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 Hyperspectral satellite leaves methane polluters nowhere to hide MethaneSAT ‘was a long-term vision... to drive change in the world’ Handheld Raman device diagnoses traumatic brain injury ‘on the scene’ Fluorescence assay device brings diagnosis to the point of care Laser-based needle-free injection cuts infection risk, optimises medicine doses Photoacoustic scanner likened to MRI overcomes ultrasound limitations Portable and safe ‘photoacoustic MRI’ could monitor cancer more efficiently Silicon nitride platform expands PIC development for life sciences applications Ultra-sensitive vibrational spectroscopy method advances cancer research Ångström-scale microscopy resolves ‘previously unimaginable’ biology Optical trapping single proteins in real time Optical trapping and observing the smallest proteins 'answers fundamental questions about life' Pagination Previous page ‹ Previous Page 73 Next page Next ›