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0000 26-Jul    Innolume Debuts Pump Source LD for Raman-amplified GPON
0000 19-Jul    George Lucas' Legal Team Issues Cease and Desist Order to Producers of Laser
0000 12-Jul    Nichia Begins Sample Shipments of Green Laser Diode
0000 17-May    Laser Turns 50
0000 5-May    IXYS Colorado Introduces PCX-9000 Series High Power Laser Diode Drivers
0000 15-Feb    European Project Demonstrates Long-Wavelength VCSELs for Telecommunication Networks
0000 8-Feb    MIT Researchers Demonstrate First Room Temperature Germanium Laser
2009 30-Dec    II-VI Incorporated Announces Agreement to Acquire Photop Technologies, Inc.
0000 21-Dec    3S Photonics to Acquire Avensys and its Canadian Subsidiaries
0000 9-Dec    Sanyo Ends Red And Infrared Laser Diode Production
0000 30-Nov    Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems Inc. to Acquire Lasertel
0000 14-Oct    Coherent, Inc. Acquires Product Lines From StockerYale, Inc.
0000 17-Aug    Osram Announces a 50 mW Direct Emitting Green Laser
0000 22-Jul    Sumitomo Claims First Green Laser Diode
0000 22-Jun    GigOptix Inc. Announces Extension of DARPA Research Contract
0000 17-Jun    Oclaro Introduces New Focus 1064nm High Power Laser for Raman Spectroscopy
0000 2-Jun    Chinese Academy of Sciences orders Aixtron MOCVD tool for lasers and LEDs
0000 20-May    IQE to Develop CS Laser Products for Next Generation Broadband
0000 6-May    JDSU Consolidates Manufacturing; Releases Powerful New Pump Laser
0000 15-Apr    Bookham to Pay in JDSU Settlement
0000 17-Feb    Dilas Introduces Introduces Wavelength Stabilized Diode Lasers
0000 2-Feb    Nichia and Seoul Semiconductor End Disputes and Agree to Cross License Patents
0000 27-Jan    Bookham Achieves 200W Output With 10mm Laser Diode Bar
0000 26-Jan    Osram Opto Semiconductors Gets Step Closer to Tiny Digital Projector
0000 21-Jan    Mitsubishi Electric Develops 110 mW Output 638nm Laser Diode for Projectors
0000 15-Jan    Alfalight Releases 808 nm, 0.65 W Pump Diode Laser
0000 5-Jan    Leading-Tech Laser Co., LTD Debuts New 473nm Blue Lasers
0000 1-Jan    Leading-Tech Laser Co., LTD Presents New 473nm Blue Lasers
2008 8-Dec    Alfalight Offers 940 nm, 6 W Pump for CaTV and FTTx Amplifiers
0000 1-Dec    3S Boosts Pump Laser Production
0000 24-Nov    Nichia and Sharp Sign LED and Laser Diode Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement
0000 5-Nov    Sony Confuses Tech Lovers With Blu-Spec CD Release
0000 29-Oct    Alfalight Receives $1.36 Million Army Contract to Develop 1 kW Laser Diode Pump Source
0000 22-Oct    Bookham Amplifier Hits 10,000 Hour Life-test Landmark
0000 20-Oct    QPC Lasers Resumes Limited Operations
0000 15-Oct    Opnext Introduces Red Laser Diode for Entry into Miniature Display Market
0000 8-Oct    Sanyo Develops Blue-Violet Laser for 12x Blu-ray Write Speed
0000 8-Oct    IQE joins European-funded “VISIT” Program
0000 8-Oct    JDSU Introduces New Pump Laser to Support FTTH Networks
0000 11-Sep    QPC Lasers Demonstrates First High Power Surface Emitting Eye-Safe Laser for DOD
0000 3-Sep    Bookham Introduces 20W Fiber Laser Pump Module
0000 25-Aug    Sony Claims Highest-power Red Laser Diode
0000 20-Aug    Opnext Releases Laser diodes at 705nm for Biomedical Applications
0000 18-Aug    QPC Lasers Receives Order for Custom Green Laser Development
0000 21-Jul    IPG To Supply Fiber Lasers To German Luxury Automaker
0000 16-Jul    Nu Horizons to Expand Distribution of Osram Opto Semiconductors’ Products into India
0000 9-Jul    QPC Lasers Finishes Development Phase of Laser TV Contract
0000 3-Jul    StockerYale Awarded Laser Diode Contract
0000 25-Jun    Laser Diode Transceiver Consumption to Have Nearly Eight-Fold Increase in Decade
0000 25-Jun    Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Installs Aixtron Tool for Blue-Violet Laser; VPEC Orders Aixtron Tool for Capacity Increase
0000 9-Jun    SU Predicts Ultrafast Laser Market to Grow with New Players and Technology
0000 2-Jun    Norwegian Orchestra is First to Take Advantage of Blu-ray Audio
0000 19-May    Firecomms and ISMS Collaborate to Deploy POF Networking Solutions in Local Municipalities
0000 5-May    St. Andrews Researchers Created Organic Laser Powered by LED
0000 28-Apr    Brighter Lasers for Tomorrow's Technologies
0000 28-Apr    Researchers Seek Long-Wavelength Lasers at One-Tenth the Cost
0000 23-Apr    BeamExpress Secures $1.3 Million in First Round of Investment
0000 9-Apr    QPC Lasers Issued 9th Patent
0000 26-Mar    Sharp to Develop 400 mW Pulsed Operation Blue-violet Laser Diode
0000 24-Mar    ITC Approves Investigation of Patent Infringement Complaint Against 34 Companies
0000 17-Mar    Osram Opto Reports 10 Percent Higher Efficiency and Twice the Output for New Laser Bars
0000 12-Mar    Binghamton University Researcher Investigates Laser and Sensor Technology
0000 27-Feb    Emcore Introduces Un-cooled DFB Laser Family
0000 21-Feb    Former Professor's Patent Infringement Complaint Seeks Ban on Blu-ray and Blue LED Product Importation
0000 20-Feb    Toshiba Discontinues HD DVD; Concedes Blu-ray Victory in Format War
0000 18-Feb    Bookham Ships 500,000th 980nm Pump Laser Module for Telecom
0000 6-Feb    Northrop Grumman Wins Contract for Phase 2 of MDA’s ATILL Laser
0000 30-Jan    Sony Creates Smallest Blu-ray Read/Write Module
0000 23-Jan    Nichia to Begin Shipments of GaN-based 488nm Laser
0000 21-Jan    IPG Offers its Compact, 20W Fiber-Coupled Laser Diodes to OEMs
0000 21-Jan    JDSU Demonstrates New Commercial Lasers at Photonics West
0000 16-Jan    Bookham Launches 808nm Laser at Photonics West
0000 16-Jan    3S Photonics Introduces Line of 980nm Pumped Laser Modules
0000 14-Jan    Arasor International Acquires Novalux
0000 10-Jan    ITC Begins Investigation into Seoul Semiconductor Complaint of Nichia’s Alleged Infringement
0000 10-Jan    QPC Lasers Receives Two Orders Totaling $1.3 Million for its BrightLase Ultra Lasers
0000 10-Jan    Mobius Photonics Licenses Fiber Amplifier Patent for UV Lasers
0000 4-Jan    II-VI Buys Majority of HighYAG
2007 17-Dec    Novalux Goes Fabless
0000 5-Dec    Seoul Semiconductor Sues Nichia For GaN Laser Diode Patent Infringement
0000 5-Nov    Spire Receives Contract for Development of New Room-Temperature Terahertz Light Source
0000 5-Nov    JDSU Ships 400,000th 980nm Pump Laser
0000 17-Oct    Rohm Increases Emission Wavelength of Nonpolar Laser Diode to 463 nm
0000 17-Oct    Modulight Introduces 1550nm Laser Chip in TO-can
0000 10-Oct    nLight Acquires Liekki
0000 3-Oct    II-VI Subsidiary to Purchase 74.9 Percent of Equity in HighYAG
0000 3-Oct    II-VI Subsidiary to Purchase 74.9 Percent of Equity in HighYAG
0000 19-Sep    CyOptics Introduces its 1310nm FP DFB TOSAs
0000 10-Sep    Bookham Deploys OceanBright Pump Laser Module
0000 15-Aug    JDSU Makes Diode Laser Available with Twice the Power and Highest Brightness
0000 23-Jul    LG Electronics to Offer Hybrid DVD Drive
0000 11-Jul    Strategy Analytics: GaN Laser Diode Market Will Double from 2006 Through 2011
0000 20-Jun    Scientists Demonstrate Room-Temperature Continuous Nanolaser
0000 18-Jun    Blockbuster to Make Blu-ray Discs Available at 1,700 Stores
0000 13-Jun    Bookham Division to Demonstrate Precision Laser at Laser World Photonics 2007
0000 17-May    Hitachi Develops Tiny Medical-Use Laser
0000 14-May    Laser 2000 to Distribute Intense Ltd. Lasers in Europe
0000 11-May    Light Blue Optics and Thales to Develop Laser Projector for Cockpits
0000 23-Apr    Blu-ray Disc Sales Take Lead
0000 17-Apr    Samsung to Release Dual Format DVD Player
0000 16-Apr    NIST-NorthWestern-Stanford Project Develops Ultra-low Power QD Lasers
0000 12-Apr    AOI Raises $28 Million in Series E Funding Round
0000 6-Apr    Technical University of Berlin Orders Thomas Swan System to Develop Nitride Alloy Materials
0000 3-Apr    Next Gen DVD Player Prices Reach $500 Benchmark Sooner than Expected.
0000 29-Mar    Bookham Unveils Record Power 980nm Pump Laser Module
0000 27-Mar    SMI Awarded STTR to Develop MOCVD Equipment for LiNbO3
0000 23-Mar    Arima Opto Spins off Laser Diode Business
0000 22-Mar    Tekcore Set to Produce GaN Blue Laser Diodes with new Aixtron MOCVD Tool
0000 22-Mar    Alfalight Wins Army Contract to Develop High-Power Fiber Laser Pump Modules
0000 16-Mar    Sharp Plans High-Power Blue-Violet Laser Diode Production
0000 9-Mar    Dr. Russel Dupuis Wins IEEE Edison Award for 2007
0000 28-Feb    JDSU to Acquire VCSEL Product Maker, Picolight
0000 21-Feb    Nichia Achieves Milestone in Blue-Violet Pulsed Diode Laser Performance
0000 19-Feb    Avago Technology's Lawsuit Against Elan Back on Track
0000 1-Feb    Intevac Acquires DeltaNu
0000 31-Jan    Laser Diode Maker Dilas Releases New High Power Near IR Conduction Cooled LDs
0000 24-Jan    Osram Opto Semiconductors to Introduce Sirilas Laser Diode Array at Photonics West 2007
0000 19-Jan    NL Nanonsemiconductor Becomes Innolume; Delves into Silicon Photonics
0000 19-Jan    CIR Says Silicon Photonics Will Go into VOAs and Reduce Ethernet Cost
0000 9-Jan    Veeco Introduces New GaN MOCVD Platform for Power LEDs and Blue Lasers
0000 5-Jan    Warner Bros. and LG Electronics Choose Neutrality in DVD Format War
2006 4-Dec    NL Nanosemiconductor to Acquire Zia Laser
0000 20-Nov    Sony Set for November Launch of its Blu-ray Disc Burner
0000 20-Nov    Emcore Introduces QSFP Transceiver for Multi-Lane 20 Gbps Transmission
0000 6-Sep    Bandwidth to Provide III-V and II-VI Wafers to Principia
0000 16-Aug    The Ahura Corporation Has Detection System Ready for Airport Screeners
0000 8-Aug    Photonic Products Ltd. Introduces 405 nm Blue-Violet Laser Diode
0000 3-Aug    Construction Begins on High Power Solid State Laser Facility
0000 28-Jul    H.C. Starck Develops Thermal Management Components
0000 27-Jul    EU Antitrust Officials Probe Next Gen DVD Technology Licensing
0000 24-Jul    Blu-ray Moves Forward Despite Glitch
0000 17-Jul    Blu-ray Release Delayed in Europe
0000 3-Jul    Vertilas Introduces VCSEL Array
0000 27-Jun    nLight President Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006
0000 21-Jun    Sony Releases Movie Titles, Player, and Computer for Blu-ray Discs
0000 14-Jun    Novalux Secures Financing and Allies with Unaxis
0000 19-May    Ahura Corporation Product to be Honored at 2006 American Business Awards
0000 15-May    Crystal IS Announces Release of Native 2-Inch AlN Substrates
0000 15-May    Bookham Division To Showcase Electro-Optic Products at CLEO 2006
0000 11-May    Osram Claims Laser Bar Breakthrough
0000 5-May    JDSU Claims Photovoltaic Record
0000 2-May    Firecomms Raises 9.6 Million Euro
0000 2-May    Blue Ray Technologies Finalizing Patents for Blu-ray Disc Manufacturing
0000 21-Apr    Panasonic to Release Blu-ray Drive for PCs
0000 21-Apr    Fujitsu and Mitsui Launch QD Laser Inc.
