Laser Focus World articles from February 2006

Laser Focus World archives from February 2006

Innovation makes light work.(editor's desk)
February 1, 2006... Thirty-two people died in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 21, 1994, when the Seongsu Bridge over the Han River unexpectedly collapsed during the morning rush hour. The catastrophe occurred because of structural wear and tear to the bridge's steel...

Tabletop system performs angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.(news breaks)
February 1, 2006... Researchers in the laboratory of Daniel Dessau in the department of physics and JILA at the University of Colorado (Boulder) have developed a tabletop system to perform angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). This technique is one of...

Polymer solar cells achieve 5.2% efficiency.(news breaks)
February 1, 2006... Researchers from Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC), Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi (San Luis Potosi, Mexico), and New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM) have achieved what they claim to be the highest power-conversion...

Angle-scanning an etalon precisely measures its thickness variation.(news breaks)
February 1, 2006... Used in imaging solar spectroscopy, tunable Fabry-Perot interferometers made from lithium niobate wafers must have thickness variations of no more than 1 nm rms (root mean square) across their rather large working apertures (tens of millimeters...

Correction.(Correction notice)(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2006... In "Gallium nitride has low loss at 1550 nm" (Newsbreaks, December 2005, p. 11) we neglected to note that the work was a joint effort by Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology.

Dielectric microspheres superenhance backscattering of light from nanoparticles.(news breaks)
February 1, 2006... Enabling potential applications in visible-light ultramicroscopy and optical biosensing systems, in which nanoparticles consisting of as few as several hundred atoms could be tested and characterized, scientists at Northwestern University...

Femtosecond optical parametric amplifier generates millijoule pulses.(news breaks)
February 1, 2006... Scientists at Fudan University (Shanghai, China) and the National Center for High Power Lasers (Mianyang, China) have developed a femtosecond optical parametric amplifier (OPA) that emits at the millijoule-level--an order of magnitude higher...

NIST recommendations address thermal imagers for first responders.(news breaks)
February 1, 2006... Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, MD) have submitted recommendations to the National Fire Protection Association (Quincy, MA) that outline evaluation methods for detector performance and...

Panoramic stereo imager uses a single camera.(IMAGING)
February 1, 2006... Important to applications in robotics, virtual reality, and surveillance, panoramic stereo images are usually captured with two cameras and a catadioptric imaging system one that uses lenses and mirrors to achieve a wide 3-D field of view....

Colloidal mirror tunes laser when compressed.(optoelectronics: world news)
February 1, 2006... Tunable visible lasers tend to be large and expensive, at least when compared to their compact fixed-wavelength counterparts such as HeNe, diode, and low-power frequency-doubled Nd:YAG lasers. But researchers at the Center for Optical Materials...

Supercontinuum white-light source enhances confocal microscope.(MICROSCOPY)
February 1, 2006... Confocal laser-scanning microscopy (CLSM), in which optics collect the scattered light from a sample-sensing focused laser spot, has become a standard investigation technique for the life sciences. Biological objects are typical ly stained with...

Laser and LED-based TVs are within reach.(CONSUMER OPTOELECTRONICS)
February 1, 2006... At the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (Jan. 5-8; Las Vegas, NV), light-emitting-diode (LED)-illuminated MDTVs (microdisplay-based rear-projection TVs) made a big splash with five demonstration systems in public view. The first crop will reach...

Index-of-refraction sensors display 'virtually unlimited' sensitivity.(PLASMONICS)
February 1, 2006... Surface-plasmon resonance can be used to analyze target molecules suspended in a fluid by reflecting light off thin metal films in contact with the fluid. Careful analysis of this technique by researchers at Kyoto University and Teramecs (both...

Handheld scanner sees signs of heart disease and stroke.(BIOMEDICAL OPTOELECTRONICS)
February 1, 2006... Engineers from Loughborough University (Loughborough, England) are developing a small handheld optical body scanner that can detect early signs of heart disease and stroke. The team says the device could be on the market within a year and half....

