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Photonics.com - August 2002
News & Features
Air Force Lab Extends EXFO Actuator Contract
QUEBEC CITY, CANADA, August 30 -- EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. announced that its contract has been extended with the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the contract involves development of new high-precision actuator systems for AFRL by EXFO Burleigh Products Group Inc., located in Victor, N.Y. Phase 1 of the...
Navy Picks Kaman for Airborne Sensor System
BLOOMFIELD, Conn., August 30 -- Kaman Aerospace's Electro-Optics Development Center (EODC) has joined a Northrop Grumman-led team that is designing and developing a rapid airborne mine clearance...
Gore & Associates to Sell Fiber Optic Business
ELKTON, Md., August 30 -- W. L. Gore & Associates Inc., a supplier of components for the electronic industry, has announced it will sell its fiber optic business. "We are refocusing Gore's electronic...
IT to Provide DWDM System in Kwang-ju
SEOUL, Korea, August 30 -- Intelligent Telecommunications (IT) recently won a contract to provide a 10 Gb/s dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) test-bed system for Korea's Ministry of Commerce,...
Forecast: MEMS Markets to Expand
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., August 29 -- The microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) markets are expected to triple between 2000 and 2005, from $3.8 billion to over $11 billion, according to a new report by...
Rockwell Delivers VLWIR Assemblies for Satellite System
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. August 29 -- Rockwell Scientific Co. has delivered two very long wave infrared (VLWIR) sensor chip assemblies to Raytheon Co. for use on the US space-based infrared system...
Toshiba, NEC Offer New Blue-Laser DVD Format
TOKYO, August 29 -- Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. have proposed to the DVD Forum a next-generation, high-capacity, blue-laser DVD format that will allow manufacturers to continue to use existing DVD...
Cogent to Use CSC Philadelphia Network
PHILADELPHIA, August 28 -- Cogent Communications has signed a multimillion-dollar agreement to lease dark fiber strands on City Signal Communications' (CSC) Philadelphia network. CSC will lease fiber...
RIAA Supports NC Fiber Optic Program
EDENTON, N.C., August 28 -- North Carolina's Rural Internet Access Authority (RIAA) approved a $2.9 million grant for a fiber optic cable backbone that will stretch from Moyock to Wilmington. The...
Edmund Optics Manufactures Tank Sights for General Dynamics
BARRINGTON, N.J., August 28 -- Edmund Industrial Optics announced it has renewed contracts with General Dynamics Land Systems to produce components for primary gunner's sights used in the M1A1 Abrams...
Raytheon Wins $1 Billion NPOESS Contract
AURORA, Colo., August 28 -- Raytheon Co. has been awarded a contract for work on the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) by NPOESS prime contractor TRW. The...
New Clues from Infrared Forensics
BERKELEY, Calif., August 28 -- With infrared light, forensic investigators can tell you whether a document is a forgery or whether paper currency is counterfeit. They can take a paint chip and tell...
Lehigh Optical Center Undaunted by Agere Cutbacks
BETHLEHEM, Pa., August 27 -- Agere Systems' decision to ax its troubled optoelectronics business won't deter plans to create a major optical research center at Lehigh University, state and school...
Boeing Donates Optical Patents to Alabama A&M
IRVINE, Calif., August 27 -- The Boeing Co. has donated intellectual property to the Alabama A&M University Research Institute that could be used to develop faster, more powerful computers. The...
QImaging Acquired by Roper Industries Inc.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, August 27 -- QImaging announced it has been acquired by Roper Industries Inc., of Bogart, Ga. QImaging, which manufactures digital FireWire cameras for scientific and...
Essex Awarded $2.4 Million Defense Contract
COLUMBIA, Md., August 27 -- Essex Corp. announced it has received a multiphase contract to develop advanced optical signal processing capabilities of high-resolution hyperfine wavelength division...
Princeton Lightwave Joins Forces with Trumpf
CRANBURY, N.J., August 26 -- Trumpf Inc. has acquired the component manufacturing assets of Princeton Lightwave Inc. (PLI), and the companies have entered into a strategic partnership. Under the...
RSC, UMC Develop IC for Infrared Astronomy Applications
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. & HSINCHU, Taiwan, August 26 -- Rockwell Scientific Co. LLC (RSC) and UMC announced they have developed the HAWAII-2RG, a readout integrated circuit (ROIC) designed by RSC and...
Rockwell Collins to Provide Black Hawk Displays
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, August 23 -- Rockwell Collins was selected by Sikorsky Aircraft to provide displays for the US Army fleet of 1,200 or more Sikorsky Black Hawk UH-60M helicopters. Rockwell Collins...
