LAKE ELSINORE, Calif., July 9 -- Aquentium Inc. has completed its acquisition of Fiber Application Systems Technology Inc. of Ontario, Canada. Under the agreement, Aquentium acquires all of the outstanding shares of Fiber Application Systems and its wholly owned subsidiary Fast-Fiber Inc. for five hundred thousand shares of restricted common stock. Fiber Application Systems designs and develops fiber optic devices for sensor and communication systems applications.Read full articleRelated content from Photonics MediaArticlesNovel Integration Helps Solve Imaging BottleneckEngineers at imec have integrated a pinned photodiode (PPD) structure in thin-film image sensors. According to the researchers, the addition of a pinned-photogate and a transfer gate into the...Photonics Spectra November 2023 IssueComplex Frequency Waves Counter Optical Losses in SuperimagingSuperlenses made of plasmonic materials and metamaterials can image features at the subdiffraction scale. 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