06th December 2006
OPTEK Fiber Optic LED Transmitters For Datacoms Equipment
OPTEK Technology has developed a series of fibre optic LED transmitters for integration into data communications equipment. Designated the OPF670 Series, the LED transmitter family consists of the OPF670 in a TO-46 package, the OPF672 in a standard profile metal housing, and the OPF673 in a low profile metal housing.......... more

06th December 2006
EMCORE Strategic Investment in Terrestrial Solar Company WorldWater & Power Corp.
EMCORE and WorldWater & Power Corp., developer and marketer of photovoltaic systems for terrestrial power generation including proprietary electrical motor drive technology for water pumping, jointly announced that EMCORE has agreed to invest $18 million in WorldWater in return for an amount of convertible preferred stock and warrants of WorldWater, equivalent to an approximately 31% equity ownership in WorldWater, or approximately 26.5% on a fully diluted basis......... more

06th December 2006
NOCTREL First With Truly Transparent Solid-State Lighting Element
After the Luxembourg State visit to China, NOCTRON started negotiations with a major Chinese Solid-State Lighting (SSL) manufacturer and both parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding in China........ more

06th December 2006
PATENT NEWS: MOCVD Susceptor for Nitrides from Nakamura & DenBaars of Cree
In recent US Patent #7,122,844, Shuji Nakamura, Steven DenBaars, Max Batres and Michael Coulter; (Santa Barbara, CA) of Cree, Inc. (Goleta, CA) describe an improved susceptor for MOCVD growth of nitride and other epilayers....... more

30th November 2006
Nortel Networks Wins Major Fibre Optics Contract in Iraq
Iraq Telecommunications & Post Corporation (ITPC), Iraq's sole fixed-line operator, has awarded Nortel a US$20 m contract to build a nationwide optical backbone to deliver high-quality high-bandwidth data, video and multimedia services for personal and business communications. Nortel was selected by ITPC as the prime contractor for the Iraq national optical backbone following a public tender process....... more

30th November 2006
Fraunhofer Scores Big Award for Laser Diodes, Alternative Energy Sources and Carbon Based Coatings
American subsidiary of Germany's largest R&D organization, Fraunhofer USA, recently won four major awards amounting to $2.9 m from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for laser diodes, alternative energy sources and carbon-based coatings..more

30th November 2006
Osram Opto Launches LED Headlamp Products
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors launched its new OSTAR Headlamp. With the launch of the OSTAR Headlamp, and the upcoming launch of OSTAR Headlamp Hot Spot, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors will target vehicle forward lighting applications based on both reflector and projector systems. Systems designed with OSTAR Headlamps produce bright, white light and are ideal for applications such as high and low beam headlights, fog lights, daytime running lights and Adaptive Front lighting Systems (AFS)...... more

30th November 2006
UTEK Corporation Completes Technology Transfer with Cyberlux
Cyberlux Corporation announced that Cyberlux has acquired SPE Technologies, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of UTEK Corporation in a restricted stock transaction. Cyberlux also showcased its Covert/Visible solid-state semiconductor security lighting systems and made 21 claims awarded by the US Patent Office for Emergency Safety Lighting to accelerate pursuit of providing long-term solutions for interim and emergency lighting in hotels.... more

30th November 2006
First LED for Resistor Drive Applications
Philips Lumileds announced its new SnapLED 150 LEDs which are specifically designed, qualified, tested and binned for use in automotive dual drive-current applications such as rear combination lamps that provide both stop light and tail light functionality. The company says that SnapLED 150 parts simplify the engineering process and remove the need for more costly pulse-width modulation (PWM) circuits and eliminate the “flicker” that can be seen in some lamps when this type of circuit is employed...... more

21st November 2006
Cree & Arrow Electronics LED Distribution Agreement
Cree, Inc., announced a global distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics, Inc., to sell and support Cree XLamp products worldwide. The agreement gives Arrow’s over 130,000 customers ready access to Cree’s latest commercially available technology and a growing family of XLamp products. It also gives Cree’s customers access to one of the world’s largest and most efficient distributor supply chains....... more

21st November 2006
Ground-Breaking 100 Gigabit Ethernet Demonstration Across 4,000-km Live Network
A first-ever demonstration of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) technology by a team of industry leaders, including Finisar, Infinera, Internet2, Level 3 Communications, and University of California at Santa Cruz, shows that 100GbE technology is viable and capable of implementation in existing optical networks with 10 Gbit/s wavelengths.
This breakthrough trial also highlights how next-generation technology can address the emerging bandwidth needs of network providers and their users as advanced Internet-based applications continue to proliferate....... more

21st November 2006
Auto Industry First: LED for Resistor Drive Applications
Philips Lumileds announced its new SnapLED 150 LEDs which are specifically designed, qualified, tested and binned for use in automotive dual drive-current applications such as rear combination lamps that provide both stop light and tail light functionality. The company says that SnapLED 150 parts simplify the engineering process and remove the need for more costly pulse-width modulation (PWM) circuits and eliminate the “flicker” that can be seen in some lamps when this type of circuit is employed...... more

21st November 2006
Avago Launches New Components at Electronica – including half-watt LED for vehicles
At the Electronica show in Munich, Avago Technologies was amongst the many chip companies launching major new additions to their opto lines. In particular, introduced the industry’s first half-watt (0.5-W) high-brightness red-orange and amber LEDs in an automotive-industry-standard PLCC-4 surface-mount package...... more

13 th November 2006
Broadband White LED Light Engine
Opto Technology recently introduced its new OTLA-0130 broadband white LED light engine for applications requiring the full, UV to red spectrum.Potential instrumentation applications for the OTLA-0130 broadband white LED include: fluorescence, absorbance, transmittance, reflectance and colour metric measurements.
The OTLA-0130 integrates a white LED with additional monochromatic LED die to expand the unit's spectral output....... more

13 th November 2006
MEAD - MEMs Applications for Defence
QinetiQ, acting as the prime and in partnership with 21 other organisations from industry, academia and the UK defence supply chain, has formed the MEMs Applications for Defence (MEAD) consortium. Its remit is to take a new approach to developing Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology for defence purposes in an MoD backed project worth £3.2m over three years....... more

13 th November 2006
QinetiQ Optical Technology For Smaller Micro-satellites
TopSat, the micro-satellite designed and built by a QinetiQ-led consortium of British firms, was crowned as the Aviation and Space Grand Award Winner at Popular Science’s 2006 Best of What’s New Awards in New York City. TopSat received the Aviation and Space Grand Award – the top award for aerospace technology, from Popular Science, the best selling science and technology magazine in the world. The magazine’s editors sifted through thousands of entries before concluding that TopSat, which provides high resolution images of the earth at low cost, is an innovation that has the potential to change satellite and space reconnaissance technology...... more

13 th November 2006
Sofradir MBE Fab for MCT
Grenoble-based Sofradir has received permission to construct a new €9m ($11.5m) factory that will allow it to almost double its production area (from 5500 - 9000 sq m, one third cleanroom) and to mass produce 'third-generation' IR detectors made from mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) starting in late 2007.
Sofradir will upgrade from 2-inch to 4-inch MCT wafers, at the same time becoming the first European manufacturer to produce IR detectors using MBE and the only company, worldwide, to do so on an industrial scale. ..... more

- 06th November 2006
World's Smallest, Fully Integrated Flash LED Driver
At the Electronica trade show in Munich, Germany, from November 14-17,. National Semiconductor Corp., will showcase what it reckons is the world's smallest fully integrated flash LED driver. The LM2754, featuring low input noise, adjustable output power control and automatic LED shutdown, delivers up to an 800 mA load in handheld applications. ..... more

- 06th November 2006
OMRON Acquires Optical Communications Components from NHK
OMRON Corporation has finalized its agreement with NHK Spring Co., Ltd. and completed the screening process of the Japan Fair Trade Commission to acquire NHK Spring's FTTH optical coupler business on November 1, 2006. From November 1, the FTTH optical coupler business, which was based in NHK Spring's Yokohama head office, will be operated from OMRON's Kusatsu Factory. OMRON will maintain the existing supply chain for the immediate future to ensure a stable supply of products..... more

- 06th November 2006
Side-View LED Chips Enable Thinner Displays for Mobiles
BridgeLux, Inc., released its new BSV Series side-view LED chip product line. With the addition of the BSV series to its product portfolio, BridgeLux brings leading-edge performance and cost-effectiveness to the industry-standard side-view approach used in backlighting applications..... more

- 06th November 2006
OSTAR Version For Rear Projection Television
OSRAM has developed the OSTAR Projection RPTV (rear projection television) specifically for rear projection television. This efficient high-power LED light source is suitable for all projection systems, offers vibrant colours and is dimmable.
It also has a long life (20,000 to 50,000 hours depending on the operating conditions) and short switching times. OSTAR Projection RPTV is suitable for all projection systems, whether they are based on DMD, LCoS or LCD technology. It has been developed specifically for imagers of 0.85 to 0.95 inches used in systems with an aperture size of 2.0 to 2.4.... more

- 06th November 2006
Vitesse Smashes Bandwidth Barriers with Record 1.5 Terabit/s Switching in Single Device
Vitesse Semiconductor has unveiled the world’s highest capacity semiconductor device with breakthrough 1.5 Terabit per second (Tbps) switching capacity and advanced Signal Integrity technology. This, it says will lay the groundwork for new broadband services such as HDTV, Video-on-Demand and Fiber-to-the Home (FTTH)... more

- 30th October 2006
Firecomms Publishes Reliability Data on RCLED and VCSEL Products
Firecomms Ltd., of Cork, Ireland, has published significant data on the reliability of its core RCLED and VCSEL compound semiconductor devices. The new test data for the RCLED device indicates that the company’s RCLED, in various packages and integrations, has proven to operate stably within specification in excess of 400,000 hours. Firecomms RCLED devices are integrated in Ethernet, MOST, and 1394 transceivers with applications in consumer, industrial, and automotive markets... more

- 30th October 2006
PhlatLight RGB Chipset for Microdisplay TVs
Woburn, MA, USA, based Luminus Devices, Inc., announced that its PhlatLight PT120 chipset is being sampled to its microdisplay projection television customers. The red, green and blue LEDs in the PT120 chipset combine to produce more than 1,500 white lumens under normal operating conditions, enough brightness to illuminate RPTVs up to 62 inches with a single RGB chipset..... more

- 30th October 2006
Luxtera Demos Single-Chip CMOS 40-Gbit/sec WDM Technology
Carlsbad, CA, USA, based Luxtera Inc., the CMOS photonics specialist, announced its new technology that multiplexes four 10Gbps wavelengths onto a single fibre, on a production CMOS die – resulting in a single fibre 40Gbps link.
This advance reduces cost for high bandwidth interconnect over traditional parallel fibre solutions and paves the technological way for next generation 100Gbps Ethernet data centre connectivity.... more

- 30th October 2006
Spectrolab Produces Two Millionth Multi-Junction Solar Cell
Boeing announced that Spectrolab, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, has produced its two millionth multi-junction, GaAs-based solar cell. Spectrolab, the industry-leading solar cell producer, pioneered this type of cell in 1983, perfecting the technology for production several years later. Spectrolab?s advancements gave satellite operators the option of doubling satellite power and increasing potential revenue or controlling costs by reducing spacecraft size without sacrificing capability... more

- 23rd October 2006
Firecomms Ethernet FOT for POF enables IPTV services through Netopia gateway
The Cork, Ireland, based Firecomms Ltd., announced that its RCLED-based 650 nm Fast Ethernet FOT (fibre optic transceiver) is the light source chosen by Netopia for its next-generation high-performance MiAVo residential gateway to deliver bandwidth-intensive, QoS-reliant services such as IPTV, video and VoIP over plastic optical fibre (POF)... more

- 23rd October 2006
Mintera funds to accelerate deployments of 40 Gbps optical transmission systems
The Acton, MA, USA, based Mintera Corporation has raised $10m of venture capital financing co-led by investors Polaris Venture Partners and RRE Ventures. Also participating in the round are existing investors including Court Square Ventures, Star Ventures and Portview Communications Partners. This financing brings the total amount raised by Mintera to more than $54m... more

- 23 October 2006
Cascade design deal with oil giants
CASCADE Technologies has signed a £4m deal to design and supply emissions monitoring systems for BP Marine. The latter has invested in Cascade Technologies to gain access to the Stirling company's quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology, a system for detecting drugs, explosives and hazardous compounds. The three-year deal with BP involves Cascade design QCL-based supply emissions monitoring systems for use in the marine industry.... more

- 23 October 2006
Platinum Dragon LED - more current, more light
The Platinum Dragon LED produces white light at 75 lm from an operating current of 700 mA (30 lm/W), making it the brightest single-chip high-power LED in the Dragon series from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. In terms of its design and dimensions, the package is the same as for the Golden Dragon but can withstand twice the output and therefore a higher operating current. This means more light in the same space.... more

- 22 September 2006 -
Bookham iTLA underpins next generation tunable technology - European debut for fully qualified iTLA at ECOC 2006
Bookham, Inc. was amongst the leaders in laser components making major product launches at ECOC. It announced that its integrable tunable laser assembly (iTLA) is now fully qualified and in full volume production from the company’s manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China. The product, which will be featured at ECOC next week, is also underpinning the next generation of tunable technology with its incorporation into two ground-breaking new products... more

