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 July 2004


NEWS & FEATURES
Lumileds Orders Veeco GaN Systems WOODBURY, N.Y., July 30 -- Veeco Instruments Inc. announced it has received a $10 million order to supply GaNzilla MOCVD (metal organic chemical vapor deposition) production systems to Lumileds Lighting, of San Jose, Calif. The initial order was received during Veeco's second quarter, and is part of a multiyear purchase order for additional systems. Lumileds manufactures high-power LEDs. Veeco's...
Utah FTTP Network Build Underway SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 30 -- Riverstone Networks announced it will immediately begin shipping Ethernet equipment to the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) to build what...
Communications Equipment Rebound Predicted NEW YORK, July 29 -- A rebound in expenditures on enterprise networking equipment and telecommunications -- the two main markets for communications equipment -- is underway and is expected to...
EM4 to Buy PowerNetix IP, Assets BEDFORD, Mass., July 29 -- EM4 Inc., a Bedford-based outsourcer of the design and manufacture of optoelectronic and photonic components, announced this week it is buying the intellectual property and...
After 'Abysmally Failed' Experiment, Carbon Nanotubes Grow Wings ARGONNE, Ill., July 29 -- Diamonds are the hardest known substance. Carbon nanotubes are the strongest. Scientists at the US Dept. of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory tried to combine the best of...
SwRI Instruments Chosen by NASA SAN ANTONIO, July 28 -- Two science instruments to be developed by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are part of a proposal selected by NASA as a candidate for the next mission in the agency's New...
Schott Scientific Glass Plant to Close ELMSFORD, N.Y., July 28 -- Schott Corp. has announced the schedule for the closing of operations at Schott Scientific Glass Inc., in Parkersburg, W.V. The first melting tank was shut down on July 22,...
Raytheon to Make Sub HDR SATCOM Systems MCKINNEY, Texas, July 28 -- Under a $29.4 million contract from Electric Boat Corp., Raytheon Co. will produce new submarine high-data rate (Sub HDR) multiband satellite communication (SATCOM)...
Enhanced LEDs Could Transform Lighting TROY, N.Y., July 27 -- A research team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has developed a new type of reflector that dramatically improves LED (light-emitting diodes) luminance. The National...
Coherent Appoints 2 Senior Executives SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 27 -- Michael Cumbo and Paul Meissner have been hired as executive vice presidents at Coherent Inc., a provider of photonics-based products, primarily lasers, laser-based...
BAE Awarded Thermal Imaging Contract NASHUA, N.H., July 26 -- BAE Systems has been selected by Kongsberg Protech of Norway to supply the upgraded thermal imaging module (TIM 1500) for the remote weapon station (RWS) on the US Army's...
Optics Center to Build New Laser Lab EUGENE, Ore., July 26 -- A $510,500 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust will help scientists at the University of Oregon's Center for Optics reach a new level in the quest to manipulate...
Adva Acquires Ethernet Startup MAHWAH, N.J., July 26 -- Adva Optical Networking announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the remaining 70-percent ownership stake in Metro Packet Systems Inc., a private...
Alcatel, OTE Team up for 2004 Olympics PARIS, July 23 -- Alcatel announced it is a major supplier of communications equipment for OTE, the Greek telecommunications company that will provide the network infrastructure for the 2004 Olympic...
GE Assists in Alzheimer's Detection PHILADELPHIA, July 23 -- GE Healthcare, a subsidiary of General Electric (GE), is showcasing its technologies to help physicians assess Alzheimer's disease at the Alzheimer's Association's Ninth...
Tuning the Nanoworld BERKELEY, Calif., July 23 -- Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found new ways to combine quantum dots and segmented nanorods into multiple branching forms and have applied new...
Bookham Sells JCA Technology OXFORDSHIRE, England, July 22 -- Bookham Technology plc, a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, announced it has sold its subsidiary JCA Technology Inc. to Endwave Corp., a...
Thermo to Buy its Own Securities WALTHAM, Mass., July 22 -- Thermo Electron Corp., a maker of analytical instruments, announced today that its board of directors has authorized the repurchase, through July 22, 2005, of $100 million...
Corning to Build LCD Glass Plant CORNING, N.Y., July 22 -- Corning Inc. announced this week that its board of directors has approved a capital expenditure plan of $750 million to further expand its liquid crystal display (LCD) glass...
Thermo Electron to Buy its Own Securities WALTHAM, Mass., July 22 -- Thermo Electron Corp., a maker of analytical instruments, announced today that its board of directors has authorized the repurchase, through July 22, 2005, of $100 million...
IEEE to Develop BPL Standards PISCATAWAY, N.J., July 20 -- The ability to send high-speed digital data over the power lines between substations and homes and offices is attracting increasing attention because it can make every...
