Laser Focus World articles from October 2007

Laser Focus World archives from October 2007

Alumina ceramic enhances laser pump cavities.(LASER MATERIALS)
October 1, 2007... Different types of lasers have varying requirements for the pump cavity, necessitating specialized ceramic components with specific material composition and manufacturing techniques. With its high reflectivity, dielectric strength, dimensional...

Remembering the work of Gallieno Denardo, a leader in optics education.(SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION)
October 1, 2007... In July 2007, the science and education community lost a tireless advocate and dear friend, Gallieno Denardo. Before his retirement several years ago, Denardo was the coordinator of the optics and laser programs at the Abdus Salam International...

Recording stars.(editor's desk)
October 1, 2007... August 2007 was the "silver" anniversary of the compact disc (CD). Hard to believe these ubiquitous silver discs have been around for only 25 years. Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands manufactured the first one (starring the group...

Article reinforced misconceptions.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2007... I enjoyed your recent article by Paul Magill on thin-film thermo-electrics (TECs; "Thin-film TECs give new life to CMOS cooling," August, p. 75; www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/302489). However, the article contains many weakly supported or...

Photons move faster than the speed of light.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2007... Scientists at the University of Koblenz (Koblenz, Germany) claim to have propelled photons faster than the speed of light--a feat that violates Einstein's special theory of relativity. Using a phenomenon in quantum optics called photon...

Tapered fiber coupler serves as biosensor.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2007... In the interests of developing a simple, low-cost, sensitive optical biosensor, researchers at Sumitomo Electric Industries (Yokohama, Japan) created something that is not much different from a telecommunications-style fused, tapered fiber...

Semiconducting dendrimers promise advances in cheap plastic lasers.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2007... Physicists at the University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland) have fabricated a new class of semiconducting dendrimer that combines the optoelectronic properties of semiconductors with the fabrication ease of polymers to create novel...

Self-sum-frequency mixing of neodymium generates yellow laser light.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2007... Yellow monochromatic sources are useful in biomedical, remote sensing, and spectroscopy applications, but laser emission around 600 nm is difficult to achieve. Professor Juan Capmany of the Universidad Miguel Hernandez (Elche, Spain) led a...

3-D profiler retrofits to existing microscopes.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2007... France-based PhaseView has opened PhaseView USA (San Diego, CA) to market its Digital Phase Reconstruction technology, which provides three-dimensional (3-D) visualization and measurements of microscopic objects at nanometer resolution...

Hyperspectral imager captures whole spectrum without scanning.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2007... In a novel hyperspectral device developed by researchers at the Italian National Research Institute for Metrology (INRiM; Turin, Italy), each pixel of the resulting 2-D image contains the full spectral composition of the object. Unlike other...

Diode lasers detect terahertz radiation.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2007... Although great advances have been made in terahertz sources based on Ti:sapphire lasers and in terahertz detectors based on bolometers, these systems are expensive and complex. Building on recent research that realized cost-effective terahertz...

Fingertip-speck chip contains tunable laser and modulator.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2007... Before tunable lasers, network operators had to use expensive, bulky fixed-wavelength lasers, a burden at all levels of the supply chain. Optical communications corporation JDSU (Milpitas, CA) has demonstrated a photonic integrated circuit...

hBN crystal fabricated at atmospheric pressure emits at 215 nm.(newsbreaks)
October 1, 2007... Other deep-UV-emitting semiconductors exist in addition to the gallium and aluminum nitrides (and combinations thereof) that form the basis for all common blue- and UV-emitting semiconductor lasers and light-emitting diodes. For example,...

Mirror, mirror, not at all.(NONLINEAR OPTICS)
October 1, 2007... Discussed for some four decades as a theoretical possibility, the first mirror-less optical parametric oscillator (OPO) has now been demonstrated by researchers in the Applied Physics Department at the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm,...

