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Photonics.com - September 2007
Business
Paetec to Acquire McLeodUSA
Paetec Holding Corp. announced this week it will acquire McLeodUSA Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in an all-stock merger for a total of $557 million, including $492 million in stock and $65 million in debt assumption. "This transaction is squarely in line with our corporate strategy and positions Paetec as one of the largest nationwide competitive communications providers serving business...
Research & Technology
SPIE to Offer Free Digital Library Access to Selected Countries
SPIE has announced an agreement with the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to help meet the information needs of scientists in more than 30 countries that are rebuilding research capacity and infrastructure. SPIE will offer its journals and proceedings at low or no cost to INASP partner and network countries with low and lower middle income economies as...
News & Features
Bird Flu Biosensor is Better
A new, portable biosensor based on interferometry is more sensitive and days faster than commercially available tests for avian influenza ("bird flu"), and can also identify different strains...
PSU Inks $25M Navy Contract
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Div. in Patuxent River, Md., has awarded Pennsylvania State University a five-year, $25 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, the university...
NIH Supports Microscopy
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded more than $5 million to two researchers working separately to advance the study of cancer, diabetes and neurological diseases by developing new...
GigaPan Cameras Unveiled
A low-cost robotic device enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel (billions of pixels) panoramas, called GigaPans. The technology, built by researchers at Carnegie Mellon...
All Aboard the Quantum 'Bus'
Two research groups have independently demonstrated a superconducting quantum 'bus,' using it both to store and transfer information between independent quantum bits (qubits) and as a way to enable...
Nanotech Served to Kids
A hearty serving of nanotechnology designed to spark an interest in math and science is on breakfast menus for children throughout the Northeast, thanks to a new cereal box -- believed to be the...
MRI Finds Brain Marker
A new marker that may aid in early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease has been found through the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). "The findings of this study implicate a...
Rapid Detector Funded
Of all the threat scenarios facing emergency responders around the country, the release and spread of a dangerous biotoxin in a large public space is one of the most troubling. The reason is...
Lasers Used in Cytometry
A white light source based on an ultrafast high-power fiber laser integrated with photonic crystal fiber was used in the first application of optical supercontinuum lasers in flow cytometry....
Flir to Provide Handhelds
Flir Systems Inc. is being awarded a $47.6 million contract by the US Navy for up to 700 handheld thermal imaging systems for the US Special Operations Command, Special Operations Visual Augmentation...
MacArthur Fellows Named
Inventor Saul Griffith, nanotechnologist Paul Rothemund, biomedical scientist Mark Roth and molecular biologist Michael Elowitz are among the 24 MacArthur Fellows for 2007 announced today by the John...
Bright Quantum Dot Record Set
Enhanced fluorescence intensity has been demonstrated by a factor of up to 108 by placing quantum dots on a specially designed photonic crystal. Potential applications include high-brightness LEDs,...
CNTs Glow in Live Fruit Flies
The first optical images of carbon nanotubes inside a living organism have been captured using a laser, a custom microscope, a camera and hungry fruit flies. It is hoped that the technique will prove...
Ocean Optics Opens Online Shop
Ocean Optics, a supplier of optical sensing products, has opened a new online shop featuring its spectroscopy equipment and gear, light sources, fibers, patch cords, quantum dots and cuvettes, at...
Jmar Closing Vermont Plant
Jmar Technologies Inc., a developer of laser, high-resolution imaging and photonics technologies, announced today it has agreed to cease or sell most of its Vermont business and to move the remaining...
Northrop Awarded Laser Work
Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a contract potentially valued at more than $98 million for the procurement of nearly 940 special operations forces laser acquisition marker, laser rangefinder...
EURYI Winners Announced
Researchers with big plans for molecular optoelectronic nanodevices, antimatter and biological nanomachines are among the 20 winners of the European Young Investigator (EURYI) awards for 2007. The...
LightPath: Jobs Cut, CEO Out
In the wake of poor performance in the fourth quarter, LightPath Technologies Inc. announced it has cut 25 jobs based in Orlando. LightPath also announced that its CEO, Kenneth Brizel, left the...
