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Optical Phase Interrogation - A Cost-Effective Solution for Sensing Strain with Polymer Optical Fibers
Description: Strain sensing solutions based on polymer optical fibers (POF) provide designers with low-cost sensing solutions that are lightweight, immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic ...
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LIV-Messtechnik zur Laserdiodencharakterisierung: schnell und einfach
From: Artifex EngineeringDescription: Die zunehmende Nachfrage nach Hochleistungs-Laserdioden mit niedrigen Kosten pro Watt setzt Laserdiodenhersteller unter Druck... ...
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Is A High-Power LED The Best Choice For Your Application?
Description: Developments in high-power LEDs represent one of the most significant innovations to hit the lighting industry in recent years. Loosely defined as LEDs with at least a 1-W capacity, high-power or ...
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Key Benefits of Next-Gen UV-LED Tech
Description: Despite the potential hazards of ultraviolet light which are evident in everyday life, such as sunburn, the UV spectrum is proving to have many beneficial ?effects in a multitude of areas. ...
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LED Backlighting: From sidelines to center stage in under 30 years
Description: Continued advances in design and performance have allowed each new generation of LED backlighting technology to significantly grow the number of relevant applications. ...
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LED Color Guide
Description: This guide represents typical LED chips, their associated wavelengths, typical forward voltage and brightness level. The guide is designed to assist in research in determining some potential colors ...
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LED General Information
Description: mex LEDs come in over 800 styles. Each family of products is designed with actual use needs in mind and as such they are made for specific uses. The main features in each family are clearly stated so ...
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LED Light Pipe Training Modules
Description: Lumex offers an extensive line of LED Light Pipes for applications that require light but are not well suited to surface mount or through-hole LED technology. ...
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Test Your High-Power LED IQ
Description: Loosely defined as LEDs with at least a 1-W capacity, high-power LEDs are a hot technology that's very much in the market spotlight. ...
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User Interface Technologies for Extreme Conditions
Description: Five Tips for Designing User Interface Technologies for use in Extreme Conditions ...
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What is an LED Light Pipe?
Description: An LED Light Pipe is a practical solution to conduct light from board-mounted LED(s) to the exterior, or in some cases, a photodetector. ...
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How to Produce Die Plates for a Seal Press
From: Trotec Laser, Inc.Description: Every seal press consists of two die plates - the positive (female) and the negative (male). For the positive die plate (displayed as black text/graphics on a white background in the graphics program) ...
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Portable LED Perimeter Lighting Retrofit for Construction Sites - CAST Lighting and Penn State Case Study
From: Cast Lighting LLCDescription: The Pennsylvania State University undertook, as part of their Greenhouse Gas Reduction Initiative, the conversion of campus construction perimeter lighting from a traditional type to a new ...
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Multispectral Imaging Moves into the Mainstream
From: PIXELTEQDescription: Advances in sensors, filters and apertures are driving the evolution of multispectral imaging to practical commercial systems for use in everything from medical imaging to satellite remote sensing. ...
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Real-time Megapixel Multispectral Bioimaging
From: PIXELTEQDescription: Spectral imaging involves capturing images at multiple wavelengths resulting in a data cube (x, y, ?) that allows materials to be identified by its spectral signature. While hyperspectral imagers can ...
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Ultracompact Fully Integrated MegaPixel Multispectral Imager
From: PIXELTEQDescription: Micro-patterned dichroic filter arrays enable ultracompact real-time imaging spectrometers and multispectral cameras. ...
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Guide to Choosing the Right Flashlight
From: Streamlight, Inc.Description: If you ask yourself a few basic questions and answer based on the information provided here - you can choose a light that will serve you well for a long, long time. ...
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Bifocal Miniature Toroidal Shaped X-ray Mirrors
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: We have fabricated a bifocal miniature torodial mirror that horizontally and vertically focuses to two different locations to provide a smaller footprint of beam for grazing-incidence wide-angle ...
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Characterization Techniques for Miniature Low Power X-Ray Tubes
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: An X-ray shielded test chamber has been designed and built that includes a CCD-pinhole camera and energy-dispersive silicon PIN-diode detector for spectrum collection. The use of this chamber is an ...
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Guidelines for Cleaning AP3 X-ray Windows
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: The guidelines below must be strictly followed in order to prevent damage to the window. Do NOT touch the window surface with anything, including a cotton swab or soft brush. Physical abrasion can ...
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High-Resolution Stereoscopic TFT-LCD with Wire-Grid Polarizer
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: We developed a 5.5 inch, VGA (640×480×RGB), stereoscopic 3D display using a precisely patterned wire grid polarizer (WGP) with rows of alternating polarization angle. Such a wire grid polarizer is ...
