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Photonics.com - June 1999
News & Features
AT&T, BT Joint Venture Clears US Hurdle
LONDON, UK, June 30 -- British Telecommunications PLC and AT&T Corp. have obtained US antitrust clearance for their $10 billion global joint venture. This is a major milestone, a BT spokesman said....
FUSE Spacecraft Successfully Launched
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL, June 30 -- NASA has successfully launched its newest space telescope, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE). Over the next couple weeks the Johns Hopkins University...
FiberCore Unveils Reorganization Plan
CHARLTON, Mass., June 30 -- FiberCore, Inc. has unveiled a reorganization plan designed to accelerate the company's technological evolution, increase market share and achieve profitability. Dr. Mohd...
Lucent to Buy Nexabit
MURRAY HILL, NJ, June 29 -- Lucent Technologies Inc. announced that it will buy start-up Nexabit Networks for about $900 million in stock in a move to expand its offerings of high-speed networking...
UV Telescope Reveals Sun's Far Side
PARIS, France, June 29 -- Scientists say that they now can peek around the Sun and predict whether solar storms on its far side will shortly appear on the side facing the Earth, thanks to an UV...
House Republicans Offer High-Tech Agenda
WASHINGTON, DC, June 29 -- House Republicans have introduced an e-contract agenda aimed at promoting the growth of American high tech industries by reducing government taxes and regulations. We...
Cymer Relocates Southeast Asian Office
SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 29 -- Cymer Inc. has relocated and expanded its Taiwan field office, Cymer Southeast Asia Ltd., to provide enhanced support for its customer base in the region. The new...
Hologram Reveals 3-D Images of Atoms
GRENOBLE, France, June 28 -- Researchers using a new holographic technique have obtained the highest resolution three-dimensional images yet observed of atoms in a crystal. As described in Physical...
BellSouth, Nortel Ink Global Supply Contract
TORONTO, Canada, June 28 -- BellSouth Corp. has signed a long-term global supply agreement with Nortel Networks Corp. under which Nortel will supply communications equipment, software and services....
Metromedia Fiber to Buy AboveNet
NEW YORK, NY, June 25 -- Metromedia Fiber Network Inc. has agreed to acquire AboveNet Communications Inc., a supplier of managed Internet services, in a stock swap worth about $1.55 billion. Under...
Ophthalmic Imaging Rejects Premier Laser Proposal
SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 25 -- In a unanimous vote, the Board of Directors of Ophthalmic Imaging Systems (OIS) rejected Premier Laser Systems, Inc.'s proposal to acquire the balance of approximately...
International FiberCom Signs Agreements with AT&T
PHOENIX, Ariz., June 25 -- International FiberCom Inc. will provide AT&T Broadband and Internet Services (AT&T BIS) with design-build services for the upgrade of its cable systems. Initial work will...
Candela Gains Brazilian Market Approval
WAYLAND, Mass., June 24 -- The Brazilian Ministry of Health has approved several of Candela Corp.'s products for marketing in Brazil. According toWilliam B. Kelley, Candela's vice president of North...
Corning Clears Way for Security Sales Options
CORNING, NY, June 24 -- Corning Incorporated reports that it has filed a universal shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which will permit the company on occasion...
Emcore Sells Nine GaN Production Systems
SOMERSET, NJ, June 24 -- Emcore Corp. announced that it has sold nine additional SpectraBlue Gallium Nitride (GaN) TurboDisc production systems, raising the company's total number of GaN tools sold...
Four Firms Agree on Fiber-to-the-Home Specs
ATLANTA, GA, June 23 -- Four major telecommunications companies -- BellSouth, British Telecommunications (BT), France Telecom (FT) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) -- have developed a...
Scan-Optics Completes Acquisition of Photomatrix
MANCHESTER, Conn., June 23 -- Scan-Optics, Inc. has completed its acquisition of product rights and certain assets of Photomatrix, Inc.'s subsidiary, Photomatrix Imaging Corp. The entire Photomatrix...
NP Photonic Wins Grant for Optical Communications
TUCSON, Ariz., June 23 -- NP Photonic Technologies has received a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the US Department of Defense for continued development of fiber-optic...
ESA Signs Contract for Mars Mission
PARIS, France, June 22 -- The contract for the launch of the European Space Agency's Mars Express--Europe's first mission to Mars--has been signed by Roger Bonnet, the Director of the ESA's...
Researchers Find Key to UV Sensitivity
DALLAS, TX, June 22 -- Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have found that a large protein complex, previously thought to mainly regulate protein degradation, plays a...
SpectRx Reports Success with Laser-Based Glucose Monitor
SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 22 -- SpectRx, Inc. has demonstrated that prototypes of its laser-based glucose-monitoring device can continuously measure glucose concentrations in people with diabetes...
Advanced Photonix Reports Fiscal 1999 Results
CAMARILLO, Calif., June 21 -- Advanced Photonix Inc. has reported results for its fourth-quarter and total fiscal year 1999. Revenues for the 12 months ended March 28, 1999 were $7.3 million, an...
