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CyberOptics Purchases Kestra Ltd.
Apr 8, 1999 — MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 8 -- CyberOptics Corporation has acquired Kestra Ltd., a UK-based automated optical inspection (AOI) systems developer. Kestra's AOI concept differs from existing systems in that it uses statistical appearance modeling to teach itself to recognize any object. CyberOptics acquired all of Kestra's stock and repaid certain indebtedness for a total consideration of approximately $11.5 million in cash.
Adaptive Optics Maps out Retina
Apr 1, 1999 — Researchers at the University of Rochester have turned Star Wars-era technology designed to clarify images from spy satellites into a method that can image the human retina, with surprising results. "With this method, we can now go from imaging...
Corning Increases Optics Holdings
Apr 1, 1999 — With an eye toward capitalizing on the emerging market for specialty lenses, Corning Inc. has acquired Rochester Photonics Corp. in Rochester, N.Y. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Rochester Photonics specializes in diffractive optics and...
Precision Optics Wins DWDM Filter Contracts
Mar 23, 1999 — GARDNER, Mass., March 22 -- Precision Optics Corp. has received orders totaling more than $1.9 million for 100 and 200 GHz channel separation Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer (DWDM) optical filters. The company said the optical thin film DWDM...
Digital Optics Corp. Enters 'Fast 500'
Mar 1, 1999 — Deloitte & Touche has named Digital Optics Corp. to its Fast 500 program, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in the US. Rankings are based on revenues over the five-year period from 1993 to 1997. During that period,...
School of Optics Hosts Inaugural Conference
Mar 1, 1999 — The Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) kicked off an inaugural conference Jan. 11 and 12 to celebrate the opening of its School of Optics at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Distinguished members of the...
Applied Image Group Merges with Donnelly Optics
Jan 1, 1999 — The Applied Image Group Inc. in Rochester, N.Y., has acquired one of Donnelly Corp.'s subsidiaries, Donnelly Optics Corp., based in Tucson, Ariz. The two companies agreed to the merger Dec. 1, with the deal expected to close this month. Applied...
Adhesive Provides Optical Clarity
Nov 1, 1998 — Mindrum Precision Inc. machines its clear and colored filter multioptical lenses to tight 0.00001-in. tolerances and bonds these lenses together in flow cells that become integrated into lasers, computers, medical devices and other applications...
Kidger Optics Sells Sigma Software Line
Nov 1, 1998 — Kidger Optics has sold its Sigma optical software product line to Focus Software Inc. in Tucson, Ariz. According to Focus Software President Ken Moore, Kidger Optics has sold the copyright, source code and customer base related to its main product...
New School of Optics Opens
Nov 1, 1998 — The University of Central Florida in Orlando will open a graduate school of optics, making it one of three universities in the US to offer graduate education in this field. M.J. Soileau will direct the school, which grew out of the Center for...
Engineers Introduce Quick Fabrication of Micro-Optics
Aug 1, 1998 — Researchers at Rochester Photonics Corp. have introduced a method for the speedy manufacture of high-NA microlenses, a development that could have an impact on telecommunications. The method, under review by the US Patent Office, involves a process...
Laser Technique Polishes Glass Lenses
May 1, 1998 — Glass's high infrared absorption could prove a boon to a new laser technique that can polish both symmetric and asymmetric glass lenses faster than mechanical techniques. Ferran Laguarta and his associates at the Universitat Politècnica de...
Optics Give Hard Drives a New Lease on Life
Apr 1, 1998 — The Winchester-style disk drive, nearing the limits for magnetic storage, has been given a new lease on life, thanks to optics. Computer hard-drive maker Seagate Technology and its Quinta Corp. subsidiary have combined optical switching, fiber...
Coast Guard Brings New Life to Lighthouse
Mar 1, 1998 — The US Coast Guard has agreed to restore the original lens in a historic Florida lighthouse. The diamondlike lens is one of only eight clamshell-design Fresnel lenses still operating in the US. The Coast Guard had planned to replace the 1907 lens...
Zeiss Provides Satellite Optics
Feb 1, 1998 — Optics manufacturer Carl Zeiss has secured a DM 18 million contract to build the optics for three Meteosat 2 satellites. The optics are under construction at the company's' Oberkochen, Germany, plant. The satellites, rotating more than 100...
Nonlinear optics:
Jan 1, 1998 — Until the late 1980s, multiphoton processes in organic and polymeric materials were only of academic interest due to their relatively low-multiphoton-absorption cross sections. However, a new generation of highly efficient organic materials with...
Optical Design:
Jan 1, 1998 — Optical Design software encompasses a large variety of applications, spanning lens design and illumination optics, laser cavity design, integrated optics design, physical image modeling, and polarization and scattering analysis. The demands of the...
Diamonds Turn Out Precision Optics
Dec 1, 1997 — During the middle of the Cold War, the United States military establishment became upset about the cost of infrared components. The military was going to need increasing numbers of large-diameter germanium components to control the 'smart' weapons...
Microlens Arrays Sharpen the Details
Dec 1, 1997 — As devices that employ photonics components shrink, optical engineers increasingly are turning to the smallest tools at their disposal, and when it comes to lenses, they face a bevy of choices. One recent trend is toward collections of tiny lenses...
Horiba Acquires Optics Manufacturer
Oct 1, 1997 — Horiba Ltd., a Japanese manufacturer of infrared analysis devices, has acquired the French optical equipment manufacturer Instruments S.A. The acquisition complements Horiba's existing line of engine emission analyzers and medical analyzers....
Sales Double for Laser, Electro-Optics Companies
Jul 1, 1997 — Total sales have nearly doubled in the last five years for 19 leading companies in the laser and electro-optics industry, according to a report compiled by the Laser and Electro-Optics Manufacturers' Association (LEOMA). In 1992, sales for the 19...
Telecentric Lenses: Gauge the Difference
Jul 1, 1997 — For decades, engineers developing metrology instrumentation have used telecentric lenses in their products. Contour projectors and optical comparators, for example, owe much of their measurement capability to these unique lenses.Over the past decade...
Micro-Opto Electromechanics Could Revolutionize Photonic Systems
Jan 1, 1997 — Advances in micro-optics have led to the development of large-volume and batch-processed diffractive and refractive micro-optical components, creating a technology that promises to revolutionize many photonic systems. Similar to micro-optic...
Monroe Community College Receives CNC-Optics Systems from LOH
Jan 1, 1997 — Germantown, Wis.-based LOH Optical Machinery Inc. has lent a Spheronorm CNC-controlled precision optics system to Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y., for educational purposes at the school's optical systems technology laboratory. The...
Optical Software Undergoing Dramatic Change
Jan 1, 1997 — Lens design software once was characterized by large, expensive and user-unfriendly programs running on large, expensive and painfully slow mainframe computers. Lens design was almost exclusively the domain of dedicated professionals in classical...
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