Laser Focus World articles from May 2003

Laser Focus World archives from May 2003

A brighter outlook. (editor's desk).
May 1, 2003... The downward spiral of the marketplace for communications components appears at last to have slowed and the newfound business stability was evident among the survivors on the floor of OFC in Atlanta in March. Expectations seemed realistic again...

Violet-emitting laser diode is frequency stabilized. (news breaks).
May 1, 2003... As violet-emitting semiconductor lasers based on gallium arsenide become longer-lived and more widely used, they also become the object of development intended to fit them into roles traditionally played by other lasers. For example, a...

Optical-delay circuit exploits parametric wavelength conversion. (news breaks).
May 1, 2003... Researchers at NTT Photonics Laboratories (Kanagawa, Japan) and the University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) have developed an all-fiberoptic variable-optical-delay circuit that is based on nonlinear conversion of wavelength. The circuit is expected...

Photodiodes show efficient negative luminescence. (news breaks).
May 1, 2003... A phenomenon called negative luminescence is at the heart of devices being characterized by scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC) and Raytheon Vision Systems (Goleta, CA). When the bias is reversed on a photovoltaic...

Laser probes megagauss magnetic fields in plasma. (news breaks).
May 1, 2003... Characterization of transient magnetic fields in plasmas is important for understanding inertial-confinement fusion (ICF), as well as testing astrophysical theories in the laboratory. Researchers at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research...

Integrated color sensor is digitally compatible. (news breaks).
May 1, 2003... A color sensor commercially introduced by Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions (Plano, TX) is claimed to be the first integrated red-green-blue color sensor with a digital-compatible interface. The device contains silicon photodiodes and a...

Top-emitting LEDs are best for electron-spin detection. (news breaks).
May 1, 2003... Based on electrical injection and detection of spin-polarized current, semiconductor spintronics could become the basis for next-generation computer hardware. Detecting spin-polarized current can be done by driving certain types of...

Quantum-cascade lasers go nonlinear. (news breaks).
May 1, 2003... The quantum-cascade (QC) laser is proving to be versatile in its permutations, with versions emitting terahertz radiation, two wavelengths simultaneously, and even radiation over a supercontinuum (see Laser Focus World, May 2002, p. 32). Now,...

Silicon microdischarge devices serve as avalanche photodetectors. (news breaks).
May 1, 2003... Silicon (Si) microdischarge devices filled with gases such as neon have been made into arrays potentially useful as displays (see Laser Focus World, March 2002, p. 9). But, just as some other types of light emitters can (with modifications) be...

Blue-emitting porous silicon is stable in air.
May 1, 2003... Porous silicon (Si) can emit light at visible wavelengths. If stable and efficient red-, green-, and blue-emitting devices based on this phenomenon could be developed, then flatpanel displays could be made from Si, taking advantage of the vast...

Homeland security challenges optical technologies. (Remote Sensing).
May 1, 2003... Optical technologies are likely to play an essential role in establishing a homeland security infrastructure, but the price tag is not likely to be cheap and the actual threat to the public from sophisticated weapons of mass destruction may...

Slow OFC reveals changing industry. (optoelectronics world news).
May 1, 2003... The cavernous halls of the Georgia World Congress Center made the turnout at Optical Fiber Communications 2003 (OFC; Atlanta, GA; March 23-28) seem even lighter than reality. The uncertain state of the industry was captured in the annual OFC...

Tunable terahertz source targets molecular vibrations. (Biophotonics).
May 1, 2003... Terahertz technology originally developed at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) nearly two decades ago may have finally found its niche--studying proteins and other large molecules with resonances in the terahertz frequency range (see "Old...

Applications include spectroscopy, imaging, and detection of DNA hybridization states and protein ligand binding states. (optoelectronics world news).
May 1, 2003... "What we are doing is like a tabletop free-electron laser (FEL) or a nanoklystron that generates a free-space photon field directly" said Mike Mross, president of Vermont Photonics. "With narrow bandwidth, tunability over 0.3 to 3.0 THz, and a...

