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Photonics.com - October 2007
News & Features
Beam of Light Picks Up Cells
A beam of light has been used for the first time to pick up, hold, and move around individual cells and other objects on the surface of a silicon microchip. The new technology could become an important tool for both biological and materials research, said Matthew J. Lang and David C. Appleyard of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose work is being published in an upcoming issue of...
Silicon Spin Chip Made
The first researchers to demonstrate that an electron's spin can be electrically injected, controlled and detected in silicon have now shown that these "hot" electrons can be transported through an...
3 Isotopes Created
The creation of three magnesium and aluminum isotopes stake new territory on the nuclear landscape and suggest that variants of everyday elements might exist that are heavier than current scientific...
EL Yarn Makes Garments Glow
Thin-film electroluminescent technology has been used to develop high-tech, battery-powered textile yarns that can be used to make clothing glow in the dark. The yarns have been developed by The...
Pirelli Buys Avanex Shares
The Pirelli Group Italy announced today an agreement to acquire the 12.4 percent stake held by Alcatel-Lucent in Avanex Corp. for 33.4 million euros (about $48 million), making it the main industrial...
UK Funds Silicon Photonics
The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) awarded a grant valued at 5 million pounds (about $10 million) for silicon research to a consortium led by the University of...
Flir to Acquire Extech
Flir Systems Inc. announced this week it will acquire the stock of Extech Instruments Corp., a private supplier of test and measurement equipment and portable receipt printers based in Waltham,...
Intel Opens 'Fab 32'
Production of a new generation of microprocessors for PCs, laptops, servers and other computing devices began this week inside Intel Corp.'s first high-volume 45-nm manufacturing factory. Called...
Nanoionics Boosts Memory
A new, nanotechnology-based “recipe” for making memory has been developed using materials already common in chip manufacturing. This new take on old memory promises to boost the performance, capacity...
Big Biotech Names at BIO
Bio-Europe 2007, to be held Nov. 12-14 in Hamburg, Germany, will present many of the most respected names in biotechnology to discuss key issues in the life sciences industry and the deals that drive...
Stressed CNTs are Reliable
If blocks of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are squeezed over and over again with the same amount of force, their electrical resistance decreases by a constant amount each time. This reliable relationship...
Corning: Q3 Profit up 41%
Glass and optical fiber maker Corning Inc. today announced better-than-expected results for the third quarter of 2007, with profit increases of 41 percent over a year ago driven mostly by demand for...
Chemist Cracks Crystal Case
A chemist has cracked a case of mysterious crystal characteristics, concluding a 70-year conundrum. His complex calculations could lead to the creation of more powerful computer memories and lasers...
Fish Don't Need Sunglasses
Goldfish have a natural advantage in sensing the proximity of their meals: Individual light-sensitive cells in their retinas are able to detect polarized light, acting much like Polaroid sunglasses....
Gel Changes Color on Demand
A new structured gel can rapidly change color in response to a variety of stimuli, including temperature, pressure, salt concentration and humidity. Among other applications, the structured gel...
HDTV Maker Selling LCoS Unit
Syntax-Brillian Corp., a maker of high-definition LCD televisions and digital cameras, announced today that it will sell its liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) microdisplay operations in Tempe for an...
QC Nanoantenna Demo'd
The demonstration of a quantum cascade (QC) laser nanoantenna, a device capable of resolving the chemical composition of samples such as the interior of a cell with unprecedented detail, is being...
Plug Pulled on FUSE
After an eight-year run that gave astronomers a completely new perspective on the universe, NASA said it terminated its Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer mission Thursday. The satellite, known...
StockerYale Buys Spectrode
StockerYale Inc., a Salem, N.H., maker of structured light lasers, LED modules and specialty optical fibers for OEMs, announced Thursday it has acquired Spectrode LLC, a developer of pulsed...
Helium Demand Ballooning
The worldwide shortage of helium is resulting in rising prices and tight supplies for party supply stores, but it won't deflate Macy's annual tradition of floating gigantic characters down Broadway...
Flir Awarded $9M Contract
Thermal imaging and stabilized camera systems maker Flir Systems Inc. announced today that it has received a $9.3 million fixed-price contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Crane...
Wave Map Data Online
Data from a massive project to map a distant region of the universe in multiple wavelengths -- from x-rays through ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and radio waves -- has been released to both...
