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Photonics.com - April 2006
Research & Technology
GTRI to Open Institute in Ireland
The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the applied research arm of the Georgia Institute of Technology, will establish its first research facility outside of the US -- in Athlone, Ireland -- to focus on digital media, radio frequency identification, biotechnology and sustainable energy. The GTRI Ireland group is (l-r) Krish Ahuja, GTRI Aerospace; Sean Dorgan, CEO of IDA Ireland; Stephen...
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Coherent Named a 'Best Corporate Citizen'
Coherent Inc. announced it was named to Business Ethics Magazine's "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list for the second consecutive year. The survey has gained national recognition as an indicator of best practices in social responsibility. The 100 Best Corporate Citizens list puts a numerical rating on service to these various stakeholders. Environmental, social and governance ratings are drawn...
BAE Systems Awarded $96M Weapon Contract
BAE Systems has received a $96.1 million contract to provide APKWS II laser-guided rockets as the prime contractor for the The US Army's Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) program. ...
Laser Inventor Honored for Lifetime Achievement
Noble Prize-winning physicist Charles Townes, credited as the father of quantum electronics, has been selected by the National Science Board -- the policy making arm of the National Science...
4D Receives NASA Award
4D Technology received a 2005 NASA Goddard Achievement in Excellence Award last month for its work with NASA to develop the SpeckleCam, a dynamic electronic speckle pattern interferometer (ESPI) that...
Physicist, Israel Space Program Founder Dies
World-renowned nuclear physicist Yuval Ne'eman, founder of Israel's space program and a key figure in the country's nuclear efforts, died Wednesday after suffering a stroke earlier this week,...
Ga Tech, Solvay Sign $3M OLED Research Deal
The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) and Belgian chemical giant Solvay yesterday announced a $3 million, three-year deal for OLED research....
Rice Physicist to Direct $40M LHC Program
Rice University announced that physicist B. Paul Padley has been chosen to lead the scientific operations for one of the particle detector systems at the European Organization for Nuclear Research's...
'Road Map' for Nanoimprint Lithography Created
Using a combination of experimental data and simulations, researchers have identified key parameters that predict the outcome of nanoimprint lithography, a fabrication technique that offers an...
CAPE Moves into Cambridge Research Facility
The Cambridge University Electrical Engineering department has completed a new research facility for the development of emerging technologies in optoelectronics, nanoelectronics, displays and other...
LightPath to Develop IR Optical Molding Technology
LightPath Technologies announced it was recently awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant from the Naval Air Warfare Center to develop low-cost infrared optical component molding...
OSA, SPIE Stump for R&D Investment
Increased and balanced federal investment in research and development was the focus of Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE members who participated in the 11th Annual...
UMass Amherst Awarded $16M for New Nanotech Center
The University of Massachusetts Amherst has been chosen to host one of only 16 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers in the nation, and has been awarded $16 million to establish the Center for...
Companies Team to Make Qdot Lasers for Optical LANs
Communications solutions provider Fujitsu Ltd. and trading house Mitsui & Co. Ltd. announced that they will cooperate to develop and manufacture quantum dot lasers and optical devices through...
EO Reports 99% Same-Day Order Fulfillment
Edmund Optics (EO), a producer of optics, imaging and photonics technology, reports achieving a 99 percent same-day domestic shipment record recently. EO said its Global Fulfillment Centers report...
Nokia, MIT AI Lab Open Research Center
Enhancing people's lives and productivity by enabling more intuitive interaction among individuals, machines and environments is the goal of the Nokia Research Center Cambridge, a joint research...
Researchers Named Guggenheim Fellows
Eight professors and scientists conducting research in photonics-related areas have been named fellows of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and each will receive a grant averaging $38,000...
'Nanostars' Could be Powerful Chemical Sensors
New optics research from Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) suggests that tiny gold particles called nanostars combine some of the best properties of photonic particles like...
CVI Laser Acquires Quality Laser Optics
CVI Laser LLC announced yesterday it has acquired Quality Laser Optics Ltd (QLO), a manufacturer of precision optics. The acquisition was completed by CVI's wholly-owned subsidiary in the Isle of...
