Industry News

December 1999

12/23/99: Melles Griot Acquires Laser Power Microlaser Group
12/14/99: Gator 2000 Breaks the 100mm Barrier
12/7/99: Lambda Physik Ramps Up Production for Lithography Excimer Lasers
12/2/99: Photon Dynamics Acquires CR Technology
12/1/99: Video Savant Software Now Supports I-Series Frame Grabbers

November 1999

11/22/99: CR Technology Announces New In-Line PCB Inspection System
11/16/99: Lambda Physik Extends StarLine Series
11/11/99: Thorlabs Introduces ASE-FL7200 White Light Test Source
11/9/99: UV Laser Symposium Draws a Crowd

October 1999

10/29/99: CR Technology Doubles Facility Size to Accommodate Business Growth
10/25/99: Newport Acquires Corning OCA Commercial Optics Operation
10/20/99: Spire Corporation to Develop Advanced
Photodiodes Under NASA Contract
10/15/99 Foresight Imaging Announces New I-Series Frame Grabbers
10/12/99 TRW Laser Shows Advanced Cutting Capabilities
10/8/99 OSA Says No to Merger with SPIE

September 1999

9/24/99 International SEMATECH to Utilize Microstepper with Lambda Physik F2 Laser
9/20/99: Photonics East Opens in Boston

August 1999

8/26/99: University of Rhode Island's Rapid Manufacturing Center to Install Optomec LENS System
8/24/99: The Imaging Source Europe GmbH Announces New Web Site
8/19/99: Photobit Awarded $8.65 Million Contract with
U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range
8/10/99: Nanotech 500FG Conformal Grinder Arrives at
Rochester's Center for Optics Manufacturing
8/9/99: Universal Imaging Announces MetaMorph 4.0
8/6/99: Foresight and Pegasus Form Medical-Imaging Partnership

July 1999

7/23/99: Attendance at SPIE Annual Meeting Tops 5,000 While Optics Clusters See Rapid Growth
7/20/99: ElectroOptical Industries Installs B1500M Furnace 7/16/99: Lucent Technologies Launches Fiberless Optical Networking System
7/8/99: DALSA Acquires Silicon Mountain Design
7/8/99: NP Photonic Technologies Awarded Phase II SBIR Grant for Fiber-Optics Development

June 1999

6/14/99: Hamamatsu Offers New FFT-CCDs for Low-Light-Level Applications
6/14/99: Composite Optics, Inc. Receives National Award
6/14/99: Schott-Fostec Introduces New Light-Source Baffle

News from CLEO/QELS '99:

• 5/28/99: Continuum's FX-IR Features IR Tunability Up to 5000 nm
• 5/27/99: Hamamatsu Announces R7110U-40 Series Hybrid Photodetectors
• 5/27/99: SLI Introduces 7 Watt HHL High Brightness Single Chip Diode Laser
• 5/25/99: Coherent Announces New Blue Laser Diode Module
• 5/25/99: JENOPTIK's New Diode Laser Delivers 2kW Through Fiber Optic Connection
• 5/25/99: CLEO/QELS '99 Names 10 New Product Award Winners
  
• 5/19/99: Spectra-Physics Introduces One-Box Ti:sapphire System At CLEO

5/11/99: NASA Licenses Technology to Big Sky Laser
5/3/99: Boeing Completes Testing of Tactical High-Energy Laser

4/30/99: Arthur Schawlow, Nobelist for Lasers, Dies

4/26.99: Astarte Fiber Networks Demonstrates New Optical-Switching Technology
4/26/99: Laser Science Inc. Offers New Dye Laser Series
4/26/99: Thorlabs Announces White Light Test Source

4/15/99: Lucent Announces WaveWrapper for Optical Networking
4/15/99: Lambda Physik Offers Multigas Versions for COMPex and LPX Excimer Lasers
4/15/99: Imaging Technology Appoints New VP of Engineering

3/29/99: Thermo Instrument Systems Completes Offer for Spectra-Physics
3/29/99: Bell Labs Introduces High-Power Mid-Infrared
Semiconductor Laser
3/29/99: Photonic Science Ltd. Forms Defence Vision Systems

3/9/99: Breault Announces ASAP 6.5
3/9/99: Spectrum Astro Teams with NASA on Swift Observatory
3/9/99: Corning Introduces New Laser-Optimized Multimode Fiber
3/9/99: Papers Sought for International Laser Meeting

3/1/99: Bell Labs Builds Multi-Channel Optical Wireless System
3/1/99: Hamamatsu Introduces Photo IC/LED Pair
3/1/99: Corning Acquires Rochester Photonics
3/1/99: Photronics Reports First-Quarter Decline

2/17/99: Lambda Physik's UV-Star Offers Peptide-Analysis Capabilities
2/17/99: Coherent Introduces Verdi 8W and 10W Green Lasers
2/17/99: Laser Treatment Approved by FDA for Lung Cancer
2/17/99: Cutting Edge Optics Opens Applications Testing Facility

2/5/99: Ocean Optics Introduces the CHEM2000
2/5/99: Point Source Demonstrates the iFlex-600
2/5/99: Lambda Physik Introduces UV Microlithography Lasers
2/5/99: Ocean Optics Releases Fiber Optic Collimating Lens Accessories

Jan. 99: 3M Realigns Business to Form Optical Transport Systems Business Unit
Jan. 99: Tyco Submarine Systems LTD The First To Benefit From Lucent Technologies' Undersea Lasers
Jan. 99: Applied Image Merges with Donnelley Optics
Jan. 99: Museum of Science Installs Laser Projector

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Products of the Month

Nov. 1999: FH Series Carbon Dioxide Laser Marking Heads from Synrad

Sept. 1999: The Mai Tai Laser from Spectra-Physics

July 1999: Optical Domes for Sensors from Meller Optics

May 1999: Blue External Cavity Diode Laser from Tui Optiks

March 1999: High-Power Laser Diode Bars from Siemens Microelectronics

Features

Nov. 99: Designing Advanced Automotive Illumination Systems

Nov. 99: Focusing on Better Interconnect Measurements

Sept. 99: Getting the Right CCD

July 99: Process Control with Industrial Raman Analyzers

May 99: Applications Challenge Optical Fabrication

May 99: A Turnkey Test System For IR Imagers

May 99: PTB Readers' Choice Product of the Year

Mar. 99: Using Gaussian Beam Decomposition

Mar. 99 Diodes Storm The Tunable Laser Ranks

Feb. 99: Shedding Light on Photodetector Selection

Feb. 99: Closing the Optical Technician Gap

Feb. 99: Workhorse Laser with Subnanosecond Pulsewidths

Dec. 98: New software from Microcal for 3D graphical views of the beam cross section

Oct. 98: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Mapping the Night Sky

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