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Photonics.com - August 2006
Research & Technology
UChicago Inks $2.5B Deal to Retain Argonne Control
The University of Chicago, through its solely owned independent entity UChicago Argonne LLC, will retain its 60-year hold on the management of Argonne National Laboratory, the Department of Energy (DoE) announced this week. The University of Chicago has managed Argonne since 1946, and the contract was opened to competitive bidding for the first time this year. UChicago Argonne's was the only...
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Emcore Sells Joint Venture Interest to GE for $100M
Emcore Corp. today announced that it has sold its 49 percent interest in GELcore LLC to the lighting operations of GE Consumer & Industrial, a division of General Electric, for $100 million in...
Omron to Buy NHK's Optical Components Group
Omron Corp., a Kyoto-based provider of automation, sensing and control technologies, announced today that it will acquire NHK Spring Co. Ltd.'s fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) optical coupler business....
Polymer-Coating Process Uses Pulsed Laser Deposition
A new method of coating polymers that uses a pulsed laser deposition technique has a number of possible applications, including protecting battleship hulls from barnacles. “Barnacles that attach...
Carbon Fiber Shows Promise in MEMS Video Displays
Engineers who develop microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) like to make their tiny machines out of silicon because it is cheap, plentiful and can be worked on with the tools already developed for...
Video Cameras Learn from Insect Eyes
The bane of all wedding videos -- the bride in front of a window whose face is so shadowed that her features are obscured -- may soon be a thing of the past. By mimicking how insects see, a...
Waters Corp. Acquires Thermometric AB
Waters Corp. announced the acquisition of privately held Thermometric AB of Jarfalla, Sweden, a manufacturer of high-performance microcalorimeters, for approximately $2.5 million. Waters said it...
EraPilot Project: European Research Lacks Coordination
Because of a lack of coordination among European research institutions, industry and government, Europe's microtechnology and nanotechnology-based smart systems are not advancing as fast as they...
'Nanocantilever' Surprises Crucial for Sensor Design
A discovery about the behavior of tiny structures called nanocantilevers could be crucial in designing a new class of ultrasmall sensors for detecting viruses, bacteria and other pathogens....
Optikos to Make Optical System for ITT
Optikos Corp. announced it was awarded a contract from ITT Corp. for the design and production of an optical focus verification system (OFVS) for telescope-to-film and telescope-to-CCD camera image...
RPI Closing 'Green Gap' in LEDs
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has received $1.8 million in federal funding to improve the energy efficiency of green LEDs. As part of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE)...
nLight Acquires Flextronics Photonics
nLight, a Vancouver manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, announced on Aug. 21 it has acquired the assets of Flextronics Photonics, a Hillsboro, Ore., competitor that was owned by...
Physicists Get a Grip on a Single Electron's Spin
For the first time, researchers said they have succeeded in controlling the spin of a single electron in a nanostructure. The achievement is a step toward using the electron's spin as a quantum bit,...
Gecko Inspires High-Friction Microfibers
Inspired by the remarkable hairs that allow geckos to hang single-toed from sheer walls and scamper along ceilings, a team of researchers led by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley...
Polymers Tested for Flexible Space Electronics
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are evaluating a material called liquid crystal polymer (LCP) for the NASA/Earth Science Technology Office, which wants to use the lightweight,...
IGRS Device Used to Control Metastatic Cancer
Doctors at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center in Richmond are among the first in the world to use new image-guided radiosurgery (IGRS) technology from Varian Medical Systems...
Astronomers 'See' the Invisible
Dark matter, the elusive stuff that makes up a quarter of the universe, has been seen in isolation for the first time. Marusa Bradac of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology...
Thermo, Fisher to Divest $17M Product Line
Thermo Electron Corp. and Fisher Scientific International Inc. announced Wednesday they have received a second request for additional information from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in connection...
ALS Scientific Director Dies
Neville Smith, scientific director for the Advanced Light Source of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a leading authority in the field of photoemission spectroscopy, died unexpectedly of...
Luxtera Develops Single-Chip Dual XFP Transceiver
Carlsbad-based Luxtera Inc. announced this week it has created its first single-chip integrated photonics-electronics device implemented in a standard CMOS process. The technology integrates...
