Laser Focus World articles from January 2005

Laser Focus World archives from January 2005

'... A publication unlike any now in existence'.(editor's desk)
January 1, 2005... Such was the founding editor's vision of Laser Focus at its inception in January 1965. Editor Bill Bushor also said that this new publication had to be "well-based technically, yet not as incomprehensible as many society publications are to...

Tunable femtosecond pulses in the blue are generated in BIBO.(newsbreaks)
January 1, 2005... Combining the advantages of UV transparency and the high damage threshold of beta barium borate (BBO) and lithium triborate crystals with the enhanced linearity of potassium titanyl phosphate crystals, bismuth borate (BIBO) is showing promise...

Fiber sensor exploits self-pulsing to detect hydrogen.(newsbreaks)
January 1, 2005... Though fiberoptic sensors based on the intracavity-absorption loss of erbium-doped fiber lasers have been developed for hydrogen detection, self-pulsing behavior leads to errors in measured power values. A team of researchers from the...

Etched spheres are basis of terahertz photonic crystal.(newsbreaks)
January 1, 2005... Researchers from Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) have fabricated a 3-D inverse photonic crystal with transmittance in the terahertz wavelength region. Terahertz waves are finding numerous applications in biological tissue imaging and...

Ultrafast laser approaches intensity of [10.sup.22] W/[cm.sup.2].(newsbreaks)
January 1, 2005... Focused pulsed laser beams that achieve ultrahigh intensities help explore the physics of how light interacts with matter. The maximum intensity achieved by a laser has hovered at around [10.sup.21] W/[cm.sup.2] for a couple of years; now,...

Adaptive optics increases 100-TW-laser repetition rate.(newsbreaks)
January 1, 2005... In another application of adaptive optics (AO) to ultra-fast lasers, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) and the Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung (Darmstadt, Germany) have for the first time used an AO system to...

CMOS camera detects small AC images awash in DC.(newsbreaks)
January 1, 2005... Detecting modulated ("AC") optical signals immersed in a steady ("DC") background of light is a common challenge for optical systems. In fact, a signal is often modulated expressly to separate it from an unwanted DC background. Researchers at...

Fiber lasers are phase-locked simply.(newsbreaks)
January 1, 2005... If their outputs could be added coherently, fiber lasers in arrays would become formidable high-power emitters, potentially even rivaling high-power chemical lasers, Researchers at the City University of New York (New York, NY) and Booz Allen...

Surface-plasmon resonance enhances random lasing.(newsbreaks)
January 1, 2005... Light amplification in random lasers is based on random diffusion of suspended light-scattering particles within a laser dye, which produces nonresonant optical feedback from multiple scattering events. Designing such a laser requires a...

Atomic fountain tests weak equivalence principle.(newsbreaks)
January 1, 2005... Einstein's weak-equivalence principle states that in the absence of forces other than gravity, all objects--whether heavy or light--fall at the same rate of acceleration. The principle has been tested at the macroscopic level to an accuracy of...

Airborne Laser achieves 'first light' milestone.(Chemical Lasers)
January 1, 2005... The Airborne Laser met its objectives when it achieved "first light" of six laser modules firing simultaneously on Nov. 10, 2004, program manager Col. Ellen Pawlikowski told a post-test briefing held in Washington, D.C. But while she was happy...

Superlenses are nearsighted.(optoelectronics world news)
January 1, 2005... Materials with negative dielectric permittivity and negative magnetic permeability, also known as left-handed materials, and materials with negative refractive index have stirred much interest and controversy during the last few years. One of...

Coherent fiber bundle aids two-photon imaging.(Microscopy)
January 1, 2005... Two-photon laser-scanning fluorescence microscopy has become a well-established technique for high-resolution imaging from living tissue. However, standard microscopes are inflexible and the imaging depth is limited to a depth of 1 mm from the...

ZnO photonic-crystal laser emits in the UV.(Semiconductor Lasers)
January 1, 2005... Although low-threshold lasing in the IR has been realized in photonic-crystal slabs made of III-V semiconductor materials, a UV photonic-crystal laser represents a special challenge because of the different materials and the smaller feature...

