Laser Focus World articles from June 2005

Laser Focus World archives from June 2005

It's a small world ...(editor's desk)
June 1, 2005... The global nature of photonics and optoetectronics has, I suppose, become something of a cliche--we've certainly mentioned it here often enough and have recently launched new local versions of Laser Focus World in both Japan and China. But...

Algorithm is 'search engine' for virtual 3-D objects.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2005... The modeling of 3-D objects (with surfaces consisting of many small polygons) for computer-aided design, computer graphics, and other applications gives rise to stored libraries of 3-D objects that can be drawn upon for various purposes. But a...

Quasi-single-mode fiber laser nears 2-kW output with high-quality beam.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2005... A ytterbium single-fiber laser developed by engineers at IPG Photonics (Oxford, MA) is the most powerful (1960 W) and the most intense (1300 W of that power falling within the diameter of a diffraction-limited spot) yet developed. The...

Monolithic quantum-well IR detector is sensitive up to 75 GHz.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2005... A group at the National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Ont., Canada) developing ultra-high-frequency quantum-well IR photodetectors (QWIPs) has demonstrated its latest achievement--a monolithically integrated QWIP that operates at...

Cesium gas laser is pumped with diode source.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2005... Although gas lasers can have improved beam quality with fewer thermal effects compared to flashlamp-pumped or even diode-pumped solid-state lasers, electrical discharge or optical pumping with a dye laser or discharge lamp results in these gas...

Organic-polymer optical sensor detects TNT.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2005... Semiconducting organic polymers (SOPs) are used as chemical sensors due to the fact that electron-deficient "nitroaromatics" or explosive analytes such as 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) can bind to the electron-rich SOP and quench (or inhibit) the...

Diamond on fiber endface guides fluorescence.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2005... Scientists at the University of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) have developed a chemical-vapor-deposition (CVD) technique for depositing diamond crystals on the endfaces of optical fibers. The technique allows fluorescence emission from the...

DCCFs form temperature-insensitive flattening filter.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2005... Fiberoptic spectrum-flattening filters are useful in optical-coherence tomography as well as in wavelength-division multiplexing. Conventional flattening filters based on fiber gratings, however, are sensitive to temperature fluctuations,...

Ultrafast pulses write waveguides in silicon.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2005... Silicon (Si) lasers and optical modulators have been demonstrated and promise all-Si optical integrated circuits. Another essential ingredient has been developed at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Ont., Canada) and the...

Quantum-cascade laser operates up to 400 K.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2005... The first demonstration of above-room-temperature operation of gallium indium arsenide/aluminum arsenic antimonide (GaInAs/AlAsSb) quantum-cascade lasers has been reported by scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State...

Image fusion triples resolution of color sensors.(SATELLITE IMAGING)
June 1, 2005... Yun Zhang, associate professor in the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada), has introduced an architecture for producing a triple-sensitive color digital frame...

Silver planar lens achieves super-resolution.(optoelectronics world news)
June 1, 2005... Researchers at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) have been developing silver planar lenses that have a negative real refractive index (see Laser Focus World, July 2004, p. 11). Potential negative-refractive-index (NRI)...

ASSP 2005 delves into high powers at new wavelengths.(CONFERENCE REVIEW)
June 1, 2005... The 2005 Advanced Solid-State Photonics topical meeting (ASSP; Feb. 6-9; Vienna, Austria) marked the 20th anniversary of the Optical Society of America's (USA) topical meeting that started out simply as "Tunable Solid-State Lasers" and has...

Organic thin film lases in the UV.(ORGANIC LASERS)
June 1, 2005... Laser-active solid-state materials made of organic compounds have already proven their capabilities throughout the visible spectrum. Their potential derives from intrinsic advantages such as the broad tuning range of a selected organic...

All-optical switch controls strong beams with weak ones.(OPTICAL SWITCHING)
June 1, 2005... Current schemes for all-optical switching generally require a relatively strong beam of light to induce switching in a relatively weak signal beam, according to researchers at Duke University (Durham, NC), who report they have reversed the...

