Laser Focus World articles from February 2008

Laser Focus World archives from February 2008

To 40 gigabits and beyond.(editor's desk)(Conference notes)
February 1, 2008... Speed and capacity of communications networks will be very much on the minds of attendees at this month's OFC/NFOEC conference in San Diego, CA (Feb. 26-28). Nearly one terameter (1000 million kilometers) of optical fiber is now deployed around...

Near-infrared photoacoustics enhance tissue and tumor imaging.(newsbreaks)
February 1, 2008... Researchers in the Photoacoustic Imaging Group at the University College London (England) have developed a prototype photoacoustic imaging system that could significantly improve the detection and treatment of tumors, diseased blood vessels,...

Holographic lithography enables complicated 3-D photonic crystals.(newsbreaks)
February 1, 2008... To develop novel optical microstructures with potential in photonic, microfluidic, biomedical, and micromechanical applications, scientists at the Instrumental Analysis and Research Center at Zhongshan University (Guangzhou, China) have created...

Stimulated emission hits 474 nm from semipolar InGaN diodes.(newsbreaks)
February 1, 2008... Pure green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have great potential in displays and as pump sources, and high-powered ones could become an alternative to expensive argon-ion lasers and solid-state lasers. Toward this goal, researchers at Kyoto...

Polarized-light microscope facilitates major stem-cell advance.(newsbreaks)
February 1, 2008... A polarized-light microscope played a key role in a major turning point in stem-cell technology: the derivation of embryonic stem cells from reprogrammed monkey skin cells. Scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (Beaverton,...

Fluorescent microspheres create white-light LEDs.(newsbreaks)
February 1, 2008... Most white-light light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are fabricated by coating phosphors onto blue LEDs (see www. laserfocusworld.com/articles/212470); however, the patent situation related to phosphors is becoming more competitive. And, white-light...

Hollow, coated IR fiber withstands harsh environments.(newsbreaks)
February 1, 2008... Hollow fibers with interior coatings of metals and dielectrics are commonly used for laser power delivery. While inorganic coating materials typically have higher-temperature capability in the infrared (IR) region, organic coatings can perform...

Quantum-cascade lasers emit between 2.75 and 2.97 [micro]m.(newsbreaks)
February 1, 2008... To fill the gap in high-performance mid-infrared lasers, researchers at Universite Montpellier (Montpellier, France) have demonstrated quantum-cascade (QC) lasers emitting between 2.75 and 2.97 [micro]m. The QC lasers were formed by heavily...

Scanning-laser surface-profiling technique increases accuracy.(newsbreaks)
February 1, 2008... Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, MD) have developed a novel technique for measuring the roughness of surfaces that is casting doubt on the accuracy of current procedures. Their results, to...

Photonic crystals get fishy.(newsbreaks)
February 1, 2008... Photonic crystals in the skin of fish may enhance a fish's light-reflecting properties, according to researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Hebrew University Faculty of Agriculture (both in Rehovot, Israel), and the Technion...

Glass microtoroids generate combs.(OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS)
February 1, 2008... It is fitting that the next step forward for optical frequency combs should occur at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ; Garching, Germany)--the very place where Theodor Hansch did the pioneering frequency-comb work that garnered...

Irnee D'Haenens, laser pioneer, dies.(optoelectronics world news)
February 1, 2008... Irnee D'Haenens (right), a physicist who assisted Ted Maiman (left) in making the first laser at Hughes Research Laboratory (Malibu, CA) in 1960, died Dec. 24, 2007; he was 73. The two were the only people present when a little ruby rod emitted...

Advanced tactical laser is ready for flight tests.(LASER WEAPONS)
February 1, 2008... This year the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) will finally get off the ground carrying a six-ton chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL) weapon module, for tests against ground targets. The beam-direction system in the C-130H aircraft was previously...

Microfluidics and laser optics provide low-cost cell sorting.(BIOPHOTONICS)
February 1, 2008... Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA) are patenting a microscope-compatible device that combines microfluidics and laser optics in a potentially simple, effective and low-cost alternative for bioscience...

