Laser Focus World articles from July 2006

Laser Focus World archives from July 2006

(Optical) wonders never cease.(editor's desk)
July 1, 2006... The optical phenomena that typically provide fodder for the pages of Laser Focus World are based on natural properties often observable in the everyday world--but as science evolves to allow us to work at an increasingly smaller scale, the...

Inexpensive QWIP array sees broad IR wavelength range.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2006... A quantum-well infrared photodetector (QWIP) array developed by NASA and the Army Research Lab was the world's largest (one million pixel) IR array when the project was announced in March 2003. At that time it could only detect a narrow range...

Laser desorption of hydrogen could be boon to silicon-chip makers.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2006... Anything that smoothes the process of computer-chip manufacture even just a bit could mean millions of dollars in savings to the chip maker. Now, researchers at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN), Vanderbilt University (Nashville,...

Liquid deformable mirror targets wavefront correction.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2006... Unlike conventional deformable mirrors that rely on the deformation of a thin plate or a membrane as a result of various actuation mechanisms (electrostatic, electromagnetic, or piezoelectric), a novel liquid deformable mirror based on...

Solid-state dye laser lases continuously.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2006... Although organic solid-state dye lasers have the potential for numerous applications, to date they have only been pumped with pulsed light sources. Continuous-wave (CW) operation has not been possible because of long-lived transient absorption...

Terahertz mirror is omnidirectional and broadband.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2006... Though terahertz technology is receiving most attention for its homeland-security applications in checking people, mail, or luggage, it also has applications in short-range free-space communications. For this particular use, a high-quality...

Single-Pockels-cell regenerative cavity shortens ultrafast-pulse width.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2006... Spectra-Physics, a division of Newport (Irvine, CA) has developed and commercialized a new regenerative-cavity design for its 5 W Spitfire ultrafast amplifier. The configuration cuts the number of intracavity Pockels cells from two to one....

Laser-oscillator pulses ionize helium.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2006... Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (Heidelberg, Germany) and the University of Hannover (Hannover, Germany) have used a Ti:sapphire oscillator with an extended cavity to generate 50 fs, 0.5 J pulses at a 6 MHz repetition rate to ionize...

Broadband quantum-dot lasers approach production.(newsbreak)
July 1, 2006... An economically manufacturable, continuous-wave single-mode quantum-dot laser with spectral width in excess of 20 nm and spectral wavelength between 1200 and 1320 nm has been developed at NL Nanosemiconductor (Dortmund, Germany). Special growth...

Crack-free gallium nitride layers grow on silicon substrates.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2006... Researchers at Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS) have reported successful growth of high-quality crack-free gallium nitride (GaN) epilayers on 6-in.-diameter silicon (Si) substrates using metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition to...

Photon thrusters may enable satellite formations with nanometer accuracy.(LASERS IN SPACE)
July 1, 2006... Rather than building a monolithic satellite with a large aperture or large sample-collection area (with its associated weight and station-keeping costs), formation flying of clusters of micro-, nano-, or picosatellites is recognized as a...

Display technology grows along with industry.(optoelectronics: world news)
July 1, 2006... This year's SID 2006 annual conference (June 4-9, San Francisco, CA) provided evidence of "explosive" technological growth in several areas, according to Steve Atwood, board member of the Society for Information Display (SID) and organizer of...

Simple pulse compressor compensates for misalignment.(ULTRAFAST OPTICS)
July 1, 2006... It is not easy to maintain an ultrafast laser pulse in its pristine state. The group-delay dispersion (GDD) induced by almost all transmissive optics spreads ultrafast pulses out in time, sometimes enormously. This effect is often compensated...

Fiber laser emits from its surface.(PHOTONIC-BANDGAP LASERS)
July 1, 2006... Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA) and the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) have designed, fabricated, and characterized a photonic-bandgap (PBG) fiber laser with emission that is radially...

Hybrid assembly integrates optical devices.(OPTOELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING)
July 1, 2006... A novel hybrid assembly technique that offers a simple yet highly reliable method of integrating optical devices has been developed by CIP (the Centre for Integrated Photonics; Ipswich, England). The company, which specializes in the...

