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Photonics.com - March 2020
Business
Olympus Announces Light Microscopy Image Awards
Olympus has announced the winners of its first Global Image of the Year Life Science Microscopy Award. The winning image, captured by Ainara Pintor of Spain using a superresolution confocal microscope system. The image shows the immunostaining of a Thy1-EGFP mouse brain slice with two fluorophores. In green, the excitatory hippocampal neurons, which express green fluorescent protein under Thy1...
RPI's Supercomputer to Combat COVID-19
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is enlisting AiMOS, one of the world’s top supercomputers, in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. RPI said it is reaching out to the research...
Hamamatsu Photonics Acquires 55% Share in Korean Branch
Hamamatsu Photonics has acquired a 55% stock share in Hamamatsu Photonics Korea Co. Ltd., a new company where Hamamatsu Photonics has shifted its local sales distributor activities. Hamamatsu aims to...
Energy Department Labs Close to Thousands of Visitors
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has begun to restrict access and to ramp down activities at its national laboratories in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The labs serve more than 30,000...
SPIE Cancels DCS In-Person Conference, COVID-19 Leads to Surge in Online Conferences
SPIE has announced that it is canceling the in-person format of April’s Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference and moving online in the wake of increased coronavirus awareness. With WHO...
Photonics Market Feels Impacts of COVID-19 at Many Levels
With COVID-19 now declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, and states of emergency declared around the globe, the photonics market is starting to feel the impacts of the virus —...
With COVID-19, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference Moves Online
Defense + Commercial Sensing, scheduled for April 26-30 in Anaheim, Calif., will be transitioning from an in-person to an online conference. SPIE, the conference sponsor, is actively following the...
Esther Wertz Wins NSF CAREER Award
The NSF has named Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute physicist Esther Wertz the winner of its CAREER award to support her investigation of nanometer-scale metal structures that will control light at...
AR Rapid-Deployment Kits Aid Training, Response to COVID-19
To help organizations collaborate and quickly train workers in R&D and manufacturing environments, augmented reality company Apprentice.io is sending dozens of its Tandem Rapid Deployment Kits to...
OSA Honors Ursula Keller with Highest Award
The Optical Society (OSA) announced in early February that Ursula Keller of ETH Zurich would be honored with the society’s highest award. OSA has been announcing winners of its annual awards...
Demand for FLIR Temperature Screening Devices Rises Along with Number of Coronavirus Cases
In efforts to contain the highly contagious virus causing COVID-19, thermal cameras, set up at checkpoints or hand-held by personnel at airports, borders, and entrances to businesses, schools, and...
COVID-19 Spreads, New York Institutions Remain Resilient
New York state universities have begun moving to online classes. Courtesy of University of Rochester. With COVID-19 spreading across the U.S., universities are facing decisions of closing live...
COVID-19 Increases Demand for UV LEDs that Disinfect Spaces
Seoul Viosys, a developer of UV LED technology and a subsidiary of Seoul Semiconductor, announced this week that customer inquiries for its violeds UV LED products, which can be used for sterilizing...
Jenoptik Acquires Remaining Shares of Japanese Division
Jenoptik has acquired the remaining 33.42% of the shares in Jenoptik Japan Co. Ltd. from its joint venture partner Kantum Ushikata Mfg. Co. Ltd., transferring the joint venture to a wholly owned...
A3 Cancels Vision Show Amid Growing Coronavirus Uncertainty
Due to continued uncertainty surrounding the growing coronavirus outbreak, the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the parent organization of AIA, has made the decision to cancel The Vision...
Smart Vision Lights’ Kinney Elected to AIA’s Board of Directors
Steve Kinney, Smart Vision Lights’ director of engineering, has been elected to serve a two-year term on the board of directors of AIA, the machine vision industry’s trade group and part...
LightPath Appoints Sam Rubin President and CEO
LightPath Technologies Inc., a vertically integrated global manufacturer of proprietary optical and infrared components, announced that Sam Rubin joined the company as president and CEO, effective...
Bohnacker and Eckstein Fill Roles at MVTec
MVTec has filled two leadership positions. Mario Bohnacker will serve as technical project manager, and Christian Eckstein will serve as business developer and partner manager. In his role,...
SiLC Technologies Raises $12M in Funding
SiLC Technologies has closed a $12 million seed financing round, which founder and CEO Mehdi Asghari said will allow the company to refine its 4D+ Vision Chip lidar sensor. At CES 2020, a point cloud...
