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’Optics City’ Is Under Development in Quebec
Dec 1, 1999 — The Société Innovatech Québec et Chaudière-Appalaches in Canada announced a government-sponsored effort to strengthen and expand the optics cluster in Quebec. Under the project, dubbed La Cité de l’optique de Québec, the provincial government will fund a 40 percent increase in salaries. More than $100 million in risk capital has been collected to promote new and existing enterprises. Denny Faubert, director-general of the Defense Research...
Longtime Optics Maker Dies
Dec 1, 1999 — John L. Plummer, 84, co-founder of Plummer Precision Optics Co. of Pennsburg, Pa., died Oct. 31. He was best known for helping to develop precision optics for the US Army during World War II. In September, Plummer, his company and several key...
Planet Might Be Orbiting Binary Pair
Dec 1, 1999 — Researchers with the Microlensing Planet Search project have found evidence of the first known circumbinary planet, an object of about three times the size of Jupiter orbiting a pair of stars nearly 28,000 light-years from Earth. The findings of the...
DigiLens, DuPont Holographics Join Forces on Microdisplays
Nov 12, 1999 — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 12 -- DigiLens will partner with Wilmington, Del.-based DuPont Holographics to market the two companies' complementary holographic optical technologies. In the first joint effort under the new partnership, DigiLens will focus...
Kidger Optics Announces Scholarship
Oct 1, 1999 — Kidger Optics Ltd. of Crowborough, UK, a designer and supplier of optical design software, announced that it is accepting applications for its Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship, which was established in 1998, will be presented to...
Laser Optics Improve Gasoline Yield
ARGONNE, Ill. — Fluid catalytic cracking of oil feedstocks produces a large portion of the US gasoline supply. This process relies on dispersion-steam-assisted nozzles to atomize the feedstocks. Thus, optimizing nozzle properties, including the degree of...
Abject About Aberration?
Sep 1, 1999 — Chromatic aberration, spherical aberration and astigmatism induce sweat on the brows of optical designers in many diverse application areas. Avoiding these deviations from "perfect" optical systems is often difficult, but correcting them with...
Center for Adaptive Optics to Be Established
Sep 1, 1999 — For the first time in eight years, the National Science Board has approved another series of National Science Foundation Science and Technology Centers, including a facility for the study of adaptive optics at the University of California in Santa...
Fujifilm Reports Breakthroughin Miniature Aspherical Lens
Aug 27, 1999 — ELMSFORD, N.Y., Aug. 27 -- Fuji Photo Film USA Inc. announced that it has developed the world's smallest all-glass aspherical lens for use in digital cameras. The company will employ a new glass-injection mold process to mass-produce the...
Scan-Optics to Acquire Agissar Corp.
Aug 3, 1999 — MANCHESTER, Conn., Aug. 3 -- Scan-Optics Inc. has reached an agreement in principle to acquire 100 percent of the stock in Agissar Corp. for an undisclosed amount. James C. Mavel, president, CEO and chairman of Scan-Optics, said, The parties are...
Precision Optics Firm Wins Small-Business Award
Aug 1, 1999 — James P. Gormican, president of Composite Optics Inc. of San Diego, accepted the US Small Business Administration's National Small-Business Subcontractor of the Year award for his company, having been nominated by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space....
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...
CyberOptics Purchases Kestra Ltd.
Apr 8, 1999 — MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 8 -- CyberOptics Corporation has acquired Kestra Ltd., a UK-based automated optical inspection (AOI) systems developer. Kestra's AOI concept differs from existing systems in that it uses statistical appearance modeling to...
Adaptive Optics Maps out Retina
Apr 1, 1999 — Researchers at the University of Rochester have turned Star Wars-era technology designed to clarify images from spy satellites into a method that can image the human retina, with surprising results. "With this method, we can now go from imaging...
Corning Increases Optics Holdings
Apr 1, 1999 — With an eye toward capitalizing on the emerging market for specialty lenses, Corning Inc. has acquired Rochester Photonics Corp. in Rochester, N.Y. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Rochester Photonics specializes in diffractive optics and...
Precision Optics Wins DWDM Filter Contracts
Mar 23, 1999 — GARDNER, Mass., March 22 -- Precision Optics Corp. has received orders totaling more than $1.9 million for 100 and 200 GHz channel separation Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer (DWDM) optical filters. The company said the optical thin film DWDM...
Digital Optics Corp. Enters 'Fast 500'
Mar 1, 1999 — Deloitte & Touche has named Digital Optics Corp. to its Fast 500 program, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in the US. Rankings are based on revenues over the five-year period from 1993 to 1997. During that period,...
School of Optics Hosts Inaugural Conference
Mar 1, 1999 — The Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) kicked off an inaugural conference Jan. 11 and 12 to celebrate the opening of its School of Optics at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Distinguished members of the...
Applied Image Group Merges with Donnelly Optics
Jan 1, 1999 — The Applied Image Group Inc. in Rochester, N.Y., has acquired one of Donnelly Corp.'s subsidiaries, Donnelly Optics Corp., based in Tucson, Ariz. The two companies agreed to the merger Dec. 1, with the deal expected to close this month. Applied...
Adhesive Provides Optical Clarity
Nov 1, 1998 — Mindrum Precision Inc. machines its clear and colored filter multioptical lenses to tight 0.00001-in. tolerances and bonds these lenses together in flow cells that become integrated into lasers, computers, medical devices and other applications...
Kidger Optics Sells Sigma Software Line
Nov 1, 1998 — Kidger Optics has sold its Sigma optical software product line to Focus Software Inc. in Tucson, Ariz. According to Focus Software President Ken Moore, Kidger Optics has sold the copyright, source code and customer base related to its main product...
New School of Optics Opens
Nov 1, 1998 — The University of Central Florida in Orlando will open a graduate school of optics, making it one of three universities in the US to offer graduate education in this field. M.J. Soileau will direct the school, which grew out of the Center for...
Engineers Introduce Quick Fabrication of Micro-Optics
Aug 1, 1998 — Researchers at Rochester Photonics Corp. have introduced a method for the speedy manufacture of high-NA microlenses, a development that could have an impact on telecommunications. The method, under review by the US Patent Office, involves a process...
Laser Technique Polishes Glass Lenses
May 1, 1998 — Glass's high infrared absorption could prove a boon to a new laser technique that can polish both symmetric and asymmetric glass lenses faster than mechanical techniques. Ferran Laguarta and his associates at the Universitat Politècnica de...
Optics Give Hard Drives a New Lease on Life
Apr 1, 1998 — The Winchester-style disk drive, nearing the limits for magnetic storage, has been given a new lease on life, thanks to optics. Computer hard-drive maker Seagate Technology and its Quinta Corp. subsidiary have combined optical switching, fiber...
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