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Photonics.com - September 2001
News & Features
StockerYale Selling Stilson Machine Tool and Accessories Division
SALEM, N.H., Sept. 28 -- StockerYale Inc., said that it has sold its Stilson Die-Draulics division for $1.1 million. "The sale of this division represents the final divestiture of the company's...
3D Systems, Cynovad Sign Multiunit Deal
VALENCIA, Calif., Sept. 28 -- 3D Systems Corp. and Cynovad have signed a manufacturing and supply agreement for several hundred solid object printers to be delivered through the end of 2004. The...
Advanced Photonix to Merge with Jenner Biotherapies
CAMARILLO, Calif., Sept. 28 -- Advanced Photonix Inc. said that it had completed its negotiations with Jenner Biotherapies Inc. and entered into a letter of intent in which Jenner would merge with a...
Cisco Completes Acquisition of Allegro Systems
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 28 -- Cisco Systems Inc. has completed the acquisition of privately held Allegro Systems Inc. Cisco previously announced a definitive agreement to acquire Allegro Systems, a...
Deutsche Telekom Picks Acterna for Remote Fiber Test System
STUTTGART, Germany, Sept. 27 -- Acterna said that Deutsche Telekom has selected Acterna's remote fiber test system, Atlas, for monitoring of its optical networks in six key regions across Germany....
CDM Optics, Carl Zeiss Group Form Strategic Partnership
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 27 -- CDM Optics Inc. and Carl Zeiss Group are partnering on the use of CDM's wavefront coding technology in Carl Zeiss' products. Both companies will jointly develop and market...
Thermo Electron Reconsidering Spectra-Physics Offer
WALTHAM, Mass., Sept 27 -- Thermo Electron Corp. said it is reconsidering its plan to take its Spectra-Physics Inc. unit private for $20 a share, due to worsening economic conditions. The company,...
European Automaker Tests Microvision Laser-Scanning Display
BOTHELL, Wash., Sept. 26 -- Microvision has shipped a prototype front projection display to a European automaker for two months of performance evaluations in test vehicles. The system is expected to...
Cymer Installs 200th European DUV Unit
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 26 -- Cymer Inc. said that it has installed its 200th DUV excimer light source in Europe. The ELS-6000 was installed late second quarter and is currently in production at a major...
FDA Approves Fischer Imagings Digital Mammography System
DENVER, Sept. 26 -- Fischer Imaging Corp. said that it has received final Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market its SenoScan Full Field Digital Mammography System. Louis E. Rivelli,...
Advanced Research Technologies Showcasing State-of-the-Art ISISTM Device at Assembly Technology Chicago Expo Oct. 2nd-4th
CHICAGO, IL and MONTREAL, Canada, Sept. 26, 2001 - Advanced Research Technologies (ART), has announced that it is showcasing its printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) test and inspection solution...
Lucent Wins Korea Optical Networking Contract
MURRAY HILL, N.J., Sept. 26 -- Lucent Technologies Inc. said that it has won a contract potentially worth up to $40 million over three years to supply optical networking systems to Korea Telecom....
Lytron Expands Manufacturing Capacity with New Machining Center
WOBURN, Mass., Sept. 25 -- Lytron announces the addition of a new Matsuura RA-2G high speed CNC machining center to the company's ISO 9001-registered manufacturing facility. As more and more...
Cree Renews Contract with Osram
DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 25 -- Cree Inc. has renewed its one-year purchase agreement with Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH & Co., OHG (Osram) for standard brightness, high brightness, UltraBright, and...
JDS Uniphase Sees Stabilization
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 25 -- JDS Uniphase Corp. said sales are showing signs of stabilizing and the future looks brighter, said Jozef Straus, chief executive of JDS Uniphase. "While the downturn in...
Lumenis Wins Japanese Approval for IPL Systems
YOKNEAM, Israel, Sept. 25 -- Lumenis Ltd, formerly ESC Medical Systems Ltd. has received import approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for importing its IPL systems into...
