Laser Focus World articles from May 2004

Laser Focus World archives from May 2004

Adding another dimension.(editor's desk)
May 1, 2004... True real-time three-dimensional (3-D) imaging has been the province of science fiction for many years and it will likely be many more years before we are watching 3-D TV in our living rooms. Nonetheless, the added value of holographic displays...

Microlenses shape light from GaN LEDs.(news breaks)
May 1, 2004... Because indium gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have become so important in the areas of high-intensity illumination and large full-color displays, almost anything a researcher can do to improve their characteristics...

Gold-doped HgCdTe detectors operate at high temperature.(news breaks)
May 1, 2004... Researchers at DRS Infrared Technologies (Dallas, TX), SAIC (Albuquerque, NM), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (Kirtland AFB, NM) have developed mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe) IR detectors that have a high operating temperature of 130...

Transparent magnetic fluid has potential for optical devices.(news breaks)
May 1, 2004... Magnetic fluids, which contain magnetic nanoparticles, have magnetic-field-dependent birefringent, chromatic, transmissive, and refractive-index properties that could make them useful in optical devices. One standard magnetic fluid contains...

Single-atom-cooling method keeps atomic excitation low.(news breaks)
May 1, 2004... Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany) have demonstrated a method for laser cooling of atoms that does not rely on repeated cycles of optical pumping and spontaneous photon emission. It relies instead...

Nanostructured silicon diode shows stimulated emission.(news breaks)
May 1, 2004... Approaches to creating a viable silicon laser--which would allow integration with standard electronics and make available the vast infrastructure of the integrated-circuit-chip industry--include porous silicon, as well as doping. Researchers at...

Formula describes null-corrector sag and phase.(news breaks)
May 1, 2004... A null corrector is a highly aspheric optical element that allows interferometric testing of large aspheric optics, by correcting for the aspheric portion of their wavefront. If made inaccurately, a null corrector leads to an incorrect aspheric...

Single fixed laser crystal emits red, green, and blue light.(news breaks)
May 1, 2004... A solid-state laser containing a single piece of active (gain) material that simultaneously produces red, green, and blue (RGB) light could be valuable for full-color image projectors. Typically, RGB laser light is produced by a complex...

Charge motion is optically imaged.(news breaks)
May 1, 2004... Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA) and Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT) have developed a method of directly imaging the two-dimensional transport of free charge at the surface of planar semiconductor structures. The...

Rectangular hollow glass tubes help 10.6-[micro]m light stay polarized.(News breaks)
May 1, 2004... Flexible, round hollow glass tubes coated inside with high-reflection coatings have been used to transmit high-power light beams from carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) lasers for industrial use. The glass tubing material allows for conventional...

Optical clockworks target microwave clock standard.(Ultrafast Lasers)
May 1, 2004... In 1967, the 9,192,631,770-Hz resonant frequency of a fountain-like movement of laser-cooled cesium atoms in a microwave cavity captured the internationally accept ed definition of the second with a precision that gradually reached one part in...

Compound camera sees clearly and in color.(optoelectronics world news)
May 1, 2004... Inspired by the compound eyes of insects, a group of Japanese researchers has developed a technique for building large cameras with small optics. The new apparatus is a tradeoff between hardware size and the additional computational overhead...

Indefinite medium focuses light.(Optical Materials)
May 1, 2004... The development of optical materials with a negative refractive index would allow the creation of (non-gradient-index) refractive focusing lenses that have flat surfaces, as well as other optical elements and systems that would appear quite odd...

783-nm DFB laser emits 200 mW in single mode.(Semiconductor Lasers)
May 1, 2004... Semiconductor distributed-Bragg-reflector (DBR) and distributed-feedback (DFB) lasers in the 770- to 860-nm wavelength range are useful for exciting and cooling cesium or rubidium atoms for atomic clocks, Raman spectroscopy, and even as primary...

Time-domain method targets turbine blades.(Thermoreflectance Microscopy)
May 1, 2004... An innovative optical approach to measuring thermal conductivity may eventually assist in the development of next-generation, high-temperature turbine blades based on niobium alloys, which have been proposed as a replacement for currently used...

