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LASER World of PHOTONICS China 2019
Mar 7, 2019 — Touted as Asia’s largest trade fair for the photonics industry, LASER World of PHOTONICS China 2019 will run March 20-22, 2019, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center.
Source Photonics Secures $100M in Funding and Expands Fabs
WEST HILLS, Calif., March 7, 2019 — Source Photonics has secured $100 million in funding to support its growing data center and 5G business and to increase the scale of its operations. Planned developments include the creation of a new laser fab, upgrades to existing production...
Gooch & Housego Partner on New European Mini Lasercom Transceivers Project
ILMINSTER, England, March 6, 2019 — The European project ORIONAS (lasercom-on-chip for next-generation, high-speed satellite constellation interconnectivity) has welcomed Gooch & Housego as a partner in the three-year, Horizon 2020 initiative designed to disrupt the way lasercom...
Optoscribe Expands Cleanroom Facility in Scotland
LIVINGSTON, Scotland, March 6, 2019 — Optoscribe Ltd. has released its third-generation, ultra-high-speed, 3D photonic component manufacturing system and the expansion of its cleanroom within its state-of-the-art facility in Livingston, Scotland. The company, a world leader in the...
Lumentum Appoints Wajid Ali Executive VP and CFO
MILPITAS, Calif., March 5, 2019 — Lumentum Holdings Inc. has appointed Wajid Ali as executive vice president and chief financial officer, replacing Christopher Coldren, who had been serving as the company’s Interim CFO since June 2018.
Milinazzo to Join Opsens Board of Directors
QUEBEC CITY, March 6, 2019 — Alan Milinazzo is joining Opsens as the chairman of its Board of Directors and brings with him experience in leading global businesses, as well as his expertise in driving adoption of new technologies for interventional cardiology, spine, and...
Lumileds Announces Appointment of Jonathan Rich as Chief Executive Officer
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 4, 2019 — Lumileds, a leader in differentiated lighting technology, has announced the appointment of Jonathan Rich as chief executive officer. He succeeds Mark Adams, who will remain in an advisory role to the company. Rich, who received his Ph.D. in...
Quanergy and Athena Security Solutions Partner to Provide Enhanced Security
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 4, 2019 — Quanergy, a leading supplier of lidar sensors and smart sensing solutions, and Athena Security Solutions, a Hyderabad, India-based source for the protection of critical assets, have joined forces to provide the entire range of Quanergy’s solutions,...
The Optical Society Awards Prize to Eli Yablonovitch
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2019 — The Optical Society (OSA), the leading global professional association in optics and photonics, has announced Eli Yablonovitch as the winner of its 2019 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize, the OSA’s top honor for a “pioneer”...
Sheaumann Laser Receives Manufacturing Grant
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., March 1, 2019 — Sheaumann Laser was recently awarded a $2.35 million grant from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2) to grow its production capacity. Sheaumann Laser specializes in the design and manufacture of semiconductor lasers and...
Lumicell Expands New Headquarters for Molecular Imaging
NEWTON, Mass., Feb. 28, 2019 — Lumicell Inc., a technology leader in the field of image-guided cancer surgery, has expanded its new headquarters in Newton, Mass., into a contemporary workspace where the company’s molecular imaging technology will be developed. The new office...
Osram Launches Human-Centric Lighting System
WILMINGTON, Mass., Feb. 28, 2019 — Leading global lighting and technology company Osram is launching a digital tunable white (TW) system based on DALI-2 designed for human-centric lighting (HCL) applications in educational, commercial office, and health care settings. HCL brings...
Optoscribe, Sumitomo Electric Pair to Deliver Multicore Fiber
LIVINGSTON, England, and OSAKA, Japan, Feb. 28, 2019 — Optoscribe, a supplier of 3D glass-based integrated photonics components, and Sumitomo Electric, an optical fiber cable and component manufacturing technology supplier, have formed a strategic cooperation to provide multicore fiber components for...
High-Performance Endoscope Developed for Monitoring Nuclear Waste Reprocessing
CHESHAM, England, Feb. 28, 2019 — Resolve Optics has developed and supplied an infrared endoscope to enable safe monitoring of the glass vitrification process within a radioactive waste processing plant using a thermal camera. The processing plant required a method of monitoring the...
XSurgical Opens International Headquarters in US
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 28, 2019 — XSurgical, developer of a remotely controlled surgical robot, has established new international headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. The new headquarters houses a laboratory for engineers to bring the third iteration of the surgical robot called Gamma...
OFC 2019: A High-Powered Interchange
Feb 25, 2019 — Over the last 40 years, OFC (Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition) — to be held March 3-7 at the San Diego Convention Center — has become, globally, the leading event for advances and networking in optical...
Smart Glass Sets Sights on Smart Homes
JENA, Germany, Feb. 11, 2019 — Integrated, invisible microstructured optics developed by ZEISS GmbH have made it possible to utilize transparent glass or plastic in never-before-seen applications. The technology enables innovations such as gesture recognition or eye tracking...
VI Systems Awarded Two Optoelectronic Patents
BERLIN, Feb. 11, 2019 — The U.S. Patent Office has awarded two critical patents to VI Systems GmbH for applications in advanced data communications, sensing, and high-power vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays. The first patent is for an optoelectronic...
German Companies Partner for Macroscopic Polymer Production
AACHEN, Germany, Feb. 11, 2019 — LightFab GmbH, Bartels Mikrotechnik GmbH, Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, and Fraunhofer ILT are jointly executing the HoPro-3D project, a plan to create a new machine for producing macroscopic polymer structures with a resolution in the sub-µm range. The...
CEA-Leti Develops AR Retinal Projection Technology
GRENOBLE, France, Feb. 11, 2019 — CEA-Leti, a French research institute for electronics and information technologies, has developed a novel retinal-projection concept for augmented reality (AR) uses based on a combination of integrated optics and holography. The lens-free optical...
Cisco Acquires Luxtera
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 8, 2019 — Cisco has announced that it completed the acquisition of privately-held Luxtera, Inc., a semiconductor company headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif. that uses silicon photonics to build integrated optics capabilities for webscale and enterprise data...
OSA, Coherent Create Couillaud Ultrafast Photonics Award
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2019 — The Optical Society Foundation (OSAF) and laser developer Coherent Inc. recently created the Bernard J. Couillaud Prize, a merit-based award to support early-career OSA members who are engaged in ultrafast photonics research and application...
Swansea University, Crown Holdings Enter Smart Factory Project Collaboration
SWANSEA, Wales, Feb. 8, 2019 — Next-generation smart factories, which use advanced digital technology to improve efficiency, are the focus of a collaboration between packaging manufacturer Crown Holdings Inc. and Swansea University. Swansea’s Cinzia Giannetti at the College of...
NASA Team Experimenting with Femtosecond Lasers
GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 7, 2019 — An ultrafast laser that fires pulses of light 100 millionths of a nanosecond in duration could potentially revolutionize the way that NASA technicians manufacture and ultimately assemble instrument components made of dissimilar materials. A team of...
Prism Award Winners Take Center Stage
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7, 2019 — Amid the bustle of Photonics West, some of the industry’s top innovators gathered on Feb. 6 to honor the best products and advancements at the “Oscars of the photonics industry” — the Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation....

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