Laser Focus World articles from April 2007

Laser Focus World archives from April 2007

Arthur Cox, renowned optical designer, dies at 92.(Letters)(Obituary)
April 1, 2007... In early January the optical community lost one of the most well-known and respected optical designers, Arthur Cox. He was actively designing lenses until a few days before his death at 92, in Newport Beach, California. Cox graduated with...

Laser fusion energy holds promise for the energy crisis.(Letters)
April 1, 2007... As a long-time reader of Laser Focus World, I would like to especially congratulate you on the September issue about the energy crisis and what photonics and lasers can do ("Photonics and the energy crisis," September 2006, p. 69;...

Earlier research demonstrated CRDS with LEDs.(Letters)
April 1, 2007... We read with interest your news report on the use of light-emitting diodes (LED) to perform cavity-ringdown spectroscopy ("LED approach may yield inexpensive field systems," January, p. 41; www.laserfousworld. com/articles/282660) We believe...

Rotary-disk laser betters its own record.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2007... After demonstrating early last year a record-high-power Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser--72.8 W at 50 kHz in 69 ns pulses for an ytterbium-yttrium aluminum garnet (Yb-YAG) rotary-disk laser at 1030 nm (see...

Study of nonlinear dynamics may contribute to PIC design.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2007... Using an integrated colliding-pulse modelocked semiconductor-laser array, researchers at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (The Netherlands) have demonstrated a period-doubling transition into chaos, indicating the existence of nonlinear...

Capillary-condensation-based optical switch is bistable.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2007... Researchers at the European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy and INFM-BC (Florence, Italy) and the University of Trento (Trento, Italy) have developed a novel form of optical switch that relies on the interaction of light with capillary...

Red diodes reach 90 mW power output.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2007... Opnext (Eatontown, NJ) is now producing 640 nm red laser diodes with typical 80 mA threshold current that produce 90 mW output power levels (continuous wave)--the world's highest output power for a red laser diode, according to the company. The...

Excimer laser and hollow fiber create UV lines for ultrashort-pulse generation.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2007... If enough narrow spectral lines are spaced properly in frequency, the result is a periodic series of isolated pulses; this technique can be used to create ultrafast pulses. Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science...

Diatoms may be new source of electronic and photonic structures.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2007... Using a chemical process that converts silica in the shells produced by microscopic ocean creatures into silicon, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech; Atlanta, GA) have fabricated innovative gas sensors with "a...

Resonant doppler technique images blood flow.(OPTICAL-COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY)
April 1, 2007... Much like the process of photographing a moving object by panning the camera at the same speed as the object, researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) and the Medical University of Vienna (Vienna,...

Nanoporous materials yield broadband antireflectivity.(optoelectronics: world news)
April 1, 2007... The potential for fabricating broadband antireflective coatings from materials with graded refractive indices was demonstrated mathematically by Lord Rayleigh more than 100 years ago. The ability to actually create such materials, however, has...

3/2 conversion accesses green to red wavelengths.(HARMONIC GENERATION)
April 1, 2007... For visible and near-infrared light, diode-laser technology directly accesses the entire spectral range of 730 to 1100 nm, plus isolated wavelength ranges in the red and violet. While second-harmonic generation extends the reach of diode lasers...

Multipurpose optical tool characterizes MEMS.(INTERFEROMETRY)
April 1, 2007... Uses of microelectromechanical-system (MEMS) devices range from the everyday (crash-sensing accelerometers for automotive airbags) to the specialized (microgyroscopes for military use). As MEMS devices become more complex and precise, so must...

Europe invests in plasmonics.(NANOPHOTONICS)
April 1, 2007... A European consortium lead by the Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM; Neuchatel) has initiated a 2.8 million [euro] (US$3.6 million) project in plasmonics. The project, called PLEAS (Plasmon Enhanced Photonics), aims to...

Nanowire grids make high-performance DUV polarizers.(UV OPTICS)
April 1, 2007... With applications in semiconductor lithography and metrology, ultraviolet (UV) and deep-UV (DUV), polarizers are an area of ongoing research. Improving upon temperature-sensitive thin-film polymer polarizers, bulky crystal and cube polarizers,...

