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Photonics.com - September 2004

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Grants Boost Photonics, Nano Projects GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 30 -- Several photonics- and nanotechnology-related companies are recipients of grants from The US Commerce Department's Advanced Technology Program (ATP) for research on...

PPT Vision Sells 3-D SMI Line MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 30 -- PPT Vision Inc., a Minneapolis, Minn., maker of machine vision-based automated inspection systems for manufacturing applications, announced today it has agreed to sell...

Oil Firms Back Fiber Seabed System HOUSTON, Sept. 30 -- QinetiQ, a European science and technology company, and Input/Output Inc., a Houston provider of seismic technology and services to the oil and gas industry, announced today they...

Lucent, Riverstone Team Up MURRAY HILL, N.J. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 30 -- Lucent Technologies and Riverstone Networks announced today they have made an agreement to deliver complete carrier-class Ethernet solutions for...

Oil Companies Back Fiber Optic Seabed System HOUSTON, Sept. 30 -- QinetiQ, a European science and technology company, and Input/Output Inc., a Houston provider of seismic technology and services to the oil and gas industry, announced today they...

Quantum Dot Awarded NIST Grant HAYWARD, Calif., Sept. 29 --Quantum Dot Corp. (QDC) announced it was awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under its Advanced Technology Program,...

Dalsa to Supply CCD Chips to Mamiya WATERLOO, Ontario, Sept. 29 -- Dalsa Corp., a Canadian maker of digital imaging and semiconductor products and services, announced it has received a contract to supply charge-coupled device (CCD)...

Aeroflex Sells Thin-Film Unit PLAINVIEW, N.Y., Sept. 29 -- Aeroflex Inc., a maker of automated testing products and microelectronics for the aerospace, defense and broadband communications markets, announced today the sale of its...

Canadian Firms 'Strut Stuff' at Forum OTTAWA, Sept. 28 -- Photonics North 2004, which opened yesterday in Ottawa, is providing local and Canadian companies with an opportunity to "strut their stuff to the world," said the Canadian...

Roboticist, Nanotechnologist Awarded 'Genius' Grants CHICAGO, Sept. 28 -- A marine roboticist and a nanotechnologist are among the 23 winners of the 2004 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships. Each winner will receive $500,000 in...

Clean Energy Funds Invest in Konarka LOWELL, Mass., Sept. 28 -- Konarka Technologies Inc., a maker of polymer photovoltaic products that convert light to energy, announced today that the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund and...

Honeywell, Cognex Collaborate PHOENIX, Sept. 27 --Honeywell will offer web imaging systems to Canadian paper manufacturers and will expand its product portfolio for that industry under a new agreement with Cognex Corp., a Natick,...

Nonprofit Promotes Fiber Networks WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- A new nonprofit group will represent communities with fiber-to-the-premises (fttp) networks by promoting their benefits. "Our goal is to inform homeowners and businesses about...

KVH to Continue Photonic Fiber Research MIDDLETOWN, R.I., Sept. 24 -- KVH Industries Inc., a manufacturer of navigation and guidance systems using mobile satellite antenna and fiber optic technologies, has been awarded engineering...

KVH to Continue Fiber Research MIDDLETOWN, R.I., Sept. 24 -- KVH Industries Inc., a manufacturer of navigation and guidance systems using mobile satellite antenna and fiber optic technologies, has been awarded engineering...

Exfo Closing Upstate NY Plant QUEBEC CITY, Sept. 24 -- Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc., a Quebec City maker of testing and manufacturing equipment for the telecommunications and life sciences industries, announced it is...

Physicists Create Artificial Molecule On A Chip

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 24 -- Using integrated circuit fabrication techniques, a team of researchers from Yale University has bound a single photon to a superconducting device engineered to behave...

CRLO Displays Acquires CRL Opto FIFE, Scotland, Sept. 23 -- CRLO Displays has been formed by European investors Amadeus Capital and Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures with the acquisition of CRL Opto Ltd., a Scotland-based display...

Cisco Invests $32M in China R&D Center BEIJING, Sept. 23 -- Cisco Systems Inc. announced it will open a research and development center in Shanghai, China. The new facility will represent an initial $32 million investment over the next...

NSF Funds 6 Nanotech Research Centers ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 22 -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced awards of $69 million over five years to fund centers in nanoscale science and engineering at University of...

DOE Awards Two in Photonics Field WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Two researchers involved in photonics-related research were named receipients of the US Department of Energy's 2004 E.O. Lawrence Awards: Claire Max, a professor of astronomy...

Aculight Awarded Research Grants BOTHELL, Wash., Sept. 21 -- Aculight Corp., a developer of laser technologies, has won two Small Business Innovation Research program grants, a Phase II contract from the Department of Energy (DOE)...

Powerful MRI System Unveiled in Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 21 -- The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) unveiled today the world's most powerful magnetic resonance imaging machine for human studies, capable of imaging not just the anatomy...

Berkeley to Study Type 1a Supernovae BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 21 -- The University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory has been awarded a $2,377,000 grant in support of the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory) to...