Graphene Provides Foundation for New Electronics
A study of how electrons behave in circuitry made from ultrathin layers of graphite – known as graphene – suggests the material could provide the foundation for a new generation of nanometer-scale...
It’s the Little Things That Matter
Anyone who believes that nothing big ever came of being small probably hasn’t paid attention to controversies involving nanotechnology safety. But the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) --...
Scientists Unlock Secrets of Crystal Formation
Using some of the most advanced microscopes available, a team of researchers has discovered some clues as to how zeolite crystals -- porous minerals used as filters and purifiers -- form. The...
'Unbreakable' Encryption Code Generated at Record Speed over Fiber
Raw code for "unbreakable" encryption, based on the principles of quantum physics, has been generated at record speed over optical fiber at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards...
Bruker BioSciences to Buy Bruker Optics for $135M
Bruker BioSciences Corp. announced yesterday that it will acquire privately held molecular spectroscopy company Bruker Optics Inc. for $135 million, with approximately $80 million to be paid in cash...
Level 3 Buys ICG Communications for $163M
Level 3 Communications Inc. today announced that it will acquire ICG Communications Inc., a privately held Colorado-based telecommunications company, for $163 million. Under terms of the deal, Level...
Electrospinning Process Creates Orderly Nanofibers
For 72 years, scientists have been able to use electric fields to spin polymers into tiny fibers. The problem has been that the fibers tangle randomly almost as soon as they are created. Now,...
Micreon Fits Camel Through Needle's Eye
A German company that uses femtosecond lasers to make ultraprecise components demonstrated its technique last year by creating a pair of eyeglasses for a housefly. Micreon GmbH recently unveiled its...
Prototype Eyeglass Lenses Can Change Focus
Optical scientists at The University of Arizona (UA) and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed switchable, flat, liquid crystal diffractive lenses that can adaptively change their...
Jmar Appoints Neil Beer, Charles Dickinson
Jmar Technologies Inc., a San Diego laser technology developer, has appointed Neil Beer as its new president and CEO and Charles Dickinson a chairman of its board. Beer, who replaces Ron Walrod, has...
Dalsa to Make Dental X-ray Image Sensors
Dalsa Corp. announced it has received a contract to develop and supply CMOS image sensor chips for a manufacturer of dental x-ray equipment. The contract, which is expected to be completed over the...
Kopin Buys MOCVD Systems
Kopin Corp., a provider of heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) wafers for cellular phones and mobile communications devices, announced a new multiyear purchase and supply agreement for new...
Acquisition Moves JDSU into Home Network Testing
JDSU today announced it will acquire Test-Um Inc., a provider of home networking test instruments for the FTTx (fiber to the x) and digital cable markets. JDSU said the acquisition is expected to...
Olympus, Movaz Team to Make MEMS
Olympus Corp. of Tokyo and Atlanta-based Movaz Networks Inc. today announced the creation of a joint venture company, Olympus Microsystems America Inc., to provide microelectromechanical systems...
Magnetism Shepherds Microlenses to Excavate 'Nanocavities'
A Duke University engineer is "herding" tiny lenses with magnetic ferrofluids, precisely aligning them so they focus bursts of light to excavate patterns of cavities on surfaces. Such...
New Telescope's Mission: Find Aliens
A new optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard yesterday pointed its giant mirror at the sky for the first time, officially starting its sole mission: to search for signs of alien...
Adaptive Optics Awarded $6.5M Laser Contract
Adaptive Optics Associates (AOA) Inc.’s Advanced Optical Systems Div. has been awarded a $6.5 million contract from Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems to develop technology to improve laser...
Otelco Buys Mid-Maine for $38M
Otelco Inc., a telephone services provider in rural Alabama and Missouri, announced today it will acquire privately owned Mid-Maine Communications Inc. of Bangor, Maine, for approximately $37.8...
French Lab, Ga Tech Launch Research Unit
France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CRNS) and the Georgia Institute of Technology, based in Atlanta and represented in Europe by Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz, have created a joint...
Armor Holdings Buys Swiss-Photonics
Armor Holdings Inc., a manufacturer of armored vehicles and other security products, announced today it is acquiring forensic optical equipment maker Swiss-Photonics AG. Terms of the deal were not...
