!%ILX Lightwave Corp.%! of Bozeman, Mont., has awarded $10,000 worth of ultralow-noise laser diode instrumentation to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to enhance experimental research there. Dr. Lynford Goddard, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, will use the equipment to study a family of reflective photonic devices based on a distributed Bragg reflector in a microring resonator. The company provided an ultralow-noise laser diode current source, temperature controller and laser diode mounts. Over the past five years, ILX Lightwave has donated $20,000 in equipment annually to colleges and universities. It has begun accepting applications for the 2012 award.