Laser Focus World articles from February 2004

Laser Focus World archives from February 2004

Saving faces.(editor's desk)
February 1, 2004... Toward the end of last year the U.S. State Department announced its intention to replace the current U.S. passport with new "smart passports" that include identity information in a computer chip embedded in the back cover of the familiar blue...

Growth of evanescent waves in negative-index material confirmed.(news breaks)
February 1, 2004... Certain optical metamaterials with negative refractive index were first posited and then experimentally confirmed at microwave frequencies. If successfully fabricated in the optical region, such materials would lead to lenses that focus all...

Optical neural network learns phase values.(news breaks)
February 1, 2004... Artificial neural networks are computing systems consisting of many simple interconnected processors that, based on data from the surrounding environment, adjust their interactions; that is, they "learn." Usually implemented electronically,...

Alkali-vapor lasers could be diode-pumped.(news breaks)
February 1, 2004... Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA) have developed an optically pumped 795-nm-emitting resonance-transition rubidium (Rb) laser. It is potentially the first of what could become a new class of diode-pumped...

Bismuth manganite films have large optical nonlinearities.(news breaks)
February 1, 2004... Researchers at Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA) have tested a new candidate nonlinear optical material and deemed it good. The material, bismuth manganite (BiMn[O.sub.3], or BMO), is ferroelectric. In the first optical tests...

Entangled photons and local monochromator enable remote spectral measurement.(news breaks)
February 1, 2004... Beyond their value in quantum-physics experiments, entangled photons have practical use in quantum cryptography and, potentially, imaging and lithography. Finding yet another real-world use for them, researchers at the University of Maryland...

Zinc-oxide waveguides produce amplified spontaneous emission.(news breaks)
February 1, 2004... The wide bandgap of zinc oxide (ZnO) makes the material potentially suitable for UV emitters, including lasers. While optically pumped lasing has been observed in randomly oriented ZnO microcrystallite thin films (with the uneven microcrystal...

Ultrafast white-light continua from filaments in water interfere.(news breaks)
February 1, 2004... Given the proper conditions, a white-light continuum (WLC) can be generated by focusing pico--or femtosecond pulses into condensed matter. One property of a WLC produced in this manner is its coherence: each spectral component has the same...

Ultrafast organic thin film helps measure femtosecond-pulse timing.(news breaks)
February 1, 2004... Scientists at the Communications Research Laboratory (Tokyo, Japan) and Fuji Xerox (Kanagawa, Japan) are using an organic thin film that acts over its entire area as an ultrafast optical switch to measure the arrival time of femtosecond laser...

Nonlinear lead silicate holey fiber produces Raman solitons.(news breaks)
February 1, 2004... Small-core holey fibers, with their diminutive cross-sectional core area and large core/cladding refractive-index difference, and thus their tight confinement of light, are ideal for the production of nonlinear effects. Researchers at the...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2004... The hypothesis described in the Newsbreak "Light may hold ball lightning together" (December 2003, p. 11) was actually first published by a Russian group in 1982, translated and published in English in Sov. Phys.-Tech. Phys. 27, 905 (1982). The...

Subwavelength low-loss silica wires guide light.(Optical Fiber)
February 1, 2004... While ordinary optical fiber confines light almost entirely within its core, a type of silica fiber created by researchers at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China), and Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) has a...

Low-index slot serves as waveguide.(world news: optoelectronics)
February 1, 2004... Most light guides in use today are high-index materials surrounded by low-index materials, and use total internal reflection as the light-guiding mechanism. There is always some loss from the waveguide due to scattering and evanescent coupling....

Light filaments write structures in glass.(Femtosecond Micromachining)
February 1, 2004... Using ultrafast laser light, optical structures can be created within bulk glass either by direct writing with a focused beam, or by interfering two or more light beams. These structures consist of regions in which the refractive index has been...

ILDA meeting honors creativity.(Laser Entertainment)
February 1, 2004... The entertainment and display market continues to suffer from the worldwide recession, although some of the larger companies are doing better than they were a year ago, due in part to their adoption of more broad-based approaches to the market....

