Laser Focus World articles from January 2003

Laser Focus World archives from January 2003

Telling it like it is. (editor's desk).
January 1, 2003... "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." So said the Danish physicist and Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr... and while he was probably not discussing predictions about the optoelectronics marketplace his comment does highlight...

Unfair comparison. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... The comment in "Falling prices push manufacturers to join forces" that EDFAs will see 90% price reductions is very misleading (Market Watch, August, p. 69). It is certainly true that most commercial EDFAs cost at least $16,000. However,...

Earlier research revealed `liquid light'. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... Concerning "Laser beam condensed state resembles liquid" (September, p. 17), I would like to mention that we investigated mathematically as weft experimentally the relationship of laser light and liquids in much detail in the 1990s. The number...

Correction.
January 1, 2003... In "Optical-fiber sensor measures relative humidity" (October, p. 13) the contact information was incorrect. The correct e-mail address for Pascal Kronenberg is pascal.kronenberg@epfl.ch.

Quantum dots find a stable home. (news breaks).
January 1, 2003... Pumped by ultraviolet light, cadmium selenide (CdSe) nanocrystal quantum dots (NQDs) emit light at a wavelength that depends on the size of the NQD. The emitters are thus potentially useful for many purposes, including lasers and solid-state...

Fiberoptic gyroscope incorporates digital signal processing. (news breaks).
January 1, 2003... Researchers at KVH Industries (Middletown, RI) have developed and patented a fiberoptic gyroscope (FOG) that incorporates digital signal processing (DSP), lowering the cost of the device while maintaining performance comparable to that of...

Shifting fringe pattern reveals three-dimensional position. (news breaks).
January 1, 2003... A simple method for measuring distances interferometrically in all three dimensions at once has been developed at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Taejeon, Korea). The apparatus measures distances over a 120 x 120 x...

Protective layers boost electrochromic reliability. (news breaks).
January 1, 2003... Electrochromic (EC) materials change transmission when a voltage is applied, making them potentially useful for "smart" windows. But the different chemical layers in some high-performance EC devices tend to react with each other, reducing...

Volume-holographic lens images microturbines. (news breaks).
January 1, 2003... A volume hologram is a depth-selective hologram that produces Bragg-diffracted images of objects in three spatial dimensions and one spectral dimension. Arnab Sinha and George Barbastathis of the Optical Engineering Group at Massachusetts...

Freestanding photodetectors are small and fast. (news breaks).
January 1, 2003... The subpicosecond relaxation time of low-temperature-grown gallium arsenide (GaAs) films makes the material a good choice for ultrafast photodetectors. Processes allow for the fabrication of freestanding GaAs devices that consist simply of the...

Record low Ti:sapphire threshold leads to inexpensive lasers. (news breaks).
January 1, 2003... Femtosecond laser technology is too expensive for many practical applications. The development of lasers that generate femtosecond pulses and broad bandwidths at low cost would make possible widespread application in ultrafast research,...

Light makes MEMS mirror resonate. (news breaks).
January 1, 2003... Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices are sometimes used to steer light; now, scientists at Agere Systems (Murray Hill, NJ) are using light to steer MEMS--or, more precisely, to excite their angular motion. When a weakly focused...

Photonic-crystal laser hangs out in the heat. (news breaks).
January 1, 2003... Researchers at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) have created a photonic-crystal laser that operates at temperatures as high as 50[degrees]C. The photonic crystal itself is a 224-nm-thick square membrane supported...

Images reveal best ever sunspot detail. (Solar Astronomy).
January 1, 2003... In astronomical imaging, the primary goal is high resolution--the higher the spatial resolution, the more detail that can be seen. With close-up pictures of the sun, hitherto unresolved details of sunspots can help astronomers refine...

Indium nitride bandgap energy is revealed. (Optoelectronics: world news).
January 1, 2003... Imagine one ternary material system for optical illumination smoothly spanning all wavelengths from near-infrared to deep ultraviolet. That's what basic science researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL; Berkeley, CA) and...

