Laser Focus World articles from July 2005

Laser Focus World archives from July 2005

The many dimensions of imaging.(editor's desk)
July 1, 2005... Imaging--that is, the acquisition, processing, and presentation of images-spans an entire spectrum of technologies, starting with the detector or imager and ending up with... well that depends, of course, on the particular application and how...

320 x 256 focal-plane array uses quantum dots in a well to sense two colors.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2005... Building on an earlier demonstration of quantum-dots-in-a-well (DWELL) detectors that sense multiple wavelengths in the middle-wavelength infrared (MWIR) and in the longer-wave-infrared (LWIR) region (see Laser Focus World, December 2003, p....

Steel-ball microrubbing boosts viewing angle of liquid-crystal pixels.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2005... Many years of development in fiat-panel liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) have pushed their viewing angles up from an initially small range. One approach to increase viewing angle is based on subpixel patterning techniques that orient the liquid...

Laser diode and invisible ink turn inkjet printer into paper cutter.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2005... In a development that may have wide application in the world of consumer electronics, researchers at CEA Le Ripault (Monts, France) have created a low-cost way to endow the everyday inkjet printer with precise paper-cutting abilities. The...

Correction.(newsbreaks)(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2005... The Newsbreak, "10-Gbit/s modulator is fabricated on silicon," (May, p. 9) contained two errors. First, Luxtera's chips are actually fabricated by the same CMOS process that the company's development partner, Freescale Semiconductor, uses for...

Polymer-fullerene solar cell is also electroluminescent.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2005... Researchers at Pusan National University (Pusan, South Korea) have reported the surprising result that a semiconductor polymer-fullerene composite photovoltaic (PV) material emits light when electrically stimulated. The result is surprising...

Lithium niobate thin films improve waveguiding.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2005... Conventional waveguides in ithium niobate (LiNb[O.sub.3]) crystals are fabricated using metal diffusion. on exchange, or proton exchange. Using these methods, a very small index change in the crystal is induced that causes the confinement of...

VECSEL emits two coaxial beams at different wavelengths.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2005... Researchers from the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the Tampere University of Technology (Tampere, Finland) have demonstrated a vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) that emits two different wavelengths simultaneously at...

Unaxis Optics--your partner of choice in high volume custom optical components and solutions: for nearly 60 years Unaxis Optics has been producing coated optical components and subassemblies with outstanding properties for a diverse set of industries incorporating optics and photonics.(unaxis OPTICS)
July 1, 2005... Unaxis Optics is the partner of choice in high volume custom optical components and solutions for fast growing markets. The division possesses a comprehensive know-how in optical thin films, glass processing, lithography and the production of...

Bragg grating in KTP stabilizes seed laser.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2005... A lightweight and energy-efficient seed laser developed by engineers at AdvR (Bozeman, MT) is being qualified by AdvR and NASA for space flight. The laser will seed high-power solid-state lasers to eliminate fluctuations in intensity under...

Triangular carbon-nanotube lattices are low in cost.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2005... To avoid costly electron-beam lithographic methods of fabricating catalyst dots for growth of carbon nanotubes, researchers at Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA) are using low-cost self-assembly techniques to prepare triangular lattices of...

Plasmon polaritons are guided with zero bend loss.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2005... Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia) have demonstrated virtually 100% transmission of channel-plasmon polaritons (CPPs) in sharp 90[degrees] bends in a subwavelength waveguide--a capability that has been...

Refractive-index profile is measured nondestructively.(OPTICAL FIBERS)
July 1, 2005... The industry standard for the determination of refractive-index profiles for axially symmetric optical fibers is the refracted-near-field (RNF) technique. This destructive and calibration-intensive method involves measuring the refraction of a...

CLEO/QELS and PhAST offer something for everyone.(world news: optoelectronics world news)
July 1, 2005... Whether you're a researcher, engineer, or manager interested in the application of lasers and optoelectronics to materials processing, defense and security, medicine, communications, computing, metrology, sensing, or illumination and displays,...

Two-phase cooling will benefit large lasers.(LASER-DIODE ARRAYS)
July 1, 2005... The laser of choice for military directed-energy-weapons (DEW) research has traditionally been the chemical laser. The hydrogen fluoride/deuterium fluoride (HF/DF) laser, emitting at 2.7 [micro]m for HF or 3.8 [micro]m for DF, has produced...

