Optoelectronics Report articles from June 2005

Optoelectronics Report archives from June 2005

Coherent buys TuiLaser for $27 million.(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... SANTA CLARA, CA -- Coherent announced at Laser 2005 in Munich this week that it had acquired privately held TuiLaser AG (Munich, Germany) for Euro 22.5 million (US$27 million). TuiLaser is a designer and manufacturer of excimer and...

Karma Kamelian: Scottish firm reborn as Amphotonix.(Amphotonix acquires Kamelian )
June 15, 2005... GLASGOW, SCOTLAND -- The semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) product line of the recently liquidated UK company Kamelian has been reborn. Amphotonix has acquired the Kamelian brand, along with the intellectual property, stock and key...

Patent lawsuit.(Furukawa Electric North America sues Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Patent lawsuit: Furukawa Electric North America and its wholly owned subsidiary OFS Fitel LLC (Norcross, GA) are suing Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Company Ltd., alleging that the China-based company infringes at least four U.S. patents...

Distribution pact.(CVI Technical Optics and BFI Optilas)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Distribution pact: CVI Technical Optics (Onchan, Isle of Man) signed an exclusive distribution agreement with BFI Optilas covering the distribution of CVI's products in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway,...

JDS Uniphase expands portfolio with Photonic Power.
June 15, 2005... SAN JOSE, CA -- JDS Uniphase is proving true to its publicly stated intentions a few months ago to broaden is its base in commercial lasers by investing in growing markets for those lasers (see Laser Report,April 1, 2005). The company's...

Organic electronics support rollable display.(Society for Information Display meeting)
June 15, 2005... BOSTON, MA -- At the Society for Information Display meeting in late May, researchers from a Philips spin-off company demonstrated an active-matrix display that can be rolled into a smaller package when not in use. At the moment, users of...

Canadian photonics.(New Resources Corp. and Carleton University 's NRC Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre )(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Canadian photonics: The Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario and Carleton University officially opened the NRC Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (NRC-CPFC) in Ottawa, Canada. The $43 million facility is a partnership between...

Solar cells.(Konarka Technologies enters into a contract with Solaris Nanosciences )(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Solar cells: Konarka Technologies (Lowell, MA) and Solaris Nanosciences (Providence, RI) have entered a joint development agreement to evaluate the performance and efficiency of solar cells made with Konarka's light-activated power plastic...

Joint venture.
June 15, 2005... Joint venture: The fiberoptics unit of Schott AG (Mainz, Germany) and Zett Optics GmbH (Braunschweig, Germany) announced a joint venture to develop fiberoptic light sources and light source modules for a variety of applications. Schott will...

Projection displays.(Unaxis Optics' licensing agreement for ColorWheel technology )(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Projection displays: Unaxis Optics (Balzers, Liechtenstein) entered into a licensing agreement with a major Taiwanese optical manufacturing company for the exploitation of its patented ColorWheel technology for digital light processing...

Japan takes the lead in OLED displays.(organic light-emitting diode )
June 15, 2005... EL SEGUNDO, CA -- According to a recent report by iSuppli Corporation, Japanese manufacturers have taken the early lead in the fast-growing equipment market for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, looking to recover their reputation...

CVI acquires OCi.(CVI Laser Corp. acquires Optical Components)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- CVI Laser has acquired Optical Components Inc. (OCi; Covina, CA). This is the first acquisition for CVI Laser since partnering with Norwest Equity Partners (NEP; Minneapolis, MN) in May 2003. OCi had been a familyowned...

Optoelectronics report 40.(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Optoelectronics Report 40 52-week Company Ticker May 31 Jun. 14 Low High ADC Telecom ADCTD 18.16 21.44 12.25 19.95...

OLED venture.(Cambridge Display Technology Ltd. forms a joint venture with Sumitomo Chemical Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... OLED venture: Cambridge Display Technology (CDT; Cambridge, England) and Sumitomo Chemical signed a memorandum of understanding to form a new joint venture company to develop and supply advanced polymer OLED (POLED) materials and formulated...

New CEO.(appointment of Paul Minton at California Eastern Laboratories Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... New CEO: Paul Minton has been named CEO of California Eastern Laboratories (Santa Clara, CA), a supplier of NEC RF and wireless semiconductors, fiberoptic communications components, optocouplers, and solid state relays. Minton has been at CEL...

Another acquisition.(Multi-Fineline Electronix Inc. acquires Applied Optics)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Another acquisition: Multi-Fineline Electronix (Anaheim, CA), a provider of flexible printed circuit and component assembly solutions to the electronics industry, entered into an agreement with Applied Image Group and its subsidiary, Applied...

New management.(Mark Demos and Michael Hochmeister appointed)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... New management: Sabeus Photonics (Calabasas, CA), a developer of fiber optic components and subsystems for telecommunications, acoustic sensing, and surveillance, appointed Mark Demos to the position of general manager, Sabeus Optical...

CLEO/QELS & PhAST: something for everyone.(Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference)(Photonic Applications, Systems, and Technologies)
June 1, 2005... BALTIMORE, MD -- The 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS, May 22-27), once again presented an increasingly broad-based program that reflects the increasingly broad spectrum...