Viscoelastic gratings stretch to scan light.(DIFFRACTION GRATINGS)
June 1, 2005... Researchers at the Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory at the Delft University of Technology (Delft, The Netherlands) have developed a new technique for light scanning by use of viscoelastic-based deformable phase-diffraction gratings. (1) By...

Hollow-core fibers make efficient gas cells.(PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL FIBERS)
June 1, 2005... Gas cells are used as frequency references for a variety of laser-based applications; however, these cells are usually bulky, are difficult to integrate in a practical and compact setup, and cannot easily guide light over long lengths in a...

Redirected backscattered photons boost LED efficiency.(LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES)
June 1, 2005... As they inch their way toward producing more-practical light-emitting-diode (LED) illumination sources, solid-state-lighting researchers know that even small improvements in the efficiency of white LEDs are big news. At 20 to 30 lm/W, today's...

Microscope sees slow light in waveguide.(PHOTONIC CRYSTALS)
June 1, 2005... A European collaboration has found a new way of slowing down light and has demonstrated it by making a movie of pulses traveling through the device. The group's new technique uses a photonic-crystal waveguide to slow the light and a...

Opto Ireland 2005 highlights a flourishing optics community.(CONFERENCE REVIEW)
June 1, 2005... Opto Ireland 2005 (OI05; Dublin, April 4-6), held by SPIE Europe (Cardiff, Wales), took place at one of the most historic centers of Irish science and optics: the Royal Dublin Society (RDS). The unveiling of a plaque by Minister Brian Lenihan,...

Optical nanofountain concentrates light.(QUANTUM DOTS)
June 1, 2005... In standard linear optics, it is impossible to concentrate light by a factor beyond a certain limit that is determined by the properties of the source. For example, even an ideal solar concentrator cannot concentrate sunlight by a factor of...

Kit enables chemical-free home holography.(HOLOGRAPHY)
June 1, 2005... Holograms can be easy to make. Given an optical table, a holographic setup with high-quality optical mounts, and suitable developing chemicals, your average optical researcher can turn out pretty holograms in droves. For the rest of the world,...

Tunable laser diode has ultranarrow linewidth.(SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS)
June 1, 2005... Narrow-linewidth tunable laser diodes can be of great use in spectroscopy. Given a gain medium of some spectral width, narrow-linewidth tuning is desirable across the whole gain range. Usually, narrow-linewidth operation involves additional...

Synova establishes subsidiary in Japan.(laser industry report)
June 1, 2005... To strengthen its presence within Asia, Synova (Lausanne, Switzerland) announced the opening of Synova Japan. The wholly owned subsidiary will provide localized sales and support for the company's laser systems, which span the semiconductor,...

Newport to sell robotic systems operations.(laser industry report)
June 1, 2005... Newport (Irvine, CA) plans to divest its robotic systems operations, located in Richmond, Calif. and serving the front-end semiconductor equipment industry, as they are not profitable and are no longer core to Newport's overall strategy,...

Ferranti Photonics goes into liquidation.(laser industry report)
June 1, 2005... Ferranti Photonics (Dundee, Scotland)--a 35-year veteran of the laser and optoelectronics industry--has reportedly gone under. In the April 13 edition of the Scottish newspaper "The Herald," liquidator Deloitte blamed the company's collapse on...

ITRI introduces blue-laser DVD pick-up head.(laser industry report)
June 1, 2005... The Opto-Electronics & Systems Laboratories (OES) of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI; Taipei, Taiwan) have introduced Taiwan's first self-developed blue-laser DVD pick-up head. The blue-laser DVD pick-up head conforms to the...

NP Photonics (Tucson, AZ), manufacturer of single-frequency fiber lasers, ASE sources, and interrogators for sensing, security, and general research purposes, has signed a distributor agreement.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2005... NP Photonics (Tucson, AZ), manufacturer of single-frequency fiber lasers, ASE sources, and interrogators for sensing, security, and general research purposes, has signed a distributor agreement with Ammo Engineering E.O. Ltd. in Israel.

nLight (Vancouver, WA) named Laser Lines (Industrial & Medical; Banbury, England) its exclusive distributor for the United Kingdom.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2005... nLight (Vancouver, WA) named Laser Lines (Industrial & Medical; Banbury, England) its exclusive distributor for the United Kingdom. Laser Lines will be responsible for sales and service of nLight's continuous-wave and quasi-continuous-wave...

