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Nortel Buys JDS Uniphase Diode Business
ZURICH, Switzerland -- ZURICH, Switzerland -- After months of negotiations and shareholder votes, two very close, very large photonics companies still hold more than 80 percent of the market share for 980-nm pump diodes. Until last month, JDS Uniphase of Ottawa and SDL Inc. of San Jose, Calif., held that solid majority before agreeing to merge. In fact, JDS Uniphase may have held it all (or none of it) for a brief instant Feb. 13, as the pen swung between signing the contract to acquire SDL and the contract to sell...
Optics Pioneer Lambrecht Dies
Mar 1, 2001 — Optics developer Karl T. Lambrecht, 97, died in January in Acapulco, Mexico. Born in Germany, Lambrecht developed techniques for making prisms and polarizers from calcite. He founded the Karl Lambrecht Corp. to make crystal and specialty optics and,...
SDL Joins JDS Uniphase
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Integrated optics and low-cost amplets are two major goals for photonic component provider JDS Uniphase Corp. after government and shareholder groups approved the $13.5 billion acquisition of semiconductor laser diode supplier...
Blue Laser Legal Battleground Swells
DURHAM, N.C. -- DURHAM, N.C. -- Nichia Corp. of Anan, Japan, has dragged former employee Shuji Nakamura into the bitter litigation over blue laser diode manufacturing technology, accusing him of revealing trade secrets to rival Cree Inc. Meanwhile, Cree has allied...
Buried Patent Treasures to Emerge
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- In May 2002, the US Patent and Trademark Office will reveal information that it once kept secret. That date is 18 months after new patent laws took effect, requiring the government to publish most patent applications 18 months after...
Duke, Stanford to Open Photonics Centers
Feb 1, 2001 — A former photonics CEO has donated two $25 million gifts to establish centers for advanced photonics at Stanford and Duke universities. Donors Michael J. Fitzpatrick, former CEO at E-Tek Dynamics Inc. in San Jose, Calif., and his wife, Patty, are...
Flexible Process Eases Funding
Feb 1, 2001 — The National Institute of Standards and Technology has streamlined the process for applying for its Advanced Technology Program funding. In the new "gated" proposal process, the institute will accept applications through Sept. 30, 2001, for the...
IR Equipment Market Is Growing
Feb 1, 2001 — Infrared thermometers, line scanners and thermal imagers will see a combined annual growth rate of 10.5 percent worldwide over the next five years, according to a new market research study. The report from Flow Research of Wakefield, Mass., and...
Photonics: The New Milan Fashion
MILAN, Italy -- MILAN, Italy -- Despite the traditional impairments of the Italian economy, the Milan area is gaining some visibility in the photonics business, and it is working to configure itself as a possible "Optics Valley" south of the Alps. Corning Inc. has...
Plummer Ends Fraud Litigation
PENNSBURG, Pa. -- PENNSBURG, Pa. -- Plummer Precision Optics Co. and several company officials have agreed to pay $3.25 million in fines and other settlement costs to end federal civil and criminal charges of fraud and export violations. The settlement will not...
San Jose Offers Laser ’Boot Camp’
Feb 1, 2001 — Laser technicians who need intense training can attend the Laser "Boot Camp" program at San Jose City College. The program will compress the normal first-semester laser technology curriculum into one 80-hour, two-week course on laser and optics...
Yuba Expands Technician Program
Feb 1, 2001 — Yuba College in Marysville, Calif., has expanded its optics technician program to more than 40 students and has initiated a corporate affiliates program. Lead instructor Gordon Soekland said the school has expanded its optics fabrication laboratory...
’Agere’ Chosen for Lucent Spin-0ff
Jan 1, 2001 — The former Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies has chosen Agere Systems as its new name. Pronounced a-GEAR, the name sprang from the Latin verb meaning "to lead, to drive, to act." Lucent announced last summer that it planned to spin off...
Accounting Loophole Closing
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- FauxTon Co. officials order the manufacturing department to hurry up and ship one more truckload of widgets before the end of the day on Dec. 31. Manufacturing says the widgets aren’t ready. Sales says, "Ship them anyway. The...
Excimer Laser Firms Collaborate on R&D
Jan 1, 2001 — Cymer Inc. of San Diego has agreed to fund research and development at TuiLaser AG in Graefelfing, Germany, to expand excimer laser technology into new applications in semiconductor, medical and industrial markets. The effort seeks to combine...
Merger Trend: Tires to Photonics?
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Pirelli is a big name in fiber optics -- and tires. Uniroyal makes light-emitting diodes -- and tires. Now BFGoodrich has acquired the company that made the optical systems for the Hubble Space Telescope. What is it about...
Photonics Leads Hall of Fame
Jan 1, 2001 — Optics and imaging technology inventors top the Polaroid Corp. Technology Hall of Fame, which honors employees who have more than 10 patents. The 18 engineers and scientists inducted this year account for 669 patents:100 or more patents: Bruce K....
Raytheon Supports Sensing Center
Jan 1, 2001 — Raytheon Co. of Lexington, Mass., has pledged $1.2 million to the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Sensors at Northeastern University in Boston. The money will help to fund curriculum development on basic engineering principles and...
Survey: Alliances Boost Revenues
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK -- Growing companies that are involved in strategic alliances expect higher revenues, on average, than do companies that avoid sharing resources, according to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers Trendsetter Barometer survey. The growth figure...
Use Your Laser Safely Outdoors
Jan 1, 2001 — Readers who operate laser light shows, military lasers, free-space laser communication devices or lasers for outdoor research should note that the Laser Institute of America has published the new American National Standards Institute Z136.6 standard...
Automakers Laud Lasers
Dec 1, 2000 — Lasers will help make cars better, lighter and easier to manufacture, automotive industry leaders predicted during the plenary session of the Laser Institute of America’s International Conference on the Applications of Lasers and...
Cree to US Courts: Stop Nichia’s Blue Laser Sales
DURHAM, N.C. -- DURHAM, N.C. -- Blue-violet laser diodes will effectively disappear from the US if Cree Inc. and North Carolina State University prevail in a lawsuit against Nichia Corp. and its US subsidiary. Cree and the university filed suit against Nichia of...
Edmund Buys Embattled Plummer
BARRINGTON, N.J. -- BARRINGTON, N.J. -- Edmund Optics Inc. has agreed to acquire Plummer Precision Optics Inc., apparently as part of a settlement in Plummer’s federal "whistle-blower" litigation. Plummer expands Edmund’s capabilities in precision optical...
Exfo, Burleigh Waves Meet
Dec 1, 2000 — Exfo said it will retain Burleigh’s 110 employees and its facilities in the strategic optical corridor near Rochester, N.Y. Burleigh’s president, Dave Farrell, noted that the companies have shared an OEM relationship for about 3.5 years,...
New ’Photonics’ Grads Coming
Dec 1, 2000 — The University of Pittsburgh is offering a Photonics Certificate Program for undergraduates majoring in chemistry, physics or electrical engineering. Students may enroll at the end of their sophomore year. Grants from the National Science Foundation...

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