Laser Focus World articles from June 2007

Laser Focus World archives from June 2007

QKD experiment uses entangled photon pairs.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2007... Although entangled-photon pairs have been generated in the 1550 nm telecommunications band within optical fiber for research into secure quantum-key distribution (QKD), previous experiments have only estimated the quantum bit-error rate (QBER)...

Moldable glass spectrally spans from UV to mid-IR.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2007... Although moldable glasses that span the long-wavelength IR (6 [micro]m and longer) and UV-to-near-IR range (0.3 to 2 [micro]m) are available, moldable glasses extending out to mid-IR wavelengths of 2 to 6 [micro]m are more difficult to...

Thermoreflectance imager sees microscopic IC features through silicon.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2007... Visualizing hot areas in integrated circuits (ICs) at microscopic scales can be key to identifying potential underperformance or failure. Thermoreflectance measurement, in which local reflectivity changes induced by heating are monitored, is...

Portable laser scanner preserves dinosaur tracks.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2007... Fading tracks made by the Cretaceous dinosaurs--including sauropods and possibly predatory theropod dinosaurs--that were unearthed in a quarry to the north of Barcelona, Spain, have been digitally preserved by researchers from the University of...

New quantum-dot recipe may yield more-efficient solar cells.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2007... Cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots with a four-legged, or tetrapod, structure are particularly effective at converting sunlight into electrical energy, according to previously reported research, but chemical recipes for producing CdSe...

Diamond anvils and laser pulses may create pressures comparable to those at Jupiter's core.(newsbreaks)
June 1, 2007... Combining a diamond anvil with kilojoule-level laser pulses, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, CA), New Mexico State University (Las Cruces), and...

Laser filament creates long-lived conducting 'wire' in air.(newsbreak)
June 1, 2007... Using the Teramobile Ti:sapphire mobile chirped-pulse-amplification femtosecond laser (see www.laserfocusworld. com/articles/221432), French researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau), CNRS (Villeurbanne), and SNCF (Vitrysur-Seine) have...

Microfabricated saturation-absorption spectrometer rivals tabletop performance.(newsbreak)
June 1, 2007... Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Boulder, CO) have fabricated a prototype saturation-absorption spectrometer that is about the size of a green pea and consists of miniature optics, a microfabricated vapor...

Photonic-crystal laser leverages quantum-dot layer.(newsbreak)
June 1, 2007... Researchers at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA), the University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX), and the University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL) have demonstrated the first edge-emitting photonic-crystal (PC)...

Confocal microscopy sees large surface area.(MICROSCOPY)
June 1, 2007... Minimally invasive microscopy techniques can reduce the need for excisional biopsy, particularly if the technique can image a large tissue area. While reflectance confocal microscopy has been demonstrated in patients, the field of view remains...

Theodore Maiman, 79, laser inventor, dies.(optoelectronics world news)(Obituary)
June 1, 2007... May 16 marked the 47th anniversary of the invention of the first working laser. Good friends of its inventor, Theodore (Ted) H. Maiman, gathered on that day at Simon Fraser University (SFU; Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada) to celebrate the...

Coronagraph can image an exo-Earth.(ASTRONOMY)
June 1, 2007... Is there life beyond Earth? This is one fundamental question that science may one day be able to answer. Efforts such as NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) mission, designed to find Earthlike extrasolar planets and capture their light for...

Secondary cores in holey fibers produce multicolor output.(MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS)
June 1, 2007... A holey-fiber-based white-light source developed by researchers at the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (Southampton, England) produces red and blue sidebands from green input light, resulting in an RGB...

Process integrates active and passive polymers.(PLASTIC OPTICS)
June 1, 2007... Successful lab-on-a-chip sensors that incorporate solid-state polymer lasers with large free-spectral-range values require that the associated polymer gratings in the laser cavity have subwavelength features (on the order of 100 nm). Although...

Ultrafast-laser methods reveal electrons tunneling in real time.(ATTOSECOND PHYSICS)
June 1, 2007... Just over four decades ago, Leonid Keldysh predicted that ionization of atoms in strong electromagnetic fields occurs via a quantum process in which electrons overcome the attractive force of the nucleus by tunneling through atomic potential...