Surface plasmons visualized as rainbow jets.(SURFACE PLASMONS)
July 1, 2005... Surface plasmons propagate along the interface between a conductor and a nonconductor or dielectric; they are bound to the interface and exponentially decay in both media. Commercial surface-plasmon (SP)-based sensors used in biological...

Power Technology, Incorporated.(Corporate Profile)
July 1, 2005... Going strong since 1969--Power Technology, Inc.'s history of innovation Power Technology, Inc. has been a leader in the electro-optics industry for over three decades. Since 1969, PTI has been designing and manufacturing laser products for...

2-D spectroscopy sheds light on photosynthesis.(SPECTROSCOPY)
July 1, 2005... Energy-transfer pathways in the photosynthesis process appear to be affected by molecular factors that had not previously been considered, according to results obtained by researchers at the University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and...

Ocean Optics, Inc.(Corporate Profile)
July 1, 2005... Company Description Ocean Optics is a leading supplier of solutions for optical sensing--fundamental methods of measuring and interpreting the interaction of light with matter. We enable diverse applications in materials analysis, medical...

SPIE's 50-year history powers its future.(CONFERENCE PREVIEW)
July 1, 2005... In August of 1955, 74 individuals attended the first formal meeting of SPIE-Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers in Hollywood, CA, to exchange ideas and discuss solutions to emerging optical test-and-measurement problems....

Erbium is so cool.(LASER COOLING)
July 1, 2005... Laser cooling of atoms has led to some striking advances in physics research, including the first demonstration of "slow light," in which a cloud of 50-[micro]K sodium atoms in a degenerate quantum state slowed light to a speed of 17 m/s (see...

Thin-film coatings form 10-km-radius surfaces.(OPTICS)
July 1, 2005... Although gravitational waves--ripples in the space-time continuum due to moving matter--have never been detected, the Large Scale Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope (LCGT; Honshu, Japan) and the Advanced Laser Interferometric Gravitational...

X-ray waveguides boost resolution.(SHORT-WAVELENGTH MICROSCOPY)
July 1, 2005... Curious by nature, humans search for ever more detail in what they examine--spurring, for example, the invention of microscopes. But even the highest-quality microscopes bump up against the diffraction limit, which is a function of the light's...

Combination pupil filter enables efficient superresolution.(SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS)
July 1, 2005... The point-spread function (PSF) of an optical system can be altered by inserting a spatially varying filter at the pupil plane; if the filter is properly designed, the width of the central peak of the PSF can be narrowed. In real terms, this...

Lockheed Martin selected to lead laser weapon development.(laser industry report)
July 1, 2005... Lockheed Martin has been selected by General Atomics (San Diego, CA) as weapon system integrator for the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS). General Atomics' Photonics Division is under contract to the Defense Advanced...

Gigaphoton shipping new excimer laser for lithography.(laser industry report)
July 1, 2005... Gigaphoton (Tochigi-ken, Japan), a light-source manufacturer for the semiconductor industry, has begun volume production and shipment of a new argon fluoride (ArF) excimer laser, the GT40A (emission wavelength 193 nm; repetition rate 4 kHz)...

Research finds laser pointers can cause eye damage.(laser industry report)
July 1, 2005... Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) ophthalmologists have found that commercially available Class 3A green laser pointers can cause visible harm to the eye's retina with exposures as short as 60 seconds. The findings are published in the May issue of...

SPI receives $3.5 million for fiber-laser research.(laser industry report)
July 1, 2005... The Air Force Research Laboratory (Kirtland Air Force Base, NM) is giving SPI (Los Gatos, CA) nearly $3.5 million as part of a research program to develop a high-power fiber laser. Over the next two years, the laboratory's Directed Energy...

Photop and Pavilion to collaborate in laser development.(laser industry report)
July 1, 2005... Photop Technologies (Fuzhou, China) and Pavilion Integration (PIC; Fremont, CA) signed a codevelopment and joint manufacturing agreement targeting robust and cost-competitive red, green, and blue lasers for the demanding biotech, graphics, and...

