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Photonics.com - May 2002
News & Features
Kenyan Operator Chooses LMDS Mobile Backhaul
PARIS, May 31 -- Alcatel announced it has been awarded a contract by KenCell, a joint-venture of Vivendi Telecom International and Sameer Investment Ltd., a private investment group in Kenya, to deliver its local multipoint distribution service (LMDS) solution for high-speed data access and advanced broadband applications. Alcatel will provide mobile backhaul for KenCell’s GSM 900 MHz mobile...
Satcom System Passes Flight Test
LOS ANGELES, May 31 -- Teledyne Technologies Inc. said its Teledyne Controls business unit, together with EMS Technologies Inc., have successfully flight-tested EMS's High-Speed Data Satcom product,...
Nortel Cuts More Jobs
OTTAWA, Canada May 31 -- Nortel Networks Corp. has announced plans for 3500 more job cuts and further asset sales, including its fiber optics unit. The company also pared its revenue forecast and cut...
Aculight Wins Air Force Fiber-Laser Contract
BOTHELL, Wash., May 31 -- Aculight Corp. has won a $750,000 contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base to investigate new fiber-laser technologies for laser...
Irvine Sensors to Develop Army Computer Image-Processing Module
COSTA MESA, Calif., May 31 -- Irvine Sensors Corp. has received a $959,000 follow-on contract to previous Small-Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts related to its proprietary Silicon Brain...
Ultrathin Displays Will Yield Novel Devices
OXFORD, England, May 30 -- Transparent display screens on shop windows, wristband displays, light-emitting panels (LEPs) in safety clothing and TVs that can be rolled up and carried around: Such...
PerkinElmer Donates Instruments to Museum
PHILADELPHIA and SHELTON, Conn., May 30 -- PerkinElmer Instruments has donated an extensive collection of historic analytical instruments to the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), to be exhibited in...
All Optical Networks Announces 1st-Round Funding
SAN DIEGO, May 30 -- All Optical Networks Inc. announced today the closing of a $6 million Series A funding round and the addition of George Cagle as executive vice president of engineering and...
Olicom Invests in Tpack
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 29 -- Olicom A/S announced it has provided series A funding for Tpack A/S, a fabless semiconductor company that develops and markets technology for intelligent data services...
Data-Pixel, Microcut to Collaborate
CRAN-GEVRIER, France, and LENGNAU, Switzerland, May 29 -- Data-Pixel SAS and Microcut, a member of the the SwissMicro Group, announced today the signing of a letter of intent (LOI) to jointly develop...
Steve Sheng Named Spectra-Physics President
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 29 -- Steve Sheng has been promoted to president of Spectra-Physics, a Thermo-Electron Corp. company. Sheng will be responsible for formulating and implementing an...
Raytheon Receives $53 Million for B-Kits
MCKINNEY, Texas, May 28 -- Raytheon Co. has received a $53 million US Army contract for horizontal technology integration second-generation forward-looking infrared (FLIR) B-Kits for fiscal years...
Redfern Photonics to Sponsor Australian ICT Center
SYDNEY, May 28 -- Redfern Photonics Pty. Ltd., an Australian company that invests in and helps develop photonics communications firms, has been named a key sponsor of the National Information and...
Intel Buys New Focus Laser Unit for $50 Million
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 24 -- Intel Corp. said that it had bought a laser technology business from New Focus Inc. for $50 million in cash. Intel said the deal would help it develop cheaper and...
ICN Pharmaceuticals, U of Michigan to Study Lasers for Skin Diseases
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 24 -- The University of Michigan has received funding from ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc. for a three-year study examining the medical benefits of non-ablative lasers. ICN currently...
Elbit Vision Systems CEO Takes Leave
YOQNEAM, Israel, May 23 -- Ofer Yuval, president and CEO of Elbit Vision Systems (EVS) is leaving the company as of June. "It has been my privilege to serve EVS," Yuval said. "Now it is time for me...
VCSEL Tranceiver Market Put at $290 Million in 2001
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 23 – As a result of the downturn in telecom/datacom equipment shipments, the vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) -based transceiver market dipped to $290 million in...
ADVA Optical Picks IBM Global for Networking Support
MARTINSRIED/MUNICH, Germany, May 23 -- ADVA Optical Networking has selected IBM Global Services to deliver service and support to ADVA's end user customers in North America. Under the terms of the...
Qwest to Provide Broadband Service Network for MSN
DENVER, May 22 -- Qwest Communications International Inc. has been awarded a long-term contract to provide a global fiber-optic broadband network for MSN Broadband Internet Access. MSN will use the...