Polysilicon resonates toward CMOS-compatible 3-D networks.(SILICON PHOTONICS)
February 1, 2008... Although many silicon photonic components have been developed toward the goal of on-chip optical networks (see www.laserfocusworld.com/ articles/289409), progress has largely been based on silicon-on-insulator components in a single-layer,...

Lasers and nanorods combat cancer.(MEDICAL THERAPEUTICS)
February 1, 2008... An interdisciplinary team from Purdue University has shown that a combination of laser technology and nanotechnology that it originally developed for medical imaging also has therapeutic potential. The method causes tumor cells in laboratory...

Few-cycle pulses get seriously powerful.(PULSE AMPLIFICATION)
February 1, 2008... In a stunning display of the power of a pulse amplification method called optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA), researchers have demonstrated sub-10 fs ultrabroadband pulses at 395 nm with energy up to 250 mJ. The team, with...

3-D photonic crystals embed cavities and waveguides.(PHOTONIC CRYSTALS)
February 1, 2008... Photonic-bandgap materials such as photonic crystals are important for their ability to manipulate photons. Much of the effort has been concentrated in the three-dimensional (3-D) manipulation of photons through the engineering of defects with...

Sound may offer 'optical RAM' solution.(OPTICAL MEMORY)
February 1, 2008... As optical networks become more ubiquitous and data-transfer rates increase, there is one component that is ever more conspicuous by its absence--optical memory. A promising and novel method has been shown to store optical data in the very...

Laser system monitors slipperiness of roadways.(ROAD MONITORING)
February 1, 2008... Scandinavian motorists have a new tool for detecting dangerous road conditions. A laser-based road-monitoring system bounces light from the road to a detector and can sense when roads are slippery (see figure). (1) The information from the...

Solar-powered flashlight gets new design for those in need.(SOLAR LEDs)
February 1, 2008... When John Ellis, president of Optics for Hire (Arlington, MA) read a New York Times story on a U.S. diplomat delivering flashlights to Africans in need, he knew he wanted to help. (1) The article, a profile of Mark Bent, a Houston oil...

Rofin-Sinar to acquire Nufern.(industry report: laser)
February 1, 2008... Laser and laser solutions provider Rofin-Sinar Technologies (RSTI; Plymouth, MI, and Hamburg, Germany) signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Nufern (East Granby, CT) as a wholly owned subsidiary of RSTI, in a cash transaction,...

Mobius licenses Harvard UV laser technology.(industry report: laser)
February 1, 2008... Light-source manufacturer Mobius Photonics (Santa Clara, CA) entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) regarding U.S. patent 5,745,284. The patent is based on the pioneering work of Lew Goldberg, Dahv...

Launch delayed for laser hair-removal device.(industry report: laser)
February 1, 2008... Palomar Medical Technologies (Burlington, MA) and The Gillette Company (a wholly owned subsidiary of The Procter and Gamble Company) have agreed to extend the launch of a home-use, light-based hair-removal device for women until no later than...

NASDAQ delists Coherent stock.(industry report: laser)
February 1, 2008... Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) announced that its stock would be delisted Dec.19, 2007. In its decision, the Nasdaq board noted that the company has been out of compliance with Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(14), which requires the timely filing...

LED Lighting Fixtures raises $16.5 million.(industry report: laser)
February 1, 2008... Developer and marketer of what it calls "the first and only" viable light fixtures for general illumination from light-emitting-diode light sources, LED Lighting Fixtures (Morrissville, NC), raised $16.5 million in an equity financing round to...

Novalux.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... Novalux (Sunnyvale. CA) sold its Sunnyvale wafer fabrication facility and is now outsourcing its Novalux extended-cavity surface-emitting laser (NEC-SEL) wafer processing to large-capacity contract manufacturers n Taiwan as it transitions from...

Klaus Streubel and Stefan Illek from Osram Opto Semiconductors (Santa Clara, CA).(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... Klaus Streubel and Stefan Iliek from Osram Opto Semiconductors (Santa Clara, CA), together with Andreas Brauer from the Fraunhofer Institute for Optics and Precision Engineering (Jena. Germany), were awarded the 2007 German Future Prize for...

