Laser Focus World articles from October 2005

Laser Focus World archives from October 2005

A new look at atomic physics.(editor's deck)
October 1, 2005... The advent of the modelocked Ti:sapphire laser in the late 1980s was a major milestone in the generation of subpicosecond and femtosecond optical pulses and ultimately led to the aft-solid-state ultrafast laser systems with which we are...

Photonic properties of quasicrystals are measured.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2005... Quasicrystalline lattices, which have long-range order but are not periodic, can have high degrees of symmetry useful for photonic-bandgap structures. Potential fabrication methods for quasicrystalline structures to be used at optical...

Wavelength-combined diode-laser array is nearly diffraction limited.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2005... Combining the individual beams of many diode lasers at high beam quality could result in high-power diffraction-limited lasers that are more compact and efficient than any thus far. One approach is wavelength beam combining, in which beams of...

Millimeter-wave imaging detector is based on silicon.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2005... Millimeter-wave imaging lies at the boundary of optical and radio technology. Quasi-optical techniques using plastic Freshet zone plates to focus millimeter waves enable hidden weapons to be detected (see Laser Focus World, April 2003, p. $14)....

Lidar reveals micrometer-size meteoritic dust.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2005... Contrary to the theory that most of the material in large meteoroids is converted to nanometer-size particles through ablation upon entering earth's atmosphere, scientists at the Australian Antarctic Division (Kingston, Australia), the...

Free-space board-to-board optical interconnect aims to conquer vibrations.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2005... Free-space optical board-to-board interconnects in computers will ease data-flow bottlenecks, but must contend with vibrations in the printed-circuit boards they are mounted on. Researchers at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England)...

Waveguides in automotive-WDM module are written by light.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2005... Inexpensive wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) schemes using two wavelengths and plastic optical fiber (POF) allow a single POF to be used for bidirectional communications in automotive and home applications. Engineers at Toyota Central R&D...

Thermoplastics limit microholographic storage density.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2005... Microholographic data storage is anticipated to attain capacities beyond the 100-GByte-per-disc maximum for other surface technologies. Although scientists at General Electric Global Research (Niskayuna, NY) successfully recorded microholograms...

Ceramic slab Nd:YAG laser emits 5 kW.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2005... In work sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (Kirtland AFB, NM), researchers from Textron Systems (Wilmington, MA) have achieved what they believe to be record performance from a ceramic Nd:YAG laser. Their diode-pumped slab laser,...

Semiconductor-cylinder fiber amplifier has wide bandwidth.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2005... A semiconductor-cylinder fiber (SCF) has a thin layer of semiconductor material at its core/cladding boundary that, when pumped, turns the fiber into an amplifier. Researchers at Dove Photonics (Rome, NY), Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY),...

Nanowires and nanoribbons route photons.(NANOPHOTONICS)
October 1, 2005... Building on recent demonstrations of assembled photonic-circuit elements made from tin oxide (Sn[O.sub.2]) nanoribbons and zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowire waveguides, researchers in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California at...

Lidar sees bees finding land mines.(optoelectronics: world news)
October 1, 2005... Popular in science fiction these days are stories of micro- or nanorobots that travel together in great swarms, communicating and working together to achieve some goal for good or evil. As is often the case, however, nature has already trumped...

What goes down comes back up.
October 1, 2005... The 35th annual Semicon West conference and exhibition (July 11-1; San Francisco, CA) coincided with a forecast of a 12% decline in the capital-equipment market, which in a way was good news, according to Stanley Myers, president and CEO of...

All-reflective spatial and spectral imager improves UV and IR capability.(HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING)
October 1, 2005... Hyperspectral imaging plays a critical role in determining spectral and spatial information of a scene; for example, in applications such as pharmaceutical identification and satellite or aerial surveys of vegetation and industrial scenes. The...

