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Briefs: Information Technology
SpaceCube Demonstration Platform
A document discusses how the HST SM4 SpaceCube flight spare was modified to create an experiment called the SpaceCube Demonstration Platform (SC DP) for use on the MISSE7 Space Station payload (in collaboration with NRL). It is designed to serve as an on-orbit platform for demonstrating advanced fault tolerance...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Aperture Mask for Unambiguous Parity Determination in Long Wavelength Imagers
A document discusses a new parity pupil mask design that allows users to unambiguously determine the image space coordinate system of all the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) science instruments by using two out-of-focus images. This is an improvement over existing mask...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Spaceflight Ka-Band High-Rate Radiation-Hard Modulator
A document discusses the creation of a Ka-band modulator developed specifically for the NASA/GSFC Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This flight design consists of a high-bandwidth, Quadriphase Shift Keying (QPSK) vector modulator with radiation-hardened, high-rate driver circuitry that receives...
Briefs: Medical
Enabling Disabled Persons To Gain Access to Digital Media
A report describes the first phase in an effort to enhance the NaviGaze software to enable profoundly disabled persons to operate computers. (Running on a Windows-based computer equipped with a video camera aimed at the user’s head, the original NaviGaze software processes the user’s...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Data communications in industrial environments can present special problems. Lines must be run over long distances, often ranging from thousands of feet to several miles, indoors and...
Application Briefs: Software
Creo Direct v17 modeling design softwarePTC Corp.Needham, MA781-370-5000www.ptc.com
There are several robotic arms on the International Space Station (ISS), but the two that...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Summit® X650 40-GbEswitchExtreme NetworksSanta Clara, CA408-579-2800extremenetworks.com
Some of the largest data sets in existence are related to weather research, and that data is used throughout...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) primary role is to develop science and technology to support unmanned missions to study the Earth, Sun, solar system, and universe. GSFC is responsible for several of...
NASA Tech Needs
NASA needs a sensor system to characterize damage from Micro-meteoroid and Orbital Debris (MMOD), corrosion, or to perform configuration verification when there is a...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Generally speaking, sensor manufacturers are driven to improve performance (i.e. offering greater sensitivity, smaller packages, more features) and lower costs. The prioritization of these...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
New high definition (HD) television cameras are being integrated into industrial environments to assist in the inspection of a variety of manufactured products. HDTV technology is...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Spaceflight system electronic devices must survive a wide range of radiation environments with various particle types including energetic protons, electrons, gamma...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A test port designed as part of a fiber-optic-coupled laser altimeter receiver optical system allows for the back-illumination of the optical system for alignment verification, as well as...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Phase Retrieval System for Assessing Diamond Turning and Optical Surface Defects
An optical design is presented for a measurement system used to assess the impact of surface errors originating from diamond turning artifacts. Diamond turning artifacts are common by-products of optical surface shaping using the diamond turning process (a...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Hexagon Metrology (North Kingston, RI) has announced the manual Cognitens WLS400M and the automated Cognitens WLS400A measurement systems. The white light measurement products use digital stereo...
Products: Photonics/Optics
NEC Avio Infrared Technologies (San Fernando, CA) has introduced its InfReC R300 high-definition thermal imager, which includes thermal movie recording to SD card in radiometric format, thermal/visible integrated images in...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The S11108 CMOS linear image sensor from Hamamatsu Corp. (Bridgewater, NJ) offers sensitivity of 50 V/(lx•s). An amplifier is embedded in each pixel of the CMOS sensor. The S11108, which features a spectral response...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) has expanded its CUBE product line of CW, visible diode laser modules with three new wavelengths: 488nm (50 mW), 685nm (40 mW), and 730nm (30 mW). The compact CUBE laser heads measure 100mm ×...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Power Integrations (San Jose, CA) has added seven LED driver ICs to its LinkSwitch-PH line. The ICs (LNK413-LNK419) are suitable for lighting applications ranging from 3W bulbs to 55W fluorescent lighting fixture replacements....
Products: Photonics/Optics
Maxim Integrated Products (Sunnyvale, CA) has introduced the DS1878, a small form factor pluggable (SFP+) controller with a digital laser diode driver (LDD) interface. The state-machine-based device controls and...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Lumex (Palatine, IL) has announced the global launch of the through-hole QuasarBrite 4-Leaded RGB LED. With a 120° viewing angle, the QuasarBrite 4-Leaded RGB LED is ideally suited for applications that require high intensity...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O) (Santa Ana, CA) announces the design and development of custom optical filters for PRP Optoelectronics (Towcester, England), independent manufacturer of LED-based display technology....
Products: Photonics/Optics
DuPont Microcircuit Materials (MCM) (Research Triangle Park, NC) has introduced DuPont™ Solamet® PV701 photovoltaic metallization paste, a Metal Wrap Through (MWT) technology for back side interconnected...
Products: Photonics/Optics
REO (Boulder, CO) currently offers bandpass filters for operation in the visible (380nm — 760nm), near infrared (600nm — 1100nm), and mid-infrared (1.3μm — 2.6μm) spectral ranges. Nominal bandwidth is 1% (FWHM) of the...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Lasers1 (Westwood, CA) now offers a new line of diode-based and DPSS- based laser modules, laser pointers, and hand-held lasers, available at wave- lengths between deep-UV (224nm) and near-IR (2240nm). The products have
power...
Products: Photonics/Optics
FANUC Factory Automation America (FANUC FA America) (Hoffman Estates, IL) has introduced the Series 30i/31i-L MODEL B high-speed laser controls, which deliver seamless choreography between axes motion and power...
Products: Photonics/Optics
TILL Photonics (Victor, NY) has announced its dual-color, 2-photon imaging fluorescence microscope, IntraVital2P. The IntraVital2P facilitates imaging at low-light levels and improves SNRs for dynamic...
Products: Photonics/Optics
CRAIC Technologies, Inc. (San Dimas, CA) has joined with Laboratory Imaging to create rIQ™, a tool that analyzes glass trace evidence. rIQ™, or Refractive Index Quantification, combines image analysis software,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Edmund Optics (EO) (Barrington, NJ), introduces its Plano-Convex (PCX) Axicons. The lenses, which feature one conical surface and one plano surface, produce a non-diffractive ring-shaped beam that increases in diameter...
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