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Photonics.com - September 1999
News & Features
JDS Uniphase Shows High-Power Transmitter Module
NEPEAN, Ontario, Sept. 30 -- JDS Uniphase Corp. reported the completion of a successful demonstration of a tunable 10-Gb/s transmitter module, which combines a high-power tunable laser and a lithium...
Microvision, Carl Zeiss Finalize Agreement
BOTHELL, Wash., Sept. 30 -- Microvision Inc. announced that it has signed a multi-year product development and licensing agreement with Carl Zeiss Inc. Under the agreement, the two companies will...
Siemens Pushes Rate Limits for Optical Transmission
BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 30 -- Siemens says that it has set a first in its laboratories by transmitting 3.2 Tbit/s over a single optical fiber using WDM technology. The company used its electronic...
Spectra-Physics Adjusts Expectations for Quarter
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 29 -- Spectra-Physics has announced that it expects to report net sales of between $34 and $36 million, and a net loss before special charges of $0.3 to...
II-VI Reiterates Proposal to Laser Power
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29 -- II-VI Inc. has sent another letter to the board of directors of Laser Power Corp. reiterating II-VI's desire to acquire each share of Laser Power stock for $3.00 in cash...
Photonic Material Helps Track Cancer Drug's Progress
BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 29 -- Researchers at the University at Buffalo and Tulane University have tracked in real time the path traveled by a cancer drug linked to a peptide hormone carrier as it is...
First Detailed Images of Complete Ribosome Captured
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Sept. 28 -- Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have obtained images of the complete structure of the ribosome, the molecular machine that translates the...
Laser Power Rejects II-VI Merger Proposal
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 28 -- Laser Power Corp. has declined II-VI Inc.'s proposal to negotiate a merger of the two companies. The only merger term publicly disclosed was II-VI's offer of consideration with...
Comlink, Ortel Sign Canadian Distribution Pact
ALHAMBRA, Calif., Sept. 28 -- Ortel Corp. has signed an agreement with Canadian systems integrator Comlink Systems Inc. to distribute Ortel's fiber optic technologies for applications in the...
Zygo Gets Record Orders for AutoMESA Tool
MIDDLEFIELD, Conn., Sept. 28 -- Zygo Corp. has received multiple orders from customers in the US, Europe, and Asia for its second-generation AutoMESA disk flatness and sorting metrology tool. The...
NEN, GSI Lumonics to Market DNA Chips, Scanners
BOSTON, Sept. 27 -- NEN Life Science Products and GSI Lumonics Inc. have agreed to jointly market DNA microarray systems and laser scanner systems on a global basis. The agreement covers marketing of...
RVSI Gets Inspection Equipment Order from Malaysia
CANTON, Mass., Sept. 27 -- Robotic Vision Systems Inc. has received an order valued at over $1 million for multiple units of its LS-7700 laser-based in-tray, three-dimensional inspection system....
Face Recognition Technology Chosen for Israeli Border
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Sept. 27 -- EDS and its consortium partners have won an Israeli Ministry of Defense contract to develop and install an automatic biometric border crossing system. The system, known...
Super Vision Announces Reorganization
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 27 -- Super Vision International Inc., a manufacturer of fiber optic lighting systems, has announced the restructuring of its management team. The company has appointed four...
Tracking Camera Boosts Airborne Laser's Progress
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 24 -- The US Air Force's Airborne Laser (ABL) program took another step toward deployment when Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space accepted delivery of a camera critical...
ESC Medical's Board Approves Restructuring Plan
YOKNEAM, Israel, Sept. 24 -- ESC Medical Systems Ltd. announced that its board of directors has approved a comprehensive restructuring program. The company plans to align its cost structure with its...
Fiber-Guided Missile Passes New Test
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M., Sept. 24 -- The US Army's Enhanced Fiber Optic Guided Missile (EFOGM), under development by Raytheon Co., has completed a successful ninth flight at the White Sands...
Photobit, Basler AG Form Strategic Alliance
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 24 -- Photobit Corp., a supplier of CMOS image sensors, and Ahrensburg, Germany-based Basler AG report the formation of a strategic alliance. The companies have signed an...
NHD, Kodak Announce Distribution Agreements
CLEVELAND, Sept. 23 -- NHD Inc. announced the signing of two comprehensive contracts with Eastman Kodak Co.'s Health Imaging Div. The first allows all of NHD's authorized Kodak distribution channels...
IntraLase Corp. Closes Third Round of Financing
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 23 -- IntraLase Corp., a developer of femtosecond lasers used in vision correction and therapeutic eye surgery, announced the closing of a $7.5-million round of venture...