U Tokyo, Fujitsu Report Single-Photon Emission TOKYO, July 19 -- The University of Tokyo's Nanoelectronics Collaborative Research Center and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced they have jointly developed technologies that generate and measure...
PLI Gets Defense Contract CRANBURY, N.J., July 19 -- Princeton Lightwave Inc. (PLI), a producer of near-infrared, high-power diode lasers and detectors for communications, defense and sensing applications, announced it has...
12 Share Micrograph Competition Prize OXFORD, England, July 19 -- The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) said it doubled the number of award winners and categories in its International Micrograph Competition -- judged at MicroScience...
Navy Reports Custom Lasik Benefits FAIRFAX, Va., July 16 -- The US Navy says it has demonstrated that custom Lasik (also known as wavefront-guided Lasik) produces better results than traditional Lasik procedures, according to the...
Spectra-Physics Acquisition Completed IRVINE, Calif., July 16 -- Newport Corp. announced today it has completed its acquisition of Spectra-Physics from Thermo Electron Corp., for $300 million. (See "Newport to Buy Spectra-Physics.") The...
MPLS, ATM Groups to Merge SALT LAKE CITY, July 16 -- The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance and The ATM Forum announced this week they will merge and form a single organization to advance the deployment of multivendor, multiservice,...
Emcore Acquires Corona Optical SOMERSET, N.J., July 16 -- New Jersey compound semiconductor manufacturer Emcore Corp. announced it has acquired Corona Optical Systems, of Lombard, Ill., and Eau Claire, Wisc., in a cash-for-stock...
Zygo to Develop NIF Substrates MIDDLEFIELD, Conn., July 15 -- Zygo Corp., a supplier of optical metrology intruments, precision optics and electro-optical design and manufacturing services, announced it has received an order from...
Carl Zeiss, UC Davis, Palm Collaborate THORNWOOD, N.Y., July 15 -- Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, the Lucy Whittier Molecular and Diagnostic Core Facility at the University of California at Davis (UC Davis), and Palm Microlaser Technologies...
IBM Makes Nanoscale Imaging Advance SAN JOSE, Calif., July 15 -- IBM scientists have reported a breakthrough in nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by directly detecting the faint magnetic signal from a single electron buried...
Fiber Optic Probe Could Improve Breast Biopsy MADISON, Wisc., July 15 -- A new technology developed by a research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison uses a fiber optic probe to increase the accuracy of breast cancer diagnoses by being...
Semiconductor Equipment Sales Expected to Rise SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 -- The leading manufacturers of semiconductor equipment expect sales to increase 63 percent this year from the $22.2 billion posted in 2003, according to the mid-year edition...
SEMI Forecasts Sales Boost SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 -- The leading manufacturers of semiconductor equipment expect sales to increase 63 percent this year from the $22.2 billion posted in 2003, according to the mid-year edition...
Aculight Makes LMA Fiber Laser System BOTHELL, Wash., July 14 -- Aculight Corp. announced it has produced a 60-watt, 540-nm, frequency-doubled, large mode area (LMA) fiber laser system. The company said the system could enable the use of...
Ikonos Satellite Detects Illicit Crops DENVER, July 13 -- Space Imaging's high-resolution Ikonos satellite imagery is being used by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to survey the cultivation of illicit crops in...
Diop Wins IR Lens Assembly Contract SALEM, N.H., July 13 -- Diversified Optical Products Inc. (Diop), a manufacturer of thermal imaging systems and optical components, has received a five-year, $9 million contract from BAE Systems,...
Lucent Awarded $5 Billion Verizon Contract BEDMINSTER, N.J. & MURRAY HILL, N.J., July 13 -- Lucent Technologies announced today it has been awarded a contract worth at least $5 billion to supply a wide variety of network equipment, software...
New Program Has Kids Seeing 'Infrared' WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Nearly 50 science teachers, along with volunteer experts, from the Los Angeles area and around the country will gather at the University of Southern California July 9-11 for...
QPC Demos 2-D Array SYLMAR, Calif., July 8 -- Quintessence Photonics Corp. (QPC), a developer of laser diode technology, recently announced it has demonstrated a prototype 2-D monolithic high-power array that emits...
Lab-on-a-Chip Can Get Hotter Than Surface of Venus WOBURN, Mass., July 8 -- Engineers have created a miniature hotplate that can reach temperatures above 1100°C (2012°F), self-contained within a "laboratory" no bigger than a child's shoe. The...
GE Develops New Nano-Diode NISKAYUNA, N.Y., July 7 -- GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of General Electric Co., announced today it has developed one of the best-performing diodes built from a carbon...
GE Develops New Carbon Nanotube Diode NISKAYUNA, N.Y., July 7 -- GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of General Electric Co., announced today it has developed one of the best-performing diodes built from a carbon...
