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Image Intensifier Market to Grow 7.6 Percent
Feb 1, 1999 — The total world market for image intensifier-type night-vision devices was $378.4 million for 1998, according to a recent report released by Frost & Sullivan in Mountain View, Calif. The company also predicted annual growth of 7.6 percent, reaching $499.6 million by 2005, despite increasing competition from uncooled infrared imaging systems in land-based applications. Military buyers spent $302.3 million in 1998 -- a negative 8 percent growth rate, which reflects the cyclical
Europeans Try Internet Access over Power Lines
Feb 1, 1999 — Ten European utilities in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and England have begun testing the feasibility of delivering high-speed, residential Internet access over power lines. If tests prove successful, so-called digital power line service...
980-nm Laser Diodes to Power Transoceanic Telecommunications
Feb 1, 1999 — Submarine system developers are racing to deploy networks that perform at maximum power and reliability. To meet those somewhat inversely related needs, industry leaders have worked to qualify 980-nm laser diodes for use in undersea systems. In the...
Lemelson Foundation Seeks to Dismiss or Transfer Cognex Suit
Feb 1, 1999 — The Lemelson Medical, Education and Research Foundation LP filed a motion in December in US District Court in Massachusetts to dismiss the suit brought against it by the Cognex Corp. of Natick, Mass. Cognex seeks to overturn Lemelson's patents in...
Optical Add/Drop Multiplexing Expected to Reach $7.2 Billion in 2008
Feb 1, 1999 — The world market for optical add/drop multiplexing reached $23 million in 1998, reflecting the initial stage of introduction and production, according to a report issued by ElectroniCast Corp. of San Mateo, Calif. The market is expected to expand...
Census Bureau Revises Method of Counting Lasers
Feb 1, 1999 — For the first time, the US Census Bureau has an accurate way of counting lasers. Until now, the bureau categorized lasers with numerous unrelated electronic devices. At the urging of several groups, including the Lasers and Electro-Optics...
Thermo Instrument Offers to Buy Control of Spectra-Physics AB
Feb 1, 1999 — The 1999 photonics acquisition season opened early and loomed large, as Thermo Instrument Systems Inc. of Waltham, Mass., made a $355 million offer to take over Spectra-Physics AB, the Swedish company that owns more than 80 percent of...
Machine Vision Markets to Grow Unevenly
Feb 1, 1999 — The American machine vision systems market can expect compound annual growth of 13.6 percent in the next five years, with revenues more than doubling from $798 million in 1997 to $1.9 billion in 2004, report market analysts Frost & Sullivan. The...
Laser Pointer Introduces Holography for the Masses
Feb 1, 1999 — Copernicus, Galileo, Columbus: All used the scientific method to set the popular wisdom of their day on its head. In this same tradition, Stephen Michael of Three Dimensional Imagery has disproved the belief that a good hologram cannot be created...
CO2 Laser Gives Edge to Tube-Cutting Robot
Feb 1, 1999 — Motoman Inc., a manufacturer of robotic solutions for industrial applications, designed its new TubeStar robot to produce high output of cut metal tubing at low operating costs. This sort of production formula suggests a photonics solution, and as...
Imaging System Keeps Nasal Sprays up to Snuff
Feb 1, 1999 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires manufacturers of nasal sprays to demonstrate not only the effectiveness of their product in easing congestion, but also the consistency and uniformity of the ejected pattern of mist. In analyzing...
Aluminum Plating Improves Mirror Surfaces, Thermal Cycling
Jan 1, 1999 — You wouldn't think space would be a problem in a spectrographic telescope the size of a small car. That is, until you try to pack 22 infrared mirrors inside into a precise optical path. But for National Optical Astronomy Observatories researchers,...
Photometer/Theodolite Analyzes F-16 Head-up Display
Jan 1, 1999 — The F-16 Flying Falcon, widely regarded as the world's most versatile military aircraft, owes some of its acclaim to the pilot's head-up display, which delivers real-time information about target location, navigation and weapons systems through...
Holographic Camera Reveals Stress
Jan 1, 1999 — Stress is part of the job for John Deere products built by Deere & Co., which manufactures equipment for agricultural, industrial and forestry applications as well as for home and garden. Before this equipment is even assembled, the component...
Laser Hygrometer Dries up Processing Troubles
Jan 1, 1999 — Water may be essential to human life, but its presence can be anathema to certain controlled chemical manufacturing processes. In an attempt to control moisture in these processes, a major US chemical company is using an optical hygrometer and diode...
Photonics Prophets Optimistic About 1999
Jan 1, 1999 — Slumping Asian economies notwithstanding, 1999 looks good, according to business leaders at photonics companies around the world. New applications markets, exciting technology breakthroughs and continuing industry consolidation should combine to...
Clinton Signs Bill to Fund Technology Programs
Jan 1, 1999 — President Clinton has signed an appropriations bill allocating $656.6 million to technology partnering and policy programs carried out by the Department of Commerce's Technology Administration, namely the Office of the Undersecretary for Technology,...
US Government Agencies Investigate Laser Company
Jan 1, 1999 — The US Securities and Exchange Commission and US Attorney's Office are investigating Semiconductor Laser International Corp. to determine whether the company has violated securities laws. On Nov. 23, Semiconductor Laser released its financial report...
Partnership Gathers Support for Hybrid Lighting
Jan 1, 1999 — Lighting is the single largest energy user in commercial buildings, consuming about one-third of the total electricity. The Hybrid Lighting Partnership -- at this point still an informal group of 10 companies and the US Department of Energy's (DoE)...
National Science Foundation Launches Microelectronics Program
Jan 1, 1999 — The National Science Foundation has begun a $10 million program, XYZ on a Chip, to encourage researchers to explore nonelectronic applications for recent advances in microelectronics. With components shrinking in size, microelectronic systems are on...
European Privacy Law May Disrupt Business
Jan 1, 1999 — Photonics companies seem unaware, but the recently implemented European Union Data Protection Directive applies to them and to the personal data they collect and transfer out of Europe. The directive specifically covers any data that can be used to...
National Research Council Reports on Manufacturing
Jan 1, 1999 — The National Research Council's committee on visionary manufacturing challenges has released a report on trends expected to affect global manufacturing over the next 20 years. The committee's findings include: The competitive climate, enhanced by...
European Commission Supports Tech Transfer for Fiber Optic Sensors
Jan 1, 1999 — The European Commission has launched Fiber Optic Sensors -- European Network, an organization to promote technology transfer for optical fiber sensors. The network has signed on more than 50 partners, including Rolls Royce and Shell Oil Inc., along...
Osram and Siemens Start Joint Venture
Jan 1, 1999 — The Semiconductor Group of Siemens AG, with facilities in Berlin and Munich, Germany, and the company's subsidiary Osram GmbH in Munich have launched a joint venture for optoelectronic semiconductors. The new enterprise will operate in Regensburg as...
Diode and Fiber Lasers Penetrate Materials Processing and Graphic Arts
Jan 1, 1999 — During 1999 diode lasers and fiber lasers will continue their trend toward improved performance and lower cost, resulting in the further penetration of these sources into material processing and graphic arts applications.
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