Records in both annual sales and orders received have been broken by laser manufacturers throughout 2017, with global politics having little effect on business so far
Laser manufacturer Coherent has exceeded $2.0 billion in annual orders, with net sales of $1.72 billion and a net income of $207.1 million for the fiscal year ending 30 September 2017, a 101 per cent and 137 per cent increase respectively compared to the previous year
Televisions are receiving a major overhaul, Matthew Dale finds, with quantum dot and OLED technologies competing to give displays a wider gamut of colours
CMR, a European private investor, has acquired the UK division of Rofin-Sinar from Coherent.
Coherent has expanded its Dilas family of CW, fibre-coupled diode laser modules with two new visible wavelengths – 520nm (green) delivered at 2W and 638nm (red) delivered at 1.4W
Fibre laser manufacturer IPG Photonics has generated revenue of $369.4 million in the second quarter of 2017, a significant 46 per cent increase year-over-year. Coherent posted Q3 sales of £464.1 million
The new AVIA LX 355-20 from Coherent is an economical q-switched, diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser offering substantially longer operating lifetime than competitive products at similar power levels
A new Fiber to Fiber Coupler (FFC) from Coherent enables the use of replaceable, process fibre optic cables so that integral components of the fibre laser are not exposed to opto-mechanical damage
Coherent has introduced a fibre-to-fibre coupler and RQB fibre optic cables
The European Extremely Large Telescope project is well underway, and is stretching the capabilities of the optical industry, as Matthew Dale discovers
Michael Scheppke, Vice-President of Global Labs and Manufacturing at Exfo talks exclusively to Antonio Castelo, EPIC’s Photonics Technologies Programme Manager
Michael Scheppke, Vice-President of Global Labs and Manufacturing at Exfo talks exclusively to Antonio Castelo, EPIC’s Photonics Technologies Programme Manager
The quest for ever-smaller fibre-optic endoscopes that can analyse disease inside the human body is revolutionising clinical diagnosis
OroraTech’s Forest-1 nanosatellite carries a thermal infrared detector to detect wildfires in low Earth orbit. Image: OroraTech
In orbit, in the air or even on the ground, photonics technologies give us a precise big picture on climate change, discovers Ben Skuse
Electro Optics asked the Photonics100 honorees what they thought the biggest challenge facing the photonics industry in 2023 would be
To solve the quantum skills gap, the training ecosystem must consider the needs of industry and the scope of career pathways, finds Jessica Rowbury
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Delivering diagnostics at the time of testing improves healthcare outcomes, but requires photonics firms who develop optical sensing technologies such as spectroscopy, to adapt to the changing needs of the medical sector
Designers, builders and operators of free-space networks can leverage LWIR quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) to achieve multi Gb/s data transfer rates. Find out how
An upcoming strategy seeks to build on Britain’s photonics-enabled niche competencies rather than build a whole supply chain from scratch. Jessica Rowbury reports
