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Photonics.com - January 2002
News & Features
Newport to Acquire Micro Robotics Systems
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 31 -- Newport Corp. announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Micro Robotics Systems Inc. (MSRI), a privately held manufacturer of high-precision, fully automated assembly and dispensing systems for the fiber optic communications, microwave and semiconductor equipment markets. The purchase price is estimated to be between $55 million and $65 million and is...
OSA Executive Director Steps Down
Washington, D.C., Jan. 31 -- John Thorner is stepping down as executive director of The Optical Society of America (OSA) to pursue other interests. The OSA board said in a statement that it...
Cell Robotics Licenses BD Patent for Laser-Assisted Blood Sampling
ALBUQUERQUE, NM, Jan. 31 -- Cell Robotics International Inc. has extended its intellectual property coverage of the Lasette product line by licensing a key patent from BD (formerly Becton, Dickinson...
Big Bear Networks Raises $40M
MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 31 -- Big Bear Networks, an optical networking provider designing "photronic signal processing" products for next-generation 10- and 40-gigabit-per-second optical carrier...
Corvis Buying Dorsal Networks
COLUMBIA, Md., Jan. 31 -- Corvis Corp., a maker of switching and routing equipment for fiber optic networks, has agreed to acquire privately held Dorsal Networks for about $90 million in stock. The...
Inphi Integrated Circuits Break 80 Gbps Barrier
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Jan. 30 -- Fabless optical components company Inphi Corp. said it has demonstrated demultiplexers running at a data rate of more than 80 gigabits (Gbps) per second. These...
MegaSense Completes MEMS Facility; Gets 1st Patent
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 30 -- MegaSense Inc., developer of integrated photonic micromodules and microsubsystems, announced it has completed its state-of-the-art MEMS wafer fabrication facility and...
Laser Prostate Surgery Debuts in Michigan
WAYNE, Mich., Jan. 30 -- The Niagara PVP laser photoselective vaporization procedure (PVP) has been used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) for the first time by Oakwood Annapolis Hospital....
Dow Corning Establishes Thin Film Technology Platform
MIDLAND, Mich., Jan. 30 -- Dow Corning Corp. recently launched a new program, the Thin Film Technology Platform, to identify, develop and promote new products based on thin-film materials and...
DALSA to Acquire Image Sensor Unit and Semiconductor Foundry
WATERLOO, Ontario, Jan. 29 -- DALSA Corp. announced it has signed a term sheet for its acquisition of the CCD image sensors business of Royal Philips Electronics. The purchase is expected to include...
Adaptive Optics Unit Gets NIF Orders from Lawrence Livermore
BLACKWOOD, N.J., Jan. 29 -- Adaptive Optics Associates Inc.'s Metrologic Instruments Inc. subsidiary has been awarded two orders from Lawrence Livermore National Labs for opto-mechanical design and...
Biolase Wins FDA Clearance for Laser Root Canal
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Jan. 29 -- Biolase Technology Inc. has received FDA clearance for complete hard- and soft-tissue laser root-canal therapy. The company can now market its Waterlase technology...
Sagitta Raises $15.3 Million in 2nd Funding Round
HAUPPAUGE, NY, Jan. 29 -- Sagitta Ltd., a supplier of process equipment for the fiber optic industry, announced it has raised $15.3 million in its second round of venture funding. Pitango Venture...
Photonics West Ends Successful Run
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 28 - By any measure, SPIE's Photonics West 2002 was a success. A record number of 6000 walk-ins pushed total attendance to more than 13,700, and the 700 exhibiting companies...
Therma-Wave Acquires Sensys Instruments
FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 23 -- Therma-Wave Inc., maker of process control metrology systems used in the manufacture of semiconductors, announced the completion of its acquisition of Sensys Instruments...
Covion CDT to Collaborate on Polymer Research
FRANKFURT, Germany, Jan. 22 -- Covion and Cambridge Display Technology (CDT, of Cambridge, UK) have signed an agreement covering technology licensing and research, development and evaluation of new...
Oplink Delivers Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter Products
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 21 -- Oplink Communications Inc., designer and manufacturer of innovative optical components and subsystems, announced the initial shipment of its acousto-optic tunable filter...
Laurin Honors Two Photonics Pioneers at Photonics West
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 21 - Teruo Hiruma of Hamamatsu Photonics KK and Donald B. Keck of Corning Incorporated were honored with Laurin Publishing's Distinction in Photonics Awards at a ceremony at...
