High-Speed Cameras

iX Cameras (Woburn, MA and Rochford, UK) has added a new, value-priced camera to the premium ultra-high-speed i-SPEED 7 Series line. The new i-SPEED 713 is designed for a wide range of applications including drop testing, airbag testing, and manufacturing, which demand the highest resolution but not necessarily the fastest speed available.

The affordable entry-level i-SPEED 713 features a custom high-resolution 2048 x 1536 pixel sensor providing a maximum frame rate of 500,000 fps, combining for 13 GP/sec throughput. The i-SPEED 7 Series cameras are packaged in an instrumentation version or an optional rugged, High-G-rated version designed to resist shock. Added options include swappable SSD flash memory cartridges for quick data transfer and 1-hour batteries for field work and backup in the event of power failure.

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Compact, High-Resolution Lens

The new 12 megapixel resolution MPY 1.1” C-Mount lens series from Computar (Cary, NC) will work with the SONY Pregius IMX253 and IMX255 image sensors. The lenses are designed to enable the high image quality of the high-resolution SONY sensors to be fully utilized in machine vision, life science, and ITS applications. The lenses support pixel sizes of tip to 3.45 μm and are available in fixed focal lengths of 8, 12, 16, 25, 35, and 50 mm.

According to the manufacturer, these are the smallest 1.1” lenses in the 10 megapixel class. The MPY series with its 17 mm image circle allows the high image quality and resolution of the SONY Pregius IMX253 and IMX255 sensors to be fully utilized without vignetting.

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Fiber Optic Ribbon Cable

OFS (Norcross, GA) is expanding its AccuTube® “ribbon in loose tube” cable product line by offering the new AccuTube+ Rollable Ribbon (RR) Fiber Optic Cable. Available with 1728 and 3456 fibers, these cables can be installed in common 1¼” and 2” ducts, respectively. According to the manufacturer, the cables offer the significant time and cost savings benefits of 12-fiber mass fusion splicing, as compared with single fiber splicing, while getting the highest fiber density.

In a rollable ribbon cable, 12 fibers are connected intermittently by matrix material to form a very flexible ribbon, allowing the ribbons to be rolled into tight bundles, doubling the fiber density. These fibers can then be unrolled into a ribbon that can be spliced with traditional flat ribbon machines and procedures.

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LED High Power Light Source for UV

The “LedHUB” LED light engine from Omicron (Rodgau-Dudenhofen, Germany), is now available down to 340nm. The system can be equipped with one to six LED modules with wavelengths from 340nm in UV up to 940nm in near IR. Analog intensity modulation up to 200 KHz and digital modulation with a switching time of <2μs for each channel are available. Up to 5-milliwatt optical output power LEDs can be used.

Temperature control of the chips provides stable power level and emission spectra. LED outputs are combined by optics and can be coupled into quartz glass fibers or liquid light guides. Filter holders can be equipped with 25 mm standard filters to adapt the emission of each LED to a particular application. Modulation can be via external signal or by an internal programmable signal generator. SYNC in- and out enables synchronization with external devices like cameras, microscopes, or DAC cards.

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Non-Contact Measurement Systems

The Swift PRO series, non-contact measurement systems from Vision Engineering, (Surrey, UK) are designed to deliver fast and accurate 2- and 3-axis measurements. They are available with optical, video, or both. The systems are equipped with a high definition video camera and easy to use software and are available with either an 8” × 4” (200 mm × 100 mm) or 6” × 4” (150 mm × 100 mm) measuring stage.

Iris control of the substage lighting, which provides even illumination across the field of view, and surface quadrant LED lighting are controlled through the software.

The series includes Swift PRO Cam — an entry-level video measuring and inspection system with a HD video camera and large measuring stage; Swift PRO Duo — which incorporates both video and optical technologies, allowing for seamless switching between video and optical measurements; Swift PRO Elite —which provides accurate measurements, even for difficult subjects such as black or transparent plastics.

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High Power Laser Diode Cooling Solutions

Curamik® CoolPerformance Plus is the latest cooling material from Rogers Corporation (Eschenbach, Germany). It is an advanced liquid-cooled material designed to dissipate large amounts of heat and provide reliable thermal management of high-power laser diodes operating at power levels to 200W or more.

CoolPerformance Plus coolers build upon the cooling approach employed in Rogers Curamik CoolPerformance coolers. Both types of coolers feature several layers of pure copper. The copper foils are formed into hermetic, three-dimensional microchannel or macrochannel water-cooled structures capable of dissipating large amounts of heat in small areas. In addition, they also have aluminum-nitride (AlN) isolation layers, which separate the cooling water channels from the electrical contacts of the laser diodes. They provide a close match in coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), in the range of 6 to 7 ppm/K, between the copper cooling structures and the laser diode packages.

