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Photonics.com - March 2005
News & Features
OmniVision Acquires CDM Optics
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 31 -- OmniVision Technologies Inc., a supplier of CMOS image sensors, announced this week it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding securities of CDM Optics Inc. (CDM), a Boulder, Colo.-based private corporation, for $30 million in cash and stock. CDM is the exclusive licensee of patented Wavefront Coding technology, which increases the...
Edmund Optics Opens French Sales Office
BARRINGTON, N.J., March 31 -- Edmund Optics Inc. (EO) has opened a sales, service and technical support center that will be a division of Edmund Optics UK Ltd. and that will serve EO's customer base...
Edmund Optics Opens French Sales Office
BARRINGTON, N.J., March 31 -- Edmund Optics Inc. (EO) has opened a sales, service and technical support center that will be a division of Edmund Optics UK Ltd. and that will serve EO's customer base...
COLED Takes New Approach to OLEDs
LONGMONT, Colo., March 29 -- COLED Technologies Inc., a Colorado startup developing a new material and process for manufacturing LEDs, said it has achieved "breakthroughs that will unlock new...
Meteorological Imager Launched
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., March 29 -- The Japanese advanced meteorological imager (JAMI), made by Raytheon Co., was launched on board Japan's multifunctional transport satellite-1 replacement (MTSAT-1R),...
TeraXion Acquires DiCOS Technologies
QUEBEC CITY, March 29 -- TeraXion Inc., a maker of optical filters for industrial applications and high-speed communication networks, announced it has acquired DiCOS Technologies, a private company...
Thermo Buys X-Ray Analyzer Co.
WALTHAM, Mass., March 29 -- Thermo Electron announced today it has purchased Niton LLC for approximately $40.5 million in cash, subject to a post-closing adjustment. Niton, based in Billerica, Mass.,...
NIST, Utah State to Make Optical Sensors
WASHINGTON, March 25 -- The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and Utah State University signed a partnership agreement to develop and calibrate optical sensors for defense,...
Piezo Ceramic Actuators, Subassemblies Catalog Available
AUBURN, Mass., March 25 -- A catalog of piezo ceramic actuators and custom subassemblies is available from PI's piezo ceramic division, PI Ceramic. It features a wide variety of precision actuators...
Elusive Lightning-Quick Waveforms Captured
LOS ANGELES, March 25 -- Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have been able to capture and digitize electrical signals at the rate of 1 trillion times per second, a...
NIST, Utah State to Make Optical Sensors
WASHINGTON, March 25 -- The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and Utah State University signed a partnership agreement to develop and calibrate optical sensors for defense,...
Konarka, Evident Collaborate
LOWELL, Mass. and TROY, N.Y., March 23 -- Konarka Technologies Inc., a Lowell, Mass., maker of light-activated power plastics, and Evident Technologies, a quantum dot developer based in Troy, N.Y.,...
Transmode and Lumentis to Merge
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 23 -- Stockholm-based telecommunication companies Transmode Systems AB and Lumentis AB announced today they are merging into a new company, Transmode, to better pursue the...
Photron Awarded White Sands Contract
SAN DIEGO, March 22 -- Photron USA Inc., a manufacturer of advanced high-speed, high-resolution imaging systems, has been awarded a contract from White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) to supply its Ultima...
CDC Orders Agilent Equipment, Services
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 22 -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ordered more than $4 million in gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) equipment and services from...
NanoOpto Raises $12 Million
SOMERSET, N.J., March 22 -- NanoOpto Corp., a maker of nano-optic devices for optical components and systems, announced it has closed on $12 million in third-round funding, lead by private investor...
JDS Uniphase Buys Lightwave
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 21 -- JDS Uniphase Corp. announced today a definitive agreement to acquire Lightwave Electronics Corp. in an all-cash transaction for $65 million. Lightwave, based in Mountain...
Capella, Lightconnect Create MEMS Alliance
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 21 -- Capella Photonics and Lightconnect announced they have created the first MEMS ROADM Alliance, to better respond to customer demands for multisourcing of wavelength...
AXT Reduces Beijing Workforce
FREMONT, Calif., March 21 -- AXT Inc. announced it has reduced the workforce at its Beijing, China, manufacturing facility by approximately 100 positions, or about 15 percent, as part of its ongoing...
