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November 2005

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As part of a market expansion plan, Kaleido Technology ApS of Farum, Denmark, a manufacturer of OEM discrete and integrated optical components and subsystems, has appointed Jesper Wolf Bek as its new CEO. Bek, most recently with Intel Corp., as held senior sales and marketing positions in Europe and Asia. The company also announced that Jesper Boie Rasmussen, previous CEO of Kaleido Technology,...

Sony, Idemitsu to Make OLEDs Together TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 30 -- Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd. and Sony Corp. have signed an agreement to jointly develop new organic light-emitting diode (OLED) luminous materials by sharing each other's...

Fluorescent DNA Could Detect Cancer Early, UF & Columbia Researchers Say

GAINESVILLE, Fla., & NEW YORK, Nov. 30 —- University of Florida and Columbia University researchers say they are a step closer to a technique to easily detect a wide variety of cancers before...

Purdue's 'Metamaterial' Could Lead to Better Optics, Communications

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 30 -- Engineers at Purdue University are the first researchers to create a material that has a negative index of refraction in the wavelength of light used for...

News Briefs Military contractor BAE Systems of Burlington, Mass., has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase I of the Integrated Battle Command (IBC) Program, which will...

Agilent Acquires Molecular Imaging PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 29 -- Agilent Technologies Inc., a maker of test and measurement equipment with applications in electronics, communications, life sciences and chemical analysis, today...

News Briefs New York-based L-3 Communications has appointed James D. Benham to the newly created position of president of the Electron, Microwave and Power Devices Group within the company's Products Group. In...

Molecular Switch Control Method Devised UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Nov. 28 -- A team of scientists at Penn State, Rice University and the University of Oregon have developed a way to control single-molecule switches by engineering their design...

Nanomaterials Researchers Win $1.3M Grant

NEWARK, Del., Nov. 28 -- A University of Delaware (UD)-led research team has received a $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund nanoscale research that may pave the way...

ViaSat to Buy Efficient Channel Coding CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 25 -- ViaSat Inc., a satellite and wireless communication technology provider to government and commercial markets, has reached an agreement to buy privately-held Efficient...

News Briefs Sense Holdings Inc., a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., developer of biometric and explosives detection security technologies, has filed a patent involving handheld explosives detectors based on...

News Briefs Nonlinear Dynamics Ltd., a UK developer of bioinformatics technology such as analysis and data mining tools for 1-D and 2-D electrophoresis gels, mass spectrometry data and microarrays, has named...

Ericsson Endows Chair at UCSD

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 24 -- A longtime faculty member and leading expert in digital communication theory will be the first holder of a new chair at the University of California, San Diego funded by...

Lawsuit Launched Against BCE, Former Teleglobe Directors MONTREAL, Nov. 23 -- A C$6 billion lawsuit has been filed in Ontario Superior Court of Justice against BCE, Canada's largest communications company, and against seven former directors of Teleglobe...

National Ignition Facility Installs Its 1000th Optical Element Unit

LIVERMORE, Calif., Nov. 23 -— The staff at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest laser project, has surpassed an ambitious goal set a year ago -- to install 1000 line-replaceable...

News Briefs Osram Opto Semiconductors Inc. of San Jose, Calif., said it has developed the first polymer-OLED tunable light source and achieved a 25 lumens-per-watt (lm/W) device efficiency as part of a white...

Butterfly Wings Work Like LEDs

EXETER, England, Nov. 22 -- The butterfly has been doing what physics couldn't for more than 30 million years, scientists at the University of Exeter have discovered. Modern light-emitting devices...

MIT Prof to Lead DARPA Optics Project CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 22 -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a 3.5-year, $9.5 million program to Erich P. Ippen, a member of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics...

Ohio State Installs Microscope That Can Magnify 30 Million Times

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 22 -- The Ohio State University is one of the first customers in the world to receive a new microscope capable of magnifying up to 30 million times, enabling researchers to...

News Briefs Livermore, Calif., robotics company Adept Technology Inc., which recently resumed trading on NASDAQ, has announced a partnership with TriStar Systems, an Arvada, Colo., maker of custom automation...

Applied Photonics, Jenoptik Make Glass-Cutting Partnership Deal SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., and JENA, Germany, Nov. 21 -- Laser-based solutions providers Applied Photonics Inc. of Scottsdale and Jena-based Jenoptik AG GmbH are combining resources to advance laser...