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Miniature X-Ray Tubes Utilizing Carbon-Nano Tube Based Cold Cathodes
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: The electron field-emission properties of carbon nanotubes enable the fabrication of cold cathodes for a variety of vacuum device applications. The utilization of these cathodes is an attractive ...
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New, High Performance, Durable Polarizers for Projection Displays
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: Wire-grid polarizers are now available for broadband visible applications. This type of polarizer is very attractive for projection display applications because of its high efficiency, high contrast, ...
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The Display Applications and Physics of the ProFlux® Wire-Grid Polarizer
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: Each year the Society awards the Display of the Year Award to several leading edge display devices or technologies that provide innovative solutions to an information display need. The following paper ...
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Twisted Nematic Reflective Display with Internal Wire Grid Polarizer
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: We studied the optical performance of reflective wire grid polarizer designed for visible light. The polarizer reflects Epolarization and transmits H-polarization with low losses. When used in a ...
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AN-0200 - OC100HG Push-Pull Driver in Pockels Cells Switching Methods
Description: The OC100HG push-pull configuration is useful for driving strictly capacitive loads or very high resistive impedance loads. Low capacitance loads can be driven at relatively high speeds, while large ...
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AN-0100 - Using a VMI Opto-coupler in Conjunction with High Voltage Relays
Description: This application is for use in a scanning electron microscope, which has different operating modes. In one mode, a large negative voltage (nominally -10kV) must be applied to an electrode. In the ...
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Machine Vision Adds Capacity, Safety to Road 'Well-Traveled'
Description: Ambient light has been a challenge for machine vision cameras and systems, which had their genesis in the more controlled environments of the industrial production floor. "The most common solution is ...
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Improve Lithium-Ion Battery-Stack Safety in Electric Vehicles by Leveraging Optocouplers to Isolate High Voltages
Description: There are many challenges associated with high-voltage Li-ion battery-stack management in all-electric or hybrid automotive applications. Charge and discharge cycles must be monitored and controlled, ...
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Star Ceilings 101
Description: How they work, basic components and installation options ...
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FOOD INSPECTION: Automated system inspects dates at high speed
Description: Because the surfaces of the dates vary in both topology and color, even and uniform white lighting is needed to illuminate them. Four MB-DL406 MetaBright diffuse dome lights 4 in. in diameter from ...
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White Paper: Fiber versus Copper Links:
Description: Industrial environments are particularly challenging for data communications network designs for a variety of reasons. Typically rife with electromagnetic interference (EMI), unless every precaution ...
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Fiber Optics in Solar Energy Applications
Description: Solar energy has recently become a popular alternative energy source to meet demands around the world due to the fl uctuation of oil/coal prices and global warming issues. Oil is a limited and di ...
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IR WINDOW CERTIFICATION GUIDEBOOK
From: CorDEX Instruments Inc.Description: IR Windows are installed into electrical equipment to enable thermographers to view inside without removing the panels. IR Windows are installed into host electrical equipment which is then certified ...
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IR WINDOW TRANSMISSION GUIDEBOOK
From: CorDEX Instruments Inc.Description: This guidebook explains the factors affecting transmission through an Infrared (IR) window (as used in a practical electrical inspection application). Learn how different IR window types affect your ...
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Improve the quality of fiber installations with Extended fiber certification
From: Black BoxDescription: Learn about the top three growth drivers for fiber networks: greater bandwidth, greater storage demands, and the transition to higher network speeds. ...
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Quantitative morphometric measurements using site selective image cytometry of intact tissue
From: Piezosystem Jena, Inc.Description: Site selective two-photon tissue image cytometry has previously been successfully applied to measure the number of rare cells in three-dimensional tissue specimens up to cubic millimetres in size. ...
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Simultaneous Transport of Different Localized mRNA Species Revealed by Live-Cell Imaging
From: Piezosystem Jena, Inc.Description: Intracellular mRNA localization is a common mechanism to achieve asymmetric distributions of proteins. Previous studies have revealed that in a number of cell types, different mRNA species are ...
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Digital Holographic Capture and Optoelectronic Reconstruction for 3D Displays
From: Piezosystem Jena, Inc.Description: The vertebrate ear benefits from nonlinear mechanical amplification to operate over a vast range of sound intensities. The amplificatory process is thought to emerge from active force production by ...
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Surge-Trap LED Outdoor Lighting
From: MersenDescription: LED technology has become the reference technology for lighting, mainly because of four characteristics: efficiency, versatility, energy savings and longer life. In spite of these benefits, the ...
