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Photonics.com - January 2005
News & Features
Kodak to Acquire Creo
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 31 -- Eastman Kodak Co. announced today its intention to acquire Creo Inc., a Vancouver, British Columbia, supplier of prepress systems. The company's workflow software is used...
IPG Photonics Awarded for Fiber Laser
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan 31 -- IPG Photonics Corp. received a 2004 Photonics Circle of Excellence Award, sponsored by Laurin Publishing, recognizing its 600-W sngle-mode ytterbium fiber laser, described...
Lumus Closes 2nd-Round Funding
REHOVOT, Israel, Jan. 28 -- Lumus Ltd. announced today the closing of a Series B financing round, led by Motorola Ventures, the venture capital arm of Motorola Inc., and including Jerusalem Global...
TFS to Streamline Operations
TEMPE, Ariz., Jan 28 -- Three-Five Systems Inc. (TFS), a manufacturer of custom displays and display systems using LCD and LCoS microdisplay technology, announced this week it is planning a number of...
Fiber Optic Intrusion Sensor Protects Perimeters
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Jan. 28 -- Two Texas A&M University engineers are developing a fiber optic intrusion-detection sensor for protecting long perimeters. The sensor is commercial cable containing...
Lumus Secures Second-Round Funding
REHOVOT, Israel, Jan. 28 -- Lumus Ltd. announced today the closing of a Series B financing round, led by Motorola Ventures, the venture capital arm of Motorola Inc., and including Jerusalem Global...
Ondax Secures Series C Financing
MONROVIA, Calif., Jan. 27 -- Ondax Inc., a California-based developer of volume holographic filters, announced it has raised Series C funding. The round was led by Los Angeles-based venture capital...
BiOS, Award Winners, Poster Exhibits Are Draws at Photonics West 2005
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 26 -- Winter weather delayed the arrival of some exhibitors, but that had little effect on attendance or enthusiasm for Photonics West 2005 this week, SPIE organizers said...
Finisar to Acquire Infineon Unit
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 25 -- Finisar Corp. and Infineon Technologies AG, of Munich, Germany, announced Monday that Finisar will acquire certain assets from Infineon's fiber optics business unit,...
'Circle of Excellence' Awards Announced
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 25 -- The following are among winners of Spectra Magazine's 2005 Photonics Circle of Excellence Awards, given annually to the industry's top 25 technically innovative products...
Rochester Well-Represented at PWest
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 25 -- About 25 Rochester, N.Y.-area business and organizations are attending Photonics West 2005 this week in San Jose, Calif., to promote the region as the place to be for...
IEEE-USA Files Copyright Brief
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- An approach to prevent copyright infringement while preserving technological innovation was proposed to the US Supreme Court Monday in a friend-of-the-court filing by IEEE-USA,...
Products Unveiled at Photonics West
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 24 -- Innovations in optomechanical and motion control, optoelectronics, laser and gas detection technology are among products being unveiled at Photonics West this week....
FONS, Nitta Form Joint Venture
MARLBORO, Mass., Jan. 21 -- Fiber Optic Network Solutions (FONS) Corp., a provider of optical connectivity products, has announced a joint venture with Nitta Corp., a Japanese manufacturer of...
Jmar Appoints X-ray Advisory Board
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 21 -- Jmar Technologies Inc. has established a scientific advisory board to provide guidance on the design, development and application of its compact soft x-ray microscope (XRM) for...
Portrait of a Star on the Edge
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 21 -- Astronomers have known for decades that Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo, is living very close to the edge. Only a few hundred million years old-young...
Taiwan Reports Sharp Photonics Rise
TAIPEI, Jan. 20 -- Taiwan's photonics industry's output was $27.3 billion (NT$921.4 billion) in 2004, an increase of 36 percent over the previous year's level, according to statistics released...
Fujikura to Own AFL Telecommunications
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 20 -- Alcoa announced it has signed a letter of intent with Fujikura Ltd. of Japan in which Alcoa will obtain complete ownership of AFL Automotive, based in Detroit, and Fujikura...
