Photonics Frontiers Award 2025 shortlist announced: pioneering applications set to shine The shortlist for the 2025 Photonics Frontiers Award has been officially unveiled. Coherent awarded $30m US Navy contract to develop 400kW pulsed fibre laser Coherent Aerospace & Defense has been asked to develop a high-power pulsed fibre laser and directed-energy subsystem for the US Navy's SONGBOW programme New pilot lines and smart factories signal the global expansion of photonics manufacturing Recently announced facilities in The Netherlands, China, the US and Germany mark a major push towards scalable photonic chip production and R&D Lumibird’s erbium glass laser rangefinder selected for Rheinmetall Skyranger 30 air defence system Rheinmetall strengthens its short-range air defence Skyranger 30 platform by integrating a solid-state diode-pumped erbium glass laser from Lumibird Previous Next Schott appoints Dr. Torsten Derr as its new CEO, from January 1, 2025 Sydor & Uni of Rochester to commercialise optical fusion components Lidar increasingly being used to aid natural disaster response Could thermophotovoltaics be the key to clean energy? Light Trace Photonics secures £600,000 investment to launch photonic chip platform ANELLO Photonics secures new funding and contracts for its optical gyroscope technology ERC research into hybrid materials aims to improve optical data transmission Optical gyro technology based on silicon photonics could revolutionise autonomous navigation Photonics honoured at CES 2025 Innovation Awards Why Photonics will be all about integration in 2025: “The need to buy components may disappear in the traditional form” – John Lincoln Femtosecond laser advance enables sensitive SWIR spectroscopy for air analysis MIT-spin off's lab-on-a-chip enables blood tests at home Pagination Previous page ‹ Previous Page 32 Next page Next ›