Laser Focus World articles from May 2006

Laser Focus World archives from May 2006

Taking the prize.(editor's desk)
May 1, 2006... One half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics cited two scientists "for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique." John L. Hall from the University of Colorado...

GaN-based micro-optics will combine with future blue and UV VCSELs.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2006... In the quest for compactness of hardware, researchers at National Central University (Jung-Li, Taiwan) and Chang Gung University (Tao-Yuan, Taiwan) have developed gallium nitride (GaN)-based stacked micro-optical systems that could further...

Compact UV Ti:sapphire laser flies high for gas sensing.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2006... A compact narrow-linewidth tunable UV Ti: sapphire laser developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) and Applied Technology Associates (Albuquerque, NM) replaces bulky, complex dye lasers or optical parametric...

Cladding-pump fiber maintains polarization.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2006... At OFC/NFOEC 2006 (March 5-10: Anaheim. CA), Fibercore Limited (Southampton, England) introduced the first all-silica cladding-pump polarization-maintaining (PM) fiber. The fiber uses two of the company's patented and field-proven...

Calculations reveal limit of microfiber thinness.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2006... When the diameter of a microfiber is smaller than the wavelength of light being transmitted through it, the presence of the evanescent field projecting outside the fiber allows such tapered fibers to be used for optical sensing, atom trapping,...

Optical 'nose' now detects multiple molecules.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2006... Building on earlier work in noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical-heterodyne molecular spectroscopy (NICE-OHMS) for the ultrasensitive detection of trace gases and other molecules through detection of single absorption features (see...

FEL heats fat, leaves water alone; could treat acne.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2006... In one of those laser-lab developments that show great potential for moving into the wider world, researchers at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab; Newport News, VA), Harvard Medical School (Harvard, MA), and the...

In interference filters, light can disobey Snell's law.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2006... While it may be expected that light passing through an optical coating would follow a path dictated by Snell's Law, this is not always so, say researchers at JDSU (Santa Rosa, CA). In fact, while Snell's Law is a good approximation for the path...

Diode-pumped phosphate-glass laser has 88% slope efficiency.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2006... A diode-pumped 1.028 [micro]m emitting room-temperature solid-state laser having a slope efficiency of 88% has been reported by researchers at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) and the Universidad de Sao Paulo (Sao Carlos,...

P.A.L.M. Microlaser honored with innovation award.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2006... Karin Schutze and Raimund Schutze, cofounders of P.A.L.M. Microlaser Technologies (a company of Carl Zeiss MicroImaging; Bernried, Germany), have been awarded first prize in the Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis competition for their...

Binary coded aperture trumps slit for signal.(SPECTROSCOPY)
May 1, 2006... Users of conventional slit-based dispersive spectrometers face a dilemma. A spectrometer designed with narrow slits for a high resolution has a low optical signal; widening the slit to increase the signal lowers the resolution. For some...

Fiber source tunes continuously in the visible.(optoelectronics: world news)
May 1, 2006... Many biological imaging and industrial testing applications depend on laser radiation in the visible, and could benefit greatly from a reliable source of tunable, visible radiation. Unfortunately, schemes that provide this tunable spectrum,...

Building a better tattoo.(BIOMATERIALS)
May 1, 2006... Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH; Boston, MA) and Brown University (Providence, RI) have developed microencapsulated resorbable tattoo pigments designed specifically with laser removal in mind. In preclinical in vivo studies...

Light pipes seen as path to gigascale integration.(OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS)
May 1, 2006... An estimated 800 scientists, engineers, and other professionals will meet next month for the ninth annual IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference (IITC; June 5-7, San Francisco, CA), focused on enabling the interconnects in...

Single-shot measurement records temperature and pressure simultaneously.(SPECTROSCOPY)
May 1, 2006... Laser-spectroscopy methods allow measurement of kinetic and thermal properties of liquids and gases, useful to the study of combustion in engines and to an understanding of the dynamics in other high-temperature, high-pressure environments....