Intel and UCSB create first modelocked silicon laser.(optoelectronics world news)
October 1, 2007... The past few years have seen the watershed advance of electrically pumped silicon lasers (see www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/274700). Now, a team at the University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB; Santa Barbara, CA) and Intel (Jerusalem,...

Polymer-fiber cores are doped with QDs and silica nanoparticles.(MICROSTRUCTURED FIBER OPTICS)
October 1, 2007... Researchers at the University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia), CeramiSphere, the University of New South Wales, and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (all in New South Wales, Australia) have developed a method to...

Silex uranium-enrichment scheme may not be mature enough for practical use.(LASER ISOTOPE SEPARATION)
October 1, 2007... The laser isotope-separation process called Silex may look good to General Electric (Wilmington, NC) for enriching uranium-235 (U-235) concentration to the levels required in nuclear reactors (see www.laserfocusworld. com/articles/266374), but...

Optical arbitrary-waveform-generation technique shapes more than 100 spectral lines.(FREQUENCY COMBS)
October 1, 2007... Frequency metrology has benefited tremendously from combs of frequency-stabilized spectral lines produced by modelocked lasers (see www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/294647). Although pulse shapers can manipulate such spectral lines, they have...

Silicon/organic hybrid laser produces red light.(SILICON PHOTONICS)
October 1, 2007... A team at the Organic Semiconductor Centre of the University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland) has demonstrated a hybrid silicon (Si)/polymer surface-emitting red laser. The new laser, in which the role of the polymer is to add light...

Optics + Photonics sees nano and solar future.(SPIE OPTICS + PHOTONICS)
October 1, 2007... This year's 2007 SPIE Optics + Photonics show (Aug. 26-30; San Diego, CA) was divided into four topical areas: NanoScience + Engineering (Nano), Solar Energy + Applications (Solar), Photonic Devices + Applications (Photonics), and Optical...

'Lucky' camera creates ground-based images better than Hubble's.(ASTRONOMICAL IMAGING)
October 1, 2007... Astronomers have taken pictures of objects that are higher in resolution than anything produced by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), at a fraction of the cost. Researchers at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England) and the California...

Frequency-doubled poled silica fiber is widely tunable.(HARMONIC GENERATION)
October 1, 2007... Silica fibers have been used for frequency doubling of infrared light, with the added benefit of tunability. Now, a tuning range of nearly 45 nm at the fundamental wavelength has been reported by the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the...

Inverted tandem structure boosts efficiency of organic solar cells.(ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS)
October 1, 2007... By inverting the typical tandem solar-cell structure and inserting a transparent barrier layer, a team of scientists led by Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger at the University of California-Santa Barbara and Kwanghee Lee at the Gwangju Institute of...

High-intensity bowtie VCSEL enables near-field applications.(VCSELS)
October 1, 2007... With their small spot size and ability to be manufactured using low-cost two-dimensional-array fabrication methods that facilitate simple performance characterization, nanoaperture vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are ideal for...

Optics East goes quietly.(CONFERENCE REVIEW)(Conference notes)
October 1, 2007... Optics East was a quiet show, without much fanfare or company activity focused around it. Held at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, Sept. 9-12, the exhibition consisted of about three aisles of booths and one of tabletop exhibits. With...

Osram exits OLED display business.(industry report: laser)
October 1, 2007... Organic-light-emitting-diode (OLED) maker Osram Opto Semiconductors (Munich, Germany) will cease production of passive-matrix displays based on OLEDs by the end of the year to concentrate its activities on developing market-ready OLED lighting...

Intense gets ESA contract for laser-diode arrays.(industry report: laser)
October 1, 2007... Semiconductor laser manufacturer Intense (Glasgow, Scotland) announced an R&D contract with the European Space Agency (Noordwijk, Netherlands) called PULSAR (Pump Laser Stacks with Aerospace Reliability) for the development of reliable,...