Nortech Wins $1.2 Million Laser Cable Contract
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 25 -- The Aerospace Systems division of Nortech Systems Inc. was awarded a $1.2 million contract to supply cable assemblies for the MILES 2000 military training program. Shipments...
CMP Media Moves Forward With October Dates for Communications Design Conference
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25 -- CMP Media announced that the Communications Design Conference will take place as planned, from October 1-4, 2001 in San Jose, California. The decision to proceed was made...
EDO Files Public Offering Registration Statement
NEW YORK, Sept. 24 -- EDO Corp. has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a registration statement for a public offering of its common stock. It is expected that a total of...
VISX Says US Court Backs Scope of Patents
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 24 -- VISX Inc. said that a federal judge issued a preliminary ruling upholding its patents in an infringement lawsuit against Nidek Co. Ltd., a Japanese optical equipment...
Cable Breaks Snarl Asian Internet Traffic
HONG KONG, Sept. 24 -- Breaks in two undersea fiber optic cables off the China coast hampered Internet traffic in China last week. The cable breaks, likely caused by a ship's anchor, disrupted...
SpectraSwitch Receives $6 Million in B-round Extension
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Sept. 24 -- SpectraSwitch Inc. has raised $6 million of venture funding in an extension to their B-round led by Advanced Technology Ventures and NIF Ventures. The financing...
Aeroflex Incorporated Announces Fiber Optic Module Order Valued At More Than $5.7 Million
PLAINVIEW, N.Y., Sept. 24 -- Aeroflex Incorporated, a designer, developer and manufacturer of microelectronics and automated testing solutions for the broadband communications market, announced that...
Edgeflow Secures Funding of $24 Million
OTTAWA, Canada, Sept. 21 -- Edgeflow Inc., a developer of an advanced metro optical networking element called an optical add/drop switch (OADX), announces the completion of a US $24 million Series A...
Lambda Technologies to Exhibit New Variable Frequency Microwave (VFM) Technology at IMAPS 2001
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 21 -- Lambda Technologies will be exhibiting their patented variable frequency microwave (VFM) curing technology and their products at IMAPS 2001. VFM is a breakthrough...
Nortel to Outsource Printed Circuit Board Assembly
TORONTO, Sept. 21 -- Nortel Networks has entered into an agreement with SCI Systems Inc. to outsource its remaining printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) activities. As part of this agreement, Nortel...
Drexler Wins Order for Border ID Cards
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 21 -- Drexler Technology Corp. has received a $4.8 million order for LaserCard Triple-Image identification cards for an ongoing US border-crossing ID card program. The...
Infinites Laser Fare Wins SBA Award
WARWICK, R.I., Sept. 21 -- Infinite Group Inc. said that Laser Fare Advanced Technology Group (ATG), Infinite's R&D unit, has been selected as one of this year's recipients of the Tibbetts Award by...
Telesurgery Procedure Passes Test
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 -- IRCAD/European Institute of Telesurgery, France Telecom and Computer Motion Inc. reported that on Sept. 7, a 68 year old woman in Strasbourg, France, became the first patient in...
Oxford Applied Research Introduces RF Atom Sources With Beam Shaping
OXFORDSHIRE, Sept. 21 -- Oxford Applied Research (OAR) introduces a new range of RF Atom Sources for zero-damage oxide and nitride film growth over large areas. The new design encompasses beam...
OSI Wins Cargo Security Screening Systems Order
HAWTHORNE, Calif., Sept. 20 -- OSI Systems Inc. said that the customs agency of a foreign country has awarded OSI Systems an order for two Rapiscan 546 Dual View Large Cargo systems, representing...
Orchid Wins First Certification for HLA Testing
PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 20 -- Orchid BioSciences Inc. said that its GeneScreen business unit has received certification by the American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) to...
StockerYale Opens New R&D, Manufacturing Facility
SALEM, N.H., Sept. 20 -- StockerYale Inc. has opened a 15,000 square foot R&D and manufacturing facility adjacent to its existing 80,000 square foot plant and corporate offices. The facility will be...
