Laser Focus World articles from December 2006

Laser Focus World archives from December 2006

Photonics advances on all fronts.(editor's desk)
December 1, 2006... New optoelectronics market figures for 2005 released last month by the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA; www.oida.org) paint an optimistic picture of an industry that is "... vibrant, with almost all categories,...

Fluorophosphate glasses have high spectroscopic quality factors.(news breaks)
December 1, 2006... Engineers at AFO Research (Glendale, CA) have developed a series of fluorophosphate glasses based on the so-called MBBA (magnesium fluoride, barium fluoride, barium metaphosphate, and aluminum metaphosphate) system; doped with erbium, the...

End-pumping scheme improves fiber-based devices.(news breaks)
December 1, 2006... Researchers at the Academy of Sciences and Czech Technical University (both in Prague, Czech Republic) have demonstrated a novel end-pumping scheme that can be used to develop more cost-effective high-power fiber amplifiers and lasers. Unlike...

Hinode observatory reveals new details of solar atmosphere.(news breaks)
December 1, 2006... This image of the Sun was taken Oct. 28 by the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on the Hinode spacecraft observatory, intended to investigate solar magnetic variability and space weather. The image reveals, for the first time, that x-ray bright points on...

Phosphate-glass fiber laser reaches nearly 20 W output.(news breaks)
December 1, 2006... To reduce the effects of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and photodarkening in silica-based fiber lasers (both factors can reduce achievable output power), the fiber core area can be increased or the fiber length can be decreased....

Experiment confirms optically guided neuronal growth.(news breaks)
December 1, 2006... Although previous experiments have shown that the growth of neuronal cells can be guided by 800 or 1064 nm light, a detailed comparison of these wavelengths for neuronal growth has only recently been performed. Researchers at the University of...

Square-core jacketed air-clad fiber produces uniform field.(news breaks)
December 1, 2006... Square glass rods have always been one of the best ways to create a uniform field of light from a laser beam (except for laser-speckle effects); such a field can be useful for materials-processing applications. An optical fiber with a square...

Airborne DFG laser spectrometer is field-tested.(news breaks)
December 1, 2006... Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR; Boulder, CO), Earth Observing Laboratory have developed an ultrasensitive laser-based trace-gas-absorption sensor for airborne atmospheric chemistry research based on mid-IR...

Upconversion fluorescence achieved through incoherent excitation with sunlight.(news breaks)
December 1, 2006... Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P; Mainz, Germany) and Sony Deutschland, Materials Science Laboratory (Stuttgart, Germany) have demonstrated frequency upconversion of sunlight using a process that depends...

Black samarium silver cathode raises contrast of organic light-emitter.(news breaks)
December 1, 2006... In the interests of improving the contrast of organic flat-panel displays, researchers at Jilin University (Changchun, China) have created white organic light-emitting devices (WOLEDs) with "black" cathodes of samarium silver (Sm:Ag), rather...

MEMS-based iMoD display reads like paper.(DISPLAYS)
December 1, 2006... The same process of light interference within thin films that gives color to butterfly wings and peacock feathers is being implemented in a microelectromechanical-systems (MEMS)-based interferometric-modulator display technology developed by...

Slabs with a gap efficiently guide terahertz waves.(optoelectronics: world news)
December 1, 2006... Waveguides will become important components of many terahertz optical systems. Conventional solid optical waveguides based upon total internal reflection (TIR), however, have losses that are too high. Because dry air exhibits low loss for...

Laser pyrolysis produces photonic nanomaterials.(OPTICAL MATERIALS)
December 1, 2006... Laser pyrolysis is a gas-phase process in which light at 10.6 [micro]m from a continuous-wave carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) laser is absorbed by a material in a flowing gas stream; the absorbed energy is then transferred to non-laser-active...

Distributed temperature sensing aids global-warming studies.(ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING)
December 1, 2006... While many efforts involving optical instrumentation for the monitoring of natural resources have focused on terrestrial and atmospheric studies, a growing number of hydrologic scientists are beginning to experiment with these same technologies...