Linear optics slow, stop, and time-reverse light.(Photonic Crystals)
January 1, 2005... Researchers at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA) have developed and modeled (though not yet put into practice) a method that slows, stops, or time-reverses light pulses at room temperature using only linear optics and electro-optic...

Generation of single photons is continuous and controlled.(Raman Scattering)
January 1, 2005... Individually controlled single photons can be the basis for quantum bits in quantum logic, and are used as well in fundamental studies such as photon-cavity interactions in quantum electrodynamics. As a result, supplying single photons on...

Improved 'nose' is developed for trace-gas monitoring.(Spectroscopy)
January 1, 2005... Cavity-ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) is an established technique for quantitative absorption measurements to determine the chemical composition of a sample under test. Unfortunately, the technique can suffer from large background fluctuations...

Standing-wave spectroscopy probes buried nano-interfaces.(Nanotechnology)
January 1, 2005... Giant magnetoresistance (GMR), a 20% to 50% change in electrical conductivity caused by the electron interactions across interfaces between magnetic and nonmagnetic metals in the presence of a magnetic field, is routinely used in computer-disk...

Red VECSELs emit 400 mW.(Vertical-Emitting Lasers)
January 1, 2005... New research, due to be reported by a European group, provides what the researchers believe is the first demonstration of high-power continuous-wave (CW) operation from a red vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL). The...

Space holography used for real-world science.(Holographic Video)
January 1, 2005... A holographic technique intended for use in space has recently demonstrated the existence and behavior of a force called the history drag--a phenomenon predicted in 1887, but never before observed directly. The measurements were performed by...

Silicon chip controls light all-optically.(Photonic Circuits)
January 1, 2005... While photonic structures that bend, split, couple, and filter light have been demonstrated in silicon, the light path in these structures has been predetermined and cannot be modulated during operation. To date, all-optical switching in...

Scalable method fixes quantum-computer errors.(Information Processing)
January 1, 2005... A method for automatically correcting data-handling errors in quantum computers, developed and demonstrated by physicists Dietrich Liebfried, David Wineland, and coworkers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Boulder,...

Eye-laser giant acquired by eye-care firm.(laser industry report)
January 1, 2005... Advanced Medical Optics (AMO; Santa Ana, CA), a global provider of ophthalmic surgical devices and eye-care products, acquired VISX (Santa Clara, CA), the leading provider of laser vision-correction services, for $1.3 billion. The combined...

Northrop Grumman, UDI collaborate on laser defense.(laser industry report)
January 1, 2005... Northrop Grumman (Redondo Beach, CA) and United Defense Industries (UDI; Minneapolis, MN) are teaming to provide the U.S. Army with ground-based laser defense systems designed to protect U.S. soldiers against a variety of current and emerging...

High-power fiber lasers ready for growth.(laser industry report)
January 1, 2005... Fiber-laser revenues are set to grow to $256 million by 2008 and are likely to have a significant impact on the penetration of high-power lasers into the manufacturing environment, according to a new report from Ashmead Associates (Portola...

Spectra-Physics Lasers.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... Spectra-Physics Lasers (Mountain View, CA) is supporting education and research at the University of Arizona's Optical Sciences Center through a $1.6 million donation of laboratory equipment. The donation includes optical tables, microscopes,...

Sherwood Technology.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... Sherwood technology (Chesire, England) has opened a new applications laboratory to demonstrate future possibilities of laser marking, enabling current and potential licensees and end users to test the final results of using Sherwood's...

ILX Lightware (Bozeman, MT) and ETSC Technologies are establishing a service center in Wuhan, China.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... ILX Lightware (Bozeman, MT) and ETSC Technologies are establishing a service center in Wuhan, China. The center will provide repair and calibration of ILX's instrumentation products and installation and support of their laser diode test...

Radiant Dyes (Wermelskirchen, Germany) is now selling the new line of Nd:YAG laser systems developed by Innolas (Krailting, Germany).(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... Radiant Dyes (Wermelskirchen, Germany) is now selling the new line of Nd:YAG laser systems developed by Innolas (Krailting, Germany). In addition, Peter Menzenbach has joined the Innolas team as sales manager.

