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Toptica Photonics Names New VP of R&D
VICTOR, N.Y., March 4, 2010 -- Dr. Patrick Leisching is the new vice president of research and development at diode and ultrafast fiber laser maker Toptica Photonics, the company announced this week. Leisching, ...
Kyocera Completes Solar Plant, Ups Cell Production
KYOTO, Japan, March 4, 2010 – Solar energy systems provider Kyocera Corp. has recently completed construction of its new solar cell manufacturing plant in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture. The new facility was es...
Light Replacing Wires in Chips
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., March 4, 2010 — IBM scientists yesterday unveiled an ultrafast nanophotonic avalanche photodetector for converting faint optical signals into electrical ones. The device, capable of receiving 40 b...
PerkinElmer Buys Out Danaher
WALTHAM, Mass., March 4, 2010 – PerkinElmer Inc., a global company focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, has announced it has agreed to purchase the remaining interest of its joint venture in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and...
QED Implements ASI Metrology System
ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 4, 2010 – QED Technologies, an exclusive provider of magnetorheological finishing (MRF) and subaperture stitching interferometry (SSI), has announced the implementation of one of its new asp...
Elkins Named Chief Scientist at AAT
PLANTATION, Fla., March 1, 2010 – American Advanced Technologies Inc. (AAT), a company dealing in energy conscious products, has named Robin K. Elkins its chief scientist. This agreement will enable AAT to advance its product line to include technologies designed by Elkins, which...
Innovation Photonics Launches
VERONA, N.J., March 1, 2010 – Optical components company, Innovation Photonics (innpho) was launched in December 2009, by Don Wilson, founder of Special Optics OFR (Optics for Research). According to Wilson,...
$10M Venture Funding
Feb 28, 2010 — QD Vision Inc. of Watertown, Mass., has received $10 million in venture funding from North Bridge Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners and the CIA’s investment arm, In-Q-Tel. The company will use the funds to bring its nanotechnology-based...
$11M Grants
Feb 28, 2010 — The Australian Solar Institute (ASI) will provide $11 million to help fund five research and development projects that will support and accelerate the growth of Australia’s solar technology sector. ASI is part of the government’s $4.5 billion Clean...
Andor Acquires Bitplane
Feb 28, 2010 — Andor Technology plc of Belfast, UK, a digital camera manufacturer, has acquired microscopy image analysis software company Bitplane of Zurich, Switzerland, for £7.46 million in cash and 283,851 shares. An additional consideration in the form of...
Distributor Appointed
Feb 28, 2010 — Diode laser company Dilas of Mainz, Germany, has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with LxRay Co. Ltd. of Saitama, Japan, to serve the Japanese market. The latter, a technical oriented trading company specializing in laser, optics and...
ESA Offers Contract
Feb 28, 2010 — The European Space Agency has offered Midaz Lasers Ltd. €150,000 for the development of an engineered version of the diode-pumped Alexandrite laser. The performance benefits of the Alexandrite laser include higher wall-plug efficiency and the...
Exclusive Distribution
Feb 28, 2010 — Lake Oswego, Ore.-based Spectrum Detector Inc., a manufacturer of standard and custom detectors, is now the exclusive marketing, sales and distribution agent in the US and Canada for Laserpoint srl of Milan, Italy. The latter is a manufacturer of...
LED Installation
Feb 28, 2010 — LED lighting company Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., has announced that LR24 recessed LED luminaires have been installed in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Designed for the museum’s “Moving Beyond Earth”...
LED Plant Opens
Feb 28, 2010 — Osram Opto Semiconductors of Sunnyvale, Calif., has completed construction and process-testing of its LED chip production plant in Penang, Malaysia. The facility will make InGaN semiconductor chips based on 4-in. wafers for the blue, green and white...
License Agreement
Feb 28, 2010 — Varioptic of Lyon, France, a liquid lens provider, and Cognex Corp. of Natick, Mass., a machine vision sensors and systems manufacturer, have announced a partnership and licensing agreement for the use of the former’s liquid lens solutions. Cognex...
New Location
Feb 28, 2010 — Mobius Photonics, a producer of short-pulsed fiber laser sources, has moved its corporate headquarters to a facility in Mountain View, Calif., that is larger than its former Santa Clara location. The move is a result of the company’s plans to...
New US Subsidiary
Feb 28, 2010 — Gera, Germany-based Präzisionsoptik Gera GmbH has formed a US subsidiary, Precision Optics Gera Corp., with sales offices in Florida and Colorado. The custom and standard microstru...
NSF Research Grant
Feb 28, 2010 — Vixar of Plymouth, Minn., has received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation for the development of integrated wafer-scale vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with heterogeneous lensing. The...
Optical coatings: Designs for growth
WELLESLEY, Mass. – Innovation is critical for revenue growth in the optical coatings industry, according to the market analysis firm BCC Research. New applications, where coatings have a new advantag...
Patent Acquisition
Feb 28, 2010 — Optics for Hire (OFH) of Arlington, Mass., an optical product development company, has completed its acquisition of the patent portfolio and other assets developed and owned by Actuality Systems Inc., a 3-D display technology provider. OFH purchased...
Photonics Company Established
Feb 28, 2010 — Key Photonics Ltd. of Cambridge, UK, has been formed to service the optics and photonics requirements of UK industrial and research companies. The company, specializing in the design and supply of optics, photonic components, optical systems and...
Subsidiary Acquisition
Feb 28, 2010 — Optical and optoelectronic components manufacturer 3S Photonics of Nozay, France, has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire Avensys Group subsidiaries Avensys Inc. and ITF Laboratories Inc. for a total of €6.5 million. The holding...
Unified Subsidiaries
Feb 28, 2010 — Mems Optical Inc. of Huntsville, Ala., and Jenoptik Polymer Systems Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., have merged with Jenoptik Optical Systems Inc. of Jupiter, Fla., to create a single corporation for the US-based manufacturing operations of Jenoptik |...
Cornell’s Bazarov Wins DoE Grant
ITHICA, NY, Feb. 26, 2010 – Determining the brightness limits of electron beams in X-ray synchrotron radiation facilities will be the focus of a five-year research project by Ivan Bazarov, assistant professor of physics at Cornell University. The US Department of Energy...

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