Photonics.com - September 2005

Research & Technology

Korber Foundation Honors Scientist for His Photonic Fiber Research

HAMBURG, Germany, Sept. 7 -- The 2005 Korber European Science Award has been presented to Philip St. John Russell, professor of physics at the University of Bath in England, for his work developing a new type of optical fiber known as a "photonic crystal fiber" that can be used in data transfer, laser, sensor and biomedical and medical technology applications. A Korber Foundation panel...

News & Features

News Briefs Two BAE Systems 70-mm laser-guided rockets, developed for the Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System II (APKWS II) competition, recently completed successful flight tests at the US Army's Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., by making direct hits -- one on a moving target over two miles away. The Nashua, N.H.-based maker of advanced defense and aerospace systems also announced it will bid as prime...

Brion Joins Crolles2 Alliance SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 30 -- Brion Technologies, a Santa Clara-based developer of products for lithography-driven integrated circuit design and manufacturing, has announced a joint development...

Biologist Who Developed Fluorescence Imaging Techniques Receives NIH Award

BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 30 -- Clare M. Waterman-Storer, an associate professor in the department of cell biology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., has been named one of 13...

News Briefs for Sept. 30, 2005 Communications company Alltel of Little Rock, Ark., is donating $1 million to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund to help recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast led by former Presidents George H.W. Bush and...

News Briefs for Sept. 29, 2005 Camarillo, Calif.-based Semtech Corp., a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for computer, communication and industrial applications, announced that the employment of its president and...

Alcatel Sponsoring 'EuroVisions' Exhibition PARIS, Sept. 29 -- The perspectives of 10 photographers on the newly integrated countries of the European Union are the subjects of "Euro Visions -- the New Europeans by Magnum Photographers," an...

News Briefs

Physicist Gregory H. Olsen, co-founder and chairman of Sensors Unlimited Inc. (SUI), will be on board the Soyuz TMA-7 orbital spaceflight mission, scheduled for Sept. 30 at 11:54 p.m. (EST). A...

Meniscus is no Mole Hill to the Small

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 29 -- Walking on water is no problem for some bugs. Getting out can be another story. An obstacle that's nearly invisible to humans can be a life-or-death challenge for a...

New Markets Focus of BU Symposium BOSTON, Sept. 29 -- New markets in photonics will be the focus of the "Future of Light," the Boston University Photonics Center's ninth annual executive symposium, to be held Nov. 10 at the center, 8...

Hologic Buys Fischer Mammography IP BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 29 -- Hologic Inc. announced today it has completed the acquisition of Fischer Imaging Corp.’s intellectual property relating to its mammography business and products, including...

News Briefs Kodak said today it has agreed to sell its assets used to produce precision glass molded aspheres, spherical lenses and lens assemblies to Rochester Precision Optics LLC (RPO), a startup company...

EU's MONA Project Will Coordinate Optics, Nanotech Research GRENOBLE, France, Sept. 28 -- The European Commission (EC) has launched a new project, Merging Optics and Nanotechnologies (MONA), to coordinate research in those fields. The project, which is part...

DARPA Awards Sensors Unlimited $4.5M to Develop Focal Plane Array PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 28 -- Sensors Unlimited Inc., a manufacturer of advanced infrared cameras based on indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) technology, has been awarded a contract by the Defense...

Kodak to Divide Photography Unit NEW YORK, Sept. 28 -- Eastman Kodak Co. is announcing a structural change to its consumer photography division, aimed at giving its digital business a chance to grow, according to the Rochester,...

Diverse Topics on OSA Meeting Agenda WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- Einstein, attosecond-speed cameras and the mysterious moon Titan will be among the topics at Frontiers in Optics 2005, the 89th Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of...

News Briefs Kopin Corp.'s president and CEO, John C.C. Fan, will participate in a panel discussion on homeland defense technologies at an Emerging Technologies Conference to be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at MIT's...

