How 3D printing can optimize and simplify production processes
3D printing platform enables the on-demand production of high-quality replacement and serial parts at any desired location, in the right quality and quantity
Contributions
Cobots as a central building block for the future of industry
What do cobot-to-cobot interactions mean, how do they work and what are the advantages?
The 10 trends in automation in 2025
Which trends will define the year 2025? We have listed them for you.
High-Speed, SWIR, and Event-Based Cameras at SPIE Photonics West
Lucid will showcase its latest camera innovations and advanced sensing technologies at SPIE Photonics West, the leading optics and photonics event, taking place from January 28–30, 2025, in San Francisco, California.
SPIE Photonics West 2025: A preview
Networking, new products, and Nobel laureates complement the broad technical program and four exhibitions at the exciting week in optics and photonics.
Beginning to see the light
A new early view article in PhotonicsViews presents a rigorous far-field model that allows to calculate the reflectance of the via.
Trained Quickly, Inspected Swiftly
Handling and Defect Inspection of Indexable Inserts
Safety First: How to Make EV Batteries Roadworthy with 3D Sensors
Visual Inspection of Weld Seams of EV Batteries
How laser material processing can benefit from OCT technology
A qualitative and quantitative analysis of ultrashort-pulse processing of glass in a technical article – now online and in PhotonicsViews issue 1/2025.
Machine Vision Accelerates Battery Production
Laserax’s machine vision system speeds up battery module welding with precision, reducing waste and improving production efficiency for various industries.
Laser cleaning of insect residue without surface alteration
Insect residues disturb and interrupt the laminar air flow on airplane wings after a while. These residues therefore need to be repeatedly removed. Shockwave-based laser cleaning of insect residue on stainless steel (1.4544.9) is presented in an early view article in PhotonicsViews.
THWS uses BV software in teaching
Education: Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt relies on MVTec Halcon for academic training
Tracking greenhouse gases with a laser
Faced with advancing climate change, we drastically need to monitor and understand the various sources and sinks of greenhouse gases worldwide in real time. One approach to accomplishing this is to regulate and monitor man-made methane emissions. Laser systems as developed by researchers at Fraunhofer ILT offer ways to do exactly that. At the heart of lidar instruments, they can precisely determine greenhouse gases in the atmosphere with high spatial and temporal resolution, even from great distances, and do so worldwide.
Embedded Vision Summit: Where Engineers Connect Directly
Interview with Jeff Bier, Founder and CEO of Edge AI and Vision Alliance
Embedded Vision: Fast Time to Market with Low Hardware Costs
Interview with Product Manager Magalie Haida from Automation Technology
Eliminate the Need to Build Multi-chip Processing Solutions
SoC for End-to-End Acceleration for AI-Driven Embedded Systems
Shaping the future of photonics and quantum technologies in Germany
The opportunities and challenges of photonics and quantum technologies were addressed at the Photonics Germany Future Summit in Berlin.
Gas detector to prevent millions of air pollution deaths
A new gas-sensing network that analyzes multiple gasses in real time in towns and cities is being developed to prevent deaths caused by ambient air pollution.
OCT for automated conventional welding in the automotive industry
Experts from Lessmueller Lasertechnik discuss the advantages to extend the use of OCT – as known from laser welding – to classical GMAW in an early view article of PhotonicsViews.
Flexible laser plastic welding as an addition to AM
Individualization, shorter product cycles and prototyping are leading to increased use of additive manufacturing in industry. A reliable and versatile process like laser plastic welding is needed to join parts with other additively manufactured or injection molded parts.
inspect award 2024: The nominees have been announced and voting has begun
The jury of the inspect award 2024 has nominated ten products in each of the categories “Vision” and “Automation + Control”. Online voting is now open.
Light technologies buck trend despite global economic turmoil
New research published today shows the photonics industries in Europe, the US, and Asia outpaced global GDP from 2019 to the post-pandemic period of 2022, growing at a CAGR of 6.8 %.
Integrating quantum sensors onto chips
Quantum technologies: Bosch aims to use sensors to take a leading position, describes areas of application from medicine to mobility in a new PhotonicsViews article.
Will the Food Industry Drive Growth for Machine Vision Players in 2024?
According to the latest report of the Machine Vision components market, the food industry surpassed the revenue mark of 1 billion USD in 2022 for the first time.
Image sensing revolution makes 2024 the ‘year of the quantum dot’
Nanoscale semiconductor particles are making waves in the sectors including autonomous vehicles, food inspection, medical devices, artificial intelligence, and more, as industry players increasingly seek to expand their access to infrared data.
Fiber optics connectivity based on long-wavelength VCSELs
KDPOF and Trumpf describe the implementation of optical data communication standards and solutions for the automotive industry in a new technical article.
May Distribution Berlin expands sales programme with Harting-Han-S series
Harting Han S: developed for safe connections in battery storage modules
“20 Years Ago We Believed that No One Needed More Infrared than a Single-Point Sensor”
Interview with Dr. Ulrich Kienitz, Managing Director of Optris
RDMA for 10GigE Cameras: Enhanced Speed and Reliability
Lowering CPU Usage in High-Bandwidth Ethernet Camera Applications
High-Speed Cameras with High Reliability and Performance
High-Speed GigE Vision Machine Vision Camera Ecosystem
Delivering High Performance AI in a Low Power Footprint to Edge Applications
Running AI models on FPGAs with Risc-V
3D Scanner Improves Aerodynamics and Driver Comfort for Endurance Racing Cars
Optical CMM Scanner Used by Racing Team
Smart cooling for high-precision image data
Industrial cameras with integrated cooling channel
Towards the quantum internet
With its immense computing power, quantum communication is set to become the backbone of the next-generation internet.
