Laser Focus World articles from October 2008

Laser Focus World archives from October 2008

Ultrafast makes its move.(editor's desk)
October 1, 2008... Ultrafast lasers have long been "confined to a sleepy corner of the laser market and reserved for the most exotic R&D applications," says Tom Hausken of Strategies Unlimited in this month's Marketwatch (see p. 60). But that corner is gradually...

An organic laser will be realized.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... As a pioneer in organic semiconductors (for example, intrinsic properties of conjugated polymers, first blue polymer LED, organic photodiode on newspaper) who has been in the field for 28 years, I highly appreciated reading your article...

Contact-lens virtual display would need optics.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... With regard to "Contact lens could create virtual display" (April 2008, p. 19; www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/325415. This very clever fabrication technique is erroneously titled. No display can be placed so close to the iris of the eye...

Analysis establishes 36 kW upper limit on diffraction-limited fiber-laser output.(news breaks)
October 1, 2008... Existing material and other constraints preclude the creation of diffraction-limited continuous-wave fiber lasers or amplifiers with an output of greater than about 36 kW, according to a theoretical analysis done by researchers at Lawrence...

Test looks at 'Spooky action at a distance'.(news breaks)
October 1, 2008... Researchers at the University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland) have determined a minimum speed for Albert Einstein's hypothetical "spooky action at a distance" (see Salart et al., Nature, p. 861, Aug. 14, 2008). Two pre-existing underground...

Opal photonic-crystal structures may realize tunable single-mode lasing.(news breaks)
October 1, 2008... Photonic-crystal-based technology is a hot research topic for its ability to enable tiny, controllable circuits, laser sources, and other optoelectronics devices. To that end, opal photonic-crystal structures may facilitate realization of...

Quantum-dot LEDs exhibit mid-IR emission at room temperature.(news breaks)
October 1, 2008... While quantum-dot (QD)-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have made much progress recently, few reports exist of success at mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelengths, despite their promise for improved efficiency and narrower spectral linewidth...

Laser writes 3-D Bragg sensor network within bulk glass.(news breaks)
October 1, 2008... The use of individual Bragg grating or long-period grating structures for sensing temperature, strain, refractive index, and other physical or chemical parameters in their vicinity is well known (see www.laserfocusworld.com/ articles/330756)....

Femtosecond pulses create broadband light in diamond.(news breaks)
October 1, 2008... Although broadband sideband generation has been observed in certain crystals and in chemical-vapor-deposition (CVD) diamond using stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) with nanosecond and picosecond lasers, researchers at Texas A&M University...

Lumus creates discreet display eyewear.(news breaks)
October 1, 2008... Lumus (Rehovot, Israel) says it has created the first natural-looking, truly discreet and lightweight transparent-display eyewear that permits users to watch TV, read an e-mail, glance at stock tickers, or follow GPS directions without anyone...

VCSELs are fully integrated into and planarized with silicon CMOS ICs.(news breaks)
October 1, 2008... Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA) have integrated 850-nm-emitting gallium aluminum arsenide (GaAIAs) vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELS) into silicon CMOS integrated circuits (ICs) in...

Stark-effect method creates polarization-switchable single-photon source.(news breaks)
October 1, 2008... Physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA), have demonstrated an on-chip, polarization-switchable, single-photon source using the Stark effect--the shifting of spectral lines in the presence of an electric...

Unique process creates curvilinear 'eye' camera.(SILICON OPTOELECTRONICS)
October 1, 2008... Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL) and Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) have succeeded in developing the first curvilinear or hemispherically shaped working camera that reduces optical distortions...

Lost Vincent van Gogh painting mapped using x-ray fluorescence technique.(optoelectronics world news)
October 1, 2008... Scientists have discovered that Vincent van Gogh's oil-on-canvas painting, Patch of Grass (1887), is hiding a lost portrait of a woman's face, according to art historian Joris Dik at the Delft University of Technology (Delft, The Netherlands)....

Slow light could make for a fast Web.(METAMATERIALS)
October 1, 2008... Advances in the use of metamaterials for negative refraction are being fancifully described by the media, but their first real application might be less exotic than some that have been proposed. For example, a new metamaterial could speed up...

