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PHOTONIS USA (Sturbridge, MA) has been awarded a patent for the manufacture of resistive glass tubes with non-linear gradient electrical resistance changes. The patented process creates a solid-piece reflectron...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Opto Diode Corp. (Newbury Park, CA) has introduced three new infrared (IR) emitters. The OD-850W gallium aluminum arsenide (GaAlAs) LED features a wide-emission angle and typical optical output of 40mW. The new device has a...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Resolve Optics Ltd (Chesham, UK) supplies a lightweight version of the 80-200mm focal length UV Zoom lens, developed for use with its Digital Cerenkov Viewing Device (DCVD). The DCVD, equipped with UV Zoom lens, captures the...
Products: Photonics/Optics
ADLINK Technology (San Jose, CA) has released the EOS- 1200, an embedded vision system that implements the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 quad core processor. The product provides four independent gigabit PoE (power...
Products: Photonics/Optics
D3 Engineering (Rochester, NY), New Scale Technologies (Victor, NY), and Sunex (Carlsbad, CA) have teamed up to create a new OEM SmartCamera Developer’s Kit. The kit allows engineers to develop and integrate camera...
Products: Photonics/Optics
BitFlow (Woburn, MA) has announced the Neon- CLQ Quad, a Camera Link/PoCL frame grabber that provides interfaces for four cameras plus I/O. All four cameras can be synchronized or independently operated with different resolutions,...
Products: Software
Ophir Photonics (North Logan, UT) offers the Quasar App, a mobile application that displays laser meter data on Android devices or tablets. The Quasar App connects to Ophir’s Quasar device via Bluetooth. Once...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The Model 248/310 grazing incidence spectrometer from McPherson (Chelmsford, MA) makes direct optical measurements from one to 300 nanometers. The device enables testing of soft x-ray (XUV) high energy light sources (plasma...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Building on the success of its Karbon®-CL line of PCI Express frame grabbers, BitFlow, Inc. (Woburn, MA) has introduced the model CL4-F featuring interfaces for two independent base, medium or full CameraLink (CL) digital video...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
DuPont Microcircuit Materials (MCM) (Bristol, UK) has introduced DuPont™ Solamet® PV416 photovoltaic metallization, a new frontside silver paste material used to raise the efficiency of thin film photovoltaic...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced a new, higher power Paladin™ laser designed for high-throughput Laser Direct Imaging (LDI) and other advanced microelectronics applications. The new Paladin Advanced 355 24000 is a...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
ILX Lightwave (Bozeman, MT), a Newport Corporation brand, announced the addition of the LDT-5940C Thermoelectric Temperature Controller to its portfolio of thermoelectric temperature controllers designed...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Transistors, resistors, capacitors, and diodes. All of these are examples of common electrical circuit elements that can be found on a computer motherboard, for instance. Billions of...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
At the heart of digital photography is a chip called an image sensor that captures a map of the intensity of the light as it comes through the lens and converts it to an electronic...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Lensed and tapered specialty fibers are designed to optimize coupling between the fiber and various optical components such as edge-emitting laser...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Innovation, demand, and falling prices have resulted in high quality large format commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) LCD displays moving from the living room to high availability, mission...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The ELIO® AQ metal adapter from Souriau (York, PA) enables a standard ELIO® optical contact to be inserted into the size-8 Quadrax cavity of several connector types. The ELIO® AQ adapter is already available for connectors in...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optical Communications Receiver
Specialized mixed-signal (radio frequency and digital) hardware and processing techniques are employed to enable processing of the multi-GHz signal bandwidth, along with the instruction of an inter-symbol guard time (ISGT) to facilitate synchronization to the received pulse-position modulation (PPM) signal.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Low-Noise, Large-Area Quad Photoreceivers Based on Low-Capacitance Quad Photodiodes
The Laser Interferometry Space Antenna’s (LISAs) scientific mission to detect gravity waves demands stringent noise limits on the system components, especially the large-area quad photoreceiver front end, for ultra-high-precision (≈10 pm/Hz1/2) distance...
Briefs: Information Technology
Wavefront Sensing Analysis of Grazing Incidence Optical Systems
Wavefront sensing is a process by which optical system errors are deduced from the aberrations in the image of an ideal source. The method has been used successfully in near-normal incidence, but not for grazing incidence systems. This innovation highlights the ability to examine...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
RxGen General Optical Model Prescription Generator
RxGen is a prescription generator for JPL’s in-house optical modeling software package called MACOS (Modeling and Analysis for Controlled Optical Systems), which is an expert optical analysis software package focusing on modeling optics on dynamic structures, deformable optics, and controlled...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Heliatek GmbH (Dresden, Germany) has developed 1.1 cm² tandem cells manufactured with a low temperature deposition process that have an efficiency of 9.8 %, a new world record for organic solar cells. The percentage was...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Power Integrations (San Jose, CA) has announced LinkSwitch-PH LED driver ICs in an eSIP™-7F (L package) that measures 2mm high. The Lpackage includes a heat transfer tab on top of the device, which is electrically quiet so...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Miyachi Unitek Corporation (Monrovia, CA) has released its new LF Fiber Laser Welding Systems, specially designed for fine micro welding. The LF handles focused spot sizes down to 10 microns, and offers control of pulse...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The Vitara laser from Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) delivers pulsewidths shorter than 12fs. The product offers automated wavelength tuning over a 755nm to 860nm range and pushbutton bandwidth adjustment from 30nm to...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The Visiosens VFU Camera Platform from FRAMOS (Camberley, UK) has more than 200 camera variants per image sensor. The tool comprises CCD and CMOS image sensors ranging from 0.3 to 10.0 megapixels, a variety of output interfaces...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Baumer (Southington, CT) has introduced its HXC20NIR and HXC40NIR CMOS cameras, which measure electroluminescence in the near-infrared (NIR) light spectrum. Compared with monochrome technology, the cameras are twice as sensitive at...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Precision Glass & Optics (Santa Ana, CA) recently provided optical mirrors that are integrated into a 360-degree high definition (HD) video camera system developed by Social Animal (www.socialanimal.tv). The SA360 Video...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Wavelength Electronics (Bozeman, MT) now offers a USBKIT interface board and software package for its laser control systems. The bus-powered USB 2.0 interface board is easily wired using on-board screw terminals, and...
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