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Aculight Corp. Wins Laser Research Contract
Oct 1, 2002 — Aculight Corp. of Bothell, Wash., will investigate new semiconductor and fiber laser technologies under an 18-month, $2.3 million contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M. The company's research will concentrate on enhancing the optical characteristics of fiber and semiconductor lasers to make them more suitable for Air Force applications. Aculight will also study new optical methods and construct prototype devices. The technology...
Companies Sign VCSEL Distribution Agreement
Oct 1, 2002 — Richardson Electronics Ltd., a provider of systems and components for RF, wireless and fiber optic communications, has signed an agreement with Honeywell's vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) product division to distribute its line in...
Contract Enlists Lasers in Defense Against Chemical Weapons
Oct 1, 2002 — The US Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command has enlisted ITT Industries Inc. of White Plains, N.Y., into its expanding effort to detect and defend against chemical attack. The military granted ITT's Advanced Engineering and Sciences Div., an...
Exfo to Acquire Assets of Gnubi Communications
Oct 1, 2002 — Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. of Quebec has signed an agreement to purchase the assets of Dallas-based gnubi communications LP, a supplier of network testing equipment. The agreement transfers gnubi's technology, expertise, customer base and...
Kaman Aerospace to Develop Sensor Subsystem for the US Navy
Oct 1, 2002 — The US Navy has selected Kaman Aerospace Corp.'s Electro-Optics Development Center to participate in the design and development of the rapid airborne mine clearance system for its MH-60S helicopters, as part of a team led by Northrop Grumman,...
KVH and ABB Collaborate on Optical Current Sensor
Oct 1, 2002 — Under a product development agreement, KVH Industries will work with ABB's Power Technology Products Div. to design a fiber optic sensor for measuring the current in high-voltage power lines. Measurement devices now in use are oil- or gas-filled...
Leica Microsystems Appoints New CEO
Oct 1, 2002 — Gerhard Kleineidam has been named CEO of Leica Microsystems AG of Wetzlar, Germany. He takes over the position from Horst Wegener, who had led the company for 13 years and who will serve as vice chairman of the company's supervisory...
Livermore Awards Zygo $7.66 Million Contract
Oct 1, 2002 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ordered 192 vacuum relay telescopes from Zygo Corp. in Middlefield, Conn. The contract, including options, runs through 2007 and has a potential value of $7.66 million. Zygo will produce the components at its...
Optoelectronics Company Opens Its Doors
Oct 1, 2002 — Cergence Inc. has announced its entry into the optoelectronics industry. The firm will provide fiber assembly, contract packaging and back-end wafer processing of active and passive optoelectronic components for the defense, aerospace and...
Photonic Products Ltd. Opens California Office
Oct 1, 2002 — Photonic Products Ltd., based in Bishops Stortford, UK, expanded its service and scope of operations with an office in El Segundo, Calif. The company specializes in the distribution of laser diodes and the custom design and manufacture of...
Photronic Devices, CyOptics Form Joint Effort
Oct 1, 2002 — Photronic Devices of West Bridgewater and CyOptics of Waltham, both in Massachusetts, have formed a strategic joint product development venture in which they will pool resources to enhance their business. Under the agreement, Photronic Devices will...
Preco Industries Purchases Laser Machining Inc.
Oct 1, 2002 — A designer and manufacturer of materials processing equipment, Preco Industries Inc. of Lenexa, Kan., has acquired Somerset, Wis.-based Laser Machining Inc., which produces and integrates high-power laser systems for the metals, nonmetals and...
Salira Begins China Operations
Oct 1, 2002 — Salira Optical Network Systems Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., expanded its sales and marketing presence in China with the creation of Salira China, a wholly owned foreign enterprise in Shanghai province, and with sales and marketing offices in...
Secondary Measures: Used Equipment Sells
Oct 1, 2002 — Faced with a lack of capital, many companies that might never have considered purchasing equipment from the secondary market are now finding themselves lured by used-equipment dealers awash in surplus acquired from facility closings and...
TRW Wins Space Telescope Contract
Oct 1, 2002 — The contract to build the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope has gone to TRW Inc. of Redondo Beach, Calif., advancing the project past an important hurdle and TRW past competitor Lockheed Martin Corp. in Sunnyvale, Calif. According to the...
UV-IR Optics Supplier Enters the Market
Oct 1, 2002 — A new company, Medway Optics Ltd. of Rainham, UK, specializes in the supply of high-precision optical components, accessories and subassemblies to the UV, VIS and IR instrumentation and laser markets. Its founder, Alfred Afran, has nearly 20 years...
Cambridge Lasers Buys the Assets of Lexel Laser
Sep 1, 2002 — Cambridge Lasers Laboratories Inc. of Fremont, Calif., has bought a major portion of the assets of Lexel Lasers Inc., also of Fremont, including the parts inventory, most of the manufacturing equipment and all of the intellectual property. The...
Companies Cross-License Optical Transceiver Technology
Sep 1, 2002 — Finisar Corp., a provider of fiber optic subsystems for high-speed data networks, and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., a supplier of optical fiber, cable and components for the telecom industry, have agreed to cross-license certain intellectual...
Company Awarded Contracts for IR Sensors
Sep 1, 2002 — Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) and Gemini Observatory have awarded Rockwell Scientific Co. LLC two $2.2 million contracts to produce molecular beam epitaxy mercury cadmium telluride 2048 X 2048 short-wave IR sensor chip assemblies on...
Consortium Aims to Revitalize Telecom
Sep 1, 2002 — A telecommunications network is a complex web of optical fiber, routers, amplifiers, waveguides, gratings and resonators that have a wide range of performance characteristics. Optical engineers who are working to refine this network need tools to...
Edmund to Supply Binocular Eyepieces for Tanks
Sep 1, 2002 — Edmund Industrial Optics has been awarded a contract by Northrop Grumman to provide 580 binocular eyepiece assemblies for use in tanks. Each assembly comprises five lenses and a high-precision mirror. Edmund will create the entire assemblies, from...
Internetworking Forum Targets Security
Sep 1, 2002 — At its August meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, members of the Optical Internetworking Forum focused on a subject near and dear to anyone with a computer link to a network -- security. More precisely, they discussed plans for enhancing the security of...
Limo Opens New Manufacturing and Research Facility
Sep 1, 2002 — Limo GmbH has expanded its micro-optics and laser systems operations with a new manufacturing facility at the Dortmund-Wickede-Süd industrial estate in Dortmund, Germany. The building, with 500 square meters of space devoted to production and...
Metrology Companies to Merge
Sep 1, 2002 — Veeco Instruments Inc. and FEI Co. have signed a merger agreement under which FEI will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Veeco. The expanded company, which will be renamed Veeco FEI Inc., will exchange an estimated $1 billion in shares for...
Multisource Agreement Formed to Standardize Transceiver Modules
Sep 1, 2002 — Agilent Technologies Inc., Nortel Networks and Agere Systems have agreed to establish standard specifications for the production of 2.5-Gb/s dense wavelength division multiplexing transceiver package outlines, pin function definitions, software...

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