- 21 September 2006 -
Alcan Showcases Prototype of Vanguard Flat LLED Aluminium Lighting System at "ALUMINIUM 2006" Essen
Alcan, one of the major exhibitors at the "ALUMINIUM 2006" industry trade fair in Essen, Germany, is presenting the prototype of a vanguard FLAT LED lighting system that combines aluminium components and LEDs in an innovative sandwich construction. Among a number of superior attributes, the system greatly reduces heat generation and reducing assembly cost, when compared with traditional LED systems... more

- 20 September 2006 -
III-Vs & Silicon Come Together: New Hybrid Silicon Laser from Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara
Researchers from Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have built the world's first electrically powered Hybrid Silicon Laser using standard silicon manufacturing processes. They were able to combine the light-emitting properties of InP with the light-routing capabilities of silicon into a single hybrid chip... more

- 18 September 2006 -
Big hitters get behind OLEDs for lighting in R&D project
AIXTRON will participate in an R&D project with its Organic Vapor Phase Deposition (OVPD) technology platform in a consortium together with OSRAM, Philips, BASF and Applied Materials. The final goal of this project, called OPAL 2008 (Organic Phosphorescent lights for Applications in the Lighting market 2008), is the development of an OLED production technology capable of achieving the cost target of a few Euro cent per cm2 for a high performance white OLED device... more

- 15 September 2006 -
Mitsubishi Electric Develops 10 Gbps DWDM Transceiver Module for Optical Communication
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has developed a 10 Gbps transceiver module for optical communication. This module is the first compact optical transceiver in the world to comply with the DWDM system under the 10 Gbps Form-factor Pluggable Extended Multi-Source Agreement (XFP-E MSA), the industrial standard for 10 Gbps optical transceivers. Sample shipment will begin on October 1... more

- 13 September 2006 -
Research InP selective area epitaxy
Selective area epitaxy (SAE) is an important technique for electronic and photonic device fabrication, and for the monolithic integration of these devices. In Microelectronics Journal [Vol 37, Issue 10, Pages 1056-1063] a large-scale parametric study of InP deposition on patterned substrates is detailed by Jonathan E. Greenspan, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada... more

- 13 September 2006 -
Opto Mid-Week Round-up
There have several significant developments in optoelectronics in the past few days. After aperiod of quiet another patent infringement litigation has been revealed. Meanwhile, two of the datacom component majors have published demonstrations as to their commitment in areas which will likely affect all the other players in due course. Firstly, Bookham qualification labs achieved International Standard ISO/IEC 17025 and second, JDSU has received Frost & Sullivan's 2006 Growth Strategy Award for IP Video/IPTV. Finally, HelioVolt and NREL take the next step in developing nanomaterial-based solar cells... more

- 07 September 2006 -
Oki Group World's First Thin-Film-Bonding Technology in Volume
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., and OKI Printing Solutions (the brand name for Oki Data Corporation), have developed "Epi Film Bonding" (EFB) technology in which thin films are released and bonded on dissimilar materials. Oki Group is the world's first to succeed in high volume production of LED printheads using the EFB technology... more

- 06 September 2006 -
NeoPhotonics Acquires BeamExpress
NeoPhotonics, a supplier of fibre optic component and module solutions for long-haul, metro and FTTX networks, announced a significant expansion of its product line for high-capacity enterprise networks via the acquisition of BeamExpress, Inc. of Sunnyvale... more

- 05 September 2006 -
Research: Nanoindentation of GaN-on-sapphire for improved optoelectronics
In a recent issue of Materials Chemistry and Physics journal a ‘pop-in’ phenomenon during nanoindentation in epitaxial GaN thin films on c-plane sapphire substrates was reported... more

- 04 September 2006 -
New GaN UV Sensor is Highly Versatile
Hong Kong based, Orion Semiconductor, a leader in the design and manufacture of UV sensors and sensor modules, has unveiled the OS100 GaN UV sensor... more

- 04 September 2006 -
Cree Launches EZBright for Lighting Applications
Cree's new EZBright LED power chip are said to be twice the brightness of its current power chips. The EZBright1000 power chip is designed for general lighting applications, such as home and office lighting, auto headlamps, streetlights, and garage and warehouse low bay lighting, as well as consumer applications including flashlights, camera flash and projection displays... more

- 31 August 2006 -
GE Invests $100 Million to Grow its LED Lighting Business
The General Electric Company (GE) through its Consumer & Industrial business and the Nichia Corporation announced a strategic alliance agreement to support GELcore, LLC, based in Cleveland, Ohio. GELcore, formed in 1999, was previously a joint venture between GE and the Emcore Corporation of Somerset, NJ. GE purchased Emcore's 49% interest in the joint venture for $100 million, demonstrating its ongoing commitment to invest in LED technology and the future of lighting... more

- 31 August 2006 -
Strong sales mean SiGe Semiconductor completes $19.5m expansion round
SiGe Semiconductor has raised US $19.5m in an expansion round of financing. The investment will fund new product development from conception to launch, as well as the growth of operations in support of the company's expanding global customer base... more

- 30 August 2006 -
CDT UK DTI-Supported OLED project for flexible displays on track
Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) is underway with new collaborative work on a metal deposition project which is expected to be important in the field of flexible displays. This is one of a number of projects which CDT expects to be able to announce in the near future which together will make a major contribution to the development of flexible displays... more

- 29 August 2006 -
Cree XLamp LEDs Power New Grote Vehicle Interior Lights
Cree, Inc., announced that Grote Industries, a designer and manufacturer of vehicle safety systems, is building its new line of interior dome lights with white Cree XLamp power LEDs... more

- 22 August 2006 -
Jenoptik to develop diode laser stacks for space LIDAR
Jena-Optronik GmbH and JENOPTIK Laserdiode GmbH are to develop a pumping source for the laser which will be at the core of a new atmospheric LIDAR* (ATLID) system. The system is part of the European Space Agency's Earth observation program and will contribute toward a better understanding of the interaction between clouds, radiation, and aerosol processes... more

- 17 August 2006 -
Companies team to produce record breaking red phosphorescent OLEDs
At the International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE) Optics and Photonics 2006 conference in San Diego, CA... more

- 16 August 2006 -
Avago Technologies smallest, most advanced 1.3Mp image sensor helps cellphone OEMs
Avago Technologies introduced the ADCC-3100, the first one-fifth inch optical format, 1.3-megapixel small form factor (SFF) CMOS image sensor with advanced image processing, including spot metering capabilities... more

- 20 July 2006 -
Tunability and single-frequency performance combined in new dfTune OEM laser
At this year’s OPTATEC exhibition in Frankfurt, TOPTICA Photonics presented its new OEM laser module dfTune... more

- 20 July 2006 -
Silicon-on-diamond device research award for sp3
Global provider of diamond-based solutions for electronics thermal management, sp3, a has been awarded a Phase II contract from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for the development of silicon-on-diamond (SOD) devices... more

- 20 July 2006 -
'Bulb Buster' for the KO Family of Power-LED Chips
Sunnyvale, CA, USA, based BridgeLux, Inc. (formerly eLite Optoelectronics), a supplier of energy saving, power-LED chips, introduced the KO family of LEDs, including the only 60-mil chip available in production volumes today... more

- 23 June 2006 -
Avago Technologies enters high-power LED market
The world's largest privately held semiconductor company, Avago Technologies, announced its first series of 1W, high-power LEDs in one of the thinnest packages available. This new LED offers brighter illumination, greater reliability than competing products and can be installed easily... more

- 22 June 2006 -
Comms opto component market to beat $6.6bn by 2011
A new report from Charlottesville, VA, based market research firm Communications Industry Researchers, Inc. (CIR) estimates that the market for optical components used in telecom and datacom networks will grow from $1.5bn this year to exceed $6.6bn in 2011... more

- 22 June 2006 -
Fibre to copper converter is cheap and simple
Mahwah, NJ, USA based RAD Data Communications has released a new ETX media converter which converts from fibre optic to copper media for Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet services... more

- 22 June 2006 -
Firecomms fibre optic transceiver drives new connector system
Firecomms Ltd. has announced that its RCLED-based 650nm Fast Ethernet fibre optic transceiver (FOT) is the light source used in the new Electronic Links International connector system for IEEE 802.3u Fast Ethernet communication links over plastic optical fibre (POF)... more

- 22 June 2006 -
Vishay transceivers target fast infrared
Amongst the new component offerings from Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. are new infrared transceivers with the fast infrared (FIR) 4Mbit/s data rate required by IrSimpleShot. The new Vishay TFDU6300 and TFDU6301 infrared transceivers support the IrDA high-speed IrSimpleShot protocol for beaming digital pictures directly from camera phones to TVs, printers, and other enabled camera phones... more

- 12 June 2006 -
Avago Technologies’ first colour controller with integrated RGB photosensor
Avago Technologies announced the industry’s first colour controller with an integrated color photosensor for backlighting LCDs for a variety of portable display devices... more

- 12 June 2006 -
Bookham unveils "ZoroLight" LED multiplexer module for LED-based projectors
Bookham, Inc. has launched an innovative new solution for LED multiplexing called "ZoroLight". The LED multiplexer module is designed to support next-generation rear projection television (RPTV) and pocket projectors that use LED illumination instead of conventional UHP Lamps... more

- 12 June 2006 -
Optilon advanced composite reflector improves LCDs
DuPont has launched DuPont Optilon Advanced Composite Reflector (ACR), a new product designed to significantly improve the performance of LCDs... more

- 12 June 2006 -
Philips Lumileds' LUXEON Flash beats Xenon for camera phones
Philips Lumileds Lighting Company has demonstrated LUXEON® Flash performance that exceeds any phone-based Xenon flash performance. With light output of 1.0 lux sec. at 3 m, compared to 0.67 lux sec. for a Xenon solution, LUXEON® Flash LED technology delivers the necessary light for high quality imaging... more

- 5 June 2006 -
World's first compact 10Gbps widely tunable transponder
Two companies based in Petah Tikva, Israel, ECI Telecom and Civcom, announced the world's first compact 10Gbps widely tunable transponder designed to bring significant cost and performance benefits to both metropolitan area and long haul ROADM networks... more

- 5 June 2006 -
Timothy Franey joins Quintessence Photonics
Quintessence Photonics Corporation, the subsidiary of QPC Lasers, Inc., manufacturer of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers, announced that Timothy Franey has joined QPCI as Vice President of Manufacturing as of May 1, 2006... more

- 5 June 2006 -
Catalyst Semiconductor Delivers Simple, Small White LED Driver Optimized for High-Volume 3-LED Applications
Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. further expanded its family of LED drivers with the CAT3603; a tiny, simple-to-use, high-efficiency fractional charge pump... more

- 25 May 2006 -
Zarlink bags Primarion Optical I/O Group
Zarlink Semiconductor is to augment its fibre optic modules capabilities with the addition of the optical I/O (in/out) business of Primarion, Inc., the Torrance, CA, USA, headquartered supplier of digital power conversion ICs... more

- 22 May 2006 -
AlN LEDs enter the deep UV zone
Workers at NTT Basic Research Laboratories have reported light emission at 210-nm wavelength from aluminum nitride (AlN) LEDs. They state that this is the shortest wavelength ever observed from any semiconductor, and confirms the long-held theoretical expectation that AlN could emit light in the deep ultraviolet (DUV) region (wavelengths from 200- to 300-nm)... more

- 17 May 2006 -
Quintessence Photonics acquired and becomes QPC Lasers
Sylmar, CA, USA, based Planning Force Inc. has changed its name to QPC Lasers, Inc. and acquired substantially all of the outstanding shares of Quintessence Photonics Corporation in a reverse merger transaction. At the closing of the transaction, the Company replaced its officers and directors with officers and directors of QPC. The Company has applied for a new OTCBB trading symbol and expects the new symbol to be issued in about 10 days... more

- 12 May 2006 -
JDSU demonstrates optically powered USB interface
JDSU announced that its Photonic Power Business Unit will be demonstrating an optically powered USB data link at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) conference in Seattle... more

- 11 May 2006 -
Spire's Bandwidth Semiconductor to offer GaAs concentrator PV for terrestrial applications
Bedford, MA, USA, based Spire Corporation says that its wholly owned subsidiary Bandwidth Semiconductor LLC, is now offering custom GaAs concentrator solar cells for terrestrial applications... more

- 11 May 2006 -
Cree & Seoul Semiconductor forge LED supply agreements
In one of the biggest deals of its type this year, US-based GaN LED specialist Cree, Inc. proudly announced that it has signed a 5-year supply agreement with Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd., a strategic LED chip customer headquartered in South Korea... more

- 9 May 2006 -
Vitesse launches new products at Interop
At Interop in Las Vegas, Vitesse Semiconductor Corp., showcased products from its Ethernet, Networking and Storage groups, including the new E-StaX-34 switch-on-a chip product, the first 400 mW integrated Gigabit Ethernet PHY technology demonstration, the complete end-to-end NexSAS storage solution, and the latest in high-speed signal integrity and 10GbE transceiver solutions... more

- 8 May 2006 -
Cyberlux LEDs approved for defence
Cyberlux Corporation has gained approval from the US General Services Administration (GSA) for its advanced solid-state lighting systems under Federal Supply Schedule 56 for Specialty Lighting products... more

- 4 May 2006 -
True blue LEDs
Marktech Optoelectronics is now the UK distributor for the range of TSB 'true blue' LEDs from Cotco of Hong Kong... more