Thales Laser Diodes (TLD: Orsay, France) was awarded a 2 million [euro] (US $2.6 million) contract for the AEOLUS satellite program of the European Space Agency (ESA).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Thales Laser Diodes (TLD: Orsay, France) was awarded a 2 million [euro] (US $2.6 million) contract for the AEOLUS satellite program of the European Space Agency (ESA) for the production of laser-diode stacks and for the specific test program...

Rofin-Sinar Technologies.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Gunther Braun has been named president and CEO of industrial-laser manufacturer Rofin-Sinar Technologies. Braun served as CFO of Rofin-Sinar since 1996.

Spectra Couleur.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Spectra Couleur (Berlin. Germany), a supplier of visible upconversion fiber-laser systems for OEM, life science, and research applications, has appointed Market Tech (Scotts Valley, CA) as its exclusive distributor in North America for all...

Portable Power Systems (St. Louis, Missouri) and Keystone International (Japan) have reached a distribution agreement.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Portable Power Systems (St. Louis. Missouri) and Keystone International (Japan) have reached a distribution agreement that allows Keystone to act as sole distributor for Portable Power's laser diode driver products.

nmLaser Products.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... nmLaser Products (Sunnyvale, CA), manufacturer of high-irradiance laser shutters, launched its online laser-shutter applications tutorials to expedite ease of shutter integration for QEMs and researchers.

ILX Lightwave.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Beginning in July 2005 as part of its University Donation Program, ILX Lightwave (Bozeman, MT), manufacturer of laser diode instrumentation and test systems, will award $10.000 in ILX Lightwave equipment biannually to selected applicants

Fabrinet to acquire JDSU facilities in China.(optics industry report)
July 1, 2005... Fabrinet (Bangkok, Thailand) plans to purchase the JDS Uniphase (San Jose, CA) manufacturing facilities located in Fuzhou, China. Under terms of the arrangement, Fabrinet will acquire all assets and operations related to the Fuzhou plant,...

Polychromix, Ocean Optics partner.(optics industry report)
July 1, 2005... Polychromix (Wilmington, MA), a developer of wavelength management solutions, and Ocean Optics (Dunedin, FL) signed a worldwide distribution agreement to market cost-effective spectroscopy solutions for general-purpose applications. The...

SPIE and OSA lobby for more funding.(optics industry report)
July 1, 2005... Members of the Optical Society of America (OSA; Washington, D.C.) and The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE; Bellingham, WA) traveled to Washington, D.C., May 10-11 to express to Congress the need for increased and balanced...

Major growth predicted for nonlinear materials.(optics industry report)
July 1, 2005... According to a new report from Business Communications Co. (BCC; Norwalk, CT), the global market for nonlinear optical (NLO) materials is expected to top $1.6 billion by 2009, up from an estimated $856 million in 2004. The report, Nonlinear...

Nanotech grant supports new sensor development.(optics industry report)
July 1, 2005... The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative has awarded a $50,000 grant for nanotechnology research to Holger Schmidt, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Schmidt will work with Xing Su,...

Polychromix.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Polychromix (Wilmington, MA), a developer of modular optical subsystem solutions for molecular spectroscopy, received $3 million in additional venture funding from new investor, Lighthouse Capital Partners.

Applied Technology Associates (ATA; Albuquerque, NM) finalized a license agreement with MIT Lincoln Lab (MIT/LL; Lexington, MA).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Applied Technology Associates (ATA; Albuquerque, NM) finalized a license agreement with MIT Lincoln Lab (MIT/LL; Lexington, MA) for use of its Fast Steering Mirrors (FSMs) technology.

Lambda Research.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Lambda Research (Littleton, MA), appointed Allan Kreutzer as vice president of sales and marketing. The company also announced its status as a supplier to Bionix Development (Toledo, OH). winner of the 2005 Medical Design Excellence Award for...

Bayer MaterialScience (Leverkusen, Germany) has signed a joint development agreement with InPhase Technologies (Longmont, CO).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Bayer MaterialScience (Leverkusen, Germany) has signed a joint development agreement with InPhase Technologies (Longmont, CO) for the development and supply of polymer raw materials for the production of optical-storage media with a very high...

The Observatoire de Haute-Provence (Marseille, France) has purchased a series of high-precision optics from Optical Surfaces (Surrey, England).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... The Observatoire de Haute-Provence (Marseille, France) has purchased a series of high-precision optics from Optical Surfaces (Surrey, England) that will enable researchers to extend the capabilities of the observatory's 1.93-m telescope.

