Laser Focus World articles from August 2008

Laser Focus World archives from August 2008

High-power fiber-laser beams are combined incoherently.(BEAM COMBINING)
August 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Combining laser beams can boost power at the target far above that produced by a single laser. Incoherent beam combining achieves propagation efficiencies of greater than 90%, while avoiding the complexities of...

Printing technology enables HOE volume manufacturing.(HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS)
August 1, 2008... New master replicating technology that borrows concepts from the printing industry enables volume production of holographic optical elements for applications in general and backlit illumination, displays, and automotive LED-based optics. EVGENI...

The greening of photonics.(editor's desk)
August 1, 2008... Anticipating the "green revolution," Laser Focus World published in September 2006 a staff-written Special Report highlighting the role that photonics and optoelectronics can play in efforts to mitigate the global energy crisis (see...

Calit2 unveils world's highest resolution display system.(newsbreaks)
August 1, 2008... Scientists have no problem generating immense data sets, but visualizing the data on a large scale is a challenge that requires a display system of equally immense resolution. Now, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information...

Multilayer Laue lens focuses hard x-rays.(newsbreaks)
August 1, 2008... While the X-FELO, which is located at the Argonne National Laboratory, will enable new science, focusing optics for it and other hard-x-ray sources are difficult to create--especially optics that are efficient and can focus at near the...

EIT regenerates images stored in vapor.(newsbreaks)
August 1, 2008... Optical storage of information is a tricky obstacle to overcome in the realization of quantum information processing. Complex configurations of photons tend to decay or disperse too quickly to be reconstructed. Moshe Shuker and colleagues at...

Optical vortex coronagraph suppresses primary star of a binary system by 97%.(newsbreaks)
August 1, 2008... Researchers from the University of Arizona (U of A; Tucson, AZ) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA) have coupled an optical vortex coronagraph (OVC) to an 8-in.-aperture refractive telescope at the U of A's Steward Observatory,...

Chalcogenide glass is photostable.(newsbreaks)
August 1, 2008... Chalcogenide glasses are useful for their wide transmission range, which extends through the mid-infrared. However, light-induced changes in their optical properties are common--for example, photobleaching in germaniumselenium (Ge-Se) glasses...

Deformable mirror reduces speckle.(newsbreaks)
August 1, 2008... Projection-display manufacturers are increasingly motivated to use brighter, more energy-efficient, and broader color-space laser illumination in applications ranging from digital cinema to mobile phones. One problem that must be addressed is...

New x-ray source is magnitudes brighter than high-gain FELs.(newsbreaks)
August 1, 2008... Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, IL) and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) are developing an x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) in an oscillator configuration--called X-FELO--that has the potential to provide a...

Polystyrene spheres enable wavelength control in random lasers.(newsbreaks)
August 1, 2008... Random lasers consist of irregularly shaped material that scatters light and achieves optical-gain amplification, but not resonance or wavelength tunability. While random lasing has been successful using various powders, suspensions, or porous...

Solid-state blue laser offers extended tunability.(newsbreaks)
August 1, 2008... Although continuous-wave blue diode lasers are available, output power, beam quality, and tunability are limited. And although frequency doubling of Ti:sapphire laser output can provide tuning in the 400 to 500 nm range, both cost and...

Light to reveal electrons interacting within atoms.(ATTOSECOND PULSES)
August 1, 2008... By carefully controlling the waveform of an ultrafast laser pulse and sending it through a jet of neon gas, briefly ionizing it, researchers at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik (MPQ; Garching, Germany), the Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universitat...

Control of excitons enables optically active integrated circuits.(optoelectronics: world news)
August 1, 2008... For the first time, scientists have reportedly manipulated exciton fluxes in tiny circuits using voltage as a control, an important step in the development of optically active integrated circuits. Direct coupling of photons to exciton circuit...

Direct-write nanopatterning uses optically trapped microspheres.(NANOPHOTONICS)
August 1, 2008... In an extension of nanopatterning methods that use self-assembled microspheres (see www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/325407), researchers at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) are able to perform subwavelength direct-write nanopatterning...

