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Photonics.com - February 2004

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Bookham Technology, Colibrys Employ MEMS for Telcom Devices NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND, February 26, 2004 - Bookham Technology plc and Colibrys SA report that they have jointly employed MEMS technology to create and implement variable optical attenuator modules. Bookham Technology has designed and patented three-dimensional MEMS structures with micro-shutters to produce optical attenuation with analog control. To successfully commercialize these component...

Melles Griot Optics Strengthens DUV Lens Coating Capability ROCHESTER, NY, February 26 -- Melles Griot Optics Group has commissioned a new Coating Technology Center. This new facility includes four advanced high-volume vacuum deposition systems, including...

Photonics Center Unveils Integrated Optics Lab BOSTON, Feb. 25 -- The Photonics Center at Boston University Has opened its Integrated Optics Laboratory. According to the Center, the mission of the Integrated Optics Laboratory is to facilitate...

BIOLASE Wins FDA Clearance for New Waterlase Use SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Feb 25 -- BIOLASE Technology, Inc. has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for its patented Waterlase technology for several new bone, periodontal and soft...

CIENA to Help Build Next-Generation Network For MCI LINTHICUM, MD, Feb. 25, 2004 -- CIENA Corp. announced that MCI has selected it as a strategic supplier for its new nationwide, ultra long-haul (ULH) network. As MCI converges its legacy networks to...

OCP Cites Gains In Long Wavelength VCSELs WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Feb. 24, 2004--Optical Communication Products Inc. said today that their 1.3 micron Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) development program has successfully...

Santur to Supply Tunable Lasers to Opnext FREMONT, Calif., Feb 24 -- Santur Corp. today announced a supply agreement with Opnext Inc., a supplier of high performance optical modules and components, to provide lasers for full C-Band widely...

Olympus Establishes Optical Foundry Services SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 23, 2004 -- Olympus Partnership Development Group (PDG) has opened an optical foundry service. The Optical Foundry will include Olympus' aspherical lens research, development...

Agilent to Work on Grenoble R&D Lab PALO ALTO, Calif. & GRENOBLE, France, Feb. 20 -- Agilent Technologies Inc.; the CEA-Leti, a laboratory of the French Atomic Energy Commission; and the Institut National Polytechnique Grenoble (INPG)...

ANDevices to Focus Communications, Biophotonics FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 19 -- ANDevices, an optics company focusing on communications and biophotonics applications, announced today it has closed its first round of financing. The amount of the...

Ciena to Acquire Companies; Drops Reseller LINTHICUM, Md., Feb. 19 -- Telecommunications equipment maker Ciena made announcements today that it will acquire two companies, Catena Networks Inc. and Internet Photonics Inc. Catena Networks is a...

Intel Creates Faster Silicon Photonics Device SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 19 -- Scientists from Intel Corp. reported they have achieved a major advance using silicon manufacturing processes to create a novel "transistor-like" device that can...

ANDevices to Focus on Communications, Biophotonics FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 19 -- ANDevices, an optics company focusing on communications and biophotonics applications, announced today it has closed its first round of financing. The amount of the...

Leica GIS and GPS Systems Plotted Crop Art

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, Feb. 19 -- If you flew over Switzerland's Rhine Valley last year, you might have been surprised to see massive colorful artworks growing in the fields below. In celebration...

Palomar to Help Combat Razor Bumps BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb 18 -- Palomar Medical Technologies Inc. announced today it has been awarded a $2.5 million research contract by the Department of the Army to develop a light-based...

Spectranetics Named Company of the Year in Colorado DENVER, Feb. 18 -- Spectranetics Corp., based in Colorado Springs, has been named company of the year by the Colorado Photonics Industry Association (CPIA), which will present the award at its...

RBN CTO to Discuss CWDM at OFC SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18 -- The advantages of coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) technology will be the topic of Richard Lauder, CTO and co-founder of RBN Inc., at the 2004 annual Optical...

