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Photonics.com - January 2003
News & Features
Alcatel and MariPro to Build Undersea Test Bed
Paris, Jan. 30 -- Alcatel and MariPro, a provider of cabled undersea sensor systems, have been selected as industry partners by the Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS) consortium to build a...
European NanoBusiness Association Expanding
BRUSSELS, Belgium & LONDON, Jan. 30 -- The European NanoBusiness Association (ENA) today announced the creation of 12 new local hubs, in Oslo, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Newcastle, Cambridge, London,...
Fewer 'Tire Kickers' at Better-Attended Photonics West 2003
SAN JOSE, Jan. 30 -- Photonics West 2003 sponsors and exhibitors are encouraged by this year's attendance, which by the end of the exhibition today is expected to reach 13,500 to 14,000, according to...
Fewer 'Tire Kickers' at Better-Attended Photonics West 2003
SAN JOSE, Jan. 30 -- Photonics West 2003 sponsors and exhibitors are encouraged by this year's attendance, which by the end of the exhibition today is expected to reach 13,500 to 14,000, according to...
Spirent, Juniper Networks Team for Router-OSS Interoperability
ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 28 -- Spirent Communications, a wholly owned business group of Spirent plc announced a joint interoperability alliance with Juniper Networks a leading provider of edge and core...
Scan-Optics Wins Services Contract with InfoSeal
MANCHESTER, Conn., Jan. 28 -- Scan-Optics Inc. said that its field service division Access Services has signed a service agreement with InfoSeal LLC, to provide on-site service. InfoSeal provides...
Transbotics Wins Laser Guided Vehicle System Order
CHARLOTTE, N.C, Jan. 28 -- Transbotics Corp. has received an order from a new client in the automotive industry. The order totaling approximately $225,000 includes a vehicle, controls, hardware,...
Photodigm Claims Laser Breakthrough
RICHARDSON, Texas, Jan. 27 -- Photodigm Inc. said that it has developed 1310 nm Grating-outcoupled Surface Emitting (GSE) laser technology that yields devices with single-mode output powers up to...
SurgiLight Closes $500,000 Private Placement
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 27 -- SurgiLight, Inc. a developer of laser systems for ophthalmic applications, said it had consummated a previously announced private placement agreement with a group of four...
Study Finds Vein Laser Therapy Better Than Surgery
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 27 -- Four years after the introduction of laser therapy for the treatment of varicose veins, a study suggests that laser treatment is better than surgery. Two-year follow-up...
TMC Donation Solves Unusual Vibration Problem
PEABODY, Mass., Jan. 27 -- More than half a million annual visitors will soon be able to view the amazing development of live embryos at San Francisco's Exploratorium, thanks to two vibration...
Fiber and Cable Restructuring Predicted
PROVIDENCE, RI, Jan. 27—Over the past 18 months fiber and cable manufacturers have faced a shrinking telecom market, which has led to a steep decline in fiber optic cable sales. The industry...
Cardiologists Use 3-D Imaging To Help Repair Congenital Defects
CHICAGO, Jan. 24 -- Physicians at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago are the first in the country to use electron beam tomography (EBT) technology to help treat patients with...
CATA Challenges High-Tech Tax Credit System
OTTAWA, Jan. 24 -- The Canadian high-tech association CATAAlliance (CATA) has released a series of reports, "Improving Access to SR&ED Investment Tax Credits," as part of its effort to persuade the...
Corning Bids Adieu to 2002
CHICAGO, Jan. 24 -- Corning Inc. posted a net loss yesterday of $709 million, or 60 cents a share, compared with a loss of $656 million, or 69 cents a share, in the same quarter last year. Corning...
Opto-electronics Facility Planned in Wales
CARDIFF, Wales, Jan. 23 -- A national business incubation and research facility dedicated to the growth of the opto-electronics industry is being planned by the Welsh Development Agency (WDA). The...
AngstroVision Developing Nano-Imaging Device
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23 -- AngstroVision Inc. is developing a new nano-imaging device to target characterization and metrology applications in the materials and information technology markets. This...
AngstroVision Developing Nano-Imaging Device
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23 -- AngstroVision Inc. is developing a new nano-imaging device to target characterization and metrology applications in the materials and information technology markets. This...
