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Pentagon Adopts FLIR EST Screening System to Stop Spread of COVID-19
ARLINGTON, Va., June 4, 2020 — FLIR has announced that it has installed its EST screening system at the Pentagon Visitor Center. The company's integrated EST screening system, the A700 EST-IS, features the FLIR A700 thermal imaging camera. The system is being used to screen visitors for elevated or higher than expected skin temperatures, which can help guard against the spread of COVID-19. The FLIR EST system is able to detect higher than normal skin temperatures, which may indicate illnesses such as COVID-19. Courtesy
Kidder Joins HORIBA as Development Manager
KYOTO, Japan, June 2, 2020 — HORIBA Scientific has announced that Dr. Linda Kidder has joined the company as life sciences business development manager. Kidder will focus on developing and expanding the company’s suite of scientific instruments to meet the requirements of...
US Photonics Companies Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic
PITTSFIELD, Mass., June 2, 2020 — The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted business practices around the world, and photonics companies have had to adjust accordingly to the economic impact the situation has had on finances and supply chains. According to analyst IHS Markit as reported by...
Lasers at 60: Lasers in Popular Culture
PITTSFIELD, Mass., May 29, 2020 — As the world celebrates the 60th anniversary of the laser, Photonics Media takes a look back at how the technology has been displayed in popular culture over the last 60 years. Some might be surprised that the first reference to a direct-energy...
UCF and SPIE Announce $250K Scholarship Fund
BELLINGHAM, Wash., May 29, 2020 — SPIE has announced the establishment of the Soileau Family-SPIE Optics and Photonics Undergraduate Scholarship Fund for the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL). The $125,000 in funding from SPIE is...
Photronics Reports 2nd-quarter Results
BROOKFIELD, Conn., May 28, 2020 — Photronics Inc., a world leader in photomask technologies and solutions, has reported financial results for its fiscal 2020 second quarter, which ended May 3, 2020. Second-quarter revenue came in at $142.8 million, 11% lower than the previous...
BitFlow Expands Business, Partners with Tietech
WOBURN, Mass., May 28, 2020 — BitFlow, an international designer of frame grabbers for powering machine vision systems, announced it has signed a new distribution agreement with ITANZI, a core company of Tietech Co. Ltd., headquartered in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. With this...
Raptor Photonics Appoints New General Manager
LARNE, Northern Ireland, May 28, 2020 — Raptor Photonics announced that Liam Mulholland joined the company as general manager. Mulholland will be responsible for managing all day to day business activities and implementing effective business strategies. He has previously held leadership...
Deesha Shah Awarded 2020 Teddi Laurin Scholarship
BELLINGHAM, Wash., and PITTSFIELD, Mass., May 26, 2020 — Deesha Shah has been awarded the 2020 Teddi Laurin Scholarship for her contributions to the field of optics and photonics. Shah is a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, co-supervised by professors...
Sony Image Sensor Comes with Built-In AI
TOKYO, May 22, 2020 — Sony Corp. has presented the world’s first image sensors with built-in artificial intelligence, saying the technology will make data-gathering tasks faster and more secure. Calling it the first of its kind, Sony said the technology would give...
Organizations Team Up to Celebrate International Day of Light
PARIS, May 16, 2020 — Today, May 16, photonics industries around the world celebrate the International Day of Light, sponsored by UNESCO, and the light-based technologies that drive cleaner energy, sustainable farming, high-speed connectivity, and better diagnostics and...
VTT to Build Finland’s First Quantum Computer
ESPOO, Finland, May 15, 2020 — To help position Finland and Europe at the forefront of quantum computing technologies, VTT Technical Research Centre is undertaking a three-phase project to build Finland’s first quantum computer. The goal of phase one is to build a computer...
Pettigrew Elected into American Academy of Arts & Sciences
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 13, 2020 — Roderic I. Pettigrew, the Robert A. Welch Professor in the Texas A&M University College of Medicine and professor of biomedical engineering in the College of Engineering, has been elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Dr....
Exclusive Interview with New Coherent CEO Andy Mattes and COO Mark Sobey, Part 2
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 13, 2020 — Coherent’s new CEO, Andy Mattes, and COO Mark Sobey granted Photonics Media an exclusive interview to discuss, among a variety of subjects, the company’s response to COVID-19, their unique working dynamic, and gaining market share in the...
3 Questions with Tom Hausken
May 12, 2020 — With COVID-19 affecting the nation’s economy in every sector, photonics industries have been working to respond to closing factories and delayed exports. Tom Hausken, OSA’s senior industry adviser, offered Photonics Media a look at the...
Boston Dynamics Partners with Vinsa to Build Models for Visual AI Workflows
WALTHAM, Mass., May 11, 2020 — Boston Dynamics has announced a partnership with computer vision company Vinsa. The collaboration aims to bring new visual AI use cases to Spot, Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robotic platform, as well as other robotics using visual AI. Currently...
Exclusive Interview with New Coherent CEO Andy Mattes and COO Mark Sobey, Part 1
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 6, 2020 — Coherent’s new CEO, Andy Mattes, and COO Mark Sobey granted Photonics Media an exclusive interview to discuss, among a variety of subjects, the company’s response to COVID-19, their unique working dynamic, and gaining market share in the...
Vision Ventures Appoints Yates as Director
HEPPENHEIM, Germany, May 4, 2020 — Vision Ventures has announced the appointment of Chris Yates to the role of director. Yates will support corporate transactions for both buy- and sell-side client projects, working in tandem with the existing team. Chris Yates, director of Vision...
OSA Fellows Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 1, 2020 — Two fellows of The Optical Society (OSA) have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of their contributions to physics and engineering sciences and technologies. They are among 276 new members, including scientists,...
US Patent #2,929,922
MURRAY HILL, N.J., May 1, 2020 — Sixty years ago this month, Theodore H. Maiman, a physicist at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., constructed the first laser using a cylinder of synthetic ruby and photographic flash lamps. There have been many milestones in the last...
FRAMOS Opens Branch in Croatia
TAUFKIRCHEN, Germany, April 30, 2020 — FRAMOS will open a new branch office in Zagreb, Croatia, on May 4. The office is in addition to its existing research, development, and production facility in Cakovec. The expansion will allow for support for projects in the region. FRAMOS has...
MVTec Opens Subsidiary in China
MUNICH, April 29, 2020 — MVTec Software GmbH has opened a branch near Shanghai, China. The company has been operating in the Chinese machine vision market for more than 10 years. It intends to increase its presence within the country, along with sales partner Daheng...
Olympus Objectives Named this Year's Gold Edison Award Winner
WALTHAM, Mass., April 29, 2020 — Olympus Corp.'s X Line objectives have received a 2020 Gold Edison Award in the Applied Technology category and Optical & Imaging Technologies subcategory. The Edison Award honors excellence in new product development, design, and innovation....
Rochester, N.Y., Optics Companies Respond to COVID-19
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 28, 2020 — New York has been the hardest hit state in the most affected country in the world due to the novel coronavirus. With the photonics and optics industry deemed essential business by the state government, several companies have responded by shifting...
SPIE Will Launch New Journal of Optical Microsystems; JM3 to Be Renamed
BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 24, 2020 — SPIE has announced the launch of a new Gold Open Access journal, the Journal of Optical Microsystems (JOM), which starting in January will publish cutting-edge research of optical and photonic microsystems. Hans Zappe, co-editor-in-chief of...

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