Power Technology, Incorporated.(Corporate Profile)
February 1, 2004... Going strong since 1969--Power Technology, Inc.'s history of innovation Power Technology, Inc. has been a leader in the electro-optics industry for over three decades. Since 1969, PTI has been designing and manufacturing laser products for...

Time-reversal symmetry broken.(Nanostructures)
February 1, 2004... A collaboration led by researchers at the University of Southampton (Southampton, England) has demonstrated that a two-dimensionally patterned nonmagnetic metamaterial can produce effects that are not time invariant. In experiments, polarized...

Fiberoptic probe images in 3-D.(Surface Profilometry)
February 1, 2004... A fiberoptic probe that captures three-dimensional (3-D) images would have many uses in inspection of remote sites, ranging from the inner surfaces of pipes to the inside of the human body. Although a fiberoptic 3-D imager has been created by...

Rugged screen is no miser on brightness.(Image Projection)
February 1, 2004... Light is fascinating not only in how well it serves as a technological tool, but also in how pretty it can be. For those who entered the field of photonics at least partially as a result of the latter, advances in full-color imaging technology...

Spirit reveals Mars in stereo color.(Optoelectronics: world news)
February 1, 2004... Concluding a seven-month, 487-million-kilometer space ride, NASA's exploratory rover Spirit landed on Mars at 11:35 EST on Jan. 3--if bouncing and rolling for a few minutes on its four six-lobed airbags could be called landing. Soon after...

Photon sieves enhance weapons vision.(Vision Systems)
February 1, 2004... Researchers at the University of Florida (UF; Gainesville, FL) are combining several well-known optical techniques and phenomena--including diffractive optics, Fresnel zone plates, photon sieves, and surface plasmons--to create what they...

Patterned substrates get the light out.(OLEDs)
February 1, 2004... Over the past several years, work on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) has overcome problems such as current injection, resulting in devices with total efficiencies higher than 10%. Most research has been focusing on ways to lengthen OLED...

Online library imports components into CAD.(Optoelectronics: world news)
February 1, 2004... Traditionally, engineers who needed to add information concerning an optomechanical component into a computer-aided-design (CAD) program have had to look at mechanical drawings, at plan drawings in the catalog or on the web, or actually have a...

Arrays of holes launch surface plasmons.(Optoelectronics: world news)
February 1, 2004... If a metal surface is properly structured, it can take incoming light and convert it to surface plasmons (which are oscillations of free electrons at the metal's surface); likewise, it can convert surface plasmons to freely propagating light....

Undercuts enable nanoshuttle steering of microtubules.(Photolithography)
February 1, 2004... Research conducted at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) and Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM) demonstrates that carefully designed microstructures created photolithographically in conventional photoresists can make better...

Rochester laser lab gets $63 million.(Laser: industry report)
February 1, 2004... The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) will receive more than $63 million in government funding next year to operate and expand the Omega laser program. The funding, which includes $20 million...

Spectra-Physics forms new strategic marketing group.(Laser: industry report)
February 1, 2004... Spectra-Physics (Mountain View, CA) has created a new strategic marketing group "to define market-driven business strategies for long-term, profitable growth" The group will focus on four key market segments: microelectronics, industrial...

New Wave sets up shop in China.(Laser: industry report)
February 1, 2004... New Wave Research (Fremont, CA), a developer of laser systems for microelectronic and analytical applications, has opened an office in Shanghai, China, to provide support and service for the company's products, including laser systems for LED,...

Wavelight to open U.S. subsidiary.(Laser: industry news)
February 1, 2004... Medical-laser manufacturer WaveLight Laser Technologie (Erlangen, German) has announced plans to establish its U.S. headquarters in Virginia. Through a $5 million investment, the company will create 30 new jobs. "Both the transportation links...

GSI Lumonics.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2004... GSI Lumonics (Billerica, MA) won a $6 million order to supply a laser tool for an unindentified U.S.-based integrated circuit manufacturer, According to Nino Federico, vice-president and general manager of the company's laser systems division,...

Medical-laser manufacturer Lumenis (Yokneam, Israel) reached an agreement with RH Technologies (Nazareth Illit, Israel) to outsource its manufacturing and service operations at its Pleasanton, CA, site.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2004... Medical-laser manufacturer Lumenis (Yokneam, Israel) reached an agreement with RH Technologies (Nazareth Illit, Israel) to outsource its manufacturing and service operations at its Pleasanton, CA, site. RH will operate at the existing site in...