Light Source Brightened
A brighter polarized light source for LEDs in laptop computers, cell phones and other consumer electronics devices could be the result of new research. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)...
Purdue Gets Nano Grant
Purdue University's Network for Computational Nanotechnology has received a five-year, $18.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the US National Nanotechnology...
X-Rays Image Fragile Scrolls
A machine that can generate light beams a million times brighter than conventional x-rays is being used to reveal the text of ancient documents, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, considered too brittle...
IME, Fujikura to Make CDCs
Stabilizing optical signals in high-speed optical networks is the goal of a joint research and development project between Japan's Fujikura Ltd. and the Singapore-based Institute of Microelectronics...
Paetec to Acquire McLeodUSA
Paetec Holding Corp. announced this week it will acquire McLeodUSA Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in an all-stock merger for a total of $557 million, including $492 million in stock and $65 million in...
Fujifilm to Move Camera Ops
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. said Wednesday it will transfer its digital camera production operations to China, subcontract its CCD production to Toshiba, close a subsidiary, sell some property and cut an...
Quantel Buys WaveLight Unit
Optical laser manufacturer WaveLight AG announced today it has sold its WaveLight Aesthetics GmbH spinoff to solid-state laser maker Quantel SA for as much as €6.1 million (about $8.5 million). Under...
Flir Gets $28.6M Order
Thermal imaging systems maker Flir Systems Inc. announced it has received a $28.6 million order from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for its Star Safire III stabilized, airborne multisensor...
Positronium Atoms Created
Molecular positronium has been created for the first time in the laboratory by firing intense bursts of positrons into a thin film of porous silica (mineral quartz). The research, by physicists at...
Thorlabs, BMC to Make Mirrors
Thorlabs Inc. a Newton, N.J.-based developer of laser and fiber optic systems, and Boston Micromachines Corp. (BMC) of Watertown, Mass., have announced a partnership to enable BMC, a provider of...
Next Rover $75M Over Budget
In light of a Mars Science Laboratory budget overrun estimated at $75 million, NASA has cut off funding for some instruments, capped funding for others or eliminated them from the mission entirely....
Radio Waves Cool Cantilever
Physicists have used radio waves to dampen the motion of a thin silicon cantilever containing more than a quadrillion atoms, a cooling technique that has the potential to demonstrate quantum behavior...
Photop Buys Coating Company
Photop Technologies Inc., a maker of fiber optics, crystal materials, and optics and projection products, announced it is acquiring Optimal Coatech Corp. Ltd. (OPDM), a Guangzhou, China-based maker...
Bookham Plans 10Gb/s Module
Bookham Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, announced today it is developing a full-band, 10-Gb/s, long-reach, tunable pluggable transceiver that...
Photonics on Agribiz Agenda
The 2007 International Photonics, Food & Agriculture Conference will address how photonics, optoelectronics and microsystems-enabled technologies can overcome challenges in the agribusiness...
NanoSensors Ends Operations
NanoSensors Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., announced Thursday it has terminated its business and that its CEO has resigned. Incorporated in December 2003, the company made sensors and instruments to...
Flir Acquiring Cedip Infrared
Thermal imaging systems maker Flir Systems Inc. announced today it is acquiring a controlling interest in Cedip Infrared Systems of Croissy-Beaubourg, France. Under the agreement, Flir said it is...
Google Funds $30M Moon Race
The X Prize Foundation and Google Inc. announced yesterday the launch of the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, an international race to land a privately funded robotic rover on the Moon and send...
DHS Renews Bruker Contract
Bruker Daltonics Inc., a maker of mass spectrometry and detection technology, announced it has been awarded a $1.3 million follow-on Phase III contract by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
OSA to Award Ming Wu
Ming C. Wu will be awarded the 2007 OSA Engineering Excellence Award, to be presented at the Optical Society of America’s (OSA) annual meeting next week, for his contributions in the fields of...
Medical Optics a FiO Feature
Using tiny implantable cameras to restore sight, lasers to treat infertility and light to detect malaria are a few of the medical research advances to be discussed during Frontiers in Optics 2007...
Sensor of Champions
A sensor that collects and immediately transmits data from the human body could boost athletes' performance and eventually contribute to health care. About the size of some cufflinks, the sensor...
