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Laser Industry News 2008 p22:

• First DARPA Young Faculty Award goes toward work in optics and materials
  June 2, 2008--The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award has been awarded for the first time to a University of Delaware professor working in microsystems technology.
• Collaboration will evaluate Novaled PIN structures in polymer OLED devices
  May 30, 2008--Cambridge Display Technology (CDT; Cambridge, England), Sumitomo (Tokyo, Japan), and Novaled (Dresden, Germany) plan to co-develop hybrid organic light-emitting diode (OLED) devices combining both new polymer emitting layers and doped electron transport layers. It is expected that these hybrid devices will offer further improvements in power efficiency without additional manufacturing complexity.
• LFW online blog gets inside the VC's head
  May 29, 2008--Since early 2008, Laser Focus World online has hosted 'Larry's VC View', the bi-weekly blog at www.laserfocusworld.com (follow the LARRY'S VC VIEW BLOG link on the top navigation menu) from entrepreneur and budding venture capitalist Larry Marshall. Marshall started as a scientist and engineer, turned into an entrepreneur, and has now become a venture capitalist (VC).
• Poland launches a new professional Photonics Society
  May 29, 2008--New photonics society has strong ties to SPIE and Warsaw University of Technology.
• Boeing's Airborne Laser team begins laser-activation testing
  May 28, 2008--The Boeing Company (Chicago, IL), Northrop Grumman (Los Angeles, CA), Lockheed Martin (Bethesda, MD), and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency have reached a milestone for the Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense program this month by completing the first laser-activation testing on the ground at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
• Northrop Grumman and CREOL, FPCE partner on next-generation photonic technologies
  May 27, 2008--Northrop Grumman Corporation is forming a strategic research partnership with the University of Central Florida aimed at facilitating the co-development of advanced optic and photonic technologies. Under the five-year Master Sponsored Research and License Agreement, Northrop Grumman will provide financial support and engineering expertise to the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) and the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE).
• Bordeaux, France site of first "Invest in Photonics" convention this winter
  May 23, 2008--Bordeaux, France will be the site of the first international partnering convention "Invest in Photonics" on December 11 and 12, 2008. 150 experts from around the world will gather for the first time to seize a comprehensive perspective on the fast-developing business of photonics and will facilitate the meeting of development-funding-seeking small and medium enterprises, investors, and industrialists.
• Harvard's Xie to receive award for laser and microscopy based research
  May 21, 2008--Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) professor Xiaoliang Sunney Xie is one of the founding fathers of single-molecule biophysical chemistry, specifically single-molecule enzymology; much of his research involves the use of lasers and microscopy.
• Boeing fires laser aboard aircraft for the first time
  May 20, 2008--Boeing has achieved a key milestone for the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration program by firing a high-energy chemical laser aboard a C-130H aircraft in ground tests for the first time. The successful laser firing occurred May 13 at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.
• Finisar merger creates largest optical components company
  May 19, 2008--Finisar and Optium agree to combine in an all-stock merger.

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