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Laser Technology News 2003 p2:

• Innovators Needed For Technology Showcase
  San Jose, CA, February 4, 2003. SEMI has announced a "call for innovators" to participate in the first-ever SEMICON West Technology Innovation Showcase, to be held in conjunction with SEMICON West 2003 this July. The Innovation Showcase has been designed to highlight innovative companies, inventors and entrepreneurs and to help bring their innovations to a broader audience of semiconductor manufacturers, suppliers and investors.
• NTT Develops Real-time Video Communication Platform
  Tokyo, February 3, 2003. The NTT Group of companies have adopted the "Vision for a new optical generation- Broadband leading to the world of resonant communication," announced last November, as the group's common concept. They are committed to making a resonant communication network environment with superior usability a reality, and to creating a broad variety of new and sophisticated services and business models.
• NDK Selects EPSI To Manufacture Crystal Growing Systems
  Haverhill, MA, January 29, 2003. EPSI (Engineered Pressure Systems, Inc.) was selected by NDK Crystal, Inc. to design and manufacture eight hydrothermal crystal growing systems, and supporting auxiliary equipment for a new plant in Belvidere, IL. EPSI has custom designed the vessels to integrate with NDK's existing synthetic quartz crystals manufacturing operation
• ZBD and Varitronix to Develop Zenithal Bistable Displays
  Hong Kong, January 28, 2003. ZBD Displays(ZBD)and Varitronix International have announced an agreement for the collaborative development of ZBD's Zenithal Bistable display technology. Under the agreement, ZBD and Varitronix will collaborate on the design and specification of equipment to fabricate displays incorporating ZBD's technology on Varitronix's existing STN production lines.
• Optical Modulator Market Forecast Published
  San Mateo, CA, January 27, 2003. According to ElectroniCast's new market study, North America led global consumption of optical modulators in 2002, with a 40 percent relative market share. Global consumption value will increase at a strong pace of 38 percent per year over the next five years, from $266 million in 2002 to over $1.3 billion in 2007, with rapidly rising quantity growth offset by falling average prices.
• Optoelectronics Research Funded At University of Wales
  Bangor, Wales, January 23, 2003. Researchers at the School of Informatics at the University of Wales at Bangor have received a $600,000 grant to continue exploring how opto-electronics can be used to create faster telecommunications networks, aid cancer research, build safer automobiles and combat terrorism.
• OFA Gain Block Consumption to Reach $2.45B by 2006
  San Mateo, CA, January 13, 2003. ElectroniCast's Optical Fiber Amplifier, Gain Block & Components Global Market Forecast Report presents a detailed ten-year forecast and analysis of the consumption of Optical Fiber Amplifiers (OFAs). The forecast is segmented into the significant end applications on a regional basis, by amplifier types, optical fiber gain blocks, and the various components which are used to assemble the gain blocks.
• Survey Finds Laser Market to Grow 12%
  Nashua, NH, January 8, 2003. The laser market is expected to grow 12% in 2003, reaching total sales of $4.8 billion, according to the latest findings of the annual Laser Focus World marketplace survey (see Optoelectronics Report, Jan. 1, 2003). This is a welcome change from the 24% decline the industry experienced between 2001 and 2002.

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