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Competition Drives Baby Bells to Sell Bellcore to Defense Firm

Jan 1, 1997 — TRENTON, N.J. -- After more than 18 months of negotiations, a San Diego-based defense technology contractor has agreed to buy Bellcore, the research concern of the seven regional Baby Bells.In the deal, reportedly worth $700 million, the sale of Bellcore to Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) will be finalized in late 1997, pending federal and state regulatory approval. Each owner company would receive an equal share of the proceeds.The consortium Regional Bell Operating Companies...

dpiX Wins Military Contract to Develop High-Resolution LCD Technologies

Jan 1, 1997 — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $2.75 million contract to dpiX, a subsidiary of Xerox, to develop high-resolution, reflective-mode display technologies for strategic and tactical information applications. The...

Eastman Kodak Ships Mirror Assemblies, Optical Bench for Satellite System

Jan 1, 1997 — Eastman Kodak Co.'s Commercial & Government Systems delivered its high-resolution mirror assembly to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., for use in the agency's advanced x-ray astrophysics facility satellite. The assembly...

Laser Diode Market Heading Toward $1.2 Billion Mark

Jan 1, 1997 — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- The worldwide market for short-wavelength laser diodes is headed for the billion-dollar-plus mark by the end of the decade, according to a report from market analysis firm Strategies Unlimited. Leading the charge is the...

LeCroy, Fluke Swap Technology for Royalties Under DSO Licensing Pact

Jan 1, 1997 — Under a technical licensing agreement signed by LeCroy Corp. of Chestnut Ridge, N.Y., and Fluke Corp. of Everett, Wash., LeCroy would give Fluke access to advanced technology for digital storage oscilloscope applications in exchange for royalties....

Monroe Community College Receives CNC-Optics Systems from LOH

Jan 1, 1997 — Germantown, Wis.-based LOH Optical Machinery Inc. has lent a Spheronorm CNC-controlled precision optics system to Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y., for educational purposes at the school's optical systems technology laboratory. The...

Rofin-Sinar Joins with German Laser Institute on Industrial Laser Development

Jan 1, 1997 — An exclusive cooperative development project between Rofin-Sinar Inc. of Plymouth, Mich., and the Fraunhofer Institute of Laser Technology of Aachen, Germany, will focus on developing diode-pumped, high-power Nd:YAG lasers for industrial-processing...

SpecTran-Corning Fiber-Supply Agreement Grows to $28 Million

Jan 1, 1997 — SpecTran Corp. of Avon, Conn., has increased by $11 million the value of its contract to provide Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., with multimode fiber. The three-year agreement, which was signed last year, is now worth $28 million. SpecTran officials...

Uniphase to Sell Ultrapointe Subsidiary

Jan 1, 1997 — SAN JOSE, Calif. -- To concentrate its resources on the telecommunications industry, Uniphase Corp. has signed a letter of intent to sell its Ultrapointe subsidiary to Tencor Instruments, a leader in semiconductor inspection systems.An...

Ball Aerospace Signs Navy Camera Contract Under Commercial Conditions

Dec 1, 1996 — The US Navy - Naval Inventory Control Point in Mechanicsburg, Pa., has signed Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Broomfield, Colo., to a multiyear agreement to build about 165 marine all-light-level TV cameras for imaging at sea. To reduce...

Centronic to Supply Silicon Photodiodes for Space Station

Dec 1, 1996 — In an agreement worth $500,000, NASA will purchase hundreds of custom silicon photodiodes from Centronic Inc. of Newbury Park, Calif., for use on the Space Station Freedom, which is set for launch in 1997. The photodiodes will be used to keep the...

Dense WDM Market Seen Topping $12-Billion Mark by 2005

Dec 1, 1996 — SAN MATEO, Calif. -- From an "introductory" level of $101 million last year, the global market for dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) components is expected to hit $4.17 billion by 2000 and then grow to $12.1 billion by 2005. According...

