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 Shaft Collars
Stafford Manufacturing has introduced
a new line of chrome-plated shaft collars
for use in consumer products such as
fitness equipment and medical and laboratory
instruments. Its Solution series of
shaft collars has a bright, finished appearance
for applications where aesthetics are
important, and a smooth bore to protect
expensive shafts. The collars are available
in 47 standard sizes ranging from 1/8 to 3
in. in diameter, and in one- and two-piece
styles. Stafford also custom-manufactures
the Solution series for a wide range of original-
equipment-manufacturer design
requirements, including larger sizes with
special threads, hinges, knurls, and component-
mounting holes.
Stafford Manufacturing Corp.
P.O. Box 2370
Woburn, MA 01888
 Pulse Measurement
Swamp Optics’ ultrashort
laser-pulse measuring
devices
combine
full-information
pulse
measurement with experimental
simplicity. Its several
Grenouille models can measure
pulses from a wide variety
of sources, from the lowestenergy
oscillator to the highest-
intensity amplifier. Their
operating range of 700 to 1,100
nm matches that of most ultrafast
Ti:sapphire and solid-state
lasers and amplifiers, making
them useful for everyday diagnostics
as well as more exotic
applications. The various models
measure pulses as short as
8 fs and as long as 5 ps. The compact
devices yield pulse intensity and phase versus
time, and pulse spectrum versus spectral
phase in real time. They also measure
the beam spatial profile and the spatio-temporal
distortions, spatial chirp, and pulsefront
tilt.
Swamp Optics
, LLC
307 Shire Way
Lawrenceville, GA 30044
 Thermal Viewer–Camera
FJW Optical’s handheld Find-R-Scope
thermal viewer–camera
provides a
useful tool
for surveillance,
threat
detection, search
and rescue, firefighting,
building
i n s p e c t i o n ,
industrial processcontrol
or monitoring,
and militar y applications.
The portable, selfcontained
instrument is sensitive
from 7 to 14 µm and
provides a standard NTSC videooutput
signal using a BNC connector
for viewing, recording on
videotape, or computer analysis.
Unlike image intensifiers, the Find-
R-Scope does not suffer from
blooming, which can obliterate an
image, and its high sensitivity, durability,
and cost efficiency make it a very versatile
and convenient instrument.
FJW Optical Systems, Inc.
322 North Woodwork Lane
Palatine, IL 60067
 Laser Power Probe
Ophir Optronics’ new high-precision
laser power probe measures laser power
between 200 and
10,000 W with an
absolute accuracy
of ±5% at calibrated
wavelengths.
The high-power,
handheld Comet
probe is calibrated
for carbon dioxide
(CO2), YAG, and
diode lasers with a
spectral range of
10.6 µm for CO2
lasers and 800 to 1,064 nm for YAG-type
lasers. Linearity with power is ±2% from 1
to 10 kW. For ease of use, the probe handle
turns ±90° relative to the absorber head.
The liquid-crystal display, which is integrated
into the handle, has 5-mm-high characters.
The Comet, which is powered by two
AA batteries, can make several measurements
before it needs to be cooled, and
it stores the last three readings taken.
Ophir Optronics, Inc.
260-A Fordham Road
Wilmington, MA 01887
 Vacuum Components
Key High Vacuum has introduced its new
line of Key Speedy 316L ISO high-vacuum
components for high-temperature or corrosive
applications in a wide range of media.
The company’s integrated system of components
enables the construction of entire
downstream manifolds from durable
316L stainless steel. The versatile components
—
which include flanges,
adapters, fittings, flexible hoses, tees,
crosses, and elbows—are useful in vacuum system
roughing and foreline plumbing manifolds, as well as in systems that
require frequent cleaning. They are fully rotatable,
and crews can assemble them quickly without
welding.
Key High Vacuum Products, Inc.
36 Southern Boulevard
Nesconset, NY 11767
Process Monitor
International Light has introduced a new
on-line process monitor for use with optical
systems such as ultraviolet (UV) curing,
accelerated weathering, and solar simulation.
The fully integrated IL OPM200,
which provides constant feedback for any
light source used on-line, includes a 4.5-
digit liquid-crystal display with direct calibrated
output in units such as mW/cm2.
The easily installed instrument comes with
a remote cable and a detector head or a
box-mounted detector with a fiber-optic
coupling. The IL OPM200’s control meter
has a powder-coated, die-cast aluminum
housing and a PLC 4-20 mA interface, and
it can be either external- or loop-powered.
The NIST-traceable monitor is available
with UVA, UVB, UVA + B, phototherapy
blue, and photopic filters.
International Light, Inc.
17 Graf Road
Newburyport, MA 01950
 MiniSIMS
Micro Photonics’ new secondary-ion
mass spectrometer (SIMS) provides a compact,
easy-to-use instrument configured
for research, industrial
quality control, and education.
The desktop MiniSIMS maintains
all the essential features of the
SIMS technique, including high
sensitivity and trace-element detection,
in three different operational
modes. Static SIMS provides the
classic elemental surface science
technique using a high-energy ion
beam focused onto a sample and
analyzes the mass spectrum of the
resulting secondary ions. Scanning
SIMS works the same way
except the beam is rastered over the sample.
