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FiberCore Completes German Plant Expansion Mar 30, 1999 — CHARLTON, Mass., March 30 -- FiberCore, Inc. says it has completed its Jena, Germany, plant expansion. The expansion more than doubles both preform and fiber capacity. Management expects that this plant expansion will not be sufficient to handle the demand for the Company's product beyond the year 2000, and, therefore, plans to launch another plant expansion during 1999. The Company's high bandwidth multimode fiber products are available in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa,...

Lasertec International Secures Major Financing Mar 30, 1999 — ATLANTA, Ga., March 30 -- Lasertec International, Inc. has secured a financing commitment of $40 million from Lilly Beter Capital Group, Ltd. The Company says the money will fund new product rollout and offset the expense of the Federal Drug...

AT&T Closes $8 Billion Bond Offering Mar 29, 1999 — NEW YORK, NY, March 29 -- AT&T completed the world's largest global bond offering, exceeding company expectations and earning a place in the corporate history books. This transaction broke records on three fronts: it is the largest corporate...

Five LED Video Displays Set for Ballparks Mar 29, 1999 — ORLANDO, Fla., March 29 -- Display Technologies, Inc. said that its subsidiary, Ad Art Electronic Sign Corporation, has signed an agreement with Maryland Baseball to supply five large screen LED video displays. Light emitting diodes provide the...

Kodak Chooses InFocus for Digital Projectors Mar 29, 1999 — WILSONVILLE, Ore., March 29 -- InFocus has entered into an OEM relationship with Kodak in which Kodak will use InFocus' line of personal projectors to produce digital projectors, based on Texas Instruments' digital light processing. InFocus...

Optelecom Wins Intelligent Transportation System Contracts Mar 29, 1999 — GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 29 -- Optelecom, Inc. reports that it has received an initial contract in support of the Delaware Department of Transportation's traffic monitoring and control program. The Company will provide equipment, including MPEG-2...

VideoLabs Receives Another Camera Order From 3M Mar 29, 1999 — MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 29 -- VideoLabs, Inc., a provider of image capture-, transmission-, and manipulation-based solutions, received an additional twelve-month commitment from the Visual Systems Division of 3M. In September of 1998, VideoLabs...

Optical Storage Consortium Eyes Removable Media for Future DVDs Mar 26, 1999 — COSTA MESA, Calif., March 26 -- Irvine Sensors Corp. reports that its Neo-stack packaging technology is being employed in a project to develop a high-speed removable optical storage system for future Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) systems. The Fast...

RVSI Electronics Names Michael Gray to Head Sales & Marketing Mar 26, 1999 — CANTON, Mass., March 26 -- Robotic Vision Systems, Inc. has appointed Michael Gray as vice president of sales and marketing for the company's RVSI Electronics division, which includes machine-vision products and systems for use in semiconductor test...

Miniature Rubber Stamps Create Microscopic Optical Devices Mar 26, 1999 — ATLANTA, Ga., March 26 -- Bell Labs researchers say that they have developed a means for stamping sub-micron features on glass, plastics, metals, and other materials. The potential applications include optical communications devices and plastic...

SDL Announces Two-For-One Stock Split Mar 26, 1999 — SAN JOSE, Calif., March 26 -- SDL, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has approved a two-for-one stock split in the form of a stock dividend. The split is subject to stockholder approval of an increase in the company's authorized shares of...

Laser Revenues Boost Summit Financial Results Mar 26, 1999 — WALTHAM, Mass., March 26 -- Summit Technology, Inc. said that revenues for the three months ending December 31, 1998 were $22.4 million, an increase of 13% over revenues of $19.9 million for the three months ended December 31, 1997. Revenues for the...

Photogen and Coherent Join on Eye Laser Mar 25, 1999 — KNOXVILLE, Tenn., March 25 -- Photogen Technologies, Inc. and Coherent, Inc.'s Laser Group have jointly designed and built what is believed to be the first medical ultrafast laser device for treating ocular melanoma (a cancer of the eye) and...

FLIR, Inframetrics Merger Wins Antitrust Approval Mar 25, 1999 — PORTLAND, Ore., March 25 -- FLIR Systems Inc. has signed a definitive merger agreement and received Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust approval for its proposed acquisition of Inframetrics Inc. Subject to the receipt of approval by Inframetrics'...

Record for Blue Laser Output Claimed Mar 25, 1999 — PORTSMOUTH, N.H. March 25 -- The Corporation for Laser Optics Research (COLOR) says that it has set a world record by projecting seven watts of blue light from a lamp-pumped laser. This is a very significant breakthrough, said Dr. Stephen Benton, a...

PLC Renews Japanese Heart Laser Pact Mar 25, 1999 — FRANKLIN, Mass., March 25 -- PLC Systems Inc. has renewed its distribution agreement in Japan with Imatron Japan Inc., which includes a commitment to purchase a minimum of five Heart Laser systems during 1999. Imatron Japan Inc. also distributes...

Zygo Sells New Defect Printability System to Sematech Mar 25, 1999 — MIDDLEFIELD, Conn., March 25 -- Zygo Corp. reports that International Sematech has purchased its new DPS-310 series of inspection/review tools that incorporate TINT Virtual Stepper Mask Defect Analysis software. The software enables customers to...

Bell Labs Claims Record for Mid-IR Diode Laser Mar 24, 1999 — ATLANTA, Ga., March 23 -- Bell Labs has unveiled what it says is the world's highest-power mid-infrared semiconductor laser. According to the Lab's Claire Gmachl, the experimental quantum-cascade laser has more than a thousand times the output power...

Technology Network Backs Long-Term Research Bills Mar 24, 1999 — PALO ALTO, Calif., March 23 -- The Technology Network (TechNet), the technology industry's bipartisan political organization, is supporting a bill to establish a permanent federal incentive for promoting long-term, basic research by American...

Display Consortium to Fund Improved Projection Optics Mar 24, 1999 — SAN JOSE, Calif., March 23 -- The United States Display Consortium will provide funding to Illumitech Inc. for the development of improved optics used in projection display systems. The award is part of a USDC contract with Welch Allyn, Inc. of...

Newport Sees Lower First Quarter Sales and Earnings Mar 24, 1999 — IRVINE, Calif., March 23 -- Citing continued slowness in the semiconductor equipment markets and lower sales due to the delayed introduction of new products, Newport Corp. anticipates net sales for its first quarter ending March 31 to be in the...

Bell Labs Researchers Report GaAs Advance Mar 23, 1999 — MURRAY HILL, N.J, March 22 -- Bell Labs researchers have grown a single crystal of gadolinium oxide on a gallium arsenide semiconductor. Because the interface is perfectly smooth, the material could prove to be the best insulating layer yet for...

Data Translation Reports Profitable Quarter Mar 23, 1999 — MARLBORO, Mass., March 22 -- Data Translation, Inc. reported a profit for the first fiscal quarter ending February 28, 1999. Net income for the quarter was $102,000, or $0.05 per basic and diluted share, compared to a net loss of $274,000, or $0.13...

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...

Premier Laser to Make Final FDA Submittal Mar 23, 1999 — IRVINE, Calif., March 22 -- Premier Laser Systems reports that its EyeSys Vision Group has received a request from the FDA for documentation that will allow the agency to begin its review for final approval of the Centauri Er:YAG laser for cataract...

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