Optoelectronics Report articles from April 2004

Optoelectronics Report archives from April 2004

D&SS rises with homeland-security tide.(Defense & Security Symposium)
April 15, 2004... ORLANDO, FL--The success this year of SPIE's Defense & Security Symposium (D&SS; formerly Aerosense; April 12-16, 2004) seems to be an indication that the focus on homeland security is at last bringing benefits to the optoelectronic...

Terabeam acquired by wireless firm.(YDI Wireless)(Terabeam Corp.)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... FALLS CHURCH, VA and REDMOND, WA--YDI Wireless is adding free space optics to its technology stable with the purchase of Terabeam, which will become a wholly owned subsidiary of YDI and remain focused on high capacity wireless systems for...

Another honor.(Charles Townes Month of Greenville, North Carolina)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... Another honor: The city of Greenville, NC, has bestowed another honor on the inventor of the laser, declaring April to be Charles Townes Month. The honor comes 40 years after the Greenville native received the Nobel Prize in physics. The...

Patent license.(BTG and Corning signed a representation agreement)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... Patent license: BTG (West Conshohocken, PA) and Corning (Corning, NY) signed a representation agreement whereby BTG will seek licensees on behalf of Corning for a portfolio of Corning patents related to a widely used glass molding process....

Edsell takes over at NP Photonics.
April 15, 2004... TUCSON, AZ--NP Photonics, a developer and manufacturer of micro fiber products for sensing and scientific applications, has appointed industry veteran Pat Edsell president and CEO, replacing former president and CEO Charles Chandler. ...

Photon Forum showcases market opportunities.
April 15, 2004... TUCSON, AZ--Breath analysis may eventually replace blood and urine analysis to identify and diagnose early-stage disease, according to Barbara Paldus, founder and chief technology officer of Picarro (Sunnyvale, CA). Speaking at the first...

New unit.(Jai Pulnix Inc. formed a new business unit for smart camera market and hired Mike Kelley)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... New unit: JAI PULNiX (Sunnyvale, CA), a global supplier of industrial-grade cameras, formed a new business unit to focus on the rapidly growing "smart camera" market. To lead this new business, JAI PULNiX has hired Mike Kelley, a 25-year...

New CEO.(Quantum Dot Corporation appointed George Dunbar as CEO and board director)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... New CEO: Quantum Dot Corporation (Hayward, CA) appointed George Dunbar as CEO and board director. Dunbar's experience includes more than 25 years as CEO, director, and senior manager with many private and public bioscience companies. Most...

Series C.(Continuum Photonics Corp.'s $17.5 million financing)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... Series C: Continuum Photonics (Billerica, MA), a developer of optical switches for the optical automation systems and telecommunications markets, closed an additional round of over $17.5 million in its Series C financing. A new investor, JK&B...

Cash deal.(GSI Lumonics agreed to acquire all shares of MicroE Systems Corp.)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... Cash deal: GSI Lumonics (Billerica, MA) signed a definitive agreement to acquire all shares of MicroE Systems Corp for an all-cash price of US$55.0 million. The transaction was approved by the Board of Directors of both companies and will be...

ASLMS keeps focus on basic science.(American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery)
April 15, 2004... DALLAS, TX--Dermatology and aesthetics once again dominated the annual meeting of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS), held March 31-April 4. From fractional resurfacing to radio-frequency wrinkle removal,...

Photonics Cluster event to focus on market trends.(global market for lasers and laser-based systems)
April 15, 2004... BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND--The UK Photonics Cluster is partnering with Laser Focus World and Industrial Laser Solutions magazines to present a daylong seminar on the global market for lasers and laser-based systems, May 7, 2004, at the Aston...

Precision merger.(Thorlabs Inc. has purchased Melles Griot Ltd.)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... Precision merger: Thorlabs (Newton, NJ) has purchased Melles Griot Ltd. (Cambridgeshire, England), a division of Melles Griot (Carlsbad, CA). The UK facility manufactures nano-positioning systems for high precision alignment applications,...

