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Photonics.com - June 2002
News & Features
DRS to Make Assemblies for Javelin Unit
PARSIPPANY, N.J., June 28 -- DRS Technologies Inc.'s Infrared Technologies unit in Dallas, Texas, will produce infrared detectors, Dewar assemblies and coolers for the Javelin's Command Launch Unit...
Light 'Fights' to Escape Black Hole's Pull
GREENBELT, Md., June 28 -- Scientists have found new evidence that light emanating from near a black hole loses energy climbing out of a gravitational well created by the black hole, a key prediction...
ProtoDel Makes Asia Debut In Japan
TOKYO, June 28 -- ProtoDel International, a developer of evanescent field optical technology, will announce its partnership with I-Wave, a Tokyo-based value-added reseller of optical components, at...
HP and Net Insight to Provide Broadband Solutions
STOCKHOLM, June 28 -- Hewlett-Packard and Net Insight have signed an agreement to jointly market and resell end-to-end solutions for optical metro networks and broadband access in Sweden and the...
LNG Holdings to Target Americas
HANNOVER, Germany and NEW YORK, June 27 -- LNG Holdings SA (formerly FirstMark Communications Europe) and its subsidiary, LambdaNet Group, said it will market its network and carrier services to...
Tellium to Cut 200 Jobs
OCEANPORT, N.J., June 27 -- Tellium Inc. has announced restructuring that will result in approximately 200 job cuts by the end of the month. The company also announced an option exchange program for...
Finisar and Sumitomo Cross-license Optical Transceiver Technology
DURHAM, N.C., June 27 -- Finisar Corp. and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. have signed a cross-licensing agreement covering certain intellectual properties in fiber optic transceivers that both...
FLIR Systems to Make IR Turret Assemblies for Hueys
PORTLAND, Ore., June 27 -- FLIR Systems Inc. announced it has been awarded a $5.7 million contract by the Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia, to provide spare Star SAFIRE infrared imaging...
Indigo Systems Secures $17.6 M Funding
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 27 -- Indigo Systems Corp., a provider of infrared (IR) cameras and technology for commercial, industrial and military applications, announcedit has secured $17.6 million...
Aquentium to Acquire Fast-Fiber
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif., June 26 -- Aquentium Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire Fast-Fiber Inc. of Ontario, Canada, a developer of fiber optic sensors for current and voltage for industrial...
New Laser Treatment on Horizon for Skin Disorder
NEW YORK, June 26 -- Excimer lasers could become a safer treatment for vitiligo, a disfiguring skin disorder that causes partial or total pigmentation loss. Researchers said the treatment may be less...
LG.Philips LCD to Expand Manufacturing Capacity
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, and KUMI, South Korea, June 26 -- LG.Philips LCD announced an investment of more than $1 billion to expand capacity and create panel supplies for the fast-growing LCD TV...
ASTM Forms Standards Unit for Underground Fiber Cable
WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., June 26 -- ASTM International has formed a new committee to create standards for optical fiber cable installations in underground utilities. The committee is comprised of a...
U. Arizona, Lockheed Martin to Build NIR Space Camera
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 25 -- The primary near-infrared camera (NIRCam) for NASA's next-generation space telescope will be designed and built by a team headed by the University of Arizona and...
Philips Files Complaint Against Optical Disc Manufacturers, Distributors
WASHINGTON, June 25 -- US Philips Corp. has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) against 19 optical disc manufacturers and US-based trading companies for infringement of...
CyberOptics Trims Worldwide Workforce
MINNEAPOLIS, June 25 -- CyberOptics Corp. plans approximate 20% reduction of its worldwide workforce due to persistently sluggish conditions in the electronics assembly and semiconductor capital...
Optical IC Sales Seen Hitting $5.4 Billion by 2006
BOSTON, June 25 -- Integrated Circuits (ICs) used in optical switches will represent a $ 5.4 billion market opportunity by 2006, according to Pioneer Consulting's latest report, "Optical Chips:...
