The manufacturer of laser sources and laser projectors will serve as the core and initial asset in Union Park’s newly-created holding company, Exaktera
Spectrecology owner Mike Morris was the founder of Ocean Optics
Tibidabo Scientific Industries, a supplier of technology for scientific research, aerospace, and industrial markets, has acquired Photek, a manufacturer vacuum based tubes and camera systems for photon detection
Following Lumentum's recent announcement it was set to buy Coherent, MKS Instruments and II-VI have both put in acquisition bids
Two laser manufacturing giants are set to merge following Lumentum's announcement that it will acquire Coherent for $5.7 billion
Luna Innovations has acquired OptaSense from parent company, QinetiQ for £29m
Trumpf headquarters in Ditzingen near Stuttgart
Trumpf has completed the renaming and merger of its wholly-owned fibre laser manufacturing subsidiary SPI Lasers, which is now known as Trumpf Laser UK
An application of SLD's laser light source
California-based SLD Laser was co-founded in 2013 by a group of pioneers in solid state lighting, including Dr Shuji Nakamura (2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics)
ASML campus in Veldhoven
The chip manufacturing giant announced plans to acquire Berliner Glas Group, including all subsidiaries, in July
The purchase will bolster EnPro's existing thin-film product offering in the industrial technology, life sciences, and semiconductor markets
FormFactor's fast photonic wafer probers enable rapid tests through faster photonic alignment than previously possible. (Credit: FormFactor Inc)
Integration, automation, collaboration, customisation and designing for testing and manufacturability will help component and system makers lower costs and increase production, finds Andy Extance
Credit: THOR Biomedicine
Several different light-based treatments that have relied on lasers are now finding uses for LEDs, finds Andy Extance
In Electro Optics’ most recent webinar, career flexibility and interdisciplinary skills were highlighted as important traits in the future workforce
Carlos Lee talks to Maik Müller, chief executive officer at Nynomic, a holding company of nine photonics enterprises operating in the life science, clean tech and green tech sectors