CDT and MediaWorks to Optimize LEP Display Systems
CAMBRIDGE, England & SCHAUMBURG, Ill., August 23 -- Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) and MediaWorks Technology Corp. recently entered into a long-term joint development program to optimize device...
Newport to Cut Costs, Jobs
IRVINE, Calif., August 23 -- Newport Corp. on Tuesday unveiled cost-cutting plans that include reorganizing divisions and reducing staff as it faces the downturn in the fiber optics communications...
Lumenon Secures $14 Million Financing Commitment
MONTREAL, August 23 -- Lumenon Innovative Lightwave Technology Inc. announced it has secured a financing commitment from a private institutional investment fund. Under the terms of the common stock...
Fiber Optic Industry Review Published
SAN MATEO, Calif. August 23 -- ElectroniCast's Fiber Optic Industry Review, Second Quarter 2002, is now available. "The Fiber Optic Industry Review provides subscribers with a constant flow of new...
Lightscape XDM Project in China Extended
PETAH TIKVA, Israel, August 22 -- Lightscape Networks announced that the State Power Corp. of China has chosen its XDM next-generation optical networking platform for the fifth phase of its project...
ADC Signs Supplier Agreement with H3G Italy
MINNEAPOLIS, August 22 -- ADC announced it has signed an agreement with H3G Italy to provide H3G with broadband connectivity products needed to complete its 3G network in Italy. Under the two-year...
BAE SYSTEMS to Provide Technical Services to Marines
ROCKVILLE, Md., August 22 -- BAE SYSTEMS has received a contract from the US Marine Corps to provide various professional engineering, analytical and technical services over the next 20 years. BAE...
FLIR Systems Awarded Thermal Imaging Systems Contract
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 22 -- FLIR Systems Inc. said it has been awarded a contract to supply its Star SAFIRE II airborne thermal imaging system for the Air National Guard's HC-130 search and rescue...
Brijot Acquires Rights to Wave Sensor Technology
ORLANDO, Fla., August 21 -- Brijot Inc. announced it has secured the rights to use passive millimeter wave sensor technology developed by Lockheed Martin primarily for military-specification-designed...
FDA Clears Light-Based Acne Treatment
SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 21 -- Lumenis Ltd. has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its acne treatment device, The ClearLight system, for certain types of...
Boeing Plans First Airborne Laser
WICHITA, Kansas, August 21 -- Boeing Co. has nearly finished modifying a 747-400 freighter to carry the world's first airborne laser, the Associated Press (AP) reported Tuesday. The aircraft is...
Fiberspace Acquires Tunable Photonics
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Aug. 21 -- Fiberspace Inc., a provider of wavelength stabilization solutions for the optical networking industry, announced it has acquired Tunable Photonics Corp. (Altadena,...
Lucent Awarded New Optical Contracts in China
BEIJING, August 20 -- Lucent Technologies announced it has been awarded a series of optical contracts with a combined total of $15 million to supply state-of-the-art optical networking systems to...
NEMI Launches Fiber Optic Splicing Project
HERNDON, Va., August 20 -- The National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI), an industry-led consortium focused on strengthening the North American supply chain, is launching a new project to...
CMC Electronics Sells Military Communications Div.
MONTREAL, August 20 -- CMC Electronics has agreed to sell its Military Communications Div. to Ultra Electronics of Middlesex, England. This transaction, along with CMC's recent acquisition of Flight...
TRW Receives Defense Infrared Contract
REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Aug. 20 -- TRW has received an $868 million cost-plus award fee contract from the Department of Defense (DoD) Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to begin development of the...
Planar to Close EL Factory and End Photonics Business
BEAVERTON, Ore., Aug. 19 -- Planar Systems Inc., a developer of flat-panel display systems, will consolidate its electroluminescent (EL) display panel production into a single factory and will end...
Market Forecast: Broadband Optimism Justified
AUSTIN, Texas, August 19 -- U.S. broadband adoption is on track, and, barring major business or regulatory mistakes, long-term optimism for broadband is justified, according to Lawrence K. Vanston,...
LightPointe Selected For London Network
SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 16 -- LightPointe, a manufacturer of carrier-class optical transmission equipment using free-space optics (FSO) technology, announced that its Flight FSO equipment is...
Society of Manufacturing Engineers Awards Grants
DEARBORN, Mich., August 16 -- An educational program in optelectronics assembly will be one result of four grants awarded by The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation. The...
Agere to Cut 4,000 Jobs and Exit Optoelectronics
ALLENTOWN, Pa., August 15 -- Agere Systems has announced it will cut a third of its work force -- about 4,000 jobs -- and exit its optoelectronics business, which represented about 10 percent of its...
