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Laser Industry News 2002 p2:

• Avanex Elects Walter Alessandrini to CEO
  Fremont, CA, November 20, 2002. Avanex chairman Walter Alessandrini has been elected by the Board of Directors to the additional roles of chief executive officer and president of the company effective immediately. He succeeds Paul Engle, who had served as president and CEO since July 2001, and has resigned from the company to pursue other interests.
• Lumentis Builds 3G-network for Hi3G
  Stockholm, November 19, 2002. Lumentis AB has received an order to build the 3G-transport for Hi3G in the Malmo region in the South of Sweden. Lumentis has earlier successfully delivered and installed a solution for Hi3G's 3G-network in the Stockholm region. Lumentis will deliver their optical SDH/SONET-solution (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) that is optimized for mobile 2G- and 3G-networks.
• Oplink Expands Optical Manufacturing Services
  San Jose, CA, November 18, 2002. Oplink Communications plans to further expand its integrated Optical Manufacturing Service (OMS) capabilities to better serve customers with low cost, high-quality optical modules, subsystems and custom, turn-key solutions. In continuing to grow its OMS offering to meet the market demand for higher levels of integrated optical manufacturing, Oplink plans to strategically expand its software and electronic engineering capabilities
• Virtus Energy & PowerLight Team for Solar PV in Texas
  Berkeley CA, November 15, 2002. Virtus Energy Research Associates and PowerLight Corporation announced today that the companies have entered into a strategic distribution agreement in Texas. Virtus Energy will become PowerLight's representative in the Lone Star State for the sale of large-scale solar electric systems.
• NanoOpto Named Manufacturing Leader by Scientific American
  Somerset, NJ, November 11, 2002 -- NanoOpto Corp., which is applying proprietary nano-optics and nano-manufacturing technology to design and make components for optical systems and networks, it has been named by Scientific American magazine as one of the Scientific American 50 - the noted magazine's first list recognizing contributions from the past year to science and technology providing a vision of a better future.
• Seminar Speaker to Discuss Security Technologies
  Nashua, NH, November 7, 2002 -- Dennis Killinger of the University of South Florida will be the keynote speaker at the 2003 Laser Focus World Marketplace Seminar, to be held January 27 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. Killinger will provide an overview of market and technology-development opportunities in homeland security, including point and remote chemical and biological and nuclear material sensors, secure optical communication links, visible and infrared imaging, and surveillance
• Avanex Adds Veteran Executive Bruce Pollock as CFO
  Fremont, CA, November 5, 2002 -- Avanex Corporation announced that veteran senior financial executive Bruce C. Pollock has joined the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Pollock most recently was chief financial officer with WaveSplitter Technologies.
• Verrillon Acquires ADC's Photonic Components Group in Australia
  North Grafton, MA, November 1, 2002 -- Verrillon, Inc. has acquired ADC's passive photonic components business unit in Canberra, Australia in association with the existing management team. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
• DoD Awards $5M for UNC Charlotte Opto Center
  Charlotte, NC, October 31, 2002 -- A $5 million appropriation by the Department of Defense will help accelerate UNC Charlotte's ongoing research to move even more information at "the speed of light."
• Photonics Holds Key To Rochester's Economic Future
  Rochester, NY, October 30, 2002 -- A new industry -- photonics -- is beginning to emerge as the successor to the imaging and optical products industries that supported the Rochester, N.Y., economy well into the 1980s.

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