Philips Lumileds delivers 100 million LEDs.(industry report: laser)
October 1, 2007... LED manufacturer Philips Lumileds (San Jose, CA) has delivered more than 100 million units of LUXEON Flash power LEDs to camera-phone manufacturers and enabled an entirely new market segment. "Prior to the introduction of LUXEON Flash, there...

Tunable-laser maker gets funding.(industry report: laser)
October 1, 2007... Syntune (Kista, Sweden), developer of single-chip widely tunable lasers, closed a second round of financing of $7.1 million. "This round of investment enables us to ramp production more quickly, as well as grow our customer base for our first...

GKS opens laser-scanning facilities.(industry report: laser)
October 1, 2007... GKS Inspection Services (Plymouth, MI), a provider of three-dimensional laser and terrestrial scanning services since 1981, opened a laser-scanning and inspection service bureau in the Netherlands, GKS Inspection Services Netherlands. The...

Raytheon Company's.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... The U.S. Air Force has expressed interest in re-establishing production of Raytheon Company's laser-guided Maverick missile, an air-to-ground weapon that can meet the service's needs in the near term.

IPG Photonics.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... IPG Photonics (Oxford, MA) was awarded a $3.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to supply the Naval Surface Warfare Center with a 44 kW fiber-laser system.

Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin announced that the Airborne Laser (see www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/197519) successfully demonstrated in flight.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin announced that the Airborne Laser (see www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/197519) successfully demonstrated in flight that its battle-management and beam-control/fire-control systems can complete the...

Synrad.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... Carbon dioxide laser manufacturer Synrad (Mukilteo. WA) shipped its 100,000th laser.

Bookham.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... Bookham (San Jose, CA) shipped its 100,000th indium phosphide Mach-Zehnder modulator, which has been in production and copackaged with lasers for more than 10 years.

Showa Denko.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... Showa Denko (Tokyo, Japan) has decided to expand its production capacity of gallium-nitride-based blue LED chips at its Chiba site to 200 million units a month by June 2008.

The compact disc turns 25.(industry report: optics)
October 1, 2007... Twenty-five years ago, Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) manufactured the world's first compact disc (CD) at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, near Hannover, Germany. The invention of the CD ushered in a technological...

CPC announces funding program.(industry report: optics)
October 1, 2007... The Carolinas Photonics Consortium (CPC; Clemson, SC) announced the CPC Pilot Funding Program that will award five emerging photonics projects with seed funding for commercialization and business development support. The five CPC member...

RIT and AmberWave win semiconductor grant.(industry report: optics)
October 1, 2007... AmberWave Systems (Salem, NH), developer of advanced technologies for semiconductor manufacturing, and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT; Rochester, NY) were jointly awarded a three-year research grant from the National Science...

China MEMS industry moves to high value.(industry report: optics)
October 1, 2007... A report entitled MST/MEMS Activities in China-Industry and Key Research Centres provides an overview of the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microsystems (MST) community in China. Published by enablingMNT (Berlin, Germany) and...

Thermo Fisher system chosen for soil analysis.(industry report: optics)
October 1, 2007... Thermo Fisher Scientific (Cambridge, England) announced that Midwest Laboratories (Omaha, NE) chose the Thermo Scientific iCAP 6000 Series of ICP emission spectrometers to perform soil analyses in its agricultural laboratory. The iCAP 6000...

SUSS MicroTec (Munich, Germany), supplier of manufacturing and test equipment for the semiconductor and related markets, announced that HD MicroSystems--a joint venture of Hitachi Chemical and DuPont Electronic Technologies--installed the SUSS advanced 200 mm Gamma Production Coat/Develop Cluster.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... SUSS MicroTec (Munich, Germany), supplier of manufacturing and test equipment for the semiconductor and related markets, announced that HD MicroSystems--a joint venture of Hitachi Chemical and DuPont Electronic Technologies--installed the SUSS...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) award to participate in a multi-university research center.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) award to participate in a multi-university research center to be called the Investigate Multi-physics Modeling and...