Wescam Awarded Contract for Laser Designator
BURLINGTON, Ontario, August 15 -- Wescam has been awarded a contract to develop and incorporate a laser designator into its new step-stare sensor system supporting the US Army's unmanned aerial...
Gore and Alvesta to Cross-License 10-Gigabit Optical Transceivers
ELKTON, Md., August 15 -- W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. and Avesta announced they will cross-license four-channel parallel optic transceivers as defined by the QuadLink multi-source agreement (MSA)...
Tyco Selling Off New Telecom Center
HONOLULU, August 14 -- Tyco International Ltd. is selling its new, never-used $75 million global telecommunications switching center on Oahu's Waianae Coast for less than a quarter of its original...
PowerComm Expands Network with Riverstone Routers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 14 -- PowerComm Corp., a broadband service provider in Korea, has expanded its all-Ethernet metro network with Riverstone's RS metro routers. This is in addition to the RS...
FDA Clears Lumenis Erbium Dental Lasers
YOKNEAM, Israel, Aug. 14 -- Lumenis Ltd. said it has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration to market its OpusDent Erbium dental lasers for soft tissue, periodontal and root...
Software Captures Images of Ice Crystals in Clouds
LOUISVILLE, Colo., Aug. 14 -- Boulder Imaging Inc., an image capture, processing and machine-vision software company, and SPEC Inc., a designer of scientific instruments for research aircraft,...
IBM, Nion Create Highest-Resolution Electron Microscope
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., August 14 -- IBM and Nion Co. researchers have developed technology that extends the capabilities of the electron microscope to look at small, atomic-scale details in...
Spider Studies May Inspire Product Spinoffs
LOS ANGELES, Calif., August 14 -- The secret to creating stronger, better materials may be revealed by studying an unlikely source: the common spider, say researchers at the University of California...
Goodman Acquires Lightlab Imaging
TOKYO, August 13 -- Goodman Co. Ltd., Japanese developer of vascular interventional devices, has acquired Lightlab Imaging LLC, of Boston, Mass, a developer of optical coherence technology (OCT),...
Universal Display Awarded OLED Contracts
EWING, N.J., August 13 -- Universal Display Corp., a developer of flat panel display technology, has been awarded two $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts by the US Department...
Corning Optical Fiber Selected for Baltic Sea Link
CORNING, N.Y., August 13 -- Stockholm-based telecommunications carriers AB Stokab and Foco 16 will deploy almost 50,000 km of Corning's SMF-28e , Vascade L1000 and LEAF optical fibers in a new...
Marconi to Support Telefonica Moviles Mexico Network Capacity
PITTSBURGH, August 13 -- Marconi has announced a $3.5 million contract to support the network growth plans of Telefonica Moviles Mexico, a subsidiary of Telefonica. The solution, comprised of...
Agere and Samsung to Develop Network-Dram Devices
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Aug. 12 -- Agere Systems Inc. and Samsung Semiconductor Inc. (SSI), today agreed to collaborate on developing high-speed Network-DRAM devices to provide network design engineers with...
Lockheed Martin to Produce Sensor System
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 12 -- Lockheed Martin received a $163.7 million order from The Boeing Co. to produce the advanced TIGER Eyes Sensor Suite, which will provide targeting, navigation,...
Photogen to Focus on Cardiovascular Imaging
NEW HOPE, Pa., Aug. 13 -- Photogen Technologies Inc. announced it will use $16.25 million in new equity capital to implement its restructuring plan, which will focus the company's resources on...
GE Rated Best Medical Imaging Vendor
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 9 -- GE was rated as the leader in medical diagnostic imaging technology in a recent survey of healthcare providers conducted by MD Information Network (formerly MD Buyline). An...
InVision Technologies Receives $11.0 Million Order From French Airports
NEWARK, Calif., Aug. 9 -- Airport authorities in Lyon, Marseille, Nice and Toulouse, France, have ordered multiple CTX 9000 DSi explosives detection systems (EDS) from InVision Technologies Inc. for...
Teradyne to Close San Diego Circuit Board Facility
NASHUA, N.H., Aug. 9 -- Teradyne Inc. announced that, in compliance with the Warn Act, it has filed its intention with the State of California to cease production at its San Diego printed circuit...
Global Crossing Sells Fiber Optic Network
MADISON, N.J., August 9 -- Global Crossing today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement under which Hutchison Telecommunications Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa...
