Leoma and the Us Laser Industry - The Good Bad Moves for Trade Associations in Emerging High Tech

The U.S. laser industry is a major player in the country's economy, with its products used in factories, laboratories, offices, homes and motor vehicles around the country.

List of contents

Preface vii
 
1 LEOMA and the U.S. Laser Industry 1
 
2 Professional Societies and the Photonics Community 29
 
3 International Laser Standards 53
 
4 Educational Issues 75
 
5 Export Controls 95
 
6 The Federal Government 117
 
7 Intra-Industry Affairs 131
 
Appendix 1: LEOMA Officers 157
 
Appendix 2: ISO Laser Standards 161
 
Appendix 3: LEOMA Executive Seminars 163
 
Appendix 4: The LEOMA ADR Agreement 167
 
Index 171

About the author

C. Breck Hitz received his bachelor's degree from Penn State University, USA and his master's degree from Massachusetts State University, USA. He is the owner and principal of Photonetics Associates, USA, a consulting firm he created in 1975 after leaving a position as an R&D engineer at GTE's Electro-Optics Organization. For two decades, he was executive director of LEOMA, the trade association for North American laser and photonics manufacturers. He has been an editor of all three trade publications established in the US photonics industry: Photonics Spectra, Lasers & Applications, and Laser Focus World

Product details

• Authors: C. Breck Hitz, C Breck Hitz, C. Breck Hitz, C. Breck (Laser and Electro-Optics Hitz, CB Hitz, HITZ C BRECK, Hitz C. Breck
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2015
• EAN: 9781118010242
• ISBN: 978-1-118-01024-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Business & management, Photonik, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik, Wirtschaft u. Management, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Klein- u. mittelständische Unternehmen u. Existenzgründung, Photonik u. Laser, Photonics & Lasers