SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 4, 2011 — Coherent Inc. announced yesterday that it has exceeded its own net sales projection for the second quarter of 2011. The first quarter saw a 95 percent increase year-to-date, and Coherent projected its second-quarter net sales would range from $187 million to $192 million. Yesterday, the company reported net sales of $200.9 million, up more than $149.2 million from Q2 2010, and net income of $23.7 million, up more than Q2 2010’s net income of $42.8 million. Bookings...

EWING, N.J., May 4, 2011 — Universal Display Corp. announced the establishment of a facility in Hong Kong to expand its footprint in Asia. Hosting a chemistry laboratory, the enterprise will support the company’s research and development initiatives in OLED materials...

BALTIMORE, May 2, 2011 — "Our world has become dependent on the reliable speed of light," retired Corning VP Donald Keck, one of the inventors of low-loss optical fiber, told attendees at the CLEO 2011 plenary session Monday night. At the beginning of his talk, Keck pointed...

WATERTOWN, Mass., May 3, 2011 — Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc. (RMD), the research division of Dynasil Corp., has been named a 2011 small business winner for radiation and nuclear detection by the US Department of Homeland Security. This award is one of the federal...

CHALFONT ST. GILES, England, May 3, 2011 — GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Co., announced it reached an agreement to acquire Applied Precision Inc., a supplier of cellular imaging technologies for cell biology and biomedical research. The acquisition will allow GE Healthcare...

OXFORD, Mass., May 3, 2011 — IPG Photonics, a fiber lasers and amplifiers manufacturer, announced a 95 percent increase in sales in the first quarter of 2011, as compared to a year ago. The increase puts IPG’s sales at $100 million with a net income of $23.1 million....

IRVINE, Calif., May 3, 2011 — Newport Corp. reported record results for the first quarter of 2011, suggesting its strong recovery in 2010 is set to continue for some time. The company posted first quarter sales of $128.4 million, with net sales at more than $20.8 million....

LONDON, May 3, 2011 — Four photonics companies have received Queen’s Awards for Enterprise — the UK’s most prestigious accolades for business success. Specialised Imaging Ltd. of Tring, a supplier of ultrahigh-speed imaging systems and components for...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2, 2011 — Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp. has accepted delivery of a novel biosensor developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The sensor, which is proposed for use in cholera, tuberculosis and malaria diagnosis, could be in clinical trials by 2012. ...

MITTERTEICH, Germany, May 2, 2011 — Schott-Rohrglas GmbH has launched an Internet-based contest that encourages participants to submit design ideas using nonround glass tubing. A video that explains the contest is available on YouTube...

MORGANVILLE, N.J., May 2, 2011 — Optical fiber splicing and processing solutions supplier Vytran LLC announced it has hired Giorgio Giaretta as vice president of research and development. Giaretta has more than 15 years of experience developing innovative products for the...

AHRENSBURG, Germany – Machine vision manufacturer Basler AG is ramping up its hiring once again, reflecting an economic rebound being experienced throughout most of Germany. The company, which currently has about 250 employees, added five new people last year as the...

May 1, 2011 — Boston Micromachines Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., has received a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research Program contract from NASA to support space-based imaging research. The Phase I project is for the development of a high-resolution,...

May 1, 2011 — In France, in a move to strengthen the industrial research capabilities of the III-V Lab in Marcoussis, CEA-Leti of Grenoble, a research and technology organization, will join the center. Established by Alcatel-Lucent of Paris and Thales of...

May 1, 2011 — LED lighting company Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., and Zumtobel Lighting GmbH of Dornbirn, Austria, will continue to provide LED lighting technology in Europe. Cree announced a two-year extension of the agreement it signed in 2008 with Zumtobel. The...

May 1, 2011 — Alfalight Inc. of Madison, Wis., a manufacturer of high-power diode laser products and handheld infrared and visible laser systems, has announced a strategic investment and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel of Arlington, Va., an...

May 1, 2011 — Brush Engineered Materials Inc. of Mayfield Heights, Ohio, has changed its name to Materion Corp., unifying its businesses under the Materion brand. The company has grown through acquisitions and internal initiatives, which continued to operate...

May 1, 2011 — NKT Photonics A/S of Birkerød, Denmark, has been awarded a volume contract to supply its low-noise Koheras Basik fiber laser modules to an undisclosed party for use in a seismic application within the oil industry. The Koheras fiber laser is...

May 1, 2011 — Thermal Technology of Santa Rosa, Calif., has received 59 orders for its Model K1 sapphire crystal grower from customers in Taiwan, Korea and China. In total, the growers will produce 5.2 million two-in-equivalents per year. The Model K1, weighing...

May 1, 2011 — At Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, scientists in the Office of Naval Research’s Free-Electron Laser (FEL) program have achieved a breakthrough in ship protection. They demonstrated an injector that can produce the electrons...

May 1, 2011 — A high-speed molding technology that can form optical components from glass taken directly from a furnace – without polishing or grinding – has been developed by Docter Optics of Neustadt an der Orla, Germany. With funding in part by the...

May 1, 2011 — Robust growth is anticipated and, in fact, already occurring in elements of the optical components market. When compared with past quantities, one area of extraordinary growth is lasers, the sources or drivers of any fiber optic network, and their...

ST. PAUL, Minn., & SHANGHAI, China, April 29, 2011 — In conjunction with the Hefei High-tech Industrial Development Area, 3M has announced its plan to build a manufacturing site for photovoltaic solar materials and renewable energy products. The new plant, 3M Materials Technologies (Hefei) Co.,...

KRAILLING, Germany, April 29, 2011 — Advanced Laser Materials (ALM), which develops and manufactures materials for rapid manufacturing, announced its strategic partnership with Integra Services of Temple, Texas, which offers technical expertise to the laser sintering business. The...

ISFAHAN, Iran, April 29, 2011 — Malek-e Ashtar University of Technology in Central Iran, in association with the electronics industry of Iran, will hold the two-day conference “Optics and Laser Engineering in Iran” on May 18 and 19, 2011, at the university's...