Photonics innovators honored with Prism awards
Phil Lelyveld
Entertainment Technology Center
[SPIE.org, the international society for optics and photonics]
Winners of the 2011 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation were announced at a gala banquet last night (25 January) during SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco.
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• MERMEC (Detectors, Sensing, Imaging and Cameras), for T-Sight 5000, a system mounted to the front of high-speed trains that performs an in-depth inspection and analysis of tunnels and clearance profiles on railways, capturing image data of bridges, underpasses, poles, and other obstacles that may hinder the safe transport of rail passengers and cargo. Once image data are captured, the system can visually recreate 3D images of the railway infrastructure. T-Sight 5000 internal architecture integrates two different systems (clearance gauge measurement and tunnel wall inspection) sharing the same laser illuminating source. T-Sight 5000 is simply unique, being at the same time the smaller, lighter and most accurate system on the market. …
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