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Tantalum Basks in Telecom Spotlight
ARLINGTON, Va. -- ARLINGTON, Va. -- It’s nice to be sought after -- especially when you’re named for the king of frustration and disappointment. An undistinguished No. 73 on the periodic table of elements, tantalum finds itself newly admired for its use in thin-film coatings for optical networking. Demand by the semiconductor and telecommunications industries boosted US sales of tantalum capacitors 15 percent in the first half of 1999, compared with the same period in 1998, reported the US...
3D Systems Creates Tunability Materials Technology
May 31, 2000 — VALENCIA, Calif., May 31 -- 3D Systems Corp., in conjunction with Ciba Specialty Chemicals, is currently patenting what it calls tunability : technology capable of creating a solid object with multiple physical properties out of the same material....
CVI Buys Technical Optics Limited
May 26, 2000 — Albuquerque, N.M., May 26 -- In a move designed to bolster its operations in the European laser market, CVI Laser Corp. announced that is has purchased Technical Optics Ltd. (TOL). TOL, located on the Isle of Man (Brit. Isles), is a 25-year veteran...
Lu to Head Optical Coatings at Inrad
May 12, 2000 — NORTHVALE, N.J., May 12 -- Dr. Zhiming Lu has agreed to a position as head of Inrad's Thin Films Technology and Optical Coating department. Lu comes to Inrad after nine years as head scientist and leader of the thin-films and optical coating...
Luminescent Materials Show Structure Damage
MALVERN, UK -- MALVERN, UK -- Flashes of light given off by crystals as they fracture may provide clues to structural problems in composite materials used on aircraft and racing cars. When combined with optical fiber and silicon photodiodes, triboluminescent...
New Materials Hold Promise for More Efficient Flat-Panel Displays
Feb 23, 2000 — PRINCETON, N.J. Feb. 23 -- Scientists at Princeton University have reported the creation of a number of light-emitting materials that could greatly accelerate the development of flat-panel computer screens and other compact video displays. The...
Laser Power Sells Contract Research Operation
Feb 21, 2000 — SAN DIEGO, Feb. 21 -- Laser Power Corp. has completed the sale of the assets of its contract research operation to Photera Technologies Inc., a newly formed subsidiary of Schwartz Electro-Optics Inc. Laser Power's contract research operation...
LightPath Expanding Alliance with Hikari Glass
Feb 9, 2000 — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Feb. 9 -- LightPath Technologies Inc. and Hikari Glass Co. Ltd. are expanding their strategic alliance. The companies' long-term relationship was originally established to provide LightPath with a stable supply of raw materials...
Technology Firms Focus on R and D
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- US companies are expected to increase research and development funding by 10.6 percent this year, continuing a trend in corporate research financing that began in 1997, a noted economic forecast suggested. The favorable trend in...
Precision Optics Names Rancourtto Optical Thin Film Post
Jan 21, 2000 — GARDNER, Mass., Jan. 21 -- Precision Optics Corp. Inc. has named James D. Rancourt as senior vice president, Optical Thin Film Technology. Rancourt previously was affiliated with Optical Coating Labs Inc.; for the past two years he has directed new...
Management Blamed for Troubled Laser Project
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- LIVERMORE, Calif. -- When scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory successfully demonstrated the Beamlet in 1994, they were confident they could duplicate the single laser, multiplied 192 times, to produce the world’s largest...
Optics, Materials & Coatings
Jan 1, 2000 — Changes in the optics market are coming, and fast. The Internet and overnight courier services have changed customer expectations for service and immediate delivery. Improved PCs and easy-to-use optical design software are enabling customers without...
Optics, Materials & Coatings: Design Software
Jan 1, 2000 — Any designer knows that real lenses aren’t just surfaces; they’re whole objects with edges, bevels, scratches, bubbles and so on. In real optical systems, some light always reflects when it should refract, and that light has the annoying...
Optics, Materials & Coatings: Interference Filters
Jan 1, 2000 — Optical filters separate wavelengths of light using the principle of optical interference. For 25 years, filter technology has enabled products such as missile guidance and target recognition, medical diagnostic tools, analytical instruments,...
Optics, Materials & Coatings: Micro-Optics
Jan 1, 2000 — The telecommunications industry was one of the first users of micro-optics, back in the 1980s. The integration of semiconductor lasers, micro-optics and fibers into small packages was the economic basis of efficient optical networks. Today...
Optics, Materials & Coatings: UV Optics
Jan 1, 2000 — Ten years ago, the ultraviolet- transmitting optic was considered a mature, developed product. Today market forces are challenging suppliers to dramatically improve UV optical performance. Suppliers who can meet the challenge will participate in at...
Spectra-Physics Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Telecommunications Manufacturer
Jan 1, 2000 — Spectra-Physics has signed a three-year sales agreement to deliver 200-GHz narrow-band pass filters to a major manufacturer of dense wavelength division multiplexing devices. The 200-GHz thin-film filters -- the newest addition to...
Thermo Vision Sets Date for Merger Vote
Dec 7, 1999 — FRANKLIN, Mass., Dec. 7 -- Thermo Vision Corp. announced that it has received clearance of its proxy materials from the Securities and Exchange Commission, and consequently has set January 6, 2000, as the date for its shareholder vote on the firm's...
JDS Uniphase Plans Merger with Longtime Supplier OCLI
Dec 1, 1999 — JDS Uniphase Corp. of San Jose, Calif., and Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. (OCLI) of Santa Rosa, Calif., have signed a merger agreement under which OCLI will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of JDS Uniphase. The companies expect the $2.8...
Ocean Optics Acquires Continental Optical,Forms New Division
Nov 29, 1999 — DUNEDIN, Fla., November 29, 1999 -- Ocean Optics Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of Hauppage, N.Y.-based Continental Optical Corp., a manufacturer of precision optical components and coatings that earned nearly $2 million in sales in...
II-VI Opens Advanced Materials Development Center
Nov 9, 1999 — PITTSBURGH, Nov. 9 -- II-VI Inc. unveiled its new Advanced Materials Development Center in Saxonburg, Pa., at the company's annual shareholders meeting. According to Carl J. Johnson, chairman and CEO of II-VI, the 5000-square-foot facility will...
Optical Coating Laboratory Cancels Stock Split
Nov 9, 1999 — SANTA ROSA, Calif., Nov. 9 -- Optical Coating Laboratory Inc.'s board of directors has decided not to proceed with a planned stock split at this time, in light of the company's pending merger with JDS Uniphase Corp. The company had announced earlier...
JDS Uniphase, Optical Coating Laboratory to Merge
Nov 8, 1999 — SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 8 -- JDS Uniphase Corp. and Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. have signed a definitive agreement to merge in a move to solidify their long-standing partnership. The estimated value of the transaction is approximately $2.8...
Inside the Head of a Systems Integrator
Nov 1, 1999 — Somewhere, someday, someone may employ photonics to build a better mousetrap. The invention will require some sort of sensing component -- an interferometer, perhaps, or an infrared camera equipped with illumination, an image processor and...
Ion Patterning Yields Distributed Feedback Lasers
Nov 1, 1999 — A research team from the Universität Würzburg in Germany and the Alcatel Corporate Research Center in Marcoussis, France, announced in the Sept. 13 issue of Applied Physics Letters a simplified technique for the production of InP-based...
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