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 The latest optical filter technology in 2025 Web panel: Anton Leemhuis and Tim Olsen discuss the need for smarter emissions tracking More sustainable water-based method to recycle perovskite solar cells developed Gartner’s Hype Cycle report suggests photonic computing is gaining traction New photonics partnerships advance ASIC chip design and quantum networking for defence Out now – The Feb/Mar issue of Electro Optics The role of ultrafast laser technology. “We are children who like to play.” DARPA programmes make quantum advances in squeezed light and fault-tolerance Funding wins for NLM, Salience and Pixel set to raise data-centre efficiency and photon detection Laser Photonics’ laser wafer marking R&D supports semiconductor manufacturing Speed-of-light object recognition camera developed using optical neural network Wave Photonics, Quantum Source, ONCHIPS and ZuriQ make quantum computing leap with fault-tolerant scalability Pagination Previous page ‹ Previous Page 19 Next page Next ›