Product preview - Update #7

Rotary coupler
A micro-optical rotary coupler for single mode fibers has been developed by the RheinAhr Campus Remagen. The coupler is said to have an optical insertion loss of 0.01 dB at an angular variation loss of less than 0.01 dB. According to the developer, this represents an improvement of a factor of 450x compared with commercially available devices. Typical applications include high resolution TV cameras; fiber-guided vehicles and robots; medical tomography systems; fiber-controlled missiles and radar antennas. The coupler is suitable for optical analogue data transmission or applications in which immunity to electro-magnetic inference is required.
Booth B3.151
RheinAhr Campus Remagan

Infrared camera
VDS Vosskuhler has expanded its range of infrared cameras to include products operating in the NIR (0.9-1.7 micrometers). The new NIR-300 camera is based on an InGaAs sensor with 320x256 pixels. The read-out rate is quoted as 14 bit at 50 images/s via either camera link or Gigabit Ethernet. Cooled and non-cooled versions are available. In the camera's snapshot mode, all pixels are recorded simultaneously and are read out within a progressive scan.
Booth B2.500
VDS Vosskuhler

Fiber laser
Manlight will present its 1080 nm 1 mJ pulsed fiber laser. The compact OEM ytterbium fiber laser delivers up to 20 W of average power output, in a near diffraction limited beam (M²<1.5); a peak power of 20 kW and pulse durations less than 50 ns. The product comes with an integrated cooling system; a 12 V power supply and an RS-232 interface. The standard product has a 2.5 mm collimated beam and a 4 m metal-sheathed optical fiber. Other beam sizes and fiber lengths are available on request.
Booth B1.481
Manight

Reflective sensor
The HVS6003-001 VSCEL is part of a new range of reflective sensors from Finisar. The 850 nm VCSEL emits typically 1 mW of optical output power and focusing optics produce a 15 mm spot. The reflected light is then detected by an integrated phototransistor. Finisar quotes an operating temperature ranging from -40 to 85 ºC and a signal to noise ratio greater than 20 dB.
Booth B2.554
Finisar

Achromatic waveplate
A new achromatic waveplate from Union Optic is said to provide a uniform phase shift in a broad range of wavelengths. Specifications include; a surface quality of 20/10 scratch and dig; a dimension tolerance of +0.0/-0.2mm; a wavefront distortion of lambda/4 at 632nm; and a retardation tolerance of lambda/100. Products are available for the wavelength ranges 450-650nm, 550-750nm, 650-1100nm and 900-2100nm.
Booth B2.112
Union Optic

Pump source
Lumics will release the LU0940C1000 high power pump diode laser source. Based on multiple single emitter laser diode modules, an optical output of 1kW can be delivered by optical fibers and customized into fiber bundles or pump combiners. The laser comes in a 19 in rack mount unit with a watercooling system and driver electronics. The laser is available at 915, 940, 960 and 975nm and is designed to operate over a range of ambient temperatures. Possible industrial applications are as a pump source or a direct diode source for material processing.
Booth B1.129
Lumics

Fluorimeter
The fluoroSENS bench-top fluorimeter from LOT Oriel has single photon counting sensitivity and a water Raman signal to noise ratio of >2500:1. It uses a highly stabilized xenon arc lamp and excitation and emission monochromators have a choice of gratings. Each monochromator is also fitted with variable slits allowing spectral pass bands from 0.1 to 10 nm. Data acquisition includes a 100M counts-per-second module and low noise 16bit analogue-to-digital converters.
Booth B1.602
LOT-Oriel

Vacuum coating equipment
Izovac says its Aspira 150 vacuum sputtering system has a fundamentally new design. Equipped with both ion beam and magnetron sputtering technologies, the machine can operate on up to six different target materials. The Aspira 150 can produce laser coatings, highly reflective mirrors, multi-wave beam splitters and conductive coatings. Other features include ion beam cleaning, a load-lock system, built-in optical control of substrates and a sputtering zone of 150 mm.
Booth B2.151
Izovac

Polarisation Measurement System
General Photonics demonstrates its PSGA-101, a new polarization measurement system. The company claims that the PSGA-101 can accurately characterize all polarization-related properties of light waves and optical materials such as; polarization mode dispersion; polarization dependent loss; polarization extinction ratio; state of polarization and degree of polarization. The product's user friendly graphical interface displays SOP in real-time on a Poincaré sphere as well as plots of PDL or PMD against wavelength. A VGA port enables more detailed viewing on external graphic displays and an Ethernet port is provided for PMD measurement of installed fiber. Removable USB storage media can be used for data storage and transfer.
Booth B1.421
General Photonics

Precision lens
Archer OpTx will exhibit the L671-ZX - its latest Perfect Lens ultra-precision molded glass aspheric lens. With a numerical aperture of 0.6, the lens has been designed for use at 408 nm although functions between 370 and 580 nm. The company specifies a typical performance of 0.04 waves rms at 408 nm. The bare lens is nearly athermal, with rear flange focal distance changing at a rate of approximately 0.6 µm across 0-40 ºC. The lens is claimed to be ideal for applications using near UV-blue diode lasers, such as printing.
Booth B2.648
Archer OpTx

Pumped laser cavities
Visitors to the New Source Technology booth will see the company's complete line of flashlamp pump laser cavities. Available in all popular wavelengths, the standard and custom models utilize high efficiency barium sulphide reflectors.
Booth B1.241
New Source Technology

Scanhead and calibration system
Newson will be presenting two products; the Rhothor laser scanheads with integrated flight steering and the flightbeacon calibration system. The rhothor scanheads combine high speed with accuracy and no drift for marking or similar applications. Steering is possible over a standard XY2-100 interface, or over USB using the flight system. The flightbeacon is used to calibrate laser machines.
Booth B3.115
Newson Engineering

3D camera
Vialux says that full-field scanning in a snapshot rather than line scanning is the key advantage of its 3D shape recording device called z-snapper. Equipped with a 13,300 fps spatial light modulator, the z-snapper performs phase-encoded photogrammetry for many thousands of points in milliseconds. The z-snapper can take 3D snapshots or 3D sequences of unstable objects such as people. The company is currently investigating medical, security and forensic applications. Multiple 3D cameras can be combined to view the same object from different angles simultaneously and color cameras can be added for texture recording.
Booth B2.504
ViALUX

IR detector
An integrated infrared detector and preamplifier module called Sipac has been designed by Vigo Systems. OEM applications include contactless temperature measurement, laser detection, pyrometry, scanning, free-space optical communication, gas analysis, Fourier spectroscopy, fire/flame/body detection and non-destructive material testing. The module has a high signal to noise ratio, a bandwidth up to 250 MHz and small footprint. Transimpedance is said to be up to 10⁵ V/A. The infrared thermoelectrically-cooled photodetector has an almost nanosecond response time and can be optimized to operate at any wavelength between 2-14 µm.
Booth B3.102
Vigo Systems

Digital galvanometer
The iDrive from Scanlab offers simultaneous real-time monitoring of multiple galvanometer parameters and operational status and is suitable for processes requiring monitoring and traceability on-site or by a remote control centre. A programmer can simulate the scanning process by comparing the actual scanned position with the programmed position for a given speed. The device offers proportional laser pulsing where speed feedback from the galvanometer is used to modulate the laser, ensuring consistent energy deposition and eliminating burn-in effects. The scan head's digital control consumes significantly less power and is said to result in better temperature stability during highly dynamic operation. It is available for scan heads with apertures ranging from 7-30 mm.
Booth B3.119
Scanlab