Fluorescent dyes recover after eight hours of rest.(TWO-PHOTON FLUORESCENCE)
June 1, 2007... A broad range of applications that include optical switches for telecommunications, high-power light sources, and numerous optical-fiber and display devices could benefit from more-robust optical materials that either do not degrade or degrade...

All-solid bandgap fiber has low loss, high bandwidth.(PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS)
June 1, 2007... A new type of all-solid photonic-bandgap fiber (PBGF) with low loss and high bandwidth has been developed by researchers at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Yangtze Optical Fiber and Cable Company (Wuhan, China). (1) While the...

Plasma mirrors generate high harmonics.(ULTRAFAST LASERS)
June 1, 2007... For many researchers working with high-intensity lasers, plasma formation is often bad news. For others, it's an enabling step for putting their laser systems to good use, in the form of so-called plasma mirrors. Now, collaborators at CEN...

IR laser probe detects tooth defects earlier.(DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING)
June 1, 2007... Dentists may soon be able to search for cavities using a painless diode-laser-based technique that can detect cracks or defects at a very early stage and thus help prevent tooth decay. A newly developed laser device that uses thermal radiation...

Fiber design combines short pulses with high repetition rate and high beam quality.(FIBER AMPLIFIERS)
June 1, 2007... Numerous laser applications require nanosecond-duration pulses with high repetition rate (1 to 100 kHz), moderate pulse energy (0.1 to 10 mJ), linear polarization, and diffraction-limited beam quality. Examples include materials processing,...

Slow light boosts electro-optic effect in lithium niobate.(NONLINEAR OPTICS)
June 1, 2007... By adding a photonic-crystal (PC) structure to lithium niobate (LN) to slow light within the material, researchers at the Institute-Femto-ST (Besancon, France) drastically enhance the electro-optic effect, producing a miniature modulator that...

Tuning fork and polymer wire sense IR light.(INFRARED IMAGING)
June 1, 2007... Creating the potential for lower-cost infrared sensors and arrays, researchers at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) have developed a thermomechanical sensor based on a 250 [micro]m length of 1-[micro]m-diameter polymer wire stretched taut...

Single quantum dot controls micron-size solid-state laser.(MICRODISK LASERS)
June 1, 2007... Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, MD), Stanford (Palo Alto, CA) and Northwestern (Evanston, IL) Universities have built micron-size solid-state lasers in which a single quantum dot can play a...

CVI agrees to acquire Melles Griot.(industry report: laser)
June 1, 2007... CVI (Albuquerque, NM) signed an agreement with Barloworld Scientific to acquire Melles Griot (Carlsbad, CA). The acquisition brings together two leaders in optical and laser technology. "The Melles Griot acquisition is a significant...

Queen's Award goes to Rofin-Sinar U.K.(industry report: laser)
June 1, 2007... Rofin-Sinar U.K. (Hull, England) has won the Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation. The Queen's Award is one of the U.K.'s most prestigious awards for business performance and recognizes companies that have demonstrated commercial success...

IMRA donates to OSA.(industry report: laser)
June 1, 2007... The Optical Society of America (OSA) Foundation (Washington, D.C.) received its largest corporate donation ever from fiber-laser manufacturer IMRA America (Ann Arbor, MI). The company's $10,000 gift will be used to support the foundation's...

LBO, Displaytech partner on laser projectors.(industry report: laser)
June 1, 2007... Light Blue Optics (LBO; Cambridge, England), developer of miniature holographic laser projection systems, announced an exclusive development partnership with microdisplay manufacturers Displaytech (Longmont, CO). Displaytech will develop and...

High-power laser maker acquired by Coherent.(industry report: laser)
June 1, 2007... Coherent acquired privately held Nuvonyx (St. Louis, MO), a manufacturer of high-power (in excess of I kW) laser-diode components, arrays, and industrial laser systems for materials-processing and defense applications. According to Coherent,...

Newport ships fiber-laser system.(industry report: laser)
June 1, 2007... The Fiber Laser Business Group of Newport (Irvine, CA) shipped the first units of a new laser system based on its fiber technology platform to select international customers. The laser system operates in the ultraviolet wavelength range....

SemiNex.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... SemiNex (Middleton. MA). a provider of laser diodes for the medical, military, and communications markets, completed funding for its first round of expansion financing.

