Lighting Competition
The 2008 “Lighting for Tomorrow” competition, organized by the American Lighting Association, the...
Rofin-Sinar to Acquire Nufern
Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. of Plymouth, Mich., a developer and manufacturer of laser beam...
OSA Offers Scholarship Program
The Optical Society of America (OSA) Foundation in Washington, which supports programs that advance...
Big Sky Laser Changes Name
Big Sky Laser Technologies Inc. of Bozeman, Mont., a solid-state laser manufacturer, will change...
Intel Sells Division for $85 Million
Emcore Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., will purchase the telecommunications-related section of the...
Sunny Future Forecast for Solar Technology
The next several years look bright for the photovoltaic industry as the demand for alternative...
Intense Enters Chinese Market
A&P Instrument Co. Ltd. of Hong Kong has signed an agreement with Intense Ltd. of Glasgow, UK,...
Obzerv Receives $600,000 Contract
A spin-off of the National Optics Institute, Obzerv Technologies of Quebec City has been awarded a...
Optinvent Created
Optinvent of Rennes is a spin-off of Thomson AG of Boulogne-Billancourt, both in France. The...
Teledyne to Purchase Judson Technologies
Teledyne Scientific & Imaging LLC, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Inc. of Thousand Oaks,...
Nemotek Licenses Technology from Tessera
Miniaturization technologies provider Tessera Technologies Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has announced...
DRS Technologies Wins $18 Million Contract
Raytheon Missile Systems, a division of Raytheon Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., has awarded a contract...
Princeton Lightwave Earns DARPA Contract
Princeton Lightwave Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., has been awarded a two-year, $3.5 million contract by...
Applied Materials to Acquire Baccini
Applied Materials Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has agreed to purchase Baccini spa of Treviso,...
Light Blue Optics Opens Base in US
Light Blue Optics of Cambridge, UK, a developer of holographic laser projection technology, has...
Curtiss-Wright Awarded Boeing Contract
The metal treatment segment of Curtiss-Wright Corp. of Roseland, N.J., has received a contract from...
Schott to Build Facility
Schott Solar Inc. of Roseville, Calif., will construct a solar energy technology production...
FiberTech Joins Leoni
Leoni Fiber Optics, a subsidiary of the Leoni Group of Nuremberg, Germany, has purchased 90.2...
Spectrum Moves
Spectrum Thin Films Inc., originally of Bohemia, has moved its headquarters to Hauppauge, both in...
Nexxus Lighting to Acquire Lumificient
Nexxus Lighting Inc. of Charlotte, N.C., has announced that it has signed a nonbinding letter of...
i2S Expands Presence in China
Specializing in surface inspections for the optimization of production processes, i2S Linescan of...
Five Funding Awards Granted
The Carolinas Photonics Consortium, consisting of five universities with a focus on photonics...
Precision Optics Sells Product Line
Precision Optics Corp. Inc. of Gardner, Mass., has sold its custom optical thin-film product line...
LightPath and CDGM to Form Joint Venture
LightPath Technologies Inc. of Orlando, Fla., and CDGM Glass Co. Ltd. of Chengdu, China, will...
Dilas to Distribute for m2k-Laser
Dilas Diode Laser Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., has signed a distribution agreement with m2k-laser GmbH of...
FEI Opens NanoPort in China
FEI Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., has opened a NanoPort in Shanghai, China. The new facility joins three...
Oerlikon Solar Opens Office in Singapore
Oerlikon Solar of Pfäffikon, Switzerland, a provider of thin-film silicon solar solutions, has...
cmosis nv Created
Based in Antwerp, Belgium, cmosis nv has been created to supply CMOS image sensor solutions to the...
Omicron Names Distributor
Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH of Rodgau, Germany, has named its first North American sales...
Braggone and Beneq to Collaborate
Braggone of Oulu and Beneq Oy of Vantaa, both in Finland, have signed a joint development agreement...
Dynasil to Purchase Instrumentation Firm
Dynasil Corp. of America, headquartered in West Berlin, N.J., has entered into an agreement to...
Axsys Receives $21.9 Million Order
Axsys Technologies Inc. of Rocky Hill, Conn., has received a $21.9 million order from BAE Systems...
Rudolph Technologies to Buy Semiconductor Division
Applied Precision LLC of Issaquah, Wash., has announced the sale of its semiconductor division to...