The work could benefit transmission electron microscopy for application in materials science and structural biology
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Photonic integrated circuits can guide light on a chip with ultra-low low losses, and enhance optical fields using micro-ring resonators. (Image: Yujia Yan, EPFL)
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25 January 2022
Radiant Vision Systems will introduce a patent-pending optical measurement system for ensuring the visual quality of XR (augmented, virtual, and mixed reality) displays at Photonics West
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25 January 2022
TriLite, a former SPIE Start-up Challenge finalist, is presenting the 'world's smallest' laser beam scanner at Photonics West this week
Image: Trumpf Photonic Components
25 January 2022
Launched at Photonics West, the VCSEL with stable linear polarisation and meta-optics uses only two components to create both flood and structured light illumination
The curved waveguide by Tooz and the colour microLED display engine by JBD enable colour virtual screens in the wearer’s field of view. Credit: Tooz technologies
25 January 2022
Jade Bird Display and Tooz technologies are partnering on prescription smart glasses with full colour virtual screens
CEO of Senorics Ronny Timmreck, centre, receives the first-place prize in the 2020 SPIE Startup Challenge
21 January 2022
Ten early-stage startup companies from six countries have been selected to compete for a $10,000 top prize
Researchers have designed a blueprint for a new laser system that can convert natural sunlight into a coherent laser beam. (Image: Shutterstock/Mrs.Moon)
20 January 2022
Researchers have designed a blueprint for a new laser system that can convert natural sunlight into a coherent laser beam
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The device triggers a chemical process that converts CO2 and hydrogen into methane and carbon monoxide
Device to convert CO2 and hydrogen into clean energy products using sunlight and LEDs
18 January 2022
The carbon capture device could process up to one megaton of carbon dioxide per year
Partners announce open market silicon photonics platform with monolithically integrated III-V lasers
12 January 2022
The platform co-integrates III-V lasers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, electro-absorption modulators and photodetectors with silicon photonics devices, all monolithically on a single chip
LiFi (light fidelity) enables the communication of data at exceptionally high speeds via led lighting. (Image: Shutterstock/Sentavio)
World's fastest LiFi system developed
11 January 2022
The innovation was demonstrated for automotive and consumer applications at CES last week
The new SERS substrates are free of contamination, delivering superior sensitivity and specificity. (Image: Nikalyte)
Wasatch Photonics partners with Nikalyte to evaluate new SERS substrate
10 January 2022
The partners are evaluating and testing a novel surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrate for trace detection of materials.
Voyant Photonics' lidar system contain thousands of optical components fabricated on a single semiconductor chip. (Image: Voyant Photonics)
New category of lidar sensors attracts $15.4m of Series A funding
10 January 2022
The firm’s lidar systems contain thousands of optical components fabricated on a single semiconductor chip, radically reducing the size and manufacturing complexity of lidar
Photonic integrated circuits can guide light on a chip with ultra-low low losses, and enhance optical fields using micro-ring resonators. (Image: Yujia Yan, EPFL)
Researchers demonstrate efficient electron beam modulation using integrated photonic microresonators
07 January 2022
The work could benefit transmission electron microscopy for application in materials science and structural biology
The collaboration has yielded a 200m, long-range VCSEL-based hybrid solid-state lidar solution for ADAS. (Image: Hesai)
Lumentum partners with Hesai to develop solid-state lidar
06 January 2022
The partners will incorporate VCSEL array light sources into lidar to improve its cost and scalability
The index will provide investors a way to invest in a diversified portfolio of photonics companies. (Image: Shutterstock/wanpatsorn)
Certificate to facilitate investment into world’s first Photonics Index
14 December 2021
The index will provide investors a way to invest in a diversified portfolio of photonics companies
Pieter Klinkert, fund manager at PhotonDelta (left), Simone Cardarelli, CEO of MicroAlign (centre) and Pleuni Hooijman of Innovation Industries (right). (Image: Photon Delta)
New investment to boost integrated photonics start-up
13 December 2021
TU Eindhoven spinoff MicroAlign is developing a new alignment solution for connecting multiple optical fibres and photonic chips
CO2 retrievals from OCO-2 data via FOCAL v08 (Image: EUMETSAT)
M Squared to develop laser systems for CO2 monitoring satellites
07 December 2021
The firm will develop and deliver advanced laser systems spanning the visible to SWIR wavelengths to Thales Alenia Space
Santec eyes fibre optic cable test market with double acquisition
24 November 2021
JGR Optics and OptoTest are providers of fibre optic test solutions
Streptococcus Pneumoniae bacterium under STED imaging
EU-funded €5.6m microscope to study ‘superbugs’
24 November 2021
Scientists will be able to observe bacteria like Streptococcus Pneumoniae at a resolution ten times higher than existing fluorescence microscopy techniques
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Tiny nanodiamonds are being used to dramatically optimise the calibration of optical microscopes, Matthew Dale finds
After the test disk is placed inside the chamber, some fine tuning is required to ensure they are horizontal and perfectly centred (credit: Caltech)
LIGO scientists have developed a new mirror coating that could dramatically increase the observatory's detection rate of gravitational waves
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Advances in research have made strides in the improvement of wearable and AR/VR displays
LLNL optical engineers Justin Wolfe (left) and Simon Cohen are seen through the 'r' filter (credit: Garry McLeod)
A telescope, described as one of the world’s newest, has been completed following a project undertaken by researchers to develop some very specialist optical filters
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Advances in optical prisms are being used to help researchers gain a greater understanding of space and astronomy
Universities offering associate degrees for optics technicians could help answer the photonics skills shortage, finds Jessica Rowbury