Northrop Grumman Names VP of Electro-Optical, IR Programs
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Sept. 23 -- Northrop Grumman Corp. has named Arnold R. Welch vice president of Electro-Optical and Infrared (EO/IR) Products for the company's Defensive Systems Div. (DSD)....
Matsushita to Invest in TFT-LCD Panel Production
TOKYO, Sept. 22 -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. has reported that it plans to invest 32 billion yen (US $300 million) in the production of thin-film transistor liquid-crystal display...
Israeli and Jordan Eye Fiber Optic Link
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 21 -- A joint Israeli-Jordanian committee has been formed to produce a formal plan in the next three months for installing a fiber-optic cable to link the two countries. In...
LightPath Names Chairman, Louis G. Leeburg
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 21 -- LightPath Technologies Inc. announced that Louis G. Leeburg has assumed the responsibilities of chairman of the board of directors. Leeburg, a company director since...
Global Crossing Establishes London Network Center
LONDON, Sept. 20 -- Global Crossing announced that it has activated its $35 million network center in London's Docklands. The London facility includes the company's network operations center,...
Berkeley Lab Licenses Biological Probe Technology
BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 20 -- Berkeley Laboratory has licensed a new type of biological probe to a start-up firm in Palo Alto, Calif. The probe was developed last fall by Lab researchers, who...
Photomask Suppliers Photronics, Align-Rite to Merge
JUPITER, Fla., Sept. 17 -- Photronics Inc. and Align-Rite International Inc. have signed a definitive agreement to merge the two companies in a stock transaction that will create the world's largest...
LaserComm Plans New Facilityfor Fiber-Optic Components
RICHARDSON, Texas, Sept. 17 -- LaserComm Inc. is establishing a plant in Plano, Texas, to manufacture its line of dispersion management devices for the telecommunications and data communications...
Imaging Diagnostic Gets Patent for Laser Imaging Device
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 16 -- Imaging Diagnostic Systems Inc. announced that it has received patent issue notification from the US Patent and Trademark Office for the company's laser imaging...
Worldwide Fiber Completes Private Equity Placements
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 16 -- Worldwide Fiber Inc. has completed equity private placements totaling $345 million in convertible preferred stock to affiliates of Tyco International...
Cell Robotics, Hamilton Thorne to Distribute IVF Technology
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 16 -- Cell Robotics International Inc. and privately held Hamilton Thorne Research Inc. (HTR) announced that HTR is to market, sell and distribute Cell Robotics' In Vitro...
Researchers to Study Forests With NASA Laser
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 15 -- A laser-based imager to be carried aboard the NASA/University of Maryland Vegetation Canopy Lidar (VCL) spacecraft, scheduled to launch next year, will create the first...
Data Translation Reports Fourth Profitable Quarter
MARLBORO, Mass., Sept. 15 -- Data Translation Inc. announced total sales of $4,061,000 for the quarter ended August 31, 1999, an increase of approximately 3.5 percent from $3,919,000 in the...
KMC Terminates Agreement With Optomedic
OR-YEHUDA, Israel, Sept. 15 -- Optomedic Medical Technologies Ltd. reported that KMC Systems Inc. has notified Optomedic that KMC has terminated its manufacturing and distribution agreement. The...
Study Predicts Florida Photonics Boom
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 14 -- Florida's laser and optics companies can look forward to a bright future, according to a report issued by the University of Central Florida (UCF). The industry-sponsored...
Planar Names FLIR Chief to Board
BEAVERTON, Ore., Sept. 14 -- Planar Systems Inc. has named J. Kenneth Stringer III to a new seat on its board of directors. Stringer is the current president and CEO of FLIR Systems Inc., based in...
SpectRx Reaches Milestones for Non-Invasive Detector
NORCROSS, Ga., Sept. 14 -- SpectRx Inc. has completed milestones valued at $400,000 under its agreement with Roche Diagnostics to develop the Accu-Chek D-Tector, a photonics-based non-invasive...
Laser Procedure Found to Ease Angina
LONDON, Sept. 13 -- Patients who suffer from angina but are not eligible for a bypass operation or other surgical treatment can get relief with transmyocardial revascularisation (TMR), according to a...
Corning Enters EDFA Fiber Market
CORNING, N.Y., Sept. 13 -- Corning Inc. has launched the expansion of its specialty fiber product line by announcing that it will begin selling erbium-doped optical fiber for use in Erbium Doped...
Komatsu Installs First 2-kHz Deep UV Production Excimer
TOCHIGI, Japan, Sept. 10 -- Komatsu Ltd. announced that it has completed the installation at a major Japanese chip manufacturer of the world's first 2-kHz deep UV excimer laser for use in producing...
