Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Bookham enhances Tunable Laser Offering With Two New iTLAs

Bookham, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKHM), a leading provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, today announced the launch of two new versions of its fully-qualified LambdaFlexTM integrable Tunable Laser Assembly (iTLA). The products - one a completely new iTLA offering L-band capability with in-service power adjustment, the second bringing in-service power adjustment to the existing C-band iTLA - are designed to give vendors the flexibility and scalability they need to meet future network capacity demands. The L-band iTLA will be on display, alongside a live demonstration of the C-band capability for the first time at the Fibre Optics Expo (FOE) in Tokyo later this week. The product will be demonstrated on the stand of Japanese distributor, JLC. "These new products extend Bookham's leadership in the development of next generation tunable platforms," said Jon White, product line manager for tunable sources at Bookham.

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Tower Optical Launches Photonics Internet Site

Optics Manufacturer Partners with CEOExpress Company to Launch PhotonicsConnection.com, a Major Information Portal for Engineers and Other Members of the Optics Industry. The site is "powered by CEOExpress." The CEOExpress Company, owner of the extremely popular ceoexpress.com website, is now bringing its considerable skills at developing a major reference website to other industries that are seeking the same format but geared to their own specific needs. "This is really the first time we have worked with a manufacturing company. There's just so much information out there, even in a fairly narrow area like photonics, that it is wonderful to take the ceoexpress.com formula of identifying and aggregating quality sites and apply it to the needs of a particular industry," said Patricia Pomerleau, Founder and President of CEO Express Company and an authority on the impact of emerging technologies on business.

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Canadian penny is favoured currency of espionage

Now we know why bad pennies keep turning up. They want to keep an eye on you. Canadian pennies with embedded radio transmitters are being implanted on US defence industry workers, says a Pentagon report on technology espionage. The Pentagon's Defense Security Service in its 2006 "Technology Collection Trends in the US Defense Industry" report says there were "at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006" when this occurred. In each case, US defence industry workers with security clearance had one cent coins with transmitters inside them planted on them while they were travelling through Canada. Canadian media speculated third country intelligence agencies were responsible. The Pentagon declined to provide further details. The most likely suspect would be China.

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