Universal Laser Systems.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... Universal Laser Systems (ULS: Scottsdale, AZ), a designer and manufacturer of C[O.sub.2] lasers and laser systems, doubled the size of its U.S.-based headquarters by expanding into a second building.

Ondax (Monrovia. CA) appointed Photonic Products (Hatfield Broad Oak, England) as authorized European distributor.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... Ondax (Monrovia. CA) appointed Photonie Products (Hatfield Broad Oak. England) as authorized European distributor for its wavelength-stabilized laser diodes.

IPG Photonics.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... Fiber-laser manufacturer IPG Photonics (Oxford, MA) opened an office in Beijing, China. to provide local support and service for its fiber lasers and amplifiers.

Ionatron.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... Ionatron (Tucson. AZ) is establishing a new organization in St, Louis. MO. that will focus on the development of specialty lasers for defense customers.

Onefive (Zurich. Switzerland), a supplier of ultrafast and tunable narrow-linewidth laser modules, appointed M Square (Tokyo, Japan) as its distributor in Japan.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... Onefive (Zurich. Switzerland), a supplier of ultrafast and tunable narrow-linewidth laser modules, appointed M Square (Tokyo, Japan) as its distributor in Japan and Market Tech (Scotts Valley, CA) as its distributor in North America.

Phast/LFW Innovation Award goes to Thorlabs.(industry report: optics)
June 1, 2007... The Photonic Applications, Systems and Technologies (PhAST) Conference and Laser Focus World are pleased to announce that Thorlabs (Newton, NJ) is the recipient of this year's PhAST/Laser Focus World Innovation Award--an awards program that...

Societies work together to launch scitopia.org.(industry report: optics)
June 1, 2007... The Optical Society of America (OSA; Washington, D.C.) has joined 12 of the world's leading science, engineering, and technology societies to create direct access to their collective content through scitopia.org, a free vertical search portal...

Corning to invest in new R&D facility.(industry report: optics)
June 1, 2007... The board of directors of Corning (Corning, NY) has approved a $300 million facility-improvement plan for the company's Sullivan Park Research and Development campus. This plan is consistent with the company's goals for growth from a broadened...

Thorlabs partners in aspheres.(industry report: optics)
June 1, 2007... Asphericon (Jena, Germany) and Thorlabs are cooperating in selling offthe-shelf aspheric optics. Thorlabs will list asphericon's Standard Precision Aspheres (SPA) in its new catalog. "We appreciate the excellent reputation of the popular...

Spectral gas-sensing instrument completed.(industry report: optics)
June 1, 2007... Synodon (Edmonton, AB, Canada) completed manufacturing of the first field-deployable realSens instrument--an advanced natural-gas-pipeline leak-detection system based on correlation spectroscopy technologies developed under the Canadian Space...

SAES Getters (Milan, Italy) has sued Innovative Micro Technology (IMT: Santa Barbara, CA) for patent infringement.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... SAES Getters (Milan, Italy) has sued Innovative Micro Technology (IMT: Santa Barbara, CA) for patent infringement, complaining that IMT infringes its patent for PageWafer getter deposition services for wafer-level packaging of...

NuSil Technology (Carpinteria, CA), a manufacturer of silicone-based optical materials for healthcare, aerospace, electronics, and photonics, appointed Huntsman Quimica Brasil as its exclusive distributor in Brazil.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... NuSil Technology (Carpinteria, CA), a manufacturer of silicone-based optical materials for healthcare, aerospace, electronics, and photonics, appointed Huntsman Quimica Brasil as its exclusive distributor in Brazil: Nusil was also granted a...

ReVision Optics.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... ReVision Optics (Lake Forest, CA) a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of implantable products to correct and maintain vision, successfully raised $25 million in a Series D financing round.

Belarus and India will set up a laser-optical center in New Delhi.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... Belarus and India will set up a laser-optical center in New Delhi, which will operate as a part of the defense industry system of India, according to a notice on the National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus.

Spinoff focuses on IR detectors.(industry report: imaging & detector)
June 1, 2007... Acreo is spinning off its successful infrared detector activity to a separate company, IRnova (both in Kista, Sweden). IRnova is based on Acreo's experience in development and production of quantum-well infrared photodetectors (QWIP). IRnova...