What will a photon be a second ago?(INTERFEROMETRY)
April 1, 2007... The observer's role in quantum mechanics has been confirmed to be very weird indeed. Researchers in France have finally carried out John Wheeler's famous "delayed choice" thought experiment, in which the intent is to determine exactly when...

Telecom-band single-photon source is electrically driven.(QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY)
April 1, 2007... The first electrically driven single-photon source at a telecommunication wavelength (approximately 1300 nm) has been developed by researchers at Toshiba Research Europe and the University of Cambridge (both in Cambridge, England). (1) The...

Quasi-CW ultrasound adds mechanical information to optical tomography.(BIOPHOTONICS)
April 1, 2007... By introducing a quasi-continuous-wave (quasi-CW) ultrasound modulation scheme into an ultrasound optical-tomography (UOT) scanner, researchers at Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) have enabled collection of mechanical information from...

Annual laser and electro-optics conference to cover LEDs, cloaking, quantum optics.(CLEO/QELS 2007)
April 1, 2007... The wide range of research and practical advances in photonics to be presented at this year's Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/ QELS; Baltimore, MD, May 6-11) will be revealed in...

Intense acquires high power devices.(laser: industry report)
April 1, 2007... Looking to build a new presence in the high-power diode-laser market, Intense (Glasgow, Scotland) purchased High Power Devices (North Brunswick, NJ), a manufacturer of customized high-power laser diodes for the defense, medical, and industrial...

Klastech receives series a funding.(laser: industry report)
April 1, 2007... German laser startup Klastech Karpushko Laser Technology (Dortmund, Germany) received $2.7 million in a Series A funding round led by Triangle Venture Capital (Bensheim, Germany). Klastech develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary...

Synova shifts strategy to meet laser demand.(laser: industry report)
April 1, 2007... Responding to increasing applications growth for its water-jet-guided lasers, Synova (Lausanne, Switzerland) has altered its business model from simply selling systems to licensing technology as well. During the last year, revenue increased...

Powerlase expands EUV research collaborations.(laser: industry report)
April 1, 2007... DPSS-laser manufacturer Powerlase (West Sussex, England) continues collaborating in the field of extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. Its latest partner is University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland) and the goal of the project is to further...

Cree LEDs chosen for solar streetlights.(laser: industry report)
April 1, 2007... A high-efficiency LED produced by Cree (Durham, NC) is at the heart of 20 energy-saving solar-powered streetlights to be installed by the Guangzhou Multi-Cell Semiconductor Lighting Technology Co. (Guangzhou, China). The white-light LED, the...

Tyco Telecommunications selected Bookham's (San Jose, CA).(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... Tyco Telecommunications selected Bookham's (San Jose, CA) 980 nm OceanBright pump-laser technology for deployment in its undersea cable systems.

The Laser Institute of America.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... The Laser Institute of America (LIA: Orlando. FL) launched the LIA Career Center (http://careers.taserinstitute.org), an online resource for job opportunities in the laser industry.

Zecotek Laser Systems Singapore.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... Zecotek Laser Systems Singapore, a subsidiary of Zecotek Medical Systems (Vancouver, BC. Canada) signed letters of intent with Inversion Fiber and Tekhnoscan (both Novosibirsk, Russia) to acquire exclusive rights to certain assets and expertise...

Syneron Medical (Yokneam, Israel) and The Procter & Gamble Company (Cincinnati, OH) signed an excfusive joint development and supply agreement to commercialize Syneron's patented laser/radio-frequency technology for home-use devices designed to treat wrinkles.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... Syneron Medical (Yokneam, Israel) and The Procter & Gamble Company !Cincinnati, OH) signed an exclusive joint development and supply agreement to commercialize Syneron's patented laser/radio-frequency technology for home-use devices designed to...

UCLA nano institute gets Veeco microscopes.(optics: industry report)
April 1, 2007... The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) purchased $1.7 million of atomic-force and scanning-probe microscope systems (AFM/ SPMs) and optical profilers for use in the institute's multiuser...