Cymer, LTB Lasertechnik Berlin Developing DUV Spectrometer
SAN DIEGO, May 22 -- Cymer Inc. and LTB Lasertechnik Berlin GmbH have agreed to jointly develop an advanced spectrometer for measuring the spectral performance of deep-ultraviolet (DUV) light...
FDA Approves Laser Removal of Stretch Marks, Scars, Burns
NEW YORK, May 22 -- The FDA has approved the XTRAC excimer laser manufactured by PhotoMedex for treatment of leukoderma, including stretch marks, scars, burns and other loss of skin pigmentation....
Elbit Wins $16 Million Contract to Upgrade Israeli Tanks
HAIFA, Israel, May 21 -- Elbit Systems Ltd. has been awarded a $16 million contract to upgrade the fire control computers of the Israeli Defense Force's Merkava and M60 tanks. Elop Electro-Optics...
Toshiba Unveils New Polysilicon TFT LCD
BOSTON, May 21 -- Toshiba Corp. said that it has developed the world's first large flexible liquid crystal display, opening the way to the display of images on curved screens and moving toward the...
Essex, Fiberspace Report 6.25 GHz Ultra-Dense WDM
COLUMBIA, Md., May 21 -- Essex Corp. and Fiberspace Inc. said that they will demonstrate OC-48 transmission at 6.25 GHz channel spacing at SuperComm 2002 in Atlanta, GA, June 4 - 6, 2002. The...
Flag Telecom to Complete North Asian Loop
HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 21 -- FLAG Telecom Holdings Limited along with its group companies ("FLAG Telecom"), said that it has reached another major milestone in the completion of the FLAG North Asian...
INRAD to Supply Optical Filter for Missile Warning System
NORTHVALE, N.J., May 17 -- INRAD Inc. has been awarded a letter of intent and production contract to provide a key ultraviolet (UV) waveband optical filter element for the next-generation airborne...
Cornell Team Developing New MEMS Display Technology
ITHACA, N.Y., May 17 -- Nanofabrixa, a startup company based in Ithaca, is in the process of developing new novel materials to produce high-performance microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices....
Asia/Pacific Telecom Services Growth Predicted
SINGAPORE, May 17 -- Despite the problems facing the overall telecom industry, the Asia/Pacific (including Japan) fixed telecom services market will continue to show modest growth over the next five...
EXFO Cutting Workforce by 20 Percent
QUEBEC, May 16 -- EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. announced it is reducing its global workforce by approximately 20 percent, part of "additional proactive measures" the company said it is...
Nanya Technology Corp. Orders ESI Laser Systems
PORTLAND, Ore., May 16 -- Electro Scientific Industries Inc. (ESI) announced an order for eight 1.3-micron laser semiconductor processing systems from Nanya Technology Corp. The systems will be used...
Jenoptik Acquires Coastal Optical Systems
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., May 15 -- Coastal Optical Systems Inc. has been acquired by Germany-based Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmBH, a subsidiary of Jenoptik AG. The company has acquired 100 percent...
Army Steps Up Carbon Nanotube Production
BOSTON, May 15 -- NanoLab, a Boston-based nanotechnology startup, has received $750,000 in funding from the US Army to increase production of multiwalled carbon nanotubes. NanoLab said it expects to...
Mirror Fibers Could Create Photonic Fabrics
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 15 -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created high-performance mirrors in the shape of hair-like, flexible fibers that could be woven into...
Optics Leaders to Speak at CLEO/QELS
WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Attendees at the upcoming Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS 2002) will have the opportunity to hear from...
Sumitomo Chemical Invests in CDT LEP Strategy
CAMBRIDGE, England, May 14 -- Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. of Japan has made an equity investment in Cambridge Display Technology's (CDT) commercialization strategy for LEPs within the organic...
Agility Communications Expands to Silicon Valley
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 14 -- Agility Communications Inc., producer of widely tunable lasers for metro, switching and long haul markets, announced it has expanded into the Silicon Valley area with...
Telia Sells Infrastructure to Telewest Communications
HELSINKI, Finland, May 14 -- Telia International Carrier (Telia IC) has announced the sale of 48 fibers to Telewest Communications broadband communications and media group. The infrastructure is on...
Alcatel to Expand Broadband Access in China
Paris, May 14 -- Alcatel announced it has won a contract in China’s Zhejiang Province to provide Zhejiang Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom, with 80,000 digital subscriber lines (DSL) as part of...
Adept Completes Sale of Silma Cimstation Inspection Assets
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 13 -- Adept Technology Inc., manufacturer of flexible automation for the telecommunications, fiber optic and semiconductor industries, said it has completed the sale of certain...
