What's needed to industrialise additive manufacturing?
Matthew Dale reports from a panel at Photonics West, where experts discussed 3D printing’s potential for industrial production
Matthew Dale reports from a panel at Photonics West, where experts discussed 3D printing’s potential for industrial production
Andy Extance explores optical design for vehicles, including the headlamps that you’ve been seeing in your rear view mirror
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is becoming faster and more effective, allowing the imaging of functional processes in tissue, finds Barbara Stumpp
Professor Michalis Zervas, from the Optoelectronics Research Centre, charts the rise of high-power fibre lasers and asks what's next for the technology
Professor Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, chair of the recent Bios Clinical Technologies and Systems track at Photonics West, discusses her work translating medical technology and encouraging inclusion in photonics
Microsoft’s Bernard Kress, who chaired the AR/VR/MR industry days at Photonics West, considers the optimal design for augmented and mixed reality headsets
Professor David Andrews, incoming 2019 vice-president of SPIE, describes the support, growth and promise of some rapidly emerging quantum applications
Carlos Lee speaks to Mike Powell, managing partner of Renevo Capital Limited, an investment bank specialising in photonics and semiconductors
It can take a village to bring a medical photonics device to market, Benjamin Skuse discovers
We round-up the latest products and solutions in the single photon counting space.
A look at the commercial offerings of the main players in freeform optics.
How automotive companies can choose the right lidar technology for their applications, by Gemma Church
Here we highlight some of the initiatives working to engage and train young people in optics and photonics
Raman spectroscopy has huge potential for use in medicine, as David Stuart finds out
Fabless start-up Scintil Photonics has raised €13.5m for its laser-integrated silicon chips. We speak to co-founder Sylvie Menezo