Laser Focus World articles from November 2007

Laser Focus World archives from November 2007

A golden opportunity.(editor's desk)
November 1, 2007... Silicon solar cells have been around since the 1940s, but their application to mainstream electricity generation has been limited by the cost of photovoltaic (PV)-cell fabrication and poor cell efficiency. Today though, high oil prices, growing...

Bill Wells, former Newport Spectra-Physics vice president, dies.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... William (Bill) Wells, former long-time vice president of export operations at Newport's Spectra-Physics Lasers Division (Mountain View, CA), died Sunday, Oct. 7, from complications of metastatic melanoma. He was 65. As many people in the...

Optical metamaterial has negative refraction, simple design.(newsbreaks)
November 1, 2007... Optical metamaterials are typically of intricate design, containing complex subwavelength metallic structures such as split rings or parallel bars; these structures are then periodically repeated in a lattice in attempts to achieve both...

Green laser is aimed at display uses.(newsbreaks)
November 1, 2007... Based on its semiconductor laser technology, BrightLase, QPC Lasers (Sylmar, CA) has demonstrated a green laser targeted at potential display applications including mobilephone projectors, rear-projection televisions, and cockpit displays, all...

Spiral zone plates edge-enhance x-ray-microscope images.(newsbreaks)
November 1, 2007... While optical plates with spatially varying phase have been used to increase contrast in visible-light microscopy, they can also be used to similar effect in x-ray microscopy. Anne Sakdinawat of the University of California, Berkeley, and...

Stereolithography forms terahertz PCs with 2 [micro]m spatial resolution.(newsbreaks)
November 1, 2007... The many uses of photonic crystals (PCs)--waveguiding, optical filtering, and others--are just as valuable in the terahertz as in the visible and IR regions. Researchers at Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) are creating terahertz PCs that have a...

Erbium-doped Ce:YAG phosphor begets bright 1540 nm emission.(newsbreaks)
November 1, 2007... An efficient energy transfer from cerium ions ([Ce.sup.3+]) to erbium ions ([Er.sup.3+]) in a yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) matrix has enabled a new class of material that could be an efficient near-infrared emitter, say scientists at Hong Kong...

Terabyte optical disc relies on two-photon process.(newsbreaks)
November 1, 2007... Using two-photon optics and a variation of polymethylmethacrylate called ePMMA (with a natural yellow color), scientists at Mempile (Neve Ilan, Israel) have developed a removable optical storage technology that can hold 1 terabyte of...

Staggered InGaN quantum wells improve LEDs.(newsbreaks)
November 1, 2007... Staggered indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum wells (QWs) can be used to enhance the radiative efficiency of visible-wavelength light-emitting diodes (LEDs), according to researchers at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA). Staggered InGaN QW...

Long-wavelength APDs show record high gain and efficiency.(newsbreaks)
November 1, 2007... Long-range ladar, spectroscopy, and quantum-key-distribution systems require sub-nanosecond real-time single-photon-counting detectors. Researchers at Epitaxial Technologies (Baltimore, MD), NASA Goddard (Greenbelt, MD), and the Air Force...

Carbon-nanotube films mimic gecko feet.(newsbreaks)
November 1, 2007... For centuries, the ability of gecko lizards to climb any vertical surface or hang from ceilings with one toe has generated considerable interest. It has recently been discovered that the driving force for holding a gecko on a surface comes from...

Femtosecond pulses kill viruses, leave human cells alone.(ULTRAFAST LASERS)
November 1, 2007... Scientists have found a completely novel use for lasers in health care: killing viruses in blood. The technique has promise for disinfecting blood before transfusions, and reducing the viral load of patients with HIV, hepatitis C, and other...

OIDA forum showcases technology and market opportunities.(ULTRAFAST LASERS)
November 1, 2007... Global opportunities and issues were the theme of Perspectives on the Optoelectronics Industry, a two-day forum hosted by the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA; Washington, D.C.) Sept. 11-12 in San Jose, CA. The event was...

Microconcentrators boost efficiency of concentrator solar cells.(PHOTOVOLTAICS)
November 1, 2007... While the most heavily publicized approaches for raising the efficiency of photovoltaic solar cells usually involve improving semiconductor materials or fabrication processes, another effective approach is developing better concentrating solar...

