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Redwire Sells Space-Manufactured Optical Crystal
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 5, 2022 — Redwire Corp., a publicly traded space infrastructure company, reported the first sale of its space-manufactured optical crystal offering to researchers at the Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS), an electron microscopy facility at The Ohio State University. The transaction recorded 2 g of space-manufactured crystal that was sold to Ohio State. Based on the sample size sold, the space-manufactured crystals have an approximate value of $2 million per kilogram. The
Duality Accelerator Names Second Cohort: Week in Brief: 07/01/22
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 1, 2022 — The Open XR Forum’s first specification defining a paradigm for enhanced network management of pluggable coherent optical technology has been approved. The specification, developed through collaboration with global service providers,...
NASA Puts Psyche Mission Launch on Hold
PASADENA, Calif., June 30, — NASA will delay the launch of its Psyche asteroid mission, an operation that is designed to explore a metal-rich asteroid and test optical communication technologies. Due to the late delivery of the spacecraft’s flight software and testing...
II-VI Clears Last Hurdle in Coherent Acquisition
PITTSBURGH, June 29, 2022 — II-VI has obtained antitrust clearance from the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China (SAMR) for its pending acquisition of Coherent. The decision from SAMR marks completion of antitrust-related closing...
AR/VR Startup Swave Photonics Raises $7.3M
LEUVEN, Belgium, June 29, 2022 — Swave Photonics, a fabless semiconductor company and developer of holographic extended reality (HXR) technology oriented toward metaverse applications, raised €7 million ($7.3 million) in seed funding. The investment will be used to fund the...
POET Technologies Names Michal Lipson Adviser: People in the News: 06/29/22
TORONTO, June 29, 2022 — Semiconductor technology company POET Technologies appointed Michal Lipson an adviser to its board of directors. Lipson is president-elect of Optica, a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, founder of three startups, and an...
Boston Dynamics, Velodyne Lidar Strike Multiyear Supply Agreement
BOSTON, June 28, 2022 — Velodyne Lidar reached a multiyear agreement to supply lidar sensors for mobile robotics company Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics selected Velodyne’s sensors to provide perception and navigation capabilities for its mobile robots. The...
Intel Unveils 8-wavelength Distributed Feedback Laser Array
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 28, 2022 — Intel reported an eight-wavelength distributed feedback (DFB) laser array fully integrated on a silicon wafer. The device delivers output power uniformity of +/- 0.25 dB and wavelength spacing uniformity of +/- 6.5%, exceeding industry...
LZH and TU Berlin Bring 3D Printing to the Moon
HANNOVER, Germany, June 28, 2022 — Scientists from the Laser Zentrum Hannover eV (LZH) and the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) are planning a flight to the moon to melt lunar dust with laser radiation. Researchers, on a project called MOONRISE, are looking to AI-aided...
Hamamatsu to Acquire NKT Photonics
HAMAMATSU, Japan, June 24, 2022 — Hamamatsu Photonics will acquire Danish fiber laser manufacturer NKT Photonics. Hamamatsu will make the acquisition, which the companies expect to close by the end of the first quarter of next year, through its wholly owned subsidiary Photonics...
Velo 3D Opens European Facility: Week in Brief: 06/24/22
GRENOBLE, France, June 24, 2022 — Scintil Photonics, a supplier of advanced silicon photonic integrated circuits with monolithically integrated lasers and optical amplifiers, secured €13.5 million ($14.4 million) in second-round financing. Funds will enable the company to...
SPIE Summit to Host Industry Leaders, Policymakers
BELLINGHAM, Wash., June 23, 2022 — SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, will host its inaugural Photonics Industry Summit September 21 in Washington, D.C. The event is aimed toward companies manufacturing optics and photonics products as well as executives in...
IQE Enters into Multiyear Epiwafer Supply Agreement with Lumentum
CARDIFF, Wales, June 22, 2022 — IQE plc, a supplier of compound semiconductor wafer products and advanced materials, signed a multiyear agreement with Lumentum for the supply of epiwafers supporting 3D sensing, lidar for automotive, and optical networking applications. Effective...