Ignis Co-founder to Discuss Optical Components Market LONDON, Feb. 18 -- Michael Lebby, co-founder of Ignis Optics, which Bookham Technology recently acquired, will participate in a panel discussion on how to survive in the current optical components...

Konarka to Develop Photovoltaic Cell Materials LOWELL, Mass., Feb. 17 -- Konarka Technologies Inc., a maker of products that convert light to energy, announced it will receive $6 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)...

NuSil Technology Acquires Lightspan CARPINTERIA, Calif., Feb. 13 -- NuSil Technology, a maker of silicone compounds for healthcare, aerospace, electronics and photonics, announced this week a definitive agreement to acquire Lightspan...

Mesophotonics Closes $10 M Funding Round SOUTHAMPTON, England, Feb. 12 -- Mesophotonics Ltd., a UK developer of photonic crystal technology, has announced the closing of a $10 million second-round fund raising. UK venture company Quester...

Sagitta Licenses Corning Cable Systems Technology HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Feb. 12 -- Sagitta, a provider of automated processing solutions for the fiber optics industry, has signed an agreement with Corning Cable Systems Technology Inc. to exclusively...

Melles Griot Increases Optics Group Polishing Capability ROCHESTER, NY, Feb. 12 -- Melles Griot Optics Group announced it recently commissioned installation of its QED Q22-Y magnetorheological (MRF) finishing system and large-aperture, digital...

Alcatel, Draka to Merge Businesses PARIS, Feb. 12 -- Alcatel and Amsterdam-based Draka announced they intend to combine their global optical fiber and communication cable businesses into a jointly owned company. Under their agreement,...

STATS and ChipPAC to Merge SINGAPORE and FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 10 -- ST Assembly Test Services Ltd. (STATS) and ChipPAC Inc. announced they have signed a definitive agreement to merge in a stock-for-stock transaction. STATS is...

Redesigning Platinum at the Nanoscale: It's Simple

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Feb. 11 -- Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have developed a new way of mimicking photosynthetic...

JMAR Hosts X-Ray Lithography Forum SAN DIEGO, Feb. 10 -- JMAR Technologies Inc. organized a presentation on the global status of x-ray lithography (XRL) at a two-day meeting sponsored by International Sematech last month in Los...

LightPointe Funding Round Attracts $17 Million SAN DIEGO, Calif., Feb. 10 -- LightPointe, a designer and manufacturer of optical wireless products based on free-space optics (FSO) technology, has announced a $17 million round of financing that...

ITT Industries To Acquire Kodak RSS Business WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Feb. 9 -- ITT Industries Inc., of White Plains, N.Y., announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Eastman Kodak Co.'s Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) business for $725...

BU Photonics Center Teams With French Optics Group BOSTON, Feb. 9 -- A joint initiative between The Boston University (BU) Photonics Center and France's Opticsvalley, a consortium of optics and photonics companies, will foster the establishment of...

Gemfire to Acquire Avanex PLC Unit FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 9 -- Gemfire Corp. of Fremont has signed an agreement to acquire a Scotland-based unit of Avanex Corp. -- also of Fremont -- for an undisclosed sum. Under the terms of the deal,...

NSB Says $19 Billion Needed for Research, Education ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 6 -- The National Science Board (NSB) has released a report that says it would take about $19 billion "to fully address all unmet needs and ensure continued US leadership in the...

Kionix Closes $28.5 M Funding Round ITHACA, N.Y., Feb. 5 -- Kionix Inc., a supplier of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, announced it has closed a $28.5 million financing round, which includes past investors such as the...

EM4 Tackles Optical Manufacturing Bottlenecks BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb. 5 -- EM4 Inc., a supplier of optoelectronic manufacturing services and packaging technologies, has announced an $8 million Series B funding round that will contribute to its...

'Nanoruler' Takes Precision to the Extreme

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 5 -- A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) device that makes the world's most precise rulers -- with "ticks" only a few hundred billionths of a meter apart -- could...

Peleton Unveils Multiwavelength Laser Technology OTTAWA, Canada, Feb. 5 - Peleton, a private developer of photonic subsystem technology, announced it has unveiled multiwavelength laser source (MWLS) technology that simultaneously generates multiple...