EUV Lithography Improved
Light has been generated and optics damage lessened in extreme ultraviolet lithography by adding a lighter gas to plasma. The microelectronics lithography method is considered a candidate...
Lightworks Awarded $2.8M
LightWorks Optics Inc. has been awarded an additional $2.8 million contract for high-precision optical assemblies from Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Missiles and Fire Control business unit in Orlando, Fla....
Telcoms to Gather at ECOC
Seven of the world’s leading telecom operators will gather under the banner of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) on the exhibition floor of ECOC 2007, the European Conference and Exhibition on...
100K Dpi Printing Unveiled
A new technique allows the printing of particles as small as 60 nanometers -- roughly 100 times smaller than a human red blood cell -- in complex patterns at a resolution of 100,000 dots per inch....
BTI Closes $12M Round
BTI Photonic Systems, a supplier of microWDM (wavelength division multiplexing) optical network technology for gigabit services, announced it has received a $12 million investment led by an...
Knowledge Base Shifts
The "global knowledge economy" is being dominated by a small, "elite club of regions" in both the advanced and developing world as a result of the rapid shift of investment in research and...
Nanorods for Better Sunscreen
New ways to make or modify nanorods and nanotubes of titanium oxide, a light-absorbing material used in a variety of industrial and medical applications, may lead to improved catalysts for hydrogen...
QTOF Analysis Has Wide Scope
A method involving a quadrupole time-of-flight (QTOF) mass spectrometer enables large numbers of samples to be analyzed quickly and economically, according to a group led by Renato Zenobi, professor...
Solar Converted to Laser Light
Osaka University and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are developing a way to convert sunlight into laser light, Japan's Nikkei news service has reported. The technology reportedly will...
Thruster May Shorten Mars Trip
An amplified photon thruster that could potentially shorten the trip to Mars from six months to a week has reportedly attracted the attention of aerospace agencies and contractors. Young Bae,...
Nanotubes Mass-Produced
A new fabrication technique called nanopantography can create billions of carbon nanotubes in hours and could help popularize a technology that renders LCDs obsolete. Professors Vincent Donnelly,...
BAE Nabs Sensor Contract
BAE Systems has received a $49 million US Navy contract to develop a system that can rapidly identify and track camouflaged or concealed objects and targets. BAE Systems will develop aircraft...
Northrop to Make Lasers
Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a contract from the US Army to provide more than 500 handheld laser target locators to help soldiers locate and identify enemy targets. The value of the...
Big Bang Theorist Dies
Ralph A. Alpher, 86, whose PhD dissertation on the Big Bang theory in 1948 brought into being the scientific theory of the origin of the universe, died Aug. 12 after a long illness. A long-time...
Rohm and Haas Cuts 200 Jobs
Specialty materials provider Rohm and Haas Co. announced Tuesday it will close its digital imaging business in Bristol, Pa., as part of a restructuring plan, eliminating 200 jobs. The imaging...
Anadigics Buys RF Business
Communications chip maker Anadigics Inc. announced yesterday it has acquired Fairchild Semiconductor's RF (radio frequency) business for $2.3 million in cash. The sale of Fairchild's RF Group...
JDSU Demos Tunable PIC
JDSU announced today it has demonstrated a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that combines a tunable laser and optical modulator, using a technology known as the integrated laser Mach-Zehnder (ILMZ),...
Thermo Buys Davis Inotek Unit
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., based in Waltham, Mass., announced today it has acquired the instrument sales business of Davis Inotek Instruments LLC. The acquired business, which will be renamed...
Eye Implant Monitors Pressure
An artificial lens with an integrated sensor is being developed as a permanent implant that could provide better long-term monitoring of high pressure in the eye, blood vessels, bladder or brain....
Laser Lab Funds at Risk
Federal funding for an experimental laser program at major US universities has been marked for elimination by the Department of Defense despite support from members of Congress, said one of them,...
Camera Scans Sky for Killers
A gigapixel camera that can see stars millions of times fainter than are visible to the naked eye has been installed on the Pan-STARRS-1 (PS1) telescope on Halekala, Maui, to scan the skies for...
