Peter Hallett, industry programme team leader at SPIE, says innovations need customers to succeed
Gemma Church looks at the range of optical design software on the market and how it can help engineers create cutting-edge photonics-related products without the need for numerous costly prototypes
Greg Blackman looks at the technology surrounding and the applications for lidar - a remote sensing technique analogous to radar
Gemma Church looks at the availability - or otherwise - of EU-wide public funding for photonics-related projects
Photonics is helping to reduce costs and improve efficiency in photovoltaics, as William Payne discovers
John Murphy meets the team at OptoSigma, an optical component manufacturer with an emphasis on individual customer care
Advances in optical metrology equipment are helping the semiconductor industry increase productivity and reduce downtime, finds Keely Portway
Andy Extance finds the pains and gains of laser light’s different behaviour in water for oceanographers using lidar
Carlos Lee, Epic’s director general, talks to Martina Mueller, CEO of 3D AG, a Swiss company specialising in micro and nanotechnology and holographic structures
David Giltner, founder of TurningScience, discusses whether these two seemingly different career paths can successfully overlap
Matthew Dale reports on the association’s yearly event, where the importance of diversity, photonics funding and investment were to the fore
Géraldine Andrieux, at Blumorpho, shares her top tips on getting investors’ attention as a startup
Scientists have developed a lensless, infrared spectral-imaging system for medical diagnostics
A metaform is a new optical component that can combine with freeform optics to enable compact AR/VR headsets and eyewear. (Image: University of Rochester illustration/Michael Osadciw)
Researchers have combined freeform optics and a metasurface to deliver high-quality AR/VR glasses that are compact and easy to wear
