The Raytheon optics business designs and manufactures optics for reconnaissance satellites for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and international customers. AMERGINT, which is based in Colorado, provides software-defined technology for military, intelligence and...
May 1, 2020 – Meadowlark Optics acquires ICE CubeTM product line from Moxtek
Meadowlark is now the exclusive world-wide manufacturer of ICE Cube Wiregrid Polarizing Beam Splitter Cubes. The ICE Cube polarizer performance exceeds that for the commonly used thin film MacNeille cubes in both acceptable wavelength range and angle of incidence...
June 2 – New Technique Takes 3-D Imaging an Octave Higher
A collaboration between Colorado State University and University of Illinois resulted in a new, 3-D imaging technique to visualize tissues and other biological samples on a microscopic scale, with potential to assist with cancer or other disease diagnoses.
June 17 – Covid-19 Impact on Optical Communications
The telecom market is expected to experience growth by end of year despite a downturn due to the covid-19 pandemic. “There’s always a dip in the market at the beginning of the year,” says Lisa Huff of Omdia, UK. She adds that the likelihood that the crisis will linger...
June 22 – Good News on Colorado Employment
After losing 342,000 jobs in March and April, Colorado recaptured 20% of them, or 68,800, in the month of May. US employment fell by 22.1 million during those same two months, but added back 11% of those jobs, or 2.5 million, in May.
June 22 – Meadowlark Optics, Inc. Announced the Creation of the First Endowed Faculty Chair at JILA
The Baur-SPIE Endowed Chair in Optics and Photonics will be funded by gifts of $1.5 million from Tom and Jeanne Baur, $500,000 from SPIE, and another $500,000 from CU, Boulder.
June 23 – US Air Force Awards Tech Study Contract to York Space Systems, MSU Denver
The U.S. Air Force awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer study contract to York Space Systems, in conjunction with Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver). The project will investigate delivering high-performance space capabilities at a low cost...
July 28, 2020 – JILA’s Ultraviolet Laser Probes Nano-Film Stiffness
Travis Frazer at the JILA research center in Boulder, Colorado, USA, and colleagues have shown that they can quantify changes in stiffness by exposing these dielectrics to pairs of extremely short and precisely timed laser pulses.
Aug 7, 2020 – Boulder SBDC tech accelerator set to launch this month
The new, virtual Tech Venture Accelerator, operated by the Boulder Small Business Development Center and Colorado SBDC Tech Source, will begin accepting applications Aug. 28. Two spots in the initial cohort of businesses will be available to Boulder-based science and...
Aug 7, 2020 – Boulder biotech companies MBio, Brava merge amid rapid growth
Two Boulder biotech companies have merged amid a COVID-19-related growth spurt that has seen employment at the two firms grow by 150% since the beginning of the year.
