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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The figure schematically depicts two versions of an opto-electronic system, undergoing development at the time of reporting the information for this article, that is expected to be...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Web-Enabled Optoelectronic Particle-Fallout Monitor
A Web-enabled optoelectronic particle-fallout monitor has been developed as a prototype of future such instruments that (l) would be installed in multiple locations for which assurance of cleanliness is required and (2) could be interrogated and controlled in nearly real time by multiple remote...
Briefs: Imaging
A metrology system that contains no moving parts simultaneously measures the bearings and ranges of multiple reflective targets in its vicinity, enabling determination of the...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A battery-powered, pen-sized, portable instrument for measuring molecular fluorescence spectra of chemical and biological samples in the field has been proposed. Molecular fluorescence...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
An architecture for back-illuminated complementary metal oxide/semiconductor (CMOS) and charge-coupled-device (CCD) ultraviolet/visible/near infrared-light image sensors, and a method...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A compact, high-resolution, two-dimensional excitation-emission matrix fluorometer (EEMF) has been designed and built specifically for use in identifying and measuring the...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
There’s no rule that says when a technology becomes mature, but one might think that image sensors would be by now, 40 years after their conception. Nothing could be further from the truth. After...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
DisplayPort Technology — Heir Apparent to VGA?
For the last 20 years we have connected our monitors to our computer systems having the confidence that upon turn-on, we could surf or create with never a consideration of whether the display would operate satisfactorily. VGA (Video Graphics Adaptor) technology enabled us to do that with CRTs as well...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Large Solar-Rejection Filter
An optical filter consisting of a multilayer spectral coating on a flexible membrane has been designed to be placed in front of the 200-in. (5.08-m) Hale telescope on Mt. Palomar. The filter is intended to protect the telescope against solar radiant flux and limit solar heating of the interior of the telescope dome...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
An optoelectronic metrology apparatus now at the laboratory-prototype stage of development is intended to repeatedly determine distances of as much as several hundred meters, at...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Inhand Electronics, Inc. (Rockville, MD) along with the Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center (Natick, MA) and the Army Research Lab (Adelphi, MD), have announced the Soldier Flex...
Products: Photonics/Optics
A Complex Monolithic Optics (CMO) Development Program has been announced by Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, CA). The program offers customers the opportunity to incorporate the latest high-precision optics design...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Epilog Laser (Golden, CO) offers the FiberMark Laser System, a piece of equipment that allows users to mark directly on metal surfaces including titanium, steel, aluminum, carbide, alloys, brass, and more. The piece of...
Products: Photonics/Optics
OPTEK Technology (New York, NY) has developed a full-color surface mount LED package called the OVSPRGBCR4. The package offers RGB color capabilities, a high CRI rating, and full 130° viewing angle. Applications for the...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Quintessence Photonics (Sylmar, CA) offers a new laser designed to deliver high power in a single mode beam for seeding fiber and solid state lasers and for use in direct applications. The seed laser can produce single-frequency...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Labsphere, Inc. (North Sutton, NH) recently launched the new SC 6000 programmable radiometer and photometer. The new system controller allows for up to 100 programmed calibrations, and users are able to...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Commercial Grade Large PCX Condenser Lenses are now available from Anchor Optics® (Barrington, NJ). The plano-convex (PCX) lenses are used in illumination applications such as large format projectors, spotlights, and...
Products: Photonics/Optics
New Wave Research, Inc. (Fremont, CA) has introduced the QuikLaze 200 laser repair system equipped with the BDS1000 industrial microscope. The QuikLaze 200 and BDS1000 combine to create a rugged optomechanical platform that...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The new 2.0MP Flea®2 camera from Point Grey Research® Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ) delivers full resolution 1624 x 1224 images at 14 frames per second. It incorporates the Sony® ICX274 1/1.8" progressive scan CCD image sensor...
Products: Photonics/Optics
JAI (San Jose, CA) offers the TM-2040GE, a high resolution, high performance Gigabit Ethernet camera. The TM-2040GE offers two-megapixel UXGA resolution of 1600 × 1200 pixels at 34 frames per second. The camera features...
Blog: Photonics/Optics
Light-Bending
Researchers from Princeton University have created an easy-to-produce material from semiconductors that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. This could lead to advances in high-speed communications, medical diagnostics, and detection of terrorist threats.
The new...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
An apparatus that serves as a source of a cold beam of atoms contains multiple two-dimensional (2D) magneto-optical traps (MOTs). (Cold beams of atoms are used in atomic clocks and in...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Companies that manufacture products ultimately used by consumers — interior trim for cars, vinyl siding for homes, decorative stone for landscaping, interior wall paints,...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
During design and manufacturing, optical systems and lenses are toleranced and tested to ensure the smallest possible performance error. Matching most optics manufacturing...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The 287-000 Series Wide Angle Zoom Adapter from Resolve Optics Ltd. (Chesham, UK) provides a true 0.5x field of view and maintains minimal distortion and high resolution throughout the zoom range of a camera. Each...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
According to a proposal, photonic crystals would be used to greatly increase the sensitivities of optical magnetometers that are already regarded as ultrasensitive. The proposal applies, more...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A Raman-scattering-suppressing input/output coupling scheme has been devised for a whispering-gallery-mode optical resonator that is used as a four-wave-mixing device to effect an...
Products: Photonics/Optics
OPTIM Inc. (Sturbridge, MA) introduces the FreedomView™ LED Fiberscope, a handheld, portable inspection device that combines a high intensity LED light source with a flexible insertion shaft that can be fully immersed in water,...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Theoretical and experimental investigations have demonstrated the feasibility of compact white-light sensor optics consisting of unitary combinations of (1) low-profile...
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