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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.
Resolve Optics has opened a new Vibration Test Center
In the new vibration test center, the in-house lens test devices are primarily tested.
Macnica ATD Europe announces distribution partnership with Asus AIoT
Macnica ATD Europe now offers sales and service support for the Asus IoT's AI Focused Solutions.
Humboldt Professorship awarded to F. Ömer Ilday
Expert for ultrafast laser technology establishes a materials science research center at Ruhr University, Germany.
AI-based workflow for confocal microscopy automates the detection of rare events
Leica Microsystems, an expert in microscopy and scientific instrumentation, has launched an autonomous microscopy package.
New low-cost material for IR lenses
An entirely new polymer material made from sulfur and cyclopentadiene.
New titanium alloys made using 3D printing
A promising way to a new class of more sustainable high-performance titanium alloys.
Automate trade show changes in annual rhythm
After the very successful Automate in Detroit with over 30,000 visitors and 757 exhibitors, the organizer, A3, has decided that the automation trade show will henceforth be held annually.
A Fresnel time lens could improve quantum information transport
New approach makes quantum information transmission dozens of times faster.
AMD extends production of Spartan 6
AMD has extended support for Spartan 6 FPGAs until at least 2030. All speed and temperature degrees are included.
KEB America opens sales office in Ontario
KEB America, a subsidiary of KEB Automation KG and a North American provider of motion and industrial automation solutions, has opened a branch in Oakville, Ontario.
AMA elects new board
The general assembly of the AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement Technology (AMA) has elected its board for the next two years as scheduled.
A laser welding with head seam-tracking technology
Coherent introduces Hightactile, a laser processing head with a patent-pending seam-tracking technology that is easily configurable to perform automated fillet welding and brazing.
The world’s fastest industry standard optical fiber
The fiber contains 19 cores and can be adopted without massive infrastructure change.
Tuning density waves with photons
In an optical cavity atoms collectively organize into a density wave pattern.
Zeiss starts sales partnership in the software sector
Zeiss enters into a partnership with Scantech for the distribution of its 3D inspection software
