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MONTHLY: NEWS & PRODUCTS
The latest information about machine vision and image processing technologies and applications, breaking business news and analysis about companies and organizations in the machine vision industry, and hundreds of machine vision, imaging, and automation products designed to help engineers and vision system integrators.
Topics covered include: Smart Cameras, Photovoltaic Manufacturing, High-Speed Imaging, Defense and Security Applications, Digital Camera Interface Standards, Machine Vision Market Reports, Important Trade Shows, Webcasts about Machine Vision, Videos about Machine Vision, Blogs about Machine Vision, White Papers about Machine Vision
TWICE MONTHLY: FOCUS E-NEWSLETTERS
Camera Link Cameras
Cameras based on the Camera Link interface standard have continued to enable new machine vision applications. This eNewsletter covers all types of Camera Link cameras and related components such as CCD and CMOS image sensors, electronics, cabling, connectors, and cable extenders.
Topics covered include: Camera Link Cameras, Cables, Connectors, Extenders, Linescan Sensors, Area-Array Sensors, CMOS Image Sensors, CCD Image Sensors, Smart Cameras
CCD Cameras
This eNewsletter covers all types of cameras and related components based around CCD image sensors. Developments and new applications for CCD-based imaging are also included.
Topics covered include: GigE Cameras, Camera Link Cameras, FireWire Cameras, USB Cameras, Cables, Connectors, Extenders, Linescan Sensors, Area-Array Sensors, CCD Image Sensors, Smart Cameras
CMOS Cameras
This eNewsletter covers all types of cameras and related components based around CMOS image sensors. Developments and new applications for CMOS-based imaging are also included.
Topics covered include: GigE Cameras, Camera Link Cameras, FireWire Cameras, USB Cameras, Cables, Connectors, Extenders, Linescan Sensors, Area-Array Sensors, CMOS Image Sensors, Smart Cameras
Defense & Security
With a focus on machine vision and imaging technologies that enable military and security applications, the eNewsletter looks at infrared imaging, tracking, surveillance, targeting, microscopy, facial recognition, and remote sensing.
Topics covered include: Aerospace, Surveillance, Traffic, Unmanned Vehicles, Scientific and Industrial Research, Biometrics, Microscopy, Machine Vision Cameras, Software, and Systems
Energy & Environment
Here is the latest information about machine vision and environmental technologies and renewable energy sources such as solar power and wind turbines. See how visible and infrared imaging are being applied in green applications.
Topics covered include: Renewable Energy, Solar Cells, Photovoltaics, Coal, Wind Power, Environmental Analysis, Agriculture, Transportation, Vision for Automobiles, Machine Vision Cameras, Software, and Systems
Factory Automation
This eNewsletter provides system integrators and end-users with resources related to evaluating, designing, and implementing factory production systems based on machine vision and image processing.
Topics covered include: Semiconductors and Electronics Manufacturing, Automotive Manufacturing, Turnkey Vision Systems, Web Inspection, Measurement and Gauging, Positioning and Automation Equipment, Machine Vision Cameras, Software, and Systems
FireWire Cameras
Cameras based on the FireWire interface standard have continued to enable new machine vision applications. This eNewsletter covers all types of FireWire cameras and related components such as CCD and CMOS image sensors, electronics, cabling, connectors, and cable extenders.
Topics covered include: FireWire Cameras, Cables, Connectors, Extenders, Linescan Sensors, Area-Array Sensors, CMOS Image Sensors, CCD Image Sensors, Smart Cameras
Frame Grabbers
This eNewsletter provides resources for understanding and integrating frame grabbers into a PC-based machine vision system.
Topics covered include: Frame Grabbers, Image Processing Boards, Analog/Digital/IO Boards, Motion Control Boards
GigE Cameras
Cameras based on the Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) interface standard, including the GigE Vision standard, have continued to enable new machine vision applications. This eNewsletter covers all types of GigE cameras and related components such as CCD and CMOS image sensors, electronics, cabling, connectors, and cable extenders.
Topics covered include: GigE Cameras, Cables, Connectors, Extenders, Linescan Sensors, Area-Array Sensors, CMOS Image Sensors, CCD Image Sensors, Smart Cameras
High-speed & 3-D Imaging
For both high-speed and 3-D imaging technologies new application areas are opening up, including for industrial automation and biomedical imaging, as described in this eNewsletter.
