Laser Focus World articles from March 2008

Laser Focus World archives from March 2008

MONA paints picture of nanoscale world.(editor's desk)
March 1, 2008... While the role of nanotechnology in many recent photonics advances may be intuitively obvious, a recently released report from the EU offers an unusually comprehensive look at the broader impact of combining "opto" and "nano"...

Ultracold strontium atoms enable super-accurate optical lattice clock.(newsbreaks)
March 1, 2008... The trapping of laser-cooled strontium (Sr) atoms may enable optical clocks that are more accurate and stable than the current cesium atomic clock, say physicists at Physikalisch-Technishe Bundesanstalt (PTB; Braunschweig, Germany). Such...

Tunable 2 [micro]m disk laser achieves 5 W.(newsbreaks)
March 1, 2008... Mid-infrared lasers for applications in pollution monitoring, remote sensing and ranging, free-space optical communications, and medical diagnosis require a high-brightness, compact laser source. While edge-emitting diode lasers can span the...

3-D holographic display is updatable and rewritable.(newsbreaks)
March 1, 2008... Researchers from the University of Arizona, in conjunction with Nitto Denko Technical Corporation (Oceanside, CA), have created a holographic three-dimensional (3-D) display that can record and display new images every few minutes. The display...

Gamma rays challenge e-beams for writing waveguides.(newsbreaks)
March 1, 2008... Researchers at National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) and National Tsing-Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan) are showing that gamma-ray irradiation may be superior to electron-beam (e-beam) direct writing for the fabrication of polymer...

Photoaligned liquid-crystal polymers create vortex retarders.(newsbreaks)
March 1, 2008... Optical designers require radially and azimuthally polarized beams to improve performance of systems like confocal microscopes and lithography systems. Scientists at JDSU (Santa Rosa, CA) and the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) recently...

Lasers turn pure aluminum ... 'gold'.(newsbreaks)
March 1, 2008... The ultimate goal of the Old World alchemist was to turn inexpensive metals into gold. Modern-day physicists at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics (Rochester, NY), have turned aluminum and other metals gold--in color if not...

Laser Focus World seeks a senior technical editor.(newsbreaks)
March 1, 2008... If you are interested in advanced technologies and have a background in science journalism with a science or engineering degree we would like to hear from you. A senior position is available on our editorial staff. In addition to coordinating...

Correction.(newsbreaks)(Correction notice)
March 1, 2008... Due to an editing error, last month's Newsbreak, "Holographic lithography enables complicated 3-D photonic crystals," (February, p. 11; see www.laserfocusworld.com/ articles/318536) contained the incorrect name for the research center. The...

Remote cathode paves way for electrically pumped organic laser.(newsbreaks)
March 1, 2008... The path toward creating an electrically pumped organic laser is hindered by the fact that metallic contacts quickly absorb light in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and other organic lasing structures. Because OLEDs with typical organic...

3-D stability analysis predicts optofluidic interactions in waveguides.(newsbreaks)
March 1, 2008... Building on previous work in optofluidics using polymer waveguides, engineers from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) have devised a comprehensive model for particle-trapping stability analysis of dielectric particles in an evanescent field of...

Scientists capture optical 'rogue waves.'.(OPTICAL THEORY)
March 1, 2008... Once thought to be mythical, giant waves on the open ocean that could swallow entire ships before vanishing without a trace were finally recorded for the first time at the Draupner oil platform in the North Sea. (1) Now, for the very first...

Two methods marry for superresolution imaging.(optoelectronics world news)
March 1, 2008... Stimulated emission-depletion microscopy represents one of the most straightforward among techniques to image at a resolution beyond the diffraction limit. Now, it has been combined with fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) to create a truly...

Clear skies marred by storm clouds on horizon?(PHOTONICS WEST 2008)
March 1, 2008... Despite record attendance of more than 17,500 at SPIE's Photonics West in San Jose, CA, Jan. 19-14, recession fears in the U.S. and the large stock-market drops in Europe and Asia cast a shadow on an otherwise bright outlook for the solid,...