0000 20-Apr    nLight Achieves ISO 9001:2000 Certification
0000 17-Apr    Strategies Unlimited Predicts Explosive Growth in Fiber Laser Market
0000 10-Apr    TDK Ships 25GB Blu-ray Discs
0000 3-Apr    Toshiba Wins First Battle in DVD War; Samsung Delays Release of Player
0000 29-Mar    DVD Format Race Heats Up
0000 29-Mar    BiFi Optilas to Distribute Osram Opto Laser Diode Products in Europe
0000 21-Mar    Sony Debuts Blu-ray Player, Recorder, and PC
0000 15-Mar    APA to Focus on Epigrowth
0000 14-Mar    JPSA Delivers UV Laser for GaAs and GaP Wafer Processing
0000 14-Mar    EM4 Exhibits Optoelectonic Components at Military Technology Conference
0000 9-Mar    Emcore Comes Out With New Optical Network Components
0000 8-Mar    Kyma Catches Another Wave of MDA Backing for Native GaN
0000 6-Mar    Emcore Debuts GPON Triplexer Product Line for FTTP Applications
0000 6-Mar    Bookham to Acquire VCSEL Maker, Avalon Photonics
0000 6-Mar    LG, Sony, and Samsung Debut New Format DVD Products
0000 1-Mar    DMG and Svedice to Form Partnership
0000 6-Feb    Primera Technology Debuts 50-Disk-at-a-Time Blu-ray Disk Publisher
0000 6-Feb    Oxxius Debuts 355nm Solid State Laser
0000 26-Jan    Alfalight Catches a Record Wave for DARPA
0000 26-Jan    CyOptics in Partnership with Cray, Demonstrates 80Gbps Data Transmission
0000 24-Jan    Another Bright Alternative Sought for Water Purification
0000 24-Jan    Bookham Signs Cooperation Agreement With EM4 and its Subsidiary
0000 9-Jan    Arima Devices Buys Royal Philips Electronics' Blu-ray Related Pick-up Head Business
0000 9-Jan    Blu-ray Products Introduced at Consumer Electronics Show
2005 29-Dec    Pioneer Introduces Blu-ray Disc Drive
0000 7-Dec    Spire Awarded $750,000 to develop Terahertz Imaging Device
0000 1-Dec    JDSU Completes Acquisition of Agility Communications
0000 29-Nov    UCSB Researchers Create Hybrid Laser
0000 7-Nov    Newport Develops New Crime Scene Investigation Tool
0000 28-Oct    Optoelectronics Industry Development Association Report Discussed at OpticsEast
0000 17-Oct    JMAR Awarded Grant to Develop Laser-based Remote Sensing of Materials
0000 13-Oct    UK Researchers to Produce InP-based Imagers
0000 11-Oct    Ahura Brings in Industry Veteran to be Chairman and CEO
0000 6-Oct    Cyoptics Closes $27 Million Series F Round Funding
0000 28-Sep    Intel and Microsoft Join Ranks of HD DVD Proponents
0000 27-Sep    Dr. Shuji Nakamura and UCSB Team Develop Novel GaN Films for More Efficient LEDs and Laser Diodes
0000 26-Sep    Laser News Update
0000 21-Sep    Ahura Releases Software for Unknown Mixture Identification
0000 20-Sep    Sharp Labs Reports CW Blue Laser From MBE
0000 15-Sep    ICSCRM Expects Record Attendance in Pittsburgh
0000 31-Aug    Alfalight Releases 25W Pump Module for Fiber Lasers
0000 24-Aug    DVD Format Talks Delayed Indefinitely
0000 18-Aug    Picolight Gets Additional $14.5 Million in Funding Round
0000 11-Aug    Chemical Warfare Agent Detection Systems Development Update
0000 8-Aug    Alfalight Awarded $4.5 Million ARL Contract for Laser Research
0000 2-Aug    Alfalight Awarded $1.4 Million for Phase II of SHEDS Program
0000 20-Jul    BinOptics Makes Industry Veteran CEO
0000 18-Jul    Ricoh Makes New Optical Disk with Twice Capacity of Blu-Ray
0000 12-Jul    Bookham Showcases Products at SemiconWest Exhibition in San Francisco
0000 11-Jul    USA Opto Electronics Company Merges With Chinese Company
0000 6-Jul    Senate Axes Funding For Laser Project
0000 4-Jul    Oxford nanoScience Creates 3D Atomic Probe for Seeing Silicon and Metal Oxide on Silicon Structures
0000 27-Jun    Microsoft and Toshiba to Collaborate on HD-DVD Technology
0000 27-Jun    Sharp Laboratories Demonstrates CW Violet Laser Diode by MBE
0000 17-Jun    Osram Opto Product Releases
0000 9-Jun    Toshiba of Japan Announces HD-DVD Recorder
0000 25-May    Alfalight Boosts Fiber-Coupled Laser Power Output by 33%
0000 25-May    CyOptics and Cray to Collaborate on Future Super Computer Data Transmission Demonstration
0000 23-May    JDSU Back in Buying Mode with Acquisition of Acterna Valued at $760 Million
0000 18-May    MIT Releases Microphotonics Industry Consortium 2005 Roadmap
0000 11-May    Toshiba and Sony to Showcase Their Versions of DVD Technology at Media-Tech Expo 2005
0000 11-May    CyOptics Completes Acquisition of TriQuint's Opto Divison and Raises Additional $24 Million in VC Funding
0000 2-May    Cree CEO, Charles Swoboda Becomes Chairman Replacing Neal Hunter
0000 25-Apr    Sony & Toshiba Working on Hybrid Blue Laser DVD Solution
0000 21-Apr    Sony Open to DVD Format Discussion
0000 14-Apr    TriQuint Sells InP Optoelectronics Business to CyOptics for $32 Million
0000 8-Apr    Picolight Predicts New Growth in Ethernet and Optics Markets After Receiving $13 Million in New Funding
0000 31-Mar    nLight Gets Closer to Making InP-Based Lasers Competitive With GaAs Lasers
0000 24-Mar    Ahura Brings New Hand-Held Spectroscopy Product to Market
0000 22-Mar    JDS Uniphase to Acquire Lightwave Electronics
0000 10-Mar    Taiwanese Researchers Develop Blue VCSEL
0000 7-Mar    Emcore Adds to 10 Gb/s TOSA/ROSA Market
0000 4-Mar    Infrared Laser Diodes Performing Medical Wonders
0000 4-Mar    Jenoptik to Manufacture High Power Lasers in Berlin-Adlershof
0000 24-Feb    Bookham Debuts MSA Compliant SFP Module at OFC
0000 22-Feb    MetroPhotonics Sampling FTTx Triplexer Photonic Integrated Circuits
0000 17-Feb    Leadership Changes at Bookham as it Offically Debuts as a USA Company
0000 15-Feb    BinOptics Looks to DVD Players and Passive Optical Networks as Possible New Applications
0000 3-Feb    Ahura Targets Homeland Security Market with Boost of $10 Million in Funding Led by Ute Indian Tribe Fund
0000 26-Jan    "White Box" DVDs Sneaking Their Way into Taiwan
0000 25-Jan    Bookham's New Focus Tunable Laser Scores Circle of Excellent Award
0000 20-Jan    Osram Opto Raises the Bar for Industrial Lasers
0000 13-Jan    Philips Crackdown on DVD Royalty Issues in China May Backfire
2004 13-Dec    Disney Joins the Blu-ray Disc Camp
0000 23-Nov    Ahura's Three Miniature EC Lasers Leave Small Footprints
0000 22-Nov    Bookham Innovators Receive IEEE/LEOS Aron Kressel Award
0000 22-Nov    Chinese Quantum Dot Targets 1300nm with InAs/GaAs Approach
0000 16-Nov    Nichia and Sony Launch New Co-Developed Dual Wavelength Laser Coupler
0000 10-Nov    Bookham Clarifies Focus on Life Sciences Industry
0000 10-Nov    Cree Sues Alma Mater (NSCU) Over GaN-Related Licenses to Nitronex
0000 10-Nov    Alfalight Logs In Record Power Conversion Efficiency at LEOS
0000 4-Nov    Arima Working on Japanese 30" LCD App for High Power LEDs
0000 28-Oct    Alfalight Scores $3.8 Million Air Force High Power LD Contract
0000 25-Oct    Optical Engine Startup "Ahura" Officially Debuts
0000 25-Oct    Showa Denko Officially Enters Manufacture of Blue LEDs
0000 19-Oct    Terahertz Imaging Contract Targets Hidden Explosives
0000 14-Oct    JVC Lens Puts Blue Laser Race in Fresh Focus
0000 11-Oct    Where Do the Blue Laser Users Currently Stand?
0000 11-Oct    What's New at Nichia?