Cognex acquires DVT.(imaging & detector industry report)
July 1, 2005... Cognex (Natick, MA), which supplies machine-vision systems, has acquired DVT (Duluth, GA), a privately held vision-sensor company. Cognex purchased all of the outstanding shares of DVT for approximately $115 million, consisting of a cash...

Motorola debuts nano emissive display.(imaging & detector industry report)
July 1, 2005... Leveraging its expertise in carbon nanotube technology (CNT), Motorola Labs (Schaumburg, IL) has developed a 5-in. nano emissive display (NED) prototype that promises better performance features and lower manufacturing costs than competing...

GE Global Research awarded second R&D contract from USDC.(imaging & detector industry report)
July 1, 2005... The United States Display Consortium (USDC; San Jose, CA) signed a $1.96 million R&D contract with GE Global Research (Niskayuna, NY). The purpose of the cost-shared project is to transfer GE's graded barrier technology from a batch process to...

Dow Corning wins USDC OLED contract.(imaging & detector industry report)
July 1, 2005... A new United States Display Consortium (USDC; San Jose, CA) R&D contract awarded to Dow Coming (Midland, MI) will focus on developing novel hole injection materials (HIM) for production of higher-efficiency organic light-emitting-diode devices...

Mediscience developing cancer-detection map.(imaging & detector industry report)
July 1, 2005... Mediscience Technology (Cherry Hill, NJ) is developing an adjunctive instrument called the Cancer Detection (CD) Map, to facilitate the acquisition of fluorescence images from surgical breast specimens (ex vivo) following lumpectomies and...

Former founding president of Kodak Display Products, Leslie G. Polgar, is the new CEO of CRLO Displays (Dalgety Bay, Scotland).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Former founding president of Kodak Display Products, Leslie G. Polgar, is the new CEO of CRLO Displays (Dalgety Bay, Scotland). CRLO Displays was formed in September 2004 with $19 million in new funding; its ferroelectric liquid-crystal-on...

Samsung SDI (Seoul, South Korea) signed an OLED patent license agreement with Universal Display (Ewing, NJ).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Samsung SDI (Seoul, South Korea) signed an OLED patent license agreement with Universal Display (Ewing, NJ) that paves the way for Samsung SDI to integrate Universal Display's proprietary OLED technologies into Samsung SDI's active matrix OLED...

Dentrix Dental Systems (American Fork, UT) has placed a US$5.7 million (3.0 million [pounds sterling]) dental CCD order with e2v technologies (Essex, England) for the continued supply of digital intra-oral dental X-ray sensors.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Dentrix Dental Systems (American Fork, UT) has placed a US$5.7 million (3.0 million [pounds sterling]) dental CCD order with e2v technologies (Essex, England) for the continued supply of digital intra-oral dental X-ray sensors, delivery of...

Cedip Infrared Systems (Croissy-Beaubourg, France), specialists in thermal-IR camera systems.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Cedip Infrared Systems (Croissy-Beaubourg, France), specialists in thermal-IR camera systems, has opened a new subsidiary company--Cedip Infrared Systems Ltd.--to increase support to and further develop its growing base of customers in the U.K....

JDS Uniphase to acquire Acterna.(fiberoptics industry report)
July 1, 2005... JDS Uniphase (San Jose, CA) announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Acterna (Germantown, MD), a provider of broadband and optical test and management (T&M) solutions for service providers and network equipment vendors...

Marconi cuts 800 jobs after losing contract.(fiberoptics industry report)
July 1, 2005... Telecom equipment group Marconi (London, England) was plunged into crisis at the end of April by its failure to land a lucrative network upgrade contract. The company was not selected as preferred supplier for BT's next-generation 21st Century...

ZTE to install first DWDM network in Bulgaria.(fiberoptics industry report)
July 1, 2005... ZTE (Shenzhen, Hong Kong), China's largest listed telecommunications manufacturer, is to install Bulgaria's first dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) network in a contract with Cabletel (Sofia, Bulgaria), a fixed-line operator. The...

Shibin Jiang of NP Photonics receives Gottardi Prize.(fiberoptics industry report)
July 1, 2005... The International Commission on Glass (ICG) selected Shibin Jiang, chief technical officer of NP Photonics, as the recipient of the prestigious Gottardi Prize in recognition of his outstanding individual accomplishments in the field of glass....

