Laser Focus World articles from May 2008

Laser Focus World archives from May 2008

Revealing images.(editor's desk)
May 1, 2008... While I'm sure there must be many (well... at least a few) "real" applications for the now-ubiquitous cell-phone cameras, these devices are typically regarded as more of a toy than a serious imaging device. But researchers in Berkeley, CA,...

Free-electron laser selectively targets acne sebum structure.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2008... Fernanda Sakamoto, MD, of Harvard Medical School and her colleagues at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA) are using a tunable free-electron laser (FEL) at Thomas Jefferson Laboratories' Free...

Silica-on-silicon chips beget quantum circuits.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2008... Single-photon detectors have enabled strides toward viable quantum information processing (see "Photons promise an exciting route to quantum computing," April 2008, p. 80). Now, Jeremy O'Brien and his colleagues at the Centre for Quantum...

Type II semiconductor superlattice photodetectors new alternative to HgCdTe.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2008... While mercury cadmium telluride photodiodes and quantum-well infrared photodetectors are well established in military and other applications, the performance of these detectors at long-wave infrared (LWIR) and very-long-wave infrared (VLWIR)...

Fused-silica damage threshold established at 1064 nm.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2008... The optical-damage threshold in bulk fused silica is important for establishing the performance limits of high-power laser systems, but the mechanism is poorly understood. Now, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM) have...

Nonlinear optics measure phase-velocity distribution.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2008... Although it is well understood theoretically that a focused Gaussian beam will present phase-velocity variations across its waist both radially and axially, experimental verification of the effect is difficult due to the tiny difference of the...

Surface patterning uses BLAST technique.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2008... Numerous laser-based methods exist for creating patterns and textures on a substrate, including traditional lithography, direct-write methods, and exposure through self-assembled microspheres (see www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/286501 and...

Inside-out EM cloak improves upon existing theory.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2008... The advent of invisibility cloaks for electromagnetic (EM) waves has arisen from clever theoretical advances in transformation optics, for which exit EM waves can be made identical to incident waves even after they are guided around a concealed...

Metal surface plasmons enhance single-cell fluorescence.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2008... The use of fluorophore-metal interactions has the potential to dramatically increase the detectability of single fluorophores for both single-molecule detection (SMD) and fluorescence-correlation-spectroscopy (FCS) experiments. For the past...

NIST microscope tracks nanoparticles in 3-D.(newsbreaks)
May 1, 2008... A patent-pending microscope substrate design developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, MD) allows nanotechnology researchers to track the motions of nanoparticles in solution as they move around in...

Telecom is poised to go terabit.(OFC/NFOEC 2008)
May 1, 2008... Now that fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and 40 Gbit/s systems are being commercially deployed (see www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/318567 and 318568 and 309265), it seems that the telecom industry is already looking ahead to terabit networks to feed...

Vein scanning improves door, car, and computer security.(world news: optroelectronics)
May 1, 2008... Biometric identification methods such as fingerprinting, voice authentication, face recognition, and iris scanning all have pros and cons in terms of their ease of use and level of security. Because each of these physiological...

Fluorescence holographic microscopy speeds 3-D imaging.(HOLOGRAPHY)
May 1, 2008... Three-dimensional imaging just got faster and far simpler, thanks to scientists at Johns Hopkins University (JHU; Rockville, MD) and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU, Beer-Sheva, Israel), with their recent demonstration of the...

Sensing a hot spot in security.(DEFENSE + SECURITY 2008)
May 1, 2008... A healthy attendance of 5700 bolstered a 16% increase in the number of exhibitors over last year at SPIE's Defense + Security Symposium (DSS) 2008 at the Orlando World Center Marriott Convention Center in Orlando, FL, March 18-20. The increase...

Student develops first polarized LED.(LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES)
May 1, 2008... Martin Schubert, a doctoral student in electrical, computer, and systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic University (Troy, NY), won the $30,000 Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize (www.rpi.edu/lemelson) for his development of the first...