OFC 2020 Celebrates 50 Years of Light-Speed Connections
The Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition (OFC 2020), to be held at the San Diego Convention Center March 8-12, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first viable optical...
IPG Photonics Posts Modest Growth in 2019 Net Revenue
IPG Photonics Corp. financial results for the fourth quarter of 2019, announced in mid-February, showed that fourth-quarter 2019 net income was a loss of $4 million, which included goodwill and asset...
Research & Technology
AI and Terahertz Radiation to Help Doctors Fight COVID-19
A team of researchers is working on developing an artificial intelligence-based terahertz radiation (t-ray) scanning unit to address the limitation of infrared thermal scanner in accurate and early...
Imaging Plays Key Role in Coronavirus Fight
Faced with a critical shortage of resources in heading off the rapid spread of COVID-19 (commonly called “coronavirus”) around the world, health care personnel will rely on imaging as a...
AI and Supercomputers are Combatting COVID-19
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are contributing to the global fight against COVID-19 by combining AI, bioinformatics, and supercomputing to help discover candidates for new...
Team Develops High-Efficiency Laser Placed on Silicon Chips
Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich are one step closer to integrating lasers directly on silicon chips, allowing data to be transferred more quickly. Together with researchers from Centre...
Researchers Demonstrate Missing Link for the Quantum Internet
Harvard and MIT researchers have found a way to correct for signal loss in quantum computing with a prototype quantum node that can catch, store, and entangle bits of quantum information. A quantum...
Dancing Electrons Solve Long-Standing Puzzle of Oldest Magnetic Material
An international team of experimental and theoretical researchers has discovered fingerprints of the quasiparticles that drive the phase transformation in magnetite, according to a paper published...
Photonic Crystal Emits Super-Planckian Thermal Radiation at Optical Wavelengths
Since the late 19th century, scientists have understood that, when heated, all materials emit light in a predictable spectrum of wavelengths. But a material that appears to exceed the limits set by...
Researchers Call for Robots to Fight COVID-19
Robots conceivably could perform such tasks as disinfecting surfaces, taking temperatures of people in public areas and at ports of entry, providing social support for quarantined patients,...
High-Speed Microscopy Tracks Millisecond Voltage Changes in Neurons of Awake Mice
University of California, Berkeley, researchers have built a microscope that can image the brain of an alert mouse 1000 times a second and record the passage of millisecond electrical pulses through...
Smartphone-Based System Tests Saliva for Infectious Diseases
Engineers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have created a tiny portable lab that plugs into a smartphone. The lab, which is about the size of a credit card, can diagnose infectious diseases such...
Virus Testing Kits to Be Developed Using RNA Imaging Technology
A Simon Fraser University (SFU) research team will be using RNA imaging technology it has created to develop coronavirus testing kits. The decision to apply the technology, called Mango, to COVID-19...
Device Uses AI, Thermal Imaging to Survey Public Areas for Flu-Like Illness
A contactless, portable surveillance device, developed by a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), can capture crowd-level bioclinical signals directly related to physical symptoms...
Chip-Based Quantum Key Distribution Could Secure High-Speed Networks
A research team at the University of Bristol has demonstrated chip-based devices that contain all the optical components necessary for quantum key distribution (QKD). The team showed that secure...
Atomic-Scale Imaging Reveals Strength Capabilities of Thin Film
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have used high-resolution TEM microscopy to image the atomic structure of ultrathin zeolite nanosheets, which are used by industries as specialized...
Imaging Agent Illuminates Cancer and Surrounding ‘Hijacked’ Cells
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine have developed an imaging agent that can identify multiple types of tumors as well as the surrounding normal cells that the cancer uses as a...
Supercomputing Centers Will Expedite Access to Fight Coronavirus
Effective immediately, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), the alliance of Germany’s three national supercomputing centers, will help researchers working on COVID-19 research gain...
CRISPR Technology to Target RNA Viruses Such as COVID-19
Researchers at the New York Genome Center and New York University have developed a new kind of CRISPR screen technology to target RNA. Many CRISPR-based genetic screens can only edit or target DNA,...
NIH Launches $1M Competition Targeting Global Health Via Hand-held Diagnostics
To spur the development of noninvasive, hand-held, digital technologies to detect, diagnose, and guide therapies for diseases with high global and public health impact, the National Institutes of...
