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Photonics.com - April 2003
News & Features
Fusion Imaging Studied for Prostate Cancer
PRINCETON, N.J., April 30 -- Combining prostate cancer images with dual-modality imaging, or fusion imaging, can help detect the location and extent of prostate cancer, said researchers at University...
LEDs Light the Way for New Car Headlamp Designs
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 30 -- Automotive designers are adding headlamps to the growing list of automotive lighting components powered by LEDs, reflecting technology advances that have made...
NTS Awarded Fiber Testing Contract
CALABASAS, Calif., April 30 -- National Technical Systems Inc., a provider of quality and conformance testing and services, announced today that its Fullerton, Calif.-based telecommunications lab has...
GE Completes Acquisition of International Fiber Systems
PLAINVILLE, Conn., April 30 --GE Industrial Systems announced today it has completed the acquisition of International Fiber Systems Inc. (IFS), a private company based in Newton, Conn., that provides...
Nortel Designs Barcelona Airport Network
BARCELONA, Spain, April 29 -- Barcelona Airport has installed a new communications network based on a Gigabit Ethernet solution from Nortel Networks to support its service and security needs. The new...
Veridian Awarded Air Force Imaging Contract
ARLINGTON, Va., April 29 -- Veridian Corp. announced it has been awarded a contract worth up to $37.7 million from the US Air Force's Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., to...
Three-Five Systems Acquires Malaysian EMS Company
TEMPE, Ariz., April 28 -- Three-Five Systems Inc., a provider of electronic manufacturing services (EMS) and display products, announced today it has acquired the business and certain assets of Unico...
Boeing Donates Lightning-Strike Technology
PHILADELPHIA, April 28 -- The Boeing Co. has donated to Villanova University technology for software designed to predict the indirect effects of lightning strikes on composite aircraft structures....
Agilent Demos Production Test Standard
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 28 -- Agilent Technologies Inc. announced today it has conducted the first successful demonstration of the IEEE 1149.6 standard for boundary-scan testing of advanced,...
Alcatel Space Unit to Cut 650 Jobs
PARIS, April 25 -- French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel said it will cut 650 jobs worldwide at its Alcatel Space operations this year. About 350 jobs will be cut in France, the company...
Novel 3-D Hologram Technique Developed
WASHINGTON, April 25 -- A novel system for dynamically projecting 3-D holographic images using digital micromirror devices (DMDs) has been developed by researchers at the University of Texas...
Report: MEMS Down But Not Out
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 25 -- Despite the continued downturn in spending on telecom components, 2002 was surprisingly strong for suppliers of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based solutions to...
Brighter Whites, Greens and Blues in Store for LEDs
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., April 25 -- A new process of growing gallium nitride on an etched sapphire substrate, called cantilever epitaxy, may help light up the world with brighter green, blue and even...
Nanosys Funding Round Nets $30 Million
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 24 -- Nanosys Inc., a developer of nanotechnology-enabled systems, announced today the first closing of $30 million in a second round of financing. Investors ARCH Venture...
Researchers to Test Molecular Imaging for Cancer Detection
ANDOVER, Mass., April 24 -- Royal Philips Electronics, The Dow Chemical Co. and Kereos Inc. announced today they are collaborating in a $2.8 million, three-year contract awarded by the National...
FCC Seeks Comment on Broadband Over Power Lines
WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Wednesday to seek public comment on broadband Internet service delivered over ordinary electric power lines, a step that...
Corning Reports Sales Increase
CORNING, N.Y., April 23 -- Corning Inc. announced yesterday that its first-quarter results exceeded quarterly guidance and sales increased sequentially for the first time in two years. The company...
NEXX Systems Acquires All Wet Technologies
WILMINGTON, Mass., April 23 -- NEXX Systems, a Wilmington manufacturer of flip chip processing equipment for back-end semiconductor manufacturing, announced today it has completed the acquisition of...
Luna Technologies Raises $3.5M
BLACKSBURG, Va., April 22 -- Luna Technologies, a developer of fiber optic component test equipment, announced today the first closing of its Series B financing. The round was led by Columbia Capital...
Pivotal Private Equity to Acquire US-Japan Telecom Network
PHOENIX, April 22 -- Pivotal Private Equity announced yesterday it has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of Pacific Crossing Ltd. (PCL) and its subsidiaries for $63 million. PCL, a former...
