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Photonics.com - September 2003
News & Features
Implant Sciences Land-Mine Detector Funds Extended
WAKEFIELD, Mass., Sept. 30 --Implant Sciences Corp., which develops products for radiation oncology and explosive and toxic substance detection devices, has been selected by the US Army to receive a...
Spire Receives NIH Grant for Fiber Laser
BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 30 -- Spire Corp. announced today it has been awarded a $124,500 grant to develop a new fiber laser-based instrument for glaucoma surgery. Successful demonstration of the...
ADO, Brillian, OCLI Develop RPTV Engine
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Sept. 30 -- Advanced Digital Optics (ADO), Brillian Corp. and OCLI, a wholly owned subsidiary of JDS Uniphase, announced they have jointly developed a rear-projection television...
Alcatel Network Deployed in Portugal
PARIS, Sept. 30 -- Alcatel and PT Comunicacoes, a subsidiary of the Portugal Telecom Group, announced today the launch of the CAM Ring optical undersea cable network. Based on Alcatel's 10 Gbit/s...
Dual Microscopes Illuminate Electronic Switching Speeds
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 29 -- Although silicon is still the mainstay of the semiconductor industry, a new method may put materials like gallium nitride and silicon carbide into wider use in scanning...
Pirelli to Supply Cable for Kuwait-Iran Link
MILAN, Sept. 26 -- Emirates Telecommunications & Marine Services FZE in the United Arab Emirates has awarded Pirelli a contract to supply submarine and land fiber optic cables, terminal transmission...
Kodak Buys CAD Technology, Unveils Growth Strategy
ROCHESTER, Sept. 26 -- Eastman Kodak Co. has announced its purchase of advanced digital medical imaging technology that aids in the early detection of disease, as part of a new growth strategy...
Bookham Technology to Acquire Ignis Optics
OXFORDSHIRE, England, Sept. 25 -- Bookham Technology plc, which announced Monday that it will acquire New Focus Inc., announced today it will acquire Ignis Optics Inc., a provider of optical modules...
Cool Laser Optics Settles, Files Infringement Cases
WESTBOROUGH, Mass., Sept. 25 -- Cool Laser Optics Inc. (CLO), the owner of certain patents regarding skin cooling, announced it has reached an agreement with Lumenis Inc., a laser manufacturer, over...
Ciena Invests in Luminous Networks
CUPERTINO, Calif., Sept. 25 -- Luminous Networks, a provider of multiservice transport platforms that support voice, data, video and wavelength services, announced today it has raised $25 million in...
Imalux Completes $3.5 Million Financing
CLEVELAND, Sept. 24 -- Imalux Corp., a developer of medical imaging systems based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology, announced yesterday it has closed its Series A financing, raising a...
DALSA Receives Digital Camera Contract
WATERLOO, Ontario, Sept. 24 -- DALSA Corp. announced it has received a $1.9 million camera development contract from a leading manufacturer of semiconductor wafer inspection systems. DALSA will...
'Eye of the Sea' Lends Fish-Eye View of Seafloor
Using a new lighted jellyfish lure and a unique camera system, researchers are working to reveal life in the deep sea unaltered by the cacophony of sound and light that have accompanied most past...
Axsys Joins Telescope Mirror Team
ROCKY HILL, Conn., Sept. 23 -- Axsys Technologies Inc., a fabricator of large beryllium mirror substrates and structures used on space and defense applications, announced it is part of a team...
OSI Systems Acquires Weapons Simulation Unit
HAWTHORNE, Calif., Sept. 23 --OSI Systems Inc., a maker of optoelectronic-based components and systems, announced today it has closed its acquisition of the weapons simulation business of Schwartz...
Spectra-Physics and Jenoptik to Offer Thin-Disk Lasers
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 23 -- Spectra-Physics has announced a long-term partnership with Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH to produce, sell and service thin-disk lasers. The companies said the...
Coreco, TELI Form Smart-Camera Partnership
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Sept. 22 -- Coreco Inc. announced it has signed a multiyear agreement with Tokyo Electronic Industry Co. Ltd. (TELI), a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp., to customize smart-vision...
Bookham Technology to Acquire New Focus
OXFORDSHIRE, England & SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 22 -- Bookham Technology plc, a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems for fiber optic communication networks, has agreed to acquire New...
