Optoelectronics Report articles from December 2003

Optoelectronics Report archives from December 2003

ILDA meeting honors creativity.(International Laser Display Association)
December 15, 2003... BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -- The entertainment and display market continues to suffer from the worldwide recession, although some of the larger companies are doing better than they were a year ago, due in part to their adoption of more broad-based...

Spectra-Physics forms new strategic marketing group.(Spectra-Physics Lasers Inc., Heinrich Endert)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Spectra-Physics has created a new Strategic Marketing group "to define market-driven business strategies for long-term, profitable growth." The group will focus on four key market segments: microelectronics, industrial...

Oscillator manufacturing: OEwaves Inc. (Pasadena, CA), a manufacturer of high-frequency signal sources and related components.(Agilent Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... Oscillator manufacturing: OEwaves Inc. (Pasadena, CA), a manufacturer of high-frequency signal sources and related components, has chosen Agilent's photonics manufacturing facility in Boblingen, Germany, to package and manufacture OEwaves'...

NIR camera.(Near Infrared Camera, Rockwell Scientific, University of Arizona, contract)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... NIR camera: Under an award from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the University of Arizona has selected Rockwell Scientific Company (Thousand Oaks, CA) to provide the infrared focal plane arrays for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)...

Rochester laser lab gets $63 million.(University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics)
December 15, 2003... ROCHESTER, NY -- The University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) will receive more than $63 million in government funding next year to operate and expand the Omega laser program. The funding, which includes $20 million...

Optek sold to British electronics firm.(OPTEK Technology Inc., TT Electronics)
December 15, 2003... CARROLLTON, TX -- Global electronics supplier TT electronics (Surrey, England) has acquired optoelectronics manufacturer Optek Technology from privately held Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation. TT electronics paid $51.3 million in cash for net...

Wavelight to open U.S. subsidiary.(WaveLight Laser Technologie AG)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... ERLANGEN, GERMANY -- Medical-laser manufacturer WaveLight Laser Technologie has announced plans to establish its U.S. headquarters in Virginia. Through a $5 million investment, the company will create 30 new jobs. Virginia successfully...

China presence.(New Wave Research Inc. opens a new office at Shanghai)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... China presence: New Wave Research (Fremont, CA), a developer of laser systems for microelectronic and analytical applications, has opened an office in Shanghai, China, to provide support and service for the company's products, including laser...

Image sensors.(DALSA Corporation, contract)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... Image sensors: DALSA Corporation (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has received a major production order for custom image sensors from an international customer. The order is valued at $2.1 million and will be delivered in the first half of 2004....

LED grant.(light emitting diodes, contract between Osram Opto Semiconductors and United States government)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... LED grant: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (San Jose, CA), a developer of solid-state LED devices, today announced that it has received a $4.65 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to demonstrate the potential of white organic...

Photovoltaics manufacturers fight growing pains.(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Worldwide shipments of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules surged by 52% in 2002, a new report from Strategies Unlimited reveals. According to Photovoltaic Manufacturer Shipments & Profiles, 2001-2003, 2002 market...

Survey shows 15% revenue growth in 2003.(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... NASHUA, NH -- The laser industry experienced a 15% revenue increase in 2003 over 2002 to reach $4.9 billion, according to the latest Laser Focus World marketplace survey. The factors fueling this and other trends in the laser and...

Optoelectronics report 40.(Illustration)
December 15, 2003... Optoelectronics Report 40 52-week Company Ticker Dec. 1 Dec. 15 Low High ADC Telecom ADCT 2.50 2.63 1.90 3.21...

Series B.(EM4 shares)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... Series B: EM4 (Burlington, MA), which is pursuing contract design and manufacturing services for photonics and integrated optics, has raised $8 million in a Series B private equity financing round led by Baker Capital (New York, NY), Other...

InGaAs camera.(indium gallium arsenide, contract between Sensors Unlimited Inc. and United States Air Force)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... InGaAs camera: Sensors Unlimited (Princeton, NJ), a provider of short-wave infrared imaging products based on indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) technology, has received a Phase 1b contract from the U.S. Air Force for a 12-month, $2 million...

Telescope optics.(Goodrich Corp., Southern Astrophysical Research, contract)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... Telescope optics: Goodrich Corporation (Charlotte, NC) has delivered the optical assemblies for the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope to an 8800-ft mountain in the Chilean Andes. The effort is funded by a partnership between...

Settled.(contract between Trimedyne Inc., Lumenis Ltd.)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2003... Settled: Trimedyne (Irvine, CA) and Lumenis (Yokneam, Israel) have agreed to a settlement of litigation existing between them. Trimedyne and Lumenis have agreed to enter into a long-term commercial agreement covering the manufacture by...

