NIREOS

Our technology is based on Fourier-transform (FT) spectroscopy, a technique that uses interference of light rather than dispersion to measure spectra. Light is split in two collinear time-delayed replicas, whose interference pattern is measured by a detector as a function of their delay. The FT of the resulting interferogram yields the continuous-intensity spectrum of the waveform. FT spectrometers have prominent advantages over dispersive ones:

(i) higher signal-to-noise ratio in a readout-noise-dominated regime (multiplex or Fellgett’s advantage);

(ii) higher throughput and increased system étendue, due to the absence of slits (Jacquinot’s advantage);

(iii) higher wavelength accuracy (Connes’ advantage).

Moreover, FT spectrometers provides a flexible spectral resolution, which is adjusted at will by varying the maximum scan delay and does not affect the throughput of the device.

Our techonology retains all the aforementioned advantages of Fourier-transform spectrometers, namely: Fellgett’s, Jacquinot’s and Connes’ advantages.

Furthermore, our interferometer is ultra-stable and completely insensitive to external vibrations. These features are made possible thanks to the novel employed technology. Unlike a Michelson or a Mach–Zehnder interferometers, our device does not separate the two replicas in space (which would cause mechanical instabilities) but in polarization. To this purpose, it makes use of birefringence. In this class of materials, vertically and horizontally polarized light experience a different index of refraction, and thus it propagates with different speed. As it can be seen in this animation, it is possible to vary the delay between the two replicas by changing the insertion of a birefringent wedge, thus continuously varying the material thickness.

Our patented passive common-path interferometer inherently features an extremely high delay stability and reproducibility (better than 1 attosecond, i.e. approx. a thousandth of the wavelength). For this reason, it can be used without any active control or position tracking even in harsh environments such as industries in the presence of vibrations.

Terasense

Terasense Group Inc. is a leading manufacturer of innovative portable terahertz (THz) imaging systems, Terahertz imaging cameras, THz sources and THz detectors. Our products balance at the cutting edge of scientific and technological breakthroughs and have a number of competitive advantages. Terasense is a research-focused company committed to the concept of continuous improvement. We employ original patent-protected technology for making new type of semiconductor detectors for imaging sensor arrays(cameras), which effectively cover sub-THz and THz ranges of electromagnetic spectrum (50 GHz — 700 GHz)

TeTechS

Terahertz·Technology·Solutions

Founded in 2010, TeTechS is a leading innovator and provider of advanced measurement solutions for scientific and industrial applications. TeTechS’ solutions draw on the distinctive characteristics of leading terahertz technology to develop measurement solutions to challenges that cannot be addressed by visible, infrared and x-ray technologies. TeTechS’ TeraGauge™ is the first Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) gauge powered by terahertz for the multi-billion dollar NDT market.

About TeTechS’ Technology:

Our measurement solutions are powered by terahertz waves. A form of light, terahertz waves fall along the electromagnetic spectrum between microwave and infrared.

Our solutions are unique in more ways than one.

Not only is TeTechS the only company in Canada that is commercializing on terahertz, our unique solutions are created and built within Silicon Valley North or the “Quantum Valley”: Waterloo, Ontario.

THE QNC MBE FACILITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Our strategic partnership with the University of Waterloo grants us access to world-renowned research teams and state-of-the-art fab facilities in the fields of material science and device fabrication. This partnership, backed by support from strong public funding through organizations like NSERC, NRC-IRAP and the Ontario Centres of Excellence, enables us to develop and manufacture the highest performance active materials which are found at the heart of all our terahertz solutions.

www.tetechs.com

Innovative Photonic Solutions

IPS specializes in Wavelength Stabilized Lasers Ideal for:

Raman spectroscopy
Fiber laser seeding & pumping

Medical sensing & imaging
Defense based applications

Our lasers are “Locked” to the specific wavelength of interest, are narrow linewidth, high power, and are available in either open beam or fiber coupled format.

Teem Photonics

Teem Photonics DNA is to develop unique scalable solutions and make them work effectively for the benefit of long term OEM partners. We believe that real progress is achieved when advanced functionality and robustness meet affordability and volume, and that is how we achieved our current leadership.

With headquarters and main facility located near Grenoble, a hot bed of technology firms and European research laboratories in the French Alps, the company 50 people staff competences span from R&D to series manufacturing to supply industrial customers all over the world.