Kodak to Realign Imaging Group ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 20 --Eastman Kodak Co. announced today it will begin "actions that will result in the repositioning of the management and product lines" of its Commercial Imaging Group (CIG)...

Greenfield Networks Raises $21.5M SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 20 -- Greenfield Networks Inc., a developer of Ethernet switching silicon products, announced today it has completed its third round of private venture funding, raising $21.5...

ADVA Completes Metro Packet Acquisition MARTINSRIED/MUNICH, Germany and MAHWAH, N.J., Sept. 17 -- ADVA Optical Networking, a Germany-based provider of metropolitan optical networking solutions, announced today it has completed the...

Alcatel Buys eDial PARIS, Sept. 17 -- Alcatel has acquired eDial Inc., a private Waltham, Mass.-based provider of conferencing and collaboration technology for enterprises and service providers, for approximately $27...

Cadence Renovates Lab in Prague SAN JOSE, Calif. & PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Sept. 17 -- Cadence Design Systems Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based supplier of electronic design technologies and engineering services, announced it has...

Shape-Shifting Robots Have Multitasking Potential

HANOVER, N.H., Sept. 17 -- It started with tennis balls. Daniela Rus, a former collegiate tennis player, habitually rolls two tennis balls around in her hand as she paces her office. A robotics...

Kodak, IBM to Develop Image Sensors ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 16 -- Eastman Kodak Co. and IBM will collaborate, under a multiyear agreement, to develop and make image sensors to power mass-market consumer products, such as digital still...

Corning Breaks Ground at LCD Site CORNING, N.Y., Sept. 16 -- Corning Inc. is hosting a ceremony today at the site of its new liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate manufacturing facility at the Central Taiwan Science Park in...

AOI Issued Tunable Laser Patents SUGAR LAND, Texas, Sept. 16 -- Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (AOI), a manufacturer of laser diodes, photodetectors and optical modules for fiber optic communications systems, announced it has been...

FCC Commissioners to Speak at Telecom '04 WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Three leading voices from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the director of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will address...

Space Imaging Sells Unit to Geo360 THORNTON, Colo., Sept. 15 -- Space Imaging announced today it has reached an agreement to sell its Federal Civil/Commercial Solutions business unit, which provides mapping and geographic information...

DVD Glasses Use Kopin Displays TAUNTON, Mass., Sept. 15 -- Kopin Corp., a manufacturer of microdisplays for consumer, military and industrial applications, is supplying a microdisplay system comprised of the CyberDisplay 180K, a...

Survey: Nanoscience Should Be Priority LAKE GEORGE, N.Y., Sept. 14 -- Nearly 90 percent of Americans believe that continued US global leadership in technology is important to the nation's economy, and more than 76 percent believe that...

PSI-TEC Nears Launch of Fiber Material WILMINTON, Del., Sept. 14 -- PSI-TEC Corp., a development-stage technology company based in Wilmington, Del., said it is getting ready to launch an electro-optic (EO) polymer it describes as a...

Thermo Electron Acquires InnaPhase WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 13 -- Analytical instrument maker Thermo Electron Corp. announced today it has completed the acquisition of InnaPhase Corp., a Philadelphia-based supplier of laboratory...

Sydor Instruments Licenses Laser Lab's ROSS Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 10 -- A camera designed by researchers at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics to take incredibly quick snapshots of its giant laser in action has been...

Ultrahigh-Speed Network Planned in Illinois NAPERVILLE, Ill., Sept. 10 -- Northern Illinois University announced plans this week to create an ultrafast, fiber optic communications network that will extend next-generation technology currently...

JMAR to Acquire LXT Group CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 9 -- JMAR Technologies Inc., a Carlsbad, Calif., maker of laser-based equipment for imaging, analysis and fabrication at the nanoscale, announced it has signed a binding...

Spire to Develop 'Nano' Coatings BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 9 -- Spire Corp. announced it has received a $400,000 Phase I SBIR grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, under the National Institutes of...

4Pi Microscope Coming to Maine

BAR HARBOR, Maine, Sept. 9 -- The Institute for Molecular Biophysics (IMB), an interdisciplinary biophysical research program in Maine, has been granted $732,624 by the National Science Foundation to...

Hillary Clinton to Speak at OSA Meeting WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will speak at Frontiers in Optics 2004, the 88th annual meeting of the Optical Society of America (OSA), to be held Oct. 10-14 in Rochester, N.Y....

BAE Wins Helmet Display Contract ROCHESTER, England, Sept. 8 -- BAE Systems Platform Solutions has been awarded a contract by Lockheed Martin for the initial design of an alternate helmet-mounted display (HMD) system for the F-35...

Instrument Makers Expand Deal, File Suit FOSTER CITY, Calif., and TORONTO, Sept. 8 -- Applied Biosystems Group, an Applera Corp. scientific instruments business based in Foster City, Calif., and MDS Inc., a health and life sciences company...

Nuvonyx Gets Contract Worth up to $80M BRIDGETON, Mo., Sept. 7 -- Bridgeton, Mo.-based Nuvonyx Inc. has been awarded a contract worth up to $80 million from the US Air Force to work on laser development. $3,770,084 was awarded to Novunyx...