Laser creates quasi-monoenergetic proton beam.(HIGH-POWER LASERS)
May 1, 2006... With lasers offering ever-shorter pulses and higher peak intensities, high-energy radiation/matter interaction has become widely studied, for example to induce nuclear fusion. An outgrowth of this research deals with laser particle...

Laser-staged 'Enlightenment of Buddha' wins 2005 ILDA Award.(ENTERTAINMENT LASERS)
May 1, 2006... "Enlightenment of Buddha," by Manick Sorcar, an extravaganza of dance, drama, and magic amid various forms of intelligent lighting, life-size laser-animation, and 3-D laser-effects in space, captured the 2005 ILDA Artistic Award (the industry...

Deep-UV LEDs appear on the market.(LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES)
May 1, 2006... In the last few years, a group led by Asif Khan at the University of South Carolina (USC; Columbia, SC) has worked at pushing light-emitting-diode (LED) wavelengths well down into the 200 nm range. Now, a nearby company has commercialized the...

Negative-index materials form strange images.(OPTICS)
May 1, 2006... Theorists have predicted many interesting effects for materials with negative index of refraction n, including perfect lensing, a reversed Doppler shift, or reversed Cherenkov radiation. Using ray-tracing calculations, researchers at the...

Photonics Europe shows growth.
May 1, 2006... STRASBOURG, FRANCE -- For those of us familiar with the vagaries of Europe, the term "pan-European" might seem like an oxymoron. Nonetheless, ongoing efforts by SPIE (Bellingham, WA) to create a pan-European photonics conference took an...

Handheld analyzer detects many substances.(SPECTROMETERS)
May 1, 2006... At this year's Pittcon conference (March 12-17; Orlando, FL), Polychromix (Wilmington, MA) launched a miniature near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer that is held like a pistol and looks very much like a police radar gun. In fact, the instrument,...

Ultrafast laser yields the latest in designer eyewear.(optoelectronic: world news)
May 1, 2006... It may look like another Internet joke, but this image of a common housefly sporting a pair of custom-made "glasses" is real. To demonstrate their ultrafast-laser micromachining capabilities, Frank Korte and Guenter Kamlage, cofounders of...

Optical fiber is also electronic.(OPTICAL FIBERS)
May 1, 2006... A team from Penn State University (State College, PA) and the University of Southampton (Southampton, England) has demonstrated a hybrid semiconductor and optical-fiber technology in which semiconductor devices were grown inside microstructured...

Gold nanoparticles show promise for cancer treatment.(NANOPHOTONICS)
May 1, 2006... A father and son research team has struck gold for the second time in an attempt to detect and kill cancer cells using lasers, gold nanoparticles, and the binding properties of cells. Last year, Mostafa El-Sayed at the Georgia Institute of...

Rofin-Sinar buys stake in H2B Photonics.(laser: industry report)
May 1, 2006... With operational headquarters in Plymouth, MI, and Hamburg, Germany and production facilities in the U.S., Germany, U.K., Sweden, Singapore, and Japan, Rofin-Sinar--manufacturer of industrial lasers with more than 22,000 laser units installed...

Daylight Solutions debuts 'tiny tunables'.(laser: industry report)
May 1, 2006... The startup firm Daylight Solutions (Poway, CA) is set to debut its mid-IR lasers--or "tiny tunables"--and officially announce its transition from R&D into production (see www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/252457). Tim Day, former CTO and...

eLite wins financing, changes name.(laser: industry report)
May 1, 2006... eLite Optoelectronics (Sunnyvale, CA), a supplier of LED chips to high-volume solid-state lighting markets, raised $8.5 million in venture capital financing and changed its name to BridgeLux. The funding will be used for capital investments and...

Molecular Devices acquires LCM business.(laser: industry report)
May 1, 2006... For $10 million in cash, Molecular Devices (Sunnyvale, CA) has acquired the portion of Arcturus Bioscience (Mountain View, CA) related to laser capture microdissection (LCM) and laser cutting. Arcturus, founded in 1996 by Thomas Baer, has...

Lincoln Laser.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Lincoln Laser (Phoenix, AZ) was recognized by The Arizona Association of Industries as the Arizona Manufacturer of the Year for 2006 in the Small Business Category.