Holographic projector works at video rates. (Holography).
May 1, 2003... At the heart of many projectors used to display computer presentations on boardroom screens is the digital micromirror chip developed by Texas Instruments (TI; Dallas, TX). In the chip, an array of tilting micromirrors modulates a beam of...

E-lamp emits ultraviolet simply. (Deep-Ultraviolet Sources).
May 1, 2003... Although excimer lasers provide light at ultraviolet wavelengths desirable for science, micromachining, and semiconductor processing, they have some drawbacks such as high initial and operating costs. For those applications not requiring the...

Joint project pursues lighting efficiency in hotel rooms. (Energy-Efficient Lighting).
May 1, 2003... A combination of infrared sensing and light-emitting-diode (LED) technology is on its way into a DoubleTree Hotel in Sacramento, CA, as part of an energy-saving demonstration project in cooperation with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District...

Few-cycle laser pulses control phase. (Attosecond Physics).
May 1, 2003... The periods of electrons revolving in atomic orbitals fall in the attosecond (as) time scale--a domain that, until recently, was not accessible to the experimenter. If recent research results bear fruit, events in the attosecond range may...

ILA team pushes applications envelope for phase-locked femtosecond lasers. (optoelectronics world news).
May 1, 2003... If a laser pulse were made shorter than a single cycle of light, Maxwell's law says that it would no longer be able to propagate. Jun Ye, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Boulder, CO) and a fellow of JILA...

Pittcon 2003 benefits science, medicine. (Optoelectronic Instrumentation).
May 1, 2003... The 2003 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon; March 9-14, Orlando, FL) was technically vigorous this year, including many technical sessions relating to the use of lasers in both established and novel...

Read head exploits optical pressure. (Optical Data Storage).
May 1, 2003... Researchers at the University of Bucharest and the National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnology (both in Bucharest, Romania) have developed a new way of reading out multiple gray-level optical information using a dense...

Cylindrical lens boosts amplifier beam quality. (Oscillator Amplifiers).
May 1, 2003... Diode-pumped solid-state lasers (DPSSs) based on oscillator-amplifier systems can have better beam quality at medium or high powers than other DPSSs, a quality resulting from the dean beam produced by the oscillator. But the amplifier must be...

Image processing adds depth to cancer diagnosis. (Laser-Scanning Microscopy).
May 1, 2003... Pathologists and other biomedical researchers use confocal laser-scanning microscopy (CLSM) to examine tissue samples for cancer because it can track the genetic activity of individual cells. The method is limited, however, to viewing samples...

Laser maps tire-sidewall flaws. (Noncontact Sensing).
May 1, 2003... With increased reliability and longer lifetimes, today's automobiles are used 50% longer than those of three decades earlier. Automobile components have grown more dependable, too; for example, some tires now come with 100,000-mile warranties....

Silica-filled epoxy forms accurate lens arrays. (Micro-Optics).
May 1, 2003... Microlens arrays are used in optical switches for telecommunications, in charge-coupled-device cameras to increase the amount of light reaching the pixels, and for other uses that potentially require them to be made in medium to large volumes....

Solid-state lighting and photovoltaics find synergy. (Light-Emitting Diodes).
May 1, 2003... As solid-state lighting--a close relative of photovoltaics--becomes poised to whittle away at the power demands of established metropolitan lighting systems, it is also creating small and remote market pathways for solar power. A conference...

Spark-plug interferometer senses cylinder pressure. (Fiberoptic Sensors).
May 1, 2003... To wring every last bit of efficiency from internal-combustion (IC) engines, automotive engineers need to know, experimentally and accurately, just what goes on within those cylinders. Such information both verifies and provides grist for...

Reticle pattern generator writes 90-nm features. (Japan watch).
May 1, 2003... TOKYO--Engineers at JEOL have developed new electron-beam drawing apparatus for mass production of next-generation lithographic photomasks, or reticles, with features down to 90 nm (see figure). To aid with the miniaturization of semiconductor...

Midspan spectral inverter rebuilds signal. (Japan watch).
May 1, 2003... TOKYO--Shinji Yamashita of the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Frontier Sciences has developed a low-noise wavelength-division-multiplexing application using a midspan spectral inverter (MSSI) with a high-efficiency nonlinear...

