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SPIE Names 2025 Society Award Winners
SPIE’s Awards Committee has named the recipients of its annual awards, recognizing achievements in photonics research, education, industry, and community leadership. The awards span a broad...
NVIDIA Enters Autonomous Driving Partnerships
NVIDIA has established partnerships with Toyota, Aurora, and Continental in pursuit of autonomous driving for consumer and commercial markets. Through these partnerships, Toyota, Aurora, and...
PI Names CFO: People in the News: 1/8/25
Physik Instrumente (PI) has appointed Beate van Loo-Born as CFO. Van Loo-Born brings over twenty years of international leadership experience across financial services and data technology sectors,...
SPIE Names 2025 Fellow Class
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has named 47 fellows of the society, comprising the organization’s class of 2025. Fellows are members of SPIE who have made significant...
'Molecular Lantern' Discerns Brain Changes at Molecular Level
Monitoring the changes caused in the brain at the molecular level by cancer and other neurological pathologies in a non-invasive way is one of the great challenges of biomedical research. A new...
Exail Acquires Laser-Maker Leukos
Exail has acquired laser technology company Leukos, a company specializing in advanced laser sources for metrology, spectroscopy, and imaging applications. Financial terms of the acquisition were not...
Swave Photonics Raises $28.3M
Swave Photonics, a developer of holographic extended reality technology, has raised €27 million ($28.27 million) in a series A funding round. The investment is expected to expedite the...
HSG Laser Opens China Facility: Week in Brief: 1/3/25
Opticore, a photonic computing company, has raised $5 million seed funding round led by Sagax Capital and Jetha Global. The company is developing optical processing units that can do the same...
Aeluma Joins AIM Photonics as Full Industry Member
Semiconductor technology company Aeluma has become a full industry member of the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics). Aeluma has collaborated with AIM Photonics...
German Initiative Aims to Develop, Scale Inertial Fusion Targets
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and led by Fraunhofer IAF, the IFE Targetry HUB consortium has begun research into the target component of laser-based inertial...
Research & Technology
Metal Glass in Thin Film Structure Improves IR Thermal System
An advanced design for IR thermal technology, developed by researchers at National Taiwan University (NTU), takes advantage of the tunable optical properties of metallic glass to combine IR camouflage and IR thermal management functions in a single system. The system provides dual functionality for IR camouflage and IR thermal management within the same wavelength region of the atmospheric...
Photopyroelectric Tweezers Use Low-Intensity Light to Move Objects
A new photopyroelectric tweezer device (PPT), developed by a team at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, enables remote manipulation of objects made...
Wireless Antennas Use Light to Monitor Cellular Communication
Monitoring electrical signals in biological systems helps scientists understand how cells communicate, which can aid in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions like arrhythmia and...
Researchers Develop First Deep UV Micro-LED Display Chips for Maskless Photolithography
Research led by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has yielded a deep-ultraviolet (UVC) micro-LED display array for lithography machines. The enhanced efficiency UVC micro-LED...
Laser-Based Artificial Neuron Surpasses its Analog
Researchers have developed a laser-based artificial neuron that fully emulates the functions, dynamics and information processing of a biological graded neuron. With a signal processing speed of 10...
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Exail Acquires Laser-Maker Leukos
Exail has acquired laser technology company Leukos, a company specializing in advanced laser sources for metrology, spectroscopy, and imaging applications. Financial terms of the acquisition were not...
HSG Laser Opens China Facility: Week in Brief: 1/3/25
Opticore, a photonic computing company, has raised $5 million seed funding round led by Sagax Capital and Jetha Global. The company is developing optical processing units that can do the same...
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Personalization CO2 Lenses
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 9, 2025 — Laser Research Optics’ line of direct field-replacement CO2 laser lenses and mirrors are designed for laser engravers for personalized work. The lenses and mirrors come in 1.0 in. and 1.5 in....
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Laser Line Scanner
MONROVIA, Calif., Jan. 9, 2025 — The Eyeonic® Trace from SiLC Technologies is a class 1 laser line scanner and all-in-one inspection and measurement tool for objects moving on conveyor belts, bucket elevators, and assembly lines...
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Miniature Hexapod
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 9, 2025 — The HexGen® HEX150-125HL from Aerotech Inc. is a miniature hexapod for applications including silicon-photonic device manufacturing and inspection, optics alignment, photonics device...
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3D Sensor
WOLFRATSHAUSEN, Germany, Jan. 8, 2025 — The ECCO X 100 from SmartRay is a 3D sensor for automated inspection in applications such as electronics, home appliance, automotive, and semiconductor manufacturing. Providing inspection at a...
SmartRay GmbH
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Hexapod
AUBURN, Mass., Jan. 8, 2025 — The H-811.S2iHP from PI is a hexapod designed for the alignment of high-resolution miniature lenses and photonics components. The hexapod is a six-degree-of-freedom motion system that utilizes six...
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Connector Inspection System
DUNCAN, S.C., Jan. 7, 2025 — The FOCIS Flex Lite from AFL is a fiber optic connector inspection system for installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance applications in optical networks. The system uses a single button approach...
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Compact Fiber Laser
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 7, 2025 — The ARM FL from Coherent is a compact adjustable ring mode fiber laser for industrial laser applications. The laser’s internal active power control and back reflection insensitivity helps to...
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DBR Laser
TAMPERE, Finland, Jan. 6, 2025 — Modulight’s 632.8 nm distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) semiconductor laser is designed to replace traditional HeNe lasers across a range of applications. The laser features a power output of up...
Modulight Inc.
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Linear Servo Motor
VAN NUYS, Calif., Jan. 6, 2025 — The GVCM-032-038-02M from Moticont is a linear voice coil servo motor for applications including medical devices, laser machining and drilling, scanners, laser beam steering and filtering, optical...
Moticont
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Coherent-Lite DSP
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 3, 2025 — The Aquila from Marvell Technology is a coherent-lite DSP made for 1.6 Tbps coherent optical transceiver modules operating at O-band wavelengths. The DSP comes in a pluggable module form factor with...
Marvell Technology Inc.
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Fiber Laser for Barium Manipulation
TAMPERE, Finland, Jan. 2, 2025 — The ML6600 1762-nm fiber laser from Modulight was specifically designed for barium clock transitioning for applications in quantum information processing, atomic clock development, and scientific...
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High-Density Fiber Switch
HSINCHU, Taiwan, Jan. 1, 2025 — The ECS5550 series from Edgecore Networks are 1/2.5/10 GbE Ethernet devices designed for carrier, enterprise, and small data center applications. The series enables expanded services from residential...
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Latest News
SPIE Names 2025 Society Award Winners
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NVIDIA Enters Autonomous Driving Partnerships
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Metal Glass in Thin Film Structure Improves IR Thermal System
Jan 9, 2025
PI Names CFO: People in the News: 1/8/25
Jan 8, 2025
SPIE Names 2025 Fellow Class
Jan 8, 2025
Photonics Spectra Magazine Adds Industry Veteran Katie Schwertz to Editorial Advisory Board
Jan 8, 2025
'Molecular Lantern' Discerns Brain Changes at Molecular Level
Jan 8, 2025
Researchers Produce Elliptically Polarized Incandescent Light
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Photopyroelectric Tweezers Use Low-Intensity Light to Move Objects
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Exail Acquires Laser-Maker Leukos
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