Photonic -- and Tulip -- Clusters Bloom in Ottawa
OTTAWA, May 13 -- The world's largest tulip festival lent ambiance to Opto-Canada last week, where "clusters of clusters" -- forged relationships among cities that are emphasizing photonics -- was a...
Boeing Digital Cinema Technology to Debut
SEAL BEACH, Calif., May 13 -- The Boeing Co. is installing its Digital Cinema systems in movie theaters across the United States and in London. The Boeing system, which uses satellite, fiber optics...
Planar Completes $10 Million Equity Financing
BEAVERTON, Ore., May 13 -- Planar Systems Inc., producer of flat-panel display systems, said it has completed a private placement of common stock with an institutional investor. Proceeds of the...
BAE SYSTEMS IR Sounder to Improve Weather Forecasts
NASHUA, N.H., May 10 -- BAE SYSTEMS' Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), built by the IR Imaging Systems (IRIS) business area in Lexington, Mass., was launched May 4 on board NASA's Aqua spacecraft...
Spire Providing Cyprus Firm With Solar Module Manufacturing Line
BEDFORD, Mass., May 10 -- Spire Corp. has won a $2.7 million contract to provide a Spi-Line turnkey photovoltaic module production line to ATmicro Solar, a new company located in Cyprus. This...
July 1 Deadline for Woman-Physicist Award Nominations
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 10 -- July 1 is the deadline to nominate a woman physicist for the American Physical Society's (APS) Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, which recognizes and enhances outstanding...
Essex Awarded $25M Contract for DoD Radar Programs
COLUMBIA, MD., May 10 -- Essex Corp., a developer of optoelectronic processors and technologies for signal processing applications, announced today it has been awarded a five-year IDIQ (indefinite...
Foundry Networks to Supply Telecom Ottawa Metro Network
LAS VEGAS, May 9 -- Foundry Networks Inc. has announced an agreement to supply a metropolitan area network to Telecom Ottawa, a broadband data utility operating in the telecom services market in...
Palomar Reports First Shipments to China
BURLINGTON, Mass., May 9 -- Palomar Medical Technologies Inc. has begun shipments of its EsteLux light-based hair removal systems to China. The shipments were made to a distributor for clinical...
Genoptix Awarded DARPA Phase I Contract
SAN DIEGO, May 9 -- Genoptix Inc. has received a $99,000 Phase I research and development contract, with the potential of a future Phase II contract for an additional $750,000, from the US Defense...
Liteye, IBM Sign Display Technology License
DENVER, May 9 -- Liteye Systems and IBM Corp. have entered a license agreement for lightweight, high-resolution head-mounted displays that Liteye plans to manufacture for computer applications. IBM's...
U of Washington Photonics Research Awards Could Reach $100 Million
SEATTLE, May 8 -- The total investment in University of Washington (UW) photonics research could exceed $100 million in the next ten years, said Larry Dalton, a chemistry professor who is the...
NASA Space Center Wins Award for Video Enhancement System
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 8 -- Three members of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center team have won the Federal Lab Consortium’s Excellence in Technology Transfer Award for a computer-based system that is...
OFS, Foundry Networks Report Ethernet Advances with Fiber
LAS VEGAS, May 8 - OFS and Foundry Networks Inc. have together successfully demonstrated 10 Gigabit Ethernet at distances beyond 802.3ae specification. Foundry's 10 Gigabit Ethernet ER module...
Forecast: Rapid Rise in Multifiber Transmit Link Components
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 8 -- Global consumption of multifiber transmit link components will rise rapidly from $48.7 million in 2001 to $1.25 billion in 2006, according to ElectroniCast's...
Raytheon Spectroradiometer Enters Orbit
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 7 -- Raytheon Co.'s second Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) entered Earth's orbit on May 4 on board the Aqua, a satellite in NASA's Earth Observing...
Japan Approves Laserscope Lyra Laser
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 7 -- Laserscope has received clearance from the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare to market its Lyra XP laser system and accessories into the aesthetic market in Japan....
RVSI, Microvision Team on Mobile Biometric System
BOTHELL, Wash., May 7 -- Microvision Inc. and Robotic Vision Systems Inc. (RVSI) have agreed to co-market a mobile biometric identification system. The system, which incorporates Microvision's Nomad...
800 Expected at Opto-Canada
OTTAWA, Canada, May 6 -- About 800 are expected to attend Opto-Canada 2002, being held May 9-10 at the Ottawa Congress Centre. In addition to attracting members of the Ottawa photonics community,...
