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Avanex to Discontinue Livingston Operations FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 28 -- Avanex Corp., a developer of optical technology for fiber optic communications networks, announced it plans to discontinue operations in Livingston, Scotland, subject to the normal regulatory processes and consultations with the workforce. Walter Alessandrini, Avanex chairman and CEO, said the company is "investigating all of our options with regard to Livingston."...

International Sematech to Launch Manufacturing Consortium AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 27 -- International Sematech (ISMT) announced it will form a new consortium dedicated to helping semiconductor manufacturers reduce cost per wafer, and ultimately cost per die....

Bandwidth Challenge Teams Compete at SC2003 PHOENIX, Nov. 26 -- Teams of scientists from research organizations around the world competed to see who could move the most scientific data across networks in the fourth annual High-Performance...

Osram Opto Semiconductors Receives LED Grant SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 26 -- Osram Opto Semiconductors, maker of solid-state LED devices, announced it has received a $4.65 million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to demonstrate the...

PNI Using Atomic Force Microscopes in Nanotribology SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 25 -- Pacific Nanotechnology Inc. (PNI) said it has developed atomic force microscopy applications for the field of nanotribology -- lubrication at the molecular level -- in...

Nanodetectors Eyed for Remote Explosives Detection AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 25 -- The use of nanoscale sensors for chemical, biological, radiological and explosive agents (CBRE) could have a big impact on national security programs, according to Applied...

Tetra Tech Signs UTOPIA Contract PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 25 -- Tetra Tech Inc., a provider of consulting, engineering and technical services, announced today it was awarded a three-year contract to develop a fiber optic network for...

Report: 10 Gb/s Market to Surpass $3.2 B in 2008 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 24 -- The global market for 10 Gb/s systems will achieve an estimated market of $3.2 billion in sales in the year 2008, according to a study by CIR, an analyst firm based...

Sprint to Cut 2000 Jobs OVERLAND PARK, Kansas, Nov. 24 -- Sprint announced today it will cut 2000 jobs in its attempt to cut costs. The employees affected work in organizations at locations across the enterprise, including...

Schott Fostec Becomes Schott North America AUBURN, N.Y., Nov. 24 -- Schott Fostec, a subsidiary of Schott Corp., announced it is now Schott North America Inc., part of Schott's fiber optic segment. Schott said the move is in keeping with its...

President Expected to Sign Nanotechnology Bill WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 24 -- The US House of Representatives gave final approval last week on a plan to invest nearly $4 billion in research and development in nanotechnology. The bill is now cleared...

Lockheed Martin Awarded Laser-Guided Bomb Kit Contracts ARCHBALD, Pa., Nov. 24 -- Hill Air Force Base (AFB), in Ogden, Utah, awarded Lockheed Martin a $56 million contract to produce Paveway II laser-guided bomb (LGB) kits for the US Air Force and $53...

New Details of First Photograph Revealed

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24 -- In June 2002, the world's first photograph, Joseph Nicephore Niepce's "View from the Window at Le Gras," was moved from The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Center...

Innovative Biosensors Licenses CANARY Technology GAITHERSBURG, Md., Nov. 21 -- Innovative Biosensors Inc., a developer of rapid diagnostic technologies, announced it has obtained an exclusive license for the CANARY biosensor technology developed at...

Study Finds Room for Improved Online Response BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 21 -- The electronics, scientific product and semiconductor industries need to improve how they treat their online customers, according to The Customer Respect Group, a research...

China, Israel to Deepen Telecom Cooperation BEIJING, Nov. 21 -- The cooperation between telecommunication sectors of China and Israel has huge potential, said an official from the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT),...

Verizon Loses 10 Percent of Work Force NEW YORK, Nov. 20 -- Verizon Communications said about 10 percent of its total workforce -- double the number expected -- took an early retirement offer aimed at slashing the Bedminster, N.J.-based...

OSI Systems Acquires Schwartz Electro-Optics HAWTHORNE, Calif., Nov. 20 -- OSI Systems Inc. announced it has completed its $1.5 million acquisition of Orlando, Fla.-based Schwartz Electro-Optics (SEO) Inc.'s laser-based remote sensing device...

DMG, Adtech Form Netchip Foundry LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20 -- DMG Technologies, a manufacturer of optical subassemblies used in telecomm, datacomm, CATV and instrumentation systems, and Adtech Technologies, a designer of...

Laser-Operated Nanoguitar Has Electronics, Sensing Apps

ITHACA, N.Y., Nov. 20 -- Six years ago, researchers at Cornell University built the world's smallest guitar -- about the size of a red blood cell -- to demonstrate the possibility of manufacturing...