Topics covered include: High-Speed Cameras, High-Speed Applications, CCD and CMOS Image Sensors, 3-D Cameras
Image Processing
The combination of computer power and machine vision software is enabling advances in image processing capabilities for manufacturing, quality control, inspection, guidance, and surveillance
Topics covered include: Frame Grabbers, Image Processing Boards, Image Processing Software, Machine Vision Software, Machine Vision Algorithms
Infrared Imaging
See this eNewsletter for insight into many advantages that infrared (IR) imaging offers in defense, security, electronics and photovoltaics manufacturing, food processing, agriculture, and energy,.
Topics covered include: Infrared Detectors, Infrared Cameras, Infrared Imaging Applications, Thermography, Near-Infrared Imaging
Lighting
Information about different lighting and illumination technologies and examples of how they are used in real-world machine vision applications, from LED lighting to illumination for 3-D imaging.
Topics covered include: LED Lighting, Infrared Lighting, Structured Light, Fiberoptic Lighting, Halogen and Xenon Lighting
Machine Vision Software
Developers and end-users of machine vision systems will benefit from insights in this eNewsletter about software for many applications related to machine vision, including image-processing, data acquisition and motion control software.
Topics covered include: Image Processing and Analysis, Data Acquisition, Motion Control, Thresholding, Pattern Matching, Blob Analysis, Machine Vision Software for Robotics
Medical/Pharmaceutical
Learn how engineers and designers of medical, biomedical, and pharmaceutical products use imaging and machine vision in biomedical device manufacturing, medical research, and clinical diagnostics.
Topics covered include: Biomedical Device Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical Inspection, Biomedical Research, Medical Diagnostics, Microscopy, Machine Vision Cameras, Software, and Systems
Optics & Lenses
Choosing a lens for a machine vision application is a complex but critical task for obtaining the best possible image for further processing. This eNewsletter describes the specifications, options, and applications for machine vision optics and lenses, including telecentric lenses, and filter and shutters.
Topics covered include: Machine Vision Lenses, Telecentric Lenses, Filters, Shutters, Reticles and Test Targets, Beam Splitters, Mirrors, Prisms
Packaging
From inspection of packaging materials to optical character recognition and verification of packages and containers on the assembly line, to tracking, warehousing, and shipment, this eNewsletter will cover the field from a machine vision perspective.
Topics covered include: OCR/OCV, Containers, Packaging, Plastics, Ceramics, Glass, Cosmetics, Food and Beverage, Machine Vision Cameras, Software, and Systems
Smart Cameras
The fast-changing world of smart camera designs and applications is the subject of ths eNewsletter -- including the CCD and CMOS image sensors, machine vision software, and image processing electronics built into different models.
Topics covered include: Smart Camera Designs, Smart Camera Applications, CCD Image Sensors, CMOS Image Sensors, Embedded Software, DSPs, FPGAs
Vision-Guided Robotics
On of the hottest topics in machine vision, this eNewsletter provides resources for engineers and developers of robotic systems that use machine vision and robots to accomplish tasks such as bin picking, palletizing, sorting, inspecting, and guiding.
Topics covered include: Machine Vision and Robotics Applications, Machine Vision and Robotics Software, Robots, CCD and CMOS Cameras, 3-D Imaging Technologies, 2-D Imaging technologies
NEWS & PRODUCTS
The latest news, analysis, and product innovations from the world of photonics delivered directly to the desks of more than 50,000 engineers, researchers, and technical professionals. Read about the Hot Topics and significant trends in the technology, applications, and business of optoelectronics: Key areas of coverage include lasers, optics, detectors, imaging, instrumentation, fiber optics, and software.
TOPIC NEWSLETTERS
Defense, Security and Sensing
With a focus on optics and photonics technologies that enable defense, security, and sensing applications, this eNewsletter coverage includes laser-based weapons, infrared sensing and imaging, target illumination, pyrotechnics, sophisticated image processing (such as facial recognition) and more.