Frequency comb reaches into the EUV.(HARMONIC GENERATION)
October 1, 2005... Modelocking of continuous-wave lasers allows the generation of femtosecond pulses at a high repetition rate, with the spectral width of the pulses correlating with the inverse pulse duration. As is well known, a series of discrete frequencies...

Single-frequency laser has diamond intracavity filter.(SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS)
October 1, 2005... Optically pumped vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) can provide high power in a simple package. But while gallium arsenide-based VECSELs (which typically emit at a wavelength somewhere between 0.8 and 1.3 [micro]m) can...

Nanometer-scale optical antennas resonate.(NANOPHOTONICS)
October 1, 2005... A radio-wave antenna converts radiation into a local oscillation in its so-called feed gap, which is the region between the antenna arms where contact is made to antenna wires or a waveguide. In reverse, the antenna converts electromagnetic...

Laser camera system inspects Discovery prior to reentry.(SCANNERS)
October 1, 2005... A Laser Camera System (LCS) provided by Neptec (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) played a vital role in the safe return of NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery in August by providing detailed 3-D images of the spacecraft's heat-shield tiles. The system can...

Mini pressure sensor features high sensitivity.(FIBEROPTIC SENSORS)
October 1, 2005... Researchers at the University of Maribor (Maribor, Slovenia) have developed a miniature all--silicon dioxide (Si[O.sub.2]) fiberoptic pressure sensor that has pressure sensitivity two orders of magnitude higher than previously reported...

Crystal ball draws viewers into optical history.
October 1, 2005... This 20-in.-diameter photomultiplier tube, on loan from Namamatsu (Hamamatsu City, Japan), is the world's largest and was on exhibit in the historical-equipment display at the 50th annual meeting of the SPIE (San Diego, CA; July 30 to Aug. 4)....

JDSU to sell microlaser business.(laser industry report)
October 1, 2005... Teem Photonics (Grenoble, France) and JDS Uniphase (San Jose, CA) signed a definitive agreement for the sale of JDS Uniphase's passive Q-switched microlaser product line and facility in Grenoble, France, to Teem Photonics. According to the...

Picarro and Stanford extend license.(laser industry report)
October 1, 2005... Picarro (Sunnyvale, CA) and Stanford University (Stanford, CA) have extended an exclusive licensing agreement covering several Stanford patents on a sensing technology used in Picarro's trace chemical detection products. The new agreement...

Alfalight awarded 1-kW diode-laser contract.(laser industry report)
October 1, 2005... Alfalight (Madison, WI) announced a research and development contract worth $4.5 million from the Army Research Laboratory (ARL; Adelphi, MD) to develop a high-power multimode diode-laser source with an output of 1 kW. Alfalight said the...

Agilent selling Lumileds to Philips.(laser industry report)
October 1, 2005... Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) signed a definitive agreement to sell its 47% stake in Lumileds (San Jose, CA) to Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for $950 million-plus repayment of $50 million of debt from Lumileds....

Fiber lasers meet the shipbuilding industry.(laser industry report)
October 1, 2005... IPG Laser (Burbach, Germany) announced that IMG (Rostock, Germany), a developer and manufacturer of shipbuilding production equipment, demonstrated IPG's 10-kW fiber-laser welding 6- and 12-m-long micro ship panels at IMG's July 11 open house...

Universal Display (Ewing, NJ) was awarded a nine-month, $98,894 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by the U. S. Department of Energy (Washington, D.C.).(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... Universal Display (Ewing, NJ) was awarded a nine-month, $98,894 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by the U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, D.C.) to increase the brightness and power efficiency of white OLED...

Diomed (Andover, MA) received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... Diomed (Andover, MA) received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office allowing a patent encompassing a proprietary marked introducer sheath for use with its patented laser treatment for varicose veins.

IPG Photonics (Oxford, MA) was awarded a contract by the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center (Crane, IN).(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... IPG Photonics (Oxford, MA) was awarded a contract by the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center (Crane, IN) for its 10-kW continuous-wave ytterbium fiber-laser system.