Ahura Raises $10M
WILMINGTON, Mass., Jan. 19 -- Ahura Corp., a Wilmington, Mass., manufacturer of portable optical instrumentation and subsystems for homeland security and life science applications, announced it has...
3-D Optical Circuit Inspection Probed
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Jan. 19 -- Scottish physicists are pioneering a project they say will demonstrate resolution improvement that will extend the lifetime of optical semiconductor inspection and...
Thermo Electron to Acquire SPX Unit
WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 19 --- Thermo Electron Corp. announced today it will acquire the Kendro Laboratory Products division of SPX Corp. for $833.5 million in cash, subject to a post-closing balance...
Kodak to Buy Orex
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 18 -- Eastman Kodak Co. announced today it will acquire Orex Computed Radiography Ltd. for approximately $50.5 million in cash. Orex, based in Yokneum, Israel, is a provider of...
SwRI to Make Lunar Instrument
BOULDER, Colo.. Jan. 18 -- NASA has chosen an ultraviolet mapping spectrometer called LAMP (Lyman Alpha Mapping Project) to be developed by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and flown on the...
Picarro Secures $15M Series C Funds
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 17 -- Picarro Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance lasers and laser-based instruments, announced it has raised $15 million in series C financing. The company said the...
BOC Forms Taiwan Joint Venture
CRAWLEY, England, Jan. 17 -- BOC, through its BOC Edwards unit, announced that BOC Holdings has signed definitive agreements to form a fifty-fifty joint venture company with Highlight Tech Corp....
Verizon, Yahoo to Offer Broadband Services
NEW YORK & SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 17, 2005 -- Verizon and Yahoo today announced a multiyear alliance to deliver a fully integrated co-branded broadband offering to subscribers to Verizon Online's...
Urologists Study New Photosensitizer
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 14 -- Urologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center's James P. Wilmot Cancer Center are joining an international clinical study of hexvix, a new photosensitizer -- a...
Finisar Denies it Breached Agreement
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 13 -- Finisar Corp. has issued a denial that it breached an agreement to acquire Infineon Technologies AG's fiber optics business unit. According to Finisar, which makes fiber...
'Halogen Bond' Rediscovered
CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 13 -- Biochemists have "rediscovered" and characterized an important type of chemical bond -- the "halogen bond" -- that once formed the basis for a Nobel Prize but has been...
RPI Studies Nanotube 'Shock Absorbers'
TROY, N.Y., Jan. 12 -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a novel carbon-nanotube-based material that chokes vibration and may have applications for both large and small...
Kodak Buying Out Graphics Unit
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 12 -- Eastman Kodak Co. announced today it will become the sole owner of Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG) through redemption of Sun Chemical Corp.'s 50 percent interest in the...
RPI Makes Nanotube 'Shock Absorbers'
TROY, N.Y., Jan. 12 -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a novel carbon-nanotube-based material that chokes vibration and may have applications for both large and small...
Sumika Buys Manufacturing Equipment
PHOENIX, Jan. 11 -- Sumika Electronic Materials, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd., announced it has purchased epiwafer manufacturing equipment from a major semiconductor manufacturer....
SEMI, SIA to Study Nanoelectronics
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 11 -- Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced they will jointly conduct a comprehensive study on...
Essex to Acquire Windermere Group
COLUMBIA, Md., Jan. 11 -- Essex Corp. announced it will acquire The Windermere Group LLC, a private company based in Annapolis, Md.. The acquisition is subject to customary conditions and is expected...
Corning Forecasts Q4 Results
CORNING, N.Y., Jan. 11 -- Corning Inc. said today it expects 2004 fourth-quarter sales to be approximately $1 billion and earnings per share (EPS), before special items, to be between $0.11 and...