Airborne Laser achieves lethal antimissile power levels.(HIGH-POWER LASERS)
February 1, 2006... The Airborne Laser (ABL) team, led by Boeing (Chicago, IL), announced in December the successful completion of a series of tests involving its high-energy laser at the Systems Integration Lab at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The...

Miniature optical pickup has dual-suspended-film beamsplitter.(OPTICAL STORAGE)
February 1, 2006... A millimeter-size short-wavelength polarizing beamsplitter devised by scientists at National Chiao Tung University (HsinChu, Taiwan) could help lead to less-expensive high-capacity optical-storage devices (see figure). (1) The...

Atomic storage of photons may hold key to quantum cryptography.(QUANTUM COMPUTING)
February 1, 2006... Working independently, research teams at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech; Pasadena, CA) have demonstrated elementary operations for...

Einstein's theory passes x-ray test.(X-RAY INTERFEROMETRY)
February 1, 2006... Scientists at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, MD) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA) combined atomic mass and x-ray wavelength measurements in silicon and sulfur nuclei...

CCD spectrometer folds spectral images from 200 to 1000 nm.(SPECTROMETRY)
February 1, 2006... In traditional spectrometers, grating or prism dispersion elements are rotated continuously in fine steps using a mechanical mechanism to scan the wavelength and achieve high-resolution spectral measurements. Although 2-D silicon-based...

Laser vibrometry enables noncontact heart monitoring.(BIOMEDICAL OPTICS)
February 1, 2006... Italian researchers have developed an optical technique for noncontact heart monitoring based on laser Doppler vibrometry (LDV) that could become an alternative to electrocardiography (ECG). They report that clinical trials are showing high...

PhAST, Laser Focus World partner on Innovation Awards.(laser: industry report)
February 1, 2006... PhAST, Laser Focus World partner on Innovation Awards The Photonic Applications, Systems, Technologies (PhAST) Conference and Laser Focus World are partnering for the 2006 PhAST /Laser Focus World Innovation Awards Program, to be presented at...

Lumics raises $6.6 million.(laser: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Laser module manufacturer Lumics (Berlin, Germany) has successfully completed a round of funding for $6.6 million, led by a consortium of investors. The proceeds from this financing will enable Lumics to increase production capacity, further...

Cutera stock soars on aesthetic sales.(laser: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Shares of Cutera (Brisbane, CA), a developer and manufacturer of aesthetic laser systems, have risen more than 70% in the last two months. The stock closed at around $30 per share in mid-December following news that a Massachusetts court had...

Laser pointer incidents still prevalent.(laser: industry report)
February 1, 2006... People who aim laser pointers at planes could face fines of to $250,000 and five years in prison under a bill passed in early December by the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Ric Keller (R-FL), who authored the bill, says a series of...

Cree (Durham, NC) has licensed its white LED patent U.S. Patent 6.600,175.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... Cree (Durham, NC) has licensed its white LED patent U.S. Patent 6.600,175, to Kingbright Electronic Co. (Taiwan). an LED-chip customer....

Structured Mateials Industries.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... Structured Materials Industries (SMI: Piscataway, NJ) was awarded a NASA Phase I SBIR to develop photovoltaics for high-power laser transmission systems at 1.05 pro, below the bandgap of silicon and most commercially available solar cells...

Firecomms.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... Firecomms Cork, Ireland), a compound-semiconductor company that develops high-speed light sources in visible wavelengths, is opening of new regional offices in Houston. TX, and Yokohama. Japan....

Laserline.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... (Muehlheim-Kaerlich, Germany) has opened a U.S. ofrice in Los Gatos, CA, that will focus on sales, customer service, and technical support for its high-power laser-diode systems....

