Prima Industrie sells laser business unit to Lumibird
Convergent Photonics focused on the development and production of both industrial and medical diodes and laser sources.
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Markus Clement is new CEO of EMAG
Previous CEO of EMAG China and an employee for 24 years now heads the group.
New building blocks for photonic quantum simulators
Single photon light sources are coupled to specially designed integrated photonic circuits.
New board of directors
Elections at the VDMA Working Group Laser and Laser Systems for Material Processing.
Mitsubishi and Coherent collaborate on SiC manufacturing
Companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on manufacturing of silicon carbide power electronics for electric vehicles on a 200-millimeter technology platform.
Boost for the quantum internet
First long-distance quantum repeater node for telecommunication networks.
Symmetric graphene quantum dots for future qubits
Double quantum dots with a nearly perfect electron-hole-symmetry for a robust read-out mechanism.
Phytec strengthens management
Phytec has appointed Marcus Lickes as an additional managing director.
Laser diode generates random numbers
DTU spin-out company develops quantum mechanical random number generator that must be reduced to chip size to be included in the electronics in mobile phones.
Lynred breaks ground on new €85M industrial site
Company’s production capacity set to undergo 50 % increase by 2025; 100 % by 2030.
Apple investments with European suppliers top 20 billion euros
The tech giant's suppliers in Europe range from large multinational companies to small family-owned businesses.
Sill Optics supports research project
Sill Optics is part of the research project QEED, which researches the detection of biomarkers with quantum light.
New lens analysis approach could improve treatments for nearsightedness
Instrumentation recreates properties of the myopic eye to test lenses that prevent visual decline.
Food production using integrated photonic microchips
Sustainable food production and distribution are top of the menu in a new roadmap from leading photonics experts and researchers.
Launch of the Quantum Secure Networks Partnership QSNP
More than forty partners from science and industry participate in a project funded by the EU with 25 million euros, launched on 1 March.
Control 2023: Organizer satisfied with the number of visitors
The 35th Control was a success. A total of 589 exhibitors from 32 countries presented their products, over 21,000 visitors were on site.
Femtosecond fiber lasers for high-precision measurement technology
The DPG Technology Transfer Prize was awarded to the Center for Applied Photonics at the University of Konstanz and Toptica at the 4th WTT Forum Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Dialog.
AMA Innovation Prize goes to Leipzig this year
This year, the AMA awards its innovation award to Quantum Technologies for their magnetic field quantum sensor
Lithography-free photonic chip offers high speed and accuracy
New photonic device provides programmable on-chip information processing for AI applications.
Helukabel breaks the sales one billion
Connection technology specialist is happy about a successful fiscal year 2022
Peak System has new sales partner for ASEAN countries
Gopalam Embedded Systems expands distribution of Peak-System products in Southeast Asia
Sensor + Test: The organizer draws a positive conclusion
After the three days of the trade fair, the exhibitors at Sensor + Test 2023 and the organizer AMA Service draw a consistently positive conclusion from the event.
New germanium-tin transistor as alternative to silicon
In experiments, the germanium-tin transistor exhibits a very high electron mobility.
Quantum Bridge secures funding to build quantum repeaters for communication networks
The Toronto-based startup has been awarded 890,000 CAD funding from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).
VDMA is the sponsor of Laser World of Photonics
The VDMA Working Group on Lasers and Laser Systems for Material Processing assumes the conceptual sponsorship of the trade fair for components, systems and applications in photonics.
Vibration analysis and surface measurement technology as a service
Polytec also offers vibration and structural analysis, modal testing and non-contact surface metrology as a service.
Pieter Blok wins EMVA Young Professional Award 2023
The EMVA Young Professional Award 2023 goes to Dr. Pieter Blok for his work “Advanced deep learning for harvest robotics”.
Challenge of backscattering protection in integrated photonics
Danish researchers raise questions about the proposed value of topological protection against backscattering in integrated photonics.
New Condition Monitoring Consultancy from Bachmann
The specialists from the Bachmann Condition Monitoring Consultancy Service (CMC) will now be able to answer all questions relating to condition monitoring.
TKH acquires Euresys
The TKH Group has secured 100 percent of the company shares in Euresys and is taking over the provider of 2D and 3D image analysis software completely
International Day of Light celebrated with “Possible Through Light” campaign
Co-sponsored by SPIE, Optica, and IEEE Photonics Society, the collaborative effort showcases optics and photonics engineers, scientists, and light-based technologies.
