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Photonics.com - January 2000
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Spectra-Physics Encouraged by Fourth-Quarter Results
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 21 -- Spectra-Physics reported net sales of $41.2 million for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 1999, compared with $45.5 million for the same period in 1998. The company's book-to-bill ratio was 1.15, compared with 1.11 for the third quarter of fiscal 1999 and 0.89 a year ago. Net income for the quarter was $1.6 million, or 9 cents per diluted share,...
GSI Lumonics Receives Order for Laser Trim Systems
KANATA, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 21 -- GSI Lumonics Inc. has received an order from Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. of Suwon, Korea, for multiple units of the company's W670G laser trim system....
Precision Optics Names Rancourtto Optical Thin Film Post
GARDNER, Mass., Jan. 21 -- Precision Optics Corp. Inc. has named James D. Rancourt as senior vice president, Optical Thin Film Technology. Rancourt previously was affiliated with Optical Coating Labs...
Candela Profits, Revenue Soar; Stock to Split
WAYLAND, Mass., Jan. 20 -- Candela Corp. reported that results for its second fiscal quarter ended January 1, 2000, show a 34-percent jump in revenues and a 130-percent increase in profits in...
OCLI to Adjourn Meeting to Ponder JDS Uniphase Merger
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Jan. 20 -- Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. said that it will open -- and then adjourn -- the January 25th stockholder meeting to consider approval of OCLI's pending merger with...
Bell Labs Names Vice President of Research
MURRAY HILL, N.J., Jan. 20 -- Lucent Technologies has appointed William Brinkman vice president of research for Bell Labs, Lucent's research and development arm. Brinkman succeeds Arun Netravali, who...
JDS Uniphase, E-TEK Dynamics in $15 Billion Merger
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 19 -- JDS Uniphase Corp. and E-TEK Dynamics Inc. have signed a definitive merger agreement that would result in E-TEK operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of JDS Uniphase....
IntraLase Wins FDA Clearance for New Laser Keratome
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 19 -- IntraLase Corp. reports that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted 510(k) clearance for the company's Femtosecond Laser Keratome System. The FDA clearance will...
Corning, Gore and Siecor ShowMultimode Fiber at 1 and 10 Gb/s
CORNING, N.Y., Jan. 19 -- Corning Inc., W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. and Siecor reported that in recent tests, a prototype multimode fiber demonstrated serial transmission at both 1 and 10 Gb/s....
Ion Optics to Develop IR Emissions Sensor
WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 18 -- Ion Optics has been awarded a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research Award by the US Department of Transportation to develop protocols and instrumentation for the...
GSI Lumonics Receives Order for Laser Cutting Systems
KANATA, Ontario, Jan. 18 -- GSI Lumonics Inc. has received a $12-million order from Tower Automotive of Milwaukee, Wis., and Metalsa of Monterrey, Mexico, for its modular high-power YAG laser...
PerkinElmer Buys Stake in Bragg Photonics
BOSTON, Jan. 17 -- PerkinElmer Inc. has taken a 13-percent equity stake with options to increase ownership in Bragg Photonics Inc., a Montreal-based producer of fiber optic components utilizing...
DRS Technologies to Provide Electro-Optical Systems to US Army
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 17 -- DRS Technologies Inc. has won contracts worth $12.6 million to provide the US Army with thermal imaging systems, B-Kits and spares for the sighting systems of the...
DuPont, Kodak Join US Display Consortium
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 17 -- The US Display Consortium (USDC) has been joined by two new members, DuPont Co. and Eastman Kodak Co. These additions raise USDC membership to 16 companies, which is the...
Carl Zeiss, Nanofilm Form Strategic Alliance
VALLEY VIEW, Ohio, Jan. 14 -- Carl Zeiss Inc. NA, the parent company of all North American Zeiss companies, has established a formal strategic alliance with and has taken a significant minority...
FDA to Review New Fetal Monitoring System
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 14 -- Mallinckrodt Inc. reported that its pre-market approval (PMA) application for a new infrared-based fetal oxygen saturation monitoring system called OxiSure has been accepted for...
Vision-Sciences Makes Additional Investment in 3DV Systems
NATICK, Mass., Jan. 13 -- Vision-Sciences Inc. has completed a $1,500,000 investment in 3DV Systems Ltd., based in Yokneam, Israel. This latest transaction follows additional investments by...
Varian Medical, GE Medical Systems Join Forces
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 13 -- Varian Medical Systems and GE Medical Systems have formed an alliance for marketing, sales, and product development in North America that will enable the companies to...
