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Photonics.com - January 2004
News & Features
Mesophotonics Second Round Nets $10 Million
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 30 -- Mesophotonics Ltd., a developer of disruptive photonic crystal technology, has announced the closing of a $10 million second-round fund raising. Quester led the...
$4 M Funding Round for Ion Optics
WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 30 -- Ion Optics Inc. announced this week the closing of a $4.0 million Series C financing round, led by Digital Power Capital (DPC), of Greenwich, Conn. Previous investor...
PI Actuator Wins Circle of Excellence Award
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 30 -- Nanopositioning and piezo specialist PI (Physik Instrumente) received a 2004 Photonics Circle of Excellence Award, sponsored by Laurin Publishing, for its PICMA...
PI Actuator Wins Circle of Excellence Award
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 31 -- Nanopositioning and piezo specialist PI (Physik Instrumente) received a 2004 Photonics Circle of Excellence Award, sponsored by Laurin Publishing, for its PICMA...
XFP MFA Benefits Extolled at Tokyo Workshop
TOKYO, Jan. 28 -- Transceivers based on the XFP multisource agreement (MSA) are making high-speed optical interfaces so simple and cost effective that 10 Gb/s XFP products are becoming the de facto...
Optics Center Director Harvey Pollicove Dies
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 29 -- Harvey Pollicove, the director of the Center of Optics Manufacturing (COM) at and a graduate of the University of Rochester, died suddenly Jan. 25 at age 60. Pollicove was...
PhotoMedex Sues Edwards and Baxter for $4 Million
CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 29 -- PhotoMedex Inc. announced today it has filed a lawsuit against Irvine, Calif.-based Edwards Lifesciences Corp. and its former parent company, Baxter Healthcare Corp., in...
Nanochemists Make Curved Structures
EVANSTON, Ill., Jan. 29 --- The natural world is full of curves and three dimensions, but the ability to deliberately and rationally construct such complex structures using nanoscale building blocks...
Carriers Prep for Metro Optical and Ethernet Investments
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 28 -- Service provider metro capital expenditures are beginning the shift from legacy time division multiplexing (TDM) to products based on IP and Ethernet, driven by...
UK Agency Boosts Photonics Center Funding
CAMBRIDGE, England, Jan. 27 -- The East of England Development Agency (EEDA), which fosters economic development in the east of England (Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk...
Circle of Excellence Award Goes to OraSure
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 27 -- OraSure Technologies, of Bethlehem, Pa., received a 2003 Photonics Circle of Excellence Award for its OraQuick Rapid HIV-1 antibody test, at a ceremony Monday night at...
IMRA Licenses Amplification Technology to Nufern
ANN ARBOR, Mich. & EAST GRANBY, Conn., Jan. 27 -- IMRA America Inc. (IMRA), a maker of ultrafast fiber lasers, announced it has licensed its patent for amplification technology to Nufern, a maker of...
Circle of Excellence Award: JDS Uniphase Light Engine
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 27 -- JDS Uniphase was a recipient of Laurin Publishing's Photonics 2003 Circle of Excellence Award for its liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) version of its light engine for...
13,000 Expected at Photonics West 2004
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 27 – The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) said it expects attendance at Photonics West 2004, which opened today, to reach 13,000. The conference, being held...
Laurin Publishing Presents Photonics Awards
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 27 -- Laurin Publishing Co. presented its annual Circle of Excellence and Distinction in Photonics Awards last night at the Fairmont Hotel at a ceremony held in conjunction...
4D Wins Circle of Excellence Award
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 27 -- 4D Technology Corp., a Tucson, Ariz., manufacturer of dynamic interferometer systems, announced today that its PhaseCam 4000 was selected for the 2003 Photonics Circle of...
UMass Amherst to Launch Nanotechnology Center
AMHERST, Mass., Jan. 26 -- The University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst has announced plans to establish a nanotechnology research center, MassNanoTech, that will initially focus on...
