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Photonics.com - December 2025
Business
The Times They are A-Changing
When attempting to track the most impactful tendencies of the year, it seems that change itself may be the biggest trend of 2025. Change is coming rapidly across many fields, and while it has lead to...
U.S. Government Details $18.5M Investment into Lattice Materials for Germanium, Silicon Optics Production
The Department of War, formerly known as the Department of Defense, has invested $18.5 million in Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III funds to Lattice Materials. Announcement of the investment,...
NEXCOM, Stereolabs Partner to Develop AI Vision Solutions
NEXCOM, a rugged edge computing platforms company, and Stereolabs, an AI vision and 3D perception company, collaborated to deliver AI vision solutions for mobility, robotics, and industrial...
Safran Collaborates with India Optel Limited & Infleqtion: Week in Brief: 12/26/25
Vuzix, a supplier of AI-powered smart glasses, announced the continuation of its multi-year development collaboration with Collins Aerospace, an RTX business. The collaboration has resulted in the...
Lucidean Raises $18M to Scale Development of Coherent Optical Links, Names CEO
Lucidean, a developer of coherent optical links for data centers, has raised $18 million in seed financing and named James Raring as CEO. The funding will be used to expand R&D efforts, validate...
AlixLabs Appoints Arthur van der Poel to its Advisory Board: People in the News: 12/24/25
JENOPTIK appointed Daniela Mattheus as its chairwoman. Mattheus was elected for the remainder of the term of office of the outgoing chair, Matthias Wierlacher. She is a professional supervisory board...
Quantum Computing Inc. Appoints Yuping Huang CEO on Permanent Basis
Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi), an integrated photonics and quantum optics technology company, appointed Yuping Huang as CEO. Huang was appointed as interim CEO in April this year. Huang has over 20...
Optical Interconnect Technology Firm Enlightra Emerges from Stealth
Enlightra, a startup building chip-scale multiwavelength lasers for next-generation data transmission, has raised a total of $15 million in funding to deliver fast and energy-efficient data transfer...
Fraunhofer ILT and LLNL Joint-Effort Unites Fusion Tech Leaders
The International Cooperation on Next-gen Inertial Confinement Fusion Lasers (ICONIC-FL) project will combine the expertise of scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT...
Switzerland's HOERBIGER Group to Acquire Physik Instrumente
Physik Instrumente (PI), a provider of precision motion and positioning technologies, signed an agreement to be acquired by HOERBIGER, a diversified technology group with global operations. For PI,...
Camera Module Market Poised for Growth
According to a report from Yole Group, the camera module market is seeing a great deal of change, driven by diversification, stable pricing, and continuous innovation. This year saw compact camera...
Finchetto Secures Grant to Fuel Optical Switch R&D
Finchetto, a company working to develop a fully optical passive network switch, was awarded a Contract for Innovation through United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI). Through the project,...
Optical Gaging Products Appoints President of Global Sales: People In the News: 12/17/25
Optical Gaging Products, a manufacturer of metrology systems, appointed Panos Angelopoulos as president of global sales, succeeding Stephen Flynn, who is retiring after 31 years with the company....
Philips to Acquire Intravascular Imaging Specialist SpectraWAVE
Royal Philips, a health technology company, has entered into an agreement to acquire SpectraWAVE, a developer of enhanced vascular imaging of coronary arteries, angiography-based physiology...
imec Integrates Colloidal Quantum Dot Photodiodes on Metasurfaces
Last week, imec demonstrated the integration of colloidal quantum dot photodiodes (QDPDs) on metasurfaces developed on its 300 mm CMOS pilot line. This approach enables a scalable platform for the...
Imagine Optics Acquires Karthala Systems, Expanding Bioimaging Capabilities
Imagine Optic, a specialist in wavefront analysis and adaptive optics technologies, has acquired Karthala System, a provider of ultrafast two-photon microscopy solutions. For Imagine Optic, the move...
Luminar to Sell Subsidiary to Quantum Computing Inc.
Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) has agreed to acquire Luminar Semiconductor, Inc. (LSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Luminar Technologies, in an all-cash transaction valued at $110 million. The...
Senstar Technologies to Acquire Lidar Technology Developer Blickfeld
Senstar Technologies, a provider of physical, video, and access control security products and solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Blickfeld, a lidar technology company....
Quantum Art Raises $100M For Scalable, Multi-Core Quantum Computing
Quantum Art, a developer of full-stack quantum computers based on trapped-ion qubits and a proprietary scale-up architecture, has closed a $100 million series A funding round. The investment...
TNO to Build Secondary Mirror for Keck Observatory: Week in Brief: 12/12/25
Xanadu Quantum Technologies, a quantum computing company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. The agreement builds on...
Implant Device Communicates With Brain Through Light
Northwestern University scientists have developed a wireless device that uses light to send information directly to the brain — bypassing the body’s natural sensory pathways. The soft,...
Radiant Vision Systems Merges With Konica Minolta Sensing
Radiant Vision Systems, a provider of imaging systems for the evaluation of light sources and displays, will merge with its sister company, Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, to form a new company. The...
Nu Quantum Completes $60M Series A Round
Nu Quantum, a developer of distributed quantum computing, has closed a $60 million series A funding round. According to the company, it is the largest financing round raised by a pure-play quantum...
ORCA Computing Collaborates with ST Engineering
Quantum computing company ORCA Computing established a collaboration with ST Engineering to advance cybersecurity outcomes by applying quantum technology to threat detection. The project focuses on...
Open Source Solutions are the Most Strategically Viable Path for Modern R&D
Modern engineering faces unprecedented complexity and rapid change. New applications are emerging across aerospace, automation, robotics, and quantum sensing. Each demands a combination of speed,...
PHOTRON LIMITED Acquires AOS Technologies AG
PHOTRON LIMITED, a high-speed and scientific imaging company, acquired AOS Technologies AG, a designer and manufacturer of advanced high-speed imaging systems. The acquisition will strengthen...
IMI Divests Stake in VIA Optronics
Integrated Microelectronics (IMI) has sold its 50.32% stake in VIA Optronics to Kronen 3140 (to be known in the future as V-PTR Beteiligungs GmbH). Kronen is owned by some members of VIA’s management...
Axon Vision to Collaborate with Leonardo DRS: Week in Brief: 12/5/2025
Axon Vision, a provider of AI systems for the defense market, announced a cooperation agreement with Leonardo DRS towards opportunities in advanced situational awareness, lethality, and...
LNLL Holds Nuclear Weapon Stress Test at NIF
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNLL) held an experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to test the strength of U.S. nuclear weapons against missile defenses. The experiment...
Marvell to Acquire Celestial AI for $3.25B
Marvell Technology has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Celestial AI. The acquisition, valued at $3.25 billion, accelerates Marvell’s connectivity strategy for next-generation AI and...
xLight to Receive $150M Under CHIPS Act
Extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) laser technology company xLight has signed a letter of intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Research and Development Office, part of the National...
Mixx Technologies Raises $33M Series A Funding Round
Mixx Technologies, a deep-tech company, has closed a $33 million series A funding round. The capital will be used to advance Mixx’s product development milestones, expand its global footprint with...
More Change at Jenoptik: Supervisory Board Chair Resigns
The chairman of Jenoptik’s supervisory board, Matthias Wierlacher, will resign from his position as a member of the board effective Dec. 29. A successor will be elected in the near term, Jenoptik...
Sparrow Quantum Raises $32M
Photonic quantum chips provider Sparrow Quantum has closed its series A round after raising €27.5 million (~$32 million). The Danish company’s latest investors include Denmark-based North Ventures,...
Optica Names 2026 Fellows
The board of directors of Optica elected 121 members from 23 countries to the society’s 2026 fellow class. Optica fellows are selected based on several factors, including outstanding...
Nu Quantum Appoints CFO, Advisory Board Member: People in the News: 11/26/25
Nu Quantum, a distributed quantum company, appointed Richard Moulds to its advisory board. Moulds was the general manager of Amazon’s quantum computing service, Amazon Braket, where he helped...
