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Defense Program Spurs Development of Optical Data Storage
May 1, 1999 — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has organized an industry-university consortium to develop fast readout optical storage technology. Call/Recall Inc. in San Diego, which develops optical storage devices, will work on a high-speed, high-capacity storage system for optical media such as digital video disk systems and optical disks. The aim will be to improve data readout speed and bandwidth. The consortium has also tapped Hewlett-Packard Co. in Santa Rosa, Calif., to deve...
Department of Defense Seeks Applicants for R&D Awards
May 1, 1999 — The US Department of Defense is soliciting applications for its Small Business Innovation Research program beginning May 1. Proposals will be accepted from July 1 to Aug. 11. The program provides more than $500 million annually to small technology...
Laser Communications Comes out of the Fog
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Like ground-based radio-frequency communications systems, free-space laser communications systems can suffer from performance problems under adverse atmospheric conditions. In some situations, the apparatus will quit working...
Photonics Industry Watches Warily for China Export Policy Changes
May 1, 1999 — Findings from the Cox Report, a six-month congressional investigation into the transfers of sensitive technology to China, may have broad implications for photonics companies that export products, affecting their hiring practices, technology...
Polarization Boosts Display Efficiency
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Displays are notoriously inefficient energy users, but scientists at the University of Rochester have developed an optical polarization method to change that, creating nearly perfect circularly polarized light. Researchers at the...
Raytheon Ships $40 Million Adaptive Optics System
May 1, 1999 — An adaptive optics system designed and produced by Raytheon Optical Systems Inc. in Danbury, Conn., has arrived at the US Air Force Research Laboratory's Maui Space Surveillance Complex in Hawaii. The adaptive optics will be installed in a...
Sanders Delivers Fiber Optic Decoys for Flight Tests
Apr 23, 1999 — NASHUA, NH, April 23 -- Sanders, an operating company of Lockheed Martin's Electronics Sector, has delivered to the US Armed Forces the first six operational fiber optic towed decoys developed under the engineering and manufacturing development...
German, Italian Telecoms Near Merger
Apr 20, 1999 — LONDON, UK, April 20 -- Deutsche Telekom AG and Telecom Italia SpA have proposed a merger that would create a telecommunications giant worth more than $200 billion. If the proposed merger survives problems with Deutsche Telekom's state ownership and...
A Light-Speed Defense Against Mach-Speed Missiles
Apr 1, 1999 — The proliferation of short- and long-range missiles did not end, as some hoped, with the Cold War. As Iraq and North Korea have illustrated, modern missile technology can lend first-class military power to poor and developing nations. Consequently,...
Changing the Face of Warfare:
Apr 1, 1999 — With incidents such as the Oklahoma City bombing and nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway still fresh in the world's collective consciousness, the US and other nations have stepped up efforts to address the heightened prospect of terrorist attacks....
Lessons from the Battlefield: Technology Transfer Cuts Both Ways
Apr 1, 1999 — As an industry, photonics can testify to the value of technology transferred out of the military. Charge-coupled devices, diode lasers and infrared imaging all owe much of their early development to defense basic research fueled by the Cold War and...
Night Vision:
Apr 1, 1999 — General Motors is including a night-vision system with its newest Cadillacs, a breakthrough in mass consumer applications for a technology that has been under development for more than 50 years -- primarily for military use. From the introduction of...
Software Enhances Grainy Security Videos
Apr 1, 1999 — The images are familiar: a burglar caught in the act by a convenience store's security camera. As useful as these security tapes are, they are often too grainy to erase doubts about a suspect's identity. A software package developed by the US...
Optical Storage Consortium Eyes Removable Media for Future DVDs
Mar 26, 1999 — COSTA MESA, Calif., March 26 -- Irvine Sensors Corp. reports that its Neo-stack packaging technology is being employed in a project to develop a high-speed removable optical storage system for future Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) systems. The Fast...
Display Consortium to Fund Improved Projection Optics
Mar 24, 1999 — SAN JOSE, Calif., March 23 -- The United States Display Consortium will provide funding to Illumitech Inc. for the development of improved optics used in projection display systems. The award is part of a USDC contract with Welch Allyn, Inc. of...
Northern Light and NTIS Join Forces
Mar 17, 1999 — CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 17 -- Northern Light Technology LLC has been selected by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) to develop gov.search, a new site which will provide access to US Federal Government information. The gov.search...
British Aerospace Flies off with GEC's Marconi
Mar 1, 1999 — This home to renowned air shows recently saw some stratospheric maneuvering of another sort when British Aerospace plc announced it would sign a deal to merge with the Marconi Electronics Systems business of GEC-Marconi plc, including its...
Methode Buys Connector Manufacturer
Mar 1, 1999 — Methode Fiber Optic Products of Chicago has acquired Stratos Ltd. of Haverhill, UK. Formerly AB Stratos Ltd., the company manufactures fiber optic connectors capable of withstanding harsh environments. Terms of the cash deal were not disclosed. ...
Miniature Display Market Set for Record Growth
Mar 1, 1999 — Total shipments for microdisplays reached 431,900 units last year with an estimated average annual growth rate of 43.2 percent over the next five years. That's the projection from a recently released report from Business Communications Co. Inc. in...
New Technical Program to Highlight Aerosense
Mar 1, 1999 — SPIE has announced that Aerosense '99 will take place in Orlando from April 5 to 9. The symposium this year offers a largely revised series of technical conferences for component and system designers of sensors and simulation in the military and...
Uncooled IR Detector Could Enable Cheaper Cameras
Mar 1, 1999 — MSI engineers are working to develop an uncooled infrared detector that will enable the production of inexpensive IR cameras. Such a detector could penetrate such markets as vision assistance systems for automobiles and industrial monitoring...
US Restricts Exports to Three More Russian Institutions
Mar 1, 1999 — US National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger announced recently that three Russian research institutions have been added to the "denied entity" list maintained by the US Bureau of Export Administration. The Moscow Aviation Institute, Mendeleyev...
Image Intensifier Market to Grow 7.6 Percent
Feb 1, 1999 — The total world market for image intensifier-type night-vision devices was $378.4 million for 1998, according to a recent report released by Frost & Sullivan in Mountain View, Calif. The company also predicted annual growth of 7.6 percent,...
China May Be Building a Laser to Target US Satellites
Jan 1, 1999 — The Chinese government may be building a high-power laser with the ability to destroy US military satellites hovering over Asia, according to a recent article in The Los Angeles Times. The newspaper cited a declassified report from the US Department...
Optical System Speeds Automatic Target Recognition
Jan 1, 1999 — Hoping to overcome the limitations previously associated with automated target recognition, Litton Data Systems has developed a miniature optical correlator that could boost the processing speed of these systems tenfold. Although the project has...
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