Coherent Named a 'Best Corporate Citizen'
Apr. 28, 2006
Coherent Inc. announced it was named to Business Ethics Magazine's "100 Best Corporate Citizens"...
BAE Systems Awarded $96M Weapon Contract
Apr. 28, 2006
BAE Systems has received a $96.1 million contract to provide APKWS II laser-guided rockets as the...
Laser Inventor Honored for Lifetime Achievement
Apr. 28, 2006
Noble Prize-winning physicist Charles Townes, credited as the father of quantum electronics, has...
4D Receives NASA Award
Apr. 27, 2006
4D Technology received a 2005 NASA Goddard Achievement in Excellence Award last month for its work...
Physicist, Israel Space Program Founder Dies
Apr. 27, 2006
World-renowned nuclear physicist Yuval Ne'eman, founder of Israel's space program and a key figure...
Ga Tech, Solvay Sign $3M OLED Research Deal
Apr. 27, 2006
The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) and...
Rice Physicist to Direct $40M LHC Program
Apr. 26, 2006
Rice University announced that physicist B. Paul Padley has been chosen to lead the scientific...
'Road Map' for Nanoimprint Lithography Created
Apr. 26, 2006
Using a combination of experimental data and simulations, researchers have identified key...
CAPE Moves into Cambridge Research Facility
Apr. 25, 2006
The Cambridge University Electrical Engineering department has completed a new research facility...
LightPath to Develop IR Optical Molding Technology
Apr. 24, 2006
LightPath Technologies announced it was recently awarded a Small Business Innovative Research...
OSA, SPIE Stump for R&D Investment
Apr. 24, 2006
Increased and balanced federal investment in research and development was the focus of Optical...
UMass Amherst Awarded $16M for New Nanotech Center
Apr. 24, 2006
The University of Massachusetts Amherst has been chosen to host one of only 16 Nanoscale Science...
Companies Team to Make Qdot Lasers for Optical LANs
Apr. 21, 2006
Communications solutions provider Fujitsu Ltd. and trading house Mitsui & Co. Ltd. announced...
EO Reports 99% Same-Day Order Fulfillment
Apr. 21, 2006
Edmund Optics (EO), a producer of optics, imaging and photonics technology, reports achieving a 99...
Nokia, MIT AI Lab Open Research Center
Apr. 21, 2006
Enhancing people's lives and productivity by enabling more intuitive interaction among individuals,...
Researchers Named Guggenheim Fellows
Apr. 21, 2006
Eight professors and scientists conducting research in photonics-related areas have been named...
'Nanostars' Could be Powerful Chemical Sensors
Apr. 20, 2006
New optics research from Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) suggests that tiny...
CVI Laser Acquires Quality Laser Optics
Apr. 20, 2006
CVI Laser LLC announced yesterday it has acquired Quality Laser Optics Ltd (QLO), a manufacturer of...
Graphene Provides Foundation for New Electronics
Apr. 19, 2006
A study of how electrons behave in circuitry made from ultrathin layers of graphite – known as...
It's the Little Things That Matter
Apr. 19, 2006
Anyone who believes that nothing big ever came of being small probably hasn't paid attention to...
Scientists Unlock Secrets of Crystal Formation
Apr. 19, 2006
Using some of the most advanced microscopes available, a team of researchers has discovered some...
'Unbreakable' Encryption Code Generated at Record Speed over Fiber
Apr. 19, 2006
Raw code for "unbreakable" encryption, based on the principles of quantum physics, has been...
Bruker BioSciences to Buy Bruker Optics for $135M
Apr. 18, 2006
Bruker BioSciences Corp. announced yesterday that it will acquire privately held molecular...
Level 3 Buys ICG Communications for $163M
Apr. 17, 2006
Level 3 Communications Inc. today announced that it will acquire ICG Communications Inc., a...
Electrospinning Process Creates Orderly Nanofibers
Apr. 17, 2006
For 72 years, scientists have been able to use electric fields to spin polymers into tiny fibers....
Micreon Fits Camel Through Needle's Eye
Apr. 14, 2006
A German company that uses femtosecond lasers to make ultraprecise components demonstrated its...
Prototype Eyeglass Lenses Can Change Focus
Apr. 14, 2006
Optical scientists at The University of Arizona (UA) and the Georgia Institute of Technology have...
Jmar Appoints Neil Beer, Charles Dickinson
Apr. 14, 2006
Jmar Technologies Inc., a San Diego laser technology developer, has appointed Neil Beer as its new...
Dalsa to Make Dental X-ray Image Sensors
Apr. 13, 2006
Dalsa Corp. announced it has received a contract to develop and supply CMOS image sensor chips for...
Kopin Buys MOCVD Systems
Apr. 13, 2006
Kopin Corp., a provider of heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) wafers for cellular phones and...
Acquisition Moves JDSU into Home Network Testing
Apr. 13, 2006
JDSU today announced it will acquire Test-Um Inc., a provider of home networking test instruments...
