Laser Focus World articles from April 2008

Laser Focus World archives from April 2008

Marking milestones.(editor's desk)
April 1, 2008... Next month, May, happens to be the 48th anniversary of the demonstration of the first working laser by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, CA. May also happens to be the first anniversary of Maiman's death. So it seems...

Article may have left false impression that light-in-flight method is new.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... The article "3-D movie shows femtosecond pulse propagation," (January 2008, p. 36; wwwlaserfocusworld.com/ articles/317039) presents a method of light-in-flight recording by holography and reports: "For the first time, three-dimensional (3-D)...

Clarification.(Letters)(Correction notice)
April 1, 2008... In "OCT market to top $800 million by 2012" (see www.laserfocusworld.com/ articles/318570; February 2008, p. 49), the following statement requires clarification: "Because the Fourier-domain technique is not protected under the original tightly...

Microspheres simplify nanopatterning processes.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2008... Commercially available microspheres are being used in numerous applications--from creating white-light sources by coating red and green fluorescent microspheres on blue light-emitting diodes (see www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/318539), to...

CMOS photonics breaks through.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2008... A complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) optical-transceiver module has been introduced by Lightwire (Allentown, PA). According to the company its device is the first commercially available standards-compliant CMOS photonics product....

Pump block combines diodes for 350 W output.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2008... Designed and built with laser-diode chips from Bookham's High Power Laser facility (Zurich, Switzerland), a pump block launched by Visotek (Livonia, MI) delivers 350 W at 976 nm from a single fiber with a 200 pm core diameter and 0.2 numerical...

Three-wavelength quantum-well structures enable white-light LEDs.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2008... White-light-emitting LEDs are of significant interest because of their potential to replace current light sources with sources offering superior energy efficiency and longer lifetime. Researchers at Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Suwon, Republic of...

Low-loss porous terahertz fibers would turn tight corners.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2008... Terahertz radiation has strong potential for applications in biomedical sensing, noninvasive imaging, and spectroscopy. But terahertz sources are generally bulky, so designing efficient waveguides that can collect and deliver terahertz...

FTIR spectroscopy enables prediction of tumor histopathology.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2008... At Pittcon 2008 (Mar. 2-7; New Orleans, LA), Rohit Bhargava from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) discussed his group's work with Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic imaging to automate the analysis and recognition of...

IMEC achieves record 24.7% solar-cell efficiency.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2008... Measured and confirmed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (www.nrel.gov), solar cells developed by IMEC (Leuyen, Belgium) reached a record converston efficiency of 24.7%. [MEC realized this record on a single-junction gallium arsenide...

Hyperspectral fluorescence images bacterial pigments during photosynthesis.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2008... Scientists at Arizona State Unversity (ASU; Tempe, AZ) are using hyperspectral fluorescence imaging to identify and visualize discrete pigments in live bacteria cells. This approach could help researchers fine tune the bacteria for specific...

Nanowire single-photon detectors are fabricated on MgO substrates.(newsbreaks)
April 1, 2008... Single-photon detectors are highly desirable for quantum information systems (see "Photons promise an exciting route to quantum computing," p. 80). Federico Marsili at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) and his...

Michigan group achieves laser intensity record.(ULTRAFAST LASERS)(Cover story)
April 1, 2008... By adding a booster amplifier to their 50 TW Hercules laser, researchers at the University of Michigan (UM; Ann Arbor, MI) have pushed its peak power to 300 TW--the highest ever achieved for a repetitively pulsed laser. The team also focused...

Contact lens could create virtual display.(optoelectronics: world news)
April 1, 2008... Researchers at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) have successfully embedded optoelectronic devices into a biocompatibte contact lens. This achievement is a significant step toward enabling virtual head-up displays within the human eye,...

International congress lays the groundwork for biophotonics roadmap.(BIOMEDICAL OPTICS)
April 1, 2008... Scientists, academicians, and representatives of government and industry spent several days discussing the future of biomedical optics at the first International Congress on Biophotonics (ICOB; Feb. 3-7; Sacramento, CA), sponsored by the NSF...