Wire-waveguide simulation matches experiment.(TERAHERTZ OPTICS)
December 1, 2006... Waveguides that carry terahertz radiation can he vastly different from conventional optical waveguides. A simple metal wire will do; the wire carries the radiation as surface-plasmon polaritons that penetrate only tens of nanometers into the...

Nanocavity lasers exceed 100 GHz modulation speeds.(PHOTONIC CRYSTALS)
December 1, 2006... Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA) researchers have demonstrated ultrafast modulation at greater than 100 GHz in photonic-crystal (PC) nanocavity lasers. In previously reported work, they had overcome a primary disadvantage of...

VECSEL amplification yields femtosecond high-repetition-rate pulses.(FIBER LASERS)
December 1, 2006... Ytterbium (Yb)-doped fiber amplifiers and fiber lasers that use solid-state lasers or gain-switched laser diodes as seed lasers in a master-oscillator power-amplifier (MOPA) configuration can produce picosecond and femtosecond pulses at high...

Differential-polarization technique enables precise 3-D nanoimaging.(MICROSCOPY)
December 1, 2006... A reflective optical arrangement that allows control of the properties of polarized light has enabled development of an optical-imaging technique for precise 3-D thickness, dimensional, roughness, profile and step-height measurements at the...

FEL reveals links between melanin structure and Parkinson's.(MEDICAL IMAGING)
December 1, 2006... In a finding that may offer clues about Parkinson's disease, a team of researchers from Duke University (Durham, NC), North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC), and the Italian Institute of Biomedical Technologies (Segrate, Italy) used the...

Lasers, ultrasound let doctors eavesdrop on skin cancer.(BIOMEDICAL OPTICS)
December 1, 2006... Melanoma is one of the most vicious forms of cancer; if not detected and removed in its earliest stages, it will penetrate into the deep layers of the skin, then pass into the circulatory and lymphatic systems, spreading to other organs....

Einstein-de Haas effect measured at nanometer scale.(FIBER-LASER INTERFEROMETRY)
December 1, 2006... An optical fiber, 125 [micro]m in diameter, at the end of an optical-fiber laser interferometer was positioned less than 10 pm from the surface of a cantilever to measure movement caused by changes in magnetization. A gyromagnetic effect...

Technique simplifies surface-plasmon spectroscopy.(SPECTROSCOPY)
December 1, 2006... Because the propagation constant of a surface plasmon--an electromagnetic field mode that propagates along a metal/dielectric interface--is very sensitive to optical changes in the dielectric, spectroscopy of surface plasmons can be exploited...

Seminar to focus on international laser markets.(optoelectronic: world news)
December 1, 2006... The increasing globalization of the laser and optoelectronics markets will be the topic of a special forum during the annual Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar, to be held January 22, 2007, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA, during...

New controls adopted for laser exports.(laser: industry report)
December 1, 2006... Culminating a five-year effort begun by The Laser and Electro-Optics Manufacturers' Association (LEOMA; Pacifica, CA) in 2001, the 40 nations that are party to the Wassenaar Arrangement agreed in September to the first complete overhaul of...

Germany blocks Coherent merger.(laser: industry report)
December 1, 2006... Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) received a prohibition order from the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO; Bonn, Ger many) regarding the proposed acquisition by Coherent of Excel Technology (East Setauket, NY). Although the acquisition had previously...

Newport to acquire Picarro's laser business.(laser: industry report)
December 1, 2006... A definitive agreement was reached in which Newport (Irvine, CA) will acquire the Laser Products business of Picarro (Ottawa, ON, Canada). The Laser Products business designs and manufactures solid-state lasers targeted primarily at the life-...

New Wave Research wins SBIR contract.(laser: industry report)
December 1, 2006... New Wave Research (Fremont, CA), a manufacturer of laser-based systems for the microelectronics and analytical instrumentation industries, was awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the Department of Energy...

