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Laser Technology News 2003 p1:

• High resolution spectropolarimeter
  Kenley, UK, August 11, 2003. Optical Surfaces has been selected to supply the key spectrograph optics to the Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees (Toulouse, France) for the NARVAL project at the Bernard Lyot telescope (TBL). The NARVAL instrument will require Optical Surfaces to produce two matching off-axis parabolic mirrors from a single f 2.2 Zerodur parent of 680-mm diameter.
• Tests Confirm Optical Antenna Performance
  Coventry, UK, March 28, 2003. Exhaustive tests by Scientists at Warwick University have confirmed that an optical antenna developed on site is more than three times more powerful than any similar technology in the world today. Optical Antenna Solutions (OAS) launched its optical device to the world last November.
• Sensitive IR Sensors Enable Remote Mapping
  Croissy-Beaubourg, France, March 28, 2003. CEDIP Infrared Systems in conjunction with the ETBS testing center of the Delegation Generale pour l'Armement (Bourges, France) has demonstrated a helicopter-based IR remote sensing system. Employing CEDIP JADE MWIR camera technology installed in a three-axis stabilized gimball underneath a helicopter fuselage several square kilometers of a ground field were remotely mapped in high definition in the mid-infrared region (3-5 microns)
• Reducing Costs in Wavelength Routed Optical Networks
  Munich, Germany, March 27, 2003. At OFC in Atlanta Siemens ICN presented heuristic formulas derived from simulations to estimate the wavelength demand in photonic networks. Simple and general formulas help carriers and technical sales to reduce network planning costs.
• Lightbit Demonstrates Optical Regenerator at OFC
  Mountain View, CA, March 25, 2003. Lightbit Corporation has introduced its WaveXchange Optical 2R Regenerator, which will reduce the cost of deploying 10Gb/s DWDM systems, particularly over legacy fiber. The product is being demonstrated at OFC 2003 in Atlanta, at booth 3143.
• Tsunami to Present CWDM Modules at OFC
  Mountain View, CA, March 20, 2003. Tsunami plans to introduce its new series of Mini-MetroChannel CWDM Optical Add/Drop Modules and its new 18-Channel CWDM Multiplexers and Demultiplexers at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) that will take place March 25-27 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA.
• Optical Transmitter Doubles DWDM Spectral Efficiency
  Northampton, UK, March 19, 2003. Bookham Technology will describe a new design of 20Gbit/s optical transmitter with high tolerance to chromatic and polarization-mode distortion and with improved spectral efficiency at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) in March 2003.
• The 1310-nm Transceiver Market Faces Competition
  Mountain View, CA, March 18, 2003. Suppliers in the otherwise mature 1310-nm transceiver market are threatened by excess competition and continuing developments, such as competitively priced 1550-nm transceivers, and commercialized long-wavelength VCSELs and quantum dot lasers.
• TRUMPF Names Doar and Dominque as Vice Presidents
  FARMINGTON, CT, February 28, 2003. Burke Doar will assume the role of vice president, sales and marketing for TRUMPF Inc. Kevin Domingue has been promoted to vice president, customer services at TRUMPF Inc., filling Doar's former position.
• Optomec Joins in Defense Manufacturing Excellence Award
  Albuquerque, NM, February 14, 2003. Optomec is part of the NCMS CTMA LENS Phase 1 Project Team that has been awarded the 2002 Defense Manufacturing Excellence Award. The award was presented at the Defense Manufacturing Conference in December. The LENS Phase 1 Project was sponsored and managed by the National Center for Manufacturing Services (NCMS) for the DoD Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities (CTMA) Program.

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