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Gould Technology Buys Power Splitter Line
Dec 1, 2006 — Gould Technology LLC of Millersville, Md., has purchased the PLC power splitter module product line from Teem Photonics SA of Grenoble, France. As part of the agreement, it will use the French company’s ion exchange waveguide splitter chips inside the modules. The power splitter line offers low insertion and polarization-dependent loss as well as high port-to-port uniformity, enabling Gould Technology to enhance its offerings in passive optical components and subsystems. Terms of the...
IMRA and SPI Announce Licensing Agreement
Dec 1, 2006 — Imra America Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., a developer of ultrafast fiber lasers, has signed an agreement with SPI Lasers plc of Southampton, UK, to license patents for the US company’s amplification technology. The agreement allows the British company...
Ionatron Garners Added Funding
Dec 1, 2006 — A developer of Laser Guided Energy and related products for defense and security applications, Ionatron Inc. has received a modification in its contract with the US government for the continued development of its Laser Induced Plasma Channel...
Labs to Develop Nanoplasmonic Devices
Dec 1, 2006 — The European Commission Framework Programme 6 project, Polymer-Based Nanoplasmonic Components and Devices (Plasmocom), has been launched. This Information Society Technologies Specific Targeted Research Project brings together European plasmonics...
LabSmith and Micronit to Standardize Microfluidic Tools
Dec 1, 2006 — LabSmith Inc. of Livermore, Calif., and Micronit Microfluidics BV of Enschede, the Netherlands, have partnered to manufacture standardized toolkits for microfluidics research. The companies will create a full set-up of integrated MEMS and...
Lytron Expands Facilities
Dec 1, 2006 — Lytron Inc. has announced the opening of a factory and corporate office next to its existing quarters in Woburn, Mass. The company, which makes heat transfer systems and components, said that it has more than doubled its space, to 115,000 sq ft, and...
Marubeni to Market n&k Products
Dec 1, 2006 — Products from n&k Technology Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., will be marketed and distributed in Japan by Marubeni Solutions Corp. of Tokyo according to a recent agreement. The California company manufactures optical scatterometry/thin film...
Microvision Allies to Make Head-Up Displays
Dec 1, 2006 — A supplier of light scanning technologies for display and imaging products, Microvision Inc. of Redmond, Wash., has partnered with an undisclosed automotive supplier to develop a commercial scanned-beam head-up display for automotive applications....
New Wave Awarded Phase II Grant
Dec 1, 2006 — New Wave Research, a Freemont, Calif.-based manufacturer of lasers and laser-based systems for the microelectronics and analytical instrumentation industries, has been awarded a Phase II contract from the US Department of Energy to develop and build...
Newport Acquires Picarro Business
Dec 1, 2006 — Newport Corp. of Irvine, Calif., has acquired the Laser Products division of Picarro Inc. The Ottawa-based unit designs and manufactures solid-state lasers primarily for the life and health sciences and process control markets. As part of Newport’s...
Nikon and Brion Form Partnership
Dec 1, 2006 — Nikon Corp. of Belmont, a supplier of lithography equipment for microelectronics manufacturing, and Brion Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, a provider of lithography-driven design and manufacturing products, have formed a partnership to deliver...
Optical Society of America Confers Honors
Dec 1, 2006 — The Optical Society of America in Washington has honored 20 individuals with its annual awards, which recognize exceptional achievement in optics and photonics. It determined that the work done by each recipient in his or her area of expertise has...
Optoelectronics Industry Accelerates in New Areas
Dec 1, 2006 — Optimistic about the future, the Washington-based Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) indicated in its eighth annual “Global Optoelectronics Industry Market Report and Forecast” that the industry experienced 20 percent growth in...
Program Seeks to Illuminate Poorer Regions with LEDs
Dec 1, 2006 — Almost everyone in developed regions of the world has come to take artificial light for granted. It is, after all, always there: quick, effortless, cheap. But that is not the case in wide swaths of the developing world, where artificial lighting...
PSI-Tec Reports High Thermal Stability
Dec 1, 2006 — PSI-Tec Corp. has announced that test results on the thermal stability of Perkinamine electro-optic materials have come back positive. The Wilmington, Del.-based company said that thermal stability as high as 350° C was confirmed, exceeding the...
Synova to Open Micromachining Centers
Dec 1, 2006 — Synova of Lausanne, Switzerland, which specializes in water-jet-guided laser technology, plans to open micromachining centers in Boston and San Francisco. The centers aim to meet the high-precision needs of the regions’ medical, electronics and...
Time-Bandwidth Products Sets Up US Office
Dec 1, 2006 — Time-Bandwidth Products AG of Zurich, Switzerland, has opened an office in Westfield, Mass., to offer sales and support to its customers in North America. The company supplies OEM and customized ultrafast solid-state lasers that are enabled by the...
USAF, Boeing Fire Laser with Recycled Chemicals
Dec 1, 2006 — A laser using recycled fuel was fired recently in New Mexico by the US Air Force and the Boeing Company’s Directed Energy System of Canoga Park, Calif. The chemical laser was supplied with its two main fuels — basic hydrogen peroxide and chlorine —...
Zygo Receives Laser Contracts
Dec 1, 2006 — Zygo Corp. has received $6.8 million in contracts to supply the optics for laser-initiated fusion reaction experiments. Work will be done at the company’s optics and optical coating facility in Middlefield, Conn. The company would not disclose the...
Belfast Company Acquired by Massachusetts Firm
Nov 1, 2006 — PerkinElmer Inc. of Boston has acquired Belfast, UK-based Avalon Instruments Ltd. The acquisition adds benchtop dispersive Raman spectrometers to PerkinElmer’s product portfolio. The Avalon Raman platforms support both bulk analysis and microscopic...
Biodent Announces Manufacturing Platform
Nov 1, 2006 — A newly formed subsidiary of Nanoident Technologies AG, Biodent Technologies Inc. has announced its manufacturing technology platform. Based in Menlo Park, Calif., the company applies a new printing process to organic semiconductor-based photonic...
Bruker AXS Acquires Quantron
Nov 1, 2006 — Bruker AXS GmbH of Karlsruhe, Germany, announced that it has acquired all the equity of privately held Quantron GmbH from the company’s founders. Quantron, established in 2002, develops, manufactures and distributes arc/spark optical emission...
Community College Adds Laser Studies
Nov 1, 2006 — An associate’s degree in laser manufacturing will soon be offered by Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, Conn. The college’s board of trustees recently approved the program. The curriculum includes courses in optics, laser physics and...
Company Purchased by Its Former President
Nov 1, 2006 — The founder and former president of SensArray Infrared Corp. has purchased the business from its equity investment company. Paul Murphy is again the company’s president and CEO. SensArray manufactures infrared detectors for spectroscopic, analytical...
Corning Inc. Completes $2 Million Expansion
Nov 1, 2006 — Corning Inc. in New York has completed a $2 million expansion at Corning Net-Optix Inc., a fully owned subsidiary in Keene, N.H. The expansion will allow for increased assembly and testing as well as precision computer numeric control grind and...

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