Westplex (Randburg, South Africa) was appointed the South African distributor for CCS.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Westplex (Randburg, South Africa) was appointed the South African distributor for CCS, a Japan-based manufacturer of LED lighting.

Plextronics.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... The West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund has invested $500,000 in Plextronics (Pittsburgh, PA) to accelerate the development of PtexcoreT, an organic, nonacidic, solvent-based hole injection layer for OLEDs.

Vertilas.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Vertilas (Garching, Germany), a supplier of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) diodes, completed a third round of financing totaling $4.4 million to advance the commercialization of its products.

Veeco Instruments (Woodbury, NY), supplier of epitaxial equipment used in the manufacture of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB-LEDs), has been selected to join the Solid-State Lighting and Display Center (SSLDC).(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Veeco Instruments (Woodbury; NY), supplier of epitaxial equipment used in the manufacture of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB-LEDs), has been selected to join the Solid-State Lighting and Display Center (SSLDC) at the University Of...

Coherent.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) established a direct operation in Seoul Korea to offer customer-focused services to Korean laser customers.

Cree (Durham, NC), a provider of LED solid-state lighting components, has signed an agreement with Innovative LED Technologies (Barcelona, Spain).(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Cree (Durham, NC), a provider of LED solid-state lighting components, has signed an agreement with Innovative LED Technologies (Barcelona, Spain) to distribute Cree XLamp LEDs in Spain and Portugal.

Partnership boosts polymer-based optics.(optics: industry report)
May 1, 2006... Wahl Optoparts (Triptis, Germany), a subsidiary of Jenoptik (Jena, Germany), has formed a strategic alliance with Apollo Optical Systems and RPC Photonics (both of Rochester, NY) to combine their competencies in the manufacture of polymer-based...

Agilent opens optics shop to external customers.(optics: industry report)
May 1, 2006... Having served more than 35 years as an internal resource, the precision optics design and manufacturing capability at Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) is now available to external customers. Agilent developed the ability to produce...

L-3 acquires optics company.(optics: industry report)
May 1, 2006... Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications has agreed to acquire SSG Precision Optronics. With facilities in Wilmington, MA, and Richmond, CA, SSG specializes in optics, telescopes and precision optical subsystems for government,...

Headwall selected for process monitoring.(optics: industry report)
May 1, 2006... The Raman Explorer OEM product from Headwall Photonics (Fitchburg, MA) was selected by Hamilton Sundstrand's Applied Instrument Technologies (HS-AIT) group (Pomona, CA) as the spectral engine for HS-AIT's in-line and at-line process monitoring...

Telescope to search for extraterrestrials.(optics: industry report)
May 1, 2006... An optical telescope has been erected in Harvard, MA, that is dedicated exclusively to the search for extraterrestrial life. The new observatory is one of the largest projects in Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program ever...

Zygo grows FPD metrology contracts.(optics: industry report)
May 1, 2006... A supplier of optical metrology instruments, precision optics, and electro-optical design and manufacturing services, Zygo announced that over a recent four-month period, it received orders and commitments of approximately $13 million for its...

CVI Technical Optics (Onchan, Isle of Man) has installed a 12 in. Zygo (Middlefield. CT) interferometer in its Isle of Man manufacturing facility.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... CVI Technical Optics (Onchan, Isle of Man) has installed a 12 in. Zygo (Middlefield. CT) interferometer in its Isle of Man manufacturing facility to provide one-shot interferograms for optics with up to 12 in. clear aperture.

Corning (Corning, NY) was awarded the Texas Instruments (TI; Dallas, TX) 2005 Supplier Excellence Award.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Corning (Corning, NY) was awarded the Texas Instruments (TI: Dallas, TX) 2005 Supplier Excellence Award for supply of a window that is used within TI digital light projection (DLP) products.

Schott (Jena, Germany) will be investing $72 million to enable its subsidiary, Schott Solar.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Schott (Jena, Germany) will be investing $72 million to enable its subsidiary, Schott Solar, to build a manufacturing facility for thin-film solar electricity modules based on vapor deposition of silicon onto glass, rather than using more...