Boston Scientific to Cut Jobs
Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. announced today it will eliminate about 2300 positions worldwide, or approximately 13 percent of an 18,000-person, "non-direct labor workforce baseline"...
Nano Conference Debuts
The International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO) will feature its inaugural conference on the emerging field of nanomanufacturing as one of its three major technical...
Device Counts Single Photons
A new transistor uses quantum dots to help it count individual photons (the smallest particles of light). Because it could be easily integrated into electronics and may operate at higher temperatures...
Boeing Tests Humvee Laser
The Boeing Co. said this week it has demonstrated that its Avenger-mounted laser system can neutralize improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (IXP) that threaten US troops...
Manatee-Boat Score Tackled
A squeaky-voiced cartoon mouse may capture hearts in central Florida, but manatees -- with their round heads, beady eyes and bodies up to 13 feet long -- have charmed people along the state’s coasts....
Light Bent the 'Wrong' Way
A new, easy-to-produce material created from semiconductors refracts light negatively, bending the waves in the opposite direction from that taken by all materials found in nature. This unique...
IPG Obtains Deutsch Credit
IPG Photonics Corp. announced today it has entered into a new 15 million euro ($21 million) unsecured revolving credit facility with Deutsche Bank AG. The new credit line replaces several secured...
Danaher Buying Tektronix
Danaher Corp. announced today it will expand its Electronic Test business segment by acquiring Tektronix Inc. for $2.8 billion in cash. The board of directors of Beaverton-based Tektronix has...
API Closing Wis. Facility
Advanced Photonix Inc. (API) announced it will close its Dodgeville, Wis., assembly facility, terminate the 31 employees there and transfer all of the operations to its plant in Camarillo, Calif., by...
IPG Photonics Settles Lawsuit
Fiber laser and amplifier maker IPG Photonics Corp. announced yesterday that it has settled a patent infringement suit filed by Scientific Atlanta, a subsidiary of Cisco Systems Inc. Terms of the...
Nanodevice Emits Light
Nanotechnologists have discovered some of the fundamental physics of a material that holds promise for producing light-emitting, flexible semiconductors. The discovery by an interdisciplinary...
Ertl Awarded Chemistry Nobel
Gerhard Ertl, emeritus professor at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2007 for groundbreaking studies in surface...
Thermo Fisher Buys NanoDrop
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced this week it has acquired NanoDrop Technologies LLC, a manufacturer of microvolume ultraviolet visible (UV-Vis) instrumentation, for an undisclosed amount....
Photonics R&D to be Topic
Photonics research will be the focus of the Charlotte Research Institute’s 6th Annual Optoelectronics and Optical Communications Symposium, to be held Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at the University of North...
Terapic Project Awarded
Kotura Inc., a Monterey Park, Calif.-based supplier of silicon photonics components, and CyOptics Inc., a Breinigsville, Pa., developer of indium phosphide (InP) optical chip and component...
GE to Close Lighting Plants
GE Consumer & Industrial announced it intends to restructure its lighting business, affecting approximately 1400 employees at plants in the US, Mexico and Brazil, in a bid to become more...
Zygo Nabs $4.4M Contract
Zygo Corp., a Middlefield, Conn.-based optical metrology supplier, said its optical systems division has been awarded a $4.4 million contract to produce long-range night vision surveillance systems...
Toshiba FET Tops Ku-band
Toshiba Corp. announced this week it has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) power field effect transistor (FET) for the Ku-band (12 to 18 GHz) frequency range with an output power of 65.4 at 14.5 GHz,...
Nanotechnologists Win Nobel
Two Europeans were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics today for their discovery of a new technology for reading information stored on hard drives. Their research, one of the first applications...
nLight Acquires Liekki
nLight Corp., a Vancouver, Wash.-based maker of high-power semiconductor lasers, announced today it will acquire specialty fiber manufacturer Liekki Corp., based in Lohja, Finland. Terms were not...
Unruly Light Waves Tamed
Light waves become unstable and unruly as they are pressed through surfaces only a few nanometers apart and smaller than their wavelength, because there just isn't enough room for them to travel in a...
Aixtron Buys Nanoinstruments
Aixtron AG announced yesterday it will buy University of Cambridge spinoff Nanoinstruments Ltd., a manufacturer of equipment for the controlled growth of carbon nanotubes. Terms of the deal were not...
