Ouster plans to establish Ouster Automotive, a new functional division of the company focused on driving mass-market adoption of digital lidar
Coherent has today decided to accept II-VI's offer and will pay Lumentum the $217.6 million termination fee
NKT Photonics has divested its LIOS sensing business to the American company Luna Innovations Incorporated for €20m
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Effect will obtain coherent optical digital signal processing (DSP) and forward error correction (FEC) technology as well as an experienced engineering team
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The deal will expand Intel's semiconductor manufacturing capacity, accelerating its aim of becoming a major provider of foundry services and capacity globally
Intel's purchase of Tower Semiconductors could advance silicon photonics manufacturing, says Jose Capmany, founder of iPronics Programmable Photonics
JGR Optics and OptoTest are providers of fibre optic test solutions
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The addition of NeoPhotonics is designed to expand Lumentum's opportunity in the optical components market, particularly for cloud and telecom network infrastructure
'While upgrading our manufacturing capabilities, the addition of Graflex also upgrades our global distribution footprint for our new and existing products' - Salvo Technologies
Valo's fibre laser technology delivers pulse lengths of <50 fs and peak powers of >2 MW
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
