The XR industry might be going through tough times right now, but photonics innovators continue to drive the hardware forward, finds Benjamin Skuse
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Ams Osram’s multi-junction VCSELs are helping to improve automotive lidar. Credit: Ams Osram
06 June 2022
Multi-junction vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers are likely to displace LEDs and edge-emitting lasers in sensing, finds Andy Extance
Building a new semiconductor fab can cost more than €10bn. Credit: Imec
24 May 2022
Proposed multi-billion dollar and euro packages look set to increase uptake of leading-edge lithography, including for photonic technologies, finds Andy Extance
Manx Precision Optics’ polishing lap. Credit: Manx Precision Optics
19 May 2022
Benjamin Skuse asks why, after 400 years of polishing optics, the process hasn’t been automated
Mathias Bochow, GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam, is working on the Trace project to track marine plastic. Credit: Frank Schweikert, Aldebaran Marine Research & Broadcast (www.aldebaran.org/en/)
18 May 2022
Abigail Williams speaks to scientists tracking marine plastic using satellite spectral imagery
More than 1,300 exhibitors will be in attendance this year.
21 April 2022
The Central Laser Facility’s Vulcan laser amplifier and mirror bench, R1, at STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 26 January 2015. Credit: Science and Technology Facilities Council
07 April 2022
Katrina Wesencraft outlines engineering and optical challenges involved in shrinking ultrafast lasers, all the way down to tiny devices for sending into space
Metalens imaging simulation in Synopsys BeamProp BPM tool. Credit: Synopsys
05 April 2022
Greg Blackman explores the optical design approaches for modelling metasurfaces
PureLiFi has launched a LiFi system for the home. LiFi at Home has a downlighter that fits into standard GU10 lightbulb fittings. Credit: PureLiFi
04 April 2022
Laser-based technology and sophisticated modulation schemes could help deliver on future demands for high data volumes, finds Andy Extance
Laser guide star for tracking space junk, developed by Electro Optic Systems together with the Australian National University. Credit: Electro Optic Systems
01 March 2022
Benjamin Skuse explores photonics-based efforts to track, and possibly even remove, debris from the very crowded region of near-Earth space
Fluidically assembled full colour RGB microLED display demonstrated by the eLux and development partners. Credit: eLux
01 March 2022
From compelling augmented reality experiences to jaw-droppingly vivid TVs, affordable microLED displays could be closer than you think. Rebecca Pool reports
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01 March 2022
Katherine Skipper investigates the chip-scale lidar devices starting to surface, and whether they’ll find their way into vehicles
The technology for optical systems generation is becoming increasingly diversified, while each stage of the fabrication chain is becoming deeper and more specialised. (Image: PanDao)
14 February 2022
Matthew Dale reports on efforts to modulate and streamline in softwareoptical system design and fabrication
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M Squared has worked with the University of Strathclyde to develop the Maxwell quantum-computing platform, shown here during commissioning works (Courtesy: M Squared)
Photonics is proving key to recent advances being made in quantum technologies, finds Susan Curtis
Electro Optics’ Matthew Dale tries out a pair of smart glasses equipped with Lumus’ reflective waveguide technology at SPIE AR | VR | MR
At SPIE AR | VR | MR in San Francisco, Matthew Dale learnt that reflective waveguides are now poised to enter consumer technologies
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, Nu Quantum; Scott Faris, Infleqtion; and Denise Ruffner, Women in Quantum shared their thoughts on quantum challenges at Photonics West
Quantum executives cited everything from staff shortages and production scaling to a need for new laser technologies, smaller optics, more industry investment and clearer commercial use cases
Shining a light on the latest laser filters and related products on the market.
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A look at the commercial offerings of the main players in optical prism technology and equipment.
Daniel Bukaty, President of PG&O, on how a more flexible approach to material selection could protect optics manufacturing lead times against material shortages
Daniel Bukaty, President of PG&O, on how a more flexible approach to material selection could protect optics manufacturing lead times against material shortages