ITT Industries to Upgrade Boeing GPS Satellites
FORT WAYNE, Ind., April 22 -- ITT Industries Inc. Aerospace/Communication Div. (A/CD) will upgrade 12 global positioning system (GPS) Block IIF satellites for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, under...
Navy Gives JMAR $3.4 M for X-Ray Proximity Masks
SAN DIEGO, April 23 -- JMAR Technologies Inc., a developer of advanced lasers, collimated plasma lithography (CPL) systems and semiconductor production services, announced that its Systems Division...
Sarcon and Sarnoff Unveil MEMS-Based IR Detector Engine
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. & PRINCETON, N.J., April 22 -- Sarcon Microsystems and Sarnoff Corp. have demonstrated what they say is the world's first working prototype of a MEMS-based 320 x 240 uncooled...
Newport Corp Invests in NEXX Systems
IRVINE, Calif., April 21 -- Newport Corp. announced today that it has invested $3.5 million to acquire 19.9 percent of NEXX Systems Inc., a manufacturer of flip chip processing equipment for back-end...
GSI Lumonics to Acquire Spectron Laser
BILLERICA, Mass., April 21 -- GSI Lumonics Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy the principal assets of Spectron Laser Systems, a subsidiary of Lumenis Ltd., of Rugby,...
Digital Mammography Demand Increasing
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 21 -- The emergence of digital mammography and the long replacement cycle of current systems in the market are depleting demand for analog mammography in highly industrialized...
Lucent to Build Network in China
BEIJING, April 21 -- Lucent Technologies announced it has signed a contract with Shandong Unicom, a subsidiary of China Unicom, to build a high-capacity optical network in Shandong Province. Under...
Cypress to Acquire Micron SRAM Business
SAN JOSE, Calif. and BOISE, Idaho, April 18 -- Micron Technology Inc. will transfer its high-performance communications oriented synchronous SRAM product inventory to Cypress Semiconductor Corp., the...
Citizens to Sell Vermont Electric Division
STAMFORD, Conn., April 18 -- Citizens Communications Co. announced yesterday it will sell its Vermont Electric Division (VED) assets to Vermont Electric Power Co. Inc. and Vermont Electric...
Art, Science Merge at UMass Polymer Research Center
AMHERST, Mass., April 18 -- Images printed from micrographs -- photographs taken with optical, electron and atomic force microscopes -- have entered the realm of art, thanks to a new program at the...
Laser Technology Awarded $1.2 M in Patent Suit
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., April 18 -- A jury has awarded Centennial-based Laser Technology Inc. (LTI) $1.2 million in a patent dispute over laser range finders with Nikon Inc., according to the Denver Post....
Palomar Technologies Signs Asian Distributors
VISTA, Calif., April 17 -- Palomar Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of automated, high-precision assembly systems, announced it has made agreements with several companies to sell its assembly...
Infrared System Screens Singapore Arrivals
SINGAPORE, April 17 -- An "infrared fever screening system" now greets passengers arriving at Changi airport from southern China and Hong Kong, two areas hardest hit by the SARS virus, Reuters...
Adaptive Optics Awarded National Ignition Facility Contract
BLACKWOOD, N.J., April 17 -- Adaptive Optics Associates Inc. has been awarded a contract from Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) for the production of 48 output sensor package (OSP) assemblies to...
2MASS Telescope Online Archive Completed
AMHERST, Mass., April 17 -- The vast archive of images and data resulting from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), the most thorough, high-resolution survey of the sky, has been completed. The...
Space Systems/Loral Tests iPSTAR-1
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 17 -- Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications, has completed static loads testing of communications satellite iPSTAR-1, which is being built...
USDATA, Robotic Vision Systems Form Alliance
RICHARDSON, Texas, April 16 -- USDATA Corp., a supplier of industrial automation software solutions, and Robotic Vision Systems Inc., a developer of machine vision systems, have announced a strategic...
Corning to Close Plant and Cut 1000 Jobs
CORNING, N.Y., April 16 -- Corning Inc. announced yesterday it will close a plant in State College, Pa., eliminating about 1000 jobs. The plant, which makes cathode ray tube glass used in...
BAE SYSTEMS to Provide Digital Mapping System
CHARLESTON, W.Va., April 15 -- BAE SYSTEMS will develop a statewide digital mapping system for public safety officials and emergency response personnel in West Virginia. The system will include...
NASA Infrared Telescope Launch Postponed
WASHINGTON, April 15 -- NASA has postponed the launch of its new infrared space telescope, The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), until April 27. It was originally scheduled to be launched...