Phoseon Technology.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2005... Phoseon Technology (Beaverton. OR), a designer and manufacturer of high-powered light sources for industrial processes, announced the completion of its $6.4 million series B financing round.

Intense.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2005... Noble Venture Finance, part of Noble Group has provided a 2.5 million [pounds sterling] (US $4.8 million) finance facility to support Intense's (Blantyre, Scotland) continued growth in laser modules and optoetectronic integration solutions.

Correction.(Also in the news ...)(Correction Notice)
June 1, 2005... In the May Laser Industry Report we reported an incorrect amount for a contract won by Aculight (Bothell. WA) under the Small Business Innovation Research program from NASA to develop a fiber-laser system for space-based UV-Raman spectrometers....

Bristol to support Burleigh interferometers.(optics industry report)
June 1, 2005... Bristol Instruments (Victor, NY), a new company founded by three former employees of Burleigh Instruments, has announced that it will provide mirrors and accessories for a variety of discontinued Burleigh Fabry-Perot interferometer products....

Jenoptik acquires majority stake in Photonic Sense.(optics industry report)
June 1, 2005... Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme (Jena, Germany), a Jenoptik subsidiary in the Photonics business division, has acquired 51% of the stock in Eisenacher Photonic Sense (Eisenach, Germany). The company specializes in the manufacture and sale of...

ITT wins contract for enhanced night-vision goggles.(optics industry report)
June 1, 2005... ITT Industries Night Vision (ITT; Roanoke, VA) announced a contract award from the U.S. Army Research, Development & Engineering Command Acquisition Center, Unique Missions Division, for Enhanced Night Vision Goggles (ENVGs). The contract has a...

Lambda Research moves to new facility.(optics industry report)
June 1, 2005... Lambda Research (Littleton, MA), an optical design and engineering firm, announced that its corporate headquarters will be relocated to a new facility. The new Lambda Research offices will be located at 25 Porter Rd., Littleton, MA 01460. A...

Tinsley Industries.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... Tinsley Industries has opened a new 30,000-sq-ft. facility in Richmond, CA, to grind and polish large mirror segments required by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Business Communications Company.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... According to a soon-to-be-released updated report, RGB-117N Non-linear Optical Materials Applications, from Business Communications Company (Norwalk, CT), the global market for nonlinear optical (NLO) materials is currently estimated at $856...

Edmund Industrial Optics.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... Edmund Industrial Optics (Barrington, NJ), a worldwide supplier of optics and optical technology, announced the release of its new European and Asia-Pacific 2005 Optics Catalogs.

Resolve Optics (Chesham, England), designer and manufacturer of innovative lenses and lens systems.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... Resolve Optics (Chesham, England), designer and manufacturer of innovative lenses and lens systems, announced that it has been issued ISO 9001:2000 certification by Quality Management Systems, an accredited third-party registrar of the...

OLED report shows Samsung tops shipments.(imaging & detector industry)
June 1, 2005... DisplaySearch (Austin, TX), a market research and consulting firm specializing in the flat-panel-display market, revealed in its Quarterly OLED Shipment and Forecast Report that the number of OLED suppliers grew from 6 in 2003 to 21 in 2004 and...

OmniVision strengthens imaging portfolio with CDM Optics.(imaging & detector industry report)
June 1, 2005... OmniVision Technologies (Sunnyvale, CA), manufacturer and marketer of single-chip CMOS image sensors for consumer and commercial applications, continues to strengthen its presence in the imaging market with the acquisition of CDM Optics...

SPIE Defense & Security Symposium shatters attendance records.(imaging & detector industry report)
June 1, 2005... A wrap-up release for the Defense & Security Symposium & Exhibition by its sponsor, the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), announced that total attendance increased 11% from last year to more than 5400 delegates, and the...