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Fixed Mount Machine Vision Camera

JADAK (Syracuse, NY) has released VIBE®, a new fixed mount machine vision camera. It is designed for integration into a wide range of OEM medical devices, including in vitro diagnostic systems, which require image analysis, as well as two-dimensional barcode scanning. It is a VGA smart camera, especially ideal for applications that require a small footprint and reading of a matrix code or machine vision at close range, such as desktop analyzer devices. It can be integrated with machine vision software and can decode or image at less than 1” distance. VIBE includes a dedicated processor that can perform decoding tasks and is ideal for applications desiring no impact on host processor bandwidth.

Off-the-shelf specifications include a 640x480 CMOS area imager (color VGA), a 64° lens angle, 30 frame per second frame rate, and white LED on-board illumination, with a standard 1.5” × 1.5” footprint.

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High-Speed Camera

The IL5 high-speed camera from Fastec Imaging (San Diego, CA) enables you to record gears, motors, machinery — equipment that is moving too quickly to process with the naked eye. By using slow motion replay, you can see what you have been missing with normal speed video and analyze the performance of your equipment. With recording speeds of over 630 frames per second at HD 1080p resolution, over 3200 fps at VGA resolution, and more than 29,000 fps at smaller resolutions, you see what you have been missing with normal speed video. Images can be saved to an SSD or SD card while recording high-speed bursts of hundreds or even thousands of images at a time. With the Long-Record (LR) option it can record at high speed for many minutes at high resolutions, to many hours at reduced resolutions. It can be controlled via Gigabit Ethernet or with the built-in web interface.

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Instrument Laser Modules

OSI Laser Diode, Inc. (Edison, NJ), has introduced the LCW/SCW series of high-power laser modules for optical testing. The devices feature pulsed optical power up to 200 mW@1000mA peak and continuous-wave (CW) up to 75 mW. The new series offers a variety of wavelength options including 1310 nm, 1490 nm, 1550 nm, 1625 nm, and 1650 nm. Single-mode and multi-mode fiber options are available. The hermetically-sealed, laser-welded devices can include thermoelectric coolers (TECs) and temperature-sensing thermistors, plus back-facet monitors. The family is available in a 14-pin butterfly package, 14-pin dual inline (DIP) package, coaxial packaging, and standard TO56 cans. Custom packaging is also available. The LCW/SCW modules provide high wavelength stability over a wide temperature range, making them ideal for optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) instruments, spectroscopy, optical and line-of-sight (LOS) sensors, talk sets, and photon-counting tasks.

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Single Wrench Optical Mount

Siskiyou Corporation (Grants Pass, OR) has introduced its “one wrench” concept to several of their optical mounts and adjustment mechanisms, including kinematic and gimbal mounts, translation stages, and laser diode holders/ positioners. This means that all the adjustment, mounting, and locking screws on the mount are operated using the same size (5/64” or 2.0 mm) hex wrench. This enables the user to mount and align even complex optomechanical systems using literally a single wrench, thus enhancing convenience and ease-of-use.

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Advanced Optical Monitoring System

Precision Glass & Optics (Santa Ana, CA) announces the successful installation of a new SL-2012A SpectraLock special index dispersion enhanced monitoring (IDEM) optical monitoring system from Eddy Company (Apple Valley, CA). The system provides in-situ optical monitoring and rate control to produce single and multi-layered thin films with ultra-precision and accuracy. This will enable them to accurately predict the films their chambers produce, with optical thickness monitoring and control from 1 nm to over 5,000 nm.

The newly installed computer and software system provides calibration of the exact refractive index dispersion for each material and process used. The thin-film design program and the optical monitoring controller will now produce optical coatings that precisely match the design without iteration or error. According to the Eddy Company, the system that has been installed at PG&O is a revolutionary field-proven development in optical coating technology.

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Optical Beam Alignment Tool

The new Light Aligner from Spectrolight (Irvine, CA) is a tool that solves the ubiquitous challenge of aligning a light beam through an optical system constructed on a breadboard or optical table. The Light Aligner is an anodized metal ruler with precision engraved fiducials and a series of 2.5 mm diameter through-holes. It utilizes a magnetic base that holds the ruler in a vertical orientation and enables its stable, temporary placement on any optical table, breadboard or ferrous metal surface. In use, the optical beam is passed through one of the holes at the appropriate height, and then the entire unit is moved as necessary to various positions in the optical system to verify that the beam alignment is being maintained.

The Light Aligner is available either with or without registration pins on its base, allowing for either complete freedom in its placement, or precise registration of a beam with the mounting hole pattern on the table or breadboard. The Light Aligner also uses a modular approach to provide maximum utility; a bolt-on extension doubles the height with no loss of precision. Both metric and imperial (inch) versions are available with standard lengths being 220 mm and 8.6 inches.

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