Silicon lasers push into the mid-IR.(SILICON PHOTONICS)
April 1, 2008... The mid-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is generally a hard one to reach with laser sources, typically involving large and complex setups. Soon, however, tiny silicon lasers might cover the range with the smallest, simplest...

Tomorrow's light could get moody.(SOLID-STATE LIGHTING)
April 1, 2008... Several of the presentations at the Strategies in Light 2008 conference (Feb. 11-13, Santa Clara, CA; www.strategiesinlight. com) touched on the concept of "intelligent light"--the combination of software--either internal (embedded) or...

Ultrafast laser reveals nonreciprocal photosensitivity.(MATERIALS SCIENCE)
April 1, 2008... Researchers at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton (England) and the University of Joensuu (Finland) have presented what they claim is the first evidence of nonreciprocal photosensitivity. (1) This is an...

Random lasing needs no boundaries.(LASER PHYSICS)
April 1, 2008... A new demonstration of random lasing in a boundary-free system has shown new avenues to create random lasers in disordered systems. For most lasers, scattering is an undesired effect leading to losses. Random lasers, on the other hand, depend...

Oscillating RGB emission forges white-light laser.(FREQUENCY CONVERSION)
April 1, 2008... Most visual colors (including white) in projection displays and other lighting applications can be obtained by a weighted combination of red, green, and blue (RGB) light. In an unusual approach to RGB color generation, scientists at Nanjing...

LIBS determines quality and origin of precious gems.(SPECTROSCOPY)
April 1, 2008... Gemstone appraisal has gone high-tech, thanks to a collaboration between researchers at New Mexico State University (NMSU; Las Cruces, NM) and ultrafast laser manufacturer Raydiance (Orlando, FL). Nancy McMillan, professor and academic head of...

Somewhere over the event horizon, pump-probes shine.(ULTRAFAST PHYSICS)
April 1, 2008... Black holes may be the bane of science-fiction space heroes, but University of St. Andrews (Scotland) physicist Ulf Leonhardt's descriptions of them can remind one of a movie about a tornado in Kansas that sent a farm girl on a dream quest to...

Analysis of human breath holds key to disease.(SPECTROSCOPY)
April 1, 2008... Ordinary human breath is rife with biomolecules that can reveal the presence or absence of certain diseases or metabolic processes. Researchers at JILA--a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the...

2.8 THz QCL and IR camera capture real-time images.(TERAHERTZ IMAGING)
April 1, 2008... Short enough to provide submillimeter resolution capability, yet long enough to penetrate most nonmetallic materials, terahertz waves in the 0.3 to 10 THz spectral range are being exploited for detection of concealed objects and even for...

Aculight wins another medical-laser SBIR.(industry report: laser)
April 1, 2008... On the heels of its October 2007 $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a joint effort with Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) to develop an optical cochlear...

Air Force awards laser development contract.(industry report: laser)
April 1, 2008... The Boeing Company was awarded a $49 million U.S. Air Force contract to advance the state of the art in laser technology. Under the Laser Application Support and In-house Research and Development contract, Boeing will support research, design,...

Quantel consolidates nonmedical businesses.(industry report: laser)
April 1, 2008... The Quantel Group (Les Ulis, France), a provider of laser solutions to the industrial, scientific, and medical communities since 1970, created a new division to consolidate its business operations in the nonmedical arena. The newly created...

Gigaphoton to establish U.S. subsidiary.(industry report: laser)
April 1, 2008... Lithography light-source manufacturer Gigaphoton (Oyama, Japan) is expanding its presence in the U.S. with a new subsidiary, Gigaphoton USA, to be located in Beaverton, OR. "With one-fifth of the worldwide market in the U.S., we're fully...

Qioptiq acquisition to expand laser offering.(industry report: laser)
April 1, 2008... Designer and manufacturer of optical solutions Qioptiq (Paris, France), entered into an agreement to acquire Point Source (Hamble, England), a specialist producer of fiber-optic laser delivery systems and lasers for commercial applications in...