Optical Networks Raises $15 Million in Financing
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 10 -- Optical Networks Inc. has raised an additional $15 million in its third major round of venture investment, increasing its total financing to date to $50 million....
Photronics Chooses New Arizona Manufacturing Site
MESA, Ariz., Sept. 10 -- Photronics Inc. reports that it will house its Arizona-based photomask manufacturing operations in a new 30,000-square-foot facility in Phoenix Industrial Park. The facility...
Richardson Announces Plan to Address NIF Problems
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 9 -- US Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson has ordered a series of actions in response to scheduling delays and projected cost overruns in the construction of the National...
Recovery Predicted for Photomask Market
NEW TRIPOLI, Pa., Sept. 9 -- The global photomask market is poised for recovery in 2000, according to a report published by The Information Network, a market research firm. Industry consolidation is...
Spectranetics' Laser Catheter Approved in Europe
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sept. 9 -- Spectranetics Corp. has received approval for European marketing of a laser angioplasty catheter designed for use in larger heart vessels. The Vitesse C-OS...
NRC Discovery Reveals Ultrafast Processes
OTTAWA, Canada, Sept. 8 -- Scientists at the National Research Council of Canada's (NRC) Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed a technique that reveals the ultrafast internal...
ICG Communications to Sell Fiber Optic Unit
NEW YORK, Sept. 8 -- ICG Communications Inc., a regional phone company based in Englewood, Colo., has announced the planned sale of its fiber-optic networking unit. In this latest in a series of...
Alcatel to Supply China with Digital Cross-Connects
BEIJING, Sept. 8 -- Alcatel has been chosen to supply digital cross-connect (DCX) equipment for two of China Telecom's major transmission projects this year. Two sets of Alcatel DCX 4/1 equipment...
ITT Wins Contract for IR Weather Instrument
FORT WAYNE, Ind., Sept. 7 -- The US Department of Commerce announced that a $98 million contract has been awarded to ITT Industries, ITT Aerospace/Communications Div., for development of an...
Taiwan Picks Lucent for Optical Network Gear
SINGAPORE, Sept. 7 -- Lucent Technologies has won nine Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) tenders valued at over $40 million (US) from Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's state-owned telecommunications...
Telecom Italia Cutting Costs, 13,000 Jobs
ROME, Sept. 6 -- Telecom Italia SpA plans to eliminate 13,000 jobs and reduce overall costs by $2.5 billion. According to Roberto Colaninno, Telecom Italia's chairman and CEO since the company's...
Semiconductor Sales Rise 19.3 Percent in July
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 6 -- Global sales of semiconductors reached $11.55 billion in July, an increase of 19.3 percent from July 1998, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The...
Pacific Gateway, KDD to Build Japanese Network
TOKYO, Sept. 3 -- Pacific Gateway Exchange Inc. and KDD Submarine Cable Systems Inc., part of Japan's KDD Corp., plan to create a joint venture to build an undersea fiber optic network to connect...
Ortel Reports First Quarter Results
ALHAMBRA, Calif., Sept. 3 -- Ortel Corp. has reported financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended August 1, 1999. The company says these figures reflect steps taken to focus resources on...
Pharmacyclics Releases Data on Antrin Photoangioplasty
BARCELONA, Spain, Sept. 3 -- Pharmacyclics Inc. has reported results of Phase I clinical trials of photoangioplasty using injections of Antrin (motexafin lutetium). The company says the data showed...
Lucent Invests in Horizon Photonics
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Sept. 2 -- Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group reports it has purchased equity in privately held Horizon Photonics Inc., a manufacturer of passive optical components. The...
Elbit Systems Wins Contract to Supply Australian Army
HAIFA, Israel, Sept. 1 -- Elbit Systems Ltd. has been awarded a contract to supply night vision systems for the Australian Army's Black Hawk helicopters. The contract calls for Elbit Systems to...
Laser Photonics Seeks Approval for Laser Treatment of Psoriasis
CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 1 -- Laser Photonics Inc. announced that its Acculase Inc. subsidiary has filed with the US Food and Drug Administration for 510 (k) clearance to commercially market its...
Veeco Gets Orders for Optical Metrology Tools
TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 1 -- Veeco Metrology Group has received orders valued at $3.5 million from a leading data storage manufacturer for in-situ optical metrology tools. The multiple unit orders...
Laserscope Adds to Board, Management Team
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 1 -- Laserscope has named Ruediger Naumann-Etienne as a member of its board of directors and Robert L. Mathews as executive vice president. Naumann is owner and managing...
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