Photonics Friday Finds: Shining A Light On Top Supplier Products - May 12, 2023
Greetings and welcome to the second edition of Photonics Friday Finds!
Our series highlights outstanding products from top suppliers in the exciting field of photonics. With the photonics industry driving technological progress in various sectors, we strive to give a comprehensive overview of the most innovative and advanced products on the market today. 💡
From: Opto Diode Corp
Opto Diode Corporation offers a variety of high-power, infrared light-emitting diodes (IRLEDs) and ultra-high-power near-infrared LED illuminators designed for military, aerospace, and defense.
Opto Diode products include the OD-663-850 NIR LED Illuminator with total power output from 300mW to 425 mW (typical), making it ideal for high-power, nearinfrared illumination tasks. The narrow-angle of emission OD-110L and the wide-angle of emission OD-110W are ultra-high-power GaAlAs NIR emitters that feature very uniform optical beams and peak emission wavelengths of 850 nm. These reliable devices are designed to operate under harsh, extreme temperatures and rugged conditions.
Other infrared LED products, such as the narrow-angle OD-110LISOLHT and the wideangle OD-110WISOLHT operate at 880 nm with a spectral bandwidth of 55 nm (typical). These high-power infrared emitters feature wide temperature ratings and convenient twolead TO-39 cans with isolated cases for many critical, high-temperature lighting tasks.
From: Gentec-EO
The BEAMAGE-4M is a beam profiling camera designed for accurate profile measurements of very small beams. The camera utilizes a USB 3.0 for the transfer rates up to 10X faster than regular USB 2.0 connections.
The BEAMAGE-4M features high resolution of 4.2 MPixels, a large aperture or 11.3 x 11.3 mm, and a special phosphor coating for IR wavelengths from 1495 – 1595 nm. The camera includes an intuitive software interface that is simple to navigate with many display and control features. An external trigger is also included to synchronize the camera with a pulsed laser.
From: BaySpec Inc.
BaySpec introduces Breeze, the world’s smartest palm spectrometer, for 400 to 2500 nm with a simple one-button operation.
Featuring proprietary miniaturized optics, Breeze is highly efficient for maximum sensitivity with ultrafast acquisition.
With available data library, this palm device can perform quantitative and qualitative analysis at anytime and anywhere for plastics, illicit drugs, pharmaceuticals, explosives, biological warfare agents, medicine, food, and other materials. With the corresponding molecular signatures by the miniaturized device, data can be wirelessly transferred to a smartphone via Bluetooth interface.
Both IOS and Android mobile devices are supported, cloud based analysis and data keeping are also available, which is making implementation of this chemical analyzer a breeze!
Sensors Unlimited’s Multi-Mode Micro-SWIR 640CSX video camera is ideal for laboratory, factory, military, and other applications requiring SWIR imaging and detection/decoding of NIR/SWIR pulsed lasers.
The camera enables rapid identification of common battlefield targeting lasers, including those with covert eye-safe laser wavelengths. Lightweight and compact, the 640CSX MMT allows its user to view images despite haze, dust, and smoke while reducing fratricide and collateral damage.
The 640CSX MMT is a Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) Camera Core with high resolution video featuring full field of view laser pulse detection, offering industry leading video that provides laser tracking and decoding of up to three independent sources, simultaneously.
Optical Filters For LiDAR Laser Sensors
Iridian Spectral Technologies offers lidar laser sensor systems with common laser wavelengths including 532 nm, 905 nm, 1064 nm, and 1550 nm.
These filters provide more signal with less background and are ideal for laser sensor applications, including airborne laser scanning and other methods of capturing 3D data of large areas.