'Fast' and 'compact' highlight Pittcon.(PITTCON 2008)
May 1, 2008... A trip to the "Big Easy" may evoke images of slower, more genteel times, but Pittcon 2008, held March 1-7 at the massive Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (New Orleans, LA), did its best to showcase the latest advances in size and speed of...

Novel light engine challenges lasers, lamps, and LEDs in life sciences.(BIOMEDICAL OPTICS)
May 1, 2008... Lumencor (Beaverton, OR), a year-old company focused on the development of novel light engines, is targeting life-science instrumentation with its initial products and is gearing up to move from prototype phase to volume manufacturing by the...

Thin-disk laser oscillator generates record-energy short pulses.(PICOSECOND LASERS)
May 1, 2008... Optimizing the power of pulses in the picosecond regime is important for advances in micromachining, direct pumping of parametric devices, and high-field physics. For these applications, high-power thin-disk lasers offer better thermal...

Mi3 project advances active-pixel sensing.(IMAGING)
May 1, 2008... A major UK collaboration has borne fruit over a range of research areas. The Multidimensional Integrated Intelligent Imaging Project (Mi3) pooled the talents from 11 research centers (see below) to advance the performance and applications of...

Laser puts a nice-looking coat on medium-density fiberboard.(MATERIALS PROCESSING)
May 1, 2008... Medium-density fiberboard, or MDF, is probably one of the most versatile and useful wood products. It is much cheaper and environmentally friendlier than using virgin wood and has found application everywhere that it can, subject to one...

Dilas opens laser-diode facility in China.(industry report: laser)
May 1, 2008... The diode-laser company Dilas (Mainz, Germany), opened its first manufacturing facility in China. With a sales office currently located in Shanghai, the new facility will be located in Nanjing, China, and will offer customer support, product...

Patent complaint targets major manufacturers.(industry report: laser)
May 1, 2008... The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC; New York, NY) agreed to investigate a patent complaint that seeks to block the importation of a wide array of LEDs, lasers, and consumer electronics products into the USA. The complaint alleges that...

Grant funds production of nanomaterials.(industry report: laser)
May 1, 2008... Scientists at the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) of the University of Surrey (Surrey, England) and at the School of Chemistry in the University of Bristol (Bristol, England) were awarded funding of nearly $1.36 million from the Engineering...

Medical-laser company files for bankruptcy.(industry report: laser)
May 1, 2008... Diomed Holdings, developer and marketer of minimally invasive medical technologies including its patented EVLT laser treatment for varicose veins, announced that, together with its wholly owned subsidiary Diomed (Andover, MA), it filed a...

LaserLight Magic wins ILDA Artistic Award.(industry report: laser)
May 1, 2008... The International Laser Display Association (ILDA; Orlando, FL) announced its 2007 Artistic Award winners, with LaserLight Magic (Arvada, CO) being honored with the Artistic Award for its entry "Reflection" in the Best Laser Photography...

The Laser Division of GSI Group (Rugby, England) opened a new laser applications Tab in Suzhou, China.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... The Laser Division of GSI Group (Rugby, England) opened a new laser applications tab in Suzhou. China, and formed a partnership in which Chutian Laser Group (Wuhan. China) will act as GSI's distributor in China.

Novaled.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... Novaled (Dresden, Germany), organic LED (OLED) developer, opened a Japanese branch office in Tokyo.

LED solutions company DDP (El Segundo, CA) embedded its LED color-wash lighting system into eight architectural columns throughout Rubensteins.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... LED solutions company DDP (El Segundo, CA) embedded its LED color-wash lighting system into eight architectural columns throughout Rubensteins, a New Orleans-based fashion boutique.

Seoul Semiconductor's.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... LED manufacturer Seoul Semiconductor's (Seouf, Korea) flash LED was named "Product of the Year for 2008" by Germany electronics magazine Elektronik.

