Recent News

(May 2012) CERAMITEC 2012 München


From 22. to 25. May, in Munich, Germany the international trade Fair CERAMITEC 2012 takes place. The SECOPTA Company presents together with the Horn & Co. KG an industrial reference application for sorting of refractory material with it`s FiberLIBS system. Please visit us in Hall 5, Booth 304/404.

(April 2012) Sensor Based Sorting 2012 Aachen

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At 18. and 19. April, in Aachen, Germany the Conference Sensor Based Sorting 2012 was held. Dr. Christian Bohling took part in the meeting with talk about the LIBS sensor technology for sorting applications. In the accompanying exhibition and with new prospects were shown Recycling Applications based on FiberLIBS and a approach for a Scan Head.

(October 2011) Annual Meeting "Processing and Recycling" Freiberg

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At 09. and 10. October, in Freiberg, Germany the Annual Meeting "Processing and Recycling" 2011 was held. The SECOPTA Company took part in the meeting with talk about the potentials of LIBS use in extraction of raw materials and has presented in the accompanying exhibition a demonstrator of the FiberLIBS system.

(August 2011) Conference 6th FUTURE SECURITY Berlin

Poster XDetect
From 05 to 07 September, in Berlin, Germany the Security Research Conference 6th FUTURE SECURITY was held. The SECOPTA Company has presented on a Poster its prototype of the portable system for the detection of explosives XDetect. The XDetect poster is available in the Download section.

(May 2011) Preliminary Data Sheet XDetect

PreData XDetect
To prepare the market launch of the new explosives detector XDetect first user information and technical data are closed in a preliminary produkt information. The XDetect Preliminary Data Sheet is available in the Download section.

(April 2011) Product Information FiberLIBS updated

InfoData FiberLIBS
In April was updated the user information and technical data for the FiberLIBS system. All actual information is been included in a new product flyer and now available in the Download section.

(March 2011) Article in magazine Wehrtechnik

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In the magazine Wehrtechnik , issue 01/2011, the NST Newco Safety Technologies Kiel announces in an article (in German) the market launch of an explosives detector developed by SECOPTA for the III. Quarter of 2011.

(March 2011) Joining the network MoBiCluP

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The Molecular Biology Cluster Network Potsdam MoBiCluP supports the member and partner companies develop skills in molecular biology and biotechnology, and realize joint research projects. The Secopta will bring their own experiences in the detection of biological materials and examine the possibilities of using LIBS analysis systems in this field.

(January 2011) Conference IERC 2011 Salzburg

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From 19 to 20 January, in Salzburg, Austria the IERC 2011 conference takes place. The SECOPTA Company takes part in the accompanying exhibition and presents a demonstrator of the FiberLIBS system.

(January 2011) Delivery of the first FiberLIBS system with hand manipulated measuring head

Photo FiberLIBS with hand manipulated Head
In January 2011 the SECOPTA will hand over for use to a key-account customer the first FiberLIBS element analysis system with hand manipulated measuring head. After testing and fitting of the system in real industrial environment there should be realized a couple of systems at a single location.

(October 2010) Articles in Physik Journal and INNOTECH magazin

The new features and enhanced user benefits are presented in short articles in Physik Journal "Best Of 2010", issue Oktober 2010, and INNOTECH-Magazin, issue 4/2010, (in German).

(September 2010) Conference LIBS 2010 Memphis

From 13 to 17 September, in Memphis, TN, USA the LIBS 2010 conference takes place. SECOPTA presents on a poster at first time the finished new design of its industrial LIBS analysis system.

(September 2010) Conference SPIE Security+Defence 2010 Toulouse

From 20 to 23 September, in Toulouse, France the SPIE Security+Defence 2010 conference takes place. Current focus is the transfer of results from the most recent research in the field of optics to applications in the security field. In the talk "Trace detection of nitrogen-based explosives with UV-PLF" (7838A-9) SECOPTA presents newest results in the development of a portable system for the detection of explosives.
The presentation was held by Dr. Jens-Uwe Günther on 20 September 2010 in the session "Local Sensing: Nuclear, Crime Scenes, Narcotics, Explosives, and Chemical and Biological Agents II".

(August 2010) Development of the new FiberLIBS successfully completed

Photo New FiberLIBS
In August 2010 the SECOPTA GmbH has finished the design of the new element analysis system FiberLIBS. It will replace the previous sensor system LIBS-SORT. Read more about the new features and the general FiberLIBS Product Information in our download area.

(June 2010) ILA Berlin Air Show 2010

On 10 June the ILA Berlin (08. - 13. June) carries out a workshop and exhibition about Defense and Security of Commercial Air Transport. Conference title: "Innovation potential for people controls: How can the security in aviation become even more reliable and efficient?"
The SECOPTA Company takes part in the exhibition and presents a detector of hazardous substances XDetect.