Lehigh Establishes Nanotechnology Center
BETHLEHEM, Pa., April 15 -- Lehigh University has created a Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology to oversee nanotechnology research in a dozen academic departments and programs, officials...
Broadband Use Up 30 Percent in Singapore
SINGAPORE, April 15 -- The number of broadband Internet users in Singapore rose 30 percent in 2002 from the previous year. There were 1.24 million broadband users in 2002, up from 950,000 in 2001,...
Austrian Network Uses Cisco Switching
RIED IM INNKREIS, Austria, April 15 -- Infotech, a service provider in Upper Austria, is using Cisco Metro Ethernet Switching to provide business and residential customers in the town of Ried im...
Forecast: Optical Access Market to Surpass $3 Billion
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 14 -- The optical access market will grow from $2.1 billion in 2003 to just over $3 billion in 2007, driven mainly by growth in Ethernet, course wavelength division...
Indigo Systems Acquires Engineering Group
GOLETA, Calif., April 14 -- Indigo Systems announced it has acquired the applied technology division of Control Systems Research Inc., of Crestview, Fla. Indigo's new division, Indigo Advanced...
e2v CCDs Capture Telescope Images
ESSEX, England, April 14 -- Megacam, the wide-field camera mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, recently captured its first images using custom-built charged coupled devices (CCDs) made by...
3.0-tesla Scanners Gain MRI Market Share
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 14 -- Hospitals and imaging clinics are increasingly upgrading to 3.0-tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, according to an analysis by Frost & Sullivan, "US MRI...
Boulder Imaging System to Record Missile Launch
LOUISVILLE, Colo., April 11 -- Boulder Imaging Inc., an image processing and machine vision software company, said it is providing a digital video recording system to Lockheed Martin to test the...
VISX Acquires WaveScan Technology
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 11 -- VISX Inc., a developer of laser vision correction systems, announced it has acquired technology associated with its WaveScan product line from 20/10 Perfect Vision...
L-3 to Provide Saudi Arabia X-ray Systems
NEW YORK, April 11 -- L-3 Communications' security and detection systems division has been awarded a contract to supply five high-energy x-ray imaging subsystems to Saudi Arabia for cargo container...
Honeywell Licenses LCD Patents to NEC
MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., April 11 --Honeywell announced today it has granted a license to NEC Electronics enabling NEC Electronics and NEC Corp. to use two Honeywell US patents relating to liquid...
Capella Photonics Raises $7M
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 11 -- Capella Photonics Inc., a maker of reconfigurable optical subsystems, announced it has completed its Series B financing of $7 million as it prepares for initial...
Cypress to Buy Micron SRAM Business
SAN JOSE, Calif. and BOISE, Idaho, April 10 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced today that it will buy Micron Technology's synchronous SRAM product inventory. Micron recently decided to phase...
CIENA to Acquire Wavesmith
LINTHICUM, Md., April 10 -- CIENA Corp. has announced a definitive agreement to acquire WaveSmith Networks Inc., of Acton, Mass., a maker of multiservice switching products, for about $158 million in...
Molecular Probes Licenses Fluorescence Technology
EUGENE, Ore. and HUDDINGE, Sweden, April 10 -- LightUp Technologies, a Swedish developer of molecular-based technologies for medical diagnostic uses, said it will launch DNA analysis products using...
BAE Systems Wins Army Laser System Contract
NASHUA, N.H., April 10 -- General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products has awarded British aerospace and defense company BAE Systems a $26.7 million contract to develop and demonstrate the...
Eightfold Quantum States Blossom in High-Temperature Superconductor
BERKELEY, Calif., April 10 -- Researchers based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to reveal...
FDA Okays Palomar Laser for Skin Resurfacing
BURLINGTON, Mass., April 9 -- Palomar Medical Technologies Inc. has received clearance from the FDA for skin resurfacing for its Q-YAG 59 Nd:YAG Laser System. Palomar said laser skin resurfacing is a...
Ball Aerospace Instruments to Accompany SIRTF
BOULDER, Colo., April 9 -- A Ball Aerospace cryogenic telescope assembly and two Ball-built science instruments will be on board the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), which is set to launch...
Study: Broadband Access Will Drive SONET/SDH Investments
BOONTON, N.J., April 9 -- The acceleration of broadband deployment by Verizon and other phone companies will increase demand for SONET/SDH systems, says a new market research study by The Insight...