Brian Schulkin, a member of the National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute won the first Lemelson-Rensselaer.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... Brian Schulkin, a member of the National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute won the first Lemelson-Rensselaer $30,000 student prize for inventing an...

DARPA selects Goodrich for imaging contract.(industry report: imaging & detector)
October 1, 2007... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office selected Goodrich (Charlotte, NC) for the continued development of indium gallium arsenide visible and shortwave-IR focal-plane arrays for use in passive...

FLIR receives Navy award for sensors.(industry report: imaging & detector)
October 1, 2007... FLIR Systems (Portland, OR) received a $20 million order from the U.S. Navy for a variant of its SeaFLIR III stabilized; lightweight multisensor systems, part of a five-year, $75 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with...

ART, Stanford collaborate on breast imaging.(industry report: imaging & detector)
October 1, 2007... A medical device company that specializes in optical molecular-imaging products for the health-care and pharmaceutical industries, ART Advanced Research Technologies (Montreal, QC, Canada) entered into an agreement to develop and conduct...

PDP revenue slides.(industry report: imaging & detector)
October 1, 2007... According to market analysis firm iSuppli (El Segundo, CA), plasma display panels (PDPs) are not keeping pace with liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). Although falling average selling prices are enabling PDPs to enjoy a growth phase, those same...

'Thermometer camera' sees first light.(industry report: imaging & detector)
October 1, 2007... The world's largest bolometer camera for submillimeter astronomy is now in service at the 12 m APEX telescope in the Chilean Andes. LABOCA (Large Bolometer Camera; near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile) was specifically designed for the study of...

DisplaySearch.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... DisplaySearch (Austin. TX). a display-market research firm, reported that LCD TV panel shipments hit all all-time high in July with 7.2 million units shipped, up 6% month over month and 72% year over year.

Navigant Consulting.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... Navigant Consulting (Chicago. IL) released its annual Analysis of Worldwide PV Markets and Five-Year Application Forecast Report that provides an analysis of global demand for photovoltaics.

ICx Technologies (Washington. D.C.) formed a new business unit.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... ICx Technologies (Washington. D.C.) formed a new business unit, ICx Cryogenics, which will have an exclusive distributor sales agreement with RICOR Cryogenics & Vacuum Systems (En-Harod Ihud, Israel) and will serve as the U.S.-based supplier of...

NanoMarkets.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... The global thin-film photovoltaics market is forecast to reach $7.2 billion by 20t5, compared to just over $1.0 billion today, according to a report from NanoMarkets (Glen Allen, VA).

Photo Dynamics (San Jose. CA), a supplier of integrated yield-management solutions for the flat-panel-display market.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... Photo Dynamics (San Jose. CA), a supplier of integrated yield-management solutions for the flat-panel-display market, acquired all outstanding shares of (Colorado Springs, CO). a supplier of high-performance digital cameras, for $20 million.

Dispersion compensation a $755 million market.(industry report: fiber optics)
October 1, 2007... The move to higher data rates is transforming dispersion-compensation technology from a niche market to a substantial business, according to a new report from industry analyst firm Communications Industry Researchers (CIR; Glen Allen, VA). The...

R&D 100 award goes to amplifier developers.(industry report: fiber optics)
October 1, 2007... Sandia National Laboratories and the Naval Research Laboratory were honored with one of this year's R&D 100 awards for their development of mode-filtered optical-amplifier technology. The awards aim to recognize the "100 most technologically...

MRV Communications forms joint venture.(industry report: fiber optics)
October 1, 2007... Luminent and Fiberxon, wholly owned subsidiaries of MRV Communications (Chatsworth, CA), announced that they will be branded under the name Source Photonics. The name change reflects the operation of the two companies as a combined business...

