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Photonics.com - February 2005
News & Features
NEA Awards Engineers, Educators
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 -- Designers of the Corona satillite, inventors of biosensors and educators in engineering and technology were awarded by the National Academies' National Academy of Engineering...
Intel to Acquire Oplus Technologies
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 28 -- Intel Corp. announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Oplus Technologies Inc., a private fabless semiconductor company based in Yokneam, Israel, that makes...
NSF Taps Cornell for X-Ray Source
ITHACA, N.Y., Feb. 25 -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Cornell University $18 million to begin development of a new, advanced synchrotron radiation x-ray source called an energy...
'Plug and Play' Raman Laser Developed
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 25 -- Engineers and applied physicists have laid the foundations for a new type of "plug and play" laser, the Raman injection laser. The device represents several key...
ADC, Corning Cable Connect
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 25 -- ADC and Corning Cable Systems have announced a technology transfer agreement for a Corning Cable Systems hardened connector products used in drop cable deployments in optical...
Verizon to Open Syracuse Support Center
DEWITT, N.Y., Feb. 25 -- Verizon said it will open a new customer support center for advanced fiber optic services in Dewitt, N.Y., near Syracuse, and will create up to 50 new jobs this year. Over...
Smiths Awarded $56 M DoD Order
WATFORD, England, Feb. 24 --Smiths Detection, a provider of x-ray and trace detection equipment, has been awarded contract modifications worth more than $56 million by the US Department of Defense...
Satellite Sees Mysterious Earth Energy
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- Scientists using observations from NASA's Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) satellite detected flashes of gamma ray energy in Earth's upper...
Berliner Glas Acquires Prinz Optics
BERLIN, Feb. 22 -- Berliner Glas has acqiured a majority interest in Prinz Optics, of Stromberg, to be effective July 1. Prinz Optics, which makes optical coatings using the sol-gel immersion method,...
Jmar Receives Soft X-Ray Funds
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 22 -- Jmar Technologies Inc. announced it has received $3.5 million in funding from the US Department of Defense (DoD) under a previously announced $34.5 million defense contract to...
Oki to Buy TI Display Driver Unit
TOKYO, Feb. 22 -- Oki Electric Industry is buying Texas Instruments' (TI's) large-size thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (LCD) driver operations, the companies announced last week. Under...
Alcatel Awarded Sub Cable Contract
LONDON and PARIS, Feb. 22 -- Flag Telecom, a provider of international wholesale network transport and communications services, announced it has signed a multimillion dollar turnkey contract with...
OLED Among 'Top 25 Innovations'
EWING, N.J., Feb. 18 -- A recent CNN special report rank organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology among the top technological innovations introduced since 1980 and cited Universal Display...
Novel, Energy-Frugal Robots Walk Like Humans
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- A new breed of powered, energy-efficient, two-legged robots with a surprisingly human gait were unveiled at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement...
Dalsa to Acquire Coreco
WATERLOO, Ontario, Feb. 17 -- Dalsa Corp. announced today it will acquire Coreco Inc. for approximately $72 million in cash and stocks. Coreco brings vision processors, software and smart camera...
Kopin Awarded Army Contract
TAUNTON, Mass., Feb. 16 -- Kopin Corp., a provider of microdisplays for military, industrial and consumer applications, has won two new contracts to provide display hardware for the US Army's Thermal...
Observatory Confirms Black Hole Limits
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 16 -- The very largest black holes reach a certain point and then grow no more, according to the best survey to date of black holes made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory....
Optelecom to Acquire NKF Electronics
GERMANTOWN, Md., Feb. 16 -- Optelecom Inc. announced today it has signed a letter of intent to acquire NKF Electronics, a Netherlands-based subsidiary of Draka Holding NV, in a nondilutive...
W.P. Carey Acquires Finisar, FSI Facilities
NEW YORK, Feb. 15 -- Investment firm W.P. Carey & Co. LL has acquired a corporate office of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Finisar Corp., a developer of gigabit fiber optic technology for high-speed data...
SID Technical Symposium Extended
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 15 -- The Society for Information Display (SID) announced that its 2005 technical symposium will be extended from a three-day to a four-day event, May 24-27, as part of the SID...
Fusion Optix 1st Round Nets $1.1 M
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 15 -- Fusion Optix Inc. announced it has closed on a Series A funding round totaling $1.1 million by a group of independent private equity investors from Boston and...
Altair Announces Battery Advance
RENO, Nev., Feb. 15 -- Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. said it has achieved a breakthrough in lithium ion battery electrode materials that will enable a new generation of, and create new markets for,...
BinOptics Receives $10 Million
ITHACA, N.Y., Feb. 14 -- BinOptics Corp., a developer of integrated microphotonic chips for data communications, telecommunications and optical storage applications, has announced a $10 million...
Verizon to Acquire MCI
NEW YORK and ASHBURN, Va., Feb. 14 -- Verizon Communications Inc. has agreed to acquire MCI Inc. for $4.8 billion in equity and $488 million in cash, the companies announced today. They said the move...
PerkinElmer Acquires Elcos AG
WELLESLEY, Mass., Feb. 11 -- PerkinElmer Inc. announced it is acquiring Elcos AG, a European maker of custom LED technology for biomedical and industrial applications, for $15 million cash and the...
Sensor System to Gauge Effects of Cosmic Rays on Lunar Explorers
BOSTON, Feb. 11 -- Boston University Professor Harlan Spence recently joined five other space scientists at Goddard Space Center, in Greenbelt, Md., to discuss their participation in NASA's Lunar...
Laser Institute Invites Abstracts
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 10 -- The Laser Institute of America (LIA) is seeking abstracts for the 24th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO 2005), to be held Oct....