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40Gb Ethernet QSFP+ Transceiver, Interoperable with 10GBASE-SR up to 100 m
Description: Avago Technologies is the fi rst fi ber optic module vendor to product release a fully compliant 40Gb Ethernet QSFP+ optical transceiver. Leveraging its history in delivering 850nm VCSEL based ...
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Ensure Safe System Operation with Certified Isolator Devices
Description: Isolation components such as optocouplers that are used in applications that have user safety issues as a key aspect must not fail under continuous high-working-voltage bias conditions. Safety hazards ...
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Calculate the LED Lifetime Performance in Optocouplers to Predict Reliability
Description: Optocouplers are used extensively for high-voltage isolation and electrical noise rejection - two essential requirements for transmitting correct information between different voltage potentials ...
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Building Safe and Reliable Electrical Systems with Optocouplers
Description: Electrical systems, no matter what their purpose, share three primary requirements: reliable, safe, and long life operation. To ensure safe operation, users must be double insulated from any dangerous ...
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Color Machine Vision Goes Beyond the Visible
Description: he use of color cameras in machine vision applications used to be limited in part by limits to handing the amount of data a color camera could produce, particularly three-chip cameras compared to ...
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LEDs Line Up to Illuminate Web Inspections
Description: Inspecting products such as paper, aluminum, and textiles during the manufacturing process is one of the most challenging tasks for any machine-vision system designer. ...
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Clean Optics:Just Two Easy Steps
From: Trotec Laser, Inc.Description: Optimal engraving and cutting results require perfectly cleaned optics -- especially when working with wood or rubber, which produce more dust than other applications. To ensure the quality of the ...
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Ruggedized RF Photonic Systems Achieve Battlefield SWaP Objectives
Description: nventional copper-based communications systems have several disadvantages that impede the tactical operation of deployed systems. These include the necessity for troops, vehicle and equipment assets ...
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Evaluation of confocal microscopy system performance
From: Chroma Technology Corp.Description: The confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) has been used by scientists to visualize three-dimensional (3D) biological samples. Although this system involves lasers, electronics, optics, and ...
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Safety Considerations When Using Optocouplers and Alternative Isolators for Providing Protection Against Electrical Hazards
Description: Optocouplers and alternative isolation technologies find widespread use in a variety of products for signal isolation and high voltage level shifting. These devices may also be used to provide safety ...
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UV Curing of Adhesives
Description: Lumen Dynamics is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of light-based delivery systems. Our focus is within the following market applications: Lumen Dynamics Group Inc. is ...
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Digital Optocouplers Deliver Low Power Consumption
Description: Avago's new ACE Q100 grade optocouplers, the ACPL-K4xT/K7xT series has signifi cantly lower LED driving current compared to conventional optocouplers, thus lowering system power consumption. ...
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AUTOMOTIVE PARTS MANUFACTURING: Machine-vision system sorts aluminum car wheels
Description: The Sensor Control system uses a 36-in.- diameter white LED dome light from Metaphase Technologies (Bensalem, PA, USA) placed directly above the conveyor. As the wheels traverse the conveyor, a ...
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Quality Kegs: Vision System Combines FireWire Cameras and Software to Provide 360° Inspection of Beer Kegs
Description: The illumination sources are on all the time, eliminating the need for timing and control signals to the lights; however, the reflective surfaces of the cylindrical mini-kegs required special lighting ...
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VISION-GUIDED ROBOTICS: Sophisticated software speeds automotive assembly
Description: The anvil is fitted with two MetaWhite ExoLight LEDs from Metaphase (Bensalem, PA, USA) that provide illumination for a TXG06-I7, 776 × 582-pixel GigE camera from Baumer (Radeberg, Germany) mounted ...
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Designing Portable Medical Devices
Description: Critical considerations when designing the user interface for portable medical devices ...
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High Speed and Safety Reinforced Digital Isolator for Endoscope and Medical Imaging Applications
Description: Patient contacts in medical devices must be isolated from ac mains to protect the patient from hazardous voltage shocks. In medical imaging devices, large quantities of video imaging data need to be ...
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Key Benefits of Next-Gen UV LED Technology
Description: Despite the potential hazards of ultraviolet light which are evident in everyday life, the UV spectrum is proving to have many beneficial effects in a multitude of areas. ...
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* Optimizing High-Voltage Common Mode Rejection Performance of the APCL-x6xL Ultra-Low Power Optocouplers
Description: The ACPL-x6xL products are optically coupled ultra-low power 10 MBd digital CMOS opto couplers that operate with low power consumption, especially when the light emitting diode (LED) operates at low ...
