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Photonics.com - October 2003
Research & Technology
Nanotechnology Center Planned at Georgia Tech
ATLANTA, Oct. 30 -- One of the nation’s most advanced facilities for nanotechnology research is slated for construction at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue announced at a recent meeting of the Technology Association of Georgia. Initial funding for the Nanotechnology Research Center will be provided by a $36 million contribution from an anonymous donor,...
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Corning Grants Patent License to Tamron
CORNING, N.Y. , Oct. 31 -- Corning Inc. and Tamron Co. Ltd., an optical components manufacturer based in Japan, announced they have concluded a license agreement under a portfolio of Corning patents...
75 Attend Fluorescence Spectroscopy Course
BERLIN, Oct. 31 -- A short course on "Principles and Applications of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy," sponsored by electro-optical instrumentation and systems developer PicoQuant GmbH, of...
Rockwell Collins Awarded $20 M for Head-Up Displays
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Oct. 30 -- Rockwell Collins, a developer of aircraft head-up guidance systems, has been awarded a $20 million contract by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. to provide dual head-up...
4th Wave Awarded Fluid Imaging Grant
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 30 -- 4th Wave Imaging Corp. has received a $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to further its research on the time-lapse imaging of fluids as they flow inside...
Electron Projection Lithography: From Lab to Test Fab
TSUKUBA, Japan & AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 30 -- Steady advances in the development of electron projection lithography (EPL) are beginning to move the technology out of the laboratory and into locations...
Nanotechnology Center Planned at Georgia Tech
ATLANTA, Oct. 30 -- One of the nation’s most advanced facilities for nanotechnology research is slated for construction at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Georgia Gov. Sonny...
CLEO/IQEC Program to Focus on Applications
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Optics applications and one-on-one interaction will be the focus of Photonic Applications, Systems and Technologies (PhAST), a series of sessions that will debut at the 2004...
Researchers Create Jet-Printed Plastic Transistor Arrays
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 29 -- The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has developed what it says is the first plastic semiconductor transistor array entirely patterned using jet printing, a development...
Spiricon Launches New Web Site, Forum
LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 29 -- Spiricon, a company specializing in laser beam diagnostics and optimization, has launched a redesigned Web site with single-click navigation to nearly every item on the site....
Semiconductor, LED, Microelectronics Innovators Honored
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- A developer of semiconductor advances, innovators in light-emitting diode (LED) technology and a microelectronics pioneer are among winners of The 2002 National Medal of...
Report Forecasts Semiconductor Industry Recovery
LITTLE FALLS, N.J., Oct. 28 -- It has been a rough ride for the semiconductor industry over the last few years, but chip fabricators and suppliers can take solace in signs of recovery that are...
Lumileds Ships Warm White LEDs
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 27 -- Lumileds Lighting announced it is shipping a warm white version of its high-brightness Luxeon light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The company said it is the first manufacturer...
Student Wins Inventors Prize for 'Smart Dust'
NEW YORK, Oct. 27 -- Jamie Link, a graduate student in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, was awarded the $50,000 grand prize in the Collegiate...
Tepco to Double Fiber Optic Network
TOKYO, Oct. 27 -- Tokyo Electric Power Co., the world's largest private electric power company, will spend up to 70 billion yen (642 million dollars) to double the size of its optic fiber network,...
DARPA Testing Laser to Detect Sniper Fire in Iraq
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Pentagon is planning to deploy an experimental laser in Iraq to create a "virtual microphone" capable of detecting and homing in on sniper fire, Agence France-Presse (AFP)...
Oplink to Acquire RedClover
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 23 -- Oplink Communications Inc., a provider of optical networking components and subsystem design, integration and optical manufacturing solutions, announced it has entered...
L-3 to Acquire Vertex Aerospace
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 -- L-3 Communications announced yesterday it has agreed to acquire Vertex Aerospace LLC from Veritas Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York, for $650 million in...
FLIR Systems and Indigo Systems to Merge
PORTLAND, Ore. & GOLETA, Calif., Oct. 23 -- FLIR Systems Inc., of Portland, Ore., announced yesterday it will acquire Indigo Systems Corp. for approximately $190 million in cash and stocks. Indigo,...
Kodak, Lucky Film Sign Marketing Agreement
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 23 -- Eastman Kodak Co. and China Lucky Film Corp. have signed a 20-year agreement under which they will work together to expand each company's market opportunities. As part of...
'Smart' Sensor Network Team Gets Funding Boost
AMHERST, Mass., Oct. 23 -- With virtually every segment of modern life -- from healthcare and manufacturing to homeland security -- relying increasingly on remote sensing technology, a group of...
UN Report Predicts Robot Sales Recovery
GENEVA, Oct. 21 -- Robot orders in first half of 2003 were up by 26 percent, the highest level ever recorded, according to the 2003 annual World Robotics Survey by the United Nations Economic...
Foundry to Provide Supercomputer Networking Fabric
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 21 -- The US National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories has selected Foundry Networks' BigIron MG8 terabit-capacity 10 Gigabit Ethernet...
