PTB >> New Products - May 2008

Fiber-Coupled Solid State Laser
Fiber-Coupled Solid State Laser Point Source (Hamble, UK) introduces the iFLEX-Mustang, a fiber-coupled solid-state laser with on-board modulation. Using singlemode and polarization preserving fiber, the iFLEX-Mustang delivers 25mW of power with a polarization extinction ratio of greater than 100:1. With an operating wavelength of 488 or 561nm and output power (from the fiber) of 25mW, the Mustang is ideal for use in biomedical instrumentation and specialized semiconductor metrology.

The unit’s power can be modulated at up to 2MHz, with a rise and fall time of 150ns and a dynamic range of 30dB. The Mustang is stable to better than 2% over four hours, and has noise of less than 0.3% over the frequency range 20Hz to 2MHz. A detachable fiber is included, simplifying installation and field servicing.

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Laser Bars
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (Santa Clara, CA) offers laser bars with a wavelength of 910 to 980 nm that achieve an optical output of 120W under real-world conditions and a typical efficiency of 70%. The laser bars have a 50% fill factor (the ratio of active width to overall width) and they are ideal for pumping solid-state lasers and direct material processing.

OSRAM also plans to produce laser bars with wavelengths of 808 nm and 880 nm, which will deliver an efficiency of 62% at 120W. Structures with a fill factor of 20% are also available and are ideal for optical fiber coupling applications.

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Remote Head Camera
Toshiba Imaging Systems Division (Irvine, CA) introduces the remote head IK-TF7H7U camera. The progressive scan model delivers true color video output of 1024 × 768 pixels at 30 frames per second at full frame and up to 90 frames per second in partial scan mode. The camera features 1/100 to 1/100,000 second electronic shuttering capability.

The C-mount camera has a digital CameraLink® output for compatible interface with many standard frame grabber boards. The IK-TF7H7U weighs 65g and measures 32.6 mm × 38.6 mm × 41 mm. Two optional cable lengths of 3 and 5 meters are available. The camera is ideal for semiconductor inspection, machine vision, and other remote inspection and analysis tasks.

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Fabry-Perot Etalons
Optical Surfaces Ltd. (Surrey, UK) offers Fabry- Perot etalons in a range of shapes and sizes up to 150 mm in diameter with matching accuracies to lambda/300. Etalons are used in telecommunications, lasers, and spectroscopic applications to measure the wavelength of light. Optical Surfaces Ltd. manufactures Fabry-Perot etalons in two basic forms: air-spaced or solid.

Both types can be designed for use at customer-defined wavelengths within the range 190nm to about 2 microns. The Fabry-Perot etalons are available in materials including UV grade Silica and Germanium.

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Infrared Materials
SCHOTT (San Jose, CA) introduces infrared (IR) materials, including Zinc Sulfide (ZnS) and Infrared Chalcogenide glasses. SCHOTT offers its IR material in large sizes and custom shapes, and as windows, domes, or lens blanks. Applications for the IR material include night vision devices, temperature analysis tools, and equipment inspection systems.

Regular (FLIR) grade Zinc Sulfide and Multi-spectral (Clear) grade Zinc Sulfide are available. SCHOTT offers five Infrared Chalcogenide glass (IG) variations with excellent transmission and a low thermal change in the refractive index.

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Thermal Imaging InfraRed Camera
Extech Instruments (Waltham, MA) introduces its InfraCAM™ SD Thermal Imaging InfraRed Camera that enables the proactive condition monitoring of electrical systems to detect hot spots and avoid electrical failures. The InfraCAM SD provides an accuracy level of ±2% and a thermal sensitivity of better than 0.18°F.

The 3.5-inch color LCD with Advanced Signal Processing offers sharp resolution, while the standard 128MB SD card stores up to 1000 Radiometric JPEG images. All 14,400 thermal pixels of each image can be analyzed using the included QuickReport™ PC Software.

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Optical Design Software
Optical Research Associates (Pasadena, CA) introduces CODE V® 9.81 optical design software with aspheric lens tolerancing capabilities that are valuable in the fabrication of optical elements. The Fabrication Data analysis feature provides a way to visualize interferogram data on a lens surface, entrance pupil, or exit pupil, including the ability to see rotation and scaling effects.

Functions have been added to the Partial Coherence analysis and TOR tolerancing features, which provide direct information about the critical dimension of the image, assuming a one-dimensional, partially coherent image, which is the standard design metric for microlithography.

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Goniometric System for LEDs
Gamma Scientific, Inc. (San Diego, CA) introduces the RadOMA-LED Goniometric System for LED angular and LED spectral measurements. The system combines the RadOMA multi-element array technology with Gamma’s 940 LED measurement goniometer that has backside-thinned CCD detector technology.

The instrument offers accurate luminous and radiant intensity, dominant wavelength, peak wavelength, color temperature, chromaticity, tristimulus, Lab/Luv, CRI, full-width-half-max, and beam angle, with a user-selectable half-power bandwidth for accurate binning.