Harris Demos Satellite Antenna Feed MELBOURNE, Fla., Sept. 26 -- Harris Corp. has completed field demonstrations of a satellite antenna feed prototype it says is capable of supporting selectable antenna polarization for satellite...

CTC To Acquire Connecticut Broadband WALTHAM, Mass. & NORTH HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 26 -- CTC Communications announced last week it will acquire Connecticut Broadband, pending regulatory approval. The new company will continue to...

New Optical Polishing Machine Will Help Scientists Build Better Telescopes DENBIGHSHIRE, North Wales, Sept. 26 -- A £1million ($1.77 million) state-of-the-art optical polishing machine that will help scientists build the next generation of telescopes capable of seeing...

News Briefs Vitex Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif., a provider of encapsulation films used in the production of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays and organic semiconductor applications, announced that...

Beijing Using Remote Sensors to Clean Air for 2008 Olympics SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 23 -- Officials with the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau (BEPB) will be using advanced remote sensing technology to target polluting vehicles and help clean the air as...

'Watt Method' May Ease Effort to Redefine the Kilogram

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 23 -- A leading experimental method for defining the kilogram in terms of properties of nature is now more accurate than ever, scientists at the Commerce Department’s...

NSF Buys Glimmerglass Switch for LambdaRail SAN DIEGO & HAYWARD, Calif., Sept. 23 -- Glimmerglass, a provider of automated fiber management solutions, announced today that the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded OptIPuter project has...

New Applications Debut at Ethernet Congress BERLIN, Sept. 23 -- Twelve vendors demonstrated Ethernet access applications at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress, held this month in Berlin. Participants were RAD Data Communications, Actelis,...

Transponder Manufacturers Develop Joint Optical Multisource Agreement GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 22 -- Optical communications companies Essex Corp. of Columbia, Md., Kodeos Communications Inc. of South Plainfield, N.J., and TeraSea Ltd. of Israel have formed a 10 Gb/s,...

L-3 Communications to Acquire EOTech NEW YORK, Sept. 22 -- Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems provider L-3 Communications announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire electro-optical (EO) product and...

News Briefs Bedford, Mass.-based Spire Corp., a supplier of photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing equipment and production lines worldwide, has contracted with Unison Co. Ltd. of Chonan-City, Korea, to provide...

Laser System Shows Potential for Treating Kidney Tumors SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 22 -- Recent animal trials conducted by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation have found success in treating kidney masses or tumors with a GreenLight PV laser system...

L-3 Com to Acquire EOTech NEW YORK, Sept. 22 -- Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems provider L-3 Communications announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire electro-optical (EO) product and...

News Briefs

Novalux Inc., a solid-state RGB lighting manufacturer based in Sunnyvale, Calif., announced that Hiro Uchida has joined its board of directors. Most recently, Uchida was general manager for Sony’s...

SBC California Workers to Help Rebuild Telecommunications in New Orleans SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21 -- SBC California announced it is sending more than 45 California-based technicians and managers, as well as trucks and equipment, to assist in the rebuilding of the...

Nanoscale Conference Attracts 200 WOODBURY, N.Y., Sept. 20 -- More than 200 scientists from 20 countries attended the third annual Seeing at the Nanoscale conference, held last month in Santa Barbara, Calif., co-sponsored by Veeco...

Laser Scientist Named MacArthur Fellow

CHICAGO, Sept. 20 -- Claire Gmachl, a laser engineer and associate professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University, is one of 25 MacArthur Fellows for 2005, the John D. and Catherine T....

Ocean Optics Spectrometer Used in Cancer Detection System DUNEDIN, Fla., Sept. 20 -- A spectroscopy system from optical sensing specialist Ocean Optics forms the basis of a cancer detection system currently undergoing clinical trials. The company's...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Cameras Help Search for Katrina Survivors

GULF COAST, Miss., Sept. 20 -- Providing the benefits of speed, portability and access, a pair of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) surveyed storm-damaged communities in Mississippi as part of the...