Navy collaborates on laser lab.(laser: industry report)
December 1, 2006... A new $1 million high-energy laser laboratory at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Crane, IN) will enable faculty and students to use the latest in ultra-short-pulse laser technology for applications that include improving military defense...

Powerlase (Crawley, England) has partnered with the University of Central Florida (UCF; Orlando, FL).(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Powerlase (Crawley, England) has partnered with the University of Central Florida (UCF; Orlando, FL) in the field of extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography to further the development of high-power laser-produced plasma EUV sources.

Stocker Yale (Salem. NH) acquired privately held Photonic Products.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Stocker Yale (Salem. NH) acquired privately held Photonic Products, a U.K. provider of laser diodes and modules, for $9.4 million.

Time-Bandwidth Products.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Time-Bandwidth Products (Zurich. Switzerland), an OEM supplier of customized ultrafast diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers, opened a U.S. sales and customer support office in Westfield MA.

NP Photonics.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... NP Photonics (Tucson. AZ), manufacturer of narrow-linewidth single-frequency lasers, has begun to deliver multitaser systems for field trials in the oil field and security markets.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has ordered seven Reveal laser systems.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has ordered seven Reveal laser systems from Newport (Irvine, CA) for crime scene and lab investigation.

ARRI (Munich. Germany) will use Color Kinetics' (Boston. MA) technology and intellectual property.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... ARRI (Munich. Germany) will use Color Kinetics' (Boston. MA) technology and intellectual property to develop a line of LED-based studio lighting products.

Exitech.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Laser applications development specialist Exitech (Oxford. England) has been put up for sale.

Diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser technology developed at Imperial College (London, England) is being commercialized through a spinout company.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser technology developed at Imperial College (London, England) is being commercialized through a spinout company, Midaz Lasers (London, England).

SPI Lasers (Southampton. England) will license IMRA America (Ann Arbor. MI) patents for amplification technology.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... SPI Lasers (Southampton. England) will license IMRA America (Ann Arbor. MI) patents for amplification technology enabling SPI to continue to expand the output energies and peak powers from its fiber lasers.

Preco (Lenexa, KS) and PaR Systems (Saint Paul, MN) are partnering in the sales and integration of industrial-based.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Preco (Lenexa, KS) and PaR (Saint Paul, MN) are partnering in the sales and integration of industrial-based laser materials processing technology and PaR's motion and robotic systems technologies.

Edgewave.
December 1, 2006... The innovative Company EdgeWave was found in 2001 and is an innovative provider of high-end laser sources. EdgeWave is the pioneer and leader of innovative slab laser (INNOSLAB) technology. INNOSLAB lasers count among today's most...

Polychromix partners with NASA.(optics: industry report)
December 1, 2006... Spectroscopy instrumentation developer Polychromix (Wilmington, MA) is collaborating with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA; Washington, D.C.) to provide digital-transform-spectrometer tools for determining water content...

NuSil and FMI collaborate on silicone lenses.(optics: industry report)
December 1, 2006... NuSil Technology (Carpinteria, CA), a manufacturer of silicone-based materials for health care, aerospace, electronics, and photonics, and FMI (Elk Grove Village, IL), a leading silicone-rubber molder of optical components for the medical...

Cluster gets Canadian funding.(optics: industry report)
December 1, 2006... The federal government of Canada says it is awarding $643,608 in nonrepayable funding to support the activities of the Quebec Photonic Network (QPN; Montreal, QC, Canada). The QPN is a nonprofit industrial cluster formed to contribute to the...

OSA elects VP and directors.(optics: industry report)
December 1, 2006... Thomas Baer, executive director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center at Stanford University, has been elected 2007 vice president of the Optical Society of America (OSA; Washington, D.C.). In addition, Thomas Elsaesser of Max-Born...

