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Products: Imaging
StingRay Optics, Keene, NH, offers a 50-mm midwave infrared (MWIR) large-format lens assembly with an optional microscanning and step-stare sensor capability. The lens can be a standalone solution for large-format...
Application Briefs: Software
Immersive CAVE™ display system Mechdyne Corp. Marshalltown, IA 641-754-4649 www.mechdyne.com
Mechdyne Corporation has installed a CAVE™ display system in the Fossett Laboratory...
Blog: Photonics/Optics
Microscope Illumination System
Researchers at Auburn University have designed a rechargeable microscope illumination system that can be used by NASA scientists to observe microscopic life in places where there is no electricity. The patent-pending Ilumna 120, which contains a battery pack, condenser, and bulb with a built-in collimator, attaches to...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
A fiber-optic sensor system has been developed that can remotely measure the concentration of molecular oxygen (O2), nitrogen (N2), hydro- carbon vapor,...
Blog: Imaging
Fog and Smoke
University of California at San Diego computer scientists have created a fog and smoke machine for computer graphics that cuts the computational cost of making realistic smoky and foggy 3-D images, such as beams of light from a lighthouse piercing thick fog. By cutting the computing cost for creating highly realistic imagery from...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
A silicon photomultiplier (SPM) is a new type of semiconductor detector that has the potential to replace the photomultiplier tube (PMT) detector in many applications. In common with a PMT detector,...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The field of optical microscopy experienced significant gains in resolution and speed following the introduction of lasers. Unfortunately, these gains came at the expense of sample degradation...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
MACOS Version 3.31
Version 3.31 of Modeling and Analysis for Controlled Optical Systems (MACOS) has been released. MACOS is an easy-to-use computer program for modeling and analyzing the behaviors of a variety of optical systems, including systems that have large, segmented apertures and are aligned with the technology of wavefront sensing and...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A theoretical analysis of photon-arrival jitter in an optical pulse-position-modulation (PPM) communication channel has been performed, and now constitutes the basis of a methodology for...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Point Source (Hamble, UK) introduces the iFLEX-Mustang, a fiber-coupled solid-state laser with on-board modulation. Using single-mode and polarization preserving fiber, the iFLEX-Mustang...
Products: Photonics/Optics
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (Santa Clara, CA) offers laser bars with a wavelength of 910 to 980 nm that achieve an optical output of 120W under real-world conditions and a typical efficiency of 70%. The laser bars have a 50% fill...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Toshiba Imaging Systems Division (Irvine, CA) introduces the remote head IK-TF7H7U camera. The progressive scan model delivers true color video output of 1024 × 768 pixels at 30 frames per second at full frame and up to 90...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Optical Surfaces Ltd. (Surrey, UK) offers Fabry-Perot etalons in a range of shapes and sizes up to 150 mm in diameter with matching accuracies to lambda/300. Etalons are used in telecommunications, lasers, and spectroscopic...
Products: Photonics/Optics
SCHOTT (San Jose, CA) introduces infrared (IR) materials, including Zinc Sulfide (ZnS) and Infrared Chalcogenide glasses. SCHOTT offers its IR material in large sizes and custom shapes, and as windows, domes, or lens blanks....
Products: Photonics/Optics
Extech Instruments (Waltham, MA) introduces its InfraCAMTM SD Thermal Imaging InfraRed Camera that enables the proactive condition monitoring of electrical systems to detect hot spots and avoid electrical...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Optical Research Associates (Pasadena, CA) introduces CODE V® 9.81 optical design software with aspheric lens tolerancing capabilities that are valuable in the fabrication of optical elements. The Fabrication Data...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Gamma Scientific, Inc. (San Diego, CA) introduces the RadOMA-LED Goniometric System for LED angular and LED spectral measurements. The system combines the RadOMA multi-element array technology with Gamma’s 940 LED...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Aculight Corporation (Bothell, WA) introduces an improved ArgosTM single-frequency, continuous-wave (CW) optical parametric oscillator (OPO). Argos provides multi-Watt, widely tunable output in the near- to...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The Fastcam SA3 from Photron, Inc. (San Diego, CA) is a megapixel, high-speed video imaging system designed to withstand high-G and rugged environments. Ideal for automotive safety testing, the camera features 17...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The Imaging Solutions Group (ISG) (Rochester, NY) offers the 5-megapixel LightWise LW-5-S-1394 camera in color and monochrome versions. All camera controls are done via the 1394 interface, which includes a fully...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Princeton Instruments (Acton, MA) introduces the Acton Advanced Series of monochromators and spectrographs that combines high precision computer-controlled motorized slits, interchangeable triple grating...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Bartington Instruments (Oxfordshire, England) offers a new version of software for its Spectramag-6 Data Acquisition system. The Spectramag-6 combines PC-based data storage/display with a separate signal conditioning...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Prior Scientific (Rockland, MA) introduces the H117LSM ProscanTMII flat top motorized stages designed specifically for Carl Zeiss laser scanning microscopes, specifically the Axiovert 200 and AxioOberver microscopes....
Products: Photonics/Optics
The OVS5WBCR4 Series from OPTEK Technology (New York, NY) is a 0.5W surface mount white LED package with an ultra-low profile of 1.5 mm. This LED package has a 120° viewing angle and water clear lens. The typical luminous flux is...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The Keyence GV Series Digital CMOS Laser Sensor from Keyence (Woodcliff Lake, NJ) uses a DATUM Algorithm to stably detect targets. The GV is an optical triangulation sensor, and it excels in detecting shiny objects...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Labsphere’s (North Sutton, NH) Spectralon® Laser Pump Reflectors offer greater than 99 percent reflectance, beam stability, and uniformity. They have a high level of diffusion efficiency coupled with economical machined...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The Jade LR is a high-performance thermal camera from Cedip Infrared Systems (Croissy-Beaubourg, France). The camera provides long-range images from fixed position surveillance applications, including passive observation,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Intevac, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) announced the MicroVistaTM–NIR, a back-thinned CMOS camera optimized for near-infrared imaging with 100% fill factor and proprietary anti-reflection coatings. Applications for the MicroVistaTM-NIR...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Cicoil (Valencia, CA) has released water-repellent silicone cables that are impervious to immersion, high humidity, fungus, and damp operating environments. Also, extremely dry conditions, low humidity, or salt spray and...
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