Luminus Devices.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... Luminus Devices (Billerica, MA), the developer and manufacturer of PhlatLight (photonic lattice) LED products, closed a new round of financing of over $72 million.

The Israeli Defense Ministry rejected Skyguard.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... The Israeli Defense Ministry rejected Skyguard, an antimissile laser-based system developed by Northrop Grumman, based on poor test performance in which Skyguard intercepted only eight out of 36 short-range missiles.

Edmund forges molded-asphere agreement.(industry report: optics)
May 1, 2008... Precision-optical-component manufacturer Edmund Optics (Barrington, NJ) forged a cooperative agreement with Clemson University and Benet Laboratories at the Watervliet Arsenal in Albany, NY. The three-year program entitled "Molded Aspheric and...

UA casts two mirrors in one for LSST.(industry report: optics)
May 1, 2008... The University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory has cast a new kind of giant optic for a unique wide-field survey telescope called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)--touted as the world's largest, most powerful...

Metrology program welcomes Rudolph.(industry report: optics)
May 1, 2008... Rudolph Technologies (Flanders, NJ), a provider of process characterization equipment and software for optical thin-film measurement and macro defect inspection, has become the first semiconductor equipment supplier company to join Sematech's...

Near-IR spectroscopy tackles BPH.(industry report: optics)
May 1, 2008... Urodynamix Technologies (Vancouver, BC, Canada) initiated a second collaborative program for the evaluation of a transurethral-microwave-thermo-therapy (TUMT) device incorporating near-IR spectroscopy (NIRS) technology for the minimally...

Grant expands Tessera's wafer-level optics.(industry report: optics)
May 1, 2008... The North Carolina Economic Investment Committee is awarding a lob Development Investment Grant to Tessera (San lose, CA) that enables the company to add 185 jobs and invest approximately $30 million in its Charlotte based wafer-level-optics...

Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... The Canadian government has invested an additional $22.3 million in the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC; Ottawa, ON, Canada), a pure-play semiconductor foundry serving the photonics industry in Canada and around the world....

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) manufacturer Tronics Microsystems (Crolles France) and IMEC (Leuven Belgium) announced their collaboration.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) manufacturer Tronics Microsystems (Crolles France)and IMEC (Leuven Betglum) announced their collaboration to enable Europractice IC Service to add MEMS to its Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) programs....

PerkinElmer.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... PerkinElmer (Waltham, MA) opened a new Center Of Excellence in Singapore that will manufacture instruments for atomic absorption spectroscopy and ultraviolet/visible spectroscopy to detect both inorganic and organic materials in the...

Jefferson Lab to use silicon photomultipliers.(industry report: imaging & detector)
May 1, 2008... SensL (Cork, Ireland, and Mountain View, CA), a provider of low-light solutions, signed a $200,000 contract with the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab; Newport News, VA) for the optimization of low-light detectors...

SID announces 2008 display industry awards.(industry report: imaging & detector)
May 1, 2008... The Society for Information Display (SID; San Jose, CA) unveiled the recipients of its 2008 honors and awards for outstanding contributions to the display industry. Among the winners, SID Fellow Tatsuo Uchida, who currently serves as dean of...

ITT wins Army SWIR/LWIR contract.(industry report: imaging & detector)
May 1, 2008... Alion Science and Technology (White Plains, NY), on behalf of the U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, awarded the night-vision division of ITT a contract to develop next-generation night-vision technology....

The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC: San Jose. CA) announced a one-year, cost-shared development contract with Optomec (Albuquerque, NM) to further develop Optomec's M3D Aerosol Jet System.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC: San Jose. CA) announced a one-year, cost-shared development contract with Optomec (Albuquerque, NM) to further develop Optomec's M3D Aerosol Jet System, enabling finer resolution line widths and more efficient...

Carl Zeiss.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... Carl Zeiss an international group of companies in the optical and optoelectronic industry, officially opened the Cart Zeiss Advanced Imaging Centre Singapore to offer customers the opportunity to view and experience the full range of Carl...