Alfalight has received an additional $7 million in funding.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... Alfalight has received an additional $7 million in funding, led by GF Private Equity Group.

Princeton Lightwave (Cranbury, NJ) was awarded second-year funding by the U.S. Department of Defense's High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... Princeton Lightwave (Cranbury, NJ) was awarded second-year funding by the U.S. Department of Defense's High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office to continue development of highly scalable eye-safe solid-state lasers.

California Institute of Technology.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... Milton Chang, managing director of Incubic Venture Capital (Mountain View, CA) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA).

Transportation act includes optics, photonics.(optics industry report)
October 1, 2005... In a milestone achievement for the optics and photonics community, President Bush signed into law on August 10 the "Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users;' also known as HR 3, which contained a...

Axsys receives $4.4m order for IR lenses.(optics industry report)
October 1, 2005... Axsys Technologies (Rocky Hill, CT) received a $4.4 million order to produce dual-field-of-view IR imaging lenses for an advanced U.S. Army armored vehicle. These high-performance lenses will enable vehicle operators to carry out all-weather...

Melles Griot enhances fabrication capabilities.(optics industry report)
October 1, 2005... In a move to significantly increase the surface accuracy of the optical elements produced at its Melles Griot Optics Group (Rochester, NY) facility, the company has commissioned its new Sub-aperture Stitching Interferometer (SSI) to provide...

Ocean Optics expands sensor coating services.(optics industry report)
October 1, 2005... Ocean Optics has expanded its optical-sensor coating services in several ways to provide OEMs and product developers new solutions in creating proprietary accessories for chemical-sensing applications. Ocean Optics can supply its...

Frost & Sullivan award goes to Ahura.(optics industry report)
October 1, 2005... Ahura (Wilmington, MA) was awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2005 Product Innovation Award for Homeland Security Technologies in recognition of the company's development of the First Defender Raman instrument, a handheld device for the instantaneous...

Dalsa (Waterloo, ON, Canada) and Xerox (Rochester, NY) are collaborating in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology development.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... Dalsa (Waterloo, ON, Canada) and Xerox (Rochester, NY) are collaborating in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology development. The class of products on which they are working has not been disclosed....

Optical sensing specialist Ocean Optics appointed two new distributors.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... Optical sensing specialist Ocean Optics appointed two new distributors--Kutay Laboratory Equipment as distributors in Turkey and LAO Industrial Systems in the Czech Republic.

Andor Technology.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... Andor Technology (Belfast, Northern Ireland), which develops and manufactures instruments for the global spectroscopy and scientific imaging markets, has launched a range of laser spinning-disk, live-cell confocal microscopes through its...

e2v supplies image sensors to Gaia space mission.(imaging & detector: industry report)
October 1, 2005... e2v technologies (Chelmsford, England), a developer and manufacturer of components and subsystems, and known for its large CCD sensors, was awarded the flight-phase contract to supply the European Space Agency (ESA) with CCD imaging sensors on...

Micro-Photon Devices (MPD; Bolzano, Italy) named PicoQuant (Berlin, Germany) the sole European distributor of its PDM-series single-photon sensitive avalanche photodiodes (SPAD).(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... Micro-Photon Devices (MPD: Bolzano, Italy) named PicoQuant (Berlin, Germany) the sole European distributor of its PDM-series single-photon sensitive avalanche photodiodes (SPAD); it has also entered into exclusive distribution agreements with...

VisEn Medical.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... VisEn Medical (Cambridge, MA), a pioneer in the field of optical molecular imaging, raised $4 million of additional venture-capital financing.

GT Solar signs $33m contract.(imaging & detector industry report)
October 1, 2005... GT Equipment Technologies (Merrimack, NH) has entered into an agreement worth more than $33 million with LDK Solar Hi-Tech Co. (Jiangxi, China) to create a nearly 75-MW photovoltaic wafer fabrication line for solar energy applications. The line...