IBM, Xilinx Join on Chip Design
EAST FISHKILL, N.Y., June 24 -- IBM and Xilinx Inc. have signed an agreement under which IBM will license field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology from Xilinx for integration into IBM's...
JMAR Receives $5.3 Million Army Contract
SAN DIEGO, June 24 -- JMAR Technologies Inc., provider of compact point-source, laser plasma lithography systems and sources, announed it has received a contract for $5,340,000 from the US Army...
Brashear Finishes SLR Telescope for Navy Lab
PITTSBURGH, June 24 -- Brashear LP announced it has completed a high-precision, fast-tracking 1-meter telescope for the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Naval Center for Space Technology. The...
Agilent to End Pay Reductions Aug. 1
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 24 -- Agilent Technologies Inc. announced it will restore full pay to its employees worldwide as of Aug. 1. Temporary pay reductions have been in place since May 2001, when...
Innovation Seen as Key to DWDM Filter Market
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 24 -- The DWDM filter market still offers opportunities for suppliers that find ways to stand out from the crowd, according to a new report from Communications Industry...
Optical Solutions Wins Fiber-to-the-Community Contract
MINNEAPOLIS, June 21 -- Optical Solutions Inc. has been awarded a contract from Reedsburg Utility Commission of Wisconsin. The utility will use Optical Solutions' FiberPath solution to deliver voice,...
Sycamore, Siemens Form Optical Switch Alliance
CHELMSFORD, Mass., June 21 -- Sycamore Networks Inc. and Germany's Siemens AG have formed an alliance to market Sycamore's optical switch and integrate it with Siemens' products. The companies said...
NeoPhotonics Completes Funding Round
FREMONT, Calif., June 21 -- NeoPhotonics Corp. announced it has completed a funding round totalling $35 million. New equity investors CDP Capital-Technology Ventures (formerly CDP Sofinov), RockPort...
Philips Unveils Blue-Laser-Based Optical Disc
EINDHOVEN, The Nethelands, June 21 -- Philips says it has demonstrated the world's first fully functional miniature optical disc drive using blue laser technology. The company says as much as 1 GB of...
ISMT Picks Coherent to Develop Photomask Lasers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 20 -- Coherent Inc. has received a multiyear contract from International Sematech (ISMT) for lasers used in the development of advanced photomasks. The agreement is targeted...
Auxora Completes Series A Financing
BALDWIN PARK, Calif., June 20 -- Auxora Inc., a provider of optical filter products for wavelength management and control, announced it has completed its Series A financing round with an additional...
Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy Tracks Energy Flow through Molecules
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., June 20 -- Using an ultrafast laser spectroscopy technique, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have tracked -- and timed -- the flow of vibrational energy...
Ciena, ONI Shareholders Approve Merger
LINTHICUM, Md., June 20 -- Ciena Corp. and ONI Systems Corp. said their shareholders have approved the proposed merger of the companies and expect the transaction to be effective June 21. ONI's stock...
Citizens Completes Offer for Electric Lightwave
STAMFORD, Conn., June 20 -- Citizens Communications Co. has completed its cash tender offer at $0.70 per share for all of the outstanding publicly held Class A common shares of Electric Lightwave...
Digital Teleport Restores Network after Bridge Collapse
WEBBERS FALLS, Okla., June 19 -- Digital Teleport Inc., a fiber optics communications carrier in secondary and tertiary markets in the Midwest, has completed work to restore full network redundancy...
Report Bullish on Telecom Future
CHICAGO, June 19 -- Despite its current woes, the worldwide telecommunications market will continue to grow, predicts the Annual Review of Communications. "The current blind panic in the...
Oak, EDOM Sign Chinese Distribution Pact
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 19 -- Oak Technology Inc. has signed a distribution agreement with EDOM Technology for Oak's optical storage products, targeting CD-RW and recordable DVD for the PC and...
FDA Clears biolitec Laser Procedure
EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass., June 19 -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved biolitec Inc.'s Endo Laser Vein System (ELVeS -- pronounced "Elvis") laser procedure for the treatment of...