Optical arrays will become sensor cubes.(Sensor-Array Electronics)
May 1, 2004... Arrays of optical sensors are used for various purposes at wavelengths ranging from x-ray to the IR. As ever-more-demanding applications push pixel size down and the total number of pixels up, demands on the sensor signal-processing electronics...

Two-photon process cures hybrid polymers into photonic-crystal lattices.(Photonic Crystals)
May 1, 2004... Lattices of inorganic-organic hybrid polymers designed as photonic crystals have been achieved with resolutions down to 100 nm. Ruth Houbertz and others at the Fraunhofer Institute (Wuerzburg, Germany) with Boris Chichkov and others at Laser...

New spin on the optical vortex.(Image Processing)
May 1, 2004... Researchers at San Diego State University (San Diego, CA) have demonstrated how a phase-only liquid-crystal display (LCD) patterned with a helical structure can be used as a so-called "vortex lens." (1) The device can be used to generate donuts...

Portable protein detector diagnoses infectious diseases.(Biomedical Sensing)
May 1, 2004... A portable protein detector powered by a nine-volt battery could provide a cost-effective solution to diagnosis problems of HW and other infectious diseases, especially in developing countries where there may not be trained personnel or the...

Broadband system evaluates age and origin of bruises.(Optical Forensics)
May 1, 2004... A team of scientists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim) has developed a simple, noninvasive optical technique that can quantitatively determine the age of a bruise. The system is expected to aid forensic...

New applications demand less-expensive technology.(Adaptive Optics)
May 1, 2004... Adaptive optics (AO) was first proposed in 1953 as an aid to astronomers, but the initial technology developments were focused on military applications for more than a decade. The upside of this was the achievement of impressive military...

Scotland funds optical lock.(optoelectronics world news)
May 1, 2004... When put into practice, the brainchild of an entrepreneur from Crieff, Scotland, is set to become what may be an unpickable lock. The lock design relies on optical fibers for encoding, avoiding vulnerable mechanical components. The Scottish...

Optically pumped gas encoding enables remote optical detection.(optoelectronics world news)
May 1, 2004... Optical detection of magnetic resonance images is enabled by the flow of optically polarized xenon gas through this remote detection system assembly being adjusted by doctoral candidate Juliette Seeley in the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)...

Military moves forward with mobile high-energy tactical laser.(High-Power Lasers)
May 1, 2004... The U.S. Army and Israeli Ministry of Defense are moving forward with plans to develop a battlefield-deployable high-energy laser called Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL) capable of shooting down short-range rockets, artillery rounds,...

Colossal nonlinearity offers new efficient wavefront correction.(Adaptive Optics)
May 1, 2004... A team of researchers from the University of Ancona (Ancona, Italy) has found what appears to be the largest nonlinear optical response ever observed in liquid crystals (LCs)--one that is eight orders of magnitude larger than the so-called...

Medical-laser firm Cutera to go public.(laser)
May 1, 2004... Cutera (formerly Altus Medical; Brisbane, CA) has done something the laser industry has not seen for quite some time: launched an initial public offering. The company and its stockholders are offering 3.53 million shares of common stock at...

British lab wins $5.5 million laser grant.(laser)
May 1, 2004... Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL; Didcot, England) received a grant of 3 million [pounds sterling] (US$5.5 million) to create the most intense laser in the world. This award is the first facility-development project grant issued by the...

Wavelight changes its relationship with Lumenis.(laser)
May 1, 2004... WaveLight Laser Technologic (Erlangen, Germany) has terminated its distribution contracts with Lumenis (Yokneam, Israel) in Europe and other areas outside of the United States. Lumenis has been marketing Wavelight's Allegrate Wave excimer laser...

JPSA offers excimer-laser refurbishment services.(laser)
May 1, 2004... JPSA Laser (Hollis, NH) is now offering UV-laser refurbishment services for excimer lasers. According to the company, refurbishing lasers saves customers money, because the cost to replace sophisticated UV lasers can be quite high. In addition,...

BAE System Avionics Group Sensor System Division.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2004... A new Laser Center of Excellence has been opened at BAE Systems Avionics Group Sensor Systems Division facility (Edinburgh, Scotland). The new facility will be used in the production of the Laser System for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Electro...