Jenoptik acquires Wahl Optoparts.(Optics: industry report)
February 1, 2004... The Jenoptik technology group (Jena, Germany) has boosted the optics line of its photonics business division through the acquisition of all shares in Wahl Optoparts (Triptis, Germany). Wahl Optoparts specializes in the development, production,...

Taiwanese lens firm tops $12 million in 2003.(Optics: industry report)
February 1, 2004... Kinko Optical, the third-largest manufacturer of optical lenses in Taiwan, estimated net profits of NT$430 million (US$12.7 million) in 2003. Kinko and its subsidiaries brought in consolidated revenues of NT$2.05 billion last year (US$60...

Goodrich supplies optical assemblies for SOAR telescope.(Optics: industry report)
February 1, 2004... Goodrich (Charlotte, NC) has delivered the optical assemblies for the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope to an 8800-ft mountain in the Chilean Andes. The effort is funded by a partnership between the U.S. National Optical...

Rockwell to provide arrays for NIRCam.(Optics: industry report)
February 1, 2004... Under an award from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the University of Arizona has selected Rockwell Scientific Company (Thousand Oaks, CA) to provide the IR focal-plane arrays for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near Infrared Camera...

Glass Brokers (Pittston, PA) and Schott Glass Technologies (Duryea, PA), a division of Schott North America, signed a distributorship agreement giving exclusive rights to distribute Schott's optic crystal for artistic and decorative purposes within the territory covered by the North America Free Trade Agreement, which includes the United States, Canada, and Mexico.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2004... Glass Brokers (Pittston, PA) and Schott Glass Technologies (Duryea, PA), a division of Schott North America, signed a distributorship agreement giving exclusive rights to distribute Schott's optic crystal for artistic and decorative purposes...

eMagin (Hopewell Junction, NY) and Leadtek Research (Chung Ho City, Taiwan) have introduced the first SVGA-resolution video headset based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2004... eMagin (Hopewell Junction, NY) and Leadtek Research (Chung Ho City, Taiwan) have introduced the first SVGA-resolution video headset based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The X-eye combines eMagin's OLED microdisplays with Leadtek's...

DALSA supplies image chips for Mars rover.(Imaging & detector: industry report)
February 1, 2004... The high-resolution color images being transmitted from Mars to Earth by the Mars rover Spirit are the result of CCD image sensor chips, designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL; Pasadena, CA) and manufactured by DALSA Corporation...

Vista business sold to Viking.(Imaging & detector: industry report)
February 1, 2004... Viking Systems (La Jolla, CA) has purchased the Westborough, MA-based visualization-technology business of Vista Medical Technologies (Carlsbad, CA), in a deal that could eventually be worth $5.5 million. The transaction, which involves royalty...

OmniCorder expands patent portfolio.(Imaging & detector: industry report)
February 1, 2004... OmniCorder Technologies (East Setauket, NY), a developer of medical-imaging applications using advanced infrared focal-plane arrays, has added a new patent to its portfolio for a dual-band focal-plane array. The patent was granted to scientists...

Agilent sues over optical mouse sensors.(Imaging & detector: industry report)
February 1, 2004... Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) has sued PixArt Imaging (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The suit alleges that PixArt infringes upon Agilent's U.S. Patent...

Sensors Unlimited.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2004... Sensors Unlimited (Princeton, NJ) received a Phase 1b contract from the U.S. Air Force for a 12-month, $2 million program to develop a high-frame-rate camera for imaging and ranging using an in-pixel digitized, monolithic PIN APD focal plane...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2004... OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (San Jose, CA), a developer of solid-state LED devices, received a $4,65 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to demonstrate the potential of white organic light-emitting diodes to save energy in commercial...

Solid State Displays (Austin, TX), a developer of novel color display technology utilizing light-scattering liquid-crystal materials, signed a memorandum of understanding with Deep Japan Co. (Fukuoka City, Japan).(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2004... Solid State Displays (Austin. TX), a developer of novel color display technology utilizing light-scattering liquid-crystal materials, signed a memorandum of understanding with Deep Japan Co. (Fukuoka City, Japan), to codevelop advanced plastic...

