Chinese automotive lidar provider RoboSense has received a combined investment of over $45 million – the largest-ever single round of financing for a Chinese lidar company
Researchers at the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronic Research Centre (ORC) have developed a new type of hollow-core optical fibre (HCF) that exhibits the world’s lowest optical signal attenuation
Precision Laser Scanning has introduced its compact MIM (Motor In Mirror) scanners for autonomous vehicle lidar systems
Edmund Optics’ new Techspec HPr (high performance ruggedised) series fixed focal length lenses feature up to 9MP resolution
Various lidar companies are finding ways to meet the huge challenges automotive applications present. Jessica Rowbury discovers Luminar’s approach, and decisions made in designing their system
Simon Andrews, executive director of Fraunhofer UK Research, believes the excitement surrounding automotive lidar will ultimately bring benefits to many other sectors
French research institute Leti has announced a pilot programme to characterise and assess lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles
Volvo Cars has acquired a stake in lidar start-up Luminar to advance its position in the autonomous vehicle space
On Semiconductor has acquired SensL Technologies, a producer of silicon photomultipliers, single photon avalanche diodes, and lidar sensing products
BMW has selected a solid-state lidar solution from Israeli company Innoviz Technologies for series production of its autonomous vehicles, starting in 2021
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