News Briefs Solar energy manufacturing equipment and optoelectronic component maker Spire Corp. said it has named solar industry technical services provider J.v.G. Thoma GmbH of Freystadt, Germany, as its...

OIDA: Optoelectronics Market 'Vibrant' WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The market for optoelectronics is vibrant, especially from a global perspective, said Michael Lebby, executive director of the Optical Industry Development Association (OIDA),...

Edmund Optics Offers Education Discount BARRINGTON, N. J., Nov. 21 -- Edmund Optics (EO) is offering a 20-percent discount on all optical components and a 5-percent discount on its other catalog items to university and educational...

Brown Team Creates 'Impossible' Silicon Laser

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 21 -- Silicon has made its way into everything from computers to cameras. But a silicon laser? Physically impossible -- until now. Since the creation of the first working laser...

FPT Telecom Installs Vietnam Network HO CHI MINH, Vietnam, Nov. 18 -- FPT Telecom, a leading multimedia and Internet service provider in Vietnam, has installed the first metro Ethernet and optical network in the country. The 10 Gb/s...

Calix to Acquire Optical Solutions PETALUMA, Calif., Nov. 18 -- Petaluma telecommunications provider Calix announced it will acquire a Minnesota fiber otpics firm for an undisclosed sum. Calix said its acquisition of Minneapolis-based...

News Briefs Hudson, N.H.-based Presstek Inc., a manufacturer of digital imaging solutions for the graphic arts and laser imaging markets, has made three additions to its executive team: Emile Tabassi (vice...

Court Sides with Corning in Patent Infringement Case CORNING, N.Y., Nov. 18 -- Corning Inc. announced that the US District Court for the District of Delaware has ruled that SRU Biosystems of Woburn, Mass., infringed on a patent exclusively licensed to...

RIT Prof to Study WSNs ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 18 -- A professor at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has received grants totaling $300,000 to research the possibilities of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), computer...

News Briefs Keithley Instruments Inc., a Cleveland-based maker of test measurement systems, has announced that Ira Goldberg of California Lutheran University (CLU) recently donated an electrical test system to...

APWC Fires Subsidiary Managers; Moves Headquarters to Taipei NEW YORK, Nov. 17 -- Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corp. Ltd. (APWC), a manufacturer of wire and cable products for the telecommunications and power industries, announced today that top managers at one...

News Briefs Bruker AXS Inc., a Madison, Wisc., maker of analytical x-ray systems for elemental analysis, materials research and structural investigations, said Tuesday it has closed its acquisitions of Roentec...

White House Awards Science, Tech Medals

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- IBM and Motorola were among recipients of 2004 National Medals of Technology, and University of Chicago chemist Robert Clayton was awarded a 2004 National Medal of Science,...

Neuroscientists Break Code on Sight

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 16 -- While the question of how the human brain encodes information continues to be one of science's great biological mysteries, neuroscientists at the McGovern Institute of...

TelCove Buys Out Partnership with Susquehanna PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15 -- TelCove, a telecommunications provider to business customers and carriers, has bought out the 50 percent equity in its York, Pa., fiber network that had been owned by a...

North Sea Optical Networks Linked OSLO, Norway, Nov. 15 -- North Sea Communications AS, an independent telecommunications operator in the North Sea region and a TeliaSonera subsidiary, has made interconnection agreements with the...

Telstra to Cut Up to 12,000 Jobs SYDNEY, Australia -- Telstra Corp., Australia's largest telecommunications company, today announced it will eliminate up to 12,000 jobs by 2010 as part of a restructuring that could reduce its...

News Briefs Dallas-based Lighting Science Group Corp., a designer of energy-efficient lighting solutions, has appointed Stephen A. Hamilton as chief financial officer, effective immediately. Before joining...

DRS Gets $38M Contract for Sensors to Improve Weather Forecasting, Warnings PARSIPPANY, N.J., Nov. 15 -- Military and space contractor DRS Technologies Inc. announced today it was awarded new contracts valued at $38 million to develop infrared sensors for next-generation...

Team to Study Medical Imaging Advances BOHEMIA, N.Y., Nov. 15 -- An advance in biomedical imaging is comparable to the transition from still photos to movies, according to Advanced BioPhotonics Inc., a Long Island-based developer of...

News Briefs Nanopositioning systems supplier PI (Physik Instrumente) of Auburn, Mass., has issued its 2005-06 hard-bound catalog, “The World of Nanopositioning and Micropositioning,” a reference book on the...

