Collaboration with other regions raises the competitiveness of the European photonics industry, says EPIC's Carlos Lee
Editor's picks
Photonics must appear in the EU's Horizon Europe framework or risk losing its significance in economic policy, says Spectaris' Dr Wenko Süptitz
Jessica Rowbury hears from executives at Photonics West discussing how their businesses could be affected by the relationship between the US and China
News
14 March 2019
In a bid to ensure the UK will maintain its reputation as a ‘pioneering nation as it leaves the EU’, the UK Chancellor has allocated £200m to support Britain’s fastest-growing industries as they prepare for Brexit
13 March 2019
This year’s Laser World of Photonics will have a special focus on electro-mobility and autonomous driving, two global megatrends that are expected to grow dramatically over the coming decade
13 March 2019
Collaboration with other regions raises the competitiveness of the European photonics industry, says EPIC's Carlos Lee
12 March 2019
Ahead of the 7th Optical Engineering and Science in Israel (OASIS) conference on 1-2 April in Tel Aviv, conference chair Professor Abraham Katzir discusses how the photonics market is growing in the region
12 March 2019
A team of volunteers in Florence, Italy, are using an infrared fibre laser donated by Italian laser group El.En to erase graffiti on the Ponte Vecchio stone bridge over the Arno River.
06 March 2019
The toolkit is designed to bring integrated photonics into earlier stages of the science and engineering curriculum
04 March 2019
Imec is partnering with KMLabs to establish a real-time functional imaging and interference lithography laboratory, to enable imaging in resist on 300mm wafers down to an 8nm pitch
Analysis & opinion
15 March 2019
Matthew Dale reports from an industry session on additive manufacturing, where a panel of experts discussed the technology’s potential for industrial production
05 March 2019
Photonics must appear in the EU's Horizon Europe framework or risk losing its significance in economic policy, says Spectaris' Dr Wenko Süptitz
04 March 2019
Humberto Michinel and Ángel Paredes at the Optics Laboratory of the University of Vigo in Ourense, Spain, discuss optical approaches to studying ‘hidden’ energy
Features
21 February 2019
Andy Extance explores optical design for vehicles, including the headlamps that you’ve been seeing in your rear view mirror
11 February 2019
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is becoming faster and more effective, allowing the imaging of functional processes in tissue, finds Barbara Stumpp
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
Press Releases
One of Europe's most prominent gatherings of photonics leaders will highlight the importance of light technologies in digitisation megatrends like IoT, big data, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles next month.
The PHOTONICS CONGRESS CHINA will open along with the LASER World of PHOTONICS CHINA
HÜBNER Photonics, a division of the HÜBNER Group, is pleased to announce the opening of a new direct office in the UK
Dr. Steve Buckley has joined Ocean Optics, Inc., a Halma plc company, as Vice President, Product Development and Engineering
The French leader ALPAO, designer and manufacturer of adaptive optics products, is proud to be part of the 500 French growth champions list, a study carried out by Statista for Les Echos, a french business magazine
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
Viewpoint
20 February 2019
Pro-Lite’s Robert Yeo throws light on the science of measuring light and light sources: radiometry and photometry
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
Tech focus
27 February 2019
Optomel founder Damien Gardiner, a semi-finalist for SPIE's Startup Challenge at Photonics West, explains how the firm is making optical filters based on self-organised materials
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
Products
13 February 2019
The new Jenoptik Light & Optics division, whose primary focus is supplying photonics solutions, showcased its new strategy at Photonics West, USA
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
Events
Glasgow, Scotland
10 April 2019 to 12 April 2019
White papers
18 December 2018
Optical parametric oscillators offer a competitive alternative to conventional lasers for quantum nanophotonics.
14 December 2018
Webcasts
25 February 2019
For driverless cars to see mainstream adoption, engineers must solve critical lidar design challenges including improving the detection range and field of view, ensuring adaptability to environmental factors, and ensuring safety. Today, engineering teams are debating the best design choices, with no clear winner. Who will win the race toward effective lidar manufactured at a low cost?
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