LIA Calls for Abstracts, Instructors
The Laser Institute of America (LIA) has announced a call for abstracts -- and instructors -- for the 2007 International Laser Safety Conference (ILSC), to be held March 19-22, 2007, at the San...
USS Hawaii to Stay at Pearl Harbor
Navy Secretary Donald Winter has confirmed that the USS Hawaii, one of the Navy’s new $2.6-billion stealth Virginia-class nuclear submarines, will be stationed at Pearl Harbor, the Associated...
Resolution of Fluorescing Microscope Reaches 15nm
Scientists have used a new trick involving fluorescent dyes to surpass their own STED (stimulated emission depletion) microscope resolution records set in April and further distance themselves from...
Minor Planet Named for UCSD Science Dean
Mark Thiemens has spent an entire career studying and analyzing meteorites, chunks of space rock that survive the fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Now he has an orbiting space rock -- an...
Research Lights Up Biochip Potential
New research from an optics expert is shining light on some of the challenges facing lab-on-a-chip technology. University of Alberta electrical engineering professor Jim McMullin has developed a...
NY Boosts Cornell Accelerator Funding
New York Gov. George Pataki visited Cornell University Saturday to announce $12 million in state funding for preliminary work on the proposed Energy Recovery Linac (ERL), which will help create the...
UK Team Doubles Transistor Speed
Engineers in the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science have developed a method to make bipolar transistors twice as fast as current devices. Bipolar transistors are...
Forum to Focus on System Design, Process Tech Gap
IMEC, a Belgium-based independent nanoelectronics and nanotechnology research center, has announced that registration is open for its annual research review meeting (ARRM), to be held Oct. 22-24 at...
'Revolutionary' Nanotube Growth Method Devised
A new method of growing carbon nanotubes is predicted to revolutionize the implementation of nanotechnology and the future of electronics. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have successfully...
2006 DEMOGala Call for Nominations
The Colorado Software & Internet Association (CSIA) has announced a call for nominations to the DEMOgala Technology Showcase, to be held Sept. 21 at the Grand Hyatt Denver. Nominations are being...
Physicist Discovers Exotic Superconductivity
Powerful magnetic fields change the physical nature of superconductivity, a University of Arizona (UA) physicist has discovered. UA Associate Professor of Physics Andrei Lebed has found that strong...
New Transistor Chip Bounces Electrons Like Billiards
Computer designers have come up with a radical new design for transistors that bounces individual electrons off deflectors as if playing a game of atomic billiards instead of the traditional method...
'Hot Big Bang' Team Takes Top Cosmology Prize
The 2006 Gruber Cosmology Prize has been awarded to John Mather and the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) science team for their groundbreaking studies confirming that our universe was born in a hot...
New Window into Nanoscale Materials Deformation
Materials on the nanoscale don't always have the same properties they would in bulk; for one thing, nanomaterials are often a lot harder. Unlike most bulk materials, a crystal that is small enough...
Optical Cable Rejects Superior Essex Buyout Bid
Fiber-optic cable maker Optical Cable Corp. has rejected a bid worth $36 million in cash from wire and cable manufacturer Superior Essex Inc. to purchase all of its outstanding common stock for $6...
Ultratech Acquires Oraxion Assets
Ultratech Inc., a San Jose supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductors and nanotechnology devices, announced this week it has acquired certain assets of...
ECOC Receives Record Submissions
"From Devices to Network Applications" is the theme of submissions to the European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC), which this year has received nearly 1000 proposals -- a...
Cell-by-Cell Treatments Based on Optical Tweezing
New, noninvasive surgical techniques using ultrasound and laser technology to deliver cell-by-cell medical treatments could be applied to cancer and gene therapies. Physicists Paul Campbell of...
Jmar Awarded $3.1M to Merge X-Ray Masks, Nanolithography
Jmar Technologies Inc. has received a $3.1 million award from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to continue development of sub-100-nm feature x-ray masks and next-generation nanolithography, to...
Berkeley Lab Names New Advanced Light Source Director
Roger Falcone, a physicist whose specialty is the use of ultrafast pulses of x-ray and laser light to study phenomena in condensed matter, molecular and atomic physics, has been named the new...