Photon Systems

Photon Systems, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets deep ultraviolet lasers and incoherent sources, instruments based on these sources, and optical and electro-optical accessories for a broad range of applications primarily within the area of analytical and biotechnology sciences instrumentation used in all types of industries. Examples include biotechnology applications such as drug development and other pharmaceutical research and product testing, protein conformation and other proteomics-related research, homeland security applications such as bioterrorism agent detection and identification and other microbial monitoring applications such as hospital surgery inspection, clinical diagnostics, environmental monitoring such as water, air and food quality; semiconductor development and processing related to synthetic diamond growth and direct wide bandgap semiconductor devices for high temperature but also including production testing of ball grid array surfaces in a production environment, solar blind detection, or UV semiconductor laser development, and a myriad of other applications where small spot sizes or photon-energy-specific excitation is needed or enabling.

Since beginning full time operation in June 1999, Photon Systems has focused on the development of two new unique classes of deep ultraviolet (DUV) laser sources as well as analytical and biotechnology sciences instruments enabled by these innovative new laser technologies. The new DUV laser technologies include both hollow cathode and semiconductor devices. The new instrument technologies enabled by these lasers include targeted ultraviolet chemical sensors (TUCS) which include an integrated combination of UV resonance fluorescence and/or resonance Raman sensors, photoluminescence (PL) spectrometers, and UV resonance Raman spectrometers (UVRRS). In addition, Photon Systems has developed methods for employing its DUV laser technologies for use in other instrumental methodologies such as laser induced resonance fluorescence detectors for capillary electrophoresis and liquid chromatography instruments, flow cytometers, and other instrumental methodologies. Photon Systems has focused its efforts on deep UV sources and systems because of the major technical advantages demonstrated for chemical sensors and instruments operating in this wavelength range and because of the paucity of sources and sensor technology in this area. High levels of chemical sensitivity and specificity can be achieved using UV probe wavelengths in a non-contact, non-invasive, non-destructive sensor that requires no sample handling or preparation.

PreciPoint

PreciPoint stands for exceptional innovations in the field of microscopy and micropositioning systems. Our diverse in-house expertise ranges from optical, mechanical and electronical components to software.

PreciPoint develop OEM products by supplying custom-made solutions, individual modules, complete devices or innovative operating concepts. The spectrum of the company portfolio includes smart microscopes, x-y-stages, electronic control systems and automated testing systems. We have most recently engineered the M8, a dual digital microscope and scanner that allows you to work on your slides right away.

PreciPoint headquarters is located in the Munich area, and our production facility is located in Thüringen, Germany.

http://www.precipoint.com

Bioptech

Bioptechs is an innovative American optical engineering company that develops, and manufacturers live-cell microscopy environmental control systems used for qualitative and or quantitative light microscopy. Most of our customers are university level researchers engaged in basic science or disease research. Bioptechs has developed and patented several technologies which are indispensable to todays technological requirements for live-cell microscopy. They include:

› Microaqueduct laminar perfusion in a temperature controlled optical cavity

› A unique symmetric closure mechanism for optical cavities

› Objective thermal regulation devices to eliminate thermal gradients in the specimen area when using high numeric aperture objectives

› A unique hybrid culture dish system specifically designed for live-cell microscopy which utilizes a highly efficient and accurate technology to uniformly maintain the thermal, optical and fluid requirements of cultured cells and tissue.

› A new microscope technology that instantly and continuously corrects the focus of a specimen in the back focal plane of the objective while also correcting spherical aberration without altering the distance from the lens to the specimen so that the scope can function autonomously. It also has the ability to track motile cells in 3D, independent of the coverslip position, or provide continuous focus correction for serpentine scanning applications. Over more than 23 years Bioptechs’ products have demonstrated their ability to out-perform traditional systems and have become the preferred method of micro-environmental control for researchers worldwide. Bioptechs manufactures more than 150 standardized products, countless custom solutions, and provide customers with a variety of related products and services.

Ibsen Photonics

Ibsen Photonics develops and manufactures transmission diffraction grating components and grating-based spectrometer modules. Ibsen Photonics’s grating components are used in a broad range of applications in diverse industries such as telecom, sensing, lasers and spectroscopy. Their spectrometer modules are used in sensor systems and spectroscopy applications such as absorption and florescence spectroscopy, Optical Coherence Tomography, Raman Spectroscopy, and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy.

High Performing Grating Components

Ibsen gratings are tailored to specific customer requirements, manufactured to very tight specifications using unique Ibsen processing technologies, and pass extensive metrology and quality inspections prior to shipment.

Grating Products

Ibsen manufactures both standard grating products and gratings that are entirely customer specified, in either case in one-off, never recurring requirements, or in continuing deliveries of high quantities. In both cases our customers enjoy our policy of always helpful after-sales support and services to ensure success for our customers.

NOIR LaserShields

Established in 1996 as an off-branch of NoIR Medical Technologies (1972), NoIR Laser Company, L.L.C. has emerged as a leader in the eye-safety industry by maintaining a singular focus: to develop a comprehensive line of safety eyewear for coherent and non-coherent light sources by responding to the needs of customers, both large and small.