Raytheon Company.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2004... Raytheon Company has been awarded the maximum available share of three competitive contracts for Paveway II Laser Guided Bomb components by the U.S. Air Force. The contracts include a 70% share of the FY2004 LGB procurements for the Air Force...

Thorlabs buys Melles Griot division.(optics)
May 1, 2004... Thorlabs (Newton, NJ) has purchased Melles Griot (Cambridgeshire, England), a division of Melles Griot (Carlsbad, CA). The U.K. facility manufactures nano-positioning systems for high-precision alignment applications, along with optical tables...

TMC wins second NIF contract.(optics)
May 1, 2004... Technical Manufacturing (TMC; Peabody, MA) has received a second major design and build order from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for its National Ignition Facility (NIF) program. TMC delivered more than 500 optical tops for an earlier...

Adaptive optics help image Saturn moon.(optics)
May 1, 2004... A team of French astronomers used the state-of-the-art adaptive optics system on the European Southern Observatory's fourth 8.2-m Very Large Telescope (VLT) unit telescope, Yepun, to map the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, by means of...

Corning licenses patents to Fuji Photo.(optics)
May 1, 2004... Corning (Corning, NY) and Fuji Photo Optical Company (Tokyo, Japan) have entered into an agreement licensing the use of Corning patents concerning molded glass parts used for digital still cameras, display systems, and other products requiring...

Adaptive Optics Associates.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2004... Adaptive Optics Associates (AOA; Cambridge, MA) received $2 million under a subcontract for a proprietary customer for work to be completed during 2004. AOA provides laser beam delivery and control systems to semiconductor and fiber optic...

LightPath Technologies.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2004... The Nasdaq Stock Market approved LightPath Technologies' (Orlando, FL) application to transfer its listing to the Nasdaq SmallCap Market...

Telic Optics (North Billerica, MA), a privately held manufacturer of infrared optics and optical assemblies for aerospace, defense, and commercial markets, was purchased by Axsys Technologies (Rocky Hill, CT).(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2004... Telic Optics (North Billerica, MA), a privately held manufacturer of infrared optics and optical assemblies for aerospace, defense, and commercial markets, was purchased by Axsys Technologies (Rocky Hill, CT). Axsys paid an initial purchase...

BU Photonics Center building nanophotonics lab.(imaging & detector)
May 1, 2004... The Photonics Center at Boston University (Boston, MA) has begun building a $1.5 million Nanophotonics Laboratory, scheduled to open this September. The facility will enable engineers and developers from different industries and areas of...

Michigan Aerospace wins lidar contract.(imaging & detector)
May 1, 2004... Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC; Ann Arbor, MI) received a $2.1 million, two-year contract from the University of New Hampshire as part of a larger grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to demonstrate its...

OptiLED partners with lighting technology center.(imaging & detector)
May 1, 2004... As a way to more quickly bring the latest energy-saving light-emitting diode (LED) lighting concepts to consumers and businesses, OptiLED (Irvine, CA) is partnering with the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) on several development...

CRL Opto acquires MicroVue assets.(imaging & detector)
May 1, 2004... CRL Opto (Dunfermline, Scotland), a supplier of high-resolution F-LCOS microdisplays and microdisplay-based products, acquired the microdisplay production assets of MicroVue Limited from the MicroVue liquidators. CRL Opto intends to recommence...

Diversified Optical Products (DiOP: Evry, France) signed an agreement with BFi OPTiLAS International.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2004... Diversified Optical Products (DiOP: Evry, France) signed an agreement with BFi OPTiLAS International for exclusive distribution of DiOP's line of cooled thermal-imaging cameras in 13 European countries....

The U.S. Displays Consortium (USDC; San Jose, CA) awarded a research and development contract to Honeywell Defense and Space.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2004... The U.S. Displays Consortium (USDC; San Jose, CA) awarded a research and development contract to Honeywell Defense and Space (Albuquerque, NM). The $233,000 award will focus on evaluating military night-vision imaging systems to provide...

Cree to buy GaN substrate business from ATM.(fiberoptics)
May 1, 2004... Cree (Durham, NC) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the gallium nitride (GaN) substrate and epitaxy business of Advanced Technology Materials (Danbury, CT) through an asset purchase transaction. Under terms of the agreement,...

