Laser Focus World articles from January 2004

Laser Focus World archives from January 2004

Despite setbacks, laser markets achieve double-digit growth.(editor's desk)
January 1, 2004... After two years of retrenchment brought on by the telecom troubles and global economic woes, the world's laser markets achieved a remarkable 15% growth in 2003 according to this year's annual Review and Forecast of the Laser Markets (see p....

Deep-UV LEDs become more powerful.(news breaks)
January 1, 2004... Deep-UV light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are potentially useful for the detection of biological agents, purification of water, and decontamination of equipment. In addition, their development buttresses the technology behind more-ordinary near-UV...

Peak wavelength of quantum-well IR detector is voltage-tunable.(news breaks)
January 1, 2004... Just as wavelength-tunable lasers open up new applications, the same is potentially true for wavelength-tunable photodetectors, a version of which has been demonstrated by researchers at the Universitat Linz (Linz, Austria), the Paul Scherrer...

Stimulated Raman emission and wavelength conversion observed in silicon.(news breaks)
January 1, 2004... Building upon a previous demonstration of spontaneous Raman light emission from silicon waveguides (sea Laser Focus World, April 2003, p. 19), researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles have demonstrated optical gain using...

3.4-fs optical pulse approaches monocycle length.(news breaks)
January 1, 2004... A monocycle has nothing to do with parades or circuses, but is instead a pulse that is a single 2[pi] cycle long. To make an optical pulse shorter, its wavelength spectrum must be made larger; short femtosecond pulses have octave-sized...

Radially polarized beam focuses to smallest spot.(news breaks)
January 1, 2004... In another approach to concentrating light, researchers at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Erlangen, Germany) have determined what they say are the qualities of a focused free-space beam that produces the smallest spot size at focus, and...

Chain of metal nanospheres may create brilliant points of light.(news breaks)
January 1, 2004... Clusters of metallic nanoparticles make possible the detection of single molecules--for example in giant Raman scattering, in which the scattering with respect to isolated molecules on colloidal fractal metal clusters can be enhanced by a...

Chiral fiber has polarization-selective stop band.(news breaks)
January 1, 2004... A chiral optical fiber (one with left- or right-handed characteristics) can have unusual properties, Researchers at Chiral Photonics (Clifton, NJ) and Queens College, City University of New York (Flushing, NY) have fabricated...

Butterfly-wing-like structure produces same color over wide viewing angles.(news breaks)
January 1, 2004... While most butterfly wings produce their color through thin-film interference, a few do so also through grating-style diffraction. The wings of the morpho butterfly produce an intense blue color viewable in this manner over a wide viewing...

Optical lattice sorts particles in flowing fluid.(news breaks)
January 1, 2004... Taking the concept of optical manipulation to the ultimate degree, scientists at the University of St. Andrews (Fife, Scotland) and Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington. IL) have created an optical lattice that can sort large quantities of...

Phase-unwrapping algorithm shrugs off noise.(Image Processing)
January 1, 2004... When an interferometer measures the shape of a surface by measuring a reflected or scattered wavefront, the resulting image is a two-dimensional map of the wavefront's phase. If the surface has peaks and valleys many wavelengths in height, the...

Circuitry leaps from 2-D boards to 3-D forms.(optoelectronics world news)
January 1, 2004... As mobile and other electronic devices become more sophisticated, the traditional two-dimensional (2-D) circuit board appears on the way to being replaces by controlling circuitry directly patterned on three-dimensional (3-D) device contours...

Wavefront coding finds increasing use.(Optical Design)
January 1, 2004... Engineers at CDM Optics (Boulder, CO) have demonstrated that their combined optical and electronic processing technique, known as wavefront coding, can dramatically cut an optical system's size (see Laser Focus World, January 1999, p. 28; and...

Chip produces white-light continuum.(Nonlinear Optics)
January 1, 2004... Engineers at Mesophotonics (Southampton, England) have demonstrated what is claimed to be an effective new method for generating a white-light continuum. Based on a planar waveguide grown on a standard silicon wafer, the resulting devices...