Redlake chosen as exclusive camera provider.(imaging & detector industry report)
October 1, 2005... Redlake MASD (San Diego, CA) entered into an agreement with General Motors to be the exclusive provider of high-speed cameras for vehicle crash, sled, and impact testing. The contract, valued at more than $5 million, has General Motors taking...

Edmund Optics creates VIP team.(imaging & detector industry report)
October 1, 2005... Edmund Optics (Barrington, N]) has teamed with Epic Vision Systems (St. Louis, MO), Braas Company (Eden Prairie, MN), Minarik (Glendale, CA), Wineman Technology (Saginaw, MI) and other system integrators to help customers solve their...

Huawei buying Marconi?(fibreoptics industry report)
October 1, 2005... There has been much speculation in London about the future of former telecom industry giant Marconi (Coventry, England). Numerous sources are talking about ongoing discussions between Marconi and its Chinese business partner, Huawei...

Optoelectronics aims at processor bottlenecks.(fibreoptics industry report)
October 1, 2005... With a goal of making the use of board-level optical interconnection in information systems practical and economical by developing optoelectronic packaging technology compatible with standard electronic assembly processes, the High-Speed...

Anritsu to acquire NetTest.(fibreoptics industry report)
October 1, 2005... Anritsu (Kanagawa, Japan), a global provider of communication solutions, signed a definitive agreement to acquire NetTest (Copenhagen, Denmark). NetTest has 480 employees and R&D locations in the United States, France, and Italy, and...

Vishay plans CyOptics acquisition.(fibreoptics industry report)
October 1, 2005... Executives at Vishay Intertechnology (Malvern, PA) announced that Vishay Israel signed a Letter of Intent regarding the acquisition of the assets of CyOptics Israel, the Israeli subsidiary of CyOptics (Breinigsville, PA). CyOptics Israel, has a...

Picolight completes $27.5m funding round.(fibreoptics industry report)
October 1, 2005... Picolight (Louisville, CO) completed a $27.5 million funding effort, with the addition of $14.5 million in a combination of new equity investment and debt financing. Picolight will use the investment to expand operations, scale its...

Phyworks.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... Data and telecom networking-systems integrated-circuit (tC) specialist Phyworks (Bristol. England) has received certification for its laser driver cost-amplifier ICs to relevant parts of IEC and EN60825-I for the safety of laser products

Business Communications.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... Total worldwide revenues for fiberoptic sensors are projected to increase from a current estimate of $288,1 million to $304,3 million in 2006. according to a soon-to-be-released report from Business Communications (Norwalk. CT)

Alloptic.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... Alloptic (Livermore, CA), a pioneer in the development and deployment of Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (GEPONs], announced that it has secured an additional $30 million in venture funding

White Rock Networks.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2005... White Rock Networks (Richardson, TX), a provider of next-generation optical transport systems for metro networks, announced that it closed a "top up" funding round in which it raised $15.5 million from inside investors.

The laser spawns new 'peripheral equipment' industry.(40 YEARS: THEN AND NOW)
October 1, 2005... We've all heard that necessity is the mother of invention. Shortly after the advent of the laser, it became clear that a whole new range of optics, power supplies, detectors, shutters, attenuators, modulators, and other "peripherals" would be...

Fueling the 'concerned scientist'.(working the web)
October 1, 2005... As the gap between science fact and science fiction narrows, thanks to the astounding strides being made in scientific research and development, the need for communicating accurate facts to government and social institutions is critical to the...

Engineering sans frontiers: in the global machine-vision market, goods and services become intertwined.(inside imaging)(Industry Overview)
October 1, 2005... The international nature of the machine-vision industry is not always evident to the field engineer who is working feverishly to design a new piece of equipment or install a vision system to upgrade a production line. But the industry is truly...

How can I expand into the commercial sector?(business forum)(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Q: Any advice on how to significantly expand a stable business that develops custom lasers for government applications? We want to tackle the commercial market by leveraging the strength of our technical team and our IP portfolio. A: If...