- 4 May 2006 -
Charge pump WLED drivers
California Micro Devices added a compelling and differentiated family of fractional charge pump WLED drivers to its PhotonIC family of white LED drivers for wireless handset applications... more

- 4 May 2006 -
World's first digital, near-UV camcorder
Oculus Photonics LLP Goleta, CA, USA, has introduced the world's first digital, near-ultraviolet (300-400nm) camcorder... more

- 4 May 2006 -
Avensys acquires ITF Optical
Montreal, Canada, based Avensys Inc., is to acquire assets of ITF Optical Technologies Inc. (ITF), Montreal, Québec based designer and manufacturer of advanced photonic solutions based on proprietary all-fibre technology... more

- 4 May 2006 -
DuPont materials promise OLED expansion
OLEDs are beginning to penetrate key applications in small displays such as cellphones and MP3 players. With a new technology, DuPont OLEDs can compete in a larger range of products... more

- 28 April 2006 -
Plastic transceiver conforms to Wake-on-LAN
Cork, Ireland based Firecomms has introduced a fully integrated RCLED-based 650nm fibre optic transceiver (FOT) and highly sensitive receiver FOT to conform fully to the IEEE 1394 and IDB-1394 Wake-on-LAN specification... more

- 26 April 2006 -
LED prototype achieves 15% of the power of standard 65 W incandescent lamp
Morrisville, NC, USA, based LED Lighting Fixtures, Inc. (LLF) proudly announced that an independent third-party's testing confirms that LLF's recessed luminaire has an efficacy of 73 lumens per watt. It describes this as "a staggering gain in efficacy of 35% over test results of its predecessor just two short months ago". This is important because it paves the way for wider acceptance of LED technology in the lighting market worth some $12 bn annually. LLF used LEDs supplied by Cree, Inc... more

- 26 April 2006 -
FTTH boom ahead?
Research and Markets's new work 'FTTX Concepts and Applications' says that companies such as Verizon, SBC, and Bell South plan to spend several billion dollars on new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) in the next few years and already have started the proposal process for that... more

- 20 April 2006 -
DARPA funds next-generation power lasers
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - DARPA - has awarded Alfalight, Inc., the Madison, WI, USA, based manufacturer of high-power diode lasers, $4.7 m to develop the next generation diode laser . . . more

- 19 April 2006 -
Kodak licenses OLED technology to Univision Technology
Eastman Kodak Company, one of the pioneers in the area of organic LEDs (OLEDs), has formed a licensing agreement with Univision Technology of Taiwan. Univision plans to incorporate Kodak’s OLED technology in future generation flat panel passive-matrix displays. To date, more than 15 companies have licensed organic display technology from Kodak . . . more

- 18 April 2006 -
Compact InGaAs SWIR camera on show
Sensors Unlimited, Goodrich Corp., has launched a new shortwave infrared (SWIR) camera . . . more

- 13 April 2006 -
OptiLED broadens distribution via EECOL Electric of Canada
OptiLED, the global manufacturer of innovative LED lighting systems,
announced a partnership with EECOL Electric, a member of the
Independent Electrical Distributors Limited Partnership of Canada,
further expanding OptiLED's global reach into western Canada . . . more

- 11 April 2006 -
Industry-first read-only laser diode driver IC for HD-DVD/Blu-ray players
Atmel Corporation has announced its new ATR0885 laser diode driver IC
for use in combined HD-DVD/Blu-ray, DVD, CD players and PC CD-ROM
drives. HD-DVD and Blu-ray are new disc standards, which will offer
significantly more storage capacity than today's DVD standards. Since
the new ATR0885 is available in very small packages, it is
particularly suitable for small SLIM drives used in notebook
computers, as well as for half-height drives used in desktop PCs and
consumer DVD players. The ATR0885 is the industry's first available
product for such applications and enables outstanding
cost-effectiveness, an important factor for high-volume consumer
products . . . more

- 05 April 2006 -
LED news summary
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors was named a 2006 Automotive News PACE Award
winner at a gala ceremony in Detroit, MI last night. The prestigious
award recognizes automotive suppliers for superior innovation,
technological advancement and business performance. This is the first
PACE (Premier Automotive Suppliers' Contribution to Excellence) award
win for the solid-state lighting division of OSRAM Gmbh . . . more

- 04 April 2006 -
LED lighting giants share LED-related patents
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., and Lumileds Lighting International BV, have formed an agreement to allow the companies (including subsidiaries) to use each other's patents for specific technologies in Group III-V semiconductor LEDs, which include blue LEDs and red LEDs . . . more

- 03 April 2006 -
Unaxis Optics dichroic filters enhance LED lighting
Unaxis Optics, the manufacturer of thin film optical components, recently announced new dichroics filters/mirrors specifically optimized for LED applications. These LED ColorDichroics efficiently reflect and transmit random polarized light from individual high brightness power LED sources of different colours. Applications of LED ColorDichroics range from Projection Display illumination optics to various uses in solid state lighting and instrumentation . . . more

- 30 March 2006 -
Cyberlux LEDs selected for US Air Force security lighting system
Cyberlux Corporation says it has completed the contract requirements associated with the advanced solid-state LED security lighting system developed by Cyberlux for the US Air Force. Based on the demonstration results of the Portable Covert Illumination System, the Air Mobility Battlelab completed the project briefing with A7 Air Mobility Command senior leadership and successfully transitioned the Watchdog System from field trials to . . . more

- 29 March 2006 -
Opto news summary:
Highlight of the opto news in the past week has been the prospective marriage of two of the systems majors: Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson is likely to make a counter-offer for Lucent, which has been approached by French telecoms equipment provider Alcatel. If it goes through, such a merger would create the world’s biggest telecoms equipment company having total sales of over £12.6 bn and 90,000 employees . . . more

- 28 March 2006 -
National Semiconductor drops inductors from white LED drivers
National Semiconductor Corp has introduced three new inductor-less white LED drivers for display backlighting in mobile phones, PDAs, portable gaming devices and MP3 media players. Having no external inductors, the LM27951, LM27952 and LM27964 significantly reduce the size of LED lighting solutions, while providing highly efficient switched-capacitor technology to extend battery life in portable devices . . . more

- 27 March 2006 -
Ovum says annual opto trend remains positive
According to newly-published market research, opto components sales grew 11% in 2005. This was down 1% for 4Q05 with JDSU remaining the market leader. However, Finisar is ahead on grounds of profitability amongst the publicly traded companies; reporting its second consecutive profitable quarter . . . more

- 27 March 2006 -
Vishay exceptionally small white LED suits power apps
Vishay Intertechnology Inc is addressing the rising demand for white surface-mount (SM) LEDs by releasing an exceptionally small and bright . . . more

- 24 March 2006 -
Violet lasers see success in print industry
The focus of media attention has been on the application of violet laser diodes to optical data storage. Considerable discussion is being aired as to the respective merits of these components for next-generation high-definition DVD - Blu-Ray versus HD, the matter has yet to be resolved . . . more

- 23 March 2006 -
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors' TOPLED targets variable message applications
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Inc has added some enhancements to its Power TOPLED line of LEDs. In particular, the addition of OSRAM's advanced thin-film chip technology within these TOPLED packages now produces a new and significantly higher brightness. The company has also refined the offerings for its lensed Power TOPLED portfolio . . . more

- 20 March 2006 -
Barco optimises LED displays for US TV sports
Barco has launched its own sports perimeter LED solution optimized for
TV broadcast, the Barco SP-10 . . . more

- 15 March 2006 -
Advanced Photonix consolidates and relocates
Vertically integrated semiconductor manufacturer of optoelectronic solutions, high-speed optical receivers and Terahertz instrumentation, Advanced Photonix, Inc., has received final approvals for tax abatements from the City of Ann Arbor in connection with the consolidation of its semiconductor micro-fabrication operations and relocation of its corporate office to Ann Arbor, MI, USA . . . more

- 10 March 2006 -
Milestone 100 Gbit/s Ethernet-Over-Optical
In a paper presented to the Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exposition (OFC), Bell Labs, R&D arm of Lucent Technologies, announced the first reported optical transport of electronically multiplexed 107 . . . more

- 9 March 2006 -
High brightness in industry-standard die attach from Cree
Cree, Inc., released its new EZBright LED chip platform which it describes as a major advance in LED chip technology. This is because they have Cree's highest brightness levels but in a new, easy-to-die attach chip. This means that for the first time Cree's brightest chips can be assembled into LED packages using industry-standard processes . . . more

- 7 March 2006 -
OFC-NFOEC News Update
3 Gbit/s BERT
Agilent Technologies Inc., announced a low-cost 3 Gbit/s BERT (Bit Error Ratio Tester) that enables transceiver manufacturing test at one-third the price of the existing N4906B BERT . . . more

- 6 March 2006 -
GPON triplexer family for FTTP
Emcore Corp has introduced its GPON triplexer product line designed specifically for FTTP applications. Conforming to G.984 ITU FSAN requirements, the triplexer will be on display at the OFC/NFOEC this week . . . more

- 6 March 2006 -
LED driver chips offer more in smaller packages
Allegro MicroSystems Inc., is amongst a growing cadre of chip companies releasing new devices for the LED driver sector. Its new charge pump white LED driver - the A8435 offers a white LED driver solution for portable electronics display applications . . . more

- 6 March 2006 -
Cost-effective XFP transceiver testing
At OFC/NFOEC 2006, Daito Test Services is demonstrating the first all integrated MSA optical transceiver test instrument, revolutionizing verification and manufacturing test processes of any type of XFP MSA transceiver . . . more

- 6 March 2006 -
Bookham acquires VCSEL specialist Avalon
Bookham Inc., is to acquire Avalon Photonics, the Zurich, Switzerland, based supplier of single-mode and multimode VCSEL chips. Avalon Photonics' VCSEL chips, arrays and subassemblies are used in the datacoms, sensing and measurement markets . . . more

- 5 March 2006 -
NEC InP Signal -Reshaping LSI enables 40 Gbit/s
At the Optical-communication Fiber Conference, NEC Corporation has developed a signal-reshaping LSI chip that it says facilitates a 40 Gbit/s fibre optic transmission system. It significantly enhances the quality and length of 40 Gbit/s based WDM long-haul transmission as compared with conventional systems, due to its ability to compensate for signal distortion resulting from fibre optic impairments, says NEC . . . more

- 3 March 2006 -
Photonics leaders in the spotlight at OFC/NFOEC
The next big show for the photonics industry is the OFC/NFOEC 2006* exhibition and conference which takes place from the 7th to the 9th of March at the Anaheim Convention Center, USA. As usual there were many news releases timed for the event - too many to cover individually so this summary intends to provide a taster of what will be on show next week. Web links are provided for additional information follow ups . . . more

- 3 March 2006 -
Aeluros to demonstrate integrated EDC/10G PHY at OFC/NFOEC
Aeluros, the supplier of low-power CMOS based 10G PHY solutions, announced its next generation 10GbE PHY/SerDes devices with integrated electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) capability . . . more

- 28 February 2006 -
Key win for LED phosphor technology
Adding to recent industry wins, phosphor experts, Intematix Corporation of Fremont, CA, USA, has demonstrated another key addition to its customer list by announcing that it will provide its industry-leading line of patent-backed phosphors to Taiwan's Kingbright Electronic Co. Ltd . . . more

- 27 February 2006 -
Nuclear Filter Technology awarded licenses for fibre optic hydrogen sensors
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced that Nuclear Filter Technology (NucFil) has been awarded licenses to manufacture fibre optic hydrogen sensors . . . more

- 23 February 2006 -
Bookham to showcase new products at OFC/NFOEC
Bookham Inc promises to unveil widely expanded product portfolios, focusing on components for reconfigurable networks, tunability and pluggability, at next month's OFC/NFOEC show in Anaheim . . . more

- 23 February 2006 -
JDSU software enables networks carrying triple-play services
JDSU has released the latest versions of its industry-leading fiber characterization PC software analysis solutions: Optical FiberCable v4 and Optical FiberTrace v6 . . . more

- 22 February 2006 -
Marubun to represent Polatis in Japan
Polatis Inc has formed a distribution agreement with Marubun Corporation whereby Polatis' optical switches will be available to Marubun’s network of sales channels for the Japanese telecom market . . . more

- 21 February 2006 -
DARPA Program to develop 50% efficient PV for terrestrial
EMCORE Corporation signed a subcontract to participate in the Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Very High Efficiency Solar Cell (VHSEC) program to more than double the efficiency of terrestrial solar cells within the next . . . more

- 20 February 2006 -
Goodrich gives army better night vision
At the Asian Aerospace 2006 Show in Singapore, Goodrich Corporation revealed that it has been awarded a contract from the US Army's RDECOM CERDEC Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate to design, develop and deliver an InGaAs technology for use in high-definition . . . more

- 19 February 2006 -
Fibre optics news update: Fujitsu, Avanex and others
Looking out across the telecom landscape there are many signs for encouragement. Many were looking forward to the New Year with fingers crossed. Thanks to Photonics West, not a few exciting new product launches have been filtering down and market watchers are predicting a better year ahead . . . more

- 17 February 2006 -
Cree hits record 350 mA for brightness and efficacy
Cree Inc announced general availability of the industry's highest efficacy white power LEDs at 350 mA. The white XLamp(R) 7090 power LED package achieves a typical efficacy of 47 lumens per watt at a drive current of 350 mA, and 57 lumens of typical light output . . . more