Blue light helps Alzheimer's patients sleep. (Light-Emitting Diodes).
January 1, 2003... The chaos of the lives of those who suffer from Alzheimer's disease extends to their sleep as well. Alzheimer's patients tend to sleep and wake at random times rather than following the orderly sleep cycle of normal people. Such...

Laser display industry hopes for new light. (Lasers For Entertainment).
January 1, 2003... An industry that uses laser light to entertain audiences is looking to brighter days ahead. After suffering through an economic recession that saw a leading U.S. laser show company go out of business and several others cut staffing, attendees...

Survival of the fittest draws homeland security scrutiny. (Image Processing).
January 1, 2003... The evolutionary views of Charles Darwin, or at least processes derived from them, made it into the homeland security agenda of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE; Bellingham, WA) as a potential means of radically...

Laser-based system eliminates unwanted cells. (Laser Scanning).
January 1, 2003... An automated imaging and laser-based processing technology platform could have implications for purifying cells being studied in the laboratory and for removing malignant cells from a mixture of benign and cancerous cells. The technology allows...

Laser inspection helps trains stay on track. (Machine Vision).
January 1, 2003... Everyday passengers of intercity and commuter railways may not be aware that lasers are keeping them safe and on schedule. The Optical Rail Inspection and Analysis (ORIAN) system made by KLD Labs (Huntington Station, NY) is a practical...

Optically pumped xenon yields highly sensitive NMR biosensor. (Magnetic-Resonance Spectroscopy).
January 1, 2003... Scientists once thought of the nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR) chemical shift as a mild annoyance in their attempts to measure magnetogyric ratios for nuclei. Now they are using techniques, such as optical pumping, to enhance detection...

Multimode fiber sharpens flow resolution. (Laser Doppler Anemometry).
January 1, 2003... Laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) is often used for spatially resolved velocity analysis of gas and liquid flow. In the technique, a fringe pattern is induced by crossing two coherent beams, the intersection of which defines a measurement spot...

Fluorescence imaging advances fuel-injector design. (Intensified CCD Cameras).
January 1, 2003... Some large-bore internal-combustion engines--in particular, slow-speed, two-stroke-cycle engines that run on natural gas--can have poor in-cylinder mixing caused by ineffective fuel delivery. Poor mixing causes thermal stratification, which...

Far-infrared sources diversify. (Terahertz Radiation).
January 1, 2003... Two recent projects may improve the prospects for applications of terahertz (far-infrared) radiation. A British-based invention uses a single broadband laser with lines in the visible to produce highly stable, tunable emissions in the terahertz...

Ray-tracing software guides biosensor integration effort. (Biological Sensing).
January 1, 2003... The virtual explosion in the development of optoelectronic technologies during the last 10 to 15 years, particularly for telecommunication applications is providing unique opportunities for other application areas. Researchers at Stanford...

Symposia showcase optoelectronics. (Japan watch).
January 1, 2003... Symposia focusing on optoelectronics abound in Japan. Devices and instruments introduced at these shows fill current and future needs in areas such as light sources, imaging, optics, and fiberoptics. The following is a selection of a few of...

Firms agree to cross license technology. (laser).
January 1, 2003... LED manufacturers Lumileds Lighting (San Jose, CA) and Nichia (Anan, Japan) have signed a broad cross-licensing agreement under which the two companies will share intellectual property rights related to their respective LED technologies. Nichia...

SOPRA (Bois Colombes, France) and Sumitomo Heavy Industry (Tokyo, Japan) have entered a license agreement. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... SOPRA (Bois Colombes, France) and Sumitomo Heavy Industry (Tokyo, Japan) have entered a license agreement for the manufacturing and sales of Excimer Laser Annealing Systems based on SOPRA VEL laser technology.

BRAGG Photonics (Montreal, Canada) and Tuilaser (Munich, Germany) are collaborating in the launch of a new product family. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... BRAGG Photonics (Montreal, Canada) and Tuilaser (Munich, Germany) are collaborating in the launch of a new product family to extend fiber-grating-platform technology to the sensor industry.