Edmund Industrial Optics Announces Optical Prototyping Services
BARRINGTON, N.J., June 18 -- Edmund Industrial Optics recently announced a new rapid optical component prototyping service that brings together optical manufacturing and thin-film coating to deliver...
Photomasks, DuPont Cypress Semiconductor Sign Development Deal
ROUND ROCK, Texas, June 18 -- DuPont Photomasks Inc. has signed an agreement with Cypress Semiconductor Corp. to jointly develop advanced photomask technologies supporting the production of...
L-3 Communications Acquires PerkinElmer Detection Systems
NEW YORK, June 18 -- L-3 Communications announced it has completed its acquisition of PerkinElmer's Detection Systems business. The company received clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust...
Universities Create 'Tera-Scale' Supercomputer Grid
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 18 -- Purdue University and Indiana University (IU) have linked their IBM supercomputers in a computational grid via the universities' high-speed optical network, creating...
Seiko Epson Corp. and CDT Team on LEP Technology
TOKYO, Japan, and CAMBRIDGE, England, June 18 -- Seiko Epson Corp. in Japan and Cambridge Display Technology Ltd. in England have agreed to form a joint venture company, Polylink, to offer...
10-Gigabit Ethernet Alliance Standards Approved
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 17 -- The 802.3ae specification for 10 Gigabit Ethernet was unanimously approved last week as an IEEE standard by the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board, the 10...
FiberNet Purchases Dark Fiber From KeySpan Communications
NEW YORK, June 17 -- FiberNet Telecom Group Inc. , a provider of metropolitan optical connectivity, announced it has executed an agreement to purchase dark fiber from KeySpan Communications, an owner...
GSI Lumonics Delivers Chip-Scale Package Marking System
KANATA, Ontario, June 17 -- GSI Lumonics Inc. said it has delivered its new CSP300 wafer marking system to a semiconductor producer for use in the industry's first production application in marking...
Raytheon Wins Korean Electro-Optical Tracking System Order
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 17 -- Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $45.5 million contract from Daewoo Heavy Industries & Machinery (DHIM) in the Republic of Korea to supply the Korean electro-optical...
MIT Panel Urges Off-Campus Sites for Classified Research
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 14 -- A faculty committee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recommended Wednesday that the university provide off-campus facilities to help faculty perform...
Researchers Use High-Power Diode Lasers to Microweld Thermoplastics
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 14 -- Ohio State University researchers are using a Coherent Inc. high-power diode laser system to microweld thermoplastics that may enable lower-cost, disposable MEMS...
Irvine Sensors Receives More Funds for Laser Imaging Program
COSTA MESA, Calif., June 14 -- Irvine Sensors Corp. has received approximately $1.3 million of additional funding for the development of a 3-D imaging (3DI) integrated circuit to interpret reflected...
Alcatel Awarded Contract to Extend Telecom Egypt Network
PARIS, June 14 -- Alcatel has announced the signing of a five-year agreement to modernize Telecom Egypt's national telecommunication infrastructure. The Nile Vision Plus agreement is for the...
Lucent Scientist Wins National Technology Medal
WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Arun Netravali, Lucent Technologies' chief scientist and former president of Bell Labs, received the National Medal of Technology from President George W. Bush in a ceremony at...
JMAR Awarded $1.6 Million Contract
SAN DIEGO, June 13 -- JMAR Technologies Inc., a provider of precision micro and nanotechnology products, announced its semiconductor process technology group has been awarded a $1.6 contract to...
IBM Project Demonstrates Trillion-Bit Data Storage Density
ZURICH, Switzerland, June 13 -- Using an innovative nanotechnology, IBM scientists have demonstrated a data storage density of a trillion bits per square inch -- 20 times higher than the densest...
Cognex, Accu-Sort Sign Product Development Accord
NATICK, Mass., June 12 -- Cognex Corp. has entered into a multiyear product development and OEM agreement with Accu-Sort Systems, a provider of automation systems. Under the agreement, Cognex will...
