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Emcore Shooting Leaves 3 Dead
Jul 12, 2010 — UPDATE: A former employee shot and killed two people at a fiber optics manufacturer Monday in Albuquerque before turning the gun on himself, the Associated Press is reporting. Previously, Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz had mistakenly said six people were dead. He told reporters at a news conference later that responding officers had seen people on the ground and believed they were dead, but didn’t stop to check as they were searching first for the gunman. It was later determined...
FiberTech Merging with Leoni Fiber Optics
CHANDLER, Ariz., July 12, 2010 — FiberTech USA Inc. is merging with its majority shareholder, Leoni Fiber Optics GmbH of Berlin, this month, the company announced. FiberTech USA produces medical laser probes and fiber optic cable assemblies for laser beam transmission, and...
Navy Chooses Creaform Handyscan 3-D Technology
LEVIS, Quebec, July 12, 2010 — Creaform announced that the US Navy has chosen to use its Handyscan three-dimensional technology to assist in submarine repair. In Kittery, Maine, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard will be the first to receive an order for the company’s MAXscan...
Trioptics Expands US Business
WEDEL, Germany, July 12, 2010 — Optical test equipment manufacturer Trioptics GmbH announced it has founded a subsidiary in the US — Trioptics Inc. — and has acquired Davidson Optronics Inc. of West Covina, Calif., strengthening its market presence in the US. The newly...
LightWorks Optics Hires Director of Marketing
TUSTIN, Calif., July 9, 2010 — LightWorks Optics Inc. announced Wednesday the hire of Lisa Belodoff as its director of marketing. Belodoff will be responsible for all aspects of strategic marketing, branding and communication efforts for the company’s growth...
St. Jude Medical Acquires LightLab
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 9, 2010 — St. Jude Medical Inc., a global medical device company located in St. Paul Minn., has acquired Westford, Mass.-based LightLab Imaging Inc. for approximately $90 million in cash. LightLab develops Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), a high resolution...
Edinburgh Instruments Names New CEO
EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 8, 2010 — Edinburgh Instruments (EI) Ltd., a supplier of lasers, spectrometers and gas sensor equipment, announced today it has hired Alan Faichney as its CEO, effective June 14. EI founder and former CEO S.D. Smith remains as chief scientific officer and as...
Laser Pioneer Capasso Wins ‘Future Prize’
Cambridge, Mass., July 8, 2010 — Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been awarded the 2010 Berthold Leibinger...
Nichia to Start Sample Shipments of Green Diode Laser
TOKUSHIMA, Japan, July 8, 2010 — Nichia Corp. announced Wednesday it will begin sample shipments of its green gallium-nitride (GaN) semiconductor laser diode in August. The company said it has confirmed an estimated lifetime of 10,000 hours for the diodes at 50 mW in...
Alcon to Acquire LenSx Lasers
FORT WORTH, Texas, July 7, 2010 — Eyecare company Alcon Inc. will acquire privately held LenSx Lasers Inc., developer of a femtosecond laser used in cataract surgery, for $361.5 million, Alcon announced Tuesday. The LenSx system, the first femtosecond laser to receive US Food and...
Byatt Appointed to ProPhotonix Board
SALEM, N.H., July 7, 2010 — LED systems and diode-based laser modules manufacturer ProPhotonix Ltd. announced the appointment of Duncan Byatt as a non-executive director of the company. Byatt has over 25 years of experience as an investment professional. He began his...
Optex Receives $2.5M Order for Panoramic Telescopes
RICHARDSON, Texas, July 7, 2010 — Optex Systems Holdings Inc. announced that it has received a $2.5 million purchase order for additional M137 panoramic telescopes from the US Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command of Warren, Mich. The M137s are used in support of certain models...
Goulielmakis Wins Young Scientist Prize
GARCHING, Germany, July 6, 2010 — Dr. Eleftherios Goulielmakis, a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2009 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics “for outstanding contributions in attosecond physics,...
Lattice Materials Begins Witness Sample Stocking Program
BOZEMAN, Mont., July 6, 2010 — Lattice Materials announced recently that it has started stocking thin film coating witness samples for its customers as a result of the growing demand for rapid delivery and competitive pricing. The sample stocking program will take the...
Promotions Announced at Applied Energetics
TUCSON, Ariz., July 6, 2010 — Applied Energetics Inc. announced that its board of directors has promoted Joseph C. Hayden to president and Humberto Astorga to chief financial officer, effective immediately. Acting as chief operating officer since April 2009 and as...
AFRL Deploys Optis Software
TROY, Mich., July 5, 2010 — Software editor Optis has announced that the US Air Force Research Laboratory at Brooks City-Base in San Antonio, Texas, has chosen its light and color simulation software, OptisWorks, to simulate laser protection eyewear. OptisWorks...
Carlson to Lead QD Vision
WATERTOWN, Mass., July 2, 2010 — QD Vision, a maker of quantum dot products for solid-state lighting and display applications, announced that Jason Carlson has been hired as its new president and CEO. Carlson replaces Dan Button, who has been president and CEO since 2007 and...
Point Source Rebrands as Qioptiq
HAMBLE, England, July 2, 2010 — Point Source, a member of the Qioptiq Group, announced yesterday that it has rebranded itself as Qioptiq, effective immediately. The rebranding decision is part of the Group’s global strategy to operate under a single brand worldwide. ...
Prime Photonics, Subsidiary to Merge
BLACKSBURG, Va., July 2, 2010 — Prime Photonics LC announced that it will merge with its subsidiary, Prime Research LC, effective immediately. The new entity will operate under the name Prime Photonics LC. The consolidation is not expected to impact any of Prime...
$27 Million Military Order
Jul 1, 2010 — Display systems manufacturer Kopin Corp. of Taunton, Mass., has announced that it has received a $27 million follow-on production order for eyepieces for the US Army’s Thermal Weapon Sight Bridge program. To be fulfilled over a two-year...
$7.5 M Investment
Jul 1, 2010 — Oclaro Inc. of San Jose, Calif., an optical communications and laser solutions provider, has made a $7.5 million strategic investment in ClariPhy Communications of Irvine, Calif., a privately held fabless semiconductor company that focuses on...
Assets Acquisition
Jul 1, 2010 — Ocean Optics Inc. of Dunedin, Fla., has acquired the assets of Sandhouse Design LLC, also of Dunedin, a manufacturer of modular mid-infrared spectrometers, LEDs, light sources and other photonic products. Over the past four years, Sandhouse Design...
Contract Award
Jul 1, 2010 — Optical Surface Technologies (OST) has been awarded a contract with the Discovery Channel Telescope at Lowell Observatory to coat the 4.3-m primary mirror and to provide manufacturing support for the 1.4-m secondary mirror. The contract launched the...
Fiber Optic Alternative
Jul 1, 2010 — Avago Technologies of Wetzlar, Germany, an analog interface components supplier, announced the release of an embedded fiber optic solution that eventually could replace copper for handling the high-speed data rate requirements of supercomputers....
ITAR Certification
Jul 1, 2010 — PhotoMachining Inc. of Pelham, N.H., has received certification from the US Department of State as an International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)-compliant manufacturer. Under registration code #M26561, this allows the company to significantly...

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