GlobalFoundries Adds InfiniLink to Portfolio
GlobalFoundries (GF) plans to acquire InfiniLink, a startup specialized in advanced optical data connectivity chips, based in Cairo, Egypt. This follows last week’s acquisition of Taiwan-based...
Stefan Traeger Leaving Jenoptik
Stefan Traeger will step down from Jenoptik’s executive board on Feb. 15, and leave Jenoptik AG by mutual agreement. The company's supervisory board announced the planned departure, as well as its...
Research & Technology
IR Spectroscopy Could Diagnose Lung Cancer with Blood Sample
Working in collaboration, researchers at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM), Keele University, and Loughborough University identified circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in blood samples, in real time, using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) microspectroscopy and machine learning. CTCs — cancer cells that break away from a tumor and travel in the bloodstream — can...
Scientists Discover Light-Bending Material for Blue & UV Light
Researchers from TU Delft and Radboud University have discovered that the two-dimensional ferroelectric material CuInP2S6 (CIPS) can be used to control the pathway and properties of blue and UV...
Programmable Photonics Advanced with Lithium Niobate-based Waveguide
A research team comprising of NTT, Cornell University, and Stanford University demonstrated a photonic processor whose refractive index can be rewritten across a two-dimensional waveguide to exercise...
Optogenetics Helps Clarify Link Between Brain Plasticity and Huntington’s Disease
A red-light-activated, optogenetic tool for studying brain plasticity could open new possibilities for the treatment of Huntington’s disease. Using an engineered, photoactivated adenylyl...
On-Chip Optical Phase Modulator Scales to Large Quantum Computers
Optical phase modulators with scalable platforms are essential for large-scale quantum computing. Quantum computers will require thousands, even millions, of channels to independently control each...
Octopus-Inspired Micro-LEDs Designed for Cancer Therapy
Researchers at KAIST and UNIST developed an implantable, shape-morphing 3D micro-LED device capable of effectively delivering light to deep tissues. The technology, designed for pancreatic cancer...
Brain Imaging Tool Bypasses the Bottlenecks Faced by Fluorescent Probes
A tool developed by researchers at Brown University provides a way to use bioluminescent light to visualize brain activity. The work is the result of ten years of development, realized by the...
Agentic AI Platform Boosts Optics Design
Stanford engineers have developed an AI framework that rapidly accelerates metasurface design, with potential widespread technological applications. The framework, called MetaChat, introduces new...
imec Integrates Colloidal Quantum Dot Photodiodes on Metasurfaces
Last week, imec demonstrated the integration of colloidal quantum dot photodiodes (QDPDs) on metasurfaces developed on its 300 mm CMOS pilot line. This approach enables a scalable platform for the...
Integrated Source-Sensor Produces and Detects FS UV-C Pulses
A new platform for generating and detecting ultraviolet-C (UV-C) laser pulses on femtosecond (fs) timescales could enable a diverse array of applications, from superresolution microscopy to materials...
Viral Template Provides Sustainable Way to Create Optical Materials
Gold nanoparticles play an important role in the development of metamaterials and are used in numerous optical applications, including medical imaging, environmental sensing, and therapeutics. Gold...
Adaptive Optics Fixes Label-Free Image Distortion Without Guide Star
Adaptive optics (AO) systems compensate for image distortions that can occur when an object is viewed through a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument. An AO system will adjust the...
Memory Design Charts a Course for Scalability
A team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working in collaboration with the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, has developed and tested an integrated photonic...
Design Scheme Cools Down Thulium Fiber Lasers
Thulium fiber lasers, operating at a wavelength of 2 μm, are valued for applications in medicine, materials processing, and defense. Their longer wavelength makes stray light less damaging...
Research Accelerates Practical Photonic Quantum Neural Network Development
Researchers developed a method to make photonic circuits more adaptable, while retaining their current technological compatibility. They added a controlled step, called adaptive state injection,...