Astronomers Pinpoint Birth of Comet Hale-Bopp
GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, June 21 -- A team of astrophysicists has produced the most precise measurement to date of a comet's ratio of carbon monoxide to water. As reported in the magazine Nature,...
Data Translation Reports Quarterly Profit
MARLBORO, Mass., June 21 -- Data Translation, Inc. reported results for its fiscal quarter ended May 31, 1999. Total sales for the quarter were $4,079,000, a decrease of approximately 8.0% from the...
Ultratech Wins Order from Korean Wafer Manufacturer
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 18 -- Ultratech Stepper Inc. has received a million-dollar order for the Saturn I stepper system from a leading Korean semiconductor manufacturer. The Saturn family of steppers...
Metromedia Fiber Expanding into London & Amsterdam
NEW YORK, NY, June 18 -- Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. plans to build local high-density fiber optic networks in the metropolitan areas of London and Amsterdam. The company will deploy more than...
Electricity Used to Regulate Light in Liquids
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, June 18 -- Chemists from Utrecht University and Philips Research have used an electrical field to regulate the flow of light through a liquid. The researchers developed a...
TRW Delivers to Navy New Solid-State Laser
REDONDO BEACH, Calif., June 17 -- TRW has delivered and installed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, a solid-state laser brassboard that utilizes technology...
Thermo Vision's CEO Resigns Post
FRANKLIN, Mass., June 17 -- Thermo Vision Corp. announced that Kristine Stotz Langdon has resigned as president and chief executive officer of the company. Langdon has also resigned as a director of...
Cymer Receives Orders for Laser Upgrade Kits
SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 17 -- Cymer, Inc. has received orders for more than 50 of its ELS-5005 upgrade kits from semiconductor manufacturers in Korea, Taiwan and the United States. The ELS-5005...
US Industry Drives Growth in R&D Spending
WASHINGTON, DC, June 16 -- US research and development spending reached an estimated $220.6 billion in 1998, according to a report from the National Science Foundation, with industry, not government,...
Scottish Leaders Plan Semiconductor Cluster
GLASGOW, Scotland, June 16 -- The Scottish government has unveiled a strategy aimed at making Scotland a world center for semiconductor research, design and manufacturing. Three goals central to the...
Increased Wavelength Aids Port-Wine Stain Removal
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, June 16 -- Physicists at the University of Amsterdam have been able to improve the laser-based port-wine stain removal process by increasing the wavelength of the laser...
Bell Atlantic, Metromedia Fiber Reach Agreement
NEW YORK, NY, June 15 -- Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. and Bell Atlantic have signed an agreement under which Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) will implement dark fiber connectivity within all Bell...
Cognex Gets Largest Single Order in Company History
NATICK, Mass., June 15 -- Cognex Corp. has received an order for its machine vision systems worth $11.8 million from Shinkawa, Ltd., a Japan-based manufacturer of semiconductor production equipment....
Rise in Semiconductor Sales Expected to Continue
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 14 -- The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reports that worldwide sales of semiconductors for April 1999 totaled $11.21 billion, an increase of 7.3 percent over the...
Periodontal Laser Wins FDA Approval
LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 14 -- Millennium Dental Technologies announced that its PerioLase laser, developed in association with Lares Research, has received FDA regulatory clearance. This is the...
Laser Technology to Partner with Ditek Software
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., June 14 -- Laser Technology, Inc. (LTI), a manufacturer of pulse laser measuring systems, has signed a partnership agreement with Ditek Software Corp., a producer of computer-aided...
Laserscope Appoints New President and CEO
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 14 -- The Board of Directors of Laserscope announced that Eric Reuter has been named company President and CEO. Previously Reuter served as Vice President - Research and...
New Fiber Optek Division Eyes Faster Networks
WAPPINGERS FALLS, NY, June 11 -- Fiber Optek Interconnect Corp. is forming a new division to develop technology to increase the capacity of existing communications infrastructures. Such a boost could...
OCLI Declares Semi-Annual Dividend
SANTA ROSA, Calif., June 11 -- Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc.' board of directors has declared a semi-annual cash dividend of $.06 per share payable on June 16, 1999, from net profits for the 1999...
One-Angstrom Microscope Achieves Unprecedented Resolution
BERKELEY, Calif., June 11 -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have made unprecedented images of columns of carbon atoms in a diamond lattice, only 0.89...
Astronomers Discover the Moon Has a Tail
BOSTON, Mass., June 10 -- Boston University astronomers report the discovery of a new feature of the Earth's moon -- a sodium-gas tail over half a million miles long. Scientists stumbled across this...
SLI Gets Order from Chromatron Laser Systems
BINGHAMTON, NY, June 10 -- Semiconductor Laser International Corp. has received an order for its High Heat Load 7 Watt chip package from Chromatron Laser Systems GmbH in Berlin. Delivery of the...
UV Satellite to Hunt Big Bang Fossils
WASHINGTON, DC, June 10 -- The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite will set off later this month in search of fossil remnants of the Big Bang that scientists believe created the...
AT&T/BT Global Venture Picks Leaders, Locations
LONDON, UK, June 9 -- The planned Global Venture between AT&T and BT has named many of the members of its leadership team and the principal locations from which they will operate. The leadership team...
