Robot sales in the EU increase by 6 percent
In Europe there is a rapidly increasing demand for industrial robots
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RS Group completes acquisition of Distrelec
€365 million acquisition expands RS presence in continental Europe
Lasers enable internet backbone via satellite
Satellites could replace expensive deep-sea cables as the internet backbone soon.
Photonics industry thrilled by Laser 2023
Review Laser World of Photonics, 27 – 30 June 2023: A great atmosphere in full halls, lively discussions and a very international audience.
Schall and Messe Stuttgart continue their partnership
The trade fair company P. E. Schall GmbH & Co. KG and Messe Stuttgart are continuing their long-standing partnership and expanding it until 2030.
Optical control with topological edge states
Researchers harness the robustness of topological edge states to manipulate light transport.
Ultrafast tunable terahertz-to-visible light conversion
Process achieved in graphene-based materials has great potential for communication technologies.
AMA Association: 1st quarter develops positively
The industry generated sales growth of seven percent in the first quarter
German photonics on course for growth
Sales growth of seven percent per year expected until 2027
Göpel certified in supplier portal
Göpel has been successfully certified in the Joscar supplier accreditation register of the Hellios umbrella organization
Better access to artificial intelligence
Research project wants to ensure that more people have easier access to artificial intelligence.
Machine vision market growing at 8 percent annually
A Vision Markets report predicts that the machine vision market will be worth $9.45 billion by 2027
Light-matter entanglement demonstrated over 50-kilometer of metropolitan fiber link
Research paves the way to fully independent quantum nodes that could enable a quantum internet.
Talbot effect for thousands and thousands of qubits
Optical effect advances quantum computing with atomic qubits to a new dimension.
Vision 2024: More than two hundred exhibitors have already registered
Hall planning for the world's leading trade fair for image processing begins in autumn, Stuttgart is to become the center of the image processing industry again
PhotonicsViews issue 3/2023 is out!
Book ads and submit for issue 4/2023, and pitch contributions for issue 5/2023.
Comsol Conference 2023: registration and submission phase started
Comsol invites you to this year's company conference from October 25th to 27th in Munich.
Machine vision again saw double-digit growth
Machine vision sales in Germany grew by 11 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year. This is reported by the VDMA. Robotics is also growing slightly.
Photonfocus finds partners in Israel
Photonfocus has started a new distribution partnership with the Israeli image processing specialist Rosh Electroptics.
Trotec opens up new strategic business area
New “solutions” business unit focuses on customer-specific industrial laser solutions.
Laser structuring large areas with an industrial robot
Until now, the most precise and environmentally friendly technologies for functionalizing surfaces was too expensive for many companies.
Laser speckle imaging can identify donor hearts
A new noninvasive technique to visualize microvasculature in hearts suitable for transplantation.
€ 11 M-funding for nonlinear optics on atomic scales
The collaborative research center on light-matter interactions in Jena will be funded by the German Research Foundation for another four years from July 1, 2023.
EVK introduces new channel partner for Taiwan and China
EVK and Brisort, a Taiwanese solution provider for sorting applications, have entered into a distribution partner agreement for Taiwan and China.
MKS celebrates 50 years at Laser World of Photonics
As one of the early exhibitors, the company looks back on a long history in the photonics industry and demonstrates its close ties with the trade show held in Munich next week.
Haag-Streit UK moves to new premises
New UK HQ is just ten miles away from the previous Harlow location, where the company has been for more than thirty years.
Paradoxical quantum phenomenon measured for the first time
The measure of this mutual information does not depend on the size of the system but only on its surface.
Auggie Award for TriLite’s ultracompact AR display
The world’s smallest projection display Trixel 3 has been chosen as a winner at the AWE Auggie Awards, in the category ‘best interaction product’.
First demonstration of SNOM using blue light
New microscopy technique to measure electrons in semiconductors and other nanoscale materials.
IFM takes over Romanian software specialist
Specialist for data science, industrial automation and automotive HMI is integrated into the company.
Fisba expands its presence in Asia
Dynotech Instruments, now representing the St Gallen optics company, is a distributor for the world's leading manufacturers and specializes in the laser, photonics, and semiconductor industries.
MVTec opens its own educational institution
A new MVTec Academy should make it easier to get started with industrial image processing.
3D printing with an NIR light source
New method uses the NIR invisibility windows of materials to print at a depth of over 5 centimeters.
Trumpf Photonic Components with new Managing Director
Dr Thomas Dobbertin succeeds Dr Berthold Schmidt, who becomes chief technology officer and member of the managing board of the Trumpf group.