MIRTHE center aims to take mid-IR sensors to new heights.(OPTICAL SENSING)
July 1, 2006... The National Science Foundation (NSF; Arlington, VA) is funding a new R&D center at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) to develop mid-IR optical sensors for biomedical and environmental applications. Launched May 1 with $15 million in NSF...

'Saser' is resonant acoustic device.(PHONON GENERATION)
July 1, 2006... Stimulated emission and the resulting coherent amplification arising from many roundtrips of a beam in a resonant cavity are what make a laser different from a light bulb (and a maser different from common microwave sources). Researchers at the...

Ytterbium fiber laser is efficiently frequency-quadrupled.(UV LASERS)
July 1, 2006... To aid in experiments involving optical trapping of ions, researchers at Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik (Garching, Germany) investigated two-step frequency quadrupling of a ytterbium-doped fiber laser. The laser emitted 2 W at its 1118 nm...

Picosecond fiber laser targets pulsed laser deposition.(MATERIALS PROCESSING)
July 1, 2006... Ultrashort-pulsed-laser deposition performed with the plume of a picosecond fiber laser is one of many promising potential applications for emerging fiber-laser technology. Conventional materials-processing lasers, based on carbon dioxide,...

Femtosecond pulses heat matter at record rates.(EXTREME STATES OF MATTER)
July 1, 2006... Humans have learned to create extreme physical conditions rarely matched in the natural world; the realm for such achievements is more often than not the scientific lab. In one example, researchers at Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Ja pan), the...

CLEO/QELS conference delivers the right mix.
July 1, 2006... From quantum physics and fiber lasers to homeland security, biomedical optics, and materials processing, the 2006 CLEO/QELS conference (Long Beach, CA; May 22-26) offered a well-balanced mix of the "state of the art" in lasers and...

Pentagon deploys laser at Iraqi checkpoints.(laser: industry report)
July 1, 2006... According to Reuters, the U.S. military has given troops in Iraq a laser device to temporarily blind vehicle drivers who ignore warnings at checkpoints. Army Lt. Col. Barry Venable, a Pentagon spokesman, stressed that the devices do not cause...

Antisatellite laser weapon stymied.(laser: industry report)
July 1, 2006... The U.S. House Armed Services Committee deleted an ongoing Air Force effort to develop antisatellite laser weapons from the fiscal 2007 defense authorization bill. With publicly identified funding of $6.5 million a year, that effort accounted...

Automotive laser workshop gets new ownership.(laser: industry report)
July 1, 2006... The Laser Institute of America (LIA; Orlando, FL) and the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association (FMA; Rockford, IL) have purchased the Automotive Laser Application Workshop (ALAW) from founder Frank DiPietro. At its peak, the annual event...

Cutera, Palomar settle patent litigation.(laser: industry report)
July 1, 2006... Aesthetic-laser manufacturer Cutera (Brisbane, CA) will pay Palomar Medical Technologies (Burlington, MA) $22 million in royalties as part of a settlement related to hair-removal patent-infringement lawsuits with Palomar. As part of this...

Cree gets $180 million for solid-state lighting.(laser: industry report)
July 1, 2006... Cree (Durham, NC), a supplier of LED solid-state lighting components, announced that its Japanese distributor, Sumitomo, will purchase $180 million of Cree's light-emitting-diode (LED) and wafer products during Cree's fiscal year ending June...

Modulight (Tampere, Finland) received a $364,000 contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... Modulight (Tampere. Finland) received a $364,000 contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop lasers for the onboard atomic clock upgrades for a second-generation system of the European satellite navigation mission Galileo.

OccuLogix (Toronto, ON, Canada) signed a letter of intent to acquire SOLX (Boston, MA).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... OccuLogix (Toronto, ON, Canada) signed a letter of intent to acquire SOLX (Boston, MA), a privately held company that has developed a laser system for the treatment of glaucoma.

Corelase Oy (Tampere, Finland), a manufacturer of high-power fiber-laser products.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... Corelase Oy (Tampere, Finland), a manufacturer of high-power fiber-laser products, has partnered with Ergolase (Santa Clara, CA), a startup dedicated to applying emerging laser technologies to high-growth markets, to expand its U.S. presence.

