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Products: Photonics/Optics
Imec (Leuven, Belgium) is currently sampling the line scan version of its hyperspectral imaging solution, offering a ready-to-use evaluation kit to the industry to line scan and analyze specific sample material....
Products: Photonics/Optics
Point Grey (Richmond, BC, Canada) recently introduced the new Blackfly camera. The first model BLFY-PGE-13E4 features a 1.3 MP, 60 fps, CMOS global shutter sensor available in both monochrome and color, and less than 2W power...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Schneider Optics (Hauppauge, NY) has introduced new, lightweight and cost-efficient Xenon-Ruby C-mount lenses available in four focal lengths: 2.2/10mm, 2.3/16mm, 2.2/25mm and 2.3/35mm . Suitable for use in a wide range of app...
Products: Photonics/Optics
SCHURTER (Santa Rosa, CA) presents its new 2300 A FMER SOL interference filter. In addition, the series is now offered without ground capacitors to safely prevent any leakage of current to ground. The series...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The new range of laser diode modules from the Optoelectronics Company (Henham, UK) combines a high performance Opnext (OCLARO) laser diode with quality, externally adjustable optics, a Panasonic a spher ical glass lens,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Spectra-Physics® (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced the Quasar, a breakthrough hybrid fiber laser that delivers high UV power at high repetition rates with TimeShift™ technology for precise micromachining. Combining...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Reynard Corporation (San Clemente, CA) recently introduced ColorLock™ color filter stacks. These filters utilize the transmission and blocking characteristics of two or more specialty designed filter glass types to produce...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Kyocera Corporation (Kyoto, Japan) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Kyocera Crystal Device Corporation, in charge of development and manufacturing of crystal devices, has succeeded in...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Optical Filter Source (OFS) (Austin, TX), teaming with Pellicori Optical Consulting (POC) (Santa Barbara, CA) has developed and demonstrated solar-blind UV filters for applications in the wavelength range covering the UV...
Products: Photonics/Optics
FLIR Systems (Croissy-Beaubourg, France) has announced an updated 2013 edition of its popular Infrared Handbook for R&D Professionals. Although infrared radiation (IR) is not detectable by the human eye, an IR camera can...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Superior heat dissipation and maximum durability are just two of the advantages of BEA Lasers’ (Elk Grove Village, IL) new MIL Series turnkey laser system. Offered in either 650nm (red) or 532nm (green) laser light,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The ZM12 range of small industrial laser modules from Z-LASER (Freiburg, Germany) is designed for industrial manufacturing processes such as laser marking or machine vision applications where superior quality and...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Edmund Optics® (EO) (Barrington, NJ) is now offering Coherent® High Performance OBIS™ Laser Systems. The High Performance OBIS Laser Systems feature the same compact design used for all wavelength options,...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
In many applications, 2D cameras are used to produce 3D imaging for general purpose inspections. There are numerous 3D inspection applications. Some of them include reverse engineering, electronics...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
In many laser-based types of bioinstrumentation, including flow cytometers, confocal microscopes, and array readers for proteomics, laser output is delivered to the system’s final optics regime...
News: Imaging
NASA Scientists Build First-Ever Wide-Field X-ray Imager
Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides with Earth's exosphere and neutral gas in interplanetary space.
News: Photonics/Optics
NASA Integrates First Laser Communication System
A new NASA-developed, laser-based space communication system will enable higher rates of satellite communications similar in capability to high-speed fiber optic networks on Earth.The space terminal for the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD), NASA's first high-data-rate laser...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
CRAIC Technologies (San Dimas, CA) has added Raman Spectral Surface Mapping™ (S2M™) capabilities to its Apollo™ Raman microspectrometer line. S2M gives CRAIC Raman microspectrometer users the ability to map...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Ophir Photonics Group (North Logan, UT) recently introduced a new low cost laser power/energy meter called StarLite that provides both digital and analog screen displays. A compact, handheld unit, StarLite displays a...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Ocean Optics (Dunedin, FL) has expanded its Elite Series of high-performance modular spectrometers with the introduction of the Ventana line of high throughput spectrometers. Ventana spectrometers combine an...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
AFL (Lowell, MA and Spartanburg, SC) has introduced the family of NOYES FOCIS PRO automatic fiber inspection solutions. The FOCIS PRO System consists of the DFD1 Touchscreen Tablet, the DFS1 Digital...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Raptor Photonics (Larne, Northern Ireland) has launched the Kingfisher V, a deep cooled vacuum-based CCD using Raptor’s new vacuum technology called PentaVac™. The Kingfisher V has 4.54m × 4.54m pixels...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The Agility™ is the world’s first transportable Raman Analyzer to offer a dual-band option. The Agility™ Series employ a highly efficient Volume Phase Grating (VPG®) as the spectral dispersion element,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
High Power Optical Fibers
Universal Clad (UniClad) optical fiber from Fiberguide (Stirling, NJ) is designed for integration into fiber based lasers and OEM systems performing high power transmission. The fiber uses a large core-to-clad ratio to reduce stress transfer to its core, maintaining laser beam quality and improving focal ratio degradation...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Energetiq Technology (Woburn, MA) has introduced. New smart controller for its laser-driven light sources. Developed for the EQ-99 series of Laser-Driven Light Sources (LDLS™), the EQ-99 Manager enhances...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Spectra-Physics (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced Spirit™ 8 W, an industrial-grade high power femtosecond (fs) laser for micromachining applications. The Spirit ultrafast laser provides high average power of >8 W in the...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The ecoVis is a compact, lowvoltage light source (400-2500nm) from Ocean Optics (Dunedin, FL) with built-in cuvette holder that’s suitable for basic lab measurements in teaching labs and other research environments. The...
Products: Photonics/Optics
CVI Melles Griot (Rochester, NY) recently introduced SafeClose laser shutters, based on the proven rotor drive actuation technology modified to close on power down. The proprietary Rotor Drive actuator provides a reliable,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
P-CUBE photodiode modules from Laser Components (Hudson, NH) enable precise measurements in a compact measurement setup. Low-noise, sensitive PIN photodiodes are housed in cubes that have an edge length of only 40mm. To...
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