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Photonics.com - December 2007
News & Features
Hubble Software IDs Rare Fish
Pattern-recognition software originally developed for the Hubble Space Telescope is helping marine biologists and conservationists study the largest fish in the world, the whale shark, through photographs and videos. The whale shark, known as the "gentle giant" for its nonpredatory behavior, can be up to 20 meters long and weigh as much as 20 tons. The fish has a broad, flattened head and...
Times Square Ball Goes 'Green'
In the New Year's spirit of "out with the old, in with the new," the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball will be lit exclusively by LED bulbs. The "green" technology incorporated into the...
Rofin-Sinar to Buy Nufern
German laser maker Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. (RSTI) will acquire Nufern, an East Granby, Conn., manufacturer of fiber lasers, as a subsidiary, in a cash transaction. Further terms of the deal,...
Thermo Acquires La-Pha-Pack
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced it has acquired La-Pha-Pack, a Langerwehe, Germany-based provider of chromatography products. La-Pha-Pack will be integrated into Thermo Fisher...
Avanex Files Complaint Vs. 3S
Avanex Corp., a Fremont, Calif., developer of products for fiber optic networks, announced today it has filed an arbitration complaint in New York against 3S Photonics, of Marcoussis, France,...
LCD Alliance Formed
Hitachi Ltd., Canon Inc. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. announced Tuesday an agreement on a comprehensive alliance to reinforce and grow their LCD panel businesses and technologies....
New Superconductors Sought
Fifty years after the Nobel-prize winning explanation of how superconductors work, a research team is suggesting another mechanism for the still-mysterious phenomenon. In a review published this...
NXP Acquiring GloNav
NXP Semiconductors announced today it will acquire GloNav Inc., a US-based fabless semiconductor company that makes chips for global positioning systems (GPS) and other satellite navigation...
Dynasil to Triple Under Deal
Photonics company Dynasil Corp. of America announced today that its size could triple with the planned acquisition of a private advanced instrumentation company. Dynasil did not disclose the...
Applied Precision Sells Div.
Applied Precision announced today it is selling its semiconductor division to semiconductor test instrumentation business Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Flanders, N.J., and has canceled its plans to...
Chip Performs Blood 'Biopsy'
A microchip-based device the size of a business card uses 80,000 posts smeared with an antibody "glue" to capture hard-to-find tumor cells in blood samples, providing new information about the cells...
MEMS for Military Munitions
Tiny copper structures that can be used in standard microelectronics fabrication processes could enable microelectromechanical system (MEMS) fuzes for military munitions to be mass-produced like...
Holochip Backers Invest $2.7M
Holochip Corp., a maker of adaptive polymer lenses (APLs) with tunable focal lengths, announced that its funding round raised $2.7 million, led by venture capital firm ITU Ventures of Los Angeles....
Astronomy Cuts Dismay RAS
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has expressed its "deep disappointment" at the level of cuts to UK astronomy research announced last week by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)....
Emcore to Buy Intel's Telecom
Emcore Corp. is acquiring the telecommunications-related portion of Intel's Optical Platform Div. for $85 million, the companies announced today. The telecom assets to be acquired include...
Bristol-Myers Sheds Unit
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. announced today it will sell its medical imaging subsidiary to private equity firm Avista Capital Partners for $525 million. Bristol-Myers said it will sell Bristol-Myers...
OSA Funds Optics Programs
The OSA Foundation is funding an exhibition on optical illusions and three new optics-related science education programs. "Perceptual Relativity," a permanent interactive exhibit exploring...
Zeeko to Make Telescope Tool
Zeeko Ltd. was awarded a $5 million contract to develop a component to be used on the world's largest telescope. The component, a polishing machine, will be used to finish the mirrors for the...
Photons, Phonons Swap Data
The discovery of a way to transfer encoded information from a laser beam to sound waves and then back to light waves again is being seen as a step toward designing tomorrow's superfast optical...
Boeing Installs Laser Weapon
The Boeing Co. installed a high-energy chemical laser aboard a C-130H aircraft, part of the advanced tactical laser (ATL) technology demonstration program under its Directed Energy Systems unit....
Laser Beam Sorts Cells
Like water from a firehose levitates a beach ball, a new system uses a targeted beam of light to push certain types of cells up out of special "traps." The method could make separating particular...
A MOT With a Twist
An atom chiller has been combined with a molecule trap, creating a device that can generate and trap huge numbers of elusive-yet-valuable ultracold polar molecules. Scientists believe ultracold...
ST Acquiring Genesis
Chip maker STMicroelectronics announced yesterday it will expand its position in the $1.5 billion digital TV market by acquiring Genesis Microchip Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., a supplier of display...
Carigent Round Raises $2M
Carigent Therapeutics Inc., which is designing a nanotechnology drug delivery method developed at Yale University, announced today it has secured $2 million in its first round of private equity...