JMAR Technologies (San Diego, CA) entered into representation and sales agreements with LOT-Oriel.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... JMAR Technologies (San Diego, CA) entered into representation and sales agreements with LOT-Oriel, Lastek, and SP SYSTEC located in Germany, Australia. and South Korea, respectively, for representation of their diode-pumped high-power...

Clark-MXR (Dexter, MI) is now an authorized distributor of the TOPAS OPA (optical parametric amplifier) manufactured by Light Conversion in Lithuania.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... Clark-MXR (Dexter, MI) is now an authorized distributor of the TOPAS OPA (optical parametric amplifier) manufactured by Light Conversion in Lithuania, for a packaged tunable laser with ultrashort pulses.

Edmund receives defense funding.(optics: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Edmund Optics (Barrington, NJ) has received $2.8 million in U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) ManTech funding for the development of advanced manufacturing tools to produce complex conformal and advanced optical elements such as aspheres. Geared...

Photon Forum 2006 merges optics with finance.(optics: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Optics researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors will gather for Photon Forum 2006, April 24-26 in Cambridge, MA, to learn how science and finance can benefit each other in the rapidly expanding field of optics. Produced by Penn Well (Nashua,...

PPGI improves lens manufacturing.(optics: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Photonic Products Group (PPGI; Northvale, NJ) received $700,000 in proceeds from the issuance of a secured promissory note to a major shareholder, Clarex Holdings. Dan Lehrfeld, president and CEO of PPGI commented, "We are deploying the...

Mirrors selected for 'most intense' laser.(optics: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Optical Surfaces (Surrey, England) has been selected to supply two high-precision mirrors to the Central Laser Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (Didcot, England) for the Astra Gemini project. The mirrors will be critical...

Tiger Optics wins ORBS financing.(optics: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Designer and manufacturer of continuous-wave cavity-ring-down spectroscopy (ORBS) instruments for fast and highly sensitive detection of trace contaminants in gases, Tiger Optics (Warrington, PA) has completed a Series B financing round led by...

Ingeneric (Aachen, Germany) has appointed Lahat Technologies of Tel-Aviv.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... Ingeneric (Aachen, Germany) has appointed Lahat Technologies of Tel-Aviv, Israel, and T.E.M. of Tokyo, Japan, to represent its micro-optics and ultraprecise aspheres in Israel and Japan, respectively....

Vision-systems manufacturer Irvine Sensors (Costa Mesa, CA) acquired Optex (Richardson, TX).(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... Vision-systems manufacturer Irvine Sensors (Costa Mesa, CA) acquired Optex (Richardson, TX), developer of surveillance sights and night-vision optical assemblies....

Canon.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... Canon (www.canon.com) announced it will build a plant in Kyushu, Japan, to produce lenses for single-lens digital reflex cameras to meet rapid demand growth.

Spire to develop terahertz imager.(imaging & detector: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Spire (Bedford, MA) was awarded a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) project from the Department of Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) to develop a terahertz-based standoff detection imager...

Nivisys receives Homeland Security contract.(imaging & detector: industry report)
February 1, 2006... The U.S. Department of Homeland Security for Border Patrol has awarded Nivisys Industries (Tempe, AZ) a production contract for thermal-imaging systems. The Department of Homeland Security chose the company's lightweight thermal-acquisition...

Jabil and Carl Zeiss partner on displays.(imaging & detector: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Jabil Circuit (St. Petersburg, FL) is developing optical modules as part of a joint venture with Carl Zeiss (Oberkochen, Germany). The partnership will enable Jabil to add optical-module capability to its rapidly growing Display Technologies...

Head-mounted display uses Kopin VGA device.(imaging & detector: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Shenzhen Oriscape Electronic Co. (Shenzhen, China) has unveiled a three-dimensional (3-D) stereoscopic head-mounted display (HMD) that incorporates VGA color displays produced by Kopin (Taunton, MA). The HMD provides a high-definition...