Fujitsu and Sumitomo form joint venture.(fiberoptics)
May 1, 2004... Fujitsu Quantum Devices and the Electron Device Department of Sumitomo Electric Industries have consolidated their compound-semiconductor device businesses into a joint venture company, Eudyna Devices (San Jose, CA). Eudyna Devices will...

Bookham opens European InP wafer fab.(fiberoptics)
May 1, 2004... Bookham Technology has formally opened its expanded wafer fab facility in Caswell, England. The enlarged facility includes what the company says is the only 3-in. indium phosphide (InP) wafer fab in Europe. The facility also houses a 2-in. InP...

Sacher Lasertechnik (Buena Park, CA) and GWU-Lasertechnik (Erftstadt, Germany) have signed an exclusive agreement for the distribution of optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2004... Sacher Lasertechnik (Buena Park, CA) and GWU-Lasertechnik (Erftstadt, Germany) have signed an exclusive agreement for the distribution of optical parametric oscillators OPOs in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. GWU-Lasertechnik...

Polychormix.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2004... (Wilmington MA) has moved into larger headquarters and an expanded manufacturing facility in Wilmington. The new facility is intended to meet the growing demand from optical networking equipment makers and subsystem integrators for the...

Infrared visibility keeps growing: price ad performance imporve the allure of IR imaging for machine vision.(inside imaging)
May 1, 2004... "Calorific imaging" certainly does not have the power of alliteration that "IR imaging" carries, yet that might have been the term if Sir William Hershel's first name for the radiation had stuck. The English astronomer discovered the IR...

How can I get a VC to invest in my company?(business forum)
May 1, 2004... Q: My optics business is thriving but I cannot convince venture capitalists (VCs) to invest. Any suggestions? A: The problem you face is likely to plague most of the companies in our industry. Raising money is more than fast talking...

Lightpipe and integrating box provide uniform irradiance.(software & computing)
May 1, 2004... Many electro-optical devices have components designed to achieve uniform illumination over a defined angular range. Examples include liquid-crystal displays in consumer electronics products--such as cellular phones and palm pilot--automotive...

QCL modules are ready for industrial applications: putting QCLs in standard packages and developing a driver module and control unit allows them to be used for industrial spectroscopic identification of molecules.(Quantum-Cascade Lasers)
May 1, 2004... With the development of industrial-quality quantum-cascade lasers (QCLs), stable radiant sources that emit in the mid-IR at ambient temperatures will become available. This opens a spectral range for industrial-sensor applications in which the...

Optical systems can help stop missiles: although not yet widely deployed on military equipment, optical countermeasures are an increasingly important element of electronic warfare systems and will likely play a role in homeland security.(Back to basics: optical countermeasures)
May 1, 2004... In the military world, every measure has a countermeasure, designed to impair the operation of the opponent's equipment. Both offense and defense need to know what countermeasures are available--the offense to try to foil them with...

Real-world systems demand application-specific designs: driver circuitry plays as big a role as materials and optics in achieving long lifetimes and high efficiencies with solid-state lighting.(High-Brightness LEDs)
May 1, 2004... Harnessing the long-lifetime and high-efficiency benefits of high-brightness LEDs (HBLEDs) in real-world applications relies as much upon systems and components as it does on the materials science of the HBLED itself. Unlike the laboratory,...

Digital micromirrors enable holographic video display: a commercially available digital micromirror device is at the heart of a holographic projector that can project video-rate two-color images; this, along with a volumetric display based on layered liquid-crystal panels, allows the creation of real 3-D images.(3-D Displays)
May 1, 2004... While the digital light-processing digital micromirror device developed by Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) is commonly used to project 2-D images onto screens, the device can also be used to project 3-D images. Our team at the Garner Lab at the...

Glass machining leaps into the 21st Century: laser-based machining systems are bringing routine production to an area previously characterized by a craftsman's skill. New and complex glass geometries are opening exciting applications for a well-characterized and inexpensive material.(Materials Processing)
May 1, 2004... Cutting, drilling, and shaping of glass, quartz, and related materials has traditionally been achieved by skilled individuals using cleaving, grinding, polishing, or hot blowing techniques. Precision laser-based machining systems are now...