Photoelectron movies will feature chemical reactions.(QUANTUM TUNNELING)
August 1, 2008... About a decade ago, Paul Corkum imagined a laser beam tearing an electron from a molecule and then driving the same electron back to the molecule to take its own picture. The idea seemed straightforward at the time. "The electron could hardly...

Laser pacemaker explores secrets of the heart.(CELL BIOLOGY)
August 1, 2008... A research team at Osaka University in Japan has shown that cultured heart-muscle cells synchronize their contractions in response to pulses from a femtosecond laser. (1) The effect, which works on groups of up to ten cells as well as...

R-EAM allows simple 10 Gbit/s uplinks.(FIBER-OPTIC NETWORKS)
August 1, 2008... The first commercial reflective electro-absorption modulator (R-EAM) has been released by CIP Technologies (Ipswich, England). The device provides a simple and inexpensive way of extending two-way high-speed optical-fiber networks to the...

SNOM tips yield tunability and insight.(PHOTONIC CRYSTALS)
August 1, 2008... One promising avenue in the field of nanophotonics--confining and manipulating light on the nanometric scale--is the use of photonic crystals (PCs) in optical microcavities. Controlling the properties of such photonic-crystal microcavities...

OLED displays and 'green photonics' dominate SID.(DISPLAY WEEK 2008)
August 1, 2008... No matter where you went, whether it was the exhibit floor, the technical symposium, or even the special events and keynote speaker presentations, Display Week 2008 was clearly dominated by an emphasis on energy-saving, environmentally...

New EUV source is compact.(HIGH-HARMONIC GENERATION)
August 1, 2008... Because extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) radiation is so difficult to produce, any scientist or engineer who happens to come up with a good idea using EUV light is soon confronted with the complexity and large size of EUV sources. If such a source...

Subwavelength isoSTED looks deeper into cells.(MICROSCOPY)
August 1, 2008... The imaging resolution of far-field fluorescence microscopy techniques is limited by the point-spread function (PSF) of the focal spot, which quantifies the blur of the object point in an image. Today's gold standard, the confocal microscope,...

Lasers make quantum wells 'cool'.(LASER COOLING)
August 1, 2008... Lasers are widely known for their use in industrial applications for cutting through metals, or for their potential as defensive weapons: they bring to mind powerful, visible, searing beams. It's atypical for lasers to connote cooling. But a...

Ultrafast market to reach $260 million in 2008.(industry report: laser)
August 1, 2008... Ultrafast Lasers-2008, a new report from Strategies Unlimited (Mountain View, CA) forecasts that the ultrafast laser market will reach about $260 million in 2008 with healthy growth expected in coming years, fed by innovations in technology,...

Snake Creek pursues green-laser technology.(industry report: laser)
August 1, 2008... While a host of companies are pursuing the development of green lasers (especially as a key color in laser projectors and displays), Snake Creek Lasers (Hallstead, PA) signed a licensing, manufacturing, and collaboration agreement with Alps...

Schawlow Award goes to Eckhard Beyer.(industry report: laser)
August 1, 2008... Eckhard Beyer, professor at the University of Technology Dresden (Dresden, Germany) and Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Germany, was awarded the highly distinguished 2008 Arthur L. Schawlow...

Laser project to improve eye conditions.(industry report: laser)
August 1, 2008... The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research launched a new project--selected as the winner of the "Innovation Competition for the Advancement of Medical Technology" by the ministry--aimed at implementing an exact dosage of laser...

Axsun tunable lasers to supply OCT system.(industry report: laser)
August 1, 2008... Photonic component and subsystems manufacturer Axsun Technologies (Billerica, MA) entered into a multimillion dollar volume purchasing agreement with LightLab Imaging (Westford, MA). Under the multiyear exclusive agreement, Axsun will provide...

Osram Opto Semiconductors (Santa Clara, CA) broadened its light-emitting-diode portfolio with products that will meet or exceed Energy Star.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... Osram Opto Semiconductors (Santa Clara, CA) broadened its light-emitting-diode portfolio with products that will meet or exceed Energy Star standards for the solid-state-lighting market, which will go into effect on Sept. 30 of 2008.

Federal Government of Australia.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... The Federal Government of Australia banned the importation of laser pointers stronger than 1 mW, which have been used in attacks on passenger airliners landing at airports.