0000 4-Oct    Taiwan's Blue LD-Based Optical Disc and ODD Makers Advised to Stay on the Fence
0000 29-Sep    More Industry Layoffs
0000 24-Sep    Kids Will Get to Use Blue Lasers in Successor to PlayStation 2
0000 21-Sep    JPSA Searches for a Rep
0000 17-Sep    AOI Scores 4 DWDM Tunable Laser Patents
0000 14-Sep    Arakawa's Group Develops New Quantum Dot Laser
0000 9-Sep    Kano Demonstrates How Blue Laser Storage Technology is Already in Use
0000 31-Aug    Sanyo Joins the Toshiba/NEC Blue Laser DVD Team
0000 23-Aug    ASIP Scores $2.5 M Dutch Catalyst Contract to Break Down the OE Integration Barriers
0000 19-Aug    Nortel Continues to Clean House
0000 19-Aug    Spire's Terahertz Laser Targeted for Glucose Monitoring
0000 6-Aug    Demand for Blue Lasers Heating Up
0000 2-Aug    Microsemi Gears InP Photodiodes for 1310/1500 Optical Apps
0000 2-Aug    Vitesse Unveils XFP Pro Chipset and Including 850nm VCSELs in Next Round
0000 2-Aug    Technical Specs for Toshiba HD DVDs to be Freely Publicized
0000 26-Jul    ASIP Enhances Its Uncool Image
0000 26-Jul    Newport Grants USA Student Travel Aid to SPIE Conferences
0000 22-Jul    Riber and CNRS Open Comprehensive Nitride Development Center
0000 19-Jul    Japanese Researchers Move Near Field Lasers Beyond Blue
0000 19-Jul    Newport Completes Acquisition of Spectra-Physics from Thermo Electron for $300 Million
0000 19-Jul    Air Force Awards Princeton Lightwave $1 Million to Develop Eye-Safe Lasers
0000 19-Jul    Sony to Start Building USA Blu-ray Lines for Hollywood Studio Market
0000 15-Jul    Emcore Adds to VCSEL Offerings with Acquisition of Corona
0000 5-Jul    University of Leeds Focuses on Terahertz Research with Oxford Instruments MBE System
0000 5-Jul    Progress Report on the Quest for a Blue Spectrum DVD Standard
0000 30-Jun    Bookham Readies Telecom LDs for the Industrial High Power Market
0000 30-Jun    Matsushita Unveils High End GaN-based Blu-Ray Disc Recorder
0000 28-Jun    Spire's Bandwidth Scores Air Force Contract to Develop Terahertz Lasers for Dual Applications
0000 28-Jun    Epson Launches 850nm VCSEL at InterOpto '04
0000 15-Jun    Laser Industry Veteran Joins nLight as VP of Marketing/Sales
0000 15-Jun    Alfalight Demos 65% Efficient 970nm Laser for DARPA
0000 14-Jun    Emcore's Ortel Division Enters into Chinese Distribution Agreement with BUPT-Guoan
0000 8-Jun    Nichia "Exploring Possibility" of Alliances with Certain Taiwanese Manufacturers
0000 2-Jun    Toshiba Readies to Mass Produce Low-Cost Blue Lasers
0000 1-Jun    Newport to Acquire Spectra-Physics for $300 Million & Appoiints new Pres/COO
0000 28-May    Osram Opto Awarded Coveted Bavarian Energy Award
0000 24-May    Sony Combines Blue-ray and Conventional DVD/CDs in One Optical Head
0000 18-May    JDSU's Back on the Acquisition Track
0000 13-May    Blue 2004 Concluded and Deemed Huge Success
0000 10-May    Tekcore Ramps Blue Spectrum Chip Output
0000 26-Apr    More Good Stories from MDA
0000 26-Apr    Nichia and Sony Expand Blue Spectrum Laser Diode Collaboration Relationship
0000 15-Apr    Coherent Adds "DuraLite" Line of Laser Diodes
0000 15-Apr    Gemfire Acquires NovaCrystal's APD Technology
0000 15-Apr    Spectra-Physics to Offer IR Optical Coating Capability
0000 6-Apr    Cree Completes Purchase of ATMI's GaN Business for $10.25 Million Cash
0000 5-Apr    Nichia Doubles Profits
0000 5-Apr    Pioneer Develops Optical Disc Technology to Outdo Blue-ray
0000 25-Mar    Cree to Buy ATMI's GaN Business
0000 21-Mar    Accent Becomes Diamond Sponsor of Blue 2004
0000 15-Mar    Strategy Analytics Says GaN Laser Diode Market Will Grow $195% to $272 Million by '08
0000 11-Mar    Three Important Spring Events for the Solid State Lighting Industry
0000 10-Mar    Intel Integrating VCSELs in Next-Gen Optical Interconnects
0000 10-Mar    Riber MBE Headed for QWIP & QCL Growth at Thales
0000 21-Feb    Novalux Takes a Different Path to Blue Lasers
0000 16-Feb    Blue 2004 Program Committee Announced
0000 12-Feb    IPAG Acquires OptoSpeed Asserts and Secures More Funding
0000 12-Feb    Spectra-Physics Showed Off at Photonics West
0000 8-Feb    Strategies Releases Telecom Optical Laser Market Forecast
0000 30-Jan    Shuji Nakamura Wins $188.7 Million Settlement from Former Employer Nichia for Blue Spectrum Breakthrough Technology
0000 28-Jan    APA Optics Consolidates and Expandes Aberdeen Facility
0000 28-Jan    Osram Opto Showcases Cutting Edge LDs at Photonics West
0000 28-Jan    nLight Raises Another $12 Million in Third Round Financing
0000 28-Jan    Sanyo Helps Lead the DVD/HDD Market Charge From Red to Blue
0000 22-Jan    SET Scores Two More Nitride SBIR Contracts
0000 20-Jan    Rohm Continues to See Red
0000 15-Jan    NEC Announces High Speed LD for Compact DWDM Systems
0000 15-Jan    The Spirit Is Back at Cree
0000 11-Jan    Sharp Laser Researchers Breakthrough to Blue on MBE
0000 11-Jan    Toshiba and LG Electronics Follow NEC and Sony in Introducing Blue Laser DVDs
0000 5-Jan    5 European Companies Form EPIC Photonics Consortium
2003 28-Dec    NEC Details Progress on HD DVD Development
0000 28-Dec    Maximizing Photonics West
0000 18-Dec    New Chinese-American Full Service Manufacturing Company Formed
0000 7-Dec    Honeywell Adds 4Gig VCSELs to 850nm Lineup
0000 1-Dec    Mixed Reports In on Blue Laser Based DVD Standards
0000 25-Nov    Cree Closes the Book on the Eric Hunter Lawsuit With Clearcut Win
0000 25-Nov    ATMI Moves Newest Freestanding GaN Substrates Into the Market
0000 23-Nov    IP Matchmaker BTG Adds Cornell's VCSELs to Licensing Portfolio
0000 15-Nov    Bell Labs Researchers Go Vertical with Next Gen QC Lasers
0000 13-Nov    Russian/German Quantum Dot Startup NSC to Debut at Photonics West
0000 10-Nov    Blue Sky Sees First Red
0000 10-Nov    Riber's MBE 32 Headed for New York
0000 3-Nov    Bookham Gets Antitrust OK on Acquisition of New Focus
0000 2-Nov    nLight Gets $5 Million DARPA Contract for High Power Lasers
0000 2-Nov    K2 Outsources EC Laser Production to Fabrinet
0000 2-Nov    Accent Bolsters Application Team
0000 28-Oct    FLIR Acquires Indigo Systems for $190 Million and Indigo Moves to Larger Quarters
0000 23-Oct    AXT Concentrates on Its Roots After Sale of Opto to Lumei Optoelectronics
0000 23-Oct    Samsung Ramping in GaN Production Capability
0000 6-Oct    Goodbye OptoSpeed, Hello Albis and Exalos
0000 6-Oct    DARPA Awards Alfalight $3.9 Million for SHEDS Program
0000 2-Oct    Spire Targets Portable Laser at Glaucoma Surgery
0000 2-Oct    Toshiba Takes Next Step in Blue Spectrum Laser Development
0000 2-Oct    Picolight Goes the Extra Mile with 1310nm VCSELs
0000 28-Sep    Newport Appoints Liason to Photonics Research Community
0000 28-Sep    Infineon Launches 4 Gig 1310nm Transceiver
0000 22-Sep    Bookham to Diversify with Acquisition of New Focus
0000 15-Sep    Blue Sky Continues Major Product Ramp with ChromaLASE and FiberTEC Laser Lines
0000 10-Sep    TDK Unveils 23.3GB Blue Laser Disc for Sony System
0000 27-Aug    Don Scifres Serving on the Santur Board of Directors
0000 22-Aug    JDS Uniphase Consolidates in San Jose and Shifts Senior Management
0000 12-Aug    BOC Edwards GaNcat Decomposes MOs and Ammonia
0000 12-Aug    New Wave Research Scores UV Laser Scribing Patent
0000 7-Aug    NTT Electronics and Oki Electric Form Opto Communications Alliance
0000 7-Aug    Cree Reports Record Revenues Winding Up FY-'03
0000 7-Aug    Picolight Sampling 1310 VCSEL Transceivers
0000 3-Aug    NEC Streamlines R&D and Deploys Online Access to IP
0000 29-Jul    Leftover Nortel InP Fab Equipment in Canada Goes to UK Auction
0000 29-Jul    CompoundSemi Online to Team with Gorham to Produce Annual Industry Outlook Conference
0000 21-Jul    CST Global Wins Space Contract to Develop Atomic Clock LDs
0000 17-Jul    NEC Electronics' IPO Price Set for July 24 IPO on Tokyo Exchange
0000 14-Jul    Korea's KIST Boosts Nano Development
0000 8-Jul    UCSB Spins Out InP/InAlGaAsP MBE Laser Processes to Veeco
0000 2-Jul    New InP-Based Laser From CyOptics
0000 29-Jun    Osram Sees Red And Feels A New Pulse
0000 29-Jun    Infineon Makes Waves At Fibercomm 2003
0000 26-Jun    AXT Weighing Decisions on the Optoelectronic Production Front
0000 24-Jun    AXT to Officially Discontinue Opto Production -- Weighing Options
0000 22-Jun    A Recipe For Tasty New Wafers
0000 22-Jun    InPhenix Rises From The Ashes
0000 22-Jun    Japan Slated to Create High Court to Specialize in Advanced Technology IP Dealings
0000 22-Jun    Through the Looking Glass at Ulm Photonics
0000 4-Jun    A Bright New Look at Cree
0000 29-May    Novalux Geared to Fuel Blue Spectrum Niches
0000 29-May    Bandwidth Semi Foundry Back on Spire's Team
0000 26-May    Aixtron Systems Headed to USA and Russia
0000 19-May    Avalon Photonics Ltd. Has Raised US$ 5.5 Million in Venture Capital
0000 14-May    Toshiba Announces Blue Spectrum DVD Working Prototype
0000 12-May    ISCA in Beijing Steps Up GaN Blue Laser Development
0000 12-May    Mike Fidler Named Sony America's New Sr. VP Blu-ray Disc Group
0000 12-May    Aixtron AlGaInSb/P/As Tool Headed to China
0000 6-May    Sony Shares Details on Initial Blue Spectrum Laser-Based DVD Rollout
0000 6-May    Agility Validates High Yield Platform for Widely Tunable Lasers
0000 14-Apr    Sony Launches Blue Laser Optical Drive
0000 9-Apr    Mitsubishi Increases Red Spectrum LD Production
0000 3-Apr    Genoa Slated to be Acquired by Finisar for $5.5 Million in Stock
0000 1-Apr    Intense Photonics 980 Source Delivers 120mW Without Cooling
0000 28-Mar    Picolight and IBM Demo New VCSEL-based Standard in Bandwidth Density
0000 12-Mar    DVD Forum in the Drivers Seat for Blue Spectrum DVD Standards
0000 12-Mar    Picolight Readies Transceivers for OFC & Announces Outsource Partnership with Pemstar
0000 12-Mar    OEpic Launches Opto Wafer Fab Services
0000 12-Mar    Infineon's OFC Rollout Includes Newest VCSEL Transceivers
0000 7-Mar    More on Sony's Ramp of Blue Laser DVD Recorders
0000 3-Mar    Sony Ramps Blue Laser DVD Recorder Production
0000 2-Mar    Tunable Laser Community Continues to Gain Strength via Optical Forum MSA
0000 26-Feb    TDI Announces New Semi-Insulating Substrates for Nitrides
0000 24-Feb    Taiwan's NCU Develops Violet Laser Diode
0000 20-Feb    Eblana Photonics of Ireland Raises $4.5 Million More
0000 19-Feb    Sony Enters Optical Transceiver Market, May Move VCSEL Production In House, and Opens New Taiwan Facility
0000 12-Feb    Bandwidth 9 Cuts Way Back and Goes Shopping for New VCSEL Partners
0000 6-Feb    Osram Opto Announces 8 Watt OPS Disk Laser Prototype for Laser TVs
0000 3-Feb    Gore's 850nm VCSEL Module Assets and IP Acquired by OCP
0000 2-Feb    nLight Introduces New GaAs and InP Laser Diodes
0000 1-Feb    EpiWorks Announces 808nm AlGaAs/GaAs Laser Wafers
0000 28-Jan    Breaking News....