- 17 February 2006 -
NIST helps optimize light-emitting semiconductors
Physicists at JILA have demonstrated an ultrafast laser technique for "seeing" once-hidden electronic behaviour in semiconductors, which eventually could be useful in more predictable design of optoelectronic devices, including semiconductor lasers and white LEDs . . . more

- 16 February 2006 -
LED & OLED news round-up
Every week the LED’s pervasiveness increases. Portable electronics have become the biggest end-use market for LEDs and not only is this likely to continue but also further diversify. Today, displays are a billion dollar market for LEDs but that is not to say other portable applications are being neglected. One of the other segments with great potential is portable illumination, with many millions of flashlights sold already; filament light bulbs seem to be doomed if recent developments are factored in . . . more

- 15 February 2006 -
Spire to develop thermophotovoltaics
Bedford, MA, USA, based Spire Corporation has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop a new type of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) power cell. The grant is from NASA's John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH, USA; neither the size of the grant nor . . . more

- 14 February 2006 -
Avago Technologies photo sensor supports slimmer mobile phone designs
Avago Technologies' new lower height and shorter analog-output ambient light photo sensor, targets mobile, consumer, commercial and industrial products. The APDS-9003 sensor is supplied in a miniature six-pin ChipLED lead-free surface-mount package with dimensions of 1.6 mm x 1.5 mm x 0.55 mm . . . more

- 14 February 2006 -
DTI funds UK InP photonics programme
The Department of Trade and Industry in the UK has awarded funding to a collaborative project to develop advanced InP-based photonic materials and devices as part of its Technology Programme . . . more

- 03 February 2006 -
Finnish contract to develop high-power laser diode bars
Modulight has received a $1.8m contract from Finland's Tekes to develop high-power laser diode bars for solid-state pumping, to be delivered by the end of 2006 . . . more

- 03 February 2006 -
First XFP 10 Gb/s DWDM transceiver launched
Japan’s Fujitsu Ltd and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd have jointly developed what they claim is the first commercial 10 Gb/s small form factor pluggable (XFP)-type optical transceiver for dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) . . . more

- 02 February 2006 -
Finisar launches DWDM SFP pluggable transceivers
Fibre-optic component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp has launched dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) small form factor pluggable (SFP) transceivers . . . more

- 25 January 2006 -
OCP to close long-wavelength VCSEL plant
Optical Communication Products Inc is to close its facility in Broomfield, CO, USA, which makes dilute nitride-based long-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) . . . more

- 24 January 2006 -
Record 22 W cw output for 975nm laser
Alfalight has achieved a record continuous wave output power of 22 W from a 975nm wavelength single-stripe multimode diode laser operating at 25ºC, 47% up on the previous record . . . more

- 16 January 2006 -
Emcore acquires K2 Optronics for $4.8 million
Component and subsystem manufacturer Emcore has acquired the remaining stake of K2 Optronics Inc for $4.8 million . . . more

- 16 January 2006 -
Cree's XLamp LEDs chosen by lighting designer for Winter Olympics
Lighting designer and manufacturer Space Cannon is buying $5.4 million worth of Cree's XLamp power LEDs, to be used for all its future solid-state lighting installations, including February’s Winter Olympics in Turin . . . more

- 12 January 2006 -
Avanex cuts revenue guidance
Optical component manufacturer Avanex Corp of Fremont, CA, USA expects net revenue of $35-37m for its fiscal Q2/2006 (to end-December 2005), well below previous guidance of $41-45m . . . more

- 11 January 2006 -
AOI adds new R&D centre
Applied Optoelectronics Inc, which makes lasers, photodetectors, and modules for fibre-optic communications, has appointed Chien-Yu Kuo as senior vice president to lead its new R&D team in the San Jose, CA area . . . more

- 6 January 2006 -
Civcom launches 10 Gb/s tunable transponder
Civcom of Petah-Tivka, Israel has launched the Free-Light Compact high-performance, long-reach 10 Gb/s tunable transponder for dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) applications.. . . more

- 6 January 2006 -
Firecomms opens North America and Asia offices
Firecomms Ltd of Cork, Ireland, which develops high-speed visible lasers and LEDs for optical data communications for small area networks, has opened new regional offices in the US and Japan. . . more

- 4 January 2006 -
Fairchild sells LED lines to Taiwan's Everlight; retains optocoupler and IR lines
Fairchild Semiconductor of South Portland, Maine, USA has sold its LED and LED display product lines to Everlight International Corp., a US subsidiary of Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd., of Taipei, Taiwan, which is already a foundry manufacturer of LED products for Fairchild. However, Fairchild is retaining its optocoupler and infrared product lines. . . more

- 22 December 2005 -
CIP launches reflective SOA for WDM passive optical networks
The Centre for Integrated Photonics (CIP), based at Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK, has developed a monolithic InP-based reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) offering highly optimized performance for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) passive optical network (PON) applications . . . more

- 22 December 2005 -
Cyrium gains $3 million in funding for quantum dot-based PVs
Ottawa-based Cyrium Technologies Inc., a developer of GaAs quantum dot-based high-efficiency photovoltaic solar cells for the space and terrestrial markets, has closed a $3 million round of financing. Pangaea Ventures Fund LP led the financing and was joined by existing investors Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Venture Capital and Chrysalix Energy II US Limited Partnership . . . more

- 29 November 2005 -
Hybrid silicon-InAlGaAs evanescent laser developed at UCSB
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have developed a novel laser by bonding InAlGaAs-based optical gain layers directly to a silicon laser cavity (H. Park et al, Opt. Express 13 (23), 9460-9464 (2005)). The hybrid laser offers an alternative to silicon Raman lasers and is an order of magnitude shorter. The laser is optically pumped, operates in continuous-wave mode, and only needs 30mW of input pump power . . . more

- 29 November 2005 -
Flash LED for digital camera auto-focusing in low light up to 3 metres
Agilent Technologies has introduced a high-brightness light-emitting diode (LED) designed to provide the illumination required to operate the automatic focus function of a digital still camera under low-light conditions, and at a range up to 3m. Agilent claims that the ASMT-FJ10 is the brightest auto-focus LED on the market (light output is typically 18 candela at 20mA) and has the industry's smallest package footprint (4.80mm x 4.80mm) . . . more

- 22 November 2005 -
Osram licenses white LED technology to Lednium
Germany’s Osram GmbH has licensed white LED technology developed by its Osram Opto Semiconductors subsidiary to Lednium of Melbourne, Australia (a subsidiary of Avatar Industries Ltd) for use in its Lednium series of LED lamp products, which include three-dimensional multi-chip geodesic dome-shaped LED lamps . . . more

- 22 November 2005 -
Kopin's Chinese LED chip joint venture ready for mass production
Kopin Corp of Taunton, Massachusetts has officially opened the new campus of its China-based joint venture KoBrite Corp, which will mass produce gallium nitride-based blue-spectrum light-emitting diode chips . . . more

- 14 November 2005 -
Lumileds asserts patents against UEC and Epistar
Lumileds Lighting U.S., LLC of San Jose, CA, USA has initiated litigation for patent infringement against Epistar Corporation and United Epitaxy Co., Ltc. . . . more

- 14 November 2005 -
SDK launches GaN-based near-ultraviolet and green LED chips
At the Inchem Tokyo 2005 international exhibition at Tokyo Big Sight on November 15-18, Showa Denko K.K. is launching its proprietary gallium nitride-based near-ultraviolet and green light-emitting diode (LED) chips for use in general white lighting and backlighting of large LCD . . . more

- 3 November 2005 -
Laser-based item monitoring system award
Of three technologies developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Laser-Based Item Monitoring System has received an Excellence in Technology Transfer Award from the Southeast Region of the Federal Laboratory consortium...more

- 2 November 2005-
AOI puts fibre into home optical components
Applied Optoelectronics Inc is introducing optical modules for Passive Optical Networks (PONs). It is offering bi-directional and tri-port optical blocks for Gigabit-PON (G-PON) and Ethernet PON (E-PON) applications...more

- 28 October 2005 -
GaN lightens fuel cell technology
GaN crystals studied for such uses as light sources for future DVD devices is part of a research project of the Japan Science and Technology Agency...more

- 27 October 2005 -
Silicon and germanium modulator
Research published by engineers at Stanford University in California details a newly invented silicon chip component that solves a major difficulty in using light instead of electricity to carry data among chips in electronic devices...more

- 27 October 2005 -
Alfalight aims for 80% conversion efficiency
Alfalight Inc of Madison, Wisconsin, has been awarded $1.4m in funding for Phase II of the Super High Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) program, sponsored by DARPA...more

- 25 October 2005 -
Lightweight visible and IR lighting system
Cyberlux Corporation has been selected to provide an advanced solid-state LED security lighting system for the US Air Force, Air Mobility Battlelab...more

- 24 October 2005 -
OIDA roadmap for InP foundry model
The US Optoelectroinics Industry Development executive director D Michael Lebby shared the roadmaps developed by the OIDA with peers from the International Coalition of Optoelectronic Industry Associations...more

- 24 October 2005 -
BOET distributed and service JPSA in China
Beijing Opto-Electronics Technology Co. Ltd. (BOET). has entered into a partnership agrement with J P Sercel Associates (JPSA) whereby BOET will sell and service JPSA laser systems in China...more

- 22 October 2005 -
Two processes for QD fabriatieon patented
Univrsity of Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics have filed a patent on the methods used to produce quantum dots for bioimaging and photovoltaic applications...more

- 21 October 2005 -
Combo white LED driver minimises board space
Linear Technology has the LT3466-1 dual step-up DC/DC converter: a white LED driver and a boost converter in a low profile 3mm x 3mm DFN package. The LED driver channel can drive up to 10 white LEDs from a single cell Li-Ion input at up to 83% efficiency...more

- 21 October 2005 -
Nano CdSe and CdTe for solar cells
Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California, Berkeley, have developed the first ultra-thin solar cells comprised entirely of inorganic nanocrystals and spin-cast from solution...more

- 21 October 2005 -
Evident Technologies expands for QD demand
Evident Technologies has added a top sales executive and expanded both its own sales force and its global distribution network...more

- 21 October 2005 -
Lehigh University grows optical facilities.
Lehigh University's Center for Optical Technologies has added a three-story facility housing a high-tech manufacturing space where students and faculty will produce devices such as lasers...more

- 18 October 2005 -
Aculight's mid-IR laser award
The developer of innovative laser technologies, has been awarded a new contract under the SBIR program. The $200,000 Phase I award from the National Institutes of Health is funding a joint effort with Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) to develop a compact, low-cost, optical neural stimulator....more

- 17 October 2005 -
TFT LCD makers drive and evade indium shortage
III-Vs Review predicted indium shortages and price rises at the start of 2005 and again in June. Now it appears that the TFT LCD panel makers aggressively ramping capacity, means ITO (indium-tin-oxide), a key component for colour filters is expected to be in short supply by 2007...more

- 17 October 2005 -
Kit offers failure analysis and micromachining for laser-cutting systems
New Wave Research has introduced StageLaze, an accessory kit for the QuikLaze laser-cutting product family...more

- 14 October 2005 -
IR wavelength key to slower skin ageing
Research at the UK University of Sunderland looks be leading to a major breakthrough in the multi-billion pound anti-ageing industry. They found that a certain IR wavelength kept white blood cells alive in adverse environmental conditions and protects against UV...more

- 14 October 2005 -
Dimmable LEDs light up kitchens
Permlight Products Inc has begun shipping its Enbryten Under ENBU series of dimmable LED under-cabinet lighting fixtures for residential applications...more

-13 October 2005 -
On night vision, IR, costs and production
Shephard's two day Night Vision conference USA had a keynote address by Ed Bair, PEO Intel, EW and Sensors for the US Army, who enthused over night vision but said doubt existed whether ‘performance’ and acceptable ‘cost’ could be kept in line much longer...more

- 13 October 2005 -
Fox Group shifts CTO and CEO places
The Fox Group Inc has made a transition from technology development to the sales of its product successfully. Since this focused phase of development is effectively over, Heikki Helava has resigned as CEO and moved to CTO...more

-10 October 2005 -
THz PORTRAIT gets £2m development
University of Essex researchers have been awarded almost £1.2m in a programme in collaboration with academics from University College London, the Universities of Bath and Leeds, and the Centre for Integrated Photonics Ltd in Ipswich. to develop portable, handheld THz radiation detectors ...more

- 10 October 2005 -
Single photon detection teams with avalanche photodiodes
Princeton Lightwave has licensed IBM’s single-photon detection (SPD) technology. An SPD is the keyl component of quantum cryptography systems, which enables extremely secure communications...more

- 10 October 2005 -
Silicones for LEDs
In his paper, "Silicone Materials for LED Packaging," Dow Corning's Maneesh Bahadur presents new data on the photothermal, mechanical and application properties of silicones and discuss new developments ...more

- 4 October 2005 -
Laser Optics wins business for InSb components
The Laser Optics business unit of Photonic Products Group Inc has recently expanded its production capacity for sets of waveband optical components used in state-of-the art, imaging system assemblies produced by Raytheon...more

- Oct 4 2005 -
US-Spanish study reappraises structure of cubic GaN
Newly published research from Ohio and Barcelona University published in the Sept. ...more