Intel, Cymer Sign EUV Agreement
SAN DIEGO & SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 26 -- Intel Corp. announced today an agreement to provide $20 million in funding to Cymer Inc., a supplier of deep ultraviolet (DUV) light sources used in...
Finisar to Acquire Honeywell VCSEL Business
SUNNYVALE, CA, Jan. 26 -- Finisar Corp. and Honeywell International Inc. announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement in which Finisar has agreed to acquire Honeywell's VCSEL...
UMass to Launch Nanotechnology Center
AMHERST, Mass., Jan. 26 -- The University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst has announced plans to establish a nanotechnology research center, MassNanoTech, that will initially focus on...
e2v to Provide CCDs for Rosetta Mission
CHELMSFORD, England, Jan. 23 -- The European Space Agency's Rosetta Orbiter will rely on sensors from UK-based e2v technologies to capture vital images as it rendezvouses with the Comet...
Picolight Closes $10M Funding Round
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 23 -- Picolight, a maker of high-speed optoelectronic subcomponents and fiber optic transceivers, announced this week it closed a $10 million funding round on Dec. 30 led by St....
Precision Optics Cuts Staff
GARDNER, Mass., Jan. 23 -- Precision Optics Corp. announced today it has reduced its full-time workforce by 15 percent, or five employees, in response to delays by an unnamed customer in the...
Restored 'David' Had Laser Treatment
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Jan. 22 -- When Italy's National Museum of the Bargello, in Florence, decided to put Verrocchio's David on the road in the US, conservators wanted the 15th-century, four-foot...
Kodak to Reduce Workforce, Plant Size
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 22 -- -- Eastman Kodak Co. announced today it will reduce its workforce worldwide by about 20 percent, or 12,000 to 15,000, and decrease the size of its facilities by about a...
Air Force Engineers Mix Laser Fuel
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., Jan. 22 -- Airborne-laser (ABL) engineers have successfully prepared and assessed a 1200-gallon batch of chemicals that help make up the delicately balanced formula...
Nortel, Flextronics Discuss Divestiture
TORONTO, Jan. 22 -- Nortel Networks announced today it will divest its remaining manufacturing activities, including product integration, testing and repair operations carried out in Calgary and...
Study: Auto Sensor Demand to Rise
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 21 -- Demand for automotive sensors in the North American light-vehicle original equipment manufacturer (OEM) market will increase 10.7 percent annually to $4.5 billion in 2007,...
Alcatel Space to Build Demo Satellites
PARIS, Jan. 21 -- Alcatel Space, a subsidiary of Alcatel, has been chosen to build two demonstration satellites by EADS Astrium, the prime contractor for the SPIRALE (Systeme Preparatoire Infra-Rouge...
Coherent Acquires Lambda Physik Stock
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 21 -- Coherent Inc. announced today it has acquired more than 95 percent of the outstanding shares of its Lambda Physik AG subsidiary. As a result, a squeeze-out resolution...
Harsh-Environment Fiber Optic Component Growth Steady
SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 20 -- The use of harsh-environment fiber optic components maintained steady growth during 2001-2002, but, the global consumption of conventional and commercial fiber optic...
NIH Center Installs Spatial 3-D System
BURLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 20 -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., has installed a Perspecta Spatial 3D imaging system, developed by...
Xanoptix Acquires AraLight
MERRIMACK, N.H., Jan. 20 -- Xanoptix Inc., a developer of 3-D stacked hybrid integrated circuits and a manufacturer of high-speed optical connection products, announced today it has completed the...
OCLI Incorporates Casix Operations
SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Casix Inc., located in Fuzhou, China, was acquired by JDS Uniphase in May 2000 and is a wholly owned subsidiary. Casix's crystal, optical fabrication and coating expertise are...
360networks Acquires Touch America
SEATTLE, Wa. and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 19 -- 360networks Corp., a provider of wholesale and data telecommunications services in North America, announced it has completed the purchase of a...