Topics covered include: Aerospace, forensics, biometrics, IR countermeasures, laser weapons, night vision, sensing & monitoring (surveillance)
Energy & Environment
Photonics is at the core of developing and delivering solutions that enable greater energy efficiency, smaller carbon footprints, and promoting economic growth. Get the latest information here about how optoelectronics technologies are being applied to create "green" solutions … from photovoltaic (solar) energy production to advanced LED lighting systems that are built for efficiency.
Topics covered include: Environmental monitoring & sensing, lighting & illumination, transportation, agriculture, renewable energy, solar/photovoltaics, displays & signage, clean manufacturing
Imaging & Detectors
From detectors to cameras to sophisticated 3-D vision systems, and from the terahertz to the infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV), this eNewsletter covers the components, systems, and applications of detectors and imaging technology. Track novel techniques such as image fusion and image recognition, as well as extended spectral capabilities, like terahertz imaging, as they expand the overall capabilities and market opportunities of imaging applications.
Topics covered include: Single photon, infrared (IR) detectors, photodiodes, CCD detectors & cameras, photomultipliers (PMTs), IR detectors & cameras, CMOS detectors & cameras, semiconductor detectors, high-speed imaging, thermal detectors, image processing & analysis software, other cameras, holography, machine vision, multi- & hyperspectral imaging, terahertz imaging
Lasers & Sources
From the ultraviolet to the infrared, find out about the design and applications of all types of lasers, amplifiers, and other advanced sources like light emitting diodes (LEDs) in this eNewletter. Track the latest advances--from the "hero experiments" with high-energy lasers, to the real-world implementation of LEDs for lighting; see the hottest products as they're announced; and understand how they are used in real-word applications.
Topics covered include: Diode lasers (laser diodes), diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS), lamp-pumped solid-state, fiber lasers, tunable lasers, carbon dioxide (CO2), excimer, other lasers, ultrafast (femtosecond) lasers, supercontinuum lasers, OPOs, amplifiers, LEDs, OLEDs, terahertz sources, quantum-cascade lasers, VCSELs
Optical Manufacturing
The combination of new optical production techniques, thin-film coating designs and novel materials is enabling significant advances in optical manufacturing from shaping and polishing aspherics to molding plastic optics. Discover how today's most sophisticated optical components are made, characterized, and applied in this eNewsletter.
Topics covered include: Optical fabrication, optical test & metrology, optical materials and crystals, optical (thin-film) coatings.
Positioning & Support
While simple optics can tolerate misalignments of hundreds of microns, others--such as confocal microscopes or certain interferometers—may need nanometer-level stability. Optical mounting, positioning, and isolation equipment is available for all these needs. See this eNewsletter for insight into the many positioning and support solutions and applications currently available to systems designers.
Topics covered include: Positioning equipment, optical tables & vibration isolation equipment, benches, rails, optical mounts
Test & Measurement
The need for quantitative information is central to all science and engineering, but it is the precision to which this information must be known that makes photonics especially challenging. This eNewsletter covers all aspects of photonics test and measurement … from wavelength characterization using, for instance, spectrometers, optical spectrum analyzers, or wavelength meters … to microscopy and subdiffraction imaging.
Topics covered include: Interferometers, optical spectrum analyzers, power & energy meters, radiometers/photometers, spectrometers, wavelength meters, microscopes
Industry Watch Product Watch Hybrid /Remote Welding Laser Cutting Medical Device Manufacturing Microprocessing Photovoltaics Plastic Welding
This e-newsletter presents selections of business news, company information and happenings in the industrial laser materials processing community. Highlighted are supplier industry activities such as; plant openings or expansion, new process developments, new product introductions, reports from conferences and trade shows and marketing trends. Periodic reports on industry finances and economics advise suppliers of market conditions.
Descriptions of new laser processing systems, advanced laser product developments and related products that assist in processing applications are chosen for their applicability in manufacturing operations such as laser cutting, welding, and surface treatment, drilling and marking operations.
Advances in production applications for laser welding are occurring with the use of laser systems that combine the energy in a laser beam with that supplied by other heat sources such as TIG, MIG or plasma torches. In this manner the welding of heat sensitive metal alloys can be accommodated.
