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Photonics Spectra - May 2011
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Imaging in the Ultrafast Lane
For ultrafast imaging at wavelengths well below the visible, consider the work being done by a team led by professors Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane. The married couple holds appointments in physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and JILA, a physical science research institute jointly operated by the university and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Their research...
Preserving Moore’s Law Pushes Lithography to its Limits
The race is on to develop the next technology that will enable manufacturers to continue scaling down their chip sizes. Will optics provide the answer everyone is looking for? The brisk march of...
Expert Q&A: Trends in Laser Alignment
Laser alignment affords manufacturers great precision and efficiency in assessment of their equipment, allowing them to take minute measurements and correct tiny errors that otherwise could mean big...
Quantum Dots Set to Permeate the Next Generation of Displays
A veritable explosion of display-centric devices – new cell phones, handheld games, tablet computers and televisions in a multitude of sizes and dimensionality (2-D, 3-D … n-D!) is...
Using SBIRs as a Platform for Success
Perseverance is the most important factor in garnering a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award, according to Brimrose Corp.’s founder and CEO. And he should know. In 1984, Dr. Ron...
Editorial
Machine Vision Sees Rapid Growth
The 50th anniversary of the laser captured our attention last year, and this year we find ourselves observing that golden milestone for the industrial robot. I can watch robots and production machinery in action all day long, and I got my chance to do just that in late March when I spent a day at Automate 2011 in Chicago. The show is a production of the Automation Technologies Council, comprising...
Tech Pulse
A game of quantum hot potato
To simplify information processing for quantum computers and simulations, scientists have coaxed two atoms in separate locations to take turns jiggling back and forth while swapping the smallest measurable units of energy. For the first time, physicists at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) have enticed two beryllium ions to take turns vibrating in an electromagnetic trap,...
Atoms acting as lasers
An atom laser that behaves exactly like a light laser has opened up new possibilities in applications such as holograms. A research team from The Australian National University ARC Centre of...
Extremely fast film processes recorded
Using pulses in the soft x-ray spectral region, scientists have demonstrated how quickly an intense laser can change the electrical properties of solids. The findings may lead to the development of...
Mimicking photosynthesis for cheap hydrogen fuel
Production of inexpensive hydrogen for automotive or jet fuel may one day be possible by mimicking photosynthesis, but a number of hurdles first must be overcome. Scientists at Pennsylvania...
USAF works to improve silicon photonics processes
The US?Air Force Office of Scientific Research announced that it will fund efforts to put silicon photonics within the grasp of scientists and startup companies. The new program will be called OpSIS,...
Navy looks to deep-six noisy lighting
The big buzz aboard US Navy vessels these days is the one coming from noisy fluorescent lighting, prompting the rollout of a quieter alternative. The Solid State Lighting (SSL) project, created by...
Terahertz bomb sniffer wins student prize
A new detection method extends the distance from which powerful terahertz technology can remotely sniff out hidden explosives, chemicals and other materials. Benjamin Clough, a doctoral student...
N-slit laser interferometer developed
Scientists have developed an N-slit laser interferometer that is suitable for secure terrestrial free-space optical communications over propagation distances and clear-air turbulence detection. ...
“Superskin” goes solar
A new ultrasensitive electronic skin can detect chemicals and biological molecules in addition to sensing an incredibly light touch. And now, this “superskin” can be powered by...
More powerful integrated circuits
A record 1 Tb/s on a single integrated indium phosphide chip has been achieved, allowing for more efficient data-handling technologies and expanding the capacities of optical networks. Infinera Corp....
Manipulating nanowires for single-mode lasers
A single-nanowire laser has been developed that, unlike earlier ones, which operated mostly in multiple modes, operates in a controllable single mode. Researchers from Zhejiang and Peking...
light speed
Some telecom laser makers produce 1M per month
Robust growth is anticipated and, in fact, already occurring in elements of the optical components market. When compared with past quantities, one area of extraordinary growth is lasers, the sources or drivers of any fiber optic network, and their accompanying receivers. In fact, the fiber optics telecommunications industry has never seen the mass production of these components that is currently...