Agilent Funds GA Tech Center
The Georgia Institute of Technology announced yesterday that has received $13 million from test and measurement company Agilent Technologies Inc. to establish a new electronic design automation...
II-VI Buys 75% of Laser Firm
II-VI Inc. announced this week it will expand its laser optics and components product lines and enter the fiber laser market by acquiring 74.9 percent of HighYAG Lasertechnologie GmbH for an...
Microsystem Incubates Cells
By integrating silicon microchip technology with a network of tiny fluid channels, some thinner than a human hair, engineers have developed a thumb-sized microincubator to culture living cells for...
Optic Speed Record Set
A world record in the measurement of optical high-speed signals was announced at the Europea Conference on Optical Communication, held last month in Berlin. Researchers with the Department of...
Light Blue Raises $26M
Light Blue Optics (LBO), a UK developer of holographic laser projection technology, announced it has closed a $26 million Series A funding round led by Earlybird Venture Capital of Germany and...
Saint-Gobain Buys ARO
Alpine Research Optics (ARO), a Boulder, Colo., supplier of high-performance coated optics, has been acquired by Saint-Gobain Crystals for an undisclosed amount. Saint-Gobain Crystals is part of...
PerkinElmer Acquiring ViaCell
Health sciences and photonics technology provider PerkinElmer Inc. announced late yesterday it will acquire ViaCell Inc., a biotechnology company specializing in collecting and preserving stem cells...
X-rays Exceed 'Critical Angle'
A new method uses refractive lenses to focus x-rays down to extremely small spots, a breakthrough important in the development of a new light-source facility that promises advances in nanoscience,...
Catalysts Stamp Nanopatterns
A hundred-fold improvement in the precision of features imprinted to create microdevices such as labs-on-a-chip has been introduced using enzymes from E. coli bacteria. The inkless microcontact...
Thin Films Show Their Stripes
Using an array of parallel nanowires called "stripes," materials researchers have demonstrated a spectroscopic technique for measuring the magnetic properties of the edges of thin films. The results...
CVI Melles Griot Buys CIOL
Photonics products supplier CVI Melles Griot announced today it has acquired Coherent Imaging Optics Ltd. (CIOL), a subsidiary of Coherent Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. CIOL, a...
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Aixtron Buys Nanoinstruments
Aixtron AG announced yesterday it will buy University of Cambridge spinoff Nanoinstruments Ltd., a manufacturer of equipment for the controlled growth of carbon nanotubes. Terms of the deal were not...
CVI Melles Griot Buys CIOL
Photonics products supplier CVI Melles Griot announced today it has acquired Coherent Imaging Optics Ltd. (CIOL), a subsidiary of Coherent Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. CIOL, a...
Products
FRED Versions 6.100 and Turbo
TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 26, 2007 -- Photon Engineering LLC has launched version 6.100 of its FRED 6.x series optical engineering software. FRED is an advanced 3-D CAD optical engineering software program capable of simulating the propagation of light through virtually any optical/illumination system, the company said. The 6.100 release features major enhancements to FRED's ray tracing and beam propagation speed and modeling...
Photon Engineering LLC
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Galvo Scanner
MAINZ, Germany, Oct. 25, 2007 -- Dilas is offering a galvo scanner for its diode laser systems. Used with its fiber-coupled diode laser compact turnkey system (25 to 400 W), a laser beam spot can be focused at any point within the...
DILAS Diode Laser Inc.
TIRF Microscope System
WETZLAR, Germany, Oct. 25, 2007 -- The new Leica TIRF (total internal reflection fluorescence) microscope system, called the Leica AM TIRF MC, allows the entire fluorescence excitation spectrum to now be used for real-time...
Leica Microsystems GmbH
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27 Lenses for Video Line
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 23, 2007 -- Navitar Inc. announced an expansion of its low-magnification video lens line to include 27 new megapixel, compact and wide-angle fixed focal length lenses. According to Navitar, these new lenses...
Navitar Inc.
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Inspection Zoom Lens
BARRINGTON, N.J., Oct. 23, 2007 -- Optical components maker Edmund Optics (EO) has introduced the VZM 100i, an addition to its Techspec VZM (video zoom microscope) series of parafocal zoom lens systems for video cameras. VZM...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Compass 561 Yellow Lasers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 22, 2007 -- Coherent Inc. said its two new Compass lasers deliver more power from their compact packages than any Compass system previously available. The Compass 561 is now offered with either 40 mW or 25...