Optomagnetic Technology Could Reduce Coronavirus Diagnostic Time
A technology developed at Bar-Ilan University, based on a combination of optics and magnetic particles, can rapidly test samples of patients potentially infected with the coronavirus. Current methods...
Light and Heat Combined to Create Biocompatible Microparticles
Using light and heat, researchers at Duke University developed a technique for manufacturing biocompatible microparticles for potential use in drug delivery, diagnostics, and tissue engineering....
AR Rapid-Deployment Kits Aid Training, Response to COVID-19
To help organizations collaborate and quickly train workers in R&D and manufacturing environments, augmented reality company Apprentice.io is sending dozens of its Tandem Rapid Deployment Kits to...
Butterfly Wing Nanostructures Achieve Ultrablack Coloration
A team at Duke University is studying butterflies with wings that are 10 to 100 times darker than everyday black objects. As little as 0.06% of the light that hits the ultrablack butterfly wings is...
Demand for FLIR Temperature Screening Devices Rises Along with Number of Coronavirus Cases
In efforts to contain the highly contagious virus causing COVID-19, thermal cameras, set up at checkpoints or hand-held by personnel at airports, borders, and entrances to businesses, schools, and...
ETH Researchers Demonstrate 5-Meter-Long Microwave Quantum Link
In the future, quantum links will connect clusters of quantum computers to form a local network. These links will need to support quantum mechanical superposition states (states that contain the...
Research Teams Offer New Insight into Mid-IR, Graphene-Based Metasurfaces
A team of researchers has described a method of designing metamolecules that incorporate two independently controllable subwavelength meta-atoms. This two-parametric control of the metamolecule...
Inverse Design Software Automates Design Process for Optical, Nanophotonic Structures
A research team at Stanford University has created an inverse design codebase called SPINS that can help researchers explore different design methodologies to find fabricable optical and nanophotonic...
Lasers Could Lead Search for Water on Earth’s Moon
There are craters in the moon’s south pole that have remained dark for billions of years, but scientists have found evidence that the region may contain water. NASA has awarded nearly $1...
Satellite Imaging and Field Cameras Monitor Corn Production
Scientists from the University of Illinois have developed a scalable method of estimating crop productivity with satellite imagery. The research combines field measurements, a unique in-field camera...
Spectroscopic Toolkit for Structural Biology Could Aid in Drug Design
A fluorescence-based imaging technique for monitoring single molecules could lead to a better understanding of how molecules are assembled, function, and interact, aiding in structure-guided drug...
Caltech and JPL Launch Hybrid, High-Rate Quantum Communication Systems
Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are collaborating on the design of a practical, high-rate, high-fidelity quantum communication system over fiber and free space. The team said...
Researchers Fool Autonomous Vehicle Systems with Phantom Images
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber Security Research Center found that they can trick the autopilot on an autonomous vehicle to erroneously apply its brakes in response...
Topology Protects Light Propagation in Photonic Crystal
A team from the research institute AMOLF and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) observed light propagation within a photonic crystal without the usual distortion caused by reflections. Because...
III-V Lasers Grown on Silicon Wafers Could Advance Silicon Photonics
Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have directly grown 1.5-μm III-V lasers on industry-standard 220-nm silicon-on-insulators (SOI) wafers without buffer....
Built-In Neural Hardware Allows Image Recognition in Nanoseconds
Researchers at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have developed an image sensor that can be trained to recognize (in a matter of nanoseconds) certain objects. The image sensor is made from a...
Robot Uses AI and Imaging to Draw Blood
Rutgers University engineers have created a tabletop device that combines a robot, artificial intelligence, and near-infrared and ultrasound imaging to draw blood or insert catheters to deliver...
Optical Defects as Sources of Quantum Light
Researchers at Stanford University are investigating light-emitting defects in materials that could someday enable quantum-based technologies. Once understood, these defects could be controlled and...
Metasurface-Based Contact Lenses Could Correct Red-Green Color Blindness
A custom contact lens could offer a convenient way to help people who experience color blindness. Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) embedded large-scale, plasmonic metasurfaces into...
Researchers Use Photonic Systems to Improve Quantum Orienteering Protocols
Scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have enhanced the performance of quantum orienteering with entangling measurements via photonic quantum walks. Quantum...
SwRI Delivers Ultraviolet Spectrograph for Jupiter Mission
An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is the first scientific instrument to be delivered for integration onto the European Space Agency’s...