UMass Lowell Offers Online Photonics Programs
HOUSTON, Jan. 18 -- College students in Atlanta, Boston and Houston are hard at work developing the digital future using Texas Instruments' (TI) digital signal processing (DSP) technology -- from...
Shareholders Sue Optical Cable Over Securities Violations
BALA CYNWYD, Penn., Jan. 18 -- A pending class action charges Optical Cable Corp. and Robert Kopstein, the company's president, CEO and controlling shareholder, with issuing materially false and...
Trillium Photonics Receives $29 Million 2nd-Round Financing
OTTAWA, Ontario and PLEASANTON, Calif., Jan. 17 -- Trillium Photonics Inc., an optical systems company, announced it has received $29 million in second-round financing, led by Spectrum Equity...
Biolase Expands Operations into Germany
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Jan. 17 -- Biolase Technology, a medical technology company focused on the dental laser market, is expanding its international operations with the establishment of Biolase...
Patent Office Reissues Lasersight Scanning Patent
WINTER PARK, Fla., Jan. 17 -- LaserSight Inc. said the US Patent and Trademark Office has reissued its patent 5,520,679, Ophthalmic Surgery Method Using Non-Contact Scanning Laser, formerly known as...
Meadowlark Optics and Hana Microdisplay Technologies Team Up on LCDs
FREDERICK, Colo. and TWINSBURG, Ohio, Jan. 17 -- Meadowlark Optics and Hana Microdisplay Technologies Inc. announced today a cooperation agreement to join forces to meet the growing needs for...
LaserComm Secures $21 Million in Funding
PLANO, Texas, Jan. 18 -- Optical component maker LaserComm announced it has secured $21 million in fourth-round funding from internal investors, led by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners and Index...
Texas Instruments Donates $3 Million to University DSP Program
HOUSTON, Jan. 17 -- College students in Atlanta, Boston and Houston are hard at work developing the digital future using Texas Instruments' (TI) digital signal processing (DSP) technology -- from...
Spectranetics PELA Study Extended
COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 16 -- The Spectranetics Corp. said it has FDA approval to continue its peripheral excimer laser angioplasty (PELA) study, without the need to randomize patients. The study...
Veeco Wins $3 Million Metrology Orders
WOODBURY, NY, Jan. 16 -- Veeco Instruments Inc. has received approximately $3 million in orders for its Oasis 3000 defect inspection system from three leading manufacturers of thin film magnetic...
Assembly and Test Equipment Market Rise Predicted
San Mateo, Calif., Jan. 16 -- Global consumption of fiber optic component assembly equipment and test units will advance to $1.71 billion in 2005, according to a study by market forecaster...
Corning to take $178 Fourth Quarter Charge
CORNING, NY, Jan. 16 -- Corning Inc. said it will take a $178 million fourth-quarter charge related to employee stock holdings and post a larger loss as a result, although it sees revenues in line...
Aussie Power Company Buys ADC Gear for Fiber Network
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 15 -- ADC said it will supply Powercor Australia with fiber equipment in each of 33 sites along its fiber optic ring to Ballarat and Bendigo. Powercor Australia is constructing a...
PhotonEx Announces 40G Collaborative
MAYNARD, Mass., Jan. 15 -- PhotonEx Corp., provider of 40 Gb/s and faster network-wide smart photonic systems, announced it has founded the 40G Collaborative SM, a business alliance committed to the...
DRS Technologies Gets New Imaging System Contracts
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 15 -- DRS Technologies Inc. announced it has received new contracts to provide ultrahigh-speed digital imaging systems for domestic and international military and commercial...
Lumenis, Boston Scientific Sign Japan Distribution Agreement
YOKNEAM, Israel, Jan. 15 -- Lumenis Ltd. and Boston Scientific Corp. have extended their distribution agreement to include Lumenis' holmium lasers and accessories in Japan. The agreement relates to...
Volvo Debuts Raytheon Infrared Night Vision System
DETROIT, Jan. 14 -- Night Vision, developed by Raytheon Commercial Infrared, will be available in the Volvo XC90 SUV, which was unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last...
Carbon Nanotechnologies Licenses Production Process to DuPont
HOUSTON, Jan. 14 -- Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. (CNI) announced it has an agreement with DuPont Central Research & Development (CR&D) to license CNI's patented laser-oven buckytube production...
Fiber Production On the Rise in China
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 14 -- Domestic fiber production volume in China will experience a compound annual growth rate of 27 percent, rising to 16.4 million fiber-km in 2005 from 5.8 million fiber-km...
Cox Deploys Sorrento DWDM Equipment
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 14 -- Sorrento Networks Corp., supplier of end-to-end, intelligent optical networking solutions, announced that broadband cable operator Cox Communications Inc. is deploying...