0000 27-Jan    New Focus Hits 4,000th Tunable Laser Milestone
0000 27-Jan    Gore Photonics' California Facility Goes to Auction
0000 22-Jan    Kline Study Reports Compound Semi Chemicals and Materials Topped $1 Billion in '02
0000 21-Jan    Intense Announces New Cleanroom Facilities
0000 21-Jan    Ericsson Continues Sales of Compound Semiconductor Divisions
0000 16-Jan    Blue Spectrum Bellwether, Cree, Reports Highest Revenues Ever
0000 10-Jan    CST Global Adds Distributed Feedback LD Fab to Foundry Offerings
0000 7-Jan    New Focus Patent Lawsuit Settled
0000 1-Jan    Anritsu Launches New InGaAsP Photodetector and 14xx Laser Diode
2002 24-Dec    Nichia Partners with Sony to Fuel Blue Laser Diode Market
0000 17-Dec    Emcore Broadens Fiber Capability with Acquisition of Alvesta Properties and People
0000 9-Dec    TRW Scores $21.3M From DoD for High Power Laser Development
0000 9-Dec    Opto Leaders Trying to Tune In To One Another
0000 9-Dec    Alfalight Continues to Score Backing for High Power Lasers
0000 27-Nov    Agility Introduces New Widely Tunable Laser Assembly
0000 27-Nov    Three Tunable Laser Leaders Enter International MultiSource Agreement
0000 17-Nov    Cree and Nichia Finally Settle All GaN Litigation and Begin Cross Licensing
0000 23-Oct    Toshiba Shows Where DVD Is Headed
0000 23-Oct    Seiko's Into VCSELs and Aixtron Gets Hold of 8" Freiberger GaAs Substrates
0000 20-Oct    Agility Tunes In to China via Luster Lightwave
0000 14-Oct    Danish VCSEL Startup, Alight, Offers Better Way to Channel Light
0000 14-Oct    Osram Opto Improves GaN CW Lasers to 143 Hours
0000 14-Oct    OCP Acquires Cielo's VCSEL Technology
0000 14-Oct    Schott Increases Stake in U.L.M Photonics and "Restructures" Schott Optovance
0000 8-Oct    Strong Showing of Blue Spectrum Laser-Based DVDs at CEATEC
0000 8-Oct    Bookham Agrees to Acquire Nortel's Opto Group, Minus CoreTek
0000 8-Oct    Sensors Unlimited Provides New Jersey Boost by Buying Itself Back
0000 24-Sep    New Focus' 852 Tunable Lasers Take to Space on JPL's Atomic Clocks
0000 24-Sep    Swiss Startup, BeamExpress, Demos First Widely Tunable VCSELs
0000 11-Sep    JDSU Offers Product Lines to Help Stressed Eyes
0000 11-Sep    Lucent Chooses iolon Inc.'s Apollo Line of Tunable Lasers
0000 6-Sep    Zarlink & Agilent Tag VCSELs for POP4 Transceiver Modules
0000 6-Sep    Lightscape Incorporates Agility's Tunable Lasers in C-Band Applications
0000 6-Sep    EU GaAs-based Quantum Dot Laser Awards Go to Professors Bimberg & Alferov
0000 6-Sep    Honeywell Tags Richardson Electronics for VCSEL Distribution
0000 3-Sep    Gore Grooming VCSEL-Based Fiberoptic Biz for Sale
0000 29-Aug    Toshiba and NEC Take Case for Additional Standard Before DVD Forum
0000 29-Aug    RSC Ships Long Wave IR Sensor Assemblies to Raytheon
0000 20-Aug    Cree's 10K Filing Includes Latest Litigation Info
0000 15-Aug    Princeton Lightwave Becomes Two Entities
0000 30-Jul    Defacto Standards Working to Push Blue Lasers
0000 24-Jul    Blue Lasers Star in Hawaii
0000 24-Jul    InGaN/GaN Blue Laser on Silicon Substrate Reported at IWN
0000 19-Jul    Emcore Unveils Enterprise Laser Diode Platform, First Sale Goes to JVC
0000 19-Jul    EpiWorks Teams With U of Illinois Kent Choquette in VCSEL Development Project
0000 15-Jul    AOI Launches 1310nm Analog Laser Line
0000 9-Jul    Sandia/Emcore VSR Parallel VCSEL Array Module Team Wins R&D 100 Award
0000 9-Jul    Introducing German InP BTJ VCSEL Startup VertiLas
0000 25-Jun    SEI Moves Forward in Two Compound Semi Sectors
0000 25-Jun    Nichia and Osram Agree to Cross License
0000 25-Jun    Philips Demonstrates Small Forms Factor Blue Laser-Based Optical Drive
0000 9-Jun    Lumics' 980s Operate at Up to 330 mWatts
0000 5-Jun    New Focus Provides Veteran Tektronix with Tunable Laser Module
0000 1-Jun    Picolight Raises Another $27 Million for Volume Ramp of 850 & 1310nm VCSELs
0000 28-May    Spectra Physics Finds New President from Within
0000 24-May    Intel Completes Acquisition of New Focus' Tunable Laser Technology
0000 17-May    Stratos Announces 850 & 1310 VCSEL-based InfiniBand Transceivers
0000 14-May    Blue Sky Helps Get the Blue Laser Light Out
0000 14-May    Another Victory for GaN Blue Lasers
0000 14-May    Agility Establishes Next Gen Tunable Laser Facility in San Jose
0000 10-May    Cermet Reaches Wide Bandgap Milestone and Scores More Contracts
0000 10-May    Corning Has Top Ramans at 350mW
0000 30-Apr    Nortel Tunes To Telecordia
0000 21-Apr    Nakamura Lawyer Releases Explanatory Letter
0000 15-Apr    Emcore Raises Revenue Expectations Following Restructure and Cutbacks
0000 15-Apr    Tuning in to Agility's Strides
0000 9-Apr    Sanyo's 405nm Ion-Implant Blue Laser Boasts Lower Noise/Current Consumption
0000 4-Apr    Shuji Nakamura Scores $16 Million ERATO Grant from Japan to Work on Bulk GaN
0000 1-Apr    Blue Sky Launches New Line of Tunable Lasers
0000 25-Mar    Catching Up with Spectrolab
0000 20-Mar    JDS Comes Back Strong at OFC
0000 20-Mar    Newport Helps Automate Compound Semi Manufacturing
0000 20-Mar    New Focus to Sell Passive Opto Line and Sell China Facility
0000 20-Mar    Nortel Targets WDM Products Beyond Fortune 200
0000 20-Mar    9xx Laser MSA Reached to Pump Uncooled Mini-DIL Packaging
0000 20-Mar    LuxNet Debuts Long Wavelength VCSELs at OFC
0000 14-Mar    Picolight's VCSEL Module Scores EDN Innovation of the Year Award
0000 14-Mar    Emcore Completes Tecstar Acquisition and Releases 40 Gig Parallel T/R Modules
0000 14-Mar    Spectra-Physics Rolls Out More Ramans
0000 14-Mar    Nortel to Feature 10Gig Tunable Transmitter at OFC
0000 11-Mar    IAF to Develop Blue Spectrum UHB-LEDs & LDs
0000 11-Mar    Meet LuxNet's TOSA and ROSA
0000 8-Mar    A Little G2 from Bandwidth9 Goes A Long Way
0000 8-Mar    Picolight Introduces New Accelar 850nm Serial Transceiver
0000 4-Mar    Corning Lasertron's 980nm Lasers Reach Full Qualification
0000 4-Mar    850 VCSEL Driving Agilent's New 3.3V Transceiver
0000 28-Feb    IEEE/LEOS Featuring VCSELs and Microcavity Lasers at Summer Topicals
0000 28-Feb    JDSU's Back With New Laser Family for CATV Apps
0000 26-Feb    Cree's Blue Laser Hits 10,000 Hour Lifetime Target
0000 21-Feb    Zarlink Launches 30 Gig 850nm Parallel VCSEL Modules
0000 21-Feb    Blue Laser Standards Established by Nine DVD Producers
0000 21-Feb    Picolight Broadens VCSEL Line with 10 Gig OIF-VSR Transponder
0000 14-Feb    850nm VCSELs Move Out of Thales' Lab Into D-Light
0000 6-Feb    Spectra-Physics Introduces 5w 532nm Green Laser
0000 6-Feb    Arima Expands DVD Laser Production Including GaN
0000 28-Jan    Temperature Tunables Unveiled by JDSU
0000 28-Jan    Picolight Teams with Emcore for Standardized Production of VCSEL-Based Modules
0000 23-Jan    Ulm Photonics Expands 10 Gig VCSEL Array Die Production
0000 22-Jan    ITRI's OES Labs Demonstrates GaN Laser
0000 18-Jan    Photonics West Gets Underway
0000 18-Jan    Spectra-Physics Gets a New Pres/CEO
0000 18-Jan    LaserComm's Photonics Entry Fortified by $21M in 4th Round Funding
0000 17-Jan    Lumics Launches 330mW 980 Pump Lasers
0000 15-Jan    Eagle-Picher Achieves p-Type Doping of ZnO
0000 1-Jan    Spectra-Physics Completes Reversal From Public to Private
0000 1-Jan    Infineon Explains 40G Rollout Delay
0000 1-Jan    South Epitaxy Adds HBT & HEMT Wafers to Epi Offerings
0000 1-Jan    Japan's Blue Spectrum Laser Progress Reviewed
2001 14-Dec    Mitsubishi Launches 10 Gbps DFB Laser Diode
0000 14-Dec    Bandwidth9 Ramping 1550nm and 1600nm VCSEL Line
0000 11-Dec    Fuji Xerox Reported to be Fielding 850nm VCSEL Arrays
0000 11-Dec    Blue Sky Sampling Coolerless 980 Modules
0000 6-Dec    Raytheon Scores Another $38.6 Million for LADAR System
0000 4-Dec    ExceLight & Sumitomo Team to Produce 1310nm Integrated 10 Gig Module
0000 4-Dec    Optillian Debuts Its First 10 Gig Transceiver
0000 28-Nov    LuxNet Releases 850nm VCSEL Arrays & Raises Another $18 Million in Venture Funding
0000 19-Nov    Osram Outlines Their Latest GaN on SiC Blue Laser Progress
0000 15-Nov    Blue Sky Shoots for Small Footprint EDFA Pump Module Package
0000 14-Nov    Dynamic Growth in Photonic Packages Predicted
0000 12-Nov    Nichia Files USA "Sherman Antitrust" Claim Against Rohm & Cree
0000 9-Nov    Avalon Launches VCSELs Specifically for Absorption Spectroscopy Apps
0000 9-Nov    Intense Week in Scotland
0000 9-Nov    Locker Talk from Bandwidth9 Helps Guide DWDM Industry
0000 6-Nov    Cree Reports GaN on SiC Blue Laser Lifetimes of 1,000 Hours
0000 1-Nov    Marconi Promotes New InP Widely Tunable Laser
0000 29-Oct    Emcore's VCSEL Transponder Module First to Comply
0000 25-Oct    Rohm Develops 180mW IR Laser Diode & Releases New Chip Scale Packages
0000 11-Oct    National's Paul Murphy Heads Bandwidth9 Manufacturing in Fremont
0000 11-Oct    Isonics and Cermet Team in Isotopically Pure Zinc Oxide Program for Blue Lasers
0000 5-Oct    Nortel Appoints New President/CEO
0000 2-Oct    New Focus Introduces New Laser Source and Counterclaims Photonetics
0000 2-Oct    Alcatel Optronics Introduces 40Gig CW DWDM Laser
0000 28-Sep    SEI Ships Very Small LD SFP Optical Transceiver Modules
0000 28-Sep    Matsushita's SHG "Non-GaN" Blue Laser Ready for October Launch
0000 25-Sep    Agility Scores $83M and Names New Board Members
0000 17-Sep    Agilent Launches Compact Tunable Laser Modules
0000 12-Sep    2.5 W 975nm Pump Laser Introduced by Spectra-Physics
0000 12-Sep    Shuji Nakamura Awarded First Cree Chair at UCSB
0000 31-Aug    Stratos Cages VCSELs
0000 28-Aug    InP VCSELs Addressing "Last Mile" Heating Problems
0000 27-Aug    Atoga Systems CEO Joins Siros' Board
0000 27-Aug    Tunable Laser Startup, Princeton Optronics, Closes 2nd Round Financing
0000 22-Aug    Milton Chang Steps Up and Away from New Focus
0000 22-Aug    Shuji's Turn to Counter
0000 22-Aug    Stratos Introduces Innovative Module Packaging for 850 & 1300 VCSELs
0000 17-Aug    TDK Files Patent for Optical Recording Medium
0000 17-Aug    Agere Initiates Litigation Against Multiplex
0000 13-Aug    Picolight Scores Oxide VCSEL Patent
0000 12-Aug    August Declared VCSEL Application & Awareness Month