Attracting top workers is a full-time job in Germany
Machine vision manufacturer Basler AG is ramping up its hiring once again, reflecting an economic rebound being experienced throughout most of Germany. The company, which currently has about 250...
High Demand for Crystal Grower
Thermal Technology of Santa Rosa, Calif., has received 59 orders for its Model K1 sapphire crystal grower from customers in Taiwan, Korea and China. In total, the growers will produce 5.2 million...
Laser Ship Defense Milestone
At Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, scientists in the Office of Naval Research’s Free-Electron Laser (FEL) program have achieved a breakthrough in ship protection. They...
Companies to Advance Military Lasers
Alfalight Inc. of Madison, Wis., a manufacturer of high-power diode laser products and handheld infrared and visible laser systems, has announced a strategic investment and technology development...
Boston Micromachines Wins Grant
Boston Micromachines Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., has received a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research Program contract from NASA to support space-based imaging research. The Phase I project is...
Company Rebrands
Brush Engineered Materials Inc. of Mayfield Heights, Ohio, has changed its name to Materion Corp., unifying its businesses under the Materion brand. The company has grown through acquisitions and...
CEA-Leti Joins III-V Lab
In France, in a move to strengthen the industrial research capabilities of the III-V Lab in Marcoussis, CEA-Leti of Grenoble, a research and technology organization, will join the center. Established...
Companies Extend LED Deal
LED lighting company Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., and Zumtobel Lighting GmbH of Dornbirn, Austria, will continue to provide LED lighting technology in Europe. Cree announced a two-year extension of the...
Molding Technology Developed
A high-speed molding technology that can form optical components from glass taken directly from a furnace – without polishing or grinding – has been developed by Docter Optics of Neustadt...
Fiber Lasers for Oil Industry
NKT Photonics A/S of Birkerød, Denmark, has been awarded a volume contract to supply its low-noise Koheras Basik fiber laser modules to an undisclosed party for use in a seismic application...
GreenLight
Ultrafast laser scribes solar cells
A new manufacturing method using an ultrafast pulsing laser could make thin-film solar cell arrays a more efficient and less expensive means of power generation. The current method of connecting solar panels into arrays that generate usable electricity involves mechanically scribing with a stylus, but this technique is less than ideal: Not only is it slow and expensive, but it also produces...
Lighter Side
A BUN Baker’s New Best Friend
As you enjoy your lunch today, imagine more than 1000 sandwich rolls per minute moving along a production line as bakers anxiously check for machine failures that could result in dozens upon dozens of less-than-perfect buns that will never be invited to the picnic. Now ponder the fact that a prototype automated imaging system has been developed to help bakers produce consistently high quality...
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Calmar Laser Inc. has added a high-power 780-nm femtosecond fiber laser to its Mendocino family. The Mendocino model FPL-05RFF0 offers >500 mW of output power and a pulse width of 150 fs in an...
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Silicon PCX Lenses
TechSpec silicon planoconvex (PCX) lenses manufactured by Edmund Optics Inc. are suitable for use in weight-sensitive infrared applications from 3 to 5 μm, for near-infrared imaging and infrared...
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Vibration Isolation Baseplate
A tabletop vibration isolation platform designed for sensitive instrumentation and microscopes has been introduced by Newport Corp. The VIBe vibration isolation baseplate is a compact and easy-to-use...
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Antireflection Coatings
Adimec Advanced Image Systems bv has announced enhanced antireflection (AR) coatings for its Quartz camera series. The offerings improve the quality and accuracy of the cameras by reducing reflection...
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Imaging Software
Media Cybernetics has released the Image-Pro Insight Version 8.0 image acquisition, processing, measurement and reporting software. It includes an updated user interface and ease-of-use enhancements....