Florida commits $10 million to photonics. (Laser: industry report).
May 1, 2003... The Florida State Board of Education will spend $10 million to establish the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence at the University of Central Florida (UCF; Orlando). UCF already is home to the Center for Research and Education in Optics and...

Scotland invests in O/E packaging. (Laser: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Scotland's growing role in the global optoelectronics industry has been given a major boost with the announcement of a new 4.2 million [pounds sterling] (US$6.75 million) facility devoted to R&D for packaging complex optoelectronic chips. The...

Boston Laser buys SLI assets. (Laser: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Boston Laser has organized a group of European investors for acquisition via a separate holding company of all assets of Semiconductor Laser International (SLI). According to Aharon Meytahl, president and CEO of Boston Laser, the acquisition is...

Finisar acquires Genoa. (Laser: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Finisar (Sunnyvale, CA), a provider of gigabit fiberoptic solutions for high-speed data networks, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Genoa (Fremont, CA) for $5.5 million. Founded in 1998, Genoa has developed novel linear...

Zygo expands defense business. (Laser: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Zygo (Middlefield, CT) has created a new business development group to enhance its presence in the defense and aerospace electro-optic systems industries. The new organization, named Zygo Applied Optics (ZAO), will further strengthen Zygo's...

Trumpt. (Also in the news ...).
May 1, 2003... Beginning July 1, Rolf Biekert will serve as president and CEO of Trumpt (Farmington, CT), the North American subsidiary of the Trumpf Group (Schramberg, Germany). Biekert will succeed Peter Leibinqen, who is returning to Germany to serve as...

DuPont (Wilmington, DE) has formed Dupont Photonics Technologies (Wilmington, MA). (Also in the news ...).
May 1, 2003... DuPont (Wilmington, DE) has formed Dupont Photonics Technologies (Wilmington, MA) to leverage DuPont's existing expertise in polymeric materials and planar lightwave circuit integration technology to develop, manufacture, and market planar...

Photo Sciences (Torrance. CA) and Leister Technologies (Itasca, IL) are partnering. (Also in the news ...).
May 1, 2003... Photo Sciences (Torrance. CA) and Leister Technologies (Itasca, IL) are partnering to support the needs of the laser plastic welding and microfluidics industry.

Polatis. (Also in the news ...).
May 1, 2003... Polaties (Cambridge, England) has been awarded a core patent relating to its photonic switching platform. The patent, GB2372834. covers the company's unique micro-actuation and sensor technology and its application in photonic M x N switches.

Breault names Perkins as CEO. (Optics: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Industry veteran Kathleen Perkins has been promoted to CEO of Breault Research Organization (Tucson, AZ), taking over the helm of the company from founder and president Robert Breault. Perkins, who was vice president of sales and marketing at...

Zygo wins another NIF contract at LNLL. (Optics: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Zygo (Middlefield, CT) has received another contract award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, CA), this time for 94 precision optomechanical assemblies to be installed in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) being...

Wells Research partners with Thorlabs. (Optics: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Wells Research and Development (Lincoln, MA), a developer of optical measurement and alignment instrumentation, has entered into a strategic partnership with Thorlabs, a manufacturer of optical products for the commercial and research...

Osram takes back sales efforts. (Optics: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Osram Opto Semiconductors (San Jose, CA) has assumed all worldwide sales activities for its opto-semiconductor products from Infineon Technologies AG, its former joint venture partner. As a result, the wholly owned Osram German subsidiary is...

Edmund Optics chief named AIA president. (Optics: industry report).
May 1, 2003... John Stack, president and COO of Edmund Industrial Optics (Barrington, NJ), has been named president of the Automated Imaging Association for 2003-2004. John was elected by his fellow members of the AIA Board of Directors to succeed Mike...

Special Optics wins SBIR lens contract. (Optics: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Special Optics (Wharton, NJ) has won a Phase I SBIR contract from the U.S Army to design and build a motorized zoom lens for long-range missile imaging. Leading the program is J. Michael Finlan, business development manager. As part of its...

