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Former Bookham Director Named BeamExpress Chairman
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 5, 2011 — Peter Bordui, former chairman of Bookham (now Oclaro) and a veteran of the fiber optics telco industry, has joined the board of directors at BeamExpress SA as its chairman, the company announced. BeamExpress also has completed a $3 million funding round led by Polytech Ventures along with existing investor i-Source Gestion. “There is an important and growing need for telco laser sources that offer lower power consumption and lower heat generation, particularly in market...
ALM Acquires Stake in Laser Sintering
Jul 1, 2011 — In Texas, Advanced Laser Materials (ALM) LLC of Temple, a supplier of materials for rapid manufacturing, announced its strategic partnership with Integra of Round Rock, which offers technical expertise to the laser sintering business. The...
Boeing to Develop High-Brightness Laser
Jul 1, 2011 — The Chicago-based Boeing Co. has received a $4.2 million, 16-month contract to design and develop a 25-kW high-brightness laser for the Pentagon’s High Energy Laser – Joint Technology Office (HEL-JTO). The company will develop the...
Carl Zeiss, Digital Surf Pen Software Agreement
JENA, Germany, & BESANÇON, France, July 1, 2011 — Carl Zeiss and Digital Surf have signed an agreement that enables the former company to provide the latter’s ConfoMap surface imaging and analysis software for use with Zeiss’ confocal microscopes. The software includes numerous...
Cold-Atom Lab in a Box
Jul 1, 2011 — Bringing cold atoms to the classroom gives undergraduate students a hands-on way to learn about physics – and could inspire lifetime careers using photonics to manipulate atoms. Bringing cutting-edge physics into the undergraduate classroom...
Fiber vs. Disk: Which Laser Will Make the Cut?
Jul 1, 2011 — Some in the industry say they see fiber continuing to make large gains in the manufacturing space, but others say don’t count thin-disk out. The boom in fiber lasers that began several years ago has led some to question whether there is still...
From a cold start, Brazilian science and technology heat up
SÃO PAULO, Brazil – In a country where basic educational needs have gone unmet for decades, you might not expect a thriving photonics industry. In Brazil, however, light-based efforts are steadily climbing toward prominence. As recently as the beginning of the century...
Growth Predicted for Pico Projectors
Jul 1, 2011 — Front projector market information expert Pacific Media Associates (PMA) has reported that its first-quarter census of all front projectors indicated that worldwide shipments for the mobile, battery-powered types grew to 235,000 units, compared with...
Idex Acquires CVI Melles Griot
Jul 1, 2011 — Applied solutions company Idex Corp. of Lake Forest, Ill., announced on May 11 that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 3301%%CVI Melles Griot from Norwest Equity Partners. Based in Albuquerque, N.M., CVI Melles Griot, with annual...
Laser sparks hope of reduced auto emissions
OKAZAKI, Japan – Automakers are now one step closer to replacing spark plugs for internal combustion engines with laser igniters for cleaner, more efficient and more economical vehicles. Lasers have been discussed as a promising alternative ignition source for...
Militram to Represent LightPath in Israel
Jul 1, 2011 — Optical components and assemblies manufacturer LightPath Technologies Inc. of Orlando, Fla., has signed a contract designating 9609%%Militram Corp. of Herzliya, Israel, as its exclusive sales representative in that country, effective in June 2011....
Photonics Companies Win Queen’s Awards
Jul 1, 2011 — Four photonics companies have received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise – the UK’s prestigious accolade for business success. Specialised Imaging Ltd. of Tring won for its innovation in the continuous development of ultrahigh-speed...
Shedding Light on the Private Lives of Electrons
PRINCETON, N.J, July 1, 2011 — Using laser light, scientists have peered into the complex relationship between a single electron and its environment known as a Kondo state. The results not only yield insights into a long-standing quandary in theoretical physics but may also...
Zecotek Makes Management Changes
RICHMOND, British Columbia, Canada, June 30, 2011 — In a move to commercialize its technology portfolio, Zecotek Photonics Inc. has made seven management appointments and staff changes. Effective immediately, the employment changes are: Azman Ariffin, executive vice president of operations and...
Zygo Nabs $2M Lens Assemblies Order
MIDDLEFIELD, Conn., June 30, 2011 — The Optical Systems Div. of Zygo Corp. has received a $2 million order from a major medical device manufacturer to provide high-precision objective lens assemblies used in ophthalmic laser surgery. The order is part of a new customer program,...
Mad City Labs Appoints UK, Ireland Distributor
MADISON, Wis., June 29, 2011 — Piezo-based nanopositioning stages manufacturer Mad City Labs Inc. has appointed Elliot Scientific Ltd. of Harpenden, England, as its exclusive distributor in the UK and Ireland. Elliot Scientific will offer Mad City Labs’ newly expanded...
Tiny Ring Laser Detects, Counts Nanoparticles
ST. LOUIS, June 29, 2011 — A tiny doughnut-shaped laser is the latest marvel of silicon microminiaturization, but instead of manipulating bits, it detects very small particles. Small particles play a big — and largely unnoticed — role in our everyday lives. Virus...
Lasers Generate Pure Microwave Signals
GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 28, 2011 — A new low-noise oscillator is generating microwave signals more pure and stable than those from conventional electronic sources. The apparatus could improve signal stability and resolution in radar, communications and navigation systems, and in...
Ophir-Spiricon Opens New Cleanroom
LOGAN, Utah, June 28, 2011 — Ophir-Spiricon, a member of the precision laser measurement equipment provider Ophir Photonics Group, has opened a cleanroom at its new facility in Logan. The 840-sq-ft cleanroom is used for manufacturing the solid-state, pyroelectric detector...
Resonetics Relocates to Larger Facility
NASHUA, N.H., June 27, 2011 — Resonetics LLC has relocated its offices to a new facility in Nashua to accommodate the significant growth of its medical division, the company announced recently. Because of the significant growth of its medical division, Resonetics has relocated...
Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos National Lab
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., June 27, 2011 — A wind-driven wildfire is threatening Los Alamos National Laboratory, home to the Trident laser, the Roadrunner supercomputer and many National Nuclear Security Administration weapons programs.
Inspired Chaos in a Microlaser
WÜRZBURG, Germany, June 24, 2011 — Using a mirror to continually send a fraction of the emitted light back into a quantum dot microlaser, researchers were able to throw the light emission process off-kilter, prompting the microlaser to emit photons in a chaotic pulse sequence. This...
Luster LightTech to Distribute for ProPhotonix in China, Hong Kong
SALEM, N.H., June 22, 2011 — ProPhotonix Ltd. announced it appointed Luster LightTech Co. Ltd. as its exclusive distributor of machine vision illumination products in China and Hong Kong. The agreement expands ProPhotonix’s existing machine vision market position in the...
Senate Committee Slashes FEL
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2011 — The US Senate Committee on Armed Services voted June 17 to eliminate funding for the Navy’s free-electron laser (FEL) — a weapon system that was to protect US ships from surface and air missiles with high-energy electron-generated laser...
First Micropillars Milled in Warsaw
WARSAW, Poland, June 20, 2011 — Rare milling equipment that produces nanosize semiconductor structures, or micropillars, is now at the disposal of scientists and students at the University of Warsaw. These micropillars can be used as efficient light sources and will open up...
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