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ORLANDO, FL -- A standing ovation is not what you might expect from a group of engineers-turned-executives, yet that's what victory in the Lemelson patent case produced at a lunchtime [...]

ORLANDO, FL -- The sparsely populated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC), held in the sprawling Orange County Convention Center, personified the state of the optical telecommunications industry. The vast [...]

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND -- In another sign of a retrenching optical components industry, GigaTera has been acquired by Time-Bandwidth Products (TBP) for an undisclosed sum of cash. Kurt Weingarten, chairman and [...]

CHIBA, JAPAN--A first glance at the omens was not favorable for a successful InterOpto 2003 (July 15-18), held as usual in Makuhari Messe in the Tokyo suburb of Chiba. A [...]

BALTIMORE, MD--In the not-too-distant past, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO; June 1-6) was the premiere show for exhibitors and aficionados of optoelectronic technologies. Sometime between the telecom bubble [...]

ATLANTA, GA--The cavernous halls of the Georgia World Congress Center made attendance at Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) 2003 seem even lighter than it actually was, but there was no escaping [...]

TUCSON, AZ -- This western desert town has a long history in optics, from early astronomy buffs to startup enterprises to one of the few U.S. universities offering a Ph.D. [...]

ORLANDO, FL -- Amidst general economic malaise, Aerosense 2003 managed to position itself at the intersection of interesting technologies and diverse but growing markets. The boom in security and military [...]

BOSTON--Metaphorically speaking, it was feast or famine depending on where you sat at the Future of Light conference, held November 14 at the Boston University Photonics Center. The morning speakers, [...]