LightWorks Optics Receives IFA Contract
TUSTIN, Calif., April 7, 2006 -- Integrated optical system maker LightWorks Optics Inc. announced it was awarded a $3.6 million contract by defense contractor Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md., for...
Engineers Coax Secrets from Transistor Lasers
During stimulated emission tests of a transistor laser, two University of Illinois engineers were able to coax it to reveal previously unknown fundamental properties, a breakthrough they say will...
Avensys to Acquire ITF Optical Assets
Avensys Inc. announced yesterday it will acquire most of the assets of ITF Optical Technologies Inc. (ITF), a manufacturer of all-fiber passive photonic components and modules. Both companies are...
Excel OKs Coherent Acquisition
Excel Technology Inc. stockholders on Tuesday voted to approve the acquisition of the company by Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif. Excel, a maker of laser systems and electro-optical components...
Molecular Devices Buys Arcturus Unit
Molecular Devices Corp. announced Wednesday it has acquired the laser capture microdissection (LCM)-related business of Arcturus Bioscience Inc. of Mountain View for $10 million in cash. Molecular...
LSI Sells Fab for $105M, Goes Fabless
MILPITAS, Calif., April 6 -- LSI Logic Corp. announced today that it will sell its Gresham, Ore., semiconductor manufacturing facility to Phoenix-based Semiconductor Components Industries LLC for...
2006 European SEMI Awards Announced
MUNICH, Germany, April 6, 2006 -- Winfried Kaiser of Carl Zeiss SMT AG and Martin van den Brink of ASML received European SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International) awards last night...
BU Photonics Center Startup Biz Sold
TORONTO, April 5, 2006 -- Healthcare company OccuLogix Inc. of Toronto announced yesterday it will acquire glaucoma treatment developer Solx Inc., a privately held company founded at the Boston...
Jenoptik Sets Up China Venture
JENA, Germany, April 5, 2005 -- Photonics components maker Jenoptik AG of Jena, Germany, announced it has started a new joint venture with a Chinese partner, Hommelwerke GmbH, a specialist in...
Spontaneous Subatomic Shifts Spotted
TORONTO, April 5, 2006 -- What happened to the antimatter that was created at the birth of the universe? Researchers at Toronto's York University claim to have a clue after reportedly observing the...
Researchers' Biosensor Project Gets $1.6M
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 5, 2006 -- Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, (UCSC) have received $1.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to fund a four-year program to...
Fiberstars' HEDlights Get $2.1M from Navy
SOLON, Ohio, April 4, 2006 -- Fiber optic lighting supplier Fiberstars has received $2.1 million from DARPA to develop and install high-efficiency distributed lighting (HEDlight) systems on three US...
Engineers 'Translate' IR Signals into Many Other Wavelengths
SAN DIEGO, April 4, 2006 -- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a way to "translate" optical fiber signals between the current infrared and a wide range of other...
DARPA Funds $2.1M Navy Lighting Project
SOLON, Ohio, April 4, 2006 -- Fiber optic lighting supplier Fiberstars has received $2.1 million from DARPA to develop and install high-efficiency distributed lighting (HEDlight) systems on three US...
Coherent Opens Seoul Office
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 4 -- Coherent Inc. announced it has established a direct operation in Seoul, Korea. Wooyang Trading Co., Coherent’s distributor in Korea, will still to be responsible for...
Engineers 'Translate' IR Signals into Many Other Wavelengths
SAN DIEGO, April 4, 2006 -- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a way to "translate" optical fiber signals between the current infrared and a wide range of other...
Optical 'Comb' Measures Finer Frequencies
BOULDER, Colo., April 4, 2006 -- A highly sensitive tool for real-time analysis of the quantity, structure and dynamics of a variety of atoms and molecules simultaneously — even in miniscule gas...
Purdue Takes Rube Goldberg Title
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 3, 2006 -- The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers defended its national title in inefficiency and complexity with a machine that shreds five sheets of paper in 215...
L-3 to Acquire SSG Precision Optronics
NEW YORK, April 3, 2006 -- L-3 Communications said today it has agreed to acquire SSG Precision Optronics Inc. (SSG), subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Financial terms...
