Optoelectronics Report articles from July 2004

Optoelectronics Report archives from July 2004

Photonics firms fill semiconductor niches.
July 15, 2004... SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- As the semiconductor industry continues to push for smaller feature sizes and line widths, optics and laser manufacturers are also continuing to develop process and metrology technology to meet the new challenges. This...

Fred Welsh retires from OIDA.(Optoelectronics Industry Development Association)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... WASHINGTON, DC -- Fred Welsh, executive director of the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) for nearly eight years, has retired from the organization. According to Welsh, who joined OIDA in early 1997 after nearly 30 years...

Airborne lasers.(High-Energy Laser Joint Technology Office)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... Airborne lasers: The High-Energy Laser Joint Technology Office (Albuquerque, NM) has awarded a $1.4 million contract to Boeing-SVS to increase the precision of airborne high-energy lasers through improved compensation for aero-optical induced...

Microdissection.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... Microdissection: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging (Thornwood, NY), the Lucy Whittier Molecular and Diagnostic Core Facility at the University of California at Davis (Davis, CA), and Palm Microlaser Technologies is collaborating in research activities...

Commercial disk laser reaches 4-kW output.
July 15, 2004... PLYMOUTH, MI -- Often the gain material in a solid-state laser is rod-shaped--a geometry that is easy to work with and allows the straightforward extraction of a high-quality beam. But for high-power lasers, the low surface-to-volume ratio of...

Diode-laser use expands in dentistry.
July 15, 2004... NASHUA, NH -- For years, technology developers and market analysts have considered the dental field to be a goldmine for lasers. But with 600,000 dentists worldwide--170,000 of them in the United States--and only 3% market penetration so far,...

NIF substrates.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... NIF substrates: Zygo (Middlefield, CT) has received an order from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to develop improved manufacturing technologies and pilot plant equipment required for fabricating thin fused silica optics for the...

Analytical instrumentation.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... Analytical instrumentation: AMETEK (Paoli, PA) has acquired Taylor Hobson Holdings (Leicester, England), a manufacturer of ultraprecision surface measurement instrumentation for a variety of markets, including optics, semiconductors, hard...

Image sensors.(Large sky-Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope Project)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... Image sensors: e2v technologies (Chelmsford, England) has been awarded a contract to supply 36 image sensors to the Chinese LAMOST (Large sky-Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope) project. The contract calls for e2v to supply 36 4k x 4k...

New VP.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... New VP: Mark West has joined CVI Laser (Albuquerque, NM) as vice president of operations. West was previously with 3M Precision Optics (formerly Corning Precision Lens, formerly U.S. Precision Lens) as senior manufacturing operations manager....

Olympus, Waseda to establish bioscience institute.
July 15, 2004... SINGAPORE -- Waseda University and Olympus Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) have opened the Waseda-Olympus Bioscience Research Institute, a joint research facility that will focus on the investigation of higher brain functions such as intellect and...

SEMATECH center to support 193-nm lithography.(immersion Technology Center)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... AUSTIN, TX -- International SEMATECH has established the 193-nm immersion Technology Center (iTC), which will be one of the first major programs of the newly established Advanced Materials Research Center (AMRC). The iTC is designed to bring...

Thales and Alcatel set up industrial research lab.
July 15, 2004... NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, FRANCE -- Thales and Alcatel have created a joint research laboratory dedicated to semiconductor technologies, targeting applications in telecommunications, defense, space, and security. The laboratory, known as the...

Laser targets.(Army's Tank-automotive and Armaments Command in Warren)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... Laser targets: Engineered Support Systems won an $8.9 million order from the Army's Tank-automotive and Armaments Command in Warren, MI, to provide high-tech targeting systems. The Knight Precision Targeting System comprises a laser...

Delisting.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... Delisting: Miravant Medical Technologies (Santa Barbara, CA) is demanding an immediate delisting from the Berlin Stock Exchange in an attempt to prevent potential manipulative trading practices that are banned in the United States. In June...

IR assemblies.(BAE Systems (Lexington, MA))(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... IR assemblies: Diversified Optical Products (Diop; Salem, NH), a manufacturer of thermal imaging systems and optical components, has received a five-year, $9 million contract from BAE Systems (Lexington, MA) to design and fabricate the...

OLED reseller.(Liteye Systems, BFi OPTiLAS)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... OLED reseller: Liteye Systems (Highlands Ranch, CO) entered into an exclusive reseller agreement with BFi OPTiLAS (Evry, France) covering Western Europe and a non-exclusive agreement throughout Eastern Europe. Liteye Systems manufactures...

Director of marketing.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... Director of marketing: Indium Corporation (Clinton, NY) welcomes Paul Salmon as director of marketing for Indium of Europe. Salmon has extensive business experience in soldering products and sales-channel development, plus strategic marketing...

Optoelectronics report 40.(Illustration)
July 15, 2004... Optoelectronics Report 40 52-week Company Ticker June 29 July 16 Low High ADC Telecom ADCT 2.72 2.43 1.96 3.85...

