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nLight Acquires Interest in Optotools
Oct 1, 2008 — Vancouver, Wash.-based nLight Corp., a supplier of high-power semiconductor lasers and fibers, has acquired a majority interest in Optotools GmbH of Heilbronn, Germany, a supplier of semiconductor lasers for industrial use. The latter company’s established product line will remain, and new products will be introduced in the next year.
Octillion to Team with Oakland University
Oct 1, 2008 — Octillion Corp. of Auburn Hills, Mich., an alternative and renewable energy technology company, has entered into a sponsored research agreement with scientists at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich. They will focus on transparent photovoltaic...
Olympus, Digital Surf to Partner
Oct 1, 2008 — Olympus Life Science Europa GmbH of Hamburg, Germany, and Digital Surf sarl of Besançon, France, have signed an agreement. The German company will supply users of its Lext OLS3100 confocal laser scanning microscope with 3-D surface texture and...
Point Grey Expands Its Headquarters
Oct 1, 2008 — Point Grey Research Inc., a developer of digital camera technology, has relocated its headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to a facility in Richmond, near the Vancouver airport. The new building is triple the size of the previous...
SemiConductor Devices Receives $1.75 Million Contract
Oct 1, 2008 — DARPA has awarded a Phase I contract worth $1.75 million to SemiConductor Devices of Haifa, Israel, for the development of an “XBn” infrared detector technology. The technology will consist of a semiconductor heterostructure detector that will...
The Road Leads Up for the LED Backlight Unit Market
Oct 1, 2008 — By 2012, the large-format LED backlight unit (BLU) market is expected to reach 182 million units – up from 18 million in 2008 – and to account for 27 percent of the overall backlight unit market, up from its 3.8 percent share projected for 2008. The...
Transmission Project to Begin in California
Oct 1, 2008 — The Optical Internetworking Forum in Fremont, Calif., has outlined the details for its 100-Gb long-distance dense wavelength division multiplexing transmission project. Dual-polarization quadrature phase-shift keying (DP-QPSK) was selected as a...
Vitex and Novaled to Collaborate
Oct 1, 2008 — Vitex Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif., which specializes in thin-film encapsulation, and Novaled AG of Dresden, Germany, a provider of organic LEDs, have announced a cooperative effort. They will combine the American company’s Barix thin-film...
Adept Expands into India
Sep 1, 2008 — Adept Technology Inc. of Livermore, Calif., has expanded into India and signed Menzel Vision and Robotics Pvt. Ltd. of Mumbai, India, as its exclusive distributor in the western and northern areas of the country. The latter company will provide...
Arden Selected as Distributor
Sep 1, 2008 — Arden Photonics Ltd. of Birmingham, UK, a supplier of products and services to the optical fiber and photonics industries, has been selected by Engineering Synthesis Design Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., to distribute the latter’s optical metrology products...
BKM Purchases Scanner Assets
Sep 1, 2008 — Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Flanders, N.J., has sold its lead scanner assets and licensed its related intellectual property — acquired from RVSI Inspection LLC in January 2008 — to BKM Technology Partners LLC of Phoenix. The latter company will...
Certification Reimbursed for Veterans
Sep 1, 2008 — The State of Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs in Orlando has approved the reimbursement of fees associated with becoming a Certified Laser Safety Officer and Certified Medical Laser Safety Officer. Under the GI Bill of Rights, the department...
Clear Skies Solar Expands
Sep 1, 2008 — Clear Skies Solar Inc. of New York has opened a corporate office in Larissa, Greece. The company also will serve as the exclusive supplier of renewable energy technology and installation to Aspen Energy, which is based in Larissa. The expansion and...
Cymer, Toshiba Reach Agreement
Sep 1, 2008 — Cymer Inc. of San Diego has reached a multiunit agreement with Toshiba Corp. of Tokyo. Under the terms, the latter will include the American company’s krypton fluoride and argon fluoride light sources in its investment plan at its memory fabrication...
DRS Technologies Receives $11.4 Million Order
Sep 1, 2008 — DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., has been awarded an $11.4 million follow-on contract from Selex Galileo of Edinburgh, UK. The American company will produce fine track sensor kits for use in directional infrared countermeasure transmitters...
Dynasil Acquires RMD
Sep 1, 2008 — Dynasil Corp. of America of West Berlin, N.J., has acquired the stock of Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc. and specific assets of RMD Instruments LLC, both in Watertown, Mass. The purchase price, totaling approximately $20 million, includes $12.5...
Goodrich Acquires Recon/Optical
Sep 1, 2008 — Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., has signed an agreement with Bourns Inc. of Riverside, Calif., to purchase the Chicago Aerial Industries and Pacific Optical Div. assets of the California company’s subsidiary Recon/Optical Inc. The agreement will...
Hexagon Acquires Measurement Company
Sep 1, 2008 — Hexagon Metrology of North Kingstown, R.I., has acquired Advanced Digital Measurement Works LLC of Santa Ana, Calif., a provider of industrial measuring, reverse engineering and inspection services. The purchase will expand Hexagon’s offering of...
Integrated-Photonics Alliance Created
Sep 1, 2008 — Pirelli & C. SpA of Milan, Italy, has teamed up with CyOptics Inc. of Breinigsville, Pa., to form an alliance in integrated photonics. The agreement foresees the integration of Pirelli’s photonics company — PGT Photonics — with the American...
Laser Photonics Lab Completed
Sep 1, 2008 — An applications laboratory measuring more than 65,000 sq. ft. has been completed by Laser Photonics LLC of Lake Mary, Fla. Eventually, the site will include more than 20 laser systems, enabling the company to process customer samples on the...
Leica, North West to Collaborate
Sep 1, 2008 — A formal collaboration between Leica Geosystems of Heerbrugg, Germany, and North West Geomatics Ltd. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has been created to develop an enhanced work flow for airborne digital line sensors. The software program, called Leica...
Nu Horizons, Osram Enter India
Sep 1, 2008 — A distribution agreement between Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. of Melville, N.Y., and Osram Opto Semiconductors of Regensburg, Germany, has been expanded to include sales in India. The American company will continue to distribute Osram’s LEDs,...
Opnext to Acquire StrataLight
Sep 1, 2008 — Eatontown, N.J.-based Opnext Inc., a designer and manufacturer of optical modules and components, has reached an agreement to acquire privately held StrataLight Communications Inc. of Los Gatos, Calif., for approximately $172 million. Purchase of...
Philips Electronics to Move Headquarters
Sep 1, 2008 — Philips Electronics North America — a unit of Royal Philips Electronics of Eindhoven, the Netherlands — has announced the relocation of its headquarters. Originally based in New York, the division will move to Andover, Mass. Also located in Andover...
Picarro Names Japanese Distributor
Sep 1, 2008 — Picarro Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has selected Sanyo Trading Co. Ltd. of Tokyo as distributor of its series of gas and isotope analyzers for environmental applications, such as detecting greenhouse gasses and monitoring process-control gasses. The...

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