Nutfield Technology
News, Trends and Successes from the Laser Community
December 2011
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Industry Trend
NEW OPD galvo
See you @ Photonics West
New technique defies law..
Industry Trend

New Patent law favors "first to file"

Significant reform of the patent law has big implications for biomedical and life sciences...

 

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Season's Greetings

Hello, and welcome back to Laser Insights, the quarterly newsletter focused on insights from the laser scanning community.

We are very pleased to announce our new QS-12 optical position detector galvanometer.  It's improved linearity should make it a fierce competitor for your laser scanning needs.

We finish 2011 with the launch of our new website and welcome in 2012 with Photonics West in San Francisco. If you're heading to CA at the end of January, be sure to stop by and see what's new from Nutfield.

We hope you enjoy a safe and happy holiday season.

Best,

  

Bob Milkowski

rmilkowski@nutfieldtech.com 

President
Engineering Announcement

  

NEW! OPD galvo offers 99.9% linearity over +/-20 optical degrees

QS12 OPD

 

Nutfield has a developed a novel optical position detector for its line of galvanometers and scanning systems. While optical position detectors have been in use for some time they have typically exhibited compromised linearity characteristics when compared to their capacitive detector equivalents. Nutfield has overcome these limitations and is pleased to offer:

 

> 99.9 % linearity over +/- 20 optical degrees

> 99.5 % linearity over +/-34 optical degrees

 

Benefits of the OPD:

  • low mass of the moving element eliminates a resonance mode from the galvanometers' rotor 
  • improved thermal stability; significantly reducing temperature based gain and offset drift which makes temperature compensation unnecessary in most applications AND greater immunity from radio frequency interference (RFI)   

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Upcoming Events

It is hard to believe that Photonics West 2012 is just around the corner! The event is again in San Francisco at the Moscone Center, January 24-26. Nutfield will be showcasing its new optical position detector galvanometers. Please stop by and see us in the South Hall booth #1634.
From a flat mirror, designer light
 

strange optical effects

Exploiting a novel technique called phase discontinuity, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have induced light rays to behave in a way that defies the centuries-old laws of reflection and refraction. 

 

 

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