MIT researchers obtain 3-D images of living cells.(BIOMEDICAL IMAGING)
November 1, 2007... Tomographic phase microscopy can provide detailed images of the activity inside a living cell, without the use of fluorescent markers or other contrast agents that could intertere with the results, according to Michael Feld, director of the...

Amorphous-silicon approach beats the temperature challenge.(PHOTODIODE ARRAYS)
November 1, 2007... Electronic devices on flexible substrates are a hot area of research, but there are as many problems associated with their manufacture as there are potential applications for them. But a team of researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center in...

Electrospun light-emitting nanofibers could replace LEDs.(NANO OPTICS)
November 1, 2007... Inorganic nanowire light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have held promise as inexpensive and tiny light sources, but fabrication has been challenging. Now, researchers at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) have demonstrated a new nanofiber technology that...

Tiniest lasers aim for the optical-computing frontier.(NANOPHOTONICS)
November 1, 2007... One of the major stumbling blocks for the oft-touted "optical computer" is simple: size. The continuing expansion in the fiber-optic telecommunications industry has made a niche for microscale lasers, and these advances have kept open the...

Innovative CMOS circuitry helps detectors resist radiation damage.(IMAGING DETECTORS)
November 1, 2007... Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University of Rochester (both Rochester, NY) have been awarded $592,000 from the NASA Planetary Instrument Definition and Development Program to design, build, and test, in...

Time-gated technique detects whole-spectrum fluorescence.(ULTRAFAST SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES)
November 1, 2007... Even though fluorescence detection is a broadly applied technology in biological and clinical research, the illumination and detection techniques have remained fairly limited; that is, fluorophores absorb light over a narrow spectral range, and...

Antireflection coatings replicate moth-eye features.(OPTICAL COATINGS)
November 1, 2007... Scientists continue to find inspiration in biological plants and animals as they work toward developing practical photonic systems (see www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/286501 and www. laser focusworld.com/articles/250393). Biomimetics is again...

Hybrid polymer/glass fiber senses electric fields.(ELECTRO-OPTICS)
November 1, 2007... While small electro-optic (EO) probes that sense the electric fields near power lines and other power-station components have been under development for years (see www.laserfocusworld.com/ articles/26658), further decreasing their size would...

Trumpf acquires 100% of AFM Canada.(laser: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Laser systems manufacturer Trumpf (Farmington, CT) acquired 100% of Advanced Fabricating Machinery (AFM), Canada. The recent completion of the acquisition enhances Trumpf's position in the field of fabricating and laser technology in North...

II-VI takes majority stake in HighYAG.(laser: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Industrial laser components and systems maker II-VI (Saxonburg, PA) has executed a definitive stock purchase agreement whereby a wholly owned subsidiary of II-VI will acquire 74.9% of the equity interests of HighYAG Lasertechnologie (Berlin,...

Quantum-cascade-laser companies cooperate.(laser: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Laser Components (Hudson, NH) and Q-ON (Vienna, Austria) have agreed to work together in the field of quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). Q-ON has taken over the design and processing of wafers while Laser Components is responsible for the...

Faro receives laser tracker order.(laser: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Faro Technologies (Lake Mary, FL), a manufacturer of portable computer-aided measurement arms and laser trackers, received an order for 15 FARO Laser Tracker Xi units from Boeing for commercial airplanes tooling in the Puget Sound area. "Boeing...

Navy awards laser rangefinder contract.(laser: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Northrop Grumman (Apopka, FL) was awarded a contract potentially valued at more than $98 million for the procurement of nearly 940 Special Operations Forces Laser Acquisition Marker (SOFLAM) Special Operations Forces Laser Rangefinder...

Society of Manufacturing Engineers'.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... The Society of Manufacturing Engineers' Industrial Laser Community has developed a laser-cutting certificate program for C[O.sub.2] laser cutting.

A new division of Laser Photonics (Lake Mary, FL) called the Laser Depot (www.laserdepot.net) now makes the FiberTower XP Compact laser marking system available for monthly rental.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... A new division of Laser Photonics (Lake Mary, FL) called the Laser Depot (www.laserdepot.net) now makes the FiberTower XP Compact laser marking system available for monthly rental.