Trimble to Acquire Apache
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 21 -- Trimble, a maker of global positioning systems (GPS) technology, construction lasers, robotic stations and machine control products, announced today it has made a...
Permlight, Osram Target Movie Piracy
LAS VEGAS, March 18 -- Osram Opto Semiconductors and Permlight Products Inc. have jointly produced an LED system they say could thwart film "pirates" in movie theaters. Permlight announced the system...
SIA: US Could Lose Nanotech Race
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18 -- With the upcoming transition to nanoscale semiconductor devices, leadership in information technology is up for grabs, warned the Semiconductor Industry Association...
OFC/NFOEC Debut Well-Attended
WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The first combined OFC/NFOEC (Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference), held recently in Anaheim, Calif., was...
Qdot Designer Wins Talent Contest
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 17 -- David Vigliarolo Bauer of Bronx, N. Y., was the first-place winner of a $100,000 scholarship in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search high-school science competition....
Melles Griot Achieves ISO Certification
CARLSBAD, Calif., March 17 -- Melles Griot Laser Group announced it has achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification. The certification includes the design, sale, manufacture and service of all...
L-3 Awarded $411 M Sensor Contract
NEW YORK, March 17 -- L-3 Communications announced that its Integrated Systems subsidiary was awarded a contract with a basic funding ceiling of $411 million to provide the US Missile Defense Agency...
Multitasking Polariscopes, To Go
PHOENIX, Ariz., March 16 -- Ken Cardell, a graduate student at the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center, recently fashioned a polariscope from common objects (paint stirrers, clothespins,...
Thousands Join Search for Waves
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 15 -- A new grassroots computing project dubbed Einstein@Home, which will let anyone with a personal computer contribute to cutting-edge astrophysics research, is one of the...
Advanced Photonix to Buy Picometrix
CAMARILLO, Calif., March 15 -- Advanced Photonix Inc. (API), a Camarillo, Calif., supplier of silicon-based optoelectronic products, announced it signed an agreement to acquire Picotronix Inc., a...
OIF Approves 10 Gb/s Agreement
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 14 -- The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) announced last week at OFC/NFOEC 2005 that its membership has approved an implementation agreement (IA), "Interoperability for...
Level 3 Acquires 360networks Unit
BROOMFIELD, Colo., March 14 -- Level 3 Communications Inc. announced it has acquired substantially all of 360networks' nationwide long-haul transport business. The agreement makes Level 3 the primary...
King Tut CT Scan Reveals Leg Wound
MALVERN, Pa., March 11 -- Using images generated by a mobile computed tomography (CT) system from Siemens Medical Solutions, experts in Egypt have examined the cause of King Tutankhamen's death some...
SEMI Forum Highlights Emerging Technologies
BOSTON, March 11 -- The potential of immersion lithography to extend the semiconductor roadmap and the application of "touchless" automation to improve manufacturing productivity were topics at a...
Sampling in the Tiny New Worlds of MEMS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 11 — Just as astronomers want to understand the atmospheres of planets and moons, engineers want knowledge about the atmospheres of worlds they create that are the size of...
Metro Ethernet Forum to Promote EFM
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 11 -- The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) announced this week at OFC/NFOEC 2005 that it will expand its scope to promote standards-based Ethernet in the first mile (EFM)...
Bookham Ships EDFAs, Launches Transceivers
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 10 -- Bookham Inc., a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, announced today it has shipped more than 2000 erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) subsystems. Its...
Corning Announces Supply Agreement
CORNING, N.Y., March 9 -- Corning Inc. announced today the execution of a long-term purchase and supply agreement for large-size liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrates with AU Optronics Corp....
Phasebridge Develops FOG Transceiver
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 9 -- Phasebridge Inc., a Pasadena, Calif., specialist in advanced photonic integration technologies, devices and systems, announced today at OFC/NFOEC 2005 that it has...
Corning Says Modest Growth Expected
CORNING, N.Y., March 9 -- Eric S. Musser, vice president and general manager of Corning Optical Fiber, said he expects modest growth in the market for 2005, during Corning's 24th annual optical fiber...
