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SPIE Funding Backs UK Optics and Photonics Education Initiatives SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, will provide support through its Endowment Matching Program to two initiatives at universities in the U.K. The program has provided $500,000...
NY Photonics Honors Five The Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster (RRPC) honored five leaders in education, business, and the public sector for their contributions to N.Y.’s optics and photonics industry. NY Photonics...
SCHOTT Signs Agreement to Acquire Applied Microarrays SCHOTT MINIFAB, a subsidiary of SCHOTT that develops and manufactures microfluidic devices for point-of-care and life science consumables, will acquire Applied Microarrays (AMI). The acquisition...
Spectroscopist Roy Goodacre Honored with Charles Mann Award The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) named Roy Goodacre this year’s Charles Mann Award winner for achievements in the field of applied Raman spectroscopy....
EU-Funded PULSATE Project Names Winners of 1st Technology Transfer Experiments Ten small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been named winners of the EU-funded PULSATE project’s first Technology Transfer Experiments. PULSATE’s open call for consortia sought...
UCF Team Awarded $4.5M for Non-GPS Location Research The U.S. Army Research Laboratory awarded the University of Central Florida (UCF) $4.5 million in grant funding to develop a computer vision-based navigation system for use when GPS is unavailable or...
People in the News: 09/29/21 GRENOBLE, France — Digital olfaction company Aryballe appointed Pierre Chauvineau as chairman of its board of directors. Chauvineau spent 20 years working in roles including country manager and...
Advanced Photon Source to Get Highly Polished Upgrade To support the massive upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) facility at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, the APS optics team has begun the monumental...
ZEISS, ORNL Develop Same-day Qualification Service for Print Parameters ZEISS and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have partnered to create ZEISS ParAM (Parameter for Additive Manufacturing), an automated print parameter qualification solution that can evaluate a set...
Foldable Display Material Protects Smartphones, Increases Flexibility A cover window for foldable IT devices designed by LG Chem uses newly developed coating technology to make the display surface as hard as glass and the folding parts of the display as flexible as...
Luminate Finalists Set Sights on $2M, Breakthrough Photonics Solutions Ten startups from around the world will gather virtually to compete for up to $2 million in follow-on funding from Empire State Development’s Finger Lakes Forward Upstate Revitalization...
Photonics News: Week in Brief: 09/24/21 WALTHAM, Mass. — Industrial photonic technology manufacturer Excelitas Technologies opened a new plant for its German subsidiary Qioptiq Photonics in Göttingen, Germany. The facility expands the...
People in the News: 09/22/21 DETROIT — Baraja, creator of Spectrum-Scan lidar technology for autonomous vehicles, appointed Yannick Lize vice president of research and development, and Pieter Kerstens as vice president of...
HORIBA Partners with Covalent Metrology for Demo Lab HORIBA Scientific, a producer spectroscopy systems and solutions, has partnered with Covalent Metrology, a provider of analytical services, to expand access to chemical analysis and expertise. The...
Contracts Will Deliver High-Energy Laser Weapons System to UK Forces Next-generation laser weaponry technology is the goal of a partnership between Raytheon UK and the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MOD). Raytheon UK is partnering with the MOD to equip the country’s armed...
OSA Changes Name to Optica The professional society in optics and photonics formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA) has changed its name to Optica, the Society advancing optics and photonics worldwide. The global...
Excimer Laser Developer Gigaphoton to Boost Production Capacity Gigaphoton, a manufacturer of excimer lasers used in semiconductor lithography, will double its production capacity of excimer laser light sources by 2023. To meet rising demand in the semiconductor...
X-FAB to Offer High-Volume Micro-Transfer Printing X-FAB Silicon Foundries, a foundry for analog/mixed signal and specialty semiconductor solutions, is now able to support volume heterogeneous integration. X-FAB secured a licensing agreement with...
Teledyne Combines CARIS and Optech to Form Geospatial Group Teledyne combined its Optech and CARIS businesses to launch a geospatial group. The group will offer solutions to map land and sea with the integration of lidar sensors and software workflows. Optech...
Army Research Lab Awards SBIR Contract to Lumetrics Lumetrics, a manufacturer of precision noncontact thickness measurement and noncontact optical inspection systems, was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with the Army...
