The award, presented by Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany, honours scientists for exceptional achievements in technology, engineering and the life sciences
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Nominated for the German Future Prize (Deutscher Zukunftspreis) 2022 (from left to right): Ralf Wolleschensky, Dr Jörg Siebenmorgen and Dr Thomas Kalkbrenner Picture: Deutscher Zukunftspreis/Ansgar Pudenz
Zeiss microscope developers win German President’s award
04 November 2022
Strontium Lattice Clock – Blue fluorescing cloud of strontium atoms (arrow) that have been laser-cooled to milli-Kelvin temperatures. Credit: Physical-Technical Federal Institute (PTB)
Industry-research project boosts commercialisation of quantum computers
02 November 2022
The DigiQuant project involves Toptica, Osram, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits
Intelligent Infrastructure Solution (IIS) installed at an intersection in San Jose, CA. Credit: Velodyne Lidar
Velodyne acquires Bluecity for AI lidar software
01 November 2022
Bluecity’s executive, software development and sales teams will join Velodyne
Credit: University of Rochester / J Adam Fenster
First multi-colour Pockels laser to "reshape landscape of integrated photonics"
31 October 2022
The new type of integrated semiconductor laser has the potential to "reshape the landscape of integrated photonics"
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Researchers reach data transmission speeds of 1.8Pb/s using single light source
27 October 2022
The light source used in the experiment is a custom-designed optical chip
STMicroelectronics' time-of-flight sensor incorporating planar metasurface optics, a result of its partnership with Metalenz. Credit: STMicroelectronics
Metalenz raises $30m to propel metasurface optics
25 October 2022
The funds will be used to meet the growing demand for the company’s existing 3D sensor metasurface optics while accelerating the market introduction of its new polarisation sensing solution
With openUC2, optical instruments are created in no time at all. Credit: Stiftung für Technologie, Innovation und Forschung Thüringen (STIFT)
Students to use optics education kits in German schools
24 October 2022
A new set of optics teaching kits will be used in schools and student research centres in Thuringian, Germany this academic year
Communications giant buys start-up PIC firm
16 October 2022
The acquisition of EHVA will accelerate Exfo’s capabilities in PIC testing
Micledi's microLEDs with integrated micro-lenses. Credit: Micledi Microdisplays
IQE partners with fabless semiconductor firm to scale up microLEDs
13 October 2022
Micledi is a fabless semiconductor design and technology
Experimental wafer stack design for diffusion in special quartz boats. © Fraunhofer ISE
EU consortium cuts photovoltaic production times in half
11 October 2022
In 2021, 78 per cent of all silicon solar cells were produced in China
A lidar-created scene at night. Credit: Volvo Cars
Volvo: Lidar reduces severe accidents by 20%
07 October 2022
Lidar can reduce accidents with severe outcomes by up to 20 per cent, and overall crash avoidance can be improved by up to nine per cent, Volvo says
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EU project achieves record free-space communication speeds
06 October 2022
The project demonstrated a transmission speed in free-space of up to one terabit per second (equal to 1,000 gigabits per second) on a single wavelength and over a distance of 53 kilometres
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Organoid imaged with Andor’s desktop confocal microscope system, the BC43. Credit: Andor
As microscopes become ever more powerful, a growing band of businesses are racing to make the latest technologies more accessible and more affordable, reports Rebecca Pool
Illustration of a three-dimensional crystal with various types of confining centres. (a) Crystal with four confining centres, each trapping waves (yellow) in all three dimensions simultaneously. (b) Crystal with a linear confining centre where waves can propagate in one dimension, analogous to an optical fibre. (c) Crystal with a planar confining centre where waves can propagate in two dimensions, analogous to a 2D electron gas. (Image: Vos et al.)
Newly discovered fundamental rules have been embedded into software to dramatically optimise the design of photonic integrated circuits