Finisar to Buy InterSAN
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 8 -- Finisar Corp., a provider of fiber optic subsystems and network test and monitoring solutions, announced yesterday it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase...
OFC/NFOEC: JDS Uniphase, Corning, TriQuint Launch Products
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 8 -- Corning, JDS Uniphase and TriQuint Semiconductor are among exhibitors who introduced or announced plans for new products today at the 2005 Optical Fiber Communication...
White Rock Networks Acquires Seranoa Networks
RICHARDSON, Texas, March 8 -- White Rock Networks, a provider of optical transport systems for metro markets, announced yesterday it has acquired Seranoa Networks Inc., a Boxborough, Mass.,...
Alferness Receives IEEE Photonics Award
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 8 -- Rod C. Alferness, senior vice president at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs Optical Networking and Photonics Research Group, received the 2005 IEEE (Institute of Electrical...
CERN Starts Tunnel Installation
GENEVA, March 8 -- Installation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle physics collider, began with the lowering of a 50-foot, 38.6-pound dipole magnet into its accelerator...
Rigaku/MSC Buys RoboDesign
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, March 7 -- Rigaku/MSC Inc. announced it has purchased all of the outstanding shares of RoboDesign International Inc., a lab automation products and custom engineering company....
Alcatel to Acquire Native Networks
PARIS, March 7 -- Alcatel has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Native Networks, a provider of carrier-class optical Ethernet transport technology, for $55 million in cash. The...
Photonics Mast Contract Awarded
ARLINGTON, Va., March 4 -- The US Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (AIS), a business unit of General Dynamics, a $10 million contract for...
Advanced Light Source Zeros in on Plutonium
BERKELEY, Calif., March 4 -- In an ongoing effort to design and synthesize chemical substances that can safely and effectively remove plutonium and other radioactive materials from the human body or...
Lasers Etch White House Flag Cases
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 3 -- Universal Laser Systems Inc., a maker of computer peripherals used for laser engraving, marking and cutting, recently provided laser etching services for a customer,...
Human to Wrestle Robot Arm
SEATTLE, Wash., March 3 -- SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering) is set to host a groundbreaking event in robotics history: the first-ever arm-wrestling match between a futuristic...
NeoPhotonics Acquires Photon Stake
SAN JOSE, Calif. & SHENZHEN, China, March 2 -- NeoPhotonics Corp., a San Jose-based supplier of planar lightwave circuit (PLC) modules for optical networking applications, announced today it has...
Phasebridge Announces 2nd Round
PASADENA, Calif., March 2 -- Phasebridge Inc., a developer of photonic integration technology, has announced its second funding round, by a consortium led by Clearstone Venture Partners, which...
FTTx to be OFC/NFOEC Hot Topic
WASHINGTON, March 1 -- The state of FTTx (fiber-to-the-home/curb/neighborhood) and its worldwide deployment will be the topic of nearly 20 presentations, sessions and workshops that will be part of...
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Miricle Line of Infrared Cameras
BELLEVUE, Wash., March 29 -- Thermoteknix announced it has launched its Miricle line of infrared (IR) cameras, which it said offers "outstanding image performance, resolution and flexibility across the full spectrum of thermal applications." The company said, "Our Miricle 110 K cameras offer 44 percent more image resolution than industry standard 320 x 240 detector cameras for better quality...
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940 nm and 980 nm Fiber-Coupled Laser Diodes
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 25 -- Coherent Inc. said its newest fiber array package (FAP) diode lasers deliver the highest efficiency in the industry. Now available at 940 nm and 980 nm, these FAPs...
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Precision Micro Tools
LOS GATOS, Calif., March 22 -- minitool Inc. said its latest line of instruments -- efficient, precise and realistically proportioned -- are ideal for microscopists and are available in tip diameters...
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High-Power External Cavity Diode Laser
MARBURG, Germany, March 18 -- Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH offers the newest member of its Tiger series, a 1-W, high-power external cavity diode laser system designed for applications that require high...
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TOSA for 80 km 10 Gb/s
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 4 -- Redfern Integrated Optics Inc. (RIO) will showcase at next week's OFC/NFOEC 2005 conference (booth 2756) a small-format TOSA (transmitter optical subassembly) based on...
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