Laser Enerqetics (Mercerville, NJ) and Lantis Laser (Denville. NJ) signed a memo of understanding.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... Laser Enerqetics (Mercerville, NJ) and Lantis Laser (Denville. NJ) signed a memo of understanding to form a 50/50 joint venture to market and distribute Laser Energetics' BrightStar alexandrite laser for dental applications.

Newport.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... Newport (Irvine, CA) opened its first manufacturing facility in China at Wuxi in order to offshore more mature, less differentiated products and gain substantial manufacturing economies.

SPI Lasers.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... Fiber-laser manufacturer SPI Lasers (Southampton, England), launched a new Web site at www.spilasers-china.cn that provides information on SPI's lasers in the Chinese language.

OSA optics and vision exhibit opens in Nevada.(industry report: optics)
February 1, 2008... The University of Nevada, Reno's (UNR; Reno, NV) Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center has opened its newest exhibit entitled "Perceptual Relativity"--an interactive exhibit exploring individual perception through optical illusions. It was...

Subaru adaptive optics see first light.(industry report: optics)
February 1, 2008... The Subaru Telescope (Hilo, HI), located on the summit of Mauna Kea, recently inaugurated the High Contrast Instrument for Adaptive Optics (HiCIAO) camera, which recorded "first light" in early December 2007. This new system replaces the...

Foundation funds 30-meter telescope.(industry report: optics)
February 1, 2008... The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA) and the University of California received a $200 million commitment over nine years from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation toward the further development and construction of the...

Corning to collocate glass facility with Sharp.(industry report: optics)
February 1, 2008... Sharps (Osaka, Japan) liquid-crystal-display (LCD) glass plant in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, will be the site for a collocated facility for Corning (Corning, NY) and Sharp. Corning's board of directors approved a five-year...

Agilent and Multiprobe partner on nanoprobe.(industry report: optics)
February 1, 2008... Multiprobe (Santa Barbara, CA) and Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) announced their intent to expand the companies' strategic partnership. As a result, Multiprobe's Mukiscan Atomic Force Prober (AFP), billed by the companies as the...

Rudolph Technologies (Flanders, NJ) a provider of process characterization equipment and software for thin-film measurement and macro defect inspection.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... Rudolph Technologies (Flanders, NJ), a provider of process characterization equipment and software for thin-film measurement and macro defect inspection, signed an agreement to acquire the net assets of the semiconductor business of Applied...

BCC Research.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... According to a new technical market research report. Photonic Crystals: Technology and Global Markets (AVM059A) from BCC Research (Wellesley, MA), the global market for photonic crystals will be worth $13.9 million in 2007 and will increase to...

Optimax.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... Precision optics maker Optimax (Ontario, NY) invested more than $2 million dollars into capital equipment and facility improvements in 2007 to expand its manufacturing capabilities and increase capacity.

Spire name change puts focus on photovoltaics.(industry report: imaging & detector)
February 1, 2008... Bandwidth Semiconductor (Hudson, NH), a wholly owned subsidiary of Spire (Bedford, MA), is now Spire Semiconductor. Bandwidth provides Spire with crystalline silicon solar-cell process technology and has re-entered the gallium arsenide (GaAs)...

Kollsman wins laser-spot imaging contract.(industry report: imaging & detector)
February 1, 2008... A subsidiary of Elbit Systems of America (Fort Worth, TX), Kollsman (Merrimack, NH) was awarded a $26.5 million contract by the U.S. Marine Corps to provide 503 laser spot imagers with protective optic covers, plus appropriate cables,...

ART increases molecular-imaging sales.(industry report: imaging & detector)
February 1, 2008... A medical-device company featuring optical molecular-imaging products for the health care and pharmaceutical industries, ART Advanced Research Technologies (Montreal, QC, Canada) received two orders for the recently released preclinical optical...