3M to build LCD facility in Poland.(imaging & detector: industry report)
February 1, 2006... 3M (St. Paul, MN) announced its intention to build a liquid-crystal-display (LCD) optical-film manufacturing facility in Poland to support the fast-growing LCD-TV market in Europe. Europe represents the largest market for liquid-crystal-display...

OmniVision Technologies.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... OmniVision Technologies (Sunnyvale, CA), a supplier of CMOS image sensors, announced that its OV7930 VGA CMOS CameraChip is featured in a video and music entertainment system from one of the largest toy makers in the world....

In an agreement reached with Infinitesima (Oxford, England).(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... In an agreement reached with Infinitesima (Oxford, England), KLA-Tencor (San Jose, CA) will distribute Infinitesima's VideoAFM--the first commercially available atomic-force microscope capable of delivering real-time images at video frame...

Biomedical Photometrics.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... Biomedical (Waterloo, ON, Canada) has closed the private placement of a secured convertible debenture from GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund for continued investment in its wide-field-of-view fluorescence laser-scanning technology and...

German universities see 40 Gbit/s.(fiberoptics: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Alcatel (Paris, France) announced the successful deployment of its 40-Gbit/s solution connecting supercomputers at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, a distance of more than 105 km. Alcatel representatives...

Emtelle to expand blown fiber in U.S.(fiberoptics: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Emtelle (Amersfoort, The Netherlands), which has been promoting its (air) blown-fiber solution, Fiberflow, since January 2004, says it is planning significant investment in the U.S. market in 2006. According to the company, sales of the...

Optical hardware holds at $2.7 billion.(fiberoptics: industry report)
February 1, 2006... The worldwide optical network hardware market had a flat third quarter, holding at $2.7 billion, but is expected to finish up 16% for the year, according to the quarterly Optical Network Hardware report by Infonetics Research (San Jose, CA)....

TelCove boosts central NY fiber infrastructure.(fiberoptics: industry report)
February 1, 2006... In the past year, TelCove (www.telcove. com) has invested $2 million to build out its regional Syracuse and Rome/ Utica, NY, fiberoptic footprint, upgrading its local and intercity network to enable next-generation services such as enterprise...

Exfo to acquire Consultronics.(fiberoptics: industry report)
February 1, 2006... Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering (Quebec City, QC, Canada) has signed an agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Consultronics in an all-cash transaction valued at $17.7 million. Consultronics, a privately held company founded in...

IEEE picks fSONA for conference connectivity.(fiberoptics: industry report)
February 1, 2006... fSONA (McLean, VA) deployed its SONAbeam free-space optical (FSO) system to bridge the high-speed networks of two conference hotels in support of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE; www. ieee.org) 802 Local Area...

Redfern Integrated Optics.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... Redfern Integrated Optics (RIO; Santa Clara, CA), a developer and manufacturer of optical transmitters for communications and other markets, has secured an additional $2.2 million from GE Capital Equity Investments and Jolimont Ventures....

LightPath Technologies (Orlando, FL) signed a three-year agreement with Ball Aeorspace & Technologies (Boulder, CO).(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... LightPath Technologies (Orlando, FL) signed a three-year agreement with Ball Aeorspace & Technologies (Boulder, CO) to supply Ball with fiber-delivery systems used in high-power laser delivery applications....

BTI Photonic Systems.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... BTI Photonic Systems (Ottawa, ON, Canada), a supplier of optical networking solutions for the build-out of new broadband services at the metro edge, closed a $12.25 million Series C financing round....

Northrop Grumman.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2006... Northrop Grumman's (Woodland Hills, CA) newest fiberoptic gyro inertial navigation system, the LN-260, has been selected by the U.S. Air Force as an avionics upgrade for the F-16 Multinational Fighter Program aircraft fleet.

Pharmaceutical companies come calling: vision-guided robotics check for particles in drug vials.(inside imaging)
February 1, 2006... Machine vision has been most commonly used in semiconductor, electronics, automotive, and general manufacturing applications. Recently, the stringent quality demanded of production processes by pharmaceutical companies has created rapidly...