Innovations Epitomize 3-D Imaging Market
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 23 -- The intense pace of innovations in 3-D imaging technologies used with computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance, angiography and ultrasound modalities epitomize the...
Bell Labs to Collaborate on Flexible Displays
MURRAY HILL, N.J., Jan. 23 -- It's the stuff of science fiction: Display screens so light and flexible that you could roll them up and carry them anywhere. That's the inspiration behind a US...
StockerYale Breaks into Asia-Pacific Market
SALEM, N.H., Jan. 23 -- StockerYale Inc. announced today that it has received its largest erbium-doped fiber order to date from one of its premiere distributors in Asia. The fiber will be used by...
Sempra Fiber Links Granted Cable Installation Patent
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 23 -- Sempra Fiber Links, a unit of Sempra Energy, announced its technology for installing fiber optic cable within active natural gas pipelines has been approved for a US patent,...
Phasebridge, Unitek Miyachi Sign Packaging Agreement
PASADENA & MONROVIA, Calif., Jan. 22 -- Phasebridge Inc. and Unitek Miyachi Corp. (UMC) announced they have signed an agreement under which Phasebridge will license certain elements of its optical...
University of Wales Gets $600,000 Optoelectronics Grant
BANGOR, Wales, Jan. 22 -- Researchers at the School of Informatics at the University of Wales at Bangor (UWB) Opto-electronics Group have received a $600,000 grant to continue exploring how...
Report: Telecom Laser Market Will Grow Slowly
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 21 -- The telecom laser and transponder market stands to grow over 30 percent in 2003, largely due to the continued installation of line cards into existing systems,...
Study Shows Infrared Light Removes Warts
BERLIN, Jan. 21 -- Water-filtered infrared light is an effective and painless means of removing warts, according to a Reuters article about a clinical trial by German dermatologists. In the article,...
Aculight Awarded $3M Air Force Contract
BOTHELL, Wash., Jan. 21 -- Aculight Corp., a developer of laser technologies, has been awarded a three-year, $3 million contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base...
Shipley, Coviant Firm Optical Partnership
HORSHAM, Pa., and BLACKSBURG, Va., Jan. 20 -- Shipley Company LLC, a supplier of components and processes for optical device manufactures, and Coviant Inc., a precision optical manufacturing services...
Advanced Photonix Acquires Texas Optoelectronics
CAMARILLO, Calif., Jan. 20 -- Advanced Photonix Inc. has acquired the outstanding capital stock of Texas Optoelectronics Inc. (TOI) for 1,000,000 shares of API's common stock and retirement of...
Broadband Use Broadens, Narrowband Use Narrows
NEW YORK, Jan. 17 -- More than 33.6 million Internet users accessed the Web at home via high-speed connections in December 2002, a 59 percent year-over-year increase, according to media analyst...
Ericsson to Sell Optelectronics Unit
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 17 -- Ericsson has signed an agreement to sell its optoelectronics operation, Ericsson Optoelectronics, to Northlight Optronics AB. The deal is effective immediately. Ericsson...
MEMGen Announces Design Challenge
BURBANK, Calif., Jan. 17 -- MEMGen Corp. has launched a microdevice design contest, The 3-D MEMS Design Challenge, open to anyone with commercial or research interest in microdevice design,...
PerkinElmer Expands in China
BOSTON, Jan. 17 -- PerkinElmer Inc. has established a new subsidiary in the Shanghai WaiGaoQiao Free Trade Zone in China. The new Life and Analytical Sciences China subsidiary will consist of...
Laser Comb Approved in Canada
BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 17 -- The HairMax LaserComb has received certification by the Canadian government as a class 2 medical device "for claims and indications to strengthen hair, prevent hair loss...
NASA Buys Perspecta 3-D System
BURLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 16 -- Actuality Systems Inc., a developer of spatial 3-D visualization technology, announced it has completed the sale of its Perspecta 3-D system at the NASA Ames Research...
Essex Awarded $3.7 M for Optoelectronic Radar Processor
COLUMBIA, Md., Jan. 16 -- Essex Corp., a developer of optoelectronic processors for signal processing applications, has been awarded a $3.7 million follow-on task order from the US Department of...
