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 Andrés Fabián Lasagni Theresa Kunz Mithun Kuniyil Ajith Singh Stefan Krey Dietmar Kracht Yoo Jung Kim Maxim Karpov Faisal Kamran Alexander Jantzen Gaurav Jain Samuel Hornett Clemens Hönninger Pagination Previous page ‹ Previous Page 43 Next page Next ›