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Optoelectronics News (Optoelectronics News)
Emcore Triples Manufacturing Capacity Emcore has tripled the capacity of its manufacturing cleanrooms at the company s Albuquerque, NM facility. The site houses Emcore s solar cell division, which manufactures advanced triple junction solar cells for satellite applications, as well as the optical device division, which makes VCSELs, photodetectors and VCSEL arrays. An additional 36,000 sq.ft. of space was added to an existing 50,000 sq.ft. building. "The additional cleanroom capacity is critical for us to serve our growing customer base, and provides an opportunity for Emcore to continually develop new product technologies for the rapidly increasing global communication markets," said Reuben Richards, president and CEO. Opto Power Becomes Spectra-Physics Semiconductor Lasers Opto Power (Tucson, Arizona), a manufacturer of high-power laser diodes originally acquired by Spectra-Physics in 1992, has been renamed Spectra-Physics Semiconductor Lasers (SPSL). The name change reflects the increasing importance of Opto Power s semiconductor lasers as critical components in the majority of Spectra-Physics products. Spectra-Physics is a major supplier of high power multi-mode semiconductor lasers and solid-state laser systems. "Spectra Physics has been working for some time to make Opto Power a more fully integrated business unit within the company," said Alfred Feitisch of SPSL. "The name change marks the completion of that process." The new identity follows the recent realignment of Spectra-Physics business units to support growth in telecommunications and other markets deemed strategic to the company [see CS 6(8), p.23]. Along with its traditional high power laser markets in materials processing, biomedicine and graphics, SPSL will supply 915 nm and 975 nm multi-mode pumps for fiber lasers in telecom applications. Quantum Cascade Lasers Warming Up Applied Optoelectronics (Sugar land, TX) has demonstrated CW operation in a quantum cascade laser up to a temperature of 210K (
