Optoelectronics Report articles from February 2005

Optoelectronics Report archives from February 2005

Photonics West '05 reflects more mature industry.
February 15, 2005... SAN JOSE, CA -- From fiber lasers and high-power diode arrays to LEDs, spectrometers, and biomedical imaging, Photonics West '05 (January 22-27) featured hundreds of technical presentations and product demonstrations that not only captured...

Northrop Grumman DES to target military.(Directed Energy Systems)
February 15, 2005... REDONDO BEACH, CA -- Northrop Grumman Corporation has established a new business area to help transition its high-energy laser systems from the laboratory to the battlefield. The new group, dubbed Directed Energy Systems (DES), is being...

Finisar to acquire certain Infineon assets.(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... Infineon (Munich, Germany) may have changed its mind about selling its entire fiberoptics business to Finisar (Sunnyvale, CA) in January, but the company changed it back a few weeks later. The two companies have entered into a definitive...

Thailand facility.(Fabrinet )(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... Fabrinet (San Francisco, CA), an engineering and electromechanical manufacturing services company, has officially opened its new Pinehurst manufacturing campus in Pathumthani, Thailand. The facility, which is already in the process of being...

Planar photonic crystals target Raman spectroscopy.
February 15, 2005... SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND -- Founded in 2001 by seven researchers from three departments at the University of Southampton, Mesophotonics has begun to commercialize integrated, planar photonic crystal technology that allows light to be bent,...

Are laser pointers really dangerous?
February 15, 2005... ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD -- Reports of aviator crews being "blinded" by visible green laser beams has led to speculation in the media of a possible security issue, but many have asked why the flurry of new reports after a period of...

X-ray laser.(Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... Plans by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC; Menlo Park, CA) to build a new synchrotron X-ray source received a major boost thanks to $54 million in funding provided by the U.S. Congress in the fiscal 2005 budget appropriation....

Modulators for NIF.(National Ignition Facility awarded contract to JDS Uniphase )(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... JDS Uniphase (San Jose, CA) has been awarded a contract to provide electro-optic modulators for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, CA). As part of the 192-beam laser...

Display deal.(Merck KGaA acquires Avecia's electronics business)(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... Avecia (Manchester, England) sold its OLED materials and polymer electronics businesses to Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) for EUR 50 million (US$64 million) in cash. The acquisition includes Avecia's displays business, Covion Organic...

OLLA for OLEDs.(organic light-emitting diode)(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... More than 20 of Europe's leading companies and research establishments in organic electronics and materials and lighting applications have joined together in OLLA (Aachen, Germany), an integrated R&D project to advance organic light-emitting...

Nanoparticulate project.(Cambridge Display Technology contracts with ILFORD Imaging Switzerland )(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... Cambridge Display Technology (CDT; Cambridge, England) has joined forces with ILFORD Imaging Switzerland in a project that should help pave the way for more optically efficient display devices in the future. The project--which will complete...

Channel-partner strategy a hit for Market Tech.
February 15, 2005... SCOTTS VALLEY, CA -- Market Tech, a distribution and sales rep firm founded two years ago by industry veteran Phil Crowley, is finding success with its strategy of being a channel partner for non-U.S. photonics firms trying to do business in...

Corning sees bright future in fiber-to-the-premises.
February 15, 2005... CORNING, NY -- While the overall telecommunications industry is showing some signs of improvement, Corning President and CEO Larry Aiello says he believes that a sustainable industry recovery will ultimately be led by strong customer demand...

USDC contracts.(U.S. Display Consortium contracts Binghamton University )(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY) was awarded a contract from the U.S. Display Consortium (USDC; San Jose, CA) to establish and operate the Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing. The USDC will initially provide $10 million...

NIF contract.(Adaptive Optics Associates awarded contract from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory )(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... Adaptive Optics Associates (Blackwood, NJ) was awarded a multi-million-dollar contract from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA) to produce 42 input sensor packages (ISPs) to be used on the National Ignition Facility...

Fiberoptic gyros.(KVH Industries awarded U.S. Patent)(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... KVH Industries (Middletown, RI) has been awarded U.S. Patent #6,836,334, "Angle Random Walk (ARW) Noise Reduction in Fiber Optic Sensors Using an Optical Amplifier," for its fiberoptic gyro line. The invention includes a system and method for...

