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Laser Industry News 2008 p30:

• Optical telecom component market to reach $6 billion by 2012
  February 27, 2008, London, UK--Market research firm Ovum RHK has posted a new optical component five-year forecast for WAN, datacom, and access components.
• LED market healthy and growing
  February 27, 2008, Santa Clara, CA--The global market for high-brightness light-emitting diodes has apparently recovered from its "slow growth" phase the past few years, says analyst Bob Steele of Strategies Unlimited (Mountain View, CA).
• SPIE honors optical lithography pioneers at Advanced Lithography meeting
  February 26, 2008, San Jose, CA--Eight new SPIE Fellows and winners of several important awards were announced yesterday at the 33rd annual SPIE Advanced Lithography symposium.
• Pirelli presents new company PGT Photonics at OFC/NFOEC
  February 26, 2008, San Diego, CA--Pirelli (Milan, Italy) announced that it is presenting PGT Photonics, a new Group company that will specialize in second-generation photonics based on nanotechnologies, at the OFC/NFOEC exhibition and conference, taking place in San Diego, 24-28, 2008. PGT Photonics will have its headquarters in Milan along with its Sales office in Atlanta, GA.
• Gigaphoton to establish U.S. subsidiary in Oregon
  February 25, 2008, Oyama, Japan--Gigaphoton, a lithography light source manufacturer for the global semiconductor industry, is expanding its presence in the United States with a new subsidiary, Gigaphoton USA, to be located in Beaverton, OR.
• Battelle acquires optical materials and millimeter wave technology from Optimer Photonics
  February 22, 2008, Columbus, OH--Battelle announced that it has recently acquired the intellectual property and other assets of Optimer Photonics, including 14 U.S. patents, several international patents, and an additional 12 pending applications. Optimer Photonics was formed in 2001 to commercialize the electro-optic waveguide components developed at Battelle for the telecommunications industry.
• WPI receives gift from IPG Photonics to enhance teaching and research
  February 21, 2008, Worcester, MA--Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has received funds and equipment from fiber laser and amplifier manufacturer IPG Photonics Corporation (Oxford, MA), to enhance the teaching and research capabilities of the IPG Photonics Laboratory, established at WPI in 2001, in part, with support from the company.
• Physical sciences benefit in proposed 2009 U.S. federal budget
  February 19, 2008, Washington, D.C.--According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), while the 2009 federal budget proposal announced this month by U.S. President George Bush includes increases for basic physical sciences and most other parts of the R&D portfolio, it keeps biomedical funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) flat.
• Qioptiq to acquire Point Source to expand laser offering
  February 19, 2008, Paris, France--Designer and manufacturer of optical solutions, Qioptiq, entered into an agreement to acquire Point Source (Hamble, England), a specialist producer of fiber optic laser delivery systems and lasers.
• EOS and Trumpf announce patent license agreement with MCP on laser sintering
  February 15, 2008, Krailling, Germany--EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems and Trumpf Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG (Ditzingen, Germany) have signed an agreement with MCP Tooling Technology (Stone, United Kingdom) and MCP-HEK Tooling GmbH in Germany. Under the agreement, both MCP companies receive a non-exclusive license for certain EOS and Trumpf patent rights regarding the laser-sintering process.

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