The OLLA (Aachen, Germany) project consortium achieved its final milestone.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... The OLLA (Aachen, Germany) project consortium achieved its final milestone: a white organic light-emitting-diode (OLED) light source with an efficacy of 50.7 lumens per watt based on Novaled (Dresden, Germany) PIN OLED technology.

J.P. Sercel Associates.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... J.P. Sercel Associates (JPSA; Manchester, NH) began delivery of laser workstations for processing solar thin-film photovoltaic (PV) products.

A laser-based silicon-deposition technique developed by NanoGram.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... A laser-based silicon-deposition technique developed by NanoGram (Milpitas, CA) for solar-cell manufacturing won an Energy Innovator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

OPTOmism to focus on 'green' photonics.(industry report: optics)
August 1, 2008... Laser Focus World (Nashua, NH) and the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA; Washington, D.C.), a not-for-profit association that serves as the nexus for vision, transformation, and growth of the photonics and optoelectronics...

IMEC and Aixtron partner on gallium nitride.(industry report: optics)
August 1, 2008... Nanotechnology research company IMEC (Leuven, Belgium), and metal-organic chemical-vapor-deposition equipment company Aixtron (Aachen, Germany), demonstrated the growth of high-quality and uniform aluminum gallium nitride/gallium nitride...

SPIE retires regional chapters.(industry report: optics)
August 1, 2008... In several press releases from SPIE (Bellingham, WA), including "Hong Kong Optical Engineering Society is launched" and "Photonics Society of Poland is launched" SPIE announced that its former chapters are becoming independent entities. The...

DARPA honors optics and materials researcher.(industry report: optics)
August 1, 2008... Sylvain G. Cloutier, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware (Newark, DE), was awarded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award. Cloutier is one of 39 young...

Cross-licensing aids intraocular lenses.(industry report: optics)
August 1, 2008... Advanced Medical Optics (AMO; Santa Ana, CA) entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement with Alcon (Hunenberg, Switzerland) relating to intraocular lens technology. The patents relate specifically to AMOs newly-launched Tecnis One-Piece...

Edmund Optics.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... Edmund Optics (Barrington, NJ) further expanded its global sales coverage by opening of a new office in Rome, Italy, covering southern Europe and the Mediterranean.

The U.S. Patent Office awarded U.S. Patent 7,366,382, to Photon.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... The U.S. Patent Office awarded U.S. Patent 7,366,382, to Photon (San Jose, CA) for an optical diagnostic device and method used to characterize optics and optical alignment performed in laser printer manufacturing, called the Platen Profiler.

Luminit.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... Light-shaping diffuser manufacturer Luminit (Torrance, CA) is expanding into a new, larger facility in Torrance sometime near the end of 2008.

StingRay Optics (Keene, NH), a provider of standard and custom optical designs and lens assemblies, was awarded a contract to design and deliver an 800 mm focal length f/4.0 catadioptric lens assembly to MIT Lincoln Labs.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... StingRay Optics (Keene, NH), a provider of standard and custom optical designs and lens assemblies, was awarded a contract to design and deliver an 800 mm focal length f/4.0 catadioptric lens assembly to MIT Lincoln Labs (Lexington, MA) for...

Dark Energy Survey.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... The first of five unique lenses--the largest being 1 m in diameter--have shipped from the U.S. to France for polishing to a smoothness level of one millionth of a centimeter; the lenses will be incorporated into a camera at Cerro Tololo...

Lithography system targets LCoS displays.(industry report: imaging & detector)
August 1, 2008... S.E.T. Smart Equipment Technology (Saint Jeoire, France), a supplier of die-to-die, die-to-wafer bonding and nanoimprint lithography solutions, installed a Kadett High Accuracy Placement and Bonding system at Cambridge University (Cambridge,...

Flexible displays to reach $2.8 billion by 2013.(industry report: imaging & detector)
August 1, 2008... Due to the arrival of several pocketsize e-readers and other flexible display products, iSuppli (El Segundo, CA) forecasts that the total flexible display market will reach $2.8 billion by 2013, a 35x increase from about $80 million in 2007....