JDS Uniphase to acquire Acterna.
June 1, 2005... SAN JOSE, CA -- JDS Uniphase acquired about 40 companies during the telecom heyday feeding frenzies a few years ago, and of late the company has embarked upon a focused program of manufacturing consolidations, product phase-outs, and sales of...

R2R manufacturing.(GE Global Research)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... R2R manufacturing: The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC; San Jose, CA) signed a new $1.96 million R&D contract with GE Global Research (Niskayuna, NY) to transfer GE's graded barrier technology from a batch process to a roll-to-roll (R2R)...

Production partners.(Photop Technologies)(Pavilion Integration Corporation)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Production partners: Photop Technologies (Fuzhou, China) and Pavilion Integration Corporation (PIC; Fremont, CA) signed a codevelopment and joint manufacturing agreement targeting red, green, and blue lasers for the biotech, graphics, and...

OSA, SPIE lobby U.S. Congress on R&D funding.
June 1, 2005... WASHINGTON, DC -- Members of the Optical Society of America and SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering traveled to Washington, D.C. May 10-11 to express to Congress the need for increased and balanced federal investment in...

Holographic imagery enters industrial mainstream.
June 1, 2005... AUSTIN, TX -- Six years ago, Zebra Imaging founders Mark Holzbach, Michael Klug and Alejandro Ferdman made a holographic image big and substantial enough to serve as a three-dimensional, full-color, 50%-scale model of a Ford concept car (see...

Wristband displays.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Wristband displays: Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, NJ) was awarded a two-year, $1.7 million SBIR (small business innovation research) Phase III contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to continue its development of flexible...

New president.(Promoted James Marshall to President and Chief Operating Officer)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... New president: Vitex Systems (San Jose, CA), a provider of encapsulation films used in the production of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays and organic semiconductor applications, promoted James Marshall, COO, to president and COO....

UK subsidiary.(Cedip Infrared Systems)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... UK subsidiary: Cedip Infrared Systems (Croissy-Beaubourg, France), specialists in thermal IR camera systems, has opened a new subsidiary company, Cedip Infrared Systems Ltd., to increase support to and further develop its growing base of...

Done deal.(Fabrinet)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Done deal: Fabrinet (San Francisco, CA), an engineering and electromechanical manufacturing services company, closed its acquisition of three JDS Uniphase manufacturing sites in Mountain Lakes and Ewing, NJ and Fuzhou, China. According to the...

PCAST report says U.S. leads in nanotech R&D.(President Council of Advisors on Science and Technology)(United States)(Research and Development)
June 1, 2005... WASHINGTON, DC -- The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has released its first assessment of the U.S. government's nanotechnology research efforts in a new report, The National Nanotechnology Initiative at Five...

CIP launches 40 GHz optical sampler.(Centre for Integrated Photonics)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... IPSWICH, UK -- The nonprofit Centre for Integrated Photonics (CIP) has released an optical sampler that it claims provides a versatile platform for optical networks. The sampler offers return-to-zero data modulation, pulse shaping, and...

China affiliate.(Alfalight)(Sanetronic Company Ltd)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... China affiliate: Alfalight (Madison, WI) Sanetronic Company Ltd. (Kowloon, Hong Kong) as its distributor in China. Sanetronic will provide sales and support for Alfalight's complete line of highpower diode pump lasers and laser modules...

New distributor.(Rosh Electroptics)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... New distributor: Special Optics (Wharton, NJ) and ROSH Electroptics (Netanya, Israel) have formed a new alliance. ROSH, a representative for several optoelectronic companies, is now representing Special Optics' catalog and custom sales in...

Korean distributor.(NLight)(EO Technics)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Korean distributor: nLight (Vancouver, WA), a manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, named EO Technics (Anyang, Korea) its exclusive distributor for Korea. EO Technics will be responsible for sales and service of nLight's CW and QCW...

College support.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... College support: ILX Lightwave (Bozeman, MT) plans to donate $100,000 in equipment to colleges and universities over the next five years. Beginning in July 2005, as part of its University Donation Program, ILX Lightwave will award $10,000 in...

Sales partners.(OrbitIQ Inc)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Sales partners: Lynx Photonic Networks (Calabasas Hills, CA), a provider of photonic switches, has signed OrbitIQ Inc. as a sales partner, selling Lynx optical switching products through the OrbitIQ North American channel. Lynx offers an...

Optoelectronics report 40.(Illustration)
June 1, 2005... Optoelectronics Report 40 52-week Company Ticker May 12 May 31 Low High ADC Telecom ADCTD 15.98 18.16 12.25 19.95...

Expanding.(N-Science Corporation)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Expanding: N-Science Corporation (N-Sci; Arvada, CO) has completed its inaugural contract with Sandia National Laboratory involving the production of the company's low-reflectance optical surface called Deep Space Black. N-Sci has partnered...

New GM.(Appointed Yves Lemaitre as Vice President and General Manager)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... New GM: Avanex Corporation (Fremont, CA) has named Yves LeMaitre as vice president and general manager of the company's newly formed optical components business unit, which combines the active and passive discrete components and the...

Fiber purchase.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Fiber purchase: EMCORE Corporation (Somerset, NJ), a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite, and wireless communications markets, has acquired the analog cable TV...