Kyocera Solar Sells Sunelco Division
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 12 -- Kyocera Solar Inc. has sold Sunelco, its catalog and retail sales division in Hamilton, Mont., to Tom Bishop, a long-time Sunelco employee and division manager. Terms of...
Astronomers Release First Images From Hubble's Revived 'NICMOS'
TUCSON, Arizona, June 12 -- The Hubble Space Telelscope has its infrared vision back. The space telescope has been blind at infrared wavelengths since 1999 when NICMOS, or the near-infrared camera...
Corning Will Cut About 600 Jobs
CORNING, N.Y., June 12 -- Corning Inc. will cut more than 600 jobs as it scales back its Corning Cable Systems operations in North and South America and restructures a plant in North Carolina. The...
RVSI Wins Taiwan Order for Wafer Inspection System
CANTON, Mass., June 11 -- Robotic Vision Systems Inc. has received an order for a WS-2510 bumped wafer inspection system from a Taiwan producer of wafer-level packaging solutions. The system will be...
Study Predicts 40 Gbs Commercial Use by 2004
SAN MATEO, Calif., June 11 -- The first substantial deployment of 40 Gbs-per-channel, long haul network equipment in revenue traffic will occur in 2004. According to a study by the marketing firm...
Fischer Imaging, Trex Medical Settle Patent Dispute
DENVER, Colo., June 11 -- Fischer Imaging and Thermo Electron Corp. have settled patent-infringement litigation that Fischer filed against Trex Medical and Hologic Inc. involving patents relating to...
Input/Output, QinetiQ to Develop Seismic Sensors
HOUSTON and FARNBOROUGH, England, June 10 -- Input/Output Inc. (I/O) and QinetiQ said they are allying to develop fiber optic-based systems and sensors for seismic data acquisition systems for...
Wireless Engineering Degree Program Will be 1st in US
AUBURN, Alabama, June 10 -- Auburn University's (AU) Samuel Ginn College of Engineering this fall will launch what college officials say will be the nation's first Bachelor of Wireless Engineering...
Marconi, Ericsson Sign Supply Agreement
LONDON and PITTSBURGH, June 10 -- Marconi announced it has signed an agreement with Ericsson to source Marconi's dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) next-generation optical networking...
Optelecom Restructures Paragon Unit
GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 10 -- Optelecom Inc. announced the restructuring of its Paragon AV operating unit, extending plans to reduce costs and boost profitability to the London-based unit. The...
Atrica, FlexLight Networks to Cross-Sell Products
ATLANTA, June 7 -- Atrica Inc., provider of optical Ethernet equipment for the metro market, announced it will reference-sell its products with FlexLight Networks, a last-mile technology developer....
Semiconductor Market Recovery Projected
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 7 -- An industry-wide recovery is underway, said The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) in its 2002 mid-year forecast released this week. Semiconductor sales are...
Longport Inc. Gets $500,000 For Breast Imaging Work
SWARTHMORE, Pa., June 7 -- Longport announced this week that it has received a $500,000 grant in partnership with Lackawanna College to develop a high-resolution, portable, noninvasive ultrasound...
Boeing Wins Follow-on ATFLIR Contract
ST. LOUIS, June 6 -- Boeing has received a follow-on contract from the US Navy for the second low-rate initial production, or LRIP-2, of advanced targeting forward-looking infrared (ATFLIR) systems...
Corning Files Infringement Suit
CORNING, N.Y., June 6 -- Corning Inc. filed suit today in US Federal Court in Rochester against PicVue Electronics Ltd. of Taiwan and Eglasstrek GmbH of Germany, alleging misappropriation of trade...
Soccer Robots Use Latest Robotics, AI Technology
ATHENS, Ohio, June 6 -- The World Cup isn't the only high-stakes soccer tournament hitting Asia this month. Teams of soccer-playing robots will compete at RoboCup, an international exhibition of...
Dow Corning, NeoPhotonics To Develop Photonic Crystal Technology
MIDLAND, Mich., June 6 -- Dow Corning Corp. and NeoPhotonics Corp. have formed a strategic partnership to develop the next generation of photonic crystal technology. "We believe that photonic crystal...