HiPER.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... The European laser-fusion project, HiPER (www.hiperlaser.org), announced European Commission (EC) approval.

Amplitude Systemes (Bordeaux, France) and Amplitude Technologies (Evry, France) have created a U.S.-based subsidiary Amplitude Laser (Boston, MA) to provide sales and service support to North America.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Amplitude Systemes (Bordeaux, France) and Amplitude Technologies (Evry, France) have created a U.S.-based subsidiary Amplitude Laser (Boston, MA) to provide sales and service support to North America for its diode-pumped ultrafast solid-state...

LedEngin (Santa Clara, CA), a supplier of high-power LED components and light source modules, announced closing of its series C round of funding led by Partech International.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... LedEngin (Santa Clara, CA), a supplier of high-power LED components and light source modules, announced closing of its series C round of funding led by Partech International.

Coherent.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) will restate previously issued financial statements to correct errors related to accounting for stock-based compensation expense.

Spire (Bedford, MA) received a two-year, $870,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Spire (Bedford, MA) received a two-year, $870,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a high-power fiber laser capable of performing myringotomy and middle-ear surgery without the...

Cal-Optics (Concord, NH) signed a two-year agreement to be the exclusive provider of LED test and light measurement equipment.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Cal-Optics (Concord, NH) signed a two-year agreement to be the exclusive provider of LED test and light measurement equipment in North America for Everfine Photo-E-Info of China.

PennWell to launch BioOptics World magazine.(optics: industry report)(Disease/Disorder overview)
November 1, 2007... Looking to capitalize on the rapidly growing market for optical technologies and instrumentation in the life sciences, PennWell (Nashua, NH), publisher of Laser Focus World, announces its latest venture, BioOptics World. The magazine and Web...

ARO is acquired by Saint-Gobain Crystals.(optics: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Alpine Research Optics (ARO; Boulder, CO), a supplier of high-performance coated optics, has been acquired by Saint-Gobain Crystals. Saint-Gobain Crystals is part of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, which is headquartered in Paris, France....

CVI Melles Griot acquires CIOL.(optics: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Newly formed CVI Melles Griot (Albuquerque, NM) acquired Coherent Imaging Optics (CIOL; Auburn, CA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Coherent (Santa Clara, CA). CIOL is a supplier of infrared optical components for advanced thermal imaging and...

Agilent to offer complex monolithic optics.(optics: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) announced its Complex Monolithic Optics (CMO) Development Program for OEM customers. Complex monolithic optics are stand-alone optical assemblies that are created when multiple discrete optics are bonded...

Thorlabs, BMC partner on adaptive optics.(optics: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Photonics industry equipment provider Thorlabs (Newton, NJ) and Boston Micromachines (BMC; Cambridge, MA) have formed a partnership that will allow BMC, a provider of advanced microelectromechanical-systems-based mirror products, to bring its...

The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (Washington, D.C.) has formed its first formal community of interest.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (Washington, D.C.) has formed its first formal community of interest, The Silicon Photonics Alliance, to promote silicon photonics in standards, commercial adoption, and vendor communication....

Fogale nanotech.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Fogale nanotech of France, a provider of high-accuracy dimensional metrology equipment, has opened its first North American office in Los Angeles.

SUSS MicroTec (Munich. Germany) received the first order for its new Gamma XPress coat / develop cluster from Rohm and Haas Electronics Materials.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... SUSS MicroTec (Munich. Germany) received the first order for its new Gamma XPress coat / develop cluster from Rohm and Haas Electronics Materials, a world leader in the development and manufacture of electronic materials for the semiconductor...

Structured Materials Industries (Piscataway, NJ) received National Science Foundation Phase I Small Business Innovation Research funding for a large-volume, high-deposition-rate bulk silicon carbide chemical vapor deposition growth tool.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Structured Materials Industries (Piscataway, NJ) received National Science Foundation Phase I Small Business Innovation Research funding for a large-volume, high-deposition-rate bulk silicon carbide chemical vapor deposition growth tool.

Wright Williams & Kelly.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Wright Williams & Kelly (Pleasanton, CA), a cost-and-productivity-management software and consulting services company, published a report examining the cost structures of competing mask-defect inspection strategies for 193 nm scanners operating...

