Creaform opens new repair center
Creaform has opened a new 660 square meter repair center in France
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“It’s great to be back and meeting people face-to-face again”
Photonics West, co-located with SPIE AR|VR|MR and an expanded Quantum West conference, logged more than 22,000 attendees, over 1,400 exhibitors, and 4,500-plus presentations.
SPS expands to the USA
The brand premiers as the “Automation Sector powered by SPS” as part of IMTS 2024, before a stand-alone trade show is held in Atlanta in 2025.
Electrically switchable objective lenses
Metaobjective lens can change its focal length by the push of a button.
Major order from semiconductor industry
Multiyear framework agreement for Jenoptik semiconductor equipment in the upper double-digit million euro range.
35th Control: Meeting place for quality assurance
This year's Control will be held in Stuttgart from May 9 to 12, 2023.
Evosys receives Top 100 seal and Best of Industry Award
In the 30th round of the Top 100 innovation competition, the laser welding experts from Erlangen were successful once again after 2020.
Industrializing SWIR VCSELs above 1300 nm
Trumpf also expands its portfolio of polarization-stable VCSELs for optimal illumination performance.
Seeing objects without looking at them
A new and very effective way to carry out interaction-free experiments.
Attracting skilled workers to the photonics industry
New cooperation agreement between Spectaris and OptecNet Germany sealed.
Gerhard Edi leaves Congatec
Gerhard Edi, Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer, is leaving the Management Board of the Congatec Group with immediate effect
MVTec expands customer support
At the beginning of 2023, the new MVTec Customer Services department officially started its external work
Smart Vision Lights appoints Nick Doornbos as sales director
In March 2022, Nick Doornbos became transitional sales director for Smart Vision Lights. Now the lighting manufacturer has officially promoted him to this position.
IDS expects 15 percent growth
Positive financial year: New hardware platform and focus on usability result in high order intake
New photophysical mechanism to boost organic photovoltaics
Suppressed recombination loss guides to a record-breaking efficiency.
TKH Vision opens Solution Center in Constance, Germany
TKH Vision announces the official opening of the TKH Vision Solution Center in Constance, Germany.
Group 46 – together for PbX
Industry representatives met in Olching to discuss PbS and PbSe-based infrared detector technology.
Fisba acquires Gray Optics
Fisba has reached an agreement to acquire Gray Optics, a developer of precision optical systems
Kamaros is the name for the Embedded Camera System API from Khronos
Khronos has officially set "Kamaros" (pronounced Kam-ă-ross) as the name for the Embedded Camera System API and its associated working group.
Photonics West for the win
Companies receive Prism Awards and Startup Challenge prizes at Photonics West, San Francisco.
Reducing energy consumption in electrode production
IDEEL project to manufacture laser-dried anodes and LFP cathodes first time in a roll-to-roll process.
Modulight laser gets FDA approval for photodynamic AMD treatment
The company will start launching the product in the US without delay – European Union authorization is expected this year.
EK Robotics opens site in Hungary
In February 2023, the high-tech transport robotics company moved into its branch in Hungary. The managing director is Tamás Zahornitzky.
Michael Koch expands management
Since the beginning of the year, Fabian Hofmann has been part of the management of Michael Koch GmbH as Managing Director
Quantel USA has a new CEO
Lumibird has appointed Cordell Maines as chief executive officer of its photonics division’s US manufacturing site.
Messring bids farewell to managing director
Messring's managing director, Robert Weber, retired on December 31, 2022.
Online seminar "Heat flow thermography for industrial quality assurance"
Fraunhofer Vision division continues series of seminars in March
Edmund Optics partners with Meta Materials
Through the new partnership, Edmund Optics now offers holographic notch filters
igus presents solar garbage can
Solar-powered waste compactor with Igus technology celebrates its premiere in Finland
Chromacity enters strategic agreement with Edmund Optics
Today at Photonics West, Chromacity announced a strategic partnership agreement with Edmund Optics for the global supply and distribution of its ultrafast lasers.
Dynamic 3D hologram technology to save lives
New technology has the potential to replace current 2D imaging such as MRI scans.
Nuburu now publicly listed
Common stock and warrants will commence trading on February 1, 2023 on the NYSE.
Co-integration of SiN waveguide technology on silicon photonics
Imec has tackled those integration challenges within its active iSiPP platform.
OptecNet Deutschland’s board expanded
At the general meeting in December, Ralf Niggemann, manager of Wetzlar Network, was also elected as a new member of the board, in addition to the re-elected members Andreas Ehrhardt and Horst Sickinger.
Swiss PIC to support the photonics industry
The “Swiss Photonics Integration Center” technology transfer center was founded at the beginning of January 2023.
