Jessica Rowbury speaks to Marie Semeria, CEO of Leti, about how the organisation has supported technology innovation throughout its 50-year history
Matthew Dale takes a look at some of the space technologies presented at Laser World of Photonics, including lidar for global methane analysis and laser communication technology
Aerial lidar is providing researchers with detailed information about rainforests, which is helping in global efforts to conserve them. Jessica Rowbury reports
Although not yet as established as other additive manufacturing applications, printing human tissue is poised to significantly advance the field of medicine. Rachel Berkowitz reports
Matthew Dale finds that new fibre designs are being developed to enable more efficient and higher-power fibre laser systems
Scott Jordan, head of photonics at Physik Instrumente, describes how advances in precise nanoscale alignment are cutting time and costs associated with the silicon photonics manufacturing process
Greg Blackman reports from Laser World of Photonics in Munich in June where quantum technology was a big talking point
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