NETS and Lucent Technologies Reinforce Relationship; Lucent to Upgrade NETS Pan-European Optical Network
PARIS -- Lucent Technologies has announced that it has won an optical networking contract with NETs, the pan-European backbone operator and member of the Tiscali group. Under this contract, Lucent...
Marconi Wins First Big North American Deal
LONDON, Sept. 19 -- Marconi Plc said that it had won its first major North American contract to supply high-speed optical network products. The company said the multimillion dollar agreement was to...
JDS Uniphase Schedules Additional Write Offs
OTTAWA, Sept. 19 -- JDS Uniphase Corp. said that it needs to record additional write downs of the value of long-term assets, which could increase its $50.6 billion annual loss for last year by...
Brashear Wins Contract for Small Arms Fire Control System
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 19 -- Brashear LP has been awarded a contract from the US Army, Picatinny Arsenal, for the type classification and production of a multipurpose fire control system -- SAFCS II...
AHA Journal Confirms Heart Laser Results
FRANKLIN, Mass., Sept. 19 -- Cardiac patients who have received carbon dioxide (CO2) transmyocardial revascularization (TMR) using PLC Systems' heart laser are experiencing excellent long-term...
Haleos Files More Than 100 Patent Applications in Past 18 Months
BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 19 -- Haleos Inc., an optical manufacturing services provider, announces it has collectively filed more than one hundred patent applications for intellectual property (IP)...
E Ink Facility to Develop Flexible Transistors for Displays
WOBURN, Mass., Sept. 18 -- E Ink Corp. has opened a flexible microelectronics facility to house E Ink's Microelectronics Technology Group. The group will develop microelectronics, including flexible...
Lucent Signs Two European Contracts
MURRAY HILL, NJ, Sept 18 -- Lucent Technologies Inc. said that it has signed two European contracts. The company said that it signed a multiyear contract for an unspecified amount of money to supply...
Welch Allyn Offers Solarc 24W Fiber Optic Light Modules and Light Engines to Medical and Industrial OEMs
SKANEATELES FALLS, N.Y., Sept. 18 -- Welch Allyn, Inc.'s Lighting Products Division now offers Solarc 24 W fiber optic light modules (LM24) and light engines (LE24) to medical and industrial OEMs....
PanAmSat Adds Trans-Atlantic Fiber Capacity
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Sept. 17 -- PanAmSat Corp. said that it has added trans-Atlantic fiber capacity to its global satellite-based communications network. The new fiber connectivity will...
Vodafone Moves to Control Japan Telecom
TOKYO, Sept. 17, -- Vodafone Group Plc has launched a move to gain control of Japan Telecom Co Ltd. If successful it would put Vodafone, already the top shareholder in Japan's third-largest carrier...
Newport Cuts Outlook, Jobs
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 17 -- Newport Corp. has reduced its outlook for sales and profits for the second half of fiscal 2001 because of continued weakness in its end-markets. The company said it would...
Solectron Announces $200 Million Stock Repurchase Program
MILPITAS, Calif., Sept. 17 -- Solectron Corporation, a global provider of electronics manufacturing and supply-chain management services, said its board of directors has authorized a $200 million...
Metrocall COO Among American Airlines Flight 77 Victims
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 14 -- Metrocall, a wireless messaging company, has confirmed that the company's chief operating officer, Steven D. "Jake" Jacoby, was listed among the passengers who boarded...
Corning, Others Contribute to Support Disaster Relief
CORNING, N.Y., Sept. 14 -- Corning Incorporated and other high-tech firms are helping to support disaster victims and their families in New York City and Washington D.C., with corporate...
MRV Merging with Luminent
CHATSWORTH, Calif., Sept. 14 -- Optical components maker MRV Communications, Inc. will carry out a short-form merger with its subsidiary Luminent, Inc. because of weak demand in the...
