IRphotonics has spun off its iCure product line into wholly owned subsidiary iCure Systems Inc.... | Fiber laser and amplifier maker IPG Photonics Corp. announced Friday that it spent $55.4 million in ... |
The two LED makers announced they have dropped their patent infringement cases against each other. | Europe should boost key enabling technologies (KETs), including photonics, to stimulate growth in th... |
The OLED microdisplay technology provider has received a subcontract from ITT Exelis Corp. for initi... | Dr. Christof Lehner was appointed general manager of Trumpf Inc.’s Laser Technology Center in Plymou... |
Michael Lercel was appointed senior director for nanodefectivity and metrology for both Sematech’s o... | Roger H. Brüggemann will become the head of marketing and sales at diode-pumped solid-state laser ma... |
Mobius Photonics, an innovative producer of short-pulsed fiber laser sources, has named Kohei Yamash... | Initial testing of a 1-kW fiber laser has shown that it produces the necessary speed and quality wel... |
Nanosolar Inc. has hired three new executives to lead its thin-film solar cells and panels sales and... | Former Strategies Unlimited Director Tom Hausken has joined the staff of The Optical Society (OSA) a... |
SpectraScience Inc., a San Diego-based medical device company, has signed an exclusive five-year agr... | Rudolph Technologies Inc., a maker of process control metrology systems used in semiconductor device... |
The optical components maker has added TeraComm and Ward/Davis Associates as sales representatives f... | In his new role, the patent protection and intellectual property law expert will support the growth ... |
The laser-based solutions company has now shipped more than 10,000 lasers for ophthalmic therapeutic... | The first green wavelength (530 nm) semiconductor laser diode with an optical output power of more t... |
The semiconductor materials manufacturer said that its US solar energy subsidiary Soitec Solar will ... | As vice president of sales, Riggi will lead all sales activities for Block’s line of quantum cascade... |
The company completed manufacturing expansion for its 3M Ultra Barrier Solar Film in Columbia, Mo., ... | The optoelectronics company received a $300,000 grant from the Montgomery County (Ohio) Board of Com... |
Electro Scientific Industries Inc. (ESI), a supplier of laser-based manufacturing products for the m... | Kaneka and imec have achieved a 6-in. semi-square heterojunction silicon solar cell that has a power... |
The company filed a motion for the prompt bankruptcy auction of more than 1000 patents integral to t... | The Leiden University astronomer received the €2.5 million Spinoza prize, the highest scientific pri... |
Jenoptik’s Industrial Metrology Div. has formed Jenoptik do Brasil to strengthen its activities in S... | The optical components manufacturer raised $1.9 million in capital to expand its infrared glass proc... |
The global systems supplier has received a production order for more than 1000 units of its SiIMU02 ... | The hyperspectral imaging instrument maker announced that ReSe’s Parge remote-sensing software is no... |
The electro-optic mass spectrometer component manufacturer signed a sponsorship agreement with Georg... | The two companies entered into a partnership to deliver turnkey autofocus systems for high-speed met... |
Tissue-sparing laser therapy was delivered via an intraocular fiber optic probe in a surgical settin... | The merger of two established groups into the Canadian Photonic Industry Consortium (CPIC) was celeb... |
Alex Shikany was named the new director of market analysis at the Association for Advancing Automati... | A team led by Dr. Stephan Brüning of Schepers GmbH & Co. KG has won the €10,000 Innovation Award Las... |
The II-VI Inc. business unit has announced the continued expansion of its Saxonburg chemical vapor d... | Paul Williams has been appointed business development manager of Birmingham Science Park. |
The company received the Gold Edison Award for a microscope system that enables imaging deeper into ... | The company’s subsidiary, Teledyne RD Instruments Inc., entered an agreement to acquire BlueView Tec... |
Alexander Pisarski has been named the precision optics sales manager for North America at the optica... | The fiber optic cable manufacturer announced Netherlands-based Systicom Solutions as an authorized d... |
The precision components company acquired EBTEC Corp. for $11 million, of which $1.65 million was pa... | The electronic design automation company named Aart de Geus and Chi-Foon Chan as co-CEOs, effective ... |
The ultraminiature projection display technology maker received a purchase order in excess of $4 mil... | The two companies jointly announced their entrance into a definitive agreement stating that a wholly... |
