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Alcatel-Lucent to Reduce Staff by 12,500
PARIS, Feb. 9, 2007 -- Alcatel-Lucent will cut 12,500 jobs -- 16 percent of its staff -- as a result of its recent merger and lower-than-expected first-quarter profits, it said today in a statement. Workers at Alcatel-Lucent have called for a strike on Feb. 15 to protest against the job cuts, which were previously expected to amount to 9000, or 11 percent of staff. The company provided no further details on the downsizing. "The cuts will be discussed at each level in each country with organizations representing...
Avo Photonics Expands Volume Manufacturing Operations
Feb 9, 2007 — Horsham, Pa.-based Avo Photonics, a manufacturer of photonic solutions for the communications, military and aerospace, and medical markets, announced it has recently expanded its volume production operations. The company said it has significantly...
LumaSense Acquiring Mikron Infrared for $65M
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 9, 2007 -- Sensing instrumentation maker LumaSense Technologies is acquiring Mikron Infrared Inc. in a deal worth $65 million, it was announced today. Under terms of the agreement, Mikron Infrared will merge with Red Acquisition Corp., a subsidiary of...
Corning to Expand Japan Plant
CORNING, N.Y., Feb. 8, 2007 -- Corning Inc. announced today it will invest $160 million to expand its capacity to manufacture large-size glass substrates for active-matrix LCDs at its Shizuoka, Japan, facility. The expenditure will be incurred over the next year and a half,...
Light Changed to Matter, Then Stopped and Moved
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 8, 2007 -- By converting light into matter and then back again, physicists have for the first time stopped a light pulse and then restarted it a small distance away. This "quantum mechanical magic trick" provides unprecedented control over light and could have...
NM Senator Named OSA Optics Advocate
Feb 8, 2007 — New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman was recognized today by the Optical Society of America (OSA) as its 2007 Advocate of Optics, for his leadership in seeking to increase federal investments in the sciences, including research and development, and for his...
R. Drummond Appointed to StockerYale Board
Feb 8, 2007 — StockerYale Inc., a Salem, N.H., maker of structured-light lasers, LED modules, specialty optical fibers for industrial OEMs and other photonics-based products, announced today it has appointed Robert J. Drummond to its board of directors. Drummond...
'Optics on a Chip' Melds Photonic Circuitry, Silicon
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 7, 2007 -- Using microphotonics, researchers have split the light from an optic fiber in an integrated, on-chip way, controlled the random polarization of the two beams and then reconnected them. The breakthrough in "optics on a chip" technology could lead to...
IPG Photonics and Newport Settle Patent Lawsuit
OXFORD, Mass., and IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 5, 2007 -- Laser industry rivals IPG Photonics Corp. and Newport Corp. today announced that the two companies have settled patent infringement claims made against IPG Photonics by Spectra-Physics Inc., a subsidiary of Newport, as well as IPG Photonics'...
Emerging Technology and Trends on Tap at OFC/NFOEC
ANAHEIM, Calif., Feb. 2, 2007 -- The future of optical communications, including broadband, fiber-to-the-home and growing bandwidth demands, as well as cutting-edge technology and industry trends, will be discussed at the 2007 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition...
Emerging Technology and Trends on Tap at OFC/NFOEC
Feb 2, 2007 — The future of optical communications, including broadband, fiber-to-the-home and growing bandwidth demands, as well as cutting-edge technology and industry trends, will be discussed at the 2007 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition...
RSL Fiber Systems to Supply Advanced Lighting System to Navy
Feb 2, 2007 — RSL Fiber Systems LLC of Salem, N.J., has been awarded a contract from Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Pascagoula, Miss. to supply the Advanced Lighting System (ALS) for the US Navy's DDG 1000 program. The ALS is a fully integrated system of...
CorActive and INO Ally for Optical Fiber Products
Feb 1, 2007 — In Quebec City, CorActive High-Tech Inc., a supplier of specialty optical fiber products, has entered into an exclusive worldwide partnership with INO (National Optics Institute), a Canadian center of optics and photonics expertise. CorActive will...
Designing Fiber for Better Lasers
Feb 1, 2007 — Fiber lasers are becoming increasingly popular alternatives for applications that require high power — hundreds of watts to kilowatts — such as materials processing, surgery and biochemistry. Their high efficiency, enviable beam quality, small...
Laser Ties Optical Fiber in a Knot
Feb 1, 2007 — Minuscule microlasers have numerous potential applications in information technology and communications as well as in medical diagnostics. Scientists in several laboratories around the world have demonstrated ultracompact lasers in microdisks and...
Lumics Opens California Sales Office
Feb 1, 2007 — Lumics Inc. of Berlin, a manufacturer of fiber-coupled laser modules, has opened a sales office in Los Angeles to meet increasing demand for its products in North America. The company plans to extend its sales and service network in the US and to...
Matchmaking: Holey Fiber Meets Conventional Fiber
Feb 1, 2007 — Holey fibers — or photonic crystal fibers — possess many characteristics that make them potentially useful in a host of applications. They can be designed with customized dispersion characteristics, highly nonlinear properties, or to propagate only...
Mid-IR Fiber Laser Achieves ~10 W
Feb 1, 2007 — Lasers in the mid-infrared spectral region — often described as the wavelength range between 3 and 30 μm — are very useful in molecular spectroscopy because many molecules have unique spectral signatures in that region. With sufficient power,...
Nonlinear Susceptibility in Glass Points to Integrated Devices
Feb 1, 2007 — Amorphous glasses can exhibit second-order susceptibilities if the material’s inversion symmetry is broken by treatments such as poling or electron-beam irradiation. Recent experiments have shown that chalcohalide glasses, in particular, may have...
Pacer Establishes Office
Feb 1, 2007 — Pacer International of Concord, Calif., has opened Pacer USA LLC in Blue Bell, Pa. The facility will serve as its North American headquarters and will provide sales and technical support services for the company’s fiber optic, laser, information...
Polarizer Converts Arbitrary Beam to Radial or Azimuthal Polarization
Feb 1, 2007 — Radially or azimuthally polarized light can be useful in high-resolution photolithography, in coupling into hollow-core fibers and in other applications. Scientists in several laboratories have designed intracavity devices to generate radially or...
Sabeus Garners Grant to Improve Production
Feb 1, 2007 — Sabeus Corp. of Calabasas, Calif., has received an Innovation Adoption Award from Innovation Works, a Pittsburgh-based Ben Franklin Technology Partner. The company operates a manufacturing facility in Freeport, Pa., and produces fiber optic sensing...
Taking a Laser’s Temperature Remotely
Feb 1, 2007 — It is not just people who get hot and bothered; the same is true for high-power laser diodes, where the buildup of heat leads to thermally induced changes in the refractive index. Such changes can significantly alter the shape and position of the...
The Entrepreneurs’ New Cloth
Feb 1, 2007 — Unlike the emperor’s new duds that were a clever hoax, entrepreneurs are coming up with seemingly miraculous innovations in cloth and clothing manufacture that are quite real. Textile-related innovations for 2007, profiled in Future Materials...
Vibrating Microsphere Q-Switches Fiber Laser
Feb 1, 2007 — Although the continuous-wave outputs of fiber lasers have already found numerous real-world applications, scientists and engineers have more recently begun exploring potential applications of these lasers’ pulsed-power outputs. Bulk acousto-optic...
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