Retica launches retina biometric system.(imaging & detector: industry report)
May 1, 2006... David Muller, founder and former CEO of Summit Technology (Walnut Creek, CA)--a leader in laser vision correction--has traded vision care for vision-based security. His latest venture, Retica Systems (Waltham, MA), has developed what the...

Epson, Novalux join forces on displays.(imaging & detector: industry report)
May 1, 2006... Novalux (Sunnyvale, CA) has entered into a joint development and license agreement with Seiko Epson (Tokyo, Japan) for Novalux external-cavity surface-emitting laser (NECSEL)-based red/green/blue illumination devices for use in...

Concentrix Solar gets financing.(imaging & detector: industry report)
May 1, 2006... Created with the aim of bringing its innovative FLATCON technology to the market, Concentrix Solar (Freiburg, Germany) completed the first round of venture capital financing in order to fund its expansion. FLATCON modules are based on the...

OmniVision selected for rearview cameras.(imaging & detector: industry report)
May 1, 2006... CMOS image-sensor supplier OmniVision Technologies (Sunnyvale, CA) was selected by Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. (Lippstadt, Germany) to supply sensors for Hellas rearview camera products. The color camera for the rearview driver-assistance system...

Imperx.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Seeking to better serve its customers in Europe and Asia, machine-vision supplier Imperx (Boca Raton, FL) has opened a software development and customer support office in Moscow, Russia, and staffed it with engineers from the Russian aerospace...

Novaled.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Novaled (Dresden, Germany), a developer of organic tight-emitting diode (OLED) technologies for display and other applications, has converted from a limited liability corporation into a stock Corporation (German AG) to provide higher visibility...

Daitron (Wilsonville, OR), machine-vision inspection hardware supplier.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Daitron (Wilsonville, OR), machine-vision inspection hardware supplier, has acquired the Chori America CCD Camera Division (Orange County, CA).

OmniGuide fiber aids surgery.(fiberoptics: industry report)
May 1, 2006... Following the initial purchase of OmniGuide (Cambridge, MA) fibers by Brigham and Women's Hospital, part of Partners Healthcare (Boston, MA), OmniGuide has become an official supplier to Partners Healthcare. OmniGuide Fiber, an optical fiber...

JDSU expands its test solutions portfolio.(fiberoptics: industry report)
May 1, 2006... JDSU (Milpitas, CA) announced an agreement to acquire Test-Um (Camarillo, CA), a provider of home networking test instruments for the FTTx and digital cable markets. "The deployment of broadband networks and the widespread availability of...

Glimmerglass gets Japanese partner.(fiberoptics: industry report)
May 1, 2006... Optical-switch provider Glimmerglass (Hayward, CA) has partnered with Terilogy, a provider of service-assurance software solutions in Japan, to market and distribute Glimmerglass intelligent optical switches to telecommunications and networking...

Xponent outsources wafer production.(fiberoptics: industry report)
May 1, 2006... Xponent Photonics (Monrovia, CA), provider of fiber-to-the-home/curb/ node (FTTx) optical components, has begun producing production volumes of silicon planar lightwave circuits (PLCs) at Innovative Micro Technology (IMT; Santa Barbara, CA)....

Optical networking consolidation continues.(fiberoptics: industry report)
May 1, 2006... Intersymbol Communications (Champaign, IL), a developer of advanced electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) solutions, was acquired by Kodeos Communications (Anaheim, CA), a provider of 10 Gbit/s next-generation optical transponders and...

Alcatel (Paris, France) and Lucent (Murray Hill, NJ) entered into a definitive merger agreement.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Alcatel (Paris, France) and Lucent (Murray Hill, NJ) entered into a definitive merger agreement to offer what they are calling the broadest wireless, wireline, and services portfolio in the communications industry.

IRphotonics.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... IRphotonics (Montreal, QC, Canada), a developer and manufacturer of mid-infrared optical fibers and materials for the medical, telecom, aerospace, and other high-tech industries, successfully completed a $4.2 million financing round from both...

