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Avantes China Opens Shanghai Office
SHANGHAI, China, May 24, 2010 — To continue to provide its customers in China with sales and technical support, Avantes China announced the expansion of its team with the addition of a new office in Shanghai. Based in the new office, Fang Wei, the new sales engineer, will provide support to customers in Shanghai, and the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui. The company manufactures miniature spectrometer systems designed for research and industrial measurements, and analysis involving the metrology of light. F...
Ocean Optics Buys Sandhouse Design
DUNEDIN, Fla., May 24, 2010 — Ocean Optics Inc. announced Thursday that it acquired the assets of Sandhouse Design LLC, a designer and manufacturer of modular mid-infrared spectrometers, LEDs, light sources and other photonics products. Based in Dunedin as well, Sandhouse Design...
Photonis Awarded US Patent
STURBRIDGE, Mass., May 24, 2010 — Electro-optics manufacturer, Photonis USA announced it was awarded a patent from the US Patent Office for an etching manufacturing process used to create glass microwell plates. The patent is the second to be awarded to the company in 2010, and the...
Bruker Acquires Product Lines
BILLERICA, Mass., May 21, 2010 — Bruker Corp. announced the closing of its acquisition of three former Varian Inc. product lines from Agilent Technologies Inc., which were divested in Agilent’s May 14 acquisition of Varian. The former Varian product lines are now part of the...
Cree LEDs to Light Habitat Kitchens
DURHAM, N.C., May 21, 2010 — Cree Inc. and Habitat for Humanity International have announced a three-year, $1.5 million pledge to provide high-efficiency Cree LED downlights for kitchens in all new Habitat homes built in the US. “By providing cost-saving,...
Edmund Offers STEM Lab Grants
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 21, 2010 — University labs, Edmund Optics may have a grant with your name on it. At the CLEO/QELS 2010 exhibition this week, product manager David Henz discussed the company’s University Grant program. Edmund Optics has a wide range of products on...
Varian Joins Agilent Technologies
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 21, 2010 — Bill Sullivan, president and chief executive officer of Agilent Technologies Inc. announced in a letter to its customers that Varian Inc. is now part of the measurement company. Together, the two companies will provide their customers with a...
GE Celebrates Laser’s 50th with Blog
NISKAYUNA, N.Y., May 20, 2010 — GE scientists specializing in laser technology development at GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the GE, today marked the 50th anniversary of the invention of the laser with the launch of “Laser Diode-logues” - a new...
Sandia Lab Names New Director
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., May 20, 2010 — The Sandia Corp. board of directors announced the appointment of Paul J. Hommert as its president and as director of Sandia National Laboratories, effective July 9, 2010. Currently the executive vice president and deputy laboratories director...
Ophir Optronics Acquires Photon Inc.
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 19, 2010 — Precision laser measurement company Ophir Optronics announced Tuesday it has added scanning-slit technology to its beam profiling product line through the acquisition of Photon Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Established in...
OSA Announces 2010 Awards
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2010 — The Optical Society (OSA) announced the 2010 recipients of its awards and medals for exceptional achievement in the field of optics and photonics. “OSA’s Awards and Honors program is designed to identify and recognize excellence in...
President Obama Recognizes Laser’s 50th
WASHINGTON, May 18, 2010 — President Barack Obama sent a Presidential Message to the founding partners of LaserFest, a year-long initiative created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first working laser, recognizing the laser as “one of the most important and...
Tektronix Buys Mixed Signals Inc.
BEAVERTON, Ore., May 18, 2010 — Tektronix Inc., a supplier of test, measurement and monitoring products and solutions, has announced that it has acquired Mixed Signals Inc. of El Segundo, Calif. for an undisclosed amount. Mixed Signals is a provider of digital content monitoring,...
Canon Breaks Ground on New Americas HQ
MELVILLE, N.Y., May 17, 2010 — Digital imaging and advanced office solutions provider Canon USA Inc. announced recently it broke ground at its new North and South American headquarters campus in Melville. The new facility will serve as one of the company’s three worldwide...
IDS Sells 100,000th Camera
OBERSULM, Germany, May 17, 2010 — Almost exactly six years after the launch of its uEye industrial camera series, machine vision specialist IDS Imaging Development Systems recently sold its 100,000th camera. The 5-megapixel Gigabit Ethernet camera, decked out in a...
JPSA Partners with AGK-World in Europe
MANCHESTER, N.H., May 17, 2010 — JP Sercel Associates Inc. (JPSA) announced the appointment of AGK-World as its business development consultant to enhance JPSA Laser’s presence in the UK, Ireland and Northern Europe. AGK-World was founded by Alex Kader, a business development...
Veeco Announces Grant Winners
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 17, 2010 — Veeco Instruments Inc., a provider of scanning probe microscopes (SPM) to the nanoscience community, recently announced the winners of the second phase of the Veeco Labs Research Grant Program, “Energy Innovation.” Veeco Labs is a...
New Site for Blackbody Calibrators
NEWTON, Mass., May 14, 2010 — Bodkin Design & Engineering LLC (BD&E) has announced the launch of a new Web site to promote its thermal imaging calibration instruments. The site caters particularly to the needs of a select market within the range of customers that...
NPL Launches Measurement Network
TEDDINGTON, England, May 14, 2010 — Businesses and universities across the UK can sign up to access the most up-to-date measurement knowledge and research to add weight to their work and help new ideas flourish. The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is launching a network to...
QD Vision Takes Silver at Edisons
WATERTOWN, Mass., May 14, 2010 — QD Vision, developer of Quantum Light nanotechnology-based products for solid state lighting and displays, took home the silver medal at this year’s Edison Best New Products Awards for its Quantum Light optic in the Energy and Sustainability...
Solar Micro-Inverter to Debut
CAMBRIDGE, England, May 14, 2010 — Enecsys Ltd. will reveal details of its solar PV grid connected micro-inverter technology at a press conference during the Intersolar Europe 2010 show in Munich, Germany, on Wednesday, June 9. The company’s solar micro-inverter will be on show...
Ellsworth Launches New Canadian Web site
GERMANTOWN, Wis., May 13, 2010 — Ellsworth Adhesives, an adhesives products and equipment distributor, announced the launch of its Canadian Web site, www.ellsworthadhesives.ca, a comprehensive source of more than 3000 product SKUs for adhesives in Canada. The product offerings...
Machine Vision Training Offered
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 11, 2010 — Individuals can now attain certification as a machine vision professional (basic level) through a new program launched by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the global industry’s trade group. To earn “CVP” status, individuals...
Ondax Nabs NSF Grant to Develop Tunable Lasers
MONROVIA, Calif., May 13, 2010 — Ondax Inc. announced Monday that it received a $500,000 Phase II award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue development of a novel miniature external-cavity tunable single frequency laser. The grant follows an earlier demonstration...
Schliesser Receives Otto Hahn Medal
GARCHING, Germany, May 13, 2010 — Dr. Albert Schliesser, a young research scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, has been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal 2009. Schliesser received the award “for his contributions to the investigation of the effects of...

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