JDSU to Buy Hologram Maker
JDSU will acquire American Bank Note Holographics Inc. (ABNH), a Robbinsivlle, N.J., maker of holograms for providers of cards issued by more than 20,000 financial institutions, for $138 million in...
Bacteria Forms Nanotubes
Chemists and engineers from the US and Korea have found semiconducting nanotubes produced by living bacteria -- a discovery that could help in the creation of a new generation of nanoelectronic...
Light Deactivates Anthrax
A new technique targets specific proteins, such as the dangerous anthrax toxin, and renders them harmless using nothing but light. The method could also be used to create new cancer treatments and...
Laser Changes Film's State
A laser has been used to switch a film of material back and forth between reflective and transparent states without heating or cooling it. It is one of the first cases that scientists have found...
Lab Reveals Cyber Attack
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) revealed on Thursday that a "sophisticated cyber attack" over the past few weeks may have allowed hackers to steal personal information about visitors to the lab...
Si Nanophotonics Advanced
Silicon research announced today uses light instead of copper wires to transmit information through the "brains" on a chip. The development could potentially lead to supercomputers -- which today are...
Corning, Sharp to Share Plant
Corning Inc. announced yesterday it will spend $795 million over five years to collocate a glass manufacturing facility at Sharp Corp.’s new plant in Sakai City, Japan. Corning said it plans to...
Laser Analyzes Combustion
A high-speed system of lasers, mirrors and cameras is being built to analyze combustion inside engines, power generators and heating systems, with the ultimate goal of reducing reliance on fossil...
Essilor Buys 5 Optics Labs
Prescription lens maker Essilor announced today it has strengthened its laboratory network by buying two independent labs in Europe and three others in the US. Terms of the acquisitions were not...
DFG OKs 10 Research Centers
The German Research Foundation (DFG, for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) will establish 10 collaborative research centers Jan. 1 focused on topics that could lead to the development of...
Cooler, Cheaper Chips
A new process and equipment will reportedly lead to a significant reduction of heat generated by silicon chips or microprocessors while speeding up the rate at which information is sent, said...
Light Sculpts 3-D Particles
Microparticles that have been sculpted to three dimensions using ultraviolet light could have many applications in medical diagnostics and tissue engineering, such as acting as probes to detect...
Mouse-Eye View of Blood
A retinal flow cytometer has been used to peer through the eyes of a mouse and monitor the cells passing through its bloodstream. "We could detect and count circulating cells continuously without...
Bruker Awards Scholarship
Michelene E. Miller, a PhD candidate at Alfred University, was awarded a scholarship by Bruker AXS during the 2007 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, held last week at the Hynes...
Biolab Draft Deemed Weak
A National Institutes of Health draft assessment of the risks associated with a proposed biocontainment laboratory at Boston University is "not sound and credible," according to a National Research...
FETs Fabbed with Fullerene
High-performance field-effect transistors (FETs) have been fabricated at room temperature using thin films of carbon 60 (C60), an organic semiconductor material also known as fullerene. The new...
Sensing Collision Mode
Driving along a country road at night, if you see a deer in your path illuminated by your headlights and the deer doesn't move, chances are good you will hit it -- because you're in “collision mode.”...
acquisitions
Dynasil to Triple Under Deal
Photonics company Dynasil Corp. of America announced today that its size could triple with the planned acquisition of a private advanced instrumentation company. Dynasil did not disclose the company’s name or the terms of the transaction. Dynasil’s chairman, James Saltzman, said the acquisition would increase by more than three times the size of the $11 million business, which...
Bristol-Myers Sheds Unit
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. announced today it will sell its medical imaging subsidiary to private equity firm Avista Capital Partners for $525 million. Bristol-Myers said it will sell Bristol-Myers...
ST Acquiring Genesis
Chip maker STMicroelectronics announced yesterday it will expand its position in the $1.5 billion digital TV market by acquiring Genesis Microchip Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., a supplier of display...
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2008 LightPath Product Catalog
LightPath Technologies is pleased to release its 2008 Product Catalog. Included in this catalog are LightPath's exciting new products including our IsoBeam Fusion™ Collimators. LightPath's...
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AFL Telecommunications Adds Nyfors
To complement Fujikura’s advanced splicing products, AFL Telecommunications announces the addition of the Nyfors product line which includes LDF cleavers, end-face inspection meters, recoaters and...
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Hyper-Rapid Ps Lasers
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany, Dec. 28, 2007 -- Lumera Laser GmbH said its new Hyper-Rapid pictosecond lasers represent a breakthrough in the development of industrial picosecond lasers for micromachining. The lasers use a novel amplifier...
