Photonics Spectra: Coherent This is the syndication feed for Photonics Spectra: Coherent. https://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?Tag=Coherent Fri, 29 Mar 2024 08:22:54 GMT Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:00:00 GMT 1800 Coherent Establishes InP Fabs; OpenLight Formalizes VLC Partnership: OFC News Roundup
Coherent established capability for 6-inch indium phosphide (InP) wafer fabrication in the company’s Sherman, Texas, and Järfälla, Sweden, wafer fabs. Coherent is in the process of qualifying several existing products on its 6-inch InP platform. The company expects to transition the bulk of its production from 3-inch InP to 6-inch InP in the next few years to leverage the benefits of larger wafer size, higher yield, and improved performance that will be required to provide a sustainable competitive advantage in its communications and sensing markets.
Coherent established the world’s first capability for 6-inch indium phosphide (InP) wafer fabrication. Its expanded capacity significantly reduces die cost for InP...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Coherent_Establishes_InP_Fabs_OpenLight/p5/a69845 A69845 Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:00:00 GMT
Coherent CEO Mattera to Retire
Coherent Corp. CEO Vincent "Chuck" Mattera has informed the company’s board of directors that he will retire as CEO, following the hiring of a successor. The board has retained a leading executive search firm to commence a comprehensive search process, which will include evaluating internal and external candidates, to identify a new CEO. A subcommittee has been formed to oversee the search process.
Vincent Mattera will retire as CEO of Coherent following the completion of the company's search for a replacement. Courtesy of Coherent. Mattera’s intention to retire, the company said, does not reflect a dispute or disagreement. In August 2022, Coherent extended Mattera's contract through 2030.

Mattera has been with Coherent...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Coherent_CEO_Mattera_to_Retire/p5/a69750 A69750 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:19:15 GMT
Coherent Appoints Board Directors: People in the News: 10/11/2023
Coherent Corp. appointed two directors to its board: Elizabeth Patrick and Michelle Sterling. Patrick recently served as senior vice president and chief people officer for Diebold Nixdorf, a multinational financial and retail technology company. Sterling served as a human resources consultant and former executive vice president and chief human resources officer at Qualcomm Inc.
Julien Bradley. Courtesy of Axios BioSystems.
ATLANTA — Life science tools company Axion BioSystems appointed Julien Bradley CEO. Bradley has nearly 20 years of experience in biotechnology development, commercialization, and leadership. Most recently, he held the role of CEO at RedShift BioAnalytics since 2019. He has also held executive leadership roles...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Coherent_Appoints_Board_Directors_People_in_the/p5/a69385 A69385 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Coherent, Faraday 1867 Partner on Fusion-Tech
Coherent Corp. and Faraday 1867 Holdings LLC, which is based in Kangawa, Japan, have established a partnership to scale up manufacturing of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape to enable mass deployment of nuclear fusion reactors. A letter of intent signed by the companies outlines a strategy to increase manufacturing capacity at Faraday’s factory in Japan, using excimer lasers from Coherent to meet global demand for HTS tape.

The tape is used in strong electromagnets that are used to contain plasma in magnetic-confinement fusion reactors. Coherent’s LEAP excimer lasers are used in pulsed laser deposition that enables the manufacturing of the tape. Coherent’s LEAP excimer lasers are used in the pulsed laser...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Coherent_Faraday_1867_Partner_on_Fusion-Tech/p5/a69386 A69386 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Cailabs Opens US Office; Teledyne Acquires Xena Networks: Week in Brief: 10/6/23
Rennes, France, based laser communications company Cailabs expanded its operations by opening an office in Washington, D.C. The company has stated an interest in not only supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, but also the Space Development Agency in its laser communications roadmap.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Teledyne Technologies has entered into an agreement to acquire Xena Networks ApS, a Copenhagen-based provider of high-speed terabit ethernet validation, quality assurance, and production test solutions. The deal will allow Teledyne to leverage Xena’s test tools to strengthen its own network.

