Cellular Phones Drive Image Sensor Market
Cellular phones have developed as the largest market for image sensors and have become the primary...
Spectrum Detector Launched
Don Dooley, founder of Scientific Spectrum Inc. and Molectron Detector Inc., has formed Spectrum...
Goodrich Receives IR Sensor Contract
Goodrich Corp.’s Sensors Unlimited Inc. team in Princeton, N.J., will develop and fabricate a...
NanoOpto and Moxtek Form Partnership
NanoOpto Corp. of Somerset, N.J., and Moxtek Inc. of Orem, Utah, have partnered to develop...
PXIT Optical Transceiver Assets Sold to Agilent
Agilent Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has purchased the assets of the optical...
Exotic Electro-Optics Awarded $2.2 Million
Exotic Electro-Optics Inc. of Murrieta, Calif., a subsidiary of II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., has...
Trumpf Constructing Laser Facility
Trumpf Inc. of Farmington, Conn., a subsidiary of the Trumpf Group of Ditzingen, Germany, has begun...
Lumics Opens California Sales Office
Lumics Inc. of Berlin, a manufacturer of fiber-coupled laser modules, has opened a sales office in...
SPI Lasers Expands into China
To offer a wide range of local sales and support services, SPI Laser plc of Southampton, UK, has...
CorActive and INO Ally for Optical Fiber Products
In Quebec City, CorActive High-Tech Inc., a supplier of specialty optical fiber products, has...
KDF Secures Orders for Sputtering Systems
KDF Electronic & Vacuum Services Inc. of Rockleigh, N.J., has received two orders for its 654ix...
SAIC Forms Marketing Pact with Zebra Imaging
Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego has entered into a marketing agreement with...
NSF Funds Improvements to Keck Interferometer
The W.M. Keck Observatory in Kamuela, Hawaii, has received a three-year, $2 million grant from the...
Light Blue Optics Signs Licensing Agreement
In Cambridge, UK, Light Blue Optics Ltd., a developer of miniature laser projection technology, has...
Cedrat Named Distributor for New Scale
New Scale Technologies Inc. of Victor, N.Y., has named Cedrat Technologies of Meylan, France, as...
Micron Acquires Avago Technologies
CMOS image sensor supplier Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, has acquired the image sensor...
Sabeus Garners Grant to Improve Production
Sabeus Corp. of Calabasas, Calif., has received an Innovation Adoption Award from Innovation Works,...
DRS Technologies Wins Defense Contract
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., was awarded a $6.3 million contract to develop a...
Digital Surf Technology to Power nanoJura Profilometers
In Besançon, France, Digital Surf and nanoJura have entered into an agreement under which Digital...
Coherent and Osram Sign Technology Agreement
Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has signed a licensing agreement allowing Osram GmbH of...
Company to Supply UV Filter Assemblies for Military Aircraft
II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., has received $17 million in orders from a military customer to supply...
Adelphi University Plans Master’s Program in Optical Physics
Beginning this fall, Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., will offer a master’s degree program...
RPI Licenses Microscopy Technology to Thorlabs
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N.Y., has licensed its adaptive scanning optical...
Matrox Imaging Selects CRI Jolanta as Agent
Matrox Imaging of Dorval, Quebec, Canada, has appointed CRI Jolanta as its distributor in Poland....
IntraLase Awarded Defense Contract
IntraLase Corp. of Irvine, Calif., has been awarded a five-year contract worth up to $45 million by...
Nu Horizons Electronics to Distribute JAI Products
Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. of Melville, N.Y., will distribute industrial camera products from...
Companies to Develop Optical Sensor
CyberOptics Corp. of Minneapolis has partnered with Juki Corp. of Tokyo to develop a version of the...
Tamar Receives Grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded Tamar Technology of Newbury Park, Calif., a grant to...
MVTec Establishes American Plant
A German company specializing in machine vision software has expanded its operation into the US...
PerkinElmer Purchases Triton Product Line
PerkinElmer Inc. of Wellesley, Mass., has purchased a line of thermal analysis products from...
Pacer Establishes Office
Pacer International of Concord, Calif., has opened Pacer USA LLC in Blue Bell, Pa. The facility...
Edison Opto Opens Plant in China
Edison Opto Corp., a Taiwan-based manufacturer of high-power LEDs, has opened a production facility...
Optiwave and Zemax to Design Interface
Optiwave Systems Inc. of Ottawa and Zemax Development Corp. of Bellevue, Wash., have announced...