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With COVID-19, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference Moves Online
BELLINGHAM, Wash., March 17, 2020 — Defense + Commercial Sensing, scheduled for April 26-30 in Anaheim, Calif., will be transitioning from an in-person to an online conference. SPIE, the conference sponsor, is actively following the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), and local authorities. Following the most recent guidance of the CDC to cancel gatherings of more than 50 people for the next eight weeks, SPIE will cancel all of its in-person conferences
Esther Wertz Wins NSF CAREER Award
TROY, N.Y., March 13, 2020 — The NSF has named Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute physicist Esther Wertz the winner of its CAREER award to support her investigation of nanometer-scale metal structures that will control light at the quantum limit. “I’m interested in...
AR Rapid-Deployment Kits Aid Training, Response to COVID-19
JERSEY CITY, N.J., March 13, 2020 — To help organizations collaborate and quickly train workers in R&D and manufacturing environments, augmented reality company Apprentice.io is sending dozens of its Tandem Rapid Deployment Kits to pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing...
OSA Honors Ursula Keller with Highest Award
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 13, 2020 — The Optical Society (OSA) announced in early February that Ursula Keller of ETH Zurich would be honored with the society’s highest award. OSA has been announcing winners of its annual awards since November 2019, with most of the awards coming...
Demand for FLIR Temperature Screening Devices Rises Along with Number of Coronavirus Cases
WILSONVILLE, Ore., March 13, 2020 — In efforts to contain the highly contagious virus causing COVID-19, thermal cameras, set up at checkpoints or hand-held by personnel at airports, borders, and entrances to businesses, schools, and other institutions, are being used to screen large...
COVID-19 Spreads, New York Institutions Remain Resilient
Mar 12, 2020 — New York state universities have begun moving to online classes. Courtesy of University of Rochester. With COVID-19 spreading across the U.S., universities are facing decisions of closing live classes and navigating to online formats. Among such...
COVID-19 Increases Demand for UV LEDs that Disinfect Spaces
ANSAN, South Korea, March 12, 2020 — Seoul Viosys, a developer of UV LED technology and a subsidiary of Seoul Semiconductor, announced this week that customer inquiries for its violeds UV LED products, which can be used for sterilizing bacteria, increased more than five times over the...
Jenoptik Acquires Remaining Shares of Japanese Division
YOKOHAMA, Japan, March 12, 2020 — Jenoptik has acquired the remaining 33.42% of the shares in Jenoptik Japan Co. Ltd. from its joint venture partner Kantum Ushikata Mfg. Co. Ltd., transferring the joint venture to a wholly owned Jenoptik Group subsidiary. The two business partners...
A3 Cancels Vision Show Amid Growing Coronavirus Uncertainty
ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 11, 2020 — Due to continued uncertainty surrounding the growing coronavirus outbreak, the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the parent organization of AIA, has made the decision to cancel The Vision Show and Conference on June 9-11, 2020, in Boston....
Smart Vision Lights’ Kinney Elected to AIA’s Board of Directors
NORTON SHORES, Mich., March 11, 2020 — Steve Kinney, Smart Vision Lights’ director of engineering, has been elected to serve a two-year term on the board of directors of AIA, the machine vision industry’s trade group and part of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3)....
LightPath Appoints Sam Rubin President and CEO
ORLANDO, Fla., March 10, 2020 — LightPath Technologies Inc., a vertically integrated global manufacturer of proprietary optical and infrared components, announced that Sam Rubin joined the company as president and CEO, effective March 9. The board of directors also appointed Rubin...
Bohnacker and Eckstein Fill Roles at MVTec
MUNICH, March 6, 2020 — MVTec has filled two leadership positions. Mario Bohnacker will serve as technical project manager, and Christian Eckstein will serve as business developer and partner manager. In his role, Bohnacker’s duties include identifying technologies...
