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Schwartz Electro-Optics Announces New Management Team
Oct 1, 2000 — Schwartz Electro-Optics Inc. of Orlando, Fla., said that board member Darrell Kelley, president of the Economic Development Commission of Mid-Florida, has replaced the late Bill Schwartz as chairman. After Schwartz died in July, his wife, Pat Schwartz, was elected to the board of the privately owned laser company and board member James M. Sellers was named interim CEO. Kelley said that the company would continue the strategy begun by Schwartz for growth and acquisition of technology and inte...
Scientists Sought for Research Awards
Oct 1, 2000 — The National Research Council announced that the 2001 Postdoctoral and Senior Research Associateship Programs will award about 300 full-time associateships. Areas of study include chemistry; earth and atmospheric sciences; engineering, applied...
We’ll Get Right Back to You on That
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. -- BRIDGEWATER, N.J. -- We sent an e-mail to Hamamatsu Corp. one morning to inquire about the use of a photomultiplier tube in adverse conditions. By midday, Mario Kasahara of Hamamatsu’s engineering team had responded with an explanation of...
European Vision to See Growth
Sep 1, 2000 — Frost & Sullivan of San Jose, Calif., has released the results of a study of the European industrial vision systems markets that suggest revenues will almost quadruple by 2006. Total market revenues are expected to rise from $574.9 million in...
Excellent Research Undone
Sep 1, 2000 — So when it was reported in May that more than half of the university laboratories in the UK were using outdated equipment, we wondered what might be amiss. The report, from Manchester University’s Policy Research in Engineering, Science and...
Football Enhancement to Use Fiber Gyros
Sep 1, 2000 — KVH Industries Inc. of Middletown, R.I., has announced that it will supply its fiber optic gyroscopes to Sportvision Inc. of New York. The gyros will be incorporated into the company’s 1st & Ten Yellow Line system for use in professional...
Komatsu, Ushio Launch Joint Venture
Sep 1, 2000 — The boards of directors of Komatsu Ltd. and Ushio Inc., both of Tokyo, approved a joint venture agreement establishing Gigaphoton Inc., also in Tokyo, which was effective Aug. 1. The new company will use the founders’ facilities in Kanagawa,...
Laser Patent May Be Invalid
Sep 1, 2000 — Electro Scientific Industries Inc. of Portland, Ore., reported that the US Patent and Trademark Office has announced in a preliminary decision that some of the claims in the company's patent on the laser processing of multilayer structures are...
Lucent’s Spin-off Is Born to Shop
Sep 1, 2000 — As Lucent Technologies Inc. spins off its microelectronics business next year, the infusion of cash from a public stock offering will position the yet-unnamed company to buy new technology to compete with components rivals. This could set off a new...
R&D Becomes Strategic
Sep 1, 2000 — A report on research and development in technology companies released by Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP of New York indicates that R&D has made a transition to support immediate efforts in the integration of technology planning and business...
Rockwell Defends Expired Patent
Sep 1, 2000 — The patent on a process held by a division of Rockwell International Corp. expired in January, but that hasn’t stopped the company from defending it in court. The targets of Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Rockwell Technologies LLC are...
Scientists Leaving Ignition Facility
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Key scientists with the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are resigning from the world’s largest laser project as Congress debates how much to fund the Big Science experiment. Livermore...
Buyout Boosts Coreco’s Market Share
MONTREAL -- MONTREAL -- The crowded machine vision industry got only slightly less so in June when Coreco Inc. announced that it had bought Imaging Technology Inc. of Bedford, Mass., for $14.5 million in cash. Coreco is by all appearances feathering its nest...
Forum Addresses Photonics Labor Shortage
Aug 1, 2000 — Representatives from the Coalition for Photonics and Optics met in Washington with public policy-makers and human resource managers to discuss the labor shortage in the photonics industry. Of particular interest was the decline in science and...
Good Times Ahead for Optical Interconnects
Aug 1, 2000 — A report from ElectroniCast Corp. of San Mateo, Calif., predicts an explosion in the global market for internal optical interconnect components and subsystems through 2008. Components witnessed sales of $35.5 million in 1999 and are expected to...
Growth Expected for Dispersion Compensators
Aug 1, 2000 — A report released by ElectroniCast Corp. of San Mateo, Calif., predicts that the global consumption value of dispersion-compensator modules will grow from $36.6 million in 1999 to $435.5 million by 2009. The report cites the advance to higher bit...
Growth Expected for Materials Processing
Aug 1, 2000 — Optech Consulting of Bisingen, Germany, foresees continued double-digit growth in the global laser materials processing market. The company predicts that worldwide sales of laser processing machinery will reach $12.2 billion in 2010, compared with...
Industrial Laser Shipments Up in 2000
Aug 1, 2000 — The Laser Systems Product Group of the Association for Manufacturing Technology in McLean, Va., has reported that shipments of industrial lasers for North America and US export in the first quarter were up 30 percent from the same period last year....
JDS Uniphase Courts Regulators to Win SDL
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- JDS Uniphase Corp.’s $41 billion play for rival optical telecommunications supplier and sometimes technical superior SDL Inc. would give the merged company about two-thirds of the independent component market and 90 percent...
Laser Supplier Supports Charity
Aug 1, 2000 — The MedicAlert Foundation of London announced that it has received a charitable donation of £10,000 from YAG laser marker supplier Baasel Lasertech (UK) Ltd. of Daventry, UK. The contribution supports MedicAlert’s efforts to purchase a...
LEDs Shrink Displays
Aug 1, 2000 — Microvision Inc. of Bothell, Wash., has completed the initial tests of its miniature retinal-scanning display. The device, which uses micromirrors to focus the output of three edge-emitting LEDs into the wearer’s eye, will be distributed in a...
Murnane Receives ’Genius Grant’
Aug 1, 2000 — Margaret M. Murnane has been awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, also known as a "genius grant." Murnane, a professor of physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder and member of the board of directors of the...
Nanogen Settles Patent Dispute
Aug 1, 2000 — San Diego-based Nanogen Inc. announced that it has settled a complaint with Beckman Coulter Inc. of Fullerton, Calif., regarding the latter’s patent for optical and electrical methods of detecting molecules. Nanogen had filed a complaint...
Photonics Not Lost in Space
LAUREL, Md. -- LAUREL, Md. -- The "better" part of "faster, better, cheaper" as it applies to NASA’s mandate for low-cost space missions is better technology to send back ample information from those hard-to-scratch parts of our galaxy. There’s a place...
Presstek Creates Diode Unit
TUCSON, Ariz. -- TUCSON, Ariz. -- Digital imaging company Presstek Inc. of Hudson, N.H., is solving a supply problem by becoming its own supplier. Presstek announced in June that it had formed Lasertel Inc., a captive laser diode manufacturer, in Tucson. Laser diode...

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