Photonics/​Optics

Going Green in the Workplace with LEDs

In August 2007, Cree’s management made a bold decision to replace the existing fluorescent lighting technology at its Durham, NC facility with new energy-saving, environmentally friendly LED lighting...

Ceramic Capacitor

Morgan Electro Ceramics (Bedford, OH) introduces a high voltage discharge ceramic capacitor with a high break-down strength up to 10 kVmm-1 and an inherently low dielectric loss. This combination of properties makes the...

DC/DC Converter

The BPS Series high-voltage DC/DC converters from BEAR Power Supplies (Phelps, NY) power avalanche photodiodes (APDs) and piezoelectric actuators in optical systems, lasers, and other industrial and scientific instruments. The...

Precision Filament Supply

The FIL-5V-3A precision filament supply, offered by UltraVolt, Inc. (Ronkonkoma, NY), is a center-tapped, non-isolated, low-voltage filament supply rated for 0 to 5 VDC at 0 to 3 Amps. The supply is designed for a...

Optical Communication System Design Tool

Optiwave Systems Inc. (Ottawa, Ontario) has released the OptiSystem 6.0, the latest version of its optical communication system engineering design and validation tool. The system’s new features...

Wavelength Stabilized Lasers

Ondox, Inc. (Monrovia, CA) has added a 10mW, 405nm diode to its product line of wavelength stabilized lasers. The single longitudinal mode 405nm lasers have coherent length >1m, side mode suppression >25dB, and th...

DC-AC Inverter

The W10M Series DC-AC inverter from Endicott Research Group (Endicott, NY) provides a wide input voltage of 8V-24V for powering the backlights of LCDS used in portable medical equipment and other equipment where input is usually...

Single Mode Coupler/Splitter

Timbercon, Inc. (Lake Oswego, OR) offers standard single mode coupler/splitters, which are used to either combine two or more signals into one, or split one signal into multiple paths. They are available in 1×2,...

Lasers

Universal Laser Systems, Inc. (ULS) (Scottsdale, AZ) offers VersaLASER® VLS3.60, VLS4.60, and VLS6.60, a broad range of entry-level, powerful, and versatile laser solutions that can process multiple materials and diverse applications...

InGaAs Pin Photodiodes

GPD Optoelectronics Corp. (Salem, NH) offers 1.5 mm diameter InGaAs pin photodiodes. The GAP1500 series detectors are available in bare die and packaged form. The photodiodes are available in TO-46 or TO-5 cans with flat...

Reflective Electro-Absorption Modulator

CIP Technologies (Ipswich, UK) offers a reflective electro-absorption modulator (R-EAM) for applications including 10 Gbit/s wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) passive optical networks (PONs). The...

Spectral Irradiance Meter

The BSR112 is a miniature Spectral Irradiance Meter from B&W Tek, Inc. (Newark, DE) designed for field, industrial, and lab applications. BSR112 comes with a plug-and-play USB 2.0/1.1 interface. Standard software...

LED-Based Backlights

Global Lighting Technologies (Brecksville, OH) has introduced LED-based high-brightness backlights that offer thinness down to 0.4 mm for backlighting LCDs in consumer electronics products such as the keypads/keyboards used...

Fiber Optic Rotary Encoder

The EC-TD5207 ZapFreeTM Fiber Optic Rotary Encoder from Micronor Inc. (Newbury Park, CA) is a passive, safe, non-metallic fiber optic rotary encoder designed specifically for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)...

Turnkey Diode Laser System

A new turnkey diode laser system from Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) delivers 75W of power at either 808 nm from a 200 μm core 0.22 NA (numerical aperture) fiber, or 976 nm from a 400 μm core 0.22 NA fiber. The...

Optical Edge Filters

Semrock (Rochester, NY) has introduced optical edge filters for Raman spectroscopy and fluorescence imaging. The EdgeBasicTM long-wave-pass filters are hard-coated optical filters that have high transmission of 98%...

Galvanometer Mirrors

Reynard Corporation (San Clemente, CA) has released high precision coatings Galvanometer mirrors for laser system applications such as scanners, bar code readers, sweeping remote sensors, marking systems, and laser light...

Radhard Fiber Optic Cable

Linden Photonics (Westford, MA) has developed the Strong Tether Fiber Optic Cable (STFOC), a 0.030"diameter cable with a tensile strength in excess of 50 lbs. STFOC is radhard, impervious to moisture and oxygen,...

Flat Panel Heaters

Watlow® (St. Louis, MO) offers large thick film flat panel heaters ideal for the photovoltaic (PV) industry’s transition to processing PV cells on large glass, stainless steel, and polymer substrates. The large thick film...

Laser Diode Controller

VueMetrix Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) has released the Vue-MV-40 laser diode controller with DiodeGuard, VueMetrix’s proprietary laser diode protection circuitry. The high-power, low-noise controller is ideal for applications...

Display Production Test Sequencer

Radiant Imaging (Duvall, WA) introduces the Production Test Sequencer 3.0 (PM-PTS) for production line testing and calibration of displays, including LCD, plasma, and front and rear projection systems. PM-PTS...

Diode Pumped Gain Module

Cutting Edge Optronics (St. Charles, MO) has expanded its line of high power diode pumped gain modules with the release of a Nd:YVO4 version of its RBA pump head. The pump module features a side pumped Nd:Vanadate...

Picosecond Cold Processing Laser

The RAPID picosecond cold processing laser from RPMC (O’Fallon, MO) has up to 50W TEMoo average power and pulse repetition rates of up to 1MHz. The lasers are ideal for high quality industrial micromachining....

Laser Diode Driver and Temperature Controller

Wavelength Electronics (Bozeman, MT) introduces the LDTC 2/2 laser diode driver for integrated laser diode or LED modules that include temperature control, often utilized in medical diagnostic...

UV Spectral Metal Coating

Deposition Sciences, Inc. (Santa Rosa, CA) has released the UV Spectral Metal hybrid coating for ultraviolet (UV) curing and UV printing industries. The highly durable, advanced dichroic metal coating is used as the...

Product of the Month: LED Light Source

Carl Zeiss MicroImaging (Thornwood, NY) introduces the Colibri, a patented, high-performance light emitting diode (LED) light source for fluorescence microscopy. The narrow band LEDs replace conventional...

Nanophotonics Principles and Applications

The term “nanophotonics” is used to encompass the scientific study of the interaction of matter and light at the nanometer scale. It is possible to design nanometer scale devices to slow down,...

Using Laser Vibrometry to Validate Gossamer Space Structures

NASA has been developing large ultra-lightweight structures commonly referred to as Gossamer space structures for many years to reduce launch costs and to exploit the unique...

Facilitating Analysis of Multiple Partial Data Streams

Robotic Operations Automation: Mechanisms, Imaging, Navigation report Generation (ROAMING) is a set of computer programs that facilitates and accelerates both tactical and strategic...