Adaptive optics take Hale Telescope further into space.(optics industry report)
January 1, 2005... The Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain (San Diego, CA), which has been gathering light from the depths of the universe for 55 years, finally sent some back in early December, as a team of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology,...

Molecular Imprints licenses MIT Technology.(optics industry report)
January 1, 2005... Molecular Imprints (MII; Austin, TX) has completed an exclusive licensing agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) for use of the university's moire fringe alignment technology in MII's nanoimprint lithography...

LCD glass sales weaken.(optics industry report)
January 1, 2005... Speaking at the Credit Suisse First Boston Technology Conference in Scottsdale, AZ, in December, James Flaws, vice chairman and CFO of Corning (Corning, NY), told analysts that while the company's fourth-quarter guidance was still $950 million...

Brillian (Tempe, AZ), former subsidiary of Three-Five Systems, signed a distribution agreement with Holoeye Photonics (Berlin, Germany) for the sale of its Gen II liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplay products and components in North America and Europe.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... Brillian (Tempe, AZ), former subsidiary of Three-Five Systems, signed a distribution agreement with Holoeye Photonics (Berlin, Germany) for the sale of its Gen II liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplay products and components in North America...

Heptagon.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... Heptagon (Zurich, Switzerland). a developer of refractive and diffractive micro-optical elements and subsystems, appointed a new CEO, Chuck Milligan. Milligan was previously vice president of industrial and defense solutions at Bookham....

Corning (Corning, NY) and Hitachi-Maxell (Tokyo, Japan) entered into a nonexclusive licensing agreement that allows the company to utilize Corning's precision-molded optics patents in the manufacture of aspheric glass lenses.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... Corning (Corning, NY) and Hitachi-Maxell (Tokyo, Japan) entered into a nonexclusive licensing agreement that allows the company to utilize Corning's precision-molded optics patents in the manufacture of aspheric glass lenses, such as those used...

The Crystal Consortium.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... The Crystal Consortium (Glasgow. Scotland) won a 20,000 [pounds sterling] (US$39,000) award from the Scottish government to develop array elements based on piezoelectric single crystals. These elements, designed to be used in mid-frequency...

Photonics lab to focus on sensors and waveguide materials.(imaging & detector industry report)
January 1, 2005... Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) opened its new $900,000 Carleton Laboratory for Laser Induced Photonic Structures. It was unveiled by Jacques Albert, Canada Research Chair in Advanced Photonic Components. His research will...

BTG seeks exclusive OLED licensee.(imaging & detector industry report)
January 1, 2005... BTG (London, England) is seeking an exclusive licensee for a fundamental technology that uses transparent cathodes in polymer organic light-emitting diode (OLED) devices. This technology includes U.S. Patent 5,955,834, Light Emitting Devices...

Bookham takes filters into life sciences.(imaging & detector industry report)
January 1, 2005... As part of its previously stated intention to expand beyond the telecom market, the New Focus (San Jose, CA) division of Bookham, in collaboration with the company's Thin Film Products group, is transitioning its thin-film-filter technology...

Medi-photonics Development Company (New York. NY), a subsidiary of Mediscience Technology (Cherry Hill, NJ), and the Infotonics Technology Center (Canandaigua, NY) have formed a collaborative R&D agreement to develop Mediscience's Compact Photonic Explorer (CPE).(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... Medi-photonics Development Company (New York. NY), a subsidiary of Mediscience Technology (Cherry Hill, NJ), and the Infotonics Technology Center (Canandaigua, NY) have formed a collaborative R&D agreement to develop Mediscience's Compact...

Super Vision International (Orlando, FL), a manufacturer of fiberoptic lighting and LED lighting products, has signed three more licensees to its variable color lighting system patent and its Laidman technology portfolio.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... Super Vision International (Orlando, FL), a manufacturer of fiberoptic lighting and LED lighting products, has signed three more licensees to its variable color lighting system patent and its Laidman technology portfolio. The three licensees...

Eastman Kodak.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY) named Mary Jane Hellyar president of the Display and Components Group. Hellyar is currently general manager, Film Capture, Digital and Film Imaging Systems. and a vice president of the company. She replaces Willy...