Telecoms Lobby for Pro-Competition Rules
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Changes under consideration at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could stop local telephone competition in its tracks, warned leaders of competitive...
BT Ignite Launches UK Service
MARTINSRIED/MUNICH, Germany and MAHWAH, N.J., Jan. 16 -- BT Ignite, the British Telecom subsidiary and provider of broadband and IP data solutions, has launched a 2.5 Gigabit service in the UK...
Lucent to Supply Bell Canada Broadband Equipment
TORONTO, and Murray Hill, N.J., Jan. 16 -- Lucent Technologies announced today a multiyear agreement with Bell Canada to supply next-generation broadband access equipment in Bell Canada’s networks....
Canadian Schools to Get Fiber Network
OSHAWA, Ontario, Jan. 15 -- Canadian communications network service provider Cygnal Technologies Corp. and Hydro One Telecom announced that Cygnal's Data Network Solutions Group has won a $3.6...
Lucent to Build China Networks
BEIJING, Jan. 15 -- Lucent Technologies announced that it has signed contracts with Jiangsu Unicom and the Jiangsu subsidiary of Unicom Horizon Mobile Telecommunications company to build advanced...
P-Com, Telaxis Terminate Merger Agreement
CAMPBELL, Calif., and SOUTH DEERFIELD, Mass., Jan. 15 -- P-Com Inc., a provider of wireless telecom products and services, and Telaxis Communications Corp., a developer of wireless fiber optic...
ICESat/CHIPS Satellites en Route to Orbit
GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 15 -- NASA’s ice, cloud and land elevation satellite (ICESat) and cosmic hot interstellar spectrometer (CHIPS) satellite lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Sunday...
NanoInk Funding Reaches $6 Million
CHICAGO, Jan. 15 -- NanoInk Inc., a Chicago-based nanotechnology company, announced it has closed a $6 million second round of financing led by Lurie Investment Fund LLC. NanoInk will use the funding...
Norwood Abbey Gets Nod for Laser Drug Device
MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 15 -- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) marketing approval for Norwood Abbey Ltd.'s laser-assisted drug delivery (LAD) device for "ablation of...
LNL Technologies Raises $7.1 Million
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 14 -- LNL Technologies, a developer of monolithically integrated photonic and optoelectronic chips, announced it has raised $7.1 million in seed funding. LNL's investors...
Hubble Gives Glimpse of 'Dark Ages'
BALTIMORE, Jan. 14 -- Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reported they are seeing the conclusion of the cosmic epoch called the "Dark Ages," a time about a billion years after the big...
Optical Gain Block Use Rise Forecast
SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 14 -- The global use of active optical gain blocks will increase from a 2002 value of $1.18 billion to $2.45 billion in 2006, according to a report from market researcher...
Corning to Narrow Photonics Scope
CORNING, N.Y., Jan. 13 -- Corning Inc. said it will continue to reduce the fixed-cost structure in its optical fiber and cable businesses, narrow its product scope in photonics, reduce corporate...
Lumenon Canadian Subsidiary Files Bankruptcy
MONTREAL, Jan. 13 -- Lumenon Innovative Lightwave Technology Inc.'s wholly owned Canadian operating subsidiary, LILT Canada Inc. (LILT), has filed for bankruptcy with the Superior Court of Quebec....
KVH to Upgrade UK Army Vehicle Navigation
MIDDLETOWN, R.I., Jan. 10 -- KVH Industries announced it has received an order on behalf of the United Kingdom to upgrade the UK Army's existing KVH TACNAV tactical navigation systems with the...
Digital Optics Acquires Zygo TeraOptix Customers
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 10 -- Zygo TeraOptix has reached an agreement to transfer some of its customers to Digital Optics Corp. as it exits the micro-optics business. This agreement allows to continue...
APA Optics Acquires Computer System Products
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 10 -- APA Optics announced it has signed an exclusive nonbinding term sheet with Computer System Products Inc. (CSP), a privately held company, to purchase all of its stock for...
MIT Researchers Create Photonic Bandgap Fiber
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 10 --MIT researchers have created a low-loss optical fiber that may lead to advances in medicine, manufacturing, sensor technology and telecommunications. Scientists and...
Quantum-Dot OLEDs May Replace LCDs
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 10 -- MIT researchers have combined organic materials with high-performing inorganic nanocrystals to create a hybrid optoelectronic structure -- a quantum dot-organic...
