Holography News articles from January 2006

Holography News archives from January 2006

CFC International sells to Quad-C Management.(ANNUAL INDUSTRY REVIEW)
January 1, 2006... Shortly before Holography News went to press CFC International announced that an agreement has been reached to sell the company to an affiliate of private equity firm Quad-C Management. Quad-C will acquire the company in an all-cash transaction...

Fuji bucks trend with AgH holographic film.(OBITUARY)
January 1, 2006... Fuji Film has bucked the trend among large photo-film manufacturers with the launch of a new silver halide film for holography, designated HL-905. The product has just been launched in the USA with a European launch imminent. It is a...

Double-digit growth returns but decorative markets decline.(ANNUAL INDUSTRY REVIEW)
January 1, 2006... In Holography News we regularly publish the financial results from the half-dozen public holography companies spread around the world that publish this information. But while these are inevitably some of the biggest producers, there are also...

Diffractive pigments power new paint line from DuPont.(ANNUAL INDUSTRY REVIEW)
January 1, 2006... At the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) trade show in Las Vegas, DuPont Performance Coatings unveiled a new line of custom automotive refinish paints using JDSU's Flex Products Division SpectraFlair[R] diffractive pigments. The Hot...

Emmett Leith, a father of holography.(SPECIAL TRIBUTE: EMMETT LEITH - 1927-2005)(Reprint)
January 1, 2006... Emmett Leith and his then-colleague Juris Upatnieks invented the off-axis holography technique. Holography News interviewed him at the 2004 SPIE Practical Holography conference to get his story on their early work. Holograph News: When you...

Desktop hologram production.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
January 1, 2006... Kwan Ming Yung, who uses Simon Yung as his anglicised name, has invented ways to produce holograms on a standard desktop laser, inkjet or pin-matrix printer. The former requires a rainbow-pattern holographic foil as its substrate, but the...

True-colour holographic endoscopy project at optic technium.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
January 1, 2006... A UK consortium under the direction of Hans Bjelkhagen has been awarded over [pounds sterling]250,000 ([+ or -]$442,000/[euro]366,000) for a two-year research project to develop true-colour holographic endoscopic imaging. The consortium,...

HSC's holographic access and security system.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
January 1, 2006... Moscow company Holography Service Co (HSC), which is associated with Bauman Moscow State Technical University, has designed a holographic access system which features an encrypted hidden image on a hologram. The hidden image is read at the...

A happy and prosperous new year?(STOCKWATCH)
January 1, 2006... Last January there were only two companies worth more than they are now--CFC International and K Laser. But the difference in CFCI's value is marginal at just 3.4% less, and there are special circumstances in that in January last year CFCI...

Exhibitions and conferences.(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... 6th Security Printing and Alternative Solutions in Russia/CIS and Eastern/Central Europe Conference January 25-26, 2006 Bucharest, Romania www.security-printing.com The Authentication Connections Forum March 30-31, 2006...

10 years ago.(CONFERENCES)
January 1, 2006... Holograms and Copyright In 1994 the IHMA published its Hologram Copyright Guidelines, and ten years ago Holography News carried two articles touching on this topic. A main feature examined the topic in general, pointing out that there was...

Emmett Leith, Father of Holography, dies.(OBITUARY)
January 1, 2006... Emmett Leith, one of the truly seminal people in the invention of holography, died on December 23. He, with his assistant Juris Upatnieks, was responsible for the invention of off-axis laser holography, a development of Denis Gabor's pioneering...