Stephen Benton, holography pioneer, dies.(Obituary)
January 1, 2004... Stephen A. Benton, cofounder of the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) Media Lab (Cambridge, MA), inventor of the rainbow hologram, and a leader in the optics and imaging communities, has died at age 61. He died on Nov. 9, 2003, just...

German laser project gives vital results.(Femtosecond Lasers)
January 1, 2004... This is the second of two articles on the extensive German study of femtosecond lasers. The first part was published in the December 2003 issue, p. 34. A German project on femtosecond-laser technology and applications--established in 1999...

Differential spectral interferometry may boost dynamic range of OCT.(Biological Imaging)
January 1, 2004... Based on previous work in biomedical fluorescence microscopy and ultrafast-laser pulse characterization, researchers at Southwest Sciences (Santa Fe, NM) are attempting to combine optical computed tomography (OCT) with spectral interferometry...

Femtosecond pulses permit surgery within cells.(Ultrafast Lasers)
January 1, 2004... Just as the focused beam of an ultrafast laser can create or alter micron-scale features in transparent inorganic materials such as glass, it can be used to microscopically modify transparent organic materials as well. In both cases, the...

Wavefront sensor competes with interferometers.(Gratings)
January 1, 2004... A grating-based wavefront sensor has been developed that allows measurement in real time. Developed by Arden Photonics (Solihull, England), the sensor is designed for measuring the form of lenses, flatness of mirrors, and other optical...

Frequency-doubled YAG creates hydrogen nanoparticle structures.(optoelectronics world news)
January 1, 2004... By applying frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser light to self-assembled colloidal crystals created from hydrogel nanoparticles, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) researchers are creating patterns that may provide a fabrication technique...

Laser peening enters commercial mainstream.(Industrial Laser Applications)
January 1, 2004... A laser-peening technique based on the Nd:glass slab technology developed for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, CA) has completed the transition from the laboratory into full...

Polymer is foundation for Nd:YAG laser.(Solid-State Lasers)
January 1, 2004... Aiming to simplify the construction of small Nd:YAG lasers, researchers at Acreo (Kista, Sweden) and the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) have developed a polymer-encapsulation technique in which a plastic carrier block with a...

Contest highlights solar-cell advances.(Photovoltaics)
January 1, 2004... Based on an emitter-wrap-through (EWT) photovoltaic (PV) design technology, Advent Solar (Albuquerque, NM) took first place in a field of 35 companies at the 2003 National Clean Energy Venture Competition in Austin, TX, in November 2003. The...

Ships' distance becomes easy to see.(optoelectronics world news)
January 1, 2004... Because the U.S. Navy wants its ships to be capable of staying at sea for long periods of time, even when far from ports where they can be resupplied, the Navy has come up with underway replenishment techniques in which supply ships or...

Data-storage sales pick up at Spectra-Physics.(laser industry report)
January 1, 2004... Spectra-Physics (Mountain View, CA) reported a marked increase in orders for its lasers in the data-storage industry for the third quarter of 2003. In the past two months, Spectra-Physics says, orders for lasers alone in this market sector have...

OSI creates new laser division from SEO assets.(laser industry report)
January 1, 2004... OSI Systems (Hawthorne, CA) has completed a $1.5 million acquisition of substantially all remaining assets of Schwartz Electro-Optics (SEO; Orlando, FL) and created a new business group called OSI Laserscan. OSI previously had acquired SEO's...

Candela reports 41% jump in first-quarter sales over a year ago.(laser industry report)
January 1, 2004... Like a handful of its competitors in the medical-laser market, Candela (Wayland, MA) has experienced a growth surge, thanks in large part to a focused strategy that emphasizes R&D and multi-application products for office-based procedures. As a...

Actinix wins UV laser contract from NSF.(laser industry report)
January 1, 2004... Actinix (Soquel, CA) has received a contract from the National Science Foundation to develop a new ultraviolet laser to be implemented into a photomask inspection and metrology tool for the 90-, 65-, and 45-nm semiconductor process nodes. This...

Ekips Technologies.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2004... Ekips Technologies (Norman, OK) has received a $500.000 Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for continued hardware and software development of the Breathmeter a laser-based breath analysis Instrument that can be used to...

