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Our Company News
January 11, 2012: Tria Image
Processing, version 2.8,
is released. This is the
first version that allows the
user to write their own image
equations.
September 7,
2011: In
celebration of the 100th
anniversary of the discovery of
superconductivity, Quarktet is
giving one free license of Pulseview
to every Physics Department in
the USA.
July 21,
2011: Dr. Caron
presents the first talk on "Continuous
Laser Generation of Ultrasound" at the QNDE
Conference in Burlington, VT.
May 31, 2011:
The Tria
Demonstration Program
reaches 5000 downloads.
March 3,
2011: USPTO publishes patent
application for Continuous Laser
Generation of Ultrasound, a
method of creating ultrasonic
waves in materials for use in
nondestructive evalutation of
the material.
October 5, 2010: The
PulseView
Data Plotting Program is
released. PulseView is a
data plotting program that
provides simple and efficient
viewing of data in text
files.
June 24, 2010: The Tria
Demonstration Program
reaches 2500 downloads.
June 22, 2010:
Cloudy Nights publishes a review
article by Joel Schmid on
removing blur from astronomical
images.
June 5, 2009:
Detroit Red Wings lose to
Pittsburgh Penguins in game 7 of
the Stanely Cup Playoffs.
All employees are expected to
work extended hours.
February 18,
2009: Tutorial
Services have been added
for customers who would like
additional instruction.
June 5, 2008:
Quarktet celebrates the Stanley
Cup victory of the Detroit Red
Wings. All employees are
given the day off.
May,
10 2007: The
Tria
Demonstration Program reaches 1000
downloads.
April
8, 2008: AstroPhoto
Insight publishes a review article
by Neil Fleming on our Tria Image
Processing Program
for the removal of blur from sky
photos. The online magazine, found at
http://www.astrophotoinsight.com/, is
targeted to dedicated astro
photographers, exhibiting some great
photos of nebulae and galaxies.
The
article
steps
through the blind deconvolution
(using SeDDaRA)
of a 1k by 1k image, shows several
other examples, and gives tips on
avoiding artifacts resulting from
saturated pixels.
October
10, 2007: Quarktet releases Tria
Image Processing, Version 2.0.
Tria V2.0 features a faster
interface, faster processing, more
features, and the best higher-bit
image viewer.
August
17, 2007: Quarktet discovers an
unpublished paper
on the thermoelastic and ablative
generation of ultrasound in
composite materials.
July
26, 2007: New research
on the ultrasonic deflection and
displacement of an optical beam
(i.e. GCLAD) is presented at the
QNDE conference in Golden, Colorado.
February
19, 2007: Quarktet welcomes the
addition of Eva Caron to our team!
January
4, 2007: The
Tria
Demonstration Program reaches 500
downloads.
June
23, 2006: The
Tria
Demonstration Program reaches 250
downloads.
June
7, 2006: Alien face discovered in
the x-ray of a duck. Although
this event has no association with
my company, we received over 13,000
web hits on the topic. Any
publicity is good publicity.
January
18, 2006: President James Caron
featured in Radiations
as a "Hidden
Physicist". Radiations
is the official publication of Sigma
Pi Sigma, the national physics honor
society.
January
10, 2006: The Tria
Demonstration Program reaches 100
downloads.
September
30, 2005: We are happy to announce
the official release of the Tria Image
Processing Program. This
is the first and only program that
uses the patented SeDDaRA
blind deconvolution process.
February
24, 2005: Quarktet welcomes the
addition of Cole Caron to our team!
February 22,
2005: U.S. Patent Office awards
a patent for the SeDDaRA blind
deconvolution process
(finally!). See the official press
release here.
May 15, 2004:
Research Support Instruments
of Lanham, MD, is awarded
two grants to study the
application of SeDDaRA to
multi-frame sequences.
June 1, 2004:
Research Support Instruments
of Lanham, MD, is awarded a
research grant to study the
implementation of a portable
GCLAD system.
January 28,
2004: The SeDDaRA
restoration of an image
showing the microwave
radiation of the universe is
awarded Imaging Solution
of the Year by Advanced
Imaging Magazine for
2004. The image can be seen
in the Gallery.
See the official press
release here.
October 9, 2003:
Quarktet obtains full
ownership of the GCLAD
patent! The patent was the
property of the University
of Delaware, where the
technique was invented. In
September, the University
agreed to transfer ownership
to Dr. James N. Caron,
president of Quarktet and
one of the co-inventors.
This enables Quarktet to
directly negotiate licensing
agreements and research
contracts with interested
parties. Interested parties
should Contact
us.
January 8,
2003: GCLAD listed as one of
the "Innovations
and
emerging
technologies
in
Bassoon"
on the Adeovaleo
Website.
November 11, 2002:
Quarktet welcomes the addition
of Luke Caron to our
team.
November 10,
2002: Applied Optics, Vol.
26(15) publishes article on
SeDDaRA Restoration entitled
"Noniterative blind data
restoration by use of an
extracted filter
function." See
Research .
June 15, 2002:
Quarktet celebrates the
Stanley Cup victory of the
Detroit Red Wings. All
employees are given the
day off.
February 27, 2002:
Quarktet launches the official
company website. The
website provides common
information for web surfers
and in-depth descriptions of
our technologies for our
target customers.
Jan. 15, 2002: Nondestructive
Testing
and Evaluation, Vol.
17 , publishes a
review about GCLAD, entitled
"Overview Ultrasound
Sensing using Gas-coupled
Laser Acoustic
Detection." See
Research .
Jan. 5, 2002:
'Strange Cork' becomes
'Quarktet, Inc.' to
celebrate our newest
technology, the blind
deconvolution algorithm
designated SeDDaRA.
Nov. 1,
2001: Laser Focus
World publishes World News
article on SeDDaRA, based on
August's article in Optics
Letters. See
Research .
August 15, 2001:
Optics Letters, Vol. 26(15)
publishes first article on
SeDDaRA entitled "Blind data
restoration with an
extracted filter
function." See
Research .
March 21, 2000:
U. S. Patent, number
6,041,020, is issued,
entitled "Gas-coupled laser
acoustic detection"
assigned to the University
of Delaware . See
Research .
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