Navigation displays to double by 2010.(industry report: imaging & detector)
August 1, 2008... According to iSuppli, unit shipments of small/medium liquid-crystal device (LCD) displays for portable navigation devices (PNDs; GPS-enabled handheld devices that are used for vehicle navigation) are expected to double from 2007 to 2010, thanks...

Nextreme partners for SWIR development.(industry report: imaging & detector)
August 1, 2008... Thermal- and power-management products provider Nextreme Thermal Solutions (Durham, NC) and Princeton Lightwave (Cranbury, NJ), developer of short-wave-infrared (SWIR) sensors and lasers for the defense industry, entered into an agreement to...

Prism Solar to produce holographic film.(industry report: imaging & detector)
August 1, 2008... At Intersolar 2008 in Munich, Germany, Prism Solar Technologies (Lake Katrine, NY) announced that it would be receiving the first equipment for its 60 MW holographic film production line. The equipment will undergo testing and tuning at its...

Electrophysics (Fairfield, NJ) entered into an agreement with Opgal Optronics Industries.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... Electrophysics (Fairfield, NJ) entered into an agreement with Opgal Optronics Industries (Karmiel, Israel) to distribute Opgal's line of infrared (IR) imaging products.

The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC; San Jose, CA), chartered with developing the flexible electronics and displays industry supply chain, in a joint-development project with printed organic electronics company Plextronics.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC; San Jose, CA), chartered with developing the flexible electronics and displays industry supply chain, in a joint-development project with printed organic electronics company Plextronics (Pittsburgh, PA),...

SPIE.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... SPIE installed a new solar-electric system on the roof of its Bellingham, WA, headquarters.

Leica Geosystems.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... Just after the May earthquake in Sichuan, China, a Leica Geosystems' (Heerbrugg, Switzerland) airborne digital sensor was dispatched by Chinese officials and it detected an SOS signal on a rooftop, enabling aid to be sent to 700 stranded...

Nikon Instruments (Melville, NY) and Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago, IL) opened a collaborative core microscopy imaging center.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... Nikon Instruments (Melville, NY) and Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago, IL) opened a collaborative core microscopy imaging center called The Northwestern Nikon Imaging Center for ongoing biomedical research.

The Swiss-based Paul Scherrer Institute successfully tested Zecotek Photonics' (Vancouver, BC, Canada) proprietary micropixel avalanche photodiodes in trials.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... The Swiss-based Paul Scherrer Institute successfully tested Zecotek Photonics' (Vancouver, BC, Canada) proprietary micropixel avalanche photodiodes in trials for its next-generation positron emission tomography medical-imaging program.

Phyworks milestone signals FTTH success.(industry report: fiber optics)
August 1, 2008... By announcing shipment of its ten-millionth chip, transceiver and components company Phyworks (Bristol, England), whose products cover 1 to 10 Gbit/s data rates for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) applications, signals the success of the FTTH market...

Aspen Optics aims to replace FTTH with FTEH.(industry report: fiber optics)
August 1, 2008... Fiber connectivity products provider Aspen Optics (Hong Kong) is speeding up its expansion in international markets to realize fiber-to-every-home, or FTEH. "Currently, Aspen Optics is serving many global telecom operators and system...

Infinera receives four-diamond rating.(industry report: fiber optics)
August 1, 2008... Optical communications network provider Infinera (Sunnyvale, CA) won an RFQ at Deutsche Telekom (DT) for its pan-European network, which spans almost 9000 km and links Germany with most major European markets. Infinera's DTN network also...

Components company sees more funds.(industry report: fiber optics)
August 1, 2008... MergeOptics (Berlin, Germany), a supplier of fiber-optic components and subsystems for data rates of 10 Gbit/s and beyond, raised $8.5 million in its fourth round of financing led by KTB along with existing investors Earlybird, Target Partners,...

Lumera modulators pass Telcordia.(industry report: fiber optics)
August 1, 2008... Communications component manufacturer Lumera (Bothell, WA) successfully completed Telcordia standard reliability testing of its packaged polymer-based electro-optic modulators. News of the result caused its stock to soar 38% when it was...

Optical networking company Tellabs (Naperville, IL) filed a patent infringement lawsuit against and Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Network Communications in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... Optical networking company Tellabs (Naperville, IL) filed a patent infringement lawsuit against and Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Network Communications in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, asserting that Fujitsu...

