Daily News Briefs

Melles Griot, a manufacturer of automated manufacturing solutions for fiber telecoms, announced that it will introduce new additions to the nanopositioning range at the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) 2001, March 19-21.
   Adept Technology will showcase its new fiber optic assembly platform, which is a pre-engineered configurable platform designed to reduce the implementation time of fiber optic assembly processes, at OFC 2001 in Anaheim, Calif., next week.
   Coventor Inc. will be at OFC 2001 sharing information about their recent developments in optical MEMS and optical integrations.
   DigiLens Inc. has developed an active planar waveguide technology that enables the creation of ultra-compact photonic chips for the telecommunications industry. The company will demonstrate this technology in a multichannel variable optic attenuator at OFC 2001, booth #3380.