Nanosemiconductor.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2004... Nanosemiconductor (NSC; Dortmund, Germany) has been spun our out of the loffe Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia) and the Technical University of Berlin (Germany), specializing in growing the material for quantum-dot lasers. NSC recently...

The York Center for Laser Spectroscopy and Photochemistry.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2004... A new 2 million [pounds sterling](US$3.4 million) research center has been opened at the University of York (York, England). The York Center for Laser Spectroscopy and Photochemistry will use femtosecond laser sources to study atoms, molecules,...

PPGI acquires Laser Optics.(optics industry report)
January 1, 2004... Photonic Products Group (PPGI; Northvale, NJ) acquired the assets and certain liabilities of Laser Optics (Bethel, CT) for an undisclosed sum in a cash transaction. PPGI has retained the entire Laser Optics workforce, including founder and...

Special Optics wins Phase II SBIR contract.(optics industry report)
January 1, 2004... Special Optics (Wharton, NJ) has won a Phase II SBIR contract from the U. S. Army White Sands Missile Range. The award of $730,000 is a two-year contract to design and manufacture a motorized zoom-lens system to image missiles during flight...

Corning to deliver mirror blanks for Lowell Observatory.(optics industry report)
January 1, 2004... The Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, AZ) has selected Coming (Coming, NY) to manufacture and deliver the mirror blanks for the Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT). At its manufacturing facility in Canton, NY, Corning will create a blank...

University of Rochester to expand bio-optics.(optics industry report)
January 1, 2004... According to a report in the Rochester Democrat and Chronide (Nov. 26, 2003), the University of Rochester (NY) hopes to begin construction in early 2005 on a $30 million building that would house the department of biomedical engineering and as...

AOA wins four-year telescope contract.(optics industry report)
January 1, 2004... The Advanced Optical Systems Division of Adaptive Optics Associates (AOA; Cambridge, MA), a subsidiary of Metrologics (Blackwood, NJ), has been awarded a four-year contract potentialy worth $1 million from Ball Aerospace & Technologies...

Photo Sciences.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2004... Photo Sciences (Torrance, CA) has developed a method for transferring greyscale optics or graphics directly from a bitmap or other image file to a more permanent substrate material such as borosilicate, quartz, and sodalime. Applications...

CVI Laser.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2004... Laser-optics manufacturer CVI Laser (Albuquerque, NM) has named Stuart Schoenmann as its new CEO and president. Prior to joining CVI, Sohoenmann held executive positions with Raytek, Coming, OGA, and PerkinElmer and has been successful in...

NEC establishes TFT LCD joint venture.(imaging & detector industry report)
January 1, 2004... NEC (Tokyo, Japan) and SVA have established a thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT LCD) joint-venture company in Shanghai, China, called Shanghai SVA NEC Liquid Crystal Display. The new company will plan, develop, and manufacture...

Military sensing contract focuses on infrared.(imaging & detector industry report)
January 1, 2004... DRS Technologies (Parsippany, NJ) received a $8.5 million contract to develop a new integrated focal-plane array and adaptive-filter technology for improved day and night infrared sensing of targets to be used for surveillance and...

GE combines MRI and spectroscopy.(imaging & detector industry report)
January 1, 2004... GE Medical Systems (Waukesha, WI) has introduced a noninvasive diagnostic system to detect and evaluate the location, size, aggressiveness, and stage of prostate cancer by combining spectroscopy with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The MRI...

Laser mammography coupled with dyes.(imaging & detector industry report)
January 1, 2004... A laser-based breast-imaging system is being coupled with fluorescent dyes to determine whether using fluorescent compounds in this manner can improve the ease and accuracy of detecting breast cancer, according to an agreement between Schering...

Universal Display.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2004... Universal Display (Ewing, NJ), a developer of organic light-emitting-diode (OLED) technologies for flat-panel displays, lighting and other optoelectronic applications, has been awarded a $730.000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase It...