Optical-components market up 8%.(Fiberoptics: industry report)
February 1, 2004... According to new research by RHK (South San Francisco, CA), revenues in the global optical component market were up 8% in the third quarter of 2003, underscoring the long-awaited stabilization of the market and confirming that the market is...

ADC buys Marconi business unit.(Fiberoptics: industry report)
February 1, 2004... Advanced Fibre Communications (AFC; Petaluma, CA) signed a definitive agreement to acquire North American Access (NAA), a business unit of Marconi Communications, a subsidiary of Marconi, for $240 million in cash. The proposed transaction...

CyOptics wins optical-design patent.(Fiberoptics: industry report)
February 1, 2004... CyOptics (LeHigh Valley, PA), a developer and manufacturer of indium phosphide (InP) optical engines for fiberoptic communications, has been awarded U.S. Patent 6,661,587, "Confocal Optical Design for Optical Coupling." An embodiment of the...

New networking protocol demonstrated.(Fiberoptics: industry report)
February 1, 2004... Scientists at MCNC Research & Development Institute (Research Triangle Park, NC) and North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) have demonstrated an optical network-provisioning protocol designed to enable more efficient computing...

Agere Systems (Allentown, PA) acquired TeraBlaze (Cupertino, CA) for 6.92 million shares of Agere Class A common stock, valued at about $21 million based on a Dec. 31 closing price of $3,05.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2004... Agere Systems (Allentown, PA) acquired TeraBlaze (Cupertino, CA) for 6.92 million shares of Agere Class A common stock, valued at about $21 million based on a Dec. 31 closing price of $3,05. All 16 TeraBlaze employees will join Agere, including...

OEwaves.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2004... OEwaves (Pasadena, CA), a manufacturer of high-frequency signal sources and related components, has chosen Agilent's photonics manufacturing facility in Boelingen, Germany, to package and manufacture OEwaves' patented fixed-tuned tuned...

Silicon Optix.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2004... Silicon Optix (San Jose, CA), a fabless semiconductor company focused on the convergence of silicon and optics completed an additional $18 million of funding to close its series B financing. Proceeds will be used to accelerate the development...

Lumera (Bothell, WA), a majority-owned subsidiary of Microvision, has been awarded a second contract extension for an additional $950,000 from a U.S. government agency to continue development of high-performance electro-optic polymer materials and devices for wideband optical modulators.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2004... Lumera (Bothell, WA), a majority-owned subsidiary of Microvision, has been awarded a second contract extension for an additional $950,000 from a U.S. government agency to continue development of high-performance electro-optic polymer materials...

Some sensors make nice pets: optical sensors are becoming ubiquitous, but application and performance must match.(inside imaging)
February 1, 2004... Optical sensors once seemed destined solely for high-end roles in applications such as biotechnology, astronomy, industrial inspection, or telecommunications. Instead, low-cost optical sensors have become pervasive in digital cameras, storage...

An optics community united to create prosperity for the industry.(comment)
February 1, 2004... Many of us are looking for the next "killer app" to bring prosperity to our industry. What can you and I individually do to hasten the process? And if killer app is too elusive, how can we speed up the commercialization of an idea? One...

Europeans collaborate toward next-generation lithography.(market watch)
February 1, 2004... Extreme-UV lithography, has become the most promising next-generation lithography technology for reaching the 50-nm node and beyond in integrated-circuit feature sizes, according to International Sematech (Austin, TX). Intense light at 13.5 nm...

Match imaging hardware to specific application needs.(software & computing)
February 1, 2004... Not all flame grabbers are created equal. When purchasing a frame grabber for machine vision or scientific imaging, it helps to be aware of the features common to all imaging hardware. Imaging hardware can be categorized into three groups....

Special fibers find increasing favor: fine-tuning the properties of optical fiber allows it to meet the specific needs of a diverse range of applications.(Optical networking: specialty optical fibers)(Cover Story)
February 1, 2004... Optical fibers have always come in a greater variety than Model Ts, which Henry Ford would gladly sell in any color you wanted, as long as it was black. In the 1950s, the two types of optical fibers were intended for imaging--bundles of loose...

