Organizers Aim to Create Funding Opportunities for Early-Stage Photonics Firms and Raise the Profile of Photonics as a Fast Growth Industry
Invest in Photonics, a two-day international partnering convention will be held in Bordeaux, France, March 18 – 19, 2010. The only European-wide photonics-investor convention of its kind, Invest in Photonics 2010, will bring [...]

The Photonics and Plastic Electronics Knowledge Transfer Network have invited IPI Europe to facilitate a tutorial on 19th September in London.
The event, which will held at The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining in London, UK from 10 am on the 17th September 2009, will involve speakers including
David Corr of NTERA on ‘Applications using Nanochromics™ [...]

Kotura, Inc., a leading provider of Silicon Photonics products, today announced that it has been selected by Santur as a partner in their 100 Gb/s platform. Using a silicon photonics chip, Kotura’s 10-channel optical multiplexers combine multiple 10 Gb/s channels onto a single fiber output, thereby reducing the packaging complexity by an order of magnitude. [...]

Arnold Karpel Heads Up Sales & Marketing
SAN CLEMENTE, California, Reynard Corporation, as part of its commitment to the photonics industry, is proud to announce the expansion of its Sales and Marketing Departments under the leadership of Arnold Karpel, Manager of Business Development. Mr. Karpel comes to this position at Reynard with more than twenty-five [...]

Industry’s top manufacturers and academics to present at IEEE/LEOS sponsored seminar programme
At this week’s Photonex 08, leading laser system manufacturers and university academics will take part in a high level seminar programme on High Power Diode Lasers and Systems. Representatives from Alcatel Thales III-V Labs (France), Jenoptik (Germany), Intense and GSI Lasers, will be [...]

TV entrepreneur, Doug Richard, to speak at UK’s top photonics industry gathering near Coventry
Doug Richard, business entrepreneur and star of TV’s Dragons’ Den, is to be one of a host of potential investors at this year’s PHOTONEX08 event at Stoneleigh Exhibition Centre in Coventry (15-16 October 2008).
Mr Richard will be keynote speaker at an opening [...]

Avanex Corporation (NASDAQ:AVNX), a pioneering provider of intelligent photonic solutions enabling next-generation optical networks, today announced that it received a letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market on June 10, 2008, indicating that the Company has regained compliance with the $1.00 per share minimum closing bid price requirement for continued listing on the Nasdaq Global Market, [...]

Pine Brook, NJ – Chiral Photonics, Inc. (CPI), a photonics company commercializing next generation optical components, lasers, and displays based on its proprietary in-fiber and thin-film technologies as well as glass microforming capabilities, today announced that Dr. Stan Lumish joined its Board of Directors.
Dr. Lumish, most recently, is the former chief technology officer at JDS [...]

LITTLE ROCK, AR – February 14, 2008 – The Photonic Component Group, a division of Power Technology, Inc., will now be offering a 705nm red laser diode produced by Opnext.
This new laser diode represents a significant introduction of a new and unique wavelength, as previously, wavelengths between 690nm and 730nm have not [...]

LITTLE ROCK, AR – February 14, 2008 – Power Technology, Inc., a leader within the photonics industry for nearly forty years, will now be offering a 705nm Instrument Quality (IQ) laser module. This product offering represents a significant introduction of a new and unique wavelength, as previously, wavelengths between 690nm and 730nm have not [...]