The University of Delaware's (Newark, DE) Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC) will receive $3.75 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar America Initiative.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... The University of Delaware's (Newark, DE)Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC) will receive $3.75 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar America Initiative over the next three years to continue leading-edge research on...

Northrop Grumman signed a definitive agreement to sell its Electro-Optical Systems business.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... Northrop Grumman signed a definitive agreement to sell its Electro-Optical Systems business, which produces night vision and applied optics products, for $175 million to L-3 Communications (New York. NY), which offers imaging solutions for air....

LCD TV shipments to double.(industry report: imaging & detector)
May 1, 2008... According to research firm iSuppli (El Segundo, CA), global shipments of liquid-crystal-display televisions (LCD TVs) will nearly double from 2008 to 2012. Worldwide shipments will rise to 193.9 million units by 2012, increasing at a compound...

Missile sensor is ahead of schedule.(industry report: imaging & detector)
May 1, 2008... Raytheon (El Segundo, CA) demonstrated an integrated infrared sensor ahead of schedule for the Risk Reduction Alternative Infrared Satellite Systems program, which aims to prove that wide-field-of-view IR sensors can maintain persistent...

Sun Microsystems wins on-chip contract.(industry report: fiber optics)
May 1, 2008... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Sun Microsystems (Santa Clara, CA) $44.29 million for a five-and-a-half-year research project focused on microchip interconnectivity via on-chip optical networks enabled by silicon photonics...

Networking market reaches new high.(industry report: fiber optics)
May 1, 2008... Market analysis firm Ovum (London, England) said preliminary quarterly results show that the global optical networking market reached a new post-2001 high of $4.4 billion in 4Q07, for a 16% sequential and 30% year-over-year gain. "The...

Active fiber cables replace copper.(industry report: fiber optics)
May 1, 2008... Zarlink Semiconductor (Ottawa, ON, Canada) is the first vendor to support volume production of active optical cables for data-center and computer-cluster interconnect applications and has shipped more than 10,000 cables to a range of select...

Nistica and Finisar partner on ROADMs.(industry report: fiber optics)
May 1, 2008... Finisar (Sunnyvale, CA), a provider of fiber-optic solutions for high-speed networks, and Nistica (Bridgewater, NJ), a supplier of agile optical modules, announced a partnership to provide FLEDGE reconfigurable add/ drop optical multiplexers...

RED-C and Proximion cooperate on EDFAs.(industry report: fiber optics)
May 1, 2008... RED-C Optical Networks (San Francisco, CA) and Proximion (Kista, Sweden) announced their cooperation in promoting an erbium-doped fiber-amplifier (EDFA) design optimized to take advantage of the unique properties of dispersion-compensation...

The Institut fur Strahlwerkzeuge Universitat Stuttgart.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... The Institut fur Strahlwerkzeuge Universitat Stuttgart (Stuttgart. Germany) started the operation of its new fiber drawing tower and a modified chemical-vapor-deposition preform lathe as part of its fiber-drawing facility, financed half by...

Corning (Corning, NY) and the OSA Foundation (Washington, D.C.) announced that Frederik Van Laere, Ghent University-lMEC (Leuven, Belgium), won top honors in the inaugural Corning Outstanding Student Paper Award Competition.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... Corning (Corning, NY) and the OSA Foundation (Washington, D.C.) announced that Frederik Van Laere, Ghent University-IMEC (Leuven, Belgium), won top honors in the inaugural Corning Outstanding Student Paper Award Competition for optical...

Photonic communications company Lumera (Bothell, WA) received a contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... Photonic communications company Lumera (Bothell, WA) received a contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory valued at approximately $2.2 million to fabricate low-drive-voltage electro-optic modulators using Lumera's organic polymers.

Information Gatekeepers.(Also in the news ...)
May 1, 2008... Market research firm Information Gatekeepers (IGI; Boston, MA) released its latest report in the Lightwave Series, ROADMs--From the Core to the Edge.

