ISLIP, N.Y., July 15, 2013 — Photonics Industries International Inc. will expand its operations in Islip and add 40 new jobs, Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency CEO and Executive Director Anthony Manetta announced last week. Photonics Industries, founded in January 1993 out of the Stony Brook University incubator, makes Q-switched intracavity solid-state harmonic lasers used in mobile devices, communications systems and semiconductors. Its headquarters are in Bohemia, a hamlet of Islip. It currently has ...

VIENNA, July 15, 2013 — Random lasers, with their very irregular angular emission pattern, are difficult to tune. But a team at Vienna University of Technology has theoretically shown that they can be controlled by actively shaping the spatial pump distribution, giving...

MURRIETA, Calif., July 12, 2013 — Optical assemblies and components manufacturer LightWorks Optical Systems Inc. has begun work on Lot IV of a production contract for specialized optics to be used by Maskless Lithography Inc. of San Jose, Calif.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 12, 2013 — There are several methods to confine light, but a new approach uses two waves of the same wavelength, but exactly opposite phases, to cancel each other out, allowing light of other wavelengths to pass freely.

PASADENA, Calif., July 12, 2013 — NASA will begin testing laser communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communication transmission rates by a factor of 10 to 100.

DARMSTADT, Germany, July 11, 2013 — Large-area, 3-D OLED taillights have been incorporated into an automobile for the first time under an “OLED 3D” research consortium supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 11, 2013 — Photonic integrated circuit manufacturer NeoPhotonics Corp. has appointed Rusnano USA Inc. President and CEO Dmitry Akhanov to its board of directors.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M, July 11, 2013 — Makoto Honda has been named site leader and country operations manager of Tokyo-based Melles Griot Japan KK, Idex Optics & Photonics unit Melles Griot announced Wednesday.

ADELAIDE, Australia, July 11, 2013 — A metamaterial structure that traps terahertz-frequency waves (T-rays) in microscopic holes could result in medical diagnostic and security scanners with higher sensitivity.

IRVINE, Calif., July 10, 2013 — Newport Corp. has been named exclusive global sales partner for Boulder, Colo.-based REO’s range of HeNe lasers. Under the terms of the agreement, Newport will inventory all of REO’s HeNe products, including red, green, yellow, IR and...

SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 10, 2013 — Nanostructured glass has been demonstrated as a medium for recording digital text in 5-D using a femtosecond laser. The portable memory technology could store vast quantities of information — 360 TB on a disc — for more than a million years.

SENEFFE, Belgium, July 10, 2013 — Dow Corning announced that it has joined nanoelectronics research center imec to advance 3-D integrated circuit (IC) packaging technologies that stack IC chips in vertical 3-D architectures. The announcement was made Monday at Semicon West in San...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 10, 2013 — Element Six, a member of the De Beers Group of Companies, has expanded its global manufacturing capabilities for microwave chemical vapor deposition (CVD) synthetic diamond by 60 percent over last year. The announcement was made at Semicon West 2013...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 9, 2013 — A digital low-light sensor developed by Intevac Photonics, a subsidiary of Intevac Inc., has been selected by an undisclosed military customer for use in a night-vision-based landing system.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, England, and AMSTERDAM, July 9, 2013 — Leica Biosystems has acquired privately held DNA fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) probes and target labeling reagents provider Kreatech Diagnostics for an undisclosed amount.

IRVINE, Calif., July 9, 2013 — Toshiba America Electronics Components Inc. (TAEC) has relocated its corporate headquarters in Irvine to a larger, 445,410-sq-ft facility that joins the company with five other Toshiba America Inc. subsidiaries and accommodates its day-to-day...

TUCSON, Ariz., July 9, 2013 — Edmund Optics CEO Robert Edmund has made a generous gift to the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences in honor of his father, the late Norman Edmund. The permanent endowment establishes the Norman W. Edmund Merit Scholarship in Optical...

VIENNA, July 9, 2013 — An electrical charge applied to an ultrathin layer of material can change the polarization of terahertz light beams, creating the optical equivalent of an electrical transistor, its creators say.

HEVERLEE, Belgium, July 8, 2013 — A copper zinc tin selenide (CZTSe)-based solar cell has achieved 9.7 percent efficiency, bringing the solar industry a step closer to a sustainable alternative to CIGS-based solar cells, its creators say.

EWING, N.J., July 8, 2013 — Universal Display Corp. and IDD Aerospace/Zodiac Lighting Solutions of Redmond, Wash., have partnered to design and demonstrate an energy-saving shelf utility white OLED lighting prototype for aircraft interiors using Universal Display’s...

KARLSRUHE, Germany, July 8, 2013 — Precision positioning systems provider PI (Physik Instrumente) has added a new building to its factory in Karlsruhe, providing more production floors, metrology labs and R&D office space.

TORONTO, July 8, 2013 — Red blood cells struck with laser light generate high-frequency sound waves that could help researchers to differentiate normal blood cells from abnormal ones for the diagnosis of blood-related diseases.

Jul 8, 2013 — Publish or perish, they say. But what if the pressure to do so is undermining the scientific process? C. Glenn Begley, senior vice-president at TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals in Malvern, Pa., is acutely aware of this possibility. Whenever he asks...

KARMIEL, Israel, July 5, 2013 — Thermal imaging technology provider Opgal has signed a new contract with Elbit Systems of America LLC for the design and manufacture of hundreds of advanced EVS (enhanced vision system) units, the company announced this week. Opgal’s sensing...

QUEBEC CITY, July 5, 2013 — Gentec Electro-Optics Inc., has opened a new calibration center in Japan, the laser beam measurement products supplier announced this week. The Tokyo facility will offer calibration services to the entire Asia market, including China, South Korea...