Sales office.(Photonic Products Ltd. opened a sales office in Germany)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... Sales office: Photonic Products (Hertfordshire, England) has opened a sales office in Grobenzell, near Munich, Germany. Dieter Gebhardt, who has worked for various laser and optoelectronics companies in Europe since 1986, is manager of the...

Axsys acquires Telic Optics.(Axsys Technologies acquired all of the stock of Telic Optics )(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... ROCKY HILL, CT--Axsys Technologies, a provider of opto-mechanical components and assemblies for aerospace, defense, and commercial markets, acquired all of the stock of Telic Optics (North Billerica, MA). Axsys paid an initial purchase price...

Camera contracts.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... Camera contracts: FLIR Systems (Portland, OR) was awarded a fixed-price contract valued at $7 million for the delivery of its Star SAFIRE III thermal imaging systems to the Royal Australian Air Force for use on its AP-3C Maritime Patrol...

Filter patents.(Ocean Optics was awarded two U.S. patents )(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... Filter patents: Ocean Optics (Dunedin, FL) was awarded two U.S. patents related to applications of its innovative dichroic filter array process. U.S. Patent 6,700,690, "Tunable variable bandpass filter," provides for a multifunction, or...

Photonics Europe generates strong support.
April 15, 2004... BELLINGHAM, WA--According to SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering (Bellingham, WA), the new Photonics Europe symposium in Strasbourg, France (April 23-26, 2004) has sold out. Participation is projected to include more than...

Canada to build femtosecond laser lab.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... VARENNES, QUEBEC--Canada has established an international laser center for research and development in fields ranging from earlier breast cancer detection to physics. The Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) laboratory, located at Universite du...

Optoelectronics report 40.(Illustration)
April 15, 2004... Optoelectronics Report 40 Company Ticker Mar. 31 Apr. 15 ADC Telecom ADCT 2.90 2.83 Agere Systems AGRa 3.21 2.84 Agilent A ...

Changing hands.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... Changing hands: APA Optics (Blaine, MN) sold certain assets related to its discontinued optics manufacturing segment to PNE (Litchfield, MN; dba IRD) for an undisclosed amount of cash. PNE will be subleasing a small portion of APA's Blaine...

DARPA money.(TechEn)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... DARPA money: TechEn (Boston, MA) has received funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the development of a real-time, wireless brain monitoring device, which utilizes near-infrared spectroscopy technology...

Telecom recovery?(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... Telecom recovery? The global telecommunications industry will return to historic growth patterns beginning in 2004, contends a new report from market analyst firm Insight Research (Boonton, NJ). According to the study, worldwide...

New owners.(Office Furnishings and Systems Inc. sold its Optical Channel Monitor product line to Princeton Lightwave Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2004... New owners: OFS (Somerset, NJ) sold its Optical Channel Monitor product line to Princeton Lightwave (PLI; Cranbury, NJ). OFS and PLI jointly reached an agreement for PLI to acquire the Optical Channel Monitor product line based in Somerset....

Medical-laser firm Cutera launches IPO.(initial public offerings)(Company Profile)
April 1, 2004... BRISBANE, CA -- Cutera (formerly Altus Medical) has done something the laser industry hasn't seen for a while now: launched an initial public offering. The company and its stockholders are offering 3,532,000 shares of common stock at...

Cree to buy GaN substrate business from ATM.(Cree Inc.)(Advanced Technology Materials Inc.)(gallium nitride )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... DURHAM, NC -- Cree has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the gallium nitride (GaN) substrate and epitaxy business of Advanced Technology Materials (Danbury, CT), through an asset purchase transaction. Under terms of the...

Photonics Europe.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Photonics Europe: According to SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering (Bellingham, WA), the new Photonics Europe symposium in Strasbourg, France has sold out. The symposium will be held at the Palais de la Musique et des...

LED lighting.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... LED lighting: As a way to more quickly bring the latest energy-saving light emitting diode (LED) lighting concepts to consumers and businesses, OptiLED (Irvine, CA) is partnering with the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) on a...

British lab wins $5.5 million laser grant.
April 1, 2004... DIDCOT, ENGLAND -- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) will receive a grant of 3 million [pounds sterling] (US$5.5 million) to create the most intense laser in the world. This award is the first facility-development project grant issued by...

