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Simplex Technologies to Make 5800 km of Cable for Undersea Networks
Feb 1, 1997 — Newington, N.H.-based Simplex Technologies Inc. will manufacture a 4400-km undersea fiber optic cable system for AT&T's Pan American cable system, according to a $35 million contract between the two companies. Slated for operation in June 1998, the four-fiber SL-200 cable network will run from Panama to Chile, with connection points in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Simplex received an additional $10 million deal from AT&T to manufacture a similar system connecting the East Coast of the US...
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Feb 1, 1997 — Officials at Raytheon Co. of Lexington, Mass., and Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) of Dallas have signed a definitive agreement worth almost $3 billion authorizing Raytheon to acquire TI's defense electronics operations. The transaction will bring...
Go West, Young Job-Seekers
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Photonics Projects Win $13.5 Million in US Funding
Feb 1, 1997 — ARLINGTON, Va. -- Eighteen photonics projects won $13.5 million in National Science Foundation awards.The winners were selected from among 76 proposals related to how light interacts with matter. Following are the winning projects, institutions, and...
Faster than a Speeding Car
Feb 1, 1997 — Americans love their cars. But the feeling of freedom associated with a full tank of gas has turned into a dread of mobile prisons for many urbanites as traffic jams turn daily commutes into daily crawls. In June and again in October 1996,...
Hyperspectral Imager Sends Answers from Above
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Lidar Protects Against Biological Warfare Agents
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Meeting the Challenge of Testing High-Performance Demultiplexers
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New Fiber Optic Source Speeds Component Testing
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Imager Helps Standardize Process Transfers
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Bright Days Seen Ahead for Optical Coating Industry
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Chrysler Stays Ahead With High-Power CO-2 Lasers
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dpiX Wins Military Contract to Develop High-Resolution LCD Technologies
Jan 1, 1997 — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $2.75 million contract to dpiX, a subsidiary of Xerox, to develop high-resolution, reflective-mode display technologies for strategic and tactical information applications. The...
Competition Drives Baby Bells to Sell Bellcore to Defense Firm
Jan 1, 1997 — TRENTON, N.J. -- After more than 18 months of negotiations, a San Diego-based defense technology contractor has agreed to buy Bellcore, the research concern of the seven regional Baby Bells.In the deal, reportedly worth $700 million, the sale of...
Rofin-Sinar Joins with German Laser Institute on Industrial Laser Development
Jan 1, 1997 — An exclusive cooperative development project between Rofin-Sinar Inc. of Plymouth, Mich., and the Fraunhofer Institute of Laser Technology of Aachen, Germany, will focus on developing diode-pumped, high-power Nd:YAG lasers for industrial-processing...
Eastman Kodak Ships Mirror Assemblies, Optical Bench for Satellite System
Jan 1, 1997 — Eastman Kodak Co.'s Commercial & Government Systems delivered its high-resolution mirror assembly to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., for use in the agency's advanced x-ray astrophysics facility satellite. The assembly...
Laser Diode Market Heading Toward $1.2 Billion Mark
Jan 1, 1997 — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- The worldwide market for short-wavelength laser diodes is headed for the billion-dollar-plus mark by the end of the decade, according to a report from market analysis firm Strategies Unlimited. Leading the charge is the...
LeCroy, Fluke Swap Technology for Royalties Under DSO Licensing Pact
Jan 1, 1997 — Under a technical licensing agreement signed by LeCroy Corp. of Chestnut Ridge, N.Y., and Fluke Corp. of Everett, Wash., LeCroy would give Fluke access to advanced technology for digital storage oscilloscope applications in exchange for royalties....
Monroe Community College Receives CNC-Optics Systems from LOH
Jan 1, 1997 — Germantown, Wis.-based LOH Optical Machinery Inc. has lent a Spheronorm CNC-controlled precision optics system to Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y., for educational purposes at the school's optical systems technology laboratory. The...
SpecTran-Corning Fiber-Supply Agreement Grows to $28 Million
Jan 1, 1997 — SpecTran Corp. of Avon, Conn., has increased by $11 million the value of its contract to provide Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., with multimode fiber. The three-year agreement, which was signed last year, is now worth $28 million. SpecTran officials...
Uniphase to Sell Ultrapointe Subsidiary
Jan 1, 1997 — SAN JOSE, Calif. -- To concentrate its resources on the telecommunications industry, Uniphase Corp. has signed a letter of intent to sell its Ultrapointe subsidiary to Tencor Instruments, a leader in semiconductor inspection systems.An...
Automation Boosts Low-Cost Fiber Pigtailing
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A Bright Future for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
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CMOS Imaging Approaches Stage Three in its Evolution
Jan 1, 1997 — Proving that imaging based on complementary metal oxide semiconductors (CMOS) could compete with CCDs was a multifaceted effort. The first step was developing a working product. The second phase was to prove that CMOS imaging could compete...
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