AFS to Buy Marietta Fibernet
Apr. 30, 2004
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 30 -- Privately held American Fiber Systems Inc. (AFS) announced it will...
Finisar to Buy Infineon Fiber Unit
Apr. 30, 2004
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 30 -- Finisar Corp. announced yesterday it will acquire the fiber optics...
2400 Attend First Photonics Europe
Apr. 30, 2004
STRASBOURG, France, April 30 -- More than 2400 scientists, researchers, product developers and...
Corning to Build Glass Plant in Taiwan
Apr. 29, 2004
CORNING, N.Y., April 29 -- Corning Inc. announced that its board of directors has approved...
'Rainbow' Light Source Developed
Apr. 29, 2004
GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 29 -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has...
'Lia' Shines Light on Science Education
Apr. 29, 2004
BOSTON, April 29 -- Lia, a spunky, animated 14-year-old, is the star of a new project being...
More Frustrated Dialup Users Turn to Broadband
Apr. 29, 2004
WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Broadband access is increasingly being woven into the work and home lives...
Texas Nanodevice Company Launched
Apr. 28, 2004
AUSTIN, Texas, April 28 -- A team of veterans from the nanotechnology field and the...
Task Force Kicks Off Research Campaign
Apr. 28, 2004
WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Leaders from the technology industry and academia unveiled an advocacy...
Luna to Open Nanomanufacturing Plant
Apr. 27, 2004
BLACKSBURG, Va., April 27 -- Nanotechnology developer Luna Innovations has announced it will invest...
Holonyak Wins Lemelson-MIT Prize
Apr. 26, 2004
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 26 -- Nick Holonyak, inventor of the LED, received the $500,000...
PerkinElmer Launches India Venture
Apr. 26, 2004
BOSTON, April 26 -- PerkinElmer Inc. and Labindia Instruments Pvt. Ltd., a lab service and...
Konarka to Collaborate with Oak Ridge
Apr. 23, 2004
LOWELL, Mass., April 23 -- Konarka Technologies Inc. announced it is collaborating with Oak Ridge...
Essex to Acquire Cognitive Computing
Apr. 22, 2004
COLUMBIA, Md., April 22 -- Essex Corp. has announced it will acquire Computer Science Innovations...
Report: Japan Offers Cheapest Broadband
Apr. 22, 2004
PARIS, April 22 -- Japanese firms are offering by far the cheapest and fastest broadband services...
Exelon to Sell PECO TelCove
Apr. 21, 2004
CHICAGO, April 21 -- Exelon Corp. announced today that certain of its subsidiaries have entered...
GE Infrastructure to Acquire InVision
Apr. 21, 2004
WILTON, Conn., April 21 -- GE Infrastructure, a unit of General Electric Co., recently agreed to...
Thermo Electron Buys US Counseling
Apr. 21, 2004
WALTHAM, Mass., April 21 -- Thermo Electron Corp., a supplier of scientific instruments, announced...
Next-Generation 'Atomic Clocks' in the Works
Apr. 21, 2004
GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 21 -- Three of the world’s premier measurement laboratories have lined up...
StockerYale to Supply Defense Lasers
Apr. 20, 2004
SALEM, N.H., April 20 -- StockerYale Inc. announced it has received an order from BAE Systems to...
Teens Compete in FIRST Robotics Event
Apr. 20, 2004
ATLANTA, April 20 -- Four high-school teams out of nearly 300 competing won top honors at the 2004...
Photonics Research Topic at Biomed
Apr. 20, 2004
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Apirl 20 -- Photonic technology has the potential to dramatically improve the...
Ciena to Close San Jose Facility
Apr. 20, 2004
LINTHICUM, Md., April 20 -- Ciena Corp.announced today it plans to consolidate facilities as part...
Laser Printer Method Used to Detect Cancer
Apr. 19, 2004
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 19 -- The Scripps-PARC Institute for Advanced Biomedical Studies, which...
Bell Labs Develops 'Nanograss'
Apr. 16, 2004
MURRAY HILL, N.J., March 16 -- Scientists at Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent...