Laser Blasts Viruses in Blood
A walk in the park led to a new use for lasers: zapping viruses out of blood. The technique, which holds promise for disinfecting blood for transfusions, uses a low-power laser beam with a pulse...
Why Beetles Aren't Giants
The average size of certain beetles is apparently limited by passageways leading to their legs, confirming a hypotheses that the tracheal system actually limits how big insects can be and casting new...
Nanomagnets May Replace ICs
Just as compact discs all but wiped out vinyl records, semiconductors could be on their way out, too. Using magnetic cellular networks, or nanomagnets, a University of Houston (UH) professor has...
acquisitions
Anadigics Buys RF Business
Communications chip maker Anadigics Inc. announced yesterday it has acquired Fairchild Semiconductor's RF (radio frequency) business for $2.3 million in cash. The sale of Fairchild's RF Group includes licenses to intellectual property, customer and vendor lists, equipment and selected leases. Anadigics said it has hired 23 designers and engineers from the group and will maintain the...
Products
Nexact Ceramic Motor Actuator
AUBURN, Mass., Sept. 26, 2007 -- PI (Physik Instrumente) LP has introduced the N-310 Nexact miniature ceramic linear motor actuator for applications including laser tuning, nanotechnology, nanoimprinting, semiconductor and data storage test and production equipment, nanomanipulation and biotechnology. Nexact is a patented, high-precision linear motor actuator developed to bridge the gap between micro- and nanopositioning...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Micra-CEP
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 21, 2007 -- The new Micra-CEP from Coherent Inc. is a unique system for generating carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stabilized ultrafast laser pulses, the company said. The system combines its highly flexible...
Coherent Inc.
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Vertical Diode Laser Stacks
MAINZ, Germany, Sept. 20, 2007 -- Its new high-power vertical diode-laser stack arrays are available in wavelengths ranging from 630 to 1900 nm with output power up to 100 W continuous-wave (CW) per bar, said Dilas Diodenlaser...
DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH
HE Series LCD Controllers
MORGAN HILL, Calif., Sept. 19, 2007 -- Digital View has introduced the HE series of LCD controllers, designed to comply with the strict standards required for the harsh environments encountered in military and rugged industrial...
Digital View
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LightMtrX Software
NORTH SUTTON, N.H., Sept. 17, 2007 -- Labsphere said its new software, LightMtrX, is the industry’s first commercially viable light test application software and will be the highlight of its LEDs 2007 exhibit Oct. 24-26 at the Sheraton...
Labsphere Inc.
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MacroVaron Lens
BAD KREUZNACH, Germany, Sept. 11, 2007 -- Schneider-Kreuznach said its new MacroVaron 85-mm, f/4.5 lens for machine-vision systems features the company's new continuous aberration suppression (CAS) technology. The MacroVaron lens enables...
Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, Industrial Solutions
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Xantos XS Excimer Laser
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 10, 2007 -- Coherent Inc. said its new Xantos XS features an integrated gas compartment, a unique feature in the excimer laser market that makes laser operation as flexible as possible. The internal gas...
Coherent Inc.
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AOKit-bio
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 7, 2007 -- Imagine Optic, an Orsay, France-based provider of Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing technologies, has introduced AOKit-bio, an adaptive optics kit for biologists which enhances microscopic imaging....
Imagine Optic
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TruLaser 5030
FARMINGTON, Conn., Sept. 4, 2007 – Trumpf Inc. said its TruLaser 5030 flatbed laser machine surpasses its predecessor, the Trumatic L3050, by providing improved processes, greater dynamics and less downtime. According to the...
TRUMPF Inc., Laser Technology Center
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Code V 9.8
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 4, 2007 -- Improved modeling and optimization of optical systems are among features of the newest release of CODE V optical design software from Optical Research Associates (ORA). In particular, CODE V 9.8...
Synopsys Inc., Optical Solutions Group
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Ultima IV X-ray Diffractometer
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Sept. 4, 2007 -- The Ultima IV x-ray diffractometer is an advanced general purpose x-ray diffraction (XRD) instrument for materials science, semiconductor, and nanotechnology research and development, as well as for...
Rigaku Americas Corp.
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