AMP (Harrisburg, PA) is expanding its fiber business with the purchase of Fibernet (Melbourne, Australia), an optical-fiber-systems company. AMP is eliminating 1000 jobs in its more traditional businesses, such as the military cylindrical pin and socket connector areas, and closing at least one facility in California. . . . Mosaic Technologies (Boston, MA) and Boston University`s Center for Photonics Research have entered into a product-development agreement to build a second-generation, fiberoptic-based DNA sensor, a multiple-test version of the single-test prototype already developed (see Laser Focus World, February 1997, p. 34). . . . The Micro Switch Division of Honeywell (Freeport, IL) is combining its short-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser technology with the long- wavelength, 1300-nm technology produced by Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Corporation (Research Triangle Park, NC) to provide optical transceivers of both wavelengths for communication equipment applications, such as asynchronous transfer mode and gigabit ethernet.
Laurie Ann Peach | Assistant Editor, Technology
Laurie Ann Peach was Assistant Editor, Technology at Laser Focus World.