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Articles: Software
A Stagnant Market?
A number of the executives we polled indicated that the CAD market has become a “mature” market, meaning that the number of truly innovative improvements in the...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
An innovation reported in “Two-Camera Acquisition and Tracking of a Flying Target,” NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 32, No. 8 (August 2008), p. 20, used a commercial fish-eye lens and an...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Method for Implementing Optical Phase Adjustment
A method has been developed to mechanically implement the optical phase shift by adjusting the polarization of the pump and probe beams in an NMOR (nonlinear magneto-optical rotation) magnetometer as the proper phase shift is necessary to induce self-oscillation. This innovation consists of mounting...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A diffractive optic element (DOE) can be used as a beam splitter to generate multiple laser beams from a single input laser beam. This technology has been recently used in...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The simplified architecture is a minimal system for a deep-space optical communications transceiver. For a deep-space optical communications link the...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
A new optical beam tracking approach for free-space optical communication links using two-photon absorption (TPA) in a high-bandgap detector material was demonstrated. This tracking scheme...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Steven Schmidt joined NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in 1994 as a project engineer and manager on programs such as the X-33, X-38, X-43A, F-15 Advanced...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Titanium:Sapphire (Ti:S)-based laser systems have revolutionized ultrafast research from biological imaging to high energy physics. Ti:S has a very broad gain bandwidth (680-1080 nm) but many...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A wide range of commercial applications use cameras with a zooming mechanism. Perhaps the most ubiquitous is the camera phone. Camera phones may have an optical zoom, a digital...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Oriel® (Stratford, CT) has announced a new uniformity measurement tool for measuring the uniformity of irradiance at the sample plane of solar simulators. The new PV tool is equipped with...
Products: Photonics/Optics
RGB combiners from CASIX Inc. (Fuzhou, Fujian, China) combine the three fundamental colors (Red, Green and Blue) to produce the desired visible color output through the proper modulator (e.g. LCD, LCOS). It could be potentially...
Products: Photonics/Optics
TRUMPF’s (Farmington, CT) has expanded its lineup of diode pumped disk lasers with the TruMicro 5250 compact picosecond (ps) laser. The ps-laser is based on disk technology and combines 6 ps pulses with a diffraction limited...
Products: Photonics/Optics
New Scale Technologies (Victor, NY) has introduced its M3-F focus module for miniature OEM cameras used in handheld products; portable biometric sensors; targeting, surveillance and security systems; and medical...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Semrock (Rochester, NY) has released four new optical filter sets for fluorescence imaging which enable the choice of substantially increased brightness or enhanced contrast when imaging the fluorescent labels...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Opto Diode Corporation (Newbury Park, CA) has developed the first in a series of high power LED arrays, the OD-850-30-030. The new 30- die near-infrared (NIR) LED array delivers more efficient operation and...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The C10000-601 and C10000-701 series TDI (time delay integration) cameras from Hamamatsu (Bridgewater, NJ) feature back-thinned CCD image sensors with 4096 horizontal pixels and 128 TDI stages (vertical pixels)....
Products: Photonics/Optics
FLIR Systems (Wilsonville, OR) has launched its ChromaNox line of EMCCD low light security cameras. Incorporating advanced EMCCD (electron multiplied CCD) technology, the ChromaNox cameras are available in VGA (640...
Products: Photonics/Optics
A new add-on module for Ocean Optics’ (Dunedin, FL) SpectraSuite Spectrometer Operating Software allows users of the company’s miniature spectrometers and Jaz optical sensing systems to calculate...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Ophir-Spiricon (Logan, UT) announced recently that Beam-Gage®, the company's next generation laser beam analysis software, now supports the XEVA InGaAs NIR Camera for demanding applications. XEVA delivers high...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Dayoptics (Fuzhou, Fujian, China) manufactures high-power polarization beamsplitter cubes (PBS) based on optical bonding technology which can withstand >15J/cm2 @1064nm 20ns, 20Hz. The advantages are...
Products: Photonics/Optics
DALSA Corporation (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has launched a new series within its Genieô line of GigE Vision®-compliant cameras designed for high-speed color acquisition with uncompromised image quality. Three HC...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Leybold Optics (Cary, NC) is now offering direct monitoring on box coaters with planet (double rotation) configuration. Optical monitoring is used in optical thin film production, in addition to the...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Bridger Photonics (Bozeman, MT) has announced a new line of absolute distance measurement systems, called the SLM Series. These systems are capable of ultra-high resolution length and thickness measurements...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Labsphere’s (North Sutton, NH) new thermal/optical/electrical LED Measurement Systems (TOCS) enables measurement of optical properties as a function of temperature and operating current using a single instrument. The...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Brimrose (Sparks, MD) has developed a miniature high speed Process AOTF-NIR (Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter Near Infrared) Analyzer, 7030-IP55, that performs ON-LINE measurement with extreme accuracy. The rugged solid-state...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Goodrich Corporation’s ISR Systems Princeton team (formerly Sensors Unlimited) (Princeton, NJ) has introduced a high-sensitivity, mil-hardened, indium gallium arsenide (In-GaAs) shortwave infrared (SWIR)...
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
High-Resolution Wind Measurements for Offshore Wind Energy Development
A mathematical transform, called the Rosette Transform, together with a new method, called the Dense Sampling Method, have been developed. The Rosette Transform is invented to apply to both the mean part and the fluctuating part of a targeted radar signature using the Dense...
Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) introduced the LM5119, a high voltage, dual-channel, dual-phase, synchronous buck controller with emulated current-mode (ECM) control. The LM5119 is ideal...
Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
Power Integrations (San Jose, CA) offers the LinkZero-LP, an integrated offline switcher IC that automatically enters a zero-input-power mode when the load is disconnected, cutting no-load power consumption to...
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