The Link Simulation and Training division of L-3 Communications (Broomfield. CO) awarded a contract to Zygo (Middlefield, CT) and Optical Research Associates (Pasadena, CA) to develop and deliver a helmet-mounted display for flight simulation systems.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2004... The Link Simulation and Training division of L-3 Communications (Broomfield. CO) awarded a contract to Zygo (Middlefield, CT) and Optical Research Associates (Pasadena, CA) to develop and deliver a helmet-mounted display for flight simulation...

eMagin.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2004... The U.S. Patent and Trademark office issued patent 6,657,224, "Organic Light Emitting Diode Devices Using Thermostable Hole-injection and Hole-Transport Compounds." to eMagin (Hopewell Junction, NY) for invention of a device incorporating a new...

Corning to further consolidate fiber fabs.(fiberoptics industry report)
January 1, 2004... Corning (Corning, NY) is consolidating the manufacturing operations of its high purity fused silica and fluoride crystal materials production into its Canton, NY, facility, and its fluoride crystals components finishing production into Corning...

TriQuint, Network Elements join forces.(fiberoptics industry report)
January 1, 2004... Network Elements (Beaverton, OR), a developer of 10-Gbit/s optical-networking modules, has solidified a strategic partnership with TriQuint Semiconductor (Hillsboro, OR), a supplier of high-performance components for communications...

BTG to commercialize strain-compensated VCSELs.(fiberoptics industry report)
January 1, 2004... BTG (London, England) has acquired exclusive rights to commercialize strain-compensated multiple-quantum-well vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) from the Cornell Research Foundation (Ithaca, NY). With the advent of...

Avanex considers closing Scotland facility.(fiberoptics industry report)
January 1, 2004... Avanex (Fremont, CA) plans to discontinue operations in Livingston, Scotland, subject to regulatory processes and consultations with the workforce. Walter Alessandrini, chairman and CEO, said that the company is "investigating all of our...

Alcatel.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2004... Alcatel (Paris, France) is collaborating with OMMIC (Limeil-Brevannes, France) on the transfer of Atcatel's advanced indium phosphide heterojunction bipolar transistor technology to OMMIC. This transfer will complete QMMIC's commercial...

PhotonEx.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2004... PhotonEx (Maynard, MA) reportedly has flied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Founded in 1999, the company was developing 40+Gbit/s, long-haul DWDM systems.

fSONA.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2004... fSONA (Vancouver, BC, Canada) signed a global procurement agreement with Bechtel a premier provider of engineering, construction and management services worldwide. Bechtel Telecommunications analyzes free-space-optics technology, along with...

A sense of place: imaging applications benefit from maturing technology, recognizable value, and new capabilities.(inside imaging)
January 1, 2004... Imaging technologies have clearly come of age, with growing acceptance in both new and established fields. They have done so as the optics and electronics have matured, and because imaging applications help ensure manufacturing quality, cut...

How can I get government funding?(business forum)
January 1, 2004... Q: My academic research focuses on developing optical fabrication processes. Do you have any advice on getting government funding? A: it is great that you and your colleagues are working on process development. This is an important area...

Simulation tools solve light-scattering problems from biological cells.(software & computing)
January 1, 2004... Biological cells can be considered as dielectric objects with a given refractive-index distribution. Consequently, light-scattering simulations provide an efficient tool for studying cell morphology as well as the nature of scattering and its...

High power, high brightness fiber-coupled diode lasers are now available.(Advanced Diode Laser Technology)
January 1, 2004... A series of high power, high brightness, fiber-coupled laser diode devices are now available for industrial and medical applications from Apollo Instruments. The laser products are based on a new beam shaping technology developed by the company...

Solar-power development requires pragmatic input.(comment)
January 1, 2004... Much promising work is going on today in developing new photovoltaic materials. But to drive these promising new materials to industrial reality, the "materials-research-type" thinking that has come up with these innovations must also be...

Review and forecast of the laser markets: Part I: nondiode lasers.(Laser Marketplace 2004)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2004... The Laser Focus World 2004 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...

Spatial light modulators illuminate a wide variety of application spaces.(Display Optics)
January 1, 2004... With the rapidly expanding use of CCD and CMOS image sensors for still and video cameras and the use of digital-image processing software, more and more images are being captured, manipulated, and stored digitally. This in turn has created a...