China awards McPherson spectrometry contract.(optics: industry report)
April 1, 2007... McPherson (Chelmsford, MA), a manufacturer of vacuum-compatible instrumentation for measuring wavelengths of light, received a contract from the Chinese HL-2A Tokamak at the Southwestern Institute of Physics (ChengDu, China). Under this...

UA opens new optical sciences building.(optics: industry report)
April 1, 2007... The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) College of Optical Sciences opened its 47,000 sq ft Meinel Optical Sciences Building. The expansion is the first Tucson building selected to receive the Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects...

Dynasil sees revenue gains for optical products.(optics: industry report)
April 1, 2007... For the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2006, Dynasil (West Berlin, NJ) saw revenues of $2.5 million--an increase of 63.8% over revenues of $1.5 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2005. Dynasil manufactures optical materials, components, coatings,...

OSA selects 'Advocate of Optics'.(optics: industry report)
April 1, 2007... The Optical Society of America (OSA; Washington, D.C.) has selected New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman as its 2007 Advocate of Optics. According to the OSA, Bingaman was selected because of his extraordinary leadership in seeking to increase...

ASML Holding NV.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... ASML Holding NV (ASML: Tempe, AZ) plans to hire approximately 100 new employees in the US. by the end of the year for semiconductor lithography positions in engineering, customer support, and other roles.

The University of Juarez (UACJ: Juarez, Mexico) selected its advanced wafer bonding equipment for its research laboratory from SUSS MicroTec (Munich Germany).(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... The University of Juarez (UACJ: Juarez, Mexico) selected its advanced wafer bonding equipment for its research laboratory from SUSS MicroTec (Munich Germany), a supplier of precision manufacturing and test equipment for the semiconductor and...

Photon Engineering.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... Photon Engineering (Tucson, AZ) released version 6.30 of its FRED optical engineering software with features that target biomedical and illumination applications.

Advanced Liquid Logic (Raleigh, NC), a microfluidics "lab-on-a-chip" spinout from Duke University, acquired Nanolytics.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... Advanced Liquid Logic (Raleigh, NC), a microfluidics "lab-on-a-chip" spinout from Duke University, acquired Nanolytics, another microfluidic solutions provider.

Photovoltaic funds go to Fiberstars.(industry report: imaging & detector)
April 1, 2007... Fiberstars (Solon, OH), a manufacturer of fiber-optic lighting, has received $240,000 in funding through the Very High Efficiency Solar Concentrator Consortium (VHESC). Fiberstars was selected to join the consortium in 2006; this new...

VirtualScopics wins DOD image contracts.(industry report: imaging & detector)
April 1, 2007... Image-based biomarker solutions provider VirtualScopics (Rochester, NY) has begun work on two research contracts from the Department of Defense totaling $2.2 million. The contracts will explore the application of VirtualScopics' proprietary...

Cypress to sell image-sensor business.(industry report: imaging & detector)
April 1, 2007... Cypress Semiconductor (San Jose, CA) entered into a definitive agreement to sell its SMaL Camera Technologies subsidiary to Sensata Technologies. SMaL Camera provides cameras and camera subsystems to automotive advanced driver-assistance...

Halma adds Labsphere to its photonics family.(industry report: imaging & detector)
April 1, 2007... Labsphere (North Sutton, NH), a designer and manufacturer of light-measurement technology, has been acquired by Halma, a safety, health, and sensor technology group based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1979, Labsphere produces...

Vision Research bundles software and cameras.(industry report: imaging & detector)
April 1, 2007... High-speed camera and image-system provider Vision Research (VRI; Wayne, NJ) is joining forces with Image Systems (Linkoping, Sweden), a developer of motion-analysis software, to provide TEMA Starter for Phantom software with every Phantom...

ICx Technologies announced that its Ion Optics (Billerica, MA) business unit is changing its name to ICx Precision Photonics.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... ICx Technologies announced that its Ion Optics (Billerica, MA) business unit is changing its name to ICx Precision Photonics to coincide with the unit's move to a new facility and to more accurately reflect its core competency in infrared (IR)...

