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Elektronik Laser System GmbH Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The VersaDisk-515 is a frequency-doubled Yb:YAG thin-disk laser for general-purpose scientific applications, including atomic traps, laser tweezers, laser Doppler velocimetry, interferometry, spectroscopy and continuous-wave pumping of Ti:sapphire and dye laser systems. Manufactured by Elektronik Laser System GmbH of Gross-Zimmern, Germany, the modular device has pumping geometry based on a thin disk that also serves as a high-reflectance cavity mirror and that produces high output power with a...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Fiber Lasers Show Industrial Potential
The current generation of fiber lasers offer benefits such as low cost of ownership, compact size and ease of integration, which already make them competitive with YAG lasers, especially in materials processing. As this technology and its potential...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Hamamatsu Corporation Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Manufactured from a single 12-in. silicon wafer using conventional CMOS processes, the C7930DP flat panel sensor was developed by Hamamatsu Corp. of Bridgewater, N.J., for low-energy mammography, biopsy and traditional nondestructive test...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Hinds Instruments Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The development of lithography has been hindered by the lack of a deep-ultraviolet tool to measure birefringence in optical materials such as calcium fluoride. Visible measurement has encountered a high level of intrinisic birefringence in CaF2 at...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Integrated Optics Make Inroads
This year, integrated optics will begin to gain a significant foothold in commercial optical circuits, both in telecom and consumer electronics. Two years from now, they will most likely be predominant in optical circuits. Such devices are built...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
IPG Photonics Wins Circle of Excellence Award
A line of industrial low-order-mode ytterbium fiber lasers that produce 4 kW of continuous-wave output and that operate at 1060 to 1090 nm combine the power of single-mode monolithic diode-pumped 100- and 300-W lasers. The power is delivered through...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
IR Thermographic Cameras Are Moving into New Areas
Ten years ago, it was ”one size fits all.” We offered infrared technology in a box and hoped to figure out a way to make it work for everybody. But that’s not what today’s market needs. What we want to do is produce market-specific cameras with...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
JDS Uniphase -- OCLI Products Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The television industry is making a transition into liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) projection systems, especially for rear-projection TV. To meet the demand for higher uniformity and contrast in this technology, JDS Uniphase -- OCLI Products...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Konoshima, Chemical/Baikowski Group Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The polycrystalline ceramic YAG was designed as an inexpensive high-power replacement YAG, according to its developer, Konoshima Chemical Co. Ltd. of Kagawa, Japan. It offers five times the fracture toughness and can absorb more thermal and physical...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
LEDs Open New Doors
The possibility of widespread use of white-light inorganic light-emitting diodes in architectural spaces is generating a great deal of optimism in some government and industry circles. Some within those circles go so far as to predict that white...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Lumileds Lighting LLC Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The Luxeon warm white LED light source combines the benefits of solid-state lighting and the white color of incandescent lamps. The light provides 3200 K warm white light with a typical color-rendering index of 90, in contrast to the cool blue-white...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Microlithography Faces a 157-nm Question
When Intel Corp. announced its intention to bypass 157-nm lithography last spring, it raised more questions than it answered for many in the lithography industry. However, it is important to recognize that this decision was most likely based on an...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Miniature Fiber Optic Spectroscopy Comes of Age
In little more than a decade, miniature fiber optic spectroscopy has evolved from a technological curiosity to a proven technique that has helped make possible thousands of optical-sensing applications in hundreds of markets. Today, more than a...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Miniaturization and Powerful Software Drive Photonics Industry
Despite the less than stellar performance of recent years, the outlook for photonics looks bright. New technologies offer the promise of lower-cost bandwidth and simplified communications for consumers and businesses. The leading technology in this...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
NanoOpto Corp. Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Offering a building block for optical on-a-chip integration, the Subwave Retarder wave plates fabricated by NanoOpto Corp. of Somerset, N.J., are passive optical components that provide precise phase retardation with less dependence on wavelength,...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Newport Corp. Wins Circle of Excellence Award
A flexible, powerful approach to optical spectrum processing for applications in remote fiber optic sensing, telecommunications and the life and health sciences is embodied in the LambdaCommander OSP-9500 programmable spectral source. It...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Novalux Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Novalux Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., developed its Protera 488 laser system as a solid-state replacement for the air-cooled argon-ion laser used in bioanalytical instrumentation. Its advantages over argon-ion include twice the lifetime, 1/100 the...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Ocean Optics Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Researchers can achieve real-time measurements of trace elements in solids, liquids and gases with the broadband LIBS2000+ laser-induced breakdown spectrometer from Ocean Optics Inc. of Dunedin, Fla. Comprising seven HR2000 high-resolution...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
OraSure Technologies Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the OraQuick rapid HIV-1 antibody test provides results with greater than 99 percent accuracy in 20 minutes, according to its producer, OraSure Technologies Inc. of Bethlehem, Pa. The device uses less...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
PerkinElmer Optoelectronics Wins Circle of Excellence Award
A real-time imaging technology designed for vascular diagnostics, the fully digital Angio 41 detector from PerkinElmer Optoelectronics of Fremont, Calif., provides physicians with high-resolution images of the vascular system, offering them...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Photonic Solutions for Transportation
The US transportation infrastructure, already dependent in many ways on optics and photonics, will become even more so in the future, according to attendees of a workshop held last month in Washington. From monitoring exhaust emissions to assuring...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
QED Technologies Wins Circle of Excellence Award
The subaperture stitching interferometer is a six-axis, computer-controlled workstation that enables affordable, automated, high-precision characterization of large-clear-aperture and high-numerical-aperture parts. Combining advanced software...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Semrock Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Using the latest advances in thin-film filter technology, Semrock Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., has combined its modern ion-beam sputtering, sophisticated designs and proprietary deposition control techniques to produce a single laser-grade mirror that...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
Thin Films Support Projection Display Market and Beyond
Today a typical thin-film device consists of a multilayer stack of alternating high- and low-index dielectric films, each with a typical thickness of 50 to 100 nm. The number of layers depends on the application and can easily exceed 100. Filters...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
VECSELs Expand into New Applications
Vertical-extended-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) will enable advancements in several important applications in 2004 and beyond. Laser-projection systems can take advantage of the technology to provide the “missing link” — a compact green...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
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