CMO licensed to use Honeywell LCD patents.(imaging & detector industry report)
June 1, 2005... Honeywell (Morris Township, NJ) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO; Tainan, Taiwan) have signed a license agreement enabling CMO to use several Honeywell technologies relating to liquid-crystal display (LCD) products. The agreement provides CMO a...

Delta Optoelectronics (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) has established Taiwan's first pilot line for producing full-color polymer light-emitting diode (P-OLED) displays using inkjet printing.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... Delta Optoelectronics (Hsin-Chu. Taiwan) has established Taiwan's first pilot line for producing full-color polymer light-emitting diode (P-OLED) displays using inkjet printing. The line is based around licensed technology developed at the U.K....

Dalsa.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... Dalsa (Waterloo, ON, Canada), maker of imaging equipment, has received contracts worth $2.9 million to supply image sensor chips to two firms in the parcel sorting sector.

FLIR Systems.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... FLIR Systems (Boston, MA) announced the launch of InfraMation 2005--an annual conference for infrared camera end users and thermography professionals.

CEDIP Infrared Systems.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... CEDIP Infrared Systems. (Croissy-Beaubourg, France), specialist in thermal IR technology, has supplied the European Space Agency with several advanced infrared camera systems enabling it to monitor and track the recent launchings of ARIANE 5.

Radiant Imaging (Duvall, WA) and Royal Philips Electronics have entered into a licensing agreement to commercialize the parousiameter.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... Radiant Imaging (Duvall, WA) and Royal Phillips Electronics have entered into a licensing agreement to commercialize the parousiameter, a novel inspection device for LEDs based on technology developed by Philips.

Universal Display (Ewing, NJ), developer of OLED technologies.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... Universal Display (Ewing, NJ), developer of OLED technologies, announced that the grand prize of the 10th annual Advanced Display of the Year award, in the Display Materials and Components category, was won by Universal Display, Nippon Steel...

Picolight raises $13 million.(fiberoptics industry report)
June 1, 2005... Picolight (Boulder, CO) raised $13 million in its latest funding round. Coral Capital Management led the round by joining previous investors, BA Venture Partners and Vesbridge Partners, to complete the new financing. The company is looking to...

TriQuint to sell its optoelectronics business.(fiberoptics industry report)
June 1, 2005... TriQuint Semiconductor (Hillsboro, OR) will sell its indium phosphide optoelectronics operation in Breinigsville, Penn. and Matamoros, Mexico, to CyOptics (Lehigh Valley, PA), an optical-components manufacturer. TriQuint says it will now...

fSONA partners with LaserBit.(fiberoptics industry report)
June 1, 2005... fSONA Systems (Vancouver, BC, Canada) and LaserBit (Budapest, Hungary) are joining forces to deliver the most comprehensive selection of optical free-space wireless products worldwide. The strategic agreement allows both companies to sell their...

Exar acquires assets of Infineon's optical-networking product line.(fiberoptics industry report)
June 1, 2005... Exar (Fremont, CA) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Infineon Technologies North America in which Exar has agreed to acquire for cash a significant part of Infineon's optical networking (ON) business unit. The...

Finisar signs agreement to acquire I-TECH.(fiberoptics industry report)
June 1, 2005... Finisar (Sunnyvale, CA), a provider of fiberoptic subsystems and network test and monitoring solutions, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire I-TECH (Eden Prairie, MN), a privately held network test and monitoring company, for...

Infonetics Research.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... The race by worldwide telecommunications carriers to roll out passive optical network (PON) fiber is creating a boom in the market, with shipments projected to jump 310% from $525 million in 2004 to $2.2 billion in 2008, according to a report...

BeamExpress.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... Producer of innovative optical transceiver/transponders used in 10-Gigabit enterprise applications, BeamExpress (Sunnyvale.CA and Lausanne, Switzerland), announced that it closed a $14.2 million funding round led by Oak Investment Partners....