IMRA America (Ann Arbor, MI) signed an agreement with Lehrstuhl fur Lasertechnik RWTH University Aachen/Fraunhofer Institut fur Lasertechnik.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... IMRA America (Ann Arbor, MI) signed an agreement with Lehrstuhl fur Lasertechnik RWTH University Aachen/Fraunhofer Institut fur Lasertechnik (Aachen, Germany for the creation of the Premier Application Laboratory to accelerate opportunities for...

American Medical Systems (Minneapolis, MN), a provider of pelvic health solutions to urologists, will pay $715 million for Laserscope (San Jose, CA).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... American Medical Systems (Minneapolis, MN), a provider of pelvic health solutions to urologists, will pay $715 million for Laserscope (San Jose, CA), developer of laser surgical treatments of obstructive benign prostatic hyperplasia.

After acquiring the outstanding shares of Quintessence Photonics in a reverse merger transaction.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... After acquiring the outstanding shares of Quintessence Photonics in a reverse merger transaction, Planning Force Sylmar, CA) has changed its name to QPC Lasers.

Sol-gel processing is a billion-dollar market.(optics: industry report)
July 1, 2006... According to a technical market report issued by BCC Research (Wellesley, MA), the U.S. market for sol-gel processing of ceramics and glass is expected to reach $500 million by 2011 at an average annual growth rate of 8.7%. The global market...

Jenoptik opens plastic-optics production center.(optics: industry report)
July 1, 2006... By changing its name to Jenoptik Polymer Systems (JPS) Wahl Optoparts is taking an important step in the new Jenoptik Group by opening a new production building for plastic optics and optical systems--the largest and most modern in Europe--in...

Barr Associates acquires OCC.(optics: industry report)
July 1, 2006... To increase its capabilities and coating capacity to better address the growing demand for products in the IR wavelength region, Barr Associates (Westford, MA) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Optical Coating (OCC;...

Ophthonix patents aberration-correcting optics.(optics: industry report)
July 1, 2006... An 11th patent awarded to Ophthonix (San Diego, CA) covers what the company says is a dramatically different approach to correcting aberrations across virtually any optical system, including telescopes, binoculars, cameras, microscopes, and...

Edmund Optics expands Korean presence.(optics: industry report)
July 1, 2006... To better serve its customers in rapidly developing Korean high-technology industries, Edmund Optics (EO; Barrington, NJ) has opened its newest division in Seoul, Korea, and introduced a Korean-language version of the Edmund Optics catalog. EO...

Spectrometer manufacturer m-u-t (Hamburg, Germany), with subsidiaries in China and the U.S.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... Spectrometer manufacturer m-u-t (Hamburg, Germany), with subsidiaries in China and the U.S., announced the latest distribution partner for the U.S. market Laser Components (Hudson NH).

Corning.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... The board of directors of Corning (Corning, NY) approved a capital expenditure plan of $174 million to further expand its Generation (Gen)-eight size liquid-crystal-display (LCD) glass substrates manufacturing capacity at its facility in...

PicoQuant.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... PicoQuant (Berlin, Germany) announced a young investigator (age 35 or below) award worth $750 for the best paper in the session "Ultrasensitive and single-molecule detection technologies (BO127)" at next year's SPIE Photonics West/ BIOS...

Northrop Grumman successfully completed a series of stringent tests lot NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sunshield membrane.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... Northrop Grumman successfully completed a series of stringent tests lot NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sunshield membrane, a five-layer structure the size of a tennis court that will block solar light and keep the observatory...

Cognex acquires AssistWare.(imaging & detector: industry report)
July 1, 2006... A supplier of machine-vision sensors and systems, Cognex (Natick, MA), has acquired AssistWare Technology (Gibsonia, PA), a privately held developer of lane-departure-warning (LDW) systems for the heavy truck market. AssistWare's LDW...

GOES-N carries e2v image sensors.(imaging & detector: industry report)
July 1, 2006... e2v technologies (Essex, England) supplied image sensors for the recently launched Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-N. GOES-N is the latest in a series of satellites that monitor Earth and space weather systems to improve...