Hella Develops Audi LEDs

PLYMOUTH, Mich., Feb. 4 -- Hella KG Hueck & Co., based in Lippstadt, Germany, developed the white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for directionals and daytime running lights (DRLs) in the new Audi A8...

Japanese Inventor Wins LED Patent Trial TOKYO, Feb. 4 -- The Tokyo District Court ordered Nichia Corp. to pay a former worker $189 million for his work on the blue light-emitting diode, or LED, in a landmark ruling on inventors' rights in...

Infineon, Albany NanoTech, Genus Announce Partnership ALBANY, N.Y., Feb. 3 -- Infineon, Genus and the University at Albany Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics (Albany NanoTech) have signed a letter of intent to enter into a $12 million, three-year...

Swiss HBLED Company Attracts 1st-Round Investors GENEVA, Feb. 3 -- ACOL Technologies SA, a Geneva-based company developing new technologies for high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HBLEDs), has received 9 million euros in first-round funding from...

FiberNet Acquires Gateway Colocation NEW YORK, Feb. 3 -- FiberNet Telecom Group Inc. announced it has completed the acquisition of gateway.realty.new jersey.llc, also known as Gateway Colocation, which operates a 49,000-square-foot...

Molecular Foundry Construction Underway BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 2 -- Ground was broken at a ceremony here Friday for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Molecular Foundry, a six-story, $85 million, 94,500-square-foot research facility...

Don Jarvie Named Sales Manager

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 2 -- Don Jarvie has been named national sales manager of the Melles Griot Optics Group in Rochester, N.Y., a provider of optical components, multielement lenses and...

Sacher, Triad Collaborate MARBURG, Germany, and LONGMONT, Colo., Feb. 2 -- Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH, of Marburg, Germany, with Triad Technology Inc., of Longmont, Colo., have formed a strategic partnership to develop...

Glimmerglass, a Hayward, Calif.-based developer of transparent connectivity technology, and Laser 2000, a UK distributor of photonics products, have announced an alliance to introduce Glimmerglass'...

Products

Smart Pan-Tilt BURLINGAME, Calif., Feb. 19 -- Directed Perception has released its PTU-D46 family of computer-controlled pan-tilt units. At speeds over 300°/second, and with precise dynamic position control of 0.012857 degrees resolution, the PTU-D46 family provides the highest performance available in a modular computer-controlled pan-tilt unit. The PTU-D46 has been designed to support a wide variety of...

FLIR Motion Control Systems Inc.

Balanced Photodetector BPDV2020R

The BPDV contains two waveguide-photodetectors situated on a single chip. They are on-chip connected as a balanced detector. This configuration ensures an excellent uniformity of the paired...

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Femlab Comsol Inc.’s new FEMLAB 3.0 puts you on the front line! FEMLAB Electromagnetics is a powerful, unique environment for modeling and simulating wave propagation and AC/DC electromagnetics in 2-D and...

COMSOL Inc.

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Mosquito TOD 050 The TOD 050 is a tunable optical detector integrated into a single compact TO-46 package. The TOD 050 provides a more compact, reliable and cost-effective alternative to larger spectrum monitors...

Aegis Electronic Group Inc.

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Mosquito OCM 4050 The OCM 4050 combines four optical channel monitors into a single, compact package. The OCM 4050 is a more compact, reliable and cost-effective alternative to larger mechanical or grating-based...

Aegis Electronic Group Inc.

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Optical Fiber Fault Locator Fibotec Fiberoptics' optical fiber fault locator is an innovative device for spatially resolving and characterizing breaks and reflective faults in optical fibers. Like a standard optical optical...

Fibotec Fiberoptics GmbH

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Gratings, Gratings, Gratings Ibsen offers: - Phase masks for Fiber Bragg gratings are produced by Ibsen in a 100-percent Class 10 cleanroom and with 0.01-nm period accuracy and uniformity. - Phase masks for Nearfield holography...

Ibsen Photonics A/S

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