Basler-VC (Ahrensburg, Germany) has chosen LinX (Yokohama, Japan), manufacturer of GINGA frame-grabber boards and camera-link devices.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... Basler-VC (Ahrensburg, Germany) has chosen LinX (Yokohama, Japan), manufacturer of GINGA frame-grabber boards and camera-link devices, as its sales representative for the eXcite camera line in Japan; Basler's other linescan and area-scan camera...

e2v (Chelmsford. England) has selected Tower Semiconductor (Migdal Haemek, Israel), an independent specialty wafer foundry.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... e2v (Chelmsford. England) has selected Tower Semiconductor (Migdal Haemek, Israel), an independent specialty wafer foundry, as its supplier of choice for its complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor devices.

LumaSense Technologies (Santa Clara, CA), a provider of sensing solutions, will acquire Mikron Infrared (Oakland, NJ).(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... LumaSense Technologies (Santa Clara, CA), a provider of sensing solutions, will acquire Mikron Infrared (Oakland, NJ), a provider of infrared noncontact temperature measurement and thermal imaging equipment.

Infinera buys Little Optics, files IPO.(industry report: fiber optics)
April 1, 2007... After its announcement that it had acquired planar-lightwave-circuit maker Little Optics (Annapolis Junction, MD), Infinera (Sunnyvale, CA) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of up to $150...

JDSU to acquire Picolight.(industry report: fiber optics)
April 1, 2007... Network equipment provider JDSU (Milpitas, CA) will pay around $115 million in stock and up to $10 million in cash to acquire Picolight (Louisville, CO), a developer and manufacturer of optical pluggable transceivers. Picolight's technology...

Enablence opens FTTH volume production line.(industry report: fiber optics)
April 1, 2007... Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) transceiver developer Enablence Technologies (Ottawa, ON, Canada) announced that its high-volume production line with Sanmina-SCI has become operational. "At the end of 2006, Enablence and Sanmina-SCI entered into a...

3M gift supports Clemson fiber fabrication.(industry report: fiber optics)
April 1, 2007... A gift from 3M of a modified chemical-vapor-deposition lathe worth almost $900,000 makes Clemson University (Clemson, SC) the only university in the U.S., and one of only a few in the world, to have industry-level optical-fiber fabrication...

Transmode WDM sales way up.(industry report: fiber optics)
April 1, 2007... Transmode (Stockholm, Sweden), a provider of coarse and dense wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) optical-network solutions, announced a record year for sales during 2006 with an increase in excess of 150%. Sales were primarily driven by a...

The Opnext (Eatontown, NJ) initial public offering (announced in late 2006) raised $254 million for 16.9 million shares of Opnext at $15/share.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... The Opnext (Eatontown, NJ) initial public offering (announced in late 2006) raised $254 million for 16.9 million shares of Opnext at $15/share, far exceeding initial estimates of $150 million.

According to a study from FTM Consulting part of the IGI Certified Report Series a major shift is projected in the communications market by 2008.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... According to a study from FTM Consulting part of the IGI Certified Report Series a major shift is projected in the communications market by 2008, when, for the first time, fiber-cabling shipments are expected to exceed copper-cabling shipments....

In a new partnership, the FITEL brand of Furukawa America (Peachtree City, GA) fusion splicers and equipment now comprises the core of fusion splicer equipment.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... In a new partnership, the FITEL brand of Furukawa America (Peachtree City, GA) fusion splicers and equipment now comprises the core of fusion splicer equipment offerings from 3SAE Technologies (Franklin, TN).

OpVista (Milpitas, CA) announced that 2006 customer shipments exceeded 255% year-over-year growth.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... OpVista (Milpitas, CA) announced that 2006 customer shipments exceeded 255% year-over-year growth, attributable to the adoption of its OpVista2000 optical transport system among network operators.

Redfern Integrated Optics.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2007... Redfern Integrated Optics (Santa Clara, CA) achieved Telcordia compliance for its PLANEXTM planar-based external-cavity laser transmitter optical sub-assembly for transceiver module applications.