Coherent Kaiserslautern GmbH
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First Contact Red Spray Formula
PLATTEVILLE, Wisc., Dec. 28, 2007 -- Photonic Cleaning Technologies said its red spray formula First Contact polymer solution takes the "drag"' out of cleaning by allowing the user to simply point, spray and allow it to dry. The...
Photonic Cleaning Technologies LLC, PCT Aerospace
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Steering Mirror Platforms
AUBURN, Mass., Dec. 28, 2007 -- PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. said it has extended the S-330 high-dynamics piezo tip/tilt platform line by several new large-angle models. The new additions to the S-330 piezo steering mirror...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Prisma Laser
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 28, 2007 -- Coherent Inc. said the latest addition to its Prisma series of all-solid-state infrared and green lasers offers the highest output power available to date. Specifically, the new Prisma 1064-20-V is a...
Coherent Inc.
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SMT Laser
Osram Opto Semiconductors is showcasing the world's smallest surface mountable (SMT) high-power continuous wave (up to 6 W) laser. The laser is dustproof and cost-effective, making it ideal for...
Osram Opto Semiconductors Inc.
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Laser Safety (Interlock) Shutter
Features include: integrated return spring, 0.5" (13 mm) aperture (larger optional), small size; low cost; high reliability, long life, standard or custom blade returns to "off" position with a power...
Electro-Optical Products Corp.
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Seed Laser Diode Driver Assembies
AMI’s OEM seed laser diode drivers are ideal for compact, TE-cooled industrial and medical laser applications. Output currents to 2.5 A from 10 ns pulse width to CW are provided. RoHS versions are...
Analog Modules Inc.
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HotShot HD IR Cameras
FAIRFIELD, N.J., Dec. 19, 2007 -- Electrophysics Corp. has introduced several models of the HotShot HD portable infrared (IR) camera, what it said is the first affordable 640 x 480 resolution thermographic camera. With four times...
Lynred USA
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No. 34 LaserShields
SOUTH LYON, Mich., Dec. 19, 2007 -- NoIR's LaserShields laser safety eyewear is now available with a No. 34 8-base wraparound frame and a detachable Rx insert, complementing its 10 other frame styles. With specialized narrowband peak...
NoIR Laser Co. LLC
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Tiny motor pushes 200x its weight
Now 40% faster and 50% stronger! SQL Series SQUIGGLE motor pushes 30-gram axial loads. Use for focus, zoom, alignment and more. Patented piezo motor is just 1.8 x 1.8 x 6 mm, less than half the size...
New Scale Technologies Inc.
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UV-1800 Spectrophotometer
COLUMBIA, Md., Dec. 17, 2007 -- Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has introduced the UV-1800, its latest ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS) spectrophotometer. The UV-1800 functions as a stand-alone instrument or can be PC-controlled with...
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc.
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TechSpec Preloaded Filter Wheels
BARRINGTON, N.J., Dec. 14, 2007 -- Edmund Optics has introduced new TechSpec preloaded filter wheels, six-position filter wheels that come preloaded with 1-in.-diameter filters. The wheels come with an instruction sheet showing the...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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3400S Portable Laser System
MELBOURNE, Fla., Dec. 14, 2007 -- Elk Industries' new 3400S portable semiconductor laser system has an output power of 35 to 40 mW continuous wave (CW) and as much as 50 mW for peak radiant flux. The company said the laser is rugged,...
Elk Industries, R-K Manufacturing
L4 10-W Diode Lasers
MILIPATAS, Calif., Dec. 11, 2007 -- JDSU announced it has released its most powerful fiber-coupled diode laser with its new L4 series. The telecom-grade lasers use an innovative chip design to generate 10 W of output power and are...
Lumentum Operations LLC
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High Quanta Sensors
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Dec. 10, 2007 -- Dalsa Corp.'s Professional Imaging group has introduced a High Quanta line of sensors tailored for scientific, life sciences, and astronomy applications. According to Dalsa, these sensors are...
Teledyne DALSA, X-Ray & Image Sensor Products
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Opnext 830-nm Laser Diodes
HATFIELD BROAD OAK, England, Dec. 10, 2007 -- Photonic Products Ltd., an authorized distributor, said it now has available two new high-power, infrared wavelength GaAlAs (gallium aluminum arsenide) laser diodes -- the HL8337MG and the HL8338MG...
Photonic Products Ltd.
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Matrix 355-nm Lasers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 5, 2007 -- Coherent Inc. said the two new models in its Matrix 355 series of solid-state lasers are economical, air-cooled 355-nm systems for OEM integration that feature Matrix technology previously available...
Coherent Inc.
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EXview Smart Camera
ETTLINGEN, Germany, Dec. 4, 2007 -- Vision Components said the sensor technology in its new VC4067 EXview smart camera enables it to analyze even long wavelength light near the infrared spectrum, ensuring very precise image recording....
Vision Components GmbH
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