ECI Telecom.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... ECI Telecom (Petah Tikva Israel) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the optical activities and technology of Eastern Communications in China for an undisclosed amount.

Scientific-Atlanta (Lawrenceville, GA) and Tropic Networks (Ottawa, ON, Canada) have reached an agreement that will allow Scientific-Atlanta to resell and support Tropic's advanced intelligent wavelength transport platform.(Also in the news...)
June 1, 2005... Scientific-Atlanta (Lawrenceville, GA) and Tropic Networks (Ottawa, ON, Canada) have reached an agreement that will allow Scientific-Atlanta to resell and support Tropic's advanced intelligent wavelength transport platform that enables cable...

Hollywood and holography: to be or not to be?(40 YEARS: THEN AND NOW)
June 1, 2005... I still have that first hologram from my freshman physics lab--a dog figurine made of seashells that was exposed on a small glass plate with a HeNe laser in a pitch-black laboratory over several minutes as all the students tried to keep still,...

Scientific tutorials reveal 'how stuff works'.(working the web)
June 1, 2005... Before the advent of the Internet, information was usually found by taking a specialized educational course, going to the library, or obtaining literature through the mail. Now, a world of information is available on the Internet, not only in...

Geographic trends will shift in global laser-diode market.(market watch)
June 1, 2005... The worldwide laser-diode market can best be described as an oligopoly; an industry of many, controlled by a few. It consists of more than 25 companies worldwide that are competing for a pie, which Strategies Unlimited (Mountain View, CA) said...

Just what the doctor ordered: systems incorporating machine vision are speeding the production of medical products.(inside imaging)
June 1, 2005... In the United States, the health-care market represents a vast, enticing opportunity for providers of medical products and services. Total health-care expenditures reached $1.7 trillion in 2003, and the health sector is one of the largest...

How can I break into optical-design consulting?(business forum)
June 1, 2005... Q: I am a capable optical designer considering consulting on the side. How do I get clients? A: You are smart to consider consulting on the side because it takes time to get enough clients to make a go of it. I was surprised to learn from...

Piezoelectric technology eases navigation in the nanoworld.(NANOPOSITIONERS)
June 1, 2005... Although seldom recognized, there is a fundamental difference between nanopositioning and micropositioning systems--the way in which they deal with friction. When friction is present, it is not possible to achieve repeatable motion at the...

'New' UV lasers resolve material and cost issues: from drilling vias in printed circuit boards to scribing brittle low-k dielectrics, solid-state UV lasers are making their mark in microelectronics.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: MICROELECTRONICS PROCESSING)
June 1, 2005... Given their unique ability to process a variety of materials with great precision and very little thermal effect, excimer lasers have become well-respected tools in the manufacture of semiconductor chips, microelectronics, and medical devices....

High power pump source for fiber lasers and material processing: material processing DPSSL pumping Fiber lasers Printing, Medicine Measurement.(ADVANCED DIODE LASER TECHNOLOGY)
June 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...

Planar photonic crystals move toward wider use.(PHOTONIC CRYSTALS)
June 1, 2005... Photonic crystals are formed by etching or constructing 2-D or 3-D arrays of shaped structures into a dielectric medium. Although by no means confined to the optical regime, when fabricated with submicron dimensions these arrays form the...

Beam shaping optics expand excimer-laser applications.(BEAMS-SHAPING OPTICS)
June 1, 2005... Excimer lasers are used in an increasingly diverse range of industrial and scientific applications because of their unique ability to deliver high pulse energies and high aver age power at UV wavelengths. However, the rectangular beam produced...

Nanoscale plasmonics begins to unravel Alzheimer's disease.(BIOSENSORS)
June 1, 2005... The advent of the "nanotechnology" era in scientific research has ushered in the development of a multitude of devices and processes on the nanometer-length scale. One of the most prominent of these is biological sensors for the diagnosis...

Will China and Japan lead photonics lead-free?(ASIA REPORT)(Cover Story)
June 1, 2005... The latest challenge facing the optoelectronics industry may turn out to be more than the typical technology market demands for "smaller, brighter, and faster" products. New requirements emerging from Europe and Asia are motivating companies to...

