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Photonics.com - June 2005
News & Features
Munich Laser Show Attendance Rises
CHICAGO, June 30 -- About 23,500 visitors and 950 exhibitors gathered at the "Laser 2005.World of Photonics" trade show for optical technology, held this month at the Munich International Trade Show...
OIDA Maps InP Recommendations
WASHINGTON, June 30 -- The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) this week released recommendations for the indium phosphide (InP) technology market, including ways to improve...
Evotec Acquires Carl Zeiss Unit
HAMBURG, Germany, June 30 -- Evotec Technologies GmbH, a supplier of technologies for life sciences and pharmaceutical drug discovery, has acquired Carl Zeiss Group's UHTS (ultrahigh throughput...
Ottawa Photonics Center Opens
OTTAWA, June 27 -- The National Research Council Canada Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (NRC-CPFC), Canada's first fully integrated photonics prototyping and fabrication facility, was opened...
Corning Mirror Blank 'Sagging' Complete
CORNING, N.Y., June 24 -- Corning Inc. announced it has completed the "sagging" process of the 4.2-meter ULE mirror blank that will serve as the primary mirror for Lowell Observatory’s Discovery...
Corning Mirror Blank 'Sagging' Complete
CORNING, N.Y., June 24 -- Corning Inc. announced it has completed the "sagging" process of the 4.2-meter ULE mirror blank that will serve as the primary mirror for Lowell Observatory’s Discovery...
Hologic to Buy Fischer Technology
DENVER, June 23 -- Fischer Imaging Corp. said today it has agreed to sell the intellectual property associated with its mammography business and products to Hologic Inc. for $32 million cash. Fischer...
UVM to Evaluate Jmar Microscope
SAN DIEGO, June 23 -- Jmar Technologies Inc., a developer of laser-based equipment for imaging, analysis and fabrication at the nanoscale, has installed a beta model of its new Scanning CAM...
Lebby Named OIDA Director
WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Michael Lebby was named executive director of the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA), the association announced today. Lebby, known internationally for his...
Ultrafast Camera Captures how Hummingbirds Hover
CORVALIS, Ore., June 23 -- Hummingbirds are masters of the air, unique among birds for their ability to hover for long periods. Using a sophisticated digital imaging technique, scientists have...
Digital Lab Opens at U Toronto
TORONTO, June 22 -- The first of four specialized test labs in Canada's $23-million National Microelectronics and Photonics Testing Collaboratory opened this week at the University of Toronto (U of...
Infotonics, Brookhaven Collaborate
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y., June 22 -- The Infotonics Technology Center, a New York State Center of Excellence in photonics and microsystems, and the Brookhaven National Laboratory have signed a memorandum of...
FCC Launches Universal Service Fund Inquiry
WASHINGTON, June 21 -- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched an inquiry into the management, administration and oversight of the federal Universal Service Fund (USF), which helps...
NASA Demos Nanosatellite
HOUSTON, June 20 -- Big things can come in small packages, and engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center are making progress on a tiny spacecraft that holds major promise for future exploration. Work...
Coherent Buys TuiLaser
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 17 -- Coherent Inc. announced it has acquired TuiLaser AG, based in Munich, Germany, for approximately 22.5 million euros (about $27.5 million). TuiLaser is a private...
NIF Uses PerkinElmer Flashlamps
MUNICH, Germany, June 17 -- The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) National Ignition Facility (NIF) program is using PerkinElmer Optoelectronics' pulsed xenon flashlamps in the...
LEDs Light Up LA Harbor Bridge
TORRANCE, Calif., June 16 -- LA Mayor James Hahn threw the switch this week on a long-awaited enhancement to the Vincent Thomas Bridge, in San Pedro, Calif.: new blue LED lights, provided by...
Sun Clock Illuminates Sphere Optics Study
TUCSON, Ariz., June 16 -- Stephen Jacobs said he had dreamed of building a sun clock since 1959, when he saw the Campbell-Stokes pattern sunshine recorder at the Stockholm Observatory while attending...
M-Flex Acquires Applied Optics
ANAHEIM, Calif., June 15 -- Multi-Fineline Electronix Inc. (M-Flex), a provider of flexible printed circuit and component assembly products for the electronics industry, announced it agreed to...
Raytheon Wins Surveillance Contract, Launches Data Link Technology
BEDFORD, Mass., June 15 -- Raytheon Co.'s Bedford unit announced today it won a $36.3 million contract for the US Army's Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment System surveillance program, and its Space...
Astronomers Discover Earthlike Planet
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., June 14 -- A team of astronomers discovered the smallest planet ever detected beyond our solar system -- a major milestone in the search for Earthlike planets. About seven and a...
Solectron Buys Teradyne Unit
BOSTON, June 9 -- Teradyne Inc. has announced the sale of its printed circuit board manufacturing unit, based in North Reading, Mass., to Fine Pitch Inc., a business of Solectron. Terms of the deal...
DRS to Make Thermal Weapon Sights
PARSIPPANY, N.J., June 8 -- DRS Technologies Inc. announced today it has received $43 million in new orders to produce a line of thermal weapon sights for US Army ground force applications, from the...
Spire, Nisshinbo Form Partnership
BEDFORD, Mass., June 8 -- Spire Corp. has entered into a global consortium agreement with Nisshinbo Industries Inc., based in Tokyo, for the development, manufacturing and sales of solar photovoltaic...
Unweaving Amyloid Fibers to Solve Prion Puzzles
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 8 -- Amyloid fibers are clumps of plaque-like proteins that clog up the brains of people with neurodegenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer's diseases and of Creutzfeldt-Jacob...
Transmode Launches Transmode Inc.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 7 -- Transmode announced it has launched a new company, Transmode Inc., in Plano, Texas, where it has already established a sales office. Transmode and Lumentis, both...
