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:: News From Laser Focus World The Laser Focus World e-Newsletter is distributed twice monthly to interested readers and is part of a global franchise that includes the print version of the magazine, the Laser Focus World Buyers Guide, and the Laser Focus World web site (www.laserfocusworld.com). Our news, features, and industry reporting provide optoelectronics and photonics professionals throughout the world with in-depth coverage of the optoelectronics industry, its technology, and applications. |
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INDUSTRY NEWS :: Trumpf Finance launches in the U.S. Industrial-laser manufacturer Trumpf (Ditzingen, Germany) has launched a finance program in the U.S. "It is often difficult in this current economic climate to secure the funding that enables businesses to purchase needed equipment," says Trumpf's Janet Barone, manager, customer contracts and financing--noting that financing has always played an essential role in the purchase of capital equipment. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: Agiltron expands detector offerings with SensArray acquisition Agiltron (Woburn, MA), a developer and manufacturer of photonic components and systems for communications, sensing, and imaging, has acquired the assets of privately held SensArray Infrared (Burlington, MA). SensArray is known as a supplier of both standard and customized IR detectors and subsystems for spectroscopic and analytical applications. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: InnoLas organizes into three firms to serve different markets InnoLas GmbH (Krailling, Germany) has reorganized its three business units into separate companies focused on materials processing (especially for photovoltaics), wafer marking, and scientific measurement. The move gives "legal and organizational expression" to an internal process that has strengthened each of the business sectors, making them more independent. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: PerkinElmer acquires Opto Technology; expands LED portfolio PerkinElmer (Waltham, MA), a technology company focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, acquired Opto Technology (Wheeling, IL), a supplier of light-emitting diode (LED)-based lighting components and subsystems. :: Click Here for Full Story :: TECHNOLOGY NEWS :: Plugging in to photosynthesis Japanese researchers have figured out a way to "tap" electricity from a biological photosynthetic system, essentially creating a photosynthetic solar cell. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: "Rolling mask lithography" technique promises large-area nanomanufacturing A startup company, Rolith (Dublin, CA) says it is developing a new concept of nanolithography for large-scale production of advanced products such as high efficiency solar cells, flat panel displays, and LEDs, called "rolling mask lithography." :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: New microscopy method reveals internal structure of opaque materials A new microscopy method has proven successful in revealing the internal structure of nearly opaque materials. Invented by scientists at the University of Utah, its application to biological structures has been demonstrated. And the method is equally promising for materials science--for instance, for detecting fatigue in carbon-fiber plastics used to build aircraft. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: German team wins award for inexpensive, frequency-selective THz reflectors Scientists from the Technische Universitat Braunschweig (Braunschweig, Germany) have taken first place in the IPB Patent Awards competition for their invention: frequency-selective, flexible, inexpensive reflectors made of plastic materials. Their patented innovation addresses a potential near-term mass market, terahertz (THz) communication. :: Click Here for Full Story :: NEW PRODUCTS 
:: Molded-glass optical componentsMolded optical components with diameters greater than one inch are manufactured using proprietary molding techniques. The industrial-scale production allows the company to eliminate expensive components of ground and polished material. Free-form lenses and components of three-dimensional shapes are being made, which cannot be achieved using conventional processes. Docter Optics, Germany :: Click Here for Full Story :: 
:: All-silica fiberCP1500Y is a proprietary, erbium-ytterbium codoped, dual-clad (cladding-pump) fiber. Now offered on the open market, it has both a shaped, multilobed pump-guide and all-silica construction. The fiber has been used in high-power amplifiers deployed in CATV and local access networks as well as in FTTx applications. Fibercore, Southampton, England :: Click Here for Full Story :: 
:: Digital light sourceDigital light source RS-5-93K characterizes the performance of image sensors and image-sensor systems. Suited for focal-plane-array testing, the light level setting to one part in 65,525 is provided in absolute, NIST-traceable, radiometric and/or photometric units. Spectral distribution is from the UV into the near-IR, RGB and broadband white, with a linearity of better than 0.25 rms. Gamma Scientific, San Diego, CA :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: More new products ... ... from the pages of Laser Focus World :: Click Here for Full Story ::
FOCUS ON: BIOMEDICAL IMAGING :: OCT imaging leaps to the next generation Noninvasive, simultaneous probing of 3-D cellular-resolution tissue morphology and depth-resolved function could significantly improve early medical diagnosis. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: Looking at life label-free Instead of adding a contrast agent, confocal light absorption and scattering spectroscopic (CLASS) microscopy depends on physical differences between organelles--specifically, their average refractive index when illuminated with light of various wavelengths. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: MEMS scanners enable in vivo 3-D OCT Optical imaging modalities such as confocal, two-photon, and fluorescence microscopy, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) provide depth-resolved imaging even in turbid media, with cellular-level detail. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: MIT researchers obtain 3-D images of living cells Tomographic phase microscopy can provide detailed images of the activity inside a living cell, without the use of fluorescent markers or other contrast agents that could interfere with the results. :: Click Here for Full Story :: |
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