Silicon 'expands' to meet large-area applications.(SILICON PHOTONICS)
March 1, 2008... When we think about silicon photonics, we often picture a uniform, monolithic wafer of material. But those images may soon be replaced by a web-like network of silicon islands surrounded by fine silicon wires. By pulling on the corners of...

Thales ChemCam will bring LIBS to Mars.(MATERIALS ANALYSIS)
March 1, 2008... After several years of intensive development activity, Thales Laser (Orsay, France) delivered the ChemCam Laser Flight Model to the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES; Paris, France), the space agency for France (see...

Researchers create 3-D photonic metamaterials.(PHOTONIC METAMATERIALS)
March 1, 2008... Moving a step closer to optical cloaking, researchers at the University of Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany) recently created a stacked split-ring metamaterial for the optical wavelength range. This breakthrough may eventually lead to superior...

Whispering-cave-mode lasers emit in blue-violet.(QUANTUM-RING LASERS)
March 1, 2008... Lord Rayleigh wrote about the two-dimensional whispering gallery mode (WGM) in 1910 after a visit to the dome of St. Paul's cathedral in London. The whispering cave mode (WCM) is a three-dimensional (3-D) effect--a toroid with circular helix...

Laser stimulation hits a nerve at BiOS 2008.(MEDICAL THERAPY)
March 1, 2008... In recent years the bulk of the scientific sessions at the SHE Biomedical Optics (BiOS) conference have focused on optical imaging for diagnostic and biological applications. This year, however, saw the resurgence of more targeted "cause and...

Silicon may offer signal regeneration solution.(OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS)
March 1, 2008... Optical communications systems find their limits as signals degrade along the network, but a new approach may provide a way to simply and cheaply maintain signal fidelity. While solutions exist to amplify optical signals as they decay, the...

Photonic-crystal switch is ultracompact.(PHOTONIC CRYSTALS)
March 1, 2008... Most optical switches operate by shutting light on or off, or by directing light between two different ports of the device through inducing a refractive-index change or phase shift between the two ports. Because these refractive-index changes...

Demonstrations show advance of alkali lasers.(ALKALI LASERS)
March 1, 2008... Progress is being made in the development of diode-pumped alkali-vapor lasers, according to a paper presented by Boris Zhdanov, research professor in the Laser and Optics Research Center of the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA;...

Mobius licenses Harvard UV fiber-laser patent.(laser: industry report)
March 1, 2008... Mobius Photonics (Santa Clara, CA) has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) regarding U.S. patent 5,745,284. "The Harvard patent is really a subset of the technology in our full product offering,...

Therapeutic laser orders go to QPC.(laser: industry report)
March 1, 2008... QPC Lasers (Sylmar, CA) received $1.3 million in new orders of its BrightLase Ultra Lasers for use in medical applications. According to the company, these two orders come less than a month after the launch of the BrightLase Ultra product line,...

Jenoptik acquisition adds diode devices.(laser: industry report)
March 1, 2008... The Jenoptik Group (Jena, Germany) acquired all the shares in Epigap Optoelektronik. Berlin-based Epigap possesses technology and process know-how in the manufacture of selective photodiodes and light-emitting-diode (LED) semiconductor chips...

Arasor acquires Novalux and its customers.(laser: industry report)
March 1, 2008... Arasor International (Sydney, Australia) acquired the assets of Novalux (Sunnyvale, CA). The acquisition was made through issuance of $7 million in Arasor stock and the assumption of debt. The deal is expected to enable Arasor to take further...

Lighting survey confirms LED market growth.(laser: industry report)
March 1, 2008... LED manufacturer Cree (Durham, NC) announced results of an independent survey taken at the 2007 Hong Kong International Lighting Fair on the adoption, deployment, and benefits of LED lighting. The survey found that nearly three-quarters (72%)...

Laser Institute of America.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Laser Institute of America (Orlando, FL) is now offering training for its Laser Safety Officer course over the Internet....