Process Instruments’ company building in Salt Lake City, Utah. Courtesy of Horiba Instruments Inc.
IRVINE, Calif...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Cailabs_Opens_US_Office_Teledyne_Acquires_Xena/p5/a69377 A69377 Fri, 06 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT
President of Coherent’s Lasers Segment Retires, Prisma Expands US Team: People in the News: 09/06/2023
Mark Sobey, president of Coherent’s lasers segment, has retired. Sobey held the position since July 2022, when II-VI merged with Coherent. Before the merger, Sobey served as Coherent’s COO from 2020 to 2022. From 2010 to 2016, he was executive vice president and general manager of Coherent’s OEM Laser Sources, and from 2007 until 2010, he served as executive vice president and general manager of Specialty Laser Systems.
Mark Sobey. Courtesy of Coherent.
NORTHBRROK, Ill. — IDEX Corp. appointed Allison Lausas as interim CFO following the resignation of senior vice president and CFO William K. Gordon. Lausas joined IDEX in 2021 as vice president and chief accounting officer, and she will continue to serve in the...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/President_of_Coherents_Lasers_Segment_Retires/p5/a69297 A69297 Wed, 06 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Coherent Adds Executive VP; QuiX Quantum Appoints CFO: People in the News: 07/19/23
Quantum photonic computing company QuiX Quantum named Kathy Willing CFO. Willing has over 25 years of international experience in a broad range of industries. She began her career in investment banking as an equity research analyst at Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs, covering the telecommunications industry. She joins QuiX Quantum from Reynen Court, a legal-tech startup based in the U.S. and Netherlands where she served as CFO.
Kathy Willing. Courtesy of QuiX Quantum. PITTSBURGH — Coherent Corp. named Christopher Dorman executive vice president of its laser business. Dorman most recently served as senior vice president and general manager based in Coherent’s Glasgow, Scotland, facility. He joined the company in 2002 as a...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Coherent_Adds_Executive_VP_QuiX_Quantum_Appoints/p5/a69174 A69174 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Coherent Names Deputy CTO, Appoints VP: People in the News: 07/12/23
Coherent Corp. named Young-Kai Chen deputy chief technology officer, and appointed Paul Silverstein vice president for investor relations and corporate communications. Chen previously served as chief scientist in Coherent’s New Ventures and Wide-Bandgap Electronics Technologies group and, before joining Coherent in 2021, as a program manager at DARPA. Chen previously served as senior director at Nokia Bell Labs where he worked on high-speed electronics and optoelectronics, including integrated lasers, silicon photonics, coherent optical data links, and wireless backhaul transceivers. Silverstein joins Coherent with over 25 years of experience in investor relations and corporate finance as a senior analyst. Most recently, he spent the...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Coherent_Names_Deputy_CTO_Appoints_VP_People_in/p5/a69156 A69156 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Resolve Optics Opens Test Center: Week in Review: 07/07/23
Resolve Optics installed and commissioned a new vibration test center adding to the suite of in-house lens-testing equipment the company is able to offer. Lenses used in harsh industrial inspection and military and space applications are often exposed to vibrations, shocks, temperature changes, radiation, and contaminants. The company’s new ETS MPA101-L215M Shaker, coupled with a DTC Venzo 880 controller, is certified and calibrated in accordance with ISO standards, which enables Resolve Optics to not only carry out all the common forms of vibration testing, but also undertake specialist vibration/shock qualification tests in accordance with customer requirements.
Resolve Optics’ new ETS MPA101-L215M vibratory shaker coupled...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Resolve_Optics_Opens_Test_Center_Week_in_Review/p5/a69145 A69145 Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Ams OSRAM Wraps Digital Systems Business Divestiture: Week in Brief: 04/07/23
Electro Optic Systems (EOS) secured a conditional contract to supply remote weapon systems (RWS) to Ukraine valued at up to $80 million. EOS’ Defence Systems business secured the contract with SpetsTechnoExport, a Ukrainian state-owned foreign trade enterprise to supply up to 100 of its heavy RWS to Ukraine, including spares and related services. The contract envisions supply during 2023 and 2024, subject to demonstration testing over the coming weeks and other customary terms for military contracts.
EOS RWS firing off a Royal Netherlands Army 8 x 8 Boxer CRV. Courtesy of EOS. PREMSTAETTEN, Austria — Optical technology company ams OSRAM finalized the divestiture of its digital systems business in Europe and Asia to...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Ams_OSRAM_Wraps_Digital_Systems_Business/p5/a68918 A68918 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Hesai Group Charges Forward with IPO Pricing: Week in Brief: 02/10/23
Lidar technology company Hesai Group announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 10 million American Depositary Shares (ADS), at $19 per ADS, for a total offering size of $190 million. Each ADS represents one class B ordinary share of the company. The ADSs are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol HSAI. The offering is expected to close on Feb. 13, subject to customary closing conditions.

