Laser Focus World articles from August 2004

Laser Focus World archives from August 2004

Bigger than telecom?(editor's desk)
August 1, 2004... The telecom boom at the turn of the century served to awaken the photonics industry to the potential of the "killer app" and whetted many appetites for more. So it's no surprise that since the telecom collapse the search has been ongoing for...

Characterization of Exfo Burleigh products was inaccurate.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2004... The article "Solid State Etalons improve Wavelength Measurement" (June 2004, p. 143) contains several factual errors that your readers should be made aware of. The article makes a reference to the wavelength meters manufactured by Exfo...

Correction.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
August 1, 2004... The photo that accompanied the Comment, "Adaptive optics reveals its commercial potential" (July 2004, p. 63) should have been credited to Spectra-Physics (Mountain View, CA). Laser Focus World regrets the error.

High-power laser-diode array is monolithically fabricated.(news breaks)
August 1, 2004... Engineers at Quintessence Photonics (Sylmar, CA) have developed a 2-D monolithic high-power laser-diode array composed of elements that are surface-emitting lasers, but not VCSELs (vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; VCSELs are low-power...

Birefringent lens reduces aberration effects.(news breaks)
August 1, 2004... Researchers at Shizuoka University (Hamamatsu City, Japan) and the University of Calcutta (Calcutta, India) have calculated that, for certain cases, the incorporation of a birefringent lens into a multielement lens design can reduce the effect...

Fabry-Perot wavelength-stabilization method has ideal error-signal shape.(news breaks)
August 1, 2004... When quasi-monochromatic light passes through a Fabry-Perot etalon at a fixed angle, the exiting intensity can vary sharply versus wavelength; this property can be used for laser-wavelength stabilization. For this setup, the signal--simply the...

Bent substrate with linear Fresnel-zone plate focuses x-rays.(news breaks)
August 1, 2004... Optics that focus hard x-rays are based on familiar approaches such as refractive lenses, mirrors, and Fresnel-zone plates--but are, in one way or another, pushed to the extreme (see Laser Focus World, September 1999, p. 24). For example, two...

Organic solid-state laser emits deep-blue light.(news breaks)
August 1, 2004... Although amplified spontaneous emission had previously been observed in the 392- to 444-nm region for organic solid-state molecules, lasing had not. Now, scientists at the Technische Universitat Braunschweig and the Physikalisch-Technische...

White OLED for LCD backlighting reaches 18.4-lm/W efficiency.(news breaks)
August 1, 2004... Researchers at Universal Display (Ewing, NJ) and Toyota (Aichi, Japan) have demonstrated a red-green-blue (RGB) organic-light-emitting-diode (OLED) device that emits white light at efficiencies of 18.4 lm/W and 36 cd/A and a 16% external...

Quantum-cascade laser is designed for third-harmonic emission.(news breaks)
August 1, 2004... A quantum-cascade laser developed by scientists at Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ) and Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) has an active region designed to simultaneously emit its fundamental wavelength and third...

Nonlinear QWIP makes autocorrelation measurements of ultrafast pulses.(news breaks)
August 1, 2004... A quantum-well IR photodetector (QWIP) optimized for nonlinear behavior has been developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institut fur Angewandte Festkorperphysik (Freiburg, Germany) and the National Research Council (Ottawa, Ont., Canada)....

Water penetration rate is measured in silica and sapphire fibers.(news breaks)
August 1, 2004... Silica optical fibers are used for sensing strain, temperature, and other parameters, even in harsh environments. Sapphire optical fibers have been demonstrated as a sturdier alternative to silica, but details on both fibers' environmental...

Gas-dynamic laser enters pulse-periodic mode.(High Power Lasers)
August 1, 2004... A group of laser researchers led by Victor Apollonov at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Moscow) has developed a modification to high-power wide-aperture gas lasers that allows emission in a high-frequency pulse- periodic mode in which...

3-D waveguides created by 2-D fabrication.(world news)
August 1, 2004... At Iowa State University (Ames IA) researchers have demonstrated a simple method for designing single-photonic-crystal devices with waveguides efficiently connected in three spatial directions. Though initial experimental have been performed in...