Remote welding employing a laser mounted away from the beam material interaction point adapts the laser process to inline manufacturing operations where the focused beam can be directed to multiple interaction locations on a metal part to be joined. Process developers are satisfying end users in industries such as automotive and aerospace with advanced laser welding systems that offer increased productivity and process reliability.
This periodic newsletter reports on equipment and process developments that illustrate these processes use in industries such as auto, aerospace and large appliances.
The largest, in terms of industrial laser system revenues, application for high power lasers is sheet metal cutting used in the fabricated metal products market. More than 50% of all laser system revenues are gained from markets such as job shops, contract manufactures and large manufacturing companies. Because of the importance of laser cutting as a fabricating process and because of the impact the process has on the laser industry's economy this newsletter briefs readers on new developments in technology such as the incipient penetration of fiber lasers into the markets long held by high power CO2 lasers. Unique and innovative use of the laser cutting process is described and technology trends are analyzed.
Industrial laser systems are used by jobshops, sub-contractors and manufacturing companies that manufacture components used as medical devices that are employed widely throughout the global medical industry. Solid state, fiber and CO2 lasers are used to cut, scribe, drill, melt and join by welding a wide array of these devices on both a macro and micro scale. For example laser cutting of micro stents is the process of choice in balloon angioplasty operations.
Lasers offer rapid, reliable high quality processing for products that are implanted into humans. The choice of laser type to match the characteristics of the materials being developed is a subject that the e-newsletter covers. Processes that expand the use of lasers in the applications described are reviewed as well as the systems that employ the lasers and the operation they perform.
Microprocessing as defined by Industrial Laser Solutions are those applications that are measured on a micro scale, such as circuit trimming and via drilling, as opposed to those on a macro scale such as auto body welding. Microprocessing is an ideal laser application because it takes advantage of the lasers ability to be focused to a very small spot size with extremely high power density. Depending on the lasers used, fundamental solid state or frequency shifted into the UV wavelengths these high brightens lasers can produce a physical change on a material, metal or nonmetal without excessive thermal effects on the components being processed.
Microprocessing applications are strongest in the world of microelectronics where the laser is used to adjust deposited circuitry or in the field of medical devices where lasers weld catheter tips or machine stents uses in balloon angioplasty.
Microprocessing is the faster growing applications sector for industrial lasers as it is currently employed in rapidly expanding industrial manufacturing sectors. This periodic e-newsletter brings readers the latest news on developing laser applications offering promise to be the manufacturing processes of the future.
The use of industrial lasers in the solar power industry has mainly focused on their use in the manufacture of photovoltaic cells where solid state, fiber and diode lasers are used to scribe, weld, drill and mark silicon material used to make the cells. Most of these processes occur on a micro scale so thise- newsletter is an offshoot of the microprocessing newsletter in that it concentrates specifically on the PV industry, following its growth as the solar power technology spreads across the world.
Since the growth of solar power is tied to it's parity with the cost of energy developed by other more conventional techniques the use of industrial lasers to decrease the cost, by increasing the productivity and quality of photovoltaic products is one of the keys to achieving this parity.
This periodic newsletter will keep readers advised on the progress being made in the PV manufacturing sector that will impact industrial laser systems sales. Technology advances that offer opportunities in other industry sectors will be described using the PV applications as examples.
Until a few short years ago the joining of plastic materials was a function of hot sealing, ultrasonic welding or epoxy bonding. All of these widespread processes are relatively low cost and for the most part practical. But with the part designer’s shift away from metals in the manufacture of certain products other, faster, less intrusive joining techniques were considered. Among these is the industrial laser which until recently relied heavily of the addition of a laser beam absorbing additives into the plastic compounds.
Enter the material compounders who, working with laser suppliers, developed new more effective and lower cost additives that have allowed designers to explore unique product design using the laser as the choice for part joining.
The fast growing industrial laser application is the subject of this periodic e- newsletter that will bring the latest news on advances being made in additive chemistry and laser choices for more compatible processing.
MONTHLY: NEWS & PRODUCTS
A timely roundup of top news, insightful analysis, and hot products relevant for biomedical applications and the life sciences. This monthly newsletter highlights scientific breakthroughs, technology innovations, business news and trends, and both research and clinical applications of biophotonics.