Mobius Photonics (Santa Clara, CA) appointed Nexlase (Eching, Germany) to distribute its ultraviolet and visible fiber lasers.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... Mobius Photonics (Santa Clara, CA) appointed Nexlase (Eching, Germany) to distribute its ultraviolet and visible fiber lasers throughout Europe.

Dilas (Mainz. Germany) will begin distributing m2k (Freiburg, Germany).(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... Dilas (Mainz. Germany) will begin distributing m2k (Freiburg, Germany) single-emitter diode lasers.

Laser manufacturer Intense (Glasgow, Scotland) signed a distribution agreement with A&P Instruments (China).(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... Laser manufacturer Intense (Glasgow, Scotland) signed a distribution agreement with A&P Instruments (China) to have A&P distribute its entire line of high-power laser diodes within China

JP Sercel Associates.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... JP Sercel Associates (JPSA; Manchester, NH), a designer, supplier, and systems integrator of laser materials-processing workstations, expanded and strengthened its job shop's microprocessing capabilities with class 10000 cleanroom facilities...

Coherent.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... Coherent announced that fiscal Q1 orders (three months ended Dec. 29, 2007) of $154.9 million increased 13.7% from the same prior year period and decreased by 5.4% compared to orders received in the immediately preceding quarter; Coherent also...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI; Worcester. MA) received funds and equipment from fiber-laser maker IPG Photonics (Oxford, MA) to enhance the teaching and research capabilities.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI; Worcester. MA) received funds and equipment from fiber-laser maker IPG Photonics (Oxford, MA) to enhance the teaching and research capabilities of the IPG Photonics Laboratory, established at WPI in 2001.

Navitar acquires Special Optics.(industry report: optics)
April 1, 2008... Navitar (Rochester, NY), a manufacturer and distributor of precision optics and optomechanical assemblies for the machine-vision and digital-projection industries, acquired Special Optics (Wharton, NJ), a privately owned manufacturer of optical...

Optics portfolio expands to include IR.(industry report: optics)
April 1, 2008... Schott North America (San Jose, CA) expanded its line of advanced optics to include IR materials, including both zinc sulfide (ZnS) and IR chalcogenide glasses. "Increasingly, our customers are developing optic devices that use both visible...

TEKES funds polymer optical materials.(industry report: optics)
April 1, 2008... Braggone (Oulu, Finland), an optoelectronics materials company, received multi-million dollar funding from TEKES (The National Technology Agency of Finland) to commercialize its polymer materials that are used in digital displays and cameras,...

Optometrics buys optical-filter product line.(industry report: optics)
April 1, 2008... Dynasil of America (West Berlin, N]) acquired an optical-filter product line from Precision Optics (POC; Gardner, MA) through its wholly owned subsidiary, Optometrics (Ayer, MA). The purchase includes the intellectual property, customer base,...

The Merging Optics and Nanotechnologies (MONA: www.ist-mona.org) group, which is funded by the European Commission within its 6th Framework Programme.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... The Merging Optics and Nanotechnologies (MONA: www.ist-mona.org) group, which is funded by the European Commission within its 6th Framework Programme, has released European Roadmap for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, which identifies key...

ZC&R Coatings for Optics (Torrance, CA) and Abrisa Industrial Glass (Santa Paula, CA) have joined together to produce display glass and liquid-crystal display (LCD) glass plates.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... ZC&R Coatings for Optics (Torrance, CA) and Abrisa Industrial Glass (Santa Paula, CA) have joined together to produce display glass and liquid-crystal display (LCD) glass plates for a wide variety of applications.

Infotonics Technology Center.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... With the recent investment of $5 million in packaging capabilities, the Infotonics Technology Center (Canandaigua, NY) has opened a state-of-the-art facility to offer design and packaging services to microelectromechanical-systems customers.

Corning.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... The board of directors of Corning (Corning, NY) approved a capital expenditure plan of $453 million to further expand its LCD glass-substrate manufacturing facility in Taichung, Taiwan.

AdvancSis gets boost for photovoltaics.(industry report: imaging & detector)
April 1, 2008... Start-up company AdvanceSis (Coventry, England) announced a multimillion-dollar follow-on investment from its main shareholder, Seven Spires Investments, to develop applications in the photovoltaics (PV) sector. This new investment will fund...