Agilent Technologies, CompUSA Settle 'Mouse' Suit
PALO ALTO, Calif. & DALLAS, Sept. 19 -- Agilent Technologies Inc. and CompUSA Inc. have reached a resolution in a dispute over the use of optical sensors supplied by unlicensed manufacturers of...
Research Network Infrastructure Launched
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 18 -- National LambdaRail Inc. (NLR), a consortium of US research universities and private sector technology companies, announced it is deploying a unique national networking...
Thermo Electron to Acquire Jouan SA
WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 18 -- Thermo Electron Corp. announced it has signed an agreement to acquire laboratory equipment provider Jouan SA, based in Saint-Herblain, France, for $124 million in cash and...
Northrop Grumman to Develop Strategic Illuminator Laser
REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Sept. 18 -- Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Space Technology sector will develop the strategic illuminator laser (SILL) for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), providing a crucial...
Trimble to Buy 3-D Laser Scanning Company
HAMBURG, Germany, Sept. 17 -- Trimble, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of global positioning system (GPS) technology, announced today it has signed an agreement with EDF Environnement et...
Keithley, Zyvex to Work on Nanotech
CLEVELAND & RICHARDSON, Texas, Sept. 17 -- Keithley Instruments Inc., a maker of instrumentation for low-level electrical measurements, and Zyvex Corp., a nanotechnology business, have signed an...
Report: Wider Broadband Use Could Create Jobs
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- As many as 1.2 million new jobs could result over the next decade from widespread adoption of existing and advanced broadband technologies, according to a study published by...
ECD Ovonics to Develop New Optical Switching Devices
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., Sept. 16 -- Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ECD), a developer of renewable energy and advanced information technologies, announced it has been awarded a multimillion dollar,...
Nortel Networks to Invest $200 M in China R&D
BEIJING, China, Sept. 16 --Nortel Networks announced today that it plans to invest $200 million over three years to strengthen its research and development (R&D) capabilities in China. By the end of...
Valeo to Develop Front-Lighting LEDs
FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 16 -- Bright white light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is moving from the rear to the front of the car, Valeo announced at the IAA 60th International Motor Show, being...
Three-Five Systems Completes Brillian Spinoff
TEMPE, Ariz., Sept. 16 -- Three-Five Systems Inc. (TFS) announced it has completed the spinoff of its subsidiary, Brillian Corp., by means of a special dividend distributed to stockholders yesterday....
Dr. Robot Makes Rounds at Johns Hopkins
BALTIMORE, Sept. 15 -- It lacks the warm bedside manner of Marcus Welby or Dr. Kildare, but a high-tech robot being tested at The Johns Hopkins Hospital could be used to link patients with their...
Venture Firm Buys Corning Subsidiary
CORNING, N.Y., Sept. 15 -- Scimitar Capital Partners (SCP) announced today it has purchased Corning Inc.'s subsidiary, CIV LLC, which holds Corning's venture capital portfolio. The transaction was...
NiSource Exits Telecom Business
MERRILLVILLE, Ind., Sept. 15 -- NiSource Inc. announced today it has completed the sale of its telecommunications subsidiary, Columbia Transmission Communications Corp. (Transcom), to NEON...
Class Action Suit Filed Against JDS Uniphase
TORONTO, Sept. 15 -- The State Treasury and Attorney General of Connecticut are leading a class action lawsuit in the US against fiber optic components maker JDS Uniphase Corp. on behalf of thousands...
Confluent Photonics Raises $3 Million
SALEM, N.H., Sept. 12 -- Confluent Photonics Corp., a provider of optical transport solutions including the Lightchip family of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) products for CATV and...
Bookham Completes Ottawa Fab Transfer
OXFORDSHIRE, England, Sept. 12 -- Bookham Technology plc, a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems for fiber optic communication networks, announced it has consolidated its wafer fab...
Beijing High-Tech Expo Aligns With Moon Festival
BEIJING, Sept. 12 -- Opening day of the Sixth China Beijing International High-Tech Expo (CHITEC) yesterday coincided with the Chinese traditional moon festival and resulted in contracts among...
MIT Team Achieves Coldest Temperature Ever
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 12 -- Using lasers, lenses and magnetic fields, MIT scientists have cooled a sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded -- only half-a-billionth of a degree above...
Carbon Nanotubes Exhibit Ideal Photon Emission
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 12 -- Two University of Rochester researchers have discovered another ability of carbon nanotubes, cylinders of tightly bonded carbon atoms that have dazzled scientists and...