Grant awarded for organic solar cells.(industry report: imaging & detector)
June 1, 2007... Plextronics (Pittsburgh, PA), a developer of active-layer technology for electronic devices, was awarded a $340,500 grant from the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center to focus on the continued development of Plexcore PV...

3-D images improve solar forecasting.(industry report: imaging & detector)
June 1, 2007... NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites provided the first 3-D images of the Sun, aiding scientists' ability to understand solar physics and thereby improving space weather forecasting. STEREO can see the Sun in...

Seiko and Nemoptic ink e-paper agreement.(industry report: imaging & detector)
June 1, 2007... Nemoptic (Magny les Hameaux, France), an e-paper display company for consumer and professional handheld devices, has agreed to subcontract its manufacturing to Seiko Instruments (SII; Akita, Japan). Nemoptic will grant SII access to its BiNem...

PerkinElmer gains 3-D cell-imaging capability.(industry report: imaging & detector)
June 1, 2007... With its acquisition of Improvision (Coventry, England) in a cash transaction, health-sciences and photonics technology developer PerkinElmer (Waltham, MA) has acquired 3-D medical-imaging capabilities. Improvision, a provider of...

Partnership seeks real-time imaging.(industry report: imaging & detector)
June 1, 2007... Neptec Design Group (Ottawa, ON, Canada), a leader in 3-D vision systems, is partnering with Terrapoint (Nepean, ON, Canada), a light detection and ranging (lidar) technology company, to generate new intelligent scanning systems. Under the...

Hinds Instruments (Hillsboro, OR), a supplier of photoelastic modulators (PEMs), is working closely with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL; Pasadena. CA).(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... Hinds Instruments (Hillsboro, OR), a supplier of photoelastic modulators (PEMs), is working closely with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL; Pasadena. CA) to integrate spectropolarimetric sensing into a candidate next-generation...

Photon Dynamics (San Jose, CA), a supplier of solutions for the flat-panel display market, and Salvador Imaging (Colorado Springs, CO), a supplier of high-performance digital cameras formed a new venture named Salvador Systems.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... Photon Dynamics (San Jose, CA), a supplier of solutions for the flat-panel display market, and Salvador Imaging (Colorado Springs, CO), a supplier of high-performance digital cameras formed a new venture named Salvador Systems, a Photon...

Avanex launches 3S Photonics.(industry report: fiber optics)
June 1, 2007... Next-generation optical networks provider Avanex (Fremont, CA) finalized the sale of its French subsidiary, Avanex France, to its director Didier Sauvage and Global Research Company, held by Alexandre Krivine. Based in Marcoussis, France,...

Northrop Grumman consolidates gyro business.(industry report: fiber optics)
June 1, 2007... Northrop Grumman is in the process of closing two of its Navigation Systems Division facilities--one in Canton, MA, and the other in Westwood, MA (formerly Fibersense Technology). In January the company told employees at these facilities--which...

OSA & Corning sponsor communications award.(industry report: fiber optics)
June 1, 2007... The Optical Society of America (OSA) Foundation (Washington, DC) and Corning (Corning, NY) announced the establishment of a new student award competition. Created to recognize future leaders in the field of optical communications and made...

BOREAS-Net selects Infinera.(industry report: fiber optics)
June 1, 2007... The Broadband Optical Research, Education, and Sciences Network (BOREAS-Net)--a collaboration of major research institutions in the Midwest--selected Infinera (Sunnyvale, CA) for a regional optical network in the Upper Midwest. BOREAS-NET aims...

Discovery detectors selected for research.(industry report: fiber optics)
June 1, 2007... Discovery Semiconductors (Ewing, NJ) provided balanced photoreceivers to the University of Kiel (Kiel, Germany) for Kiel's research on multilevel modulation formats for high-speed optical communications. Werner Rosenkranz's group at the...

Yokagawa Electric and Fujitsu Limited (both in Tokyo, Japan) announced the joint development of the world's first practical 40 Gbit/s optical transmission technologies.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... Yokogawa Electric and Fujitsu Limited (both in Tokyo, Japan) announced the joint development of the world's first practical 40 Gbit/s optical transmission technologies using differential quadrature phase-shift keying (DQPSK) modulation...