0000 9-Aug    SETI Fortifying RF Communications with Lasers
0000 9-Aug    Intense Scottish Grant Geared to Spur Packet Switching
0000 9-Aug    Daniel Chu to Lead Blue Sky's ITU Laser Line
0000 9-Aug    Agilent & Corning Pen Key Parallel Optics Deal
0000 6-Aug    International Trade Commission Continues Inquiries into Nichia-Rhom-Cree Litigation
0000 2-Aug    AOI Raises $10M from Fellow Texans in 2nd Round Funding
0000 2-Aug    RF Nitro Launches First GaN-based Commercial HEMTs and Dedicates New Fab
0000 26-Jul    Osram Starts Construction of Advanced Compound Semi Device Factory in Germany
0000 26-Jul    AXT Enters the 1550nm Transceiver Market
0000 26-Jul    Furukawa Electric Flexing New Compound Semi Muscle
0000 26-Jul    Agility Further Widens Tunable Barriers
0000 23-Jul    Agere Pumps TyCom Under the Sea
0000 16-Jul    Blue Sky Research Targeting Programmable Tunables
0000 16-Jul    Acquisition of DuPont Facility Speeds Up Intense Photonics Commercial Plans
0000 16-Jul    Bandwidth9 Ramping VCSEL Capability
0000 13-Jul    Nitronex & Microsemi Shake Industry with GaN on Silicon HB-LEDs
0000 13-Jul    Closings & Cutbacks in Photonics Underway at Corning
0000 13-Jul    Flextronics & Gore Getting into VCSELs
0000 9-Jul    New Focus Pumps Op Amps at NFOEC
0000 9-Jul    Emcore's 10 Gig Oxide VCSEL GaAs Photodetector Shows Off at NFOEC
0000 3-Jul    EU Independently Blocked GE/Honeywell Merger
0000 3-Jul    Picolight's Magnus VCSELs Getting Well-Connected
0000 28-Jun    Blaze Turns Up the Wick Under VCSELs
0000 27-Jun    Multiplex Launches First 10 Gig 1310nm Laser
0000 27-Jun    VCSEL Lineup Growing in Taiwan
0000 25-Jun    Cielo Weighs In with 10 Gbps 1310nm VCSEL-Based Transponder
0000 25-Jun    Euro Laser Startups Highlighted at Laser 2001 in Munich
0000 25-Jun    IBH Applies Nichia's Blue Lasers to Testing Products
0000 18-Jun    Synergistic Silicon Sidekick for VCSELs from Advanced Photonix
0000 18-Jun    Spectra-Physics Takes Back Original Name
0000 18-Jun    Nichia's Violet Lasers for Next Gen DVDs Move into Volume Production
0000 14-Jun    GE's Acquisition of Honeywell May Not Go Through
0000 12-Jun    Planning Ahead for Photonics West
0000 12-Jun    TuiOptics Changes Name to Toptica Photonics AG
0000 7-Jun    Planning Ahead for Photonics West
0000 7-Jun    Independence and Acquisitions Pushes Stratos Forward
0000 5-Jun    GaAs Down at AXT, but InP, VCSELs & HB-LEDs are Up
0000 24-May    Mitsubishi Enters $15 Million Alliance to Further UCSB's Compound Semi Efforts
0000 22-May    AXT Offering Oxide VCSEL Arrays
0000 21-May    Labsphere Introduces Wafer Level Probe for VCSELs
0000 17-May    Multiplex Expands New Jersey Fab and Raises Additional Capital
0000 17-May    Emcore Begins Volume Shipment of 10Gig Oxide VCSELs to Intel and Blaze
0000 15-May    Rohm Withdraws Blue Spectrum Laser Infringement Complaint Against Nichia
0000 14-May    Agere Announces Pennsylvania Cuts
0000 11-May    GE Gets Detailed Negative Report from EC on Honeywell Acquisition
0000 10-May    E2O Announces Test Results of 1300nm VCSEL Platform
0000 8-May    Christian Geng to Head Aixtron Taiwan Team Plus Marconi Buys 3 More MOCVDs
0000 8-May    850nm VCSEL from New Focus Targeted for Lab Applications
0000 8-May    Strategies Unlimited Slates Strategies In Optical Amplifiers for Sept 13-14
0000 8-May    Picolight Introduces Its First 10Gig VCSEL Transponder
0000 3-May    Shuji Nakamura's Interview a Recommended Read
0000 1-May    Stratos Lightwave Achieves Total Independence from Methode
0000 1-May    Add Oriol to the GaN Lineup
0000 1-May    University of Texas Scientists Weigh In on Light Emitting Silicon
0000 25-Apr    AXT Celebrates Volume Production of 850nm VCSELs and 1310nm Edge Emitter Lasers
0000 19-Apr    Toyoda Gosei Rolling Out Blue Lasers and White LEDs
0000 17-Apr    Introducing Siros Technologies to the VCSEL Lineup
0000 16-Apr    How to Worry Your Cat
0000 13-Apr    Qusion Recruits Emcore's Matt Schurman to Direct Operations
0000 12-Apr    Cree Just Keeps Getting Stronger as President & COO Chuck Swoboda Adds CEO to His Duties
0000 12-Apr    Stratos Offers 850 and 1310 Lasers in Versatile Quad Packaging
0000 11-Apr    Major Restructure Underway at Marconi
0000 6-Apr    Infineon Weighs In with a 1300nm VCSEL and Helps Explain Application Appeal
0000 4-Apr    Mitel and Agilent Push for 10Gbaud 4 Channel Module Standards
0000 4-Apr    Princeton Lightwave Reports 1w InP Performance for 1400 Applications
0000 4-Apr    Details Disclosed On Agility's C-band 10mw InP Tunable Laser
0000 3-Apr    Ireland's NMRC Spins Off FireComms Ltd. to Exploit RCLEDs and VCSELs
0000 2-Apr    Anadigics Formalizes InP Push with +$28M Acquisition of Telecom Devices
0000 29-Mar    Sharp Prepares for Blue Laser Production at New Mihara Plant
0000 28-Mar    Agere Quietly Crawled To The Street Tuesday Night
0000 26-Mar    New VCSEL Standards for VSR Interfaces out of OIF Announced
0000 26-Mar    ARL Offering License of GaN Defect Density Reduction Patent
0000 22-Mar    Lucent Launches VCSEL-based Aralight
0000 21-Mar    Nortel's Coretek Subsidiary Playing the Right Tunes at OFC
0000 20-Mar    Emcore Debuts 850nm 10 Gig Oxide VCSEL at OFC
0000 20-Mar    Agilent buys 5 person VCSEL R&D firm
0000 19-Mar    Marconi Optical Components Debuts at OFC
0000 19-Mar    Vitesse Contracts with Tality for Design Services & Introduces New Chips at OFC
0000 19-Mar    Broadband Giant, JDS Uniphase, Rolls out 70 New Products at OFC
0000 19-Mar    Progress on Blue Spectrum DVD Laser Diode Standards in Japan
0000 15-Mar    Princeton Lightwave Introduces Packaged InP Broadband Gain Chip
0000 15-Mar    JDSU & Alcatel Extend 980nm Supply Agreement
0000 15-Mar    Fitel/Furukawa Announces Pump Laser & Opens New Development Center
0000 13-Mar    Xtera Launches Raman "eXpander"
0000 13-Mar    ADC & Agility Call for Tunable Laser Standards
0000 13-Mar    Picolight Showcasing 2 VCSEL Transceiver Products at OFC
0000 12-Mar    Agere in the Public Eye
0000 6-Mar    Nortel Continues Optical Moves In China
0000 5-Mar    ATMI Beefs Up Epi Services
0000 20-Feb    Eye on Agere
0000 15-Feb    GaN and InP 101 Workshops Explain Technologies Behind Optical Networking, White LED and Blue Laser Revolutions
0000 14-Feb    Agilent, Mitel and Gore Enter 12-Channel Parallel Optic Modules Pact
0000 14-Feb    New Focus Unveils Widely Tunable Laser
0000 14-Feb    Finisar Enters 10 Gig Transceiver Market with FTRX Line
0000 12-Feb    Vitesse Adds 10 New Opto Products for Next Gen OC-48 Market
0000 12-Feb    GE's Takeover of Honeywell Under Review by EU Commission
0000 12-Feb    AXT's New Custom VCSEL and 980nm Laser Offerings
0000 12-Feb    Lucent Sets Agere's IPO on NYSE ("AGR") at $15-20
0000 6-Feb    Gorham Show at Capacity; Promises to be the Best Ever
0000 5-Feb    Agilent Ventures Antes $100 Million Plus Clout to Broadband Startups
0000 30-Jan    Cree Announces Key Additions to Senior Management
0000 25-Jan    Sony/Philips 4.7G DVD+RW Standard to Fuel Funai/Richo
0000 22-Jan    Philips/Sony Demo Prototype of GaN-based 3rd Gen DVR
0000 22-Jan    CS Incubator Hatches University of Glasgow Startup Called "Intense Photonics"
0000 18-Jan    Kopin's InGaP/GaInAsN HBTs Help Put the Spotlight on GaN & InP
0000 17-Jan    Albuquerque Ribbon-Cutting Marks Emcore's Record Climb Further Up the CS Component Foodchain
0000 15-Jan    Alcatel Opto Expands Facilities in Lannion, France
0000 12-Jan    +1600 cm2/Vs GaN HEMTs on 4" Silicon Substrates from Nitronex
0000 10-Jan    Nortel Gets $100 Million UK Nod to Build 10 Gig Optical Backbone
0000 8-Jan    SDL Ships First Integrated 40 Channel Lasers
0000 8-Jan    SiC Twist to Northrop's Proposed $5.1B Acquisition of Litton
0000 8-Jan    Showa Denko and Anritsu Lead Japan Buildup
2000 27-Dec    Nichia Counter-Sues Cree & NCSU, Claims "Trade Secret Theft" Against Nakamura
0000 27-Dec    JDSU/SDL Stockholder Merger Meets Postponed To Jan 26
0000 21-Dec    Cree and Rohm Enter Multilevel Alliance to Include Development of a Packaged Blue Laser
0000 21-Nov    Honeywell/GE and SDL/JDSU Deals Announce Shareholder Vote Dates
0000 17-Nov    Infineon Selling Off Opto Holdings
0000 9-Nov    Uniroyal's Concerted Ramp
0000 30-Oct    Strategies Unlimited/LFW Annual Marketplace Seminar to feature Cisco and Intel
0000 19-Oct    SDL Continues Strong Progress and Announces China Sale
0000 17-Oct    Marconi Leaps Over "The Pond" Transformed as "MONI"
0000 17-Oct    ATMI Announces Major Expansions in GaAs Epi, GaN Wafer & Epi Materials
0000 12-Oct    II-VI Completes Acquisition of Laser Power Corp.
0000 1-Oct    Lund Institute's Portable Fluorosensors Made from Violet CW Laser Diodes
0000 28-Sep    CREE Files Nitride Patent Suit Against Nichia
0000 3-Sep    Compound Semiconductor Technologies Ltd. Opens $11 Million Opto Foundry and Research Center in Glasgow, Scotland
0000 29-Aug    Sumitomo Steepens Vertical Ramp and Releases Expansion Numbers
0000 24-Aug    Waiting Period Extended on JDS Uniphase Merger with SDL
0000 2-Jul    After Auction-Like Tug, Laser Power Changes Course and Accepts II-VIs Merger Offer Over Union Miniere's Acquisition Bid
0000 16-Jun    CS Tunable Lasers in Dental Applications
0000 1-Jun    SDL Contract Extension Calls for Supplying 980nm Pump Lasers to JDS Uniphase for Optical Networking Gear
0000 23-May    BMDO Tracking & Backing Blue Laser Progress
0000 21-May    ADC Gets Into Tunable Lasers through Acquisition of Altitun

Press Releases - As issued by company
0000 7-Jul    Nichia starts sample shipments of green semiconductor laser
0000 24-May    Kaai, Inc. Releases Blue Laser Diode Product and Initiates Commercial Shipments into Display and Specialty Applications
0000 10-Feb    Long-Wavelength VCSELs: a Green Solution To High-Speed Communication
2009 9-Dec    Sanyo Exits Red And Infrared Laser Diode Production
0000 3-Dec    Stradus 488-nm Blue Laser Diode Module
0000 20-Nov    Ultracompact Green Laser
0000 14-Oct    Coherent, Inc. Acquires Product Lines From StockerYale, Inc.
0000 5-Oct    IQE to acquire NanoGaN to accelerate commercialisation of advanced blue/green lasers and solid state lighting products.
