At the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which is taking place this week in Las Vegas, several companies released lidar innovations, which promise to improve the intelligence and safety of autonomous vehicles
Editor's picks
Shaping light wavefronts is improving many areas of microscopy – and is enabling Nobel Prize winner Eric Betzig’s most important work yet, finds Andy Extance
After releasing a report on silicon photonics foundries, Iñigo Artundo, CEO of VLC Photonics, charts the evolution of the photonic foundry ecosystem
News
14 January 2019
Apple supplier Ams has developed a light and infrared proximity sensor that can sit behind a smartphone’s screen, reducing the area required to house such sensors to allow for a larger screen size
14 January 2019
A German research project is focusing on how the beams of ultrashort pulse lasers can be shaped using refractive and diffractive optical elements, specifically for the processing of glass in head-up displays for the automotive industry
11 January 2019
At the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which is taking place this week in Las Vegas, several companies released lidar innovations, which promise to improve the intelligence and safety of autonomous vehicles
11 January 2019
Three lidar firms have received innovation nods at the Consumer Electronics Show taking place this week in Las Vegas
08 January 2019
Researchers from the Harvard John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new integrated photonics platform that can store light and electrically control its frequency in an integrated circuit
07 January 2019
Trumpf is acquiring 100 per cent of Photonics GmbH from Philips, headquartered in Ulm, Germany. The move, which represents Trumpf's largest acquisition since buying JFY in China in 2013, opens up a new market segment for Trumpf to complement its existing high-power diode laser business
03 January 2019
Notal Vision, an ophthalmic diagnostic services company, has started a clinical trial in the United States to advance the commercialisation of its home-based, patient-operated, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) system
Analysis & opinion
10 December 2018
Andreas Ettemeyer, NTB Interstate University of Applied Sciences, Buchs, and member of the EOS board, expresses concerns about discussions to merge photonics with microelectronics within European Union funding
27 November 2018
Liz Gerrish gives her perspective on why having a mentor is crucial for women beginning careers in photonics
27 November 2018
After releasing a report on silicon photonics foundries, Iñigo Artundo, CEO of VLC Photonics, charts the evolution of the photonic foundry ecosystem
Features
10 December 2018
Shaping light wavefronts is improving many areas of microscopy – and is enabling Nobel Prize winner Eric Betzig’s most important work yet, finds Andy Extance
10 December 2018
Keely Portway looks at some of the latest advances in light-based test and measurement techniques
10 December 2018
Only two companies supply commercial 3D printing systems based on two-photon polymerisation, which can create structures smaller than living cells. Greg Blackman speaks to Denis Barbier from Microlight3D
01 November 2018
Imaging spectroscopy offers a powerful way to understand this world and others, and optical innovations are enhancing its capabilities, finds Andy Extance
Press Releases
Veeco Instruments' Spector ion beam sputtering optical coating system has been installed at Gooch & Housego's Moorpark, California facility
Modulight has entered into an agreement to develop a laser specifically designed for use with Bausch and Lomb's Visudyne photodynamic therapy
Solid State has acquired Pacer Technologies Limited and its subsidiaries, Pacer Components Limited and Pacer USA LLC
Thorlabs has entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement to acquire the fibre optic portfolio of Norland Products
EPIC and Hubei Laser Industry Association are mutually motivated in cooperative activities involving technological and commercial advancement in the area of photonics
Trexel and Teratonics have announced an exclusive distribution agreement for Teratonics’s non-destructive testing solutions dedicated to the plastic injection molding market
The Confocal Raman Imaging Symposium, which took place for the 15th time in Ulm, was like a big family reunion with both familiar and new faces
Viewpoint
12 November 2018
This viewpoint aims to provide a thorough insight on the sophisticated design of state-of-the-art professional illumination systems, highlighting the basic pro’s and con’s of 'old-school' gas-discharge lamps compared to LEDs, additionally highlighting accompanying requirements to be successful
4 October 2018
Can spectroscopy help make the world a better place? Benno Oderkerk, cofounder and CEO of Avantes, located in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, is convinced it can.
Tech focus
10 December 2018
New nanometre-accurate hexapod opens up applications in laser processing and metrology
01 November 2018
Prism technology that’s now a major part of optical communications is finding its way into next-generation lidar systems
01 November 2018
Advances in Raman spectroscopy could one day make invasive blood glucose tests a thing of the past
Products
07 January 2019
Synopsys has released version 2018.12 of its RSoft Photonic Component Design Suite, which introduces new features to advance the design of optics used in augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) systems
07 January 2019
Opto Diode has launched a high-speed photodetector, the AXUV63HS1
27 November 2018
Marktech Optoelectronics has introduced the Model MTPD1346D-xx series, a family of InGaAs/InP broadband PIN photodiodes
27 November 2018
PureLiFi has provided its LiFi technology for a new range of LiFi-integrated lighting products
20 November 2018
PicoQuant has unveiled the FluoTime 250, a compact, robust and fully-automated system that increases the ease of performing time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy studies
20 November 2018
Dymax Corporation has introduced the BlueWave MX-Series Multichannel Controller, an LED controller that allows manufacturers to power up to four emitter workstations at once
19 November 2018
APE Angewandte Physik & Elektronik has launched an automated and tuneable infrared laser 'Carmina' on behalf of the American company Anasys Instruments
Events
Berlin, Germany
22 January 2019 to 23 January 2019
White papers
18 December 2018
Optical parametric oscillators offer a competitive alternative to conventional lasers for quantum nanophotonics.
14 December 2018
Webcasts
13 December 2018
In this webinar, high-level representatives of the Pilot Lines will give an overview of the European scene regarding technologies, offers and capabilities for the manufacturing of new photonics-based products that will impact in market sectors such as medical, environmental and industrial.
30 November 2018
This webinar will show how the nonstop capacity request in the transmission, routing and processing of huge amounts of communication data is faced in an effective way by photonic solutions acting on the propagation, modulation and multiplexing of optical signals
27 November 2018
In the high power laser based manufacturing world, beam shaping has been identified as one of the past and present technology bottlenecks. This webinar will compare the unmet needs from industry with the current state of the art and market driven roadmaps