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Tunable Lasers Prompt Lawsuit
WILMINGTON, Del. -- WILMINGTON, Del. -- Tunable laser technology is the basis for a lawsuit in which Photonetics accuses New Focus Inc. of infringing a US patent.    Photonetics Inc. of Peabody, Mass...
Wanted: History of Laser Printer
Sep 1, 2001 — The latest photonics pursuit on BountyWest.com offers $10,000 for documentation dated before July 7, 1977, describing a device that uses a laser to create alphanumeric characters w...
Bush Nominates Science Adviser
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- President Bush has tapped John H. Marburger III, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., to be the White House science adviser and to lead the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Marburger faces confirmation by...
Bush’s Budget May Benefit Laser Research
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- In fiscal 2001, federal funding for defense and nondefense research reached parity for the first time in 20 years -- a Clinton administration goal. While fiscally responsible in many respects, this goal put pressure on photonics...
Equipment Subsidies, Grants Available
Aug 1, 2001 — Shimadzu Scientific Instruments and Adept Technology are offering separate programs for academic and nonprofit organizations that need instruments for scientific research and To apply for the Shimadzu grant program, educators and researchers must...
Firms Advocate Fiber to the Home
BALTIMORE -- BALTIMORE -- Photonics, computer and communications network providers have formed a consortium to promote and accelerate the deployment of optical fiber to the home in North America. The Fiber-to-the-Home Council, announced last month, will meet...
Industrial Laser Sales Fall
Aug 1, 2001 — Shipments of industrial laser equipment and systems for North America and US exports were down 10 percent in the first quarter of 2001, compared with the same quarter last year. The Laser Systems Product Group of the Association for Manufacturing...
Metropolitan Market Is Ripe for Fiber Growth
Aug 1, 2001 — Although long-haul fiber optic communications has a large inventory of dark fiber that will slow growth until 2002, the metropolitan market is ripe for growth, according to market analysis from Cahners In-Stat Group. Senior Analyst Richard...
Top Canada R&D Spender: Nortel
Aug 1, 2001 — Nortel Networks and JDS Uniphase were among the top 10 research and development spenders in Canada during fiscal 2000, according to a study by Research Infosource. With Canadian companies’ total R&D spending at $11.1 billion,...
Bar-Code License Covers Customers
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK -- NCR Corp. retail store customers can use the company’s bar-coding equipment without individual licenses from the Lemelson Medical, Education and Research Foundation, a federal judge has decided. Retail stores do not need individual...
Cree, Nichia Go to Court
Jul 1, 2001 — A three-judge panel in the Tokyo District Court has dismissed Nichia Corp.’s 1999 patent lawsuit against Sumitomo Corp., a distributor of Cree Inc.’s light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Meanwhile, a Cree subsidiary has again sued Nichia in the...
Exchange Program Buoys Underwater Options
Jul 1, 2001 — SAN JOSE, Calif. -- New Focus Inc. is the latest photonics company to offer its employees an opportunity to trade in last year’s stock options for shiny new ones that reflect the recent downturn in the securities markets. Our Photonics Job...
Inspection Prompts Lawsuit
Jul 1, 2001 — A federal lawsuit alleges that Electro Scientific Industries Inc. of Portland, Ore., has incorporated Cognex Corp.’s patented inspection technology in its CorrectPlace electronics manufacturing equipment. The lawsuit, which was filed by the...
Landowners to Consider Fiber Optics Offer
Jul 1, 2001 — Property owners in the eastern US will soon be considering whether to grant a fiber optic right-of-way to the Norfolk Southern Railroad’s Thoroughbred Technology & Telecommunications Div. in return for cash and stock in the company. US...
Laser Firm Settles Export Charges
Jul 1, 2001 — An $80,000 civil penalty settles charges that Opto Power Corp. of Tucson, Ariz., exported diode lasers to Israel without the required export licenses. The US Department of Commerce says the company, recently renamed Spectra-Physics Semiconductor...
Layoffs Without Lawsuits?
SAN FRANCISCO -- SAN FRANCISCO -- As North American photonics companies finalize their plans for tens of thousands of layoffs, a San Francisco lawyer offers a few ideas that could help managers avoid trading pink slips for employment lawsuits. Garry G. Mathiason, a...
Lucent, Alcatel Agree to Disagree
Jul 1, 2001 — After weeks of speculation and several days of intense negotiations, Lucent Technologies Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., called off merger talks with Alcatel SA. Shareholder value and corporate management issues were reportedly among the stumbling...
Opinion: Firms Can’t Force Time Off
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California photonics companies that have considered forced vacations or unpaid leave should think again, the state’s labor division says. In February, semiconductor equipment manufacturer Applied Materials Inc., a large...
All-Optical Switches Face Challenges, Growth
Jun 1, 2001 — Communications Industry Researchers in Charlottesville, Va., projects that US demand for optical switch components and subassemblies may bloom from today’s $152 million market to a $1.1 billion trade by 2005 -- if the technology can overcome...
Appeals Court Backs Laser Patent
Jun 1, 2001 — The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a jury decision that General Scanning Inc. infringed one Electro Scientific Industries Inc. patent and that a second patent was invalid. The appeals court ruling means that General Scanning...
Firms Shopping for Growth
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK -- One in three fast-growth CEOs has acquired at least one company, and two in five say they expect to make acquisitions in the near future, according to a recent Trendsetter Barometer study from professional services firm...
Hot Stocks? Not Necessarily
Jun 1, 2001 — Companies that win kudos for their growth don’t necessarily continue to perform to such high expectations, according to a study by financial researchers. At three universities, researchers studied 732 companies that BusinessWeek had...
Intel Finds a Fit with Photonics
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Intel Corp. has extended its reach from electronics and semiconductors into photonics with three recently announced acquisitions. In April, Intel announced that it had agreed to acquire LightLogic Inc. of Newark, Cognet Inc....
Metro Drives Add-Drop Market
Jun 1, 2001 — ElectroniCast Corp. of San Mateo, Calif., predicts that the market for components for dense wavelength division multiplexing, including components for add-drop multiplexers, will reach $34.6 billion by 2009. The firm believes more than half of that...
Opponents Blast Laser Fusion Facility Costs
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- LIVERMORE, Calif. -- The National Ignition Facility will cost more than $32 billion over its 30-year lifetime, more than six times the figure that the US Department of Energy estimated when Congress agreed to fund the facility, according to a recent...

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