Jenoptik, Kantum Form New Company JENA, Germany and TOKYO, Nov. 14 -- Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH of Jena, Germany, and Kantum Electronics Co. Ltd., an importer and distributor of lasers and optical instruments in Japan, have founded a...

Gamma Camera Inventor Dies

BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 14 -- A memorial service will be held Saturday for Hal O. Anger, a pioneer of nuclear medicine widely credited with inventing the gamma camera, who died at at home in Berkeley...

Infineon Sells Fiber Optics Plant to Siemens MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 14 -- After the sale of a significant part of its fiber optics group in January, semiconductor chip maker Infineon Technologies AG announced today that it is selling its most...

HickoryTech Acquires Enventis Telecom MANKATO, Minn., Nov. 14 -- HickoryTech Corp. announced it is acquiring regional provider Enventis Telecom for $35.5 million in cash in a move the company says will give it an additional 1500 miles of...

News Briefs August Technology Corp., a Bloomington, Minn., supplier of advanced macro defect inspection and analysis products for microelectronic industries, was granted a US patent for a method that detects...

LCD Inventor Receives Kyoto Prize

KYOTO, Japan, Nov. 11 -- George H. Heilmeier, chairman emeritus of Telcordia Technologies Inc., received the 2005 Kyoto prize in Advanced Technology for his groundbreaking research in the field of...

Nuvonyx Buys Thales Laser Diode BRIDGETON, Mo., Nov. 11 -- Nuvonyx, a manufacturer of high-power direct-diode laser components, subsystems and sources for use in aerospace, defense, industrial manufacturing and research...

Africa's 'Giant Eye on the Sky' Inaugurated

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Nov. 11 -- The Southern Hemisphere's largest single optical telescope -- powerful enough to detect objects as faint as a candle flame on the moon -- was officially...

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William McCreath has joined Melles Griot Optics Group in Rochester, N.Y., as director of engineering. In his new role, McCreath will manage all product development, optical engineering, inspection...

New Engineering Director for Optics Group

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 10 -- William McCreath has joined Melles Griot Optics Group as director of engineering. In his new role, McCreath will manage all product development, optical engineering,...

Physicist to Explore Einstein's Genius

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 10 -- Albert Einstein, the most famous scientist in history, is underappreciated for his contributions to physics, according to Douglas Stone, an applied physic professor and...

Los Alamos Adds Data Simulator

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, Nov. 10 -- A new room-size stereoscopic display, or "immersive viewing environment," will help researchers at the US Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Stewardship Program better...

IPCA Launched at Photonics Center Event BOSTON, Nov. 10 -- The International Photonics Commercialization Alliance (IPCA), a North American alliance created to provide links between Canadian and American photonic organizations, was launched...

Emcore Acquires Phasebridge SOMERSET, N.J., Nov. 10 -- Emcore Corp., a provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for broadband, fiber optic, satellite and wireless communications markets, announced...

Nayna Networks to Buy Abundance Networks SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 9 -- Nayna Networks Inc., a provider of next-generation network solutions, today announced that is buying substantially all of the assets of privately-held Abundance...

News Briefs Kopin Corp., a Taunton, Mass., maker of microdisplays for mobile consumer and military electronics, announced it has received a $750,000 contract from the Department of Defense to develop an advanced...

No Tubers Perished in this Experiment FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 9 -- A study conducted at the University of Idaho demonstrated that some types of fiber optic lamps outshine the lighting supermarkets commonly use to illuminate potatoes....

Spacewalkers Install Video Camera

SPACE CENTER, Houston, Nov. 8 -- Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev successfully completed their mission's first spacewalk Monday. They installed a new video...

New Laser Could Speed Telecommunications

STANFORD, Calif., Nov. 8 -- Researchers at Stanford University have used an array of coupled photonic crystal nanocavities to develop a new kind of laser that could lead to drastically faster speeds...

News Briefs Nanotechnology company Arrowhead Research Corp. of Pasadena, Calif., is working with Duke University in Durham, N.C., and Duke professor and nanotube expert Jie Liu to develop nanotube-based...

Foundation Extends 'Well-Connected' Study WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit watchdog organization, announced Monday it was awarded a two-year, $700,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to extend Well Connected,...

'Light Field Camera' Banishes Fuzzy Photos

STANFORD, Calif., Nov. 8 -- Computer scientists are bringing photographic technology into sharper focus. Ren Ng, a Stanford University computer science graduate student in the lab of Pat Hanrahan,...