- 4 October 2005 -
Shin-Etsu licenses SiGen NanoTec for opto substrates
Silicon Genesis Corporation (SiGen) has entered into a broad
intellectual property license agreement with Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.,
Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan ...more

- 30 September 2005 -
High Tech Optics escapes from Thales
Thales High Tech Optics (HTO) activities in the UK, US, Singapore, Germany and Hungary have been acquired by Candover for a total E220m ( $264.4m), payable in cash...more

- 30 September 2005 -
Sensors Unlimited looks to $4.5m contract
Sensors Unlimited Inc has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to develop a 1280x1024 pixel, dual-wavelength, visible and shortwave infrared focal plane array....more

- 30 September 2005 -
Laser-based corded and gaming mice
Based on Agilent's patented LaserStream technology two reference designs are being offered: one for high-end corded mice and one for high-performance gaming mice...more

- 29 September 2005 -
Proprietary single crystal UV filter business
The INRAD business unit Photonic Products Group Inc. has been awarded a series of follow-on production contracts from ATK Missile Systems' Clearwater, FL facility for over 5500 of two types of UV waveband optical filter elements...more

- 28 September 2005 -
Netherlands' Nuon Solar leading in World Solar challenge
In the 1,870-mile World Solar Challenge race down Australia, "Nuna 3," was just short of 300 miles from Adelaide. Australia's Aurora Vehicle Association about 100 miles behind, followed by U. of Michigan's "Momentum" and Ashiya U. of Japan's "Sky Ace Tiga"...more

- 28 September 2005 -
Vishay's new GaAs IR phototriac
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.is offering the VO3062 and VO3063, two new zero crossing 1.5-kV/s dV/dt phototriacs designed to isolate low-voltage logic from
ac voltages up to 380V...more

- 26 September 2005 -
Fluorescent LIF detection for LPA
Agilent US and Picometrics SA France have a nonexclusive co-marketing agreement for Picometrics' Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) detection systems with Agilent's Capillary Electrophoresis system...more

26 September 2005
Infineon's VCSELs are now Alight
Alight Technologiess has reached a definitive agreement with Infineon to acquire Infineon's 1300nm GaInNAs VCSEL platform including manufacturing equipment and IPR rights, as well as 1300-nm wafers....more

- 26 September 2005 -
Improved performance, cuts maintenance
The MRC Optics subsidiary of the Photonic Products Group Inc was awarded a contract for precision optical components from Lockheed Martin Electronics and Missiles Control divison for its Lot II production of the Arrowhead Electro-Optical System...more

- 25 September 2005 -
Three laser diodes for ranging applications
Opnext Inc, an Hitachi spin-off, has developed three new laser diodes for information and industrial applications...more

- 25 September 2005 -
Room temperature LET from InGaP/GaAs and QW
Illinois professors Milton Feng, Nick Holonyak and colleagues have developed and run a new laser-emitting transistor at room temperature which could radically change microchip technology and its capabilities in the market...more

- 26 September 2005 -
MONA to join up photonics and nanotech
The European Commisision's goal is to leverage synergies in photonics and nanotechnologies, to increase the impact and efficiency of investment on EU R&D...more

-26 September 2005 -
Olsen researches MOP, LBPE & Sample in space
A science agreement with the European Space Agency for a research program is to be performed with Dr Greg Olsent as a test subject for three experiments of ESA’s onboard research program...more

- 23 September 2005 -
SiC at heart of super lens
Physicists at the University of Texas in Austin have made a “super lens,” a flat lens that can image a point source of light down to a focused spot only one-eighth of a wavelength wide...more

- 22 September 2005 -
Bookham InP transmitters
The new products are believed to be the first to offer 100km Mach-Zehnder (MZ) long-reach, with 10Gb/s transmission, in a package small enough to enable small form factor module footprints....more

- 22 September 2005 -
The ODB MSWG
Leading optical communications companies, Essex Corp, Kodeos Communications Inc, and TeraSea Ltd have announced the formation of a 10Gbits/sec Optical Duo-Binary, Multi-Source Working Group...more

- 21 September 2005 -
Space-based infrared systems high business
Lockheed Martin Corp gets a $32.5m cost-plus award-fee contract modification to the existing SBIRS High component engineering, manufacturing & development contract...more

- 21 September 2005 -
ITT gets omnibus VII night vision contract
The indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract has the potential to value an estimated $1.39bn during the five-year contract period 2005-2009.,,more

- 18 September 2005 -
Mass-produced CdSe quantum dots
Researchers have come up with a cheaper and better control process for mass-producing CdSe fluorescent quantum dots, or semiconductor nanocrystals...more

- 17 September 2005 -
Six month design cycle
Discovery Semiconductors, Inc, manufacturing 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s optical receivers, has delivered custom dual InGaAs photodiodes for 2-18 GHz naval electronic warfare applications...more

- 16 September 2005 -
Siemens night vision for 2008
Siemens has introduced a night vision system that works with infrared technology...more

- 14 September 2005 -
10mW diodes have FDA clearance
The new Fat Beam Technology by Chauvet makes it possible to operate high-powered lasers in the USA without a special variance from the FDA...more

- 13 September 2005 -
New family of 1550nm TOSAs
CyOptics, a provider of InP chip and active optical component technologies, has launched a new family of high-performance cooled 1550-nm transmit optical sub-assembly (TOSA) components...more

- 8 September 2005 -
Toyota focus on driver in pre-crash safety
Until now has centered on the detection of other vehicles and obstacles on the road ahead. The newly enhanced system takes into consideration, for the first time, the state of the driver...more

- 8 September 2005 -
JDS Uniphase to acquire Agility
JDS Uniphase acquire Agility Communications Inc, establishing JDSU's leadership in the rapidly growing market for tunable lasers and transponders,..more

- 8 September 2005 -
Solar tower thermal test facility
The test facility includes a 200-ft"solar tower" surrounded by by a field of hundreds of sun-tracking mirror arrays. The heliostats direct sunlight to the top of the tower where the test objects are fixed...more

-7 September 2005 -
Goodrich to acquire Sensors Unlimited
In a $60m cash transaction, approved by the boards of directors of Goodrich and Sensors Unlimited Inc IR goes to defense. Sales for Sensors Unlimited in 2005 are expected to be $19m....more

- 7 September 2005 -
Vitesse new line of inGaAs/InP photodiodes
The VSC7750 and VSC7780, are designed for use in the optical receiver side of both the Small Form Factor (SFF) and its pluggable counterpart (SFP)....more

- 7 September 2005 -
ZnO helices for building devices
A previously-unknown zinc oxide nanostructure that resembles the helical configuration of DNA could provide engineers with a new building block...more

- 7 September 2005 -
Osram launches InGaP visible red laser
The first of these products for semiconductor market is the SPL CG65...more

-3 September 2005 -
Lumens up 43% brightness
Cree Inc has declared breakthrough performance in development of its standard white XLamp 7090 Power LED demonstrating maximum luminous flux of 86 and 70 lumens/watt at 350mA...more

- 2 September 2005 -
Lighting design is green
Laser diode specialis, Photonic Products Ltd, sponsors one of UK's hottest light designers, Paul Cocksedge, as keynote speaker for IIDEX/NeoCon (September 22-23) in Toronto, Canada...more

-2 September 2005 -
InP modulator thrives at Bookham, Shenzhen
Bookham's wideband tunable laser and DWDM SFP transceiver modules are being demonstrated live at the Bookham facility in Shenzhen between 6-9 September...more

- 31 August 2005 -
InGaAs space imaging aids inspection
Sensors Unlimited Inc SWIR linear arrays, photodiodes and imaging systems played a critical role in the Space Shuttle inspection system ... more

- 30 August 2005 -
MIT Quantum Dot patents licensed
Nanosys Inc has been issued US patents 6,890,777 (the '777 patent) and 6,914,265 (the '265 patent) entitled "Quantum Dot White and Colored Light
Emitting Diodes."...more

- 29 August 2005 -
Thermal imaging modules contract
BAE Systems has been awarded a contract from Kongsberg Protech AS of Norway to supply the TIM1500 thermal imaging module The initial production contract is valued at $9.4m, delivery starting in late 2005...more

- 29 August 2005 -
THz focus and spectroscopy
A versatile technology that can spot cracks in space shuttle foam, and offer the potential to see biological agents through a sealed envelope or detect tumors without harmful radiation...more

- 29 August 2005-
High power laser pump modules
Alfalight Inc has launched its nextgen, high-performance Combined Power Module II (CPM-II) with precision wavelength control, ideal for pumping fibre lasers at 976 nm...more

- 26 August 2005 -
Bells and whistles InSb-based camera
US leading provider of infrared thermographic services, Stockton Infrared Thermographic Services Inc, has acquired an Indigo Phoenix large format camera...more

24 August 2005 -
Jenoptik raises the bar
454W in cw mode was measured from a semiconductor bar with the dimensions 10 x 2mm, a wavelength of 940nm operating at 580A...more

-24-08-2005 -
Agilent auto LEDs eye Osram TopLED sites
New high-brightness, white LEDs in the industry-standard PLCC-2 (plastic leaded chip carrier) and Power PLCC-4 surface-mount form factors are drop-in replacements for the Osram in auto interior lighting applications...more

- 23 August 2005 -
Brinksmanship before DVD civil war
Japanese electronics giants are to go ahead with incompatible formats for
next-generation DVDs after talks to reach a common standard failed...more

- 23 August 2005 -
Laser diode offerings from
Mitsubishi, Sanyo and Comlase
Mitsubishi Electric Corp begins sample shipment of 2.5Gbs/100km laser diodes
... Sanyo's 40mW absolute maximum is contained in a tiny 5.6mm package ... and Comlase enables manufacturers of semiconductor lasers to increase performance and reliability...more

- 18 August 2005 -
E=mc2, plus or minus?
An Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne team demonstrate controlling the speed of light – both slowing it down and speeding it up – in an optical fiber, using off-the-shelf instrumentation... more

- 18 August 2005 -
Inductorless multi-mode LED charge pump
Linear Technology Corporation announces the LTC3214, a fractional charge pump, high current white LED driver that delivers up to 500mA of LED current...more

17 August 2005
Biophan gets three patents for MRI visualisation & safety
Biophan Technologies Inc, a developer of next-generation medical technology is awarded two US patents, and one goes to technology collaborator Nanoset LLC...more

- 17 August 2005 -
Micro spectrometers for integration
Nanospec VIS, Nanospec NIR, and Nanospec SWIR are intended for integration into handheld diagnostic instruments, environmental monitoring sensors, and portable test and measurement instruments for industrial applications...more

- 17 August 2005 -
ColorChip moving to mass production
It has acquired Lambda Crossing's plant and equipment at Caesarea's new Industrial Park, where operations ceased about a month ago ...more

- 17 August 2005 -
Picolight gets additional $14.5m
The company has completed a $27.5m funding effort, with the addition of $14.5m in a combination of new equity investment and debt financing...more

- 17 August 2005 -
Microlase range finders
Insight Technology in Londonderry, NH received a sole-source $10m contract for small tactical optical rifle-mounted microlaser range finders...more

- 16 August 2005 -
Taiwan's LED industry consider merger
As LED development moves to high-luminance products, Taiwan’s LED makers are facing increased patent issues for the packaging process, as well as low yield rates for high-luminance around 1,200-1,400mcd LEDs, records Digitimes...more

- 15 August 2005 -
Multibandgap semiconductor solar cells
Collaborators are wanted by to license high-efficiency multi-bandgap solar cells
developed on highly mismatched alloys which shows impressive improvements in the efficiency of solar cells ...more

August 15, 2005
SBIRS High in line for 2008
Lockheed Martin delivers the spacecraft core structure, with an integrated propulsion subsystem for the first Space-Based Infrared System High (SBIRS High) geosynchronous orbit satellite...more

-15 August 2005 -
ITO and AlGaInP LED merger
LED chipmakers Epistar and United Epitaxy Company are to merge with Epistar being the surviving name reports DigiTimes....more

-15 August 2005 -
LADAR seeker cost cut 22% on production
Lockheed Martin reduces assembly time of the current system design and development baseline from 21.4hrs to 1.6hrs, more than 90%. Additionally, the LAM's Laser Radar (LADAR) seeker cost was reduced by 22%...more

12 August 2005
Optical mice under development
Agilent Technologies Inc and Sunplus Technology are to co-develop a new generation of highly integrated PC optical mouse system chips...more

-12 August 2005 -
Rats, bees and lidar costs
Now the nano solution to the problem is bees, teamed with laser lidar, are looking the most likely contender, able to locate landmines with an accuracy of better than 97.5%...more

-12 August 2005 -
US defense funding for IR
New technology developed at Northwestern University has the potential for broad application in the detection of terrorist activities, such as missile attacks on US troops...more

12 August 2005 -
Agilent's three new LED mice
Agilent Technologies has three new LED-based optical mouse sensors, each offering industry-best features...more

-11 August 2005 -
$25,000 international electronics essay
Until September 9, individuals 18 years and over are invited to log on to: www.nichianextbigthing.com, and submit an essay on: 'How can electronics contribute to environmental solutions?' ...more

- 11 August 2005 -
Small, new design, Sanyo laser diodes
Photonic Products for the first time ever have a range of lead-free, visible wavelength laser diodes, rated to 50 degrees Centigrade, 40mW absolute in a tiny 5.6mm package...more