TRW lights path to solid-state laser weaponry. (laser).
January 1, 2003... TRW (Redondo Beach, CA) has received a $21.3 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop an electrically powered solid-state laser that puts out 25-kilowatts of laser-beam power. The award is part of the Joint High-Power...

Collaboration targets blue microdisplay applications. (laser).
January 1, 2003... A new Thomas Swan Scientific Equipment (TSSEL; Cambridge, England) 7 x 2-in. CCS MOCVD system has been successfully commissioned at Kansas State University (KSU) for the research and development of high efficiency light emitters operating in...

Agility, Alcatel Optronics, Bookham sign agreement. (laser).
January 1, 2003... Agility Communications (Santa Barbara, CA), Alcatel Optronics (Paris, France), and Bookham Technology (Abingdon, England) have entered a major multisource agreement (MSA) for tunable laser sources. The agreement defines a small form-factor...

Alfalight receives venture funding. (laser).
January 1, 2003... Alfalight (Madison, WI) has announced its third venture funding round of $15 million, which brings the total investment to $49.1 million. Alfalight is developing several high-power diode-laser products targeting applications in the...

BTG and INO look forward to new applications. (optics).
January 1, 2003... BTG (West Conshohocken, PA) has signed a strategic alliance agreement with INO (Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada) to co-invest in the development of forward-looking uses for photonics. The arrangement will give INO access to BTG's expertise in...

Axsys exits photonics-automation business. (optics).
January 1, 2003... Optical-components manufacturer Axsys Technologies (Rocky Hill, CT) is getting out of the photonics-automation business to focus on its core opto-mechanical component and assembly capabilities. The company has discontinued its Automation Group...

Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) and the Photonics Center at Boston University (BU; Boston, MA) are collaborating to develop BU's new state-of-the-art Photonics Center laboratory. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... Agilent Technologies (Pato Alto, CA) and the Photonics Center at Boston University (BU; Boston, MA) are collaborating to develop BU's new state-of-the-art Photonics Center laboratory. The laboratory, expected to open in February 2003, will...

Newport. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... Newport (Irvine, CA) has opened a new 42,000-sq-ft optics-manufacturing facility for the company's growing Newport Precision Optics (NPO) Business.

Research Electro-Optics (Boulder, CO) has appointed P&T Consulting. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... Research Electro-Optics (Boulder, CO) has appointed P&T Consulting as its European representative for sales of optical components.

Nikon Instruments. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... For the first year in the 28-year history of the Nikon Instruments (Melville, NY) Small World Photomicrography Competition, the calendar of winning photos, including photomicrographs of a rat cerebellum, human sperm, a ten-cent Euro coin, and a...

Tektronix (Beaverton, OR) has sold a family of optical-transmission test products and certain other related assets within its optical-test portfolio to Digital Lightwave (Clearwater, FL). (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... Tektronix (Beaverton, OR) has sold a family of optical-transmission test products and certain other related assets within its optical-test portfolio to Digital Lightwave (Clearwater, FL) for $10 million in cash and a transfer of the lease on...

Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) and Jobin Yvon (Longjumeau, France) have finalized an agreement. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) and Jobin Yvon (Longjumeau, France) have finalized an agreement for the transfer of the ellipsometry business line of the former Philips Analytical business unit to Jobin Yvon.

NSF funds collaborative biophotonics center. (optics).
January 1, 2003... Funded with $52 million over the next 10 years, including a $40 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis, will bring together...

Ball and Kodak develop planet-finding optics. (optics).
January 1, 2003... NASA has awarded a contract with a potential value of $28.4 million to Ball Aerospace and Technology (BATC; Boulder, CO) for development of the optics and detectors for a high-tech camera for the Kepler planet-finding spacecraft, scheduled for...

New SPIE meeting on optical manufacturing. (optics).
January 1, 2003... Based on the continued success of the Optatec International Trade Fair for Optics and Optical Manufacturing Technologies, SPIE (Bellingham, WA) and APOMA (Rochester, NY) are launching Optifab. Optifab 2003 will be held May 19-22 at the...