Consolidated Communications to Buy TXU Communications
DALLAS and MATTOON, Ill., Jan. 16 -- TXU Corp. announced today it will sell TXU Communications, a telecommunications business based in southeast Texas, to Consolidated Communications Inc. for $527...
APA Discontinues Optics Manufacturing
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 16 -- APA Optics announced it has discontinued its optics manufacturing operations, eliminating five positions at its Blaine, Minn., facility, and has consolidated its fiber optics...
iBIZ to Ship Virtual Laser Keyboard
PHOENIX, Jan. 16 -- iBIZ Technology Corp. announced this week it has begun taking orders for its Virtual Laser Keyboard, which uses a laser beam to project a glowing red outline of a full-size...
Lockheed, DRS Form Display Consortium
EAGAN, Minn., Jan. 15 -- Lockheed Martin and DRS Technologies Inc. announced today they have formed an industry consortium to research and develop a new generation of advanced naval displays. The...
Researchers Create Robot Scientist
MANCHESTER, England, Jan 15. -- A British research team has developed a "robot scientist" that generates hypotheses about the function of particular genes in baker’s yeast, then designs and carries...
USCarrier Buys Lightwave
ATLANTA, Jan. 15 -- USCarrier Telecom LLC, an Atlanta-based wholesale carrier, announced it has acquired Lightwave LLC, an Alabama-based fiber optic network company. After the asset purchase for the...
SPIE Elects 2004 Officers and Directors
BELLINGHAM, Wa., Jan. 14 -- James Bilbro, assistant director and chief technician for optics at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) NASA, was elected 2004 president of the International Society for...
MicroDisplay Corp. Raises $18 M
SAN PABLO, Calif., Jan. 14 -- MicroDisplay Corp., a developer of liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) components, announced this week it has secured more than $18 million in its third round of financing....
Air Force, Ionatron to Research Lasers
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., Jan. 14 -- The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate here and Ionatron Inc., of Tuscon, Ariz., announced today they have signed a joint agreement...
Kodak to Stop Selling Traditional Cameras in US
NEW YORK, Jan. 14 -- Eastman Kodak Co. said this week it will stop selling traditional film cameras in the US, Canada and Western Europe, as part of its plan to discontinue lines with declining...
OmniGuide Closes $15 M Funding Round
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 13 -- OmniGuide Communications Inc., a company developing hollow-core cylindrical photonic bandgap optical fibers, has announced the closing of a $15 million Series C financing...
It's a Nano World, After All
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., Jan. 13 -- The world too small to see is revealed in a traveling science museum exhibition, "It's a Nano World," which is on view at Innoventions at Epcot in Lake Buena Vista,...
Defense CIO to Speak at OFC 2004
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -- John Stenbit, the Defense Department's chief information officer and assistant secretary for command, control, communications and intelligence, will discuss how the US is using...
Forsee Foresees Telcom Industry Growth
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9 -- "Useful innovation" and the delivery of integrated products and services are key to the future of communications, Sprint Chairman and CEO Gary Forsee said during his keynote...
Olympus Challenges Given Imaging Patents
YOQNEAM, Israel, Jan. 9 -- Given Imaging announced yesterday that Olympus Corp. has submitted a request to the US Patent and Trademark Office to re-examine certain claims of one of Given Imaging's...
Cognex Forms New Business Units
NATICK, Mass., Jan. 8 -- Machine vision systems developer Cognex Corp. announced this week it has formed two new teams within its Modular Vision Systems Division to focus on new markets and...
Solar Electrons, Auroras Linked to Geomagnetic Storms
LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 8 -- Using an orbiting camera designed to block the light from the sun and stars, an international team of solar physicists has been able, for the first time, to directly image...
Essex Awarded Defense Contracts
COLUMBIA, Md., Jan. 8 -- Essex Corp. announced it has received four new defense-related contracts for systems engineering and integration, the delivery of custom systems for sensitive defense...
Verizon to Invest $3 Billion in Broadband
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8 -- Verizon will invest $3 billion over the next two years to bring broadband to the mass market, chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show...
