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Photonics.com - April 2004


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AFS to Buy Marietta Fibernet ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 30 -- Privately held American Fiber Systems Inc. (AFS) announced it will purchase the operating assets of Marietta FiberNet (MFN), a fiber optic transport business based in...
Finisar to Buy Infineon Fiber Unit SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 30 -- Finisar Corp. announced yesterday it will acquire the fiber optics business unit of Infineon Technologies AG, of Munich, for 135 million shares of stock, valued at $263...
2400 Attend First Photonics Europe STRASBOURG, France, April 30 -- More than 2400 scientists, researchers, product developers and vendors attended the inaugural Photonics Europe, held this week in Strasbourg, France. A total of 850...
Corning to Build Glass Plant in Taiwan CORNING, N.Y., April 29 -- Corning Inc. announced that its board of directors has approved preliminary funding to build a new liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate manufacturing facility in...
'Rainbow' Light Source Developed GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 29 -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a "rainbow source" that can be tuned across the entire visible light spectrum, from red to blue...
'Lia' Shines Light on Science Education BOSTON, April 29 -- Lia, a spunky, animated 14-year-old, is the star of a new project being developed by Boston University’s (BU) Photonics Center and College of Communication, to get young people,...
More Frustrated Dialup Users Turn to Broadband WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Broadband access is increasingly being woven into the work and home lives of Internet users in the US. According to a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 55...
Texas Nanodevice Company Launched AUSTIN, Texas, April 28 -- A team of veterans from the nanotechnology field and the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and semiconductor industries have announced the launch of NanoVance Inc., a...
Task Force Kicks Off Research Campaign WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Leaders from the technology industry and academia unveiled an advocacy campaign this week to illustrate the importance of basic research to the future of American innovation,...
Luna to Open Nanomanufacturing Plant BLACKSBURG, Va., April 27 -- Nanotechnology developer Luna Innovations has announced it will invest $6.4 million to establish a nanomanufacturing facility in Danville, Va. The plant will produce...
Holonyak Wins Lemelson-MIT Prize CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 26 -- Nick Holonyak, inventor of the LED, received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention at the 10th annual Lemelson-MIT Awards Ceremony, held Friday at MIT. Edith...
PerkinElmer Launches India Venture BOSTON, April 26 -- PerkinElmer Inc. and Labindia Instruments Pvt. Ltd., a lab service and marketing company in India, announced today the launch of PerkinElmer India Pvt. Ltd., a direct sales,...
Konarka to Collaborate with Oak Ridge LOWELL, Mass., April 23 -- Konarka Technologies Inc. announced it is collaborating with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to further development of Konarka’s photovoltaic products. Oak Ridge National...
Essex to Acquire Cognitive Computing COLUMBIA, Md., April 22 -- Essex Corp. has announced it will acquire Computer Science Innovations (CSI) of Melbourne, Fla. The acquisition will be subject to customary conditions and is expected to...
Report: Japan Offers Cheapest Broadband PARIS, April 22 -- Japanese firms are offering by far the cheapest and fastest broadband services of companies operating in 30 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...
Exelon to Sell PECO TelCove CHICAGO, April 21 -- Exelon Corp. announced today that certain of its subsidiaries have entered into an agreement to sell their partnership interests in PECO TelCove to TelCove, their partner, for...
GE Infrastructure to Acquire InVision WILTON, Conn., April 21 -- GE Infrastructure, a unit of General Electric Co., recently agreed to acquire InVision, a Newark, Calif., maker of explosives detection systems based on advanced computed...
Thermo Electron Buys US Counseling WALTHAM, Mass., April 21 -- Thermo Electron Corp., a supplier of scientific instruments, announced today the purchase of US Counseling Services Inc. (USCS) for $77.9 million in cash, subject to a...
Next-Generation 'Atomic Clocks' in the Works GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 21 -- Three of the world’s premier measurement laboratories have lined up the "hash marks" from four of the world’s best optical frequency rulers and declared that they...