0000 13-Aug    OSRAM Announce Breakthrough with 50 mW Direct Emitting Green Indium-Gallium-Nitride Laser
0000 22-Jul    Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. has successfully developed the world’s first green laser diode lasing at 531 nm
0000 17-Jun    Oclaro Introduces New Focus 1064nm High Power Laser for Raman Spectroscopy Applications
0000 4-May    JDSU Introduces Most Powerful Pump Laser for Undersea Optical Networks
0000 9-Mar    Bookham Announces 6W 808nm Single Emitter Module
0000 19-Feb    Medical Laser Family
0000 17-Feb    DILAS Introduces Wavelength Stabilized High-Power Diode Lasers
0000 2-Feb    Seoul Semiconductor and Nichia Settle Litigation and Enter Into a Cross-License
0000 2-Feb    Nichia And Seoul Semiconductor Settle Litigation And Enter Into a Cross-License
0000 26-Jan    Bookham Hits 200W With High Brightness Laser Diode Bar
0000 26-Jan    Mini laser for mini projectors
0000 21-Jan    Mitsubishi Electric Announces Sale of 638 Nanometer Laser Diode with World-leading Output Power for Color Projectors
0000 14-Jan    Alfalight 808 nm, 0.65 W Pump Diode Laser Provides Unmatched Wavelength Stabilization for Green Micro-Lasers
2008 19-Dec    Basic Agreement on Stock Transfer of Eudyna Devices Inc.
0000 17-Dec    nLIGHT Introduces Large Mode Area All Erbium Fibers
0000 8-Dec    Alfalight 940 nm, 6 W Pump Diode Laser Delivers Higher Power for CaTV and FTTx Amplifiers
0000 27-Nov    3S increases pump laser production on growing customer demand
0000 26-Nov    Charlie Cuneo Joins JPSA Laser as President
0000 24-Nov    Nichia and Sharp Enter into LED and Laser Diode Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement
0000 11-Nov    Alfalight 976 nm, 10 W Pump Diode Features Higher Power in Compact Package
0000 29-Oct    Alfalight Receives $1.36 Million Army Contract to Develop Advanced 1 kW Laser Diode Pump Source
0000 23-Oct    Finisar Expands Presence in China With New High-Volume Manufacturing Facility
0000 21-Oct    Bookham Amplifier Hits 10,000 Hour Life-test Landmark
0000 15-Oct    Opnext Introduces Red Laser Diode; Accelerates Company’s Entry into Miniature Display Market
0000 7-Oct    JDSU Introduces New Pump Laser to Support FTTH Networks for Voice, Video, Data Services
0000 22-Sep    JDSU Develops Technology Breakthroughs for New Photonic Integrated Amplifier Platform
0000 11-Sep    QPC Lasers Successfully Completes DoD Contract; Demonstrates World's First High Power Surface Emitting Eye-Safe Laser
0000 3-Sep    JDSU Introduces First Diode Laser Series With Fiber Laser Power Feedback Protection
0000 2-Sep    Bookham Announces 20W Fiber Laser Pump Module
0000 27-Aug    Photonic Products - First 705nm Laser Module Targets Low-Level Laser Therapy and More
0000 20-Aug    Laser diodes are first at 705nm
0000 13-Aug    QPC Lasers Receives Order for Custom Green Laser Development from World Leader in Digital Office Equipment
0000 5-Aug    QPC Lasers Announces Asia Optical as Customer in Laser TV Contract; Successfully Demonstrate Laser TV Technology
0000 25-Jul    Eblana Photonics extends ultra-narrow linewidth laser diode product line to include 400kHz Butterfly Module emitting at 1550 nm for use in communications, sensor and medical applications.
0000 21-Jul    IPG Awarded Contract To Supply Fiber Lasers To German Luxury Automaker
0000 15-Jul    Nu Horizons Electronics and Osram Opto Semiconductors Expand Distribution Agreement into India
0000 9-Jul    QPC Lasers Announces Completion of Development Milestones for $12 Million Laser TV Contract
0000 1-Jul    StockerYale, Inc. Awarded Evergreen Contract by Global Technology Company
0000 24-Jun    Laser Light as Coolant for Semiconductors
0000 17-Jun    MELCO Reports Successful installation of Aixtron MOCVD Tool for Blue-violet Laser
0000 17-Jun    Global demand for laser diode transceivers to hit $25.7B by 2017
0000 6-Jun    Ultrafast Laser Market to Grow With New Players and Technology, Says Strategies Unlimited
0000 2-Jun    Music on Blu-ray
0000 27-May    Dreier LLP Obtains Settlement Agreements with Sony, Sanyo, Exceed and Lucky Light in Landmark LED Patent Case
0000 19-May    Physicists Develop Laser With Bandwith Spanning Two Telecom Windows
0000 6-May    Arrowhead Sells Subsidiary Aonex Technologies to AmberWave Systems for up to $7.95 Million Plus Royalty
0000 5-May    'Rainbow' Lasers Light Up the Future
0000 22-Apr    BeamExpress Secures Its First Round of Investment of $1.3 M
0000 21-Apr    Brighter lasers for tomorrow's technologies
0000 14-Apr    Alfalight 915 nm 10 W Laser Pump Diodes Deliver High Power in a Compact Package for Cost-Sensitive Industrial Lasers
0000 9-Apr    QPC Lasers Announces 9th Issued Patent
0000 17-Mar    Performance Boost for Laser Bars
0000 1-Mar    Binghamton University researcher investigates new developments in laser and sensor technology
0000 27-Feb    Emcore Announces New Line of Un-cooled Coaxial Lasers
0000 21-Feb    QPC Lasers Granted New Patent
0000 20-Feb    Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses
0000 15-Feb    Bookham Leads Telecom Pump Module Market with Half-a-Million Units Shipped
0000 6-Feb    Northrop Grumman Wins Phase 2 of Defense Department's Solid-State Advanced Track Illuminator Laser Development Contract
0000 23-Jan    Laserline Selects Bookham Very High Brightness Bar for Industrial Direct Diode Systems
0000 23-Jan    Nichia Starts Engineering Sample Shipments of 488nm Blue-green Semiconductor Laser
0000 22-Jan    Opnext Introduces World’s First 640nm/150mW Red Laser Diode
0000 21-Jan    IPG Photonics Enters Merchant Diode Business with Brightest, Most Powerful Line of Laser Diodes
0000 21-Jan    JDSU Highlights New Lasers at Photonics West
0000 16-Jan    Bookham Launches Next Generation 808nm Laser Diode Bars at Photonics West
0000 16-Jan    3S Photonics Intros Pump Laser Module Line
0000 14-Jan    Arasor acquires Novalux Inc
0000 9-Jan    QPC Lasers receives $1.3 million medical orders for BrightLase Ultra lasers
0000 9-Jan    Laser Sources Based On Fiber Amplifiers
0000 9-Jan    ITC Institutes Investigation of Nichia Corporation Based on a Complaint Filed by Seoul Semiconductor
0000 3-Jan    II-VI Incorporated Acquires Majority Interest in HighYAG Lasertechnologie GmbH
2007 17-Dec    Photonics Products Announces the Availability of New 830nm Opnext Laser Diodes
0000 13-Dec    Oxford Instruments wins 9-system, Ł2.5m ($5m) process tool order to equip new University of Southampton facility
0000 12-Dec    Company Outsources "Necsel" Wafer Processing to Ramp-Up for High-Volume Consumer Display Applications
0000 5-Dec    Seoul Semiconductor Files a Complaint Against Nichia With I.T.C.
0000 5-Nov    NEC C&C Foundation Awards 2007 C&C Prize to Dr. Robert D. Maurer, Dr. John B. MacChesney, Dr. Tatsuo Izawa, and Dr. Kenichi Iga
0000 5-Nov    JDSU Ships 400,000th 980nm Pump Laser to Support Growing Network Traffic Demands
0000 30-Oct    QPC Lasers Gets Contract with U.S. Defense Customer
0000 17-Oct    Modulight introduces high-power 1550nm TO-can lasers
0000 8-Oct    nLight Acquires Liekki
0000 5-Oct    Arrowhead Subsidiary, Aonex, Demonstrates High Quality GaN Growth on its Proprietary A-GaN Substrates Which Target the GaN Laser Diode and LED Device Markets
0000 2-Oct    II-VI Incorporated Announces Agreement to Acquire Majority Interest in HighYAG Lasertechnologie GmbH
0000 17-Sep    Cree Announces Expanded Patent Cross License with Nichia
0000 6-Sep    Submarine pump to make European debut at ECOC 2007
0000 15-Aug    JDSU Leverages Telecom Expertise for New Diode Laser that Packs Twice the Power; Provides Highest Brightness
0000 10-Jul    Strategy Analytics: Consumer Electronics will Propel GaN Laser Diode Market into the Billions
0000 20-Jun    Scientists Demonstrate High-Performing Room-Temperature Nanolaser
0000 18-Jun    Blockbuster to Expand Blu-Ray to 1,700 Stores
0000 13-Jun    Bookham New Focus Launches High-Precision Laser at LASER 2007
0000 8-May    Light Blue Optics Announces Joint Development Agreement with Thales
0000 2-May    Intense Ltd. Signs Laser 2000 to Distribute Next Generation Lasers in Europe
0000 23-Apr    Blu-ray Disc Sales Surpass One Million Mark
0000 16-Apr    Quantum Dot Lasers: One Dot Makes All the Difference
0000 6-Apr    AOI Raises $28 Million in E Round Funding
0000 3-Apr    Technical University of Berlin Adds Thomas Swan Reactor
0000 26-Mar    Bookham to Unveil World’s Most Powerful Telecoms 980nm Pump Laser Module at OFC/NFOEC 2007
0000 23-Mar    SMI awarded NSF Phase II STTR to develop LiNbO Thin Film Modulators
0000 21-Mar    Tekcore Selects Aixtron Multiwafer Reactor for GaN Laser Production
0000 20-Mar    Alfalight Wins Army Contract to Develop High-Power Fiber Laser Pump Modules
0000 7-Mar    Dupuis to be Awarded IEEE Edison Award
0000 6-Mar    Northrop Grumman Selects Goodrich Shortwave Infrared Technology for Custom Camera Development
0000 27-Feb    JDSU to Acquire Picolight
0000 21-Feb    Nichia succeeded in 320mW pulsed operation of blue-violet LD
0000 16-Feb    U.S. District Court Denies Elan Microelectronics’ Motion to Dismiss in Avago Technologies’ Lawsuit
0000 1-Feb    Intevac, Inc. Acquires DeltaNu
0000 29-Jan    UC Santa Barbara Researchers Led by Shuji Nakamura Achieve Major Breakthrough in Laser Diode Development
0000 23-Jan    DILAS Releases New High Power Near Infrared Conduction Cooled Diode Lasers: 60 Watt, 19 emitter, 808 nm and 980 nm
0000 23-Jan    Osram Opto Semiconductors' Sirilas Laser Diode Arrays to Premier at Photonics West 2007
0000 18-Jan    Innolume GmbH Expands Quantum-Dot Product Family
0000 16-Jan    CIR Issues Research Note on Silicon Photonics
0000 4-Jan    LG Electronics to Launch First Dual-Format High-Definition Disc Player
2006 5-Dec    JDSU Reaches Milestone in Powering the On-Demand Era
0000 4-Dec    NL Nanosemiconductor Acquires Zia Laser
0000 17-Nov    Emcore Announces High-Density, QSFP Transceiver Form-Factors for Multi-Lane, 20 Gbps Transmission Over Copper and Optical Media
0000 10-Oct    Finisar Achieves Industry Milestone: 50 Million VCSELs Shipped Market Leader Has Shipped More Units in the Data Communications Market Than All Other Manufacturers Combined
0000 5-Sep    Spire's Bandwidth Semiconductor Subsidiary Signs a Manufacturing Agreement with Principia Lightworks for Rear-Projection Television Laser Wafers
0000 8-Aug    Powerful and Sensitive 405nm Blue-Violet Laser Diode Module
0000 2-Aug    Northrop Grumman Begins Work on Dedicated Facility for High-Energy, Solid-State Laser System Integration and Production
0000 27-Jul    H.C. Starck Develops Thermal Management Components for HB-LEDs and Laser Diodes
0000 27-Jun    Vertilas VCSEL for Communications Technologies, Sensing and Spectroscopy
0000 27-Jun    nLight’s CEO Scott Keeney Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2006 Award Recipient in the Pacific Northwest
0000 21-Jun    Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to Deliver First Blu-ray Titles to Retail Tomorrow;
0000 14-Jun    Novalux Secures $21.7 Million in Financing; Allies with Unaxis to Commercialize NECSEL Light Sources for Display Products
0000 19-May    Ahura Corporation’s FirstDefender Named as Finalist in 2006 American Business Awards
0000 15-May    Bookham New Focus Unveils Innovative New Electro-optics and Lasers at CLEO 2006
0000 12-May    Commercialization of Two-inch AIN Substrates Announced at OIDA Forum
0000 11-May    Osram Opto Semiconductors Announces New Laser Bar Performance Breakthrough
0000 4-May    JDSU Achieves World Record Photovoltaic Efficiency
0000 26-Apr    U.S. Firm Finalizing Patents that Solve Problems on Blu-ray Disc Production
0000 21-Apr    Fujitsu and Mitsui Launch QD Laser, Inc., Optical Device Venture for Commercialization of Quantum Dot Lasers
0000 12-Apr    Fiber Lasers Will Capture a Large Share of the Industrial Laser Market by 2010, Says Strategies Unlimited
0000 10-Apr    TDK Begins Shipping Its Highly Anticipated Blu-ray Disc 25GB Recordable And Rewritable Media
0000 14-Mar    EM4 Exhibits High Power, High-Speed Components for Critical Defense Applications
0000 14-Mar    JPSA Announces Deliveries of UV DPSS Laser GaAs and GaP Wafer Dicing Systems
0000 14-Mar    EM4 Exhibits High Power, High-Speed Components for Critical Defense Applications
0000 8-Mar    Emcore Announces Volume Production of Packaged APD Product Family for FTTP and SONET/SDH Systems
0000 7-Mar    Emcore Announces ITU G.695 Compliant CWDM Laser Diode Components
0000 6-Mar    Emcore Introduces GPON Triplexer Family for FTTP Applications
0000 3-Mar    World Debut for Bookham Integrable Tunable Laser Assembly at OFC/NFOEC
0000 3-Mar    Bookham Enters Into Agreement to Acquire VCSEL Technology Leader Avalon Photonics
0000 21-Feb    Kyma Technologies Selected for Additional DoD Support
0000 6-Feb    Primera Announces Bravo XR-Blu Disc Publisher; First Automated Disc Publishing System with Blu-ray Disc Support
0000 27-Jan    Oxxius Demonstrates 355-nm Solid State Laser
0000 24-Jan    Alfalight Achieves Record-High 22 Watt Continuous Wave Output Power for 975 nm Diode laser
0000 23-Jan    Bookham Partners With EM4 to Target the US Defense and Homeland Security Market
0000 23-Jan    Photonics West Conference Tops 1,000 Exhibitors, 2,800 Technical Presentations and 80 Courses; Content Spans Biomedical Optics, Lasers and Applications, Micro/Nanofabrication and Optoelectronics
0000 5-Jan    Blu-ray Disc Ushers in New Era of Entertainment; U.S. Consumers Can Satisfy High Definition Appetites in 2006
2005 27-Dec    Pioneer Launches One of Industry's First PC-Based Blu-ray Disc Drives
0000 6-Dec    Spire to Develop Terahertz Imager for Hidden Weapons and Explosives Detection
0000 30-Nov    JDSU Completes Acquisition of Agility Communications, Inc.