Physics professor Fernando Ponce of the Center for Nanophotonics (part of the Arizona Institute for Nano-Electronics at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ) was awarded a three-year.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Physics professor Fernando Ponce of the Center for Nanophotonics (part of the Arizona Institute for Nano-Electronics at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ) was awarded a three-year, $800,000 DARPA grant to conduct research on greens lasers...

Bosch (Stuttgart, Germany) acquired the assets of RoboToolz, headquartered in Hong Kong.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Bosch (Stuttgart, Germany) acquired the assets of RoboToolz, headquartered in Hong Kong, a manufacturer of laser-leveling products....

IPG Photonics.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... IPG Photonics (Oxford, MA), manufacturer of high-power lasers and amplifiers is now selling its laser diodes on a merchant basis to original equipment manufacturers....

Rofin-Sinar Technologies.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Laser systems manufacturer Rofin-Sinar Technologies (Plymouth, MI, and Hamburg, Germany) reported record net sales of $134.7 million in its first fiscal quarter of 2008 (ended Dec. 31, 2007), a 21% increase over the same quarter last year....

Laser Energetics (Princeton, NJ) received a contract worth $481,268 from ITT for a laser demonstration of an all-solid-state frequency-tripled alexandrite laser to support the U.S. Army.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Laser Energetics (Princeton, NJ) received a contract worth $481,268 from ITT for a laser demonstration of an all-solid-state frequency-tripled alexandrite laser to support the U.S. Army's initiative to develop a laser for the next-generation...

Alma Lasers.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Alma Lasers (Buffalo Grove, IL), a medical technology company that manufactures intense pulsed light and radio-frequency based aesthetic treatment devices, filed a registration statement relating to its proposed underwritten initial public...

Litron.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Laser-welding company Litron (Agawam, MA) has a new 3000 sq ft class 100,000 cleanroom to hermetically seat components.

Gooch & Housego consolidates.(optics: industry report)
March 1, 2008... Sixty years after Archie Gooch and Leslie Housego collaborated to form a company that would focus on precision optics and crystalline materials, Gooch & Housego (Ilminster, England) has launched a new company that brings together five players...

CREOL 'Affiliates Day' focuses on biophotonics.(optics: industry report)
March 1, 2008... The College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida (UCF/ CREOL; Orlando, FL) will hold its annual Industrial Affiliates Day on April 18 in Orlando. This year's program--Biophotonics & Bio-applications--includes invited...

OCT market to top $800 million by 2012.(optics: industry report)
March 1, 2008... Invented at MIT in the early 1990s and first commercialized for medical imaging applications by Carl Zeiss in 1996, optical coherence tomography (OCT) promises fast, high-resolution diagnostic images for a variety of clinical applications....

Joint venture targets aspheric lenses.(optics: industry report)
March 1, 2008... LightPath Technologies (Orlando, FL) entered into a joint venture agreement with CDGM Glass Company, under the name "LightPath CDGM Chengdu Optical Co." LightPath and CDGM will each own a 50% interest in the joint venture, which will be located...

Partnership benefits sub-32 nm CMOS.(optics: industry report)
March 1, 2008... Powerchip Semiconductor (PSC; Hsinchu, Taiwan) entered into a partnership with nanotechnology research center IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) to perform research and development for the sub-32 nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) industry....

McPherson (Chelmsford, MA) received a contract from WaferMasters (San Jose, CA), manufacturer of thermal processing tools to fabricate advanced semiconductor devices.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... McPherson (Chelmsford, MA) received a contract from WaferMasters (San Jose, CA), manufacturer of thermal processing tools to fabricate advanced semiconductor devices, to deliver high-resolution visible-light spectrometers.

Light Blue Optics.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Light Blue Optics (Cambridge, England), developer of holographic laser projection technology, opened its U.S. operations with an engineering and business-development facility in Colorado Springs, CO....

