Supreme Court Hears Patent Case Involving Test for ‘Obviousness’
On Nov. 28, 2006, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the KSR International Co. v....
Polychromix Provides Spectrometers for NASA
Polychromix Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., has partnered with NASA to provide digital transform...
Hexagon Metrology Moves Unit to North Carolina
Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, R.I., has relocated one of its US hexagon precision...
Imra America Partners with Aculight
Imra America Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., has signed an agreement that licenses its amplification...
Free-Electron Laser Produces 14.2-kW Beam in the IR
The free-electron laser supported by the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Va., has achieved...
Central Florida University, Powerlase Collaborate
Powerlase Ltd. of Crawley, UK, has partnered with the University of Central Florida in Orlando to...
SAIC Wins Contract with Air Force
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) of San Diego received a contract from the US Air...
DRS Technologies to Provide Infrared Sensors
DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has received a $7 million contract from the Belcamp,...
NeoPhotonics Acquires Paxera’s Product Line
NeoPhotonics of San Jose, Calif., a supplier of optical networking components for long-haul, metro...
Oxford Lasers Acquired by Management Team
Oxford Lasers Ltd. of Didcot, UK, has been wholly acquired by its management team. The company...
Fiber Optic Connector/Splice Market Growing
A market study of the global value and technology trends of communication fiber optic connectors...
Arcelor Mittal and Noble Join Laser Welding Forces
Arcelor Mittal and Noble International Ltd. of Warren, Mich., have agreed to combine their...
Luxtera Receives Phase II Defense Contract
Luxtera Inc. of Carlsbad, Calif., has received a Phase II grant from the Defense Advanced Research...
Greene, Tweed Establishes Defense and FO Business
Greene, Tweed of Kulpsville, Pa., is launching Lancer Systems, a stand-alone company that will...
Fraunhofer USA Receives Development Awards
Fraunhofer USA, a subsidiary of the German research and development organization...
Avian Opens Production Facility
Avian Technologies LLC of Wilmington, Ohio, has opened a 2000-sq-ft production facility in Sunapee,...
Avanex Joins Consortium to Develop Firewall
Avanex Corp. of Fremont, Calif., has joined a consortium seeking to develop a reconfigurable...
Zia Laser Purchased
NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH of Dortmund, Germany, has acquired Zia Laser Inc. of Albuquerque, N.M....
EFW Helicopter System Selected by US Army
EFW Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas, has been selected to supply the helmet display and tracking system...
Azores Sells Systems to Asian Firm
Azores Corp. of Wilmington, Mass., a manufacturer of photolithography steppers for mobile display...
Rochester Precision Acquires Tricon
Rochester Precision Optics of West Henrietta, N.Y., has purchased Tricon Machine LLC of Rochester,...
Andor Technology Establishes China Office
Andor Technology of Belfast, UK, has opened an office in Beijing. The manufacturer of digital...
Oerlikon Buys Exitech
Oerlikon Corp. Ltd. of Pfäffikon, Switzerland, has acquired the technology, staff and equipment of...
Airbus Selects NI Software for Wind-Tunnel Tests
Airbus, a manufacturer of aircraft based in Toulouse, France, has selected Austin, Texas-based...
Photon and TeraComm Announce Representation Agreement in US
Photon Inc. of San Jose, Calif., a manufacturer of beam-profiling instrumentation, has selected...
Alfalight Expands to UK and Israel
Alfalight Inc. of Madison, Wis., a manufacturer of diode lasers, has named Pacer International of...
StockerYale Purchases Photonic Products
StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., a provider of photonic-based products, has acquired the privately...
Company to Supply Filters for Telescope Imager
Barr Associates Inc. was selected by Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md., to supply filters for...
SPI Lasers Moves to New Facility
SPI Lasers LLC, a unit of SPI, based in Southampton, UK, has relocated to a 3500-sq-ft facility in...
Ametek Acquires Precitech
Ametek Inc. of Paoli, Pa., has purchased Precitech Inc. of Keene, N.H., a manufacturer of...
Companies Offer Light- Measurement Solutions
Gamma Scientific, a manufacturer of light-measurement instrumentation, and UDT Instruments, a...
Point Grey Research Opens Office in Germany
Digital camera technology specialist Point Grey Research Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia,...
Sofradir to Supply Large-Format IR Detectors
Sofradir, based in Chatenay-Malabry, France, has signed a $1.3 million contract with a global...
Smiths Detection, Telops Enter Partnership
Smiths Detection of Watford, UK, a provider of chemical, biological and explosives detectors and...
Optical Communication to Manufacture in China
Fiber optic component manufacturer Optical Communication Products Inc. has signed an agreement with...
Advanced Design Wins NASA Contract
Under a contract with NASA, Advanced Design Consulting USA Inc. will collaborate with the agency’s...
Tower and SuperPixForm Partnership
Tower Semiconductor Ltd. of Migdal Haemek, Israel, has formed a partnership with SuperPix Micro...
Princeton Lightwave Awarded Laser Diode Pact
Princeton Lightwave Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., has received a $730,000 contract from the US Army to...
Teledyne Contracted to Develop Sensors
Teledyne Imaging Sensors of Camarillo, Calif., a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Inc. of Los...
Axiom Electronics Completes Buyout
Axiom Electronics LLC of Beaverton, Ore., has completed a management buyout from its former parent...
Veeco to Supply MBE Systems
Veeco Instruments Inc. of St. Paul, Minn., has received requests for four of its molecular beam...
Goodrich Receives IR Sensor Contract
Goodrich Corp.’s Sensors Unlimited Inc. team in Charlotte, N.C., will develop a shortwave IR sensor...
Lumics Opens California Sales Office
Lumics Inc. of Berlin, a manufacturer of fiber-coupled laser modules, has opened a sales office in...
Agilent to Purchase PXIT Optical Transceiver Assets
Agilent Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has agreed to purchase the assets of the optical...
Exotic Electro-Optics Awarded $2.2 Million
Exotic Electro-Optics Inc. of Murrieta, Calif., a subsidiary of II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., has...
Trumpf ConstructingLaser Facility
Trumpf Inc. of Farmington, Conn., a subsidiary of the Trumpf Group of Ditzingen, Germany, has begun...
NanoOpto and Moxtek Form Partnership
NanoOpto Corp. of Somerset, N.J., and Moxtek Inc. of Orem, Utah, have partnered to develop...