Seikoh Giken (Chiba, Japan) and NEC TOKIN (Tokyo, Japan) have signed a Letter of Intent.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Seiko Giken (Chiba, Japan) and NEC TOKIN (Tokyo, Japan) have signed a Letter of Intent regarding the transfer of the optical device business of NEC Tokin to Seikoh Giken.

Service provider XO Communications (Reston, VA) has selected the DTN optical system from Infinera (Sunnyvale, CA).(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2006... Service provider XO Communications (Reston, VA) has selected the DTN optical system from Infinera (Sunnyvale, CA)--a communications network based on photonic integrated circuits (PICs) that combines dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM)...

GigE Vision delivers a higher standard: machine vision meets Gigabit Ethernet networking.(inside imaging)
May 1, 2006... New standards and technologies usually take a While to develop, especially in the machine-vision industry. This spring, following a recent burst in development of Gigabit Ethernet cameras and with the Automated Imaging Association (AIA; Ann...

Research funding policy needs scientific and statistical grounding.(comment)
May 1, 2006... Washington, D.C., is abuzz with new policy initiatives and talk about increasing funding for basic scientific research--especially in long-neglected areas like the physical sciences and engineering. This change comes on the heels of a multiyear...

Camera-phone photos add human dimension to machine vision.(software & computing)
May 1, 2006... Imagine doing a Web search by placing a photograph taken with your camera phone in the search argument instead of typing in a keyword or a name. An international team of computer science researchers appears to be developing a capability that...

Forensic science offers opportunity for photonics.(business forum)
May 1, 2006... Q: I am about to graduate with a physics degree and am interested in entering graduate study in the investigative side of forensic science. What are my options, especially if I want to remain where I live? A: This could be a new area of...

Phase-stabilized ultrafast lasers signal new era in measurement and research: the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics highlights the combination of optical frequency combs and precision spectroscopy for tests of basic physics.(FREQUENCY COMBS)(Cover story)
May 1, 2006... The development of short-pulse lasers has progressed steadily over the past 30 years, and during the 1990s the search for better techniques and materials to generate ever shorter pulses delivered Kerr-lens modelocked Ti:sapphire lasers as the...

White-light LEDs range from 'warm' to 'cool'.(SOURCES FOR ILLUMINATION)
May 1, 2006... Over the past 100 years, architectural lighting has progressed from incandescent lamps to fluorescent and high-intensity-discharge (HID) arc lamps. The past five years have seen the introduction of a new and more energy-efficient light source:...

Single-photon detectors take quantum leaps.(QUANTUM DETECTORS)
May 1, 2006... Quantum detectors--including photodiodes, photoconductors, phototransistors, charge-coupled detectors (CCDs), and photomultiplier tubes--are devices that convert incoming photons directly into an electrical signal, as opposed to thermal...

Optical-correction technique makes lambda/1000 optics a reality: a novel deposition method moves the substrate behind a patterned mask during deposition to achieve high control of thickness and subnanometer accuracy of optical thin-film correction.(THIN-FILM OPTICS)
May 1, 2006... With the growing interest in ultrahigh-precision optics for such diverse purposes as astronomical imaging, gravity-wave observatories, subnanometer optical metrology, extreme-UV lithography, and x-ray optics, demand is increasing for optical...

Modular Ti:sapphire systems broaden research applications.(CUSTOM LASERS)
May 1, 2006... Femtosecond Ti:sapphire amplifier systems have become standard research tools in diverse fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, and material science. With the development of compact and reliable femtosecond oscillators, as well as smaller...

New metrology tools support MEMS from R&D through final QC.(SURFACE ANALYSIS)
May 1, 2006... Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are used in a wide range of applications, from digital light processing (DLP) chips for projection televisions to "lab on a chip" microfluidic devices for high-throughput proteomics. Successful MEMS device...

Optical engines drive advances in LCOS near-to-eye displays.(MINIATURE DISPLAYS)
May 1, 2006... Microdisplay technology has held the promise of large images in small packages for more than two decades. (1) As manufacturers improved the performance of the display itself, product developers struggled at a slower pace with the optical...

