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CLEO Attendance Falls
Jul 1, 1997 — CLEO '97 (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics) held in Baltimore failed to attract as many attendees as it did last year. There were 6644 total attendees this year compared with 6936 for the previous conference in Anaheim, Calif. Of all categories, walk-in attendance dropped off most sharply, down from 2242 in 1996 to 1807; the number of exhibit personnel dipped from 2525 to 2381. The only category to post an increase was technical/professionals, up from 2169 last year to 2456.
Japanese Electronics Industry Takes a Hit
Jul 1, 1997 — Prices on computer memory chips nose-dived recently, cutting sharply into group profits for some of Japan's leading makers of electronic products. Toshiba Corp., Fujitsu Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. posted lackluster earnings but predicted...
Laboratories' Contracts up for Renewal
Jul 1, 1997 — WASHINGTON -- The US Department of Energy (DoE) and the University of California are negotiating new contracts for the management of Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos national laboratories. The current contracts, worth a total of...
Laser Ultrasonics Drive the Nondestructive Testing Market
Jul 1, 1997 — Laser-based systems will drive ultrasonic testing to the forefront of the nondestructive testing (NDT) market, says an analysis of the US NDT market released by Maxtech International. The systems are designed to test composite aircraft sections and...
New Focus Eyes OEMs
Jul 1, 1997 — In an effort to provide frontline support to its OEM customers, New Focus Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has hired Gregory Smolka, formerly of Big Sky Laser Technologies, to the new position of OEM account executive. The company has also taken steps,...
NIF Breaks Ground
Jul 1, 1997 — At a ceremony attended by US Secretary of Energy Federico Peña, ground was broken for the National Ignition Facility, the centerpiece of a program to maintain the US nuclear arsenal without nuclear testing.The $1.2 billion facility at...
Rome scientist Hendrickson dies
Jul 1, 1997 — ROME, N.Y. -- Brian M. Hendrickson, associate chief scientist for photonics at Rome Laboratory, died at 53 after a brief illness.Hendrickson had been with Rome Laboratory for 29 years, both in the photonics program and the Federal Scientific and...
Science Foundation Funds Connections to Speedy Computer Network
Jul 1, 1997 — The National Science Foundation has made grants to 35 research institutions in the US, enabling scientists to communicate and share resources on the foundation's high-speed Backbone Network Service. The connections will allow researchers to use...
SDL Settles with Spectra-Physics in Technology Transfer Lawsuit
Jul 1, 1997 — "Never underestimate the power of incumbent technologies to be improved and to hold their ground."David Shaver, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, on the semiconductor industry's incorrect belief that lasers could not produce features smaller than 1...
You can't rush genius; maybe you can track it
Jul 1, 1997 — CARLISLE, Mass. -- Is it possible to track the invention of photonics technology so that the marketing and funding of the technology can follow in a logical and competitive fashion? One theory that attempts to predict the development of technology...
AT&T Offspring Plans Undersea Network
Jun 1, 1997 — MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- Tyco Industries has adopted AT&T progeny Submarine Systems Inc. (SSI), and already the undersea telecommunications company is showing its new parent that it learned a lot from Ma Bell.Submarine Systems has announced its own...
Basic Research Funds Down, Facilities Demand Up
Jun 1, 1997 — The collapse of the Soviet bloc and the rise of free-market systems has resulted in reduced funding for most types of scientific research in academic institutions worldwide.That's the view of Steven Weinberg, a University of Texas professor and...
Coherent Launches Catalog Business After Acquiring Ealing
Jun 1, 1997 — SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Following its $9.5 million purchase of Ealing Electro-Optics plc last month, Coherent Inc. established its first-ever catalog division, which will become part of the Coherent Auburn Group. Paul Kenrick, the founder and former...
Food, Transportation Are Vision Growth Areas
Jun 1, 1997 — The semiconductor and electronics industries remain the largest consumers of North American machine vision systems, but food and transportation are also key markets, according to a study that the Automated Imaging Association released at the 1997...
Renishaw, EIC Collaborate on Raman Spectroscopy
Jun 1, 1997 — Renishaw has forged a union with EIC Laboratories Raman Systems Div. to offer both instruments and applications in Raman spectroscopy. The partnership takes advantage of Renishaw's expertise in the manufacture of Raman spectrometers and microscopes...
Spy Satellite Agency Mired in Bureaucracy
Jun 1, 1997 — The nation's spy satellite agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, is no longer considered a technology leader, according to a newly declassified review by an independent panel.The report says the agency has labored under a ponderous bureaucracy...
Study: Quality More Important than Price
Jun 1, 1997 — Venture Development Corp.'s report on airborne intelligent display/analog-to-digital converter equipment and system resellers said quality remains the most important criterion in selecting a vendor. After quality, price and support remain the other...
Universities: Economic Impact Justifies Funding
Jun 1, 1997 — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In recent years federal funding of R&D has fallen victim to the balanced-budget gods. With the prospect of that trend continuing (See "R&D Funding Faces Hard Times: The Road to 2002 Is All Downhill," Photonics Spectra,...
WDM to Assume Greater Role in Telecom
Jun 1, 1997 — As telecommunications carriers search for more bandwidth to meet the demands of an increasingly information-hungry consumer, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) will continue to grow in importance, according to officials at Lucent...
Crane & Co. Receives Exclusive Rights to Spectra Science's LaserPaint
May 1, 1997 — Spectra Science Corp. has licensed LaserPaint, a covert coding and authentication technology, to Crane & Co. of Dalton, Mass., for use in Crane's next-generation currency and secure documents applications. The technology combines laser dyes and...
DoE Counters Fusion Facility Injunction
May 1, 1997 — LIVERMORE, Calif. -- The US Department of Energy (DoE) has asked a federal district court judge to remove an injunction that keeps the agency from using a report on the technical feasibility of the National Ignition Facility. An attorney for the...
Galileo Refocuses After Xerox Loss
May 1, 1997 — STURBRIDGE, Mass. -- Despite the loss of its biggest customer earlier this year and the resulting financial blow, Galileo Corp. officials are confident that the company will be able to get back on its feet by refocusing on its strategic objectives...
Litton-Honeywell Legal Dispute Enters Appeals Phase
May 1, 1997 — Honeywell Inc. has won the latest go-around in its long-running legal dispute with Litton Systems Inc. over ring-laser gyroscope technology. The US Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of Honeywell's petition for certiorari -- a first step in the...
Litton-Honeywell Legal Dispute Enters Appeals Phase
May 1, 1997 — Honeywell Inc. has won the latest go-around in its long-running legal dispute with Litton Systems Inc. over ring-laser gyroscope technology. The US Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of Honeywell's petition for certiorari -- a first step in the...
Precision Laser Machining Consortium Fosters Diode Array Development
May 1, 1997 — The Precision Laser Machining Consortium is promoting the development of diode pump arrays, components critical to diode-pumped solid-state lasers. Diode pump arrays are used commercially to improve the speed and precision of advanced industrial...
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