Spectral nephelometry qualifies olive oil.(Food Science)
August 1, 2004... Extra-virgin olive oil is a favorite cooking ingredient worldwide for its flavor and nutritional advantages. But how do consumers know they are buying the real thing? And if buyers have a preferred supplier, how do they know the next bottle...

Eye is window for blood-chemical monitoring.(Raman Spectroscopy)
August 1, 2004... Rather than drawing blood to measure blood-chemical levels, it may one day be possible for diabetic patients to scan their own eyes at home to monitor their glucose levels, for doctors to scan patients' eyes to monitor drug levels in the brain,...

Cassini sees in many ways.(Space Imaging)
August 1, 2004... Loaded with imaging systems and other optoelectronics, the Cassini spacecraft has arrived at Saturn and is there to stay. After closely imaging Phoebe, an outer moon of Saturn, the spacecraft inserted itself into orbit around Saturn on June 30....

DRUPA highlights graphic-arts technology trends.(Computer-To-Plate Printing)
August 1, 2004... The world's largest trade fair for the graphic-arts industry, DRUPA (the name is derived from the German words for printing and paper, or Druck und Papier) was held May 16-19 in Dusseldorf, Germany. The event is held every four years and is...

Surface-plasmon polaritons allow features to 25 nm.(Optical Lithography)
August 1, 2004... Researchers at Riken (Wako, Japan) have demonstrated a new way of making masks for optical lithography that is not constrained by the diffraction limit. (1) The technique uses visible wavelengths and operates in the near-field, but does not...

1.3-kW fiber laser can be further scaled.(Fiber Lasers)
August 1, 2004... Fiber lasers have become serious competitors to other high-power lasers. Their favorable surface-to-core-volume ratio provides efficient heat removal, allowing pump power to be increased with little loss in beam quality. About a year ago, a...

UV chamber tests outdoor sealants.(Integrating Spheres)
August 1, 2004... When exposed to sunlight, things fall apart--paint fades, plastic pales and weakens, and cloth goes to pieces. The culprit is UV light, abetted by humidity and temperature extremes. Developing more-weather-resistant materials requires testing,...

Supernova spectrograph achieves first light.(Astronomy)
August 1, 2004... Mounted on the University of Hawaii's 2.2-m telescope atop Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii, the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS), achieved first light in June (see figure). Analysis of the initial data combined with a separate...

VCSEL becomes an optical inverter.(Optical Computing)
August 1, 2004... An optical device based on a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) demonstrated waveform inversion of a 5-GHz sine wave, according to researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan) and Coming (Corning, Ny). (1) An...

QC laser-based spectrometer flies high.(IR Spectroscopy)
August 1, 2004... Los Gatos Research (Mountain View, CA) has teamed up with Jim Podolske from NASA Ames (Mountain View, CA) to flight-test a new technology that has provided the first ultrasensitive in situ carbon monoxide (CO) measurements in the troposphere...

DARPA funds new photonics center.(laser industry report)
August 1, 2004... The University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL) has received a $6.2 million, four-year grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a photonic research center to develop ultrafast light sources for high-speed signal...

Palomar, Lumenis resolve patent litigation.(laser industry report)
August 1, 2004... Medical-laser manufacturers Palomar Medical Technologies (Burlington, MA) and Lumenis (Yokneam, Israel) have agreed to a settlement resolving their ongoing litigation regarding patent and contractual matters. The terms of the settlement provide...

Spire to develop terahertz laser technology.(laser industry report)
August 1, 2004... Spire (Bedford, MA) is developing nano-engineered gallium arsenide layers for fabrication of miniature terahertz lasers under an AFOSR-funded, $99,000 Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project. Spire's compact...

High Power Devices.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... High Power Devices (HPD; North Brunswick, NJ), a manufacturer of high-power IR and visible-laser diodes and laser diode systems, has been qualified for registration to ISO 9001:2000 as of June 1, 2004 by SGS certification services.