In FET Open Project, Researchers Chart Course for Bio-LEDs
Scientists at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) are working with research teams from Spain and Italy on environmentally friendly, inexpensive LEDs. The Graz team, led by Gustav Oberdorfer, is...
World Faces Air Pollution Threat, and Light Technology Could Help
Air pollution is responsible for shortening people's lives worldwide on a scale far greater than wars and other forms of violence and than parasitic and vector-borne diseases such as malaria,...
Terahertz Field Stabilizes Surface State of Topological Materials
Some topological materials are insulators in their bulk form but possess electron-conducting behavior on their surfaces. The contrast in the behavior of these surface electrons is promising for...
Optogenetic Control of Protein Speeds ALS Symptoms in Zebrafish
A joint research group in Japan reproduced amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) symptoms in zebrafish by remotely controlling a disease-associated protein molecule with light. In ALS, motor neurons...
Tiny Micromotor Powered by Light
Researchers at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Physics collaborated with researchers from the Polish Academy of Science and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University to demonstrate a...
2D Material Takes on Chirality of Circularly Polarized Light
Physicists at MIT have uncovered a new way to test whether or not a material is chiral, and have also found a way to enhance the overall chirality in a large piece of material. The material they...
Materials Integrated with Silicon Photonics Manipulate Light Phase at Low Loss
A Columbia University team used a 2D material from the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) class to control the phase of light without changing its amplitude or depleting its power. By placing the...
acquisitions
Hamamatsu Photonics Acquires 55% Share in Korean Branch
Hamamatsu Photonics has acquired a 55% stock share in Hamamatsu Photonics Korea Co. Ltd., a new company where Hamamatsu Photonics has shifted its local sales distributor activities. Hamamatsu aims to...
Jenoptik Acquires Remaining Shares of Japanese Division
Jenoptik has acquired the remaining 33.42% of the shares in Jenoptik Japan Co. Ltd. from its joint venture partner Kantum Ushikata Mfg. Co. Ltd., transferring the joint venture to a wholly owned...
Products
Multispectral Prism Camera
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 31, 2020 — The FS-3200T-10GE-NNC Fusion Series prism-based camera from JAI Inc. features three separate multispectral wavebands. The device uses a dichroic prism that divides incoming light to three...
JAI Inc.
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Miniaturized Positioning Controller
TAUNTON, Mass., March 31, 2020 — The 32 × 22-mm miniaturized positioning controller from Maxon Precision Motors Inc. is suitable for use with both brushed direct current and brushless electronically commutated motors of up to...
maxon
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Smart Cameras
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., March 31, 2020 — V/F400 and V/F300 MicroHAWK 2.0 smart cameras from Omron Automation Americas simplify applications by combining code reading and vision inspection into single, compact systems. By bundling...
Omron Automation
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5G Testing Solution
MUNICH, March 31, 2020 — The 5G Site Testing Solution from Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG bundles test tools for gNodeB site acceptance and troubleshooting. The integrated package of test equipment combines all...
Rohde & Schwarz USA Inc.
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Thermal Science Cameras
MEER, Belgium, March 30, 2020 — The A8580 series of high-definition thermal science cameras from FLIR Systems are entry-level, cooled devices designed for a range of industrial, military, science, and product R&D applications....
Teledyne FLIR
Goniophotometer
PUSZCZYKOWO, Poland, March 30, 2020 — The GLG A 50-1800 goniophotometer from GL Optic measures car lamps and other lighting devices used in the transportation industry. Fully automated and programmable, the device is designed for...
GL Optic
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Electronics Polymer
KULPSVILLE, Pa., March 30, 2020 — The Arlon® 3000 XT Polymer from Greene, Tweed & Co. is an advanced material for high-temperature performance in electronics applications. Arlon® 3000 XT provides thermal stability...
Greene, Tweed & Co.
Camera Remote Software Development Kit
TOKYO, March 30, 2020 — The Camera Remote Software Development Kit (SDK) from Sony Corp.’s Image Sensing Solutions provides application design opportunities for developers and integrators to access imaging data and...
Sony Europe Ltd., Image Sensing Solutions
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Femtosecond Amplifier
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 27, 2020 — The Astrella HE femtosecond amplifier from Coherent Inc. delivers up to 9 mJ at a repetition rate of 1 kHz. The Astrella HE integrates a titanium-sapphire oscillator, a single-stage...
Coherent Inc.