Princeton Lightwave Acquires OCM Product Line
Apr. 16, 2004
CRANBURY, N.J., April 16 -- Princeton Lightwave Inc., a supplier of near-infrared, high-power...
Sensytech Inc. to Acquire Imaging Sensors and Systems
Apr. 15, 2004
NEWINGTON, Va., April 15 -- Sensytech Inc. announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire...
Robot Teams Will Help Emergency Responders in the Trenches
Apr. 15, 2004
ARLINGTON, Va., April 15 -- Humans are social creatures, but robots, for the most part, are not....
Telecom Industry Growth Predicted
Apr. 15, 2004
BOONTON, N.J., April 15 -- The global telecommunications industry will return to historic growth...
APA Optics Sells Optics Manufacturing Assets
Apr. 14, 2004
MINNEAPOLIS, April 14 -- APA Optics Inc., of Blaine, Minn., announced today that it has sold...
Spectrometry, Ion Chromatography Used in H20 Analysis
Apr. 14, 2004
PALO ALTO, Calif. & HERISAU, Switzerland, April 14 -- Agilent Technologies Inc. and Metrohm AG...
BTG, Corning to License Optics Patents
Apr. 14, 2004
WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., April 14 -- BTG, a London-based company that acquires patent rights to new...
GSI Lumonics Acquires MicroE Systems
Apr. 13, 2004
BILLERICA, Mass., April 13 -- GSI Lumonics Inc. announced yesterday it has signed a definitive...
International DisplayWorks Buys Display Equipment
Apr. 13, 2004
ROCKLIN, Calif., April 13 -- International DisplayWorks Inc. announced today it has entered into...
Mass Spectrometry Market Expansion Forecast
Apr. 13, 2004
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 13 -- Research efforts in areas of life sciences such as proteomics...
SPIE Announces Call for Abstracts
Apr. 12, 2004
BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 12 -- The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) has...
Corning Opens Diesel Products Facility
Apr. 9, 2004
CORNING, N.Y., April 9 -- Corning Inc. opened a $200 million clean-air products plant in Erwin,...
Erenis to Deliver Broadband to Paris Apartments
Apr. 9, 2004
PARIS, April 9 -- Cisco Systems announced this week that Erenis, a service provider serving large...
NASA Institute Awarded to U Michigan
Apr. 8, 2004
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 8 -- NASA has named the University of Michigan (UM) as the sole recipient...
Sensor Technology Will 'Transform' Medical Care
Apr. 7, 2004
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 -- Just as sophisticated automobile sensors improve gas mileage and provide...
Beyond 'Nano': A Scale That Weighs Viruses
Apr. 7, 2004
ITHACA, N.Y., April 7 -- Researchers have already been able to detect the mass of a single cell...
Continuum Photonics Closes Funding Round
Apr. 6, 2004
BILLERICA, Mass., April 6 -- Continuum Photonics Inc., a developer of high-performance optical...
Defense Grant Targets Nanoparticle Safety
Apr. 6, 2004
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 6 -- University of Rochester (UR) scientist Gunter Oberdorster, PhD, has...
Modified Gregorian Telescope Patented
Apr. 5, 2004
VANCOUVER, Canada, April 5 -- fSONA Communications, a provider of optical wireless networking...
Thorlabs Buys Melles Griot UK Facility
Apr. 2, 2004
NEWTON, N.J., and CARLSBAD, Calif., April 2 -- Thorlabs has bought Melles Griot Ltd., a...
2004 SPIE Awards Announced
Apr. 1, 2004
BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 1 -- The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) has...
LEDs and Lasers to Be Focus of Taiwan Conference
Apr. 1, 2004
AUSTIN, Texas, April 1 -- Charles Swoboda, president and CEO of Durham, N.C.-based Cree Inc. -- the...
BTG, Corning to License Optics Patents
Apr. 1, 2004
WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., April 14 -- BTG, a London-based company that acquires patent rights to new...
Teens Compete in FIRST Robotics Event
Apr. 1, 2004
ATLANTA, April 20 -- Four high-school teams out of nearly 300 competing won top honors at the 2004...
'Rainbow' Light Source Developed
Apr. 1, 2004
GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 29 -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has...