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Laser Industry News 2004 p1:

• Universal Display wins SBIR grant for IR OLEDs on metal foil
  December 29, 2004, Ewing, NJ--Universal Display Corporation, a developer of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies for flat panel displays, lighting and other opto-electronic applications, has been awarded a $69,999 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by the U.S. Army Communication Electronics Research and Development Engineering Center (CERDEC; Ft. Monmouth, NJ).
• Lumenis ships 150th laser medical system
  December 27, 2004, Yokneam, Israel--Lumenis, a global manufacturer and seller of laser and light-based devices for medical, aesthetic, ophthalmic, dental and veterinary applications, announced today the shipment of its 150th Lumenis One system, a significant milestone for the company.
• ESI delivers UV laser memory-repair system for 90-nm design rules
  December 23, 2004, Portland, OR--Electro Scientific Industries Inc. (ESI) has received customer acceptance by a leading memory manufacturer for its 9835 system, the first 300-mm ultraviolet (UV) laser memory-repair tool for memory applications at 90nm or smaller design rules.
• Michael Jansen joins Novalux as COO
  December 20, 2004, Sunnyvale, CA--Novalux appointed Michael Jansen as its new chief operating officer. Jansen has more than 20 years of experience in the Photonics industry, and has served in executive management roles in several companies, including Coherent and Bandwidth9.
• RIO PLANEX lasers lower per-port costs for 80 km 10 Gbps
  December 17, 2004, Santa Clara, CA--RIO (Redfern Integrated Optics) has demonstrated a new type of directly modulated laser, based on planar external-cavity (PLANEX) laser technology. According to the company, the laser offers a new, low-cost choice for small-form-factor 10 Gbps optical interfaces that achieve 80-km transmission distances over standard single-mode fiber without the need for dispersion compensation.
• SEMI forecasts 59% growth in 2004
  December 15, 2004, Chiba, Japan--The market for semiconductor manufacturing equipment is expected to grow 59% in 2004, to the second largest annual level ever recorded, according to the year-end edition of the SEMI Capital Equipment Consensus Forecast, released in early December at the annual Semicon Japan exposition.
• Kyocera opens new solar product assembly operation
  December 15, 2004, San Diego, CA--Kyocera Solar has opened new solar product assembly operations at the existing Kyocera Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. maquiladora plant in Tijuana , B.C. Mexico.
• IPG Photonics opens kilowatt-laser factory
  December 14, 2004, Oxford, MA--IPG Photonics Corporation, which produces high-power fiber lasers, announced that its subsidiary, IPG Laser GmbH, has opened a new factory in Burbach, Germany dedicated to manufacturing its multikilowatt fiber lasers. The 20,000-square-foot state-of-the-art clean-room facility substantially increases production capacity for IPG's high-power fiber lasers, enabling high-volume industrial production.
• Report: AlGaAs laser market growth 'grinds to a halt'
  December 13, 2004, London, England--A new report from Strategy Analytics, "AlGaAs Laser Diode Markets: 2003-2008," predicts that the market for AlGaAs-based laser diodes will grind to a halt by 2008, due to a combination of lowering average sale prices (ASPs), CD player market maturity, and the beginnings of a slowdown in the growth of DVD players and drives for PCs.
• Gigapixel-sized images goal of artist/scientist team at 'Big Picture Summit'
  December 10, 2004, Albuquerque, NM--A group of artists and scientists that organizers have dubbed the "dream team" of imaging and visualization are gathered at New York University this week to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing and displaying a gigapixel--one billion pixels--of visual information in a single image.

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