Free-form reflector eliminates driver's blind spot.(REFLECTIVE OPTICS)
October 1, 2008... Just as a flat mirror is a nonimaging optic, so are most free-form reflectors. And, just as a flat mirror can be a very important visual aid, so can a properly designed free-form reflector. R. Andrew Hicks, a researcher at Drexel University...

World's smallest laser in narrow nanowires.(NANOLASERS)
October 1, 2008... Nanowires only hundreds of nanometers in diameter have yielded the first direct evidence of laser action, says professor of engineering Federico Capasso and colleagues at Harvard (Cambridge, MA). Global advances in materials and fabrication are...

X-ray holography gets a boost from an old idea.(FOURIER-TRANSFORM HOLOGRAPHY)
October 1, 2008... Some ideas just get better with age. The pinhole camera, standby of the Renaissance greats, has a new incarnation that looks set to revolutionize x-ray holography. The new method can be refined to provide resolution down to a few nanometers and...

MDOE produces variable optical power.(DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS)
October 1, 2008... While developing holographic and other diffractive optics for use with optical tweezers, two researchers from Innsbruck Medical University (Innsbruck, Austria) came up with a theoretical model for a set of optics that could have wider practical...

Light-activated agents overcome bacterial resistance.(MEDICAL PHOTONICS)
October 1, 2008... Scientists have proved that light-activated agents can render bacteria defenseless--even those that have become resistant to drugs. This is good news for the medical community, which increasingly runs into the problem of bacteria resistance, in...

Wavefront correction is achieved for 200 TW ALLS.(ULTRA-HIGH-POWER LASERS)
October 1, 2008... Researchers from the University of Quebec (INRS-EMT, Varennes, Quebec, Canada), Moscow State Open University, and Night N (both in Moscow, Russia) have used large-aperture adaptive optics to implementlaser-beam wavefront correction on the 200...

QD-laser company gets more funding.(industry report: laser)
October 1, 2008... Innolume (Dortmund, Germany and Santa Clara, CA), a provider of quantum-dot (QD) laser diodes and modules, secured a Series C round of financing for $12.65 million to enhance production capabilities and marketing activities for its QD laser...

Market grows for HB LEDs.(industry report: laser)
October 1, 2008... High-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB LEDs) have demonstrated dramatic improvements in performance in recent years, as well as significant cost reduction, such that they are undergoing a period of rapid market growth in a variety of niche...

U.S. economy is impacting LASIK market.(industry report: laser)
October 1, 2008... The laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) eye-surgery market is experiencing a decline. While Advanced Medical Optics' (AMO; Santa Ana, CA) Q2 2008 financial results reported a 44% increase in international sales, the news was not all...

Laser-based detection system targets petroleum industry.(industry report: laser)
October 1, 2008... Avacta Group (York, England), developer of detection and analysis technology aimed at the pharmaceutical, healthcare, industrial, and security sectors, entered into a product development partnership with one of the market leaders in toxic and...

Vitex and Novaled to cooperate on OLEDs.(industry report: laser)
October 1, 2008... Thin-film encapsulation technology company Vitex Systems (San Jose, CA) and Novaled (Dresden, Germany), a manufacturer of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), plan to combine advantages of the Vitex Barix thin-film technology with Novaled...

Cynosure.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... Cynosure (Westford, MA), developer and manufacturer of tight-based aesthetic treatment systems, announced that for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2008, revenues increased approximately 30% to $39.2 million from $30.1 million...

Light up the World Foundation.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... The Light up the World Foundation (www.tutw.org), an international humanitarian organization dedicated to illuminating the lives of the world's poor through ultraefficient white light-emitting-diode technology powered by renewable energy, has...

The Trumpf Group.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... The Trumpf Group achieved sales growth of 10% in the 2007/2008 fiscal year; compared to the previous year, its sales increased to approximately $3.15 billion).

IPG Photonics.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... IPG Photonics (Oxford, MA), manufacturer of high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers, reported that revenues for the second quarter of 2008 increased by 27% to $56.0 million.

