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Companies Ally to Develop Night-Vision Tool
Mar 1, 2002 — Indigo Systems Corp., a manufacturer of IR cameras and telecommunications devices, and Autoliv, a specialist in automotive safety systems, have joined to develop affordable IR night-vision cameras for use in motor vehicles. The devices are sensitized to the wavelength of humans and animals, potentially enabling drivers to see pedestrians and creatures off to the side before they become visible with headlights. The technology may also improve visibility in the darkened area created when two cars...
Contract Supports Research on Laser Treatment of Wounds
Mar 1, 2002 — Acculaser Inc. of San Diego will continue investigating the effects of IR radiation sources on tissue regeneration, supported by a $100,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The...
Court to Hear Cognex Appeal
Mar 1, 2002 — The scales of justice have tipped slightly in favor of Cognex Corp. and the more than 600 other companies that are contesting patent claims by the Lemelson Medical, Education & Research Foundation, Limited Partnership, in Incline Village,...
Forecast Builds Hope for Automated Assembly Market
Mar 1, 2002 — Despite dropping $293 million last year, global revenues for fiber optic assembly and test equipment will grow to a $1.71 billion market by 2005, according to a report published by ElectroniCast in San Mateo, Calif., titled Automated Assembly &...
High-Speed FO Network Connector Benefits Researchers
Mar 1, 2002 — StarLight is a high-speed optical fiber network connection point that links international research computers to enhance collaboration within the academic and commercial communities. The Chicago-based facility at Northwestern University should...
Infinite Photonics to Expedite Laser Diode Technology
Mar 1, 2002 — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Infinite Photonics Inc. a $12 million contract for the development and commercialization of its single-mode grating-coupled surface-emitting laser diodes with powers more than 100 times...
Partnership to Create Photonic Assembly Solutions
Mar 1, 2002 — Adept Technology Inc. and Shibuya Kyogo Co. Ltd. have formed an OEM agreement to devise flexible and cost-effective high-precision photonic assembly solutions. Adept supplies automation systems for the fiber optics, telecommunications and...
Raytheon Wins Contract to Upgrade Ladar Technology
Mar 1, 2002 — The US Army has awarded Raytheon Co. a $38.6 million contract to develop laser radar technology for the next generation of interceptors for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. The company is developing a range-resolved, Doppler imaging ladar...
Researchers to Upgrade CAD Technology
Mar 1, 2002 — The University of Pittsburgh has received funding to develop computer-aided design (CAD) tools for microdevices that incorporate optics, electronics and micromechanical components on the same chip. The objective is to integrate specialized design...
Third-Quarter Industrial Laser Shipments Down from 2000
Mar 1, 2002 — A report on third-quarter 2001 industrial laser shipments shows that, at $105.2 million, the North American and US exports were down 37 percent from third-quarter 2000 levels. The statistics gathered by the Laser Systems Product Group of the...
Alliance Promotes Automation of Production
Feb 1, 2002 — ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. and Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. have agreed to combine their expertise to assist optical component manufacturers in automating their production processes. Exfo specializes in automated subsystems and...
Centers Receive Awards for Nanoscale Research
Feb 1, 2002 — The National Science Foundation will award $65 million over five years to science and engineering centers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and at Rice, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and Northwestern universities for nanoscale research for the...
Elbit to Supply F-16I Head-Up Displays
Feb 1, 2002 — El-Op Electro-optics Industries, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd., will supply Lockheed Martin with head-up displays for the Israeli air force's F-16I aircraft. The wide-field-of-view systems will employ advanced technologies based on the...
Fibertek Wins Contract for Technical Support
Feb 1, 2002 — Fibertek Inc. has received a five-year $383 million Omnibus contract to support the US Army Communications and Electronics Command's Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate at Forts Belvoir and AP Hill in Virginia, and at other contractor...
Jmar to Create Advanced X-Ray Stepper
Feb 1, 2002 — As part of a program to advance x-ray lithography technology, Jmar/Sal NanoLithography Inc., a division of Jmar Technologies Inc., has received a $1.7 million order from the University of Wisconsin to upgrade its JSal Model 4 x-ray lithography...
Lucent Sells Optical Fiber Solutions Business
Feb 1, 2002 — Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. has purchased the major portion of the Optical Fiber Solutions business of Lucent Technologies for $2.3 billion. In a separate agreement, Corning Inc. is purchasing the remaining portion, consisting of interest in the...
Navy Expands Contract for Testing Sensors
Feb 1, 2002 — The US Navy's Naval Research Laboratory has granted Integrated Solutions Inc. (NovaSol) of Honolulu a contract increase of nearly $2 million to expand its test program on the feasibility of hyperspectralization of long-range oblique photography...
NIH Awards Grant for Ophthalmic Instrument
Feb 1, 2002 — Aborn Eye Research Center and Opticology Inc., both of New York, have received a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to further develop an ophthalmic device for...
Optenia Supports Photonics Education and Research
Feb 1, 2002 — Optenia Inc., in partnership with the University of Ottawa, has established a scholarship program for graduate students who demonstrate academic excellence and an interest in photonics research. The program to support education and research in this...
Photonics Degrees Are on the Rise
Feb 1, 2002 — Not long ago, a photonics degree meant a diploma in physics or electrical engineering and the realization that other training would have to be acquired on the job. But that has changed as universities around the world institute photonics programs...
SPIE Awarded Grant for Optics Series
Feb 1, 2002 — In recognition of the optics industry's growing need for suitably trained workers, the National Science Foundation has granted SPIE $48,725 to support three workshops for informal optics science education. To promote the awareness of optics and...
Vendor Financing Gets a New Lease
Feb 1, 2002 — Vendor financing was among the many casualties when the telecommunications market went bust last year. The practice, in which a company lends its customers the funds to buy company equipment, shouldered the blame for many of the recent financial...
VLOC Developing Components for Active Sensors
Feb 1, 2002 — The US Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a $3.05 million contract to VLOC, a subsidiary of II-VI Inc., to grow crystals for use in diode-pumped laser housings for active sensors. The contract will encompass the growth of...
Acquisition Supports Activities in Laser Applications
Jan 1, 2002 — Physical Sciences Inc., a developer of advanced technologies for the acoustics, aerospace, energy, environmental, manufacturing and medical markets, has acquired Q-Peak Inc., a former subsidiary of Schwartz Electro-Optics Inc. Q-Peak's expertise in...
Center Focuses on Miniature Cooling Devices, Processes
Jan 1, 2002 — To help industry develop miniature cooling technologies, Purdue University is forming a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, enlarging the scope of its former Compact High-Performance Cooling Technologies...

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