Star's Behavior Puzzles Astronomers
CHICAGO, Ill., June 9 -- One of the best-known stars in the southern night sky, Eta Carinae, has suddenly doubled in brightness. This action leaves astronomers puzzled; they theorize that the star...
Metromedia Fiber Awards Lucent $100 Million Contract
MURRAY HILL, NJ, June 9 -- Lucent Technologies has signed agreements valued at more than $100 million with Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. for deployment of TrueWave RS Fibre throughout the US and...
Hubble Images May Reveal Galactic Role of Novae
GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, June 8 -- The Hubble Space Telescope has produced images that show gas shells being ejected into space at regular intervals by an unusual type of white dwarf star. These...
Fiber Optic Ring Around Africa Planned
NEW YORK, NY, June 8 -- Africa ONE, an independent telecommunications network, announced that it will link the countries of Africa to one another and to growing global broadband telecommunication...
GE Unveils New Medical Imaging Technology
LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 8 -- GE Medical Systems has developed a new medical imaging technique that combines X-rays and radioactive tracers injected into the body to identify health problems and...
View Systems to Participate in $20 Million Project
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., June 7 -- View Systems, Inc. will participate in a $20 million project that will require delivery of close to 1,000 of the company's SecureView Digital Remote Interactive Video...
Scientist Accepts Blame for Satellite's Failure
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 7 -- A scientist at Utah State University (USU) is taking the blame for the recent failure of an $80 million NASA satellite mission. NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Explorer...
Telecom Firms Agree on SONET/SDH Network Specs
LISLE, Ill., June 7 -- Fujitsu Network Communications, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, Siemens AG, Tellabs, Inc., and Telcordia Technologies have agreed on a specification for a software...
GE Lighting, EMCORE Join on LED Design, Production
SOMERSET, NJ, June 4 -- GE Lighting and EMCORE Corp. have finalized formation of GELcore LLC, a joint venture to design and produce white light and colored HB LEDs (high-brightness light emitting...
Laser Technology Wins First Eastern Europe Orders
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., June 4 -- Laser Technology, Inc. has won several orders valued at more than $380,000 from national and local police agencies in Europe. Most of the orders are for the company's new...
Uniphase, JDS FITEL Eye Further Acquisitions
TORONTO, Canada, June 4 -- Uniphase Corp.'s chief financial officer believes that JDS Uniphase could be very active on the mergers and acquisition front following expected shareholder approvals of...
BellSouth Plans Fiber-Optic Test
ATLANTA, Georgia, June 3 -- BellSouth Corp. will test a new fiber-optic data line at 400 suburban Atlanta homes this fall as part of the company's plan to provide affordable high-speed Internet...
Buckyball Emits White Light for First Time
LOS ANGELES, California, June 3 -- University of California researchers report that they have observed the first known example of white light being given off from a device made of a buckyball...
Laser Ties Knots in DNA Strands
TOKYO, Japan, June 3 -- A Japanese researcher has used a laser to tie knots in strands of DNA. Yasuharu Arai, a graduate student at Keio University in Yokohama, used a microscope equipped with...
Fiber Optic Components Market to Hit $6.1 Billion
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 2 -- The North American market for fiber optic components, currently valued at $2.8 billion, is expected to reach $6.1 billion by 2003, according to a report from...
Lasik Vision Announces 1st Quarter Results
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 2 -- Lasik Vision Corp. announced gross revenues of $3,493,531 for the first quarter of fiscal 1999, which results reflect an increased number of procedures...
GE Medical Systems Acquires Applicare Medical Imaging
MILWAUKEE, WI, June 2 -- GE Medical Systems has acquired Applicare Medical Imaging, a privately held participant in the $1.2 billion global market for systems that archive and transmit electronic...
SpecTran Predicts Increased Revenue in 1999
BOSTON, Mass., June 2 -- SpecTran Corp. expects its net sales to grow by more than 25 percent in 1999. The company predicts sales will increase at a compound annual rate of 12 to 15 percent through...
ADC To Buy Spectracom
MINNETONKA, Minn., June 1 -- ADC Telecommunications Inc. has announced that it will pay $105 million to acquire Spectracom, a manufacturer of components used in fiber-optic networks. The acquisition,...
CTI Hires Battelle to Facilitate FDA Submission
LAYTON, Utah, June 1 -- Computerized Thermal Imaging, Inc. (CTI) has retained Battelle Medical Products to assist with the formal FDA approval process for CTI's Thermal Breast Imaging System. We...
Elbit Medical Imaging Reports First Quarter Results
HAIFA, Israel, June 1 -- Elbit Medical Imaging Ltd. reports that its net consolidated profit from continuing operations and from activities realized and discontinued during the first quarter of 1999...
E-TEK Dynamics to Acquire ElectroPhotonics
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 1 -- E-TEK Dynamics, Inc. has agreed to acquire privately-held ElectroPhotonics Corp. (EPC) of Toronto, Canada. EPC is an independent developer of dense wavelength division...
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