What's needed to industrialise additive manufacturing?
15 March 2019
Matthew Dale reports from a panel at Photonics West, where experts discussed 3D printing’s potential for industrial production
February 19
Self-organised materials offer route to scalable optical filters
27 February 2019
Optomel founder Damien Gardiner, a semi-finalist for SPIE's Startup Challenge at Photonics West, explains how the firm is making optical filters based on self-organised materials
LEDs drive change in automotive lighting
21 February 2019
Andy Extance explores optical design for vehicles, including the headlamps that you’ve been seeing in your rear view mirror
Advancing diagnosis
11 February 2019
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is becoming faster and more effective, allowing the imaging of functional processes in tissue, finds Barbara Stumpp
Bright future for fibre lasers?
31 January 2019
Professor Michalis Zervas, from the Optoelectronics Research Centre, charts the rise of high-power fibre lasers and asks what's next for the technology
Collaborating to advance biophotonics
31 January 2019
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
Meeting the optical design challenges of mixed reality
31 January 2019
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
Optoelectronics for quantum technology
31 January 2019
Professor David Andrews, incoming 2019 vice-president of SPIE, describes the support, growth and promise of some rapidly emerging quantum applications
