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Optical design and fabrication house Interoptics (Nepean, Ontario, Canada), a division of Lumonics Inc., has changed its name to Lumonics Optics Group. . . . Kidger Optics (Crowborough, England) is offering May and October courses in computer-aided optical design. For further information, call +44-1892-663555. . . . Photovoltaic-device manufacturer United Solar Systems Corp. (Troy, MI) has a new $10 million facility for solar-cell production. . . . James A. Sharp has been named vice president of Carl Zeiss Inc., with worldwide responsibility for the microscope division in Jena, Germany. . . . ORC Lighting Products (Azusa, CA) has moved its engineering and corporate offices to a 17,300-sq ft facility at the same location, nearly six times the size of the previous space.