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Optical Parametric Oscillator
Aculight Corporation (Bothell, WA) introduces an improved Argos™ single-frequency, continuouswave (CW) optical parametric oscillator (OPO).

Argos provides multi-Watt, widely tunable output in the near- to mid-infrared wavelength range. The rugged, fiber-pumped, singly resonant OPO provides continuous tuning from 1.4 to 2 microns and from 2.3 to 3.9 microns using three interchangeable, pre-aligned, wavelength converter modules.

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High-Speed Video Imaging System
The Fastcam SA3 from Photron, Inc. (San Diego, CA) is a megapixel, high-speed video imaging system designed to withstand high-G and rugged environments. Ideal for automotive safety testing, the camera features 17 micron pixel size for demanding frame rate or low light applications.

The 12-bit CMOS camera with 2-microsecond global shuttering is available in two configurations and two memory options of 2GB and 4GB. Fastcam SA3 Model 60K performs at 1024 × 1024 full pixel resolution up to 1,000 frames per second (fps) and offers reduced resolution up to 60,000 fps. Model 120K operates at 1024 × 1024 full pixel resolution up to 2,000 fps with reduced resolution up to 120,000 fps.

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Five Megapixel Camera
The Imaging Solutions Group (ISG) (Rochester, NY) offers the 5- megapixel LightWise LW-5-S-1394 camera in color and monochrome versions. All camera controls are done via the 1394 interface, which includes a fully programmable image processing pipeline and dynamic range/gamma control LUT for any desired response curve.

An onboard image buffer and a range of triggering and strobe control capabilities are featured. The camera comes packaged with driver software and a user’s manual. The LW-5-S-1394 is ideal for biometrics, facial recognition software, and optical inspection machines.

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Monochromators and Spectrographs
Princeton Instruments (Acton, MA) introduces the Acton Advanced Series of monochromators and spectrographs that combines high precision computer-controlled motorized slits, interchangeable triple grating turrets, and dual entrance ports.

These features offer researchers complete software control of incoming light to the spectrometer and the flexibility to configure separate experiments for each entrance port. The Acton Advanced Series is available in four different focal lengths: 150mm, 300mm, 500mm, and 750mm, and is highly configurable for different types of detectors, grating combinations, and light sources.

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Data Acquisition Software
Bartington Instruments (Oxfordshire, England) offers a new version of software for its Spectramag- 6 Data Acquisition system. The Spectramag-6 combines PCbased data storage/display with a separate signal conditioning unit and supports simultaneous sampling on six 24-bit channels.

The version 5.1 software offers up to 700,000 data points in a single scan recording, giving approximately one hour of continuous logging at 200Hz sampling and over eight days of logging at 1Hz sampling, a multiple scan mode that allows up to 10,000 single scans to be run back-to-back with data saved to PC hard disk, and digital filtering options for logged data.

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Flat Top Motorized Stages
Prior Scientific (Rockland, MA) introduces the H117LSM Proscan™II flat top motorized stages designed specifically for Carl Zeiss laser scanning microscopes, specifically the Axiovert 200 and AxioOberver microscopes.

The H117SLM inverted stage seamlessly integrates with the MCU28 motor controller and has been designed to work with LSM 510 META, LSM 5 EXCITER, or LSM 5 LIVE confocal systems. The flat-top design allows unrestricted access to the sample, and a range of different sample holders is available.

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LED Package
The OVS5WBCR4 Series from OPTEK Technology (New York, NY) is a 0.5W surface mount white LED package with an ultra-low profile of 1.5 mm. This LED package has a 120° viewing angle and water clear lens. The typical luminous flux is 21 lumens, with a typical on-axis intensity of 8.5 cd, and typical forward voltage of 3.2V.

The DC forward current is 180 mA and the operating temperature range is -40°C to +100°C. Power dissipation is 700mW and maximum rated junction temperature is 125°C. Applications for the OVS5WBCR4 include conventional lighting, electronic signs and signals, automotive interior and exterior lighting, and architectural indoor and outdoor lighting.

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Digital CMOS Laser Sensor
The Keyence GV Series Digital CMOS Laser Sensor from Keyence (Woodcliff Lake, NJ) uses a DATUM Algorithm to stably detect targets. The GV is an optical triangulation sensor, and it excels in detecting shiny objects with multiple reflections, as well as light absorbing materials such as black rubber.

Designed for automatic, in-line sensing applications, the GV detects target presence or absence based on surface characteristics or target height and provides a GO/NG output. Up to four sets of sensors and amplifiers can be used for each application, and the GV Series includes four IP67 rated sensor head models with detection ranges of 45mm, 130mm, 450mm, and 1000mm.

