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Products: Motion Control
Animatics Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) released the SM2315DT as part of the OEM Series of SmartMotors. The unit features an 8-pole rotor design with a high copper filling factor, and delivers 112 oz-in of peak torque while maintaining...
Products: Motion Control
The Model 01424 rotating torque sensor from Sensor Developments (Lake Orion, MI) uses a shaft-to-shaft configuration for in-line placement, and incorporates a digital non-contact wireless system that provides power to the...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
A system of active optics that includes a wavefront sensor and a deformable mirror has been demonstrated to be an effective means of partly correcting wavefront aberrations...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Altera Corp. (San Jose, CA) offers the high- density Stratix II GX family designed to provide up to 20 low-power transceivers operating between 600 Mbps and 6.375 Gbps with 127 Gbps of aggregate...
Products: Software
Maplesoft™, Waterloo, ON, Canada, has introduced Maple™ 11 mathematical software with a smart document environment that automatically captures technical knowledge in an electronic form that seamlessly...
Who's Who: Unmanned Systems
While a single, peer-to-peer rover can cover a large territory and gather a wealth of information, an entire fleet of rovers could cover even more ground. However,...
Articles: Automotive
While the latest news surrounding the U.S. auto industry continues to be focused on slumping sales and production cutbacks, automakers continue to turn out cars that highlight the...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
One of the key advantages of fiber laser technology stems from the high conversion efficiency of the multimode pump radiation into high-brightness, single-mode laser light within the doped fiber...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optical and optoelectronic (OE) devices are being rapidly integrated into many facets of everyday life. From telecommunications to sensor applications, these devices are expected to perform...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Recirculation of Laser Power in an Atomic Fountain
A new technique for laser-cooling atoms in a cesium atomic fountain frequency standard relies on recirculation of laser light through the atom-collection region of the fountain. The recirculation, accomplished by means of reflections from multiple fixed beam-splitter cubes, is such that each of two...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A simplified method of generating a beam of light having a relatively high value of angular momentum (see figure) involves the use of a compact apparatus consisting mainly of a laser, a...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Two interferometric quantum-nondemolition (QND) devices have been proposed: (1) a polarization-independent device and (2) a polarization-preserving device. The...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Ring-Down Spectroscopy for Characterizing a CW Raman Laser
A relatively simple technique for characterizing an all-resonant intracavity continuous- wave (CW) solid-state Raman laser involves the use of ring-down spectroscopy. As used here, “characterizing” signifies determining such parameters as threshold pump power, Raman gain, conversion...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Intense, Ltd. (Glasgow, UK) released Hermes™, a family of High Power Laser (HPL) products. Included are single emitters, bars, conductively and micro-channel cooled bars, and stacks. The...
Products: Materials
Patterned dichroic filters from Deposition Sciences, Inc. (Santa Rosa, CA) operate over a wide range of wavelengths, from near ultraviolet to infrared. Able to be applied in a variety of substrates in multiple shapes and...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Laser Design (Minneapolis, MN) released the SLP-2000 3D laser-scanning probe with an extra-long-laser line (8") and standard dual CMOS receptors. The device captures 50,000 to 75,000 points per second. The probe is...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The P-2000 multi-option polarimeter from JASCO (Easton, MD) is designed to be customizable with options to handle a researcher’s initial requirements and then upgraded at a later date. The unit can operate via a PC with Windows®...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The 2D Image Simulation feature in CODE V® 9.7 from Optical Research Associates (Pasadena, CA) allows users to visualize overall performance and communicate design tradeoffs to non-optical personnel. The function displays an...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The model 642 Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) light source from McPherson, Inc. (Chelmsford, MA) utilizes a filament to produce electrons that are accelerated toward a target by high voltage. It is stable, debris-free, and...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Cincinnati Inc. (Cincinnati, OH) introduced the CL-707 high-speed, super-size laser with interchangeable 8 × 20' cutting tables. The linear motor drive delivers 10,000 ipm head positioning. The 5 kW power of the cutting...
Products: Photonics/Optics
OPTEK Technology (Carrollton, TX) offers the OPF670 series of fiber optic LED transmitters for integration into data communications equipment. The series consists of the OPF670 in a TO-46 package, the OPF672 in a standard...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Liekki (Lohja, Finland) has released square and rectangular optical fibers for high-power delivery applications. Square- and rectangular-shaped fibers more closely match optical sources. Different combinations —...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The TLS Series of software-controlled (Windows®) wavelength tunable light sources from Optometrics Corp. (Ayer, MA) can be used for detector sensitivity testing, color matching, and characterization, as well as...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The term “Passive Acoustic Monitoring System” (PAMS) describes a developmental sensing and data-acquisition system for recording underwater sounds. The sounds (more precisely, digitized and...
Application Briefs: Materials
TEMBO® Elastic Memory Composite Hinges (EMCH) Composite Technology Development (CTD) Lafayette, CO 303-664-0394 www.ctd-materials.com
Elastic Memory Composite Hinges (EMCH) were developed by...
Application Briefs: Software
focusLEO Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) flight dynamics software GMV Rockville, MD 301-926-0119 www.gmv.com
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), managed by NASA’s Jet...
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Wireless Data-Acquisition System for Testing Rocket Engines
A prototype wireless data-acquisition system has been developed as a potential replacement for a wired data-acquisition system heretofore used in testing rocket engines. The traditional use of wires to connect sensors, signal-conditioning circuits, and data acquisition circuitry is...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Processing Raw HST Data With Up-to-Date Calibration Data
On-the-Fly Reprocessing (OTFR) is a collection of data-processing routines that work within the context of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) pipeline data-flow system. The purpose served by OTFR is to generate, on demand, scientifically useful data products from raw HST data stored in an...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The Aviation Data Integration System (ADIS) of Ames Research Center has been established to promote analysis of aviation data by airlines and other interested users for purposes of enhancing the...
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