Emissivity & Optics

Give Yourself a Thermal Lobotomy

January 4, 2012 Applications
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A Snell Group White Paper! Online – The most recent issue of Think Thermally® From The Snell Group (January 2012) includes a link to the eye-catching title of a White Paper by Greg Macintosh, a well-known Infrared Thermographer and Member of the Snell Group from Ontario, Canada. The description reads as follows: When inspecting low [...]

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Newport Corporation Announces Closing of Ophir Optronics Acquisition

October 4, 2011 Emissivity & Optics
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IRVINE CA, USA — /PRNewswire/ — Newport Corporation has announced that Tuesday, October 4, 2011, the company will close its previously announced acquisition of Ophir Optronics Ltd. (“Ophir”), a global leader in precision infrared optics, photonics instrumentation and three-dimensional non-contact measurement equipment. President and Chief Executive Officer Robert J. Phillippy and Senior Vice President and [...]

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Two Days Left For ITS9 Abstracts!

July 14, 2011 Applications
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Held Once per Decade – The Top Temperature Meeting in Los Angeles – March 2012 ITS9 – the International Temperature Symposium – A friendly reminder that we are just two days away from the July 15 deadline for ITS9 Abstracts. We’ll be sending out a bulk email reminder to our general mail list. Do you [...]

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ITS9: CFP

December 8, 2010 Calibration

9th International Temperature Symposium Los Angeles / Disneyland CA, USA – March 19-23, 2012 The 9th International Temperature Symposium will be held in March of 2012, in conjunction with the Measurement Science Conference 2012, along with a combined technology exhibition. Sponsored by: Measurement Science Conference (MSC) (www.msc-conf.com) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology [...]

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Custom Lenses Enable SWIR Cameras To Achieve Full Potential

October 31, 2010 Emissivity & Optics

Resolve Optics Ltd sees increased demand for custom Short Wave Infra-Red (SWIR) lenses from makers of SWIR cameras & imaging systems. Chesham, UK –Operating from 0.9 to 1.7 microns – SWIR cameras offer unique capabilities complementary to traditional Long Wave Infra-Red (LWIR) / Mid Wave Infra-Red (MWIR) and visible …

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New version of ThermaCAM® Researcher™ software.

October 18, 2010 Control

FLIR Announces New Thermography Software for R&D Researchers Croissy-Beaubourg, FRANCE –  FLIR Advanced Thermal Solutions (ATS) has released a new version 2.10 of its popular ThermaCAM® Researcher™ software. Designed to precisely analyze thermal performance -ThermaCAM® Researcher™ is proven to be the most robust real-time digital storage, measurement, and analysis software available. Extremely versatile, Researcher digitally [...]

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STANDARD FREEZE-POINT BLACKBODIES

April 11, 2010 Calibration
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Primary Standards For Traceable Infrared Temperature Calibrations Santa Barbara CA, USA –  The Electro Optical Industries (EOI) series of primary standard blackbodies are pure elemental freezing point blackbody radiation sources for use as primary standards of spectral radiance. The ITS90 temperature scale is defined by the freezing points of pure elements. EOI freeze point blackbodies [...]

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NEW dual-band IR camera

April 1, 2010 Emissivity & Optics
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FLIR Systems Inc.& Sofradir to collaborate on new IR thermal  imagers Washington DC & Paris, France  – FLIR Systems Inc., have announced that FLIR Systems will be collaborating with Sofradir on state-of-the-art third-generation dual-band detectors and camera cores to create thermal cameras with enhanced capabilities for military and commercial applications. Sofradir brings its industry-leading detector [...]

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10th International Conference on Quantitative IR Thermography

May 31, 2009 Applications
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Q I R T 20 1 0 – Call for Papers – Quebec City, Canada, July 27-30, 2010 Quebec City PQ, CANADA — The Quantitative Infrared Thermography (QIRT) conference is an international forum which brings together specialists from industry and academia, who share an active interest in the latest developments of science, experimental practices and [...]

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Precisely Measuring The Quality Of Imaging Systems…

March 7, 2009 Calibration

Kenley, UK — Optical Surfaces Ltd. has announced that it has delivered, to a leading European avionics / defence supplier, a 235mm clear aperture beam collimator enabling the company to precisely measure the quality of their Imaging systems from the visible to the IR using Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) criteria. As the demand for …

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Ultra-thin Optical Window for Infrared Sensors

June 6, 2006 Emissivity & Optics

Beijing City, P.R.China — Laser Optex has developed ultra-thin crystalline material windows for IR, visible sensor and other wavebands from UV to MM wavelengths in a wide range of materials. Window sizes are from from 2.5 mm to 35 mm in diameter. Materials and thickness limits include: Barium Fluoride: (BaF2) 0.2 …

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Correction System for Thermal IR Emissivity

November 25, 2005 Emissivity & Optics

Raleigh, NC USA — MICRO-EPSILON, a member of micro-epsilon group. offers several unique IR temperature measuring systems. One, optris® CTtrans, provides a measurement mode that determines transmissivity and emissivity of semitransparent materials in the mid-IR band between 8 – 14 µm, that, in turn enables automatic, online correction for emissivity and transmissivity of such …

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