Optoelectronics
wysiwyg helps build The Ark
What do a popular classical music show in London, an international swimming competition in Budapest, an outdoor rock concert in Belgium and a new church in a tiny village in England have in common? Simply: all have benefited from the use of CAST Software’s wysiwyg lighting design toolkit. With three churches already serving its population of 2,300, it’s perhaps surprising that one of them is building a new one in the fenland vill...
Pyroelectric detectors recombines beams and directs sample
Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometry has become a well-established alternative to dispersive spectrophotometry, using prisms or gratings. An FTIR interferometer splits one beam of light from a broadband source into two using a beam splitter, transmitting the first beam to a fixed mirror and the second to a mirror that is translated back and forth very precisely so that the paths of the two beams are different.
Imaging technique pulls plasmon data together
Rice University scientists have developed a novel technique to view a field of plasmonic nanoparticles simultaneously to learn how their differences change their reactivity. Their new method is called snapshot hyperspectral imaging (SHI), which up to now has been used primarily in astronomy. SHI allows researchers to view minute differences between otherwise identical nanoparticles and see how they react in response to light and environmental cha...
LED light bulb has been sent into space
Following news that a Swedish design brand has sent an LED light bulb into space as part of a crowdfunding campaign, lighting specialist BLT are highlighting the continuing evolution of the most progressive light source of the 21st century. The arc bulb has been designed by Flyte to be the ‘the ultimate minimal, dimmable LED bulb’ and has already exceeded its funding target of £17,000, with more than 900 backers signed up to rec...
Optical fibre gains ground for Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
KDPOF has announced a complete POF solution to be seamlessly integrated into the wire harness of the vehicle. At the International Congress Automotive Wire Harness on March 13 and 14, 2018 in Ludwigsburg, Germany, KDPOF will display innovative gigabit POF solutions in partnership with leading wire harness suppliers such as TE and others.
PbS and PbSe infrared detectors
LASER COMPONENTS is a world leading manufacturer of PbS and PbSe infrared detectors. From our research and production facility in Arizona we supply customers all over the world with these industrial grade thermal detectors. These detectors work on the principle that photons incident on the Polycrystalline thin film promote electrons across the bandgap increasing the conductivity of the material, in turn decreasing the res...
Optical sensors enable short-wave blue LED lighting
A minimal sensor area of only 1.9x3.3mm is sufficient for the optical sensors in the iC-PNH series to scan encoder code discs and generate sine signals in top hi-fi quality. Evaluation is executed by interpolation ICs using a Nonius calculation, e.g. iC-MN and iC-MNF, permitting a very high angle resolution of more than 21 bits, even with code disc diameters of only 26mm. All devices of this series can be used with short-wave blue LED lighting fo...
The 'Slim' line: 1064nm PLANEX laser
RIO has announced its first PLANEX laser emitting the classic YAG wavelength of 1064nm, featuring narrow line width (15kHz), low noise and high coherence length. Its compact housing and standardised electrical connections make it an easy drop-in replacement for existing designs. RIO lasers are available from LASER COMPONENTS in Germany and in the UK. RIO’s proprietary PLANEX technology is a combination of a gain chi...
Evaluation kit simplifies automotive LED light design
The ISELED Alliance has launched a new evaluation kit for ISELED, a digital smart RGB LED solution for automotive ambient lighting. The evaluation kit allows developers to quickly build and prototype ISELED solutions, thereby significantly reducing development time. Custom lighting effects can be easily programmed using the supplied software suite from Lucie Labs and tested on the kit’s 16 RGB LEDs. Optical measurements can be carried ...
Optical probe overcomes 400G PAM4 debug challenges
A 56GBd 400G PAM4 optical probe has been introduced for use with the Tektronix DPO70000SX Series real-time oscilloscopes. The 59 GHz DPO7OE2 single mode optical probe delivers the performance and advanced debug capabilities designers need to troubleshoot 400G PAM4 components and reduce time to market.