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Articles: Imaging
The Mobile & Marine Robotics Research Centre (MMRRC) at the University of Limerick in Ireland created a generic solution for underwater development. During research...
Application Briefs: Imaging
As thin-film technology advances, it’s increasingly important to monitor the film’s characteristics. That’s because eliminating irregularities in thin films — used...
Application Briefs: Imaging
New MP3 players from a global electronics manufacturer like Sony are destined for a demanding consumer market and cannot be compromised in any way. In Malaysia, the company sought...
Briefs: Imaging
A battery-powered, pen-sized, portable instrument for measuring molecular fluorescence spectra of chemical and biological samples in the field has been proposed. Molecular fluorescence...
Briefs: Imaging
An architecture for back-illuminated complementary metal oxide/semiconductor (CMOS) and charge-coupled-device (CCD) ultraviolet/visible/near infrared-light image sensors, and a method...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A compact, high-resolution, two-dimensional excitation-emission matrix fluorometer (EEMF) has been designed and built specifically for use in identifying and measuring the...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A metrology system that contains no moving parts simultaneously measures the bearings and ranges of multiple reflective targets in its vicinity, enabling determination of the...
Products: Imaging
JENOPTIK Laser, Jena, Germany, offers the ProgRes® CT2 microscope camera with CMOS sensor technology. The ProgRes CT3 is dedicated to bright field and reflective light microscopy, but is also suitable for other contrast...
Products: Imaging
Allied Vision Technologies, Newburyport, MA, offers the Stingray camera, based on a modular design and offering flexible configurations. The Stingray is equipped with a Firewire 1394b port for high-speed data transfer and...
Products: Imaging
Display Driver
Matrox Graphics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, has released the PowerDesk-SE 2.04 display driver that enables a stretched Microsoft® Windows® desktop across up to eight displays. The driver features a joined graphics card mode, which enables two multi-display graphics cards to work in tandem in several Windows desktop combinations. The...
Products: Imaging
Cognex Corp., Natick, MA, offers new features for the DataManTM 100 image-based ID readers. New lens accessories provide magnification flexibility to optimize reading performance. A high-density lens kit allows...
Products: Imaging
Deposition Sciences, Santa Rosa, CA, has released Iso-SphereTM Antireflection (AR) Coated Ball Lenses for fiber optics, telecom, and datacom applications. The ball lenses are an optical method for collimating the output of an...
Products: Imaging
Dialight Corp., Farmingdale, NJ, has expanded its line of LED panel-mount indicators with the addition of the 612 and 616 series for front-panel mounting in 12-mm and 16-mm holes and panel thicknesses up to 6.3 mm....
Products: Imaging
The PresencePLUS® low-angle ring lights from Banner Engineering Corp., Minneapolis, MN, connect to vision sensors or an external power supply to provide optimal illumination of an inspected part by enhancing the contrast...
Products: Imaging
FLIR Systems, North Billerica, MA, offers the ThermoVision® A320 Research infrared camera system. With the integrated ThermaCAM Researcher Software, the camera system provides a flexible solution for precision...
Products: Imaging
The 16-megapixel GE4900 ultra-high-resolution CCD camera from Prosilica, Vancouver, BC, Canada, runs three frames per second at 4872 × 3248 pixel resolution over a GigE Vision-compliant Gigabit Ethernet interface. The industrial...
Blog: Photonics/Optics
Brain Wave Sensor
A tiny sensor that can detect magnetic field changes as small as 70 Femtoteslas — equivalent to the brain waves of a person daydreaming — has been demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The sensor could operate on a single AA battery and reduce the costs of non-invasive biomagnetic...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
There’s no rule that says when a technology becomes mature, but one might think that image sensors would be by now, 40 years after their conception. Nothing could be further from the truth. After...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
DisplayPort Technology — Heir Apparent to VGA?
For the last 20 years we have connected our monitors to our computer systems having the confidence that upon turn-on, we could surf or create with never a consideration of whether the display would operate satisfactorily. VGA (Video Graphics Adaptor) technology enabled us to do that with CRTs as well...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
An optoelectronic metrology apparatus now at the laboratory-prototype stage of development is intended to repeatedly determine distances of as much as several hundred meters, at...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Large Solar-Rejection Filter
An optical filter consisting of a multilayer spectral coating on a flexible membrane has been designed to be placed in front of the 200-in. (5.08-m) Hale telescope on Mt. Palomar. The filter is intended to protect the telescope against solar radiant flux and limit solar heating of the interior of the telescope dome...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Inhand Electronics, Inc. (Rockville, MD) along with the Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center (Natick, MA) and the Army Research Lab (Adelphi, MD), have announced the Soldier Flex...
Products: Photonics/Optics
A Complex Monolithic Optics (CMO) Development Program has been announced by Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, CA). The program offers customers the opportunity to incorporate the latest high-precision optics design...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Epilog Laser (Golden, CO) offers the FiberMark Laser System, a piece of equipment that allows users to mark directly on metal surfaces including titanium, steel, aluminum, carbide, alloys, brass, and more. The piece of...
Products: Photonics/Optics
OPTEK Technology (New York, NY) has developed a full-color surface mount LED package called the OVSPRGBCR4. The package offers RGB color capabilities, a high CRI rating, and full 130° viewing angle. Applications for the...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Quintessence Photonics (Sylmar, CA) offers a new laser designed to deliver high power in a single mode beam for seeding fiber and solid state lasers and for use in direct applications. The seed laser can produce single-frequency...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Labsphere, Inc. (North Sutton, NH) recently launched the new SC 6000 programmable radiometer and photometer. The new system controller allows for up to 100 programmed calibrations, and users are able to...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Commercial Grade Large PCX Condenser Lenses are now available from Anchor Optics® (Barrington, NJ). The plano-convex (PCX) lenses are used in illumination applications such as large format projectors, spotlights, and...
Products: Photonics/Optics
New Wave Research, Inc. (Fremont, CA) has introduced the QuikLaze 200 laser repair system equipped with the BDS1000 industrial microscope. The QuikLaze 200 and BDS1000 combine to create a rugged optomechanical platform that...
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