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Secure optical communication system utilizing deformable MEMS mirrors
From: PLX Inc.Description: Voice communication in free space was demonstrated at ranges larger than 200 meters. A new retro-reflector design, incorporating more modulated mirrors had been constructed. This configuration was ...
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Eight Tips for Optimal Machine Vision Lighting (.pdf)
Description: This white paper provides tips on choosing the optimal lighting solution for a machine vision application. Proper lighting is critical to the success of a machine vision application and should be the ...
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Mars Spectrometer Employs Hollow Retroreflectors
From: PLX Inc.Description: The European Space Agency's Mars Express will investigate the red planet from orbit and from the surface. The craft's orbiter features the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer, which employs novel hollow ...
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Space Qualified Hollow Retroreflectors
From: PLX Inc.Description: The first of these space experiments is the ACE-FTS (Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer). The major scientific goal of the experiment is to measure and understand the ...
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A Monolithic Interferometer
From: PLX Inc.Description: When two separate bundles of parallel light beams having the same characteristic wavelength and propagation are combined, the combination of the bundles causes a phenomenon called light interference. ...
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Boresighting Configurations, Procedures And Applications
From: PLX Inc.Description: Boresighting Verification Technology dramatically enhances your targeting capabilities. Boresighting refers to the procedure of aligning hardware line-of-sight to an aiming device. In military and ...
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Hollow Retroreflectors Promote Precision Optical Alignment
From: PLX Inc.Description: Hollow Retroreflectors Promote Precision Optical Alignment ...
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M.O.S.T™ Transforms Complicated Optical Set-Ups into Compact Monolithic Structures
From: PLX Inc.Description: Monolithic Optical Structure Technology (M.O.S.T.) is a unique optical innovation that combines all of the elements of a complex optical setup into a single monolithic unit. M.O.S.T. achieves superb ...
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Perfect Optical Alignment Made Simple
From: PLX Inc.Description: Applications such as boresighting, beam alignment and beam delivery require the critical alignment of one optical axis or line of sight with another. In these applications, the beams must be parallel ...
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Integrate Protection with Isolation In Home Renewabel Energy Systems
Description: Home energy systems based on renewable sources such as solar and wind power are becoming more popular among consumers and gaining increasing support from governmental bodies. Such systems, however, ...
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Bootstrap Power Supply for Motor Control
Description: Bootstrap power supplies can be used to reduce the number of isolated power supplies or DC-to-DC converters. This helps to reduce cost and the PCB space as compared to transformer-based power ...
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Application Note: What is a Transparent Window Heater?
From: Abrisa TechnologiesDescription: The Tech Note defines what a transparent window heater is, how it works and how it is applied. ...
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Helpful Tips For Selecting The Right Lighting Solution (.pdf)
Description: The goal is to select a lighting technique that creates the highest possible contrast between the feature of interest and its surroundings. ...
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IPx6 Rated Surface Mount LED (.pdf)
Description: Thanks to the dvancement of surface mount LED package design and materials in recent years, coupled with the progress in LED die efficiency, surface mount LED packaging can now deliver the required ...
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Reducing Time Jitter in Time-of-Flight Detectors (.pdf)
Description: The effects of time jitter on time-of-flight mass spectrometer detectors is examined. Improvements to both microchannel flatness and ion arrival time. ...
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Optical Lens Format Size Chart
Description: The format size guide is presented to provide basic help to the end user. ...
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LED Lighting for Hazardous Locations (.pdf)
From: Appleton ElectricDescription: Light-emitting diodes are not a particularly new technology. Affordable LEDs have been available since the late 1960s. From then until now, the technology has steadily progressed in terms of ...
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Reference Chart: Fiber Optic Connector Chart
From: L-com, Inc.Description: Reference guide helps you find the exact part you need. You may not know the name of every connector in the industry, but you know what you want. Compare our detailed pictures of popular FC, LC, MPO, ...
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Choosing Optical Coatings for Medical Displays
From: Dontech IncorporatedDescription: Electronic displays are widely used in the healthcare industry for diverse applications such as patient monitoring, medical imaging diagnostics, archiving medical records, and EMT response. Because ...
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Application Note on SCADA / Process Automation System (.pdf)
From: S.I. Tech, Inc.Description: Many SCADA system installations are in areas where it is exposed to harsh environments of EMI, RFI, multiple/dirty ground, and lightning where in the conventional communication cables have to be ...
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Fiber Optic Connector Epoxy
Description: There are a number of fiber optic connector epoxies on the market that offer a range of curing options, depending on their specific chemical compositions. All of these fiber optic connector epoxies ...
