February 2005

LX4 Announces 5 More Members

February 24, 2005 –  The LX4 Trade Group (LX4-TG), an organization founded in October 2004 by EMCORE Corp.,MergeOptics GmbH., Opnext, Inc., Quake Technologies Inc. and Wavesplitter Technologies Inc., today announced the addition of five new companies. More...

December 2004

4Wave in the News
Exploring the Next Wave in Optics

December 20, 2004 – A Sterling company called 4Wave is trying to turn its nanotechnology materials into big things in the optical component market. More...

November 2004

4Wave Awarded Optical Multi-Filter Chip Patent

November 18, 2004 – 4Wave Inc has been issued a patent on its innovative multi-filter chip, a product that will enable deployment of 10-Gigabit Ethernet in metropolitan networks. More...

October 2004

4Wave Receives Market Opportunity Award

October 19, 2004 – 4Wave Inc receives Market Opportunity Award during  Virginia’s Small Business Research Commercialization Awards ceremony. Six technology firms were announced as reciepeints. More...

September 2004

4Wave Finalist For Technology Commercialization Arawds

September 15, 2004 – 4Wave Inc. has been selected as one of the ten finalists for Virginia's Small Business Research Commercialization Awards, More...

August 2004

4Wave in the News
Ion beams light way for 4Wave fab process

August 16, 2004 – 4Wave Inc. wants to prove that its small technology is no optical illusion. More...

August 2004

CIT's GAP Fund Invests $100,000 in 4Wave

Sterling, VA, August 10, 2004 – 4Wave Inc., provides custom process equipment and engineering services to meet challenging vacuum equipment and thin-film processing equipment, receives Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) first investment from its Growth Acceleration Program (GAP). More...

September 2003

4Wave Awarded $2 Million from NIST to Develop Innovative Optical Filter and Thin-Film Deposition Technique

Sterling, VA, September 15, 2003 – 4Wave Inc., a thin-film deposition development company, has been awarded a $1.97 million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (ATP) to develop a four-channel miniature optical filter chip. More...

November 2002

4Wave Launches Alloy and Nanolayer Sputtering System

Sterling, VA, November 1, 2002 – 4Wave Inc., today introduced the 4W-LANS laboratory alloy and nanolayer sputtering system.The system provides previously unobtainable degrees of layer thickness control, interface control, alloy composition control and materials flexibility in a small, cost-effective package. More...

June 2002

4Wave Relocates and Opens a Technology Development Center in Virginia

Sterling, VA, June 15 2002 – 4Wave Inc., moves to its new 8,000 sq. ft., facility which was specifically designed for manufacturing processing equipment and optical chip fabrication. The facility includes clean room manufacturing and assembly areas along with an applications laboratory with 4Wave’s latest processing tools and dedicated metrology and analytical area. More...

April 2002

4Wave Clears Technical Hurdle With Prototype Development

FALLS CHURCH, VA – April 22, 2002 – 4Wave Inc., a Milestone Equity Partners’ portfolio company, has successfully fabricated four distinct, adjacent, miniature narrow-band pass filters simultaneously, on the same substrate.This 4-channel optical filter chip (in the visible spectrum) has never before been demonstrated and is a major milestone in the deployment of 10 Gigabit Ethernet fiber optic transceivers. More...