WaveLight Laser Technologie (Erlangen, Germany) has established a new subsidiary in Spain after taking a majority interest in the Spanish company Tetramedic S.A., which Will now operate under the name of WaveLight S.A.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... WaveLight Laser Technologie (Erlangen, Germany) has established a new subsidiary in Spain after taking a majority interest in the Spanish company Tetramedic S.A. which Will now operate under the name of WaveLight S.A. The company will be...

The United States Patent Office issued U.S. Patent No. 6,746,473 to Erchonia Medical (Mesa, AZ), covering all handheld laser devices with more than one laser.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... The United States Patent Office issued U.S. Patent No. 6,746,473 to Erchonia Medical (Mesa, AZ), covering all handheld laser devices with more than one laser. This patent enables Erchonia to offer the only patentee, handheld, true multilaser...

e2v Technologies to supply CCDs for China telescope.(optics industry report)
August 1, 2004... e2v Technologies (Chelmsford, England) has been awarded a contract to supply 36 image sensors to the Chinese LAMOST (Large sky-Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope) project. The contract calls for e2v to supply 36 of the 4k x 4k CCDs to...

Olympus targets China with Beijing subsidiary.(optics industry report)
August 1, 2004... Olympus (Tokyo, Japan) anticipates further expansion of the Chinese market, and has moved to expand its sales of endoscopes and biological microscopes in China by absorbing its local sales agency in China and establishing Olympus Beijing Sales...

SBIR grant funds development of IR nanoceramics.(optics industry report)
August 1, 2004... MetaMateria Partners (MMP; Columbus, OH), a subsidiary of nanomaterials-developer Nano-Dynamics (Buffalo, NY), received a $750,000 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II award from the U.S. Navy to make nanosized ceramic particles...

Synthetic diamond material enhances optical devices.(optics industry report)
August 1, 2004... Element SIX (Cuijk, The Netherlands) has developed a new synthetic single-crystal diamond material made using chemical-vapor deposition. According to the company, IIIa Optical has a unique combination of properties that makes it an excellent...

Alpine Research Optics (ARO, Boulder, CO) received an order valued at more than $1 million to supply laser optics to the National Ignition Facility (NIF) operated by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA).(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... Alpine Research Optics (ARO, Boulder, CO) received an order valued at more than $1 million to supply laser optics to the National Ignition Facility NIF) operated by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA). The contract, which...

Proteus Optics.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... Proteus Optics (Philadelphia, PA) received $100,000 Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I award to develop a laser pulse--shaping system. Proteus Optics manufacturers optical instrumentation for the scientific and defense markets, and was...

Halma acquires Ocean Optics.(imaging & detector industry report)
August 1, 2004... Halma (Amersham, Englalnd), a leading safety and environmental-technology group, is acquiring Ocean Optics (Dunedin, FL), a supplier of optical sensing and electro-optics systems. The purchase price includes an initial cash consideration of $25...

NIST report sees bright future for LIDAR.(imaging & detector industry report)
August 1, 2004... A new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, MD) report predicts "tremendous" applications for LIDAR (light detection and ranging) and argues for a vigorous effort to create next-generation LIDAR. The results, says...

The U.S. Display Consortium awarded a research and development contract to Lumileds (San Jose, CA) to develop LED-based illuminators for projection-display applications.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... The U.S. Display Consortium awarded a research and development contract to Lumileds (San Jose, CA) to develop LED-based illuminators for projection-display applications. The $2 million project will be cost-shared equally between the USDC and...

CAS Medical Systems.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... CAS Medical Systems (Branford, CT) has been awarded a $1 million Small Business Innovative Research Phase 11 grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health for an optical noninvasive brain-oxygenation monitor. The grant will be used to...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has awarded ITT Industries' (White Plains, NY) Aerospace/Communications Division a $20 million contract.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has awarded ITT Industries' (White Plains. NY) Aerospace/Communications Division a $20 million contract to develop a hyperspectral environmental suite that will go on next-generation weather satellites to...

The Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) is working with Evident Technologies (Troy, NY).(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... The Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) is working with Evident Technologies (Troy, NY) to develop and demonstrate new efficient white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for use in general illumination.

