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Carl Zeiss Acquires IMAS
WELWYN GARDEN CITY, England, May 12, 2010 — Carl Zeiss Ltd. announced Tuesday it will acquire Imaging Associates Ltd. (IMAS), a maker of products for scientific digital imaging and light microscopy, for an undisclosed amount. IMAS, which is based in Bicester, England, has 16 employees and generated over £3 million (about $4.4 million) in revenue last fiscal year. The company was established in 1992 by a team of image analysis and microscopy specialists formerly of the Image Analysis Div. of Kontron Electronics in Watford, Englan...
Du Wins Innovative Laser Technology 2010
WÜRSELEN, Germany, May 12, 2010 — Keming Du, DSc, managing director of EdgeWave GmbH, has won the Innovation Award Laser Technology 2010, which was presented at a ceremony during the International Laser Technology Congress AKL’10 in Aachen, Germany. The award, which comes with a...
Glimmerglass Appoints Schilp Sales VP for EMEA
HAYWARD, Calif., May 12, 2010 — Intelligent optical layer management solutions supplier, Glimmerglass appointed Bernd Schilp to vice president of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), effective immediately. With new opportunities throughout EMEA, the company positioned...
JSR Joins Sematech at UAlbany NanoCollege
ALBANY, N.Y., and TOKYO, May 12, 2010 — In a collaboration aimed at providing cost-effective semiconductor materials for 22 nm nodes, JSR Corp.’s US operation, JSR Micro, has joined Sematech, a global consortium of chipmakers, at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering...
9% Growth Expected in Laser Market
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. May 11, 2010 — Worldwide laser sales fell 25 percent in 2009, the first decline since 2000. Subsequently, 2009 was still among the 6 top revenue years in the history of the laser. According to a new report, Laser 2010, from market research company,...
Agilent Wins Testing Awards
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 11, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. recently announced that its Medalist i3070 Series 5 in-circuit test solution garnered two major technology awards during the Nepcon Shanghai 2010 trade show in late April. These awards recognize innovation and reliability...
Jenoptik Units Merge
JENA, Germany, May 11, 2010 — Jenoptik AG announced that the laser technology division of Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systems GmbH and Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH have merged to form Jenoptik Laser GmbH, while the Optics, Microoptics and Digital Imaging business units of Jenoptik Laser,...
Raytheon Nabs $34M for Laser-Guided Missile
AMMAN, Jordan, May 10, 2010 — Raytheon Co., headquartered in Waltham, Mass., has been awarded $34.4 million by the United States Air Force to continue design work on the AGM-65E2/L laser-guided Maverick missile, the newest variant of the Maverick. The contract requires Raytheon...
Corporate Name Change
May 10, 2010 — Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. of Quebec City has officially changed its corporate name to Exfo Inc., effective immediately. The name change was made for simplicity’s sake and branding purposes, the company said, and will better serve...
Cristal Laser Marks 20 Years
MESSEIN, France, May 10, 2010 — To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Cristal Laser looks back on its success as a leader in the growth of nonlinear materials. The company began as a spinoff of the University of Sciences at Nancy with a patent based on halide flux-grown KTP...
Display Technology Licensing Agreement
May 10, 2010 — Science-based products and services company DuPont Display Enhancements Inc. of Torrance, Calif., and 17943%%Ocular of Richardson, Texas, a supplier of industrial touch panels and display products, have announced a licensing agreement. Under its...
Distributor Appointed
May 10, 2010 — Andor Technology plc of Belfast, UK, a scientific imaging, spectroscopy solutions and microscopy systems provider, has appointed Microlat SLR of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as its exclusive distributor in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The latter...
European Expansion
May 10, 2010 — Edmund Optics has relocated its UK offices to a newly constructed 10,000-sq-ft facility in York, allowing the company to continue to offer service and support throughout Europe. Shipments will be sent from the East Midlands Airport to the...
High-Brightness LEDs
May 10, 2010 — In Durham, N.C., Cree Inc. has announced that its high-brightness LEDs are being used in 8529%%Lighthouse Technologies’ high-definition video screens at the American Airlines Center, the Dallas home of the NBA’s Mavericks and the...
Laser Welding Research Hall Opens
GEESTHACHT, Germany, May 10, 2010 — A new hall with a semi-industrial laser system has been built at the GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, in collaboration with Airbus Deutschland GmbH. GKSS invested roughly one million Euros in the hall, which officially opened on April 19, 2010. The...
Oerlikon Receives Thin Film PV Certifications
TRUBBACH, Switzerland, May 10, 2010 — Oerlikon Solar, manufacturer of thin film photovoltaic (PV) equipment, has received several technology certifications from Underwriters Laboratories, an independent product safety certification organization located in Camas, Wash. Oerlikon has...
Sales Team Expanded
May 10, 2010 — Northvale, N.J.-based Photonic Products Group Inc., a manufacturer/developer of products including crystal-based optical components and devices, and optomechanical assemblies, has continued its global expansion with the addition of partners...
Singapore Office
May 10, 2010 — Allied Vision Technologies GmbH Inc. of Ahrensburg, Germany, has established a sales subsidiary in Singapore. The new company, Allied Vision Technologies Asia Ltd., will be in charge of expanding business in the Asia-Pacific region, managing...
Systems Installation
May 10, 2010 — Hillsboro, Ore.-based FEI Co., a scientific instruments company, has announced the completion of a multiple systems installation at the Materials Ageing Institute (MAI) in France, a utility-oriented research center financed by Electricité de...
Tessera to Acquire Siimpel
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 10, 2010 — Tessera Technologies Inc. announced its entrance into a definitive agreement to acquire microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based camera solutions manufacturer Siimpel Corp. of Arcadia, Calif. The former company, who invests, licenses and...
Touch screen panel market: Smooth operations
SAN JOSE, Calif. – In terms of units, the touch screen panel market is expected to show a compound annual growth rate of 30 percent through 2013, according to Displaybank, a market analysis firm based in Seoul, South Korea. The company predicts that there will be a...
Erickson Joins CVI Melles Griot
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., May 7, 2010 — David Erickson has joined CVI Melles Griot as vice president of technology for optics and photonic products, the company announced Thursday. Erickson, who has experience in managing photonic product engineering and manufacturing teams, will assist...
GigOptix Launches ‘Sunset Rescue’ Program
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 7, 2010 — A service that provides replacements for obsolete application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) using a methodology owned by GigOptix Inc. through its acquisition of ChipX in November 2009 was announced....
NKT Photonics, Fianium Settle Suit
BIRKERØD, Denmark, & SOUTHAMPTON, England, May 7, 2010 — Specialty fibers and fiber lasers maker NKT Photonics A/S of Denmark and England-based ultrafast fiber lasers manufacturer Fianium have settled their 15-month UK patent dispute, the companies announced in separate statements. NKT Photonics filed...
PI Expands Sales Offices in Europe
AUBURN, Mass., May 6, 2010 — Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG of Karlsruhe, Germany announced Tuesday it strengthened its European sales organization with new offices and people. Strategically located close to Cranfield University, the new PI UK office at Trent...

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