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Products: Photonics/Optics
Specialised Imaging Ltd (Hertfordshire, UK) has introduced a 16 channel camera capable of capturing images at 200,000,000 frames per second with gating down to 5ns. Applications for ultra high speed multiple framing...
Products: Photonics/Optics
ROHM Electronics (San Diego, CA) introduces AC/DC-isolated LED driver modules that utilize constant-current circuits optimized for driving LEDs. The BP58xx series integrates all required LED-driving control circuits,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Hamamatsu Corporation (Bridgewater, NJ) has introduced a chip-on-board-type illuminance sensor called the S10604. The RoHS-compliant sensor is ideal as an energy-saving sensor for large-screen TV brightness...
Products: Photonics/Optics
A two part, condensation cured liquid silicone system called Master Sil 150 has been developed by Master Bond, Inc (Hackensack, NJ). It can be used for the potting and encapsulation of voltage regulators, high...
Products: Photonics/Optics
QZEO (San Diego, CA) has introduced a compact CMOS high-speed camera called EoSens® CL, with 500 fps at 1280(H) × 1024(V) resolution. EoSens® CL has a photo-sensitivity of 2500 ISO/ASA, which is 16 times higher than...
Articles: Lighting
In August 2007, Cree’s management made a bold decision to replace the existing fluorescent lighting technology at its Durham, NC facility with new energy-saving, environmentally friendly LED lighting...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Prisms are used in countless optical systems — from the pair of binoculars in your closet to cutting edge targeting systems to retroreflectors on the Moon. In modern, high-end optical systems,...
Briefs: Software
Multichannel Monitor-Stabilizer for Injection-Locked Lasers
Temp Tracker and Temp Tracker 12 ch (single-channel and 12-channel versions) programs are designed for use with an atomic gravity gradiometer. They support the stable operation of the injection-locked slave laser(s) in an autonomous regime. Due to changes of environmental conditions and...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The self-quenching single-photon detector exhibits unique avalanching behaviors. It can automatically quench each of the Geiger mode avalanche events occurring inside the detector, can maintain the...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A differential-frequency measurement technique has been devised to reduce the spurious contributions of temperature fluctuations to determinations of physical quantities from readings of...
Products: Photonics/Optics
HGH Infrared Systems (Cambridge, MA) has introduced the IR Revolution 360, a 20° vertical, 360° horizontal field of view (FOV) panoramic infrared camera for security and surveillance. The sensor...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Toshiba Teli America, Inc. (Irvine, CA) has introduced the SmartDragon™ image processor that can connect and simultaneously receive data from up to four FireWire-B (IEEE1394.b) color or black-and-white cameras. The...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Basler (Ahrensburg, Germany) has implemented enhanced features on their Scout and Pilot series cameras. The Auto Features Suite controls several camera functions such as gain, exposure, and white balance...
Products: Photonics/Optics
FEI Company (Hillsboro, OR) has released the TitanTM 80-300 environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM). The Titan ETEM is suitable for chemical research at the atomic scale, and studying...
Products: Photonics/Optics
SCHOTT (Southbridge, MA) has introduced the KL 200 LED Series cold light engine and the EasyLED Ringlight plus stereo microscopy lamp. The low energy consuming lighting solutions are ideal for industrial, biological lab, and...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Luminus Devices (Billerica, MA) has added white LEDs to its PhlatLight® LED line. The white LEDs feature large chip sizes, photonic lattice technology for maximum light extraction, and advanced PhlatLight packaging to provide good...
Products: Photonics/Optics
AMS Technologies (Martinsried, Germany) now offers MEMS 3D micro-mirrors from Sercalo Microtechnology Ltd. The micro-mirrors are used for precise optical beam steering. To avoid an optical feedback loop, the micro-mirror...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Cree, Inc. (Durham, NC), has introduced the XLamp® XP-E and XP-C LEDs. The new XLamp LEDs, measuring only 3.45 mm square by 2 mm high, can enable new applications, including back-lighting, signage, outdoor, indoor, and...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, NJ) has introduced Ultra-Sense™, a complete wafer processing solution. Ultra-Sense combines Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) wafer technology with low-cost, scalable fabrication techniques...
Products: Photonics/Optics
J. P. Sercel Associates (JPSA) (Manchester, NH) has introduced laser workstations for processing solar thin film photovoltaic (PV) products. The PV-5000 Thin Film PV Scribing System is based on the ChromaDice™...
Products: Photonics/Optics
TRUMPF Inc. (Farmington, CT) has announced the Tru-Laser Station 5004, a compact workstation that accommodates manual and semiautomatic laser welding. It comes equipped with an integrated protective hood, inert gas feeder,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Linear Technology Corporation (Milpitas, CA) has introduced the LTC4224, a compact, low voltage Hot Swap™ controller for protecting boards and backplanes that uses two 1V to 6V voltage supplies. The LTC4224 enables...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Applied Scientific Instrumentation (Eugene, OR) has introduced PhotoTrack, a system specifically designed to solve the problem of tracking a moving specimen. Combined with ASI’s closed-loop DC servo motor stages,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Moritex (Cambridge, UK) has introduced a multimedia kit for its LightScope industrial endoscopes that includes everything required to perform wide ranging portable inspection and video documentation tasks. The multimedia kit...
Products: Photonics/Optics
IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) has developed a new method to produce ~50μm thin crystalline silicon wafers for use in solar cells. The process involves mechanically initiating and propagating a crack parallel to...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Automated Laser Corporation (Fort Wayne, IN) has introduced the LSG-10 Laser Marker, the next generation of their high-speed CO2 laser markers. The LSG-10 offers a larger marking window, more choices and sizes of text including all...
Articles: Motion Control
Reactive, avoidable equipment repairs are a leading contributor to lost productivity in industrial manufacturing operations. Parts with an average selling price of just a few...
Articles: Motion Control
Advances in digital hardware technology and software innovations now allow a single digital servo drive to be configured to work in a variety of machine control architectures.
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
QuickSilver Servo Motors Drive Autonomous Vehicles
The design of remotely operated, autonomous battery-powered vehicles places special requirements on motion control systems. High torque at low speeds is needed to climb over obstacles, while higher speed operation is needed for cruise speed. Efficient operation from lower voltages (12V to 48V)...
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