Fiberoptic sonar sensors detect harbor threats.(fiberoptics industry report)
January 1, 2005... Enhanced maritime security in major ports across the nation may soon become a reality, thanks to a new harbor defense system being developed and tested by Northrop Grumman (Woodland Hills, CA) to identify and track potential underwater and...

TriQuint refocuses, cuts 200 jobs.(fiberoptics industry report)
January 1, 2005... TriQuint Semiconductor (Hillsboro, OR) is exiting the pluggable optical-module business to focus on indium phosphide components, chips, and sub-assemblies as part of a "repositioning" of its optoelectronics business strategy. The change...

SAIC sells Telcordia for $1.35 billion.(fiberoptics industry report)
January 1, 2005... Science Applications International (SAIC; San Diego, CA) signed a definitive agreement to sell its subsidiary Telcordia Technologies (Piscataway, NJ) to Providence Equity Partners and Warburg Pincus for $1.35 billion in cash. Telcordia is the...

Bookham engineers honored at LEOS.(fiberoptics industry report)
January 1, 2005... The IEEE/LEOS 2004 Aron Kressel award was awarded to Christoph Harder, Volker Graf, and Eberhard Latta of Bookham (Zurich, Switzerland) for their pioneering contributions to high-reliability, high-power telecommunications pump lasers. The first...

NAVSEA contract focuses on fiber sensors for sonar.(fiberoptics industry report)
January 1, 2005... Sabeus Photonics (Chatsworth, CA), a developer of fiberoptic sensing technology for military surveillance applications, was awarded a $1.3 million development contract by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to develop a new high strength...

Polatis.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... Polatis (Cambridge, England), a supplier of ultra-low-loss optical switches. completed its third round of funding, attracting $9.4 million....

KVH Industries.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... KVH Industries (Middletown, RI) received $1.2 million in new orders for its high-performance fiberoptic gyro (FOG) systems. The FOGs will provide support for a range of defense-related applications, including stabilization and pointing of...

Luxtron (Santa Clara, CA), a provider of in situ fiberoptic temperature solutions for semiconductor, optoelectronics, medical and industrial applications, appointed Lambda Photometric.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2005... Luxtron (Santa Clara, CA), a provider of in situ fiberoptic temperature solutions for semiconductor, optoelectronics, medical and industrial applications, appointed Lambda Photometric as distributor of its fiberoptic temperature measurement...

Laser Focus takes on the world.(40 years: then and now)
January 1, 2005... The first issue of Laser Focus, which would eventually become Laser Focus World, was published in January of 1965. It was the first magazine devoted to the fledgling laser industry. A year later, as recalled by Joan Lisa Bromberg, director of...

Image of an artist: image processing and analysis help authenticate works of art.(inside imaging)
January 1, 2005... In late 1995, a dazzling scheme of art fraud finally came undone when Scotland Yard police arrested John Myatt, a painter turned forger, and John Drewe, the mastermind who passed off some 200 paintings and drawings as the work of modern greats...

How can I find a mentor in business and management?(business forum)
January 1, 2005... Q: How do I as an engineer find a mentor to teach me business and management? A: I did a search on Google and found a simple definition of mentor is a wise and trusted counselor or teacher. I also found mentoring defined as a supportive...

U.S. may be ceding solar-energy development to others.(market watch)
January 1, 2005... The immediate and brutal reality of ongoing warfare in the Persian Gulf, dramatically backlit by looming threats, projected mere decades away, of disastrous economic and climatic crises caused by fossil-fuel depletion and global warming appears...

NIST releases software tools for fingerprint image analysis.(software & computing)
January 1, 2005... Dating at least back to 14th century China as a form of signature, and probably going back much further, fingerprinting is generally recognized as one of the oldest, most successful and most broadly used biometric techniques. (1) The widespread...

Consumer applications boost laser sales 10%: as the economy recovers and photonic technology moves into the mainstream, the laser market has benefited from increased demand in consumer-related markets.(Laser Marketplace 2005)
January 1, 2005... The Laser Focus World 2005 annual review and forecast of the laser markets is conducted in conjunction with Strategies Unlimited (Mountain View, CA). Part I of the review reports on the state of the overall market and focuses on non-diode laser...