What's wrong with 'a technology looking for a solution'?(business forum)(Interview)
February 1, 2006... Q: What is wrong with "a technology looking for a solution" if my laser technology is really great? A: Coming up with a great laser application is a good thing regardless of the starting point. The concern is "the hammer sees everything as...

Gathering Storm report sounds one more globalization alarm.(market watch)
February 1, 2006... In The Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill described "the step-by-step decline" into World War II. "The multitudes remained plunged in ignorance of the simplest economic facts, and the leaders, seeking their votes, did not dare to undeceive...

Video search engines rev up.(working the web)
February 1, 2006... I had heard that video search engines were becoming more popular on the Internet--after all, a picture is worth a thousand words. But I was totally surprised when I typed in the search term "nanotechnology" on the www.blinkx.com Web site,...

Fiber sensors lay groundwork for structural health monitoring: from suspension bridges in China to limestone buildings in London, fiber-sensing systems are helping engineers take better care of the world's infrastructure.(OPTOELECTRIC APPLICATIONS: FIBEROPTIC SENSING)
February 1, 2006... In communities across China, fiber Bragg gratings and high-power, swept-laser sensor interrogators are being deployed not just in optical-communications networks but in engineering projects meant to expand and improve the country's physical...

Diode doldrums: although several segments posted gains, particularly telecom and high-power applications, price erosion restrained revenue growth for the optical-storage segment.(LASER MARKETPLACE 2006)
February 1, 2006... The Laser Focus World 2006 Annual Review and Forecast of the Laser Marketplace is conducted in conjunction with Strategies Unlimited, (SU; Mountain View, CA; a Pennwell Company). Part II covers the diode-laser marketplace. Part I, which...

Semiconductor processing technology improves resolution of infrared arrays.(IR DETECTORS)
February 1, 2006... Infrared systems are requiring higher resolution than ever before, and many applications, such as wide-area surveillance and astronomy, are demanding more pixels on their IR focal planes to capture more information. Fortunately, detector...

Closing in on silicon lasers: lasing isn't impossible in semiconductors with indirect bandgaps, but it is difficult, which makes the quest for silicon lasers a challenging pursuit.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: SILICON PHOTONICS)
February 1, 2006... Silicon is the foundation of modern semiconductor electronics, and silicon detectors are ubiquitous in optical systems. However, the laws of physics create a formidable roadblock to the "holy grail" of making silicon light-emitters that can be...

OCT sees the human retina sharply with adaptive optics.(BIOMEDICAL OPTICS)
February 1, 2006... Optical-coherence tomography (OCT) has recently gained widespread popularity among ophthalmologists for use in the clinical diagnosis and monitoring of human retinal disease. The key to this success is the ability of OCT to make noninvasive, in...

LIBS comes on strong.(SPECTROSCOPY)
February 1, 2006... Recent years have seen a proliferation of exciting developments in laser sources, detectors, and optical instrumentation. In particular, compact and powerful lasers are now available that can provide hundreds of millijoules of pulse energy in...

Ethernet camera.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The Genie-M640 gigabit Ethernet digital cameras are based on CCD monochrome sensor with a resolution of 640 x 480. It operates at a maximum of 60 frames/s and transmits data over standard CAT-5e and CAT-6 cables to distances of up to 100 m. It...

Spatial light modulator.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The LC-R 1080 spatial light modulator is based on a reflective liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplay and designed for prototyping and industrial development and research. It can modulate light spatially in amplitude and phase, and the...

Optical-frequency counter.(new products)
February 1, 2006... An optical-frequency counter includes a frequency-stabilized light source, optical-comb generator, and optical-frequency meter integrated into one unit. It measures optical frequency of light sources in the 1530-to-1565-nm band on the order of...