Sterlite Optical Technologies' (Pune, India) complete range of optical fibers were tested by the Institute of Testing & Certification.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... Sterlite Optical Technologies' (Pune, India) complete range of optical fibers were tested by the Institute of Testing & Certification (ITC; Zlin, Czech Republic) and were certified as compliant with the applicable requirements of the European...

SIFAM Fibre Optics.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... SIFAM Fibre Optics (Torquay, England) has shipped one million fused optical-fiber components....

Optiwave Systems.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... Optiwave Systems (Ottawa, ON, Canada), provider of optical component and system design tools, released OptiSystem 6.0 to facilitate the simulation and design of emerging optical communication technologies....

CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, selected Fujikura (Tokyo, Japan) radiation-resistant single-mode optical fiber to provide communication links within the world's largest particle accelerator.(Also in the news ...)
June 1, 2007... CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, selected Fujikura (Tokyo, Japan) radiation-resistant single-mode optical fiber to provide communication links within the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)...

As applications increase, so does need for training.(software & computing)
June 1, 2007... In the beginning there was light, which was followed shortly thereafter by humans who desired to control it. The humans invented optics, which is now spreading rapidly into numerous areas of science and engineering that require a controlled...

Neural networks speed image classification: neutral nets open new realms for machine-vision hardware and software.(inside imaging)
June 1, 2007... In a 1958 paper in Psychological Review, Frank Rosenblatt described the first neural network capable of learning through a simple reinforcement rule. The network learned by changing the weight applied to the input signal by an amount...

European photonics: should we be worried? Is the European Union's [Photonics.sup.21] technology platform enough to ensure that Europe remains competitive in the global photonics community? Perhaps not, suggest some industry leaders.(EUROPEAN REPORT)(Cover story)
June 1, 2007... More than 200,000 jobs throughout Europe are directly dependent on photonics. With two million total jobs at stake, this represents about 16% of the working European population. As in other parts of the world, photonics in Europe directly...

Frequency combs achieve extreme precision: viewed in the frequency domain, trains of femtosecond pulses become regularly spaced spikes at a series of discrete frequencies, which are valuable for precision measurements.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: FREQUENCY COMBS)
June 1, 2007... Fourier transforms can offer a whole new perspective on physical phenomena. Transform a single femtosecond pulse from the time domain into the frequency domain, and you have a broadband continuum. But transform a modelocked train of femtosecond...

Novel nonlinear contrast improves deep-tissue microscopy: femtosecond-laser pulse and pulse-train shaping allow detection of new nonlinear effects with modest powers, making many new biomarkers accessible and permitting deeper tissue imaging than conventional microscopy.(CELLULAR IMAGING)
June 1, 2007... For centuries, the optical microscope has been the premier workhorse tool for quantitative understanding of cellular and tissue structure at the submicron level. But conventional microscopy has some important limitations; in particular, the...

Wanted: simple methods for complex measurements: SEA TADPOLE and STRIPED FISH provide spatio-temporal light-pulse measurement in fundamental studies and emerging application that probe complex optical phenomena.(ULTRAFAST-PULSE MEASUREMENT)
June 1, 2007... It has become possible to measure the temporal intensity and phase of a wide range of ultrashort laser pulses, whether a few-cycle infrared pulse or an oddly shaped ultraviolet pulse. But today's fundamental studies and emerging applications...

Polymer optics gain increased precision: as design engineers ask more of plastic optics, iterative corrections can help optimize injection-molded polymer components such as imaging lenses.(PLASTIC OPTICS)
June 1, 2007... Just as plastic ophthalmic lenses gained wide acceptance first in European, then in Asian and U.S. markets, optical-system designers are increasingly choosing polymer materials for a multitude of non-ophthalmic applications in global markets...

Alexandrite lasers span the ultraviolet: the middle of the UV spectrum offers a host of potential applications largely associated atomic and molecular electronic structure. To exploit this region, more-refined UV sources are required.(UV SOURCES)
June 1, 2007... While mid-power excimer lasers have helped create major markets for several deep-ultraviolet (UV) applications, and low-power near-UV diode lasers are speeding advances in information storage and biotechnology, almost all commercial...

MEMS put NIR spectroscopy in the hands of non-techies: the recycling industry is taking note as NIR spectrometers become more compact, rugged, and affordable.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: SPECTROSCOPY)
June 1, 2007... Once relegated primarily to the lab-based tabletops of scientific researchers, near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has become a well-regarded process-control tool for industrial applications. Ongoing efforts to make NIR instrumentation more...