Palomar, Johnson & Johnson to Develop Home-Use Light Devices BURLINGTON, Mass., Sept. 7 -- Palomar Medical Technologies Inc. said today it has signed an agreement with Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies Inc. (JJCC), a Johnson & Johnson company, to develop...

Konarka Acquires Siemens' Photovoltaic Research Activities LOWELL, Mass., Sept. 7 -- Konarka Technologies Inc. announced today it has acquired Siemens AG's organic photovoltaic research activities. "This transaction augments Konarka's ability to deliver the...

Curtiss-Wright Acquires Synergy GASTONIA, N.C., Sept. 7 -– Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc., the motion control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corp., announced it has completed the stock purchase of Synergy Microsystems Inc., based in San...

Nuvonyx Contract Worth up to $80M BRIDGETON, Mo., Sept. 7 -- Bridgeton, Mo.-based Nuvonyx Inc. has been awarded a contract worth up to $80 million from the US Air Force to work on laser development. $3,770,084 was awarded to Novunyx...

Rofin-Sinar Acquires PRC, Lee Lasers PLYMOUTH, Mich., Sept. 3 -- Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc., a Plymouth, Mich., and Hamburg, Germany-based maker of laser beam sources and laser-based products, announced it has acquired the...

Corning Frequency Control Sold NEW YORK, Sept. 3 -- Dover Corp. announced today that its Dover Technologies subsidiary has completed the acquisition of Corning Frequency Control (CFC), a division of Corning Inc. CFC is a supplier...

Marketers Look Into Consumers' Eyes

TOKYO, Sept. 3 -- A Japanese company is honing consumer psychology to an even more precise science with technology that records how someone's eyes move when they view a Web site, product package, TV...

FTTH Conference Exhibitor Space Sold Out WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 -- Exhibitor space for the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council's third annual FTTH Conference and Expo has sold out, with more than 100 exhibits, conference officials announced...

Dover Acquires Corning Frequency Control NEW YORK, Sept. 3 -- Dover Corp. announced today that its Dover Technologies subsidiary has completed the acquisition of Corning Frequency Control (CFC), a division of Corning Inc. CFC is a supplier...

Prima Luci Secures Funding WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Sept. 3 -- Prima Luci ("first light"), a designer and manufacturer of optical components for the telecommunications, storage, optical computing and consumer electronics...

Pirelli Chooses Altera Stratix GX Devices STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 2 -- Pirelli will use Stratix GX devices from Altera Corp., a San Jose, Calif., maker of programmable logic devices, for its radio-over-fiber (ROF) technology for 3G networks...

Lucent May Get $816M IRS Refund TRENTON, N.J., Sept. 2 -- Lucent Technologies filed a document with the Securities and Exchange Commission today stating the Internal Revenue Service has tentatively approved a claim for an $816...

Satellites Aid Wales Conservation Efforts

BANGOR, Wales, Sept. 2 -- Space satellites could transform the way the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW), a government conservation advisory group, gathers information about wildlife habitats...

Agilent Sensors Power Laser Mouse

FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 1 -- Logitech today introduced a new mouse it developed with Agilent Technologies Inc. that uses a laser beam to track its movements. Logitech says it is the first such device...

Long-Reach Optical Device MSA Specs Released TOKYO, Sept. 1 -- Optical manufacturers Avanex Corp., Eudyna Devices Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd., Opnext Inc., Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. and TriQuint...

Products

Compact Isolators

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 24 -- Newport has introduced a new table support isolator that will simplify the integration of vibration-isolation tables in space-sensitive applications. The I-2000 Stabilizer features a square cross-section with smaller overall dimensions, as compared to previous I-2000 isolators with a circular construction. The new isolator has an industry standard height of 28" (71.1...

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I-MON Interrogation Monitors COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 17 -- Ibsen Photonics, a supplier of holographic phase masks, transmission diffraction gratings and OEM spectrometer modules based on diffraction gratings, has released its...

Ibsen Photonics A/S

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Spark-Free Utility Cover Sensor

ORISKANY, N.Y., Sept. 10 -- Fiber Instrument Sales Inc. (FIS) has developed a fiber optic security system designed to protect underground telecommunications networks. The patent-pending utility-cover...

Fiber Instrument Sales Inc.

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US-Made Photodiodes

NEWBURY PARK, Calif., Sept. 3 -- Opto Diode Corp. now offers US-manufactured photodiodes designed to provide high-quality, high-reliability performance at prices previously only available with...

Opto Diode Corporation

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Infrared Camera Rental Program NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., Sept. 3 -- Flir Systems has announced a new direct-from-factory infrared (IR) camera rental program with a flexible rent-to-buy provision through which up to 50 percent of the...

FLIR Systems

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Spark-Free Utility Cover Sensor

Fiber Instrument Sales Inc.

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4G Fiber Channel ROSA

RUESCHLIKON, Switzerland, Sept. 29 -- Albis Optoelectronics has introduced the PX512, a 4.25 Gb/s receiver optical subassembly (ROSA) for 850-nm optical communications. This high-sensitivity,...

Albis Optoelectronics AG

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