Zecotek APDs to be used in hadron calorimeter.(industry report: imaging & detector)
February 1, 2008... Formerly Zecotek Medical Systems, Zecotek Photonics (Vancouver, BC, Canada) received an order for its proprietary micropixel avalanche photodiodes (MAPDs) from the Institute of High Energy Physics Research (INR; Moscow, Russia). The MAPDs will...

Optech partners with Lunar X PRIZE team.(industry report: imaging & detector)
February 1, 2008... Light detection and ranging (lidar) survey instrument provider Optech (Toronto, ON, Canada) has become a corporate partner with Odyssey Moon Limited, the first official team of the $30 million dollar Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. Odyssey...

Photron (San Diego, CA), a high-speed imaging system and image-analysis software supplier.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... Photron (San Diego, CA), a high-speed imaging system and image-analysis software supplier, was awarded the "Crash Test Innovation of the Year" award from Automotive Testing Technology International (www.ukintpress.com) for its Fastcam MH4--a...

Emcore (Albuquerque, NM), provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... EmCore (Albuquerque, NM), provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems, signed a memorandum of understanding with Canadian project developer Pod Generation Group for the supply of 60 MW of solar power systems scheduled for...

HJW GeoSpatial (Oakland, CA) was awarded a Photogrammetric Mapping and GIS Services contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District covering services related to photogrammetric mapping.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... HJW GeoSpatial (Oakland CA) was awarded a Photogrammetric Mapping and GIS Services contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District covering services related to photogram-metric mapping, aerial photography and light detection...

Source Photonics files for IPO.(industry report: fiber optics)
February 1, 2008... MRV Communications and Source Photonics (Chatsworth, CA; a wholly owned subsidiary of MRV, formerly Luminent) announced that a registration statement has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the proposed underwritten...

Emcore to acquire Intel's telecom assets.(industry report: fiber optics)
February 1, 2008... Emcore (Albuquerque, NM) and Intel (Santa Clara, CA) announced a definitive agreement for Emcore to acquire the telecom-related portion of Intel's Optical Platform Division for $85 million dollars. The telecom assets to be acquired include...

Specialty fibers projected to be $10 billion market.(industry report: fiber optics)
February 1, 2008... According to a new technical market research report, Specialty Fibers: Technologies and Global Markets (AVM060A) from BCC Research (Wellesley, MA), the global market for specialty fibers is expected to be worth $5.6 billion in 2007. The market...

JDSU acquires fiber-inspection division.(industry report: fiber optics)
February 1, 2008... JDSU (Milpitas, CA) acquired the fiber division of Westover Scientific (near Seattle, WA), a provider of fiber-optic inspection and cleaning solutions, for $50 million in cash. Westover Scientific's products complement JDSU's existing fiber...

CeramOptec bundles assist Ocean Optics.(industry report: fiber optics)
February 1, 2008... Specialty-fiber manufacturer CeramOptec (East Longmeadow, MA) is now offering drop-in replacement fiber bundles and assemblies for the Ocean Optics (Dunedin, FL) family of bench-top spectrometers. CeramOptec does not purchase stock fiber...

The Carphone Warehouse, Europe's leading mobile-phone retailer and one of the U.K.'s leading Internet service providers.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... The Carphone Warehouse, Europe's leading mobile-phone retailer and one of the U.K.'s leading Internet service providers, selected Infinera's (Sunnyvale, CA) Digital Optical Network for its national backbone network in the U.K.

Optronics Technologies (Athens, Greece) was awarded a contract by the Municipality of Karditsa-Greece for the construction of a metropolitan fiber-optics network.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... Optronics Technologies (Athens, Greece) was awarded a contract by the Municipality of Karditsa-Greece for the construction of a metropolitan fiber-optics network in the municipality that will connect the public buildings of the city.

Infonetics Research.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... Worldwide telecom carrier capital-equipment expenditures will top $251 billion in 2007 according to Infonetics Research's (Campbell, CA) latest series of service-provider reports.