Military moves forward with MTHEL project.(mobile tactical high-energy laser)
April 1, 2004... REDONDO BEACH, CA -- The U.S. Army and Israeli Ministry of Defense are moving forward with plans to develop a battlefield-deployable mobile tactical high-energy laser (MTHEL) capable of shooting down short-range rockets, artillery rounds,...

Semiconductor success.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Semiconductor success: Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA) has booked three separate orders for semiconductor capital equipment subsystems that total more than $6 million. The first system, purchased by a leading semiconductor equipment...

Public offering.(Rofin-Sinar Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Public offering: Rofin-Sinar (Plymouth, MI and Hamburg, Germany) has priced its previously announced offering of 2.5 million shares of common stock at $28/share, or net proceeds of $66.5 million. The company intends to use the net proceeds...

OPO partners.(optical parametric oscillators, Sacher Lasertechnik, GWU-Lasertechnik GmbH)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... OPO partners: Sacher Lasertechnik (Buena Park, CA) and GWU-Lasertechnik GmbH (Erftstadt, Germany) signed an exclusive agreement for the distribution of optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) in the United States, Canada, and Mexico....

Laser-guided weapons.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Laser-guided weapons: A new Laser Center of Excellence has been opened at BAE Systems Avionics Group Sensor Systems Division (SSD) facility (Edinburgh, Scotland). The new facility will be used in the production of the Laser System for the...

USDC, Honeywell collaborate on night vision imaging.(U.S. Display Consortium)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... SAN JOSE, CA -- The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC) awarded a research and development contract to Honeywell's Defense and Space business (Albuquerque, NM). The $233,000 award will focus on evaluating military night vision imaging systems...

BU Photonics Center building nanophotonics lab.(Boston University)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... BOSTON, MA -- The Photonics Center at Boston University has begun building a $1.5 million Nanophotonics Laboratory, scheduled to open this September. The facility will enable engineers and developers from different industries and areas of...

CIP to showcase R&D capabilities.(Centre for Integrated Photonics)
April 1, 2004... IPSWICH, ENGLAND -- A leading photonics research facility is throwing open its doors to representatives from universities across the country to demonstrate its ability to undertake collaborative research. The Centre for Integrated Photonics...

Michigan Aerospace wins $2.1 million LIDAR contract.(light detection and ranging )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... ANN ARBOR, MI -- Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC) received a $2.1 million, two-year contract from the University of New Hampshire as part of a larger grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to demonstrate its...

Electronic paper.(LIBRIe e-book reader )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Electronic paper: The first consumer application of an electronic paper display module, the LIBRIe e-book reader from Sony, is scheduled to go on sale in Japan in late April. This Philips display, which utilizes E Ink's electronic ink...

NIF optics.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... NIF optics: Technical Manufacturing Corporation (TMC; Peabody, MA) has announced received a second major design and build order from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for its National Ignition Facility (NIF) program. TMC delivered more...

New president.(OPTICS 1 Inc., Dane Hileman)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... New president: OPTICS 1 (Westlake Village, CA) has appointed Dane Hileman as president, effective April 5. Robert Fischer, founder and president, will transition to the role of CEO and will continue to be closely involved in the business and...

Photonics firms ponder channel strategies in U.S.
April 1, 2004... STRASBOURG, FRANCE -- The market dynamics of the last few years have prompted a number of photonics companies to turn to new sales and distribution strategies in an effort to cut costs and penetrate new markets. As a result, even larger...

Optoelectronics report 40.(Illustration)
April 1, 2004... Optoelectronics Report 40 Company Ticker Mar. 15 Mar. 31 ADC Telecom ADCT 2.66 2.9 Agere Systems AGRa 3.3 3.21 Agilent A ...

Nano patent.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Nano patent: Nanogen (San Diego, CA) was issued U.S. Patent #6,706,473, "Systems and Devices for Photoelectrophoretic Transport and Hybridization of Oligonucleotides," by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent relates to new devices...

European presence.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... European presence: Ophthalmic-laser manufacturer IntraLase (Irvine, CA) has received the CE mark for its Intralase FS laser and has also received certification of registration that its Quality Management System meets the requirements of ISO...