2006 Product of the Year Awards and Design Contest Winners

For Photonics Tech Briefs Product of the Year, the first winner was Lambda Solutions of Waltham, MA, for the Dimension-P Series Raman spectrometers that provide real-time analysis and monitoring in pharmaceutical or food processing quality control. The systems are operated via RamanSoft™ software that features proprietary algorithms and automation capability for data acquisition, data processing, and data analysis.

In accepting the award, Victor Sapirstein, Chairman and CEO, said, “It is an honor. We are very pleased because even though we design all of our own products, we use Newport components in our system, and we do a lot of our component design using SolidWorks. It is nice to meet those people; they are great companies. To be in their company is a great honor.”

For more information on Lambda Solutions’ Dimension-P Series, click here.

Newport Corporation of Irvine, CA, took home a PTB award for the Helios pump-probe transient absorption spectrometer used to monitor extremely short-lived optically absorbing states. The system is completely turnkey, including all of the optics, optomechanics, the delay line, spectrometer in the optical unit, and a PC containing the data acquisition hardware and software.

Domenico Assalone, Director and Site Manager of Newport’s Oriel Product Line, accepted the award. “Thank you to the readers of PTB for recognizing the importance of our product and selecting it as a Product of the Year. Newport’s Ultrafast Transabsorption Spectroscopy System is a significant addition to the spectroscopist’s tool set.”

For more information on Newport’s Helios system, click here.

The final PTB Product of the Year was presented to Toshiba Imaging Systems Division of Irvine, CA, which won for the IK-TF9C three-chip, color CCD camera with proprietary scan technology that eliminates image-jitter for high-speed industrial machine vision applications. Designed for integration into any machine vision system that requires high resolution and precision color definition, the camera is weighs 165 g and measures 44 × 44 × 78.3 mm.

Accepting the award was Gary Pitre, Eastern Regional Sales Manager. “This prestigious award is very meaningful to Toshiba for a couple of reasons. The first is because our product is a very unique product for very unique applications. This award and nomination process helps spread the word to the readers,” he said. “The second reason is because as Toshiba designs and develops new products, we like to gauge how well we hit our mark. This award strongly indicates our success in the development of this 3-megapixel 3CCD color camera,” Pitre added.

For more information on Toshiba’s IK-TF9C camera, click here.