Review and forecast of the laser markets Part II: diode lasers: the Laser Focus World 2004 annual review and forecast of the laser marketplace is conducted in conjunction with Strategies Unlimited, an optoelectronics market-research firm based in Mountain View, CA. Part II covers the diode-laser marketplace. Part I, which reported on nondiode-laser markets, appeared last month.(Laser Marketplace 2004)
February 1, 2004... After two years of successive declines, the diode-laser market rebounded nicely in 2003, growing by 18% to reach $3.07 billion, slightly higher than last year's forecast of $2.81 billion. Although far from the peak of $5.71 billion reached in...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2004... Due to a reporting error, "The annual review and forecast, Part I" incorrectly stated revenues for Thales (Paris, France). Thales revenues In the first half of 2003 were actually 4.56 billion [euro] (US$5.34 billion). Laser Focus World regrets...

High-speed CMOS imagers are flexible.(CMOS Detectors)
February 1, 2004... High-speed image capture for motion analysis is used in a wide variety of applications, including vehicle impact testing (VIT); biomechanical research; range, aerospace, and ballistics (RAB); and particle-image velocimetry. Various technologies...

Atomic-force microscopy guides industrial manufacturing and R&D: AFM images and data are increasingly indispensable for technical decision-makers in industry: from contact lenses to thin-film transistors in liquid-crystal displays.(Thin-Film Metrology)
February 1, 2004... Very often, the performance obtained from an optical element is only possible with the thin film(s) that coat the element. From camera lenses to microlithography masks, from contact lenses to micromirrors in optical MEMS, thin-film coatings...

New borate crystals promise deep-UV harmonic generation.(Nonlinear Optics)
February 1, 2004... The lithium triborate (Li[B.sub.3][O.sub.5] or LBO) family of nonlinear crystals--including cesium triborate (Cs[B.sub.3][O.sub.5] or CBO), cesium lithium triborate (CsLi[B.sub.6][O.sub.10] or CLBO) and beta barium borate...

Security concerns drive biometrics into the mainstream: face recognition has become the leading contender for large-population surveillance applications.(Optoelectronic applications: biometrics)
February 1, 2004... Traditionally defined as "the statistical analysis of biological observations and human phenomena," the concept of biometrics has been around for centuries. One of the first recorded examples was a form of ink-based hand and foot printing used...

Femtosecond oscillators.(new products)
February 1, 2004... The t-Pulse series of diode-pumped femtosecond laser oscillators from Amplitude Systems offer energies up to 0.2 [micro]J/pulse. The lasers are made from ytterbium-doped materials that can be directly diode pumped without additional green...

Optical-design software.(new products)
February 1, 2004... Version 9.4 of CODE V optical-design software contains a new interactive 3-D viewing feature that allows users to create detailed 3-D renderings of an optical system that can be rotated, panned, and zoomed. Surface properties in the model can...

Integrating spheres.(new products)
February 1, 2004... A series of integrating spheres for infrared measurement applications have ZenithGold electrochemically plated gold surfaces. The surface has diffuse reflectance values of approximately 94% to 96% from 850 nm to 20 [micro]m. The spheres come in...

Line-scan cameras.(new products)
February 1, 2004... The PIRANHA2 line-scan cameras have two 8- or 10-bit selectable outputs at 30 MHz per tap to deliver 60-MHz throughput. They are available in resolutions of 1024, 2048, and 4096. They offer programmable pixel-to-pixel correction, integration...

Laser marker.(new products)
February 1, 2004... The Verascribe VL series of vanadate diode-laser markers is designed for laser engraving for metal marking and product coding. The lasers come in powers of 10, 20, and 50 W, with field sizes from 70 to 280 [mm.sup.2], and spot sizes from 22 to...

Optical fuse.(new products)
February 1, 2004... An optical fuse from KiloLambda is a passive component that can be placed at either the input of a sensitive device or the output of a high-power device. It has a response time Less than 5 [micro]s, operates in the C- and L-bands with standard...

