IEC Issues Revised Laser Safety Standard
The IEC, based in Geneva, has released the second edition of the IEC-60825-1 standard Safety of...
Rofin-Sinar Acquires Companies in US, UK
Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc., with headquarters in Plymouth, Mich., and Hamburg, Germany, has...
OFS Adds Distributor
With the opening of an office in Milan, Italy, SEDI Fibre Ottiche has joined Fort Fibre Ottiche of...
Plextronics Receives Grant
A $340,500 grant has been awarded by the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center to...
Optikos Relocates
In Massachusetts, Optikos Corp. has moved its headquarters from Cambridge to Wakefield. The...
NASA Chooses Aurora to Develop Optics
Aurora Design & Technology of Clearwater, Fla., has announced that it will design and develop...
Mouser to Distribute LedEngin Products
Mouser Electronics Inc. of Mansfield, Texas, and LedEngin Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., have signed...
IPG Photonics Expands in China
IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., has opened an office in Beijing to provide local support and...
Fox Group, Opton Laser Sign Agreement
The Fox Group Inc., based in Deer Park, N.Y., and Montreal, has selected Opton Laser International...
Townes Laser Institute Dedicated in Florida
The Townes Laser Institute was dedicated as a new laser technology Center of Excellence within the...
NASA Chooses Sensor Manufacturer
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Pasadena, Calif., has chosen Tower Semiconductor Ltd. of Migdal...
Olympus to Distribute for Hamamatsu
Olympus America Inc. of Center Valley, Pa., has signed an agreement with Hamamatsu Corp. of...
OSA Joins Research Site
The Optical Society of America in Washington has joined 12 other scientific, engineering and...
Photon Dynamics, Salvador Imaging Create New Company
Photon Dynamics Inc. of San Jose, Calif., and Salvador Imaging Inc. of Colorado Springs, Colo.,...
MVTec Appoints Distributor in India
MVTec Software GmbH of Munich, Germany, has appointed Lucid Imaging Pvt. Ltd. of Bangalore, India,...
Asylum Research Invests in German Distributor
A manufacturer of atomic force microscopes, Asylum Research of Santa Barbara, Calif., has purchased...
Photo Research Appoints Midwest Distributor
Photo Research Inc. of Chatsworth, Calif., has appointed BEA Electro Sales of Elk Grove Village,...
Satisloh Enlarges Precision Optics Unit
A supplier of technology for ophthalmic and precision optics manufacturing, Satisloh AG of Baar,...
Photon Partners with Telepro
Photon Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has announced that Telepro Inc. of Verdun, Quebec, Canada, will...
CVI Laser to Acquire Melles Griot
CVI Laser LLC of Albuquerque, N.M., has signed an agreement to acquire Melles Griot, a deal...
Manz Licenses Synova Technology
Manz Automation AG of Reutlingen, Germany, has initiated an exclusive agreement to license MicroJet...
Excellon Taps Viking
Excellon Automation of Rancho Dominguez, Calif., has appointed Viking Ltd. of Houghton Regis, UK,...
Indeco to Represent Toptica in Japan
Toptica Photonics AG of Gräfelfing, Germany, has strengthened its presence in Japan with the...
Onefive Teams with M Square
Onefive GmbH of Zurich, Switzerland, has named M Square Corp. of Tokyo as distributor of all its...
Company to Acquire Eastman Kodak Unit
Rohm and Haas Co. of Philadelphia has agreed to acquire Eastman Kodak Co.’s Light Management Film...
3S Photonics Is Launched
Avanex Corp. of Fremont, Calif., has sold its subsidiary Avanex France SA to its director, Didier...
Ionatron Receives Naval Contract for Technology
The federal government has granted Ionatron Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., a contract to continue...
Catalyst, Leadis Form LED Driver Partnership
Catalyst Semiconductor Inc. of Santa Clara and Leadis Technology Inc. of Sunnyvale, both in...
Veeco Instruments, Leica Microsystems Ally for Research
Veeco Instruments Inc. of Woodbury, N.Y., a supplier of nanoscience instrumentation, and Leica...
Infotonics Center Employs Suss MicroTec Tools
The Infotonics Technology Center of Canandaigua, N.Y., has selected Suss MicroTec America Inc.’s...
Coast Composites, CCAT to Fabricate Molds
Coast Composites of Irvine, Calif., and the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Inc. of East...
Microvision Awarded Laser Projection Contract
Microvision Inc. of Redmond, Wash., has announced that it will develop a projection-based display...
ITW Purchases Cal Sensors
Illinois Tool Works (ITW) of Glenview, Ill., has acquired Cal Sensors Inc. of Santa Rosa, Calif.,...
Companies Will Supply Compatible Devices
A group of optical chip and module manufacturers has agreed to supply compatible sources of optical...