Laser micromachining expands as technology develops: nanosecond lasers have become industry workhorses but picosecond lasers are producing good results in materials or features that are difficult to machine with a nanosecond laser.(INDUSTRIAL LASERS)
June 1, 2007... Lasers have been used for micro-machining since the early days when power was measured in "Gillettes"--the number of razor blades a laser could drill through. Along with the ensuing development of lasers, processing knowledge also advanced, and...

Surface reflections reveal hidden eye misalignments: a compact and robust instrument based on recording Purkinje images (reflections of light from ocular surfaces) measures the alignment of optical surfaces in living eyes.(BIOMEDICAL OPTICS)
June 1, 2007... Purkinje images have been a traditional source of information in studying the optics of the eye. A light source illuminating the eye generates specular reflections at the different ocular interfaces (air-cornea, cornea-aqueous,...

Planar lightwave circuits revolutionize photonics: as an enabling technology for widespread deployment of fiber-to-the-home architectures, chip-based planar lightwave circuits offer unprecedented levels of integration and functionality with low cost.(FTTx TECHNOLOGIES)
June 1, 2007... The biggest challenge in telecommunications today is to address the "last mile," where high-speed fiber-optic networks reach a bottleneck as they connect to the copper cables in residential homes. Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology is...

Photomultiplier tubes present both challenge and opportunity: while an old technology, PMTs are still often the only devices that can do the job. The Nobel Prize-winning Super-K neutrino detector in Japan is one example.(PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBES)
June 1, 2007... In the late 1920s, 30 years after the photomultiplier tube was invented, A. T. Young, the astronomer, wrote an article with the intriguing title "Photomultipliers--their cause and cure," a title that he has also revisited in subsequent...

Nanophotonics is a matter of confinement: nanometer-scale confinement of electrons extends quantum-well technology; confinement of photons in nanoscale cavities creates new opportunities.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: NANOPHOTONICS)
June 1, 2007... Nanophotonics is a hard field to pin down because it means different things to different people. At a fundamental level, nanoscale devices should have dimensions measured in nanometers, a broad range from 1 to 999 nm that includes the nominal...

Component analyzer.(new products)
June 1, 2007... The N4376B LCA lightwave component analyzer performs frequency-response characterization of photonic components at a target wavelength of 850 nm. It tests 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel components in high-speed networks with multimode...

Optical amplifiers.(new products)
June 1, 2007... Reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers are designed for use in passive optical networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing. The components, in a TO-56 can package, can deliver more than 20 dB of optical gain for data transmission...

IR camera.(new products)
June 1, 2007... The Titaniuim camera is designed for acquisition of radiometric images in either the mid-wavelength or long-wavelength IR band. It has 320 x 256 or 640 x 512 resolution with pixels as small as 15 [micro]m. With different sensors available, it...

Fiber laser.(new products)
June 1, 2007... The SC450-AOTF fiber laser integrates an acousto-optic tunable filter and a multichannel RF driver. Designed for biomedical applications, the supercontinuum source covers the spectral range from 450 nm to 2 [micro]m. Using AOTF technology, up...

Handheld verifier.(new products)
June 1, 2007... The DataMan 7500V is a handheld verification unit that accurately verifies the quality of direct-marked and printed two-dimensional codes for manufacturers implementing traceability programs in the automotive, aerospace, health care, and...

Detectors.(new products)
June 1, 2007... The new IAE detector series is intended for the spectral range from 1000 to 1650 nm. The series has an active-area diameter of either 80 or 200 [micro]m. The APD comes in a TO-46 housing or on a ceramic submount. The IAE080x can have a...

Custom camera platform.(new products)
June 1, 2007... Remote-Eye is a custom camera platform that can be coupled with any CCD or CMOS image sensor (area and linescan). The platform has a low-power Linux CPU along with 10/100 Ethernet, on-board JPEG compression, NTSC composite, S-video, and...

Stacked-array platform.(new products)
June 1, 2007... The LT-5500 series stack-array products are high-efficiency QCW lasers for demanding applications. Standard configurations range in power from 200 to 3200 W, with typical conversion efficiencies better than 55%. The platform is available with...