FAA Buys Terabeam Free-Space Optics Systems
REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 21 --Terabeam Corp., a provider of broadband wireless systems, announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has purchased its free-space optics (FSO) systems to...
Motorola Labs Studying Carbon Nanotube Technology
TEMPE, Ariz., Oct. 21 -- Scientists at Motorola Labs are researching ways to improve control in the growth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that can make transistors smaller and faster and...
Future of EUV Lithography Symposium Topic
ANTWERP, Belgium, Oct. 20 -- Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) is well on its way to commercialization, but several critical issues must be addressed to keep the technology on track, said...
Quantum Dots Reveal Minute Details of Brain Chemistry
HAYWARD, Calif., Oct. 20 --French researchers have used a new imaging tool, the size of individual molecules, to reveal more clearly than ever before the workings of the human nervous system --...
Thermo Electron Sells Test and Measurement Unit to SPX
WALTHAM, Mass., Oct 20 -- Thermo Electron Corp. announced today it has sold its test and measurement business to the Ling Dynamic Systems (LDS) business of SPX Corp. for an undisclosed cash amount....
Policy Group Says Telecom Act Boosted Employment
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Despite job losses attributable to a weak economy and the burst of the Internet investment bubble, total employment in the telecommunications industry's wireline sector has...
Companies Join Forces To Connect Troops
COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 17 -- Last August, Edward Bukstel, vice president of SkyFrames -- a satellite broadband Internet service provider based in Costa Mesa, Calif. -- received an e-mail from a US...
FCC Adopts Rules for Wireless Technology
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The Federal Communicatins Commission (FCC) adopted rules yesterday to promote the development of a technology described as the wireless equivalent of fiber optic cables. The...
NASA Team Flies First Laser-Powered Aircraft
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Oct. 17 -- Researchers from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., and the University of Alabama in Huntsville...
Everlight Electronics Granted LED Royalty License
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 17 -- Lighting manufacturer Osram GmbH announced today it has signed a patent license contract with Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd., of Taiwan, that enables Everlight to...
Ruling Protects Fresnel Lens Patent
FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 16 -- Security system component supplier Rokonet Industries USA Inc. infringed Fresnel Technologies Inc.’s US patent RE 35,534, said the US District Court for the Northern...
DRS to Make Army Surveillance Subsystems
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Oct. 16 -- DRS Technologies Inc. announced today it was awarded a $16.8 million subcontract by Raytheon Co. to provide major subsystems to Raytheon for the US Army's long-range...
Report: UK Broadband Users Would Pay for Guarantees
GENEVA, Oct. 16 -- A study of broadband usage shows almost 80 percent of broadband users in the UK would like a new service that guarantees a minimum bandwidth performance level, and 68 percent of...
USTA Head Calls for Less Regulation
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 16 -- Walter B. McCormick Jr., president and CEO of the United States Telecom Association (USTA), called on federal and state regulators to empower consumers to shape the future of...
Nortel CEO Urges Business Without Boundaries
GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 15 -- Frank Dunn, president and CEO of Nortel Networks, told telecommunications industry leaders today that global communications has reached an important "inflection point"...
Physicist Wins MacArthur 'Genius' Grant
BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 15 -- Deborah Jin, 34, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo., and adjoint assistant professor of physics at the University of...
Nanolaser May Help Extend Life Spans
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 15 -- Anyone visiting a nursing home has seen the horror of humans surviving beyond their brains' ability to make sense of their surroundings. That loss of discrimination is...
Ion Optics to Develop IR Missile Device
WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 14 -- Ion Optics Inc. will develop an infrared (IR) wavelength control device for Sanders Design, of Wilton, N.H., for use in a system to defend low-flying aircraft from infrared...
Lumenis Announces Job Cuts and Plant Closings
YOKNEAM, Israel, Oct. 14 -- Lumenis Ltd. announced today it will close four of its global facilities and cut 300 jobs as part of its restructuring efforts. The company said it will close its sites in...
Transmode Systems Completes Funding Round
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 14 -- Transmode Systems, a Swedish supplier of transmission equipment for fiber optic networks, announced today it has closed an additional $10 million round of funding, led...
GE Acquires Amersham for $9.5 Billion
LONDON & FAIRFIELD, Conn., Oct. 10 -- General Electric Co. announced it has agreed to buy British medical diagnostics company Amersham plc for $9.5 billion, subject to regulatory approval and other...
MRI Researcher Says He Deserved Nobel
NEW YORK -- Raymond Damadian, president and founder of Fonar Corp., a Melville, N.Y.-based maker of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, ran ads in newspapers including The New York Times today...
Emcore Acquires 10 Gigabit Transceiver Business
SOMERSET, N.J., Oct. 9 -- Emcore Corp., a provider of semiconductor technologies for communications markets, announced today it has acquired Molex Inc.'s 10 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver business. The...
First Metro Ethernet Service Standard Ratified
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Oct. 9 --Carrier class Ethernet services took a major step forward this month with the ratification of the industry's first Ethernet service standard, said the Metro Ethernet...
