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Aculight Wins Air Force Fiber-Laser Contract
May 31, 2002 — BOTHELL, Wash., May 31 -- Aculight Corp. has won a $750,000 contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base to investigate new fiber-laser technologies for laser radar systems. These systems can be used to enable autonomous targeting for a new generation of smart weapons. Aculight believes the technology developed under this contract will lead to advances in other nondefense-related laser applications, including optical medical imaging. Aculight's research...
Photodigm Receives $4.8M in New Financing
Apr 16, 2002 — RICHARDSON, Texas, April 16 -- Photodigm Inc., a manufacturer of grating surface-emitting lasers, has received $4.8 million in new equity financing. This equity financing was provided by initial investors including Corning Innovation Ventures,...
Photonic Crystal Lattice Controls Laser Polarization
Jan 1, 2002 — By applying a photonic crystal lattice and changing the shape of the unit cell structure, researchers in Japan have developed a surface-emitting laser that promises higher output powers and better control of the lasing modes than either...
IEEE Honors Transistor, Laser Pioneer Kroemer
Dec 27, 2001 — PISCATAWAY, N.J., Dec. 27 -- Herbert Kroemer, professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been named the 2002 recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor. He is being honored for his...
Daily News Briefs
Dec 10, 2001 — Zia Laser, developer of quantum dot semiconductor lasers and QD-based subsystems for the data and telecommunications markets, has appointed Sohale Mufti as chief of marketing and sales and Bill Simpson as senior quality engineer.
Doubled Diode Offers Blue Output
ST. ANDREWS, UK -- ST. ANDREWS, UK -- Research on semiconductor lasers in recent years has focused on making them small and making them blue. Compact blue lasers can provide diffraction-limited spots...
Spectra-Physics Introduces 30 W Fiber Coupled Semiconductor Laser
Aug 20, 2001 — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 20 -- Spectra-Physics Semiconductor Lasers introduces a new 30 W fiber-coupled semiconductor laser at 980 nm wavelength for medical therapeutic and surgical applications. This 30 W fiber-coupled semiconductor laser...
Coherent Unveils All Solid-State Blue Laser
Aug 16, 2001 — SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 16 -- Coherent Inc. has unveiled the world's first commercial solid-state 460nm blue laser. Sharing an identical product platform as Coherent's prior sapphire products, the new sapphire 460-10 is the company's third in a...
Zia Laser Garners $6 Million in Seed Funding
Jul 6, 2001 — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., July 6 -- Zia Laser Inc., developer of quantum dot (QD) semiconductor lasers for the data and telecommunications markets, has received $6 million in seed round funding from Prism Venture Partners and RWI Group. The company will...
Laser Firm Settles Export Charges
Jul 1, 2001 — An $80,000 civil penalty settles charges that Opto Power Corp. of Tucson, Ariz., exported diode lasers to Israel without the required export licenses. The US Department of Commerce says the company, recently renamed Spectra-Physics Semiconductor...
Stable Laser Prompts Lawsuit
WILMINGTON, Del. -- WILMINGTON, Del. -- Japanese photonics manufacturer Sumitomo Electric Industries has sued Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd., alleging that its semiconductor laser pump diode modules infringe a Sumitomo patent. Sumitomo’s lawsuit, filed on Feb. 13,...
Mid-IR Laser Diode Raises Operating Temperature
Mar 1, 2001 — Spectrometrists probing the midinfrared with semiconductor lasers have had to be content with the higher noise and spectral width of pulsed operation or else use cryogenic cooling to achieve continuous-wave (CW) operation. A quantum cascade device...
Sumitomo Sues Furukawa over Laser Patent
Feb 15, 2001 — WILMINGTON, Del., Feb 15 -- Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. is suing Furukawa Electric Co Ltd., for selling a product that Sumitomo alleges infringes its patent. In papers filed in the US District Court in Delaware, Sumitomo alleged that...
Lucent Team Demonstrates Far-IR Laser Diode
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- For some time, laboratory spectroscopy has used long-wavelength infrared light to identify and characterize target molecules. The sources in the mid- to the far-IR that can excite the molecular modes are cumbersome, however,...
The Big Trade-Off
Feb 1, 2001 — Semiconductor lasers are very small (about the size of a grain of salt), very efficient electrically powered sources of coherent light. In the mid-1980s, their availability in large quantities and with long lifetimes enabled several applications,...
Cree to US Courts: Stop Nichia’s Blue Laser Sales
DURHAM, N.C. -- DURHAM, N.C. -- Blue-violet laser diodes will effectively disappear from the US if Cree Inc. and North Carolina State University prevail in a lawsuit against Nichia Corp. and its US subsidiary. Cree and the university filed suit against Nichia of...
Cree’s Blue Lasers Push On
Dec 1, 2000 — Researchers at Durham, N.C.-based Cree Inc. have demonstrated more than 100 hours of 1- to 3-mW continuous-wave (CW) output from its blue semiconductor laser based on silicon carbide. The devices have displayed CW operation at up to 100 mW with...
Semiconductor Laser International Posts Net Loss for Third Quarter
Nov 17, 2000 — BINGHAMTON, N.Y., Nov. 17 -- Semiconductor Laser International Corp., manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, has announced revenue and earnings for the three months ended September 30. The company posted revenue of $.4 million, a...
Semiconductor Laser International Inks Deal With MIT s.r.o.
Oct 24, 2000 — BINGHAMTON, N.Y., Oct. 24 -- Semiconductor Laser International Corp., manufacturer and producer of semiconductor diode lasers, has arranged for MIT s.r.o. to be SLI's representative in Eastern Europe. MIT s.r.o. is based in the Czech Republic and...
Bell Labs Researchers ClaimWorld's Longest Wavelength Semiconductor Laser
Oct 20, 2000 — MURRAY HILL, N. J., Oct. 20 -- Scientists at Lucent Technologies' R&D department, at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., have constructed the longest reaching semiconductor laser ever made in the photonics industry, said Lucent. The laser reaches to...
X-Ray Scattering Reveals Electronic Properties
STANFORD, Calif. -- STANFORD, Calif. -- An x-ray technique for studying the fundamental properties of matter could help identify new materials for semiconductor lasers. Inelastic x-ray scattering uses the high-energy x-rays produced by particles accelerated to nearly...
Semiconductor Laser InternationalSigns Agreement With Laser Components
Aug 11, 2000 — BINGHAMTON, N.Y., Aug. 11 -- Semiconductor Laser International Corp. (SLI) and Laser Components GmbH have entered into a six-month marketing agreement. Laser Components will assist SLI with marketing, selling and distributing its high-power...
Novalux Offers a Peek at Its Top-Secret Laser
Jul 1, 2000 — Novalux, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a high-power laser diode that it claims is a breakthrough technology for optical telecommunications. The device, which has been dubbed Necsel, for Novalux extended-cavity surface-emitting...
Semiconductor Laser International Reports First Quarter Results
May 24, 2000 — BINGHAMTON, N.Y., May 24 -- Semiconductor Laser International Corp. said that for the first quarter, net sales were $405,850, compared with net sales of $298,545 in the same 1999 period. SLI also reported a net loss from operations for the...
High-Power Lasers Do the Work of Four
May 1, 2000 — Santa Clara, Calif.-based Coherent Inc. has delivered prototypes of its proprietary optically pumped semiconductor lasers for testing in telecommunications applications, such as pumping erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. The 980-nm fiber-coupled devices...
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