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Servo Drives
CAMARILLO, Calif., March 27, 2020 — Electromate Inc. has announced ADVANCED Motion Controls’ three additions to its FM series of FlexPro™ servo drives with the FM060-5-EM, FM060-10-EM, and FM060-25-EM models. Designed...
Advanced Motion Controls
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Differential Measuring System
MIDDLETOWN, Conn., March 27, 2020 — The DIT-5200L non-contact displacement measuring system from Kaman Precision Products Inc. is ideal for fast-steering mirrors, servo control position feedback, stage positioning, and angular...
Kaman Precision Products, Measuring Systems
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Femtosecond Hybrid Fiber Laser
ANDOVER, Mass., March 26, 2020 — The Spectra-Physics® Spirit® 1030-140 femtosecond hybrid fiber laser from MKS Instruments Inc. delivers >140-W power and >600-µJ pulse energy with ultrashort <400-fs pulses in...
MKS Instruments Inc.
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Vibration Sensor Fiber
NORCROSS, Ga., March 26, 2020 — The AcoustiSens® Wideband single-mode vibration sensor fiber from OFS Optics is designed to enhance distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems. Wideband is based around the ITU-T G.657.A1...
OFS
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High-Speed Camera
WAYNE, N.J., March 26, 2020 — The Phantom® VEO 1310 high-speed camera from Vision Research Inc. is equipped with a 1.2-MP CMOS sensor. The camera features faster recording speeds and 2.5× higher light sensitivity...
Vision Research Inc., Phantom Digital High-Speed Cameras
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Mirrorless Lenses
TOKYO, March 26, 2020 — Nikon Corp. has announced two mirrorless lenses to support its Z series of full-frame cameras. Now the widest S-Line prime lens for the Z series, the NIKKOR Z 20mm f/1.8 S Lens is a...
Nikon Corp., Digital Solutions Business Unit
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Mirrorless Camera
TOKYO, March 26, 2020 — The OM-D E-M1 Mark III Mirrorless Micro Four Thirds Digital Camera from Olympus Corp. is a mirrorless camera with effective image stabilization. The device compensates up to 7.5 steps when used...
Evident
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Flame Detector
DRESDEN, Germany, March 25, 2020 — The LRM-274 from InfraTec GmbH is ideal for integration into flame sensor measurement instruments. The miniaturized, multi-channel detector requires only one unipolar supply voltage. Its...
InfraTec GmbH, Infrarotsensorik und Messtechnik
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Long-Range Lidar Sensor
LAFAYETTE, Colo., March 25, 2020 — The Digital Coherent LiDAR™ long-range lidar sensor from Insight LiDAR is designed for the autonomous vehicles. The low-cost, chip-scale lidar has the sensitivity to range...
Insight LiDAR
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Light Sheet Microscope System
WILLISTON, Vt., March 25, 2020 — The ClearScope light sheet microscope system from MBF Bioscience performs high-resolution, 3D imaging of intact, cleared specimens. The technology permits fast imaging speed, high-quality...
MBF Bioscience
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PCB Manufacturing Material
DURHAM, N.C., March 24, 2020 — Pyralux AG from DuPont Electronics & Imaging is printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing material for advanced electronics. The all-polyimide, double-sided copper clad laminate is offered...
DuPont Electronics & Imaging
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Silver Coatings
BARRINGTON, N.J., March 24, 2020 — Ultrafast Enhanced Silver Coatings from Edmund Optics Inc. are reflective and ideal for ultrafast laser applications. Highly customizable, the coatings can be used for build-to-print ultrafast...
Edmund Optics
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Fiber Laser Marking System
SELMSDORF, Germany, March 24, 2020 — The Y.0200-S fiber laser marking system from FOBA is designed for line integration. The 20-W marking laser is characterized by a compact design, giving manufacturers a high amount of marking...
ALLTEC Angewandte Laserlicht Technologie GmbH, FOBA Laser Marking + Engraving
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High-Speed Video Camera
PITSTONE, England, March 23, 2020 — The Kirana07M high-speed video camera from Specialised Imaging Ltd. enables researchers to capture up to 180 consecutive high-resolution images at frame rates of up to 7 million fps and exposure...
Specialised Imaging Ltd.
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Optical Analog Angular Position Sensor
ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 23, 2020 — Advanced Photonix Inc. has announced a non-contact, optical analog angular position sensor. The device provides a continuous analog voltage output ratio-metric to the angular position of the...