Shell Global Solutions selected the Thermo Fisher Scientific (Cambridge, England) iCAP 6500 emission spectrometer for testing racing cars at Le Mans 2007.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Shell Global Solutions selected the Thermo Fisher Scientific (Cambridge, England) iCAP 6500 emission spectrometer for testing racing cars at Le Mans 2007.

Flir to gain controlling interest in Cedip.(imaging & detector: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Flir Systems (Wilsonville, OR) has entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Cedip Infrared Systems (Croissy-Beaubourg, France), a leading provider of infrared cameras and stabilized gimbaled systems. In the science camera...

Dalsa cuts jobs to improve performance.(imaging & detector: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Dalsa (Waterloo, ON, Canada) announced plans to increase the profitability of its core operations through several initiatives to facilitate net earnings of greater than 10% in its Digital Imaging and Semiconductor businesses. Within Digital...

ART to collaborate with Canadian research group.(imaging & detector: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Advanced Research Technologies (ART; Montreal, QC, Canada), a medical device company and a provider of optical molecular-imaging products, signed a collaboration agreement with the National Research Council of Canada's Institute for Biological...

Nanosolar gets Solar America Initiative grant.(imaging & detector: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Nanosolar (Palo Alto, CA) was awarded a cost-shared, three-year cooperative agreement by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the Solar America Initiative (SAI) in addition to receiving DOE SBIR Phase II and DOE NREL grants. Nanosolar...

Center for atom probe tomography established.(imaging & detector: industry report)
November 1, 2007... The University of Alabama (UA; Tuscaloosa, AL) and Imago Scientific Instruments (Madison, WI) announced plans to establish a new research facility for atom-probe tomography. LEAP microscopy, also known as local-electrode atom-probe tomography,...

ITT Visual Information Solutions (Boulder, CO), a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT, announced a recent donation of licenses of its ENVI and IDL software packages to the Rochester Institute of Technology's (Rochester, NY).(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... ITT Visual Information Solutions (Boulder, CO), a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT, announced a recent donation of licenses of its ENVI and IDL software packages to the Rochester Institute of Technology's (Rochester, NY) Chester F. Carlson Center...

Judson Technologies (Montgomeryville, PA), a privately held infrared-detector supplier, received Raytheon Missile Systems' 2007 Supplier Excellence Four-Star Award for outstanding quality and delivery performance.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Judson Technologies (Montgomeryville, PA), a privately held infrared-detector supplier, received Raytheon Missile Systems' 2007 Supplier Excellence Four-Star Award for outstanding quality and delivery performance during the past 12 months.

ATS Automation Tooling Systems of Canada announced that its Photowatt France subsidiary has entered into a multiyear agreement to purchase high-purity polysilicon.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... ATS Automation Tooling Systems of Canada announced that its Photowatt France subsidiary has entered into a multiyear agreement to purchase high-purity polysilicon from Wacker Chemie to support approximately 14 MW of photowatt solar production...

Camera maker Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) has selected electronic viewfinders for its Easyshare digital camera from Kopin (Taunton, MA).(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Camera maker Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) has selected electronic viewfinders for its Easyshare digital camera from Kopin (Taunton, MA), a provider of microdisplays for mobile consumer electronics.

Arris acquires C-Cor.(fiber optics: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Broadband network providers Arris Group (Suwanee, GA) and C-Cor (State College, PA) have entered into a definitive agreement whereby Arris will acquire C-Cor for approximately $730 million in a mix of cash and Arris stock. With more than 250...

Kotura and CyOptics to develop Terabit ICs.(fiber optics: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Silicon-photonic-components provider Kotura (Monterey Park, CA) and CyOptics (Lehigh Valley, PA), provider of indium phosphide optical-chip and component technologies, announced that the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Infinera displays leadership in communications.(fiber optics: industry report)
November 1, 2007... Industry analyst firm Ovum RHK reports that Infinera (Sunnyvale, CA) ranked first in revenue shipments in the key multireach dense-wavelength-division-multiplexer (DWDM) segment of the North American optical-networking market in the second...

TeraXion achieves milestone as market leader.(fiber optics: industry report)
November 1, 2007... TeraXion (Quebec City, QC, Canada), provider of OEM products for the generation and conditioning of light signals in telecom, defense and aerospace, and industrial markets, has shipped more than 2000 tunable chromatic-dispersion-compensation...

