Products: Photonics/Optics
Picosecond MOPA Laser
Genia Photonics (Lasalle, Quebec, Canada) is now offering a family of high-performance, fiber-based MOPA (Master Oscillator Power Amplifier) lasers that deliver short, high-frequency pulses in the picosecond regime. The...
Products: Photonics/Optics
64-Channel Time-to-Digital Converter
Voxtel (Beaverton, OR) has introduced the YVX-657 time-to-digital converter. This processor has been designed for time-of-flight measurements for applications including time-correlated spectroscopy, flash...
Products: Photonics/Optics
High-Performance Seals
DuPont Performance Polymers (Wilmington, DE) has introduced DuPont™ Zalak® 5300 high-performance seals for photovoltaic cell manufacturing. Zalak 5300 seals bridge the performance gap between standard...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Sole Laser Light Engines
The new series of sole light engines from Omicron (Rodgau, Germany) are available in up to three wavelengths or up to six wavelengths, in the range of 375nm to 830nm, and an optical output power of up to 150mW at...
Products: Photonics/Optics
LED High Bay Fixture
Dialight (Farmingdale, NJ) has introduced new ultra-bright DuroSite LED High Bay Fixtures. The DuroSite High Bay fixture, incorporates Cree’s Xlamp® XP-G LEDs, delivering nearly 12,000 lumens while consuming only 150...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Fiber-Coupled 405nm Laser Diodes
Laser Components (Hudson, NH) has recently added the K41 and CS405 series to their range of fiber-coupled high-power laser diodes. At a wavelength of 405nm, the components emit an optical output power of 20mW...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Night Vision Sensor
The new NSC0905 sensor from New Imaging Technologies (Evry, France) is specially designed for high-performance intensified night vision applications. The NSC0905 sensor has a pixel pitch of 10.6um with 1280×1024...
Products: Photonics/Optics
XUV Wavelength Calibration Source
McPherson’s (Chelmsford, MA) Model 642-1 calibration light source for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft x-ray (XUV) features a six-position anode carousel to exchange target materials. It permits...
Products: Photonics/Optics
High-Voltage Pulse Drivers
Highland Technology (San Francisco, CA) has introduced the T750 and T760 high-voltage pulse drivers. Both feature fast, low-jitter, transformer-isolated pulse outputs which are user adjustable from +5 volts to +100...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Infrared Data Acquisition Technology
Extech Instruments (Waltham, MA) has introduced METERLiNK ™, an exclusive new technology that wirelessly connects FLIR infrared cameras to Extech meters via Bluetooth™ to accelerate and simplify...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Laser Calibration System
Renishaw (Hoffman Estates, IL) has introduced the "lean design" XL-80 laser calibration system. The new design allows a 4X faster slew rate, 10X higher dynamic data capture rate, and total system accuracy in a...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Lead Selenide and Lead Sulfide IR Detectors
Cal Sensors (Santa Rosa, CA) has announced the launch of IDA (Integrated Detector Assembly) lead selenide and lead sulfide high-sensitivity infrared detectors with integrated electronics enclosed...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Large-Area Epitaxial Solar Cells
Imec (Leuven, Belgium) has produced large-area (70cm2) epitaxial solar cells with efficiencies of up to 16.3% on high-quality substrates.
Products: Photonics/Optics
SWIR InGaAs Camera
Sensors Unlimited (Princeton, NJ), part of Goodrich Corporation, has announced the new SU1024LDH2, a high speed, digital line scan SWIR-indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) camera. The second generation 1024-pixel, high speed...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Optical Laser Distance Sensor
Baumer (Southington, CT) has introduced the OADM 250, an optical laser distance sensor specifically designed to accurately detect target objects, regardless of surface properties or color, at distances from 0.2...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Custom Non-Browning Lenses
Resolve Optics Ltd. (Chesham, Bucks., UK) offers a custom OEM design and manufacture service for organizations requiring non-browning fixed focus or zoom lenses optimized to their applications. All optical elements...
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LED Electronic Power Supply
Zenaro (Karlsruhe, Germany) has introduced a new line of electronic power supplies specially designed for LED indoor/outdoor lighting applications. The efficiency performance is greater than 92%, saving more...
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High Efficiency Power Manager
Linear Technology Corporation (Milpitas, CA) introduces the LTC4098-3.6, an autonomous high efficiency power manager, ideal diode controller, and battery charger for 1-cell Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries used...
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Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Node
MicroStrain, Inc. (Williston, VT) introduces EH-Link™, a new hybrid energy harvesting wireless sensor node that collects energy from multiple sources including strain, vibration, thermal gradients,...
Products: Energy
Stainless Steel Strip for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Sandvik (Benton Harbor, MI) has introduced Sandvik Sanergy HTTM, an advanced stainless steel strip developed for interconnectors in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). The strip has...
Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
Inkjet Deposition of Etchant and Dopant Materials
Trident Solar (Brookfield, CT) and Alpha (South Plainfield, NJ), a Cookson Electronics company, have collaborated on additive, non-contact inkjet technologies that provide enhanced production...
Products: Electronics & Computers
High-Density Rad-Hard Reconfigurable FPGA
Xilinx, Inc. (San Jose, CA) has launched the industry’s first high-density, rad-hard reconfigurable FPGA. The new devices are built on the second-generation ASMBL™ column-based architecture of...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Video Frame Grabber
The PIXCI® SI2 frame grabber from EPIX (Buffalo Grove, IL) supports two high-resolution SILICON VIDEO® cameras with resolutions from 0.3 to 10 megapixels on the x1 PCI Express bus. With 64 MB of onboard memory and...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Multi-Touch Controller Chip
STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland) has introduced the STM32TS60, a single-chip multi-touch “resistive” touchscreen controller that detects up to 10 simultaneous touches with fingers, nails, or stylus,...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Electrical Test and Measurement CD
Keithley Instruments (Cleveland, OH) has released a free tutorial CD that offers practical and helpful techniques for obtaining the most accurate and precise measurements possible using advanced electrical...
Products: Electronics & Computers
16-Bit Microcontroller
The MAXQ622® microcontroller with integrated USB transceiver from Maxim Integrated Products (Sunnyvale, CA) features an ultra-low stop-mode current (300nA, typ.) and intelligent supply switching to extend battery life...
Products: Electronics & Computers
6U OpenVPX Radar System Upgrade
Available in both air- and conduction-cooled configurations, the Ensemble™ 6000 Series OpenVPX HCD6410 High Compute Density Module from Mercury Computer Systems (Chelmsford, MA) combines eight...
Products: Electronics & Computers
OpenVPX/VITA-65 Serial RapidIO® GEN-2 Switch
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) has introduced the OpenVPX™/VITA-65 compliant VPX6-6902 Serial RapidIO® (SRIO) switch card. This rugged 6U VPX board,...
Products: Electronics & Computers
6U OpenVPX Rugged Single Board Computer
GE Intelligent Platforms (Charlottesville, VA) has announced the SBC622 rugged 6U OpenVPX-compliant single board computer. At 2.53GHz, the SBC622’s Intel Core i7 processor is 30% faster than its...
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