Imagine Optic.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Imagine Optic (Orsay, France), provider of wavefront-analysis and adaptive-optics technologies, reported that preliminary results for its fiscal year 2007 indicated approximately 150% growth in the U.S. market with steady growth in Europe and...

Gooch & Housego was presented a "Vendor Appreciation" award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the supply of crystal quartz.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Gooch & Housego was presented a "Vendor Appreciation" award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the supply of crystal quartz wave plates used in the National Ignition Facility's laser preamplifier modules....

Edmund Optics.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Edmund Optics moved to larger facilities in Karlsruhe, Germany, to keep pace with increased business activity, up 20% annually since opening eight years ago....

Spectrum Thin Films.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Spectrum Thin Films (Hauppauge, NY) moved to a 16,000 sq ft building with a 3000 sq ft clean room to expand optical coating manufacture....

G-S Plastic Optics (GSPO; Rochester, NY) acquired the tooling to produce the "Standard" and "Apex" lines of injection-molded optics.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... G-S Plastic Optics (GSPO; Rochester, NY) acquired the tooling to produce the "Standard" and "Apex" lines of injection-molded optics from 3M Precision Optics (Cincinnati, OH).

FPA contract goes to Princeton Lightwave.(imaging & detector: industry report)
March 1, 2008... Princeton Lightwave (PLI; Cranbury, NJ), manufacturer of optical semiconductor components and subsystems, was awarded a two-year, $3.5 million contract for the development of focal plane arrays (FPAs) with single-photon sensitivity for use in...

iRobot ground vehicles in demand.(imaging & detector: industry report)
March 1, 2008... iRobot (Burlington, MA) announced that the U.S. Army accelerated its testing schedules for iRobot's Future Combat Systems (FCS) Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV) robot-development program. The updated plan calls for iRobot to deliver a total...

Tessera to acquire FotoNation.(imaging & detector: industry report)
March 1, 2008... For $29 million in net cash with up to $10 million of additional consideration, Tessera Technologies (San Jose, CA) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire FotoNation, a provider of embedded imaging solutions for digital still camera and...

Durham leads U.K. photovoltaic project.(imaging & detector: industry report)
March 1, 2008... A team of scientists led by experts at Durham University (Durham, England) are embarking on a $12.4 million PV-21 program focusing on making thin-film light-absorbing cells for solar panels from sustainable and affordable materials. The...

DRS receives $18 million IR detector contract.(imaging & detector: industry report)
March 1, 2008... The Infrared Technologies Division (Dallas, TX) of DRS Technologies (Parsippany, NJ) received an $18 million contract from Raytheon Missile Systems (Tucson, AZ) to produce infrared detector, Dewar cooler sensor assemblies for the Javelin...

Leica Geosystems.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... The Leica Geosystems (Norcross, GA) "Geomatics Center of Excellence" opened in Houston, TX, to offer sales, support, and service for its surveying, laser scanning products, and reference-station network infrastructures for spatial mapping and...

Swiss-based Paul Scherrer Institute selected Zecotek Photonics' (Vancouver, BC; Canada) proprietary micropixel avalanche photodiodes for trials.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Swiss-based Paul Scherrer Institute selected Zecotek Photonics' (Vancouver, BC; Canada) proprietary micropixel avalanche photodiodes for trials in its next-generation positron emission tomography medical-imaging program....

Schott Solar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Schott (Mainz, Germany), has selected Albuquerque, NM, as the site for a new solar-energy facility.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Schott Solar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Schott (Mainz, Germany), has selected Albuquerque, NM, as the site for a new solar-energy facility that will manufacture receivers for concentrated-solar thermal power plants and 64 MW of photovoltaic...

Bae Systems (Nashua, NH) received a $29 million award from the U.S. Department.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Bae Systems (Nashua, NH) received a $29 million award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to test an IR aircraft missile-defense system on passenger aircraft....

Opto Engineering.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Opto Engineering (Mantova, Italy), a leading manufacturer of telecentric lenses and optical components for machine vision, announces MaxxVision as its exclusive distributor for Germany.