FRET Technique Developed to Observe DNA-Repairing Protein
Researchers have observed the life cycle of RecA, a protein that plays a major role in repairing damaged DNA, by using a highly sensitive, single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer...
Tessera Pens Chip Agreements
Tessera Technologies Inc., a San Jose, Calif., provider of miniaturization technologies, and Micron Technology Inc. recently announced a technology license agreement under which Micron will pay $30...
New Telescope Findings Shake Up Galaxy Formation Theories
A heavy form of hydrogen created just moments after the Big Bang has been found to exist in larger quantities than expected in the Milky Way, a finding that could radically alter theories about star...
Bio-Rad Buys Ciphergen's Proteomics Instrument Biz
Molecular diagnostic products maker Ciphergen Biosystems Inc. and Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. announced yesterday that Bio-Rad will acquire Ciphergen's proteomics instrument business for $20 million in...
IPG Photonics Files for IPO
IPG Photonics Corp. announced Friday it has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering of up to $130 million in common stock. The number of shares to...
Paetec, US Lec to Merge in $1.3B Deal
Telecommunications company US Lec Corp. and privately held communications solutions provider Paetec announced today that they will merge in a $1.3 billion transaction. The combined company is...
Optikos Gets $3.4M for Optical Focus Verification System
Optikos Corp., a maker of optical image quality metrology equipment, announced that it has been awarded a $3.4 million contract from ITT Systems Inc. of Colorado Springs, Colo., to produce an optical...
First ‘Molecular Movie’ of Light Made
What happens on a microscopic level when light travels through a medium has been captured in the first "molecular movie" of the elementary interaction between light and matter. The research was...
Lowell Observatory, UArizona to Complete DCT Mirror
Lowell Observatory and the University of Arizona have finalized a $3 million, three-year contract to complete the Discovery Channel Telescope primary mirror. The 4.3-meter-diameter (14 ft),...
'Mirror Days' Forum for Optics Developers, Agency Reps
A forum for government-sponsored contract work in mirror and other optics-related technology will bring together developers of optics technology and federal agency representatives. The sixth annual...
Unemployed Scientists Create Ultrapowerful Microscope
Two out-of-work scientists equipped with $50,000 in personal funds and a living room for a lab have created a new light microscope so powerful that it allows users to discern the precise location of...
Optics in Energy, Alzheimer's, Physics Apps OSA 90thTopics
Optics solutions to the energy problem and Alzheimer's disease and the implication of optical science for collision physics will be topics of presenters at Frontiers in Optics 2006. Frontiers in...
Redlake Launches New Web Site
Redlake, a designer of high-speed motion analysis and industrial inspection cameras, announces the launch of its new Web site, www.redlake.com. The site features information on Redlake products and...
Flir Lands Laser System Contract
Flir Systems Inc. of Billerica, Mass., won a $34.8-million targeting system contract with the US Navy. Flir is scheduled to produce the advanced laser system for the Naval Surface Warfare Systems in...
Metal Fatigue Revealed by New X-Ray Microbeam
Intense x-ray microbeams -- 100 times thinner than a human hair -- probing a piece of distressed metal have revealed previously unknown variations in stresses, a result that could have implications...
Controls Found to Gold Nanocatalysis
A recent discovery that the catalytic activity of gold nanoclusters can be tuned could eventually lead to advances in nanocatalysis that lower the cost of making materials ranging from plastics to...
Kollmorgen to Make S-80 Sub Equipment
The Spanish Navy, through Navantia, Spain's leading state-owned shipbuilding firm, has selected Kollmorgen Electro-Optical and its Italian subsidiary, Calzoni Srl, to provide periscopes and optronic...
Promising Polymers to be Tested as Space Mirrors
For the past three years, a research team has been investigating the performance of various piezoelectric polymer films that might one day serve as ultralight mirrors in space telescopes. In 2007,...
Space Pioneer, Physicist James Van Allen Dies at 91
Physicist James A. Van Allen, a US space pioneer who discovered the bands of intense radiation surrounding the Earth that now bear his name, died this morning at the age of 91. A statement about...
