San Francisco’s Lombard Street captured with 3 OS1 lidar sensors. Credit: Ouster
This month, lidar players Velodyne and Ouster have released new products, which the companies boast are cheaper and higher-performing than existing systems
PureLiFi has raised $18m to provide li-fi components to mass-market mobile device and lighting manufacturers
Thorlabs has acquired and the fibre laser assets from KMLabs, which represents Thorlabs' purchase this year
Thorlabs has acquired Operations Technology (Optek), a manufacturer of large-format, granite-based video and x-ray dimensional measurement systems
EOS board member Michael Pfeffer says that industry leaders must support engagement in standardisation activities
In particular, we are looking at collaboration between industry and academia in the field of photonics
Semiconductor laser company II-VI is partnering with Lite-On Technology for the volume manufacturing and commercialisation of packaged semiconductor lasers for mass-market lidar
Carlos Lee, director general of EPIC, notes the importance of the Chinese market for European photonics firms
European particle physics laboratory CERN has signed three contracts with Hamamatsu for the supply of silicon sensors for its ATLAS and CMS trackers
British Optics manufacturer LBP Optics is has purchased UK-based Symons Mirror Technology (SMT), a diamond machining company
