With huge opportunities for light-based diagnostics and therapeutics to combat disease, successful clinical translation depends on funding robust trials – and greater trust between developers and end-users, finds Jessica Rowbury
Editor's picks
Photonics West industry update paints a positive outlook. Matthew Dale reports
Coherent has today decided to accept II-VI's offer and will pay Lumentum the $217.6 million termination fee
News
25 March 2021
Coherent has today decided to accept II-VI's offer and will pay Lumentum the $217.6 million termination fee
23 March 2021
The solar film is low-cost, light, easy to install and can be used off-grid
Six images at relevant wavelengths to differentiate tumour cells. Credit: CEA-Leti
23 March 2021
The label-free technology could eliminate sample preparation and therefore lead to greater automation in diagnostics
ASML uses light to print tiny patterns onto silicon during the mass production of semiconductor chips. credit: ASML
22 March 2021
Heriot-Watt University and ASML are partnering to develop new optical metrology light sources for chip manufacturing
22 March 2021
The merger will accelerate the commercial launch of Rockley’s ‘clinic-on-the-wrist’ sensing technology
Analysis & opinion
08 April 2021
Carlos Lee talks to Petr Tůma about the growth of Czech-based 4isp, a distributor of HSG lasers, including its move to a leasing model and how it works with Chinese manufacturers
08 April 2021
Photonics West industry update paints a positive outlook. Matthew Dale reports
15 March 2021
Lydia Sanmartí-Vila, Silvia Tognetti, Federica Beduini and Silvia Carrasco, from the EU-funded Carla project, highlight how career events can increase women talent and diversity-at-large in photonics, helping to fill the skills gap
Features
08 April 2021
Optical methods are helping defeat criminals seeking to hack biometric identification, finds Andy Extance
08 April 2021
With huge opportunities for light-based diagnostics and therapeutics to combat disease, successful clinical translation depends on funding robust trials – and greater trust between developers and end-users, finds Jessica Rowbury
22 March 2021
Keely Portway looks at how some of the latest research into neurophotonics will help in the fight against brain disorders
Amplitude Laser supplies ophthalmic surgery instrument producers
22 March 2021
Picosecond and femtosecond lasers are moving beyond ophthalmology into applications including cancer screening and therapy, finds Andy Extance
Press Releases
Lambda Research Corporation, a leading designer and publisher of illumination and optical design software, announces the release of TracePro 2021 version 21.2 of its flagship TracePro software.
New president to guide company through expansion and new era of growth
The event will be held on 11 November when the cancelled Vision show would have taken place. Young vision companies have until 28 October to apply
Each year, the Portland Business Journal honors the region’s top manufacturing companies who drive our economy with innovation, excellence and productivity
Following strong growth, Delta Optical Thin Film is moving into its new purpose-built facilities in DTU Science Park in Hørsholm, Denmark
The partnership provides customers with a combination of innovative CMMs and Nikon Metrology’s laser scanning technology
Customers will have access to the highest of quality polished optical glass filters from Schott, with the exceptional customer service and fast shipping of Edmund Optics
Viewpoint
Providing researchers with a tool to accurately model the interaction between light and biological tissue could enable new diagnostic devices and methods
12 April 2021
Gemma Church explains how LightTools, from Synopsys, makes tissue modelling more accessible to design next-gen diagnostics.
Hyper-Cam Airborne Mini
8 April 2021
Gemma Church explains how the Telops Hyper-Cam is unlocking thermal infrared hyperspectral imaging for everyone
Tech focus
The gold ball used in size comparison with a one cent coin. (Image: Tobias Westphal/Arkitek Scientific)
26 March 2021
Scientists have demonstrated gravitational coupling between two gold spheres of one millimetre radius, thereby entering the regime of sub-100-milligram sources of gravity
This image shows perovskite photovoltaics in the background with individual perovskite crystals shown as the colourful units. (Credit: CUBE3D Graphic)
26 March 2021
Perovskite solar cell design delivers efficiencies to rival those made of silicon
Symetrie’s NanoPos is a miniature hexapod of 68mm height for positioning and adjustment of precision components in six degrees of freedom, with a 10nm resolution.
26 February 2021
Some of the latest positioning solutions for photonics equipment on the market
Products
25 February 2021
Optoscribe has released the OptoCplrLT, a monolithic glass chip for low-loss coupling to silicon photonics (SiPh) grating couplers
25 February 2021
Sitech supplies the new Picomaster-H range of high resolution, single-beam direct write lithography (SB-DWL) hologram and lens mastering systems from 4Pico Litho of The Netherlands
25 February 2021
Synopsys has released version 9.1 of its LightTools illumination design software
25 February 2021
Hamamatsu Photonics has developed a new semiconductor failure analysis system called the Phemos-X C15765-01
25 February 2021
Gamma Scientific has introduced its Vector line of display view angle testers
25 February 2021
Optical Surfaces has released a new series of beam collimators designed for modulation transfer function (MTF) testing of optical systems
25 February 2021
Hübner Photonics has introduced the Cobolt 05-iE, an all-integrated model of compact and powerful single frequency lasers
Events
Potsdam, Germany
10 October 2021 to 14 October 2021
White papers
09 April 2021
Delta Optical Thin Film explains how it balanced sustainability, optical production layout and new technologies at its industry-leading site
07 April 2021
Silicon based area detectors (e.g. CCDs or CMOS) are widely used in high performance imaging applications, detecting wavelengths from soft x-ray through to near infrared (NIR). Typically, the quantum efficiency (QE) of these detectors decreases rapidly as the detection wavelength increases further into the NIR region. Above 1100nm, Silicon is transparent and therefore cannot be used to directly detect photons of these wavelengths, however many other materials do have photon sensitivity at wavelengths of 1μm and longer.
06 April 2021
A variety of spectroscopic techniques is used in gas analysis and sensing – increasingly important fields, crucial in atmosphere monitoring, emission control and industrial processes efficiency. They are implemented more and more often on mass scale, to ensure well-being of humanity and the environment around us. A thorough understanding of those techniques enables development of modern, cost-effective and efficient gas analysis solutions, best suited to specific applications and squeezing the most out of the laser spectroscopy potential.
Webcasts
13 October 2020
*On demand* For sensor, camera, and machine learning developers interested in how process monitoring can be implemented in reality
24 March 2020
*On demand* This online discussion will explore the photonics technologies being developed to maximise data throughput and to extend data delivery speeds beyond 400Gbps
20 March 2020
*On demand* This webcast will present European capabilities for the development of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) biosensors for virus detection