Corona Optical Systems. (Also in the news ...).
May 1, 2003... Corona Optical Systems (Lombard, IL), a provider of parallel optical modules, raised $7.5 million in its Series B round of funding.

Edmund Optics. (Also in the news ...).
May 1, 2003... Edmund Optics (Barrington, NJ) has opened a new sales/customer service/technical support center that will function as a division of Edmund Optics Singapore and be located in the existing Edmund Optics manufacturing facility in Singapore.

Corning IntelliSense. (Also in the news ...).
May 1, 2003... Corning IntelliSense (Wilmington, MA) has been chosen to manufacture MOEMS devices by a consortium led by Xerox. The consortium is part of a $14 million, five-year NIST Advanced Technology Program formed in 1998 to develop a low-cost process...

CRL and Moxtek form strategic alliance. (Imaging & detector: industry report).
May 1, 2003... CRL Opto (Middlesex, England), a supplier of high-resolution microdisplays, and Moxtek (Orem, UT), a supplier of optical components, have formed a strategic alliance that combines CRL Opto's high-resolution liquid-on-crystal microdisplay...

Dalsa. (Also in the news ...).
May 1, 2003... Dalsa (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has received a production order for image sensors from "a leading producer of broadcast television cameras" totaling over $5.5 million. The order is expected to be delivered over the next 36 months.

Nemoptic (Paris, France), a developer of bistable liquid-crystal displays, raised US$13 million in its third round of financing that will help Nemoptic to develop and introduce a new generation of color BiNem displays. (Also in the news ...).
May 1, 2003... Nemoptic (Paris, France), a developer of bistable liquid-crystal displays, raised US$13 million in its third round of financing that will help Nemoptic to develop and introduce a new generation of color BiNem displays. Nemoptic already has a...

Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY) has unveiled a digital camera that is the first consumer product with a full-color OLED screen. (Also in the news ...).
May 1, 2003... Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY) has unveiled a digital camera that is the first consumer product with a full-color OLED screen. Kodak and its Japanese partner, Sanyo Electric (Tokyo, Japan), began making the next-generation screens in February...

Sumitomo to buy more Cree LEDs. (Imaging & detector: industry report).
May 1, 2003... As part of a three-year distributor agreement, Sumitomo (Tokyo, Japan) will purchase $100 million of LED products from Cree (Durham, NC) during Cree's fiscal year ending June 30, 2004. Sumitomo sells Cree's LED chips to packaging customers in...

Cedip demos IR remote-sensing system. (Imaging & detector: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Cedip Infrared Systems (Croissy Beaubourg, France), in conjunction with the ETBS testing center of the Delegation Generale pour l'Armement (Bourges, France), has demonstrated a helicopter-based infrared remote sensing system. Employing Cedip...

Vitex and Samsung target mobile OLEDs. (Imaging & detector: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Vitex Systems (San Jose, CA) is partnering with Samsung SDI (Seoul, South Korea) to manufacture organic light-emitting diode (OLED)-based displays for the mobile device market. During the initial phase of this joint development effort, Samsung...

Indigo wins military detector contract. (Imaging & detector: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Indigo Systems (Goleta, CA) was awarded a major contract by Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems to deliver infrared (IR) integrated detective assemblies (IDAs) for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. The F-35 is a supersonic stealth aircraft...

JDS Uniphase adjusts to meet changing market. (Fiberoptics: industry report).
May 1, 2003... In response to the telecom market's change in focus from the network core to the network edge, JDS Uniphase (San Jose, CA, and Ottawa, Canada) has launched a new range of components, modules, and test instruments that reflect the greater...

ADVA Optical Networking (Martinsried/Munich, Germany) has won an additional three-year contract from British Telecom (London, England) for its Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 500 systems. (Also in the news ...).
May 1, 2003... ADVA Optical Networking (Martinsried/Munich, Germany) has won an additional three-year contract from British Telecom (London, England) for its Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 500 systems. This contract extends a previous four-year deal. during...

