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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 neodymium-activated yttrium vanadate crystals, the development of components and the demonstration of diode-pumped, near-IR laser radiation in compact, rugged packaging. Optimal techniques for fabrication, coating, testing and environmental-hardening of the packaging...
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...
Federal Funds Foster Photonics
Jan 1, 2002 — Ten photonics projects have won contracts valued at more than $29 million under the US Department of Commerce's Advanced Technology Program. Awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., the contracts foster...
Flir Contracts Exceed $25 Million for Thermal Imaging
Jan 1, 2002 — The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded Flir Systems Inc. of Portland, Ore., a contract of more than $12 million. The firm will supply the Royal Air Force with the Star-Q multisensor airborne imaging systems to upgrade the SeaKing search-and-rescue...
Grant Supports Development of Protein Analysis Technologies
Jan 1, 2002 — The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $1.1 million grant to Molecular Probes Inc. to develop technology that would enable researchers to perform proteomic studies of the progression, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The company will focus on...
II-VI Subsidiary Wins Contract for IR Targeting Components
Jan 1, 2002 — Under a multiyear contract of about $12 million, Exotic Electro-Optics, a subsidiary of II-VI Inc., will design, develop and produce the integrated forward-looking IR targeting system shroud and corresponding navigation turret assemblies for...
NIST to Set Reflectance Colorimetry Standard
Jan 1, 2002 — Avian Group USA has received a multiphase contract from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to design and develop reference instruments to establish a national scale for object color. According to the company, one of the instruments...
Parallel-Optics Technology Expedited
Jan 1, 2002 — Corning Cable Systems and Agilent Technologies have agreed to accelerate the use of parallel-optics technology in the communications industry, giving their joint customers access to Corning's passive optical technologies and Agilent's active...
Polymer Display to Benefit Covert Operations
Jan 1, 2002 — The National Imagery and Mapping Agency, through the National Technology Alliance Program, has selected Cambridge Display Technology to develop a prototype handheld red/near-IR monochrome light-emitting polymer display, designated as a covert red/IR...
Purchase Helps Lower the Cost of Precision Lenses for IR Systems
Jan 1, 2002 — Union Minière has moved from partial to full ownership of the optical materials company Vertex, a spin-off of the Université de Rennes. The acquisition, including investments in the development of chalcogenide glass and in the new plant where the IR...
Schott Opens Third Calcium Fluoride Factory
Jan 1, 2002 — Schott Lithotec AG has doubled its capacity for producing calcium fluoride monocrystals with the opening of a third factory. Calcium fluoride is important in the production of advanced semiconductor chips for 193- and 157-nm technology. High...
Sold! Used Optical Equipment on the Block
Jan 1, 2002 — While entrepreneurs await the development of advanced technology that will re-ignite the Internet revolution, used optical equipment is fueling another sort of online business -- and in a very different way: It's being sold at auction. About...
Bell Labs Gets New Presidents
Dec 1, 2001 — Lucent Technologies has announced the appointment of Bill O'Shea as chief technology officer and president of Bell Labs and Jeff Jaffe as president of Bell Labs Research and Advanced Technologies. O'Shea, 54, started his career at Bell Labs in...
Biodetector Market Booming
Dec 1, 2001 — The market for chemical and biological agent detectors will almost double by 2007, according to a new analysis from Frost & Sullivan. The market research firm's report says that while this market generated revenues of $265 million in 2000,...
Contract Funds Electro-Optic Polymer Research
Dec 1, 2001 — The US government has awarded a $1.6 million contract to Lumera Corp., a subsidiary of Microvision Inc., to design electro-optic polymer materials suitable for the assemblage of a wideband optical modulator demonstration system. Lumera says its...
Florida Groups Develop Energy-Efficient UV LEDs
Dec 1, 2001 — The universities of Florida, South Florida and Central Florida are collaborating with Uniroyal Optoelectronics, a subsidiary of Uniroyal Technology Corp., to develop UV (350 to 400 nm) AlGaInN-based LEDs, which may be the foundation for efficient...
For Their Eyes Only
Dec 1, 2001 — The US Defense Department has gobbled up all of the material on Afghanistan from the only commercial satellite company that can currently provide 1-m-resolution images. A contract with Space Imaging Inc. of Thornton, Colo., gives the National...
Government Joins Lockheed Suit
Dec 1, 2001 — The US Justice Department has intervened in a whistle-blower lawsuit accusing Lockheed Martin Corp. of deliberately inflating a contract for infrared targeting systems for military jets. A former Lockheed Martin employee, Albert D. Campbell, filed...
Michigan Focuses on Physics
Dec 1, 2001 — The National Science Foundation has established a physics frontier center at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, funding the program with $15 million over a five-year period. In the Frontiers in Optical Coherent and Ultrafast Science Center,...
Photonics Companies Honored
Dec 1, 2001 — Thirteen photonics companies have received Tibbetts Awards, which recognize small firms, projects, organizations and individuals that epitomize the business, economic and technological achievements of the Small Business Innovation Research Program....
Will Photonics Take Flight in Safety Devices?
Dec 1, 2001 — Automated authorization systems for aircraft access, cabin-to-cockpit monitoring cameras, mandatory and voluntary passenger-identification systems, and baggage-screening and threat-detection devices are among the technologies recommended for...
Camera to Detect Extrasolar Planets
Nov 1, 2001 — Mauna Kea Infrared LLC has received a $4.18 million federal grant to build the near-IR coronagraphic imager for use with two 8-m Gemini telescopes. The instrument, which will be used to study the origin and development of extrasolar planetary...
CCD Makers Battle in Federal Court
Nov 1, 2001 — A 10-year-old lawsuit over a CCD manufacturing patent will go back before a judge after a federal appeals court said that the lower court had erred in ruling the patent invalid. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Loral Fairchild...
Court: Chip-Snipping Patents 'Impossible'
Nov 1, 2001 — US patents for laser memory repair are invalid, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled. In 1998, EMI Group North America Inc. sued Cypress Semiconductor Corp. alleging that Cypress' processes infringed US Patent Nos. 4,826,785...

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