OTM Technologies and ART Ink Cooperation Agreement
HERZLIYA, Israel, Sept. 14 -- Laser developer OTM Technologies Ltd. and Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. (ART), a pioneer in embedded speech and handwriting recognition technologies for mobile...
Axsys Integrated Systems Ships 2,000th Microscope Autofocus System
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 14 -- Axsys Technologies, Inc.’s Integrated Systems announced it recently shipped its 2,000th LaserTrac, a tracking autofocus system for optical microscopes. Recent...
Cisco Buying Back $3 Billion in Shares
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 14 -- Cisco Systems Inc. said that its board had authorized a stock repurchase program of up to $3 billion over the next two years. Cisco said it may repurchase stock under...
Metromedia Fiber Receives Extension on Vendor Financing
NEW YORK, Sept. 14 -- Metromedia Fiber Network Inc., a developer of optical IP Internet infrastructure within key metropolitan areas domestically and internationally, announces that it has received...
Anixter Exits Korean Market, Cuts Jobs
SKOKIE, Ill., Sept. 13 -- Anixter International Inc. is exiting the Korean market, cutting 14 percent of its staff and expects third and fourth quarter sales to be lower due to the economic slowdown...
Spirent Communications Opens Lab at NC State
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Sept. 13 -- Spirent Communications, a wholly-owned business group of Spirent plc., was joined by industry, government and higher education officials at North Carolina...
Nakamura Gets Cree Chair at UCSB
DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 13 -- Cree Inc. said that Shuji Nakamura was named the recipient of the Cree Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Center for Solid State Lighting and...
Sunrise Signs Credit Line Extension
FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 13 -- Sunrise Technologies International Inc. has entered into an agreement with Silicon Valley Bank to extend the due date of its credit facility until October 6, 2001,...
Start Up Company for Growth of HBT and pHEMT Wafers Established
GERMANY, Sept. 13 -- A newly established start up company, Inforcomm Semiconductor Corporation (ISC), located in the Hsinchu Science-Based Park, Taiwan, and AIXTRON are pleased to announce that ISC...
Newly Formed ASD Financial Offers Leasing Programs for Industrial and Laboratory Instruments
Boulder, Colo., Sept. 12 -- Analytical Spectral Devices, Inc. (ASD), a manufacturer of portable near-infrared (NIR) spectrometers, announces the formation of ASD Financial. Launched August 1, 2001,...
Williams, WinStar Reach Agreement
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 12 -- Williams Communications Group Inc. has reached a settlement with bankrupt wireless company WinStar Communications Inc. that amended a 25-year pact to swap capacity on each...
Spirent Sells Nontelcom Unit
LONDON, Sept. 11 -- Spirent Plc has agreed to sell its sensing solutions arm to a unit of General Electric Co. for $220 million cash as part of its plan to sell off noncore businesses. The business...
SpectraScience, Endoscopy UK Sign Distribution Agreement
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 11 -- SpectraScience Inc. has signed a distribution agreement with Endoscopy UK Ltd., a distributor of gastrointestinal endoscopes and endoscopy related technologies in the...
Veeco Signs Applied EPI Merger
WOODBURY, N.Y., Sept. 10 -- Veeco Instruments Inc. has signed a definitive merger agreement with Applied Epi Inc., a supplier of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) equipment used in the manufacture of...
Optical Cable Cutting Work Force
ROANOKE, Va., Sept. 10 -- Optical Cable Corp. will lay off 27 employees, or 12 percent of its work force, in a move to streamline operations. The maker of fiber optic cable said this was the first...
Global Crossing, Telstar Sign $15 Million Deal
NEW YORK, Sept. 7 -- Global Crossing Ltd. has sold at least $15 million in services over the next two and a half years to Telstar International Inc., a long-distance carrier. In a joint statement,...
Essent Kabelcom Picks Corning for Network Project
CORNING, NY, Sept. 7 -- Corning Incorporated and Essent Kabelcom, the second largest cable-operator in the Netherlands, said that Essent Kabelcom has selected Corning MetroCor optical fiber for its...