APA Optics to Move MOCVD Operations MINNEAPOLIS, July 6 -- APA Optics made two announcements this week that will have an impact on employees at its Blaine and Aberdeen facilities. The company said it has signed a three-year lease with...
Veeco to Create New Deposition Tool WOODBURY, N.Y., July 2 -- Veeco Instruments Inc. announced it has launched a program to develop a next-generation data storage thin-film head sensor deposition tool to facilitate the transition to...
Kotura Raises $11 Million MONTEREY PARK, Calif., July 2 -- Kotura Inc., a developer of silicon opto-electronic integrated circuits, announced it has secured $11 million in funding from existing investors ComVentures and ARCH...
Veeco to Create Deposition Tool WOODBURY, N.Y., July 2 -- Veeco Instruments Inc. announced it has launched a program to develop a next-generation data storage thin-film head sensor deposition tool to facilitate the transition to...
Aixtron and Genus to Merge AACHEN, Germany and SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 2 -- Aixtron AG and Genus Inc., suppliers of advanced deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, announced today they are planning to merge....
CalTech Student Awarded WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The Optical Society of America (OSA), Bookham Technology and New Focus Inc., a division of Bookham, announced today that Jason McKeever, a physics graduate student at the...
A New Twist on Fiber Optics ARLINGTON, Va., July 1 -- By twisting fiber optic strands into helical shapes, researchers have created unique structures that can precisely filter, polarize or scatter light. Compatible with...
CalTech Student Awarded for Optical Research WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The Optical Society of America (OSA), Bookham Technology and New Focus Inc., a division of Bookham, annoumnced today that Jason McKeever, a physics graduate student at the...
PRODUCTS
Tiny ThermoVision A10 NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., July 30 -- FLIR Systems says its ThermoVision A10, with dimensions of just 1.35"W x 1.45"H x 1.90"D and weighing only 120 g (4.2 oz.), is the world's smallest thermal camera,...
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High-Power Diode Laser Stacks SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 23 -- Coherent Inc. has released the LightStack product family of high-power diode laser stacks. Featuring the recently released 80W LightStone, which is based on the...
Coherent Inc.
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Fiber Laser Marking System LAKE MARY, Fla., July 14 -- Laser Photonics has introduced a q-switched fiber laser marking system, a safe, compact, low-cost alternative to Nd:YAG lasers. It features independent components:...
Laser Photonics Corp.
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975nm Pump Laser With 4W BERLIN, July 14 -- Lumics, a manufacturer of pump laser modules and laser chips, has introduced its LU0975M004 laser module with up to 4W output power from a multimode fiber. Lumics offers the laser...
Lumics GmbH
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50 mW Laser at 405 nm SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 7 -- Coherent Inc has introduced a 50-mW version of its Radius 405 family of packaged diode lasers. This is the highest power available to date from a self-contained diode...
Coherent Inc.
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PhaseCam 4000 Interferometer System TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 26 -- The ultrahigh-speed PhaseCam 4000 interferometer system from 4D Technology Corp. of Tucson, Ariz., captures high-accuracy, quantitative optical phase measurements. It uses a...
4D Technology Corporation
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FizCam 1000 TUCSON, Ariz., July 6 -- 4D Technology has introduced the FizCam 1000, a high-performance, dynamic Fizeau interferometer system. Incorporating a single-camera, high-speed optical phase sensor that...
4D Technology Corporation
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Optical Table With Tuned Damping BOSTON, July 2 -- The laboratory-grade 5100T Series optical table is the newest addition to the vibration-damping Vibraplane line from Kinetic Systems Inc. (KSI). Designed for precision laboratory...
Kinetic Systems Inc.
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Optical Table With Tuned Damping BOSTON, July 2 -- The laboratory-grade 5100T Series optical table is the newest addition to the vibration-damping Vibraplane line from Kinetic Systems Inc. (KSI). Designed for precision laboratory...
Kinetic Systems Inc.
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Fiber Laser Marking System LAKE MARY, Fla., July 14 -- Laser Photonics has introduced its Q-Switched Fiber Laser marking system, a safe, compact, low-cost alternative to Nd:YAG lasers. It features independent components:...
Laser Photonics Corp.
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975-nm Pump Laser With 4 W BERLIN, July 14 -- Lumics, a manufacturer of pump laser modules and laser chips, has introduced its LU0975M004 laser module with up to 4W output power from a multimode fiber. Lumics offers the laser...
Lumics GmbH
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High-Power Diode Laser Stacks SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 23 -- Coherent Inc. has released the LightStack product family of high-power diode laser stacks. Featuring the recently released 80W LightStone, which is based on the...
Coherent Inc.
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