Goodrich receives DARPA sensors contract.(industry report: imaging & detector)
April 1, 2008... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Goodrich (Princeton, NJ) to develop next-generation night-vision sensor technology for helmet-mounted and microvehicle applications. A three-year contract released under DARPA's...

Organic PV market to reach $3.8 billion.(industry report: imaging & detector)
April 1, 2008... According to a new market research report from NanoMarkets (Glen Allen, VA) Materials Markets for Thin-Film and Organic Photovoltaics, materials for use in thin-film and organic photovoltaics (PV) will reach $3.8 billion by 2015. NanoMarkets'...

Lebanese Navy orders Cedip IR platforms.(industry report: imaging & detector)
April 1, 2008... The Lebanese National Defence Ministry placed an order for 6 Pharos XLR3+ Long Range Multisensor Surveillance Platforms from Cedip Infrared Systems (Croissy-Beaubourg, France). The platforms will be equipped with a long-range thermal imager to...

Partnership to advance thin-film solar cells.(industry report: imaging & detector)
April 1, 2008... Ersol Thin Film, a subsidiary of ersol Solar Energy (both Erfurt, Germany), and Schott Solar (Alzenau, Germany) have concluded a cooperative agreement under which they will jointly develop micromorphous technology for thin-film solar cells. In...

Photron (Tokyo, Japan) and its subsidiaries and Photron USA and Photron Europe were honored by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers with a product excellence award.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... Photron (Tokyo, Japan) and its subsidiaries and Photron USA and Photron Europe were honored by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers with a product excellence award for Photron s APX-RS high-speed imager that enables technology in the study...

Synova (Lausanne, Switzerland), patent holder of water-jet-guided laser technology.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... Synova (Lausanne, Switzerland), patent holder of water-jet-guided laser technology, joined a research alliance led by Europe's largest solar research organization, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (www.ise.fhg.de), to explore...

Insight Media.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... Insight Media (Norwalk, CT) released 2008 Pico-Projector Market Segment Analysis, which forecasts that picoprojectors (projection display systems) will reach nearly 30 million units in 2012.

Merger aims at next-generation photonics.(industry report: fiber optics)
April 1, 2008... Telecommunications components company Gemfire (Fremont, CA) completed a merger with Covega (Jessup, MD), a provider of indium phosphide and lithium niobate components and modules to the telecom, industrial, medical, defense, and test and...

Acquisition of Intel's telecom is complete.(industry report: fiber optics)
April 1, 2008... Emcore (Albuquerque, NM) completed its acquisition, announced in December 2007, of the telecom-related portion of Intel's Optical Platform Division (see www.laserfocuswofld.com/ artides/318561). The purchase price was $85 million in cash and...

Component market to reach $6 billion by 2012.(industry report: fiber optics)
April 1, 2008... Market research firm Ovum RHK (London, England) posted a new optical component five-year forecast for wide-area network (WAN), datacom, and access components. Merchant demand is led by WAN optical components-growing to $3.5 billion in...

Corning and Infinera partner for the long-haul.(industry report: fiber optics)
April 1, 2008... At OFC/NFOEC 2008, Corning (Corning, NY) and photonic-integrated-circuit manufacturer Infinera (Sunnyvale, CA) demonstrated how optimal integration of their optical-fiber and transmission-system products enable simplified and cost-effective...

IPtronics closes $10.25 million in funding.(industry report: fiber optics)
April 1, 2008... Silicon-component supplier IPtronics (Roskilde, Denmark) dosed more than $10 million in series B funding to accelerate sales and product development. IPtronics supplies integrated circuits to the emerging market for parallel optical...

Laboratory-management, national-security, energy-technology, and health-and life-sciences company Battelle (Columbus. OH) acquired the intellectual property and other assets of Optmizer Photonics.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... Laboratory-management, national-security, energy-technology, and health-and life-sciences company Battelle (Columbus. OH) acquired the intellectual property and other assets of Optmizer Photonics (also in Columbus), which was formed in 2001 to...