Universal Display partners with PARC.(imaging & detector industry report)
August 1, 2004... Universal Display (Ewing, NJ) and Palo Alto Research Center (PARC; Palo Alto, CA) are collaborating on the development of poly-silicon (poly-Si) thin-film-transistor (TFT) backplane technology on metal foil. The backplanes will integrate...

Joint project focuses on video over GigE.(imaging & detector industry report)
August 1, 2004... Pleora Technologies (Ottawa, Canada) is working with The JAI Group (Copenhagen, Denmark) to develop industrial vision solutions that deliver video and imaging data over high-performance, low-cost GigE connections. Under the agreement, Pleora...

Bookham to reincorporate in the United States.(fiberoptics industry report)
August 1, 2004... Bookham Technology (Abingdon, England) plans to change its corporate domicile to the United States. The proposed change is to be effected by a U.K. court-approved scheme of arrangement under which every 10 existing Bookham ordinary shares will...

Sanmina-SCI (San Jose, CA), a global electronics-contract-manufacturing-services (EMS) company, is partnering with Kailight Photonics (Dallas, TX).(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... Sanmina-SCI (San Jose, CA), a global electronics-contract-manufacturing-services (EMS) company, is partnering with Kailight Photonics (Dallas, TX) to jointly design, industrialize, manufacture, and market Kailight's tunable all-optical...

Ibsen Photonics.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... Ibsen Photonics (Copenhagen, Denmark) has been granted U.S. Patent 6,693,701, "Method and Apparatus for Diffractive Transfer of Grating Mask." This technology allows manufacturers to print submicron grating periods by further advancing the...

Mahi Networks (Petaluma, CA) acquired Photuris (Piscataway, NJ), a supplier of advanced optical-services equipment.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... Mahi Networks (Petaluma, CA) acquired Photuris (Piscataway, NJ), a supplier of advanced optical-services equipment. In rebated news, Mahi closed $70 million in new funding.

Comlase.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2004... Comlase Stockholm, Sweden) completed a new round of venture funding, providing the company with an additional 12 million Swedish Krona in capital (US$1.6 million).

Pandatel acquires Lightmaze Solutions.(fiberoptics industry report)
August 1, 2004... Pandatel (Hamburg, Germany), a copper line and optical-fiber-network access and transmission specialist, has acquired 100% of Lightmaze Solutions (Eisingen, Germany), a company that specializes in communication solutions for the introduction of...

FiberGrade acquired by PXIT.(fiberoptics industry report)
August 1, 2004... FiberGrade, a developer of optical transmission-monitoring technologies, has officially "graduated" from the Boston University (Boston, MA) Photonics Center's Business Acceleration Program and was acquired by PXIT (Lexington, MA), a...

Where angels fear to tread: imaging in harsh environments provides critical data to scientists and engineers, and can guide dangerous operations.(inside imaging)
August 1, 2004... On July 21, 1982, I stood with a group of nuclear engineers around a small video screen at the Three Mile Island (TMI) Nuclear Power Station, just south of Middletown, PA. We were watching the live feed from a 1 1/4-in.-wide camera as it was...

Newport 'goes for the gold' with Spectra-Physics deal.(market watch)
August 1, 2004... Thermo Electron's decision to divest Spectra-Physics earlier this year was not a big surprise to the laser industry, despite that conglomerate's concerted efforts to leverage the Spectra-Physics name across its diverse instrumentation...

Software calibration offers plug-and-play image quality.(software & computing)
August 1, 2004... As liquid-crystal-display (LCD) technology matures it provides a more satisfactory viewing experience for users of flat-panel displays (FPDs). In addition to their inherent ergonomic and economic advantages, FPDs are also becoming increasingly...

Semiconductor lasers shed new light on flow cytometry: flow cytometers that use novel semiconductor lasers are helping pharmaceutical companies better target specific proteins and develop new drugs more quickly and cost-effectively.(Optoelectronic applications: drug discovery)(Cover Story)
August 1, 2004... After 30 years as a workhorse analytical tool housed primarily in large, academic R&D centers, flow cytometers are finding their way into the labs of researchers who previously could not afford them. Thanks in part to a flurry of...

