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Photonics Firms Continue to Invest in R&D
Jan 1, 2003 — Optoelectronics companies are faced with the most difficult of challenges. They must continually design and build products for a world that doesn't yet exist. With any luck, they will emerge at the end of a five-year program with devices that are perfectly attuned to the demands of the market. However, there are countless imponderables that must be considered. Who could have predicted five years ago the demand for terahertz and thermal sensor technologies brought about by the war on terrorism,...
Photonics Groups Combine Under Spectra-Physics Name
Jan 1, 2003 — Six Thermo Electron photonics businesses combined earlier this month under the Spectra-Physics name in a move fueled by recent research. In what company President Guy Broadbent called brand integration, its laser business unites with those of...
Photonics Lands Federal Funds
Jan 1, 2003 — Nine photonics projects have garnered awards totaling more than $20 million under the US Department of Commerce's Advanced Technology Program. Awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., the cooperative...
Raytheon Provides Laser for Missile Defense
Jan 1, 2003 — Raytheon Co. of El Segundo, Calif., has delivered a track illuminator laser to Lockheed Martin for use in the US Air Force's airborne laser missile defense program. The diode-pumped Yb:YAG laser will be used to obtain information about a missile's...
Satellite Imagery Will Aid Nature Conservation
Jan 1, 2003 — Under terms of an agreement with The Nature Conservancy, based in Arlington, Va., Space Imaging of Denver will provide Ikonos and Indian remote sensing global satellite imagery at a discount along with a number of select images free of charge. The...
Senate Bill 149: Down but Not Out
Jan 1, 2003 — Senate Bill 149 lapsed into oblivion during this past session of the US Congress, but with renewed impetus from the Bush administration and a Republican House and Senate, it may find new life and a more receptive climate when Congress...
Slow Boat from China Just Got Slower
Jan 1, 2003 — Between 2001 and 2002, university administrators and department heads began noticing a precipitous decline in the number of Chinese students in academic programs. In response to this discovery, the American Physical Society conducted a survey of 79...
Third-Quarter 2002 Industrial Laser Shipments Down from 2001
Jan 1, 2003 — A report from the Laser Systems Product Group of the Association for Manufacturing Technology shows that, at $96.1 million for the third quarter of 2002, shipments of industrial laser equipment and systems were down 8 percent from the year before....
Tunable Laser Implementation Agreement Is Completed
Jan 1, 2003 — The Optical Internetworking Forum has adopted four Physical and Link Layer Implementation agreements for tunable lasers; SFI-4, Phase 2, 10-Gb/s interface for physical layer devices; VSR4-05 OC-192 serial interface; and VSR5, SONET/SDH OC-768...
Air Force Lab Signs Agreement for Pump Laser Technology
Dec 1, 2002 — Nuvonyx Inc. of Bridgeton, Mo., and the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., have signed a $4,888,020 dual-use science and technology investment agreement. Over the next three years, Nuvonyx...
Alliance Is Formed to Develop Collimators
Dec 1, 2002 — Kaman Aerospace Corp.'s Electro-Optics Development Center and The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory have been awarded a $35 million contract to build a 6.5-m aperture collimator that will test large optical systems in a...
ALST to Develop Laser Rangefinder for Space Program
Dec 1, 2002 — Advanced Laser Systems Technology Inc. (ALST) of Orlando, Fla., has been selected by the Boeing Co. to devel-op a laser rangefinder for the Orbit-al Express Space Operations Architectural program, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
Bookham Acquires Nortel's Optical Businesses
Dec 1, 2002 — Bookham Technology plc of Abingdon, UK, has acquired the optical amplifier and optical transmitter and receiver businesses of Nortel Networks Corp. As part of the agreement, subsidiary Nortel Networks Ltd. will buy $120 million in Bookham's optical...
Coherent Forms Technical Advisory Board
Dec 1, 2002 — In a move reminiscent of large companies in other industries, from semiconductor to automotive manufacturing, Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has launched an external technical advisory board to complement its internal technology council. The...
Defense Agency Employs Fiberstars' Lighting Technology
Dec 1, 2002 — The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is using a fiber optic lighting system from Fiberstars Inc. of Fremont, Calif., as a base technology for the development of high-efficiency distributed lighting under its HEDLight program. The purpose of...
Excel Technology Enters Pulsed Laser Market
Dec 1, 2002 — Excel Continuum Corp., a subsidiary of Excel Technology Inc. of East Setauket, N.Y., has purchased Continuum, Hoya Photonics Inc.'s scientific division, along with its subsidiaries in Germany, France and Japan. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based division...
Firm Wins Award to Develop WDM Components
Dec 1, 2002 — Scientific Solutions Inc. of North Chelmsford, Mass., will develop a suite of ultradense WDM components using liquid crystal technology with a $598,772 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award from the US Department of Energy. The company...
German Program to Develop Organic LED Displays
Dec 1, 2002 — The German Ministry of Research and Education has granted a group of scientists €3.5 million for research devoted to organic vapor phase deposition technology for organic LED flat panel display applications. Headed by Aixtron AG of Aachen, Germany,...
Indonesia: Will It Surge or Slow?
Dec 1, 2002 — After a series of economic setbacks in the mid-1990s, Indonesia is seeing rising interest from foreign investors. Last summer, Sharp Corp. moved its assembly operation of semiconductor laser devices to a subdivision plant in Karawan to reduce...
Laser Firm Builds Inspection Prototype for Space Agency
Dec 1, 2002 — Laser Techniques Co. of Bellevue, Wash., has completed the first task of a NASA contract for the development of a miniature automated laser scanner that may improve the safety of space shuttles. The company has created a prototype that can detect...
MetaStable Instruments Wins $70,000 Contract
Dec 1, 2002 — MetaStable Instruments Inc. of St. Charles, Mo., has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract by the Missile Defense Agency. The six-month, $70,000 contract will enable the company to investigate a high-sensitivity...
Micron Optics Expands Its Tunable Technology Capability
Dec 1, 2002 — With the acquisition of Chameleon Optics, Micron Optics Inc. of Atlanta will expand its technology, which is based on fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filters, to address applications in telecommunications and optical sensing. Chameleon Optics' thin-film...
Molectron Expands Laser Power Facilities
Dec 1, 2002 — Molectron Detector Inc. has increased its laser power capabilities with the addition of nine UV-NIR-IR continuous-wave lasers, which are used in calibrating the company's Si, Ge and InGaAs quantum detectors. The lasers calibrate at up to five...
Nano- and Near-Field Optics Company Is Launched
Dec 1, 2002 — Nanoptek Corp. of Concord, Mass., has been founded to develop and commercialize nano- and near-field optical technology and instrumentation. The company also provides photon tunneling microscopy and near-field modeling services as well as...
Nanosys Pursues Nanolaser Technology
Dec 1, 2002 — Nanosys Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with the regents of the University of California for semiconductor nanowire-based lasers. The license will enable the company to develop laser-powered biochips and...

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