University of Washington to Lead Center for Optoelectronic Materials Integration The NSF has issued a five-year, $25 million Science and Technology Center grant to fund the Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD), a collaboration of scientists...
Vector Photonics to Develop PCSEL Tech for Data Centers Vector Photonics will develop a 1310-nm, continuous-wave (CW) PCSEL for low-power-consumption, optical interconnections between servers in hyperscale data centers. The company received £600,000...
Rockley Photonics Expands Application Range for Biomarker Sensing Tech Rockley Photonics has expanded the range of possible applications for its noninvasive biomarker sensing technology into new segments of the medical technology field. The company has signed strategic...
UK Invests in New Robotic Telescope’s Construction The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, part of UK Research and Innovation) awarded £4 million ($5.51 million) to support construction of the world’s largest robotic...
Institute Will Spur 'Synergistic' Quantum, Photonics Advancements Eindhoven Institute of Technology (TU/e) has opened the Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute (EHCI), a photonics and quantum research center. The mission of EHCI is to contribute to a sustainable...
Tower Semiconductor, Quintessent Partner on Silicon Photonics Platform Tower Semiconductor, a foundry of high-value analog semiconductor solutions, and Quintessent, a connectivity solutions developer using silicon PICs, will partner to develop a silicon photonics...
Fiber Companies ADTRAN and ADVA to Merge ADTRAN and ADVA have entered into a business combination, to create a global, scaled provider of end-to-end fiber networking solutions for communications service provider, enterprise, and government...
Photonics News: Week in Brief: 09/03/21 MUNICH — TOPTICA Photonics’ TOPTICA Projects has successfully tested an experimental laser, jointly developed with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and industry partners, at the...
Indie Semiconductor to Acquire TeraXion Indie Semiconductor, a developer of automotive semiconductors and software platforms focused on edge sensors for ADAS systems including lidar, connected car, user experience, and electrification...
People in the News: 9/01/21 Kevin Weaver and Robert Brockway will serve as the first apprentices in LaCroix Precision Optics’ inaugural Optics Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship. The objective of the program is to...
Research & Technology
Photonic Chip Combines Many VCSELs into Single Laser Researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Würzburg successfully forced an array of vertical-cavity lasers to act together as a single laser — a...
Laser Treatment Reduces Need for Hazardous Chemicals in Coatings Prep Although highly regulated, the chemical pre-treatment processes used to prepare U.S. Department of Defense materials for protective coatings involve hazardous compounds that can harm one’s...
Topological Approach Boosts Efficiency of On-Chip Frequency Combs Using a topological platform — topology is a field of abstract math that underlies some of the most peculiar behaviors of modern materials — researchers at the University of Maryland...
Microscopic 3D-Printed Sensors Respond to Air Chemistry with Visible Changes Using direct laser writing (DLW) and optically responsive polymers, researchers at Trinity College Dublin and the Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre (AMBER) built miniature...
Dual-Band IR Detector Can Be Integrated into Camera Chips Scientists at the Forschungszentrum Jülich (Jülich Research Center) and the Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milan) have developed an infrared (IR) detector that provides a...
Hybrid Metalens Supports Miniaturized Optics for Endoscopy Researchers at Boston University and Harvard University, with colleagues from the Misr University for Science and Technology in Egypt and the University of Waterloo in Canada, developed an...
Researchers Engineer Optical Losses to Perfect Absorption Research conducted by a team from Washington University in St. Louis, in collaboration with A. Douglas Stone of Yale University, has uncovered new approaches to manipulating light absorption in...
Erbium-Doped Fluoroindate Glass Shows Promise for Mid-IR Lasing A research team from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the spectroscopic properties of Er3+-doped fluoroindate glasses. Tests...
Smart Coatings Change Color with Temperature A team led by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) Ph.D. student Weixin Zhang has developed organic photonic coatings that change colors with changing temperatures. The smart coatings can be...
UK Invests in New Robotic Telescope’s Construction The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, part of UK Research and Innovation) awarded £4 million ($5.51 million) to support construction of the world’s largest robotic...
Vehicle Occupant-Monitoring Tech Captures Free-Space Gestures in 3D Engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB) have developed occupant monitoring technology for autonomous and assisted driving applications....