Monitoring Division.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... Monitoring Division (Sunnyvale, CA). a network-performance-monitoring company that recently launched a new optical signal-to-noise ratio monitor, raised $3.85 million in its initial round of funding.

IRphotonics (Montreal, QC, Canada), a provider of infrared fiber and materials.(Also in the news ...)
April 1, 2008... IRphotonics (Montreal, QC, Canada), a provider of infrared fiber and materials, was awarded a contract by to supply IR optical-fiber assemblies for analysis systems that allow remote real-time monitoring of continuous and batch processes in the...

Executives give mixed outlook for 2008: mostly sunny, chance of rain.(market watch)
April 1, 2008... Talk show host Larry King once said he could give a high-probability weather forecast for any day, any place: "partly cloudy, chance of rain." Pretty much any location is likely to have some clouds on any given day, and some chance of rain,...

Cream of the crop: machine vision guides agricultural topping and spraying.(inside imaging)
April 1, 2008... The business and environmental costs are high for using fungicides and insecticides on agricultural crops. For example, maleic hydrazide and Prime Plus kill the sucker or auxiliary buds on green tobacco plants; however, these chemicals can...

CCD imagers take new pixel approach for high-end applications.(CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES)
April 1, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] While consumer requirements force manufactures of imagers based on charge coupled devices (CCD) and complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS) to decrease the pixel sizes, the driving factor for professional...

Recent advances extend spectral output of QC lasers: innovative design approaches with novel materials systems are creating a range of new wavelength options for quantum-cascade lasers.(QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS)
April 1, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] More than a decade after its first demonstration, quantum-cascade laser technology is still progressing rapidly. These lasers have now been demonstrated across a broad range of wavelengths, from as short as 3 [micro]m up...

Few-cycle laser amplifiers bridge the gap between femto- and attosecond ranges: carrier-envelope-phase stabilization of amplified intense few-cycle pulses enables the generation of single attosecond pulses through high-order harmonic generation.(ATTOSECOND SOURCES)
April 1, 2008... Attosecond science has emerged as one of the most topical fields of fundamental research. (1) Predicted more than a decade ago, attosecond (1 as = [10.sup.-18] s) pulse generation relies on laser-atom interactions in the strong field regime and...

Photons promise an exciting route to quantum computing: optical quantum computing was a dead-end street until the breakthrough of a scheme based on a massive optical nonlinearity induced by single-photon detection. Today it is a leading approach.(QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING)
April 1, 2008... Quantum information science seeks to answer the question, "What additional power and functionality can be gained by harnessing uniquely quantum-mechanical effects in the encoding, transmission, and processing of information?" Anticipated future...

Hubble to get its final makeover: NASA plans to install two new instruments and repair two others ... the mission should make the Hubble Space Telescope better than new.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: UPGRADING HUBBLE)
April 1, 2008... Ground-based astronomers boast about the exquisite detail they can see when adaptive optics are installed on giant terrestrial telescopes that dwarf the 2.4 m Hubble Space Telescope. Yet despite its modest size, Hubble remains a unique...

Plastic optical fiber steps out of the niche: apart from low cost, the unique advantages of plastic optical fiber are ease of termination, large core diameter for easy fiber coupling, as well as ruggedness against mechanical shock.(PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER)
April 1, 2008... The need for easy and affordable short-range high-speed communication is ever growing. While the method of choice is wireless communication, wireless falls short when high-quality service is needed or when the application is sensitive to...

Optical imaging resolves beyond the diffraction limit.(SUPERRESOLUTION OPTICS)
April 1, 2008... Many attempts have made to improve the resolving power of optical imaging systems since Ernst Abbe discovered at the end of the 19th century that the resolution of an imaging system is limited by diffraction. When applied to the field of...

Silicon carbide mirrors benefit high-speed laser scanning: light weight, high stiffness, and good thermal conductivity make silicon carbide an ideal substrate for galvanometer mirrors in high-speed laser scanning systems.(OPTICAL MATERIALS)
April 1, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The latest high-speed laser scanning systems are quickly being adopted for printing, cutting, welding, drilling, and various other applications that require scanning of a laser beam. The main performance drivers for...