IPG Photonics (Oxford, MA) announced that its Russian subsidiary.(Also in the news ...)
February 1, 2008... IPG Photonics (Oxford, MA) announced that its Russian subsidiary, NTO IRE-POLUS is supplying its dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) equipment to North-West Telecom of Svyazinvest, one of the leading telecom companies in Russia.

Does a fiber-laser manufacturer need its own diode fab?(confronting photonics)
February 1, 2008... At the 2006 Laser Focus World Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar held in conjunction with SPIE's Photonics West, the fiber-laser forum portion of the seminar ended with a panel discussion by executives from Aculight (Bothell, WA), Nufern...

OCT market to top $800 million by 2012.(market watch)
February 1, 2008... Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is fast becoming the most successful optics technology to date in the field of disease diagnostics. Invented in the early 1990s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) and first...

How do we get in the solar-energy game?(business forum)
February 1, 2008... Q: We are a team of three capable photonics engineers. Is it too late to jump on the solar-energy bandwagon? If not, how do you think we can get in the game? A: That depends a lot on the ability of your team, the amount of financial...

Working things out: if a machine-vision system can help, then a machine-vision system integrator may be the answer.(inside imaging)
February 1, 2008... Implementing a machine-vision system is not for the faint of heart. The challenges of integrating multiple vision and automation components into a complete system, whether on a factory floor or other location, can be complex--but the rewards...

Dynamic interferometry ensures quality of large telescope optics.(INTERFEROMETRY)(Cover story)
February 1, 2008... In recent years the demand for meter-scale optical elements has increased significantly, driven by growth in terrestrial and satellite-based astronomy, and defense and security applications. Laser interferometry is used throughout the...

Diode lasers track long-term trend: bolstered by gains in all market segments and strong contributions from newer applications like FTTx and next-generation DVDs, diode-laser market growth remained consistent with its history, gaining 10% in 2007.(LASER MARKETPLACE 2008)(Company overview)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Laser Focus World 2008 Annual Review and Forecast of the Laser Marketplace is conducted in conjunction with Strategies Unlimited of Mountain View, CA. Part II covers the diode-laser marketplace. Part L which...

Microendoscopy takes a practical turn: improvements in microlenses, laser sources, and--most important--communication between engineers and clinicians are yielding real-world in vivo imaging tools.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: IN VIVO IMAGING)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Discussions about how to motivate the medical community to embrace new technologies often focus on form and function-user-friendliness, compactness, ergonomics, speed, cost, and so on. For biomedical optics, these...

Laser writing advances micro-optics fabrication.(MICRO-OPTICS)
February 1, 2008... Micro-optical manufacturing techniques have enjoyed remarkable progress in the last few years, transitioning from unique custom components for highly specialized applications to large-scale mass production for consumer products. At the core of...

What is the speed limit for single optical channels? 40 Gbit/s transmission finally is being deployed, and t00 Gbit/s has already been demonstrated in a Florida field trial that used multilevel phase-shift keyed modulation.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: DATA TRANSMISSION)
February 1, 2008... A pair of breakthroughs brought high capacity to today's fiber-optic systems--single-mode transmission at 1300 nm in the 1980s, and the combination of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) in the 1550...

GigE vision camera.(new products)
February 1, 2008... The piA2400 Gigabit Ethernet camera runs at 12 frames/s at a resolution of 2456 x 2048, based on Sony's ICX625 CCD 1 sensor with a global electronic shutter. It is available in mono and color and features a fully GigE Vision-compliant...

UV polarizers.(new products)
February 1, 2008... A series of high-energy plate polarizers and beamsplitter cubes are designed for UV applications. They are based on dense ion-beam sputtered coating technology and epoxy-free chemically activated direct bonding. They have laser damage...

Red laser diode.(new products)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The ML520G51 laser diode offers output of 150 mW at 640 nm, for use in mobile projectors and other industrial and medical devices. It has wall-plug efficiency of 23% and provides CW output in an operating range from...

Photomultiplier.(new products)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SPMArray solid-state, large-array detector is based on silicon photo-multiplier technology for applications such as PET, Gamma Camera, and radiation detection for medical and security uses. The pixels are tiled...