Plextronics pitches solar to Congress.(imaging & detector: industry report)
July 1, 2006... Troy Hammond, vice president of products at Plextronics (Pittsburgh, PA), spoke to the U.S. Congress' subcommittee on energy and air quality. He addressed the opportunity for new solar technologies, such as Plextronics' Plexcore PV, to utilize...

Innovalight raises $7.5 million.(imaging & detector: industry report)
July 1, 2006... Innovalight (Santa Clara, CA), a privately held firm developing low-cost, nanotechnology-based printed solar cells, has raised an additional $7.5 million in private equity financing from existing investors to accelerate the development of...

LED backlights for TVs coming soon.(imaging & detector: industry report)
July 1, 2006... Based on in-depth analyses done by Insight Media (Norwalk, CT), it now looks as though LED backlights for TVs will be adopted much faster than previously thought. Insight Media analysts say there are several factors driving this conclusion,...

Northrop Grumman (Rolling Meadows, IL) announced that flight testing is under way for the new Electro-Optical Surveillance and Detection System.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... Northrop Grumman (Rolling Meadows, IL) announced that flight testing is under way for the new Electro-Optical Surveillance and Detection System intended for the U.K. Ministry of Defence's (NIMROD MRA-4 aircraft.

The latest listing of certified infrared training courses offered by the Infrared Training Center.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... The latest listing of certified infrared training courses offered by the Infrared Training Center (ITC) is now available at www.infraredtraining.com/ courses.

DALSA.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... DALSA (Waterloo, ON, Canada) received a contract for $1.7 million to supply high-resolution image sensor chips for a high-performance photogrammetry camera customer.

QinetiQ (Hampshire, England) and Thales Research & Technology (Berkshire, England) have been jointly awarded the initial research phase of the Decision Support System contract by the U.K. Ministry of Defence.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... QinetiQ (Hampshire, England) and Thales Research & Technology (Berkshire, England) have been jointly awarded the initial research phase of the Decision Support System contract by the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MOD) to investigate and demonstrate...

Communication market sees healthy growth.(fiberoptics: industry report)
July 1, 2006... Worldwide total telecom and datacom equipment revenue totaled $107.9 billion in 2005, and will grow 33% to $143.5 billion in 2009, according to a new market share and forecast report by Infonetics Research (Campbell, CA). "Three major...

Movaz is acquired by ADVA Optical.(fiberoptics: industry report)
July 1, 2006... ADVA Optical Networking (Martinsried/Munich, Germany) announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Movaz Networks (Atlanta, GA). The Movaz RAY product line is a portfolio of WDM transport and reconfigurable optical...

DuPont invests in ANDevices.(fiberoptics: industry report)
July 1, 2006... DuPont Photonics Technologies (Wilmington, MA), a provider of integrated optical components, has made a strategic investment in ANDevices (Fremont, CA), a supplier of planar lightwave circuit (PLC) devices. The cooperation between the two...

Global Crossing selects Infinera.(fiberoptics: industry report)
July 1, 2006... Infinera (Sunnyvale, CA) announced that Global Crossing has selected the Infinera DTN to enhance the speed and flexibility of provisioning its digital optical network. The Infinera DTN is the first optical system designed to combine scalable...

ANDA financing to help Ethernet deployments.(fiberoptics: industry report)
July 1, 2006... A venture-backed company providing carrier-class Ethernet solutions for fiber and copper-based access networks, ANDA Networks (Sunnyvale, CA) announced the closing of an additional $10.5 million round of equity funding. Given the previous six...

Liekki.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... Liekki (Lohja, Finland), a supplier of highly doped optical fibers and fiberlaser modules, was selected for the 2006 Red Herring 100 Europe Winner Award that recognizes the 100 most promising firms driving the future of technology.

Nistica.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... Nistica (Bridgewater, NJ), a developer of a new class of intelligent optical modules to enable edge networks to scale at healthy margins, has received Series A funding from several investors.

Zarlink Semiconductor (Ottawa, ON, Canada) purchased the optical I/O business of Primarion (Phoenix, AZ).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... Zarlink Semiconductor (Ottawa, ON, Canada) purchased the optical I/O business of Primarion (Phoenix, AZ), a supplier of laser driver and optical receiver integrated circuits used in multilane, parallel fiberoptic modules, for $7 million in...