Software helps see the unseen in ophthalmology.(software & computing)
May 1, 2008... Looking for differences between two highly similar drawings may be a pleasant childhood task, but looking for differences between many highly complex images can be tedious, not to mention strenuous. A common way to bring out differences between...

Is mid-level management a dead end?(business forum)
May 1, 2008... Q: I think mid-level managers are neither fish nor fowl, cannot make either technical contributions or major business decisions. How can I ameliorate the risk of transitioning from engineering to management? A: The simple answer is to keep...

Rugate coatings enhance performance of head-up displays.(OPTICAL COATINGS)(Cover story)
May 1, 2008... A head-up display (HUD) provides the ability to project information onto a transparent screen so that it appears to be floating in space as a virtual image. With suitable optics, the virtual image is combined with the view of the real world...

Novel process eases production of hollow-core fiber.(SPECIALTY FIBERS)
May 1, 2008... Optical fibers are typically formed from two glasses: the first, with a higher refractive index, runs down the middle of the fiber, forming the core in which light is trapped; the second, lower-index glass, surrounds the first, protecting the...

The quest to see inside living cells is driving new optical microscopy: powerful new techniques use flourescence imaging and nonlinear techniques to probe cells; developers hope to produce a new generation of clinical tests.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUES)
May 1, 2008... Microscopes have given scientists vital insight into living things ever since Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek discovered the microscopic world in the 17th century. Now the quest for better views of living cells is pushing development of...

High-speed images capture processes in botanical systems: advances in high-speed imaging systems make it possible to record ultra-high-speed movements of biological systems (less than 1 ms) under lighting conditions that do not damage living tissues.(HIGH-SPEED IMAGING)
May 1, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The first example of using a series of rapidly taken images to analyze the biomechanics of a living organism goes back to the work of Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, a full decade before the first motion picture was made. In...

Nanosecond modulation makes cell-phone projectors possible.(PICOPROJECTORS)
May 1, 2008... The cell-phone revolution is rapidly becoming a visual revolution, too. From quartz displays in the first handsets to color touch screens, the entire surface of a cell phone has potential as an information display. But the physical limits to...

Laser-based instrumentation sheds new light on old art: with the advent of increasingly cost-effective, high-resolution optical-imaging technologies, art historians are delving deeper into the world of forensic science.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING)
May 1, 2008... Imagine having the opportunity to stand before the Mona Lisa sans her plexiglass cage, up close and personal, in the basement of the Louvre and bathe her in coherent blue light, hoping to discover the secrets behind that infamous smile. What...

Ultrafast fiber laser reaches gigawatt peak powers: the power-handling capabilities of the main amplifier in a fiber laser reveal a potential performance of gigawatt peak power at megahertz repetition rate; that is, a kilowatt of average power in a pulsed laser source with millijoule pulse energy and subpicosecond pulse duration.(HIGH-POWER FIBER LASERS)
May 1, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Fiber-based laser systems are well known for laser architectures that offer scalable aver age power. Because of their outstanding efficiency, excellent light confinement in the waveguide structures, and rapid heat...

FFT-CCD spectrometers.(new products)
May 1, 2008... The Maya2000 series back-thinned 2-D FFT-CCD spectrometers are designed for lowlight-level, UV-sensitive applications such as fluorescence, DNA sequencing, and Raman analysis. The Maya2000 and Maya2000 Pro offer better than 90% quantum...

CCTV zoom lens.(new products)
May 1, 2008... The Model 290 motorized nonbrowning CCTV zoom lens uses glass that withstands long-term exposure up to a total of 100 million fads of radiation and 55[degrees]C without discoloration. The compact, 6x optical-tracking zoom operates at f/1.8 and...

Fiber-coupled laser.(new products)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The SL 1.4 fiber-coupled laser is designed specifically for surgical applications in the ophthalmic market. An alternative to holmium lasers, it has a 1.4 [micro]m laser line, which matches the absorption spectrum of...

