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Big Sky Laser Changes Name
Feb 1, 2008 — Big Sky Laser Technologies Inc. of Bozeman, Mont., a solid-state laser manufacturer, will change its name to Quantel USA Inc. The company has been a 100 percent subsidiary of Quantel of Les Ulis, France, since 1998. It will continue to design and manufacture its Big Sky Laser product line and will strive to increase the footprint of Quantel’s industrial and scientific product lines in the US.
Braggone and Beneq to Collaborate
Feb 1, 2008 — Braggone of Oulu and Beneq Oy of Vantaa, both in Finland, have signed a joint development agreement to offer a turnkey solution for solar cell production. The product will provide a custom-matched material and tool set to increase manufacturing...
cmosis nv Created
Feb 1, 2008 — Based in Antwerp, Belgium, cmosis nv has been created to supply CMOS image sensor solutions to the industrial, professional and medical markets. The privately held company will provide turnkey systems for sensor design and prototyping,...
Curtiss-Wright Awarded Boeing Contract
Feb 1, 2008 — The metal treatment segment of Curtiss-Wright Corp. of Roseland, N.J., has received a contract from Boeing Co. of Chicago. The agreement will enable the former to establish a laser peen forming production cell inside the latter’s facility in...
Dilas to Distribute for m2k-Laser
Feb 1, 2008 — Dilas Diode Laser Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., has signed a distribution agreement with m2k-laser GmbH of Freiburg, Germany, to distribute that company’s single-emitter diode lasers globally.
DRS Technologies Wins $18 Million Contract
Feb 1, 2008 — Raytheon Missile Systems, a division of Raytheon Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., has awarded a contract worth $18 million to DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J. The latter will produce infrared-detector, Dewar cooler sensor assemblies for the Javelin...
Dynasil to Purchase Instrumentation Firm
Feb 1, 2008 — Dynasil Corp. of America, headquartered in West Berlin, N.J., has entered into an agreement to purchase a privately owned advanced instrumentation company. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The company said that the merger will triple...
FEI Opens NanoPort in China
Feb 1, 2008 — FEI Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., has opened a NanoPort in Shanghai, China. The new facility joins three that are already in operation in North America, Europe and Japan. NanoPorts are centers of technical and applications excellence where the company’s...
FiberTech Joins Leoni
Feb 1, 2008 — Leoni Fiber Optics, a subsidiary of the Leoni Group of Nuremberg, Germany, has purchased 90.2 percent of FiberTech GmbH of Berlin. The former says that the acquisition will increase its portfolio of specialty fibers, as FiberTech is a producer of...
Five Funding Awards Granted
Feb 1, 2008 — The Carolinas Photonics Consortium, consisting of five universities with a focus on photonics research and development, has announced that five proposals will receive seed funding aimed at commercializing their described technologies. One proposal...
i2S Expands Presence in China
Feb 1, 2008 — Specializing in surface inspections for the optimization of production processes, i2S Linescan of Pessac, France, is expanding its operations in China by moving its subsidiary, i2S Linescan China, to a larger facility in Shanghai. The new office...
Intel Sells Division for $85 Million
Feb 1, 2008 — Emcore Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., will purchase the telecommunications-related section of the optical platform division of Intel Corp. of Albuquerque, N.M., for $85 million. The former will acquire intellectual property and technology relating to...
Intense Enters Chinese Market
Feb 1, 2008 — A&P Instrument Co. Ltd. of Hong Kong has signed an agreement with Intense Ltd. of Glasgow, UK, to distribute that company’s entire line of high-power, quantum well intermixing enabled laser diodes to manufacturers in China. Products to be...
Light Blue Optics Opens Base in US
Feb 1, 2008 — Light Blue Optics of Cambridge, UK, a developer of holographic laser projection technology, has opened its US operations, which comprise an engineering and business development facility in Colorado Springs, Colo. The facility will enable the company...
Lighting Competition
Feb 1, 2008 — The 2008 “Lighting for Tomorrow” competition, organized by the American Lighting Association, the US Department of Energy and the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, recently was announced. This year’s competition is inviting solid-state lighting...
LightPath and CDGM to Form Joint Venture
Feb 1, 2008 — LightPath Technologies Inc. of Orlando, Fla., and CDGM Glass Co. Ltd. of Chengdu, China, will create a joint venture named LightPath CDGM Chengdu Optical Co. Ltd., also to be based in Chengdu. The companies each will own 50 percent of the venture,...
Nemotek Licenses Technology from Tessera
Feb 1, 2008 — Miniaturization technologies provider Tessera Technologies Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has announced that it has licensed its OptiML wafer-level camera technology and ShellCase wafer-level chip scale packaging solutions to Nemotek SA of Morocco. As...
Nexxus Lighting to Acquire Lumificient
Feb 1, 2008 — Nexxus Lighting Inc. of Charlotte, N.C., has announced that it has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to acquire the Maple Grove, Minn.-based Lumificient Corp., a manufacturer of solid-state LED products for the sign lighting,...
Obzerv Receives $600,000 Contract
Feb 1, 2008 — A spin-off of the National Optics Institute, Obzerv Technologies of Quebec City has been awarded a contract worth $600,000 by Defense Research and Development Canada-Valcartier. The company will create and deliver an electro-optical imaging system,...
Oerlikon Solar Opens Office in Singapore
Feb 1, 2008 — Oerlikon Solar of Pfäffikon, Switzerland, a provider of thin-film silicon solar solutions, has opened a facility in Singapore to increase its presence in Asia while expanding its production and development and supporting its product lines.
Omicron Names Distributor
Feb 1, 2008 — Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH of Rodgau, Germany, has named its first North American sales representative. Market Tech Inc. of Scotts Valley, Calif., will offer the German company’s range of customized laser systems for medicine, research,...
Optinvent Created
Feb 1, 2008 — Optinvent of Rennes is a spin-off of Thomson AG of Boulogne-Billancourt, both in France. The company will focus on the design and sales of custom optical components and systems for use in projection applications, including slim rear-projection...
OSA Offers Scholarship Program
Feb 1, 2008 — The Optical Society of America (OSA) Foundation in Washington, which supports programs that advance youth science and optics education, has partnered with the Harvey M. Pollicove Memorial Fund of Rochester, N.Y. They will offer the $4000 Harvey M....
Precision Optics Sells Product Line
Feb 1, 2008 — Precision Optics Corp. Inc. of Gardner, Mass., has sold its custom optical thin-film product line to Optometrics Corp. of Ayer, Mass., a subsidiary of Dynasil Corp. of America. Besides the purchase price of $250,000, a three-year royalty payment...
Princeton Lightwave Earns DARPA Contract
Feb 1, 2008 — Princeton Lightwave Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., has been awarded a two-year, $3.5 million contract by DARPA. The company will use the award to develop focal plane arrays that employ Geiger mode avalanche photodiodes to achieve single-photon sensitivity...

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