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Motion control industry: Looking to better times
AUSTIN, Texas – The total worldwide revenues for the motion control equipment industry were estimated at $9.9 billion in 2007, representing an 11.9 percent increase over the 2006 levels, according to IMS Research, a market analysis firm based in Wellingborough, UK. The company’s research showed rapid growth in the market in the first two quarters of 2008 – and then a significant slowdown in many segments in the second half of 2008 and in early 2009. The statistics cover computer numeric control and general...
Navy Grant Awarded
Jun 1, 2009 — DSPCon Inc. of Bridgewater, N.J., has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Naval Air Warfare Center. The $80,000 award will enable the company to develop a small and efficient data analysis system for gathering...
New Name for Diamond Company
Jun 1, 2009 — A Cambridge, Mass.-based supplier of diamond supermaterials for use in optical and mechanical applications, Harris International has announced that it is changing its name. The company will be known as Element Six, which, it says, will give it a...
Software Interface Development
Jun 1, 2009 — PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass., is developing an interface to enable the EZChrom Elite software from Agilent Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., to control the former company’s Clarus gas chromatographs. The interface, which will be...
Telecom Purchased
Jun 1, 2009 — Thorlabs Inc. of Newton, N.J., has acquired the assets of Covega Corp. of Jessup, Md. The latter, formerly owned by Gemfire Corp. of Fremont, Calif., is a provider of indium-phosphide and lithium-niobate components and modules for use in the...
The advance of photonics
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – In a move to better represent its vision, mission and scope, the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) has decided to incorporate the term “photonics” into its name. The nonprofit organization, which publishes journals, sponsors conferences...
Pencil-thin LCD Panel Debuts
SEOUL, Korea, May 20, 2009 -- LG Display Co. Ltd. announced Tuesday that by using an LED backlight assembly and other slimming technologies, it developed large LCD TV panels that are only as thick as a pencil and weigh less than 16 lbs.
New Probe to Measure Freeform Optics
ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 15, 2009 -- Demand for freeform optical elements is on the rise, and they have gotten easier to make, but at the moment no commercial systems exist to measure such components. Researchers at ASE Optics Inc. in Rochester, N.Y., have demonstrated that a scanning...
Accelerometer Partnership
May 1, 2009 — Micronor of Regensdorf, Switzerland, an automation components supplier, is partnering with Optoacoustics Ltd. of Or-Yehuda, Israel. The Swiss company will sell and support the Israeli company’s line of fiber optics-based accelerometers in...
Auto displays: Hitting the high road
AUSTIN, Texas – Despite economic woes in the automobile industry, the automotive display market remains a fast-growing segment for small- to medium-size displays. It is the second largest application area for displays that size, behind the mobile phone main display...
Cooperative microfluidics
May 1, 2009 — Suss MicroTec of Munich and iX-factory of Dortmund, both in Germany, have agreed to work together on microfluidics and integrated optical applications. The companies say that the partnership will help to expand their respective portfolios and...
Frequency Control Agreement
May 1, 2009 — In Mansfield, Texas, Mouser Electronics Inc. has signed another worldwide distribution agreement. The company now will stock crystal oscillators and surface acoustic wave products produced by Vectron International Inc. of Hudson, N.H., which makes...
German Merger
May 1, 2009 — InnoLight GmbH and Lumanova GmbH, both of Hannover, have merged. The combined companies will operate as InnoLight and will focus on diode-pumped solid-state lasers.
Laser China trade show: Here we grow again
SHANGHAI, China – Keeping in line with China’s status as a growth market, Laser World of Photonics China was bigger than ever this year. The show, held March 17 to 19 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center, welcomed a record number 22,000 trade attendees...
Licensing Agreement
May 1, 2009 — Murata Power Solutions of Mansfield, Mass., has signed a licensing agreement with Lineage Power Corp. of Dallas for the latter’s Tunable Loop products. The agreement enables Murata to manufacture and sell two product series featuring the technology.
LLS: A next-gen for machine vision
PHOENIX – Longer life, lower energy consumption, higher performance: These features are always in demand for machine vision components. They also are features of the new LED light source (LLS) introduced by the fiber optics division of Germany’s Schott AG...
Microscopy Development
May 1, 2009 — In Germany, Carl Zeiss SMT AG of Oberkochen has created a technology development project for low-voltage transmission-electron microscopy. Together with CEOS GmbH of Heidelberg and the University of Ulm, the SALVE (subangstrom low voltage electron)...
Optical Merger
May 1, 2009 — Linos Photonics Inc. of Milford, Mass., has merged with Qioptiq Imaging Solutions of Fairport, N.Y. The new company, Qioptiq Linos Inc., will be based in Fairport, with satellite offices in New England, Chicago and Florida. The transfer of...
Photonics applications highlight Munich
MUNICH, Germany – Photonics applications will be the headliners when Laser World of Photonics 2009 convenes next month. The show, to be held at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre from June 15 to 18, will give investors, companies and researchers an opportunity to...
Preferred Supplier
May 1, 2009 — Meiji Techno of Axbridge, UK, a supplier of light microscopes and accessories, has appointed Buehler Ltd. of Lake Bluff, Ill., as its preferred supplier of metallurgical microscope solutions for the UK market.
Research Call
May 1, 2009 — The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a research call to DOE and federal laboratories for solid-state-lighting core technologies. Industry, universities and other interested research organizations should look for funding opportunities for...
Security Award
May 1, 2009 — Axcess International Inc. of Addison, Texas, has won a $3.5 million competitive procurement contract to provide security infrastructure solutions for the port at Port-of-Spain, the capital of Trinidad. The system to be supplied will include active...
Shielding Orion
May 1, 2009 — Armstrong Optical Ltd. of Northampton, UK, and Sydor Optics Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., have been awarded a contract to supply optical debris shields for Project Orion, the Atomic Weapons Establishment’s replacement high-energy laser facility. Project...
Unmanned aircraft services
May 1, 2009 — Prioria Robotics Inc. of Gainesville, Fla., has created a UAS (unmanned aircraft system) Services Division. The branch will assist customers with product design, technology integration and data collection in real or simulated environments.
“Localize” to Make the Most of Opportunities in Japan
Apr 1, 2009 — Like the rest of the world, Japan is experiencing its share of economic setbacks. Despite the recent announcement of a fourth-quarter 2008 decline in gross domestic product at a 12.7 percent annual rate, however, certain segments of the photonics...

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