Bookham (San Jose, CA), a supplier of optical components, modules, and subsystems.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2006... Bookham (San Jose, CA), a supplier of optical components, modules, and subsystems, has received the prestigious Excellent Supplier award for 2005 from Huawei, China's largest telecom equipment vendor.

An echo from the telecom boom: tunable optical filter helps IR imaging.(inside imaging)
July 1, 2006... The telecommunications boom of the late 1990s produced many venture-capital-funded startups that were intended to commercialize university research. One of them, Aegis Semiconductor (Woburn, MA), used research from Princeton University to...

Laser weapons: the future is now.(comment)
July 1, 2006... For more than 30 years, a significant focus of the government's defense science and technology program has been on the development of lasers with the power and wavefront, or beam quality, needed for eventual "beam weapons" applications. While...

Imaging spectrometers go commercial.(IMAGING SPECTROMETERS)(Cover story)
July 1, 2006... Optical technology for the imaging of our world with a complete high-resolution spectrum in every pixel has been around for more than 20 years, enabling advances in environmental monitoring, defense and security, and even medical imaging....

Metamaterials do optical wonders: arrays of many small elements spaced at subwavelength intevals can have strange optical properties, such as negative refractive index, not available from natural bulk materials.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: METAMATERIALS)
July 1, 2006... You can't always get what you want--but sometimes you can make it for yourself. Natural materials offer only a limited range of optical properties, but now a new family of artificial "metamaterials" is promising a range of optical properties...

Choosing a tunable ultrafast laser system.(TUNABLE SOURCES)
July 1, 2006... Applications of ultrafast (femtosecond and picosecond) laser systems often require the ability to tune or shift the output wavelength. Laser manufacturers have responded to this need with a wide range of interrelated products that reflect the...

Optofluidics can create small, cheap biophotonic devices.(OPTOFLUIDICS)
July 1, 2006... The term optofluidics defines an emergent research field that combines microfluidics and optics (see "Devices abound in nascent discipline" on p. 87). In many biological applications the two technologies are used in combination--microfluidics...

Optical antennae enable nanoscale microscopy and spectroscopy.(NEAR-FIELD MICROSCOPY)
July 1, 2006... Each generation of microscopes, from confocal to scanning-electron to transmission-electron, has brought better resolution, until finally atomic wavefunctions of atoms themselves are visible. However, spatial resolution alone has limited...

Biomedical sensors benefit from biodefense efforts: originally intended to detect dangerous bioagents, spectroscopic and fiberoptic sensors are making headway in the diagnosis and monitoring of disease.(OPTICAL-SENSING APPLICATIONS)
July 1, 2006... It has been nearly five years since the events of 9/11, and in that time governments worldwide have invested heavily in all things related to homeland security. Among the technologies that have benefited from this trend are optical imaging and...

Real time comes to three-dimensional ladar; single-point MEMS scanning and single-pulse flash are two approaches to real-time 3-D ladar; an interesting hybrid is being developed that combines the advantages of both.(OPTICAL-SENSING APPLICATIONS)
July 1, 2006... The "holy grail" of ladar (laser radar; see "Ladar adds dimension," p. S12) for diverse imaging applications is the realization of a small, lightweight, inexpensive, and real-time device. Conventional units cost $100,000, are 15,000 [cm.sup.3]...

Tunable QC laser opens up mid-IR sensing applications; miniaturized external-cavity quantum-cascade lasers are ready to provide tunable laser light for a new generation of mid-IR optical sensors for chemical detection and other optical-sensing applications.(OPTICAL-SENSING APPLICATIONS)
July 1, 2006... The utility of mid-IR (3 to 12 [micro]m) radiation for identifying molecules has long been known. Most molecular bonds have strong absorptions and emissions in this region at very specific frequencies. Researchers have shown that these mid-IR...

LEDs offer an attractive alternative to HID lamps in miniature projectors.(ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS DESIGN)
July 1, 2006... Ongoing development of white-light LEDs has yielded sources that offer a unique combination of high intensity, small package size, and high electrical efficiency. These LED sources, in turn, can power more-sophisticated displays, such as...