Enablence to acquire ANDevices.(fiber optics: industry report)
March 1, 2008... Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) transceiver developer Enablence Technologies (Ottawa, ON, Canada) will acquire all the outstanding shares of ANDevices (Fremont, CA), a supplier of planar-light-wave-circuit (PLC) photonic devices for the access, metro,...

Vytran becomes part of NKT Photonics.(fiber optics: industry report)
March 1, 2008... NKT (Copenhagen, Denmark) increased its 27% stake to a full ownership of Vytran (Morganville, NJ) for an undisclosed sum. Vytran supplies optical-fiber splicing, cleaving, and recoating equipment. "We have been impressed with the capabilities...

New photonics company forming at Pirelli.(fiber optics: industry report)
March 1, 2008... Pirelli (Milan, Italy) will soon incorporate a new group company that will focus on second-generation photonics based on nanotechnology. The company will integrate the photonics business unit of Pirelli Broadband Solutions and the Optical...

OIDA groups to address optical components.(fiber optics: industry report)
March 1, 2008... With the support of Ciena and Cisco, the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA; www.oida.org) is organizing two special interest groups or "Communities of Interest" intended to reduce costs and improve performance of the...

Fujitsu sues Tellabs over patents.(fiber optics: industry report)
March 1, 2008... Fujitsu has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Tellabs (NaperviUe, IL) for allegedly infringing on four optics-related patents. Fujitsu is seeking unspecified monetary damages and an injunction against Tellabs. The four patents in...

Sterlite Technologies.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Optical-fiber and system manufacturer Sterlite Technologies (Pune, India), earned net revenues of $126 million in Q3 2007-08, up nearly 60% compared to the same period last year....

Infinera.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Infinera (Sunnyvale, CA), reported record financial results for its Q4 and fiscal year ended Dec. 29, 2007, with revenues of $76.1 million compared to $62.2 million in Q3 2007 and $43.8 million in Q4 2006....

Oplink Communications (Fremont, CA), provider of photonic components, modules, and subsystems, reported consolidated revenues of $48.9 million.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... Oplink Communications (Fremont, CA), provider of photonic components, modules, and subsystems, reported consolidated revenues of $48.9 million for its Q2 fiscal 2008 ended Dec. 31, 2007, an increase of 113% over the $23.0 million reported for...

OE Solutions.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... OE Solutions opened an office in Fort Lee, NJ, that will serve as its U.S. headquarters to better support its East coast North American, Canadian, and European customers; its Irvine, CA, office will continue to be a main location for...

LightCounting.(Also in the news ...)
March 1, 2008... According to the latest Transceiver Market Forecast from LightCounting (Eugene, OR), global transceiver sales will grow steadily at 7% compounded annual growth rate, reaching $2.8 billion by 2011.

Modeling software helps extract efficiency from LEDs.(software & computing)
March 1, 2008... Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) appear in everything from display technologies such as flat-panel computer displays to light sources like traffic lights and flashlights. Future demands for these applications will require devices capable of...

Folding of Optics East is wrong for the industry.(comment)
March 1, 2008... After the final SPIE Optics East conference in Boston ended this past September, I found myself wondering if I had missed something. Had the bulk of the optics and photonics industry suddenly moved to California? What happened to the East...

How do I deal with conflict with my CEO?(business forum)
March 1, 2008... Q: I am fighting with my CEO. As founder of the company I am frustrated because he is not getting strategic deals done and he accuses me of not making adequate progress in product development. How do I deal with this conflict? A: Your...

The beat goes on: vision-based music synthesizer uses pattern recognition.(inside imaging)
March 1, 2008... When Icelandic singer/performer Bjork took a machine-vision-based synthesizer on her recent Volta tour her group created a melodic blend of electronic music and image processing. A somewhat similar experience was available this past November to...