Fusion Optix expands prototyping capabilities.(optics: industry report)
December 1, 2006... Fusion Optix (Cambridge, MA) will build a specialty coating line and semiconductor-grade Class 100 clean room to be housed within the Fusion Optix Technology Center (FOTC) in Cambridge, MA, for the purpose of high-quality, fully functional...

Bioident Technologies a subsidiary of Nanoident Technologies (Linz, Austria) that is developing photonic lab-on-a-chip solutions for life sciences.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Bioident Technologies a subsidiary of Nanoident Technologies (Linz, Austria) that is developing photonic lab-on-a-chip solutions for life sciences, opened its headquarters in Menlo Park, CA

CVI Technical Optics (Onchan, Isle of Man) expanded its distribution agreement for optics components and integrated optomechanical assemblies with BFi OPTiLAS.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... CVI Technical Optics (Onchan, Isle of Man) expanded its distribution agreement for optics components and integrated optomechanical assemblies with BFi OPTiLAS to include the United Kingdom.

Yale University (New Haven, CT) has established the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Yale University (New Haven, CT) has established the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering, which will unite and expand Yale's existing efforts in the two areas .

PennWell (Tulsa, OK; publisher of Laser Focus World) created a new online employment service called PennTechJOBS (www.PennTechJobs.com) that will serve the recruitment needs of engineers working in the communications.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... PennWell (Tulsa, OK; publisher of Laser Focus World) created a flew online employment service called PennTechJOBS (www.PennTechJobs.com) that will serve the recruitment needs of engineers working in the communications, optics and photonics,...

Imago Scientific Instruments.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Imago Scientific Instruments (Madison, WI) has sold two atom-probe microscopes to Oxford University's (Oxford, England) Department of Materials, a technology center for microanatysis and nanoscale materials research.

Breault Research Organization.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Breault Research Organization (BRO; Tucson, AZ) released the next generation of its Advanced Systems Analysis Program (ASAP) software for virtual prototyping of optical systems and devices.

UDT becomes division of Gamma Scientific.(imaging & detector: industry report)
December 1, 2006... Gamma Scientific, a provider of light-measurement instrumentation, has joined forces with UDT Instruments (both in San Diego, CA), a provider of electro-optical instruments including radiometers, colorimeters, photometers, autocollimators,...

JWST selects Barr Associates.(imaging & detector: industry report)
December 1, 2006... Lockheed Martin selected Barr Associates (Westford, MA) to provide filters for its James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near InfraRed Camera (NIRCam). The NIRCam is a filter-based instrument covering the spectral range from 0.6 to 5.0 gm. The...

Researchers select discovery photodiodes.(imaging & detector: industry report)
December 1, 2006... Based in Ewing, NJ, Discovery Semiconductors is providing 25 GHz multimode photodiodes to the Technical University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany) for its research on directly modulated 980 nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting (VCSEL) lasers....

Sofradir to supply space-qualified detectors.(imaging & detector: industry report)
December 1, 2006... Developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors, Sofradir (Veurey-Voroize, France), signed a $1.3 million contract with a worldwide supplier of electro-optic space and defense systems to provide large-format, 30-pm-pixel-pitch...

AMIS to manufacture FLIR microbolometers.(imaging & detector: industry report)
December 1, 2006... FLIR Systems (Portland, OR), a leader in commercial infrared technology, and AMI Semiconductor (AMIS; Pocatello, ID), a designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art integrated mixed-signal and structured digital products, announced an...

Point Grey Research.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Point Grey Research (Vancouver, BC, Canada), a developer of advanced digital camera technology products, opened a new sales office in Munich, Germany.

Sysview Technology.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Sysview Technology's (San Jose. CA) CEO spoke on the price-performance advantage of Sysview's combined liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) optical engine and nanotechnology imager chip at the 5th Optics Valley of China International...

Andor Technology.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Imaging company Andor Technology (Belfast, Northern Ireland) was presented the Chartered Institute of Marketing award for Export Marketing for 2006--an award that recognizes excellence in marketing across Ireland--for launching a comprehensive...