- 8 August 2005 -
Solar honours hat-trick
In recognition of his outstanding services to solar energy, the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) has honoured Prof. Joachim Luther with the ISES Special Service Award... more

- 5 August 2005 -
UDC record breaking PHOLED
With a demo white OLED lighting panel with a record power efficiency of 30lm/W using its PHOLED phosphorescent OLED technology...more

- 5 August 2005 -
Quantum cascade laser sensors
Using small quantum cascade lasers, a prototype handheld gas phase chemical sensing device and a liquid phase sensing device is developed...more

-5 August 2005 -
Vishay IR emitter gets UL standard
TSAL6100X01 has been certified under Underwriters Laboratories 268, a standard for smoke detectors for fire-protective signaling systems....more

-5 August 2005 -
Nanoscale optical waveguides in a liquid
Scientists, working with free-standing, chemically synthesised nanowires and nanoribbons, have guided laser light pulses through complex structures and even sent pulses within a liquid...more

- 5 August 2005 -
Triac couplers
Toshiba Electronics Europe supplies in a miniature 8-lead plastic DIP package, the TLP3616 and TLP3617 AC power triac coupler of 9.66 x 6.4 x 3.65mm...more

- 4 August 2005 -
Vishay to buy CyOptics Israel
Vishay Intertechnology Inc's Vishay Israel Ltd unit plans to buy CyOptics Israel Ltd, the Israeli subsidiary of CyOptics Inc, Breinigsville, Pa...more

- 3 August 2005 -
Venus Express has new GaAs arrays for sun
As NASA prepares for Discovery astronauts for their return home, ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has completed its last phase of testing in Europe. Its design includes GaAs arrays for a tough sun site...more

- 3 August 2005 -
Light on LEDs for professionals
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) will hold a three-day, hands-on seminar to teach industry professionals about incorporating light emitting diodes (LEDs) into lighting applications...more

- 2 August 2005 -
Alfalight gets $1.4m for diode development
Alfalight Inc has been awarded Phase II of the Super High Efficiency Diode Sources program, sponsored by DARPA...more

- 30 July 2005 -
UV laser manipulates aluminium energy
Physicists at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used the natural oscillations of two different types of charged atoms,..more

- July 26th 2005 -
Blue laser at heart of automated analyzer for haematology labs
Abbott announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its automated, high-volume hematology instrument, the CELL-DYN Sapphire ...more

- July 25, 2005 -
Cyberlux RelyOn light first to exploit new 3 W Cree LED technology
Cyberlux has launched its 'RelyOn' ultra-bright light with power plant for the home market. It is a new product designed to provide homeowners and professionals with a portable, long-lasting work and emergency light ...more

- July 25th 2005 -
Peterson's Piranha LED-based taillights are fully certified
Peterson Manufacturing has added what it calls a new "bread and butter" item to its family of Piranha(r) brand LED lights. Tagged the 840 Series, the new product represents the LED equivalent of Peterson's perennial best-selling incandescent combination taillight, the 440 Series. Users of all types of light- to medium-duty trailers now can choose the superior LED brilliance and performance of the new 840 Series ...more

- 20th July 2005 -
Agilent thinnest top-firing Tricolour LED
Agilent Technologies Inc., has launched what it considers to be the industry's thinnest top-firing tricolour surface-mount LED. Target markets include backlighting and status indicators in ultra-thin, feature-rich mobile phones and PDAs ...more

- 18 July 2005 -
Philips first with LED streetlamps
According to a report from Reuters, Philips has installed the first streetlamps to use LEDs. They are operating in the central Dutch town of Ede and have a lifetime some four times that for normal street lighting, Philips claims: 50,000 light hours for the LED-based lamps ...more

- 18th July 2005 -
Tyco Electronics expands microscope range
Tyco Electronics AMP NETCONNECT Business Unit has added a new premium fibre optic microscope to its current product offering ...more

- 15 July 2005 -
Powerful lead free laser diodes
Sanyo's new lead-free laser diodes, DL-6147-240 and DL-6147-040 produce 40mW CW output power at 658nm, 10mW more output power than the DL-5147-042 series laser diodes which they replace...more

- July 11 2005 -
Ultra-broad band technology
Sensor technology first used in military satellite systems to enhance imaging is used by KLA-Tencor in its 2800 Series for brightfield wafer inspection ...more

- July 11, 2005 -
FIR for PDA designers
Vishay Intertechnology Inc introduces what it claims to be the industry's smallest FIR (fast infrared) IrDA transceivers only 1.9x6x3mm...more

- July 8, 2005 -
Exalos AG
Optoelectronics and SLED manufacturer Exalos AG has appointed Anthony A Abdilla as its new director of sales in the US. Abdilla brings in a wealth of experience to Exalos from Silicon Light Machines and JDS Uniphase selling MEMS modulators and passive and active optical components respectively. ...more

- 7 July 2005 -
Deep-sea sponge insights to fibre optics production
Scientists discover that marine sponge has unique structural properties, lending mechanical rigidity and stability to inherently fragile material. In a Science paper, a Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs researcher suggests that a tropical deep-sea sponge can teach engineers and architects a lot about building remarkably strong structures from extremely fragile materials. ...more

- 6 July 2005 -
Voxtel and ONAMI team on microwave circuit QDs
Voxtel Inc has obtained a two-year $750,000 research contract in partnership with the University's Oregon Nanotechnology and Microtechnologies Institute ...more

- July 5, 2005 -
Aculight to work on 1-micron DPSS lasers
Aculight Corporation has been awarded a $1.08m contract from Lockheed Martin to develop a rugged, compact, diode-pumped solid-state(DPSS)laser...more

- 5 July 2005 -
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory lasers
A team of laser scientists and engineers building on on LLNL's Solid-State Heat Capacity Laser, has won an R&D 100 award, while the developing Titan laser (50 terawatts at first light) will be ready for experimenters by October... more

- 1 July 2005 -
Large-diameter Turning Mirror Mount
J P Sercel Assoc is offering a new large-format turning mirror mount for UV laser processing. The new mount is an industrial-grade vacuum UV product designed to turn a UV excimer laser beam at a 90-degree angle and direct it through a beam delivery system (BDS). ...more

- 29 Jun 2005 -
Cree signs new contract with Osram
Cree Inc has signed a new long-term agreement with Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH for the purchase of LED chips over a three-year period through to June 2008...more

-29 June 2005 -
Israel's 300kW solar energy
Solar energy in an Israel based pilot-plant has created storable energy as a 300kW pilot creates zinc in solar temperatures over 1200 degrees Celsius...more

- 28 June 2005 -
Laser diode life up to 20,000 hours
Osram Opto Semiconductors offers a new passively cooled Sirilas laser diode and its prototype 150W laser bar for laser applications that requiring power and durability...more

- 28 June 2005 -
NIR diode laser at 3W
nLighthas has released a near-infrared (NIR) diode laser that emits 3W continuous-wave power from a single, 100-micron broad area emitter...more

27 June 2005 -
Disruptive IR TLV technology spins out
Seed financed by Aegis Semiconductor Inc, RedShift Systems Inc has spun out as an independent company offering its low-cost, high-performance thermal imaging solutions for mass markets...more

- 24 June 2005 -
LiDAR focus with Harris contract
Harris wins a $6.6m R&D contract from the US Army Communications-Electronics Command to develop and demonstrate the Jigsaw Laser Radar (LADAR) 3D-imaging test-bed system for use on a DP-5X Helicopter UAV...more

- 23 June 2005 -
MBE viable for continous wave blue laser device growth
Sharp Laboratories of Europe has moved last year's goalposts on the world first MBE produced violet laser diodes, to production of the world first continuous wave operation of violet laser produced by MBE...more

- 21 June 2005 -
LEDs go mountaineering
Osram Sylvania has its Joule LED lighting system in the 2006 Mercury Mountaineer,making standardised LED technology in autos available to consumers for the first time. Previously LEDs featured in concept vehicles...more

- 20 June 2005 -
The brilliant UV glow of synthetic diamond
Dr Satoshi Yamasaki, Dr Hiromitsu Kato and cololeagues of Japan's Diamond Research Center have synthesised n-type diamond semiconductor on (001) oriented diamond substrate through VD and realised UV emission a device on the basis of p-n junction using the (001) n-type semiconductor...more

- 20 June 2005 -
Blue and violet lasers
Lannion-based Oxxius, France, offers a diode-pumped, alignment free monolithic resonator, solid-state laser in its blue product and an on off-the-shelf GaN laser diodes for it violet line...more

- 17 June 2005 -
Vishay's protection diode arrays and PIN photodiodes
Vishay Intertechnology Inc has released two new Vishay Semiconductors low capacitance ESD protection diode arrays and four new high-performance PIN photodiodes...more

- 16 June 2005 -
High-luminance LEDs drives Taiwan makers
Epistar and Formosa Epitaxy anticipate a rising contribution from high-
luminance and AlGaInP LED chips benefiting sales performance...more

- 10 June 2005 -
Quantum Dots detect respiratory viral infections fast
Identifying the presence of particles of the respiratory syncytial virus in hours, rather than 2-5 days required by current tests, the test is also more sensitive, detecting the virus earlier in the course of infection...more

- 8 June 2005 -
Voxtel contract using ONAMI and Evident QDs
Awarded a two-year, $750,000 research contract with the US Air Force Research Laboratory...more

- 7 June 2005 -
Breakthrough dye for blue laser wavelength
Hitachi Maxell, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media/Verbatim, Toshiba Corp and Hayashibara Biochemical Labs have developed the new workhorse HD DVD-R
disc for high volume production on standard DVD-R production lines...more

- 7 June 2005 -
Hewlett Packard contracts $5bn for LCDs
Philips LCD Co the world's biggest maker of LCD used in monitors and TVs will supply flat-panel screens for notebook and desktop computers...more

- 7 June 2005 -
JDSU acquires disruptive Photonic Power Systems
And an inventive power delivery system whereby light from a laser source which illuminates a highly efficient PV power converter to produce electrical power...more

- 5 June 2005 -
Voltage applied to QDs
A University of Wisconsin team, have found that by applying voltages to a solution of quantum dots and membranes similar to those of living cells, the dots would be pressed into the membranes...more

-3 June 2005 -
Qdot Innovator's Took Kit
Japan's SC Biosciences launches new products for its QuantumDot series of fluorescence reagents...more

- 3 June 2005 -
STED fluorescent microscopy at 40-80nm
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for biophysical Chemistry in
Göttingen establish a new law for unlimited optical resolution in fluorescence microscopy...more

3 June 2005
Cree presence in Italy
Cree Inc has signed an agreement with Tecnika Due srl to distribute Cree XLamp power LEDs in Italy...more

- 2 June 2005 -
Nano-Photonics Centre covers operational cost
A year after its inauguration the Center of Nano-Photonics at Technische Universitaet Berlin center holds contracts of the value of E3.7m...more

- 2 June 2005 -
Exalos' newTOSA-1550 nm SLED line
Exalos AG, an ISO 9001:2000 certified company, has released a new
TOSA-1550 nm Superluminescent Light Emitting Diode Line...more

- 1 June 2005 -
Heading optical components at Avanex
Avanex Corporation names Yves LeMaitre as VP and GM of the newly formed optical components business unit...more

-1 June 2005 -
Panasonic SEL for 2006
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd has developed an 850nm AlGaAs/GaAs VCSEL capable of high speed 12.5Gbps modulation at low mA operating current...more

- 1 June 2005 -
Bookham's latest high power laser diodes
Its offering to the industrial market with a new range of integrated high power laser diode solutions...more

-1 June 2005 -
Ambient light photo sensor in
miniature chipLED SMP
Agilent Technologies has a new version of its analog-output ambient light photo sensor for mobile, consumer, commercial and industrial products...more

-1 June 2005 -
Vishay IRDA drop in replacements
Two IrDA serial infrared transceivers with the smallest available package dimensions on the market are released by Vishay Intertechnology Inc...more

27 May 2005
Power and light contracts
Cree Inc has won $12m to develop prototype SiC high voltage switches and diodes and Nufern gets $25m for fiber and fiber components...more

- 27 May 2005 -
VECSEL with two coaxial beams at
different wavelengths
Researchers from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), Finland, have demonstrated the world’s first laser of its kind, emitting two different wavelengths simultaneously from a single cavity at about the same optical power...more

- 27 May 2005 -
GaInAsP light efficiency
Physicists at Kyoto University have embedded a light-emitting QW with a 5nm diameter, in a 2D GaInAsP photonic crystal structure that contains a triangular lattice pattern of air holes...more

26 May 2005
Taiwan faces short supply of pick-up heads
DigiTimes.com reports that leading makers of 8x slim-type DVD burners in Taiwan have suffered from short supply of pick-up heads which could last to August or September...more

- 26 May 2005 -
Massively integrated InP chip win
Infinera Inc has won a big name customer with Level 3 Communications Inc.
The contract with Level 3 "plans to install optical equipment from Infinera across a substantial portion of its 23,000-mile fiber-optic network."...more

26 May 2005
SEC settles with StockerYale
The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a settlement with StockerYale Inc resolving an investigation...more

26 May 2005 -
Quantum dots for solar power
Solar photovoltaic generation of electricity has a big problem: with currently-available technology, it's not terribly efficient. One of the more interesting approaches is by NREL using selenium QDs to boost efficiency up to 60%...more