Fiber, Fiber, Who's Got the Fiber? Shortage Hits Builders, Producers

Dec 1, 1996 — PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- A funny thing has happened on the way to the information superhighway: The road builders can't keep ahead of the drivers. Fiber optics fueled the dream, but now a shortage of fiber threatens progress, has heightened demand...

Laser Firm Gets University License for Marketing Al-Free Laser Diodes

Dec 1, 1996 — EVANSTON, Ill. -- Northwestern University has granted an exclusive license to Semiconductor Laser International Corp. (SLI) of Endicott, N.Y., to develop, manufacture, market and sell aluminum-free high-power semiconductor lasers worldwide for...

Lockheed Wins $20 Million Photonic Sensor Pact

Dec 1, 1996 — The US Air Force has awarded a $20.2 million contract to Lockheed Martin Tactical Systems for the development of its podded electro-optical sensor system. Under the contract, the company will design, build and support the Theater Airborne...

Molecular OptoElectronics Wins NSF Grant, Licensing Agreement

Dec 1, 1996 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has granted an exclusive licensing agreement to Molecular OptoElectronics Corp. of Watervliet, N.Y., to develop, manufacture and market the laboratory's electro-optic crystal mosaics for the generation of terahertz...

Transatlantic Telecommunications System to Use Alcatel Fiber Optic Cables

Dec 1, 1996 — UK-based Cable Co. International Ltd. has awarded a $400 million contract to Alcatel Submarine Networks of London, to supply fiber optic cable for what it calls the most advanced transatlantic fiber optic cable system ever constructed. Alcatel will...

US and Korean Groups Sign Cooperative Flat-Panel Display Pact

Dec 1, 1996 — SAN JOSE, Calif. -- In a effort to boost global cooperation on standards and manufacturing procedures in the flat-panel display market, the US Display Consortium (USDC) and the Electronic Display Industrial Research Association of Korea (EDIRAK)...

Catalog Company Splits Its Efforts

Nov 1, 1996 — BARRINGTON, N.J. -- Edmund Scientific has split into two divisions to better serve the growing numbers of industrial customers. The company announced last month that Frank DiMinno has taken over as president of its growing Industrial Optics Div.,...

Irish Research Institute Chooses Belgian Micromachining System for New Lab

Nov 1, 1996 — The National Micro-Electronics Research Institute of Cork, Ireland, is establishing a laser micromachining laboratory within its NMRC Materials Group that will use the LightDeck Micromachining System from Optec of Hornu, Belgium. The institute chose...

Lambda Physik Fills $1 Million Order from US Diamond-Film Firm

Nov 1, 1996 — Lambda Physik GmbH of Göttingen, Germany, has delivered a $1 million order of excimer lasers to QQC Inc. of Detroit, for use in multiplexed laser cell diamond-film production. In QQC's laser technique, a substrate is heated by pulsed laser beams of...

Lucent Spins Off in Flurry of Stocks

Nov 1, 1996 — MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Like a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, AT&T scattered 525 million shares of Lucent Technologies stock on the investment community to mark the completion of Lucent's spin-off from AT&T. In what was described as the largest...

Machine Tool Show Highlights Industrial Applications of Photonics

Nov 1, 1996 — CHICAGO -- Laser machining, rapid prototyping, optical inspection and light-based metrology found their niches among the tens of thousands of exhibits at the International Manufacturing Technology Show, IMTS '96, Sept. 4 through 12 at McCormick...

Ohio State Seeks Role in Two Major Observatories

Nov 1, 1996 — COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State University is seeking a partnership role in two major observatories, one of which will house the world's largest telescope on a single mount. The university would buy a one-eighth share in the Large Binocular...

Real-Time Image Processing Market Soars

Nov 1, 1996 — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- The real-time image processing market has been on a roll, thanks to marked improvements in both the performance and price of computer platforms and high-resolution cameras. According to a new study, the greater demand for...

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