Alice and Bob beef up security.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY)
May 1, 2006... Talk to anyone in the field of quantum cryptography and the conversation inevitably turns to Alice, Bob, and Eve. Wanting to keep their communications private, Alice (the sender) and Bob (the receiver) decide to set up a quantum encryption...

Know your beam.(BEAM PROFILING)
May 1, 2006... Beam-intensity profiling is an essential tool in many aspects of photonics. The exact intensity distribution is critical in many applications--flow cytometry, laser printing, medical lasers, and cutting lasers are just a few examples....

Liquid-crystal SLMs benefit the study of atmospheric turbulence.(SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS)
May 1, 2006... Liquid-crystal spatial light modulators are amazingly versatile devices with many applications in optics. Their decreasing cost is making them more widely available to researchers. In recent years, students at the Air Force Institute of...

TCAD simulation of image sensors catches light in silicon.(CMOS DETECTORS)
May 1, 2006... Fueled by increasing market demands, CMOS image-sensor technology has been pushed to its limits by advances in semiconductor technology and pixel architecture.' Manufacturers have recently developed image sensors with pixel pitch below 2.5...

High power pump source for Fiber lasers and material processing: material processing DPSSL pumping Fiber lasers printing, medicine measurement.(ADVANCED DIODE LASER TECHNOLOGY)
May 1, 2006... A series of high power, high brightness, fiber-coupled laser diode devices are now available for industrial and medical applications from Apollo Instruments. The laser products are based on a new beam shaping technology developed by the company...

Multicell diode-laser qualification benefits industrial-laser manufacturers: rigorous techniques adopted from telecom, such as improved manufacturing methods and multicell qualification, permit diode lasers to be confidently deployed across a wide temperature and power range.(TEST & MEASUREMENT)
May 1, 2006... Over the course of the last decade, vendors of telecom-grade diode lasers delivered 25% annual productivity improvements in terms of cost per watt and rated output power--a Moore's Law-type pace. However, little of this innovation reached...

Microchannel cooling ups power capacity for laser-diode bars: a microchannel-cooler package under development would eliminate many of the concerns of older-style microchannel packages and promises a roughly 30% improvement in cooling ability for laser-diode bars.(PACKAGING)
May 1, 2006... Laser manufacturers have recently made significant improvements to the amount of output power that can be produced by high-efficiency laser-diode bars. Optical output powers greater than 120 W continuous wave (CW) from a single diode bar when...

Diamond heat spreaders maximize emitter power and lifetime: the heat-spreader assembly can be a major bottleneck for thermal management of junction temperature of optoelectronic and electronic devices. With high thermal conductivity, diamond heat spreaders can improve the cooling capability of a chip.(ASSEMBLY)
May 1, 2006... The ability to increase the optical output power of laser diodes and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) without reducing device reliability or lifetime is highly constrained by device packaging methods and materials choices. Thermal management of the...

Green lasers.(new products)
May 1, 2006... The MONOLAS-532-100-SM lasers are designed for single-frequency operation and deliver stable, low-noise (below 0.2%), coherent radiation at 532 nm. The lasers have a coherence length of more than 300 m, adjustable output power from 10 W up to...

Spectral shaping filter.(new products)
May 1, 2006... The new Spectral Shaping Filter is an intracavity, dielectric-coated filter. It has a special transmission curve designed to precisely compensate for spectral narrowing due to gain flattening, enabling pulse widths to 5 fs. Intended for...

Laser ablation system.(new products)
May 1, 2006... The GeoLasPro is a self-contained laser ablation system for sample introduction in LA-ICP MS (laser-ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry). The sys tem integrates the COMPexPro 193-nm ablation laser, including beam homogenizing,...

Gigabit Ethernet cameras.(new products)
May 1, 2006... The GE-Series Gigabit Ethernet cameras offer digital imaging for applications in machine vision, industrial inspection, traffic monitoring, and public security. The cameras send noncompressed images over standard Gigabit Ethernet hardware with...

EMCCD camera.(new products)
May 1, 2006... The updated iXon + EMCCD camera is designed for imaging applications from live-cell microscopy and single-cell molecule detection to photon-counting astronomy and Bose-Einstein condensation. New features include RealGain, TE cooling to...