Newport to distribute StockerYale fibers.(fiber optics: industry report)
November 1, 2007... StockerYale (Salem, NH), a designer and manufacturer of structured-light lasers, light-emitting-diode modules, and specialty optical fibers for OEMs, announced an agreement with Newport (Irvine, CA), a provider of photonic solutions, for...

Structured Materials Industries (Piscataway, NJ) received NASA Phase I Small Business Innovation Research funding.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Structured Materials Industries (Piscataway, NJ) received NASA Phase I Small Business Innovation Research funding to investigate and develop a fiber-optic etalon pressure sensor system with high thermal and mechanical stability.

Prysmian Telecom Cables and Systems Australia announced a three-year agreement to continue the supply of both fiber-optic and metallic communication cables to Telstra.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Prysmian Telecom Cables and Systems Australia announced a three-year agreement to continue the supply of both fiber-optic and metallic communication cables to Telstra, the largest telecommunications service provider in Australia.

Zayo Bandwidth (Louisville, CO), a regional provider of fiber-based network services, acquired Indiana Fiber Works (Indianapolis, IN).(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Zayo Bandwidth (Louisville, CO), a regional provider of fiber-based network services, acquired Indiana Fiber Works (Indianapolis, IN), which has a largely self-constructed fiber network that connects 21 of Indiana's most populated 25 cities.

Gigabit Ethernet passive optical network (PON) equipment provider Alloptic (Livermore, CA) has signed a multimillion dollar strategic distribution agreement with Challenger Cable Sales (Inglewood, CA).(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Gigabit Ethernet passive optical network (PON) equipment provider Alloptic (Livermore, CA) has signed a multimillion dollar strategic distribution agreement with Challenger Cable Sales (Inglewood, CA) for Challenger to distribute Alloptic's PON...

Communications Industry Researchers.(Also in the news ...)
November 1, 2007... Sales of communications lasers will grow from around $1.0 billion this year to $2.9 billion in 2012. according to a report from research firm Communications Industry Researchers (Glen Allen, VA).

Can the Internet help scientists predict (and improve) the future?(working the web)
November 1, 2007... If you've been fortunate enough to work for a company that actually develops a five-year plan (and in some cases, a ten-year plan), then you'll know that predicting technology innovations of the future is no easy task. A few years ago, I...

Solar electricity: its time has come.(comment)
November 1, 2007... On June 12 the European Photovoltaic (PV) Technology Platform presented its Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), an important milestone in reaching technology and development goals for solar electricity in Europe. (1) The SRA was presented in...

How should we split ownership of our startup?(business forum)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... Q: I am starting a company with two students. The company has licensed the technology I developed from the university; they will run the business and I intend to consult for the company while keeping my job as a professor. How should I value...

A baroque approach: combining computer vision with historical knowledge is changing the understanding of art.(inside imaging)
November 1, 2007... Image-processing techniques, such as cast-shadow analysis, occluding-contour algorithms, and uncalibrated reconstruction of 3-D spaces, are typically associated with industrial machine-vision applications. Yet these techniques can be applied in...

Photovoltaics reach record efficiency: a new generation of solar cells relies on sophisticated optical designs that collect light and efficiently focus it onto multijunction photovoltaic elements, for applications ranging from portable military power units to rooftop power generators.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: PHOTOVOLTAICS)
November 1, 2007... At first glance, photovoltaic cells look like nearly ideal energy sources because they can convert sunlight into electricity with no emissions. However, in practice the high cost of making solar cells and their low efficiency limit the range of...

OCT images the developing heart in vivo.(BIOMEDICAL IMAGING)
November 1, 2007... Congenital heart disease affects 36,000 babies born in the United States annually. The causes of these abnormalities are largely unknown because of a lack of adequate tools to assess the genesis of these cardiac anomalies. Avian (chicken and...

Powerful VCSEL arrays beat the heat.(VCSELs)
November 1, 2007... High-power edge-emitting semiconductor lasers are used in wide variety of industrial, medical, and defense applications, and are a common choice for pumping solid-state and fiber lasers. Degradation of these edge-emitting lasers is well known...