Microtel Subsidiary Gets $300,000 From French Army
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., Jan. 11 -- Microtel International Inc., provider of telecommunications equipment and electronic components, announced that its CXR, S.A. subsidiary has secured a contract...
Outsourced Telecom Manufacturing Indicates Trend
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 11 -- NEC Corp. is one of many major telecom suppliers opting to sell or outsource their manufacturing operations, according to a report from market forecaster INSIGHT...
Picosecond Pulse Labs, Stanford Sign Patent Agreement
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 11 -- Picosecond Pulse Labs Inc., which designs and makes components and test instrumentation for high-speed communications systems, announced it has signed a patent license...
Miravant Starts Photodynamic Therapy Trial for Psoriasis
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 11 -- Miravant Medical Technologies has begun treating patients in a phase II clinical trial of PhotoPoint photodynamic therapy (PDT) for plaque psoriasis, a chronic skin...
Ekips Technologies Receives Laser Technology Grants
NORMAN, Okla., Jan. 11 -- Ekips Technologies Inc., producer of lasers and laser-based systems, has received $400,000 in grants from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology...
New Technique Images Alzheimer Onset
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 -- UCLA scientists have created the first technique to image the earliest evidence of Alzheimer's disease in the living brain -- before the disorder begins attacking brain cells....
Astronomers Determine Color of the Universe
BALTIMORE, Jan. 11 -- Astronomers at The Johns Hopkins University have produced a unique new insight into the nature of existence: They've determined the color of the universe. The irregularities of...
CyberOptics Cutting Costs, Jobs
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 10 -- CyberOptics Corp. has begun a new round of cost-reduction measures, including an approximate 10 percent reduction of its worldwide workforce. Two previous workforce reductions...
Elbit Vision Delivers First Automatic Tire-Cord Inspection System
YOQNEAM, Israel, Jan. 10 -- Elbit Vision Systems Ltd. (EVS) said it has installed an I-TEX100TC Automatic Tire-Cord Inspection System at Hyosung Corp.'s Ulsan plant in Korea. "We have designed the...
Cierra Shipping 50GHz Filter
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Jan. 10 -- Cierra Photonics Inc. announced that it is shipping its terra-Q 50G-5 filter to multiple customers. The terra-Q 50G-5 is a five-cavity optical filter chip capable of 50...
Kodak to Start Company for Wireless Technology
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 10 -- Eastman Kodak Co. will form a new company based on patented wireless technologies from its research and development labs called Appairent Technologies Inc. Appairent will...
Nortel Expands OEM Rep Network in North America
BOSTON, Jan. 10 -- Nortel Networks has expanded its network of manufacturing representatives for optical components to complement its direct sales activity in the OEM market. The company recently...
Korean PowerComm to Deploy Over 1,000 Riverstone Routers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 9 --Riverstone Networks Inc. announced that PowerComm Corp., a subsidiary of Korea's National Electric Power Corp., will deploy more than 1000 advanced Riverstone...
Corning Anticipates Signs of Recovery in Second Half
NEW YORK, Jan. 9 -- Corning Inc. said it expects to see signs of a business recovery in the second half of the year. Corning shares rose 11 percent last week, on optimism that demand might pick up...
Imaging Test Said to Better Predict Cardiac Arrest
NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., Jan. 9 -- The results of a new study show that a noninvasive imaging technique called stress myocardial perfusion imaging (stress MPI) can help to more accurately detect...
Robot-Assisted Surgery Performed on Heart Patients
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Jan. 8 -- Computer Motion Inc., developer of medical robotic systems, said surgeons from The Institute of Cardiology in Rio Grande Do Sul have performed a series of robotically...
Laser Pioneer, Nobel Winner Prokhorov Dies
MOSCOW, Jan. 8 -- Alexander Prokhorov, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1964 for work that led to the development of the laser, died early Tuesday in his Moscow apartment, according to the...
Veeco, Photronics Join on Photomask Technology
WOODBURY, N.Y., Jan. 8 -- Veeco Instruments Inc. and Photronics Inc. have formed a strategic relationship to accelerate the development of advanced manufacturing technologies required to fabricate...
IXYS Bids for Westcode Semiconductors
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 8 -- IXYS Corp., which makes power semiconductors for power conversion and motion control applications, has made an offer to acquire for cash 100 percent of the equity of...
Alcatel Beats WDM Transmission Rate Record
DALLAS, Jan. 8 -- Alcatel said it has achieved a first in optical networks: transmission of 125 wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) channels of data at an effective rate of 40 Gbit/s per channel....