Laser Imaging Sensor Assists Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Hunt
Using a laser imaging sensor capable of providing a detailed measurement of the structure of dense forests, researchers hope to prove once and for all that the ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct....
Raytheon Gets $8M to Develop Radar for DARPA's ISIS
Raytheon Co. has been awarded an $8 million contract to construct a radar antenna the length of a football field that has an extraordinarily precise and lightweight sensor and can be bonded to the...
XRF Imaging Reveals Archimedes Text
The last unreadable pages of the works of ancient mathematician Archimedes are being deciphered after more than 1000 years in obscurity, thanks to an x-ray imaging technique being used at the...
Steel Tubing Used to Grow Carbon Nanotubes
In less than 20 minutes, researchers can now seed, heat and grow carbon nanotubes in 10-foot-long, hollow thin steel tubing. The ground-breaking method will lead to improvements in cleaner gasoline,...
Boston Instruments Acquires Pro2Kem
Boston Instruments LLC announced that it has acquired Pro2Kem Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Boston Instruments was formed in March 2006 to acquire analytical and life science...
Superconductor Probe Results in Shock
High-temperature superconductors, which conduct electricity without resistance at relatively high temperatures, have been known for 20 years, but how they work is still a mystery. By observing events...
AMCC Acquires Quake for $69M
Network technology provider Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) announced yesterday that it will acquire Quake Technologies Inc., a privately-held fabless semiconductor company that makes 10 Gigabit...
Man-Made Microlenses May Lead to New Sensing Methods
Man-made miniature lenses have been created that can alter their shape and light-focusing properties, like the lens of the human eye. The devices, in which the lens is squeezed or flattened by a...
Illinois AG Sues Corning Over Contaminated Site
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed suit against Corning Inc. over soil and groundwater contamination at a former factory site owned by the Corning, N.Y.-based fiber optics and glass...
Lockheed Awarded $7.8M Multisensor Contract
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin has received a $7.8 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to design, produce and test its real-time active imaging in 3-D at extended range...
Photonic ‘Firewall on a Chip’ Gets EU Funding
European Union funding of 2 million euros ($2.5 million) has been announced for a new three-year project to develop a reconfigurable photonic "firewall on a chip." Called WISDOM, (wirespeed security...
Growing Nanotubes on Silicon a Base for Nanoelectronics
Engineers have developed a technique to grow individual carbon nanotubes vertically on top of a silicon wafer, a step toward using nanotubes to make advanced electronics, wireless devices and sensors...
UChicago Inks $2.5B Deal to Retain Argonne Control
The University of Chicago, through its solely owned independent entity UChicago Argonne LLC, will retain its 60-year hold on the management of Argonne National Laboratory, the Department of Energy...
Syntec, Subsidiary Merge to Form Syntec Optics
Syntec Technologies, the largest independent manufacturer of custom polymer optics in North America, and its subsidiary, Rochester Tool and Mold (RTM), announced they have merged under the name...
Kodak Loses $282M, Will Cut 2000 More Jobs
In the wake of a wider second-quarter loss of $282 million -- its seventh quarterly loss in a row as it continues a rough transition from film to digital photography -- Eastman Kodak Co. said today...
New Imaging Method Uses Helium Atoms
A newly devised nozzle fitted with a pinhole-sized capillary has allowed researchers to distribute helium atoms with x-ray-like waves on randomly shaped surfaces. The technique could power the...
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AMCC Acquires Quake for $69M
Network technology provider Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) announced yesterday that it will acquire Quake Technologies Inc., a privately-held fabless semiconductor company that makes 10 Gigabit Ethernet physical layer (PHY) technology, for $69 million in cash. Quake was founded in 2000 and employs approximately 50 people, the majority of whom are based in Ottawa, Canada. Quake's...
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TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 31, 2006 -- 4D Technology Corp., a manufacturer of dynamic laser interferometers, announces the introduction of its latest Fizeau instrument, the FizCam 2000. "This is a first-of-its-kind 'on-axis'...
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IsoSphere AR Ball Lenses
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New UV Product Lines
BARRINGTON, N.J., Aug, 28, 2006 -- Edmund Optics (EO) said it will introduce 20 new product lines designed to work in the ultraviolet (UV). Products introduced in its fall 2006 catalog will include UV-NIR triplets, CaF2 windows, UV...