Northrop Grumman Wins $73 Million Contract for LITENING II Pods
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Sept. 7 -- Northrop Grumman Corp. has received a $73 million contract from the US Marine Corps (USMC) to supply LITENING II pods for its AV-8B Harrier aircraft. Work on this...
President Chen to Open Semicon Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Sept. 7 -- Taiwan President Chen Shui-Bian is scheduled to preside over the opening of the sixth annual Semicon Taiwan exposition, Monday, September 17, at the Taipei World Trade...
Abbott Boosts Holdings in SpectRx
NORCROSS, Ga., Sept. 7 -- SpectRx said that Abbott Laboratories Inc. will buy an additional $1 million of its stock as part of a milestone payment, but it agreed to postpone payment of another $1...
Biolase to Sell Waterlase in Korea
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Sept. 6 -- Biolase Technology Inc. has won approval to sell its Waterlase hard and soft tissue lasers in South Korea. Biolase's Korean distributor, Daemyung Medi-Tech Co. Ltd....
Melles Griot Delivers First Characterization System on Multiunit Contract
CAMBRIDGESHIRE, England, Sept. 6 -- Melles Griot has shipped the first automated diode laser test and characterization system, on a multiunit order, to a leading photonics component manufacturer....
Tropic Networks Secures Funding
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 6 -- Tropic Networks Inc., a developer of optical packet networking systems, has secured $10 million from a venture capital consortium. Andover, Mass.-based Tropic makes...
France Telecom Ups Stake in Polish Telco
WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 6 -- France Telecom and its Polish partner are buying an additional 12.5 percent of Poland's state-controlled telephone operator for $833 million, boosting its stake to 47.5...
Laser Tunable Revenues Seen Topping $1 Billion
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Sept. 5 -- The tunable laser market will grow rapidly and will soon surpass $1 billion in annual revenues says a new market study. The report, "Tunable Lasers for Optical...
Lightchip Launches Optical Wavelength Manager (OWM)
SALEM, N.H., Sept. 5 -- Responding to the needs of metro-service providers, Lightchip, Inc. announces its Optical Wavelength Manager (OWM), a shelf-level, intelligent subsystem for monitoring and...
ESI Wins Order for Laser Semiconductor Processing Systems
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 5 -- Electro Scientific Industries Inc. has received an order for multiple Model 9820 laser semiconductor processing systems from Samsung Electronics. The new systems are a...
Tunable Laser Revenues Seen Topping $1 Billion
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Sept. 5 -- The tunable laser market will grow rapidly and will soon surpass $1 billion in annual revenues says a new market study. The report, "Tunable Lasers for Optical...
KLA-Tencor Acquiring QC Optics
WILMINGTON, Mass., Sept. 5 -- QC Optics Inc. has agreed to be acquired by KLA-Tencor Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, which was unanimously approved by QC Optics' board of directors,...
Wescam Awarded Canadian Navy Contract
BURLINGTON, Ontario, Sept. 5 -- Wescam has been awarded a C$20 million contract from Public Works and Government Services Canada to outfit the Canadian Navy's Halifax and Iroquois class fleets with...
Corning Trims Fiber Operations
CORNING, N.Y., Sept. 4 -- Corning Incorporated is reducing its worldwide optical fiber workforce by approximately 1,000 employees by the end of 2001 in response to the continuing downturn in the...
Metromedia Fiber Wins $235 Million of Vendor Financing
NEW YORK, Sept. 4 -- Metromedia Fiber Network Inc has executed a commitment letter for $235 million of vendor financing. The expiration date of the commitment letter is September 4, 2001. The vendor...
II-VI Wins Contract for IR Targeting and Navigation Pods
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4 -- II-VI Inc. said that its subsidiary, Exotic Electro-Optics, a subsidiary of Laser Power Corp., has been awarded a contract from Northrop Grumman Electronic Sensors and Systems...
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