Heico Acquires EDT, Seal HOLLYWOOD, Fla. & BEAVERTON, Ore., Nov. 7 -- Hollywood, Fla.-based Heico said Friday it bought all the stock of Engineering Design Team (EDT), based in Beaverton, and most of the assets of an EDT...

Device May Spur New Drug Inhalers BOSTON, Nov. 7 -- A new optical instrument could vastly reduce the time the pharmaceutical industry spends on research and development by speeding up the measurement of drug inhaler performance. The...

News Briefs Woodbury, N.Y.-based Veeco Instruments Inc., a provider of solutions for nanoscale applications in the worldwide data storage, LED/wireless, semiconductor and scientific research markets, has...

News Briefs Asylum Research, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based manufacturer of advanced scientific instrumentation, including atomic force microscopes (AFMs) and scanning probe microscopes for nanoscale science and...

Coherent Buys Out Iolon SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 4 -- Optics and laser systems manufacturer Coherent Inc. is buying out privately held optical networking component company Iolon Inc. of San Jose, Calif., for $5 million in...

NanoForum Speakers Explore R&D, Apps CHICAGO, Nov. 4 -- Nanotechnology-based chemicals, composites and membranes will be incorporated in commercial products in the next five years, followed in five to 10 years by targeted drug...

Scientists Confirm How Crystals Form NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 4 -- A team of researchers at Yale University is the first to devise a way to predict the microstructure of crystals as they form in materials, according to a report in the...

Globalcomm Speaker Lineup Announced ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 4 -- Alberto Duran, founder and CEO of Brazil's Mundivox Communications; Sanjiv Ahuja, CEO of the UK wireless company Orange; John T. Stankey, CTO of SBC Communications; and...

IBM Scientists 'Slow Light' to Improve Optical Communications

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Nov. 3 -- IBM today announced its researchers have used photonic crystal technology to "slow light," a process that could lead to the use of light instead of electricity in...

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Nanotechnologies Inc., an Austin, Texas-based manufacturer of high-performance nanoparticles, has appointed Steve Leach as CEO. Most recently, Leach was the director of strategic investments for Dell...

Evident Publishes Quantum Dot History TROY, N.Y., Nov. 3 -- Evident Technologies, a developer of quantum dot nanomaterials, has launched "The Quantum Dot History Project," an online overview of key research on the topic covering...

IBM Scientists 'Slow Light' to Improve Optical Communications

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Nov. 3 -- IBM today announced its researchers have used photonic crystal technology to "slow light," a process that could lead to the use of light instead of electricity in...

Laser Exhibit Inspires $1M Gift GREENVILLE, S.C., Nov. 3 -- A laser exhibit in Spain inspired a philanthropic couple to help their alma mater, Thurman University, in Greenville, S.C. University officials said a $1 million gift from...

Lasers Reveal How Atoms Collide

BOULDER, Nov. 2 -- Using laser pulses that last just 70 femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second), physicists have observed in greater detail than ever before what happens when atoms collide. The...

Physicists Share Buckley Prize

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Noel Clark, a physics professor at University of Colorado at Boulder, and Robert Meyer, a physics professor at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., were named recipients of...

News Briefs Hendrik J.M. Weerts was named director of the High Energy Physics Div. at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Weerts, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at...

NY Boosts Rochester Center Funding ALBANY, N.Y., Nov. 2 -- New York Gov. George Pataki visited the Center of Excellence in Photonics and Microsystems, located in Canandaigua, near Rochester, this week to announce that the state is...

Sprint, Cable Companies Team to Provide Services NEW YORK, Nov. 2 -- Cell phone company Sprint Nextel Corp. and cable companies Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications today announced they have...

Hubble Reveals Pluto has 3 Moons, Searches for Oxygen on Earth's Moon

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to view the ninth planet in our solar system, astronomers discovered Pluto may have not one, but three moons. If confirmed, the discovery of...

Telecom '05 Previews What's Next for Communications LAS VEGAS, Nov. 1 -- Telecom '05 organizers say the week provided innovative exhibits, thought-provoking speeches and overflowing sessions exploring the new technologies and products that will...

MSU to License Fiber Optic Invention BOZEMAN, Mont., Nov. 1 -- Fiber optic communications may be what traditional phone companies might use, but the technology is far too expensive for the average consumer, right? Maybe not. A new...