The photodiode manufacturer’s high-speed InGaAs photodiode and balanced photodiodes have been found ... | Leaders from the international society for optics and photonics said they support a newly proposed b... |
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Picatinny scientists and engineers are developing a device that will shoot lightning bolts down lase... | The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology photonics professor received the 2012 Alfried Krupp Prize for ... |
The elephantnose fish, thought to be blind, was found to have light-reflecting cups lined with photo... | A new technique to fabricate slimmer thin-film solar cells without compromising their ability to abs... |
A new procedure that is as simple as an ultrasound more than doubles the depth that light can be foc... | A new technique for making rewritable computer chips uses laser light to control the spin of an atom... |
Three-dimensional nanoscale optical cavities made from metamaterials have the potential to generate ... | The University of Hawaii released the first image obtained using its new 16-megapixel image sensor o... |
Beams of light that are twisted and combined to transmit data at dramatically increased speeds soon ... | A new type of paint made with fluorescing carbon nanotubes can help detect structural stress and str... |
A new all-carbon solar cell developed by MIT taps into near-IR light, a region that is completely un... | Using laser light from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, a team found that... |
Graphene has been found to be an excellent host for guiding, confining and electrically manipulating... | An LED- and camera-equipped automated pavement crack detector developed at the Georgia Tech Research... |
Syracuse University scientists think that by coating nanorods with firefly enzymes, producing lights... | By synchronizing 98 microcameras into a single device, electrical engineers at Duke University and t... |
Extreme events in nature may be more commonplace and predictable than you might think, says an inter... | The European X-ray Free-Electron Laser international research facility has overcome one of its most ... |
A new imaging technique works somewhat like thermography in reverse to further refine the art restor... | Software that calibrates hyperspectral imagers could ensure that their performance is optimized for ... |
Growing an indium mixture on a clump of nanowires rather than on a flat surface boosts the percentag... | A new method that generates ultrashort attosecond bursts of light on a glass target will permit the ... |
Laser frequency combs, first a curiosity but now a practical research tool, are moving beyond physic... | The first telescope capable of focusing high-energy x-rays to image black holes and other celestial ... |
Gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs grown on a layer of silicon were successfully transferred to a layer of c... | A new technique that enables metallic cube-shaped nanocrystals to spontaneously self-assemble into l... |
A new device that combines light delivery with a tetrode into a single neural probe may offer new wa... | The world’s biggest eye in the sky is a step closer to becoming reality. Plans for the European Extr... |
Laser beams formed into dark helices, or corkscrews of light, have considerable advantages over thei... | A prototype of the largest flexible color organic LED display was developed using advanced mixed-oxi... |
An airborne laser mapping project involving billions of laser shots has unveiled archaeological ruin... | Two independent studies have stretched the manipulation times of quantum bits (qubits) of informatio... |
A subtly curved side mirror that eliminates dangerous blind spots for drivers has been patented. | More than 5000 low-energy photons have been converted into one high-energy x-ray photon. The coheren... |
In honor of the upcoming Summer Olympics, the smallest possible five-ringed structure – just 1.2 nm ... | Excitons were trapped and cooled so effectively that they condensed and cohered to form a giant matt... |
For the first time, a two-and-a-half-hour-old fruit fly embryo was filmed in 3 D using a new microsc... | Photonics industry heavyweights and budding spinoffs alike are poised to compete for this year&rsquo... |
A novel free-electron laser (FEL) x-ray technique that obtains high-resolution structural insight in... | A new ultrafast laser angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) technique may soon help scie... |
Astronomers searching for extrasolar planets may be a step closer to finding other Earthlike places ... | Thursday was "a sad day for British astronomy," according to the president of the Royal Astronomical... |
The UK’s first Fraunhofer Center will be based at the University of Strathclyde, the universit... | A new optical coherence tomography (OCT) device that can see difficult-to-detect bacteria behind the... |
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