Lens tolerances: software eliminates the guesswork.(software & computing)
April 1, 2007... Some years ago I designed a small high-resolution projection lens. The tolerances were tight, and some elements had to be centered to within 10 [micro]m. The drawings went to an offshore company, and when the lenses came back they did not work....

Fiber-laser definition could stand broadening.
April 1, 2007... Fiber lasers are the hot topic in industrial-laser circles. They promise to revolutionize the laser industry through a disruptive combination of high reliability, high efficiency, low cost, and excellent beam quality. Underlying and driving...

Image sensors walk the line: new linescan sensors offer advances in web inspection.(inside imaging)
April 1, 2007... High-speed web-inspection systems require high-resolution images to be captured by single or multiple linescan cameras that are deployed across the width of the web. With very high linescan rates, these cameras can capture images at high...

What skills are most important for success?(business forum)(Interview)
April 1, 2007... Q: Do you think people are successful in their career because of their people skills, professional skills, or luck? What soft skills do you think are important? A: Professional and people skills are both important. We must have...

Compact TD-THz systems offer flexible, turnkey imaging solutions.(TERAHERTZ IMAGING)
April 1, 2007... Applications from homeland security to pharmaceutical quality control are uniquely enabled by time-domain terahertz (TD-THz) methods that use subpicosecond near-single-cycle electromagnetic impulses. These hyperwide-band impulses, spanning...

Wavefront correction finds use in bioimaging applications.(ADAPTIVE OPTICS)
April 1, 2007... The field of optomechatronics continues to rapidly expand as designers of optical systems increasingly incorporate active components, including transducers and sensors, active and adaptive optical elements, and real-time microprocessor control....

Inspired by nature, IR detector targets long-wavelength applications.(LONG-WAVE INFRARED DETECTORS)
April 1, 2007... The infrared spectrum has always offered possibilities beyond human visual capabilities. Infrared (IR) detectors have found their place in many applications, and have been indispensable tools for looking at objects from a different perspective...

Stress-free mounting enables diffraction-limited performance.(OPTICAL MOUNTS)
April 1, 2007... Even under ideal environmental conditions, such as room temperature, standard atmospheric pressure, low humidity, and no vibrations, forces within optical mounts can deform optical components. Mirrors can warp and birefringence can be induced...

Photonic-crystal fibers move out of the laboratory.(MICROSTRUCTURE FIBERS)
April 1, 2007... Since its inception, microstructure or photonic-crystal optical fibers have demonstrated properties that could enable them to replace more conventional and established specialty fibers in a number of key applications. (1) Although there has...

Development of silicon photonics focuses on high-speed optical interconnects: novel silicon modulators and hybrid III-V/silicon evanescent waveguide lasers highlight progress toward making silicon a photonic material. Yet pure silicon photonics remains an elusive goal.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: SILICON PHOTONICS)
April 1, 2007... The big push in silicon photonics is beginning to yield results. The goal is to break the electronic data-transmission bottleneck for moving signals between processing cores on a single integrated-circuit chip, between chips, or between...

Quantum-cascade lasers enable gas-sensing technology: extensive research and manufacturing improvements are delivering the output power levels and spectral behavior necessary to prove quantum-cascade laser viable for commercial gas-sensing applications.(QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS)
April 1, 2007... Since the first demonstration of a quantum-cascade (QC) laser in 1994 by Faist et al., there has been extensive research to increase performance levels to enable practical applications. For one of these applications--gas sensing--research has...

Fiber laser.(new products)
April 1, 2007... A fiber-laser system offers an output of 200 W with a near-diffraction-limited beam quality in customer-specified wavelengths. Various beam diameters are available for specific applications, using continuous-wave or modified-CW mode....

Laser-diode arrays.(new products)
April 1, 2007... The SIRILAS laser-diode array has been incorporated into pumping modules by RayTools. The array consists of a bar with 16 emitters and achieves an output of 30 W. The pumping modules include up to 10 arrays for outputs up to 300 W. The laser...