StockerYale to Supply Defense Lasers SALEM, N.H., April 20 -- StockerYale Inc. announced it has received an order from BAE Systems to supply lasers used in the US Army's advanced threat infrared countermeasure (ATIRCM) system, designed...
Teens Compete in FIRST Robotics Event ATLANTA, April 20 -- Four high-school teams out of nearly 300 competing won top honors at the 2004 FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition Championship,...
Photonics Research Topic at Biomed MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Apirl 20 -- Photonic technology has the potential to dramatically improve the prevention, detection and therapy of epithelial cancers, according to presenters at The Biomedical...
Ciena to Close San Jose Facility LINTHICUM, Md., April 20 -- Ciena Corp.announced today it plans to consolidate facilities as part of its efforts to reduce ongoing operating expenses by 10 to 20 percent in fiscal year 2004. The...
Laser Printer Method Used to Detect Cancer PALO ALTO, Calif., April 19 -- The Scripps-PARC Institute for Advanced Biomedical Studies, which Xerox Corp.'s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and The Scripps Research Institute formed recently to...
Bell Labs Develops 'Nanograss' MURRAY HILL, N.J., March 16 -- Scientists at Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, have discovered a new method to control the behavior of tiny liquid droplets by...
Princeton Lightwave Acquires OCM Product Line CRANBURY, N.J., April 16 -- Princeton Lightwave Inc., a supplier of near-infrared, high-power lasers and specialized detectors for communications, sensing and instrumentation markets, announced it...
Sensytech Inc. to Acquire Imaging Sensors and Systems NEWINGTON, Va., April 15 -- Sensytech Inc. announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding stock of Imaging Sensors and Systems Inc. (ISS), a Winter Park, Fla., provider...
Robot Teams Will Help Emergency Responders in the Trenches ARLINGTON, Va., April 15 -- Humans are social creatures, but robots, for the most part, are not. To help emergency response personnel in the trenches, a team of researchers is writing the playbook to...
Telecom Industry Growth Predicted BOONTON, N.J., April 15 -- The global telecommunications industry will return to historic growth patterns beginning in 2004, says a new market analysis report from Insight Research. According to the...
APA Optics Sells Optics Manufacturing Assets MINNEAPOLIS, April 14 -- APA Optics Inc., of Blaine, Minn., announced today that it has sold certain assets related to its discontinued optics manufacturing segment to PNE Inc. (dba IRD), of...
Spectrometry, Ion Chromatography Used in H20 Analysis PALO ALTO, Calif. & HERISAU, Switzerland, April 14 -- Agilent Technologies Inc. and Metrohm AG announced today they have developed a high-sensitivity method that uses ion chromatography and mass...
BTG, Corning to License Optics Patents WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., April 14 -- BTG, a London-based company that acquires patent rights to new technologies and licenses them to manufacturers, and Corning Inc. announced today that they have...
GSI Lumonics Acquires MicroE Systems BILLERICA, Mass., April 13 -- GSI Lumonics Inc. announced yesterday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all the shares of MicroE Systems Corp. for $55 million in cash. The transaction was...
International DisplayWorks Buys Display Equipment ROCKLIN, Calif., April 13 -- International DisplayWorks Inc. announced today it has entered into an agreement to purchase equipment for the production of color displays and module assemblies from...
Mass Spectrometry Market Expansion Forecast PALO ALTO, Calif., April 13 -- Research efforts in areas of life sciences such as proteomics (protein analysis) and metabolomics (metabolite analysis) could receive a shot in the arm with the...
SPIE Announces Call for Abstracts BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 12 -- The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) has announced a call for abstracts for its new Lab-On-A-Chip conference, to be held during Optics East, Oct....
Corning Opens Diesel Products Facility CORNING, N.Y., April 9 -- Corning Inc. opened a $200 million clean-air products plant in Erwin, N.Y., this week. Production of large Corning diesel substrates began at the plant in January; by...
