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INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Analog Modules (Longwood, FL ) has announced the release of its Pockels Cell Driver, Model 823B. The Model 823B Pockels Cell/Shutter Driver is designed for continuous pulsed applications. The compact construction utilizes...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Tyco Electronics (TE) (Harrisburg, PA) has introduced an innovative solid state lighting (SSL) solution - the NEVALO SSL system - designed to accelerate lighting manufacturersí transition from traditional light sources to new...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
US Conec (Hickory, NC) has announced immediate availability of the IBC™ Brand Cleaner M250 for 2.5mm ferrule fiber optic connectors featuring the largest cleaning region commercially available. The M250 tool...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
The Highland Technology (San Francisco, CA) PH200 is the first product in the 'PH' series of extreme-performance photonic instruments. The PH200 Nanowatt Photoreceiver, designed in collaboration with Phil Hobbs, is...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Specialised Imaging (Hertfordshire, UK) has recently supplied their renowned SIM-D Ultra Fast Framing Camera in a new multispectral imaging configuration. The versatile SIM-D has the capability of fitting up to 16...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The operator’s paradox for the past several years has been that while there is an explosion in data traffic volumes to the tune of 45-65% yearly, the corresponding revenue growth is in the single digits at best. To...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
While it may appear state-of-the-art on the surface, fiber optic technology is a fairly simple method of conducting light that has been around for some time. The principle of guiding...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Spectra-Physics® (Santa Clara, CA) has announced the world’s first 5 Watt, all-inone green Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser that combines the laser head and electronics into a single,...
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...
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: 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
The simplified architecture is a minimal system for a deep-space optical communications transceiver. For a deep-space optical communications link the...
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: 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...
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...
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