Advanced Photonix
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Photoacoustic Spectroscopy
GRENOBLE, France, March 23, 2020 — CEA-Leti has developed a photoacoustic spectroscopy technology for the monitoring of dangerous chemical emissions and traces of gas. The technology could reduce the cost and the size of these...
CEA-Leti
Multicolor Laser Diode Array
TUCSON, Ariz., March 20, 2020 — The T6 Lasertel laser diode from Leonardo Electronics U.S. Inc. is a fluid-cooled multi-color array with a low bar-to-bar pitch. With wavelengths from 760 to 1700 nm, the device features a...
Leonardo Electronics US Inc.
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Tunable Ultrafast Laser
ANDOVER, Mass., March 20, 2020 — The Spectra-Physics InSight® X3+ tunable ultrafast laser from MKS Instruments Inc. is designed for multiphoton imaging. InSight X3+ is a fully automated system for smooth wavelength tuning...
MKS Instruments Inc.
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Ratio Pyrometer
BERLIN, March 20, 2020 — The CTratio 1M and 2M ratio pyrometers from Optris GmbH provide reliable temperature measurement in metallurgy from 250° C. The 2M model, with spectral sensitivity from 1.45 to 1.75 μm,...
Optris GmbH
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SWIR Camera
TRENTON, N.J., March 19, 2020 — The NIRvana HS from Teledyne Princeton Instruments is a SWIR camera that uses the advantages of the second NIR window (NIR-II) window to meet the needs of the scientific, industrial, and medical...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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UV LEDs
BERLIN, March 19, 2020 — UV LEDs from UVphotonics NT GmbH feature emission wavelengths from 310 to as low as 230 nm. The UVB and UVC LEDs feature 10,000-hour lifetime and output powers of up to 45 mW at 310 nm and 30...
UVphotonics NT GmbH
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3D Imaging System
BOULDER, Colo., March 19, 2020 — The SPINDLE® imaging system from Double Helix Optics allows researchers to extend 2D capabilities to 3D with a click-on module that attaches to existing camera and microscope systems. The...
Double Helix Optics
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Blue Laser
CENTENNIAL, Colo., March 18, 2020 — The AI-1500 blue laser from NUBURU is a 1500-W system in a compact package. With a beam parameter product of 11 mm-mrad, the 1.5-kW blue laser features extreme high brightness to create new...
Nuburu Inc.
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AI Plug-In Solution
OTTAWA, Ontario, March 18, 2020 — Pleora Technologies Inc. and perClass BV have partnered on an artificial intelligence (AI) plug-in for Pleora’s AI Gateway. Designed for end-users and integrators, the technology allows...
Pleora Technologies Inc.
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Phospholipid Removal Microplate
WREXHAM, Wales, March 18, 2020 — The Microlute™ PLR microplate from Porvair Sciences Ltd. provides >99% effective removal of phospholipids and proteins with higher levels of reproducibility from plasma and serum samples...
Porvair Sciences Ltd.
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White Light Source
BEDFORD, N.H., March 17, 2020 — The LaserLight SMD from Laser Components USA Inc. is a powerful white light source by Soraa Laser Diode Inc. for directional light. The device enables extremely efficient semiconductor-based...
Laser Components USA Inc.
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Crystal Growing Software
ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 17, 2020 — Kayex Intelligent Crystal Control System software from Linton Crystal Technologies has been updated to enhance automated melt gap management in the crystal growing process. KICCS™...
Linton Crystal Technologies
Digital Laser Cinema Projector
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., March 17, 2020 — The NC1802ML digital cinema projector from NEC Display Solutions of America is an 18,000-lm modular laser system. With the option to replace the laser light module in the projector head, the NC...
NEC Display Solutions of America
Digital Pyroelectric IR Detectors
WALTHAM, Mass., March 16, 2020 — The PYD 1798 Dual-Element DigiPyro Detector from Excelitas Technologies Corp. features improved energy efficiency with a supply voltage range of 1.8 to 3.6 V at 4-µA current consumption. ...
Excelitas Technologies Corp.
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Gas Imaging Camera
MEER, Belgium, March 16, 2020 — The GF77a Gas Find IR camera from FLIR Systems Inc. is a fixed-mount, uncooled, autonomous leak detection camera designed to visualize methane and other industrial gases. The GF77a provides...
Teledyne FLIR
Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope
PEABODY, Mass., March 16, 2020 — The F100 FE-SEM field-emission scanning electron microscope from JEOL USA Inc. combines electron optics with fully embedded energy-dispersive spectroscopy (ADS) microanalysis and artificial...
