Laser Focus World articles from June 2003

Laser Focus World archives from June 2003

Innovation creates opportunities. (editor's desk).
June 1, 2003... Many new and interesting developments are taking place in the field of laser-based materials processing. These markets involve metalworking, semiconductor and microelectronics processing, marking, and several smaller niches such as...

Semiconductor omnidirectional reflector can integrate with photonic devices. (news breaks).
June 1, 2003... Although often described in terms of one-dimensional photonic crystals, an omnidirectional thin-film reflector is, in less highflying optical terms, simply a multilayer coating whose angular high-reflectivity range for a certain wavelength band...

Lens-free optics simplify transient-grating heterodyne detection. (news breaks).
June 1, 2003... The transient grating method of optical detection can be used by materials scientists to measure molecular and lattice vibrations, acoustic waves, heat or molecular diffusion, and other phenomena of interest. In this heterodyne method, pump and...

Spider characterizes single-shot ultrafast pulses at kilohertz rates. (news breaks).
June 1, 2003... Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (Milan, Italy) have developed a method for single-shot characterization of few-cycle ultrafast optical pulses...

Magnetic field boosts terahertz radiation from indium antimonide. (news breaks).
June 1, 2003... Semiconductors irradiated with ultrafast optical pulses can function as sources of terahertz radiation. Research has shown that magnetic fields can enhance the output of such sources. Gallium arsenide and indium arsenide (InAs) both emit...

Integrated field-effect transistor modulates light. (news breaks).
June 1, 2003... Furthering the prospect of all-silicon (Si) optoelectronic integrated circuits, researchers at the University of Catania, the CNR-IMM sezione di Catania, and STMicroelectronics (all of Catania, Italy) and the CNR-IMM sezione di Napoli (Napoli,...

Fresnel fiber conducts light down central air hole. (news breaks).
June 1, 2003... Researchers at the University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) have developed a holey optical fiber that conducts light along a central air channel, but that operates on a principle different from that of photonic-crystal (PC) fibers. While PC...

Photonic crystals may become magnetic emitters. (news breaks).
June 1, 2003... Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA) are investigating the possibility of creating three-dimensional photonic crystals (PCs) that act as magnetic "metamaterials" that, though made of nonmagnetic...

Solid-state-lighting fixture stays cool. (news breaks).
June 1, 2003... A lighting fixture introduced at Lightfair International (May 6-8; New York, NY) by OptoLum (New York, NY) is one of the first to exploit the high white-light output of the Luxeon light-emitting diodes (LEDs) developed by Lumileds (San Jose,...

Cesium triborate provides efficient frequency-tripling. (news breaks).
June 1, 2003... High-quality crystals of cesium triborate (Cs[B.sub.3][O.sub.5]), or CBO) have been grown by researchers at Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) for use in generating 355-nm light as the sum frequency of 1064-nm fundamental and 532-nm...

Color sensor enables closed-loop control. (Colorimetry).
June 1, 2003... Think of a certain brand of camera film, cola, or even lawn tractor, and as likely as not a particular color will come to mind. Getting that color right is all-important in marketing a product, and is the main reason behind the development of a...

Quantum dots pave way for polymer-based optical chips. (optoelectronics: world news).
June 1, 2003... Researchers at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) have developed a hybrid plastic embedded with quantum dots that can produce coherent light in the 1.3- to 1.6-[micro]m range. (1) They believe that their work could help lead...

Embedded mirror launches pump light into cladding. (Fiber Lasers).
June 1, 2003... Rare-earth-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers are beginning to displace conventional bulk lasers in numerous existing applications, and they are enabling new applications in areas such as materials processing and chemical detection. Double-clad...

Temperature-monitoring system screens for SARS. (Infrared Imaging).
June 1, 2003... Just as happens every year with the common cold, the newly emerged Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has taken advantage of the world's airways to spring up swiftly in many places around the globe. Unlike a cold, though, SARS can be...

Ring produces stable broadband terahertz radiation. (Synchrotron Radiation).
June 1, 2003... Terahertz radiation fills the gap between the microwave boundary of about 300 GHz and the infrared boundary of about 20 THz. Despite its considerable practical potential, the terahertz region has not been used very much for spectroscopy....