FiberFest attendance stabilizes.(fiberoptics industry report)
July 1, 2005... FiberFest 2005 was held in Boxborough, MA, on May 2, and in Somerset, NJ, on May 9. Although attendance for Boxborough this year was similar to last year (450 attendees) and attendance for Somerset was down slightly (125 attendees in 2005...

OZ Optics targets U.S. market with Tucson facility.(fiberoptics industry report)
July 1, 2005... A memo of understanding signed more than a year ago by the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) and Carleton University (Ottawa, ON, Canada) to launch up to 10 joint projects in optical sciences and biomedicine was one of the factors that...

ElectroniCast.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... ElectroniCast (San Mateo. CA) released a new market forecast for modulators used in optical communications; according to the report, the worldwide consumption value of electro-optic modulators serving the 40-Gbit/s market reached over $1.6...

NP Photonics (Tucson, AZ), a supplier of optical components and modules, has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... NP Photonics (Tucson, AZ), a supplier of optical components and modules, has been awarded a Phase II Small Business innovation Research (SBIR) contract by the Air Force Research Laboratories at Kirkland Air Force Base worth $750,000 over the...

Lynx Photonic Networks (Calabasas Hills, CA) signed OrbitIQ (Ottawa, ON, Canada) to sell its optical switching products through the OrbitIQ North American channel.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Lynx Photonic Networks (Calabasas Hills, CA) signed OrbitIQ (Ottawa, ON, Canada) to sell its optical switching products through the OrbitIQ North American channel....

Photop Technologies (Fuzhou, China) is teaming with Primanex (Quingdao, China) to leverage Photop's volume production platform for its magnetic-optical products, including switches and attenuators.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2005... Photop Technologies (Fuzhou, China) is teaming with Primanex (Quingdao, China) to leverage Photop's volume production platform for its magnetic-optical products, including switches and attenuators. Photop will enhance their OEM product offering...

'Lasers to achieve full biomedical potential by 1968'.(40 YEARS: THEN AND NOW)
July 1, 2005... In the June 1, 1965, issue of Laser Focus the editors published a comprehensive special report on biomedical applications of lasers that had been explored in the five years prior to the magazine's inaugural issue. The report began as follows:...

On the road again: automobile manufacturers are installing a new generation of cameras in their cars.(inside imaging)
July 1, 2005... Imaging sensors located inside and outside automobiles offer new market opportunities in the course of improving highway safety and vehicle control. Some of these applications are being driven by government safety regulations such as the...

Barcode scanners aren't just for groceries anymore: barcode scanning--also known as "automated identification and data capture"--has moved way beyond its retail and manufacturing roots.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: BARCODE SCANNING)
July 1, 2005... Barcode scanners have become so ubiquitous in our day-to-day lives that most of us hardly notice them anymore, let alone ponder what makes them tick. This technology began revolutionizing the retail market in 1974, when a checker at a...

Ultrafast dips into the attosecond range.(ULTRAFAST LASERS)
July 1, 2005... In 1981, Charles Shank and coworkers at Bell Labs (Murray Hill, NJ) redefined the term "ultrafast" when they reported the demonstration of subpicosecond pulses from a colliding-pulse dye laser. (1) Just over 20 years later, in 2003, a new...

Carbon-nanotube coatings promise better thermal detectors: with high thermal conductivity and resistance to damage, carbon-nanotube coatings are a promising new technology for thermal detectors. This viable alternative may eventually provide better radiometric standards for laser measurement.(THIN-FILM COATINGS)
July 1, 2005... With few exceptions, all of the primary measurement standards for establishing traceability to fundamental units for radiometry are based on thermal detectors (see table). These devices use some form of thermal-absorber coating such as...

Optically extended MEMS scanning transforms imaging ladar.(SCANNERS)
July 1, 2005... Although laser radar (ladar) has been actively pursued by the military and civilian industries for decades, only recently have the techniques of optically extending the scanning range of microelectro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) mirrors made...

Optical interconnects aim for faster, smaller, cheaper, and lower power: the challenge for optical interconnects is to span shorter distances at higher speeds, with signals sent through many parallel fibers or waveguides.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS)
July 1, 2005... Optical interconnection of electronic processors is already standard inside large electronic computers, high-speed switches, and data centers. High-speed signals traveling more than five or six meters are converted into optical data streams at...