Direct-write laser processing creates tiny electrochemical systems: advances in integration and processing techniques have significantly reduced the size of microelectronic and microelectromechanical devices. Laser direct-write can fabricate micro power systems compatible with these microdevices.(Materials Processing)
May 1, 2004... In recent years, advances in integration and processing techniques have enabled microelectronic and microelectro-mechanical devices to shrink in size dramatically. While these new devices have been used as components in larger sensor, actuator,...

Water-guided lasers create clean cuts: the cooling effect of water combined with its ability to guide laser energy directly to the workpiece benefits many cutting applications, especially those involving sensitive material.(Materials Processing)
May 1, 2004... In 1993, scientists at the Institute of Applied Optics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne succeeded in creating a laser light--guiding water jet. Called the Laser-Microjet (LMJ) by its inventors, the technology has since...

A light touch: new digital capabilities are generating fresh interest in holography for nondestructive testing.(Image Engineering)
May 1, 2004... Nondestructive evaluation--often called nondestructive testing--is an increasingly critical technology in sectors of manufacturing ranging from wafer test to the inspection of aircraft components (see Fig. 1). Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) is...

Phase-step calibration extends 19th century standard into 21st: gauge blocks are still used as length standards in industry and trade primarily because they are easier and less expensive to handle than laser-based instruments.(Interferometers)
May 1, 2004... The authoritative reference standard for length used in industry for the last century or more has been the end standard or gauge block. This gauge is a bar, usually hardened steel, with two ends that are flat and parallel to a tolerance of 100...

Growing demand for solar power also calls for new material designs: laser machining of silicon has made great strides in recent years, and will help enable new technologies such as the emitter-wrap-through solar cell.(Photovoltaics)
May 1, 2004... Solar or photovoltaic cells convert sunlight directly into electricity. The market for photovoltaic cells and modules continues to be robust and exhibit excellent growth rates. Worldwide shipments of photovoltaic cells and modules increased by...

Lidar reveals critical changes in Earth's atmosphere: ground- and air-based lidar systems have been providing volumetric information about air quality, the ozone, global warming, and wind and weather patterns for years. But the real goal is to make it work from outer space.(Optoelectronics applications: environmental monitoring)
May 1, 2004... From its early days as a simple technique for studying clouds to its current role in measuring air pollution, tracking wind and weather patterns, and monitoring changes in the ozone, light detection and ranging (lidar) has played a key role in...

Hollow-core fibers allow light to travel by air: because they can guide light through air rather than glass, hollow-core photonic-crystal fibers offer several advantages and may eventually outperform their conventional counterparts in many applications.(Photonic-Crystal Fibers)
May 1, 2004... Of all the applications that optical physicists are finding for photonic crystal materials, optical fiber is probably the most advanced. Photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is a new breed of optical waveguide with properties very different from those...

Laser-diode module.(new products)
May 1, 2004... The Blue Photon laser-diode module is now available with greater than 80 mW in the blue and greater than 20 mW in the UV. The device is designed for DVD-mastering, exposure applications, precision engineering, and biomedical technology. The...

Corner-cube retroreflectors.(new products)
May 1, 2004... New high-tolerance corner-cube retroreflectors are designed to return a beam upon itself, regardless of its angle of incidence. They provide a 1-arcsecond parallelism between the incoming and exiting beam. The cubes have a silver coating and...

Green laser.(new products)
May 1, 2004... The new Verdi-18 is a diode-pumped, solid-state laser that delivers greater than 18 W of 532-nm output. The green laser is suited for high-power CW materials processing and scientific applications. The inherently stable single-frequency design...

Linescan cameras.(new products)
May 1, 2004... The AviiVA SM2 (Smarter Monochrome, 2 taps) and SC2 (Smarter Color, 2 taps) linescan cameras offer flat-field correction capabilities to compensate for lens and lightsource nonuniformities and contrast expansion functions. The SC2 corrects...

Stepper motors.(new products)
May 1, 2004... The PEE five-phase stepper-motor series includes two types of motors. The 533A(B) has a maximum holding torque of 4.7 oz-in., is 31 mm long, and weighs 3.9 oz. The 535A(B) has holding torque of 8.5 oz-in., is 50.5 mm long, and weighs less than...

