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New Regulation Hits California Optics Makers
Sep 1, 1997 — DIAMOND BAR, Calif. -- Optics companies in Southern California will have to change dramatically the way they clean their manufacturing systems, according to a regulation recently passed here. In what it calls its biggest step against airborne hydrocarbons in eight years, California's South Coast Air Quality Management District passed a measure that, among other things, will require area optics manufacturers to use water-based cleaning solvents containing fewer than 50 g/l of volatile organic...
New Training Program for Optical Technicians Launched
Sep 1, 1997 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has selected Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y., as the first community college to train technicians in optical fabrication. The program, which began this month, will serve as a model for...
Can business learn from baboons? You bet
Aug 1, 1997 — STANFORD, Calif. -- It's a jungle out there. No one knows this better than Robert Sapolsky, a professor of neuroscience and biology at Stanford University. For years, Sapolsky has investigated the biological causes and ramifications of stress in...
Continued Profits Lead to Increased R & D Spending
Aug 1, 1997 — Sizable profits encouraged major US corporations to continue investing in the future, by sinking a larger percentage of their revenues into R&D last year. The leading 100 US companies increased allotments to R&D by 9%, building on a 15.3%...
Double-Digit Telecom Growth Predicted
Aug 1, 1997 — The overall telecommunications market (including equipment and services) grew 11% in 1996 and generated revenues of $298 billion. A market report put out by the Telecommunications Industry Association and MultiMedia Telecommunications Association...
European photonics manufacturers predict key laser applications
Aug 1, 1997 — MUNICH, Germany -- Measurement, medicine and machining will be the most important future applications of laser technology, according to a proposal that photonics manufacturers presented to the European Commission's fifth Framework Programme...
Industrial Laser Sales Increase
Aug 1, 1997 — Shipments of industrial laser equipment rose 15% over last year's levels to $123 million for the first quarter of 1997, according to a report issued by the Laser Systems Product Group. Industrial laser equipment and systems shipments within North...
Laser 97 reflects photonics growth
Aug 1, 1997 — MUNICH, Germany -- Photonics has become a more developed industry, and its prospects for additional growth are excellent, said visitors to the Laser 97 trade show and conferences. The June trade fair attracted 14,500 visitors from 67 countries, a...
Laser Probe
Aug 1, 1997 — A joint effort among the US Department of Defense, ITT of Roanoke, Va., and Litton of Tempe, Ariz., resulted in the production of these night-vision goggles for the US Marines.
Mediation wins favor for settling disputes
Aug 1, 1997 — ITHACA, N.Y. -- The alternative dispute resolution process, in which the laser industry was one of the pioneers, has won widespread industry acceptance, says a report from Cornell University's Institute on Conflict Resolution. The survey, jointly...
Northwest Orders Fiber Gyros
Aug 1, 1997 — Litton Industries' Aero Products division has received a $35 million contract to retrofit Northwest Airlines' inertial navigation systems installed on 33 Northwest B747 and 21 Northwest DC-10-40 aircraft. Litton will install its strapdown Ring Laser...
Oil Platforms Get Connected
Aug 1, 1997 — Submarine Systems International has signed a $17.6 million deal with Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., to provide the first undersea fiber optic cable network for offshore oil platforms. The network will consist of 475 km...
Report pushes US defense commercialization
Aug 1, 1997 — WASHINGTON -- A report soon to be released by the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association extols the virtues of closer connections between industry and the US Department of Defense, with particular emphasis on small-business participation....
Rofin-Sinar acquires German laser diode company
Aug 1, 1997 — PLYMOUTH, Mich. -- Developer and manufacturer of high-performance laser beam sources, Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc., has announced its agreement to purchase 80 percent of the stock of Hamburg, Germany-based Dilas Diodenlaser GmbH. Dilas specializes...
Caveat emptor: One laser does not fit all
Jul 1, 1997 — BALTIMORE -- It's buyer beware as manufacturers of diode-pumped Nd:YAG solid-state lasers seek to replace arc-discharge lamp-pumped devices with the "all-purpose" laser. Users should carefully consider their applications before investing in the most...
CLEO Attendance Falls
Jul 1, 1997 — CLEO '97 (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics) held in Baltimore failed to attract as many attendees as it did last year. There were 6644 total attendees this year compared with 6936 for the previous conference in Anaheim, Calif. Of all...
Japanese Electronics Industry Takes a Hit
Jul 1, 1997 — Prices on computer memory chips nose-dived recently, cutting sharply into group profits for some of Japan's leading makers of electronic products. Toshiba Corp., Fujitsu Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. posted lackluster earnings but predicted...
Laboratories' Contracts up for Renewal
Jul 1, 1997 — WASHINGTON -- The US Department of Energy (DoE) and the University of California are negotiating new contracts for the management of Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos national laboratories. The current contracts, worth a total of...
Laser Ultrasonics Drive the Nondestructive Testing Market
Jul 1, 1997 — Laser-based systems will drive ultrasonic testing to the forefront of the nondestructive testing (NDT) market, says an analysis of the US NDT market released by Maxtech International. The systems are designed to test composite aircraft sections and...
New Focus Eyes OEMs
Jul 1, 1997 — In an effort to provide frontline support to its OEM customers, New Focus Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has hired Gregory Smolka, formerly of Big Sky Laser Technologies, to the new position of OEM account executive. The company has also taken steps,...
NIF Breaks Ground
Jul 1, 1997 — At a ceremony attended by US Secretary of Energy Federico Peña, ground was broken for the National Ignition Facility, the centerpiece of a program to maintain the US nuclear arsenal without nuclear testing.The $1.2 billion facility at...
Rome scientist Hendrickson dies
Jul 1, 1997 — ROME, N.Y. -- Brian M. Hendrickson, associate chief scientist for photonics at Rome Laboratory, died at 53 after a brief illness.Hendrickson had been with Rome Laboratory for 29 years, both in the photonics program and the Federal Scientific and...
Science Foundation Funds Connections to Speedy Computer Network
Jul 1, 1997 — The National Science Foundation has made grants to 35 research institutions in the US, enabling scientists to communicate and share resources on the foundation's high-speed Backbone Network Service. The connections will allow researchers to use...
SDL Settles with Spectra-Physics in Technology Transfer Lawsuit
Jul 1, 1997 — "Never underestimate the power of incumbent technologies to be improved and to hold their ground."David Shaver, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, on the semiconductor industry's incorrect belief that lasers could not produce features smaller than 1...
You can't rush genius; maybe you can track it
Jul 1, 1997 — CARLISLE, Mass. -- Is it possible to track the invention of photonics technology so that the marketing and funding of the technology can follow in a logical and competitive fashion? One theory that attempts to predict the development of technology...
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