Melles Griot Releases 10th 'Catalog X'
CARLSBAD, Calif., June 7 -- Melles Griot announced it has released its tenth "Catalog X" product and technology guide, a 1148-page catalog of more than 25,000 parts and 1100 new items, with expanded...
nLight Demos Diode Laser Output
VANCOUVER, Wash., June 7 -- nLight, a manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, said today it has achieved the highest output power to date from a single, 1 cm, InP (indium phosphide) diode...
JDS Uniphase Acquires Photonic Power Systems
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 6 -- JDS Uniphase Corp. announced today it has acquired Photonic Power Systems Inc., a provider of "photonic power" for the delivery of power over fiber. Financial terms of the...
Panasonic Develops High-Speed VSCEL
OSAKA, Japan, June 6 -- Panasonic, the brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. is primarily known, announced it has developed a 850-nm AlGaAs/GaAs VCSEL (vertical cavity...
JDS Uniphase Buys Photonic Power Systems
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 6 -- JDS Uniphase Corp. announced today it has acquired Photonic Power Systems Inc., a provider of "photonic power" for the delivery of power over fiber. Financial terms of the...
4D Awarded for PhaseCam
TUCSON, Ariz., June 6 -- 4D Technology Corp., a Tucson, Ariz., manufacturer of vibration-insensitive dynamic noncontact surface metrology interferometer systems/software, announced today that its...
L-3 to Buy Titan for $2.65 Billion
SAN DIEGO, June 3 -- L-3 Communications Holdings Inc., a New York City-based maker of satellite and marine communications systems, said today it has agreed to purchase defense contractor Titan Corp....
Photon Detectors Have Record Efficiency
GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 3 -- Sensors that detect and count single photons, the smallest quantities of light, with 88 percent efficiency have been demonstrated by physicists at the National Institute...
Self-Assembling Nano-Electronics Turn a Corner
MADISON, Wisc., June 3 -- In the time it takes to read this sentence, your fingernail will have grown one nanometer. That's one-billionth of a meter, and it represents the scale at which electronics...
BAE to Supply DoD Geolocation Software
SAN DIEGO, June 2 -- BAE Systems will provide precision geopositioning software for Department of Defense (DoD) applications under the US Navy's Common Geopositioning Services Project (CGSP). The...
ITU Finalizes VDSL2 Recommendations
GENEVA, June 2 -- The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said it has finalized work on new technical specifications that will allow telecommunications operators around the world to offer...
BAE Supplying Geolocation Software
SAN DIEGO, June 2 -- BAE Systems will provide precision geopositioning software for Department of Defense (DoD) applications under the US Navy's Common Geopositioning Services Project (CGSP). The...
CVI Laser Acquires OCI
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 2 --Optics manufacturer CVI Laser announced it has acquired Optical Components Inc. (OCI), a Covina, Calif., maker of custom optical elements and coatings for a variety of...
Messenger Peeks at Earth
LAUREL, Md., June 1 -- NASA's Mercury-bound Messenger spacecraft -- less than three months from an Earth flyby that will slingshot it toward the inner solar system -- successfully tested its main...
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Eigen State Generator Set
FREDERICK, Colo., June 24 -- Meadowlark Optics' eigen state generator set is an accessory that allows the LCPM-3000 polarimeter to achieve the greatest accuracy for the user's optical setup. The...
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Four-Channel Line Driver
TORRANCE, Calif., June 23 -- Pulse Research Lab (PRL) is offering a PRL-444 four-channel, high-input-impedance, 50-ohm TTL (transistor-transistor logic) line driver. This compact, self-contained...
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Fiber Optic Spectrometers and Light Sources
CARLSBAD, Calif., June 23 -- Melles Griot announced it now offers a full line of fiber optic spectrometers and light sources for color measurement, including: handheld reflection spectrophotometers...
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Smart Camera
BOCA RATON, June 16 -- With the highest available resolution (4000 x 2672 pixels, or 10.7 megapixels) and the lowest power consumption in its class, the Lynx IPX-11M5-L smart camera from Imperx Inc....
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Littman/Metcalf Laser Design
BUENA PARK, Calif., June 9 -- Sacher Lasertechnik Group has modified its external cavity Littman/Metcalf laser design. The turn-key, modular Lion -- based on the company's patented antireflex coating...
Sacher Lasertechnik LLC
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488-nm Solid-State Laser
Carlsbad, Calif., June 9 -- Melles Griot, a supplier of lasers and photonics components, has introduced a new solid-state laser platform based on its Kyma (Greek for wave) technology. The company...
IDEX Health & Science - Melles Griot, Light Sources Group
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Littrow-Design Lynx Diode Laser
BUENA PARK, Calif., June 8 -- Sacher Lasertechnik Group, a manufacturer of laser diode systems for scientific and industrial applications, has modified its compact tunable Littrow-configured,...
Sacher Lasertechnik LLC
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Laser Power Meter
QUEBEC, June 1 -- Gentec-EO, a manufacturer of laser power meter and laser energy meter technologies, has introduced the UP19K-VM/VH series, its fastest detectors for power measurement of YAG lasers....
Gentec Electro-Optics Inc.
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Fiber Optic Cleaning Kit
ORISKANY, N.Y., June 21 -- Fiber Instrument Sales (FIS) has introduced a compact consumables kit containing supplies for cleaning fiber optic connector end faces. Standard kit includes: FIS connector...
Fiber Instrument Sales Inc.
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Eduraguide Optical Fibers
STIRLING, N.J., June 21 -- Fiberguide Industries Inc. has introduced its Eduraguide line of large-core multimode optical fibers featuring plastic hard-clad silica (PHCS) coated fibers with a...
Molex, Fiberguide
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