Raman sampler.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The Carousel Autosampler is an accessory for the company's Nicolet Almega XR dispersive Raman microscope and NXR FT-Raman spectrometers. It automates the collection of Raman spectra from multiple samples and is designed for routine analysis...

UV spectrophotometer.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The H2S-220 process fiberoptic diode-array UV spectrophotometer is designed for online H2S monitoring. The solid-state device measures 1024 discrete frequencies between 190 and 800 nm with a 1.0-nm resolution. The analyzer is offered in...

EUV light source.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The EQ-10M Electrodeless Z-Pinch EUV light source uses a unique technology that creates extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light from a xenon gas plasma. The tool produces up to 10 W of EUV power for metrology, R&D, resist development, and...

Core-alignment fusion splicer.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The FITEL S177A is a compact core-alignment splicer designed for FTTh/ FTTx, LAN, and trunk-line installations. The handheld unit provides a 9-s splice time and a 37-s heat time. The unit's T-shaped body design weighs 4.85 lb, including the...

Global shutter camera.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The LightWise LW-WVGA-1394-C is a wide-VGA Global Shutter camera that uses the Micron MT9V022 image sensor. The camera has 752 x 480 pixels running at 72 frames/s. An extended dynamic range of more than 100 db is achieved with a multi-slope...

Color DSP camera.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The TMC-7DSP/6DSP is a color machine-vision camera that offers digital signal processing (DSP). It has a Sony imager (ICX418AKL NTSC, ICX419ALK PAL) in a 1/2-in. CCD format and operates at 768 x 494-pixel resolution (NTSC) and 752 x 582-pixel...

Quantum-yield detector.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The Quantum Yield Accessory determines photoluminescence quantum yields for fluorescent samples. Specifically designed to slide into the sample compartments of the Fluorolog-3 and FluorMax3 spectrofluorometers, it includes a 10-cm integrating...

High-power laser.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The HPM15 high-power CW laser is based on ytterbium-doped double-clad photonic-crystal fiber (PCF). Features include stable output power, diffraction-limited output and relatively narrow spectral width. Applications include thermal printing,...

Diode laser.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The LIMO300(150)P-F400-DL808 fiber-coupled high-power diode laser is designed for pumping solid-state lasers and for medical applications. The module emits at a wavelength of 808 nm with a peak performance of 300(150) W at the fiber end. The...

Integrated step motor/driver/controller.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The new version of the SilverPak 17C integrated step motor/driver/controller is available in body lengths of 2.69, 2.92, and 3.24 in. and produces up to 85 oz.-in, of holding torque, depending on the motor's stack size. It provides up to 2-A...

Optical-fiber panels.(new products)
February 1, 2006... New patented white LED UniGlow Optima panels offer brightness as high as 75 ft-L, depending on panel size and configuration. The thin panels measure 0.33 mm thick, require no inverter and generate no heat or EMI. The panels are designed to...

Vacuum inlet trap.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The Multi-Trap Vacuum Inlet Trap combines several trapping methods into a single compact unit to condense, absorb, and neutralize process byproducts from applications that produce volatiles, acids, and organic solvents. The stainless steel trap...

Video inspection tool.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The third-generation MS500C Micro-Scopeman is a high-resolution integrated video inspection tool suitable for a wide range of real-time inspection and QA tasks. The handheld tool incorporates a 752 x 582-pixel CCD camera head and fiberoptic...

Accessories for laser cutting system.(new products)
February 1, 2006... StageLaze is a new accessory kit for the QuikLaze laser cutting system. The kit is available in motorized and manual configurations. The laser can be specified in single and multiple wavelength configurations, including IR, green, and UV. The...

IR phototransistor.(new products)
February 1, 2006... The OP520/OP521 Series NPN silicon phototransistors in 1206 packages exhibit response times of 15 [micro]s with peak response to 880-nm wavelength light. The miniature surface-mount photodetectors are designed for integration into IR sensing...