LNLL Holds Nuclear Weapon Stress Test at NIF
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNLL) held an experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to test the strength of U.S. nuclear weapons against missile defenses. The experiment...
OLEDs Control Chirality of Light Without Changing Emitting Molecules
The information encoded in circularly polarized (CP) light could help future technologies for display, sensing, communications, and quantum applications deliver on their promise of greater efficiency...
Self-Trapped Light Enables Autonomous Computing in Soft Material
Using beams of visible light, researchers from McMaster University and the University of Pittsburgh created a functionally complete logic gate from a soft material. The team built a NAND (not and)...
Integrated "Speed Bumps" Resolve Longstanding Brillouin Laser Bottleneck
Researchers at the University of Sydney have resolved a long-standing problem in microchip-scale lasers by carving ‘tiny speed bumps’ into the devices’ optical cavity in pursuit of...
Light-Driven Control at Cellular Level Shows Phototherapeutic Potential
The dynamics of molecular assembly and disassembly disrupt cellular structures, affecting biological functions. When a molecule is photoresponsive, its assembly and disassembly can be driven and...
LEDs Provide Power and Functionality for Sustainable IoT Networks
In the future, LEDs could serve as data transmitters and energy sources in holistic Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The University of Oulu’s professor Marcos Katz leads SUPERIOT, a Horizon...
Organic IR Detector Achieves Record Sensitivity with Polariton Technology
Organic photodetectors are lightweight, tunable, and can be integrated with other materials, making them a promising alternative to detectors made with inorganic materials. Organic detectors are also...
AI Tech Monitors Turkey's Behavior
Penn State researchers used drones equipped with computer vision to detect different turkey behaviors. The research was the first to test whether a drone combined with a computer vision model could...
acquisitions
QuantumDiamonds to Build Chip Production, Testing Facility: Week In Brief: 12/19/25
QuantumDiamonds, a quantum sensing company, announced a €152 million ($178.2M) investment plan to establish a production facility for advanced chip testing systems. The facility will scale production of QuantumDiamonds’ nitrogen-vacancy-diamond magnetic imaging tools, which enable fast, non-destructive fault isolation in advanced 2.5D and 3D chip architectures. The facility is expected to receive...
Products
AI Compute Box
FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 30, 2025 — The Darsi Pro from e-con Systems is a NVIDIA Jetson-powered AI compute box. Darsi Pro delivers up to 100 trillions of operations per second of AI performance and integrates powerful cloud-based...
e-con Systems Inc.
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Automated Inspection System
WEDEL, Germany, Dec. 30, 2025 — SurfInspect from TRIOPTICS is an automated inspection system for the objective surface quality evaluation of plan optics, lenses, and lens systems. SurfInspect detects scratches and digs consistently...
TRIOPTICS
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CCD Linear Image Sensor
KAWASAKI, Japan, Dec. 30, 2025 — The TCD2400DG from Toshiba is a lens-reduction type CCD linear image sensor developed for line-scan cameras used in visual inspections. TCD2400DG is a color CCD linear image sensor with 4096 picture...
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corp.
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LCOS Microdisplay
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 29, 2025 — The OP03021 LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) panel from OMNIVISION features ultralow power for smart glasses. It has a 1632 × 1536 resolution at 90 Hz in a compact 0.26-in optical format, for...
OMNIVISION
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6-Axis Alignment System
SHREWSBURY, Mass., Dec. 29, 2025 — The F-713 from PI (Physik Instrumente) is a 6-axis alignment system for photonics chips, fiber arrays, and wafers. It has a hybrid mechanical design based on a hexapod/piezo-scanner combination. It...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Femtosecond Laser
RONKONKOMA, N.Y., Dec. 29, 2025 — Photonics Industries' FS-HE Air Cooled Series is a femtosecond platform built around an all-fiber, solid-state layout that delivers clean pulses, high stability, and simple installation in a compact...
Photonics Industries International Inc.
