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Photonics Falls off Forbes Richest Americans List
Nov 1, 2001 — The biggest fortunes in photonics tumbled down the ladder of success this year, leaving just one fiber optics founder clinging to the bottom rung on the Forbes magazine "400 Richest in America" list. Forbes calculates its list based on stock prices in August, which in 2000 was just before the fiber optic communications boom went bust. Thus, the 2000 version of the list included several self-made billionaires who found fortune in photonics: No. 28 ($8.2 billion), David Huber, founder of Ciena...
Physicist Named Air Force Fellow
Nov 1, 2001 — Gordon D. Hager, a technical adviser with the Chemical Laser Branch, Laser Div., of the Kirtland Air Force Base Directed Energy Directorate, has won recognition as an Air Force Research Laboratory fellow for his scientific advances in chemical and...
Remote Sensor to Monitor Wildfires
Nov 1, 2001 — Congress has appropriated an additional $1.5 million in fiscal 2002 to support the development of a global fire-monitoring system by Rochester Institute of Technology and NASA's Regional Applications Center Northeast. They will build a prototype...
RSoft Is Developing Telecom Design Software
Nov 1, 2001 — The US Navy has awarded RSoft Inc. a two-year, $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to develop simulation software for fiber optic communications systems and networks. Based on RSoft's LinkSIM, the tool will enable users to...
Satellite Images to Monitor Environment
Nov 1, 2001 — NASA has awarded Orbimage a contract to supply up to $6 million in imagery from a 200-band hyperspectral camera on the company's OrbView-4 satellite. The camera will capture and measure the unique signatures of natural and man-made materials on...
SEMI Honors Seven Photonics Developers
Nov 1, 2001 — Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International recently honored seven photonics technology developers for their contributions to the advancement of semiconductor manufacturing technology: Robert Knollenberg, chairman and CEO of Research...
Single Laser System Nears Completion
Nov 1, 2001 — Light Age Inc. has received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant to develop a laser system capable of generating deep-UV and mid-IR coherent light. The company is collaborating with researchers at the University of Alabama to...
Software to Model Birefringence
Nov 1, 2001 — International Sematech has awarded a contract to Optical Research Associates to develop its Code V optical design software to advance 157-nm microlithography system modeling. The project will provide new computer models for birefringent...
Toxic-Materials Sensor Being Developed
Nov 1, 2001 — The US Department of Energy has awarded Intelligent Optical Systems Inc. a $750,000 contract for the development of a sensor system for monitoring toxic waste. The company has demonstrated a spectral analysis approach to detect certain contaminants...
Transponder Makers Agree on 'Standard'
Nov 1, 2001 — Nine manufacturers have created a multisource agreement to standardize the form factor and electrical and functional characteristics of 40-Gb/s transponder modules for fiber optic communications. Agere Systems, Agilent Technologies, Alcatel...
Tunable Laser Countersuit Filed
Nov 1, 2001 — New Focus has filed counterclaims against Photonetics in the tunable laser patent litigation that began this summer. Photonetics sued New Focus in July, alleging that its tunable lasers infringe US Patent No. 5,594,744. In September, New Focus...
UK Institutions Get Optics Award
Nov 1, 2001 — The Smart Optics Faraday Partnership award has gone to Sira Electro-Optics Ltd., the Mullard Space Science Laboratory and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre. The grant provides £1.2 million from the UK Department of Trade and Industry, and access...
Calculate Value in Manufacturing Flexibility
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Buying a new production tool seems like a straightforward decision, but new research suggests that conservative estimates may not give enough weight to the value of flexibility in manufacturing. Many photonics companies manufacture (and sell)...
China Alters Patent Laws
Oct 1, 2001 — As one step toward entry into the World Trade Organization, China has changed some of its patent laws to bring it closer to compliance with the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement). New...
Industrial Laser Shipments Down
Oct 1, 2001 — Laser manufacturers shipped 13 percent fewer industrial lasers and systems in the second quarter of 2001 than in the same period in 2000, according to the Association for Manufacturing Technology's Laser Systems Product Group. Shipments by the 47...
NASA Contractor Pleads Guilty in Laser Fraud
ORLANDO, Fla. -- An excimer laser developer has pleaded guilty to four charges that accuse him of accepting payments for lasers that he did not deliver and accepting services for which he did not pay. In an Aug. 3 plea agreement, Philip D. Bolen of Altamonte...
Navy OKs Multispectral Imager Contract
LAKEHURST, N.J. -- The Naval Air Warfare Center has awarded Optics 1 Inc. a five-year, $25 million contract to develop an advanced multispectral optical surveillance system. The system will add short-wave infrared (1 to 2.5 µm) and advanced sensors to a...
US Debates Export Regulation Changes
Oct 1, 2001 — The US Senate voted last month to rewrite export control laws related to military/commercial dual-use technology, possibly making it easier for photonics companies to sell "mass market" products abroad. The 1979 Export Administration Act...
Veeco Acquires Applied Epi
Oct 1, 2001 — Veeco Instruments has agreed to acquire Applied Epi, a St. Paul, Minn., manufacturer of molecular beam epitaxy equipment used in making high-speed III-V compound semiconductor devices for photonic and electronic devices. The acquisition will cost...
Corning Defends Fused Silica Lawsuit
Sep 1, 2001 — Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH has sued Corning Inc. in Germany, alleging that the American firm is infringing a European patent for fused silica glass used in semiconductor manufacturing ...
Display Market Falls
Sep 1, 2001 — Flat panel display revenues for 2001 will fall by 5 percent compared with 2000 revenues, according to a report from DisplaySearch.    The firm says the $22.8 billion in 2001 reven...
Group Examines Photonics Manufacturing
Sep 1, 2001 — Companies and associations that are pursuing photonics manufacturing standards should work together, according to papers from photonics- and manufacturing-related associations and ...
Is Fiber Glut Real?
Sep 1, 2001 — Don’t believe everything you read in the mainstream media, says TeleChoice: ’No widespread fiber glut exists.’    Despite the gloomy headlines about five-digit layoffs, billion-do...
Lucent Sells Optical Fiber Businesses
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Several months after rumors about Lucent Technologies Inc. trying to dump its optical fiber operations, three companies have carted off pieces of the business ...
Machine Vision Patent to Go to Trial
RENO, Nev. -- RENO, Nev. -- A federal judge declined to throw out Jerome H. Lemelson’s machine vision patents based on expert opinions, so the Cognex patent lawsuit against the Lemelson Medical,...

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