Gemfire and Covega Have Merged
Gemfire Corp. of Fremont, Calif., has completed its merger with Covega Corp. of Jessup, Md., a...
Boeing Receives $49 Million Contract
Boeing Co. of St. Louis has been awarded a $49 million contract by the US Air Force. The company...
Firecomms Selects Representative
Firecomms Ltd. of Austin, Texas, a developer of plastic optical fiber transceivers and...
Cergence Re-Enters Fiber Optic Industry
Cergence Inc., formerly LightMatrix Technologies LLC, of West Chester, Pa., has re-entered the...
Indium to Open Korean Facility
Indium Corp. of Clinton, N.Y., a supplier of materials for the electronics assembly and solar...
Qioptiq to Acquire Point Source
Qioptiq Group of Fairport, N.Y., a designer and manufacturer of optical solutions, has agreed to...
Luminit to Collaborate with Asahi Kasei
Luminit LLC of Torrance, Calif., a provider of custom and standard holographic diffusers, has...
Trumpf Acquires Segments of Fisba
Trumpf Laser GmbH + Co. KG of Ditzingen, Germany, has acquired the laser plastic welding and...
Northrop Grumman Awarded MDA Contract
Northrop Grumman Corp. of Redondo Beach, Calif., has received a contract from the Missile Defense...
Solar Energy Project to be Launched in the United Kingdom
Durham University in the UK will lead a four-year solar energy research project with a focus on...
Salvador Imaging Awarded Contract from Raytheon
Salvador Imaging, a subsidiary of Photon Dynamics Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has been awarded a...
Crystal Systems Receives $250K for Crystal Growth Project
Crystal Systems Inc. of Salem, Mass., has received $250,000 from the French Institute de la Lumiere...
Road Map for European Photonics Available
The Merging Optics & Nanotechnologies (MONA) project based in Grenoble, France, has published...
Jenoptik Acquires Epigap Optoelektronik
In Germany, Jenoptik AG of Jena has purchased all shares in Epigap Optoelektronik GmbH of Berlin to...
Osram Grants License to PerkinElmer
Osram Opto Semiconductors, a subsidiary of Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany, has granted a license to...
Applied Analytics Moves Its Headquarters
Applied Analytics Inc., a provider of process analyzers and sampling systems for production and...
Cree to Purchase LED Lighting Fixtures
Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., a provider of LED solid-state lighting components, has signed a...
Edmund Optics Opens Larger Office in Germany
Edmund Optics GmbH, a subsidiary of Edmund Optics Inc., has moved to a larger facility in...
Aspectrics Picks Qwest as Western Distributor
Aspectrics Inc. of Pleasanton, Calif., a provider of encoded photometric infrared and near-infrared...
Arasor Buys Novalux
Arasor International Ltd. of Mountain View has acquired the assets of Novalux Inc. of Sunnyvale,...
Optical Research Assoc. Names Agent in Europe
Optical Research Associates of Pasadena, Calif., has appointed Light Tec of Hyères, France, to...
USDA and ChemImage to Collaborate
ChemImage of Pittsburgh, a developer of chemical imaging technology, will collaborate with the US...
Rudolph Technologies Secures RVSI Inspection IP, Assets
Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Flanders, N.J., has acquired all intellectual property and selected...
Optikos Expands Development Services
Optikos Corp. of Wakefield, Mass., a manufacturer of equipment for the measurement of optical image...
Tessera to Buy FotoNation
Tessera Technologies Inc. of San Jose, Calif., a provider of miniaturization technologies for the...
Glasstech Forms Solar Business Unit
Glasstech Inc. of Perrysburg, Ohio, a developer of glass bending and tempering equipment, has...
ICP Solar and Schott Sign Agreement
ICP Solar Technologies Inc. of Montreal, a developer and manufacturer of solar products, has signed...
Lumera Secures Order from Lockheed Martin
Lumera Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has received a purchase order from Lockheed Martin, based in...
Powerlase Partners with Irish Laser Center
Powerlase Ltd. of Crawley, UK, and the National Centre for Laser Applications of the National...
DRS Technologies Garners Defense Contract
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received a $23 million contract from the US Army’s...
Navitar Purchases Special Optics
Navitar Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., a designer and distributor of optics and optomechanical assemblies...
Corning to Expand Facility
Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., has announced plans to expand its LCD glass substrate manufacturing...
Isra Vision Expands into South America
A global supplier of machine vision systems for surface inspection and robot guidance, Isra Vision...
Object Video Receives DARPA Contract
ObjectVideo Inc. of Reston, Va., a provider of intelligent video systems, has received a contract...
Nerac and Harlin to Integrate Offerings
Nerac Inc. of Tolland, Conn., a research and advisory firm for technology development companies,...
CoorsTek to Open Manufacturing Facility
CoorsTek of Golden, Colo., a supplier of specialty ceramics for the semiconductor manufacturing and...
Manlight Names Distributor
Manlight SAS of Lannion, France, a fiber laser manufacturer, has selected RPMC Lasers Inc. of...
Sunovia, Epir Receive NASA Contract
Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc. of Sarasota, Fla., a renewable energy and energy conservation...
Pembroke to Distribute for Avantes
Pembroke Instruments LLC of San Bruno, Calif., provides sales and application support for companies...
Nyfors Names Distributors
Nyfors Teknologi AB of Stockholm, Sweden, has added two distributors. Fujikura Ltd. of Tokyo has...