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Microscope Hardware Autofocus
ROCKLAND, Mass., Dec. 26, 2025 — PureFocus690 from Prior Scientific is a hardware autofocus for Raman and infrared microscopy. It combines advanced optics and intelligent micro processing with a 690-nm laser. The system transmits up...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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FMCW Lidar Module and Sensor
NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 2025 — The Helium Platform from Voyant Photonics is a fully solid-state frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) lidar sensor and module family built on a silicon photonics chip with integrated 2D beam...
Voyant Photonics
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Computer Vision Camera Systems
DENVER, Dec. 23, 2025 — The OAK 4 devices from Luxonis are self-contained computer vision camera systems that achieve 52 tera operations per second (TOPS) of AI inference compute all on device. With OAK 4, AI workloads run...
Luxonis
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CoaXPress 2.0 Cable
TOKYO, Dec. 23, 2025 — OKI’s small-diameter K Type CoaXPress 2.0 cable is for industrial camera-equipped devices. The product offers high durability, 50 million sliding and bending cycles, with a narrow 3.7-mm outer...
OKI Electric Cable Co. Ltd.
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LBPF Additive Manufacturing Platform
FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 23, 2025 — The FS1211M from Farsoon is a large-format metal laser powder bed fusion (LBPF) platform for industrial-scale manufacturing. It features up to 16 fiber lasers for aerospace, oil and gas, and energy...
Farsoon Europe GmbH
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High-Voltage Optocoupler
DALLAS, Dec. 22, 2025 — The TDOC8012-04CC0 from Teledyne Micropac is a 12-kV isolation optocoupler designed for aerospace, defense, and industrial applications. It features 8-kV output reverse breakdown voltage and 850-nm...
Teledyne Micropac
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Digital Camera for Microscopes
BRIGHTON, Mich., Dec. 22, 2025 — The Digital Sight 100 from Nikon is a digital camera for microscopes. The camera can be used with a full line-up of industrial microscopes and measuring microscopes. When combined with industrial...
Nikon Metrology Inc. - Americas
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Liquid Crystal Polymer Substrate
KYOTO, Japan, Dec. 22, 2025 — ULTICIRC from Murata is an inner cavity structure ultralow-loss liquid crystal polymer flexible substrate that achieves a dielectric constant below 2.0, reducing transmission loss, which is...
Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
Silicon Photodiodes
Latham, N.Y., Dec. 19, 2025 — The MTD3910GC-F3 and MTD3910G-F3 from Marktech Optoelectronics are 940-nm silicon photodiodes with minimal to no visible sensitivity. The MTD3910G-F3 has enhanced filtering with virtually zero...
Marktech Optoelectronics Inc.
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Handheld Infrared Viewers
ALEXANDER, Ark., Dec. 19, 2025 — IRV3 from Power Technology is a family of infrared viewers with model-dependent spectral options, such as configurations reaching into the 2-µm band. A high-grade image converter provides...
Power Technology Inc.
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InGaAs Area Image Sensors
HERRSCHING, Germany, Dec. 18, 2025 — The G16561 to G16564-0909T from Hamamatsu Photonics are indium gallioum arsenide (InGaAs) area image sensors that offer high dynamic range, ultralow dark current, and a frame rate of up to 116 fps....
Hamamatsu Corporation
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Nanopositioning Controller
SHREWBURY, Mass., Dec. 18, 2025 — The E-713 series from PI (Physik Instrumente) is a motion controller for high-performance control of multi-axis nanopositioning systems. The design allows the combination of different drive...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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LED Constant Voltage Power Supply (Driver)
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 17, 2025 — The GP-CVP024P-xxV-T02 series from GlacialPower is a series of 24-W constant voltage power supplies designed for modern LED lighting solutions. The series offers three voltage options: 12V, 24V, and...
GlacialPower
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Micro-LED Device Inspection System
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 17, 2025 — LumiPix-3000 from Semilab is a photoluminescence-based inspection system with full wafer imaging capabilities designed for detecting intensity and wavelength defects in micro-LED devices....
Semilab Semiconductor Physics Laboratory Co. Ltd.