25 May 2005 -
Opto data by InP for supercomputers
CyOptics has been awarded a study contract by Cray Inc to demonstrate what the companies claim are unprecedented optical data transmission rates for future-generation supercomputers...more

- 24 May 2005 -
GaAS LED with InAs QDs
Andrew Shields and colleagues at Toshiba ‘s Cambridge Research Laboratory, UK have been refining on the development of a GaAS LED with InAs QDs...more

- 24 May 2005 -
Toshiba displays on display
Technologies developed by Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co Ltd for cellular phone, AV, automotive, mobile computing, and industrial applications this week Society for Information Display Exhibition in Boston...more

-24 May 2005 -
New generation laser cutting system
New Wave Research, a manufacturer of laser-based systems for flat-panel display repair, semiconductor failure analysis and micromachining, has launched its EzLaze 3 Laser Cutting System...more

- 24 May 2005 -
Paper sensor passes another milestone
An innovative laser ultrasonic sensor designed and built by Berkeley Lab scientist) has been successful measuring a paper's bending stiffness and shear strength in real time...more

- 23 May 2005 -
China develops near UV laser diode
The Institute of Semiconductors at the Chinese Academy of Science (ISCAS) in Beijing, uses a Thomas Swan MOCVD reactor...more

-23 May 2005 -
EviTags InGaP QDs with double coatings
Evident Technologies has introduced the first commercially available, non heavy-metal QD for life science research, its Molecular Plate T2-MP EviTags...more

- 21 May 2005 -
Nanowire, ribon and liquid light guides
Scientists at US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley guide pulses of laser light through a complex structures. and send those pulses within a liquid...more

- 20 May 2005 -
DFB diode lasers for telecoms, spectroscopy,
metrology, sensor tech & atomic physics
Developed by Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) high-power high-bright diode lasers will be displayed at Laser 2005, Munich...more

- 19 May 2005 -
Cree farms its IP
Cree Inc has licensed its pioneering white LED patent, US Patent No. 6,600,175, to several strategic chip customers...more

- 19 May 2005 -
Bookham's Advanced Energetic Deposition
Bookham Inc is expanding its offering to the growing display technology market with a new portfolio of products ...more

- 18 May 2005 -
ENABLEing hybrid multi-colour LEDs
Scientists from UCLA National Laboratory have developed the first completely inorganic, multi-colour LEDs based on colloidal QDs encapsulated in a GaN semiconductor...more

- 17 May 2005 -
Photonics roadmap to a $20bn market
The roadmap for photonics (a word currently taboo to the venture captial community) will have a huge impact on silicon, III-V and the organic materials sectors...more

- 17 May 2005 -
BivarOpto's quad level light pipe
The optoelectronics division of Bivar Inc has introduced a new, quad-level light pipe that incorporates SMT LEDs on both sides of PCBs...more

- 17 May 2005 -
nLight's new Southeast Asia distributor
nLight, has appointed EO Technics its exclusive distributor for Korea....more

- 12 May 2005 -
Solving QDs toxicity and insolubility
A team of researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) led by IBN executive director Prof. Jackie Y Ying, has invented methods that effectively give QD water-soluble and non-toxic qualities...more

- 12 May 2005 -
CuInGaSe TeraFoil solar cells
DayStar Technologies Inc, developer and manufacturer of high performance, silicon-free solar cells on specialty metal foils, has unveiled TerraFoil...more

- 10 May 2005 -
Cotco adds InGaN to AlGaInP
Hong Kong-based LED maker Cotco International has signed with Cree
to source blue InGaN LED chips and license Cree’s phosphor conversion technology...more

- 5 May 2005 -
Southampton Photonics $3.5m contract
The US Air Force is providing a $3.5m contract to develop a laser weapon system that can be carried onto the battlefield...more

- 4 May 2005 -
CyOptics rationalises
CyOptics is dismissing 19 of its 35 workers employed in Israel, otwo weeks after buying optoelectronics operations from TriQuint Semiconductors...more

- 27 April 2005 -
Singapore wooed to niche photonics
Singapore lags behind in the photonics industry - with less than 1% share of the global photonics market. An exhibition in early May is to promote awareness of the industry...more

- 25 April 2005 -
Thermal management for lasers
"There are solid-state laser systems that have an electrical-to-optical power conversion efficiency as low as 10% as 90W of waste heat is produced for every 100W utilised," explains Frost & Sullivan research analyst Miriam C Nagel...more

- 21 April 2005 -
Photonic IC expansion and ramp up
Alphion Corp closed a third round of funding with an investment of $10.6m to be used to expand QLight family of photonic IC products and ramp up...more

- 19 April 2005 -
Remote phosphor & SPE
Scientists at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute develop 'SPE' to get more light from white LEDs without more energy...more

-19 April 2005 -
Absorption spectroscopy prototype laser
Aculight Corporation has developed a fiber-pumped singly resonant optical parametric oscillator (OPO) that provides continuous tuning in the mid-infrared (IR) wavelength range...more

- 18 April 2005 -
Emcore's solar cell production relocates
Emcore Corp is to close its existing solar panel operation in City of Inductyr, CA and establish a modern solar panel manufacturing facility at its Albuquerque, NM solar cell fabrication operations...more

-18 Arpil 2005 -
Metris adds major muscle to CMM
Belgian company Metris NV, has raised E20m ($26m) in its fifth round of financing which simultaneously acquired Belgium, Leuven-based Krypton NV and US Washington-based MetricVision Inc...more

-18 April 2005 -
Demand for blue-violet laser modules
Due to growing customer requirements, Photonic Products Ltd is adding 405nm (blue-violet) laser diode modules to its range of Photon Laser Modules...more

- 15 April 2005 -
InSb under SSPS shows high speed melt
Jena University researchers have studied laser-induced, high speed melt of Indium-Antimonide by using a unique new x-ray source, the Sub-Picosecond Pulse Source at the linear accelerator at SLAC in Stanford, USA...more

- 15 April, 2005 -
Halios based IR ELMOS chip wins Citroen "Auto1"
The Auto-Bild group has awarded the innovation prize "Auto1" for the best technical innovation of the year to the lane departure warning system in the Citroën. Driven by an ELMOS chip based on its Halios technology, it is developed and produced by Valeo...more

- 14 April 2005 -
Vishay AlInGaP ultraminiature SMD LEDs
To meet demand for aluminum indium gallium phosphor (AllnGaP)-based ultra-miniature SMD LEDs, Vishay Intertechnology Inc has released exceptionally bright TLMx100x LEDs in red, soft orange, and yellow...more

- 13 April 2005 -
Osram's RGB InGaAlP or In GaN LEDs
Osram Opto Semiconductors launched a new compact, high-power Ostar LED at Lightfair International 2005. Setting new size and high brightness standards, the new LED offers more than 120 lumens output in a small 30x10mm ...more

- 11 April 2005 -
IR digital imager for Ralph
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp has delivered a high-resolution visible and infrared digital imager/spectrometer to the Southwest Research Institute ...more

- 8 April 2005 -
Hamamatsu's InGaAs PIN photodiodes
InGaAs PIN photodiodes with typical sensitivity ranging from +2 dBm to -20 dBm at 1.55um has been introdouced by Hamamatsu Corporation with its G9911-14/-54 receiver optical sub-assemblies (ROSAs)...more

- 8 April 2005 -
Cree serious about SiC diodes for hybrid autos
Durham-based Cree intends to convince automakers to use its SiC diodes in future hybrid vehicles...more

- 7 April 2005 -
PicoLight raises $13m and plans <$4m
Picolight Inch as raised $13m in its latest funding round. Coral Capital Management led the round by joining previous investors BA Venture Partners and Vesbridge Partners to complete the new financing...more

- 5 April 2005 -
nLight appoints UK distributor
nLight has selected Laser Lines (Industrial & Medical) Ltd as its exclusive UK distributor. Laser Lines will be responsible for sales and service of nLight’s CW and QCW high-power visible and near-infrared diode laser product line...more

- 5 April 2005-
Lead-free isolators in duals and quads
Isocom Components 2004 has a new range of combined GaAS infra-red emitting diodes with NPN silicon phototransistors...more

- 4 April 2005 -
Light BioScience LEDs get FDA nod
Light BioScience has U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for GentleWaves LED Photomodulation system for the non-invasive treatment of periorbital (eye area) wrinkles and rhytids...more

- 31 March 2005 -
How long should optical media endure?
Deadline 31 May:
Knowing CDs and DVDs will last for a certain number of years is critical for some. But, how long is long enough? To help develop a standard test to estimate the longevity of recordable optical media, federal agencies and organisations are asked to answer a brief survey on longevity of optical media...more

-31 March 2005 -
Axcel Photonics shifts its ownership
Axcel Photonics, Inc has been bought to Dr J Jim Hsieh, founder of Lasertron and pioneer in fiber-optic lasers who becomes CEO; Frank Hsieh is executive VP, sales and marketing. Dr Wei Gao, founder of Axcel Photonics, continues as President and key employees will also own a share ...more

-31 March 2005 -
Volume Excimer laser micro-machining
Having shipped its first IX 3000 system to a customer in the Asian market in February, J P Sercel Associates is promoting its volume systems for micro-machining, drilling, and laser processing...more

- 30 March 2005 -
EviTag at nano bio crossroads
A second generation T2 EviTag QD and proprietary natural coating provides increased flexibility, easier use, wider applications and possible reduced testing costs in biological assays and other types of life science research..more

-29 March 2005 -
DOD, UCSD, MOCVD, III-Vs, MQW and Surface Optics Corp
The US Department of Defense and the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) will jointly fund acquisition of a state-of-the-art MOCVD system...more

- 25 March 2005 -
InP diode laser milestone from nLight
nLight claims a new world record for output power from a single 1cm InP laser bar. Its water-cooled InP bar produces 88 W of continuous-wave power at 1470nm...more

- 23 March 2005 -
Finisar ships one of first 4G switches
Finisar Corp reached a major milestone with shipment of its 100,000th 4Gb/s optical transceiver in less than nine months...more

- 23 March 2005 -
VS Optoelectronic distributes LEDs for Cree
Cree Inc has signed Vossloh-Schwabe Optoelectronic (VS Optoelectronic) to distribute XLamp LEDs in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France and the Benelux countries...more

-22 March 2005 -
Spectrolab award and re-certification
Spectrolab has recently been honoured with a US Senate Productivity Award, the California Award for Performance Excellence and SAE AS9100 certification and re-certification as an ISO 9001:2000 compliant company...more

-21 March 2005 -
JDS Uniphase acquires Lightwave Electronics
This moves it into commercial markets including materials processing, semiconductor fabrication, and biotech in expanding its solid-state lasers and broadening its base in growing laser markets...more

- 21 March 2005 -
ILX Lightwave's laser diode source for high voltage
The LDX-3232 high compliance Laser Diode Current Source priced around $3495 is for control of high voltage devices as in quantum cascade laser diodes...more

- 21 March 2005 -
Quantum dots tops Merck's talent search
Curtis J Deer, a senior from Lawrence, Mich writing on future uses of semiconductor QDs, has won a scholarship of up to $25,000 - one of just 15 awarded nationally - from the United Negro College Fund and Merck...more

-18 March 2005 -
Evident embeds QD in plastic
Evident Technologies have put the package up front with EviComposites - quantum dots of II-VI, III-V, or IV-VI material, integrated into a series of common resins and polymer matrix materials...more

-18 March 2005 -
PSI-TEC claims optical interconnect with chromophores
PSI-TEC Corporation claims completion of the penultimate step in the
fabrication process of a revolutionary new nanomaterial...more

-18 March 2005 -
Quantum dots tops Intel's talent search
David Bauer of Bronx, NY, won a $100,000 scholarship for his project,
"Covalent Assembly of Nanodot-based Neurotoxin Biosensor"...more

- 15 March 2005 -
Funds search 5 UK next-gen laser groups
Based on UK research excellence and potential for industrial exploitation,
an indicative £5m R&D for 3 years and only at £1m each of next-generation
laser devices are wanted...more

15 March 2005
Nat Semi adds white LED drivers
National Semiconductor Corp has introduced three new charge-pump-based
white LED drivers for mobile phone display backlighting...more

-11 March 2005 -
Agilent's lead free LED
Driven by market demand, legislation and adverse environmental impact, Agilent is working to remove lead from its products by 2006...more

- 11 March 2005 -
Concentrix Solar focus on III-Vs
Manufacturing and marketing concentrator PV modules and systems is the aim of Concentrix Solar GmbH, founded in Freiburg...more

- 10 March 2005 -
Advanced Photonix acquires
GaAs, InP Picometrix
Advanced Photonix Inc, silicon-based optoelectronic is to acquire Picotronix Inc, a privately held company in Ann Arbor, Mich, doing business as Picometrix...more

-10 March 2005 -
Amphotonix blossoms from Kamelian
Amphotonix Ltd, based in Glasgow, Scotland, UK has acquired the Kamelian brand, IP, stock and key equipment of Kamelian Ltd which was forced into closure in late 2004...more

- 10 March 2005 -
NTT's 1,000 channel WDM
NTT developed two breakthrough technologies used for the 1,000 channel WDM transmission, the super-dense multi-wavelength generation technologies and the super-dense WDM multiplexer/demultiplexer technologies...more

- 9 March 2005 -
Versawave JGKB GaAs design
JGKB Photonics Inc has created a new product division, Versawave, tto focus on production and sale of commercial off-the-shelf optoelectronic modulation products for defense, industrial and telecom industries...more

