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Products: Photonics/Optics
New Focus™ (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced a new series of semiconductor tapered amplifiers for high-power tunable and fixed-wavelength applications. The VAMP series is designed to accept many fiber-coupled...
Products: Photonics/Optics
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ (Sunnyvale, CA) new infrared DRAGON SFH 4236 LED achieves a typical radiant intensity of 650 mW/sr at a DC current of 1A, more than three times that of the standard IR DRAGON. The device emits at a...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
A holographic vortex coronagraph (HVC) has been proposed as an improvement over conventional coronagraphs for use in high-contrast astronomical imaging for detecting planets, dust disks, and other broadband light...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Photon Counting Using Edge-Detection Algorithm
New applications such as high-data-rate, photon-starved, free-space optical communications require photon counting at flux rates into gigaphoton-per-second regimes coupled with sub-nanosecond timing accuracy. Current single-photon detectors that are capable of handling such operating conditions are...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optical Structural Health Monitoring Device
This non-destructive, optical fatigue detection and monitoring system relies on a small and unobtrusive light-scattering sensor that is installed on a component at the beginning of its life in order to periodically scan the component in situ. The method involves using a laser beam to scan the surface of...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Laser diodes for telecommunications have traditionally used thermoelectric coolers (TECs) for precision temperature control to improve diode output levels and maintain wavelength integrity. A...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The ubiquitous techniques of fluorescence and Raman imaging and spectroscopy rely heavily on spectrally precise, high-quality and high-throughput optical filter technologies. As both fluorescence and Raman-based...
Products: Photonics/Optics
STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland) has developed a wireless MEMS sensor that acts as a transducer, antenna, and mechanical support for the SENSIMED Triggerfish® continuous...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Technical Manufacturing Corporation (Peabody, MA) has introduced the STACIS® iX LaserTable-Base™, a hybrid piezoelectric/ air active vibration cancellation system for optical tables. TMC’s patented STACIS...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The Optoelectronics Company (Hertfordshire, UK) has introduced its SH85-4U001, 850nm VCSEL chips with a maximum output power of 20mW at an operating current of 50mA and operating voltage of 2.1V maximum. The chips feature a spectral...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Alfalight (Madison, WI) has introduced the 808C laser diode series of 3.5W, 808nm devices in a 6-pin package with a 105μm/0.15 NA output fiber. They feature a lifetime of 20,000 hours. A 3W version integrates wavelength...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Elma Electronic (Fremont, CA) offers the M-tube LED light tube system with new 5mm and 10mm diameter options. Other standard diameters include 6mm and 8mm. The light housings come in double-ended or optional single-ended...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Hamamatsu Photonics (Bridgewater, NJ) has introduced the ORCAD2, a dual CCD camera that can capture simultaneous dual wavelength or multiple focal plane images. Each CCD captures a 1280 (H) x 960 (V) pixels field of view, and...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Z-LASER (Freiburg, Germany) now offers a high-performance green laser with output powers up to 300mW in a bench mountable package. It is compatible with M6 and ¼"-20 breadboards. The laser is available in two versions: a standard...
Products: Photonics/Optics
RASIRC® (San Diego,CA) has introduced the Steamer '02, which generates purified steam from de-ionized water for semiconductor, MEMS, solar, and optical device applications. It features additional control loop for the...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Semrock (Rochester, NY) has announced a triple-band filter set for three-color microscopy, LF405/488/594-A, consists of an excitation filter, a beamsplitter, and an emission filter for simultaneous illumination with...
Products: Photonics/Optics
M2 Optics (Raleigh, NC) has introduced the rugged Fiber Lab 800HE testing platform, suitable for applications where rough handling and harsh conditions are common, such as field and laboratory testing,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Voxtel (Beaverton, OR) has introduced an avalanche photodiode (APD) receiver with 1-GHz bandwidth and a large 200-μm diameter optical area. The RIP1-NJAC APD photoreceiver integrates the low-excess-noise SCM-APD...
Products: Photonics/Optics
New Imaging Technologies (Evry, France) has introduced the MD1-10-B logarithmic sensor, which uses an array of photodiodes operated in photovoltaic mode. In most logarithmic imager designs, linear photo current passes through...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Lumex (Palatine, IL) has introduced the InfoVue EBTN (Enhanced Background Twisted Nematic) family of custom negative image TN LCD technology. The LCDs offer a contrast ratio of 300 to 1, and are RoHS compliant. They are available in...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Spectra-Physics® (Santa Clara, CA) offers the 355-2 Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) industrial laser, which provides over 2W of 355nm output at 90 kHz and a short pulse width of less than 25ns. Features include...
Products: Imaging
Viewbits (San Diego, CA) offers the Iyeron™, a 12 megapixel CMOS machine vision camera. It is shock-resistant with a 1.9" CMOS monochrome progressive scan sensor, and offers HXGA 4906 (H) × 3072 (V) pixel...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Schneider Optics (Van Nuys, CA) has introduced the 5-megapixel APOXenoplan 1.8/35mm lens for 2/3" CMOS/CCD sensors. It features apochromatic correction and broadband coating, is suitable for luminescence...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The Rapid Automated Modular Microscope (RAMM) system from Applied Scientific Instrumentation (Eugene, OR) offers a modular design with automated high-speed XY stages, precision piezo and motorized Z...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Cognex Corporation (Natick, MA) has introduced a new release of VisionPro®, its hardware-independent machine vision software. Vision- Pro 6.1 includes support for Microsoft® Windows 7 and offers line scan distortion...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Laser Components (Hudson, NH) offers the LSP40 plug & play driver module, which can be used to accurately control pulsed laser diodes (PLDs). With two resistors, the user is able to regulate the...
Products: Photonics/Optics
DuPont (Wilmington, DE) has collaborated with Oerlikon Solar to produce the DuPont™ PV5223 thin white reflective solar PV encapsulant sheet. This thin 0.45-mm white reflective encapsulant eliminates the need for...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Inertial-Optical Head-Tracking System InterSense Billerica, MA 781-541-6330 www.intersense.com
Under NASA funding, InterSense is developing and testing an inertial-optical head-tracking system for...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Vibration isolatorsMinus K® TechnologyInglewood, CA310-348-9656www.minusk.com
Minus K Technology was chosen by ITT Space Systems, LLC, a subcontractor to Northrop Grumman Corp., to...
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