Spectral processor and ASE source aid fiber sensing: a broadband amplified-spontaneous-emission fiber source and programmable spectral processor combine to enable wavelength-multiplexed fiber sensing with great flexibility.(Broadband Sources)
January 1, 2004... Many applications for fiber sensing use multiple fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) arranged in series. This arrangement allows a single terminated fiber or fiber loop to monitor several locations in an industrial plant, process line, or engineered...

The Airborne Laser shoots for ballistic missile defense: as early as 2005, the Airborne Laser program plans to generate a megawatt-class beam aboard an aircraft that can destroy ballistic missiles several hundred kilometers away during their vulnerable boost phase.(Back to basics: defense & security applications)
January 1, 2004... Editors note: This month brings the start of a new Back to Basics series in which contributing editor Jeff Hecht details the use of lasers and optoelectronics technologies for defense and security applications. The conceptual seeds that...

The view from space: advances in CCD technology have allowed satellite images to greatly improve in spatial and spectral resolution.(Image Engineering)
January 1, 2004... Editor's Note: This is the first article in a new series in which contributing editor Stephen J. Matthews will discuss various aspects of image engineering. The first days of 2004 witnessed the nearly simultaneous arrival of two spacecraft...

Shrinking IR cameras enable new applications: novel technologies are leading to a new breed of miniature IR cameras. Lightweight and portable, these imagers may eventually make it possible for all of us to "see in the dark.".(Focal-Plane Arrays)
January 1, 2004... Recent advances in miniaturization of IR imaging technology have led to a burgeoning market for mini- and microthermal-imaging sensors. Infrared sensors have broken through size, weight, power consumption, and cost barriers to become an...

Knowing the math aids measurement of polarization: understanding the vector-based nomeclature of polarization helps in understanding its measurement techniques. In one example, a liquid-crystal-based polarimeter measures with no moving parts.(Polarimeters)
January 1, 2004... Several state-of-polarization (SOP) measurement techniques are commonly used in modern polarimetric instrumentation. To aid in understanding polarization and its measurement, an explanation of SOP is helpful, along with an outline of common...

Optical diagnostics continue migration from benchtop to bedside: will optical tools ever find their footing in mainstream medicine? With more laser companies focusing on the biomedical market, the realities of bringing these products to market are receiving some serious attention.(Optoelectronic applications: medical diagnostics)
January 1, 2004... The notion of an optical tool that can achieve early, accurate, and--perhaps most important--noninvasive detection and diagnosis of disease has intrigued technologists and physicians (not to mention patients) for years. The ability to build...

Laser scan arm.(new products)
January 1, 2004... The new Laser ScanArm is a seven-axis, contact/noncontact measurement device with a fully integrated laser scanner. Users can collect simple point variations with the arm's hard probe, then laser scan the sections requiring larger volumes of...

PIV laser system.(new products)
January 1, 2004... The Solo IV is a compact, Q-switched, Nd:YAG, PIV (particle image velocimetry) laser system. Designed for fluid- and air-flow visualization, the laser features a twin-laser head design. Each head can produce a 50-mJ pulse of 532-nm light at a...

Motion controller.(new products)
January 1, 2004... A new eight-axis PCI motion controller features a 266-Mhz, Power PC processor with a 32-bit RISC core. All signals, data points, and PID are updated every 122-[micro]s on all eight axes. The controller has 64 k of shared memory to permit near...

DPSS laser micromachining systems.(new products)
January 1, 2004... A new line of diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) micromachining systems has been introduced. Three standard system platforms are available with fully integrated and interlocked workstation and PC controlled multi-axis part-handling with options...

Optical position-sensing system.(new products)
January 1, 2004... A new two-axis optical position-sensing system is a compact, battery-operated system with a two-line LCD. It has ambient-light suppression, accuracy of 0.001 in., resolution of 0.0001 in., range of [+ or -] 0.2 in. in both axes, wavelength...

Linear motor stage.(new products)
January 1, 2004... The new ALS1000 linear motor stage has a linear-motion-guide bearing system, two-axis internal cable management, and a brushless servo motor. The direct-drive linear motor has a nonmagnetic-force coil for high force with zero cogging. The stage...