Digital radiometers and joulemeters.(new products)
May 1, 2008... The TRAP series of digital radiometers and joulemeters have measurement uncertainty of less than 1%. The TRAP, developed at NIST, is a large-area black pyroelectric detector opposite a large-area broadband mirror in a 15[degrees] wedge...

Raman edge filters.(new products)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The E-grade line of RazorEdge thin-film optical edge filters for Raman spectroscopy make possible measurements of Stokes-shifter Raman signals close to the laser line. The filters for 532, 633, and 785 nm lasers have...

Defect-inspection module.(new products)
May 1, 2008... The AXi 940 macro defect-inspection module performs wafer front-side inspection as part of the all-surface Explorer Inspection Cluster. It contains intelligent software that automates many tasks and decisions about recipe creation normally done...

NIR camera.(new products)
May 1, 2008... The SU-LDH digital-line-scan near-infrared InGaAs camera has a line rate of more than 46,000 lines/s for 1024 pixels, useful for Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography. It provides wavelength response from 0.8 to 1.7 [micro]m, suitable for...

Thermal-imaging camera.(new products)
May 1, 2008... The Miracle 100K-25 thermal-imaging camera uses a 384 x 288 un cooled microbolometer focal-plane-array detector and is sensitive in the 7 to 14 [micro]m band. It operates without thermoelectric stabilization and is also available in a...

CCD camera.(new products)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The IK-TF9H9U color camera features a remote head measuring 32.6 x 38.6 x 41 mm that outputs 2048 x 1536 pixels. It comes with CameraLink output, a C-mount, and two optional cable lengths of 3 or 5 m. It is based on...

Fiber laser.(new products)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Perseus-TS pulsed fiber laser has been optimized for integration into LADAR systems. It comes in two models, each producing 2 to 6 ns pulses of 1.54 [micro]m light at rates from 20 to 750 kHz, with 2 or 4 W...

Tunable laser.(new products)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Pheonix 1000 tunable laser is a MEMS-based, external-cavity laser designed for measurement, fiber-grating-based sensing, spectroscopy, and metrology. The miniaturized, 18-pin TEC-cooled package includes tuning up...

Laser-diode controller.(new products)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Vue-MV-40 laser-diode controller is designed for applications that use 15 to 20 discrete laser diodes operated in series, such as fiber lasers and amplifiers, materials processing, and medical systems. It...

Optical modules.(new products)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The AFBR-776/786BxxZ 12-channel parallel optic modules provide 6.25 Gbit/s per channel for an aggregate of 75 Gbit/s per link (up to 100 m). The devices include two-wire serial-interface monitoring capabilities for...

Pump-laser combiner.(new products)
May 1, 2008... ITF Laboratory's end-coupled fiber-based combiners have passed all Telcordia GR-1221-CORE qualification requirements. The devices increase laser power by combining more than 1 kW of pump power in a single combiner. Using an all-fiber design,...

CCD array spectrometers.(new products)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CCD array spectrometers in the i-trometer series have a high UV-NIR response, wide dynamic range, and a back-thinned CCD array with a 0.22 NA optical bench. A uniquely keyed SMA905 fiber-connector option is designed...

Tunable SFF transponder.(new products)
May 1, 2008... The TL9000 is a Telcordia-qualified tunable 300-pin small-form-factor transponder (TSFF). It has a 2.2 x 3 in. footprint, allowing network equipment manufacturers to increase port density, placing two SFF transponders on a card where only one...

Picosecond fiber laser.(new products)
May 1, 2008... A 10 GHz picosecond fiber laser features automatic modelocking, a C-band, 1.0 [micro]m, 780 nm wavelength, and is tunable from 0.8 to 10 ps pulsewidth. It has a 0.4 to 43 GHz repetition rate, low timing jitter of less than 23 fs, average output...

Vision sensor.(new products)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Checker 232 vision sensor is designed to inspect small features over a wide area. The sensor is designed to work on rapid production lines, detecting and inspecting up to 1500 parts per minute. It uses...