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Laser Pump Reflector
Labsphere’s (North Sutton, NH) Spectralon® Laser Pump Reflectors offer greater than 99 percent reflectance, beam stability, and uniformity. They have a high level of diffusion efficiency coupled with economical machined part flexibility, making them a suitable choice for laser original equipment manufacturers.

The Spectralon Laser Pump Reflectors have reduced susceptibility to parasitic oscillations compared to metal, ceramic, or powder-based reflectors and they can be economically fabricated into a wide variety of shapes.

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Thermal Camera
The Jade LR is a high-performance thermal camera from Cedip Infrared Systems (Croissy-Beaubourg, France). The camera provides long-range images from fixed position surveillance applications, including passive observation, detection and recognition of targets by day and night.

The Jade LR uses motorized lenses (25, 80, and 320 mm focal length), switchable by a single command, to provide detection or recognition capabilities at distances ranging from 5 to 25 km. It can be remotely operated through a communication line with the video image provided in either analog or digital RS422 format. The Jade LR incorporates a sensitive InSb focal plane array sensor (3- 5 μm) and 14-bit digital electronics and motorized optics in a compact, weatherproof housing.

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CMOS Camera
Intevac, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) announced the MicroVista™–NIR, a backthinned CMOS camera optimized for nearinfrared imaging with 100% fill factor and proprietary anti-reflection coatings. Applications for the MicroVista™-NIR camera include biometrics, NIR microscopy, general low light NIR imaging, medical imaging, hyperspectral imaging, and surveillance.

The MicroVista –NIR focal plane array has a 1280 ×1024 format, 10.8 um square pixels, high quantum efficiency at NIR wavelengths (700-1000 nm), 100% fill factor, supports 30 frames per second, full frame, and CameraLink data port.

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Water Repellent Cables
Cicoil (Valencia, CA) has released waterrepellent silicone cables that are impervious to immersion, high humidity, fungus, and damp operating environments. Also, extremely dry conditions, low humidity, or salt spray and seawater exposure will not affect the cable’s high flexibility or life.

The flat silicone cables are available with wire gauges from 4 to 44 AWG and can withstand temperature extremes from -65 degrees to +260 degrees Celsius. They are available in continuous lengths or as assemblies complete with connectors.

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Intensified CCD Camera
Hamamatsu Corporation (Bridgewater, NJ) has introduced the C10054 series of compact Intensified CCD (ICCD) cameras for capturing still images or continuous video of high-speed or ultra-low-light phenomena.

Key features include a high-speed electronic shutter that provides a shutter time as short as 5 ns, and image intensifiers that increase available light for detection by the camera’s CCD. Spectral response of the camera ranges from UV to visible to near-infrared. The camera head is equipped with either a TV format-type CCD or a progressive scan CCD and image resolution is up to 480 TV lines. The C10054 is available with three different types of photocathodes.

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12-bit CCD Camera System
The electron multiplication 12-bit CCD camera system from The Cooke Corporation (Romulus, MI) has a resolution of 1004 × 1002 pixels and is suitable for extreme low-light camera applications.

The system features thermoelectrical cooling of the image sensor (down to -45°C vs. ambient) and a quantum efficiency of up to 65%. A high-speed serial data link connects the system to a PC and a fiber optic link is available. Exposure time modes (software selectable) range from 75 μs – 1h.

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LED Driver Boards
Two new Smart Force™ LED driver boards from Endicott Research Group (Endicott, NY) provide wide range dimming, wide input voltage, and full brightness. The SFDL Series driver board provides high efficiency power with a maximum current of 180 mA, and measures 1.10 in. by 3.93 in.

The SFDC Series driver board is a full-function LED driver with a maximum current of 1000 mA. It measures 1.10 in. by 5.61 in. and provides an onboard PWM dimming ratio of 1000:1 and external PWM dimming to a ratio of 20,000:1. Both drivers can be used with OEM panels’ existing LED backlights or with ERG’s Smart Force LED rails.

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Digital Panel Meters
Mouser Electronics, Inc. (Mansfield, TX) has expanded its C&D Technologies portfolio to include the DMS-30DR series daylight-readable digital panel meters. The DMS-30DR series of large, 0.56-inch high, superbright red LEDs are readable in direct sunlight without the need for special filters or shading devices.

These devices can be used in very high ambient light conditions, but can also dim themselves for poorer light. Characters on the DMS-30DR series can be read at viewing angles of up to 180° in both vertical and horizontal planes.

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CO2 Lasers
A new series of low-power, continuous-wave (CW) CO2 lasers from Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) now offers high reliability operation for OEM applications. The new DIAMOND C Series consists of sealed lasers with output powers of 30, 40, 55, and 70 watts at 10.6 μm.

The lasers offer amplitude stability of ±5% for aircooled models and ±3% for liquid-cooled units. The DIAMOND C Series also offers output beam characteristics of M2 < 1.2 for 30W and 55W systems, and M2 < 1.3 for 40W and 70W models.

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