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Newport Opens Manufacturing Plant in Europe
Sep 1, 2002 — Newport Corp. of Irvine, Calif., has announced that its Micro-Controle facility in Evry, France, for the manufacture of vibration control products is fully operational. A series of breadboards and optical tables are being manufactured there, with other products to come. The European location will enable the company to more rapidly serve its worldwide customer base and help meet volume and schedule requirements.
NP Photonics to Develop Compliant MEMS Technology
Sep 1, 2002 — NP Photonics of Tucson, Ariz., has acquired Parvenu Inc., based in Westlake Village, Calif. Parvenu, which recently acquired the intellectual property, tunable filter products and compliant microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology of Solus...
Program to Ease Motion Systems Connectivity
Sep 1, 2002 — National Instruments has initiated cooperation among motion product manufacturers to facilitate integration between controllers and stages. Nine motion hardware companies have joined the Motion Partners Program. Their products will be tested to...
Summit Imaging Earns Inspection Contract
Sep 1, 2002 — The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization has contracted with Summit Imaging Inc. of Colorado Springs, Colo., to develop a MEMS inspection device based on a high-performance CCD imaging system. Because MEMS are three-dimensional, with features tens...
Team Gets Grant for Microrobotic Vision System
Sep 1, 2002 — Electronics Research Group scientists at Sheffield Hallam University's School of Engineering in Sheffield, UK, have received a grant of £180,000 over three years through the European Union's Esprit program to further develop a vision system for...
Teem Buys Northstar's Amplifier Technology
Sep 1, 2002 — Teem Photonics Inc., a developer of erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers and a provider of ultracompact components for high-bandwidth optical networks, has acquired the technology of Minneapolis-based Northstar Photonics Inc. in an undisclosed cash...
Trumpf Forms Subsidiary
Sep 1, 2002 — Through the acquisition of the major assets of Princeton Lightwave, including the production facilities and patent portfolio, the Trumpf Group of Ditzingen, Germany, has formed Trumpf Photonics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary near Princeton, N.J....
YCA Launches Optical Components Division
Sep 1, 2002 — YKK Corporation of America (YCA), a manufacturer of precision parts for the fiber optics industry, has launched its North American Optical Components Div., based in Marietta, Ga. The new company fabricates, tests and assembles zirconia fiber optic...
NEMI Unveils Optoelectronics Projects
Aug 1, 2002 — The National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative, an industry-organized "virtual consortium" known as NEMI, has announced three new optoelectronics projects focusing on optical adhesives, fiber handling and fiber optic signal performance. The...
Optical Networking Is Placed on Hold
Aug 1, 2002 — When attendees at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) gathered in May to hear the latest forecast for the optical communications sector, it's a pretty safe bet that few were surprised to hear bad news. But the bleak picture,...
What's Sapping Foreign Investment in Israel?
Aug 1, 2002 — In the fall of 2000, Israel's technology sector was about to change course -- in two respects. Second only to the US in the number of high-tech start-ups, the country was on its way to drawing a record $11 billion in foreign investment, which...
What's Sapping Foreign Investment in Israel?
Jul 1, 2002 — In the fall of 2000, Israel's technology sector was about to change course -- in two respects. Second only to the US in the number of high-tech start-ups, the country was on its way to drawing a record $11 billion in foreign investment, which...
As Manufacturing Falls, So Falls Photonics
Jun 1, 2002 — The good news last year for industrial lasers and machine vision markets in North America was that their decline trailed the decline of the markets they supplied. The bad news is that their recovery will also trail the return of those...
Can Calcium Fluoride Handle New Demand?
May 1, 2002 — Although the demand for semiconductor lithography equipment decreased in the past year, system manufacturers struggled to advance their technology closer to the 193-nm and 157-nm nodes. For calcium fluoride (CaF2) suppliers, that climate put the...
Collaboration: Fiber Networks' New Link
May 1, 2002 — Adversity, it appears, breeds fraternity. Since the beginning of the year, the once-cutthroat optical networking industry has undergone an epidemic of brotherly love and cooperation in the form of business collaborations, multisource agreements,...
A Cautionary Tale: The Flat Panel Display Initiative
Apr 1, 2002 — The war on terrorism has spawned renewed interest in photonic sensor technology for detecting everything from stray nuclear weapons to smallpox. As companies weigh patriotism against profit, they should be aware that the government trough is neither...
Agilent Technologies Gifts $1 Million in Photonic Lab Equipment
Apr 1, 2002 — Agilent Technologies will donate equipment valued at $1 million to Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, Calif., to create an engineering science laboratory. Equipment will include optical spectrum, lightwave component and digital communications...
Companies Unite on Standards for Compact Fiber Amplifiers
Apr 1, 2002 — Compact erbium-doped fiber amplifiers produced by Agere Systems, Alcatel Optronics and Nortel Networks will conform to specified packaging dimensions, pin functionality, and optical and electrical characteristics as a result of a multisource...
Firm Develops Flexible, Transparent Displays for Military Use
Apr 1, 2002 — Universal Display Corp. will determine the suitability of three of its organic LED technologies -- high-efficiency phosphorescent, transparent and flexible LEDs -- for use as clear, low-power, high-resolution displays for the US Army. Such a...
Growth Is Predicted for FO Isolator Consumption
Apr 1, 2002 — The global consumption value of fiber optic component isolators will rise from $296.3 million in 2001 to $672.7 million by 2006, according to ElectroniCast's Fiber Optic Isolator Global Market Forecast. The isolators are used to prevent laser-output...
Olympus Fosters Partnership Development
Apr 1, 2002 — While companies like Lucent Technologies, Compaq Computer, Enron, Global Crossing and a host of others are either scaling back or abandoning their venture capital holdings, Olympus Integrated Technologies America Inc. in San Jose, Calif., has...
Raytheon, ITT Ally to Improve Night-Vision Technology
Apr 1, 2002 — Raytheon Co. of Dallas and ITT Industries Night Vision of Roanoke, Va., have agreed to combine their expertise in thermal imaging and image intensification to produce night-vision sensor-fusion technology. The aim is to make nighttime operations of...
Air Force Awards Nanofabrication Contract
Mar 1, 2002 — Mound Laser and Photonics Center Inc., a member of Infinite Group Inc., will conduct a program using laser micromachining and micro-Raman spectroscopy for the development of laser-based processing techniques. The technology may enable a growing...
Camera System to Enhance Mail Processing
Mar 1, 2002 — Lockheed Martin Corp. has received a $93 million contract from the US Postal Service to develop and deploy 9000 wide-field-of-view camera systems on mail-sorting equipment. The processors will capture the full image of an envelope rather than the...
Carriers Connect at Online Meet Market
Mar 1, 2002 — While the Securities and Exchange Commission investigates the bandwidth trading practices of Enron, Global Crossing and others, fiber links are quietly changing hands elsewhere with help from an Internet-based matchmaker called Fiberloops...

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