Electro Optics - News

Coherent acquires North American operations of StockerYale

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Coherent has acquired the North American operations of StockerYale in an asset purchase valued at $15m.

Fianium expands worldwide distribution network

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Ultrafast fibre laser manufacturer Fianium has expanded its global distribution network by appointing new representatives in four regions: India, Korea, Russia and Israel.

Photron Inc becomes industry partner of UCLA

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Photron Inc has been named as an industry partner by the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Trumpf expects transition year

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Trumpf has announced that despite considerable sales declines, the company closed out the year with a profit. The new fiscal year has been deemed a transition year

Horiba to open new European research centre and headquarters

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Horiba has announced the construction of a new research facility and European headquarters on the campus of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France

ESA selects lasers for SMOS satelite

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Modulight has successfully supplied fibre pigtailed laser diodes to the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite to be launched on 2nd of November 2009

Laser 2000 in three new distribution partnerships

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Laser 2000 has announced three new distribution partnerships. Laser 2000 has will now be a European distributor for Manlight, Lumencor, and Raylase.

Mobius Photonics names new chairman

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Mobius Photonics, a producer of short-pulsed fibre laser sources, has named Robert L. Byer as chairman of its board of directors

Open source electronics used in medical imaging

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

sensL has announced its collaboration in an open-source electronics programme for positron emission tomography, a technique used in medical imaging, alongside the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dr Jeremy Chang promoted to vice president, Asia Operations, Edmund Optics

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Dr Jeremy Chang has been promoted to vice president, Asia Operations, for Edmund Optics, a newly created position.

Coherent acquires StockerYale

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Coherent has announced that it has acquired the North American operations of StockerYale in an asset purchase valued at $15m cash. Coherent has acquired all the assets and certain operating liabilities of StockerYale's laser module product line in Montreal, Canada, as well as the speciality fibre product line in New Hampshire, USA

PicoQuant hails photon counting event as a success

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

German photon counting specialist PicoQuant has successfully held its 15th annual international workshop on 'Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Ultra Sensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences'

Diode laser assembly automated for the first time

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

A BMBF-funded project has successfully demonstrated the automation of the assembly and adjustment of high power diode lasers for the first time.

Frankfurt Laser appoints international distribution partners

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Frankfurt Laser has appointed distribution partners for the company's operations in the machine vision, marking and target designation markets in China, Turkey and France.

Miniature laser system developed for interplanetary observations

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Laser Zentrum Hannover, in cooperation with instrumentation specialist Hoerner & Sulger, has developed a 187g miniaturised laser system, for use by interplanetary probes doing laser induced breakdown spectroscopy