Polarizers.(new products)
January 1, 2004... A new series of polarizers is designed for use with Nd:YAG and Nd:[YVO.sub.4] lasers operating at 1064, 532, 355, and 266 nm. The plate polarizers are designed to operate at a 68[degrees] angle of incidence. This enables the production of a...

Multimode signal sensor.(new products)
January 1, 2004... The Multimode Signal Sensor (MSS) from Oluma is available in single-channel versions and arrays up to eight channels. The MSS replaces both a tap coupler and a pigtailed photodiode for multimode power-monitoring applications. Its all-fiber,...

Red laser diode.(new products)
January 1, 2004... Three new 635-nm red laser diodes are being manufactured at Blue Sky Research's in-house semiconductor foundry. Available in 5-, 10-, and 15-mW versions, the BRLD-635 family of lasers feature low operating current, compact 5.6-mm TO-can...

Infrared camera.(new products)
January 1, 2004... The JADE UC camera has USB 2.0 digital output to allow users to fully control the camera and to display digital images at a rate of 60 Hz over the full 14-bit dynamic range. RS232 communication or LVDS links are not needed for camera control....

CMOS camera system.(new products)
January 1, 2004... The pco.1200 high-speed, 10-bit CMOS camera system utilizes novel on-board image memory in the camera head (up to 2 Gbyte), providing ultrafast image recording at 1-Gbyte/s. The camera has 1.3 million pixels to provide image capture at 625...

MEMS software.(new products)
January 1, 2004... MEMulator is a Windows 2000- and XP-based software that provides 3-D modeling and rendering based on Zyvex's patent-pending voxel (volume element) techniques for realistic representations of complex designs from layout or mask files. The...

Polarizers: Glan-Taylor and Glan-Laser Polarizers are new calcite polarizing beamsplitters that separate s-polarized light (extraordinary rays) from p-polarized light (ordinary rays) over wavelengths from 400 to 1700 nm.(new products)
January 1, 2004... Glan-Taylor and Glan-Laser Polarizers are new calcite polarizing beamsplitters that separate s-polarized light (extraordinary rays) from p-polarized light (ordinary rays) over wavelengths from 400 to 1700 nm. Suitable for visible and NIR...

Ti:S oscillator system.(new products)
January 1, 2004... The new FemtoSource scientific XL Ti:S oscillator system delivers pulse energy of up to 80 nJ directly from the oscillator, with sub-50-fs pulse duration, bandwidth greater than 50 nm, and a repetition rate of 10 MHz. An innovative optical...

Laser trim platform.(new products)
January 1, 2004... The TrimSmart LT2100 series performs trim and test of thick-film components and circuits, including PCBs, SMT components and hybrids, as well as thin-film resistors, resistor networks and other thin-film applications. The new platform utilizes...

PIN photodiode.(new products)
January 1, 2004... The new G9298 series of pigtailed InGaAs PIN photodiodes has a response of 10 Gbit/s, a typical gain of 5.5 kW and a typical dynamic range of -19 to +1 dBm. Typical sensitivity is 0.80 A/W at 1.3 mm and 0.85 A/W at 1.55 mm, with a voltage...

Pulsed laser diodes.(new products)
January 1, 2004... LDMP-xx series of pulsed laser diodes is designed with pulse width FWHM of 50 to 100 ns and repetition frequency up to 15 KHz. It is available in standard TO 9-mm package with wavelengths of 905, 1550, and 1625 nm. A variety of emitter sizes...

Vision appliance.(new products)
January 1, 2004... The new iCheck prepackaged machine appliance is designed for installation and operation by manufacturing engineers with little or no previous machine-vision experience. It can be used for product and assembly verification applications. Software...

DC-AC power inverter.(new products)
January 1, 2004... The BXA-12576 is a miniature 12-V fixed-output DC-AC power inverter that can power lamps as small as 2 x 25 mm and as large as 5 x 150 mm. The inverter provides 12-V DC input voltage, 800-V rms output voltage, 105 k-Hz output frequency, 150-mA...