Promising Materials Emerge for Next-Gen LED-Based Data Communications A team of researchers has examined how organic semiconductors, colloidal quantum dots (CQDs), and metal halide perovskites can be used in high-speed LED-based optical communication systems. LED-based...
Photonic Device to Enable Bio Experiments in Space Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the Indian Space Research Organization have developed a modular, self-contained device to cultivate micro-organisms. The work could enable...
UV Light Reveals Opportunities for Rechargeable Battery, Fuel Cell Design Researchers from the University of Tsukuba and collaborators have shown that UV light can modulate oxide ion transport in a perovskite crystal at room temperature. The discovery opens new avenues in...
Quantum-Enabled Camera Detects Methane Leaks University of Bristol spinout QLM Technology has developed a quantum-enabled gas imaging camera. The device, called QLM-1, will help reduce environmentally damaging methane leaks from the oil and gas...
Foreign Atoms Help Monolayer Graphene Overcome Limitations Researchers at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) have introduced a simple methodology that enables the fine control over the integration of foreign atoms with graphene. From...
Graphene Diamond Junctions Mimic Brain Function Researchers from Nagoya University created graphene-diamond junctions capable of mimicking some of the human brain’s functions. The work opens doors for next-generation image-sensing memory...
Retroreflective Material Could Help Autonomous Vehicles to Read Traffic Signs Research at the University at Buffalo has explored the science behind microscale concave interfaces (MCI) — structures that reflect light to produce beautiful and potentially useful optical...
NIR Spectroscopy Could Provide Window into AD Pathology, Therapeutics To detect Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in its early stages, researchers at the VA Bedford and VA Boston Healthcare systems developed a noninvasive optical technique that uses near-infrared...
Sensor Uses Protein to Detect Rare-Earth Element in Nontraditional Sources A luminescent sensor developed at Penn State can detect the rare-earth element terbium, from complex environmental samples like acid mine waste. The sensor takes advantage of a protein that...
acquisitions
SCHOTT Signs Agreement to Acquire Applied Microarrays SCHOTT MINIFAB, a subsidiary of SCHOTT that develops and manufactures microfluidic devices for point-of-care and life science consumables, will acquire Applied Microarrays (AMI). The acquisition...
Fiber Companies ADTRAN and ADVA to Merge ADTRAN and ADVA have entered into a business combination, to create a global, scaled provider of end-to-end fiber networking solutions for communications service provider, enterprise, and government...
Photonics News: Week in Brief: 09/03/21 MUNICH — TOPTICA Photonics’ TOPTICA Projects has successfully tested an experimental laser, jointly developed with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and industry partners, at the...
Indie Semiconductor to Acquire TeraXion Indie Semiconductor, a developer of automotive semiconductors and software platforms focused on edge sensors for ADAS systems including lidar, connected car, user experience, and electrification...
Products
Furnace Tracking System EVERETT, Wash., Sept. 30, 2021 — The Datapaq® Furnace Tracker System from Fluke Process Instruments features a TP6 data logger, thermal barriers, and intuitive software. Users can improve process performance, decrease downtime, and reduce temperature uniformity survey reporting times. The system is designed to be used repeatedly, in-process, and in the most hostile manufacturing environments, providing accurate and...
Fluke Process Instruments
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Single-axis Linear Stepper Stages SANTA CLARITA, Calif., Sept. 30, 2021 — The LSS-031-04-011-MEA series of single-axis linear stepper stages from H2W Technologies Inc. integrates a linear encoder to operate the motor as a two-phase brushless system when coupled with an...
H2W Technologies Inc.
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Vision Sensors ITASCA, Ill., Sept. 30, 2021 — The IV3 series of vision sensors with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) from Keyence Corp. of America provide flexibility for mistake- and error-proofing in manufacturing. The systems allow...
Keyence Corp. of America
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Analog Video Output Interface Board FORSTINNING, Germany, Sept. 29, 2021 — The AIVION TL9801 small form-factor CVBS analog video output interface board for zoom block cameras has been announced by eVision Systems GmbH. The TL9801 can be mounted on the rear side of the...
