Two photodetectors offer through-hole packages with a lead spacing of 0.2 in. and are suitable for mounting on PC boards with automatic insertion assemblies. Both are encapsulated...
The Model LBA-300PC laser-beam analyzer incorporates the company`s frame grabber, which runs on the PCI bus of PC-compatible computers with Pentium processors. The analyzer`s ...
The TE series Thermoelectric Chillers are Peltier-type heat pumps to replace circulating-fluid systems in which the amount of heat to be pumped is not large. The units are directly...
The S4753-02 silicon PIN photodiode was designed for fast detection of blue and blue-green diode lasers. The device features a spectral response range from 320 to 1000 nm, with...
The GreenLine 1000 diode-pumped solid-state laser emits 1 W CW at 523 nm in a single longitudinal mode. The laser uses a novel optical design for the resonator and a proprietary...
IBH Microsecond Xenon Flashlam¥Systems are broadband excitation sources optimized for fluorescence and phosphorescence decay measurements. These lamps are useful for studying...
The LaserMate-¥Energy Meter measures pulsed laser energies from 0.01 mJ to 10 J over a spectral range from 190 nm to 10.6 µm. Pulse frequencies u¥to 50 H¥can be...
Safety eyewear that filters out 1064-nm and 10.6-µm radiation also offers 50% visible light transmission. The Bollé Nd:YAG filter #16 is offered with an optical density...
Three crystals for optical use include a birefringent crystal a-BBO, with refractive indices of no=1.67 and ne=1.53 in the visible, which acts birefringent throughout its transmissive...
A 320 ¥ 240 uncooled microbolometer sensor is sensitive to 8 to 14-µm IR light and is designed for RS-170 TV format. The device has an integrated vacuum Dewar as well ...
The Ultima series mirror mounts have a clear-quadrant design that allows optical systems to be designed with smaller geometries and reduced incident angles. The mounts can accommodate...
The CRPS series of linear-motion positioning stages has a positioning accuracy of ۬ µm and a repeatability of ۯ µm. The stages use a glass scale linear encoder...
Advanced fiber products are available for high-density multiple-wavelength fiberoptic networks carrying high-bit-rate video and other high-capacity information. Products for wavelength...
A family of surface-mount LEDs offers devices measuring 2.0 ¥ 1.25 ¥ 1.1 mm. Four models, each emitting a different color, are available: AND4RA (red), AND4OA (orange)...
The PML200-02 Nd:YVO4 laser is a diode-pumped Q-switched device operating at 1063.9 nm. The Pockels cell offers pulse durations of 200 ps and a pulse-repetition rate as high as...
WinCam-PCI laser-beam analyzer is a plug-and-play device designed for the high-speed PCI bus, 32-bit processing, and full utilization of host computer memory for multiple-laser...
The HWW Series of chillers are complete closed-loop cooling systems designed for heavy-duty continuous service in water-cooled applications requiring up to 200,200 BTU/h cooling...
The MilCAM hardened miniature infrared camera is for military thermal-imaging applications. The system weighs 3 lb, including an 8.8° field-of-view (FOV) lens and battery,...
A large-area quadrant silicon photodiode, the QD100-5T-COW is packaged in a design that allows mounting on plug-in PC boards. The windowless PIN quadrant detectors have a passivation...
Hafnium oxide can be used as a vacuum-coating material in multilayer thin-film stacks for high-power laser applications. The material has a refractive index of 1.8 and, when E...
Sol-gel optics manufacturer Geltech Inc. (Orlando, FL) has consolidated operations into a new Orlando, FL, facility. Company headquarters were previously located in Alachua, FL...
An InGaAs detector for laser-energy measurements has an active area of 0.2 cm2 in a 5-mm-diameter detector. The Model RjP-485 InGaAs Energy Probe is designed to be used for pulsed...
Commercial and industrial uses for diode lasers have dramatically increased. Their properties and benefits have encouraged applications in telecommunications, cable-TV transmission...
Modifying the design of a vertical-transition quantum-cascade laser has enabled Jerome Faist and coworkers at Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ) to develo...
At the Center for Quantum Devices (CQD) at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) scientists have demonstrated 3- to 5-µm focal-plane 256 ¥ 256-pixel array imaging using...
In a new approach to femtosecond pulse generation presented at CLEO `96 (paper CTuR5), a hollow cylindrical quart¥fiber filled with high-pressure noble gas spectrally broadens...
An increasingly strong applications orientation was evident on the exhibit floor and in the program at this year`s Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and Quantum Electronics...
Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs), optical phenomena that have perplexed scientists for more than 70 years, may be caused by nonlinear absorption of molecular hydrogen, according...
A solar cell fabricated from copper indium gallium diselenide (CuInGaSe2, or CIGS) by researchers at the Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL, Golden...
The Infrared Engine uses a 640 ¥ 480-pixel PtSi IR focal-plane array mounted in a Stirling-cycle-cooled Dewar, with an f/1.5 baffled cold shield and a cooled optical filter...
A compact, tunable laser system includes a MagicPrism optical parametric oscillator (OPO) integrated with a Quantel Brilliant Nd:YAG laser. The OPO is based on a patented ring...
Version 4.0 of the LabVIEW graphical programming software features native 32-bit versions for Windows 95 and Windows NT. The software offers a new customizable development environment...
The Solution 852 CCD Raman system incorporates fiberoptic coupling from a stabilized near-IR diode laser to a hand-held Raman epi-probe, which delivers more than 40 mW to the ...
Lighting sources for machine-vision applications using LEDs include ringlights, line generators, front and back lights, and infrared line generators. The monochromatic red LEDs...