Dow Corning Launches Photonics Business
MIDLAND, Mich., Sept. 11 -- Dow Corning Corp. announced this week it has launched a global photonics business that it says takes the advantages of silicon-based materials into the optical domain for...
Nanomix, DuPont Electronic to Develop Nanotubes
EMERYVILLE, Calif. & RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Sept. 11 -- DuPont Electronic Technologies, a supplier of materials for plasma display panel televisions, has been granted an exclusive license from...
Microwave Photonics Opens HQ in LA
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11 -- Microwave Photonics Inc. has announced the launch of its global operations and has opened its headquarters in Los Angeles, Calif., following its first round of funding and...
VSI Awarded Helmet-Mounted Display Contract
HAIFA, Israel, Sept. 10 -- Vision Systems International LLC (VSI) has been awarded an $84.6 million contract by Lockheed Martin Fort Worth to develop VSI's advanced helmet-mounted display (HMD)...
ADC, Sumitomo, PLP Form Alliance
ORLAND, Fla., Sept. 9 -- ADC, Sumitomo Electric and Preformed Line Products (PLP) announced yesterday at the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC), being held this week in Orlando, Fla.,...
NanoOpto Gets $7 Million Series B Funding
SOMERSET, N.J., Sept. 9 -- NanoOpto Corp., which is using proprietary nanofabrication technology to design and manufacture nano-optic devices for optical systems and networks, announced today it has...
Actuality Systems Funding Round Nets $6.2 M
BURLINGTON, Mass., Sept. 9 -- Actuality Systems Inc., a maker of spatial 3-D visualization technology, announced it has completed its latest funding round with participation from Hoya Corp. of Tokyo,...
Positron Systems Detects Damaged Superalloys
BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 8, 2003 -- Positron Systems, a developer of nondestructive and material characterization testing, has announced it can detect and quantify damage in single crystal nickel-based...
Olympus Forms MEMS Technology Division
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 8 -- Olympus Optical Co. Ltd., of Tokyo, announced today it has formed a new MEMS Technology Division that will unify its previous MEMS (microelectromechanical systems)...
Corning Announces Fiber Advancements
CORNING, N.Y., Sept. 8, 2003--Corning Inc. announced today the global conversion of its standard single-mode fiber product portfolio to Corning SMF-28e low-water peak optical fiber. The company also...
LaserSight Files for Bankruptcy
WINTER PARK, Fla., Sept. 5 -- LaserSight Inc. announced today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and reorganization in the US Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Florida, Orlando...
University of South Carolina Gets Nanoscience Grant
COLUMBIA, S.C., Sept. 5 -- The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of South Carolina (USC) a $1.3 million grant to study the societal and ethical implications of nanoscience, the...
Nanocrystals Reveal Nature's 'Strategy'
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 5 -- Researchers are developing complex nanomaterials that look strikingly similar to the microstructures of diatoms and seashells and that may have potential for a wide...
Study Shows Lung Cancer CT Screening Is Cost-Effective
NEW YORK, Sept. 4 -- Low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for lung cancer may not only improve a lung cancer patient's chances for a cure, but is also likely to be cost-effective when compared...
DRS Focal Plane Arrays Aboard SIRTF
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Sept. 3 --DRS Technologies Inc.'s infrared sensors were used on two of three astronomical instruments supporting the NASA Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), which was...
Quantum Dot Licenses MIT Patents
HAYWARD, Calif., Sept. 3 -- Quantum Dot Corp. (QDC) has license three new patents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). QDC will retain exclusive, worldwide license for biological...
OSRAM Develops Blue Thin-Film LEDs
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 3 --OSRAM Opto Semiconductors announced today it has introduced blue thin-film light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which it calls an industry first. OSRAM said the LEDs were...
CIENA Completes Akara Acquisition
LINTHICUM, Md., Sept. 3 -- CIENA Corp. announced today it has completed its acquisition of Akara Corp., as announced August 21. In the transaction, CIENA acquired all outstanding shares of Akara in...
Xtera Acquires Metro-OptiX Inc.
ALLEN, Texas, Sept. 2 -- Telecommunications network equipment provider Xtera Communications Inc. announced today it has acquired Metro-OptiX Inc., a private optical networking equipment provider with...
Diomed to Acquire Laser Treatment Patent Rights
ANDOVER, Mass., Sept. 2 -- Diomed Holdings Inc. announced today that it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire exclusive rights to US Patent No. 6,398,777 and foreign counterparts covering...
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