Dynamic SIMS uses the primary ion
beam’s high energy to etch away surfaces
in a small area, which enables the Mini-
SIMS to ascertain a material’s composition
in depth.
Micro Photonics, Inc.
P.O. Box 3129
Allentown, PA 18106-0129
 Photomicrography
Olympus has introduced the Camedia
C-5050, a high-performance camera suitable
for photomicrography recording and archiving
in microscopy. High-end optics combined
with four new image-processing
technologies and a five-megapixel chargecoupled
device
yield excellent
picture quality.
Complete manual
control over
aperture, shutter
speed, and focus gives users maximum
flexibility for photomicrography while allowing
them to leave sharpness control to the
C-5050’s automatic contrast-detection
focusing system. Digital spot and multispot
light metering are available to regulate exposure,
and the histogram function makes it
possible to check the brightness distribution
during shooting.
Olympus America, Inc.
2 Corporate Center Drive
Melville, NY 11747-3157
Measurement System
Optical Gaging has added the Flash 500
to its line of SmartScope measurement systems
to satisfy the needs of budget-conscious
customers with large measurement
volumes. The compact Flash 500 provides a
500 × 450 × 200-mm XYZ travel path. The
system’s optical assembly, which includes
an AccuCentric 12× zoom lens, moves in
the X axis across an angled steel crossbeam
while the part moves in the Y axis on a precision
servo-driven stage. A stable granite
platform ensures proper damping and
structural integrity. Illumination includes a
SmartRing light, a coaxial surface illuminator,
a fiber-optic ring light, and a liquidcrystal-
display backlight. Users have the
option of Optical Gaging’s Measure-X or
MeasureMind 3D MultiSensor software,
which provide point-and-click tools to simplify
the creation and operation of automatic
measurement routines.
Optical Gaging Products, Inc.
850 Hudson Avenue
Rochester, NY 14621-4896
 Upright Microscope
Zeiss’s new Axioskop 2 MAT upright
microscope meets the special demands of
materials microscopy research, quality
assurance, and failure analysis for accurate,
fast, and reproducible results. The instrument
provides an improved reflected-light
beam path, and its high-performance optics
ensure ideal micrographs. In the motorized
version, the microscope’s reflector turret,
Z-focus drive, brightness control, and
switching mirror are automated. The microscope’s
ergonomic phototube furnishes a
viewing angle of 20°, which permits the
viewing height to be varied by 50 mm.
Together with Zeiss’s C-DIC interference
contrast and TIC dual-beam interferometer,
the Axioskop 2 MAT enables users to recognize
more detail and to measure structures
more precisely.
Carl Zeiss, Inc.
One Zeiss Drive
Thornwood, NY 10594
 Laser Drilling
JPSA Laser now provides ink-jet-nozzle
and other high-precision laser drilling services
in polymers, glass, ceramics, sapphire,
and metals. Depending on a customer’s
needs, the company achieves high precision
by one of two processes: drilling one hole at
a time at a high repetition rate using ultraviolet
diode-pumped solid-state lasers, or parallel
processing of multiple nozzles per stepand-
repeat using high-energy excimer lasers
with special telecentric lenses and beamshaping
homogenizers. These approaches
yield a drilling accuracy of more than
±
0.5 µm hole-to-hole tolerance and telecentric
holes to better than 10 arc sec.
JPSA Laser
17D Clinton Drive
Hollis, NH 03049
 Vacuum Chambers
Atlas Technologies’ aluminum, ultrahigh-
vacuum (UHV) turnkey chambers
offer many advantages over their stainless
steel counterparts. Aluminum, for example,
has 10 times the thermal conductivity, contains
less hydrogen, and has one-third the
weight of stainless steel. It also has a low
atomic number, is nonmagnetic, and can
be machined 3 to 5 times faster. Atlas’s full
three-dimensional design, engineering, and
manufacturing capacity enables users of its
products to take full advantage of aluminum’s
physical vacuum properties. Its
Atlas Flanges line provides a rugged, stainless
knife-edge UHV sealing surface that
can be used interchangeably with all stainless
CF flanges.
Atlas Technologies
305 Glen Cove Road
Port Townsend, WA 98368
New Software
OmniTrak
Field Precision has released OmniTrak,
its integrated, three-dimensional software
for the design of electron and ion guns,
accelerators, electro-optical equipment,
and field-emission devices. The package’s
capabilities include mixed-species generation
from independent emission surfaces,
electron secondary emission with angular
dependencies, and precision tracing of electric
and magnetic field lines. OmniTrak provides
the unique capability to represent
three-dimensional, self-consistent electric
and magnetic fields from relativistic electron
beams, and it covers the complete
design process from mesh generation
through analysis and plotting.
Field Precision
P.O. Box 13595
Albuquerque, NM 87192
New Literature
Precision Optical, formerly Polaroid
Optics, offers a free brochure that highlights
its diverse selection of precisionmolded
plastic lenses, optical components,
and subassemblies. The company produces
custom optical assemblies and complete
subsystems for use in original-equipmentmanufacturer
applications. The eight-page
brochure describes the company’s engineering
and manufacturing techniques that
enable it to produce lightweight plastic and
hybrid glass–plastic optical components
tailored to customers’ specific needs.
Precision Optical Systems, Inc.
1 Upland Road N1
Norwood, MA 02062
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