French MEMs Developers Sign R&D Agreement
GRENOBLE, France, June 6 -- TRONIC'S Microsystems, a French microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) foundry that produces silicon-on-insulator (SOI)-based MEMS, and the Laboratory for Electronic and...
Agere Systems, Yafo Networks to Develop Receivers
ATLANTA, June 5 -- Agere Systems and Yafo Networks have announced a partnership to jointly develop integrated adaptive receiver technology for high-speed optical transmissions. The 40 Gbit/s...
Corning Undertakes Global Cost-Reduction Efforts
CORNING, N.Y., June 5 -- Corning Inc. has begun implementing a major portion of the restructuring plans it announced in April with a series of workforce reductions across its telecommunications...
Verizon Exec Urges Increased Technology Deployment
ATLANTA, June 5 -- The telecommunications industry needs to get the most technology into the hands of the greatest number of people as quickly as possible, said Verizon Vice Chairman Lawrence T....
Nidek Seeks Approval for Software and Eye-Tracker Device
FREMONT, Calif., June 4 --Nidek Inc. announced it has submitted a supplemental application to the FDA for approval of a Windows-based operating system and for its newly patented intraoperative...
Bausch & Lomb Zyoptix System Gets FDA Nod
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 4 -- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted Bausch & Lomb's modular premarket approval application (PMA) for its Zyoptix system for customized vision correction,...
Four Companies Add Support for 10 Gb/s Standards
ATLANTA, June 4 -- Agere Systems and Nortel Networks announced today at Supercomm 2002 that four additional companies will support a multisource agreement (MSA) that establishes an industry standard...
Inphi Raises $24M Series B Funding
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., June 4 -- Inphi Corp., a privately held high-speed communications company, announced it has received an additional $24 million in its second round of equity funding. This...
Picolight Secures $27M Funding Round
BOULDER, Colo., June 3 -- Picolight Inc., developer of high-speed optoelectronic components and subsystems for the enterprise and optical metro/access networks, announced it has successfully raised...
Lucent Completes Agere Spinoff
ALLENTOWN, Pa., June 3 -- Agere Systems said today that Lucent Technologies has completed the spinoff of the company and has distributed about 945 million shares of Agere common stock to nearly 5...
Edison Carrier Solutions to Deploy Lucent System
MURRAY HILL, N.J, June 3 -- Edison Carrier Solutions, a regional "carrier's carrier" based in Southern California, will be the first service provider in the US to commercially deploy the LambdaUnite...
Airborne Laser Aircraft Nears Flight Tests
SEAL BEACH, Calif., June 3 -- The first airborne laser (ABL) missile-defense system aircraft, a modified Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, is being prepared for flight tests later this summer. The...
JMAR to Produce Lithography Masks for Navy
SAN DIEGO, June 3 -- JMAR Technologies Inc., developer and supplier of proximity x-ray lithography systems and light sources, said its JMAR/SAL NanoLithography Inc. (JSAL) division, in Burlington,...
DRS to Produce F-16 Digital Imaging Systems
PARSIPPANY, N.J., June 3 -- DRS Technologies Inc. (DRS) has been awarded two new contracts to produce high-speed digital imaging systems for first-time use on new international F-16 combat aircraft...
Data Translation Announces Update2002 Catalog
Data Translation, Inc. announces the publication of Update2002, its new, short-form catalog for PC-based data acquisition, imaging and machine vision products. Update2002 was designed in response to...
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Data Translation, Inc. announces the shipment of the DT3162, a variable-scan monochrome frame grabber for the PCI bus. The board provides up to a 40 MHz pixel acquire rate to accommodate newer,...
DT Measure Foundry is Finalist in Prestigious 2001 EDN Innovation Award
Data Translation, Inc. announces that DT Measure FoundryTM 2.1, its new test and measurement software, is a finalist in the Test and Measurement category for EDN Magazine’s 2001 Innovation Award. The...
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