Toptica Opens New US Headquarters

Electro Optic Systems (EOS) secured a conditional contract to supply remote weapon systems (RWS) to Ukraine valued at up to $80 million. EOS’ Defence Systems business secured the contract with...

Sensor technology company FRAMOS broke ground on the construction of its new campus in Cakovec, Croatia, into which the company said it plans to move next year. The facility marks the largest...

Yaskawa Motoman is expanding its headquarters in Miamisburg, Ohio. The 185,000-sq-ft addition will nearly double the size of the company’s current production space. Yaskawa will add 70...

TOPTICA Photonics AG has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the majority of shares of French fiber laser technology company Azurlight Systems SAS. Azurlight will continue its fiber laser...

The Ellex® Tango Reflex™ Neo Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (YAG) Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty (SLT) laser from Lumibird Medical is a fully integrated, Q-switched and frequency doubled device...

The AU200-120x120 alignment stages from Optimal Engineering Systems Inc. feature 120 mm of travel in both the X and Y axes. The low-profile, 87-mm devices have a 188 × 188-mm open...

The G2-A Diode Pump Source from Lumispot Tech is a second-generation continuous-wave pump laser designed to optimize solid-state laser technology. The device offers high efficiency, stability,...

The WaveShift Series from TeraXion are fiber Bragg grating (FBG) reflectors for Raman fiber lasers in applications such as spectroscopy, laser pumping, biomedical, and telecommunications. The...

Photonics is the study of light and other types of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The impact of photonics on research, technology, navigation, culture, astronomy, forensics, and...

Over 60 years have passed since the first demonstration of a laser in 1960. After the initial spark of interest, lasers were for a while categorized as “a solution waiting for a problem,”...

Excimers are pulsed gas lasers that deliver high output power and pulse energies in the ultraviolet and deep-ultraviolet wavelengths. This enables them to power applications that cannot be supported...

The term fluorescence is often applied as a synonym for photoluminescence, although luminescence actually covers fluorescence and phosphorescence. Both of these terms describe the process of...

Finding the ideal ultra-fast laser source for a multiphoton imaging setup is not trivial. It is a fine balance between peak power, pulse energy and laser wavelength. In this white paper we show that...

This white paper will identify the specifications that can influence the scanner’s field of view and also highlight hardware and controller-oriented solutions for improving it. Key topics include:...

XYZ Tracker keeps a specimen in the field of view and in focus. It uses ASI’s Tunable Lens and a secondary camera to gather images from different focal planes without moving the objective or sample....

An in-depth look at the advancements in quantum computing and the use of lasers from the team at the Bernien Lab at the University of Chicago. The team builds quantum computers out of individual...

Femtosecond frequency combs represent unparalleled measurement tools with diverse applications in spectroscopy, metrology, and quantum physics. This discussion delves into the critical aspects of...

Multiphoton imaging in neuroscience has much evolved from the initial two-photon microscope that Winfried Denk built in Watt Webb’s lab at Cornell University in the late 1980s, which made the...

Optical frequency combs have gained a lot of attention recently due to their unique ability to act as a ruler in both time and frequency space, connecting the radio frequency (RF) spectrum to the...

In the search for the magic black box analyzer that does it all (BTW, it hasn't been found yet), many so-called new techniques have been touted. Many of these analytical techniques are in fact rooted...

A GRIN (gradient index) lens is a type of optical lens that utilizes a gradient in refractive index across its volume rather than having a uniform refractive index like conventional lenses. This...

A meniscus lens is an optical lens that has one side that is concave (curved inward) and the other side that is convex (curved outward). It can be categorized into two types based on its optical...

Fused quartz and silica are closely related materials, both composed primarily of silicon dioxide (SiO2), but they are produced through different manufacturing processes and have distinct properties...

Optical fiber optic switches are devices used in optical fiber communication systems to selectively route optical signals from one input fiber to one or more output fibers. They play a crucial role...

Luminate NY, the only optics, photonics and imaging (OPI) accelerator and investment fund in the world, announced the final winners at the Light Tomorrow with Today event in Rochester, NY. For the...

On this week’s show, a new imaging technique targets tumors, a laser mirror counteracts deformation, photodynamic therapy pushes deeper into body tissue, and we talk with Toptica Photonics President...

Photonics Spectra Now is giving you a recap of the third annual SPIE Photonics Summit. There, U.S. federal officials talked about the importance of advancing the industry locally. All this happening...

SUNY Albany will become the home of the new Center for Biophotonic Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Teledyne Technologies is expanding after acquiring contracts from Excelitas. IonQ is in the...

OHARA manufactures more than 130 environmentally safe optical glass types, free of both lead and arsenic. More than 300 tons of optical glass are melted per month, available in the following forms of...

Established in 1985, OZ Optics is a leading worldwide supplier of fiber optic components, test equipment and sensors. OZ Optics manufactures its products in three locations, Ottawa (Canada),...

CASTECH is a recognized leading supplier of nonlinear optical crystals, laser crystals and precision optical components for laser, telecom, medical, analysis and detector markets. Products...

The Optical Engineering Experts® Optikos designs and manufactures metrology products for measuring and assuring optical image quality; and provides optical engineering design, development,...