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Automation solutions
Aerotech (Pittsburgh, PA) is now offering its completely updated and redesigned brochure, Automation Solutions for Laser Processing, Medical Device Manufacturing, and Life Sciences.
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Home-based hair removal
The Silk'n hair-removal system is now available from Home Skinovations (Yokneam, Israel). The system recently gained FDA clearance for home-based removal of unwanted hair under the direction of a physician.
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Optical edge filters
Semrock (Rochester, NY) has added a new value-based line of optical edge filters for Raman spectroscopy and fluorescence imaging.
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1940 nm diode-laser arrays
DILAS (Mainz, Germany) has introduced the only commercially available high-power diode laser arrays operating at 1940nm with wall plug efficiencies of >10%.
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Sapphire optics
Sapphire optics that can be fabricated to precise specifications for medical lasers, blood gas monitors, and other instruments requiring highly durable optics are available from Meller Optics (Providence, RI).
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NIR photodiode preamplifier
Opto Diode (Newbury Park, CA) has introduced a photodiode preamplifier combination device that features higher gain in lower light environments.
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Image compression
A unique JPEG2000 hardware compression platform has been launched by 4DSP (Reno, NV).
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Optical detector
Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have developed a powerful optical sensor that can detect airborne pathogens such as anthrax and smallpox in less than three minutes.
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Single-photon counting
Princeton Lightwave (Cranbury, NJ) and id Quantique (Geneva, Switzerland) have developed the first single-photon counting module optimized for 1064 nm by combining an optimized avalanche photodiode with integrated biasing and quenching electronics.
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Raman microscope
Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched its new Thermo Scientific DXR Raman microscope, designed specifically to help non-specialist users achieve rapid sampling and analysis of particles, down to 1 micron spatial resolution.
