Ouster plans to establish Ouster Automotive, a new functional division of the company focused on driving mass-market adoption of digital lidar
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21 October 2021
The company will acquire a 100 per cent stake in BG Medical Applications (Berliner Glas Medical), SwissOptic AG and Chinese company SwissOptic (Wuhan)
The programme aims to inspire more than 3,500 local students aged 13-18 with first-hand experiences of engineering. (Image: Shutterstock/Gorodenkoff)
15 October 2021
The programme aims to inspire more than 3,500 local students, providing first-hand experiences of engineering, and awarding financial support to pursue further education
A metasurface made of arsenic trisulfide nanowires (yellow) transmit an incoming near-infrared frequency (red) as well as its third harmonic ultraviolet frequency (violet), which would normally be absorbed by the material. Image: Duke University
11 October 2021
Chalcogenide glasses could now find a home in applications such as underwater communications, environmental monitoring and biological imaging
11 October 2021
The centre will be a key supplier of skilled personnel into industry
11 October 2021
Precision Optics and Lighthouse Imaging believe up to four new projects should transition from engineering to production in the coming year
11 October 2021
Ouster plans to establish Ouster Automotive, a new functional division of the company focused on driving mass-market adoption of digital lidar
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A research team from QETLabs has demonstrated how to protect qubits from errors using photons in a silicon chip.
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29 September 2021
School students in the Santa Clara Unified School District are being given an introduction to microscopy and silicon chip production in a programme created with the semiconductor manufacturer KLA
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ANU uses laser to trap energy like noise-cancelling headphone
29 September 2021
A team of researchers from ANU have developed powerful nanolasers that can be used in smaller-scale devices or integrated onto a chip.
Left: Raw chicken being printed in a square pattern from a food printer. Right: A blue laser beam directed to a raw chicken sample by a set of mirror galvanometers. (Image: Blutinger et al.)
Lasers used to cook 3D-printed food
22 September 2021
The work could lead to the development of personalised digital chefs that produce foods with tailored shape, texture, and flavour
Vector Photonics’ PCSEL technology. Credit Vector Photonics
£600k project will develop PCSELs for more efficient data centres
09 September 2021
The 1,310nm PCSEL will deliver the equivalent system optical performance as the lasers currently used, whilst consuming only half the electrical power
Dr John Lincoln joins Chromacity's advisory board
08 September 2021
Lincoln is chief executive of the UK’s Photonics Leadership Group
Zemax OpticStudio model of a wide-angle field-of-view camera used in applications such as autonomous vehicle sensors and aerial drones. Credit: Zemax
Ansys buys Zemax for optical modelling portfolio
07 September 2021
Zemax employs over 100 people around the world and is based in Washington, USA
Photonic component maker Teraxion bought by Indie Semiconductor
07 September 2021
Teraxion was an optical sensing reference design partner of Indie, supporting frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) systems for lidar
The dual-sided solar cells achieve a front conversion efficiency of 24.3 per cent and a rear conversion efficiency of 23.4 per cent. (Image: Eric Byler/The Australian National University)
'Record-breaking' bifacial solar cells produced using laser doping
07 September 2021
‘This is a world record for selectively laser-doped solar cells and among the highest efficiency bifacial solar cells’
Image: PhotonDelta
New academy to tackle skills shortage, help 6,000 firms train staff
06 September 2021
The European Photonics Academy will offer training courses beyond the lecture room with a strong focus on hands-on training
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New materials explored for LED-based optical communications
06 September 2021
Researchers detail how two relatively unexplored semiconducting materials can satisfy the demand for more data at greater speeds
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Joerg Volpp and Adrien da Silva, at the Luleå University of Technology, investigate beam shaping possibilities for high-power processing, co-authored by Alexander Laskin, from Adloptica
Carlos Lee, Epic’s director general, talks to Maria Chiara Ubaldi, co-founder and chief executive of Milan-based CareGlance
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Gemma Church details Universal Quantum’s work building a million-qubit quantum computer and what’s needed from optics and lasers
Daniel Holder is a research associate for laser material processing at the University of Stuttgart's IFSW.
Daniel Holder, of the IFSW at the University of Stuttgart, shares how new USP laser technologies could facilitate the rapid micromachining of silicon wafers
