Luminous will use the funding to double the size of its engineering team, build out its custom chips and software, and gear up for commercial-scale production
Universities offering associate degrees for optics technicians could help answer the photonics skills shortage, finds Jessica Rowbury
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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Laser World of Photonics attracted more than 15,000 trade fair visitors to Munich in April
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Okmetic invests nearly €400m to build a new fab in Finland with aims to more than double its production capacity
The DQG is composed of a main sensor head standing at 175cm high, around 66 kg, connected to the ILS system, at around 33kg. The combined system can be operated with a power as little as 200W. Credit: iXblue
The system can measure simultaneously the absolute values of both gravitational acceleration and its vertical gradient
Cuos researchers performing research on the applications of ultrashort laser pulsers (credit University of Michigan)
UK-based Optical Surfaces has been selected by the Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS) at the University of Michigan (USA) to provide beam expander optics for its zettawatt-equivalent ultrashort pulse laser system
Marisa Edmund has established the Advancing Women in Optics Scholarship at the University of Arizona
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The $130 million of investment will be used to drive the commercialisation of its optical I/O solution for new computing architectures
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The winners of the six innovation award categories were also announced
Building a new semiconductor fab can cost more than €10bn. Credit: Imec
Proposed multi-billion dollar and euro packages look set to increase uptake of leading-edge lithography, including for photonic technologies, finds Andy Extance
Manx Precision Optics’ polishing lap. Credit: Manx Precision Optics
Benjamin Skuse asks why, after 400 years of polishing optics, the process hasn’t been automated
Mathias Bochow, GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam, is working on the Trace project to track marine plastic. Credit: Frank Schweikert, Aldebaran Marine Research & Broadcast (www.aldebaran.org/en/)
Abigail Williams speaks to scientists tracking marine plastic using satellite spectral imagery
James Webb: A technician inspects the primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope. The team’s improvements involving a Shack-Hartmann sensor have opened up applications for eye doctors examining human eyesight (image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn)
How the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing technique can be used to simply and quickly assess the quality of optical systems
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A look at the market for spectroelectrochemistry and some of the products and solutions available
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A look at the current market for Raman spectroscopy and some of the products and solutions available
The panel discussion at Laser Munich, with Leibinger holding the microphone (credit Messe Munchen)
Laser firms could really benefit from quantum computing, which should not just be reserved for the world's big challenges, finds Jessica Rowbury
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As Ayar Labs secures investment to develop its silicon photonics technology, Robert Roe speaks to Hugo Saleh about the firm's plans
GasSight is a low-cost imager based on quantum technology that can produce real time video of methane gas. (Credit: QuantIC)
Matthew Dale asks whether quantum technologies are ready to be seen on the global stage at one of the world’s largest photonics exhibitions