OSI creates new laser division from SEO assets.(Schwartz Electro-Optics Inc., OSI Systems Inc., acquisition)
December 1, 2003... HAWTHORNE, CA--OSI Systems has completed a $1.5 million acquisition of substantially all remaining assets of Schwartz Electro-Optics (SEO; Orlando, FL) and created a new business group called OSI Laserscan. OSI previously had acquired SEO's...

Candela sales jump 41% in Q1.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... WAYLAND, MA--Like a handful of its competitors in the medical-laser market, Candela Corporation is experiencing strong growth of late, thanks in large part to a focused strategy that emphasizes multi-application products for office-based...

Photonic chips.(SBG Labs, Hoya Corporation)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Photonic chips: SBG Labs (Sunnyvale, CA) has sold its telecommunications photonic chip intellectual property and business to Hoya Corporation of Japan. SBG Labs will support the technology transfer and assist the Hoya fiberoptic division with...

Moving on.(Avanex Corp. plans to sell its facility)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Moving on: Avanex (Fremont, CA) reportedly is looking to sell its Livingston, Scotland, facility, originally established by arrayed wave-guide gratings startup Kymata. Kymata was sold to Alcatel Optronics in 2001 and then to Avanex earlier...

BTG to commercialize strain-compensated VCSELs.(vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, Cornell Research Foundation )
December 1, 2003... LONDON, ENGLAND--BTG has acquired exclusive rights to commercialize strain-compensated multiple quantum-well vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) from the Cornell Research Foundation (Ithaca, NY). These lasers, which emit light...

Market and energy trends fuel solar cell technology.
December 1, 2003... AUSTIN, TX--Based on an emitter-wrap-through (EWT) photovoltaic (PV) design technology, Advent Solar (Albuquerque, NM) took first place in a field of 35 companies at the 2003 National Clean Energy Venture Competition last month. The 2003...

Data storage.(Spectra-Physics Lasers Inc., production)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Data storage: Spectra-Physics (Mountain View, CA) is reporting a marked increase in orders for its lasers in the data-storage industry for the third quarter of 2003. In the past two months, Spectra-Physics says that orders for lasers alone in...

Series C.(Open Tolerant Transponders, CoreOptics, shares)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Series C: CoreOptics (Nuremberg, Germany and Manchester, NH), a designer and manufacturer of 40Gb/s and 10Gb/s Open Tolerant Transponders, raised $15 million in Series C funding from existing investors, Crescendo Ventures, Techno Venture...

Account executive.(John Posey joined OFS Specialty Photonics)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Account executive: The Specialty Photonics Division of OFS (Avon, CT), designer, manufacturer, and supplier of fiberoptic products has appointed John Posey as its new West Coast account executive. Posey will cover the Western territory for...

Strategic partners.(Network Elements Inc., TriQuint Semiconductor Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Strategic partners: Network Elements (Beaverton, OR), a developer of 10Gb/s optical networking modules, has solidified a strategic partnership with TriQuint Semiconductor (Hillsboro, OR), a supplier of high-performance components for...

Biolase hits paydirt in dentistry.(BioLase Technology Inc., products)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... SAN CLEMENTE, CA--The dental market has been one of the toughest nuts to crack for medical-laser vendors, but one company-Biolase-has managed to find a formula for success with its dental-laser technology. The company reported net income of...

Optoelectronics report 40.(Illustration)
December 1, 2003... Optoelectronics Report 40 52-week Company Ticker Nov. 14 Dec. 1 Low High ADC Telecom ADCT 2.52 2.50 1.62 ...

SBIR for OLEDs.(organic light emitting diode, Small Business Innovation Research)(contracts)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... SBIR for OLEDs: Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, NJ), a developer of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies for flat-panel displays, lighting, and other optoelectronic applications, has been awarded a $730,000 Small Business...

UV laser contract.(ultravoilet, Actinix, contract)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... UV laser contract: Actinix (Soquel, CA) has received a contract from the US National Science Foundation to develop a new ultra-violet laser to be implemented into a photomask inspection and metrology tool for the 90-, 65-, and 45-nm...

New CEO.(Peter Cairoli as chief executive officers at Albis Optoelectronics AG)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... New CEO: Albis Optoelectronics (Rueschlikon, Switzerland), a manufacturer of indium phosphate-based optical components, has appointed Peter Cairoli as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Albis, Cairoli headed an institute for micro...

Exclusive license.(Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH, University of Potsdam, agreement)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Exclusive license: Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH (Marburg, Germany) and the University of Potsdam, Germany (represented by ZAB GmbH Brainshell) signed an exclusive license agreement relating to patent application WO 03/055018. The patent...

Seminar to highlight opportunities in bioinstrumentation.(Michael Tice, Strategic Directions International Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... NASHUA, NH--Interest in the use of laser- and LED-based devices for genomics, proteomics, and drug discovery continues to fuel the bioinstrumentation market. Even so, many laser companies--especially those coming out of telecom--are still...