0000 7-Nov    Newport Corporation Announces First Portable, Laser-Based Solution for Crime Scene Investigation
0000 19-Oct    HP Drives Format Compatibility for High-definition DVDs
0000 13-Oct    JMAR Competitively Selected for Phase I SBIR Grant by U.S. Army for New BriteLight Laser Application; Research Grant Focuses on Development of New Sensor for Remote Detection of Hazardous Materials in the Field
0000 11-Oct    Ahura Names Douglas Kahn Chairman and CEO; Dr. Daryoosh Vakhshoori, Founder, Named President
0000 10-Oct    Kyma Technologies Announces $1M Phase II STTR Project
0000 5-Oct    CyOptics Closes $27M Series F Financing Round
0000 30-Sep    Power+Energy, Inc. receives third order for Bulk Hydrogen Purification System
0000 28-Sep    Managing Member Companies of HD DVD Promotion Group Welcome Intel and Microsoft as Newest Members of the Group
0000 28-Sep    Power+Energy, Inc. Introduces Next Generation Hydrogen Purifier System.
0000 26-Sep    Opnext Expands Laser Diode Portfolio; New Products Enable Information and Industrial Applications; Offer Lower Drive Current
0000 26-Sep    Fujitsu Adopts Intel'S Optical Tunable Laser
0000 26-Sep    Room-temperature transistor laser is step closer to commercialization
0000 19-Sep    Ahura’s DecisionEngine 2.0 Software Features Mixture Analysis Offers Instant Results Across an Effective Library of Billions of Chemicals
0000 13-Sep    Bookham Receives $15.5 Million From Sale of Vacant Land
0000 8-Sep    JDS Uniphase to Acquire Agility Communications, Inc.
0000 29-Aug    Alfalight 25 Watt Pump Module Delivers High Brightness and Wavelength Control
0000 23-Aug    Strategy Analytics: GaAs at the Core of Fiber-optic Network Expansion; Profit Making Remains Elusive
0000 18-Aug    Picolight Completes $27.5 Million Funding Round With Second Closing
0000 8-Aug    Alfalight Begins Development of High-Brightness Multimode Diode Lasers
0000 1-Aug    Alfalight Selected by DARPA for Phase II of the Super High-Efficiency Diode Sources Program
0000 20-Jul    Michael J. Cumbo Named CEO of BinOptics
0000 12-Jul    Bookham New Focus Sets New Speed and Accuracy Standard With Product Launches at SemiconWest
0000 6-Jul    NeoPhotonics and Photon Technology Co. Complete Merger
0000 4-Jul    Laser Atom Probe Leads The Way To Seeing Atomic-Level Silicon Structures
0000 27-Jun    Microsoft and Toshiba Strengthen Relationship
0000 24-Jun    Power And Energy Establishes Branch Office In Japan
0000 23-Jun    Sharp Demonstrates World's First Continuous Wave Violet Laser Diodes by MBE
0000 13-Jun    Laser bars with stable 150W outputs
0000 13-Jun    Powerful Pumping Laser Diode Now Offers Passive Cooling
0000 1-Jun    JDS Uniphase Selected by BellSouth for Next Generation Broadband Network
0000 24-May    CyOptics Collaborates With Cray Inc. To Demonstrate Unprecedented Optical Data Transmission Rates for Future Supercomputers
0000 23-May    Alfalight Enhances Output Power of 976nm Fiber-Coupled Diode Lasers by 33%
0000 11-May    CyOptics Completes Acquisition of TriQuint Semiconductor’s Optoelectronics Division
0000 27-Apr    Fabrinet to Acquire JDS Uniphase Operations in Fuzhou, China
0000 14-Apr    TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. Announces Sale of Optoelectronics Operation in Pennsylvania and Mexico
0000 4-Apr    Axcel Photonics Announces New Ownership Under J. Jim Hsieh
0000 23-Mar    First Defender – Breakthrough Rugged, Handheld Chemical Identification System Available to First Responders
0000 7-Mar    Emcore Announces 10-Gigabit Short Wavelength TOSA/ROSA
0000 4-Mar    Eudyna Announces New XMD-MSA TOSA and ROSA
0000 4-Mar    Bookham to Unveil 980nm Pump Laser Module at OFC/NFOEC 2005
0000 4-Mar    Fujitsu Develops World's First Semiconductor Optical Amplifier with Signal Waveform Re-shaping Function at 40Gbps
0000 3-Mar    Agilent Technologies Ships 4 Gb/s Fiber Optic Transceivers for Next-Generation Fibre Channel Storage Networks
0000 3-Mar    JMAR Granted X-Ray Lithography Patent
0000 3-Mar    Eblana Photonics Announces Feedback Insensitive Single Mode Laser Diodes for Mass Market Applications
0000 1-Mar    BinOptics to Unveil Integrated PON Chip at OFC 2005
0000 23-Feb    Bookham Brings SFP Pluggable Transceiver Benefits to DWDM Applications at OFC/NFOEC 2005
0000 20-Feb    Modulight Opens New Office In Bay Area
0000 16-Feb    Princeton Lightwave Produces Eye-Safe Laser
0000 8-Feb    Alfalight Selects Scott Higgins as Vice President of Operations
0000 31-Jan    Oxford Instruments announces first order for Clusterlab600 MBE system
0000 27-Jan    Eblana Photonics and Vitesse Alliance Results in Major Breakthrough in Laser Fabrication Technology
0000 27-Jan    Presstek Subsidiary Lasertel Plans to Increase Capacity and Streamline Production with Purchase of Veeco MBE Reactor
0000 25-Jan    Bookham New Focus Wins Photonics Circle of Excellence Award
0000 20-Jan    Osram Opto Introduces Compact Powerful Laser Diode for Industrial Applications
0000 19-Jan    Bookham Unveils World's Most Powerful Laser Diode Bar at Photonics West
0000 19-Jan    Ahura Corporation Raises $10M B-Round to Accelerate Homeland Security Product Offerings
0000 18-Jan    CyOptics Appoints Ed Coringrato as President & CEO
2004 14-Dec    Samsung and Sony Enter a Cross-License Agreement to Share Patent Portfolios
0000 13-Dec    II-VI Incorporated Announces Acquisition of Marlow Industries, Inc.