Corning to Charge $200M Against Asbestos Claims
CORNING, N.Y., April 8 -- Corning Inc. said it will charge $200 million against its earnings in the first quarter to settle asbestos claims. The after-tax charge would cover all asbestos claims now...
Boeing, Ball to Develop Laser Communications Technology
ST. LOUIS, April 8 -- The Boeing Co. and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. have announced they will jointly develop laser communications technologies they say will improve the efficiency of...
An OFC 2003 Perspective
Since its inception more than two decades ago, the Optical Fiber Communications conference (OFC) has reflected the condition of the optical telecommunications industry. From the days when fiber optic...
Bruker Daltonics and Bruker AXS to Merge
BILLERICA, Mass. and MADISON, Wis., April 7, 2003-- Bruker Daltonics Inc. and Bruker AXS Inc., of Madison, Wis., announced today that they will merge in a deal worth approximately $103.6 million....
DRS Electro-Optical Orders Reach $44 Million
PARSIPPANY, N.J., April 7 -- DRS Technologies Inc. announced it has received new contracts worth approximately $44 million to provide electro-optical components, spares, and support and repair...
Air Force Awards Strategic Illuminator Laser Contracts
REDONDO BEACH, Calif., May 7 -- The US Air Force has awarded contracts to three companies for the first phase of a three-year program to develop the strategic illuminator laser, or SILL -- a...
CRL Opto and MOXTEK Form Strategic Alliance
HAYES, England, April 4 -- CRL Opto Ltd., a UK supplier of high-resolution microdisplays, and MOXTEK, a US supplier of optical components, announced they have formed a "customer-focused" strategic...
Columbia Ventures Buys Hibernia Atlantic
VANCOUVER, Wash., and DUBLIN, Ireland, April 4 -- Columbia Ventures Corp. (CVC) announced today that its subsidiaries have completed the purchase of a 12,200-kilometer fiber optic submarine cable...
OSU Engineers Create Transparent Transistor
CORVALLIS, Oregon, April 4 -- Engineers at Oregon State University (OSU) have created what they say is the world's first transparent transistor, a see-through electronics component that could inspire...
Simple Desktop Device Slows Light to a Crawl
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 4 -- Though Einstein put his foot down and demanded that nothing can move faster than light, a new device developed at the University of Rochester may let you outpace a beam by...
Ocean Optics Licenses Spore Detection Technology
DUNEDIN, Fla., April 3 -- Ocean Optics Inc. has licensed a technology to detect quantify bacterial spores to a US Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Md. The technology has been integrated into a...
Study: EBT Better Predictor of Heart Attacks
CHICAGO, April 3 -- Electron beam tomography (EBT) scoring of coronary calcification is more accurate than conventional risk factor assessment in predicting coronary disease events, according to a...
Finisar Acquires Genoa Inc.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 4 -- Finisar Corp., a developer of gigabit fiber optic solutions for high-speed data networks, said it has made a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Genoa Inc.,...
Aegis Unveils Tunable Thin Film for WDM
WOBURN, Mass., April 3 -- Aegis Semiconductor said it has developed a new class of tunable components based on its Active Thin Films technology platform, designed for intelligent wavelength division...
InVision Technologies Acquires YXLON
NEWARK, Calif., April 2 -- InVision Technologies Inc. announced today it has completed its acquisition of YXLON International Holding GmbH, an x-ray diffraction and nondestructive testing company in...
Long Beach Gains Broadband Via Gas Lines
ATLANTA, April 1 -- The city of Long Beach, Calif., has chosen OFS's DuctSaver FX cable to be installed in a mile of natural gas lines in order to provide a fiber optic-based communications system...
L-3 Communications Acquires Avionics Systems
NEW YORK, April 1 -- L-3 Communications announced yesterday it has completed the acquisition of Avionics Systems, a former Goodrich Corp. division. The total value of the transaction is approximately...
Nanotechnology Consortium Launched in NJ
MURRAY HILL, N.J., April 1 -- The New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium (NJNC) announced it has opened for business to develop and commercialize products based on nanotechnology. NJNC said it uses...
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NEWARK, Calif., April 2 -- InVision Technologies Inc. announced today it has completed its acquisition of YXLON International Holding GmbH, an x-ray diffraction and nondestructive testing company in...
L-3 Communications Acquires Avionics Systems
NEW YORK, April 1 -- L-3 Communications announced yesterday it has completed the acquisition of Avionics Systems, a former Goodrich Corp. division. The total value of the transaction is approximately...
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