Heptagon, a supplier of UV micro-optics has opened its first US office in San Jose, Silicon Valley to provide sales, marketing and business development.
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29 January 2007
Melles Griot and Ocean Optics have both made changes to their global management.
LOT-Oriel and LEJ form partnership
29 January 2007
LOT-Oriel and LEJ (Leistungselektronik Jena) have entered a strategic partnership to develop and market electronic ballasts and light sources.
Edmund Optics invests in Japan
23 January 2007
Edmund Industrial Optics is making significant new investments to expand its customer support presence in the Asian market, including the purchase of a substantial stake in Saito Optics of Japan.
Aculight moves to new facilities
18 January 2007
Aculight has moved into a new corporate headquarters, increasing its manufacturing, laboratory and office space by 60 per cent, and consolidating its staff into one building.
Thorlabs deals significantly increase product range
18 January 2007
Thorlabs has made two moves to increase its product range, by acquiring OFR, and by licensing an Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscope, invented by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Deep-sea application for Raman spectrometer
18 January 2007
A research team from the University of Washington has used the Raman Explorer 785 from Headwall Photonics for the analysis of hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Collaboration produces interface between design simulation software
18 January 2007
Optiwave Systems and Zemax are to collaborate to provide a new interface to streamline the exchange of data between their respective optical engineering simulation design tools.
Breault appoints vice president of sales
12 January 2007
Kimberly Matty has been promoted to vice president of sales for Breault Research Organisation (BRO). In her new position, Matty will lead BRO's team of sales representatives and engineers.
ficonTec has acquired two Newport Corporation product lines
10 January 2007
ficonTec has acquired the automated fibre alignment and laser welding product lines of Newport Corporation, with the transfer currently underway. The products will complement ficonTec’s fibre optic packaging process chain.
Aculight develops infrared neural simulator
10 January 2007
Aculight has signed a licence agreement with Vanderbilt University to help develop the former's first medical research product, an infrared neural stimulator.
Laser marking contract for Rofin
04 January 2007
The Space Science and Technology Department (SSTD) at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory recently acquired a Rofin SLM laser marking system to ensure it can satisfy stringent marking requirements.
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