JEOL USA Inc.
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In-Line Particle Sensor
MINNEAPOLIS, March 13, 2020 — The In-Line Particle Sensor™ (IPS™) from CyberOptics® Corp. features CyberSpectrum™ software to constantly detect particles in gas and vacuum lines in semiconductor process...
CyberOptics Corp.
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Continuously Variable Filters
HØRSHOLM, Denmark, March 13, 2020 — Delta Optical Thin Film A/S has announced its fourth generation of Continuously Variable Short-Wave Pass and Continuously Variable Long-Wave Pass Filters. The filters are coated with ultra-hard...
Delta Optical Thin Film A/S
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Weld Seam Inspection System
KARLSRUHE, Germany, March 13, 2020 — The WeldSeam Vision® from EVT Eye Vision Technologies GmbH is a weld seam inspection system for the inspection of laser and metal inert gas (MIG)/metal active gas(MAG) welding seams. For...
EVT Eye Vision Technology GmbH
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Optical Spectrum Analyzer
TOKYO, March 12, 2020 — The AQ6377 Optical Spectrum Analyzer from Yokogawa Electric Corp. is focused on environmental sensing and medical applications. Featuring a wavelength resolution of 0.2 nm, a wavelength...
Yokogawa Europe BV
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Broadband Vector Network Analyzer
KANAGAWA, Japan, March 12, 2020 — The VectorStar™ ME7838G broadband vector network analyzer (VNA) from Anritsu Co. makes measurements from 70 kHz to 220 GHz in a single sweep. The VectorStar VNA allows engineers to more...
Anritsu Corp., Test & Measurement
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Optical Stealth Encryption
BEER-SHEVA, Israel, March 12, 2020 — BGN Technologies Ltd. has announced all-optical stealth encryption technology using standard optical equipment that renders fiber optic light transmission invisible. Instead of using one color...
BGN Technologies Ltd.
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Oscilloscope
ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 11, 2020 — The PicoScope 9404-16 SXRTO from Saelig Co. Inc. is a 16-GHz sampler-extended real-time oscilloscope. Designed to analyze repetitive or clock-derived signals, it features four high-resolution...
Saelig Co. Inc.
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Field Spectroradiometer
HAVERHILL, Mass., March 11, 2020 — The RS-8800 field spectroradiometer from Spectral Evolution Inc. is a full-range, high-resolution, high-sensitivity system with an Internet of Things (IoT) operating system that allows operation by...
Spectral Evolution Inc.
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Augmented Reality Headset
CAMBRIDGE, England, March 11, 2020 — A holographic augmented reality headset from VividQ uses a phase liquid crystal on silicon microdisplay subsystem and integration support from Compound Photonics. The headset leverages...
Compound Photonics
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Light System Enclosures
OAKWOOD, Ga., March 10, 2020 — LS-Type enclosures from Mencom Corp. is designed for the entertainment industry. The enclosures can be used for lighting system, power supplies, mixer and dimmer panels on theater stages, film...
Mencom Corp.
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Touch Sensor
STOCKHOLM, March 10, 2020 — Touch Sensors from Neonode Inc. add touch input to any surface and in-air, for new and existing products. The devices are intended to be mounted on the side of the touch surface, enabling new...
Neonode Technologies AB
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Broadband Resistor
HUNTINGTON, N.Y., March 10, 2020 — PPI 2010 Broadband Resistors from Passive Plus Inc. are designed to operate at frequencies up to 50 GHz. With microwave laser-trimming used to ensure a tight tolerance at high frequencies, the...
Passive Plus Inc.
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Medical Imaging Device
PARIS, March 9, 2020 — The LC-OCT medical imaging device from DAMAE Medical SAS uses the NKT Photonics SuperK supercontinuum white light laser to detect skin cancer at an early stage and without the need for biopsies. ...
DAMAE Medical
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X-Theta Positioning System
SANTA CLARITA, Calif., March 9, 2020 — The SRT-030/360-026-01 two axis X-Theta positioning system from H2W Technologies Inc. is ideal for precision motion control applications that require coordinated linear and rotary positioning. ...
H2W Technologies Inc.
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Memory System Design Solution
SANTA ROSA, Calif., March 9, 2020 — The PathWave ADS Memory Designer from Keysight Technologies Inc. is designed for next-generation high-density ultra-fast memory, or DDR5 DRAM. This design and test workflow solution enables...