Spectral data adds a new dimension to remote imaging of Earth.(Imaging Spectrometry)
August 1, 2004... Remote sensing of Earth from overhead is rapidly taking on a new dimension as data from imaging spectrometers becomes more widely available. The spectral dimension has been used for more than half a century as the three bands available from...

Femtosecond illumination moves from technology to microscopy.(Ultrafast Lasers)
August 1, 2004... Multiphoton-excitation (MPE) microscopy places stringent demands on laser performance, but the biologists who use it generally have limited laser expertise. To overcome this lack of expertise, a new generation of ultrafast lasers with...

Fibers, holey and unholey.(editor's desk)
August 1, 2004... A decade or more ago, the term "specialty fibers" would often bring to mind the hard-polymer-clad and metal-clad silica fibers used as light pipes in harsh environments. But, owing to the subsequent growth of fiber-sensing applications, the...

Photonic-crystal fibers have many uses: advances in photonic-crystal-fiber technology promise to yield not only better ways to guide light, but more-efficient fiber lasers as well.(Specialty Fibers)
August 1, 2004... With a highly structured cross section of glass and air spaces, photonic-crystal fibers (PCFs), also called microstructured fibers, are the ultimate specialty fiber. Although PCFs have only recently become commercially available, many types are...

Hollow-glass waveguides have unique properties: hollow-glass fibers coated inside with antireflective thin-film coatings offer an exciting alternative to solid-core fibers, transmitting light efficiently and serving as gas cells for sensing as well.(Specialty Fibers)
August 1, 2004... The first optical-frequency hollow waveguides--made by Elsa Garmire and her group at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) in the late 1970s--were simple rectangular structures constructed from parallel plates of aluminum...

Panda-style fibers move beyond telecom: advances in design and fabrication techniques have brought Panda-style polarization-maintaining fibers into use in fiberoptic gyroscopes, as well as in linearly polarized fiber lasers.(Specialty Fibers)
August 1, 2004... Despite being a technology more than 20 years old, Panda-style polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers are undergoing a new lease on life. (Panda stands for polarization-maintaining and absorption reducing.) Originally developed for the...

CMOS detectors enable optical interconnects.(High-Speed Detectors)
August 1, 2004... As data rates increase to 5 or 6 Gbit/s, the performance of high-end computer systems is limited less by microprocessor clock speeds and more by the interconnections between microprocessors. Copper links are limited to less than one meter...

Optical modules ease design of fiberoptic systems: standardization of optical modules through multisource agreements has helped designers of optical networks trim costs and improve performance. The next challenge will be to build modules for 40-Gbit/s systems.(Optical networking: optical modules)
August 1, 2004... Standardized optical modules are like off the-rack-suits--they may never fit as perfectly as custom-tailored suits, but they give a good fit at a reasonable price. In a fiberoptic market where cost-control has become far more critical than...

Confocal microscope lenses sharpen your sights.(Optics For Microscopy)
August 1, 2004... Confocal scanning microscopes were invented almost five decades ago to produce sharper images than are possible with conventional microscopes. They remained just a casual curiosity over the years because of the relatively high cost of producing...

Mechanical profilers go digital.(Beam Profilers)
August 1, 2004... The optical-power spatial profile of a laser beam at a given beam-propagation plane is a critical design parameter for numerous optical-system applications, including laser radar, optical inspection and non-destructive testing, laser surgery,...

Green-laser-diode modules.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The 532-nm DPSS green lasers are compact, self-contained modules designed for use in industrial alignment, medical, and scientific applications. They produce a visible circular output beam of less than 2.0-mm diameter with a beam divergence of...

Piezo stage.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The micro TRITOR piezo stage for 3-D positioning has a total motion of 9-[micro]m per axis, with 0.02-nm open-loop resolution. The outside dimensions are 15 x 15 x 15 mm. The device uses flexure hinges to avoid mechanical play. It has a...

Inspection camera.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The Piranha2 Slimline camera is 76 mm wide to ease side-by-side stacking of multiple cameras. It has a 7 x 7-[micro]-pixel pitch. It offers 8- or 10-bit digital output, with two or four output ports operating at up to 40 MHz per output,...

