Photop Technologies, Inc., a key component supplier and leading manufacturer of Fiber Optics Communications, Projection & Display, and Photonics products, today announces Photop Tehnologies and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics will jointly establish a lab for photonics technologies with applications in fiber optics communications, lasers and opto-electronics.

Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics ( WNLO) is one of the five national laboratories in China, which were sponsored by the Ministry of Science & Technology, P.R.C. in November of 2003. WNLO aims at constructing a scientific research platform of large-scale, which covers many disciplines, so as to promote the scientific innovation.

"By Combining both Photop and WNLO's advantages in industry and scientific research," stated Sunny Sun, President of Photop, "The joint lab will help Photop to develop innovative technology and science research. I believe both Photop and WNLO will benefit from the cooperation."

Among the main objectives of the joint lab are to anticipate scientific and technological advances, and establish industrial and scientific partnerships.