Imaging giant Konica Minolta (Tokyo, Japan) and display and lighting developer Universal Display (Ewing, NJ) signed an agreement.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... Imaging giant Konica Minolta (Tokyo, Japan) and display and lighting developer Universal Display (Ewing, N J) signed an agreement to integrate Universal Display's proprietary OLED technologies into Konica Minolta's white OLED lighting products....

Corning acquires Optimum Manufacturing.(industry report: optics)
October 1, 2008... Through a subsidiary, Corning (Corning, NY) signed an agreement to acquire Optimum Manufacturing (Charlestown, NH), which will become part of Corning's Specialty Materials segment. Optimum manufactures optical-mirror blanks, optical housings,...

OPTOmism announces call for papers.(industry report: optics)
October 1, 2008... The OPTOmism: Photonics for the Green Revolution conference and exhibition, to be held jointly by Laser Focus World (Nashua, NH) and the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA; Washington, D.C.) at the Santa Clara Convention...

Sales up for Photonic Products Group.(industry report: optics)(Financial report)
October 1, 2008... Optical components company Photonic Products Group (Northvale, NJ) reported its consolidated financial results for its second quarter and first six months ended June 30, 2008. Revenues for the second quarter were approximately $4 million and...

Intevac wins defense contract.(industry report: optics)
October 1, 2008... Intevac Photonics, a division of Intevac (Santa Clara, CA), announced that its DeltaNu business unit was awarded a $1.029 million contract from the Department of Defense to develop advanced Raman spectroscopy systems for both military and...

OEwaves gets photonic-filters contract.(industry report: optics)
October 1, 2008... Photonic products and solutions provider OEwaves (Pasadena, CA) was awarded a contract to develop band-pass and notch filters to support receiver systems for military and communication applications. Such agile filters enhance receiver system...

Deposition Sciences.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... Deposition Sciences (Santa Rosa, CA), manufacturer of thin-film optical coatings, was awarded an ISO 9001:2000 Management System Certification from SRI Quality System Registrar (Pittsburgh, PA).

Precision motion-control products and systems manufacturer Aerotech (Pittsburgh, PA) opened its Aerotech KK subsidiary.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... Precision motion-control products and systems manufacturer Aerotech (Pittsburgh, PA) opened its Aerotech KK subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan

Yamagata Fujitsu placed an order for the newly introduced Imprio HD2200 from nanopatterning lithography equipment provider Molecular Imprints (Austin, TX).(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... Yamagata Fujitsu placed an order for the newly introduced Imprio HD2200 from nanopatterning lithography equipment provider Molecular Imprints (Austin, TX); the system will be used for patterned hard-disk-drive media.

Vacuum Process Technology (VPT; Plymouth, MA) was acquired by principals of Andlinger & Company and Ralf Fabel.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... Vacuum Process Technology (VPT; Plymouth, MA) was acquired by principals of Andlinger & Company and Ralf Fabel; VPT is a manufacturer of vacuum thin-film deposition systems used for the fabrication of optical filters and photonics components.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Madison, WI) received the highest overall vendor rating.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... Thermo Fisher Scientific (Madison, WI) received the highest overall vendor rating for infrared spectroscopy instrumentation according to the Worldwide Molecular Spectroscopy Survey published by Strategic Directions International.

Thales selects e2v for satellite imaging.(industry report: imaging & detector)
October 1, 2008... e2v (Chelmsford, England), designer, developer, and manufacturer of specialized imaging components and subsystems, was selected by Thales Alenia Space to provide the high-performance CCD image sensors to be used in the European Space Agency's...

NASA and Photek mark detector milestone.(industry report: imaging & detector)
October 1, 2008... Photek (St. Leonards on Sea, England) is celebrating its 11th Anniversary with Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), the mission managed by NASA that measures and compares the composition of several samples of matter including the solar corona...

LCD forecast remains super healthy.(industry report: imaging & detector)
October 1, 2008... DisplaySearch (Austin, TX), a display market research and consulting firm, reports in its Quarterly TFT LCD Supply/Demand and Capital Spending Report that 2008 is expected to see sales of equipment used to manufacture thin-film-transistor...