Rubicon Receives Equipment Financing
BANNOCKBURN, Ill., August 8 -- Rubicon Technology Inc. announced it has received $2.25 million in equipment financing from GATX Ventures Inc. and Silicon Valley Bank. Rubicon Technology, a...
Rockwell Scientific to Develop Detectors for Ground-Based Astronomy
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., August 8 -- Rockwell Scientific Co. (RSC) has been awarded two $2.2 million contracts -- from Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) and Gemini Observatory -- to fabricate and...
Philips Electronics Selling Communication, Security and Imaging Business to Bosch
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Aug. 7 -- Royal Philips Electronics and Robert Bosch GmbH have signed a preliminary agreement regarding the sale of Philips' Communication, Security & Imaging (CSI) unit....
LambdaXtreme Transport Passes Field Trial
BONN, Germany, August 7 -- The ultra long-distance optical system LambdaXtreme Transport, developed by Lucent Technologies, passed Deutsche Telekom field trials in May, when it transmitted 40-Gbit/s...
FDA Approves Acculasers Carpal Tunnel Technology
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 6 -- Acculaser Inc. has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market the company's Acculaser Pro Cold Laser for use in the non-surgical treatment and management...
Three-Five Systems Expands Presence in Korean Market
TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 6 -- Three-Five Systems Inc. has signed an agreement with Accupix, an optics and electronics design firm, to establish Accupix as an authorized Three-Five Development Partner for...
IBM to Acquire PwC Consulting
NEW YORK, August 6 -- IBM will acquire PricewaterhouseCoopers' global business consulting and technology services unit, PwC Consulting. The two companies have signed a definitive agreement approved...
AMD, Fujitsu and Saifun Semiconductors to Collaborate
SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 5 -- AMD, Fujitsu and Saifun Semiconductors Ltd. have agreed to cross-license patents and technology, settle all pending litigation and collaborate in the development of...
Optoelectronics Companies Join NEMI
HERNDON, Va., August 5 -- kSARIA Corp. and Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Corp. recently joined the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI), an industry-led consortium focused on...
Axsun, CyOptics To Manufacture Electro Absorption Modulated Laser
BILLERICA, Mass., Aug. 5 -- Axsun Technologies Inc. has signed an agreement with CyOptics Inc, to manufacture and qualify to Telcordia GR468, an ultra-high performance 10 Gbps electro-absorption...
Internet Photonics Closes 3rd Funding Round
SHREWSBURY, N.J. and MARLBOROUGH, Mass., August 2 -- Internet Photonics Inc. announced it has closed its third round of venture financing for $31 million with new investors ComVentures, which led the...
Bookham Technology Sells R&D Subsidiary
OXFORDSHIRE, England, August 2 -- Bookham Technology, a provider of integrated optical components and subsystems for fiber optic communication networks, announced it has sold its Canada-based R&D...
FLIR to Provide Thermal Imaging Systems for Mexican Navy
PORTLAND, Ore., August 2 -- FLIR Systems Inc. announced it has been awarded a contract worth more than $5.5 million to deliver eight Star SAFIRE II multisensor infrared surveillance systems for the...
MEMSCAP To Acquire Cronos Unit From JDS Uniphase
GRENOBLE, France, & SAN JOSE, Calif., August 2 -- MEMSCAP, provider of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) solutions, announced it has entered an agreement to acquire substantially all of the...
Nanoscale Robots May Change the Future of Health Care
PITTSBURGH, August 2 -- Nearly four decades ago, the sci-fi hit movie Fantastic Voyage featured a miniature submarine, complete with crew, which was injected into a human being to perform a...
OSI Systems Receives $1.2 Million Order from InVision
HAWTHORNE, Calif., August 1 -- OSI Systems Inc. announced it has received approximately $1.2 million in follow-on orders for electronic components and value-added assemblies from InVision...
Landsat Exhibit Celebrates 30 Years of Earth Images
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 1 -- NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS) have assembled an exhibit, "Landsat: Earth as Art," to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first Landsat launch. The...
OptoSigma launches a new 2002-2003 catalog, September 2002
OptoSigma Corporation will launch their new 2002-2003 catalog with a variety of NEW products and navigational benefits. In conjunction, the OptoSigma web site which is known among the photonic...
Raytheon Awarded $97 M to Upgrade FAA Telecom System
RESTON, Va., August 1 -- Raytheon Co. has been awarded a contract from Harris Corp. to provide installation and integration services to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under its recently...
FCC Chairman Outlines 6 Steps to Telecom Recovery
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 1 -- FCC Chairman Michael Powell prescribed six steps for managing the current turmoil in the telecommunications industry and "for stabilizing the industry over time," during...
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