The MagnaRail Bench System is designed for optical systems that use 6-, 6.25-, and 12.5-mm-diameter optical elements. The system can be used for quick setup of microlaser systems...
Confocal-microscopy-system manufacturer Technical Instrument Co. (TIC; San Francisco, CA) has moved its production operations from San Jose, CA, to a 20,000-sq ft Sunnyvale, CA...
A Miniature Monolithic Spectrometer module from Zeiss covers the spectrum from 190 to 730 nm. The module measures 65 ¥ 50 ¥ 40 mm plus the fiberoptic input. Pixel dispersion...
Multi-element air-spaced lenses are available for axial focusing or collimation of light from excimer lasers and Nd:YAG lasers. The excimer-laser lenses are made of high-grade...
Researchers at the Institut für Physikalische Hochtechnologie (IPHT, Jena, Germany) and the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM, Bremen, Germany) are...
The location for the SPIE Annual Meeting (Denver, CO) is not the only thing that has changed this year—in 1996 the technical program promises to be richer than ever.
BOSTON, MA--A semiconductor laser with a novel "inverted" microstrip ridge structure shows potential for both high-power output and very-high-frequency operation at the important...
Adding a fifth business unit to its Global Optical Interconnection Systems (GOIS) group, AM¥Inc. (Harrisburg, PA) has announced the formation of the Optical Fiber Cable division...
In a move designed to take advantage of the technical resources of the Hudson Valley, Fujitsu Network Transmission Systems Inc. (Richardson, TX) has opened a 35,000-sq ft research...
The US Air Force Air Logistics Command at McClellan Air Force Base (Sacramento, CA) has begun using a laser-based ultrasonic inspection system (LUIS) to image both large composite...
As part of a jointly funded $1.3 million program, the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSREC) of Canada is teaming with the National Research Council (NRC, Montreal...
UT¥(Chalfont, PA), a subsidiary of Uniphase Corp. (San Jose, CA), has been chosen by Lockheed Sanders (Nashua, NH), a Lockheed Martin company, to develo¥a transmitter ...
Connector manufacturer Augat Inc. (Mansfield, MA) had net income of $6.6 million for the first quarter of 1996 (ended March 31, 1996), an increase of 14% over 1995 figures.
A projection lithography system operating at extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths offers 0.1-µm resolution and has been used successfully to fabricate NMOS discrete transistors...
You`ve probably noticed the brief announcements that we run from time to time in our industry news pages about awards of SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) funds to smaller...
In conventional atomic force microscopy (AFM), a fine-tipped probe mounted on a flexible cantilever scans across the surface of a sample. By monitoring cantilever deflection resulting...
Whether having to do with optics, heat transfer, magnetism, electricity, or combinations of these, many design computational problems consist of large sets of nonlinear equations...
Recently published statistics on the laser industry in Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union* indicate that the structure of the Rus sian laser scene is different...
I was interested to read the article by J. J. Pan and Y. Shi (Laser Focus World, Jan. 1996, p. 93) in which they describe a technique for reducing amplified spontaneous emission...
The April editorial regarding technological literacy strikes a responsive chord with me. We, as a nation, need to address the problem of basic literacy, rather than technological...
The April 1 issue of Laser Report and May issue of Laser Focus World carried a story on Semiconductor Laser International Corp. (SLI; Vestal, NY) that contains unfortunate errors...
The third biennial European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO-Europe/EQEC) will be held at the Scottish Exhibition ...
Tra-Bond 2115 is an epoxy adhesive capable of withstanding 30 s of 60-W direct laser energy. The clear low-viscosity formulation has low cure shrinkage when a room-temperature...
The POE LaserMPE portable laser-safety exposure meter includes a hand-held probe and shoulder-strapped body. The LaserMPE is designed to provide accurate maximum permissible exposure...
Single-crystal ScMgAlO4 is available for use as substrates on which to deposit GaN thin films, which are used for making blue LEDs and possibly in making blue lasers. The material...
The Series PMT photomultiplier-tube power sources are small and provide power with ripple of one part per million. Output voltages range from 1 to 3 kV at currents u¥to 4 ...
The LED-1000 Spectral Analyzer is designed to measure the radiometric, photometric, and spectral properties of light-emitting diodes. The instrument`s spectral range covers from...
The Singapore Economic Development Board has awarded optics manufacturer II-VI (Saxonburg, PA) subsidiary II-VI Singapore Private Ltd. (Singapore) a $1.6 million grant for infrared...
Construction will take place in France over the next 18 months of a very large detector consisting of 11,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) furnished by Electron Tubes (Ruislip,...
The first product to be marketed under a US Display Consortium (USDC, San Jose, CA) development contract is a flat-panel-display (FPD) etch system from Lam Research Corp. (Fremont...
For US photonics and optoelectronics companies that are in the shadow of Japanese industry, a new report from the National Science Foundation (NSF) may provide some interesting...
Spire Corporation (Bedford, MA) has received a $75,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation to develo¥a wavelength-multiplexed monolithic...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has named Semiconductor Laser International (SLI, Vestal, NY) as an associate member of the Precision Laser Machining (PLM...
A team of Australian scientists working at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO, Sydney) has developed an airborne, laser-based remote-sensing...
A free-space electro-optic sampling system for real-time two-dimensional (2-D) imaging of a terahertz (THz) beam has been demonstrated by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic...
The proposed Clementine II deep-space mission may furnish data on the composition and structure of Earth-orbit-crossing asteroids while demonstrating technologies for future small...
SAN DIEGO, CA--This year`s annual meeting of the Society for Information Display (SID, May 14-16) featured expanded sessions on liquid-crystal-display (LCD) technology, active...
