Strong Growth Predicted for European Photonics
European photonics continues to perform well in several sectors of the market but controls only a...
DoE Completes Latest Round of Testing of Solid-State Lighting
As solid-state lighting products begin to arrive on the market, standards-setting organizations,...
Gooch & Housego Consolidates
Five players in the photonics industry are being brought together under the Gooch & Housego...
Intevac to Acquire Display Company
Intevac Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has signed an agreement to acquire Creative Display Systems...
Photonic Component Group Created
Power Technology Inc. of Little Rock, Ark., has created the Photonic Component Group, a division...
US Industrial Laser Orders Fall in Third Quarter of 2007
Sales of industrial laser equipment and systems in North America fell to $116.6 million in the...
Updated Report Available on Laser Projection Systems
An updated market report on the use of lasers as an illumination source for projection systems has...
Graduate School Created for Photonics
A graduate research school for photonics has been created by Friedrich Schiller University in Jena,...
Naked Optics Signs Distribution Agreement
Glass and IR materials supplier Naked Optics Corp. of North Branch, N.J., has signed an exclusive...
Multiwave Photonics Adds Distributor
Multiwave Photonics SA of Maia, Portugal, a company that develops and produces pulsed fiber lasers...
Isra Vision Acquires Metronom Automation
Isra Vision AG of Darmstadt, Germany, has finalized its acquisition agreement with Metronom...
CyOptics Announces Acquisition
CyOptics Inc. of Breinigsville, Pa., a developer of indium phosphide optical chip and component...
Companies to Develop Single-Photon-Counting Module
Princeton Lightwave Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., and id Quantique SA of Geneva, are collaborating to...
Chinese Firm Enters Solar Market
XinAo Group of Heibei, China, announced that it is entering the solar energy market with a plan to...
Laser Energetics Wins Contract
Laser Energetics Inc. of Princeton, N.J., has received a contract valued at more than $480,000 for...
Sales Agencies Signed
Adept Technology Inc. of Livermore, Calif., a provider of vision-guided robotics, has signed two...
JDSU to Acquire Holograph Company
JDSU of Milpitas, Calif., has announced an agreement to acquire American Bank Note Holographics...
ChemImage Awarded Grant
ChemImage Corp. of Pittsburgh has received a small business innovation research grant to study...
Optek Technology Names Distributor
Optek Technology Inc. of Carrollton, Texas, has selected NRC Electronics Inc. of Boca Raton, Fla.,...
Matrox Imaging Selects Brazilian Distributor
Matrox Imaging of Dorval, Quebec, Canada, has announced that InviSys SVC Ltda of Curitiba, Brazil,...
QPC Receives $12 Million Contract
QPC Lasers Inc. of Sylmar, Calif., has been awarded a contract for BrightLase semiconductor lasers...
El-Mul Acquires QuantomiX
QuantomiX of Rehovot, Israel, developer of a capsule technology that enables direct imaging of wet...
LED Light from Single High-Brightness Chip
LEDs have been around for close to half a century and have made steady progress, not the least of...