0000 29-Nov    Agilent Technologies Introduces High-Performance, LED-Based Optical Mouse Sensor
0000 29-Nov    Toshiba Announces the Next-Generation DVD Format Endorsement by Major Hollywood Studios
0000 23-Nov    Bookham Laser Pioneer Receivers Prestigious Industry Award
0000 21-Nov    Ahura Corporation Announces New Laser Product Line for Raman Spectroscopy
0000 16-Nov    Epichem Group and Power+Energy Establish Sales Alliance
0000 16-Nov    CAS Scientists Develop GaAs-Based Long Wavelength Laser Devices
0000 10-Nov    Alfalight Achieves World-Record Laser Diode Power Conversion Efficiency
0000 26-Oct    Alfalight Begins Development of Wavelength-Stabilized High-Power Laser Diodes
0000 11-Oct    Ahura Corporation Launches into Homeland Security and Life Sciences
0000 15-Sep    AOI Announces Tunable Laser Patents
0000 8-Sep    Agilent Introduces High-Brightness, Surface-Mount LEDs for Automotive Interior, Exterior Lighting
0000 7-Sep    Kano Technologies Introduces BLUE-WAV – Blue Laser Desktop Storage
0000 2-Sep    NTT Introduces a High-output, High-bandwidth Super Luminescent Diode Light Source Ideal for In-vivo Optical Coherence Tomography
0000 2-Sep    Finisar Announces 120 km DWDM SFP Transceiver Telecommunication Service Providers Deploying DWDM Networking Equipment Can Increase Revenue With Finisar's Scalable Low-Power Solution
0000 20-Aug    New Diode Laser Temperature Controllers Offer Exceptional Performance
0000 19-Aug    Spire Receives Contract for Terahertz Laser Blood-glucose Monitor
0000 2-Aug    Microsemi Expands Portfolio of InGaAs/InP PIN Diodes
0000 2-Aug    Vitesse XFP PRO Saves Significant Cost and Time-to-Market for XFP Modules
0000 22-Jul    Newport Announces Student Research Travel Awards
0000 22-Jul    Riber Opens New Process Technology Center Dedicated to Nitride Growth
0000 20-Jul    ASIP Introduces Extended Temperature Laser For 10Gb/s Optical Transceivers
0000 16-Jul    Newport Corporation Completes Acquisition of Spectra-Physics
0000 16-Jul    University of Tokyo and Fujitsu Succeed in World's First Single-photon Emission in Data Transmission Wavelengths
0000 15-Jul    Princeton Lightwave Wins Contract For Eye-Safe High Power Solid State Lasers
0000 1-Jul    Sirenza Microdevices Awarded Patent to Improve Signal Clarity of Fiber Optic Transmitters
0000 1-Jul    MBE system for University of Leeds
0000 29-Jun    Eblana Photonics Announces Tosa Product Line Offering
0000 29-Jun    Bookham Enters High Power Industrial Laser Market
0000 24-Jun    Spire to Develop Terahertz Laser Technology
0000 15-Jun    Alfalight’s High-Power Diode Lasers Achieve 65% Efficiency
0000 15-Jun    Merrill Apter joins nLight as Vice President of Sales and Marketing
0000 1-Jun    Newport Corporation to Acquire Spectra-Physics, the Optical Technologies Business of Thermo Electron Corporation
0000 17-May    Alfalight’s Fiber Laser Reference Design Simplifies and Accelerates the Design Process for Fiber Laser and Fiber Amplifier Systems
0000 11-May    Cree President and CEO, Chuck Swoboda, is Keynote Speaker at Blue 2004 in Hsinchu, Taiwan
0000 29-Apr    BinOptics Introduces 1310nm Horizontal-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser
0000 22-Apr    Cross License Agreement of Blue-Violet Laser Diode related Patents for Optical Disc
0000 14-Apr    APA Optics, Inc. Sells Its Optics Manufacturing Operations
0000 13-Apr    Coherent Launches New Diode Laser Product Line
0000 9-Apr    Indigo Systems’ VisGaAs Detector Gets Top Honor
0000 2-Apr    Pioneer To Introduce High Precision Electron Beam Recorder
0000 1-Apr    High Level Conference on Advanced LEDs and Lasers Slated for Hsinchu, Taiwan May 10-12
0000 31-Mar    Challentech Inc. – LayTec´s partner for Taiwan and China
0000 22-Mar    Accent Optical Technologies Files Registration Statement For Proposed Initial Public Offering
0000 19-Mar    TDK to Join Blu-ray Disc Founders
0000 18-Mar    Blu-ray Disc Founders welcome TDK as their newest member
0000 15-Mar    Strategy Analytics: Optical Storage Applications will Drive Market for Gallium Nitride Laser Diodes
0000 16-Feb    Alfalight Selects Mohandas Warrior as CEO
0000 16-Feb    Alfalight Selects Mohandas Warrior as CEO
0000 9-Feb    Thermo Electron's Spectra-Physics Showcases Laser and Photonics Leadership
0000 5-Feb    Emerging Segments Will Drive Growth In Transceiver Market, Says Strategies Unlimited
0000 2-Feb    Finisar's Acquisition of Honeywell's VCSEL Operation for $75 Million Includes Picolight Cross License Agreement
0000 29-Jan    Picolight Cross Licenses Laser Technology
0000 26-Jan    Finisar to Acquire Honeywell VCSEL Optical Products Business
0000 21-Jan    DWDM SFP Transceiver First TO Deliver TwiceThe Density, Half the Power Consumption at CWDM Pricing
0000 20-Jan    Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. Receives $1.5 M to Develop Transistors and UV Emitters on Bulk AlN
2003 2-Oct    Toshiba Develops Blue-Violet Laser for Future Optical Disc Systems
0000 1-Oct    Picolight Unveils Industry’s First 20-kilometer 4 Gb/s 1310-nanometer VCSEL Transceiver
0000 30-Sep    Spire Receives Grant for Development of a Portable Fiber Laser Instrument for Glaucoma Surgery
0000 26-Sep    Alfalight Selected by DARPA for Super High Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) Program
0000 24-Sep    Newport Hires Dr. Jason Eichenholz to Enhance Company’s Focus on Research Market
0000 22-Sep    Bookham Technology PLC Announces Agreement to Acquire New Focus Inc
0000 19-Sep    Infineon Unveils 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel Transceivers - World´s First 1310nm VCSEL-Based Fibre Channel Transceiver Module
0000 15-Sep    Blue Sky Research Introduces Fiber TEC Line of Fiber-Coupled Laser Modules
0000 10-Sep    TDK Announces 23.3GB Blue Laser Disc for the Sony Professional Optical Disc Recording System
0000 25-Aug    Blue Sky Research Announces a New Family of Free Space Lasers: The ChromaLASE Series
0000 21-Aug    Jozef Straus Announces Retirement as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman
0000 6-Aug    New Wave Research Awarded Patent for Sapphire Substrate Scribing Method
0000 5-Aug    Cree Announces Agreement With APT for Purchase of Silicon Carbide (SiC) Schottky Diode Die
0000 5-Aug    Picolight Introduces 1310 nm VCSEL Transceivers
0000 5-Aug    NTT Electronics and Oki Team Up in the Optical Communication Device Business
0000 31-Jul    NEC Strengthens Research and Technology Development Structure
0000 29-Jul    Cree Reports Record Revenue for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2003
0000 25-Jul    Picolight to Extend Fiber-Optic Transceiver Leadership into Optical Sub-Components
0000 23-Jul    NEC Establishes Intellectual Assets Website
0000 23-Jul    AXT Files Counterclaims Against Cree Lighting and Boston University
0000 7-Jul    University of California Santa Barbara Transfers MBE Processes to Veeco
0000 2-Jul    KIST Advancing Research into Novel Fiber Optic Network Devices Using Aixtron AIX 200/4-RF R&D MOCVD System and EpiTune II in-situ Monitoring Tool
0000 30-Jun    CyOptics Introduces Industry’s Highest Temperature Uncooled Laser
0000 29-Jun    Osram Opto Semiconductors Offers Red Lasers for 640 to 660 nm Visible Advances
0000 29-Jun    Pulse Proof Laser Diodes From Osram Opto Semiconductors Laser Diodes Advancing Into Industry
0000 24-Jun    Infineon Introduces and Demonstrates Cutting-Edge Fiber Optics Solutions at fibercomm 2003
0000 24-Jun    AXT Announces Plan to Discontinue Opto-Electronics Production
0000 6-Jun    Worldwide Markets and Development Activity for Gallium Nitride Continue to Thrive
0000 4-Jun    EpiWorks, Inc. Completes GaAsSb Development Project With Supply Partners Epichem, Inc. and InPact, Inc.
0000 3-Jun    Cree Introduces MegaBright® PlusTM and XBright® PlusTM Blue LEDs
0000 2-Jun    Substrate Exchanged VCSEL Offers Ability to Integrate
0000 29-May    EpiWorks, Inc. Announces New Product: 1550 nm InAlGaAs/InP Laser Wafers
0000 27-May    Spire Acquires Bandwidth Semiconductor, LLC
0000 26-May    Aixtron Enters Into Co-Operation with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
0000 19-May    AIX 2400 G3 GaAs Production Tool Chosen By Sigm Plus, Moscow
0000 14-May    Toshiba Extends High Luminosity White LED Offering With Addition of Bluish Green and Purple LEDs
0000 12-May    Corning Announces Photonic Technologies Sale
0000 12-May    Aixtron Continues to Expand Market Leadership in China
0000 9-May    Toshiba's New Dual-layer, Single-sided, Blue-Laser Rewritable Optical Disk Needs Only Current Production Facilities
0000 9-May    Novalux Raises $16 Million in Venture Capital Funding
0000 7-May    Avalon Photonics Ltd. Raises US$ 5.5 Million in Venture Capital
0000 29-Apr    Agility Communications Achieves 95 Percent Packaging Yield of Widely Tunable Lasers
0000 8-Apr    Mitsubishi Electric Boosts Production of DVD Laser Devices on Aixtron AIX 2400/2600G3 Systems
0000 7-Apr    Sony Develops Blue Laser High-Capacity Optical Drive and Media For Professional Data Storage Market
0000 7-Apr    Osram Announces World’s Most Advanced Optoelectronics Chip Factory
0000 3-Apr    Don Scifres Joins Board of Santur Corporation
0000 1-Apr    Osram Opto Semiconductors Announces New Worldwide Sales Responsibility for Opto-Semiconductor Products
0000 1-Apr    Finisar Corporation Announces Acquisition of Genoa, Inc., Closure of Its Demeter, Inc. Division and Management Changes
0000 25-Mar    Multiplex Introduces 80km Long-Reach Transponder at OFC
0000 25-Mar    EDFA Pump Laser In Mini-DIL Package Delivers State-Of-The-Art Power In Form To Drive Down Optical Network Costs
0000 24-Mar    New Focus Introduces a New Laser Source for Telecom Test and Measurement Applications
0000 24-Mar    Picolight and IBM Achieve Unprecedented Bandwidth Density For Optical Data Transmission
0000 24-Mar    New Focus Introduces A New Line of High-Speed Receivers for Test and Measurement Applications
0000 12-Mar    Picolight Expands Ethernet SFF and SFP Fiber-Optic Transceiver Offering, Adds Products for Sonet Applications
0000 12-Mar    OEpic Offers Advanced Wafer Fab Services To Optoelectronics Industry For Next-Generation Products
0000 12-Mar    Picolight Partners with Pemstar to Increase Manufacturing Capacity for Fiber-Optic Transceivers Used in Enterprise and Metro/Access Networking Applications
0000 3-Mar    Agere Systems Announces Entry Into the Wireless Power Amplifier Market With 21 Breakthrough Transistor Products
0000 3-Mar    Agility Communications Announces Industry’s First Universal Transponder for Switching, Metro and Long-Haul Markets
0000 27-Feb    iolon Inc., Intel Corp., Bookham Technology and Santur Corp., Have Joined Forces to Form a Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) for Tunable Lasers
0000 20-Feb    Toshiba Adds High-Speed Transmitter/Receiver For Automotive LAN to Its TOSLINK Family of Fiber Optic Devices
0000 11-Feb    Bandwidth9 Announces Plans to Suspend Operational Costs and Functions
0000 11-Feb    Eblana Photonics Raises $4.5m in Series B Funding
0000 5-Feb    New Focus Announces Financial Results for its Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2002
0000 4-Feb    Shanghai LanBao Selects EMCORE E300 GaNzilla™ Platform for High Volume Production of GaN-Based LEDs
0000 3-Feb    Toshiba Achieves Industry's Lowest Noise Level with High Frequency Silicon Germanium Transistors For GPS-featured Mobile Phones and Wireless Applications
0000 31-Jan    Optical Communication Products Acquires Gore Photonics Parallel Optical Module Assets and Intellectual Property
0000 28-Jan    New Focus Introduces Solid-State Fixed Wavelength Lasers in Visible Spectrum; Compact, Low-cost Lasers Are Ideal for Biotechnology, Spectroscopy and Metrology Applications
0000 28-Jan    EpiWorks, Inc. Announces New Product: 808nm AlGaAs/GaAs Laser Wafers
0000 28-Jan    nLight Photonics Introduces Broad Range of High Power Diode Lasers at Photonics West
0000 17-Jan    Ericsson Sells Optoelectronics operation to Northlight Optronics AB
0000 17-Jan    New Clean Room for Intense Photonics Boosts Design and Prototyping Responsiveness
0000 16-Jan    Cree Reports Record Revenue for Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2003
0000 1-Jan    Anritsu Develops New Photodetector Improving Conversion Efficiency By 60%
0000 1-Jan    Anritsu Develops New 14xx Laser Diode
2002 18-Dec    Nichia and Sony Announce Joint Development & Technology Alliance for Production of Blue-Violet Laser Diodes
0000 17-Dec    Emcore Corporation Acquires Product Lines, Inventory, and Intellectual Property of Alvesta Corporation
0000 26-Nov    Agility, Alcatel Optronics and Bookham Technology Announce Multi-Source Agreement for Tunable Laser Sources
0000 26-Nov    Agility Communications Launches 20-mW, 25-GHz Widely Tunable Laser with Multi-Source Agreement Footprint
0000 31-Oct    Intel Foundation Makes $100K Grant for Master's Scholarships
0000 17-Oct    Agere Systems Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Intersil
0000 16-Oct    IEEE Recognizes New Focus Achievements in Tunable Lasers; Dr. Timothy Day, Co-Founder and CTO, Given Award at LEOS 2002 in Scotland
0000 15-Oct    John Sudol, Vice President of Operations, Elected Director of AeA
0000 15-Oct    Agility Communications Enters Chinese Market Through Distribution Agreement and Partnership with Luster Lightwave
0000 10-Oct    IDC Highlights ADC's Breadth and Depth of Product Offerings as Driver for Future Growth
0000 10-Oct    Highlink Tech Advances Production of GaN-Based LEDs Using Emcore E300 GaNzilla Platform
0000 9-Oct    Optical Communication Products Acquires the Business of Cielo Communications
0000 8-Oct    Finisar Corporation Announces The Sale Of Assets At Sensors Unlimited And Further Restructuring
0000 7-Oct    Sensors Unlimited Purchases Assets from Finisar Corporation
0000 1-Oct    Schott Increasing Stake in U.L.M. Photonics and Restructuring Schott Optovance, Inc.
0000 30-Sep    ASIP Introduces Industry's First Uncooled, Integrated Laser and Modulator for Enterprise and Metro A