Aerosense lifts some spirits. (Conference Review).
June 1, 2003... Amid general economic malaise, Aerosense 2003 (April 21-25; Orlando, FL) managed to position itself at the intersection of interesting technologies and diverse but growing markets. The boom in security and military budgets helped draw a record...

Nanocrystal array propagates light below diffraction limit. (Nanofabrication).
June 1, 2003... Feature sizes on electronic integrated-circuit chips have fallen to dimensional ranges on the order of 10 nm, while optical interconnects--bloated by relatively massive diffraction limits on the order of 250 to 300 nm--have been hard-pressed to...

Nanocrystals open window for all-optical communication. (Optical Data Storage).
June 1, 2003... Last spring, as Motorola (Austin, TX) was announcing a successful demonstration of the first 4-Mbit electronic silicon nanocrystal memory device, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA), and Intel (Santa Clara,...

Metallic corrugations narrow down slit emission. (Nanostructured Optics).
June 1, 2003... Nanostructured metallic surfaces can manipulate light in surprising ways; for example, by patterning a metal surface surrounding an aperture, the directional emission of light passing through the aperture can be altered. Researchers at the...

Bose-Einstein 'cookbook' offers recipes for the nonspecialist. (Laser Cooling).
June 1, 2003... First created about seven years ago, Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) have been studied extensively by specialists in atomic physics who have been most interested in the properties of the condensates themselves. But physicists in other fields,...

Saturable absorber relies on carbon nanotubes. (Nonlinear Optics).
June 1, 2003... A saturable absorber is a nonlinear optical material that becomes more transparent as the intensity of light falling upon it increases. Passive saturable absorbers can be integrated into laser systems to provide modelocking and into fiberoptic...

Binary phase-only SLM also encodes amplitude. (Optical Modulators).
June 1, 2003... Researchers at San Diego State University (SDSU; San Diego, CA) have developed a way of using two-level phase changes in a spatial-light modulator (SLM) to produce complex wavefronts. (1) The new technique has three major advantages over...

Nontraditional material systems may yield cheaper solar cells. (Photovoltaics).
June 1, 2003... In a traditional silicon (Si)-based solid-state photovoltaic cell--built largely upon experience gained in the semiconductor industry--very pure and hence very expensive Si is required to convert sunlight into electrons and holes, while...

Seminar digs deep into manufacturing issues. (Optoelectronics Manufacturing).
June 1, 2003... Picking up where last year's conference left off, the second annual Strategies in Optoelectronics Manufacturing Seminar (April 15-16; San Mateo, CA) took a more focused look at automation, outsourcing, cost, yield, and other issues related to...

High power, high brightness fiber-coupled diode lasers are now available. (Advanced Diode Laser Technology).
June 1, 2003... Material processing DPSSL pumping Fiber lasers Printing, Medicine Measurement...... A series of high power, high brightness, fiber-coupled laser diode devices are now available for industrial and medical applications from Apollo...

Virtual galvos give designers new options. (Scanner Design).
June 1, 2003... Learning the language of any new technology is often half the battle, according to Eric Ulmer, an applications engineer at GSI Lumonics (Billerica, MA) For example, designing a scanning system requires understanding a technical language that...

Spectral measurements reveal atomic structure in fermium. (Spectroscopy).
June 1, 2003... Originally discovered half a century ago in debris of the first hydrogen-bomb explosion, fermium has 18 known isotopes, of which fermium 257, the most stable, has a half-life of only 100 days. It took almost two years for researchers at the Oak...

Industry mourns loss of Dean Hodges. (laser industry report).
June 1, 2003... Dean Hodges, who worked for such companies as Spectra-Physics, Newport, Laser Power Optics, and Melles Griot in his 30-year career, died unexpectedly in mid-April. Hodges earned a doctorate degree from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) and began...

GSI lumonics buys spectron from medical-laser firm. (laser industry report).
June 1, 2003... In what appears to be an effort to shore up its bottom line, Lumenis (Yokneam, Israel) has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its industrial laser unit, Spectron Laser Systems (Rubgy, England), to GSI Lumonics (Billerica, MA) for $6.3...