ELKRIDGE, Md. — Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Inc., has been awarded a $13.3 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to further expand capabilities of its R80D SkyRaider unmanned aerial system (UAS) to autonomously perform chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Hesai_Group_Charges_Forward_with_IPO_Pricing/p5/a68749 A68749 Fri, 10 Feb 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Coherent Appoints Executive VP: People in the News: 01/18/23
Coherent Corp. named Beck Mason executive vice president of telecommunications. Mason will lead the telecommunications business unit within the company’s networking segment. He joins Coherent from Lumentum, where he served as senior vice president and general manager of the telecom transmission business for the past four years. Mason joined Lumentum in 2018 through its acquisition of Oclaro, where he was president of the integrated photonics business. Prior to Oclaro, Mason held leadership positions at JDSU Collinear, Finisar, Agere Systems, and Lucent Technologies Bell Labs.
Beck Mason. Courtesy of Coherent. NIJMEGEN, Netherlands — Chip Integration Technology Center (CITC) appointed Mark Luke Farrugia general manager. As of...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Coherent_Appoints_Executive_VP_People_in_the/p5/a68691 A68691 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Fiberoptic Components Rebrands as Innofiber: Week in Brief: 12/09/22
Fiberoptic Components LLC, a supplier and manufacturer of fiber optic cables and engineered photonic solutions, rebranded as Innofiber — to reflect its commitment to innovation and expertise in fiber optic cable technology, the company said. The company launched an updated website and new corporate logo.

BEAUMONT, Texas — Infrared Cameras Holdings Inc. (ICI), a provider of intelligent thermal imaging platforms, will merge with SportsMap Tech Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company with close to $118 million held in trust. The companies signed a definitive agreement for a business combination that will result in ICI becoming a public company. Upon closing the transaction, the combined...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Fiberoptic_Components_Rebrands_as_Innofiber_Week/p5/a68573 A68573 Fri, 09 Dec 2022 07:00:00 GMT
Combined iXblue-ECA Group Company Takes New Name: Week in Brief: 10/21/22
Following Group Gorgé’s acquisition of iXblue last month, ECA Group and iXblue announced that both companies will operate under the common brand name Exail. The company will specialize in robotics, maritime, navigation, aerospace, and photonics technologies.

HAMAMATSU, Japan — Hamamatsu Photonics and Indica Labs — a provider of quantitative digital pathology and image management solutions — formalized an agreement to maintain long-term interoperability between Indica Labs’ HALO AP software platform and Hamamatsu’s NanoZoomer family of high-speed, high-resolution scanners. As laboratories increasingly adopt digital solutions, the collaboration aims to streamline the process of integrating an...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Combined_iXblue-ECA_Group_Company_Takes_New_Name/p5/a68450 A68450 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 07:00:00 GMT
Coherent to Develop Optical Transceivers for Space-Based Program
Coherent Corp. has won a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop coherent optical transceiver technology for the agency’s Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program. The aim of Space-BACN is to create low-cost, high-speed, reconfigurable, laser-based data links that will enable communications between various government and private-sector low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations.

