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Robotic Vision Systems Wins Suit
Aug 1, 1998 — A California court has upheld Hauppauge, N.Y.-based Robotic Vision Systems Inc.'s claim that View Engineering Inc. of Simi Valley, Calif., a subsidiary of General Scanning Inc. of Watertown, Mass., has infringed upon its patent relating to inspection of ball grid array semiconductor package substrates. As part of the agreement, View Engineering will cease making, selling or offering to sell inspection machines to customers in the US. The inspection machines include patented software to perform...
Telecom Consortium Announces New Standards
Aug 1, 1998 — Spurred by the increased globalization of the telecommunications industry, a consortium of telecom companies has released TL9000, a new set of quality standards. The requirements will affect more than 10,000 suppliers and service providers...
Telecom Industry Challenges Minnesota Contract
Aug 1, 1998 — Telecommunications companies are battling with Minnesota over rights to install fiber optic cable along the state's interstate freeways. Other states are grappling with similar issues, so industry members across the nation are watching to see how...
Transceiver Vendors Agree on Interface
Aug 1, 1998 — A group of fiber optic component suppliers has agreed to distribute uniform transceivers with identical interfaces. The seven companies are: Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Corp.; Siemens Microelectronics Inc.; Optical Communication Products Inc.; Molex...
US Companies Neglect Patent Opportunities
Aug 1, 1998 — US companies are sitting on $115 billion of their own neglected commercial assets, according to a survey sponsored by BTG Inc., a technology transfer company based in the UK. The survey, taken among industries that invest substantially in research...
US Display Consortium to Target New Markets
Aug 1, 1998 — A robust electronic display market has spurred the US Display Consortium to define untapped market opportunities. The group has commissioned Stanford Resources Inc. to conduct a study on potential flat panel display markets that are unrelated to...
Drexler Challenges Microsoft
Jul 1, 1998 — Drexler Technology Corp. based in Mountain View, Calif., has cautioned Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., that the software giant may be infringing on five of Drexler's US patents related to optical memory. Drexler claims that Microsoft has made...
Corning Photonics to Add 200 Workers
Jul 1, 1998 — One sign that the photonics industry's growth is not flagging: Corning Inc. has opened the door to hire more than 200 hourly workers at its Photonic Technologies Div. manufacturing facility in Erwin. The additional workers, who will be hired in the...
New York High-Schoolers Study Photonics
Jul 1, 1998 — A New York state high school is offering a two-year photonics training program designed to prepare adolescents for the work force. In one of the first programs of its kind at the high-school level, teachers at Coopers Education Center in Painted...
NIST Reports Billions Spent on Measurement Capability
Jul 1, 1998 — The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has reported that the US semiconductor industry spent between $2.3 billion and $2.5 billion in 1996 to buy measurement tools and instruments to support chip manufacturing. NIST predicts...
Optical Societies Consider Partnership
Jul 1, 1998 — More than a decade after deciding against it, a joint task force is reconsidering closer collaboration between the Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE. Meeting on a monthly basis, the committee aims to make its recommendation to both...
Optical Society Fills Director Position
Jul 1, 1998 — The Optical Society of America has a new executive director. This month, John A. Thorner becomes the principal administrative officer, responsible for managing the society's programs and activities, and meeting society objectives. John A. Thorner...
Photonics Shares in Environmental Advances
Jul 1, 1998 — Applications of photonics technology in research and development over the past decade have helped to create many technologies that will improve water safety, reduce wasted paper and make manufacturing and agriculture more environmentally friendly in...
Photonics Spectra Again Receives Editorial Honors
Jul 1, 1998 — Last month Photonics Spectra was named a national award winner in the Signed Editorial category of the annual editorial excellence competition conducted by the American Society of Business Press Editors. There were 1300 entries. Over the years the...
Report: US Should Do More to Support Optics
Jul 1, 1998 — The National Research Council's Committee on Optical Science and Engineering has published a report, Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, pointing to optics as the leader of the next technology revolution. The...
Shareholders Sue Premier Laser Systems
Jul 1, 1998 — Investors in Premier Laser Systems Inc. have filed a class-action lawsuit charging the company with fraudulent business practices that artificially inflated the price of Premier's stock. The Irvine, Calif.-based company developed an Er:YAG laser for...
US Bank Note Will Feature Light-Interference Pigment
Jul 1, 1998 — The US Treasury Dept. has chosen Flex Products Inc., a subsidiary of Optical Coating Laboratory Inc., to supply its patented light-interference pigment as an anticounterfeiting measure on the US $20 bank note. The Santa Rosa, Calif., company...
Coherent Joins Precision Laser Consortium
Jun 1, 1998 — Coherent Inc.'s Semiconductor Group in Santa Clara, Calif., has joined the Precision Laser Machining Consortium, a group of 24 companies administered and partially funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Their mission is to develop...
Germany Funds High-Power Diode Laser Project
Jun 1, 1998 — The Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology has announced that it will fund a DM 70 million (about $40 million) collaborative R&D project to develop high-power diode lasers. The project is one of five winners in a...
Industrial Laser Shipments Climbed in '97
Jun 1, 1998 — Cutting applications spurred an increase in shipments of industrial laser systems and equipment for North America and the US. Overall, shipments increased 16 percent in 1997 over 1996, according to a report from The Association for Manufacturing...
Names In The News
Jun 1, 1998 — The US Defense Department presented its highest civilian award, the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, to Robert Q. Fugate, senior scientist for atmospheric compensation at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at...
Pentagon Urges Cooperation on Weapons Planning with Allies in Europe, Japan
Jun 1, 1998 — In an effort to coordinate a better defense among allied nations, the Pentagon has called for increased cooperation with Japan and Europe in the production of new weapons, including remote sensors. US Undersecretary of Defense Jacques Gansler said...
Russia Spins off Labs into Private Companies
Jun 1, 1998 — As economic straits force the Russian government to shed some of its Soviet-era overhead, research groups within many of the state-controlled institutions are becoming private companies. Officials are debating putting entire laboratories on the...
Science and Engineering Graduate Enrollments Continue Slide
Jun 1, 1998 — Following more than a decade of consistent gains, graduate enrollments in science and engneering de- clined for a third straight year in 1996. That finding comes from a National Science Foundation brief. The foundation's figures show that enrollment...
Task Force Explores OSA/SPIE Merger
Jun 1, 1998 — Two of the leading optics societies, SPIE and the Optical Society of America (OSA) are considering a closer collaboration or merger. Representatives from each society met in Washington to discuss their respective goals and identify trends in optics....

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