Argon ST to Acquire Radix FAIRFAX, Va., Sept. 19 -- Argon ST Inc. announced an agreement to acquire the outstanding stock of Radix Technologies, a Mountain View, Calif., maker of signal processing systems and equipment for...

Nanotechnology Facilities Near Completion

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 19 -— A two-story-high, 450-ft-long wall surface hewn from rock -— reminiscent of the 1000-year-old stonework at New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon archaeological site —- cuts across...

Dow Corning Sets Sights on Optoelectronics Market MIDLAND, Mich., Sept. 16 -- Dow Corning Corp. announced this week that its photonics business development program will become part of its mainstream electronics business to address the needs of...

ATN Completes Acquisition of Commnet ST. THOMAS, US Virgin Islands, Sept. 16 -- Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. (ATN) announced that it has completed its acquisition of 95 percent of Atlanta, Ga. -based Commnet Wireless LLC. ATN paid...

Digital Mammogram Benefits Revealed WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Preliminary results from a large, clinical trial of digital vs. film mammography show no difference in detecting breast cancer for the general population of women in the...

KVH Awarded $3.2 M Raytheon Order for Torpedo's Fiber Optic Gyro

MIDDLETOWN, R.I., Sept. 15 -- KVH Industries Inc., a manufacturer of fiber optic products with communication, navigation and industrial applications, announced that it has received a $3.2 million...

Exhibit Illustrates Art-Science Link

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Artist Jonathan Feldschuh said he was a junior at Harvard, studying physics with distinguished professor Howard Georgi, when he realized physics wasn't right for him. His...

L-3 CE Imager to Be Installed on the Navy's Fastest Ship

NEW YORK, Sept. 14 -- L-3 Communications, a provider of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance products and systems and secure communications systems, announced that its Cincinnati Electronics...

Sabeus Acquires Aragon CALABASAS, Calif., Sept. 14 -- Sabeus Inc., a manufacturer of acoustic sensing and fiber optic systems for telecommunications, industrial and defense applications, today announced the acquisition of...

New World Network to Expand MIAMI, Sept. 13 -- New World Network, the principal owner of the America's Region Caribbean Optical-ring System (ARCOS), has announced multimillion-dollar expansion plans following the sale of the...

Ocean Optics Offers Office, Lab Space to Firms,
Students in Katrina Zone DUNEDIN, Fla., Sept. 13 -- Ocean Optics is offering assistance to optics and photonics businesses and students affected by Hurricane Katrina. The company is making available facilities for light...

Katrina Relief — Photonics Firms Donate Funds, Equipment, Services PITTSFIELD, Mass., Sept. 13 -- Photonics-related companies are contributing to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in the form of financial contributions, volunteerism and donations of technology and...

One-Pot Syntheses Developed For Quantum Dots

BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 13 -- Efficient and highly scalable new chemical synthesis methods developed at the University at Buffalo (UB) Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics have the potential...

LIA Forms Northeast Chapter ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 12 -- More than 50 members of the Laser Institute of America (LIA), a professional society dedicated to fostering lasers, laser applications and laser safety worldwide, voted...

Brazil Opens Semiconductor Fab Facility BELO HORIZONTE, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Sept. 12 -- Brazilian authorities have announced plans to establish a semiconductor industry in the state of Minas Gerais, where it is dedicating 4 million...

Finisar Alleges Agilent Infringement SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 12 -- Finisar Corp., a maker of gigabit fiber optic solutions for high-speed data networks, announced ut was awarded US Patent 6,941,077, involving "digital diagnostics"...

eBay to Acquire Skype LONDON, Sept. 12 -- Online auction provider eBay Inc. has agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies SA, a global Internet communications company, for approximately $2.6 billion in cash...

Epion Partners with Taiwan's Marketech BILLERICA, Mass., Sept. 9 -- Epion Corporation, a commercial developer of gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) systems for microelectronics and related manufacturing, announced plans to market its line of...