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Machine Vision Camera
GILCHING, Germany, Dec. 16, 2025 — The EoSens21CCX12-FF from Mikrotron is a machine vision camera that acquires color images at 230 fps at full 21-MP resolution. The camera achieves data throughput of up to 50 Gbit/s across one, two,...
SVS-Vistek GmbH
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Linear Actuator & Stage Platform
VICTOR, N.Y., Dec. 16, 2025 — The DART Smart linear actuator and stages line from New Scale Technologies is designed for photonic instruments, unmanned aircraft systems imaging, and life science applications that require smart...
New Scale Technologies Inc.
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InGaAs Hybrid Receiver Optoelectronics
MONTREAL, Dec. 15, 2025 — CMC Electronics’ indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) hybrid receivers are designed for military and aerospace optical system integration, featuring low-noise InGaAs avalanche photodiodes and...
CMC Electronics Inc., Displays and Sensors
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Inspection Camera
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Dec. 15, 2025 — The SOLO PRO+ ExZ1 from Fiberscope is an explosion-proof pipe inspection camera, suited for a range of inspection systems including oil, gas, and mining industries, allowing operators to perform...
Fiberscope
Arbitrary Waveform Generators
GROSSHANSDORF, Germany, Dec. 12, 2025 — Spectrum Instrumentation’s DN6.63x arbitrary waveform generators provide up to six channels at 10 GS/s or 12 channels at 5 GS/s using 16-bit digital-to-analog-converters for low-noise signal...
Spectrum Instrumentation GmbH
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6-Axis Nanopositioning Stage
SHREWSBURY, Mass., Dec 12, 2025 — The P-616.65S NanoCube 6-DOF piezo-flexure nanopositioning system from PI is a 6-axis piezo alignment platform. The system has 500-µm linear travel in X, Y, and Z, a rotational range of 3°...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Bar Light Positioning Solution
PERTH, Scotland, Dec. 12, 2025 — The 250-mm angle changer from TPL Vision is an angle changer designed for selected products within the bar light range. It provides exceptional cost efficiency for users of larger bar lights. The...
TPL Vision UK Ltd.
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UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer
INCHEON, South Korea, Dec. 11, 2025 — The Ruby Dragon from Minerva Engineering is a UV-visible-NIR (UV-VIS-NIR) spectrophotometer for nondestructive spectral and imaging analysis of microscopic samples across multiple measurement...
Minerva Engineering Co. Ltd.
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Lidar Platform
NEW YORK, Dec. 11, 2025 — Voyant Photonics’ Carbon lidar platform has 32-line and 64-line variants that bring frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) sensing to compute-limited systems. The platform is suited for...
Voyant Photonics
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Illuminance Spectrophotometer
TOKYO, Dec. 11, 2025 — The CL-700A from Konica Minolta is an illuminance spectrophotometer for high-speed, high-accuracy measurements. The device is designed for the lighting, automobile, smartphone, and electrical...
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc.
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High-Power Violet Laser Diode
KYOTO, Japan, Dec. 10, 2025 — Nuvoton’s compact high-power violet laser diode has a 402-nm wavelength and an output power of 1.7 W. The diode is in the industry-standard TO-56 CAN package, which helps to miniaturize optical...
Nuvoton Technology Japan Co. Ltd.
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High-Power Strobe Bar Light
PERTH, Scotland, Dec. 10, 2025 — The High-Power Strobe Bar Light from TPL Vision is a bar light engineered for ultrahigh-speed precision imaging, even at long working distances, for inspection accuracy and process efficiency within...
TPL Vision UK Ltd.
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Code Reader
OWEN, Germany, Dec. 9, 2025 — The DCR 100i from Leuze is a code reader for precise reading of 1D and 2D codes, using its 1.3-MP CMOS imager. It has a frame rate of 120 fps, which enables it to capture fast-moving objects, which...
Leuze electronic GmbH & Co. KG
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Plasma-Enhanced Polishing Solution
GERMANTOWN, Wis., Dec. 9, 2025 — The SPP-200 from Satisloh uses a plasma jet for non-contact chemical material removal with zero mechanical stress on the lens. It uses mid-spatial frequency error correction with a processing area of...
