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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optical design engineers often discuss the use of aspheres to reduce element count, but they seldom put the discussion into real-time practice, often fearing that the more complex fabrication...
Products: Imaging
The VA210 Series of AOTF-NIR (Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter Near Infrared) hyperspectral imaging adapters from Brimrose, Sparks, MD, measure visible or NIR hyperspectral imaging information on a variety of materials. The...
Products: Imaging
PPT VISION, Bloomington, MN, introduces twenty-six new IMPACT® M-Series color cameras with dedicated software tools for sorting, monitoring, and identifying color objects. The options range from economical VGA...
Products: Imaging
The PIXCI® SV5L low-profile composite and S-Video PCI frame grabber from EPIX, Buffalo Grove, IL, acquires video from NTSC, RS-170, PAL, CCIR, or S-Video cameras. A 3-input video multiplexer allows signal selection from two...
Products: Imaging
Toshiba Imaging Systems Division, Irvine, CA, offers the IK-HR2D HD camera. Providing real-time, live-image data capture, the camera also features both DVI-D and USB outputs. The 1.73 × 1.73 × 3.17', one-piece CMOS...
Products: Imaging
Mad City Labs, Madison, WI, offers the Nano-F3D lens nanopositioning system. The tool positions an objective lens in 3 dimensions with subnanometer accuracy and repeatability. With a travel range of 100 μm in each...
Products: Imaging
The ZM Series from Optex FA Sensors, West Des Moines, IA, provides durability with a SUS316L stainless steel housing and IP69K protection conforming to the IEC60529 rating system. The self-contained sensor meets...
Products: Imaging
Invisual E. Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, offers an in-process, real-time thermal scanning system for welding inspection and batch process monitoring. The system utilizes the thermal distribution of the heat-affected...
Products: Imaging
Photron, San Diego, CA, has introduced the IDP Express R2000 system. The R2000 features an on-board field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to provide developers access to the open-ended architecture. The new system...
Products: Imaging
Multi ChipLEDs from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Sunnyvale, CA, have been used by FormoLight Technologies, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, to develop a 150" diagonal LED video display.
Products: Imaging
Teledyne DALSA, Billerica, MA, a Teledyne Technologies company, has announced its BOA IDR optical inspection product. Features include identification and grading capabilities for part tracking based on codes,...
Products: Imaging
Infrared Snapshot Camera
Sensors Unlimited — Goodrich ISR Systems, Princeton, NJ, announces the SU640KTS, a large-format indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) high-resolution shortwave infrared (SWIR) snapshot video camera. The imager meets all Conformite Europeene (CE) and U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) standards for radiated and...
Products: Imaging
Foresight Imaging, Chelmsford, MA, offers the AccuStream Express HD+™ frame grabber and video streamer, featuring a high performance PCI Express x4 board design. The device acquires video from non-standard and...
Products: Imaging
The Imaging Source, Charlotte NC, has released two MegaPixel industrial cameras. The cameras include a Sony CCD ICX274, 1/1.8" sensor; a resolution of 1600 × 1200 pixels; a frame rate of 15 fps; a USB 2.0 or GigE interface;...
Application Briefs: Imaging
For five years, Michael Lunoe, President of Zorg Industries, had been in need of a camera system that could identify objects and provide accurate distance from the rear of a vehicle.
Articles: Software
Acoustic micro imaging uses a moving transducer that pulses ultrasound into materials and receives the return echoes from material interfaces. Images made from the echo signals may show anomalies...
Articles: Imaging
Machine vision combines a range of technologies to provide useful outputs from the acquisition and analysis of images. Used primarily for inspection and robot guidance, the process must...
Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-based deformable mirrorBoston Micromachines Corp. (BMC)Cambridge, MA617-868-4178www.bostonmicromachines.com
Boston Micromachines was awarded a Phase 1 NASA Small...
Application Briefs: Imaging
FluxData FD-1665 3CCD Multispectral CameraFluxData Inc.Rochester, NY800-425-0176www.fluxdata.com
FluxData has launched a multispectral imager on a mission to the...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The European Space Agency is funding e2v’s development of an image sensor for the visible instrument in the Euclid space telescope. Euclid is a candidate mission for one of two...
Products: Imaging
VDC Display Systems, a division of Video Display Corporation, Atlanta, GA, has announced its Marquee® SSL 7000HD projector. Key features include a 16.4" Extreme Short Throw Lens, LED light source, 1920 × 1080 HD resolution,...
Products: Imaging
Titan Tool Supply, Buffalo, NY, announces its Micro-Video-Zoom Objective featuring a CMOS camera. The unit is supplied with a 6' USB cable and TWAIN-compliant software. It has an adjustable back focal...
Products: Imaging
Vivid Engineering, Shrewsbury, MA, offers supporting products for Camera Link applications. The CLR-101C, a repeater and adapter, enables the use of PoCL cameras with standard frame grabbers. A simulator, the CLS-212,...
Products: Imaging
Vision Research, Wayne, NJ, has released the 4000 ISO-rated Phantom® v341 high-speed camera. The v341 incorporates a 4-megapixel, 35mm format sensor and almost 3 gigapixels/second throughput, offering rates of 800...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Nordson Asymtek, headquartered in Carlsbad, CA, provides automated fluid dispensing systems, which are used in the assembly and packaging of semiconductors, printed circuit boards, flat panel...
Articles: Imaging
The first 3D immersive environments, consisting of rudimentary software, projection, and display technologies, appeared two or more decades ago, but the past five years have seen a dramatic increase in the power...
Articles: Imaging
Ultra-high-speed framing cameras have long been the workhorse for acquiring elusive data in scientific fields where very fast phenomena are studied, such as high-voltage discharge, crack...
Blog: Imaging
Eye, Robot
Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a nickel-size, curvilinear camera with a 3.5x optical zoom. Or, to put it simply, an eyeball camera.
The lens and photodetectors are on flexible substrates. A hydraulic system then changes the shape of the substrates, allowing the...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Cree, Inc. (Durham, NC) has announced commercial availability of the new Cree XLamp® XM-L high-performance lighting-class LEDs, designed for very high-lumen applications such as high-bay or roadway lighting. Cool white...
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