QinetiQ to develop 'first-of-their-kind' sensors.(industry report: imaging & detector)
October 1, 2008... A QinetiQ (Hampshire, England)-led team secured a 33-month $22 million follow-on research contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in support of its Large Area Coverage Optical Search While Track and Engage program. Defense...

ULIS wins contract for uncooled thermal sensors.(industry report: imaging & detector)
October 1, 2008... Infrared vision specialist ULIS (Veurey-Voroize, France), a division of Sofradir, signed a five-year contract with Sagem Defense Securite (Groupe SAFRAN) as a primary supplier for major weapon sights, handheld equipment, and cameras, including...

According to a report from display consultant and forecasting firm Insight Media (Norwalk, CT), Nokia will only select panel suppliers.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... According to a report from display consultant and forecasting firm Insight Media (Norwalk, CT), Nokia will only select panel suppliers that are able to develop amorphous organic tight-emitting-diode displays.

CCD and CMOS camera maker Allied Vision Technologies (AVT: Germany) acquired 100% of the shares of digital-camera maker Prosilica (Burnaby, BC, Canada).(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... CCD and CMOS camera maker Allied Vision Technologies (AVT: Germany) acquired 100% of the shares of digital-camera maker Prosilica (Burnaby, BC, Canada), extending the range of Gigabit Ethernet and FireWire cameras available to the market for...

The U.S. Display Consortium (San Jose, CA) has formally expanded its mission to support the emerging flexible.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... The U.S. Display Consortium (San Jose, CA) has formally expanded its mission to support the emerging flexible, printed electronics market by changing its name to the FlexTech Alliance; however, it is still committed its support for supply-chain...

University of Michigan licenses fiber to Arbor.(industry report: fiber optics)
October 1, 2008... Arbor Photonics signed an exclusive license agreement for chirally coupled core optical fiber with the University of Michigan (both in Ann Arbor, MI). The agreement grants Arbor Photonics rights to commercialize the fiber and devices enabled by...

ESA qualifies Gooch & Housego fiber modules.(industry report: fiber optics)
October 1, 2008... Gooch & Housego announced a supply deal with Swiss space equipment supplier, Oerlikon Space, for its Modular Fiber Optic Assembly (MFOA). Oerlikon Space will use the MFOA as part of its work with the European Space Agency (ESA) on its Soil...

Acquisition strengthens Ethernet offering.(industry report: fiber optics)
October 1, 2008... LG-Nortel (Seoul, Korea), a joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel established in 2005 that provides telecommunications equipment and network solutions, closed the acquisition of Novera Optics (Santa Clara, CA), a developer of fiber-optic...

Northrop Grumman wins fiber-gyro contract.(industry report: fiber optics)
October 1, 2008... Optoelectronic systems provider Northrop Grumman won a contract to supply high-accuracy inertial navigation systems (INS) for four new Buques de Accion Maritima (Maritime Action Ships) being built for the Spanish navy at the Navantia shipyard...

Network hardware sales jump 14%.(industry report: fiber optics)
October 1, 2008... Communications market research firm Infonetics Research (Campbell, CA) reports that worldwide optical-network hardware sales are back on an upward track after the usual first-quarter seasonal decline, as total optical hardware revenue hit $4.1...

Aspen Optics.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... Communications components supplier Aspen Optics (Hong Kong, Chine) launched a configuration tool called the Aspen Optical Ethernet Configurator at www.aspenoptics.com for system integrators and Internet service providers to generate solutions...

Nextreme Thermal Solutions.(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... Nextreme Thermal Solutions (Durham, NC), which makes microscale thermal- and power-management products for the photonics and optoelectronics industries secured $13 million in Series B financing.

Automation Engineering, a supplier of high-precision flexible automation systems for optoelectronic component and other photonic component assembly, will be partnering with 3-EDGE (Munich, Germany).(Also in the news ...)
October 1, 2008... Automation Engineering, a supplier of high-precision flexible automation systems for optoelectronic component and other photonic component assembly, will be partnering with 3-EDGE (Munich, Germany) for European sales and service support Of...