Keysight Technologies Inc.
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LED Indicators
CARLSBAD, Calif., March 6, 2020 — The CD Series of LED indicators from Visual Communications Co. (VCC) are panel-mount devices for applications in machinery, automation, controls, and aircraft. The indicators keep moisture and...
VCC (Visual Communications Co.)
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Day-Night Action Camera
BEVERLY, Mass., March 6, 2020 — The SiOnyx Pro™ day-night action camera from SiOnyx features AR capabilities, ultra-low-light sensor technology, and upgraded imaging abilities. The camera offers night vision for a wide...
SiOnyx
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Lighting Solutions
KYOTO, Japan, March 6, 2020 — The EFFILUX line of lighting products from CCS Inc. are meant to be used with its LSS series of open-architecture computational imaging solutions. EFFILUX series is now fully compatible with...
CCS Inc.
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SWIR InGaAs Component
VERRIERES LE BUISSON, France, March 5, 2020 — A SWIR InGaAs component with a pitch of 7.5 µm has been announced by New Imaging Technologies. Through a hybridization process, which does not use the traditional indium bumps technique,...
New Imaging Technologies (NIT)
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Waveguide Transmission Components
IRVINE, Calif., March 5, 2020 — Waveguide transmission components from Pasternack include waveguide straight sections, bends and twists that are commonly used in satellite communication, radar, and airport security system...
Pasternack Inc.
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Field Flow Fractionation System
LANDSBERG AM LECH, Germany, March 5, 2020 — The EAF2000 Electrical and Asymmetrical Field Flow Fractionation System from Postnova Analytics GmbH is designed to enhance the separation and characterization of biopharmaceutical, environmental,...
Postnova Analytics GmbH
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Zoom Lens
LEICESTER, England, March 4, 2020 — The Anamorphic/i Full Frame 85-mm Macro zoom lens from Cooke Optics Ltd. produces true front anamorphic characteristics for filmmaking. Available lenses include the 32-, 40-, 50-, 75-, 100-,...
Cooke Optics Ltd.
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Monochrome CMOS Camera
WETZLAR, Germany, March 4, 2020 — The M10 Monochrom Digital Rangefinder Camera from Leica Camera AG is a 40-MP, black-and-white imaging device. Its 40.89-MP monochrome CMOS sensor captures high-resolution images. Without a...
Leica Camera AG
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Nanoflow Cytometry Measurement System
XIAMEN, China, March 4, 2020 — The NanoAnalyzer from NanoFCM Co. Ltd. provides nano-flow cytometry measurements. It delivers comprehensive measurement of size, concentration, and phenotyping, down to 10- to 40-nm, depending...
NanoFCM Inc.
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Tunable VCSEL
BILLERICA, Mass., March 3, 2020 — The 1060-nm high-speed tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) from Axsun Technologies Corp. enables high sweep rates. With a long coherence length and bidirectional tuning,...
Excelitas Technologies Corp.
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Linear Actuator
VAN NUYS, Calif., March 3, 2020 — The XYZ-10 linear actuator from Moticont is a three-axis XYZ device. The X and Y axes of the actuator each have 0.97 in. of travel, and the Z axis has a stroke of 0.500 in. The high speed, high...
Moticont
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Auto Resistance Sensor
MINNEAPOLIS, March 3, 2020 — The WaferSense® Auto Resistance Sensor®™ from CyberOptics Corp. features CyberSpectrum software for semiconductor tool setup and diagnostics. The 300-mm sensor enables real-time...
CyberOptics Corp.
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Fixed-Focus Camera
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 2, 2020 — The e-CAM50_CUNANO 5-MP, two-lane MIPI CSI-2 fixed focus color camera from e-con Systems Inc. is designed for the NVIDIA® Jetson Nano™ Developer Kit. The e-CAM50_CUNANO is capable of...
e-con Systems Inc.
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Wideband Swept Laser Engines
BILLERICA, Mass., March 2, 2020 — Wideband Swept Laser Engines from Axsun Technologies Corp. achieve tuning ranges beyond 140 nm for both the 1310- and 1060-nm laser platforms. The lasers provide a tuning bandwidth, output...
Excelitas Technologies Corp.
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IR Notch Filter
SANTA ROSA, Calif., March 2, 2020 — The 10.6 µm IR notch filter from Alluxa Inc. features a >4 optical density. The high-layer-count IR optical coating is produced by using proprietary deposition capabilities that...
Alluxa
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