Cryogenic cooling multiplies output of TI:sapphire laser.(VERY HIGH-PEAK-POWER LASERS)
October 1, 2005... The broad laser bandwidth and excellent material properties of titanium-doped sapphire (Ti:sapphire) have proved ideal for small- and largescale ultrafast lasers and systems. (1) Incorporating cryogenic cooling into an ultrafast Ti:sapphire...

Excimers take more-refined approach to micromachining: from drilling inkjet nozzles to etching diamond jewelry, the excimer laser continues to make its mark.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: MATERIALS PROCESSING)
October 1, 2005... Contrary to some perceptions, the excimer laser is not just the workhorse of the photolithography and vision-correction fields. Nor is it resigned to playing second fiddle to the increasingly popular diode-pumped solid-state laser for...

Micro-optics technology fulfills its promise.(MICRO-OPTICS)
October 1, 2005... Major design advances and manufacturing technology improvements for micro-optic components and systems have facilitated the trend toward miniaturization in optics. Up to the mid-1990s, micro-optics development was primarily for military and...

Multiple-wavelength interferometry measures large segmented mirrors.(TEST & MEASUREMENT)
October 1, 2005... The use of segmented primary mirrors in telescopes requires measurement of step discontinuities between segments while achieving high-resolution surface-quality measurements for individual segments. Multiple-wavelength interferometry can...

MTF provides an image-quality metric.(TEST & MEASUREMENT)
October 1, 2005... When two photographs are compared, the photo with the highest resolution does not always have the best image quality because the human eye places relatively low value on high resolution, preferring instead images with good contrast at low...

Surface--measurement stitching technique scales to all sizes of optics: a novel surface-measurement technique uses a reflective Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor to scan optical surfaces and then uses software to stitch individual measurements together, resulting in high-resolution accuracy and high dynamic range with the ability to scale up or down to any size optic.(TEST & MEASUREMENT)
October 1, 2005... The competing requirements of accuracy, spatial resolution, dynamic range, and large field of view limit many optical measurement techniques. To address these limitations, WaveFront Sciences has developed a technique that scans and stitches...

Nanoscale MSM structures show high efficiency.(MSM DETECTORS)
October 1, 2005... Effects stemming from the absorption length in bulk semiconductors and from diffraction drastically reduce the absorption efficiency in nanoscale semiconductor light-sensing structures. Therefore, conventional photodetectors (p-i-n photodiodes,...

Attosecond pulses open new window on atomic physics; laser pulses are limited to femtoseconds, but femtosecond pulses can generate attosecond pulses in the extreme-UV, opening the door to a new time scale in physics.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: ATTOSECOND PHYSICS)
October 1, 2005... Strictly speaking, purely optical pulses cannot be shrunk to less than a femtosecond in length. The transform limit requires a spectral bandwidth broader than the visible spectrum to produce subfemtosecond pulses. However, optical femtosecond...

Fiber lasers pose special challenges for beam profiling.(BEAM PROFILERS)
October 1, 2005... Fiber lasers are increasingly used to mark, machine, melt, or other wise modify materials with progressively more intricate patterns and shapes. Such applications use lasers ranging from a few watts to a few kilowatts of power, and a key...

Light analyzer.(new products)
October 1, 2005... The X4 light analyzer for photometric and colorimetric measurement of LEDs and other light sources can be remotely controlled by a PC via USB interface. It simultaneously measures the light signal integrally and spectrally with a photopic...

Photon counter.(new products)
October 1, 2005... The FluoroMax-3 uses time-correlated single-photon counting to obtain fluorescent lifetimes. The instrument handles excitation wavelengths of 280 and 295 nm for proteins, and sources in the UV, visible, and NIR. It can be used for TRES,...

Visible multimode diode lasers.(new products)
October 1, 2005... Single-emitter, multimode diode lasers are available with output of 0.5 W at 635 nm and up to 1 W at 665, 680, and 690 nm. Spectral width is less than 3 nm, FWHM, and beam divergence is less than 42[degrees] by less than 10[degrees], FWHM. Each...