SEMI Expands Nanotechnology Emphasis
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 9 -- SEMI announced that Lubab L. Sheet has been named senior director of nanotechnology and will spearhead expanded efforts to pursue new technology and market opportunities...
CDT, Ilford Launch Joint PLED Project
CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 9 -- Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) has joined forces with Ilford Imaging Switzerland GmbH in a project the companies say will pave the way for more optically efficient...
Nextreme Raises $8 Million
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Feb. 9 -- Nextreme Thermal Solutions, a developer of thermoelectric materials and devices, announced it has raised $8 million in Series A financing. A spinoff of...
Sandia Hosts MEMS Design Competition
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Feb. 8 -- A MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) design competition sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories will provide eight university student teams the opportunity to have...
CenturyTel to Buy Metro Fiber
MONROE, La., Feb. 7 -- CenturyTel Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase metro fiber networks in 16 markets, primarily in the central US, from KMC Telecom Holdings Inc....
Alcatel, Finmeccanica Space Units to Merge
PARIS, Feb. 7 -- Alcatel and Finmeccanica, an Italian high-tech company, have signed a final agreement to merge their space activities by creating two joint venture companies to which both partners...
MSI Acquires Polaron Assets
FAIRFIELD, N.J., Feb. 7 -- Measurement Specialties Inc. (MSI), a manufacturer of sensors and sensor-based consumer products, announced it has acquired certain assets of Polaron Components Ltd., the...
Jacksonville Sports LEDs for Super Bowl
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 4 -- OptiLed's light-emitting diode (LED) illumination technology is the centerpiece of a city-wide beautification effort in Jacksonville, Fla., in anticipation of the Super Bowl...
Corning: FTTP Will Lead Recovery
CORNING, N.Y., Feb. 4 -- A sustainable recovery in the telecommunications industry will be led by strong demand for new services enabled by systems such as fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP), according to...
Photonics West 2005 Breaks Records
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 4 -- Photonics West, held last week in San Jose, Calif., drew more than 15,000 attendees, shattering last year's record. SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering)...
Corning: FTTP Will Lead Recovery
CORNING, N.Y., Feb. 4 -- A sustainable recovery in the telecommunications industry will be led by strong demand for new services enabled by systems such as fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP), according to...
Agilent Wins Homeland Security Grant, Consolidates Shanghai Branches
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 3 -- Agilent Technologies Inc. was awarded a $930,000 Phase I research grant by the US Department of Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) to facilitate...
Innovative Micro Closes $17M Funding
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 3 -- Innovative Micro Technology (IMT), a manufacturer of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), announced it has raised $17 million in institutional venture capital. The...
NIST Urges Caution in Switch to VOIP
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 2 -- Federal agencies and other organizations that are considering switching their telephone systems to Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) should proceed with caution and...
NIF to Use JDS Uniphase Modulators
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 2 -- JDS Uniphase announced it was awarded a contract to provide electro-optic modulators for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) project at the Lawrence Livermore National...
Hitachi Acquiring Fujitsu Stock
TOKYO, Feb. 2 -- Hitachi announced today it has reached an agreement with Fujitsu to acquire its Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Ltd. (FHP) stock. The move, aimed at strengthening Hitachi's position...
States Turn to Nanotech for Growth
NEW YORK, Feb. 1 -- Massachusetts ranked first among states for economic development from nanotechnology in a report from New York-based consulting firm Lux Research, "Benchmarking US States for...
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Insight Integrated Spectroscopy Systems
TRENTON, N.J., Jan. 15 -- Princeton Instruments and Acton Research have introduced their first united project, the InSight integrated spectroscopy system, a high-performance instrument that comes pre-aligned and focused, ready for experiments right out of the box. Its superior spectral resolution and spatial imaging performance make this instrument well-suited for many applications, such as...
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New Linux Driver Library
BERLIN, Feb. 24 -- A new driver library for custom programming is now available to run the compact and easy-to-use TimeHarp TCSPC board from PicoQuant under Linux 2.6. The shared library and an...
PicoQuant GmbH
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Tunable Ti:Sapphire System
BOHEMIA, N.Y., Feb. 24 -- Photonics Industries announced it recently shipped the latest version of its TU-L Ti:sapphire, high-repetition-rate, narrow linewidth laser to a university for atmospheric...
Photonics Industries International Inc.
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Cotco TBL Blue LEDs
LATHAM, N.Y., Feb. 18 -- Cotco TBL Series LEDs are only available through Marktech Optoelectronics, a designer of LEDs for more than 15 years. Cotco Luminant Devices Ltd. has chosen Marktech to...
Marktech Optoelectronics Inc.
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WaveCam 1000
TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 16 -- 4D Technology Corp. is introducing a new turnkey instrument designed to test the next generation of Blu-ray, DVD and CD pickup heads. The WaveCam 1000 is a...
4D Technology Corporation
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LRS-9424 Gets 'Best in Test' Honorable Mention
BOZEMAN, Mont., Feb. 14 –- Each year, through its annual Best in Test awards, Test & Measurement World magazine's technical editors honor products and services in the electronics test and...
Newport - ILX Lightwave, Photonics
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Fast Lens Spectrograph
TRENTON, N.J., Feb. 11 -- Princeton Instruments and Acton Research Corp., a designer of spectroscopic instrumentation, is proud to announce the HTS lens spectrograph. With a fast optical design, the...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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New Cube Compact Lasers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 11 -- Coherent Inc. has introduced its Cube family lasers, which are compact, fully featured diode laser systems combining high performance and simple operation/integration,...
Coherent Inc.
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Optical S-Parameter Analyzer
CAMPINAS, Brazil and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 24 -- FiberWork, a developer of fiber optic technology, has introduced the OSPA, its optical S-parameter analyzer, which is will exhibit at the Optical...
FiberWork Optical Communications
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