Petawatt lasers aim for relativistic phenomena.(Custom Laser Systems)
January 1, 2005... It was not very long ago that a terawatt (TW; [10.sup.12] W) laser was considered an impressive achievement. Now a 100-TW laser is commercially available, but the largest lasers are still only at large research institutions. Some of these...

Adaptive optics sharpens multiphoton-microscope images.(Optics For Microscopes)
January 1, 2005... Optical microscopy is a fundamental tool for life-sciences research, providing sub-micron-resolution images of cellular structure. In the last 20 years, with the wide availability of laser-scanned confocal microscopes, the ability to visualize...

Lessons from nature: borrowing ideas that nature incorporated into biological eyes promises a new generation of optical systems.(Photonic frontiers: biologically inspired optics)
January 1, 2005... This new monthly feature series reports from the front lines of current photonics research, describing today's technology breakthroughs that may lead to tomorrow's "killer" applications.--Ed. Engineers have spent centuries perfecting glass...

Crosstalk challenges CMOS sensor design.(CMOS Detectors)
January 1, 2005... Thanks to two decades of continuous improvement, CMOS image sensors are now "ready for prime time." Formerly considered to be low quality and suitable only for toys, they are now found in technologically sophisticated applications such as cell...

Teaching computers to recognize faces: government and industry want to use facial recognition, but are the algorithms ready for the applications? Developers--aided by government programs--are producing sophisticated approaches in image processing for facial recognition.(Image engineering: image processing)
January 1, 2005... Human brains are optimized to recognize and distinguish between faces--we can identify people we know, even with pliable features, changing facial hair, glasses, or makeup, even under different illumination or from different poses, and even...

Wavefront correction extends the capabilities of large-aperture Nd:YLF laser rods.(Optics Fabrication)
January 1, 2005... High-energy, high-average-power lasers with diffraction-limited performance find important applications in pumping nonlinear optical processes, such as the optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) system that will serve as the...

Better standards support laser power and energy measurements.(Power & Energy Meters)
January 1, 2005... The accurate measurement of laser power and energy is important to many applications in industry, technology, medicine, defense, and science. Traceable measurement standards are essential to ensure that users have confidence in their...

High power, high brightness fiber-coupled diode lasers are now available.(Advanced Diode Laser Technology)
January 1, 2005... 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...

Diode lasers dominate prepress applications: for a growing number of commercial printers and publishers, the use of laser-based computer-to-plate imaging is no longer an "if" but a "when.".(Optoelectronic applications: graphic arts)
January 1, 2005... For many years, offset printing plates were imaged using traditional films and high-power ultraviolet lamps, a technique now referred to as analog film-to-plate. But with the advent of laser-based prepress techniques (at about the same time...

Simplex algorithm aligns quickly and simply: automatic alignment of an optical fiber to a light source requires an algorithm. A new simplex algorithm aligns more quickly and reliably and over a greater range than the conventional hill-climbing algorithm.(Fiberoptics)
January 1, 2005... The packaging of fiberoptic devices is the most expensive part of the manufacturing process, presenting challenges to engineers working to reduce costs. A particularly difficult packaging step is the alignment of a light source and its...

Diamond cools high-power emitters.(Laser Diodes)
January 1, 2005... The demand for higher optical output from high-power pump lasers requires efficient thermal management because laser output drops drastically with increasing chip temperature. Thermal management of pump lasers critically affects laser...

Laser machine creates patterns in fabric: the use of stone-washing and bleaching to create surface effects on fabrics is difficult to control and caustic. A novel machine uses laser-beam intensity variation to reproducibly modify the surface of fabrics without harming product quality.(Laser Marking)
January 1, 2005... Soon after blue-jean manufacturers started fading and tearing their product, jeans that looked strikingly "worn" became very popular and often commanded higher prices than jeans that looked brand new. Changing the visual characteristics of...

Refractive-index detector.(new products)
January 1, 2005... The Optilab rEX is a refractive-index detector. It utilizes semiconductor photodiode technology and proprietary computer algorithms. The instrument's temperature control can be programmed from 4[degrees]C to 50[degrees]C and is compatible with...