Applied Imaging Wins UK Grant for Automated Cell Detection
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 12 -- Applied Imaging Corp. has received a Smart Exceptional Project grant in the amount of £423,000 (about $680,000) from the United Kingdom's Department of Trade...
Researchers Move Atom Lasers Forward
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 12 -- Operating independently, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Tokyo have succeeded in amplifying an atom wave while...
First China-US Undersea Cable Begins Service
BEIJING, Jan. 11 -- China Telecom has begun service on one path of the planned China-US Cable Network, the first undersea fiber optic cable network to directly link the two nations. The system, which...
Veeco Wins Orders for Automated Semiconductor Tools
PLAINVIEW, N.Y., Jan. 11 -- Veeco Instruments Inc. has received multiple-unit orders valued at $4.7 million for its Dimension 9000TR atomic force microscope and its recently introduced...
Honeywell Acquires Quantum Laser
PHOENIX, Jan. 10 -- Honeywell has acquired Quantum Laser Corp., a Norcross, Ga.-based aerospace repair facility that specializes in the laser cladding of turbine blades. Quantum Laser, which will...
OIS Sells Assets, Pays Off Bank Debt
NORTHVILLE, Mich., Jan. 10 -- OIS Optical Imaging Systems Inc. announced that it has completed the sale of its assets to Guardian Industries Corp., as per the December 1999 agreement between the two...
Suit Charges Patent Infringementon Semiconductors, Flat-Panel Displays
NEW YORK, Jan. 10 -- Plasma Physics Corp. and Solar Physics Corp. have filed a patent infringement suit against major electronics companies in Japan and Korea, charging infringement of patents...
MIT, Applied Precision, Nikon Join in Microscopy Project
ISSAQUAH, Wash., Jan. 6 -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) biologists are working with Applied Precision Inc. and Nikon Inc. to develop a multiple-mode microscopy system aimed at...
ESC Medical Systems' Quarterly Sales Beat Expectations
YOKNEAM, Israel, Jan. 6 -- ESC Medical Systems reported that sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 1999 have exceeded expectations. Yacha Sutton, company president and CEO, noted, Sales results are...
'Stealth' Imager Helps Surgeons Treat Brain Tumors
BALTIMORE, Jan. 6 -- Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center have a new imaging tool that brings more safety and precision to difficult brain and sinus surgeries. The device, known as...
Kollmorgen Wins Contract for Photonic Submarine Masts
WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 5 -- Kollmorgen Corp. has been awarded a $17.5-million contract extension from the US Naval Sea Systems Command to provide a photonic mast production unit for the US Navy's...
Abbott Labs Completes Purchase of SpectRx Stock
NORCROSS, Ga., Jan. 5 -- Abbott Laboratories has purchased $2.5 million in convertible redeemable preferred stock of SpectRx Inc., bringing Abbott's total purchase of SpectRx stock to $5.25...
Cree Research Receives LED Orders from Asia
DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 4 -- Cree Research Inc. has received $14 million in orders for light-emitting diode devices from customers in several Asian countries. The high-brightness LEDs are to be...
Spire Completes Sale of Optoelectronic Assets
BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 4 -- Spire Corp. has completed the sale of substantially all the assets of its optoelectronic business segment to Methode Massachusetts LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Methode...
Metromedia Fiber, Allegiance Telecom Sign Third Dark-Fiber Lease
NEW YORK, Jan. 4 -- Metromedia Fiber Network has signed a third dark-fiber lease agreement with Allegiance Telecom. Metromedia Fiber estimates the agreement to be worth approximately $130 million...
EDO, AIL Technologies Agree on Merger
NEW YORK, Jan. 3 -- EDO Corp. and privately held AIL Technologies Inc. of Deer Park, N.Y., have signed a definitive agreement to merge. The transaction will create an integrated defense and aerospace...
JDS Uniphase Proposes Stock Split
NEPEAN, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 3 -- JDS Uniphase Corp.'s board of directors has approved a two-for-one stock split of the company's common shares, pending stockholder approval of an increase in...
Fiber Optics: Integrated Optics
Functionality and integration are rising, while cost and size are dropping to satisfy communications needs. Integrated optics products that are finding widespread commercial application include...
Fiber Optic Amplifiers
Integrated manufacturing and new amplifier technologies prepare to boost signals for future communications networks. Optical amplifiers will soon become smarter. To meet dense wavelength...
Optical Fiber
New fibers will bring out the best in long-haul and metropolitan network components. As the technology of transmitting and receiving light continues to evolve and improve, so will the...
Passive Components
Future networks will need flexibility and novel components that can move quickly from R&D to production. Since the mid-1980s, optical fiber has been the backbone of telecommunications networks....
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