Key topics include various approaches to imaging; disease diagnosis and therapy; laser-tissue interaction; and instruments, systems, probes and software.
TOPIC NEWSLETTERS
Cell Biology
Optical approaches have much to offer those seeking to understand cell physiology and operation and interaction. BioOptics World's cell biology newsletter covers instrumentation and methods that enable cell biologists, cell observation and analysis, sub-cellular manipulation, and cell characterization.
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Cytometry
Cell sorting and flow cytometry have enabled important research, and the technologies underlying the approaches are evolving in important ways. The BioOptics World Cytometry newsletter covers changes that are enabling biochemistry.
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Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery
"Lasers are steering the future," says the
Topics covered: OCT and other systems for skin imaging, skin cancer treatment systems, fractional lasers, home-use lasers, pulsed lasers, and applications such as hair and tattoo removal, skin resurfacing and rejuvenation, lypolysis, skin tightening, and wrinkle reduction.
DNA Sequencing
Thanks to a steady stream of technology advances, the cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted in recent years. This newsletter covers the continued advance of genome sequencing methods and technologies as the field makes steady progress toward low-cost methods that hold the promise of "democratizing" this powerful capability, which has implications for predictive and preventive medicine.
Topics covered: DNA sequencers, low-cost gene sequencing, genomics, proteomics, the $1000 genome, high-throughput methods, parallelized and "massively parallel" sequencing, pyrosequencing, single-molecule sequencing, cluster amplification, Sequencing by Oligonucleotide Ligation and Detection (SOLiD) disease diagnosis, drug development.
Microscopy
Light microscopy has benefited from a number of recent advancements including multiphoton emission for deep tissue imaging and a variety of super-resolution approaches that break the diffraction barrier to provide nondestructive imaging of sub-cellular structures. BioOptics World's microscopy newsletter covers important advances in optical microscopy and the scientific progress they are enabling.
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Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging diagnostic imaging modality that enables in vivo cross-sectional tomographic visualization of internal microstructures in biological systems. The technology has become well accepted in ophthalmology and is being developed for other applications such as intravascular imaging of the heart and skin imaging. This newsletter covers development of the technology, trends in regulatory approval and adoption, and application.
Topics covered: Time domain OCT, Frequency Domain OCT (FD-OCT) Spatially Encoded Frequency Domain OCT (aka Spectral Domain or Fourier Domain OCT), [edit] Time Encoded Frequency Domain OCT (also swept source OCT), Full Field (en face) OCT, skin cancer detection, intracoronary artery imaging, dentistry, retinal scanning, glaucoma detection.
Oncology/Cancer
From cancer research to clinical detection and treatment, optical technologies are key to the field of oncology. Scientists today are able to visualize changes in individual cancer cells, and among treatments are photodynamic therapy and "light scalpels" for brain tumor surgery. BioOptics World's Oncology/Cancer newsletter reports advances in research as well as instruments and their application, plus FDA approval process.
Topics covered: cancer margin detection, dynamic light scattering, photochemical therapy, photodynamic therapy (PDT), gold nanoparticles, image guided surgery, fluorescence molecular imaging, flexible CO2 fiber laser.
Opthamology
LASIK surgery began to revolutionize ophthalmology more than two decades ago—and optical coherence tomography has now begun to have a similar impact on the field. But those are just the most prominent examples of biophotonics applied to ophthalmology. This newsletter from BioOptics World covers the full range of technologies and instruments, their specific applications, and relevant trends in regulation.
Topics covered: eye imaging, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) detection and treatment, glaucoma detection and treatment, vision correction, retinal imaging, LASIK, optical coherence tomography (OCT).
Spectroscopy
As biomedical researchers and clinicians look for better ways to analyze complex processes, spectroscopy becomes an increasingly useful tool. This newsletter will cover Raman, near infrared and other spectroscopic methods—and the instruments that incorporate them--for research, cancer detection, drug development, and other applications.
Topics covered: Raman spectroscopy, near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), optical biopsy, proteomics, force spectroscopy, neurological disease, in-vitro fertilization (IVF), forensics, in-vivo-molecular-imaging, biomolecular structure discovery.
