Coherent Purchases Excel Technology
Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has purchased Excel Technology Inc. of East Setauket, N.Y., a...
Machine Vision Market Exhibits Growth
The machine vision and imaging industry showed strong growth in 2005, and the trend is expected to...
Industrial Laser Group Merges with SME
The Industrial Laser Group is now represented as the Industrial Laser Community within the Society...
Ocean Optics Forms Alliances
Ocean Optics Inc. of Dunedin, Fla., and Centice Corp. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., have entered...
Global Semiconductor Equipment Sales Reported Down in 2005
The worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled $32.88 billion in 2005, down...
Taos Relocates to Larger Headquarters
Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions (TAOS) Inc. has moved to expanded headquarters in Plano,...
Yokogawa and Fujitsu Collaborate
Yokogawa Electric Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd., both of Tokyo, have agreed to jointly develop core...
DMG and Svedice Form Strategic Partnership
DMG Technologies Inc. of Monterey, Calif., a manufacturer of optical subassemblies used in...
Dalsa Awarded Custom Contracts
Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has received two contracts totaling $2.3 million from...
Light Technology Companies Merge
The newly formed company International Light Technologies Inc. has announced that its divisions,...
Melles Griot To Supply HeNe Lasers Directly
Melles Griot of Carlsbad and Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, both in California, have agreed that the...
Instrument Systems, Suss Join Forces
Suss MicroTec Inc. of Waterbury Center, Vt., and Instrument Systems GmbH of Munich, Germany, will...
Alfa Aesar Opens Branch in China
Alfa Aesar of Ward Hill, Mass., has announced the formation of Alfa Aesar China. The operation...
GenTek Chosen as Southeastern Distributor
Fiso Technologies of Quebec City has chosen GenTek Inc. of Tampa, Fla., to act as its sales...
Auxora Acquires Confluent Photonics
Auxora Inc., a developer of optical communications technologies, has acquired Confluent Photonics...
Companies Develop Microdisplay Technology
Novalux Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has entered into a joint development and licensing agreement...
Olympus Creates Life Science Group
Olympus America Inc. of Melville, N.Y., has combined its Scientific Equipment and Diagnostic...
Ceramics Company Expands in Europe
CoorsTek Inc., a supplier and manufacturer of ceramic components for high-technology applications...
JMar, Portaqua Offer Water Monitoring System
JMar Technologies Inc. of San Diego has signed an OEM agreement with Portaqua, a Blacksburg,...
Detector Company Changes Its Name
Gresham Scientific Instruments Ltd. of High Wycombe, UK, has been renamed e2v scientific...
Nanometrics Buys Soluris
Nanometrics Inc., a supplier of metrology equipment to the semiconductor industry in Milpitas,...
Photon Chooses Distributor in China
Photon Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has entered into an agreement with China Light, a representative...
Zeiss Resumes Camera Lens Distribution
Carl Zeiss Camera Lens Div. of Oberkochen, Germany, has assumed global distribution of its...
KLA-Tencor Acquires ADE
KLA-Tencor Corp. of San Jose, Calif., has agreed to buy ADE Corp. of Westwood, Mass., in a...
Photonics in Taiwan Shows Strong Growth
The Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association of Taipei, Taiwan, has released a...
German and US Companies Form Alliance on Polymer Products
Wahl optoparts GmbH of Triptis, a subsidiary of Jenoptik AG of Jena, both in Germany, has formed a...
Report: Verizon Expands Fiber-to-the-Premises Operations
New York-based Verizon has begun to install several billion dollars’ worth of fiber-to-the-premises...
OIDA Presents Plans for High-Brightness LED Technology
Michael Lebby, president and CEO of the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA),...