Liekki fibers now available online.(industry report: fiber optics)
October 1, 2007... Nanoparticle fiber company Liekki (Lohja, Finland) launched an online purchase option at www.liekki.com. The option enables customers to order Liekki active fibers, passive fibers, and fiber components, optical engine modules, and design...

Telecom CAPEX to hit $225 billion in 2007.(industry report: fiber optics)
October 1, 2007... Capital equipment expenditures (CAPEX) of telecom service providers are up in every region of the world, driven by carrier network transformation and migration projects, swelling numbers of mobile and broadband subscribers, and increasing...

Intune Networks.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... Intune Networks (Dublin. Ireland), a developer of technology for telecommunications networks, raised $17.75 million from a consortium of international investors.

Infinera.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... Infinera (Sunnyvale, CA) announced that North China Grid Company selected Infinera for a next-generation communication network providing connectivity for the power grid's operations throughout the North China region.

Sterlite Optical Technologies (Pune, India), India's only global provider and integrated manufacturer of optical fiber, received a contract from Bharat Sanchar Nigam.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... Sterlite Optical Technologies (Pune, India), India's only global provider and integrated manufacturer of optical fiber, received a contract from Bharat Sanchar Nigam--the world's seventh largest telecommunications company--to manufacture and...

India telecom service provider Bharti Airtel selected ECI Telecom (Petach Tikva, Israel) to supply optical equipment.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2007... India telecom service provider Bharat Airtel selected ECI Telecom (Petach Tikva, Israel) to supply optical equipment supporting a subscriber-base expansion.

Software conquers design and analysis of backlit LCDs.(software & computing)
October 1, 2007... Edge-lit backlit liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) are used in products such as laptops, cell phones, and PDAs because they provide thin, small-volume solutions. Unfortunately, their inherent complexity makes them difficult to de sign. The goal of...

Raydiance takes a new approach to ultrafast lasers.(market watch)
October 1, 2007... The advantages of ultrafast lasers for imaging, manipulating, and ablating tissue and other materials have been well documented. For nearly two decades the materials processing and biomedical research communities have been studying the use of...

Is another 'bubble' coming?(business forum)
October 1, 2007... Q: The telecom business seems to have recovered. Could there be another "bubble" coming? A: I can still remember the bumper sticker "Oh Lord, let there be another bubble." There will be bubbles from time to time, but probably not in the...

Crimes in print: digital imaging performs forensic analysis of fraudulent laser-printed documents.(inside imaging)
October 1, 2007... Most kinds of criminal behavior can be detected, investigated, and punished. But counterfeiters and document fraudsters often escape prosecution because it is difficult to connect them to their printing equipment in a way that will satisfy the...

IR focal-plane arrays enable imaging that is out of this world.(EXOTIC IMAGING)(Cover story)
October 1, 2007... Infrared astronomy has advanced rapidly since the first two-dimensional IR-imaging arrays were produced in the 1980s. From the modest 32 x 32-pixel arrays that provided a breakthrough 20 years ago, the size of IR arrays has increased to the...

Nonpolar gallium nitride laser diodes are the next new blue.(SHORT-WAVE DIODE LASERS)
October 1, 2007... Despite their relatively young age, blue-violet gallium nitride (GaN)-based laser diodes have achieved remarkable progress since their first demonstration in 1996. Development of epitaxial growth techniques, defect-reduced substrates, and...

Optical fibers go nano.(NEXT-GENERATION FIBERS)
October 1, 2007... Nanoscience and nanotechnology have attracted much interest in recent years because materials exhibit novel properties when structured at nanometer dimensions. In the last two decades, nano-wires and subwavelength wires have been fabricated...

Micro cameras ignore the diffraction limit.(DETECTORS)
October 1, 2007... The technology design and integration necessary to miniaturize a camera module for use in portable electronics involve a complex interdependence of six technical, financial, and qualitative factors: module size, cost, image quality, relative...