PixeLINK.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Machine-vision camera maker PixeLINK (Ottawa, ON, Canada) announced that FY2006 sales revenue increased 21% over FY2005 based on strong increases in the machine-vision market, exceeding the market average of 11.9%.

JDSU acquires Metconnex IP.(fiber optics: industry report)
December 1, 2006... JDSU (Milpitas, CA) announced the acquisition of the technology and patent portfolio of Metconnex (Ottawa, ON, Canada), a developer of wavelength-selective switch modules. ]DSU did not acquire any of Metconnex's business operations. Under the...

OmniGuide to expand medical-fiber offering.(fiber optics: industry report)
December 1, 2006... The closing of a $20 million Series D round of financing for OmniGuide (Cambridge, MA) will allow enhanced product offerings, expanded manufacturing capacity, and increased market penetration for its hollow-core photonic-bandgap optical fibers....

Omron completes FTTH acquisition.(fiber optics: industry report)
December 1, 2006... Omron has completed its acquisition of the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) optical-coupler business of NKH Spring (Yokohama, Japan). As outlined in a preliminary agreement that was announced in August, the FTTH business will be operated from Omron's...

Optium completes IPO.(fiber optics: industry report)
December 1, 2006... An initial public offering of 5.2 million shares of common stock at $17.50 per share were offered by Optium (Chalfont, PA), a supplier of optical subsystems that enable transmission, reception, and switching functionality for high-bandwidth,...

IPtronics gets second-round funding for ICs.(fiber optics: industry report)
December 1, 2006... To continue its expansion toward the goal of becoming a leading supplier of integrated circuits to the emerging market for short-reach optical interconnects for next-generation computer systems and storage networks, IPtronics (Roskilde,...

Avago Technologies.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Privately held semiconductor company Avago Technologies (Boblingen, Germany) was awarded the 2006 North American Optoelectronic Components Growth Excellence Award by Frost & Sullivan, a global consulting company.

Optical Communication Products (OCP; Woodland Hills, CA) reached an agreement with SAE Magnetics (Hong Kong, China).(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Optical Communication Products (OCP; Woodland Hills, CA) reached an agreement with SAE Magnetics (Hong Kong, China) that will enable the company to manufacture certain product lines in China.

NeoPhotonics (San Jose. CA), a supplier of optical networking components for long-haul.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... NeoPhotonics (San Jose. CA), a supplier of optical networking components for long-haul, metro, and access networks, was named by Lux Research (San Francisco, CA and New York, NY), a nanotechnology research and advisory firm, as one of its "Top...

Mintera.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Mintera (Acton, MA), provider of 40 Gbit/s optical-transmission systems, raised $10 million in additional venture-capital financing.

OptiWay.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... OptiWay (Rosh Ha Ayin, Israel), provider of Optical Time Division Multiplexing by Locking Lasers (OTDMLL) technology for broadband access and video surveillance markets, moved its headquarters and development center to Park Afek, Rosh Ha Ayin,...

Alloptic.(Also in the news ...)
December 1, 2006... Alloptic (Livermore, CA), designer and developer of Gigabit Ethernet passive optical networks, was selected by Italvision XXI for a 2000-home development in the city of Maracay, Venezuela.

Polymicro Technologies, LLC: Explore the capabilities[TM].(CORPORATE CAPABILITIES)
December 1, 2006... General Company Description Since 1984, Polymicro Technologies has provided CREATIVE... INNOVATIVE... SOLUTIONS for the analytical, medical, aerospace, military, manufacturing, telecommunication, and communication industries. Polymicro...

The Internet and video sharing--it's all about you!(working the web)
December 1, 2006... Just recently, Level 3 Communications (Boston, MA) won a contract to supply the fiber-optic backbone to support the massive bandwidth requirements for YouTube (www. youtube.com), an Internet site that allows users to view, create, and share...

Coherent CEO speaks out on blocked acquisition.(market watch)
December 1, 2006... Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) President and CEO John Ambroseo used the occasion of the company's fourth quarter fiscal 2006 conference call on Nov. 1 to speak out strongly about the decision of the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO; Bonn, Germany)...

