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MKS’ Acquisition of Coherent Would Have Ripple Effect on Ultrafast Laser Sector
Feb. 11, 2021 — Coherent’s confirmation Monday that members of its board are actively reviewing an unsolicited purchase offer from MKS Instruments came less than three weeks after Coherent and Lumentum announced a $5.7 billion deal, in which Lumentum would acquire the California-based laser manufacturer. According to analysts, both prospective deals would be immediately consequential across photonics business sectors, bringing together two industry leaders and forming a powerhouse company. MKS, in
Optics Anniversary: Online Certificate Program Turns 10
Aug 5, 2019 — Ten years ago, the University of California, Irvine, Division of Continuing Education (UCI DCE) saw that the market was in need of skilled optical engineers and created a certificate program that would flexibly and affordably meet the needs of...
Laser Microfabrication Techniques Move Rapid Prototyping to the Mainstream
Feb 23, 2017 — Rapid prototyping is a fabrication technique that uses additive layer-by-layer fabrication to create three-dimensional structures from devices ranging in scale from MEMS devices to 3D-printed houses. The technique has its origins in the mathematical...
Two-Photon Polymerization: Additive Manufacturing From the Inside Out
Sep 20, 2016 — The 20th century was an era of revolutionary materials science development, as plastics, semiconductors and biomaterials were introduced, and established materials such as metals and ceramics were significantly upgraded. These new and improved...
Newport Adds Rapid Prototyping at Mass. Optics Facility
FRANKLIN, Mass., April 19, 2016 — Photonics and optics technology firm Newport Inc. said it has completed a capacity expansion and upgrade of its Corion optical filter and replicated mirror manufacturing facility in Western Massachusetts. The renovation added new coating chambers...
Newport Corp. Announces $607M Net Sales in 2016, Acquisition by MKS for $980M
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 24, 2016 — Newport Corp. has announced an agreement with MKS Instruments Inc. in which MKS will acquire Newport for $23 per share in cash, for a total transaction value of about $980 million. The combined company is expected to have approximately $1.4 billion...
Newport Touts Record Sales Amid Acquisitions
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 9, 2015 — Newport Corp. notched sales and orders records in 2014, with profits reaching $35.1 million. Net sales for the year were $605.2 million, $158.7 million of that coming in the fourth quarter. “Our sales and orders in the fourth quarter of 2014...
Newport to Acquire Austrian Firm Femtolasers
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 6, 2015 — Newport Corp. plans to acquire Femtolasers Produktions GmbH of Vienna. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed. Femtolasers develops ultrafast lasers for scientific and biomedical research applications,...
Kadia Joins Newport Board of Directors
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 22, 2014 — Evans Analytical Group CEO Dr. Siddhartha Kadia has joined Newport Corp.’s board of directors. Kenneth F. Potashner, chairman of Newport’s board of directors, said Kadia “has extensive leadership experience in the life and health...
Earnings Soar at Newport
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 30, 2014 — Newport Corp. reported third-quarter profits of $9.5 million, a dramatic increase from $437,000 in the third quarter of 2013.
Newport Profits Jump in Second Quarter
IRVINE, Calif., July 31, 2014 — Newport Corp. closed the second quarter of 2014 with earnings of $8.997 million, compared to $2.605 million in the second quarter of 2013, an increase of 245 percent. On a sequential basis, sales rose 4.3 percent to $153 million and orders increased...
Newport to Acquire Fiber-Laser Firm V-Gen
IRVINE, Calif., July 25, 2014 — Newport Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire V-Gen Ltd., a developer and manufacturer of pulsed fiber lasers headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The sale price was not disclosed, but Newport said V-Gen is expected to generate sales of $15...
Trends in Microscopy: A Big Market, Focused on the Very Small
Feb 13, 2014 — The microscopy market is growing – set to exceed $5 billion by 2018 – even as microscopic targets get smaller and smaller. The microscopy market is trending upward – and the technology is continually allowing researchers to see...
Where the Jobs Are Now
Jan 16, 2014 — As I contemplated today’s photonics job/employment environment, and the business climate and outlook for 2014, I went back to the “Where the Jobs Are” article I wrote for the August 2012 issue of Photonics Spectra. One difference...
Richardson Gratings Names UK Distributor
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 2, 2013 — Richardson Gratings has named Pro-Lite Technology Ltd. as distributor for its diffraction grating products in the UK and Ireland. Cranfield, England-based Pro-Lite was founded in 2002 and serves academic and industrial customers in the optics and...
Newport Inks $14M Deal for Optomechanical Subsystems
IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 5, 2013 — Newport Corp. has signed a $14 million deal to collaborate with an OEM customer to develop optomechanical subsystems for a next-generation semiconductor equipment application, the company said Monday. The development program with the unnamed...
ILX Donates Laser Diode Instruments to UCSB
BOZEMAN, Mont., Nov. 2, 2013 — ILX Lightwave donated $12,000 worth of laser diode instrumentation to the Weld research group at the University of California at Santa Barbara last month. Laser diode instrumentation is used to precisely control a laser diode’s optical output...
Dual- and Triple-Band AR Coatings Enhance IR Systems
Nov 1, 2013 — Advanced dual-band coatings improve camera performance in the 3- to 5-µm and 8- to 12-µm spectral regions. Dual-band infrared camera systems allow the 3- to 5-µm and 8- to 12-µm spectral regions to be viewed and compared....
Newport Honored for Optics, Photonics Support
IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 1, 2013 — Newport Corp. was recently given an award from SPIE in recognition of the photonics company’s financial support of students, early-career entrepreneurs and female professionals in optics and photonics. The advanced technology maker has funded...
Newport Divesting Micro Robotics Systems Unit
IRVINE, Calif. & NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., Oct. 25, 2013 — Newport Corp. is selling its Micro Robotics Systems (MRSI) advanced packaging business for $6 million to a private investment group led by the local management team, the lasers and optical components maker said on Thursday. “The MRSI business...
LightPath Expands IR Team
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 29, 2013 — LightPath Technologies Inc. has expanded its IR business team with the appointment of Glenn Breeze as worldwide infrared sales manager in the company’s infrared optics department.
CLEO Presents Cutting-Edge Research on Optics, Lasers
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 7, 2013 — Smartphone-based cancer detection, a telecom-based time cloak and UV-LEDs that slow food rot are just a few of the cutting-edge applications of optics and lasers that will be discussed next week at CLEO: 2013, the Conference on Lasers and...
PI Names Culpi Engineering Chief of PI miCos Products
AUBURN, Mass., April 9, 2013 — PI (Physik Instrumente) USA has extended support for the PI miCos precision positioning product lines with the appointment of William Culpi as engineering chief.
Ophir Photonics Opens New Office in Germany
DARMSTADT, Germany, April 2, 2013 — Laser measurement equipment maker Ophir Photonics announced Tuesday that it has opened a new office in Darmstadt and has hired former Synrad executive Christian Dini to serve as its general manager.
Cobolt Opens First US Sales Office
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 14, 2013 — Diode-pumped solid-state laser provider Cobolt AB has opened its first US sales office in the San Francisco Bay area and will begin serving customers March 25.
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