White-light interferometer automatically cancels dispersion: material dispersion can seriously restrict resolution in low-coherence interferometry and optical-coherence tomography. A new interferometric technique allows measurement of optical delays while automatically canceling even-order dispensive broadening.(INTERFEROMETRY)
November 1, 2007... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Material dispersion is a major issue for low-coherence (white-light) interferometry, and optical-coherence tomography (OCT). (1) The fundamental resolution in these techniques is determined by the coherence length of the...

'Big' lens systems image electrons, neutrons, and x-rays: carefully designed lens systems can probe structures down to angstrom resolution, enabling 3-D nondestructive inspection of optically opaque objects and highly detailed medical imaging.(IMAGING)
November 1, 2007... Several "big" lens systems have been developed and are being used in research and industry, allowing scientists to see features with greater resolution than ever before. The systems are used to re-image electron-, neutron-, and x-ray-bombarded...

Imaging electro-magnetic waves.(IMAGING)
November 1, 2007... When we think about imaging, we usually think about viewing a visible-light scene on a video display or through the lens of a telescope or microscope. But how do we image those tiny photons and electrons that flow all around us? In this...

Near-field imaging probes electromagnetic waves: nanoscale optical imaging is key to practical developments in nanophotonics and plasmonics, and recent breakthroughs leading to multiprobe near-field optical systems foreshadow advances in these and other areas, from semiconductor optical physics to photonic-bandgap devices.(IMAGING)
November 1, 2007... Near-field optics has become an important tool for material research, nanoscale physics, state-of-the-art photonics, and biological studies. Although developed more than 20 years ago, the need and demand for nanoscale optical imaging has been...

Specialty fibers shine as high-power, high-beam-quality fiber sources: for tight focusing or long-distance reach, high-power fiber lasers require improved beam quality. Specialty-fiber techniques such as coiling, acoustic guiding layers, and tailored gain an index profiles are lighting the way.(FIBERS FOR HIGH POWERS)
November 1, 2007... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Fiber lasers have many advantages over solid-state and semiconductor lasers, including good thermal management, compact volume, high output power, high beam quality, and low noise floor. While single-mode cores are...

Plasmons point out proteins: surface plasmon resonance is helping to bridge the gap between proteomics and clinical and biological research.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: BIOANALYTICS)
November 1, 2007... Life depends on proteins. These molecules drive reactions, make up receptors that participate in diseases, and much more. Many biochemical processes, though, depend on multiple proteins, often interacting in a cascade. But determining and...

DUV nanolithography enables advanced diffraction-grating arrays: advances in deep-ultraviolent reduction-lithographic fabrication have made possible diffraction-granting arrays with inherent spectral and spatial self-calibration features. The arrays can be used for instantaneous ultrawide-spectral coverage and other applications.(CUSTOM OPTICS)
November 1, 2007... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The technology for manufacturing diffraction gratings has not seen significant change for more than 40 years. Diamond scribing with ruling engines and interference lithography (holographic fabrication) have dominated...

Frame grabbers.(new products)
November 1, 2007... The MVS-8600 family of frame grabbers connects Camera Link cameras through the PCI Express (PCIe) interface. Suited for high-bandwidth applications, they are available in single- and dual-channel models and include VisionPro machinevision...

XRF imaging microscope.(new products)
November 1, 2007... The XGT-7000 energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) microscope provides 10 pm spatial resolution that allows element characterization of discrete microscopic particles and detailed element imaging. Dual vacuum modes provide high...

Solid-state lasers.(new products)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FLARE solid-state, diode-pumped, passively Q-switched lasers feature a hermetically sealed laser head with a 16 x 7 cm footprint. The Nd:YAG laser crystal emits at 1064 nm with a pulse energy of up to 1 mJ....

Cyclo olefin polymer for blue lasers.(new products)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Zeonex 340R cyclo-olefin polymer is specifically designed to withstand prolonged, high-heat exposure to blue lasers, which operate at 400 nm. These lasers degrade plastics after long-term exposure, particularly...

Miniature high-voltage supplies.(new products)
November 1, 2007... The DA and DE Series of high-voltage power-supply units deliver up to 6 W of power from 1 to 6 kV, with input voltages between 15 and 24 V. The APD Series provides up to 100 mW of power from 200 to 500 V, with an input voltage of 5 V. Systems...