Ams Osram’s multi-junction VCSELs are helping to improve automotive lidar. Credit: Ams Osram
Multi-junction vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers are likely to displace LEDs and edge-emitting lasers in sensing, finds Andy Extance
Coherent has today decided to accept II-VI's offer and will pay Lumentum the $217.6 million termination fee
OQE will supply epiwafers supporting 3D sensing, lidar for automotive and optical networking applications
Nanoscribe won the 2019 Innovation Award (credit: Messe Munchen GmbH)
15 finalists have been selected by a panel of expert judges for the award, which will be presented at Laser World of Photonics later this month
The award recognises Lumentum’s achievements in successfully integrating efficiency and effectiveness into its manufacturing processes
The collaboration has yielded a 200m, long-range VCSEL-based hybrid solid-state lidar solution for ADAS. (Image: Hesai)
The partners will incorporate VCSEL array light sources into lidar to improve its cost and scalability
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The addition of NeoPhotonics is designed to expand Lumentum's opportunity in the optical components market, particularly for cloud and telecom network infrastructure
On 18 March, Coherent confirmed receipt of a revised acquisition proposal from II-VI. Lumentum now has until the end of the day to make a revised offer.
Two laser manufacturing giants are set to merge following Lumentum's announcement that it will acquire Coherent for $5.7 billion
Photonics engineering student Troy Rzeznikiewicz applied to hundreds of openings prior to starting as an optical design engineer intern at Lumentum. Here he describes the application process and discusses how technical students can be supported to succeed in industry
Professor Paul Shore led the team that micromachined the complex mirrors within James Webb’s mid-infrared instrument. He chats about the technical lessons learnt
EMF invested a great deal of time and effort in developing a coating system for producing long-lasting diamond like carbon (DLC) coatings on chalcogenides at scale
The properties of chalcogenide glass optics have opened up a number of use cases in infrared optics applications and beyond. This article assesses how some of the associated manufacturing and handling challenges of this material can be overcome
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We detail the commercial offerings from some of the main players in optical mirrors
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Shining a light on the latest products and solutions in the diode laser space
Optical technologies offer researchers a powerful new toolkit to explore the structure and function of the brain. (Image: Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock.com)
Advances in optical fibres and microscale LEDs are furthering neuroscientists’ understanding of the brain
The nulling interferometry devices under development at Caltech’s Exoplanet Technology Laboratory cancel out starlight to help detect and identify foreign worlds. (Credit: Shutterstock/Dotted Yeti)
Nemanja Jovanovic, lead instrument scientist at Caltech’s Optical Observatory and Exoplanet Technology Laboratory, on emerging astrophotonic technologies on his radar
Robert Smith is a professor at the University of Alberta and historian to JWST since 2002
As James Webb Space Telescope beams back images from the edge of space and time, space historian Robert Smith recalls some of the decisions made to bring the $10bn NASA project to fruition. David Stuart reports
