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INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
A new series of graded reflectivity mirrors from REO (Boulder, CO) enables precise spatial shaping of both the intensity and phase characteristics of laser beams. In graded reflectivity mirrors, the...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
FIBERTech RoMack (Williamsburg, VA), A LEONI Fiber Optics business unit, now offers a complete product portfolio of maximum performance and long-term stability Planar Lightwave Circuits (PLC) including single mode 1 x...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Optical Surfaces Ltd (Kenley, Surrey, UK) can typically produce off-axis parabolic mirrors up to 600 mm in diameter with surface accuracy's to lambda/20 p-v depending upon off-axis angles. With proprietary polishing...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Edmund Optics (EO) (Barrington, NJ) has introduced TECHSPEC® Dichroic Shortpass Filters featuring a sharp cut-off wavelength and broad transmission and reflection ranges. TECHSPEC Dichroic Shortpass Filters are...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
At the heart of Mightex (Pleasonton, CA) multi-channel spectrometers is a high-throughput flat-field imaging spectrograph. Multiple input fibers, each representing an independent signal channel, are aligned...
Products: Energy
Linear Technology Corporation (Milpitas, CA) introduces the LTC4155, a high-power, I2C-controlled, high-efficiency PowerPath™ manager, ideal diode controller, and lithium-ion battery charger for single-cell...
Products: Energy
Nextreme Thermal Solutions (Durham, NC) and Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (APEI) (Fayetteville, AR) are developing a thermal energy harvesting solution for a wireless sensor system to monitor...
Blog: Medical
Meeting Medical Design Demands
It's always interesting to witness the progression of companies between trade shows. Months or year(s) have gone by, and in between, exhibiting companies don't idle — they find new ways to meet the ever-growing demands of the medical industry.
One of those demands is customization of orthopedic implants. At this...
Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
ProMation Engineering (Brooksville, FL) offers P1 series quarter-turn electric, non-spring return actuators, which feature a compact industrial grade design for use with all ball and butterfly valves or dampers...
Products: Energy
Linear Technology Corporation (Milpitas, CA) offers a high-reliability (MP-grade) version of the LT3511, a high-voltage isolated monolithic flyback regulator that operates over a -55°C to 150°C junction...
Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
Panasonic (Rolling Meadows, IL) has introduced a high rate lithium-ion cell, the CGR18650CH. The cell’s Nickel Manganese-based cathode material delivers higher discharge rates and better energy density and voltage than...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Waleed Abdalati, on January 3rd of this year, became NASA’s chief scientist. He will serve as the principal adviser to the NASA administrator on agency science...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Machine vision combines a range of technologies to provide useful outputs from the acquisition and analysis of images. Used primarily for inspection and robot guidance, the process must...
Articles: Software
Acoustic micro imaging uses a moving transducer that pulses ultrasound into materials and receives the return echoes from material interfaces. Images made from the echo signals may show anomalies...
Application Briefs: Imaging
For five years, Michael Lunoe, President of Zorg Industries, had been in need of a camera system that could identify objects and provide accurate distance from the rear of a vehicle.
Products: Imaging
The Imaging Source, Charlotte NC, has released two MegaPixel industrial cameras. The cameras include a Sony CCD ICX274, 1/1.8" sensor; a resolution of 1600 × 1200 pixels; a frame rate of 15 fps; a USB 2.0 or GigE interface;...
Products: Imaging
Foresight Imaging, Chelmsford, MA, offers the AccuStream Express HD+™ frame grabber and video streamer, featuring a high performance PCI Express x4 board design. The device acquires video from non-standard and...
Products: Imaging
Infrared Snapshot Camera
Sensors Unlimited — Goodrich ISR Systems, Princeton, NJ, announces the SU640KTS, a large-format indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) high-resolution shortwave infrared (SWIR) snapshot video camera. The imager meets all Conformite Europeene (CE) and U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) standards for radiated and...
Products: Imaging
Teledyne DALSA, Billerica, MA, a Teledyne Technologies company, has announced its BOA IDR optical inspection product. Features include identification and grading capabilities for part tracking based on codes,...
Products: Imaging
Multi ChipLEDs from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Sunnyvale, CA, have been used by FormoLight Technologies, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, to develop a 150" diagonal LED video display.
Products: Imaging
Photron, San Diego, CA, has introduced the IDP Express R2000 system. The R2000 features an on-board field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to provide developers access to the open-ended architecture. The new system...
Products: Imaging
Invisual E. Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, offers an in-process, real-time thermal scanning system for welding inspection and batch process monitoring. The system utilizes the thermal distribution of the heat-affected...
Products: Imaging
The ZM Series from Optex FA Sensors, West Des Moines, IA, provides durability with a SUS316L stainless steel housing and IP69K protection conforming to the IEC60529 rating system. The self-contained sensor meets...
Products: Imaging
Mad City Labs, Madison, WI, offers the Nano-F3D lens nanopositioning system. The tool positions an objective lens in 3 dimensions with subnanometer accuracy and repeatability. With a travel range of 100 μm in each...
Products: Imaging
Toshiba Imaging Systems Division, Irvine, CA, offers the IK-HR2D HD camera. Providing real-time, live-image data capture, the camera also features both DVI-D and USB outputs. The 1.73 × 1.73 × 3.17', one-piece CMOS...
Products: Imaging
The PIXCI® SV5L low-profile composite and S-Video PCI frame grabber from EPIX, Buffalo Grove, IL, acquires video from NTSC, RS-170, PAL, CCIR, or S-Video cameras. A 3-input video multiplexer allows signal selection from two...
Products: Imaging
PPT VISION, Bloomington, MN, introduces twenty-six new IMPACT® M-Series color cameras with dedicated software tools for sorting, monitoring, and identifying color objects. The options range from economical VGA...
Podcasts: Aerospace
Dr. Waleed Abdalati, NASA Chief Scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Waleed Abdalati, on January 3rd of this year, became NASA’s chief scientist. He will serve as the principal adviser to the NASA administrator on agency science programs, strategic planning, and the evaluation of related investments.
To download this interview as a...
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