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Laser 97 reflects photonics growth
Aug 1, 1997 — MUNICH, Germany -- Photonics has become a more developed industry, and its prospects for additional growth are excellent, said visitors to the Laser 97 trade show and conferences. The June trade fair attracted 14,500 visitors from 67 countries, a 4.3 percent increase in attendance over the 1995 show, according to organizers. Visitors from outside Germany accounted for 26 percent of the total. The exhibitors' ranks also grew 9 percent to 725 exhibitors and 106 other represented companies. The...
Mediation wins favor for settling disputes
Aug 1, 1997 — ITHACA, N.Y. -- The alternative dispute resolution process, in which the laser industry was one of the pioneers, has won widespread industry acceptance, says a report from Cornell University's Institute on Conflict Resolution. The survey, jointly...
Oil Platforms Get Connected
Aug 1, 1997 — Submarine Systems International has signed a $17.6 million deal with Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., to provide the first undersea fiber optic cable network for offshore oil platforms. The network will consist of 475 km...
Laser Probe
Aug 1, 1997 — A joint effort among the US Department of Defense, ITT of Roanoke, Va., and Litton of Tempe, Ariz., resulted in the production of these night-vision goggles for the US Marines.
Continued Profits Lead to Increased R & D Spending
Aug 1, 1997 — Sizable profits encouraged major US corporations to continue investing in the future, by sinking a larger percentage of their revenues into R&D last year. The leading 100 US companies increased allotments to R&D by 9%, building on a 15.3%...
Report pushes US defense commercialization
Aug 1, 1997 — WASHINGTON -- A report soon to be released by the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association extols the virtues of closer connections between industry and the US Department of Defense, with particular emphasis on small-business participation....
Rofin-Sinar acquires German laser diode company
Aug 1, 1997 — PLYMOUTH, Mich. -- Developer and manufacturer of high-performance laser beam sources, Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc., has announced its agreement to purchase 80 percent of the stock of Hamburg, Germany-based Dilas Diodenlaser GmbH. Dilas specializes...
Industrial Laser Sales Increase
Aug 1, 1997 — Shipments of industrial laser equipment rose 15% over last year's levels to $123 million for the first quarter of 1997, according to a report issued by the Laser Systems Product Group. Industrial laser equipment and systems shipments within North...
CCD Camera Helps Analyze Print Head Problems
Aug 1, 1997 — Charge-coupled-device (CCD) technology plays a leading role in allowing visualization of ultrafast-motion events. A high-resolution, high-speed CCD camera from The Cooke Corp. in Tonawanda, N.Y., is making life a lot easier for one manufacturer of...
Fiber Drawing Tower Ups Quality, Enables Diversity
Aug 1, 1997 — Fiberoptic Systems Inc. (FSI) of Simi Valley, Calif., a manufacturer of optical fiber and assemblies for the OEM market, experienced a significant increase in demand for its diverse products and services. The company needed to produce raw optical...
Custom Microscope System Takes the 'Bugs' out of Insect Study
Aug 1, 1997 — Entomologists who track the behavior of insects have some pretty specific needs with regard to a microscopy system. The head of a gypsy moth caterpillar can be seen clearly through the Zoom 70 system. They must observe live insects in their...
Desert Nomads Rely on Photonics to Find Fertile Ground
Jul 1, 1997 — United Nations organizations are increasingly employing satellites and high-resolution imaging to combat desertification, pests and pollution. In one striking example, modern remote-sensing technology has come to the aid of Saudi Arabia's desert...
Dynamic Duo Streamlines Evidence Detection
Jul 1, 1997 — Any "whodunit" fan is familiar with the scene where the sleuth uncovers a vital clue from a pad of paper by rubbing it with a lead pencil to bring out the impressions of handwriting from the previous page. If only it were always that...
Photonics Ensures Quality of Flexographic Printers' Rolls
Jul 1, 1997 — It is certainly an understatement to say that maintaining consistently high-quality graphics is a priority in the printing industry, and manufacturers of printing equipment face a formidable task in providing high-performance products. In...
Giant Robots Build Airplanes with the Aid of Laser Tracking
Jul 1, 1997 — Juggling takes skill and focus. Imagine, then, juggling sections of airplanes that weigh 100,000 lb and that must be matched to within thousandths of an inch.That was the situation Ed Chalupa and two fellow engineers faced when in 1993 they formed...
Caveat emptor: One laser does not fit all
Jul 1, 1997 — BALTIMORE -- It's buyer beware as manufacturers of diode-pumped Nd:YAG solid-state lasers seek to replace arc-discharge lamp-pumped devices with the "all-purpose" laser. Users should carefully consider their applications before investing in the most...
CLEO Attendance Falls
Jul 1, 1997 — CLEO '97 (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics) held in Baltimore failed to attract as many attendees as it did last year. There were 6644 total attendees this year compared with 6936 for the previous conference in Anaheim, Calif. Of all...
New Focus Eyes OEMs
Jul 1, 1997 — In an effort to provide frontline support to its OEM customers, New Focus Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has hired Gregory Smolka, formerly of Big Sky Laser Technologies, to the new position of OEM account executive. The company has also taken steps,...
You can't rush genius; maybe you can track it
Jul 1, 1997 — CARLISLE, Mass. -- Is it possible to track the invention of photonics technology so that the marketing and funding of the technology can follow in a logical and competitive fashion? One theory that attempts to predict the development of technology...
Japanese Electronics Industry Takes a Hit
Jul 1, 1997 — Prices on computer memory chips nose-dived recently, cutting sharply into group profits for some of Japan's leading makers of electronic products. Toshiba Corp., Fujitsu Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. posted lackluster earnings but predicted...
Laboratories' Contracts up for Renewal
Jul 1, 1997 — WASHINGTON -- The US Department of Energy (DoE) and the University of California are negotiating new contracts for the management of Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos national laboratories. The current contracts, worth a total of...
NIF Breaks Ground
Jul 1, 1997 — At a ceremony attended by US Secretary of Energy Federico Peña, ground was broken for the National Ignition Facility, the centerpiece of a program to maintain the US nuclear arsenal without nuclear testing.The $1.2 billion facility at...
Rome scientist Hendrickson dies
Jul 1, 1997 — ROME, N.Y. -- Brian M. Hendrickson, associate chief scientist for photonics at Rome Laboratory, died at 53 after a brief illness.Hendrickson had been with Rome Laboratory for 29 years, both in the photonics program and the Federal Scientific and...
Science Foundation Funds Connections to Speedy Computer Network
Jul 1, 1997 — The National Science Foundation has made grants to 35 research institutions in the US, enabling scientists to communicate and share resources on the foundation's high-speed Backbone Network Service. The connections will allow researchers to use...
SDL Settles with Spectra-Physics in Technology Transfer Lawsuit
Jul 1, 1997 — "Never underestimate the power of incumbent technologies to be improved and to hold their ground."David Shaver, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, on the semiconductor industry's incorrect belief that lasers could not produce features smaller than 1...
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