Jun 1, 2000 — Nortel Networks Corp. of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, has formed High Performance Optical Components Solutions. The new unit consolidates Nortel’s optical components group with its design and development efforts in high-speed optical modules and integrated circuits, affecting approximately 6000 employees at its facilities in Harlow and Paignton, UK; Ottawa; and Research Triangle Park, N.C. Barbara Callaghan has been named president of the unit, which will focus on the production of...

Jun 1, 2000 — Boston Laser Inc. of Norwood, Mass., has agreed to purchase the laser diode development and manufacturing business of Polaroid Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., in a cash and securities exchange. It will acquire patents, assets and licenses from Polaroid....

Jun 1, 2000 — They go where humans can’t. Sometimes they go where no camera has gone before. Often they go where they can’t be seen. And what they see (and enable us to see) is revolutionizing the use of video cameras in the industrial, law...

Jun 1, 2000 — Product advances based on classical illumination technology have primarily correlated with advances in lamp technologies: higher brightness, shorter arc and/ or higher pressure. But rethinking the design of an illumination system can advance the...

Jun 1, 2000 — The rapid expansion of dense wavelength division multiplexing telecommunications networks has created a worldwide demand for optoelectronic devices that is becoming increasingly more difficult to meet. This stems primarily from the limitations...

Jun 1, 2000 — At the heart of many photonics projects is a microlens or an array of microlenses. Whether one is attempting to design and fabricate a laser diode corrector, optical fiber coupler, optical storage device or any other microlens-incorporating device,...

Jun 1, 2000 — The increasing demand for bandwidth is driving most telecommunications operators toward the deployment of large-capacity transmission systems. Systems based on 10-Gb/s channel rates are being deployed, and suppliers have announced plans for channel...

Jun 1, 2000 — When testing a camera system or a material’s weathering performance, researchers need a stable, uniform light source that closely mimics the conditions that the product will encounter in its actual application. For devices that work on Earth...

Jun 1, 2000 — The ever-growing demand for more bandwidth is creating a breakneck pace in the development and implementation of new optical telecommunications technologies. And when we compare transport capacity developed in the laboratory with installed capacity,...

Jun 1, 2000 — Business Communications Co. Inc. of Norwalk, Conn., predicts that global shipments of electronic display materials will grow by 10.9 percent annually and reach $12.9 billion by 2004. Growth in flat panel display technologies in handheld and...

Jun 1, 2000 — Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will donate its excess labora-tory equipment to nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities under the US Department of Energy’s Laboratory Education Equipment Gift Program. The new program...

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...

Jun 1, 2000 — Business Communications Co. Inc. of Norwalk, Conn., predicts that the visual surveillance market in the US will display an annual growth rate of 10.7 percent and reach $4.3 billion in 2004. The increased application of CCTV systems in homes and...

Jun 1, 2000 — Polaroid Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., has granted Calimetrics Inc. of Alameda, Calif., an exclusive license to its near-field embedded optics technology. Calimetrics plans to implement the technology with its own MultiLevel Recording Technology to...

Jun 1, 2000 — Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., has agreed to purchase the remaining equity in NZ Applied Technologies Corp. of Woburn, Mass., for up to $150 million in Corning common stock, contingent on the latter meeting development milestones. In 1999, Corning...

Jun 1, 2000 — Lucent Technologies Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., and TeraBeam Networks of Seattle have announced that they have agreed to jointly develop and deploy TeraBeam’s free-space optical system for connecting local and wide area networks. They will...

Jun 1, 2000 — The University of California at Santa Barbara’s Shuji Nakamura, the inventor of the blue, green and white LED and the blue diode laser, has ordered a metallorganic chemical vapor deposition system from Emcore Corp. of Somerset, N.J. He and his...

Jun 1, 2000 — Newport Corporation has announced that it has received orders totaling $7 million from three major semiconductor capital equipment companies for high-precision optical products. The customers plan to use the specialized optics and optomechanical...

MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies Inc. has announced plans to sell about a dozen of its 17 US manufacturing facilities to contract manufacturing partners. It will retain five chip and fiber optics manufacturing plants and also will establish...

Jun 1, 2000 — US District Court Judge Philip Pro in Reno, Nev., denied three motions of the Lemelson Medical, Education and Research Foundation LP related to a lawsuit filed against it in September 1998 by Cognex Corp. of Natick, Mass. Cognex seeks to have the...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Chamber of commerce executives are generally upbeat folks, faithfully pitching their local economies. But in a recent national survey, 60 percent of the executives polled said that the rash of mergers and acquisitions in the last...

IRVINE, Calif. -- IRVINE, Calif. -- The events of one day in March 1996 proved just too tempting for two individuals. They would be accused of parlaying their insider knowledge of pending government approval for a medical therapy into more than $100,000 in illicit...

Jun 1, 2000 — Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas has announced that first-quarter shipments of its Digital Light Processing subsystems were up more than 250 percent from the same period in 1999. It expects to double last year’s total shipments -- 150,000 --...

Jun 1, 2000 — An initiative by the government, universities and scientific organizations in The Netherlands will give 130 young scientists the ability to pursue research according to their own discretion. The Innovation Initiative will give each winner...

Jun 1, 2000 — England’s fields may soon stay green even when the grass is dead, thanks to hyperspectral imaging genetics -- and avant-garde art. For a decade, British artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey have incorporated grass in their work. ("You might...