Firms Donate Funds, Technology to Relief Efforts PITTSFIELD, Mass., Sept. 9 -- Telecommunications companies are continuing to participate in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in the form of financial contributions, volunteerism and donations of...

FairPoint Completes Bentleyville Acquisition CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 9 -- FairPoint Communications Inc., a provider of communications services to rural communities nationwide, announced that it has completed a merger with Bentleyville...

Photronics Sponsors Seminar on Nanoimprint Lithography BROOKFIELD, Conn., Sept. 9 -- Photronics Inc., a manufacturer of photomasks, announced that it will host a two-hour technology seminar on nanoimprint lithography during the Micro- and Nano-...

Epion Partners with Marketech BILLERICA, Mass., Sept. 9 -- Epion Corp., a commercial developer of gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) systems for microelectronics and related manufacturing, announced plans to market its line of...

Berkeley Lab Offers Research Aid to Scientists Affected by Katrina BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 8 -- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will make its facilities and resources available for researchers whose work was affected by Hurricane Katrina. The...

JDS Uniphase to Acquire Agility SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 8 -- JDS Uniphase, a provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for telecommunications service providers, cable operators and network...

Lockheed to Buy CTI BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 8 -- Lockheed Martin Corp. announced today a definitive agreement to acquire Coherent Technologies Inc., a Louisville, Colo., supplier of laser-based remote sensing systems....

Verizon Hurricane Fund Tops $5 Million NEW YORK, Sept. 8 -- Verizon has raised over $5 million for Hurricane Katrina survivors and is providing them with mobile pay- phone trailers, cell phones, phone banks and free prepaid calling cards....

Srico to Develop Optical Modulators COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 7 -- Srico, a Columbus-based photonics company, was awarded a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to continue development for the US Air Force...

DARPA Continues Cubic's Research with $6.1 Million R&D Contract SAN DIEGO, Sept. 7 -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Cubic Defense Applications, the defense segment of Cubic Corp., a 15-month, $6.1 million research and...

Goodrich to Acquire Sensors Unlimited CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 7 -- Sensors Unlimited Inc. (SUI) today accepted a $60 million cash offer to merge with Goodrich Corp., a Charlotte, N.C., supplier of systems and services to aerospace,...

Korber Foundation Honors Scientist for His Photonic Fiber Research

Zhone Completes Paradyne Acquisition OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 6 -- Zhone Technologies Inc., a network equipment manufacturer, announced it has completed the acquisition of telecommunications product manufacturer Paradyne Networks Inc....

'Nanotechnology for Dummies' Released LITTLE FALLS, N.J, Sept. 6 -- Richard Booker, a doctoral student at Rice University working under Richard Smalley, discoverer of the "buckeyball" -- a collection of 60 carbon atoms in a spheroid...

New X-ray Imager Could Lead to Improvements in Breast and Kidney Cancer Detection

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 6 -- In a development that researchers say could help usher in a new kind of medical imaging for clinics and hospitals, scientists have demonstrated a practical x-ray device...

Bookham Inc. Unveils Its Optical Technology in China SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 5 -- Bookham Inc., a San Jose, Calif-based manufacturer of optical components, modules and subsystems for telecommunications, data communications, aerospace, industrial and...

Applications Now Accepted for Laser Light Innovations Contest DIZINGEN, Germany, Sept. 2 -- Applications and proposals are now being accepted for the 2006 international Berthold Leibinger Innovationpreis, a contest for developers and researchers who do...

Ifos Acquires Oluma Inc. SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 2 -- Ifos Inc., a developer of advanced optical sensing systems, announced the acquisition of all product lines, facilities, intellectual property and other assets of fiber...

Thorlabs Makes 50-Legged Optical Table for Max-Planck

ELY, England, Sept. 1 -- The Thorlabs optical table unit has a range of standard optical tables and workstations. However, the request from Professor Ferenc Krausz and associates at the...