Verizon Sells Caribbean, Latin Telecoms for $3.7B
NEW YORK, April 3, 2006 -- Verizon Communications Inc. today announced that it has agreed to sell its Caribbean and Latin American telecommunications operations in three separate transactions to...
Alcatel to Buy Lucent, Cut 8800 Jobs
PARIS and MURRAY HILL, N.J., April 3, 2006 -- Telecom equipment maker Alcatel of France will acquire competitor Lucent Technologies for $13 billion in stock, creating a company with annual worldwide...
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Otelco Buys Mid-Maine for $38M
Otelco Inc., a telephone services provider in rural Alabama and Missouri, announced today it will acquire privately owned Mid-Maine Communications Inc. of Bangor, Maine, for approximately $37.8...
BU Photonics Center Startup Biz Sold
TORONTO, April 5, 2006 -- Healthcare company OccuLogix Inc. of Toronto announced yesterday it will acquire glaucoma treatment developer Solx Inc., a privately held company founded at the Boston...
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BARRINGTON, N.J., April 26, 2006 -- Edmund Optics, a manufacturer of optical and imaging components, has introduced a precision-grade cube beamsplitter for high-power Nd:YAG lasers. Tech Spec high-energy polarizing cube beamsplitters...
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ZapFree Fiber Optic Encoder
NEWBURY PARK, Calif., April 21 -- Micronor Inc. said its new M314 ZapFree high-resolution hollow shaft fiber optic rotary encoder for harsh and hazardous environments was designed to accomodate the needs of large-drive applications...
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Multispectral Filter Microarray
WESTFORD, Mass., April 18 -- Barr Associates Inc. has introduced an 18-element multipectral filter microarray in which each element is a high-precision thin film filter just 0.032 millimeters wide....
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Compass Yellow
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 18, 2006 -- The new Compass Yellow from Coherent Inc. is a compact, all-solid-state laser delivering 20 mW of continuous-wave output at 561 nm in a diffraction-limited (TEM00) beam. According to the company,...
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Cube 660 Direct-Diode System
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Miricle 307K Mini Infrared Camera
CAMBRIDGE, England, April 13, 2006 -- Thermoteknix Systems Ltd. announced that its latest innovation in thermal imaging will be launched in the US at the SPIE Defense & Security Symposium in Orlando, Fla., on April 19. The Miricle...
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Framelink PCMCIA Frame Grabber
BOCA RATON, Fla., April 10, 2006 -- A new Framelink PCMCIA frame grabber will be among the mobile imaging components Imperx Inc. will exhibit at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, to be held April 17-21 in Orlando (Kissimmee),...
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High-Power CW Laser Diodes
In addition to pulsed laser diodes, Laser Components now produces continuous wave laser diodes at 808 nm with 1000 mW power. The base material is InGa(Al)As/GaAs with a standard wavelength selection...
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AstroScope 9350-Z1U
Electrophysics Corp. has introduced the Astroscope, a modular night-vision system for the Sony HVR-Z1U high-definition camcorder- performance Gen III image intensifier, among a wide variety of camera...
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Electrophysics is pleased to introduce the Emerald LR, an ultracompact long-range, multifield-of-view thermal surveillance camera. The Emerald LR incorporates a highly sensitive midwave 640x480 MCT...
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Cotco WRI LED series
LATHAM, N.Y., April 5, 2006 -- LED maker Marktech Optoelectronics announces the addition of Cotco’s new WR1 series to its lineup of high-performance LEDs. The company says the new warm white WR1...
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Optical Wizard Automated Lens Selector
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 4, 2006 -- Machine vision optic manufacturer Navitar Inc. has introduced the Optical Wizard, a patent-pending automated lens selector that generates basic and customized solutions for machine-vision...
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RTS-3ZC Integrating Sphere Accessory
BOULDER, Colo., April 4, 2006 -- Analytical Spectral Devices Inc. (ASD), a maker of field-portable spectroradiometers, has released an RTS-3ZC integrating sphere accessory designed for use with its...
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Dymax 3099 Adhesive
OXFORDSHIRE, England, April 4, 2006 -- Intertronics said its Dymax 3099 adhesive is ideal for all high-quality display purposes where clean transparent bonds are needed on acrylic, glass and...
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