Universal Display Receives OLED Grant
EWING, N.J., Oct. 9 -- Universal Display Corp., a developer of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies for flat panel displays, lighting and other optoelectronic applications, announced...
Srico to Develop Detection Techniques
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 8 -- Columbus-based Srico Inc. has been awarded a US Army Small Business Technology Transfer contract to develop new optical communication technology to improve signal...
Mintera Launches 40-Gb Product Line
LOWELL, Mass., Oct. 8 -- Mintera Corp., a New England startup that wants to enable the migration to 40-Gb optical transport in metro-core, regional, long haul and ultralong haul optical networks,...
UC Professor Receives $1.2 M DARPA Award
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 7 -- Franco De Flaviis, an electrical engineering professor at University of California at Irvine (UCI), has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research...
Alfalight Awarded R&D Funding
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 7 -- Alfalight Inc., a manufacturer of high-power diode lasers, has been awarded $3.9 million in research and development funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
Trio Wins Nobel Prize in Physics
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 7 — Two American citizens and a Russian won the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work in how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures. The Royal Swedish...
Alfalight Receives R&D Funding
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 7 -- Alfalight Inc., a manufacturer of high-power diode lasers, has been awarded $3.9 million in research and development funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
MRI Researchers Share Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 6 -- American Paul C. Lauterbur and Briton Peter Mansfield received the 2003 Nobel Prize for medicine today for their discoveries in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)....
Motorola to Launch Semiconductor Company
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Oct. 6 -- Motorola announced today it will separate its Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) into a publicly traded company, in keeping with its focus on communications and...
IC Companies Form 10 Gb/s Standards Team
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 6 -- Applied Micro Circuits, IBM, Infineon Texas Instruments and Xilinx announced today the creation and promotion of the Unified 10 Gb/s Physical-Layer Initiative (UXPi), a...
OSI Systems Acquires Electronics Manufacturing Business
HAWTHORNE, Calif., Oct. 3 -- OSI Systems Inc., which makes optoelectronic-based components and systems, announced today it has acquired assets comprising state-of-the-art automated surface mount...
Arroyo Optics and Lightcross to Merge
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 3 -- Arroyo Optics Inc., a manufacturer of flexible wavelength management solutions for telecommunications equipment, and Lightcross Inc., a manufacturer of integrated,...
Scientists Discover Why Cookies Crumble
LONDON, Oct. 3 -- Researchers in England have used laser beams to determine why "biscuits," i.e., cookies, sometimes break after they're baked. They say the discovery will help manufacturers work out...
L-3 Communications Acquires Klein Associates
NEW YORK, Oct. 3 -- L-3 Communications announced it has acquired Klein Associates Inc., a business unit of OYO Corp. of Japan, for $30 million in cash. L-3 said Klein Associates is expected to be...
SPIE, OSA Awarded $1.7 M Education Grant
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Oct. 3 -- The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and the Optical Society of America (OSA), along with Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) and the...
Moog Closes Poly-Scientific Acquisition
EAST AURORA, N.Y., Oct. 2 -- Moog Inc. announced yesterday it has closed on its acquisition of the assets of Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Poly-Scientific Division, which will now be known as the Moog...
Raytheon Delivers Light Thermal Weapon Sights
MCKINNEY, Texas, Oct. 2 -- Raytheon Co. recently delivered 150 light thermal weapon sight (TWS) systems to the US Army, the first installment of 2500 systems that are being produced under the Army's...
Universal Display Awarded OLED Contracts
EWING, N.J., Oct. 2 -- Universal Display Corp., a developer of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies for flat-panel displays, lighting and other opto-electronic applications, announced...
Laser Corp. Merges with Broadcast International
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 2 -- Laser Corp. announced today it has entered into a stock purchase agreement with BI Acquisitions Inc., (doing business as Broadcast International), under which the...
FOR-A Image Stabilizers Monitor Launch Pads
CYPRESS, Calif., Oct. 2 - Launching rockets into space for commercial, military and scientific applications is risky business. That's why subcontractor Analex Corp. is using three IVS-300 video...
French Navy Orders CXR Telecommunications Access Equipment
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., Oct. 2 -- CXR SAS (France) has received initial orders from the French Navy for its secure telecommunications transmission equipment. The orders have a potential value of...
Eagle Broadband Implements Restructuring Plan
LEAGUE CITY, Texas, Oct. 1 -- Eagle Broadband Inc. announced today it has implemented a strategic, company-wide restructuring designed to enable the company to better meet customer needs, increase...
MKS Instruments Acquires Danish Company
ANDOVER, Mass., Oct. 1 -- MKS Instruments has acquired Wenzel Instruments, a Danish company that makes gauges, transducers and instrumentation for vacuum pressure measuring and controlling. Terms of...
Konica Minolta Photo Imaging USA Launched
MAHWAH, N.J., Oct. 1 -- Konica Photo Imaging Inc. and Minolta Corp. have been combined into Konica Minolta Photo Imaging USA Inc., which opens today. The new business unit is the North American sales...
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