Readers'
votes for Photonics Tech Briefs' 1998 Product of the
Year have been tallied,
and the winners are ...
and Product of
the Year:
PixelVision (Beaverton, OR ) AdaptIII CCD Camera (above),
designed for high-performance imaging at rates of up to 10,000
frames per second
BEI Sensors
& Systems Co. (Sylmar, CA) LIE5 Optical Linear Encoder,
with flip-chip-on-glass optics and built-in interpolation
circuitry yielding resolutions as fine as 0.1 micrometer
Synrad
(Mukilteo, WA) Digital Laser Marking Kit, based on the Synrad
DH Series 125-W sealed RF-excited CO2 laser marking
head
Other
finalists include Photon Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) Goniometric
Radiometer for laser diode measurement; Berkeley Nucleonics
Corp. (San Rafael, CA) Model 625A SmartARB Signal Generator;
and Lasiris Inc. (St.-Laurent, Quebec, Canada) LPM Series
Long Phase Mask
Winners
were chosen by reader vote on Photonics Tech Briefs'
Web site from among the six Products of the Month nominated
by the editors during 1998. The awards will be presented during
CLEO '99, which will be held in Baltimore, MD, May 23-28.
