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Photonics Program Invites Proposals
Mar 1, 2000 — The Colorado Photonics & Optoelectronics Program has announced that it is reviewing proposals for exploratory projects. The program provides seed grants for research that encourages collaboration between industry and universities. It offers funding for a $30,000-per-year, two-year agreement, toward which companies with fewer than 500 employees must contribute $6000 per year and larger companies must contribute $12,000 per year. The companies, which must have operations in Colo...
Rivals Surge When Competitors Merge
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It’s likely that each time deep-pocketed Lucent Technologies, JDS Uniphase Corp. or Corning Inc. buys a supplier, other companies benefit. A new study explains why more than half of the business rivals of a company targeted...
Schools to Track International Students
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- The US Immigration and Naturalization Service plans to begin charging international students for the costs of an electronic data transfer system that will process and track their status and movement. Education officials fear the move...
Standards to Monitor Customer Satisfaction
GENEVA -- GENEVA -- Customer accountability and continuous improvement are two major areas addressed in the latest round of revisions to the International Standards Organization 9000 quality management system. Scheduled to be available in the fourth quarter,...
Submarine Network Is Under Way
Mar 1, 2000 — Tyco Submarine Systems Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tyco International Ltd. of Hamilton, Bermuda, has begun construction of an undersea fiber telecommunications network. The system, which is to be known as the TyCom Global Network, will...
Thermo Electron to Reorganize
Mar 1, 2000 — The board of directors at Thermo Electron Corp. of Waltham, Mass., has approved a one-year plan that will split the company into three independent public entities. The plan includes a divestiture of businesses with aggregate revenues of $1.2...
’I’ll Take One Blue LED ... and One in Green’
FAIRFAX, Va. -- FAIRFAX, Va. -- Americans who face a daily barrage of credit card applications and catalogs may find this hard to believe: Germany wants more American junk mail. Officials with Deutsche Post AG, the state-owned postal service, will happily work out...
Companies Play It Safe With Risk Assessment
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- Photonics companies venturing into the global marketplace may find the local gumbo a bit spicy. But specialists who provide risk assessment -- everything from political intelligence to personal security for company executives -- are...
Diode Lasers Power Growth in Sales
Feb 1, 2000 — A study by market consultants Frost & Sullivan of San Antonio reports worldwide revenues of $3.8 billion for the laser systems market in 1998. Sales of diode lasers were responsible for nearly half of that total. The communications industry...
International Metrology Standards Move Online
Feb 1, 2000 — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sèvres, France, have announced the establishment of an Internet database of international measurement...
Nidek, Visx Exchange Patent, Antitrust Allegations
SAN FRANCISCO -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Allegations of patent infringement by excimer laser manufacturer Visx Inc. against Nidek Inc. have been aired in multiple courts of law, but analysts say it’s the technology that ultimately will decide who gets the biggest...
Ortel’s 980-nm Pump Laser Re-emerges
ALHAMBRA, Calif. -- ALHAMBRA, Calif. -- When Ortel Corp. took a brand-new line of 980-nm pump lasers off the market early last year -- writing off $4.6 million in operating losses -- things looked grim. "It was something that no company likes to do. We were behind...
Photonics Incubator Founded
Feb 1, 2000 — Responding to the successes of Internet start-ups, Milton Chang, chairman of New Focus Inc., Tom Baer, president and CEO of Arcturus Engineering, and Bill Nighan, former director of engineering at Spectra-Physics Inc., have formed New Incubator, a...
Photonics Open House Announced
Feb 1, 2000 — Yuba College in Marysville, Calif., has scheduled an open house for recruiters and its first class of laser optics technology students. The event, which will be held Saturday, April 15, will introduce potential employers and the graduates of the...
Reports Cite Problems of UK Engineers
Feb 1, 2000 — Research from the Engineering Council in London challenges the claim that engineering contributes only 8 percent to the UK’s gross domestic product. The report, "Engineers for Britain: The State of the Profession Towards 2000," also examines...
Shavers Named Undersecretary for Technology
Feb 1, 2000 — The US Department of Commerce has appointed Cheryl L. Shavers as undersecretary of commerce for technology. As head of the department’s technology administration, she will oversee the Office of Technology Policy, the National Institute of...
Technology Firms Focus on R and D
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- US companies are expected to increase research and development funding by 10.6 percent this year, continuing a trend in corporate research financing that began in 1997, a noted economic forecast suggested. The favorable trend in...
Big Rigs Watch the Road
Jan 1, 2000 — Heavy truck manufacturer Freightliner Corp. of Portland, Ore., has developed an image-recognition system that warns drivers of unintended lane changes. The Lane Guidance system joins the company’s family of safety devices, including the Eaton...
Copyright Laws Clash with Digital Technology
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- Are you guilty of violating copyright laws if you duplicate a white paper posted on the World Wide Web and e-mail it to a colleague? A committee appointed by the National Research Council spent two years studying copyright and...
Laser Power Board Plans Takeover Defense
Jan 1, 2000 — The board of directors at Laser Power Corp. of San Diego adopted a shareholders’ rights plan in an attempt to shield the company from an unsolicited acquisition. If a person or group acquires 15 percent or more of Laser Power, the other...
Management Blamed for Troubled Laser Project
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- LIVERMORE, Calif. -- When scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory successfully demonstrated the Beamlet in 1994, they were confident they could duplicate the single laser, multiplied 192 times, to produce the world’s largest...
NIST Will Award $50.7 Million
Jan 1, 2000 — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., has announced a competition under its Advanced Technology Program that will award $50.7 million in first-year grants to research and development projects in 2000....
Optical Research Funds Photonics Programs
Jan 1, 2000 — Optical Research Associates of Pasadena, Calif., has established two educational programs for students in photonics-related fields. The company designed the initiatives around its Code V and LightTools software products. The Student Award Program...
Scientists Experimenting with Online Shopping
BETHESDA, Md. -- BETHESDA, Md. -- Life scientists accustomed to buying books and booking airline flights online would welcome the opportunity to shop electronically for research supplies, a recent poll indicated. In fact, 38 percent of respondents to an online...
Spectra-Physics Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Telecommunications Manufacturer
Jan 1, 2000 — Spectra-Physics has signed a three-year sales agreement to deliver 200-GHz narrow-band pass filters to a major manufacturer of dense wavelength division multiplexing devices. The 200-GHz thin-film filters -- the newest addition to...

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