A multispectral world view: to extract more information from images, camera and system vendors are turning to multispectral imaging.(inside imaging)
December 1, 2006... Camera vendors are seeking to add value to their products by developing systems that image objects in more than one frequency spectrum. While visible-light cameras use the 400 to 700 nm spectrum to image objects, infrared (IR) cameras operating...

Biomedical optics will open conference at a fast pace.(CONFERENCE PREVIEW: PHOTONICS WEST 2007)
December 1, 2006... The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE; Bellingham, WA) and the San lose, CA, Housing Bureau sold out seven downtown hotels for SPIE Photonics West 2007 on the first day of registration, a record that organizers believe...

Coherent light sources reach extreme-ultraviolet: free-electron lasers, excitation with high-power short-pulse lasers, high-intensity pulsed discharges, and high-order harmonic generation have brought the extreme-ultraviolet within reach.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: EXTREME-UV SOURCES)
December 1, 2006... The short-wavelength end of the ultraviolet spectrum is a part of the photonic frontier where the boundaries remain hazy. Functionally, this extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) region covers wavelengths from the edge of the x-ray spectrum to the point...

Optically pumped semiconductor lasers expand the scope of potential applications.(SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS)
December 1, 2006... The optically pumped semiconductor (OPS) laser has gained significant market share in recent years for low-power applications, primarily in OEM bioinstrumentation applications at the 488 nm heritage wavelength, as well as 473 nm for...

Optofluidics reinvents the microscope.(BIOLOGICAL IMAGING)
December 1, 2006... The invention of microscopy between the 16th and 17th centuries enabled the direct viewing of cells and other microsize objects for the first time. Since then, microscopes have become ubiquitous and vital laboratory tools, particularly for...

Table improves optical systems from the ground up: incorporating active control into vibration-isolation systems produces a wealth of advantages, starting with the combination of high damping with lack of feedback.(VIBRATION-CONTROL SYSTEMS)
December 1, 2006... Photolithography and the semiconductor industry are facing a critical juncture. The 32 nm node (at which production photolithographic technology is able to pattern some specific chip features at 32 nm) is only a few years away, and...

Diode lasers test their mettle in surface treatment: multikilowatt diodes are challenging Nd:YAG and C[O.sub.2] systems for welding, hardening, alloying, and cladding of metal products.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: MATERIALS PROCESSING)
December 1, 2006... Most everyone has heard the old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But history has repeatedly demonstrated that technology advances can often improve a process or outcome we didn't even realize needed fixing. (Then it's just a matter of...

Diffractive elements generate complex light patterns.(DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS)
December 1, 2006... Diffractive optical elements can be used to generate complex light patterns with precisely defined dimensions in a specified plane. Examples include viewfinder patterns, arrangements of multiple lines or circles that can be used for...

Silicon photomultipliers replace vacuum-tube technology.(LOW-LIGHT-LEVEL DETECTORS)
December 1, 2006... For the past 75 years, the vacuum-tube-based photomultiplier tube (PMT) has served as the standard by which all low-light-level optical detectors are measured. Lowlight sensing and the applications that have evolved from it would simply not...

The exotic and the everyday spur innovation: Basic research nourishes the growth of photonic metamaterials and plasmonics, while the desires of the consumer result in laser TV and higher-capacity optical disks. At the center of it all is the photonics industry, making things happen.(TECHNOLOGY REVIEW 2006)
December 1, 2006... Going to a photonics conference to gawk at the technology can be a rewarding experience. There one can see, in the technical sessions, some rather stunning achievements. While no physical laws are violated as leading-edge researchers discover...

Network camera.(new products)
December 1, 2006... The Li045 Intelligent Network Camera from Lumenera uses Texas Instrument's DaVinci technology for advanced image processing, video analytics, and various compression techniques. It has onboard analytics for security applications in difficult...