Ball-screw stage.(new products)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The ATS165 linear ball-screw stage is designed for applications that need debris protection and medium-travel, mid-tier positioning performance. It travels up to 600 mm at speeds up to 300 mm/s. It has a NEMA 23...

Specialty glass.(new products)
February 1, 2008... FP 20-35 fluorophosphate-type speciality glass shows no loss of transmission after irradiation with 200 K rads with a dose time of 10.68 min, optical density 0.08. Light transmission was 98.24% both before and after irradiation. The specialty...

Photoelectric sensors.(new products)
February 1, 2008... The IDEC-DATASENSOR SR21 photoelectric sensors provide fast throughput speeds. The microprocessor-controlled slot sensors have a 2 mm slot width, high 12-bit resolution, and a 20 [micro]s response time, providing throughput speed of 25 kHz...

Laser-diode drivers.(new products)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The PLD19K-CH 10-A laser-diode driver has no heat sink and is therefore in a smaller OEM package. It drives any laser-diode configuration in constant power or constant current mode. It also runs multiple laser diodes...

Spectral measurement.(new products)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The LX SPIDER is a compact instrument for spectral and temporal characterization of femtosecond laser pulses. It uses a single crystal to up-convert two test pulses and introduce spectral shear without any additional...

Welding scan head.(new products)
February 1, 2008... The Remote Welding Elephant is a welding scan head using post-objective scanning. A galvanometer-controlled beam expander with diffraction-limited design can adjust the laser spot size on the target. The head has a 50 mm aperture for use with...

Spectrometers.(new products)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The AvaSpec 3648-UA25-AF, 2048-UA-50-AF, and 2048-VA-200-AF are three spectrometer configurations for UV/Vis and NIR spectroscopy that are being carried as stock items to make the preconfigured spectrometers...

Thermal-analysis software.(new products)
February 1, 2008... The latest revision of the Altair suite of thermal-analysis software offers real-time storage of images from infrared cameras and allows radiometric image manipulation and processing. It contains a library of analysis tools, and has modules for...

Visual inspection system.(new products)
February 1, 2008... The OmniView visual inspection system uses four cameras to obtain a 360[degrees] view of all features on the entire surface of randomly oriented cylinders such as bottles, cans, and vials. It can read barcodes, verify text, inspect graphics,...

Fiber-laser module.(new products)
February 1, 2008... The aeroLASE-350 is a 350 W laser module with pump interface and delivery cable. It interfaces to many commercially available pump diodes. It has a 10,000-hour lifetime and better than 60% efficiency using a monolithic fiber-laser cavity with...

Carbon dioxide laser.(new products)
February 1, 2008... The Diamond E-400 sealed, pulsed carbon dioxide laser offers average power of 400 W or peak power more than 1 kW. The RF power supply is integrated into the laser head for easier integration into a workstation or robotic tool. It can have...

Ti:sapphire laser system.(new products)
February 1, 2008... The Trestles Finesse one-box femtosecond laser system incorporates a Ti:sapphire oscillator and a 4 or 6 W pump laser into a single box. It generates pulses from 710 to 950 nm at durations of 20 to 100 fs at power up to 700 mW. It has...

Linear polarizers.(new products)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TechSpec NIR linear polarizers are available in two ranges, from 750 to 850 nm and from 1000 to 2000 nm. They are 2 [+ or -] 0.2 mm thick in diameters of 12.5, 25, 30, or 50 mm. They consist of a polymer polarization...

Green laser.(new products)
February 1, 2008... The Boreas short-pulsed fiber laser offers output of 30 W at 515 nm with pulses shorter than 10 ns in duration. It is designed for applications such as wafer cutting and marking, thin-film solar-cell ablation, ITO patterning, wafer solar-cell...

Panoramic IR camera.(new products)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Vigiscan panoramic IR vision system includes a sensor head that rotates continuously at 1 round/s for 360[degrees] azimuth coverage. Software allows display of a real-time panoramic image and can zoom in on...