Half Million High-Tech Jobs Lost in 2002 WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The US high-tech industry lost 540,000 jobs, dropping from 6.5 million to 6.0 million, in 2002; but a preliminary analysis shows the decline slowed considerably in 2003,...

Veeco Instruments Buys Advanced Imaging WOODBURY, N.Y., Nov. 19 -- Veeco Instruments Inc., a developer of products for nanoscale applications in the semiconductor, data storage, telecommunications and scientific research markets, announced...

National LambdaRail Lights 1st Network Path PHOENIX, Nov. 19 -- National LambdaRail Inc. (NLR), a consortium of US research universities and private sector technology companies, announced it has lit the initial segment on its national...

Automation Tooling Systems Acquires Robot Technology CAMBRIDGE, Onatario, Nov. 18 -- Automation Tooling Systems Inc. (ATS) announced it has acquired a perpetual technology license from, and a small equity stake in, Innovative Robotics Systems Inc....

Cassini Captures Close-Up of Jupiter

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this true color mosaic of Jupiter, the most detailed global color portrait of the planet ever produced. The smallest visible features are...

Kodak to Buy Medical Imaging Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 18 -- Eastman Kodak Co. announced it will acquire Algotec Systems Ltd., a private developer of advanced picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), for $42.5 million in...

FiberCore Files for Chapter 11 Protection CHARLTON, Mass., Nov. 17 -- FiberCore Inc., a manufacturer of optical fiber and preform for the telecommunication and data communications markets, announced today it filed for protection under...

Alliance to Focus on Electronics Packaging Research BINGHAMTON, N.Y., Nov. 17 -- An alliance between State University of New York's Binghamton University (BU), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and the Infotonics Technology Center Inc. will help...

Plasmonics Sheds New Light on Optics Study HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 14 -- Scientists studying the way light interacts with metallic nanostructures should throw out their old optics textbooks and bone up on their quantum mechanics instead,...

Studies Estimate Savings from Solid-State Lighting CHICAGO, Nov. 14 -- Energy savings from solid-state lighting -- light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) -- in niche and general lighting applications are the focus of...

Ethernet Switch Shipments Reported Up STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 14 -- Worldwide Ethernet switch port shipments totaled 43.5 million units in the third quarter of 2003, a 10 percent increase from the third quarter of 2002, according to...

Telecom Industry Relies More on Outsourcing MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 13 -- More than 75 percent of North American telecommunications executives consider outsourcing a key component of their business plans, and they are willing to outsource some...

Nanoparticles Could Help Fight Cancer WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- Tiny nanoparticles could be launched into tumors and heated up using near-infrared light to destroy cancer cells, says a group of Texas researchers who have experimented with...

Ancient Chinese City Site of Sci-Tech Park XI'AN, China, Nov. 12 -- Construction of a "nano sci-tech industrial park" has begun in Xi'an, the capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the China Daily reported yesterday. Xi'an city, an...

Microscopists Celebrate Cell Biology Advancements LONDON, Nov. 12 -- Scientists from around the world gathered in London last month to celebrate achievements in cell biology and to look at future techniques for live cell research, at a meeting...

Civcom, XLight Photonics Merger Complete RESTON, Va. & PETACH-TIKVA, Israel, Nov. 12 -- Civcom Inc., a provider of solid-state optical switching technologies, and XLight Photonics Inc., a supplier of widely tunable transponders, said Monday...

Network Protection Precautions Advocated at APOC WUHAN, China, Nov. 12 -- Enterprises are becoming less tolerant of network downtime and resulting financial losses, so operators need to deploy fast and reliable protection switches while better...

Standards Boost Fiber Optic Bandwidth GENEVA, Nov. 11 -- A United Nations-affiliated telecommunications group has approved two new standards that it says will increase bandwidth in fiber optic lines and reduce costs for network...

Camera Pinpoints Gamma Ray Sources

ARGONNE, Ill., Nov. 11 -- A device originally developed for nuclear physics research may find applications in homeland security and medicine. A Compton camera being developed at the Department of...

DRS Awarded TOW Sight Kit Contract PARSIPPANY, N.J., Nov. 10 -- DRS Technologies Inc. announced today it has been awarded a $9.3 million contract to produce upgrade kits for night-vision targeting sights on the TOW (tube-launched,...