FLIR Systems to Upgrade Huey IR Systems
PORTLAND, Ore., May 6 -- FLIR Systems Inc. has been awarded a $7.3 million contract by the Naval Surface Warfare Center to complete the upgrade of the infrared (IR) imaging systems used on the US...
Ottawa: 'We're Number One in Photonics'
OTTAWA, May 6 -- When Ottawa's Scott Marshall is asked to comment about how Canada's capital stacks up against other high-tech centers around the world, his bullish response is anything but the kind...
OnFiber Communications Acquires Sphera Assets
AUSTIN, Texas, May 6 -- OnFiber Communications Inc., provider of optical metropolitan connectivity, announced it has acquired network assets and customer contracts of Sphera Optical Networks Inc. for...
Movaz Networks Closes $60 Million in Funding
ATLANTA, May 6 -- Movaz Networks, provider of optical networking solutions for the Metro Edge, Metro Access and Metro Core, has announced the closing of $60 million in funding consisting of Series C...
Broadband Equality Bill Introduced
WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Legislation to encourage the widespread deployment and use of broadband technology was introduced Tuesday by Sens. John Breaux (D-La.) and Don Nickles (R-Ok.). The Broadband...
Corning to Supply Fibers to Alcoa
CORNING, N.Y., May 3 -- Corning Inc. and Alcoa Inc. have announced a strategic agreement for the supply of Corning optical fiber to Alcoa's AFL Telecommunications business through 2005. The...
CyberOptics Acquires Photonics Assembly Equipment Rights
MINNEAPOLIS, May 3 -- CyberOptics Corp. announced that it has acquired from Avanti Optics Corp., in consideration for a $1.5 million term loan, the right to manufacture and distribute manual and...
Lambda Physik Receives 157nm Laser Order
GOTTINGEN, Germany, May 3 -- Lambda Physik AG, suppliers of pulsed UV lasers, has obtained an order totalling about $3.6 million for the newest generation of its ultrashort wavelength 157nm lasers....
Indigo-DUV Wins Circle of Excellence Award
LOS GATOS, Calif., Feb. 5 -- Positive Light's Indigo-DUV laser was awarded the 2002 Photonics Spectra Circle of Excellence Award at Photonics West 2003 last week. The company said the product is the...
Lumera, U of Washington Claim EO Materials Breakthrough
BOTHELL, Wash., May 2 -- Lumera Corp., a subsidiary of Microvision Inc., said that, in collaboration with the University of Washington, it has demonstrated new materials that exhibit unprecedented...
CDT, Bayer AG Sign LEP Materials Agreement
CAMBRIDGE, England, May 2 -- Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Cambridge Display Technology (CDT), developer and owner of the intellectual property for light-emitting polymer (LEP) technology, have...
Intel Licenses Technology From Lucent
HILLSBORO, Ore. and MURRAY HILL, N.J., May 2 -- Intel Corp. said it is licensing technology from Lucent Technologies that will help speed up and increase the efficiency of networks. As part of the...
Telia Survey Maps Small-Business Broadband Needs
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 2 -- Eighty percent of Sweden/s 800,000 small businesses are connected to the Internet, and most of these companies are still connected via modem, although half said they will...
WorldCom Chief Executive Resigns
CHICAGO, May 1 -- Bernard Ebbers, WorldCom Inc.'s CEO, has resigned in the wake of investigations into $366 million in personal loans he received from the company. Ebbers is succeeded by Vice...
Galian Photonics Completes 2nd-Round Financing
VANCOUVER, Canada, May 1 -- Galian Photonics Inc., a developer of integrated optical components enabled by photonic crystal technology, announced it has received $4.4 million in second-round...
Hutchison Telecom to Acquire Asia Global Crossing Holdings
HONG KONG, May 1 -- Hutchison Telekom Ltd. has agreed to pay $120 million in cash to buy out Asia Global Crossing Ltd.'s shares in three joint ventures that the two companies set up in Hong Kong. The...
Three-Five Systems Acquires Inviso Patents and Assets
TEMPE, Ariz., May 1 -- Three-Five Systems Inc. has completed the acquisition of all the intellectual property and selected assets of Inviso Corp., a former LCoS microdisplay company that focused on...
Teledyne Technologies Wins Space and Missile Defense Command Contract
LOS ANGELES, May 1 -- Teledyne Solutions Inc. has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract from the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). Teledyne Solutions will provide a broad array...
Planar Systems Acquires DOME Imaging Systems
BEAVERTON, Ore., May 1 -- Flat-panel-display maker Planar Systems Inc. has completed its acquisition of DOME Imaging Systems of Waltham, Mass. DOME's display systems for diagnostic imaging will...
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