Microstructured fibers carve themselves specialized niches: hollow-core photonic-bondgap fibers and solid-core photonic-crystal fibers can be engineered to have properties that are unavailable in conventional fibers.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS)
June 1, 2005... Research on microstructured optical fibers is making a subtle but important transition from the basic exploration of their properties to more directed development. Enough has been learned about the interactions between guided light and the...

VCSELs emerge as low-cost alternatives to edge-emitters.(LONG-WAVELENGTH VCSELS)
June 1, 2005... Telecommunication represents one of the biggest markets for high-performance semiconductor diode lasers. Telecom applications have been traditionally dominated by the superior output power of edge-emitting devices, but vertical-cavity...

Electron-multiplying CCDs remove low-light barriers.(CCDs)
June 1, 2005... Trends in photon measurement are placing unprecedented demands on detector technology to perform at increasingly higher levels of sensitivity. Electron-multiplying charge-coupled-device (EMCCD) technology is designed to respond to this growing...

New materials boost potential of 900-nm DPSS lasers.(SOLID-STATE LASERS)
June 1, 2005... The second harmonics of solid-state 900-nm lasers show promise for a variety of applications requiring blue output, such as bio medical instrumentation, reprographics, and displays. (1) The 900-nm fundamental and the third and fourth harmonics...

Raman spectroscopic probes withstand hostile environments.(OPTICS FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENTS)
June 1, 2005... A variety of spectroscopic methods can be used to monitor chemical reactions and processes. Applications include the manufacturing of polymers, the refining of fossil fuels, and numerous other reactions of both organic and inorganic species....

Improved coatings make etalons more robust.(LITHOGRAPHIC OPTICS)
June 1, 2005... The use of Fabry-Perot etalons has significantly improved line-narrowing of lithography sources during the past seven years. Previously, optical filters and prisms were used; however, subpicometer bandwidths and high wavefront quality can only...

Quantum-dot lasers close in on their quantum-well rivals.(QUANTUM-DOT LASERS)
June 1, 2005... In comparison to quantum-well lasers, quantum-dot lasers offer the possibility of improved device performance. The electronic states of a quantum dot are fully quantized, resulting in a discrete, atomic-like density of states. For ideal,...

Improved EDFA design reduces gain error function.(OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS)
June 1, 2005... High-performance dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) optical-transport systems for long-haul (less than 800 km) and ultralong-haul (up to 4500 km) applications require many optical amplifiers in concatenation to overcome the span...

Spectrophotometer.(new products)
June 1, 2005... The QD12000 microspectrophotometer covers the UV, visible, and near-IR, and can perform spectral analysis of samples as small as 1 [micro]m. A cooled, scientific-grade CCD-array detector allows measurements as short as 1 ms with low noise....

Thin-film metrology.(new products)
June 1, 2005... The F80 line of stand-alone and integrated thin-film metrology tools generates an array of thousands of thickness readings at each measurement pad location. The arrays allow measurement pad locations to be determined with software rather than...

Dye laser.(new products)
June 1, 2005... The ScanMatePro pulsed dye laser delivers a linewidth of less than 0.08 [cm.sup.-1] J across the 320- to 860-nm tuning range of the dye. It is also available with automated etalon scanning for hands-free scanning at 0.03 [cm.sup.-1]. Total...

Blue-violet diodes.(new products)
June 1, 2005... A 405-nm blue-violet laser-diode module is designed as a complete system for OEMs. The modules produce either an elliptical output beam of 4 x 1.5 mm with power of 4 mW, or a 2-mm circular beam with power of 0.9 mW. The glass AR-coated optical...

Instrument measures insertion loss.(new products)
June 1, 2005... The new OP815 insertion-loss measurement instrument gauges single-mode or multimode fiberoptic cable assemblies. It integrates a single- or dual-wavelength source and an optical power meter in an 8.5 x 3.5 x 12-in. package. It is automated over...