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Autoflex III Mass Spectrometer
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Sapphire 488-nm Laser
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CrossFire Bidirectional Tester
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C-Mount Laser Diode Fixture
BOZEMAN, Mont., Aug. 21, 2006 -- ILX Lightwave Corp. has released the LDM-4409 C-mount fixture for testing high-power C-mount laser diodes. The new fixture supports C-mount packaged lasers with high optical output power and drive...
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Perceptive PCS-II Color Sensor
ROSTOCK, Germany, Aug. 21, 2006 -- The PCS-II perceptive color sensor from Silicann Technologies GmbH is now available with enhanced functionality, setting new standards in industrial color processing, the company said. Besides...
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L200-XIW Series Incandescent Color LEDs
TORRANCE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2006 -- LEDtronics has introduced super-bright L200-XIW Series LEDs that is said are significantly brighter than standard LEDs. "These intensely dazzling LEDs come in the standard 5-mm size, allowing...
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Opti-tec 7020 Clear Silicone Potting Compound
OXFORDSHIRE, England, Aug. 14, 2006 -- The Opti-tec 7020 clear silicone potting compound from Intertronics provides true nonyellowing optical clarity for light transmission and protection for potting of sensitive optoelectronic components...
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HSF 600/1200W/1500W Power Supplies
FLUSHING, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2006 -- Two 1200/1500-W and five 600-W high-power models join the Kepco HSF group of plug-in, redundant-capable, hot-swappable power supplies. Available in 12-V and higher output models, they use...
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OptiscanII Controller with USB
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UV10 Polyfunctional Epoxy System
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Mira HP Ultrafast Laser Oscillator
SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 10, 2006 -- The Mira HP from Coherent Inc. is the first ultrafast oscillator to deliver more than 3 watts of output power, the company said. Designed to be pumped by the Coherent V18 Verdi laser, this new laser...
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Flexible Development Platform For Fluorescence Applications
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Pixis: 2048 Camera Series
TRENTON, N.J., Aug. 9, 2006 -- Princeton Instruments/Acton (PI/Acton) announces the addition of the Pixis: 2048 series of front-and-back illuminated cameras to its Pixis line of CCD cameras. The cameras are based on e2v...
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IK-TF9C 3-Chip CCD Color Camera
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 9, 2006 -- The IK-TF9C from Toshiba Imaging Systems is the first megapixel high-speed camera using three-CCD color technology. Featuring 2048 x 1536-pixel output resolution with a frame rate of 20 f/s (full...
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405-nm Laser Diode Module 25-mW Version
HATFIELD BROAD OAK, England, Aug. 8, 2006 -- Photonic Products Ltd., a manufacturer of electro-optical subassemblies and optoelectronic components based on semiconductor laser diode technology, has launched a 25-mW version of its 405-nm...
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Trestles Fourth Harmonic Generator
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Buccaneer Amplified Fiber Laser
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Extended-Range Laser Wavelength Meters
VICTOR, N.Y., Aug. 4, 2006 -- Bristol Instruments Inc. has expanded the operational wavelength range of the infrared version of its model 621 laser wavelength meter, originally 1.5 to 4.0 µm, to 5.0 µm to satisfy new requirements...
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MIM-Vac Metal Hot-Zone Furnaces
Nashua, N.H., Aug. 4, 2006 -- Centorr Vacuum Industries has expanded its furnace offering for the metal injection molding market with the introduction of a new line of Modular MIM-Vac custom metal hot-zone furnaces. One unit was...
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Telecentric Measuring Lenses
BARRINGTON, N.J., Aug. 3, 2006 -- Optics and imaging components maker Edmund Optics presents a new line of TML-HP (high power) telecentric measuring lenses. Telecentric lenses correct perspective errors that yield variations in...
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Shutters, Machine Vision Components Now Online
CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 3, 2006 -- Photonics products supplier Melles Griot announces that its full line of electronic shutters and machine vision components is now available for purchase online at: www.mellesgriot.com Melles Griot...
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C9016-2x Series High-speed Gated Image Intensifier Unit
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H9500 Flat Panel Multianode PMT Assembly
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