SiLC Technologies Raises $12M in Funding
MONROVIA, Calif., March 5, 2020 — SiLC Technologies has closed a $12 million seed financing round, which founder and CEO Mehdi Asghari said will allow the company to refine its 4D+ Vision Chip lidar sensor. At CES 2020, a point cloud taken with SiLC's 4D+ Vision Chip detects a...
OFC 2020 Celebrates 50 Years of Light-Speed Connections
SAN DIEGO, March 2, 2020 — The Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition (OFC 2020), to be held at the San Diego Convention Center March 8-12, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first viable optical fiber. The world’s largest conference on...
IPG Photonics Posts Modest Growth in 2019 Net Revenue
OXFORD, Mass., March 2, 2020 — IPG Photonics Corp. financial results for the fourth quarter of 2019, announced in mid-February, showed that fourth-quarter 2019 net income was a loss of $4 million, which included goodwill and asset impairment, inventory provision and restructuring...
EU Consortium to Prevent Quantum Cyberattacks
BRUSSELS, Feb. 25, 2020 — Scientists at the EU’s €1 billion Quantum Technology (QT) Flagship initiative have developed quantum encryption protocols to create what they’re calling the most secure transmission of sensitive information through the internet. The...
II-VI, Lumentum Partner with Infinera
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 21, 2020 — Infinera has announced partnerships with II-VI Inc. and Lumentum Holdings Inc. to advance the development of optical transceivers based on the XR optics technology. XR optics are expected to enable more efficient and cost-effective solutions for...
HORIBA Scientific to Sponsor Upcoming RamanFest
PISCATAWAY, N.J., Feb. 11, 2020 — HORIBA Scientific, a manufacturer of Raman spectroscopy systems, has announced it is once again sponsoring RamanFest, this year at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), June 29-30. The conference is being held in association with the Advanced...
Elbit Systems Awarded Contracts for Laser Systems
HAIFA, Israel, Feb. 10, 2020 — Elbit Systems has been awarded contracts worth approximately $136 million to provide customers in the Asia-Pacific area with airborne laser direct infrared countermeasure (DIRCM) systems. The contracts will be completed over a four-year period....
SPIE, Edmund Optics Award Top Companies in Startup Challenge
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 2020 — Six new companies were awarded funding last week during the 10th annual Photonics West Startup Challenge event. Three top companies were selected by a panel of judges in the fields of health care and deep tech, with prizes of $2500, $5000, and...
2020 Prism Awards Celebrate Innovation
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6, 2020 — The 12th annual Prism Awards ceremony showcased a plethora of innovation: hand-held spectrometry, plug-and-play inspection, multispectral imaging, and more. The event, sponsored by SPIE and Photonics Media, honors the most innovative and...
SPIE and University of Central Florida Announce Scholarship
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Feb. 5, 2020 — SPIE has established the SPIE-Glebov Family Optics and Photonics Graduate Scholarship Fund for the University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics (UCF CREOL). The $325,000 in funding from SPIE will be matched in full by the...
ZEISS and RIKEN Establish Partnership
OBERKOCHEN, Germany, Feb. 5, 2020 — ZEISS and RIKEN Innovation have entered into a strategic collaboration agreement to explore opportunities where the combination of Riken’s expertise in bioengineering and image data manipulation and ZEISS’ leadership in optical solutions...
Coordinate Metrology Society Forms Board of Directors
WEATHERFORD, Texas, Feb. 4, 2020 — The Coordinate Metrology Society has formed a board of directors composed of seven industry and business professionals. The board was formed in July 2019 at the 35th Coordinate Metrology Society Conference in Orlando, Fla., and will provide...
50th Anniversary of Supercontinuum Laser Marked at SPIE’s BiOS/Photonics West
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3, 2020 — Light is one of the most vital and versatile phenomena in nature with salient properties. Without it, no one can see. And because of it, short pulses of light can reveal what’s hidden in the molecular world. That belief drove one of the...

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