Dycom Industries to Acquire Arguss Communications
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., and ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 8 -- Dycom Industries Inc. and Arguss Communications Inc. announced they have signed a definitive merger agreement. Dycom is a provider of...
Motorola Completes Acquisition of Synchronous Inc.
HORSHAM, Pa., Jan. 7 -- Motorola, Inc. announced it has finalized its recently announced acquisition of the San Jose, Calif.-based Synchronous Inc., provider of fiber optic transmission systems for...
Corning to Resume Production at Two Plants
CORNING, N.Y., Jan. 7 -- Corning Inc. said it will resume optical fiber production at two North Carolina plants that employ about 2,500 people, starting the week of Jan. 21. The company said some of...
BE Semiconductor Industries Acquires Laurier
DRUNEN, The Netherlands, Jan. 7 -- BE Semiconductor Industries NV, manufacturer of assembly equipment for the semiconductor industry, announced it has acquired Laurier Inc. in an all-cash...
Bausch & Lomb Job Cuts Top 700
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 7 -- Bausch & Lomb is cutting at least 700 jobs on a global basis, part of a restructuring program it said will cost a total of $28 million. In the fourth quarter of 2001, the...
Uniroyal Optoelectronics Creates 450nm Blue LED
SARASOTA, Fla., Jan. 7 -- Uniroyal Optoelectronics LLC, a subsidiary of Uniroyal Technology Corp., has announced a breakthrough in its LED products with its 450-nm large-area blue chip. This new chip...
MIT, Imaging Firm Sue 94 Companies over Technology
BOSTON, Jan. 7 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Electronics For Imaging Inc., a California company, have filed a lawsuit in Texas claiming that 94 companies -- including Microsoft...
Hiding Those Lying Eyes Just Got Harder
ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 4 -- High-definition thermal imaging equipment detected lies with more than 80 percent accuracy in a Mayo Clinic study. Heat patterns in the face change dramatically when a...
PerkinElmer Sells Detection Systems Business
BOSTON, Jan. 4 -- PerkinElmer Inc. announced the sale of its Detection Systems business to L-3 Communications for approximately $100 million. The sale is expected to close in the first quarter of...
GSI Lumonics Inc. Wins New Orders For Memory Processing Systems
KANATA, Ontario, Jan. 4 -- GSI Lumonics Inc. said it received multiple orders in December for additional M430 WaferRepair systems from leading semiconductor producers. The total value of these orders...
UK Orders Target Identification Cameras from Intevac
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 4 -- Intevac Inc. has received an order from the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence for two Model 120 Livar cameras. Verle Aebi, president of Intevac's Photonics Div., said,...
WTT Acquires Microlab/FXR
PARAMUS, N.J., Jan. 4 -- Wireless Telecom Group Inc. (WTT) announced it has acquired Microlab/FXR, supplier of components for the wireless infrastructure industry, for a net purchase price of $3.8...
Microvision Ships Nomad Personal Display Systems
BOTHELL, Wash., Jan. 3 -- Microvision Inc. has begun the first shipments of its Nomad personal display system, a high-resolution display worn on the head that gives users hands-free access to...
JDS Uniphase Closes Acquisition of IBM Optical Transceiver Business
OTTAWA, Canada and SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 3 -- JDS Uniphase Corp. said it has completed its previously announced acquisition of the optical transceiver business of IBM Corp. The company paid IBM $100...
Digital Teleport Files Bankruptcy
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 2 -- Digital Teleport Inc., a subsidiary of Great Plains Energy Inc., has filed for bankruptcy. Digital Teleport will continue its business operations while it restructures its...
Lumenis Closing Seven Facilities
TEL AVIV, Jan. 2 -- Laser device maker Lumenis Ltd. is closing seven facilities and shedding more than 200 jobs. Lumenis, formerly ESC Medical Systems Ltd., said it is completing the integration of...
Women Show Some Gains in High-Tech Salaries
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 -- Professional women with 20 to 29 years experience in electrotechnology and information-technology fields have higher median incomes than like-experienced men, according to the...
Global Crossing Files for Bankruptcy
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan. 29 -- Global Crossing Ltd. has filed for bankruptcy protection as two of its Asian business partners agreed to pay $750 million to assume control of the company as it...
GSI Lumonics Inc. Announces New Orders for
Memory Processing Systems
KANATA, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 3 -- GSI Lumonics Inc. announces the receipt of multiple orders received in December for additional M430 WaferRepair Systems from one of the world’s leading...
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