Information displays awards announced. (imaging & detector).
January 1, 2003... This year the SID/Information Display (Norwalk, CT) Display of the Year Gold Award went to Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY) for its AM550L organic light-emitting-diode (OLED) display. The Display of the Year Silver Award and Display product of the...

With the intention of exploiting new markets in biotechnology and medicine, Jenoptik (Jena, Germany) is increasing its stake in part-subsidiary Jena-Optronik. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... With the intention of exploiting new markets in biotechnology and medicine, Jenoptik (Jena, Germany) is increasing its stake in part-subsidiary Jena-Optronik, a German maker of optical and optoelectronic sensors for aerospace applications, from...

John Clarke and Alexander Pines, members of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Materials Sciences Division (Berkeley, CA), have been named by Scientific American. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... John Clarke and Alexander Pines, members of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Materials Sciences Division (Berkeley, CA), have been named by Scientific American magazine to its first annual Scientific American 50 list for their...

Nvision. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... Nvision (Coppell, TX) is expanding its North American technical center based near Detroit, MI, to increase its consulting services in the laser-scanning field.

Corning sells Corning Precision Lens to 3M. (imaging & detector).
January 1, 2003... 3M (St. Paul, MN) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Corning Precision Lens (Cincinnati, OH), a wholly owned subsidiary of Corning (Corning, NY) and the largest worldwide manufacturer of lens systems for rear projection...

Coast Guard awards project to FNT. (imaging & detector).
January 1, 2003... The U.S. Coast Guard awarded a contract to Fiber Network Training and Consulting Services (FNT; Phoenix, AZ) to design, provide system integration of, and supply components for a fully self-contained, solar-powered remote fiberoptic security...

MEMS technology to reach $3 billion in 6 years. (imaging & detector).
January 1, 2003... Growth of commercial microelectro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) technology is energizing the MEMS-based sensors market in North America, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan (San Jose, CA). The research firm estimates that the North...

CDT buys Opsys OLED business in England. (imaging & detector).
January 1, 2003... Cambridge Display Technology (CDT; Cambridge, England) has acquired the OLED business of Opsys (Oxford, England). The acquisition includes the intellectual property (IP), commercialization, and technology development of the company's organic...

Fitel files patent suit against Sterlite Optical. (fiberoptics).
January 1, 2003... Fitel USA (Atlanta, GA), the parent company of OFS, designer, manufacturer, and supplier of leading-edge fiberoptic products, has filed a lawsuit against Sterlite Optical Technologies (Norcross, GA) charging infringement of patents covering...

Lumera wins contract extension for polymers. (fiberoptics).
January 1, 2003... Optical networking components developer Lumera (Bothell, WA), a subsidiary of Microvision, has been awarded a contract extension for approximately $1 million from the U.S. government to continue developing new electro-optic polymer materials...

Oplink Communications. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... Oplink Communications (San Jose, CA) has cut 50% of its workforce and is shifting its engineering, R&D, and manufacturing to facilities in China. At the same time Oplink plans to further expand its integrated Optical Manufacturing Service (OMS)...

Kestrel Solutions. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... Kestrel Solutions (Mountain View, CA) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company has gone through at least two rounds of layoffs this year, reducing its efforts in 40-Gbit/s development to focus most of its resources on 10-Gbit/s...

Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, CA), recipient of Cisco's (San Jose, CA) annual Optics Manufacturing Award this year. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, CA), recipient of Cisco's (San Jose, CA) annual Optics Manufacturing Award this year, is the first company to win Cisco optical supplier honors in consecutive years.

Sagitta. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... Sagitta (Hauppauge, NY) has raised $3.5million in a follow on investment to its January round of $15.3 million.

Alcatel Optronics (Paris, France), Hitachi Cable (Tokyo, Japan) and NTT Electronics (NEL; Tokyo, Japan) have announced a multisource agreement. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... Alcatel Optronics (Paris, France), Hitachi Cable (Tokyo, Japan) and NTT Electronics (NEL; Tokyo, Japan) have announced a multisource agreement for thermally stabilized Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) modules.