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Glass Trace Evidence
Craic Technologies Inc. has collaborated with Laboratory Imaging sro to introduce the rIQ (refractive index quantification) system for analyzing glass trace evidence. It combines image analysis...
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Dual-Camera Adapter
Andor Technology plc has launched the TuCam adapter for simultaneous two-camera macro- and microscopic imaging. Suited to fast, concurrent detection of two different fluorophores in experiments such...
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Miniature Spectrometers
B&W Tek Inc. has announced the updated Quest series miniature fiber optic spectrometers that now feature an ultra low thermal drift spectrum and a faster readout speed of >2 MHz. The devices...
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Spectral Filter
For optical coherence tomography (OCT) and white-light interferometry (WLI) applications, NKT Photonics A/S has introduced the SuperK Gauss spectral filter for use with SuperK Extreme supercontinuum...
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OEM Spectrometers
Ibsen Photonics has launched the Rock VIS-NIR and XNIR (extended NIR) line of modular, industrial-grade, robust OEM spectrometers for the 550- to 1050-nm and 1175- to 2185-nm-wavelength ranges,...
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Solar Simulators
Oriel, a Newport Corp. brand, offers the Sol3A family of Class AAA solar simulator products for photovoltaic (PV) applications. The continuous-wave sources provide an output beam of 300 x 300 mm and...
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Thermal Imager
Optris GmbH has unveiled the second generation of its PI thermal imager. The stationary camera is now equipped with a new detector to improve measurement accuracy. The new generation of detectors...
Optris Infrared Sensing LLC
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Microscope System
Olympus Europa Holding GmbH has released the BX63 microscope system built with a modular customizable design to meet different experimental requirements, while providing adaptability for future use....
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Ultrafast TOF Detectors
Photonis USA has added a 40-mm size to its Gen2 ultrafast time-of-flight (TOF) detector product line, which now can support input areas from 18 to 40 mm and allows a TOF mass spectrometer to increase...
Photonis Technologies
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Image Processing
Photron USA Inc. offers the IDP Express R2000 system for high-speed real-time image processing. It features an onboard field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to provide experienced developers access to...
Photron USA Inc.
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Imaging Software
The SymPhoTime version 5.2.4. fluorescence lifetime imaging and correlation software from PicoQuant GmbH supports the eight-channel configuration of the company’s HydraHarp 400 time-correlated...
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Compact HD Zoom Lens
The Model 330 compact motorized high-definition (HD) zoom lens from Resolve Optics Ltd. offers ultraclose focus. Providing users with HD resolution throughout its range of operation, the lens...
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Millimeter Wave Measurement
SA Photonics has developed a millimeter wave measurement system (MWMS), a high-power measurement and calibration unit that tests and calibrates millimeter wave sources and instrument test ranges. It...
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C-Mount Lenses
Schneider Optics’ C-mount 2/3 in. (11-m image circle) lenses are designed for aerospace and military imaging. The compact precision primes are optically corrected and broadband-coated for the...
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Intravital Imaging
The optical design of Till Photonics GmbH’s Intravital2P microscope dedicated to intravital imaging increases light collection efficiency for dual-color two-photon microscopy. The ultracompact...
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Line-Scan Camera
For machine vision, sorting and solar inspection applications, Sensors Unlimited – Goodrich ISR Systems’ compact SU1024LDM line-scan camera features high-resolution 1024-pixel imaging in...
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Concave Grating Spectrometers
The Black-Comet-HR concave grating spectrometers manufactured by StellarNet are designed for high-resolution applications. Available for measurements in the UV (200 to 600 nm) and visible (380 to 750...
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Cooled IR Cameras
Telops has launched the TEL-1000 cooled infrared camera line available in three configurations: mid-wave, covering the 3- to 5-μm range; long-wave, the 8- to 11-μm range; and very long wave,...
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