Laser measurement head.(new products)
May 1, 2004... The PD10-pJ photodiode energy head can measure laser energy between 10 and 100 pJ at pulse rates up to 4 kHz. It has spectral response from 200 to 1100 nm, a maximum pulse width of 50 ns, maximum average power of 0.5 W, damage threshold of...

Toroidal mirrors.(new products)
May 1, 2004... A range of toroidal mirrors come in a variety of substrates and coatings for different applications. Custom designs including off-axis configurations can be supplied. Optiglass, Hainault, Essex, England Enter 206 at...

Laser bar.(new products)
May 1, 2004... The SPL LG81 laser-diode array is sealed in an OEM package with fast axis collimation and is designed for both CW and pulsed operation. A semi-external microchannel cooler allows for output powers up to 30 W at temperatures from 10[degrees]C to...

Avalanche photodiode.(new products)
May 1, 2004... The FCI-APD-300 silicon avalanche photodetector has an active-area diameter of 300 [micro]m. It comes in a hermetically sealed TO-46 package with either a flat window or micro lens cap. It is designed for high-speed optical communications,...

Retroreflector array.(new products)
May 1, 2004... A plastic, injection-molded, retro-reflector array is molded in 100-mm modular cells that are assembled into larger arrays. They are optimized for short standoffs, up to 70 m. The arrays are designed for use as a component in any open-path...

Shearing interferometer.(new products)
May 1, 2004... The SID4 wave-front sensor combines interferometry and self-referencing to add phase to laser-beam characterization. It has transverse resolution of 128 x 128, spatial resolution of 29.6 [micro]m, a wavelength range of either 800 [+ or -] 300...

Laser diodes.(new products)
May 1, 2004... The SLD34x-YT range of high-brightness laser diodes from Sony provides either 4 W from a 200-[micro]m emitter or 6 W from a 400-[micro]m emitter. Wavelengths can be selected to suit particular applications. The diodes are designed for...

Laser alignment system.(new products)
May 1, 2004... The Microgage 2000 can be used up to 80 ft from the laser source to monitor machinery and equipment alignment on a factory floor. They have an accuracy of 0.0001 in. The receiver has a digital display, and the unit can connect to a laptop for...

InGaAs detectors.(new products)
May 1, 2004... The OMA V series of InGaAs detection systems use 1024- and 512-element linear photodiode arrays for sensitivity from 1.0 to 2.2 [micro]m. The 16-bit systems are designed for NIT spectroscopy applications, including Raman, absorbance, and...

MEMS wafer.(new products)
May 1, 2004... PaGeWafer is a patterned getter-film wafer for packaged MEMS technology. The wafer has a patterned getter film a few microns thick that is placed onto specific cavities. It has maximized sorption for active gases, including water, oxygen,...

Shutter.(new products)
May 1, 2004... The Uniblitz CS25 shutter has a 25-mm aperture that fits into a 2.37-in.-diameter housing. A miniaturized actuator system can be driven with existing VMM drive units. An electronic synchronization system, in a housed or un-housed OEM version,...

VCSEL simulation.(new products)
May 1, 2004... Version 2.0 of LaserMOD optical-design software includes design and simulation capabilities for VCSELs and incorporates a self-heating model. The CAD interface provides a new distributed Bragg reflector element to lay out VCSEL structures. The...

UV coating.(new products)
May 1, 2004... UV-Transmitter coating is designed for upgrading existing UV curing modules. The coating is deposited on quartz windows and cover plates, and transmits UV energy while suppressing visible and infrared light. It can be used in a single...

Microscopy software.(new products)
May 1, 2004... Release 3.2 Add On for confocal microscope systems allows the separation of spectrally overlapping fluorescent signals. The function is based on the simultaneous detection of up to three fluorescent signals using different detectors. The...

E-beam evaporators.(new products)
May 1, 2004... A range of miniature electron-beam evaporators are designed to give maximum control of evaporation rates at low fluxes and to minimize contamination of the vapor stream for areas such as surface science or thin-film doping. The EV single-pocket...