Silicon photonics sets the stage for optical datacom: nanoscale techniques are yielding chip-level modulators, transceivers, VOAs, and even lasers--all made from silicon.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: NANOPHOTONICS)
March 1, 2008... Last December, researchers from IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY) announced another breakthrough in their quest to build a supercomputer-on-a-chip: the ability to transfer data between processor cores on a single chip 100...

Photonics takes a new look at bioprocesses: optically based monitoring of bioprocess reactors enables real-time, noninvasive interrogation of the bioprocess state, bringing the promise of significant improvements in process reproducibility and yield.(BIOPROCESS MONITORING)
March 1, 2008... More than a third of all drugs under development (OPL) to are biotechnology based. Because biological processes involve synthesis of large and complex molecules such as monoclonal antibodies or recombinant proteins in live cells, sophisticated...

Optical fuse protects intracavity laser components.(ADAPTIVE OPTICS)
March 1, 2008... Today's petawatt and terawatt class lasers are used in a variety of applications, from high-energy proton/electron beam generation for medical therapies to the study of laser/matter interaction and plasma creation. Although the theory behind...

High-power diode lasers boost power-beaming competition.(HIGH-POWER DIODE LASERS)
March 1, 2008... Power beaming--the wireless transmission of energy from one location to another--has come a long way since Nikola Tesla's experiments on couple-tuned-circuit oscillators. Although wireless power beaming is less efficient than using a conductor,...

Hybrid detector combines PMT and semiconductor-diode technologies.(PHOTOMULTIPLIERS)
March 1, 2008... For more than 50 years, photomultiplier tubes have been used as photodetectors for low-light detection. But they are not the only detectors capable of detecting low light. A little-known device--the hybrid photodetector--was developed as an...

Microdisplays advance military imaging.(HOMELAND-SECURITY IMAGING)
March 1, 2008... Increasing demand for high-performance, ruggedized microdisplays for defense applications is being driven by the integration of thermal imaging into man-portable soldier systems. As thermal imagers increase in performance and decrease in power,...

Retina-safe wavelengths benefit open-air applications: shifting to wavelengths not transmitted to the retina relaxes eye-safety requirements for applications that require beam transmission through open air, but corneal safety remains a concern.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: EYE-SAFE LASERS)
March 1, 2008... Eye safety can be a tough problem when laser beams must be transmitted through the open air. It's difficult to completely avoid human exposure in applications such as laser radar, remote sensing, rangefinding, target designation, laser...

Optical-comb generator.(new products)
March 1, 2008... The compact VCSEL comb generator delivers livers mW power on the order of several gigahertz for time-based calibration of electro-optic instrumentation, sensors, detectors, and streak cameras. The ultrafast laser source has continuous or gated...

Ultrafast fiber amplifier.(new products)
March 1, 2008... The Tangerine ultrafast fiber amplifier offers 20 W output average power in either 10 ps or better than 700 fs versions, with high output energy. Suited for ultrafast micro- and nanomachining, nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, and life-sciences...

Wavelength meter.(new products)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new model 621B-MIR is designed to operate over the entire wavelength range of 4 to 11 [micro]m. Michelson interferometer-based technology is used to measure absolute laser wavelength to an accuracy of [+ or...

FireWire B camera.(new products)
March 1, 2008... The CSF5M7C3L18NR is a remote-head FireWire B camera that uses a Foveon X3 layered CMOS sensor with 5 million photodetectors, each responsive to the full color spectrum. Suited for endoscopy, microscopy, and chip monitoring, the 5-megapixel...

Blue-violet laser diodes.(new products)
March 1, 2008... The blue-violet laser diode GH04P21A2GE has output power of 210 mW at 406 nm, for use with 6x recording devices for dual-layer Blu-ray and HD-DVD. It has a service life of 10,000 hours. It also produces 105 mW of CW optical output, and has...

Tunable diode lasers.(new products)
March 1, 2008... The DL pro 780 external-cavity diode laser has an alignment-free coarse tuning range of 30 nm. The AR-coated diode produced optical output power up to 80 mW with a continuous mode-hop-free tuning range of more than 50 GHz and linewidth og...