Nerve-Gas Fingerprints Etched in Light RICHLAND, Wash., Nov. 10 -- In 1995, hundreds of Tokyo subway rescuers were exposed to the deadly nerve gas sarin hours before police confirmed its identity. Earlier this year, soldiers in Iraq...

Astronomers Release 1st Image from New IR Camera

HILO, Hawaii, Nov. 10 -- Astronomers from the University of Hawaii (UH) Institute for Astronomy have released the first image from a gigantic new 16-megapixel infrared camera recently mounted on...

Motorola to Buy XtremeSpectrum UWB Technology AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 10 -- Motorola Inc. announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of XtremeSpectrum Inc., a developer of ultrawideband (UWB) impulse radio -- a wireless...

Aeroflex Buys Celerity Systems for $10.25 M PLAINVIEW, N.Y., Nov. 7 -- Aeroflex Inc., a maker of automated testing solutions and microelectronics for the aerospace, defense and broadband communications markets, announced this week it has...

Clemson University to Build Photonics Centers CLEMSON, S.C., Nov. 7 -- Clemson University announced Wednesday it will invest $70 million in the Clemson Research Park over the next five years, including a $21 million facility for photonics...

Applied Imaging to Collaborate With Cleveland Clinic SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 7 -- Applied Imaging Corp. has announced the formation of a clinical research imaging collaboration with the Department of Anatomic Pathology at The Cleveland Clinic...

Grant Boosts Lehigh Bioengineering Program HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 6 -- Lehigh University announced it will work with the state-funded Life Science Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania (LSGPA) on a federally funded program to develop a regional...

Telecom Consultant Urges Attitude Change FAIRFAX, Va., Nov. 6 -- The US telecommunications industry needs to embrace different views, approaches and attitudes to reposition the communications industry for growth, said Alfred T. Mockett,...

Glimmerglass, U of Illinois to Develop LambdaGrid Apps HAYWARD, Calif., & CHICAGO, Nov. 5 -- Glimmerglass, a supplier of transparent connectivity solutions, and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago have...

Thermo Electron Acquires Lab Services Provider LMSi WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 5 -- Thermo Electron Corp., a Waltham-based supplier of laboratory instruments and services, announced it has acquired Laboratory Management Systems Inc. (LMSi), of New Castle,...

Chicken Screening System Going to Market ATLANTA, Nov. 5 -- A vision technology developed by the Georgia Institue of Technology (GaTech) will offer US poultry processing plants a new way to screen chickens for diseases and other...

Satellite Images Highlight Wildfire Effects

DENVER, Nov. 4 -- Commercial satellite imagery is being used before and after wildland and forest fires as an advanced forestry and fire management decision-support tool for planning and remediation....

OmniCorder Awarded Missile Defense Contract EAST SETAUKET, N.Y., Nov. 4 -- OmniCorder Technologies has been selected by the US Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to develop novel sensor technology. OmniCorder will develop a...

Kodak Acquires Laser-Pacific Media HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 4 -- Eastman Kodak Co. announced it has completed the acquisition of Laser-Pacific Media Corp., a Hollywood-based post-production company. Laser-Pacific stockholders voted on...

Corning, IBM to Launch Optical Technology Program CORNING, N.Y. and YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. Nov. 4 -- Corning Inc. and IBM announced today they will collaborate with the US Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration on a...

Researchers Build Semiconductor Laser Using Photonic Crystal MURRAY HILL, N. J., Nov. 4 -- In what they call "an experimental tour de force," a team led by scientists from Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, has built a novel...

Infeon Extends Reach of Legacy Multimode Fiber MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 4 -- Infineon Technologies announced today it has demonstrated the first 10 Gigabit Ethernet XPAK-compliant transceiver module operating over 300 meters of low-bandwidth...

IMAPS Names Annual Award Winners WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 3 -- The International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) has announced the winners of its annual society awards, to be presented during IMAPS 2003, Nov. 16-20,...

Spiricon Releases Camera Selection Guide LOGAN, Utah, Nov. 3 -- Spiricon has released a new camera selection guide for laser beam analyzers. The guide features many new cameras, including visible CCDs, phosphor-coated NIR CCDs, miniature...

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910A Spatial Filters

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 21 -- Newport Corp.'s new 910A series spatial filters use a novel optomechanical design that enables more rapid alignment and precise adjustment and delivers greater long-term...

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AvaSpec-2048FT Fast-Trigger Fiber Optic Spectrometer

EERBEEK, The Netherlands, Nov. 20 -- Avantes has expanded the features of its advanced AvaSpec spectrometer platform with the addition of AvaSpec-2048FT fast-trigger fiber optic spectrometer....

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