Photonics design leverages the power of multiphysics modeling.(software & computing)
October 1, 2008... Multiphysics modeling, the modeling of coupled-field phenomena, has become a standard research and design tool in industry and academia. Multiphysics effects are well known in optics and photonics work. Electro-optical effects, for example,...

Defining ultrafast fiber lasers is a tricky business.(market watch)
October 1, 2008... Ultrafast lasers have long been confined to a sleepy corner of the laser market, reserved for the most exotic R&D applications. Now, not only does it seem that every laser supplier is offering an ultrafast laser, but a great many of them are...

Rapid imaging of proteins: CCD-based system may speed 2-D gel electrophoresis for proteomic analysis.(inside imaging)
October 1, 2008... After the enormous impact genomics has had on understanding biological systems through genome sequencing, proteomics promises even greater rewards. In fact, clues to the solution of many biological problems in health and disease may be found...

High-power CW OPOs span the spectrum.(TUNABLE RESOURCE)
October 1, 2008... High-power, continuous-wave, tunable laser sources have been key tools in physics and chemistry research laboratories for nearly 40 years. Dye lasers and Ti:sapphire lasers provide ultra-high-resolution output in the visible- to near-IR region...

Ultrashort pulses write sharp, tiny features and perform microsurgery: sharply focused femtosecond pulses create strong nonlinear effects inside solids that can alter the properties of materials on subwavelength scales, writing waveguides and gratings, and creating voids. They also are used in biomedicine.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: APPLICATIONS OF ULTRAFAST LASERS)
October 1, 2008... Ultrafast lasers deliver pulses lasting only picoseconds or femtoseconds, squeezing their entire pulse energy into a very thin slice of time. Initially, ultrashort pulses were used mostly in sensing and measurement applications, such as...

Nanohole arrays enable multiple-point-source imaging.(FOCAL-PLANE ARRAYS)
October 1, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Typically we think of imaging devices in terms of either focusing light or focusing waves. In conventional optics, a glass lens images a point light source on one side of the lens to a focal point on the other via...

Phosphate glass fibers advance fiber-laser capabilities.(FIBER FABRICATION)
October 1, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Forty-five years ago, only three years after demonstration of the first working laser, lasing action was observed in a doped optical fiber. (1,2) However, the work on fiber lasers--or more broadly speaking, active fiber...

Lasers and MEMS take video projection beyond HDTV.(PROJECTION DISPLAYS)
October 1, 2008... Using lasers as light sources in conjunction with a unique silicon image-modulator chip, Evans & Sutherland (E&S) has developed laser-based digital projection displays for large-format applications such as planetariums and simulators. The Evans...

Fluorescence of colored-glass filters can be stronger than expected.(OPTICS FOR MICROSCOPY)
October 1, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Many microscopy techniques require some of the wavelengths of light being observed to be suppressed. For instance, in fluorescence microscopy, to aid in detecting the emission from the sample, the excitation wavelength...

New technologies heat up the laser-welding market: despite an often higher up-front capital equipment cost and market-penetration challenges, laser welding systems are expanding into more-challenging application areas because of new laser technologies that offer process flexibility and improved weld performance.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: MATERIALS PROCESSING)
October 1, 2008... When Laser Focus World looked back at the early years of the laser during our 40th anniversary in 2005, laser welding was noted as one of the most obvious of possible uses (see www.laserfocusworld.com/ articles/234079). But in his 2007 market...

Excimer laser.(new products)
October 1, 2008... The IndyStar compact industrial excimer laser is built on the RoHS-Almeta tube design, which delivers several billion pulses. The ArF laser produces stabilized energies of 8 mJ/pulse at 193 nm and 12 mJ/pulse at 248 nm, at repetition rates up...

Video imaging system.(new products)
October 1, 2008... The Fastcam MC2 video imaging system includes two camera heads measuring 35 x 35 x 35 mm and weighing 3.2 oz. It has a global electronic shuttering rate from 20 ms to 6 [micro]s for slow-motion image capture in production line and automation...