MEMS-based all-optical switching modules provided by OMM (San Diego, CA) have been integrated by ZTE (Shenzhen, China). (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... MEMS-based all-optical switching modules provided by OMM (San Diego, CA) have been integrated by ZTE (Shenzhen, China)into its UNITRANS metro telecommunications system.

Oki Electric Industry. (Also in the news ...).
January 1, 2003... Oki Electric Industry (Tokyo, Japan) has announced development of the world's smallest silicon-based microlens, allowing for mass-production of high-performance optical components at low cost for the metro and access-network markets.

Avanex consolidates operations. (fiberoptics).
January 1, 2003... Avanex (Fremont, CA) is closing its 22,000-sq-ft facility in Richardson, TX, and reducing its domestic workforce by 140 to 150 people, primarily in manufacturing. The Richardson facility focuses on subsystem module design and related...

New initiatives draw optoelectronic firms to NEMI. (fiberoptics).
January 1, 2003... New initiatives at the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI, Herndon, VA) include a number of photonics/optoelectronics projects as well as follow-on efforts in the lead-free assembly area. The new projects have attracted several...

Opto Speed raises more money and new partners. (fiberoptics).
January 1, 2003... Opto Speed (Ruschlikon, Switzerland) raised an additional 10 million [euro] (USS 10.1 million) in its second round of financing, bringing the total second round investment in Opto Speed to 30 million [euro] (US$30.4 million). Opto Speed plans...

How do I develop an idea and attract investment? (business forum).
January 1, 2003... Q: I have a technology platform on paper that can make active telecom components smaller, faster, and cheaper. How do I start? A: The lesson we've learned from the "bubble" is that ultimately any business pursuit must address efficiency--in...

Prospering through the downturn. (comment).
January 1, 2003... This is a difficult period for the photonics industry; we've been hit with the double impact of a downturn in the overall economy, together with the collapse of the telecom market. Nonetheless, opportunities abound for an enabling technology...

Analysis software aids selection of thermo-electric cooler. (software & computing).
January 1, 2003... Thermo-electric coolers (TEC's) are becoming more widely used, particularly in the optoelectronics industry. Devices such as laser diodes and charge-coupled-device (CCD) detectors must be controlled at a specific temperature over a wide ambient...

Review and forecast of the laser markets: Part I: nondiode lasers. (Laser Marketplace 2003).
January 1, 2003... The Laser Focus World 2003 annual review and forecast of the laser markets is conducted in conjunction with Strategies Unlimited, an optoelectronics market research firm based in Mountain View, CA. Part I of the review reports on the overall...

Corporate profile: teaching an old company new markets. (conventional wisdom).
January 1, 2003... ELCAN Optical Technologies did more than survive its 50th Anniversary year; it thrived in the turbulence that surrounded it. The company has grown at an average of 15% annually over the past decade and has become one of the world's biggest...

Mirrors maintain shape under intense laser light; intermetallic coatings as well as porous and microcapillar water-cooled structures help ensure that high-power laser mirrors stay cool under extreme conditions. (High-Power Optics).
January 1, 2003... High-power lasers place stringent requirements on the fabrication, performance, and quality of optical elements with which they are used. Performance of high-power optics is generally governed by three mechanisms: the absorption of incident...

Microendoscopy takes diagnostics deeper into the body; the push to achieve real-time diagnostics and improve surgical navigation has led to endoscopes that are smaller, provide better image resolution, and may eventually eliminate the need for tissue biopsies. (Optoelectronic applications: medicine).
January 1, 2003... From more-accurate diagnoses to less-traumatic surgical procedures, minimally invasive medicine has been changing the course of disease assessment and patient care for more than two decades. A critical component of this revolution has been the...

CMOS imagers can be charge-coupled; techniques exist to add charge coupling to CMOS imagers, bringing the low-noise advantages of charge coupling to low-cost CMOS devices. (CMOS Detectors).
January 1, 2003... Charge coupling, invented in 1969 at Bell Telephone Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ), is a solid-state process on which charge-coupled-device (CCD) imagers are based. (1) At that time, CCDs were conceived as a memory device, specifically as an...