Frame grabber.(new products)
February 1, 2004... The MVS-8501 frame grabber is designed for high-speed analog cameras using progressive-scan CCDs. The half-slot device is PCI 2.31 compliant. It has an 8 MB FIFO and uses a 32-bit, 33-MHz bus architecture, it has independent direct memory...

Machine-vision tools.(new products)
February 1, 2004... New software tools have been added to Sapera Processing machine-vision software. The program now includes blob analysis routines that measure up to 60 spatial and gray-scale characteristics of a blob. An OCR reader supports solid, dot matrix,...

Product guide.(new products)
February 1, 2004... A new product guide lists electronic test and measurement equipment available for leasing. It includes equipment from 174 manufacturers, such as Agilent, Tektronix, Anritsu, NetTest, and Sony. It also has white papers on signal analysis and...

Silicon detector/filter.(new products)
February 1, 2004... A homogeneous silicon detector/filter is designed for applications in which near-infrared wavelengths are not wanted. It exhibits sharp cutoff at 700 nm. Filter coating layers are deposited directly onto the chip during the wafer process, and...

Digital-capture card.(new products)
February 1, 2004... The CompuScope 3200C digital-capture card has 100-MHz digital capture for 32-bit-wide words, external clock and trigger capabilities, on-board acquisition memory of 2 MB, software for creating and editing digital patterns, and software...

Multichannel optometer.(new products)
February 1, 2004... The P-9801 optometer provides eight-channel parallel signal processing for a range of radiometric, photometric, and colorimetric applications that require fast multiple detection. Reading from up to eight detectors can be displayed with a slew...

Video camera.(new products)
February 1, 2004... Based on a sensor from Silicon Video, the ISG QuadHDTV camera uses a CMOS image sensor with 3840 x 2160 pixels, running at 30 frames/s, with 24-bit color. It has four SMPTE 292 outputs for standard video recording capabilities and four DVI...

Autocollimator.(new products)
February 1, 2004... The LDS electronic autocollimator provides noncontact angular measurement and alignment. It has a 2-kHz analog output option for vibration analysis. It has a field of view of [+ or -] 2000 [micro]rad and [+ or -] 7 arcmin and delivers...

EDFA.(new products)
February 1, 2004... The Ultra Compact EDFA has a footprint similar to typical semiconductor optical amplifiers. It measures 30 x 50 x 8 mm and is built to Telecordia GR-1312 specifications. It operates from 1528 to 1562 nm with a maximum noise figure of 7 dB....

Waveform digitizer.(new products)
February 1, 2004... A PC-based waveform digitizer, ATS850, is an 8-bit PCI bus digitizer card with a sampling rate of 10 KS/s to 50 MS/s on two simultaneous channels. It provides independently programmable input ranges from [+ or -] 20 mV to [+ or -] 20 V, AC/DC...

Air-bearing system.(new products)
February 1, 2004... The Monorail single-axis linear air-bearing system uses a noncontact design for low-velocity ripple without lubricants and an open-carriage design to give OEMs flexibility in component mounting. It has horizontal, vertical, and angular...

Light-source shaping.(new products)
February 1, 2004... Holographic light-shaping diffusers are holographically recorded, randomized surface-relief structures that provide homogenized light with transmission efficiency up to 92% and controlled angular distribution. The nonperiodic structures are...

Thermal-imaging system.(new products)
February 1, 2004... The Emerald camera range of thermal-imaging systems uses InSb, HgCdTe, and quantum-well focal-plane technologies with 640 x 512 pixels. It operates in the 3 to 5-[micro]m and 8 to 12-[micro]m regions, with thermal sensitivity as low as 25 mK...

Gas analyzer.(new products)
February 1, 2004... The IRGAS-100T transportable FTIR gas analyzer measures moisture and impurity in corrosive and toxic gases with a sensitivity of parts per billion and a response time of seconds. It has an eight-point suspension subsystem to minimize the impact...

Digital CCD camera.(new products)
February 1, 2004... The PixelFlyQE digital CCD camera has resolution of 1390 x 1024, for scientific and medical-inspection and machine-vision applications. The 12-bit camera comes in five sensor types: VGA, SVGA, HiRes, UV, and QE. Exposure time is 1/100,000 to 10...