Erenis to Deliver Broadband to Paris Apartments PARIS, April 9 -- Cisco Systems announced this week that Erenis, a service provider serving large property management agents, is rolling out Ethernet-based broadband services to its social housing...
NASA Institute Awarded to U Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 8 -- NASA has named the University of Michigan (UM) as the sole recipient of the new NASA BioScience and Engineering Institute (NBEI), with a goal to "develop a new generation...
Sensor Technology Will 'Transform' Medical Care SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 -- Just as sophisticated automobile sensors improve gas mileage and provide increased safety and protection for drivers and passengers, rapid advances in the use of smart...
Beyond 'Nano': A Scale That Weighs Viruses ITHACA, N.Y., April 7 -- Researchers have already been able to detect the mass of a single cell using submicroscopic devices. Now they're zeroing in on viruses. And the scale of their work is...
Continuum Photonics Closes Funding Round BILLERICA, Mass., April 6 -- Continuum Photonics Inc., a developer of high-performance optical switches for the optical automation systems and telecommunications markets, announced today it has...
Defense Grant Targets Nanoparticle Safety ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 6 -- University of Rochester (UR) scientist Gunter Oberdorster, PhD, has received a $5.5 million grant from the Department of Defense (D0D) to conduct research into possible...
Modified Gregorian Telescope Patented VANCOUVER, Canada, April 5 -- fSONA Communications, a provider of optical wireless networking equipment, has been awarded a US patent (6,667,831) for a compact optical system described as a modified...
Thorlabs Buys Melles Griot UK Facility NEWTON, N.J., and CARLSBAD, Calif., April 2 -- Thorlabs has bought Melles Griot Ltd., a Cambridgeshire, England-based division of Melles Griot Corp., of Carlsbad, Calif., the companies announced...
2004 SPIE Awards Announced BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 1 -- The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) has announced the recipients of the 2004 SPIE awards, which will be presented at a banquet on August 4 during...
LEDs and Lasers to Be Focus of Taiwan Conference AUSTIN, Texas, April 1 -- Charles Swoboda, president and CEO of Durham, N.C.-based Cree Inc. -- the first company to produce commercial-level, blue spectrum LEDs -- will be the keynote speaker at...
BTG, Corning to License Optics Patents WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., April 14 -- BTG, a London-based company that acquires patent rights to new technologies and licenses them to manufacturers, and Corning Inc. announced today that they have...
Teens Compete in FIRST Robotics Event ATLANTA, April 20 -- Four high-school teams out of nearly 300 competing won top honors at the 2004 FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition Championship,...
'Rainbow' Light Source Developed GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 29 -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a "rainbow source" that can be tuned across the entire visible light spectrum, from red to blue...
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ES111 OptiScan ROCKLAND, Mass., April 29 -- Prior Scientific has introduced its ES111 OptiScan motorized scanning stage for upright microscopes. The ES111 is an ideal economical platform for a variety of...
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AvaSpec-2048TEC EERBEEK, The Netherlands, April 16 -- Avantes has introduced the AvaSpec-2048TEC, a thermoelectrically cooled spectrometer, to its AvaSpec line of instruments. Designed for customers who need...
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Duralight SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 13 -- Coherent Inc. has introduced DuraLite, its first in a series of new diode laser products and the latest in its family of field-proven diode laser bars. The first...
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Lumetrics DI 330 WEST HENRIETTA, N.Y., April 5 -- With few moving parts and all-fiber construction, the Lumetrics DI 330 multilayer thickness and surface measurement solution provides a new alternative for...
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Lumetrics DI 330 WEST HENRIETTA, N.Y., April 5 -- With few moving parts and all-fiber construction, the Lumetrics DI 330 multilayer thickness and surface measurement solution provides a new alternative for...
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Duralight SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 13 -- Coherent Inc. has introduced DuraLite, its first in a series of new diode laser products and the latest in its family of field-proven diode laser bars. The first...
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