Megapixel video camera.(new products)
April 1, 2007... The Fastcam SA-1 camera takes 5000 full-megapixel-resolution frames per second. Its CMOS sensor provides imaging with 12-bit resolution and 2 ms global shuttering. Users can choose as a memory configuration either 8 GByte with 6 s at 1000...

Beam analyzer.(new products)
April 1, 2007... The LBS-USB laser-beam analyzer incorporates a series of USB 2.0 CCD cameras for laser-beam profiling. The device uses only CCD cameras for maximum linearity and accuracy. Three choices of cameras are available, from a 640 x 480 sensor with 7.4...

Deformable mirror.(new products)
April 1, 2007... A MEMS-based deformable mirror for adaptive optics is designed for ultra-high-resolution retinal imaging for early detection of ocular diseases. It uses 140 independently controlled actuators. Its 3 kHz frequency allows high-speed, real-time...

Inspection system.(new products)
April 1, 2007... The new tabletop IX-70 ChromAblate on-target inspection and short-deletion system includes an integrated adjustable attenuator, coaxial high-resolution CCD camera, adjustable zoom lens, and LCD display for real-time process viewing. Developed...

LED systems.(new products)
April 1, 2007... The HPLS series of interchangeable high-intensity LEDs now includes analog and digital modes. Configurations include optics for applications in fluorescence imaging, microscope imaging, high-speed imaging, photosynthesis research, solar-cell...

Machine-vision diffusers.(new products)
April 1, 2007... Light shaping diffusers improve uniformity and homogeneity to illumination systems in automatic optical-inspection platforms. Asymmetrical diffusers in lengths up to 1500 ft provide uniformity of better than 95% for line-scan applications....

Fiber lasers.(new products)
April 1, 2007... A series of high-power, OEM fiber lasers provide power of 10 to 50 W continuous wave and 5 to 20 W in Q-switched mode. The compact lasers utilize patented "Injection in Fiber and All Fiber" technology. Several accessories, laser-control...

Color-sensor modules.(new products)
April 1, 2007... Two OEM true-color sensor modules have been added to the Jencolour product group. The MTCS-TIAM1 is a color-sensor board with optical shutters and is designed for use with the MTCSiCS true-color-sensor IC and integrates the MT104CQ...

Machine-vision catalog.(new products)
April 1, 2007... A 100-page, full-color 2007 product catalog features photos, drawings, and technical specifications. It contains over 400 products, including lenses, attachments, adapters, controllers, and illuminators, as well as expanded systems diagrams,...

UV soft-x-ray spectrometer.(new products)
April 1, 2007... The Model 248/310 UV, 1-300 nm soft-x-ray spectrometer is designed for use by scientists developing new pulsed and tunable x-ray sources. It can detect laser harmonics over an energy range from 4 eV to 1.2 keV. Suitable for work in the 10-6...

Lightscopes.(new products)
April 1, 2007... Endoscopes, borescopes, and video borescopes are designed for testing and visual inspection in tight, inaccessible locations. The lightscopes are available with rigid or flexible probes, integral battery-powered illumination, and adjustable...

NIR-transmission analyzer.(new products)
April 1, 2007... The Series 2000 Creams and Lotions Analyzer is a diode-array spectrometer that uses a selection of sample cells to collect NIR transmission spectra through liquid, suspensions, and emulsions, such as lotions or creams. It scans the wavelength...

Bandpass filters.(new products)
April 1, 2007... Bandpass filters, manufactured using sputter technology for very dense coating layers, are designed for automotive sensor applications. The filters allow more than 90% of the useful IR radiation to be transmitted while nearly completely...

Measuring microscopes.(new products)
April 1, 2007... The STM6 series of microscopes has been specifically designed for inspection and measurement of industrial parts and electronic components. The STM6-LM inspects larger samples, with a 250 x 150 mm measuring area. Both models have motorized...

Design software.(new products)
April 1, 2007... The OptiFDTD 7.0 design software is powered by a "true-64-bit" simulation engine for Windows Vista and Windows 64-bit operating systems, New features include the ability to run larger mesh-size simulations and design on slanted walls of...