Coherent to take over Lambda Physik. (laser industry report).
June 1, 2003... Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) plans to buy the 40% of Lambda Physik (Gottingen, Germany) it doesn't already own in a deal valued at more than $52 million. Coherent will pay about $10/share for the remaining 5.25 million Lambda shares. The offer is...

Carl Zeiss Meditec sells business units. (laser industry report).
June 1, 2003... In an effort to maintain its focus on ophthalmology, Carl Zeiss Meditec (Jena, Germany) sold its dermatological and dental laser business units to the Italian firms EL.EN and Quanta Systems, effective May 1. Both parties have agreed not to...

Boeing (St. Louis, MO) is teaming with Ball Aerospace & Technologies. (Also in the news ...).
June 1, 2003... Boeing (St. Louis, MO) is teaming with Ball Aerospace & Technologies (Boulder, CO) to develop laser communications technologies that will improve the efficiency of satellite communications by a factor of 10 or more.

IntraLase. (Also in the news ...).
June 1, 2003... Eye-laser developer IntraLase (Irvine, CA) has appointed Robert Palmisano president and CEO. In the 1990s, Palmisano built Summit Autonomous into a world-leading ophthalmic laser company and facilitated its nearly $1 billion acquisition by...

The American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS), British Medical Laser Association (BMLA), and European Laser Association (ELA) will co-sponsor a joint international meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept. 21-23. (Also in the news ...).
June 1, 2003... The American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS), British Medical Laser Association (BMLA), and European Laser Association (ELA) will co-sponsor a joint international meeting in Edinburgh. Scotland, Sept. 21-23. This is the first...

Xsil. (Also in the news ...).
June 1, 2003... Xsil (Dublin, Ireland), a provider of laser micromachining systems, has opened an office in Hsinchu, Taiwan, adding to its presence in England, United States, and Japan.

Optics startup wins business prize from Purdue. (optics industry report).
June 1, 2003... Iris AO (Berkeley, CA), a startup formed by principals from the University of Rochester (New York) and the University of California at Berkeley, won the $50,000 first prize in the inaugural Purdue University Life Sciences Business Plan...

II-VI. (Also in the news ...).
June 1, 2003... II-VI (Saxonburg, PA) has appointed Robert Ireland as vice president of sales and marketing for its infrared optics business. Ireland has more than 14 years' experience in the optics and photonics industry, most recently with Corning.

SphereOptics-Hoffman. (Also in the news ...).
June 1, 2003... SphereOptics-Hoffman (Contoocook, NH) has named Joseph Jablonski vice president of engineering, where he will be responsible for new product development and applications technical support for SphereOptics' light-measurement products.

Applied MEMS (Stafford, TX) has been selected to vacuum-package Ion Optics'. (Also in the news ...).
June 1, 2003... Applied MEMS (Stafford, TX) has been selected to vacuum-package Ion Optics' (Waltham, MA) MEMS optical gas sensors.

'Nanoprobe' will incorporate OCT to detect and treat tumors. (optics industry report).
June 1, 2003... A University of California-Irvine (Irvine, CA) research team has received a five-year, $2.9 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop a microscopic probe for detecting and treating precancerous and malignant tumors in humans....

Adaptive optics enhance ground-based telescopes. (optics industry report).
June 1, 2003... Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have successfully tested a device that corrects for the distortions introduced into an astronomical image by the turbulence of Earth's atmosphere. Although not the first device of its...

Optical tweezers may help the hard of hearing. (optics industry report).
June 1, 2003... Corne Kros, a University of Sussex (England) neuroscientist, has been awarded a $1.3 million grant by the Medical Research Council to use laser tweezers to search for the cause of deafness by looking at hair cells in the ear. A new $196,000...

Coreco and Cantronic develop SARS detection system. (imaging & detector industry report).
June 1, 2003... Coreco Imaging (Montreal, Quebec), a developer of high-performance machine-vision products, and Cantronic Systems (Vancouver, British Columbia) have jointly developed and deployed thermal-imaging systems for use in the fight against SARS...

Equinox wins NASA contract for Mars imager. (imaging & detector industry report).
June 1, 2003... Equinox Interscience (Golden, CO) has been awarded a $1.3 million contract from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop a mineral identification and composition analyzer (MICA) for use on future Mars missions. MICA will combine multiple...

Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) has secured an order for its polymer light emitting diode technology from L-3 Communications' Display Systems Division (Alpharetta. Ga.). (Also in the news ...).
June 1, 2003... Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven. The Netherlands) has secured an order for its polymer light emitting diode technology from L-3 Communications' Display Systems Division (Alpharetta. Ga.), an integrator of avionic displays. Under terms of...

Intertech. (Also in the news ...).
June 1, 2003... Due to ongoing concerns about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Intertech (Portland, ME) has decided to postpone its OLEDs ASIA 2003 conference. The conference, which was scheduled for June 16-18 in Shanghai. has been rescheduled for...

Raytheon to design imager for DARPA. (imaging & detector industry report).
June 1, 2003... Raytheon Company's Space and Airborne Systems (Lexington, MA) was awarded an $8 million cost plus fixed fee contract to design and demonstrate the world's first Synthetic Aperture LADAR Tactical Imager (SALTI). SALTI will provide the first...

AU Optronics and UDC demonstrate OLED advance. (imaging & detector industry report).
June 1, 2003... AU Optronics (Taipei, Taiwan) has fabricated a low-power consumption, full-color active-matrix organic LED display combining its proprietary amorphous silicon (a-Si), thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane technology with the phosphorescent OLED...

LEDs find niche in aesthetic market. (imaging & detector industry report).
June 1, 2003... At least two companies are now offering LED-based systems for use in aesthetic applications, competing with more expensive laser-based systems for the treatment of wrinkles and acne. Enfis (Swansea, England) has developed proprietary...

Avanex buys Corning, Alcatel components businesses. (fiberoptics industry report).
June 1, 2003... Taking advantage of the "fire sale" mindset of many optical-components companies, Avanex (Fremont, CA) has scored two key acquisitions that will turn the firm into a major player in the optical-networking industry. Avanex is buying the optical...

Tellabs (Naperville, IL) plans to acquire privately held Vivace Networks (San Jose, CA). (Also in the news ...).
June 1, 2003... Tellabs (Naperville, IL) plans to acquire privately held Vivace Networks (San Jose, CA), a four-year-old developer of multiservice IP edge switches, for $135 million in cash and employee stock options.

Avalon Photonics. (Also in the news ...).
June 1, 2003... Avalon Photonics (Zurich, Switzerland) raised 4.78 million [euro] ($5.5 million) in venture funding in its second round of financing. The company, which was spun out from the Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microelectronics, in 2000, added two...

JDS Uniphase (Ottawa, Ontario and San Jose, CA) has selected the LabVIEW graphical development software package from National Instruments (Austin, TX) for its MAP fiberoptic instrumentation platform. (Also in the news ...).
June 1, 2003... JDS Uniphase (Ottawa, Ontario and San Jose, CA) has selected the Lab-VIEW graphical development software package from National Instruments (Austin, TX) for its MAP fiberoptic instrumentation platform. According to the companies, MAP and LabVIEW...

More optical-switch firms close their doors. (fiberoptics industry report).
June 1, 2003... Following in the footsteps of companies such as Nortel, Lucent, Corning, and Alcatel, which have fled the optical-switching market, and OMM, which went under earlier this year, Network Photonics (Boulder, CO) and Transparent Photonics...

Ciena wins patent verdict in Corvis lawsuit. (fiberoptics industry report).
June 1, 2003... A jury for U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware issued a verdict in favor of Ciena (Linthicum, MD) in its litigation against Corvis for patent infringement. The jury found that Corvis' CorWave system infringes Ciena's US Patent...

Post-deadline papers show commercial edge: trends in research reporting can foreshadow technology markets. (WDM Solutions).
June 1, 2003... If the "hero" experiments that dominate conference post-deadline papers were an exact predictor of market trends, then we could soon expect to see carriers deploy all-optical 160 Gbit/s systems. Of course that's not the purpose of the papers or...

Does pickup in funding mean recovery is near? (business forum).
June 1, 2003... Q: Given that some startup companies are getting significant next-round funding, is that an advanced indication that the telecom recovery is near? A: I don't have a crystal ball, I don't want to legitimize speculations by regurgitating...