- 10 March 2005 -
SPAD SiC APD
Scientists from Rutgers University, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Centre and
United Silicon Carbide have made a SiC based avalanche photodiode (APD)
that is sensitive over the UV range 250 - 370nm...more

- 9 March 2005 -
Taiwan’s first surface blue VCSEL
Professor Wang Hsing-tsung of National Chiao Tung University's department of Photonics Engineering has led a group of researchers in developing a surface light emitting blue ray laser...more

- 9 March 2005 -
Product lifecycle managment
Israel-based SemiConductor Devices has chosen IBM and Dassault Systèmes product lifecycle management to streamline its product development ... more

- 8 March 2005 -
Intense Photonics spins off InP
Intense Photonics capacity overload spins off InP group to operate from compound semiconductor fabrication facility run by the commercial foundry Photonix...more

- 8 March 2005 -
Kyma improves GaN substrates
Kyma Technologies Inc has implemented key strategic initiatives and introduced an improved and expanded gallium nitride (GaN) substrate products... more

- 8 March, 2005 -
Cutting 10 Gb/s transmission costs
Bookham Inc has launched a new family of 10 Gb/s XFP SR transceiver modules, among the first to meet the Telcordia Generic Reliability assurance requirements...more

- 5 March 2005 -
Fujitsu develops QD enabled SOA
Fujitsu Ltd and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd have developed the world's first semi-conductor optical amplifier (SOA) enabling waveform re-shaping of high-speed optical signals at 40Gbps by using InAs on InP substrate quantum dots...more

- 4 March 2005 -
NTT Group laser focus
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp and NTT Electronics Corp have endeavored to commercialise new laser emission sources optimised for next-gen coms, medicine and the environment..more

- 4 March 2005 -
Leveraging LEDs give new capsule camera
MagnaChip Semiconductor has introduced a CMOS image sensor providing a low power capsule camera technology with superior image quality, achieved by leveraging LED technology...more

-4 March 2005 -
Toshiba's white LED driver
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc has a new driver IC that powers white LEDs used to backlight colour liquid-crystal display panels in mobile devices such as cell phones...more

- 3 March 2005 -
Eblana lasers from Vitesse for mass markets
Dublin-based Eblana Photonics Ltd has announced low priced uncooled single mode laser products designed for mass market applications...more

- 3 March 2005 -
Ultra kink-free lasers
Bookham Inc introduces a new 980nm pump laser module, the LC96 series, combining 'kink-free' power output of up to 580mW, high reliability and stable performance...more

- 1 March 2005-
Throwing AlInGaP LED light on autos
Agilent Technologies Inc and Lumileds Lighting introduce the first three products in the new Envisium mid-power family of LEDs...more

- 1 March 2005 -
Laser photoacoustics promise
When treating skin cancer, differentiating between melanoma and healthy moles can be difficult. Doctors must know the shape of the cancer and how deep it is before treating the problem...more

- 1 March 2005 -
Rossetta images deadline 12:00 CET, 11 March
Rosetta (itself the embodiment of a comet paparazzi) will fly-by Earth on 4 March, ESA's closest ever at just 1900km, and will provide a fantastic photo opportunity. The 'Rosetta Up Close' photo contest will recognise and reward the best images and sky watchers everywhere are invited to participate...more

- 28 February 2005 -
Can indium supplies meet demand?
From the depressed levels of $60/kg in 2002, indium prices around mid January were averaging $875/kg, and trading as high as $900. By mid February European spot prices were hovering around $1,000 a kg,..more

- 25 February 2005 -
Banking on InP
Bookham is banking on InP at OFC/NFOEC, "underpinned by our internal automated 3" InP fabrication facility, which enables best in class manufacturing and high volume production,”...more

- 23 February 2005 -
EOTS laser on schedule
Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) team received the first laser system for the aircraft's Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) from BAE Systems Avionics, on schedule at a special event in Edinburgh, Scotland...more

- 23 February 2005 -
GaInAs QDs for spin
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich in Germany have advanced the field of spintronics with an optically programmable spin memory device..more

- 23 February 2005
MetroPhotonics InP IC
MetroPhotonics Inc has its SurePath Triplexer dies being sampled by component vendors in Europe, North America and Asia. This is a 5.5x1mm InP based monolithically integrated photonic chip...more

- 22 February 2005 -
Lasers & diodes for passive optical nets
Emcore Corp has a new family of component devices for passive optical networking, Ethernet in first mile and fibre to premises applications...more

- 22 February 2005 -
Plastic fibre optic from Firecomms
Ireland-based compound semiconductor company Firecomms, has unveiled its high-speed fiber optic devices in a new in-car entertainment system, as a proof of concept for a demo vehicle designed by Renault RSA of France...more

- 22 February 2005 -
Sharp offers PB free drop-in isolators
Two new optically coupled isolators serve as drop in pb-free replacements for Sharp PC849 and PC829 devices. The IS849 and IS829 are optically coupled isolators of GaAS infra-red emitting diodes...more

- 17 February 2005 -
QD photon detectors
Physicists at Toshiba Research Europe and the University of Cambridge have developed a device that can efficiently detect single photons...more

- 14 February 2005 -
IR speed keeps up
Agilent Technologies offers industry's fastest low-power infrared (IR) transceivers for Infrared Data Associatio)-compliant data transmission at up to 4 Mb/s to enable mobile phones and PDAs..more

- 7 February 2005 -
Biolase expands IP
US-based dental laser maker, Biolase has acquired the IP portfolio of Diodem
for $3m cash and $4.5m in stock...more

- 7 February 2005 -
Southampton Photonics applications manager
Fibre laser manufacturer Southampton Photonics Inc has appointed Tony Hoult as its applications manager...more

- 5 February 2005 -
QDs evolution in biology
The evolution in the last 20 years of QDs has seen growth of this tool from electronic materials science to biological applications...more

- 5 February 2005 -
In field, portable spectroscopy
Livio Gianfrani and researchers from the Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy, have constructed a portable spectrometer...more

- 5 February 2005 -
Bookharm teams for Israel market
Bookham Inc has appointed ADM Electronics to distribute its components to Israel’s fast-growing telecommunications market...more

- 4 February 2005 -
Versatile InP SOA from CIP
The Centre for Integrated Photonics, Ipswich, UK has launched a new 1550nm InP multiple QW semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) device...more

- 3 February 2005 -
Osram's latest
Osram Opto Semiconductors is offering an InGaN chip, using thin film technology and with an ESD protection feature in the form of an integrated diode on the board in its Micro SideLED...more

1 February 2005
Laser therapy helps TB patients
Both GaAS (and helium neon) laser therapy added to TB drugs has been found to hasten the bacteria clearance in patients, scientists claim...more

- 1 February 2005 -
IR to prevent & predict maintenance
Fluke Corp, test and measurement equipment, has added the Raytek ThermoViewTi30 Thermal Imager to its product line...more

- 27 January 2005 -
Lasertel and HTOE business
Presstek Inc's Arizona subsidiary, Lasertel Inc, has signed a three-year, $7m supply and distribution agreement with HTOE of Beijing, China...more

- 27 January 2005 -
2.5 Gbps LD's on 4 inch InP
Eblana Photonics and Vitesse Semiconductor Corp have declared a manufacturing relationship for low-threshold, high-quality, single-mode laser diodes on Vitesse's 4" indium phosphide integrated circuit fabrication line...more

- 27 January 2005 -
Laser materials & components
In Growing Markets for Laser Materials and Components, the North American market for laser materials and components at $1.2bn in 2004: is expected to increase at an AAGR of 8.6% to reach $1.8bn in 2009...more

- 26 January 2005 -
Coated CdSe QD bio-labels
Cengiz Ozkan of the Mechanical Engineering Department at UC-Riverside and his colleagues used cadmium selenide QDs coated with zinc sulphide as fluorescent probes...more

26 January 2005
Cymer integrates at IMEC
Cymer Inc, a deep ultraviolet light sources supplier, has integrated a Cymer XLA 105 argon fluoride (ArF) light source on a 0.85 immersion lithography tool at IMEC’s 300 mm wafer fab facility in Leuven, Belgium...more

- 26 January 2005 -
IR laser diode cutting-edge printer
Thanks to an infrared laser diode, French researchers from CEA have build an inkjet printer that can cut images out of paper as it prints, making anything from business cards, address labels, tear-off slips to trimmed photos...more

- 26 January 2005 -
Arima seeks Japanese partner
Arima Optoelectronics is looking to compete in the segment for high-luminance white LEDs, used in backlight modules and lighting, this year, according to company president T J Wang...more

- 25 January 2005 -
Cotco grows revenue
Cotco International has ending 2004 with over USD $70m revenue, up from $60m in FY2003, and expanded its factory space in China by 30% in the same period...more

- 24 January 2005 -
IR growth measures the heat
"Recently, several corporate executives and outside directors have sold a portion of their Mikron Infrared Inc holdings as stock rose to new highs." says Mikron IR CEO, Gerry Posner...more

- 22 January 2005 -
Lumics uncooled laser
Available in February is the uncooled LU0975T040 laser module with up to 4W output power from a multi modefrom Berlin-based Lumics, a manufacturer of pump laser modules and laser chips....more

- 22 January 2005 -
Compound aerogels show promise
Aerogels that can be 'tuned' over a substantial range by adjusting the heating profile, can cover the optical spectrum from IR through to UV, have been made from metal chalcogenides of cadmium sulphide, cadmium selenide, zinc sulphide and lead sulphide nanoparticle...more

- 20 January 2005 -
nLight's diode laser stack arrays
nLight is to feature Cascades diode laser stack arrays at Photonics West. Cascades stacks are available in wavelengths ranging from 790nm to 980 nm and from 1435 nm to 1570nm...more

-19 January 2005 -
Bookham's most power laser diode bar
Bookham is expanding high power laser diodes portfolio for the industrial market at Photonics West, where it launches a powerful commercial continuous wave (CW) laser diode bar...more

18 January 2005 -
Warranty from optomech to fluorescence
New Focus, the Bookham division, has a lifetime warranty for all optomechanical products; an extended warranty for optoelectronics and a five-year warranty on Clarity fluorescence filters...more

- 18 January 2005 -
SLED developer gets ISO 9001:2000
Exalos AG, a developer and manufacturer of advanced Superluminescent
Light Emitting Diodes (SLEDs) and optoelectronic components, has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 certification for its quality management system...more

- 17 January 2005 -
InGaZnO transparent transistors
A group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology led by Hideo Hosono, a professor in the Yokohama-based institute's Materials and Structures Laboratory. has added gallium and indium to ZnO, creating transparent circuitry...more

- 17 January 2005 -
THz studies
The Free-Electron Laser (FEL) at DOE's Jefferson Lab (JLab) is producing 100W of THz light for scientific studies - nearly 100,000 times brighter than THz light produced anywhere...more

- 15 January 2005 -
Laser markets grow, prices drop
Thanks to a steady increase in consumer applications involving lasers and optoelectronics, global market for all types of lasers grew 10% in 2004 over 2003 to reach $5.4bn, according to Laser Focus World market survey...more

- 14 January 2005 -
InGaN, ESD, longevity, small, bright LED
A new generation of white Micro SideLEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors are 0.8mm high and feature ESD protection in the form of an integrated diode on board. The SMT module is the smallest module so far...more

- 13 January 2005 -
QDs team with resonants
Evident Technologies has received a Phase 1 SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant to develop advanced anti-counterfeiting materials based on its proprietary QD technology...more

- 13 January 2005 -
One blue batlle settled
Worth ¥60bn, paid ¥20,000, re-ordered a payment of ¥20bn, and settled at ¥840m. Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the blue light-emitting diode (LED), and a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has reluctantly agreed to a ¥840m settlement...more

- 11 January 2005 -
Multispectral sensor contract
Lockheed Martin received a $10.7m contract from Boeing Integrated Defense Systems to provide the Gunship Multispectral Sensor System (GMS2) for the US Air Force's AC-130U aircraft...more

- 11 January 2005 -
QD technology up for licensing
Los Alamos National Laboratory has announced an extensive portfolio of semiconductor nanocrystal (QD) technology now available for licensing. The QD portfolio includes enabling nanotechnology for applications including lighting, solar energy, lasers, and coatings...more

- 11 January 2005 -
Pulsed I (V) measurement of devices
Accent Optical Technologies, supplier of lattice engineering and photolithography process control tools has published of Pulsed I(V) Measurement of Semiconductor Devices (ISBN 0 - 9762061 - 0 - 2) authored by Accent's Peter Ladbrooke...more

- 11 January 2004 -
InGaAs near-IR mini camera
Applications including pulsed laser beam profiling, short-wave infrared machine vision of fast-moving objects, motion analysis and thermal imaging of combustion or rocket plumes are anticipated..more

- 11 January 2005 -
IV-VI particles storm IR PV
“Smart" walls responsive to a room's environment, a digital camera able to work in the dark, and clothing using PV energy are the potential payoff for researchers at the University of Toronto who have devised new IR-sensitive material...more

- 5 January 2005 -
Vishay's optical sensor
A new reflective optical sensor capable of detecting objects at operating distances of up to 40mm has been launched by Vishay Intertechnology Inc. The surface-mount TCND5000 reflective sensor, includes an IR emitter and PIN photodiode in a single package,..more