Photonic crystals make nanocavity lasers; the tight confinement possible with photonic crystals can reduce the threshold and increase the speed of nanocavity lasers, opening the door to new devices for applications from optical interconnects to quantum computing.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL LASERS)
October 1, 2007... Improvements in confining excitation energy and emitted light have played a key role in the evolution of semiconductor lasers. The first diode lasers required cryogenic cooling because they were based on homojunctions. Performance improved with...

Fiber to the home finally finds its footing: growing interest in video on demand and related Internet services is pushing telecom carriers to invest in optical technologies to keep customers happy.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS)
October 1, 2007... As has been cautiously (but anxiously) anticipated for the past few years, the optical telecom market is now officially on the rebound. (1) Much of this resurgence is the result of service providers and technology developers joining forces to...

Quasi-phase-matched DFG lasers for sensing enter the market.(NONLINEAR OPTICS)
October 1, 2007... Advances in telecom-derived solid-state-laser technologies are now being combined with advances in nonlinear optical materials to produce frequency-agile commercial mid-infrared laser sources via difference-frequency generation (DFG). The 3 to...

Negative-stiffness vibration isolation improves reliability of nanoinstrumentation.(VIBRATION-CONTROL SYSTEMS)
October 1, 2007... With nanotechnology applications growing exponentially, scientists and engineers are putting their equipment in a multitude of locations where vibration noise is significantly high. Although big-budget installations (valued in the hundreds of...

CMOS camera.(new products)
October 1, 2007... The MicroVista NIR camera is a back-thinned CMOS camera optimized for near-IR imaging. The camera has proprietary antireflection coatings, a 100% fill factor, a 1280 x 1024 format, 10.8 [micro]m square pixels, supports 30 frames/s full frame,...

Laser diodes.(new products)
October 1, 2007... The HPD6020 830 nm high-power single-emitter laser diodes are single-mode lasers with up to 200mW of output power. The lasers, based on patented quantum-well intermixing technology, are available in wavelengths of 830 nm [+ or -] 5 nm in a...

Inspection device.(new products)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Super Optical Device 3 (SOD-III) includes an optical body that uses coaxial episcopic illumination to image flat surfaces. It is used with a metallurgical microscope lens to produce high-quality images....

Tunable top-notch filter.(new products)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A tunable top-notch filter blocks a narrow bandwidth while maintaining up to 80% throughput between 350 nm and 2.5 [micro]m. These filters allow access to Raman shifts as low as 10 [cm.sup.-1], with a minimum of OD 4...

Bandpass filters.(new products)
October 1, 2007... A line of bandpass filters based on metal mesh technology has center wavelengths from 15 to 200 pro. They offer center wavelength transmission up to 80% with a tolerance of [+ or -] 0.1 [micro]m and out-of-band transmission down to 0.5%. They...

Encoder.(new products)
October 1, 2007... The Mercury II encoder has programmable resolution, output frequency, and alarms. It provides digital output from the sensor and differential output from the encoder and has a double-shielded cable for noise immunity. It provides gain, offset,...

Telephoto imaging lens.(new products)
October 1, 2007... The DSL208 day/night telephoto imaging lens for CMOS and CCD cameras has a lens-limited field of view of 22 [degrees] on 1/3 in. or 17 [degrees] on a 1/4 in. sensor. This narrow field of view provides a telephoto effect and multi-megapixel...

Beam analyzer.(new products)
October 1, 2007... The M2-200S beam-propagation analyzer is 26 x 17 x 44 cm in size and reports beam quality in less than two minutes. It covers wavelength ranges of 250 to 370 nm for quad and tripled YAGs, 400 to 700 nm for doubled YAGs, 650 to 1100 nm for...

Piezomotor stage.(new products)
October 1, 2007... The M-686 low-profile, XY, open-frame, piezomotor stage with 0.1-[micro]m-resolution linear encoders is designed for automated positioning applications in inspection and microscopy. The motor provides speeds up to 100 mm/s and response time in...