LASER World of PHOTONICS, automatica to Be Co-Located
MUNICH, June 22, 2022 — Automatica, ordinarily occurring biannually, will be returning in 2023 to be co-located with LASER World of PHOTONICS. Both exhibitions will be held simultaneously for the first time June 27-30 in 2023. From there, the shows will occur...
SPIE and Optica Name Congressional Fellow: People in the News: 06/22/22
BELLINGHAM, Wash., June 22, 2022 — SPIE and Optica named Clara Tibbets the 2022-2023 Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow. Tibbets will serve a one-year term in Washington, D.C., as a special legislative assistant for a member of the U.S. Congress or as a staff member for a...
Quantitative Phase Imaging, Biophotonics Pioneer Gabriel Popescu Dies
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., June 21, 2022 — Gabriel Popescu, the William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Grainger College of Engineering, died June 16. Popescu established and directed the Quantitative...
Contreras Fire Reaches Kitt Peak National Observatory
TUCSON, Ariz., June 21, 2022 — The Contreras Fire, which began June 11 about eight miles south of the Kitt Peak National Observatory, has destroyed four nonscientific structures related to the observatory. According to a release Sunday afternoon from the National Optical Infrared...
Sensor Offers Spin on Conventional Time-of-Flight Imaging
TOKYO, June 21, 2022 — A time-of-flight (ToF) sensor developed by technology company Toppan and its Shizuoka University-spinoff subsidiary Brookman Technology uses a short-pulse modulation method to enable distance calculation up to 20 m in high brightness conditions and...
BlueHalo Awarded Two AFRL Contracts
ARLINGTON, Va., June 21, 2022 — BlueHalo has been awarded two contracts by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), one for optical laser communications and one for a directed-energy modeling and simulations virtual range. The contract for the virtual directed-energy range,...
European Initiative to Establish Standards for Diffuse Optics
BIRMINGHAM, England, June 20, 2022 — A collaboration between 12 European institutions aims to deliver performance assessment and standardization (PAS) in the field of diffuse optics (DO). DO analyzes how light is absorbed and scattered by biological tissues, using low-power...
VIGO Photonics’ IR Sensors Board NASA’s Orion: Week in Brief: 06/16/22
GLASGOW, Scotland, June 17, 2022 — III-V Epi, a provider of compound semiconductor wafer foundry services, completed the Innovate UK-funded, SHARK-VECSELs project with the University of Strathclyde. The project saw the development of high-power, narrow-linewidth, visible lasers for...
PHOQUSING Project Yields Largest Photonic Processor to Date
ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, June 16, 2022 — As part of the European Union (EU) funded PHOQUSING project, quantum technology startup company QuiX Quantum has created what is reportedly the largest quantum photonic processor to date, compatible with quantum dots. The processor is the central...
Lumicell Appoints CCO: People in the News: 06/15/22
NEWTON, Mass., June 15, 2022 — Fluorescence-guided imaging technology company Lumicell appointed Brent Palmisano CCO and Lauren Cohen vice president of marketing and communications. Most recently, Palmisano served as senior vice president of global commercial operations for Dysis...
STMicroelectronics Makes Metasurface Tech from Metalenz Available to Consumers: Week in Brief: 06/10/22
NEW YORK, June 10, 2022 — S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that ON Semiconductor will replace IPG Photonics in the S&P 500. IPG Photonics will replace Yelp Inc. in the S&P MidCap 400. SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Integrated photonics company ANELLO Photonics...
Fraunhofer Tests Lasers for Magnetic Field-Based Diagnostics
FREIBURG, Germany, June 8, 2022 — Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (Fraunhofer IAF) demonstrated the principle of laser threshold magnetometry for the first time, they said. The Fraunhofer team is working to develop diamond-based laser...

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