Quintessence to Produce Optical-Sensing Lasers
Quintessence Photonics Corp. of Sylmar, Calif., has won a contract to develop and produce...
DataLase Opens US Headquarters
Formerly Sherwood Technology, DataLase Ltd. of Widnes, UK, has opened a North American headquarters...
Sandia Grants License to E M Optomechanical
In Albuquerque, N.M., Sandia National Laboratories has provided a license to E M Optical Inc. to...
Texas Photonics Receives DARPA Contract
BAE Systems of Lexington, Mass., has awarded Phase II funding of approximately $705,000 to Texas...
NI, Agilent Technologies Ally to Create Drivers
Test and measurement companies National Instruments Corp. of Austin, Texas, and Agilent...
Company to Develop Silicon Modulators
Structured Materials Industries Inc. of Piscataway, N.J., has received a Phase II Small Business...
Flexible Displays Poised for Growth
Flexible displays are expected to take off by 2009 and to reach revenues of nearly $2 billion by...
Spectroscopy Market Shows Endurance and Growth
The US market for spectroscopic instruments is on the rise, according to a new market research...
OSA Foundation Funds Educational Programs
Four grants to educational programs for schoolchildren designed to increase awareness of and...
Dynasil Acquires EMF
An agreement has been signed under which Dynasil Corp. of America of West Berlin, N.J., will...
National Science Foundation Awards Research Grants
The National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va., has awarded research grants to five engineering...
Companies Ally Again to Develop Lithography
Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials, a Marlborough, Mass., supplier of lithography materials for the...
Photonic ‘Firewall on Chip’ Funded by European Union
The European Union has allotted €2 million for a three-year project to develop a reconfigurable...
Business Support Centers Opened by Fujitsu
Fujitsu Ltd., a Tokyo-based supplier of optical components, has opened offices in Singapore and in...
Siemens Buys Optical Inspection Business
In Germany, Siemens Automation and Drives Group of Nuremberg has acquired Opto-Control Elektronik...
Aculight Receives SBIR Fiber Laser Awards
Aculight Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has obtained four Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)...
Structured Materials Obtains NIST Grant
Structured Materials Industries Inc. of Piscataway, N.J., has received a Phase I Small Business...
Cree Purchases Intrinsic Semiconductor
Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., a supplier of semiconductor materials and electronic devices made from...
Applied Analytics Secures Larger Facility
Applied Analytics Inc. has moved to a larger plant in Maynard, Mass., to accommodate increased...
Advanced Illumination Opens Office in China
A supplier of LED lighting products for the machine vision industry, Advanced Illumination Inc. of...
PSI-TEC to Collocate with N.J. Company
PSI-TEC Corp., a subsidiary of PSI-TEC Holdings Inc., has entered into a collocation agreement with...
Applied Image Partners with Imatest
Rochester, N.Y.-based Applied Image Inc. has signed a partnership agreement with Imatest LLC of...
Zeon to Build Plant in Himi City, Japan
Tokyo-based Zeon Corp. has announced plans to construct a plant in Himi City, Japan, for its wholly...
Uvex Purchases Trinity Technologies
Trinity Technologies LLC of St. Paul, Minn., has announced that Uvex Safety Group of Fürth,...
LIA Extends Support
The Laser Institute of America, of Orlando, Fla., and the European Laser Institute, of Aachen,...
Vgoal to Distribute for Acol Technologies
Acol Technologies SA of Geneva, Switzerland, and Vgoal, a subsidiary of Kuen Chaang Uppertech Corp....
Laser Company Secures Flextronics Photonics
Semiconductor laser supplier nLight Corp. has acquired the assets of Flextronics Photonics PPT Inc....
IPG Photonics Opens Office in Michigan
Based in Oxford, Mass., IPG Photonics has opened a sales and service office in Wixom, Mich., to...
JPK Instruments Buys Nanoinstrumentation Firm
In Berlin, JPK Instruments AG, a supplier of scanning probe microscopes for life sciences and soft...
Optikos to Develop System for Focus Verification
Optikos Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., received a $3.4 million contract from ITT Corp. of White Plains,...
Fiberguide Industries Gains European Agent
Fiberguide Industries Inc., a Stirling N.J., manufacturer of specialty optical fibers and OEM...
Student Design Winners Announced by ORA
Optical Research Associates (ORA) of Pasadena, Calif., has chosen the winners of its annual Student...
Boeing and US Air Force Redirect Laser Beam
Using their aerospace relay mirror system, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems of St. Louis, and the...