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New Bounty Hunters Stalk Paper Prey
BOSTON -- BOSTON -- Can you recall hearing or seeing a description of an automated inspection system before Sept. 15, 1993? Somebody is willing to pay $10,000 for information that could invalidate Jerome H. Lemelson’s machine vision patent. The offer is the first photonics bounty on BountyQuest Corp.’s Internet service that matches people and companies who can pay for information with people who know something. The initial dozen or so "bounties" on www.BountyQuest.com are requests for...
Optical-Fiber-Making Capacity Almost Doubling
Dec 1, 2000 — Major optical fiber manufacturers have invested $2.6 billion in plant expansions that will nearly double the capacity available in 1999, according to a study by KMI Corp. titled "Worldwide Markets for Optical Fiber and Fiberoptic Cable." Worldwide...
Optics Goes to Washington
Dec 1, 2000 — The Optical Society of America and the Materials Research Society have opened their 2001-2002 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow Program, with an application deadline of Jan. 12, 2001. The fellow will work as a legislative assistant on the...
Photonics Moves at Light Speed
BOSTON -- BOSTON -- The future of light-based technologies is bright. That was the consensus at Boston University’s fourth annual symposium on emerging business opportunities in photonics, held in early October at its Photonics Center. Speaking before...
UK Facility Focuses on Display Technology
Dec 1, 2000 — Data display and human-display interaction will be the foci of a £1.2 million electronic, photonic and information control center at the University of Abertay Dundee in the UK. Dubbed Epicentre, the new facility will unite display developers...
Corning Buys Pirelli’s Photonics; $3.6 Billion Takes (Almost) All
CORNING, N.Y. -- CORNING, N.Y. -- Lithium niobate modulator technology and submarine 980-nm pump diodes join Corning Inc.’s family of photonics technologies after its September purchase of Pirelli S.p.A.’s optical technologies business. For $3.6 billion...
Danish and French Fiber Test Companies Plan Merger
Nov 1, 2000 — GN Great Nordic of Copenhagen, Denmark, has announced plans to acquire the French fiber optic test firm Photonetics and to merge it into its GN Nettest subsidiary. Although GN Nettest has offered test equipment for communications, the addition of...
GSI Lumonics Acquires, Sells Units
Nov 1, 2000 — GSI Lumonics Inc. of Kanata, Ontario, Canada, has acquired precision optics manufacturer General Optics Inc. of Moorpark, Calif., for an unspecified cash payment. Meanwhile, it completed the sale of its life sciences business to Packard BioScience...
Lasers to Iran? Maybe Not
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- A copper vapor laser and some commercially minded scientists sit at the center of an international technology transfer crisis. The New York Times reported in September that scientists at the Microtechnology Center of the...
Northrop, Indigo Connect for IR
Nov 1, 2000 — Advanced infrared detector fabrication is the goal of an alliance between Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector in Baltimore and Indigo Systems Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif. The Northrop Grumman Defensive Systems Div....
Photonics Firms Stress Communications
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Because investors are eagerly buying up stock for companies with the words "optical communication" in their description, photonics firms are continuing to eagerly reorganize their business units to strut their communications...
Photonics Lures Federal Funds
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Sixteen photonics projects have won contracts valued at more than $54 million under the US Commerce Department’s Advanced Technology Program. The projects cover several significant applications of photonics:...
Research Centers to Focus on Sensing, Materials
Nov 1, 2000 — The National Science Foundation has established several university-based research centers to focus on advanced microsystem and sensing technologies, and on materials research. The Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging at Northeastern University...
Small Businesses: Need Cash?
Nov 1, 2000 — Companies with fewer than 500 employees can apply between Dec. 1, 2000, and Jan. 10, 2001, for a share of the $556 million that the US Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research program will award in fiscal 2001. Phase I awards will...
... As Visions of Silicon Danced in Their Heads
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Photonic product suppliers who profit from the financial health of the semiconductor industry see little evidence that chip fabricators are ailing, if orders are an indicator. The Philadelphia semiconductor stock index has...
Antitrust Regulators Review Merger Proposal
Oct 1, 2000 — The US Justice Department has requested documents from JDS Uniphase Corp. and SDL Inc., both with headquarters in San Jose, Calif., in regard to its antitrust review of the announced merger of the companies. The companies announced a merger...
Automation Integrator Adds to Newport’s Portfolio
Oct 1, 2000 — Irvine, Calif.-based Newport Corp. has acquired Unique Equipment Co., adding the systems integrator to its fiber optics and photonics division. Unique Equipment, of Chandler, Ariz., designs custom systems that utilize robotics, lasers, machine...
Consortium Designs Color Laser Marking System
Oct 1, 2000 — Laser-maker Lambda Physik Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has joined a consortium of European companies to develop a 1-kHz diode-pumped solid-state laser system capable of emitting three wavelengths. The laser has successfully decorated polymeric...
Flir Systems Lays Off 90 Workers
Oct 1, 2000 — Flir Systems Inc. said that ongoing corporate restructuring has negatively affected both shareholders and employees. The Portland, Ore., maker of infrared imaging devices has laid off 90 workers this year, leaving about 725 employees worldwide. A...
GAO Blasts Laser Budget
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- The US General Accounting Office (GAO) says estimates that the National Ignition Facility will be completed in 2008 at a cost of $3.3 billion are too low and that the world’s largest science experiment could easily surpass $4...
German Optics Group to Go Public
Oct 1, 2000 — Linos AG of Göttingen, Germany, said it completed an initial public stock offering in September. Linos offered 1.4 million shares at €27 per share, with HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt KGaA and Norddeutsche Landesbank serving as lead managers....
GSI Lumonics to Sell Life Sciences Unit
Oct 1, 2000 — GSI Lumonics Inc. of Kanata, Ontario, Canada, has announced that it will sell its biochip and microarray divisions to Packard BioScience Co. of Meriden, Conn., for cash and stock valued at $120 million. GSI’s life sciences division represents...
II-VI Completes Exchange Offer for Laser Power
Oct 1, 2000 — II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., increased its ownership in San Diego-based Laser Power Corp. from 13 percent to 88 percent in a stock exchange offer. II-VI agreed to exchange $3.08 in cash and 0.052 shares of II-VI common stock for each Laser Power...
Optical Sensor Watches the Road
Oct 1, 2000 — Optical sensor manufacturer Iteris Inc. of Anaheim, Calif., was selected by Ford Motor Co. to provide the Detroit automaker with optical lane departure warning systems for its Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles. The video-based in- vehicle sensor...
Photonic Mergers Cross Borders
PARIS -- PARIS -- Industry forces and relaxation of government rules on foreign investment helped account for a 50 percent rise in cross-border merger and acquisition activity last year, reported the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in...

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