Startup raises $105m to re-imagine AI computers using silicon photonics
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
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
Laser World of Photonics attracted more than 15,000 trade fair visitors to Munich in April
Okmetic invests nearly €400m to build a new fab in Finland with aims to more than double its production capacity
The system can measure simultaneously the absolute values of both gravitational acceleration and its vertical gradient
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
The $130 million of investment will be used to drive the commercialisation of its optical I/O solution for new computing architectures
The winners of the six innovation award categories were also announced
Proposed multi-billion dollar and euro packages look set to increase uptake of leading-edge lithography, including for photonic technologies, finds Andy Extance
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
How the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing technique can be used to simply and quickly assess the quality of optical systems
A look at the market for spectroelectrochemistry and some of the products and solutions available
A look at the current market for Raman spectroscopy and some of the products and solutions available
Laser firms could really benefit from quantum computing, which should not just be reserved for the world's big challenges, finds Jessica Rowbury
As Ayar Labs secures investment to develop its silicon photonics technology, Robert Roe speaks to Hugo Saleh about the firm's plans
Matthew Dale asks whether quantum technologies are ready to be seen on the global stage at one of the world’s largest photonics exhibitions