News Briefs Goodrich Corp. has completed a $60 million cash transaction for the acquisition of Sensors Unlimited Inc. that includes a 39,000-square-foot leased facility in Princeton, N.J., and more than 50...

SEMI Honors Machine Vision Team SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 1 -- Founders of machine vision company Cognex Corp. were among those recently honored by SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International) at its annual industry...

Nanotechnology companies Dendritic NanoTechnologies Inc. (DNT) of Mount Pleasant, Mich., and Bothell, Wash.-based Lumera have entered into a joint research agreement to co-develop proprietary surface...

ACQUISITIONS

Sprint Nextel Buys Alamosa in $4.3B Deal RESTON, Va. & LUBBOCK, Texas, Nov. 22 -- Wireless Commmunications provider Sprint Nextel Corp. is buying its largest affiliate, Alamosa Holdings Inc., for approximately $4.3 billion, including $900 million of Alamosa's debt. The deal gives Sprint Nextel 1.5 million new customers and resolves a lawsuit between the two parties. Lubbock-based Alamosa provides Sprint PCS services in 19 states,...

PRODUCTS

TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks

LITTLETON, Mass., Nov. 28 -- Optical software developer Lambda Research Corp. introduces an add-in to the mechanical design software SolidWorks. This new product, TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks, has...

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LDX-3232 Laser Diode Current Source BOZEMAN, Mont., March 4 -- ILX Lightwave, a maker of laser diode instrumentation and test systems, today announced the introduction of the LDX-3232 high-compliance laser diode current source, what...

Newport - ILX Lightwave, Photonics

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LDP-3840B LD Current Source BOZEMAN, Mont., July 8 –- ILX Lightwave, a maker of laser diode instrumentation and test systems, today announced the introduction of the LDP-3840B, a precision-pulsed current source developed...

Newport - ILX Lightwave, Photonics

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Modular Fixed-Power Beam Expanders

BARRINGTON, N.J., Nov. 17 -- Edmund Optic's family of beam expanders offer high performance optical designs packaged in a precise optomechanical platform. Two full rotations of the focus knurl...

Edmund Optics Inc.

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Chameleon Ultra

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 8 -- Laser maker Coherent Inc.'s new Chameleon Ultra laser extends the capabilities of multiphoton excitation (MPE) microscopy by delivering an unmatched combination of...

Coherent Inc.

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Reveal Continuous Wave DPSS Laser IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 7 -- Newport Corp. today introduced Reveal, a portable, continuous wave (CW), diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser-based product designed for crime scene investigation....

MKS/Newport

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SpectraPro HRE

TRENTON, N.J., Nov. 7 -- Princeton Instruments/Acton (PI/Acton), a manufacturer of high-performance, camera and spectrograph-based solutions for the imaging, x-ray, spectroscopy and security markets,...

Teledyne Princeton Instruments

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“Green” Achromat Lenses

CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 3 -- As part of an ongoing environmental commitment, photonic components and subsystems manufacturer Melles Griot is introducing new optical elements made with lead-free and...

IDEX Health & Science - Melles Griot, Light Sources Group

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1680 nm Tunable Laser

KOMAKI, Japan, Nov. 2 -- Santec Corp., a manufacturer of tunable lasers and test instruments for the fiber optics industry, has released a tunable laser with an extended wavelength range of up to...

Santec Corp.

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FiBO Interferometer

SHOREVIEW, Minn., Nov. 2 -- FiBO, a true phase-shifting Michelson interferometer for noncontact fiber optic connector end-face geometry testing, combines 3-D surface mapping and 2-D visual inspection...

Promet Optics

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1680 nm Tunable Laser

KOMAKI, Japan, Nov. 2 -- Santec Corp., a manufacturer of tunable lasers and test instruments for the fiber optics industry, has released a tunable laser with an extended wavelength range of up to...

Santec Corp.

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Optical Modules for PONs

SUGAR LAND, Texas, Nov. 7 -- Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (AOI), a manufacturer of laser diodes, photodetectors and optical modules for fiber optic communications systems, is introducing optical...

Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (AOI)

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MKS/Newport

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OP520/OP521 Series NPN Phototransistors

CARROLLTON, Texas, Nov. 9 —- TT electronics' Optek Technology, a maker of application-specific sensors, has developed a series of NPN silicon phototransistors in 1206-chip packages to provide design...

Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control

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