Reflex Photonics (Mountain View, CA), a developer of high-speed optical connectivity solutions for semiconductor packaging and data transfer applications, will partner with MergeOptics to develop and market joint solutions.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... Reflex Photonics (Mountain View, CA), a developer of high-speed optical connectivity solutions for semiconductor packaging and data transfer applications, will partner with MergeOptics to develop and market joint solutions that address the...

Sterlite Technologies (Pune, India) won two major contracts with Indian telecom giant BSNL for fiber-optic cable and copper telecom cable worth $26.7 million.(Also in the news ...)
August 1, 2008... Sterlite Technologies (Pune, India) won two major contracts with Indian telecom giant BSNL for fiber-optic cable and copper telecom cable worth $26.7 million; the first contract is for ribbon fiber-optic cables, which BSNL will install in about...

Efficient design of image pixel sensors improves performance.(software & computing)
August 1, 2008... Click, snap, hum. You just took a picture of that mountain vista or a digital video of baby's first steps. In a symbiotic twist of engineering, the graphics processing unit (GPU) technology--which consumers continue to drive to new heights for...

The global remote sensing market soars in 2008.(market watch)(Industry overview)
August 1, 2008... The last decade has witnessed a revolution in the way we image and measure the Earth. Commercial firms have launched into space satellites with exotic technologies that were once reserved for classified intelligence users. Not to be outdone,...

Can a recent grad think about starting a company?(business forum)
August 1, 2008... Q: How does a recent grad even begin to think about starting a company? A: Like any project, you must pick something you can succeed at and be well prepared to tackle it with adequate skills and resources. To start a business, you need a...

The friendly skies: lock-in thermography inspects aircraft fuselages for cracks.(inside imaging)
August 1, 2008... As airline fleets age, maintenance issues inevitably arise and aircraft inspection becomes more critical. Travelers suffering through recent airport delays associated with these issues surely understand the impact of aircraft maintenance and...

Tunable ultraviolet: burst-mode laser system produces high-energy pulses: advances in Nd:YAG OPOs have brought about high-repetition rate, broadly wavelength-tunable ultraviolet laser systems that produce pulses with enough energy for PLIF imaging of turbulent gas flows.(HIGH-POWER UV LASERS)
August 1, 2008... While planar laser-induced-fluorescence (PLIF) imaging of aerodynamic and combustion flows has developed enormously since its inception in the early 1980s, the ability to directly capture the dynamics of unsteady and/or turbulent phenomena at...

MEMS scanners: enable in vivo 3-D OCT: a minimally invasive MEMS-based imaging endoscope is an enabling clinical tool toward in vivo biopsy-free disease detection, guided microsurgery, and photodynamic therapy.(BIOMEDICAL IMAGING)
August 1, 2008... While nonoptical medical imaging techniques such as computed tomography, magnetic-resonance imaging, and ultrasound can be very useful in guiding surgical procedures, they lack the spatial resolution required for revealing tissue...

Effective vibration reduction stabilizes laser beams: the impact of vibration isolation and optical-table damping on laser beam stabilization for both short- and long-duration applications cannot be overemphasized.(VIBRATION ISOLATION)
August 1, 2008... Optical tables and vibration isolation supports have become the de facto standard for providing a stable environment for complex laser systems and their applications. Such systems are becoming increasingly complex as they are expected to...

The strange world of microcavity optics: strong coupling of a light wave with matter in microcavities creates unusual effects, including novel lasers--microlasers and polaritons--and strong nonlinearities.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: MICROCAVITIES)
August 1, 2008... Optical microcavities are micrometer-size resonators that can trap light on a scale comparable with its wavelength, strongly coupling the electro magnetic wave with matter and creating novel effects. In the research laboratory, microcavities...

Satellite sensors zero in on resource and disaster planning: advances in high-resolution image processing are helping governments better manage urban sprawl and fallout from natural and man-made disasters.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: IMAGE FUSION)
August 1, 2008... Satellite and airborne remote sensing have become indispensable tools in the analysis and monitoring of the Earth and its many resources. These technologies--and the associated image-processing algorithms necessary to make sense of the...