(May 2010) ELROB Show 2010 Hammelburg

SECOPTA booth at ELROB 2010
On the ELROB Show (17. - 20. May) the SECOPTA Company presents together with the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut a new kind of detecting explosives (left in the photo).

(May 2010) Conference at the International Trade Fair SENSOR+TEST 2010 Nürnberg

SENSOR+TEST Nürnberg
"Energy Efficiency" is the Focal Topic of the 17th International Trade Fair for Sensorics, Measuring and Testing Technologies. SENSOR+TEST 2010 (18. - 20. May) with Concurrent Conferences demonstrate the important role of sensors and measurement in this future field.
Dr. Christian Bohling starts the work of the Session "Optical Sensors" (18.05.2010) with overview presentation "LIBS-Sensors for industrial use (in German)".

(March 2010) Conference Sensor Based Sorting 2010 Aachen

Sensor Based Sorting 2010 photo of the booth
SECOPTA presents (09. - 11. March) the industrial LIBS-SORT-system on the exhibition that accompanies the conference.

(November 2009) Article in Journal "Laser+Photonics"

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The article "Microchip lasers revolutionize LIBS spectroscopy" describes fundamentals and applications of LIBS systems based on microchip lasers. The article was published in the Hanser journal "Laser+Photonics".

(September 2009) Article about scrap metal recycling

WLB Wasser, Luft und Boden, Zeitschrift für Umwelttechnik  Download WLB Beitrag
In an article of the journal WLB Wasser, Luft und Boden, Zeitschrift für Umwelttechnik (Issue 9/2009) SECOPTA presents recent developments in the field of industrial LIBS systems, especially their application in scrap metal recycling.

(September 2009) Conference SPIE Security+Defence 2009 Berlin

At the SPIE Conference "Security+Defence Europe" state of the art in using optical technologyies in the security field was discussed. SECOPTA and their project partners TU Clausthal and WIS (Wehrwissenschaftlichen Institut für ABC Schutztechnologien) presented current results in detection hazardous biological contaminations.
On 01.09.2009 at 13:00 Mario Mordmüller/ TU Clausthal in Session "Optically Based Biological and Chemical Detection for Defence V" will talk about "Determination of hazardous microbiological samples" (Nr. 7484-14).

(June 2009) Presentation of SECOPTA GmbH in the INNOTECH-Magazine

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INNOTECH, "The magazine for the technology region south eastern Berlin" Issue 02/2009 presents the SECOPTA GmbH in an article.

(June 2009) SECOPTA and NST visit SWEDEC in Eksjö

SWEDEC Logo  Impressions of the visit by SWEDEC
In Eksjö Sweden SECOPTA presented their current analysis system and new projects in development of detector systems for explosives. With EOD and Demining Center SWEDEC the use of optical technologies in mine and explosives detection was disscussed.

(May 2009) Trade Fair SENSOR+TEST 2009 Nürnberg

SECOPTA booth at SENSOR+TEST 2009
The presentation of the SECOPTA products at SENSOR+TEST 2009 in Nürnberg was very satisfactory. Outstanding interest was focused on the new LIBS-SORT system for fast automated LIBS-analysis in different applications of industrial process control. The high industrial performance of the LIBS-SORT system was demonstrated by the example of recycling scrap metal .

(May 2009) New flyer presenting the activities of SECOPTA GmbH

Flyer SECOPTA GmbH SECOPTA presents itself in a new flyer.

(April 2009) Product Information EVA-SPEC available

Download Product Information EvaSpec
The EVA-SPEC system for evanescent field spectroscopy can be used anywhere where the absorption spectroscopy reaches its limits because of scattering and fluctuation or low optical accessibility of the laser beam. In the new Product Information the essential features of the EVA-SPEC system are summarized.

(April 2009) Redesign of the SECOPTA website

The website of SECOPTA has been extended greatly and now offers visitors a wealth of information for SECOPTA, the technologies and products. The "Applications" section will be constantly updated by presenting customized solutions.

(April 2009) New optical lab based

Photos of the new Lab
Commissioning the new laboratory SECOPTA improves processing of customers samples for preparation of customers application projects. In addition to the development of optical sensor systems now the processing and assembly of optical fibers is possible.

(March 2009) Conference IWA Nürnberg

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From 13 to 15 March 2009 in Nürnberg the IWA Show takes place. The supporting program includes a conference of the Police University on "Weapons and Equipment". SECOPTA presents potential applications of optical technologies for the detection of hazardous and explosive materials.

(March 2009) New Product Informations available

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The new information about our products LIBS-SORT and LIBS-PROD now available in the "Download" section.

(December 2008) Articles in the magazines "Global Security" (EN) and "Homeland Security" (DE)

Front page Global Security
In the articles were been discussed opportunities of the optical technologies in security fields. The articles are available in the "Download" section.