Beam-positioning system.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The SpotOn optical beam-position and power-measurement system comes in an analog-USB version. It offers real-time measurement of laser displacement down to 0.1 [micro]with analog bandwidth up to 60 KHz. It operates in both--analog and...

Surface-measurement instrument.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The DI 330 optical thickness- and surface-measurement solution measures single and multilevel surfaces. It has a dual interferometer engine combining an internal laser with an LED. The design includes a closed fiber loop with piezoelectric...

Laser diode.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The LU0808B005 laser diode provides up to 5-W output power from a 100-[micro]m single-emitter. The diode was designed for industrial laser systems and DPSS lasers. The diode has an MTTF of 10,000 hours. It is produced on a 2 x 2.g-ram copper...

Channel-expansion module.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The sm040 channel-expansion module is designed for use with the si425 optical-sensor interrogator. The module expands the number of optical channels from four channels to eight or 16 channels. With 128 sensors per channel, over 2000 sensors can...

PM gyroscope fibers.(new products)
August 1, 2004... New 80-[micro]m Panda-style PM Gyroscope fibers provide high birefringence and tight dimensional control. The fiber maintains a high level of crosstalk isolation over a broad range of temperatures. The fiber is designed for use in manufacturing...

Polarization controller/analyzer.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The PM3000A polarization manager integrates the functions of the PC1000C polarization controller and PS2300B in-line polarization analyzer into a single instrument, allowing simultaneous monitoring and control of optical polarization. The unit...

Lyot depolarizers.(new products)
August 1, 2004... All-fiber Lyot Depolarizers provide less than 0.25% DOP with 0.5-dB insertion loss and 0.02-dB residual extinction ratio. Their all-fiber construction results in almost no back reflection with a wide wavelength operating range. Applications...

SWIR cameras.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The SDV series shortwave infrared (SWIR) cameras are designed for industrial machine vision, hot process monitoring, laboratory instrumentation, and defense and security surveillance. Features include 14-bit digitization, Camera Link...

Laser-safety eyewear.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The Encore wraparound eyewear is available in two sizes. The larger frame is designed to fit over most styles of prescription glasses, while either frame provides a comfortable fit for users without glasses. Made with a wide range of...

Industrial filters.(new products)
August 1, 2004... A new line of industrial filters is designed to enhance image contrast, reduce glare, and select the appropriate wavelength range for machine-vision applications when attached to a CCD or CMOS camera lens. They have thin-profile mounts to...

Raman spectrometer.(new products)
August 1, 2004... A fiber-coupled system for laboratory analysis, the Verax Raman spectrometer can be used for applications such as research, rapid sample verification, and process development. Configured for 785-nm excitation, it offers 4 c[m.sup.-1] spectral...

Arc-lamp system.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The Oriel uniform illumination source is an arc-lamp system that delivers a 1-in. diameter collimated beam, uniform to [+ or -] 5%, with a beam divergence of [+ or -] 1.5[degrees]. Various dichroic filters are available to shape the spectral...

MTF tester.(new products)
August 1, 2004... ImageMaster PRO is a fully automated MTF system that measures lenses at 9 to 13 field points at best focus in less than four seconds. The specific measurement field positions can be continuously adjusted in a range from 10[degrees] to...

Fiber-laser system.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The Boostik single-wavelength DFB fiber-laser system has output power up to 3 W with higher-power options available. It has M2 better than 1.05 single-mode fiber output. It comes as a stand-alone unit in a 19-in. rack system that includes...

Video splitter.(new products)
August 1, 2004... The CLV-401 Camera Link video splitter interfaces one CameraLink camera to two frame grabbers, enabling the use of a second frame grabber for camera setup, secondary/parallel processing and monitoring. The splitter supports the CameraLink...

Tunable lasers.(new products)
August 1, 2004... Long-wavelength (out to 2 [micro]m), tunable lasers have been added to the TLB-6300 Velocity series laser family. The lasers offer continuous, mode-hop-free tuning with 20-nm/s tuning speeds, less than 300-kHz linewidths and 0.1-nm wavelength...