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Fiber Optic Technology In Security Applications
Description: This paper explores using fiber optic cabling and sensors to achieve cost-effective, long-distance intrusion monitoring. Also covered are the advantages of these non-electric, spark-free fiber optic ...
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Mode Conditioning Fiber Optic Patchcords
Description: Mode Conditioning Patchcords are a duplex multimode cord that has a small length of singlemode fiber at the start of the transmission leg. These are tested utilizing the industries latest equipment ...
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LED Lamp Selection
From: Marktech OptoelectronicsDescription: LED lamps emit different colors (wavelengths) depending on the materials they are made of. LED lamps based on public standards, for example, LED lamps for specialized traffic signals or automotive ...
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Photo Sensor Application Note
From: Marktech OptoelectronicsDescription: The basic circuit of an optical sensor is shown in Figure 2-2.1(a). The anode of the LED is connected to the power line VCC via resistor RE and the cathode is grounded. ...
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Precautions for Lead-Type Radial Taping
From: Marktech OptoelectronicsDescription: LED lamps are sold either loose or tape products. For mounting by hand, loose products are generally used, whereas tape products are required for automatic mounting. ...
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Precautions for using LED Lamps
From: Marktech OptoelectronicsDescription: The characteristics of a LED lamp change according to the chip temperature (Tj: the temperature of the junction emitting the light). ...
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Reliability Of LEDs
From: Marktech OptoelectronicsDescription: As mentioned earlier, the luminous intensity of LED lamps characteristically declines slowly with use. Select LED lamps according to the level of reliability require in the equipment in which they ...
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Static Lighting and Dynamic Lighting
From: Marktech OptoelectronicsDescription: A LED can be lit using one of two methods: the static lighting method, in which a constant current is input continually over time, and the dynamic lighting method in which current is fed in continuous ...
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Visible LEDs Application Notes
From: Marktech OptoelectronicsDescription: The features of LED lamps become clear by comparison with tungsten filament incandescent lamps and discharge tubes in their light emitting mechanisms and structures. ...
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What are LED Lamps?
From: Marktech OptoelectronicsDescription: LEDs are compound semiconductor devices. Their optical wavelength depends on the elements and the ratio between them. ...
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Avago Technologies: Automotive Optocouplers - Beyond Meeting the Electrical Performance at High Temperature (.pdf)
Description: The trend of electric or hybrid electric vehicles has accelerated the introduction of electronic components into cars. The components residing under the hood will experience high ambient temperatures ...
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Avago Technologies: Reliable LEDs for Automotive Grade Optocouplers (.pdf)
Description: One of the key enablers for optocouplers to handle automotive grade 1 applications is the use of very high performance LEDs. The LED light output dropping by less than 0.2%/°C, aids in achieving high ...
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Fiber Lasers for Hard Disk Texturing (.pdf)
From: Multiwave PhotonicsDescription: In today's modern hard disk drives, a controlled magnetic disk texturing is needed to alleviate the problem of "stiction" which occurs when the disk stops spinning and the super-smooth slider comes ...
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Laser Scribing of Thin Film Solar Panels (.pdf)
From: Multiwave PhotonicsDescription: Solar cells based on thin-film devices may well take the lead as the next generation solar panel technology. A key aspect in the cost effective manufacturing of large solar panels is the thin film ...
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Laser Engraving of ID Cards(.pdf)
From: Multiwave PhotonicsDescription: In laser card marking, the pulsed energy produced by a laser is applied to the plastic (e.g., polycarbonate) card creating characters, images and even photographs via a set steering mirrors and/or a ...
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Shedding Light on Machine Vision (.pdf)
Description: To understand how important the right light can be for machine vision, try a simple experiment. Take a magazine outside on a sunny day and open it. The pages are easy to read. Tilt the magazine, ...
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Rapid Scanning Applications Drive Mirror Design (.pdf)
Description: CTI Chief Scientist David Brown has developed several scanning mirrors for high speed applications using a variety of substrate materials and various "lightweighting" approaches. The optimum method ...
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Analysis and Design of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: PREFACE Design and fabrication of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) requires an iterative process, which is extremely expensive and time-consuming. The use of computer-aided design ...
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Applied Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition
Description: Applied Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition Using real-world engineering examples to engage the reader, the author of this detailed text makes quantum mechanics accessible and relevant to the ...
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Architectural Engineering Design: Mechanical Systems
Description: Architectural Engineering Design: Mechanical Systems With numerous illustrations and sizing tables that summarize vital data, this book provides essential criteria for designing plumbing, electric, ...