Accent Unveils New Etch Process BEND, Ore., Sept. 1 -- Accent Optical Technologies, a supplier of process control tools for optoelectronic, wireless and silicon semiconductor manufacturers worldwide, has released a novel etch...

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Products

Narrow-Linewidth Fiber Lasers

BIRKEROD, Denmark, Sept. 27 -- Koheras is expanding its line of low-noise, narrow-linewidth distributed feedback (DFB) fiber lasers with an OEM version of its Boostik E15/C15/Y10 products, by offering up to 2-W continuous wave (CW) optical output. The devices are packaged in a rugged carbon-shielded OEM module with a digital RS232 interface and a software program with several control/monitor...

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Smart Breeze

MADISON, Wis., Sept. 26 -- Bruker AXS Inc., a maker of x-ray systems that provide solutions for molecular and elemental analysis by x-ray crystallography, x-ray diffraction and x-ray fluorescence,...

Bruker AXS Inc.

Gigabit Ethernet Interface

BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 23 -- Imperx Inc. announced the addition of Gigabit Ethernet interfaces to its Lynx series of high-performance "smart" cameras, making them more powerful and convenient for...

Imperx Inc.

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Piezo-Driven, High-Speed Steering Mirrors

AUBURN, Mass., Sept. 19 -- Nanopositioning and nanomechanics product manufacturer PI (Physik Instrumente) offers a variety of piezo-driven, high-speed steering mirrors for use in image/beam...

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics

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Ytterbium (Yb) Doped Fiber SALEM, N.H., Sept. 9 -- StockerYale Inc., a provider of photonics-based products, today announced the availability of the first in a series of ytterbium (Yb) doped fiber products. The fiber is a...

ProPhotonix Ltd.

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SpectraSuite, a Java-based Software Platform DUNEDIN, Fla., Sept. 9 -- Ocean Optics Inc., a supplier of solutions for optical sensing, has released SpectraSuite, a modular, Java-based spectroscopy software platform that operates on Windows,...

Ocean Optics - Part of Ocean Insight

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ASIO Microscopic Objectives Lens

KEENE, N.H., Sept. 8 - Janos Technology Inc. a manufacturer of infrared (IR) optics and optical assemblies, has released the ASIO microscopic objectives lens. It is one of 11 in the ASIO series of infrared lenses that...

Janos Technology LLC

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Compact Laser Beam Profiler

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 8 -- The LaserCam HR from Coherent Inc. is a compact, high-resolution laser beam profiler that uses a USB 2.0 camera to enable plug-and-play connectivity, eliminating the...

Coherent Inc.

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L9566 LC8 Lightningcure Series

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Sept. 6 -- Hamamatsu Corp., a manufacturer of devices for the generation and measurement of infrared, visible and ultraviolet (UV) light, introduces the new RS232 controlled L9566...

Hamamatsu Corporation

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Heidelberg Retina Tomograph 3

DOSSENHEIM, Germany, Sept. 6 -- Heidelberg Engineering GmbH, a developer of laser diagnostics for ophthalmic applications, announced the introduction of the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph 3 (HRT3), an...

Heidelberg Instruments Mikrotechnik GmbH

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Compact Laser Beam Profiler

Fitel S177A

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga., Sept. 15 -- Furukawa America Inc., a supplier of fiber optic products to telecommunications, data and cable TV industries throughout the Americas, says it now offers the...

American Furukawa Inc.

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Gigabit Ethernet Interface

BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 23 -- Imperx Inc. announced the addition of Gigabit Ethernet interfaces to its Lynx series of high-performance "smart" cameras, making them more powerful and convenient for...

Imperx Inc.

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Narrow-Linewidth Fiber Lasers

BIRKEROD, Denmark, Sept. 27 -- Koheras is expanding its line of low-noise, narrow-linewidth distributed feedback (DFB) fiber lasers with an OEM version of its Boostik E15/C15/Y10 products, by...

NKT Photonics A/S

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