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Katherine Skipper investigates the chip-scale lidar devices starting to surface, and whether they’ll find their way into vehicles
Ouster plans to establish Ouster Automotive, a new functional division of the company focused on driving mass-market adoption of digital lidar
Scantinel's solid state parallelised FMCW 5D+ PIC
The first demonstrators will be available by the middle of this year
LNOI chips. Credit: ELENA
A newly-established European project aims to create the first European lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI)-based platform for photonic integrated circuits (PICs)
Voyant Photonics' lidar system contain thousands of optical components fabricated on a single semiconductor chip. (Image: Voyant Photonics)
The firm’s lidar systems contain thousands of optical components fabricated on a single semiconductor chip, radically reducing the size and manufacturing complexity of lidar
Hübner Photonics has announced the introduction of a new wavelength in the Cobolt Tor Series of a high-performance, compact, air-cooled, Q-switched lasers
The collaboration has yielded a 200m, long-range VCSEL-based hybrid solid-state lidar solution for ADAS. (Image: Hesai)
The partners will incorporate VCSEL array light sources into lidar to improve its cost and scalability
Teraxion was an optical sensing reference design partner of Indie, supporting frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) systems for lidar
Luminar's Iris sensor (Image: Luminar)
Luminar Technologies is acquiring its InGaAs chip design partner and manufacturer, OptoGration, for its core IP and supply chain capacity
In this white paper, Pro-Lite’s Robert Yeo explains the science of diffuse reflectance, presents Lambert’s cosine law and explains how a diffuse reflectance material appears equally bright from all angles of view. Commercially available diffuse reflectance materials and coatings are described from Labsphere and SphereOptics, while common applications for Lambertian materials are presented, in particular in the development of LIDAR and ADAS proximity sensors.
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