Satisloh GmbH
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Analog Optical Sensor
KYOTO, Japan, Dec. 9, 2025 — The RPR-0730 from ROHM is an analog compact optical sensor for high-precision detection of fast-moving objects. The RPR-0730 is a reflective sensor, and it uses an infrared VCSEL, which offers higher...
ROHM Co. Ltd.
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Thickness Measurement System
HAMAMATSU, Japan, Dec. 8, 2025 — The HyperGauge thickness measurement system C17319-11 from Hamamatsu is designed for full-surface measurement of 300-mm wafers using a high-sensitivity camera within semiconductor manufacturing...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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Ultra-High Intensity Bar Light
BRISTOL, Pa., Dec. 8, 2025 — The TXFL Series ultra-high intensity bar light from Metaphase Lighting Technologies features a three-row LED configuration for uniform light distribution across the active area for consistent image...
Metaphase Technologies Inc.
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Cell Analyzers
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Dec. 8, 2025 — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) FACSDiscover A8 Cell Analyzers allow scientists to analyze up to 50 or more characteristics of a single cell with optimal resolution and sensitivity. The analyzers...
Becton Dickinson & Co.
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Atomic Layer Deposition Platform
ESPOO, Finland, Dec. 5, 2025 — The Beneq Transform XP from Beneq is an atomic layer deposition (ALD) platform. Its 25-wafer mini-batch reactor delivers single-digit-second cycle times for oxide and nitride films with improved...
Beneq Oy
Multiwell Plate
MUNICH, Germany, Dec. 5, 2025 — The µ-Plate 12 Well from ibidi is a multiwell plate for advanced cell culture and microscopy. It features 12 wells per plate, which is ideal for experiments that demand more replicates or...
ibidi GmbH
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Single-Wafer Cleaning & Etching Tool
GÜTENBACH, Germany, Dec. 4, 2025 — Vanguard from RENA Technologies is a fully automated single-wafer platform designed for wet chemical cleaning, etching, and drying of 200-mm and 300-mm wafers. Its advanced chemical cleaning and...
RENA Technologies GmbH
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Silicon Photodiode
HERRSCHING, Germany, Dec. 4, 2025 — The S16495 from Hamamatsu Europe is a silicon photodiode that features a specialized filter and a compact, leadless ceramic package, making it ideal for hydrogen and ultraviolet B detection. The...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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Photoelectric Sensors
FLORENCE, Ky., Dec. 3, 2025 — The BOS R072K from Balluff is a photoelectric sensor that features retroreflective, through beam, diffuse, and background suppression. It can accommodate a broad range of variants and operating...
Balluff Inc.
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Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometer
BILLERICA, Mass., Dec. 3, 2025 — The VERTEX NEO Ultra from Bruker is a benchtop vacuum Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer. Using a vacuum eliminates CO2 and H2O interference, while automated switching between sources,...
Bruker Nano Surfaces
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Antireflective Coating
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 2, 2025 — Adamantine Optics from Diamond Quanta is a diamond-integrated antireflective coating designed for scratch resistance, durability, and optical clarity for next-generation consumer electronics and...
Diamond Quanta
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Goniometer Stages
VAN NUYS, Calif., Dec. 2, 2025 — The AK110-10-15V from Optimal Engineering Systems (OES) is a series of alpha-beta “V” dual-axis goniometer stages that feature four motor options. Mounted in the alpha-beta...
Optimal Engineering Systems Inc.
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Photonic Processor
STUTTGART, Germany, Dec. 1, 2025 — NPU 2 from Q.ANT is a native processing unit with enhanced nonlinear processing capabilities that delivers energy efficiency and performance for AI and high-performance workloads. It uses enhanced...
Q.ANT GmbH
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Medical Laser Controller
BOURNEMOUTH, England, Dec. 1, 2025 — The ICS-TOUCH II from Lasermet is a dual-channel touchscreen interlock system for safety and control in medical laser environments. The controller is designed specifically to support the high demands...
Lasermet Ltd.
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