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Hyperspectral Imaging Company Specim Opens US Demo Center
OULU, Finland, Jan. 26, 2022 — Specim opened a demo center at Konica Minolta Sensing US facilities in Ramsey, N.J. The demo center opened this month as a facility to give customers and partners access to hands-on training on Specim products and services. Specim, a developer and manufacturer of hyperspectral imaging devices that are used in a range of applications including the life sciences, chemical imaging, military, and security, was acquired by Konica Minolta in December 2020.
TriEye’s SWIR Sensing Tech is Evaluated for Automotive Safety
TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 26, 2022 — TriEye, the CMOS-based SWIR sensing solution company that announced it had raised $74 million in new capital in November, will collaborate with Tier 1 automotive supplier Hitachi Astemo to enhance the capabilities of advanced driver assistance...
NUBURU Accelerates Expansion with Funding Round, COO Hire
CENTENNIAL, Colo., Jan. 25, 2022 — Blue laser developer and manufacturer NUBURU has completed a funding round, announcing it has raised growth capital at a valuation of approximately $350 million. The company additionally named Brian Faircloth COO, after promoting Andrew Dodd to the...
Visual Sensors Combine for Rail Vehicle Safety
TORONTO, Jan. 25, 2022 — Lidar system designer and manufacturer Lumibird Canada, digital technology company Thales, and the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University completed their OnTRAC project, aimed at developing, prototyping, and validating the feasibility of...
Photonic Technology Converts Greenhouse Gases into Clean Energy
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 25, 2022 — The European consortium SPOTLIGHT is developing a process that uses sunlight and LEDs to turn carbon dioxide and green hydrogen into clean energy products such as methane gas and methanol liquid fuel. Using a photonic device, the SPOTLIGHT...
SPIE, University of Rochester Establish Graduate Fellowship in Optics
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Jan. 25, 2022 — SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and the University of Rochester announced the establishment of the SPIE Graduate Fellowship in Optical Sciences and Engineering. The $500,000 gift from the SPIE Endowment Matching Program...
Luminar to Provide Lidar Tech for Mercedes-Benz Vehicles
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 24, 2022 — Automotive technology company Luminar and Mercedes-Benz have formed a partnership to accelerate the development of highly automated driving technologies for Mercedes passenger cars. Luminar’s Iris lidar technology, which is currently being...
TRIOPTICS' CEO Steps Down
WEDEL, Germany, Jan. 21, 2022 — Eugen Dumitrescu will step down as CEO of TRIOPTICS effective April 1. Kristin Holzhey, who has served as managing director of OTTO Vision Technology GmbH since 2019 and has been directing the integration of the TRIOPTICS Group into the Jenoptik...
Lutz Aschke Elected President of Photonics21
DUSSELDORF, Germany, Jan. 21, 2022 — Lutz Aschke, managing director of the Mahr Group, has been elected president of Photonics21. The board of stakeholders of the European technology platform for photonics also elected two members to its executive board. Eric Belhaire will serve as...
SPIE, Chinese Laser Press Will Launch Photonics Journal: Week in Brief - 01/21/22
Jan 21, 2022 — BOLTON, Mass. — Headwall Photonics completed a recapitalization led by Arsenal Capital Partners, a private equity firm specializing in investments in industrial and health care companies. The recapitalization was completed in partnership with...
Metalenz Demonstrates Chip-Scale Polarization Imaging
BOSTON, Jan. 21, 2022 — Meta-optics company Metalenz has unveiled a polarization-based optical technology called PolarEyes. The technology, which is not yet commercially available, takes the capabilities of bulky polarization imaging systems and shrinks it to a fraction of...
Ford and ADT Partner on Camera-Based Security Tech
DETROIT, Jan. 20, 2022 — Ford and ADT will invest in a joint venture called Canopy, which combines ADT’s security monitoring and Ford’s AI-driven video camera technology. The solution is designed to help customers strengthen the security of new and existing...