Picosecond UV lasers pave the way to new applications: a technique that combines stretching and compression enables compact, inexpensive UV lasers for micromachining, spectroscopy, microscopy, and other applications.(MATERIALS PROCESSING)
April 1, 2008... A novel approach to the generation of pulses with durations of only a few picoseconds is based on Raman shifting a light frequency to the Stokes range with simultaneous compression of 1 to 2 ns, 1064 nm pulses, and then following the...

Ultrafast oscillator.(new products)
April 1, 2008... The Mantis oscillator for short-pulse, broadband, ultrafast applications has been optimized for a single operating point in terms of wavelength and bandwidth. It generates more than 300 mW average power at a nominal center wavelength of 800 nm...

Ethernet cameras.(new products)
April 1, 2008... A series of Gigabit Ethernet CCD cameras allow cable lengths of up to 100 m and are available with color, monochrome, or cooled sensors. They offer megapixel resolution, frame rates up to 30/90 frames/s, and short trigger delay of 6.75...

Optical-design software.(new products)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Version 9.81 of Code V optical design software simplifies the correlation of actual test data and design parameters. New aspheric-lens tolerancing capabilities can be used with the Fast Wavefront Differential...

IR optics.(new products)
April 1, 2008... A line of advanced optics includes regular grade zinc sulfide for the 8 to 12 [micro]m range, multispectral (clear) grade zinc sulfide for 0.45 to 12 [micro]m, and infrared chalcogenide glasses. The IR material is available in large sizes and...

Packaged diode lasers.(new products)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] High-brightness, fiber-coupled laser diodes are available to OEMs, providing more than 20 W of output in a compact package. They include a 100 [micro]m fiber with 0.11 NA, with 60% or greater in-fiber E-O power...

Fiber lasers.(new products)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Telesto family of rugged, high-peak-power, polarized, pulsed fiber lasers have output at 1 [micro]m for mapping, surveillance, and ladar applications. The P36L-1064 model produces 3 to 5 ns pulses at repetition...

Vibration-isolation platform.(new products)
April 1, 2008... The KL-VIP vibration-isolation platform is passive and maintenance-free, requiring no air hoses or supporting hardware. It includes a black powder-coated plate, either steel or aluminum, and three or four vibration-isolation bearings. The...

Fizeau interferometer.(new products)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The FizCam 3000 is a Fizeau interferometer developed for accurate measurement of meter-class optics and general optical elements. It uses dynamic interferometry to acquire all measurement data in less than 1 ms,...

FTIR spectrometer.(new products)
April 1, 2008... A handheld, portable, Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer can be fully operated with just one hand and is capable of handling attenuated transmission reflectance applications. The system has interchangeable internal reflectance and external...

Deep-UV coating.(new products)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The capability of deep-UV coating provides optics with long lifetimes for use in leading-edge medical and semiconductor photolithography systems. The high-throughput coatings increase component lifetime while...

Laser module.(new products)
April 1, 2008... The AC2-808BW-68-301 laser module with wavelength-stabilization technology is designed for air-cooled, diode-pumped, solid-state lasers. It produces 30 W at 808 [+ or -] 1.5 nm. It has a 685 [micro]m fiber bundle with 0.15 NA, and comes with an...

Optical-design software.(new products)
April 1, 2008... The newest version of Advanced Systems Analysis Program, ASAP 2008, includes an enhancement that allows interoperability between ASAP and the SolidWorks Parts Only 3D Modeling Engine. It includes a new realistic polarizer model, Stokes-value...

Laser marking system.(new products)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 5000 Series laser marking systems use diode-pumped Nd:YAG and carbon dioxide lasers. The workstation can be used as a stand-alone unit or be integrated into a production line. A series of supplementary modules...

Multispectral imaging.(new products)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Orion, an infrared multispectral imaging system, can produce IR subband images at video rate with the short-wave, mid-wave, and long-wave IR regions. Based on a focal-plane array, it can capture up to 200...