Kinematic-mount component.(new products)
January 1, 2005... The Spherolinder is a half-spherical, half-cylindrical object that replaces the spheres used in three-groove kinematic mounts. It offers improved load-carrying capacity, while retaining repeatability. A 1-in. version carries up to 2000 lb...

Polarization controller.(new products)
January 1, 2005... The PolaMight is a multifunction polarization controller. Features include variable-speed polarization scrambling, manual polarization adjustment, polarization function generation, externally triggered polarization scrambling, and optional...

Laser diodes.(new products)
January 1, 2005... A new line of laser diodes is available in the 700-nm range. Fabry-Perot single-spatial-mode laser diodes of 730- to 770-nm wavelengths are available from 5 to 50 mW. They are supplied in free-space TO-type (TO-56, SOT-148, TO-3) and...

C[O.sub.2] laser.(new products)
January 1, 2005... A 10-w C[O.sub.2] laser measures 13.5 x 2.8 x 3.85 in. and in its basic OEM version weighs 7.25 lb. It has an integrated RF supply and can be retrofitted into C[O.sub.2] installations. It comes in four configurations: air- and water-cooled OEM...

Aspheric measurement.(new products)
January 1, 2005... The AspheroMaster is an optical scanning-laser sensor providing 3-D surface and wavefront profiling at the required measurement uncertainty in the submicron range. It allows measurement of aspheric lenses for mobile phones, digital cameras, CD...

Support isolator.(new products)
January 1, 2005... The I-2000 Stabilizer table-support isolator features a square cross section with smaller dimensions than circular constructions, at a height of 28 in. and side dimension of 10 in. It is designed for OEM applications such as semiconductor test...

Integrating spheres.(new products)
January 1, 2005... A series of large integrating spheres is designed for total luminous flux or total spectral flux measurement. They come in diameters of 18, 39, and 76 in. Two hemispheres are mounted in a rugged frame and the interior surfaces are coated with a...

Biotechnology CCD camera.(new products)
January 1, 2005... The MultiBlue Biotech CCD camera is designed for a variety of OEM biotechnology applications. The 12-bit camera has 66-dB noise performance and includes a USB 2.0 interface. It has a video rate of 5 frames/s and has a broad set of features for...

Beam profiler.(new products)
January 1, 2005... The High Power NanoScan beam profiler analyzes industrial C[O.sub.2] lasers producing a few kilowatts of power and Nd:YAG and other industrial lasers that produce a few hundred watts. The device can measure either CW or pulsed beams with...

Open-frame stage.(new products)
January 1, 2005... The M-684 Plline xy-translation stage is a piezomotor-driven system for microscopy and other applications. It comes with a joystick and closed-loop velocity controller, and has a clear aperture of 66 x 66 mm and a travel range of 25 x 25 mm. It...

Multimode-fiber measurement.(new products)
January 1, 2005... The Ultra Long Fiber Bandwidth option for the 2500 Optical Fiber Analysis System measures multimode-fiber bandwidth in lengths of greater than 17.6 km. It can measure at both 850 and 1300 nm and is fully compliant with international standards....

Voice coil actuator.(new products)
January 1, 2005... A linear voice coil actuator allows the user to apply force in the linear direction without a mechanical conversion device such as a ball screw or gear box. The actuator is 2.72 in. in diameter and 1.06 in. long and has a low-mass, molded...

Fiber-marking system.(new products)
January 1, 2005... The Fiber Tower Q-switched fiber-laser marking system includes a Q-switched fiber laser, scan head, PCI control board, and graphical-based programming software configured for any application. It has wall-plug efficiencies of around 20% and uses...

Custom optics.(new products)
January 1, 2005... A line of high-precision laser optics for OEM applications is available. The optics have [less than or equal to] [lambda]/20 PV, 10/5 scratch/ dig surface quality, and parallelism or wedge tolerances [less than or equal to] 3 arcsec. They are...

Fusion splicers.(new products)
January 1, 2005... The FSM-17S is a fixed V-groove, single-fiber fusion splicer that offers an improved 35-second tube heater. The FSM-50R 12-fiber mass fusion splicer offers improvements including new "auto load" for placement of fiber holders into the splicers...