Intense laser beams bring nonlinearity to light; from frequency shifting to spectroscopic analysis, nonlinear optical effects have revolutionized the way we interact with light. (Back to basics: nonlinear optics).
January 1, 2003... Ed note: A new series of "Back to Basics" starts this month that reviews the field of nonlinear optics. Besides revolutionizing laser technology, nonlinear optics are finding increasing use in a broad range of applications. This first article...

Inorganic electroluminescent displays aim to displace CRTs; a new variation on an old flat-panel-display technology may challenge the cathode-ray tube with inexpensive, easy-to-manufacture, large-screen TVs. (Flat-Panel Displays).
January 1, 2003... The term "electroluminescence" describes the phenomenon of light emission from a material in the presence of an electrical field. Many variations of electroluminescent (EL) displays have been tried since the 1940s as the technology has fallen...

Gigabit Ethernet takes on the access network; developing standards promise to deliver Gigabit Ethernet over metro and access fiber networks. (Optical Networking).
January 1, 2003... A new family of standards is in development to extend the range of Ethernet to metro and access networks. Gigabit Ethernet is at the center of the effort. The original intent of the Gigabit Ethernet standard, adopted in 1998, was to...

Navigating the features and limitations of laser power and energy meters; users must understand the capabilities of various detector technologies in order to choose the right instrument for a given task. (Power And Energy Meters).
January 1, 2003... The laser power and energy meter product lines available from leading manufacturers consist of a broad selection of modular products covering a wide range in terms of capabilities and cost. Navigating through this abundance of products can be...

Self-frequency-converted lasers enable a broad range of applications; quasi-phase-matching offers a highly flexible and promising alternative to frequency conversion based on birefringence. (Solid-State Lasers).
January 1, 2003... Nonlinear frequency conversion provides a valuable tool to generate laser radiation in spectral regions that are difficult or otherwise impossible for other conventional laser sources to reach. It also helps in translating desirable operating...

Si photodiode array. (new products).
January 1, 2003... The S8593 is a 2-D Si photodiode array designed for low light-level detection applications including spectrophotometers and position detection instruments. It has a 5 x 5-element photodiode array, formed by proprietary micromachining processes,...

Ultrafast laser. (new products).
January 1, 2003... The new Mai Tai laser offers an extended tuning range in a "one box" ultrafast laser. The modelocked laser has a peak output power >1.5 W and a continuous tuning range covering 710 to 920 nm with a typical output pulsewidth of 100 fs. The...

Thermal video system. (new products).
January 1, 2003... The new TVS-700 radiometric thermal-imaging video system is designed for preventative maintenance and condition monitoring applications. The system combines a 320 x 240 microbolometer focal-plane array and an integrated 3.8-in. color LCD swivel...

Picosecond pulsed-UV laser diode. (new products).
January 1, 2003... A new pulsed-UV laser diode emits picosecond pulses at 375 nm without frequency doubling. The light source is designed for time-domain applications including excitation of fluorescent probes such as DPH, quinines and perylene. IBH,...

Life-test/ burn-in system. (new products).
January 1, 2003... The LTS-9300 is a life-test/burn-in system for testing laser diodes from 100-mA to 10-A drive current. The modular design allows system and DUT fixture upgrades without removing the rack from the test floor. The system accommodates 14-pin...

Laser-power meter. (new products).
January 1, 2003... The new PM500AD laser-power meter uses the attached Power Max PM10 thermal probe to automatically lock in the appropriate probe-range limits to produce readings within the specified dynamic power range of the probe. The battery-operated system...

ICCD camera. (new products).
January 1, 2003... The Princeton Instruments I-PentaMAX:HB intensified imaging system is designed for low-light applications. The thermoelectrically cooled "High Blue" Gen III intensifier extends spectral coverage below 400 nm. High system gain allows detection...