L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Insight Technology Incorporated (Insight). Insight develops and manufactures mission critical night vision and electro-optical equipment including laser aiming and illumination devices, laser rangefinders, laser markers and designators, night vision goggles and monoculars, and thermal imaging systems.
Orlando, FL. LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH - News), is seeing increasing demand in the strategic market of molded aspheres for consumer and industrial laser tools. Current open orders for these products are valued over $1.8M with more than 25% growth anticipated over the next several quarters.
To get green, manufacturers have had to resort to optical trickery, such as frequency doubling, which entails a lot of extra equipment and decreased energy efficiency. Finally, after a worldwide technological race, researchers have found ways to fashion the compound semiconductor gallium nitride (and its close chemical cousins) into lasers that emit at just the point in the green spectrum that manufacturers desire.
Opnext/Hitachi has discontinued some of its laser diodes in the red and NIR ranges
With application potential from telecom network components through to lab-on-a-chip (LOC) biological and chemical sensors, the photonic circuits are produced with the help of nanometre level precision positioning systems and motion controls from Aerotech
Textron Defense Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that its Directed Energy Weapons business line has successfully tested its Joint High-Power Solid State Laser (J-HPSSL) laboratory demonstration device at average power levels in excess of 100 kilowatts. The J-HPSSL program, which is funded by the Joint Technology Office under contract with the U.S. Army Space & Missile Defense Command, was awarded to Textron Defense Systems in late December 2005.
Dr Paul Kippax, product manager for diffraction systems at Malvern Instruments, will make a presentation on ‘Understanding the robustness of operation of nasal pump spray devices’ at the ‘Nasal Drug Delivery’ annual international conference on 14-15 April 2010 at Le Meridien Hotel, Piccadilly, London. He will discuss the importance of optimising the formulation and device together when developing nasal pump systems, in order to achieve effective and reproducible delivery.
Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that the Company's proprietary green fiber laser technology platform was recently highlighted during a key note address at the Lasers and Photonics Marketplace Seminar which was held in parallel with the 2010 Photonics West Conference in San Francisco.
Sequenom, Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNM) today announced the launch of the SensiGene™ Fetal(XY) (Fetal Sex Determination) test by Sequenom's CAP accredited and CLIA-certified laboratory, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine (Sequenom CMM). This is the company's second laboratory developed test powered by its SEQureDx™ technology.
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has successfully completed the paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) F/A-18 qualification flight test program. The paveway II Plus LGB uses an enhanced laser guidance package, significantly improving the precision of current paveway II LGBs.
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