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Optics, Electronics Makers Assess Quake Damage
TOKYO, March 16, 2011 — The impact of last week’s historic earthquake and tsunami off the east coast of Honshu, Japan, on optics and electronics makers has been mixed, with some reporting injured workers and severe structural damage to facilities, while others are mainly dealing with power outages and supply chain issues. The 9.0 magnitude temblor was the fourth largest in the world since 1900 and the largest in Japan since modern records of such events began 130 years ago. At least 10,000 people are thought....
Edmund Employees in Japan Are Safe
BARRINGTON, N.J., March 15, 2011 — Edmund Optics reports that all of its employees in Japan are safe and there is no major structural damage to its factory. The company will continue to assess any potential damage to the infrastructure stability, inventory levels and the impact on...
Semrock Relaunches Website
ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 15, 2011 — Semrock Inc., a unit of Idex Corp., announced the launch of a new version of its website to accommodate online shopping as well as easier filter and set selection. The site also offers updated customer service. In the OEM section,...
Student Innovators Improve Imaging
TROY, N.Y., and PASADENA, Calif., March 15, 2011 — The latest winners of the Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize have been named, with prizes going to students using terahertz technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Benjamin...
Air Force Funds Silicon Photonics Program
ARLINGTON, Va., March 14, 2011 — The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research is funding a program to build inexpensive, next-generation silicon-based electro-optical chips at the University of Washington’s Nanophotonics Lab. The chips are critical to the Air Force...
CEA-Leti Joins Alcatel-Lucent, Thales in III-V Lab
SACLAY, France, March 14, 2011 — In a move to strengthen the industrial research capabilities of the III-V Lab, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Thales and CEA-Leti have announced that CEA-Leti will join the center. The public-private partnership will combine III-V semiconductor and...
Cree, Zumtobel Extend LED Deal
DURHAM, N.C., March 14, 2011 — LED lighting company Cree Inc. has announced a two-year extension of the strategic agreement that it signed with Zumtobel Lighting GmbH in 2008 to provide LED lighting solutions in Europe. For more information, visit: www.cree.com
Omicron Mass-Produces Direct Green Diode Lasers
RODGAU, Germany, March 14, 2011 — Omicron-Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH announced that it has started mass production of direct green (515 nm) diode lasers specifically geared toward biotechnology applications. The new diode lasers offer a number of advantages over conventional argon...
Cole Joins Davin Optronics Sales Team
WATFORD, England, March 10, 2011 — Precision optics design company Davin Optronics Ltd. has announced the appointment of Graham Cole to a senior position in sales. Cole, who has more than 25 years of experience in the optronics sector, will focus his efforts on European account...
Instrument Makers Team for Tech Development
LIESTAL, Switzerland, March 10, 2011 — Nanosurf, a maker of atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopes, and Zurich Instruments, a provider of lock-in amplifiers and phase-locked loops (PLL), have developed a strategic technology partnership. The two companies have agreed to...
NKT Photonics' Fiber Laser Selected for Space Project
BIRKERØD, Denmark, March 10, 2011 — NKT Photonics, a manufacturer of Koheras fiber lasers, has announced that its distributed feedback (DFB) fiber lasers have been incorporated into the absolute scalar magnetometers designed and developed by French space agency CNES and research group...
Sofradir Promotes Billon-Lanfrey to VP Post
PARIS, March 10, 2011 — Sofradir, an advanced infrared detector manufacturer for military, space and industrial applications, has appointed David Billon-Lanfrey as vice president of R&D, technology and products. He replaces Philippe Tribolet. Billon-Lanfrey will...
Brush Engineered Materials Changes Name
MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio, March 9, 2011 — Brush Engineered Materials Inc. announced that it has changed its name to Materion Corp., effective immediately. The brand change comes after the company’s growth through acquisitions and internal initiatives that continue to operate...
ILX Lightwave Donates Instruments to University
BOZEMAN, Mont., March 9, 2011 — ILX Lightwave Corp. announced the donation of $10,000 worth of ultralow-noise laser diode instrumentation to the University of Illinois to enhance its experimental research. Dr. Lynford Goddard, assistant professor of electrical and computer...
Vision Engineering Opens Manufacturing Services Div.
WOKING, England, March 9, 2011 — Vision Engineering Ltd. has set up a manufacturing services division for optical, mechanical and electronic instrument design. Vision Engineering has launched a manufacturing services division to bring its products to businesses and...
Boston Micromachines Wins NASA Grant
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 8, 2011 — Boston Micromachines Corp. (BMC) announced Monday that it had received a $100,000 Phase I SBIR contract from NASA to support space-based imaging research. The Phase I project is for the development of a reliable high-resolution, fault-tolerant...
Former Thorlabs Exec Joins Photonic Products Group
NORTHVALE, N.J., March 8, 2011 — Amy Eskilson has joined Photonic Products Group Inc. as its vice president of sales and marketing, the company announced recently. Before joining the company, she served as director of business development for the photonics components catalog at...
J-fiber Buys Fused Silica Tech from Schott Lithotec
JENA, Germany, March 8, 2011 — As a result of its recent acquisition of Schott Lithotec’s synthetic fused silica technology, the j-fiber Group can provide optics and laser markets with high-purity synthetic silica. The fall 2010 transaction involved the transfer of...
Optics Balzers’ Sales Revenue Up 25% in 2010
JENA, Germany, March 8, 2011 — Optics Balzers AG, an optical coatings and components company, saw sales revenue jump 25 percent in 2010. (Image: Optics Balzers) The company said the success was due largely in part to its German subsidiary, Optics Balzers Jena GmbH, whose...
Sarrafi Joins JPSA as Applications Engineer
MANCHESTER, N.H., March 8, 2011 — Industrial laser micromachining process manufacturer JP Sercel Associates Inc. announced that Dr. Rouzbeh Sarrafi has joined the company as an applications engineer in its research laboratory. Sarrafi previously worked in materials engineering and...
3-D Solar Cells Made Using Semiconductor Processes
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 7, 2011 — Solar3D Inc. has announced that it will use semiconductor processes to enable low-cost, mass production of its 3-D solar cell technology. Inspired by light-management techniques used in fiber optic devices, the company’s solar cell...
Display Maker Hires Optics and Materials Expert
TULSA, Okla., March 7, 2011 — Three-dimensional and display technologies developer 3DIcon Corp. announced the appointment of Dr. Brian G. Hoover as vice president of technology development. In his new position, Hoover will work with Dr. Hakki Refai, the company’s...
Navy Adopts LEDs on Ships and Submarines
ARLINGTON, Va., March 7, 2011 — A pilot program testing LED fixtures aboard several Navy ships and submarines is under way. The Solid State Lighting (SSL) project, created by the Office of Naval Research under its TechSolutions program, is one of several programs created...
Optical Communication Market Positioned for Growth
EUGENE, Ore., March 7, 2011 — The optical communication market is well-positioned for growth between 2011 and 2015, despite modest growth in sales of optical networking equipment in 2010, according to a report from the market research company LightCounting. Strong demand for...
OSA to Organize Laser Optics Berlin
BERLIN, March 4, 2011 — The International Congress at Laser Optics Berlin, to be held March 19 to 21, will be organized by the Optical Society of America. The agreement was signed by Messe Berlin and OSA during the Photonics West trade show in San Francisco. The...
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