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Laser Industry News 2008 p9:

• Lockheed Martin agrees to acquire Aculight
  July 29, 2008--Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, MD) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aculight Corporation (Bothell, WA). Aculight is a privately held company primarily focused on providing laser-based solutions for national defense and aerospace customers. The new business unit will report to Lockheed Martin's Maritime Systems & Sensors business in Akron, OH.
• Goodrich acquires assets of Recon/Optical
  July 29, 2008--Goodrich Corporation (Charlotte, NC) signed an agreement with Bourns (Riverside, CA) to acquire the Chicago Aerial Industries (CAI) and Pacific Optical Division (POD) assets of Recon/Optical (ROI; Barrington, IL and Riverside, CA), a provider of low-to-medium altitude airborne reconnaissance cameras and optical products for the homeland security and military market. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
• Pirelli and CyOptics form integrated photonics alliance
  July 28, 2008--Pirelli buys 30% share of CyOptics. Pirelli Group's photonics company, PGT Photonics, and CyOptics to collaborate in developing new optical components for telecommunications.
• Laser Focus World and OIDA to hold "green" optics conference, OPTOmism
  July 25, 2008--The photonics-industry trade publication Laser Focus World (Nashua, NH) and the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA; Washington, DC), a not-for-profit association that serves as the nexus for vision, transformation, and growth of the photonics and optoelectronics industry, will hold a new conference and exhibition, OPTOmism.
• Sandia seeks to commercialize its hyperspectral confocal fluorescence microscope
  July 25, 2008--Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM) will demonstrate its new hyperspectral confocal fluorescence microscope Friday, August 8 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. MDT (mountain daylight time) in Bldg. 897 on Kirtland Air Force Base.
• Universal Display Corp wins $1.9 M contract to develop white OLED products
  July 24, 2008--The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $1.9 M contract to Universal Display Corporation to combine its energy-efficient UniversalPHOLED and other OLED technologies with the product design and engineering expertise of Armstrong World Industries to create an integrated ceiling lighting system.
• Optics researcher elected to Russian Academy of Sciences
  July 23, 2008--The Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) has elected Roger Stolen, a distinguished visiting professor in materials science and engineering at Clemson University (Clemson, SC), as a foreign member.
• Nextreme awarded NC Green grant to improve its thin-film thermoelectrics
  July 23, 2008--Nextreme Thermal Solutions (Durham, NC), provider of microscale thermal and power management products, was awarded a grant from the North Carolina Green Business Fund to enhance the efficiency of its thin-film thermoelectrics that convert waste heat into electricity. Nextreme's technology can be incorporated into tiny laser diode and optoelectronic components, unlike standard and bulkier thermoelectric cooler technologies.
• Gigaphoton installs 100th argon-fluoride lithography light source
  July 23, 2008--Gigaphoton (Oyama, Japan), a lithography light-source manufacturer for the semiconductor industry, installed its 100th GigaTwin argon-fluoride (ArF) light source platform at a major semiconductor foundry in Taiwan. The company says the milestone is a testament to the success and growing adoption of Gigaphoton's dual-chamber platform, which also features the company's injection-locking laser technology.
• Cymer's OnPulse LaserLife Program covers 900 installed lithography light sources
  July 23, 2008--Cymer (San Diego, CA), supplier of light sources used by chipmakers to create advanced semiconductor chips, announced that chipmaker customers in Asia, North America, and Europe have added its OnPulse LaserLife Program to more than 900 of Cymer's 3,300 installed light sources. The program improves wafer production, reduces total operating costs, enhances laser cost predictability, and simplifies administration.

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