cooled...
Midaz Lasers Ltd.
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Toroidal Mirrors
Optical Surfaces Ltd. is offering planoconvex and planoconcave toroidal mirrors for pinpoint focusing in spectroscopic and imaging applications. The mirrors have two different radii whose axes are...
Optical Surfaces Ltd.
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IR Pyrometers
Process Sensors Corp. has added the improved high-accuracy, low-temperature Metis Model MB35 sensor series to its line of precision noncontact infrared pyrometers. With an operating temperature range...
Process Sensors Corp., IR Temperature Div.
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Digital Sensor
The “three in one” SFH 7773 digital sensor from Osram Opto Semiconductors combines an infrared LED emitter with proximity and ambient light sensors in one compact unit. The sensor...
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CMOS Cameras
For industrial machine vision, traffic/transportation and medical/scientific applications, Teledyne Dalsa Inc., a Teledyne Technologies company, has released the Genie TS series cameras. Combining...
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