Vtesse Networks (Hertford, England) and Hitachi Data Systems (Santa Clara, CA), with the support of Transmode Systems AB (Stockholm, Sweden) and Nishan Systems (San Jose, CA), have demonstrated a representative synchronous storage-area-network application over a range of link lengths up to 600 km. (Also in the news ...).
May 1, 2003... Vtesse Networks (Hertford, England) and Hitachi Data Systems (Santa Clara, CA), with the support of Transmode Systems AB (Stockholm, Sweden) and Nishan Systems (San Jose, CA), have demonstrated a representative synchronous storage-area-network...

Picolight and IBM team up on bandwidth. (Fiberoptics: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Picolight (Boulder, CO) and IBM (Armonk, NY) have demonstrated a technology that they say sets a new standard for bandwidth density of data transmission between servers, routers, switches, and crossconnect equipment. The thumb-sized SNAP 12...

Oki and Fujikura launch joint venture. (Fiberoptics: industry report).
May 1, 2003... Oki Electric Industry Co. (Tokyo, Japan) and Fujikura (Chiba, Japan) have established a new company, OF Networks, in Japan to enhance their business partnership in the optical communications business and integrate each company's strengths for...

Lockheed Martin to supply transceivers for Joint Strike Fighter. (Fiberoptics: industry report).
May 1, 2003... The Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems-Tactical Systems business (Eagan, MN) of Lockheed Martin (Bethesda, MD) has received a $9.2 million contract from Harris (Melbourne, FL) to deliver fiberoptic transceivers for the F-35 Joint Strike...

Warning: tunable lasers are just the start: tunability in multiple forms will finally make the difference for high-value networks. (WDM Solutions).
May 1, 2003... While riding the escalator, I quipped to John Clark, president of Iolon, that he and other tunable-laser makers were the happiest folks at an otherwise sober show. We were on our way to a session on tunable lasers at the Optical Fiber...

How should I meet potential investors at a trade show? (business forum).
May 1, 2003... Q: I plan to exhibit at CLEO and would like to find investors and also business partners in the United States. Being unfamiliar with the ways of your country, what strategy should I follow to carry on an efficient discussion; should we meet at...

Laser and physical optics design software. (GLAD).
May 1, 2003... What is GLAD? GLAD represents the state-of-the-art in laser and physical optics analysis. GLAD can model almost any type of laser or physical optics system with a complete end-to-end 3D diffraction analysis. GLAD uses a general...

Parametric search zeros in on fast product selection. (software & computing).
May 1, 2003... The optoelectronics industry is extremely dynamic. New products and technologies are being introduced into the marketplace almost constantly. This speed of change is both one of the best and one of the worst things about the industry. A high...

'When will this stop changing?' (market watch).
May 1, 2003... Is the question in the headline a) an engineering manager pleading with a marketing manager to stop submitting additional requirements for the new product, or b) a marketing manager begging the engineering manager for the product's truly final...

MALDI-TOF brings greater sensitivity to protein research. (Optoelectronics applications: proteomics).
May 1, 2003... No one disputes that the mapping of the human genome was a historic accomplishment. But it could one day pale in comparison to understanding the proteins that support our molecular structure. While there are 30,000 to 40,000 unique genes in the...

High power, high brightness fiber-coupled diode lasers are now available. (Advanced Diode Laser Technology).
May 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...

Nanocavity lasers detect chemicals. (Photonic-Crystal Lasers).
May 1, 2003... The construction of compact spectroscopic tools for the optical analysis of ultrasmall sample volumes remains an important goal in the development of integrated microfluidics systems. Miniaturization of appropriate light sources and detectors...

Autocorrelation finds wide application: the most-widely used instrument for measuring ultrafast laser pulses--the autocorrelator--is adapting to newer applications, such as microscopy. (Autocorrelators).
May 1, 2003... Autocorrelation measurements, which quickly became a standard method for pulse characterization of ultrafast laser pulses, continue to be used in widespread and new applications. Several pulse-characterization schemes have been developed to...

Interest grows in components based on holey fibers: internal microstructures add another degree of freedom to light-guiding in fibers, opening up new possibilities in designing fiber-based devices. (Official networking: holey fibers).
May 1, 2003... Microstructured or "holey" fibers have generated a wave of excitement because they promise properties that cannot be achieved in conventional optical fibers. The light-guiding properties of conventional fibers are limited by the properties of...