Birefringence helps analyze optical telecom components. (Software & computing).
June 1, 2003... Optical designers are using the properties of birefringence found in uniaxial optical crystals to control light in a wide range of applications. Applications for telecommunication equipment include optical isolators, circulators and optical...

Specialty-fiber innovations benefit fiber lasers: recent advances in diode pump lasers and specialty fiber are pushing fiber lasers to the forefront of solid-state laser applications. (Fiber Lasers).
June 1, 2003... The rapid advances being made in the development of fiber lasers are leading to fiber-laser specifications that closely match those of traditional lasers. As a result, the next 18 months could see fiber lasers being deployed onto the...

Sensors and lasers map ebb and flow of ocean life: from carbon fixing to whale watching, optical sensors and lidar are helping scientists better understand the delicate balance of marine ecosystems. (Optoelectronic applications: remote sensing).
June 1, 2003... World events over the last two years have shifted much of the focus in remote sensing to security and defense applications. But advances in remote data-collection technologies and data-processing software are also expanding in environmental...

Machine vision detects conterfeit coins. (Optical Pattern Recognition).
June 1, 2003... Machine-vision system have become indispensable in many industries because of the efficiency advantages offered by digital image processing and optical recognition. Optical recognition is based on assigning classes or names to objects using...

Advanced instrumentation controls vibrations for better precision. (Isolation Equipment).
June 1, 2003... All buildings vibrate, whether from machinery, heating and ventilation equipment, moving vehicles, human traffic, heavy weather, or a combination of these factors. Although usually not even noticed by people, these vibrations cannot be...

European firms take the lead in high-precision micromachining applications: as they become more robust, compact, and affordable, nanosecond, femtosecond, picosecond, and even excimer lasers are finding their niche in drilling, cutting, trimming, marking, scribing, and etching an increasingly wide variety of materials. (European Report).
June 1, 2003... Given its long history as a dominant force in the machine-tool and materials-processing industries, it should come as no surprise that Europe is also at the forefront of micromachining technology and applications. A number of advances in...

Multiple-wave length sources, may be the next generation for WDM: while tunable lasers simplify network stocking and sparing, some developers are looking beyond tunable sources to multiple-wavelength devices. (Optical networking: multiwavelength sources).
June 1, 2003... Wavelength-division multiplexing normally requires a separate light source for each wavelength. Tunable lasers don't eliminate that requirement; they just simplify the logistics of stocking and sparing separate parts for each wavelength. Some...

Designer filters rely on metal mesh: infrared filters fabricated from metal grids allow easy tailoring of the filters' optical properties. (IR Optics).
June 1, 2003... Infrared (IR) filters are used to help define the wavelength response of IR instruments. Like any good filters, to be effective they need sharply defined spectral shapes with high in-band transmission (or blocking in the case of band-blocking...

Cerium lasers provide directly tunable ultraviolet light. (Solid-State UV Lasers).
June 1, 2003... A host of spectroscopic applications within fields such as atmospheric sensing and combustion diagnostics require tunable ultraviolet (UV) laser sources. Typically, outputs at such wavelengths are achieved via the relatively complex process of...

Accumulation-mode readouts benefit interline CCD users. (Charge-Coupled Devices).
June 1, 2003... Pixel count is an important criterion in the digital still camera (DSC) market. Increasing the number of pixels provides better resolution, clarity, and the ability to print out large-format images. However, the benefits of higher-resolution...

Wide and smooth: parametric conversion, in a variety of forms, produces high-quality coherent light over an extremely wide tuning range. (Back to basics: nonlinear optics).
June 1, 2003... Simple manipulations of the governing equations of nonlinear optics (NLO) often yield insight into new physical effects. Consider second-order effects that result from combining two beams of light at frequencies [[omega].sub.1] and...

Picking chips: a comparison of chip-based optical amplifiers: three distinct types of optical amplifiers-on-a-chip are available. Knowledge of their structure and performance differences helps the network designer choose the between them. (Optical Amplifiers).
June 1, 2003... The mantra of telecommunications providers--lower cost, smaller size, and lower power--is pushing optical components manufacturers to move quickly toward higher levels of integration. And high levels of integration, either hybrid or monolithic,...