Aivion
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Medical Rectifier PLANO, Texas, Sept. 29, 2021 — The MPE2000 medical rectifier from ABB Power Conversion provides the reliable, efficient power required by critical devices such as medical lasers. The device is specially designed to meet...
ABB Power Conversion
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3D Scanning Software NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I., Sept. 21, 2021 — REcreate 3D scanning software from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence creates 3D models in a design and production environment for the creation, repair, or replacement of parts. The solution...
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
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Coherent Pluggable Transceiver SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 21, 2021 — NeoPhotonics Corp. has released a high-output-power version of its 400G Multi-Rate CFP2-DCO coherent pluggable transceiver. With 0-dBm output power, the device is designed to operate in metro,...
Lumentum
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LED Solar Simulator WOBURN, Mass., Sept. 20, 2021 — The LumiSun™-50 from Innovations in Optics Inc. is a compact LED solar simulator. The device provides AAA-certified output over a 50 × 50-mm illumination area and is ideal for...
Innovations in Optics Inc.
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Mobile Leak Detector EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y., Sept. 20, 2021 — The UL6000 Fab Mobile Leak Detector from INFICON Inc. is designed for large-volume production lines in the semiconductor industry. The UL6000 Fab’s booster turbomolecular pump moves...
INFICON
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Online Lens Configurator WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 20, 2021 — The MachVis Online Lens Configurator from Excelitas Technologies Corp. is designed for vision system designers and engineers. The tool enables the identification and configuration of all...
Excelitas Technologies Corp.
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UAV Lidar SAINT-CLÉMENT-DE-RIVIÈRE, France, Sept. 20, 2021 — The YellowScan Explorer long-range and multiplatform lidar from YellowScan is a compact device designed for use with unmanned aerial vehicles or lightly manned aircraft. Its high-power laser...
YellowScan
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Non-Adhesive Microscopy Surface MUNICH, Sept. 17, 2021 — The non-adhesive Bioinert surface from ibidi GmbH is now available for its µ-Slides, providing a thin polyol hydrogel layer for microscopy that does not allow binding of cells or biomolecules....
ibidi GmbH
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Image Sensor SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 17, 2021 — The ISOCELL HP1 image sensor from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a 200-MP device with 0.64-μm pixels. The sensor provides ultrahigh resolution in a small package to fit comfortably in...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
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Autofocus Image Sensor SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 17, 2021 — The ISOCELL GN5 image sensor from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a 1-μm device that integrates Dual Pixel Pro, an all-directional autofocusing technology. The technology places two small...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
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LED Line Illuminators MANTOVA, Italy, Sept. 17, 2021 — The LTLNC series of ultrahigh-power LED line illuminators from Opto Engineering SRL are designed for line scan applications. Its design provides a powerful and homogeneous beam of light that is...
Opto Engineering S.p.A.
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Luminance Measurement System WEINGARTEN, Germany, Sept. 17, 2021 — The luca luminance measurement system from opsira GmbH enables spatially resolved luminance. The measuring cameras of the series enable the high-resolution measurement of luminance and radiance...
opsira GmbH
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IR Camera with Microscope Optics BAD OLDESLOE, Germany, Sept. 14, 2021 — Automation Technology GmbH has announced an IR camera with microscope optics, providing an alternative to cooled IR cameras. Specially developed for use in nondestructive testing, the device...
AT - Automation Technology GmbH
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Off-Axis Paraboloids KENLEY, England, Sept. 14, 2021 — Off-axis paraboloids from Optical Surfaces Ltd. can maximize power density at the focus of Petawatt laser beamlines. Off-axis paraboloids offer unobstructed aperture and access to the focal...
Optical Surfaces Ltd.
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Machine Vision Software MUNICH, Sept. 14, 2021 — MERLIC 5 software from MVTec Software GmbH enables complete machine vision applications to be created quickly and easily without having to write code. With modern deep learning features and...
MVTec Software GmbH
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Laser Power Sensor ANDOVER, Mass., Sept. 14, 2021 — The Ophir F80(120)A-CM-17 laser power sensor from MKS Instruments Inc. is a thermal sensor for measuring high repetition rate lasers with short pulses in the nanosecond, picosecond, and femtosecond...
