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The 2D Image Simulation feature in CODE V® 9.7 from Optical Research Associates (Pasadena, CA) allows users to visualize overall performance and communicate design tradeoffs to non-optical personnel. The function displays an...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The model 642 Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) light source from McPherson, Inc. (Chelmsford, MA) utilizes a filament to produce electrons that are accelerated toward a target by high voltage. It is stable, debris-free, and...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Cincinnati Inc. (Cincinnati, OH) introduced the CL-707 high-speed, super-size laser with interchangeable 8 × 20' cutting tables. The linear motor drive delivers 10,000 ipm head positioning. The 5 kW power of the cutting...
Products: Photonics/Optics
OPTEK Technology (Carrollton, TX) offers the OPF670 series of fiber optic LED transmitters for integration into data communications equipment. The series consists of the OPF670 in a TO-46 package, the OPF672 in a standard...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Liekki (Lohja, Finland) has released square and rectangular optical fibers for high-power delivery applications. Square- and rectangular-shaped fibers more closely match optical sources. Different combinations —...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The TLS Series of software-controlled (Windows®) wavelength tunable light sources from Optometrics Corp. (Ayer, MA) can be used for detector sensitivity testing, color matching, and characterization, as well as...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Complex Type-II Interband Cascade MQW Photodetectors
Multiple-quantum-well (MQW) photodetectors of a proposed type would contain active regions comprising multiple superlattice subregions. These devices would have complex structures: The superlattice of each subregion would be designed for enhanced absorption of photons in a desired wavelength band...
Application Briefs: Imaging
A partnership between the Toshiba Imaging Systems Division of Toshiba America (Irvine, CA) and Apollo Telemedicine (Falls Church, VA) has resulted in an advanced, real-time diagnostic imaging...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Machine vision acquisition architectures come in many different forms, but they all have the same end goal — to transfer image data from a physical sensor into a processing unit that can analyze the image and...
Articles: Imaging
The multi-billion-dollar display market has grown to encompass everything from notebook PCs to desktop monitors, televisions, cell phone displays, and much more. As the...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is scheduled for launch in 2013 and aims to unravel the history of earlier galaxies, linking the Big Bang to the Milky Way Galaxy. JWST’s...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Optical scanners, or servo-controlled, limited-rotation motors with laser-beam steering mirrors, were first introduced 40 years ago by General Scanning. Since then, they have...
Application Briefs: Materials
The inherently interdisciplinary nature of developing instrumentation for life sciences requires a high level of collaboration between scientists and engineers across the fields...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Lion Precision and Professional Instruments, St. Paul, Minnesota
High-performance materials such as ceramics, optics, and alloy steels are manufactured using abrasive grinding...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Coherent, Inc., Santa Clara, California
Q-switched, diode-pumped solid-state lasers with an end-pumped cavity design are now widely used in micromachining, materials processing,...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) of a proposed type would be designed and fabricated to effect lateral and vertical alignment of optical fibers with respect to optical,...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optical Characterization of Molecular Contaminant Films
A semi-empirical method of optical characterization of thin contaminant films on surfaces of optical components has been conceived. The method was originally intended for application to films that become photochemically deposited on such optical components as science windows, lenses, prisms,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
View these and other new products on display by exhibitors at Photonics West, January 23-25, in San Jose, CA. Visit Photonics Tech Briefs at Booth 435. Visit http://spie.org/Conferences/programs/07/pw/ for more...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Boston Micromachines, a provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror products for adaptive optics systems, is developing a deformable mirror that will aid NASA in the search for extra-solar...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
With retirement of the space shuttle imminent, and the commercial space industry burgeoning, NASA is searching for safe and innovative methods...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
An enhanced alignment cube has been invented for use in a confined setting (e.g., a cryogenic chamber) in which optical access may be limited to a single line of sight. Whereas traditional alignment-cube...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
In the optical communications industry, it’s important to look back before you look forward. History has a way of putting the future into perspective.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
The high-power laser diode market has grown rapidly in the last twelve months, a trend that is set to continue throughout 2006 and beyond. The global market for laser systems is forecast to grow by 8% in...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Optical software programs provide optical designers with the means to predict and analyze performance characteristics of optical systems without experimental prototyping. Looking ahead into 2007,...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Holographic retroreflectors that function equivalently to Plossl eyepieces have been developed and used in free-space optical communication systems that utilize laser beams. Plossl eyepieces are well known...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A scanning optoelectronic instrument generates the digital equivalent of a three-dimensional (X,Y,Z) map of a surface that spans an area with resolution on the order of 0.005 in....
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption and Ionization (MALDI) technique in 1987 led to a renewed interest for the nitrogen laser. MALDI allows large and fragile biomolecules to be desorbed and...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
An electro-optical (E-O) imaging Fourier-transform spectrometer (IFTS), now under development, is a prototype of improved imaging spectrometers to be used for hyperspectral imaging,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Mikron Infrared (Oakland, NJ) offers the Model M7500 infrared camera configurable for midwave or long-wave imaging and four different temperature bands. The camera is an uncooled microbolometer camera that...
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