Fluoride glass fibers enable high-power laser transmission in the mid-IR: power-transmission tests of IR light through fiber-optic delivery systems show the viability of commercial-grade fluoride fiber for medical and dental application .(NEXT-GENERATION FIBER)
August 1, 2008... High-power infrared lasers, known for their use in industrial applications, are becoming more common in medical applications and especially in dentistry. Fluoride glass fibers are the logical power-delivery solution for use with mid-IR lasers...

Novel technologies go beyond color to measure surface appearance: imaging-sphere technology enables fast optical characterization of surfaces to produce quantitative, comprehensive evaluation that the human eye can't.(SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION)
August 1, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] An innovative combination of optics and imaging based on imaging-sphere technology delivers the ability to rapidly gauge surface appearance for virtually any type of material, including plastics, metals, textiles, glass,...

Geiger-mode APD arrays detect low light: Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode arrays overcome limitations of a single device, and can distinguish between multiple-photon and single-photon events.(APD ARRAYS)
August 1, 2008... Solid-state photodetectors have evolved in their ability to detect low levels of light. Building upon silicon photodiodes, novel solid-state detectors have been developed to detect increasingly lower levels of light. The latest addition and...

Hyperspectral microscope benefits from InGaAs imaging array: near-infrared hyperspectral imaging is important to semiconductor-device research; integrating an InGaAs image sensor with hyperspectral microscopy provides data to a level of detail far beyond a simple "multispectral" approach.(MICROSCOPY IMAGING)
August 1, 2008... Image capture in the near-infrared spectrum at wavelengths up to 2.5 [micro]m is becoming increasingly significant, particularly for imaging spectroscopy; for example, hyperspectral microscopes can accelerate the design process of novel LED...

Scientific laser.(new products)
August 1, 2008... The Excelsior-594 is a multilongitudinal-mode laser with 30 mW output at 594 nm. It is designed to excite fluorescent dyes in microscope and DNA sequencing applications and in flow cytometry. The stand-alone laser has an active light loop to...

Multispectral cameras.(new products)
August 1, 2008... The FD-1665 series of 3-CCD cameras contains three sensors, fitted with customer-specified optical filters, to simultaneously capture images through a single lens. It comes in 1.4-, 2-, and 5-megapixel resolutions. Users can select a...

Nanopositioner.(new products)
August 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Tritor 50 Cap is a nanopositioner with a travel of 50 pm. Solid-state hinges provide guidance without friction and free of mechanical play. It has subnanometer resolution in open-loop operation and 1 nm...

UV objective.(new products)
August 1, 2008... A UV microscope objective with an NA of 0.90 provides 280 nm spot imaging at a wavelength of 248 nm, and 410 nm spot imaging at a wavelength of 365 nm. Effective focal length is 5.5 mm. The objective is diffraction limited, with less than 0.07...

2-D alignment tool.(new products)
August 1, 2008... The Microage 2-D laser alignment tool is designed for precision measuring, machinery alignment, calibration and, other industrial applications. The tool combines a compact laser transmitter with a receiver and digital display. It has a...

Terrestrial pump lasers.(new products)
August 1, 2008... The 1999 PLM series of medium- and high-power, 980 nm, terrestrial pump-laser modules deliver more than 450 mW at 600 mA. They come in a hermetically sealed, low-profile, 14-pin butterfly package with single-mode fiber pigtail. They have fiber...

Interferometer mounts.(new products)
August 1, 2008... A group of optical mounting components for use with large-aperture laser interferometers are designed to reduce set-up time and improve measurement repeatability. The rigid, vibration-resistant mounts interface with optics from most...

OPOs.(new products)
August 1, 2008... The Argos line of continuous-wave optical parametric oscillators now includes high- and lower-power single-frequency and broadband versions. The Model 2400-SF-15 and 2400-SF-5, for high-resolution, mid-IR spectroscopy, generate a minimum of 1 W...

DPSS laser.(new products)
August 1, 2008... The Samba is a CW, solid-state laser operating at 532 nm with an output power up to 300 mW. The single-longitudinal mode laser has a measured linewidth of less than 1 MHz, with low noise less than 0.3% rms, and beam quality of [M.sup.2] less...