Single-photon-counting APDs operate in the near-infrared.(PHOTODIODES)
July 1, 2006... Single-photon counting poses considerable demands on detector design and fabrication. Although the actual absorption of each individual photon is a random event that obeys Poisson's distribution, a 1 W beam of 1540 nm light delivers one photon...

Voice-coil stages.(new products)
July 1, 2006... Compact voice-coil stages with up to 50.8 mm of travel are designed for motion-control applications such as scanning, lens grinding, and laser and mirror positioning. The stages provide an encoder resolution as low as 0.1 [micro]m, acceleration...

Insertion-loss measurement instrument.(new products)
July 1, 2006... The OP815D insertion-loss measurement instrument is optimized for large-core optical fibers from 100 to 1000 [micro]m, including silica and plastic optical fibers. Each unit is built to order with single-wavelength or dual-wavelength sources....

UV light systems.(new products)
July 1, 2006... The RX Starfire and RX Fireline are two new families of solid-state UV light sources for curing applications. The air-cooled, RX Starfire system is designed as a high intensity UV light bar with configurable emitting lengths. The water-cooled,...

Line-scan camera.(new products)
July 1, 2006... The new VC4002L line-scan camera has 400 MHz (3200 MIPS) DSP. It supports three integration modes, and comes equipped with 32 MB DRAM and 4 MB Flash EPHROM for program and data storage. The camera features an Ethernet and an RS232 interface....

Laser marking.(new products)
July 1, 2006... The FiberTower Desktop fiber-laser marking system has an integrated controller for the laser, z-axis, and scan head. It draws power for a 100 V AC outlet and has a spot size 90% smaller than a C[O.sub.2] laser. The air-cooled fiber laser has...

Goniometer.(new products)
July 1, 2006... The PM-GONI provides far-field luminous intensity distribution and color measurement of a range of lights. The turnkey system combines a CCD-based photometer or colorimeter with a two-axis goniometer, along with system-control,...

OEM laser.(new products)
July 1, 2006... The Wedge OEM laser emits 1.5 mJ at [less than or equal to] 1 kHz with 1.5 ns pulses at 1064 nm, providing 1 MW peak power. The compact, air-cooled, diode-pumped laser is based on an electro-optic Q-switch and is insensitive to vibrations and...

Lens mounts.(new products)
July 1, 2006... All-aluminum lens mounts hold stock lenses 20 to 75 mm simply by threading a stop ring inside the lens mount to the desired depth, then inserting the lens and fixing it in place with the retaining ring and a spanner wrench. More than one lens...

CCD lenses.(new products)
July 1, 2006... Telecentric Correctal T80 lenses for 1 in. CCDs provide magnification of 0.19x (Model S5LPJ6041), 0.21x (S5LPJ6045), 0.25x (S5LPJ6050), 0.29x (S5LPJ6060), and 0.36x (S5LPJ6075). They have distortion better than 0.2% and a working distance of...

Vertical stage.(new products)
July 1, 2006... The Model HT 03-LM vertical positioning stage has travel of 3 mm with accuracy of 2 [micro] and repeatability of 20 nm. A piezoelectric motor drives a 10:1 ratio wedge. Precision crossed roller bearings provide smooth motion and high rigidity....

Autocollimator.(new products)
July 1, 2006... The TriAngle Series High-Speed Detector electronic autocollimator has an IEEE 1394 digital interface. Depending on focal length, it provides an accuracy of from 0.2 to 2 arcsec and resolution of 0.01 to 0.1 arcsec. It makes angle measurements...

Shutter.(new products)
July 1, 2006... The NS25 Uniblitz noncontact actuation-system shutter has a 25 mm aperture and an overall diameter of 2.25 in., with only six moving parts, five of which are the shutter blades. It can be configured for bistable operation and has machined flat...

Spectroscopy software.(new products)
July 1, 2006... Version 7.3 of OMNIC software expands the capabilities of the company's FT-IR, Raman, and FT-NIR spectrometers. It includes new time-based experiment features such as 2-D and 3-D data-visualization tools and a spectral search feature. Auto...