Olympus, Movaz Team to Make MEMS
Apr. 12, 2006
Olympus Corp. of Tokyo and Atlanta-based Movaz Networks Inc. today announced the creation of a...
Magnetism Shepherds Microlenses to Excavate 'Nanocavities'
Apr. 12, 2006
A Duke University engineer is "herding" tiny lenses with magnetic ferrofluids, precisely aligning...
New Telescope's Mission: Find Aliens
Apr. 12, 2006
A new optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard yesterday pointed its giant mirror...
Adaptive Optics Awarded $6.5M Laser Contract
Apr. 11, 2006
Adaptive Optics Associates (AOA) Inc.'s Advanced Optical Systems Div. has been awarded a $6.5...
Otelco Buys Mid-Maine for $38M
Apr. 11, 2006
Otelco Inc., a telephone services provider in rural Alabama and Missouri, announced today it will...
French Lab, Ga Tech Launch Research Unit
Apr. 10, 2006
France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CRNS) and the Georgia Institute of...
Armor Holdings Buys Swiss-Photonics
Apr. 7, 2006
Armor Holdings Inc., a manufacturer of armored vehicles and other security products, announced...
LightWorks Optics Receives IFA Contract
Apr. 7, 2006
TUSTIN, Calif., April 7, 2006 -- Integrated optical system maker LightWorks Optics Inc. announced...
Engineers Coax Secrets from Transistor Lasers
Apr. 7, 2006
During stimulated emission tests of a transistor laser,...
Avensys to Acquire ITF Optical Assets
Apr. 6, 2006
Avensys Inc. announced yesterday it will acquire most of the assets of ITF Optical Technologies...
Excel OKs Coherent Acquisition
Apr. 6, 2006
Excel Technology Inc. stockholders on Tuesday voted to approve the acquisition of the company by...
Molecular Devices Buys Arcturus Unit
Apr. 6, 2006
Molecular Devices Corp. announced Wednesday it has acquired the laser capture microdissection...
LSI Sells Fab for $105M, Goes Fabless
Apr. 6, 2006
MILPITAS, Calif., April 6 -- LSI Logic Corp. announced today that it will sell its Gresham, Ore.,...
2006 European SEMI Awards Announced
Apr. 6, 2006
MUNICH, Germany, April 6, 2006 -- Winfried Kaiser of Carl Zeiss SMT AG and Martin van den Brink of...
BU Photonics Center Startup Biz Sold
Apr. 5, 2006
TORONTO, April 5, 2006 -- Healthcare company OccuLogix Inc. of Toronto announced yesterday it will...
Jenoptik Sets Up China Venture
Apr. 5, 2006
JENA, Germany, April 5, 2005 -- Photonics components maker Jenoptik AG of Jena, Germany, announced...
Spontaneous Subatomic Shifts Spotted
Apr. 5, 2006
TORONTO, April 5, 2006 -- What happened to the antimatter that was created at the birth of the...
Researchers' Biosensor Project Gets $1.6M
Apr. 5, 2006
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 5, 2006 -- Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz,...
Fiberstars' HEDlights Get $2.1M from Navy
Apr. 4, 2006
SOLON, Ohio, April 4, 2006 -- Fiber optic lighting supplier Fiberstars has received $2.1 million...
Engineers 'Translate' IR Signals into Many Other Wavelengths
Apr. 4, 2006
SAN DIEGO, April 4, 2006 -- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed...
DARPA Funds $2.1M Navy Lighting Project
Apr. 4, 2006
SOLON, Ohio, April 4, 2006 -- Fiber optic lighting supplier Fiberstars has received $2.1 million...
Coherent Opens Seoul Office
Apr. 4, 2006
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 4 -- Coherent Inc. announced it has established a direct operation in...
Engineers 'Translate' IR Signals into Many Other Wavelengths
Apr. 4, 2006
SAN DIEGO, April 4, 2006 -- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed...
Optical 'Comb' Measures Finer Frequencies
Apr. 4, 2006
BOULDER, Colo., April 4, 2006 -- A highly sensitive tool for real-time analysis of the quantity,...
Purdue Takes Rube Goldberg Title
Apr. 3, 2006
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 3, 2006 -- The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers defended its...
L-3 to Acquire SSG Precision Optronics
Apr. 3, 2006
NEW YORK, April 3, 2006 -- L-3 Communications said today it has agreed to acquire SSG Precision...
Verizon Sells Caribbean, Latin Telecoms for $3.7B
Apr. 3, 2006
NEW YORK, April 3, 2006 -- Verizon Communications Inc. today announced that it has agreed to sell...
Alcatel to Buy Lucent, Cut 8800 Jobs
Apr. 3, 2006
PARIS and MURRAY HILL, N.J., April 3, 2006 -- Telecom equipment maker Alcatel of France will...