MIT Researchers Create Photonic Bandgap Fiber
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 10 --MIT researchers have created a low-loss optical fiber that may lead to advances in medicine, manufacturing, sensor technology and telecommunications. Scientists and...
Virtek Gets Patent for FONA Technology
WATERLOO, Ontario, Jan. 9 -- Virtek Vision International Inc., a developer of precision laser, automation and biosensor solutions, announced it has received US patent number 6,503,711 for its...
Safer Food Will Rely on New Technology
CHICAGO, Jan. 9 -- Consumer preferences and the demand for safe food will drive research efforts by food scientists in the coming years, according to the Institute of Food Technologists. Areas of...
Candela Corp. Acquires Applied Optronics
WAYLAND, Mass., Jan. 9 -- Candela Corp. announced it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Applied Optronics, the diode division of Schwartz Electro-Optics Inc., for approximately $1.2...
UK Groups Form Photonics Cluster
BIRMINGHAM, England, Jan. 8 -- The Midlands Photonics Cluster and the United Kingdom Laser and Electro-Optics Association (UKLEO) have joined forces as the Photonics Cluster. The groups said the...
Optiva Raises $30M; Appoints Board Members
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 8 --Nanomaterial developer Optiva Inc. has announced the second closing of $21 million to its oversubscribed Series C funding, bringing the total funding for the...
3-D Gettysburg Model Created for West Point
FILLMORE, Calif., Jan. 8 -- Solid Terrain Modeling (SMT), a manufacturer of 3-D solid terrain models, has completed a model of the Battle of Gettysburg for the US Military Academy (USMA) at West...
Metro CWDM Seen as DWDM Alternative
BOSTON, Jan. 7 -- Will a "new and improved" CWDM eclipse DWDM in the metro market? Or will an upturn in the telecom sector restore metro DWDM's momentum? What will be the overall market opportunity...
Thermo Electron Unites Lasers, Photonics as Spectra-Physics Brand
WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 7 -- Thermo Electron Corp. announced it has combined all of its lasers and photonics offerings under the Spectra-Physics brand. The new Spectra-Physics now encompasses the...
New Focus, Photonetics Settle Lawsuit
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 7 -- New Focus Inc., a provider of photonics and microwave solutions, today announced that it has settled a patent infringement lawsuit related to the design of tunable lasers...
Zygo Awarded Laser Optics Contract
MIDDLEFIELD, Conn., Jan. 6 -- Zygo Corp. has received a contract extension for laser amplifier slabs, mirrors and polarizers from the University of California-managed Lawrence Livermore National...
Air Force Should Support Nanotechnology Research
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- Research in micro- and nanoscience and technology could dramatically change the nature of warfare, says a new report from the National Academies' Air Force Science and...
Riverstone Networks Acquires Pipal Systems
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 6 -- Metropolitan area network developer Riverstone Networks Inc. announced it has completed the acquisition of Pipal Systems, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based development stage...
Report: Ethernet Market Will Increase
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Jan. 6 -- As a result of service provider demand, the metropolitan Ethernet equipment market will increase from $837 million in 2002 to $4.4 billion by the end of 2007 -- a 39...
Poultry Screening Technology Going to Market
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Jan. 3 -- Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has given a food plant management company the go-ahead to market its machine-vision poultry screening system. The company --...
TriQuint Acquires Agere Optoelectronics Business
HILLSBORO, Ore., Jan. 3 -- TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. announced it completed the acquisition of a substantial portion of the Agere Systems optoelectronics business for $40 million in cash. The...
Cell's Skeleton Exposed at 8-Angstrom Resolution
BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 3 -- Using electron microscopy and 3-D computer reconstruction, Berkeley Lab researchers have produced the most detailed image ever of a microtubule, a tube-shaped weave of...
Worldwide Chip Sales Growth Seen
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 1 -- Worldwide semiconductor sales improved nearly 20 percent in November over last year, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Monday. Global semiconductor sales...
Digital Teleport to Auction Fiber Optic Business
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1 -- Digital Teleport Inc. has asked a federal bankruptcy court for approval to conduct an auction for the sale of its regional fiber optic business to the highest bidder and...
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