Sumika Acquires Buys Manufacturing Equipment
PHOENIX, Jan. 11 -- Sumika Electronic Materials, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd., announced it has purchased epiwafer manufacturing equipment from a major semiconductor manufacturer....
Corning Expects Q4 Sales to Meet Guidance
CORNING, N.Y., Jan. 11 -- Corning Inc. said today it expects 2004 fourth-quarter sales to be approximately $1 billion and earnings per share (EPS), before special items, to be between $0.11 and...
Polaroid Acquired for $426 Million
WALTHAM, Mass., and MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 10 -- Polaroid Holding Co. and Petters Group Worldwide announced Friday they have reached an agreement for Petters, through an affiliate, to acquire...
'Pure Light' Displays More Power Efficient
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 10 -- Researchers have patented a new class of optical materials that efficiently create "pure polarized light," which uses far less energy than conventional flat-panel displays...
Handheld Laser 'Not a Deathray'
CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 7 -- The New Jersey man who admitted to shining a laser device at an Atlantic Aviation airplane last week used a Jasper laser manufactured by Bigha, an Oregon-based company that...
Handheld Laser 'Not a Deathray'
CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 7 -- The New Jersey man who admitted to shining a laser device at an Atlantic Aviation airplane last week used a Jasper laser manufactured by Bigha, an Oregon-based company that...
Agilent Buys Gene Analysis Company
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 5 -- Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced its acquisition of Computational Biology Corp., a biotech pioneer in "ChIP-on-chip," a microarray-based technique for...
Visa Snafus Stifle Standards Input
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 -- Concerns that technical experts from China have been denied entry visas to the US for attendance at technical committee meetings of the International Electrotechnical Commission...
Burgess Appointed to Standards Committee
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 5 -- William Burgess, vice president of operations at Power Technology Inc., a Little Rock, Ark., maker of laser diode products, was recently appointed a member of the...
Tiny, Atom-based Detector Senses Weak Magnetic Fields
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 5 -- A low-power magnetic sensor about the size of a grain of rice that can detect magnetic field changes as small as 50 picoteslas -- a million times weaker than the Earth's...
Florida High-Tech Corridor Expands
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 4 -- The University of Florida (UF) has joined the Florida High Tech Corridor Council, an economic development initiative founded in 1996 by the University of Central Florida and...
Photonics Firms Help Tsunami Victims
PITTSFIELD, Mass., Jan 4 -- Laurin Publishing and other photonics-related companies are among the many corporate and private donors to relief efforts for those affected by the Dec. 26 earthquake and...
MOC Drops Corning Dumping Charge
CORNING, N.Y., Jan. 3 -- Corning Inc. said it received a positive final determination from China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC), in Beijing, on Jan. 1 that affirmed the company's position that it did...
MOC Drops Corning 'Dumping' Charge
CORNING, N.Y., Jan. 3 -- Corning Inc. said it received a positive final determination from China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC), in Beijing, on Jan. 1 that affirmed the company's position that it did...
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AxioCam MRc5 Digital Camera
THORNWOOD, N.Y., Jan. 28 -- Carl Zeiss has introduced its AxioCam MRc5 high-resolution, color digital camera with 5-megapixel CCD sensor, FireWire, high dynamics and great flexibility in readout...
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FizCam 1500 Fizeau Interferometer System
TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 20 -- 4D Technology Corp. has introduced the FizCam 1500, the newest member of its FizCam high-performance dynamic Fizeau interferometer systems. Employing breakthrough...
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3RD Millennium
Omega Optical’s new patent-pending 3RD Millennium filters offer the advantages of surface coatings along with the benefits of extreme phase thickness coatings and automated manufacturing. At the...
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2005 Polymicro Handbook
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NIF High Reflectors
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 14 -- Highly reflective coated optics supplied by Alpine Research Optics for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) project have been independently qualified by Spica Technologies...
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Four-Wavelength OTDR
QUEBEC CITY, Jan. 28 -- Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has introduced its FTB-7200D four-wavelength optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) for the premises network and cabling installation...
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