Instrumentation partners.(Sira partners with Integrated Technologies )(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... Sira (Kent, England) and Integrated Technologies (ITL; Kent, England) are partnering to enable their clients to bring innovative ideas for clinical diagnostic instruments to market. Together the two companies will offer a new service to take...

Optoelectronics report 40.(Illustration)
February 15, 2005... Optoelectronics Report 40 52-week Company Ticker Jan. 28 Feb. 14 Low High ADC Telecom ADCT 2.56 2.40 1.75 3.43 Agere...

LED acquisition.(PerkinElmer acquires Elcos AG )(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... PerkinElmer (Wellesley, MA) acquired Elcos AG (Pfaffenhofen, Germany), a leading designer and manufacturer of custom LED solutions for biomedical and industrial applications. The transaction combines Elcos' visible LED technology platform and...

Imaging news.(Society for Imaging Science and Technology appointed Suzanne Grinnan as executive director )(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... The Board of Directors of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T; Springfield, VA) appointed Suzanne Grinnan to the position of executive director effective January 1, 2005. Grinnan replaces Calva Leonard, who retired after...

New territory.(foreign operations of FiberLabs)(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... FiberLabs (Saitam, Japan), a private corporation previously spun out of KDD Laboratories, is now selling its line of optical amplifiers and ASE sources are now available in Canada and the United States through a team of manufacturers'...

Machine vision.(Webview purchases Advanced Technologies)(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... Webview (Santa Rosa, CA), a provider of machine vision technologies and products, has purchased all of the assets and intellectual property of the Spectrum Vision System by Advanced Technologies, formerly located in Palm Harbor, FL. Over the...

Diode-laser market growth slows to 4%: review and forecast, Part 2: diode lasers.
February 1, 2005... The Laser Focus World 2005 Annual Review and Forecast of the Laser Marketplace is conducted in conjunction with Strategies Unlimited (Mountain View, CA). Part II covers the diode-laser marketplace. Part I, which reported on non-diode-laser...

Where the numbers come from.
February 1, 2005... The Laser Focus World Annual Review and Forecast of the Laser Marketplace is based on a worldwide survey of laser producers and covers 27 types of lasers and 20 applications. Diode-laser market information is provided by Strategies Unlimited...

Chemical weapons.(Pacific Northwest Laboratory gets contract to develop chemical weapon sensor)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Chemical weapons: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL; Richland, WA) has received a four-year, $12.5 million contract from the U.S. Defense Advance Research Projects Agency to develop laser-based chemical weapon sensors. PNNL and...

Minority investment.(B&W TEK gets financing from Summit Partners)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Minority investment: B&W TEK (Newark, DE), a manufacturer of analytical spectrometers, spectroscopic lasers, medical lasers, and other industrial instrumentation, announced today that it has received a minority investment from Summit...

Diode-laser products and configurations.
February 1, 2005... The diode-laser revenue figures shown in Table 2 are based on the unit sales figures in Table 1 and average selling prices (ASPs) for each type of diode laser. The ASPs for diode lasers vary widely and are a function of wavelength, power...

Optoelectronics report 40.(Illustration)
February 1, 2005... Optoelectronics Report 40 52-week Company Ticker Jan. 13 Jan. 28 Low High ADC Telecom ADCT 2.31 2.56 1.75 3.63 Agere...

Cutting back.(Three-Five Systems Inc. plans cost reduction actions )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Cutting back: Three-Five Systems (Tempe, AZ), a manufacturer of custom displays and display systems using LCD and LCoS microdisplay technology, is planning a number of actions to reduce operating costs and excess manufacturing capacity. TFS...

Photomask production.(DuPont Photomasks Inc. expands in Singapore)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Photomask production: DuPont Photomasks (Round Rock, TX) today announced that it has expanded photomask production capacity at its facility in Singapore in response to growing demand from Asia-Pacific semiconductor markets. The company said...

Thin-film market.(forecasts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Thin-film market: According to a soon-to-be-released report from Business Communications Company, Inc. (www.bccresearch. com)RGB-300 Thin Films: Raw Materials, Technologies and Applications,the worldwide market for thin film raw materials is...

DIAL optics.(Optical Surfaces Ltd. to supply key optics for Differential Absorption Lidar instrument)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... DIAL optics: Optical Surfaces Ltd. (Surrey, England) has been selected to supply key optics for an advanced Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) instrument that is being developed for the UK National Physical Laboratory. The DIAL instrument...