Matched detector and source benefits system sensitivity: of the many routes to improving the signal-to-noise ration of a detection system, matching the spectral response of the detector to the emission spectrum of the source is one of the more effective. (Photomultiplier Tubes).
June 1, 2003... There is a golden rule for light-detection instrumentation that is often forgotten--get the signal up. Although reducing the background (another term for unwanted signal) is undoubtedly worthwhile, the best return lies in finding ways to...

Software tools speed optical thin-film design: the basic software tools available for the optical thin-film designer can be analyzed using six categories: environment, materials, design, analysis, refinement, and manufacture. (Thin-Film Design).
June 1, 2003... Thin-film-design software packages have become very powerful and versatile in the last ten years. With the many options now available, it is helpful to review some of the software tools and the advantages they offer to the thin-film designer....

Multispectral camera. (new products).
June 1, 2003... The MS3100 three-CCD camera acquires three channels of 1392 x 1040 (4.3 million) pixel images. It operates at frame rates up to 7.5 f/s and is available in two spectral configurations--RGB for color imaging and color-infrared, approximating...

Scan head. (new products).
June 1, 2003... The intelliSCAN 10 is a scan head with the galvanometers driven by digital servo amplifiers instead of analog electronics. It allows real-time monitoring of all important galvo status parameters, such as position, speed, and amplifier current....

CW diode lasers. (new products).
June 1, 2003... The diode lasers in the F2 series are two-pin, fiber-coupled, single-stripe CW devices with center wavelengths from 790 to 980 nm. Output power ranges from 625 mW to 2.4 W, delivered through a 1-m-long multimode fiber terminated with an SMA...

850-nm VCSELs. (new products).
June 1, 2003... The ZL6001/2 series includes 850-nm oxide-confined VCSELs that integrate a patent-pending optical system that minimizes variations in the optical far field when current and temperature change. The devices operate at up to 3.1 Gbit/s and are...

Avalanche photodiodes. (new products).
June 1, 2003... The S8890 series of silicon avalanche photodiodes cover the 400- to 1100-nm spectral response range, with a peak sensitivity of 67 A/W at 940 nm. Depending on the device, dark current ranges from typically 0.2 to 15.0 nA. They have a terminal...

Fiberoptic probe. (new products).
June 1, 2003... Versaprobe is a fiberoptic probe that uses a disposable sleeve to eliminate the need for cleaning between measurements. Replacing tips also eliminates the possibility of any carryover. The disposable quartz top can be used in almost any...

Lens-testing system. (new products).
June 1, 2003... OpticStudio is a testing system that qualifies the performance of a variety of optical lenses, from molded plastic to diffraction limited objectives. It includes a collimator section to create a diffraction-limited wavefront, a high-intensity...

Fiber-alignment system. (new products).
June 1, 2003... The AlFiber3000 fiberoptics-alignment system is configurable for fiber-to-device, multifiber-to-device, and multifiber-to-device-to-multifiber alignment. It includes imaging, motion control, and data acquisition and offers a scan rate of 300...

Tunable diodes. (new products).
June 1, 2003... The NX8570 and NX8571 series of NEC wavelength-tunable DFB laser-diode modules are designed to serve as CW light sources in fiberoptic transmission systems that use external modulators. They feature integrated Etalon filters and wavelength...

Label-reader. (new products).
June 1, 2003... iLabel is a machine-vision system that checks placement and quality of labels on packaged goods. It can inspect 300 labels/min. in sizes from 2.5 to 25 cm, and keeps a history of good and bad label images. It takes inspection statistics and can...

Fiber test boxes. (new products).
June 1, 2003... Test fiber boxes in a rack-mount implementation can be used for network simulation, equipment testing and calibration, measurement enhancements for OTDRs, and other laboratory applications. Single-mode and multimode fiber (50 and 62.5 [micro]m)...

Beam profiler. (new products).
June 1, 2003... The NanoScan beam profiler provides submicron accuracy for beam width and pointing measurements. Integrated software provides analysis of single and multiple beams and controls scan speed. Silicon, germanium, and pyro-electric detectors are...

Fiber fusion splicer. (new products).
June 1, 2003... The S121A optical-fiber fusion splicer is a palm-top device that weighs 980 g and comes with a camera-type case and shoulder strap. It performs splices at the press of a button in 13 s. It can operate on battery power or main current. A CCD...