Scintera Networks Raises 9.5 Million
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 7 -- Scintera Networks, a start-up developer of high-speed signal processing technology for high-speed communications, announced today it has raised $9.5 million in a second...
DALSA CCD Chips Deliver Mars Images
WATERLOO, Ontario, Jan. 7 -- Three days after landing on Mars, the exploration rover "Spirit" has begun transmitting high-resolution color images of the red planet back to Earth. The CCD image sensor...
Arizona Receives Labor Grant for Engineers, Scientists
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Jan. 6 -- The US Labor Department has awarded $2.9 million to the Northern Arizona Council of Governments to upgrade the skills of 350 degreed engineers and scientists in the...
AFC to Acquire North America Access
PETALUMA, Calif., Jan. 6 -- Advanced Fibre Communications Inc. (AFC), a manufacturer of next-generation edge access equipment and broadband solutions for the telecommunications industry, announced it...
Agere Systems Acquires TeraBlaze
ALLENTOWN, Pa. and CUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 5 -- Agere Systems announced Friday it has acquired TeraBlaze Inc., a Cupertino, Calif.-based private developer of Gigabit Ethernet switching solutions....
NIR Quantum Dots Studied for Cancer Treatment
HAYWARD, Calif., Jan. 5 -- Researchers have developed an improved method for performing sentinel lymph node biopsy, a crucial first step in determining whether a cancer has spread to other parts of...
Thermo Electron Completes Jouan Acquisition
WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 5 -- Scientific instrument maker Thermo Electron Corp. announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Jouan SA, of Saint Herblain, France, a supplier of equipment used...
Level 3's Midwest Fiber Optic Network Sold to CenturyTel
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Jan. 2 -- Level 3 Communications Inc. has completed the previously announced sale of the Midwest Fiber Optic Network (MFON) to CenturyTel. MFON is a regional communications system...
Laser Technology OKs Merger
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Jan. 2 -- Laser Technology Inc. (LTI), a maker of laser-based speed and distance measurement instruments, or laser rangefinders, announced yesterday that its shareholders have...
iBIZ to Ship Virtual Laser Keyboard
PHOENIX, Jan. 16 -- iBIZ Technology Corp. announced this week it has begun taking orders for its Virtual Laser Keyboard, which uses a laser beam to project a glowing red outline of a keyboard on a...
Restored 'David' Received Laser Treatment
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Jan. 22 -- When Italy's National Museum of the Bargello, in Florence, decided to put Verrocchio's David on the road in the US, conservators wanted the 15th-century, four-foot...
NIH Installs 3-D System for Tumor Research
BURLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 20 -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., has installed a Perspecta Spatial 3D imaging system, developed by...
Optics Center Director Harvey Pollicove Dies
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 29 -- Harvey Pollicove, the director of the Center of Optics Manufacturing (COM) at and a graduate of the University of Rochester, died suddenly Jan. 25 at the age of 60....
Optics Center Director Harvey Pollicove Dies
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 29 -- Harvey Pollicove, the director of the Center of Optics Manufacturing (COM) at and a graduate of the University of Rochester, died suddenly Jan. 25 at the age of 60....
JDS Uniphase Light Engine Awarded
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 27 -- JDS Uniphase was a recipient of Laurin Publishing's Photonics 2003 Circle of Excellence Award for its liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) version of its light engine for...
Integrated Photonics Technology Sells Business Unit
CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 1 -- Integrated Photonics Technology (IPITEK), a private advanced technology corporation based in Carlsbad, Calif., announced that it recently sold a small business unit...
Physicists Demonstrate Flat-Lens Imaging
BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 1 -- Researchers at Northeastern University (NU) announced they have been able to demonstrate the unique feature of imaging through a flat lens. Using the phenomenon of negative...
6 Companies Get US Telecom Contracts
CHICAGO, Jan. 1 -- Six companies were awarded four contracts worth at least $400 million by the US government to build a global network with optical and data networking gear, according to a statement...
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