Handheld patent.(Erchonia Medical)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... Handheld patent: The US Patent Office issued Patent #6,746,473 to Erchonia Medical (Mesa, AZ) covering all hand-held laser devices with more than one laser. According to the company, this patent enables Erchonia Medical to offer the only...

CCD imagers.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... CCD imagers: DALSA Corporation (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) received an order from Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions for high performance CCD image sensor chips. The order, worth $2.2 million, will be delivered over the next 15...

From the editors.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Optoelectronics is the technology of systems and devices that emit, modulate, transmit, or sense light. Optoelectronic devices include lasers and other light sources, optics, fiberoptic components, detectors, displays, and imaging devices....

Bookham to reincorporate in the United States.
July 1, 2004... ABINGDON, ENGLAND -- Electro-optic specialist Bookham Technology, currently headquartered in Abingdon, has announced plans to change its corporate domicile to the United States. The proposed change is to be effected by a UK court-approved...

Stemmer Imaging expands presence in Europe.(Interview)
July 1, 2004... PUCHHEIM, GERMANY -- Stemmer Imaging has been Germany's largest supplier of image processing components for several years. The company boasts annual sales of 17.3 million euros (for the year 2002/2003) and has until recently concentrated on...

Moving on.(Mergers and Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Moving on: FiberGrade Inc., a developer of optical transmission monitoring technologies, has officially "graduated" from The Boston University (Boston, MA) Photonics Center's Business Acceleration Program and was acquired by PXIT (Lexington,...

Grating mask patent.(Licensing, certification and accreditation )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Grating mask patent: Ibsen Photonics (Copenhagen, Denmark), a supplier of holographic phase masks, transmission diffraction gratings and DWDM monitors based on diffraction gratings, has been granted U.S. Patent # 6,693,701, "Method and...

Palomar, Lumenis resolve patent litigation.
July 1, 2004... BURLINGTON, MA AND YOKNEAM, ISRAEL -- Medical-laser manufacturers Palomar Medical Technologies and Lumenis have agreed to a settlement resolving their on-going litigation regarding patent and contractual matters. The terms of the settlement...

Lumileds to develop LEDs for projection displays.(Light Emitting Diodes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... SAN JOSE, CA -- The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC) has awarded a research and development contract to Lumileds to develop LED-based illuminators for projection display applications. The $2-million project will be cost-shared equally between...

DARPA funds new photonics research center.(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, IL -- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a $6.2 million, four-year grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a photonic research center to develop ultra-fast light sources...

TFT partners.(thin-film transistor )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... TFT partners: Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, NJ), a developer of organic light emitting device (OLED) technologies for flat panel displays, lighting, and other opto-electronic applications, and Palo Alto Research Center (PARC; Palo...

Machine vision.(Contracts )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Machine vision: Cognex Corporation (Natick, MA) has received a single purchase order in excess of $2 million from Accretech, a leading Japanese manufacturer of semiconductor processing equipment. The purchase order is for Cognex vision...

Expanding.(Mergers and Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Expanding: Mahi Networks (Petaluma, CA) acquired Photuris (Piscataway, NJ), a supplier of advanced optical services equipment. The acquisition combines Mahi's leading transport and packet switching product portfolio with Photuris'...

LRC, evident to develop white-light LEDs for illumination.(Lighting Research Center)(light-emitting diodes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... TROY, NY -- The Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will work with Evident Technologies (Troy, NY) to develop and demonstrate new, efficient white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for use in general illumination. Funding...

Optoelectronics Report 40.(Illustration)
July 1, 2004... Optoelectronics Report 40 Company Ticker June 14 June 29 ADC Telecom ADCT 2.55 2.72 Agere Systems AGRa 2.20 2.26 Agilent A ...

Terahertz project.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Terahertz project: Spire Corporation (Bedford, MA) is developing nano-engineered gallium arsenide layers for fabrication of miniature terahertz lasers under an Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded, $99,000 Phase I Small Business...

Looking ahead.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Looking ahead: High Q Laser (Hohenems/Bregenz, Austria) has hired Heinz Huber as its new sales and application director. Huber received his Ph.D. from University of Munich on ultrafast laser spectroscopy and gained experience on the...

Series C.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Series C: Konarka Technologies (Lowell, MA), secured $18 million in its Series C round of financing to further develop and commercialize its photovoltaic nanotechnology products. Since 2001, Konarka has raised more than $32 million. The...

NIF optics.(National Ignition Facility)(Alpine Research Optics)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... NIF optics: Alpine Research Optics (ARO, Boulder, CO) has won an order valued at over $1 million to supply laser optics to the National Ignition Facility (NIF) operated by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA). The contract,...

Venture funding.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Venture funding: Comlase (Stockholm, Sweden), which develops process technology and equipment for the production of high reliability semiconductor lasers and opto-electronic devices, has completed a new round of venture funding, providing the...