People in the News: 01/19/22
Jan 19, 2022 — THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Teledyne Technologies named JihFen Lei executive vice president of Teledyne FLIR Defense. Lei will also continue to serve as general manager of surveillance, reporting to Edwin Roks, executive vice president of Teledyne...
mdGroup Acquires GeoCue Group
ROME, N.Y., Jan. 17, 2022 — mdGroup, parent company of Microdrones, has acquired lidar-mapping technology company GeoCue Group from its founders for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition serves to strengthen mdGroup’s position within the drone surveying market....
Fraunhofer, TRUMPF Ink Tech Transfer Agreement: Week in Brief - 1/14/22
Jan 14, 2022 — WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — KPM Analytics acquired Bruins Instruments, a manufacturer of high-resolution near-infrared reflectance and transmission analyzers. The acquisition strengthens KPM’s positions in agriculture and feed and food...
Squeezed Light Source Aims to Hasten Arrival of Large-Scale Quantum Computers
TOKYO, Jan. 13, 2022 — NTT Corp., in collaboration with the University of Tokyo and RIKEN, has developed an optical fiber-coupled quantum light source. Such a light source that can produce squeezed light is considered to be a crucial component to realizing a...
Luminate Accelerator Continues Support of Photonics Industry as Cohort-Five Application Period Nears a Close
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 12, 2022 — As members of its first four cohorts continue to ascend the commercial optics and photonics landscape, the Rochester, N.Y.-based Luminate accelerator is less than one week away from naming finalists for its fifth cohort. The largest business...
People in the News: 01/12/22
Jan 12, 2022 — FREIBURG IM BREISGAU, Germany — Oliver Ambacher is stepping down as director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF. Since Jan. 1, Rüdiger Quay has been acting executive director of the institute. Quay is the...
Eikon Therapeutics Raises $518M, Completes Recruitment of Leadership Team
HAYWARD, Calif., Jan. 10, 2022 — Eikon Therapeutics, a company focused on the application of superresolution microscopy to drug discovery, closed a $517.8 million Series B financing round. Since its founding, Eikon Therapeutics has raised more than $688 million. The company has...
Photonics News: Week in Brief: 01/07/22
Jan 7, 2022 — VELDHOVEN, Netherlands — ASML Holding experienced a fire inside part of its factory in Berlin during the night of Jan. 2. The fire, in the company’s Berliner Glas facility, was extinguished; there were no injuries during the incident....
Air Force Researchers Track Asteroid and Its Moon with Smallest Telescope Yet
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., Jan. 6, 2022 — A 1.5-m Starfire Optical Range (SOR) telescope at Kirtland Air Force Base recorded an image of asteroid Kalliope and its moon Linus, making it the smallest telescope to date to image and follow an asteroid and its natural satellite over months, the...
People in the News: 1/5/22
Jan 5, 2022 — CHEMNITZ, Germany — Laser micromachining company 3D-Micromac AG appointed Hartmut Schubert CTO, effective immediately. Previously, Schubert worked in various technical and managerial positions at Dr. Heinrich Schneider Messtechnik GmbH....
Focuslight Completes Brand Unification with LIMO GmbH
XI’AN, China, Jan. 4, 2022 — Focuslight Technologies, a provider of high-power diode lasers, laser optics, and photonics modules and systems solutions has fully integrated the sales and marketing teams and streamlined manufacturing facilities of LIMO GmbH, which it acquired in...
Allied Motion Acquires Spectrum Controls
AMHERST, N.Y., Jan. 4, 2022 — Allied Motion Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of precision and specialty controlled motion products and solutions, has acquired acquired Spectrum Controls, a manufacturer of industrial inputs and outputs and universal communications...
Intevac Sells Photonics Business to EOTECH
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 3, 2022 — Intevac, a supplier of thin-film processing systems, has sold its photonics business unit to privately held, optical technology company EOTECH LLC. The sale is valued at up to $100 million, consisting of an upfront cash payment of $70 million....

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