Photodetector impulse response yields eye-diagram information.(HIGH-SPEED DETECTORS)
July 1, 2005... The eye-diagram transmission pattern is a critical and commonly used measure of optical-link performance in optical networks. The eye diagram of the photoreceiver or photodetector, in particular, is a key element in determining the link budget....

Terahertz imaging brings new capabilities to QC applications: an underused part of the spectrum offers new imaging and spectroscopic abilities for nonstructive testing and quality control.(IMAGE ENGINEERING: QUALITY ASSURANCE)
July 1, 2005... Quality control on the factory floor--and the closely related activity of nondestructive testing--has long used visible imaging systems. Some applications also use infrared, ultraviolet, or x-ray wavelengths. Now, systems operating at...

Optical integration improves fiberoptic gyroscopes.(INTEGRATION)
July 1, 2005... As real-time position and trajectory guidance mature, the fiberoptic gyroscope (FOG) is becoming an important centerpiece of navigation systems. Increases in optical integration and decreases in component and manufacturing costs are driving...

Multielement laser chips spawn 'super arrays': a new laser platform--based on individually addressable single-mode laser-array modules--allows increased levels of optoelectronic integration and technical performance. Very large element arrays of high-performance single-mode lasers can be fabricated with high yield.(INTEGRATION)
July 1, 2005... Laser diodes are used for many printing applications, including the familiar laser printer that usually uses a single low-power emitter with a rotating mirror to scan the beam. High-performance printing applications, however, require high-power...

Etching facets improves manufacturing of edge-emitting lasers: edge-emitting facets for Fabry-Perot, distributed feedback, and continuous-wave lasers are typically produced by cleaving along crystalline planes. Etching the facets is an alternative approach that allows wafer-scale testing with probe cards and reduces manufacturing costs..(FABRICATION)
July 1, 2005... All laser diodes include an active layer that provides optical gain and a mechanism for providing optical feedback. For edge-emitting lasers, mirrors are typically formed by cleaving the wafer into bars and then depositing mirror coatings, as...

Solid-state laser.(new products)
July 1, 2005... The SLM-series of lasers feature single-frequency radiation from a seeded, actively Q-switched Nd:YV[O.sub.4] oscillator with a pulse repetition rate of 10 kHz. Other features include pulse duration of 12 ns with the spectral line width limited...

Aspheric cylinder lenses.(new products)
July 1, 2005... Molded cylinder lenses with aspheric profiles in a wide variety of glasses are now available with local radius of curvature from 1.5 mm and upward and lens dimensions of up to 30 [mm.sup.2]. Applications include slow-axis collimation for diode...

Beam expander.(new products)
July 1, 2005... The Zoom Beam Expander has been designed specifically for varying the beam diameter of C[O.sub.2] lasers. The zinc selenide optical elements have multiplayer antireflection coatings with maximum sufficiency of 10.6 [micro]m. Magnification is...

Composite laser structures.(new products)
July 1, 2005... Composite structures for solid-state laser amplifiers and oscillators are based on a proprietary epoxy-free bonding technology, Chemically Activated Direct Bonding (CADB). CADB results in optical paths that are 100% optically transparent with...

Spectral radiometer.(new products)
July 1, 2005... The RAD9000 spectral radiometer handles mid-wave and long-wave infrared. It consists of an electro-optics module with interchangeable detector radiometry modules. A radiometric reference module and a reference-control module are available. It...

Halogen source.(new products)
July 1, 2005... The DCR IV halogen light source integrates a 150-W halogen source, an RS232 control interface, and an Equalizer light-feedback module. It has a current-limiting DC-regulated power source, interchangeable lamp units, soft-start lamp-saver...

Fluorescence filters.(new products)
July 1, 2005... Brightline Zero fluorescence filter sets have "zero-pixel-shift" set-to-set image registration for making multicolor composite images. They are designed for applications such as collocalizaton fluorescence measurements,...

Digital line-scan cameras.(new products)
July 1, 2005... The Linear Digital Video Linescan Cameras work with any of the company's standard linear arrays, from 800 to 1700 nm, and the extended wavelength arrays from 1100 to 2200 nm. They are available with a 25- or 50-[micro]m pitch in several array...