MKS Instruments Inc.
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Automation-Ready Scanning Solution NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I., Sept. 12, 2021 — The AS1 Absolute Scanner from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence AB is a multiuse, automation-ready scanning solution for the shop floor. The modular blue laser line scanner operates with both...
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
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3D Perception Software SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 12, 2021 — SENSR 2.2 3D perception software from Seoul Robotics can detect objects that are partially obstructed, fast-moving, or clustered together, in addition to providing unrivaled classification of...
Seoul Robotics
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Flat NIR Metalens COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 12, 2021 — The 1M Meta Optical Element flat NIR metalens from NIL Technology is flatter, thinner, and lighter than reflective lenses. The devices feature high imaging quality with a wide field of view,...
NIL Technology
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Wearable Ring Scanner LIDKOPING, Sweden, Sept. 8, 2021 — The RS60 Ring Scanner from the Handheld Group is a hands-free, wearable scanning solution for use in warehouses, retail, distribution, and other situations requiring highly mobile scanning. A...
Handheld Group AB
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Stepper Motor Controllers VAN NUYS, Calif., Sept. 7, 2021 — The ADAGIO-X-STPR series of rack mounted standalone stepper motor controllers from Optimal Engineering Systems Inc. are cost-effective solutions for controlling and driving single- and multiaxis...
Optimal Engineering Systems Inc.
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UV Hyperspectral Camera BOZEMAN, Mont., Sept. 7, 2021 — The Pika NUV2 UV hyperspectral camera from Resonon Inc. scans a spectral range of 330 to 800 nm. Designed for advanced research, industrial vision systems, remote sensing, and other...
Resonon Inc.
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Integrated Power Packages GENEVA, Sept. 7, 2021 — The MasterGaN3 and MasterGaN5 integrated power packages from STMicroelectronics are designed for applications up to 45 W and 150 W, respectively. Users are provided with extra flexibility to...
STMicroelectronics
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Rugged Industrial Lenses MAMMENDORF, Germany, Sept. 6, 2021 — The FUJINON HF-XA-1F series of mid-range industrial lenses from FUJIFILM Corp. has been announced by Vision Markets GmbH, featuring five new models with resistance to shock and vibration. The...
Vision Markets GmbH
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Camera Heating Plate RHEINSTETTEN, Germany, Sept. 6, 2021 — autoVimation GmbH has announced a 75-W, 24-V/DC camera heating plate to ensure trouble-free camera operation, even in arctic temperatures and strong winds. Its compact design is suitable for...
autoVimation GmbH
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Profile Sensor HAMAMATSU CITY, Japan, Sept. 6, 2021 — The S15366-256 profile sensor from Hamamatsu Photonics features embedded computing function for position sensing. The sensor is designed to calculate signals from the incident light spot within...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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Digital Piezo Controller AUBURN, Mass., Sept. 3, 2021 — The E-709 compact digital piezo servo controller and integrated driver from PI (Physik Instrumente) LP provides closed-loop position feedback and high-voltage amplification in a compact package. ...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Scientific CMOS Camera WATERLOO, Ontario, Sept. 3, 2021 — The Kinetix22 scientific CMOS camera from Teledyne Technologies supports demanding high-speed and low-noise scientific imaging applications. Providing a 22-mm sensor field-of-view, frame rates...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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Photochemistry LED Illuminator SHEPRETH, England, Sept. 3, 2021 — The Photochemistry LED Illuminator from Uniqsis Ltd. accelerates reaction optimization and batch scale-up of photochemical reactions. The system incorporates LED arrays operating at six...
Uniqsis Ltd.
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Laser Interferometry Acquisition TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 2, 2021 — 4Sight Focus acquisition and analysis software from 4D Technology Corp. is a 64-bit, multithreaded software platform to provide a streamlined user experience for laser interferometry. Real-time...
4D Technology Corporation
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Four-Axis Stage SANTA CLARITA, Calif., Sept. 2, 2021 — The YY'ZZ' Four-Axis Gantry from H2W Technologies Inc. is a linear, motor-driven stage featuring high speed and 1-μm resolution. The positioning stage consists of two SRS-007-03-006-01...
H2W Technologies Inc.
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