Products: Imaging
OmniVision Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) has announced the OV8865, an 8- megapixel CameraChip™ sensor. The sensor features an improved 1.4-micron OmniBSI-2™ pixel.
Products: Imaging
Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC (Mount Olive, NJ), a Business Unit within the Vitec Group’s Videocom Division, offers new Concealment Video Kits (CTVK). The CTVK all-in-one kit includes a hide with an integrated miniature...
Products: Imaging
Vision Research (Wayne, NJ) has expanded its line of Phantom ® Miro cameras to include a ruggedized body style. The RCUcompatible Phantom Miro R-Series features flexible tools for both qualitative and quantitative...
Products: Imaging
Vumii™ Imaging (Atlanta, GA) has released its Accuracii family of long-range, dualchannel thermal surveillance camera systems. The Accuracii camera systems combine two advanced video channels on an integrated...
Products: Imaging
ADLINK Technology (San Jose, CA) has released the EOS-1220 GigE Vision-compliant embedded vision system, featuring third generation Intel® Core™ i7 quadcore processors, four independent PoE (Power over Ethernet)...
Products: Imaging
Matrox® Graphics (Dorval, Quebec, Canada) offers MuraControl™ 2.0 for Windows® video wall management software. Features include transparency and color-keying effects, the addition of local inputs and...
News: Defense
Apache Helicopters Get New “Eyes”
The Army is incorporating a new sensor capability into its Apache helicopters. The Apache Sensors Product Office has accepted delivery of the new Modernized Day Sensor Assembly (M-DSA) Laser Rangefinder Designator (LRFD), the first component to be fielded in the Modernized Day Sensor Assembly. The laser...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Imagine a CCD camera operating on a long exposure and seeing only 1 electron per pixel every 16 minutes. That equates to dark current of less than 0.000001 electrons/pixel/sec. Imagine the same camera...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
X-Ray Diffractive Optics
X-ray optics were fabricated with the capability of imaging solar x-ray sources with better than 0.1 arcsecond angular resolution, over an order of magnitude finer than is currently possible.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
High-Power Single-Mode 2.65-μm InGaAsSb/AlInGaAsSb Diode Lasers
Central to the advancement of both satellite and in-situ science are improvements in continuous-wave and pulsed infrared laser systems coupled with integrated miniaturized optics and electronics, allowing for the use of powerful, single- mode light sources aboard both satellite and...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optical Device for Converting a Laser Beam Into Two Co-aligned but Oppositely Directed Beams
Optical systems consisting of a series of optical elements require alignment from the input end to the output end. The optical elements can be mirrors, lenses, sources, detectors, or other devices. Complex optical systems are often difficult to align...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
A Hybrid Fiber/Solid-State Regenerative Amplifier with Tunable Pulse Widths for Satellite Laser Ranging
A fiber/solid-state hybrid seeded regenerative amplifier, capable of achieving high output energy with tunable pulse widths, has been developed for satellite laser ranging applications. The regenerative amplifier cavity uses a pair of Nd:YAG...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The new CL-400 CO2 laser cutting system from Cincinnati Incorporated (Harrison, OH) uses the water-cooled, high-speed linear motor drives pioneered by Cincinnati, and the same powerful HMI touchscreen control and nesting...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
In biological imaging, the object of interest is not always in plain sight. This is especially true when performing microscopy of cells buried deep within tissues. The tissues...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The new McPherson (Chelmsford, MA) Model 248/310 spectrometer can easily make spectral measurements around 13 nanometers and throughout the extreme vacuum ultraviolet and soft x-ray wavelength region. It is ideal...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Polymicro Technologies (Lisle, IL) has successfully developed a broad spectrum optical fiber with a low -OH pure silica core that demonstrates significantly reduced content of UV defects and other UV absorption centers....
Products: Photonics/Optics
Edmund Optics (EO) (Barrington, NJ) has introduced new fast axis collimators. These versatile lenses are designed for beam shaping or laser diode collimation applications. Fast Axis Collimators are compact, high...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Spectra-Physics® (Santa Clara, CA), a Newport Corporation brand, recently introduced Quasar 355-45, a UV laser that delivers >45W (225 μJ) at exceptionally high repetition rates. The laser features TimeShift™ technology for...
News: Imaging
Firefighting Robotic Scout Creates 3D Thermal Map for Rescuers
University of California, San Diego engineers have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of fires by small, Segway-like robotic vehicles.
Articles: Imaging
Machine vision has become indispensable in today’s highly automated manufacturing environments, which rely on accurate in spec tion to ensure high product quality and high process...
Articles: Imaging
The pixel-scale patterning of optical filters directly onto sensors has the potential to drastically simplify and scale down the cost of real-time multispectral imaging....
Products: Imaging
The Imaging Source (Charlotte, NC) has announced monochrome and color FireWire 800 cameras. The cameras have an Aptina CMOS or Sony CCD sensor, 1/4'' to 1/1.8''. Other features of the 29 × 29 × 47 mm devices include...
Articles: Imaging
NASA’s twin Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, remain one of the Agency’s greatest achievements in exploration. On Earth, these robots are best known for their stunning...
Briefs: Imaging
Planetary Data Systems (PDS) Imaging Node Atlas II
The Planetary Image Atlas (PIA) is a Rich Internet Application (RIA) that serves planetary imaging data to the science community and the general public. PIA also utilizes the USGS Unified Planetary Coordinate system (UPC) and the on-Mars map server.
Briefs: Imaging
Automatic Calibration of an Airborne Imaging System to an Inertial Navigation Unit
This software automatically calibrates a camera or an imaging array to an inertial navigation system (INS) that is rigidly mounted to the array or imager. In effect, it recovers the coordinate frame transformation between the reference frame of the imager and the...
Briefs: Imaging
Support Routines for In Situ Image Processing
This software consists of a set of application programs that support ground-based image processing for in situ missions. These programs represent a collection of utility routines that perform miscellaneous functions in the context of the ground data system. Each one fulfills some specific need as...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Averaging 1.6 million passengers per day, the Taipei Metro, also known as the Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system, is one of the busiest transportation systems in Asia...
Products: Imaging
Teledyne DALSA (Billerica, MA) has released the Xtium-CL PX4 series of frame grabbers. In addition to PCIe Gen 2.0 ×4 and Camera Link®, upcoming models will support Camera Link HS® as well as other interface standards on a...
Products: Imaging
Point Grey Research (Richmond, BC, Canada) has announced its Ladybug ®5 camera. The LD5-U3-51S5C features 30 megapixels (MP) of total resolution, covering 90% of a full sphere; a 5Gbit/s USB 3.0 interface; and a...
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