Quantum-cascade lasers enable infrared sensors. (Quantum-Cascade Lasers).
May 1, 2003... The tunability, small size, and flexibility in the center wavelength of quantum-cascade lasers make them well suited for sensing applications in the infrared. Quantum-cascade lasers (QCLs) are semiconductor-injection lasers based on...

Higher and higher: the generation of the higher harmonics of solid-state lasers into the ultraviolet promises to further extend the range of applications for these systems. (Back to basics: nonlinear optics).
May 1, 2003... Diode-pumped neodymium lasers exhibit superior energy efficiency, reliability, stability, and beam quality. Second-harmonic generation (SHG) now routinely extends these benefits to applications at visible wavelengths. Converting the fundamental...

A single instrument measures numerous network parameters. (OTDRs).
May 1, 2003... In today's environment, network providers are optimizing their networks to increase the quality of service, while also attempting to reduce costs. Unfortunately these goals can sometimes be contradictory. Optimization requires information about...

Beyond telecom: FBGs find use in oil and gas industries. (Fiber Bragg Gratings).
May 1, 2003... Fiber Bragg gratings are being used during the production of oil and gas in a variety of sensing applications. They offer significant advantages over conventional sensors in harsh industrial environments. The domestic oil and gas industry...

Digital color-imaging techniques offer a mix of pros and cons. (Visualization).
May 1, 2003... No single filtering technique has proven to be the optimum method, which is evident by the vast number of products now available. Color imaging and discrimination can be performed in numerous ways. Whether that imaging is based on...

For polymer switches, tailored synthesis meets the reliability challenge. (Optical Materials).
May 1, 2003... Polymer optical devices usually struggle for acceptance in the reliability-conscious telecommunications sector. But two key properties of polymers--their thermo-optic and electro-optic functions--continue to hold the promise of low-cost,...

Nanosensors enable portable detectors for environmental and medical applications. (Optical Biodetectors).
May 1, 2003... The development of biosensors for the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases, drug discovery, proteomics, and the environmental detection of pollutants and/or biological agents is an extremely significant problem. (1) Fundamentally, a biosensor...

National Aperture, Inc.: new! micro-miniature linear translation stage. (Product Showcase).
May 1, 2003... NAI introduces the latest in a series of new, high-precision motorized linear translation stages. The new design offers resolution of 0.5 mm (w/16:1 gear), greater load bearing capacity, longer travel, and more mounting and configuration...

DS4 linear tables ... performance and versatility in a compact design. (Product Showcase).
May 1, 2003... With travels up to 600mm, DS4 excels in Life Science, Factory Automation, Packaging, and Semiconductor applications. Precision-machined extruded components, square-rail linear ways, and precision ballscrews combine to optimize strength,...

The Andor Shamrock 303i--the latest in spectrograph innovation. (Product Showcase).
May 1, 2003... Now available from the spectroscopic experts is the latest in spectrograph innovation, the Andor Shamrock 303i. With years of experience developing spectrograph products, the Andor Shamrock 303i is designed with your spectroscopy application in...

375nm 10mW UV laser diode module. (Product Showcase).
May 1, 2003... Power Technology, Inc. introduces its new higher power ultraviolet IQ (Instrument Quality) laser diode module. At 375nm [+ or -] 5nm, the module yields up to 10mW of output. The unit features a PID temperature controller and precision current...

Laser sharp ... crystal clear VLOC ... (Product Showcase).
May 1, 2003... * A recognized leader in the manufacture of precision optics and crystal components for visible and near infrared lasers. * A leading supplier of optical components for the industrial, medical, scientific, instrumentation, military, and...

Optikos Lens testing and design. (Product Showcase).
May 1, 2003... Optikos's Lens Measurement Services can measure MTF, EFL, BFL and other optical performance specifications for lenses covering from the UV to the Thermal IR. Using its state-of-the-art, OpTest[TM] measurement system and patented VideoMTF...