Coherent Inc.
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Spectral-Metal Coating LED Application
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Oct. 22, 2007 -- Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI), announced its advanced Spectral Metal thin-film coating has a new application: In LED light-signaling marine lanterns. Collaborating with LED lantern and buoy maker...
Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI)
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Software Upgrade to HST-3000
MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 18, 2007 -- JDSU announced enhanced features for the HST-3000 handheld services tester, what it said is the most complete all-in-one access test platform available, including new features to support the rollout...
Lumentum Operations LLC
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Color Genie GigE Cameras
WATERLOO, Ontario, Oct. 17, 2007 -- Dalsa Corp. announced this week the latest addition to its GigE Vision-compliant digital cameras designed for industrial imaging applications -- four new color models of the Genie camera. These...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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Piezo Composite Patch Transducers
AUBURN, Mass., Oct. 16, 2007 -- PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. said its new P-876 series piezo composite patch transducers can be used as actuators, sensors, and as energy sources. P-876 transducers are highly bendable piezo...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Modulator Bias Controller
BESANCON, France, Oct. 15, 2007 -- Photline Technologies said its new MBC-1001 is a modulator bias controller designed to stabilize the operating point of LiNb03 (lithium niobate) crystal Mach-Zehnder modulators used in high-speed...
Exail
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NeoScan Scanner
FLANDERS, N.J., Oct. 12, 2007 -- Haas Laser Technologies Inc.'s new NeoScan scanner is a laser process focusing unit. The NeoScan scanner is a patent-pending device which manipulates a laser beam to produce various geometric...
Haas Laser Technologies Inc.
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Lid Alignment, Tack Welding Station
MONROVIA, Calif., Oct. 10, 2007 -- Miyachi Unitek Corp.'s Unitek Benchmark division said its new lid alignment and tack welding station provides accurate tacking of lids to package bases. The standard station includes a precision...
AMADA WELD TECH Inc.
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FRAPPA Photobleaching Module
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Oct. 10, 2007 -- Andor Technology said FRAPPA, its new tool for laser microscopy, is an acronym for the techniques it supports. Fluorescence recovery after photobleach (FRAP) and photoactivation (PA) are imaging...
Andor Technology
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Paladin Compact UV Laser
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 10, 2007 -- The new Paladin Compact 355-4000 from Coherent Inc. is the first solid-state, ultraviolet (UV) laser to deliver 4 W of quasi-CW output (at 355 nm) in a small footprint package, according to the...
Coherent Inc.
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LED, OLED Display Drivers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 10, 2007 -- National Semiconductor Corp. has added three new power management products for driving LEDs and powering organic LED (OLED) displays to its PowerWise energy-efficient product line. Its new products,...
National Semiconductor
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Smart Cuvettes
DUNEDIN, Fla., Oct. 3, 2007 -- SpectrEcology LLC said it has released the first "smart cuvettes" that measure pH and pO2. The pHuvette is an optical pH sensor embedded in the wall of a standard 1-cm cuvette. The sensor is a...
SpectrEcology
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IR Transmitters, Si Diodes
STAMFORD, Conn., Oct. 3, 2007 -- Omega Engineering Inc. said its new OS100E series miniature infrared transmitters measure temperatures in hard-to-reach places and harsh environments, while its CY670 series silicon diodes sensors...
Omega Engineering Inc.
iCam Firmware/Software
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Oct. 2, 2007 -- Andor Technology plc said its new iCam technology, a firmware/software combination that has been incorporated into the company's EMCCD (electron multiplying CCD) imaging cameras, allows the cameras...
Andor Technology
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MiniFIZ Interferometer Upgrades
TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 2, 2007 -- 4D Technology has expanded its line of laser interferometer upgrade kits to include the MiniFIZ temporal phase-shifting interferometers from ADE Phase Shift (a division of KLA-Tencor). The upgrade...
4D Technology Corporation
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Integral Ti:S Oscillator
VIENNA, Austria, Oct. 1, 2007 -- Femtolasers Productions GmbH said its newest Integral turnkey Ti:sapphire ultrafast oscillator has an improved laser cavity that offers power levels up to >400 mW with low noise figures, compared...
Spectra-Physics Vienna
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