Optical-design software.(new products)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LightTools 6.1 includes a Ray Path feature that identifies system elements that are contributing to light loss, scatter, unintentional reflections, or ghost images. It includes a library of BSDF data of reflective...

Laser lenses.(new products)
October 1, 2008... Low-absorption laser lenses in the Cool-Cut line are designed for use with high-power [CO.sub.2] lasers and run cooler than conventional A/R-coated lenses. Their coatings absorb less than 0.15% of laser energy, protecting them against thermal...

Optics.(new products)
October 1, 2008... A line of fully certified cylindrical and flat optics includes piano-concave, convex, crossed, toroid, and aspherical lenses. Flats include wedges, prisms, beam-splitters, corner cubes, windows, and mirrors. The optics come in various...

Laser-alignment eyewear.(new products)
October 1, 2008... Laser-alignment eyewear is designed for laser operators, technicians, engineers, maintenance, and service personnel who may need to safely observe light emitted from visible lasers at 400 to 700 nm while performing alignment procedures. Proper...

LED spot projectors.(new products)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The MSPP Series of LED Spot Projectors are designed to replace conventional halogen point light sources. Available in two versions for narrow and wide lighting area applications, the projectors provide illumination...

Long-wavelength laser diodes.(new products)
October 1, 2008... Long-wavelength semiconductor laser diodes are available ranging from 1.4 to 2.1 [micro]m. The Pearl fiber-coupled module, at 1.9 [micro]m, provides up to 20 W output power with better than 10% wall-plug efficiency, and at 1.4 and 1.5 [micro]m,...

Duplex micro Raman system.(new products)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The MMR Duplex double-wavelength micro Raman system features a modular design with 785/532 nm DM-1 adapters. A 1.3-megapixel CMOS camera is provided for sample imaging and capture. The system includes the LSI-XYZ for...

Imaging optics for SWIR cameras.(new products)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Four fixed-focal-length imaging optics are specifically designed for SWIR (short-wave infrared) cameras and applications. Lens focal lengths include two 25 mm designs, a 35 mm, and a 50 mm design. Constructed for...

830 nm single-mode laser.(new products)
October 1, 2008... The LumiLase 830 nm single-mode laser, model ML1545, produces up to 50 mW power, is housed in a 5.6 mm TO-can and is also available as a bare die. The laser is designed for use in CW or pulsed applications requiring a low fast axis divergence,...

Photodiode preamplifier.(new products)
October 1, 2008... The 5 [mm.sup.2], blue/green enhanced photodiode preamplifier ODA-5WB-100K features 100 K[OMEGA] gain The silicon detector-preamp offers wavelength response at 450 nm, typically 28 V/mW (min. 20), responsivity from 400 to 1100 nm, and a peak...

Optical replication.(new products)
October 1, 2008... A proprietary replication process cost-effectively transfers the profile of a precision optical surface from a master, creating an exact duplicate on a variety of substrates. The process can produce both ruled and holographic diffraction...

Linear image sensors.(new products)
October 1, 2008... The DLIS-2K and the DLIS-4K reconfigurable line-scan CMOS sensors consist of four independently select able and resettable rows with 2080 or 4096 optical each and a high-resolution mode of 4160 or 8192 pixels each, respectively. The sensors...

3-D surface-metrology instrument.(new products)
October 1, 2008... Designed for automated inspection, the new SurPhase sensor allows 3-D measurement for the shop floor or inline production. In less than one second, the system can measure roughness with Ra below 1 nm or profiles up to 400 [micro]m high for 1M...

Integrated laser driver.(new products)
October 1, 2008... The PHY1040 is an integrated laser driver and limiting amplifier IC for small-form-factor optical modules operating between 125 Mbit/s and 1.25 Gbit/s. It supports both VCSEL and continuous-mode DFB and FP lasers for DDM and non-DDM...

USB interface for beam profiler.(new products)
October 1, 2008... A USB interface has been introduced for the NanoScan beam profiler. This new feature provides greater portability for the device, and is useful for field service applications, flexible manufacturing operations, and situations where test...