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WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- Helium is so cheap and plentiful that it is used to fill Mickey Mouse balloons for children’s parties. That’s the finding, however obvious, of a report issued in May by the National Research Council on the commercial use of helium. The US government began producing and storing helium under a federal monopoly in the 1920s and later amended the Helium Act to allow commercial producers to enter the market. In 1996, Congress ordered the Bureau of Land Management to stop...
ADC Plans Acquisition of Altitun, Ibsen
Jul 1, 2000 — Minneapolis-based ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced plans to acquire Altitun AB of Kista, Sweden, a manufacturer of tunable lasers for optical telecommunications. Under terms of the proposed transaction, ADC would issue shares of its common...
Cameras Considered for Aviation Safety
Jul 1, 2000 — A recommendation by the National Transportation Safety Board may put miniature digital cameras in the air to detect mechanical problems in airplanes and to monitor flight crews. The agency suggested in February that all turbine-powered aircraft...
Clam Chowder and Photonics
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- California may be the sentimental home of the semiconductor and electronics industries, but most US photonics manufacturing jobs are located in the Northeast, suggests a report by the American Electronics Association and the Nasdaq...
From Analyzers to Zoom Lenses
STANFORD, Calif. -- STANFORD, Calif. -- Nuts? Planters. Cornflakes? Kellogg’s. Bookseller? Barnes & Noble. Lidar systems? Stumped? Lidar as a product, and lidar systems under a brand name, aren’t household words except to those who trade, design,...
Iris Recognition Moves to Airport
Jul 1, 2000 — EyeTicket Corp. of McLean, Va., unveiled an evaluation program of its EyePass iris-recognition system in restricted areas at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C. EyePass confirms the identity and security clearance of employees...
JDS Uniphase Bullish on Chinese Crystal Maker
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Industry insiders are speculating whether there will be a temporary shortage of doped vanadate crystals for laser production following JDS Uniphase Corp.’s buyout of crystal maker Fujian Casix Laser Inc. of Fuzhou, China....
JDS Uniphase’s Kalkhoven Retires
Jul 1, 2000 — Kevin Kalkhoven of JDS Uniphase Corp. of Nepean, Ontario, Canada, and San Jose, Calif., has retired from his position as CEO and co-chairman of the board of directors. Kalkhoven, who is succeeded as CEO by co-chairman, president and chief operating...
New Schedule, Budget Set for Ignition Facility
Jul 1, 2000 — US Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson presented his plan for the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. The Department of Energy will increase funding for the project by $95 million in fiscal 2001...
Sizing Up the Stars
PASADENA, Calif. -- PASADENA, Calif. -- Bigger is better, some astronomers believe. That’s why a gaggle of major universities and international science consortiums are competing for bragging rights to big science’s largest and most powerful telescopes. Some...
SpaceDev Plans Commercial Space Missions
POWAY, Calif. — The FedEx agent hung up on us when we inquired about sending a package to a near-Earth asteroid. But James W. Benson, founder of SpaceDev Inc., said he could not only deliver our pretend package (a science experiment), but do it at a mere fraction...
’Weird’ Science Grants Announced by Innovation Initiative
Jun 1, 2000 — An initiative by the government, universities and scientific organizations in The Netherlands will give 130 young scientists the ability to pursue research according to their own discretion. The Innovation Initiative will give each winner...
Calimetrics Licenses Near-Field Technology
Jun 1, 2000 — Polaroid Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., has granted Calimetrics Inc. of Alameda, Calif., an exclusive license to its near-field embedded optics technology. Calimetrics plans to implement the technology with its own MultiLevel Recording Technology to...
Corning to Acquire Datacom Company
Jun 1, 2000 — Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., has agreed to purchase the remaining equity in NZ Applied Technologies Corp. of Woburn, Mass., for up to $150 million in Corning common stock, contingent on the latter meeting development milestones. In 1999, Corning...
Electronic Display Materials Push Ahead
Jun 1, 2000 — Business Communications Co. Inc. of Norwalk, Conn., predicts that global shipments of electronic display materials will grow by 10.9 percent annually and reach $12.9 billion by 2004. Growth in flat panel display technologies in handheld and...
Free-Space Optical Network Planned
Jun 1, 2000 — Lucent Technologies Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., and TeraBeam Networks of Seattle have announced that they have agreed to jointly develop and deploy TeraBeam’s free-space optical system for connecting local and wide area networks. They will...
Los Alamos Donates Equipment
Jun 1, 2000 — Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will donate its excess labora-tory equipment to nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities under the US Department of Energy’s Laboratory Education Equipment Gift Program. The new program...
Lucent: For Sale to Good Owner
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies Inc. has announced plans to sell about a dozen of its 17 US manufacturing facilities to contract manufacturing partners. It will retain five chip and fiber optics manufacturing plants and also will establish...
Nakamura Orders GaN Platform
Jun 1, 2000 — The University of California at Santa Barbara’s Shuji Nakamura, the inventor of the blue, green and white LED and the blue diode laser, has ordered a metallorganic chemical vapor deposition system from Emcore Corp. of Somerset, N.J. He and his...
Newport Receives Orders Totaling $7 Million for Specialized Precision Optics Products
Jun 1, 2000 — Newport Corporation has announced that it has received orders totaling $7 million from three major semiconductor capital equipment companies for high-precision optical products. The customers plan to use the specialized optics and optomechanical...
Projectors Brighten Texas Instruments’ Future
Jun 1, 2000 — Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas has announced that first-quarter shipments of its Digital Light Processing subsystems were up more than 250 percent from the same period in 1999. It expects to double last year’s total shipments -- 150,000 --...
Surveillance Booms
Jun 1, 2000 — Business Communications Co. Inc. of Norwalk, Conn., predicts that the visual surveillance market in the US will display an annual growth rate of 10.7 percent and reach $4.3 billion in 2004. The increased application of CCTV systems in homes and...
Survey: Mergers Displace Business Leaders
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Chamber of commerce executives are generally upbeat folks, faithfully pitching their local economies. But in a recent national survey, 60 percent of the executives polled said that the rash of mergers and acquisitions in the last...
Tantalum Basks in Telecom Spotlight
ARLINGTON, Va. -- ARLINGTON, Va. -- It’s nice to be sought after -- especially when you’re named for the king of frustration and disappointment. An undistinguished No. 73 on the periodic table of elements, tantalum finds itself newly admired for its use...
Trimedyne Insider Trading Proves Too Tempting
IRVINE, Calif. -- IRVINE, Calif. -- The events of one day in March 1996 proved just too tempting for two individuals. They would be accused of parlaying their insider knowledge of pending government approval for a medical therapy into more than $100,000 in illicit...

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