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AT&T Offspring Plans Undersea Network

Jun 1, 1997 — MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- Tyco Industries has adopted AT&T progeny Submarine Systems Inc. (SSI), and already the undersea telecommunications company is showing its new parent that it learned a lot from Ma Bell.Submarine Systems has announced its own fiber network, Atlantic Crossing I, which will link the US, the United Kingdom and Germany. The route will span more than 14,000 km.Submarine Systems, constrained to producing and installing fiber cable when it was with AT&T, plans to take on the...

Basic Research Funds Down, Facilities Demand Up

Jun 1, 1997 — The collapse of the Soviet bloc and the rise of free-market systems has resulted in reduced funding for most types of scientific research in academic institutions worldwide.That's the view of Steven Weinberg, a University of Texas professor and...

Coherent Launches Catalog Business After Acquiring Ealing

Jun 1, 1997 — SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Following its $9.5 million purchase of Ealing Electro-Optics plc last month, Coherent Inc. established its first-ever catalog division, which will become part of the Coherent Auburn Group. Paul Kenrick, the founder and former...

Food, Transportation Are Vision Growth Areas

Jun 1, 1997 — The semiconductor and electronics industries remain the largest consumers of North American machine vision systems, but food and transportation are also key markets, according to a study that the Automated Imaging Association released at the 1997...

Renishaw, EIC Collaborate on Raman Spectroscopy

Jun 1, 1997 — Renishaw has forged a union with EIC Laboratories Raman Systems Div. to offer both instruments and applications in Raman spectroscopy. The partnership takes advantage of Renishaw's expertise in the manufacture of Raman spectrometers and microscopes...

Spy Satellite Agency Mired in Bureaucracy

Jun 1, 1997 — The nation's spy satellite agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, is no longer considered a technology leader, according to a newly declassified review by an independent panel.The report says the agency has labored under a ponderous bureaucracy...

Study: Quality More Important than Price

Jun 1, 1997 — Venture Development Corp.'s report on airborne intelligent display/analog-to-digital converter equipment and system resellers said quality remains the most important criterion in selecting a vendor. After quality, price and support remain the other...

Universities: Economic Impact Justifies Funding

Jun 1, 1997 — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In recent years federal funding of R&D has fallen victim to the balanced-budget gods. With the prospect of that trend continuing (See "R&D Funding Faces Hard Times: The Road to 2002 Is All Downhill," Photonics Spectra,...

WDM to Assume Greater Role in Telecom

Jun 1, 1997 — As telecommunications carriers search for more bandwidth to meet the demands of an increasingly information-hungry consumer, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) will continue to grow in importance, according to officials at Lucent...

Crane & Co. Receives Exclusive Rights to Spectra Science's LaserPaint

May 1, 1997 — Spectra Science Corp. has licensed LaserPaint, a covert coding and authentication technology, to Crane & Co. of Dalton, Mass., for use in Crane's next-generation currency and secure documents applications. The technology combines laser dyes and...

DoE Counters Fusion Facility Injunction

May 1, 1997 — LIVERMORE, Calif. -- The US Department of Energy (DoE) has asked a federal district court judge to remove an injunction that keeps the agency from using a report on the technical feasibility of the National Ignition Facility. An attorney for the...

Galileo Refocuses After Xerox Loss

May 1, 1997 — STURBRIDGE, Mass. -- Despite the loss of its biggest customer earlier this year and the resulting financial blow, Galileo Corp. officials are confident that the company will be able to get back on its feet by refocusing on its strategic objectives...

Litton-Honeywell Legal Dispute Enters Appeals Phase

May 1, 1997 — Honeywell Inc. has won the latest go-around in its long-running legal dispute with Litton Systems Inc. over ring-laser gyroscope technology. The US Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of Honeywell's petition for certiorari -- a first step in the...

Litton-Honeywell Legal Dispute Enters Appeals Phase

Precision Laser Machining Consortium Fosters Diode Array Development

May 1, 1997 — The Precision Laser Machining Consortium is promoting the development of diode pump arrays, components critical to diode-pumped solid-state lasers. Diode pump arrays are used commercially to improve the speed and precision of advanced industrial...

Telecommunications Equipment Sales Rise, Bolstered by Internet

May 1, 1997 — Factory sales of telecommunications equipment rose 16 percent to $63 billion last year, spurred by rapid gains in Internet and intranet usage. The Telecommunications Industry Association reported that US exports of telecommunications equipment...

The Future Looks Bright for IR Plane Deicer

May 1, 1997 — While the FAA does not have a strict approval process like the US Food and Drug Administration, Process Technologies Vice President Tim Seel said working with the government has paid off in global interest. In 1995, the company entered a cooperative...

Uniphase Shares Blue Laser Patents

May 1, 1997 — SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Biotechnology, semiconductor inspection and optical data storage are among the potential beneficiaries of a friendly agreement that allows Coherent to use some Stanford University patents in a new generation of compact blue...

United States and Japan Collaborate to Form New Physics Center

May 1, 1997 — The Japanese Institute of Physical and Chemical Research has established a physics research center at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. The center will nurture international cooperation in the physics...

Arctic Communities Get Wired, Thanks to Friends in Warm Places

Apr 1, 1997 — SALUIT, Quebec -- Residents of the northernmost Quebec province of Nunavik, about 1000 miles from Montreal, now have their own entrance ramp onto the information superhighway, thanks to the efforts of several fiber cable makers. One, Chromatic...

Corning Reaches Optical Fiber Sales Milestone

Apr 1, 1997 — More than 1 million km of Corning Incorporated's SMF-LS optical fiber have been sold since the product was introduced in 1994. This nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber is making its mark as high-capacity, long-haul transmission segments of the market...

EG&G Consolidates Its Operations, Offers More Customer Flexibility

Apr 1, 1997 — The Canada, Electro-Optics, Judson, Power Systems and Reticon divisions of EG&G Inc. have been consolidated into one division, dubbed EG&G Optoelectronics. Paul Beech, Werner Rech and Andre Buser were named general managers. Beech said that...

French, UK Labs Create Partnership

Apr 1, 1997 — PARIS -- A 20-year scientific association has been formalized in the creation of the Laboratoire Europeén Associé, a joint European laboratory for high-power laser science. Founders are the French Centre National de la Recherche...

Galileo Loses $20.4 Million Account for Photocopier Component

Apr 1, 1997 — Galileo Corp. of Sturbridge, Mass., has received written notification that Xerox Corp. has developed internal production capabilities for dicorotron assemblies, electronic components used in photocopiers, and will no longer buy them from Galileo....

Israeli Defense-System Manufacturer Reorganizes for Geographic Focus

Apr 1, 1997 — Israeli high-tech defense system manufacturer Elecro-Optics Industries Ltd. has undergone a structural reorganization, dividing the company into geographic market areas. The Israel, Asia-Pacific, North America and Civilian Systems divisions will...

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