Various incompatible and often proprietary optical intersatellite links prevent LEO satellite arrays from readily sharing information, keeping proliferated space from reaching its full potential. Coherent is tasked with designing and fabricating coherent optical transceivers for a reconfigurable...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Coherent_to_Develop_Optical_Transceivers_for/p5/a68359 A68359 Wed, 14 Sep 2022 07:00:00 GMT
II-VI Finalizes Coherent deal, Names Combined Company Coherent
The combined company will be named Coherent and will trade under the ticker symbol COHR on the Nasdaq stock market. It will be organized into three business segments: Materials, Networking, and Lasers. The launch of the company’s brand identity will be announced at a later date.

Giovanni Barbarossa will continue to serve as the company’s chief strategy officer and lead the Materials segment, previously referred to as the Compound...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/II-VI_Finalizes_Coherent_deal_Names_Combined/p5/a68160 A68160 Tue, 05 Jul 2022 09:17:50 GMT
Single-Mode Semiconductor Laser Exhibits High Power, Scalability
A semiconductor laser developed by University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) researchers accomplishes an elusive goal in the field of optics: the ability to maintain a single mode of emitted light while maintaining the ability to scale up in size and power. The work shows that size does not have to come at the expense of coherence, enabling lasers to be more powerful and to cover longer distances for many applications, the developing team said.

Researchers led by Boubacar Kanté, the Chenming Hu Associate Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) and faculty scientist at the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, showed that a...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Single-Mode_Semiconductor_Laser_Exhibits_High/p5/a68154 A68154 Fri, 01 Jul 2022 07:00:00 GMT
II-VI Clears Last Hurdle in Coherent Acquisition
II-VI, as of June 28, said it expects the acquisition to close on or around July 1.

Under the terms of the merger agreement, each share of Coherent common stock will be exchanged for $220 in cash and 0.91 shares of II-VI common stock.

A timeline of the acquisition history:

2021

Jan. 19: Lumentum announces agreement to acquire Coherent in $5.7 billion deal; Coherent stockholders to receive $100 per...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/II-VI_Clears_Last_Hurdle_in_Coherent_Acquisition/p5/a68146 A68146 Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:28:13 GMT
EFFECT Photonics Augments Its Coherent Technology Business
EFFECT’s acquisition of Viasat’s DSP business marks a significant enhancement to the company’s portfolio. EFFECT will now own the entire coherent technology stack of all optical functions, including a high-performance tunable laser, together with DSP and forward error correction. The acquisition also includes the related engineering team at Viasat, and, pursuant to the acquisition agreement,...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/EFFECT_Photonics_Augments_Its_Coherent_Technology/p5/a67846 A67846 Wed, 09 Mar 2022 07:00:00 GMT
II-VI, Coherent Merger Faces Delay: Week in Brief: 02/11/22
ROSH HAAYIN, Israel — In-fiber photonic processing startup Cognifiber secured $6 million in Series A funding. The technology could deliver a 100× improvement in speed while reducing power consumption by 80%. The round was led by Chartered Group, a private equity firm focused on disruptive technologies with a far-reaching presence in Europe and Asia.

MELVILLE, N.Y. — Nikon Instruments opened its Advanced Microscopy Center in Belmont, Calif., outside San Francisco. The center provides on-site demonstration capabilities for Nikon imaging systems and is expected to accommodate both in-person visits and virtual sessions. Teams can remotely test equipment with the help of Nikon specialists while viewing sample data and...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/II-VI_Coherent_Merger_Faces_Delay_Week_in/p5/a67771 A67771 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:00:00 GMT