Shutter and housing.(new products)
October 1, 2005... The Uniblitz QCS45 shutter and housing module allows the user to upgrade the CS45 shutter without disturbing connected components, with the aim of reducing downtime. It features a cartridge containing the shutter and all data and power...

High-power laser diode.(new products)
October 1, 2005... An extended product line based on high-efficiency bars has been introduced. Up to 60-W CW can be provided from the mounted high-efficiency bar, or up to 75-W CW passively cooled from a 0.4-mm single-core fiber, based on two high-efficiency...

Nd:YAG lasers.(new products)
October 1, 2005... The Model LDPP-50M is a pulsed diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser with a pulse decay time of less than 10 s. The laser provides 40-W average power at 1-kHz pulse rate with a 100-s FWHM pulse width. The laser is designed for cutting thin metals in...

Application-design software.(new products)
October 1, 2005... The Application Designer v3.0 is an upgrade to the simulation environment for high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers. The software can simulate and analyze both CW and pulsed applications, including time-domain effects, using erbium- or...

Optical-design software.(new products)
October 1, 2005... OSLO optical-design software will soon be offered in German, Spanish, and French versions. Many other language versions are being developed. OSLO is available in three versions: Oslo Premium, Oslo Standard, and Oslo Light. A free EDU version...

Spectrometers.(new products)
October 1, 2005... Spectrometers based on a symmetrical Czerny-Turner design make measurements ranging from 200 to 1100 nm. Resolution can be as narrow as 0.1 FWHM. They include a USB interface and a 15-pin, digital I/O port, which allows synchronization with a...

Nanopositioning stage.(new products)
October 1, 2005... The SQ-2115 closed loop, motorized nanopositioning stage provides 5 N of force in a thin, 17-mm profile. It includes an integral optical encoder and a piezoelectric SQUIGGLE motor, which supports vertical loads of up to 0.5 kg with negligible...

Motion controller.(new products)
October 1, 2005... The NewStep NSC200 motion controller is an integrated, handheld stepper-motor controller-driver that provides single-axis control of NSA 12 motorized actuators and MFA-PP linear stages. It features a 64x micro-stepping ratio for...

Optical-design products.(new products)
October 1, 2005... A suite of optical-design products includes Rayica, Wavica, and LensLab. Rayica optical-design software performs geometrical, nonsequential, polarization ray-trace calculations of optical systems in 3-D space. Wavica calculates analytic optical...

Dithering stages.(new products)
October 1, 2005... The P-713/P-714, high speed, xy-dithering stages are designed for high-dynamics scanning and tracking tasks. Integrated piezoelectric drives provide subnanometer resolution. The compact stages measure 45 x 45 x 6 mm and feature a parallel...

LED light source.(new products)
October 1, 2005... The LEDS1020 is an instrument-grade blue-LED light source. Requiring zero warm-up time, the 470-nm LED light source is stabilized to 500 ppm/[degrees]C. The device has adjustable CW output intensity via a built-in trimmer potentiometer, and a...

Frequency divider.(new products)
October 1, 2005... The PRL-230 is a new 4-decade TTL frequency divider. The self-contained frequency-divider pod accepts TTL clock signals from DC-100 MHz and generates F/10, F/100, F/1000, and F/10,000 divided outputs. These outputs are synchronous with the...

Ti:sapphire amplifier system.(new products)
October 1, 2005... The Odin II Series integrated multipass-based Ti:sapphire amplifier system is optimized for pulses below 30 fs and offers a choice of energy levels at 2.5 and 1 mJ. The multipass amplifier design minimizes material dispersion with shorter beam...

Steerable boroscope.(new products)
October 1, 2005... Copperhead Borescopes allow the user to view otherwise inaccessible areas with two-way and four-way articulation. They utilize the patent-pending Dura-Flex articulation system. Features include remote steering, internal fiberoptics, and a...