
The first programmable optical quantum memory
New approach to generate multiphoton entangled states is faster than any previous method.


New approach to generate multiphoton entangled states is faster than any previous method.

Society announces 2023 vice president and directors-at-large

Issue 5/2022 – October/November – is online and has been mailed. It includes feature articles from or with Accumold, Ansys Zemax, Cailabs, Femtoprint, Holo’Or, IDEX Optical Technologies, Physik Instrumente, Pulsar Photonics, Nanoscribe, Scansonic MI, Sill Optics, and more companies and institutions.

Company increases its production capacities in Puchheim in a fourth construction phase

Easy access to optical filter glass and minimal lead times for Asian customers

New laser source combines high efficiency and broad bandwidth.

PicoQuant has created a system that is easier to use without any compromise on sensitivity. It makes these systems accessible for users who do not enjoy the support of a trained physicist.

On-chip technology uses orbital angular momentum to encode more information into a single photon.

Indica Labs, a provider of quantitative digital pathology and image management solutions, and Hamamatsu Photonics, a forerunner in whole slide imaging systems, agreed to maintain long-term interoperability between Indica Lab’s HALO AP software platform and Hamamatsu’s NanoZoomer family of high-speed, high-resolution scanners.

Physicists from Austria and Israel developed a perfect absorber for arbitrary wavefronts.

The projects selected by the Pulsate Consortium can start the support program and receive the grant to assess the feasibility of laser-based technology implementation in their environment.

For the eighth time, the international Formnext Start-up Challenge has recognized young companies from the world of additive manufacturing for their innovative business ideas and technical developments.

Multi-entanglement could be useful for sophisticated information processing schemes.

Industrial image processing in Germany is expected to generate sales of 3.3 billion euros in 2022 - this corresponds to an increase of 8 percent compared to the previous year.

On October 5 and 6, more than forty industry and research representatives met at Laser Components’s premises in Olching near Munich for the 3rd International UV Workshop.

A new process eliminates the need for wires and solder joints, an advantage that can significantly reduce the component size and enhance the sensor performance.

Since September 2022, Di-Soric has operated a sales, marketing and technical support office in China

The supervisory board of Ziehl-Abegg SE has appointed Marc Wucherer as the company's new CEO. The 52-year-old will assume the new role in December 2022.

‘Prometheus’: programmable integrated photonic neuromorphic and quantum networks for high-speed imaging, communications and security applications.

Vision 2022 recorded 6,505 trade visitors. This made the world's leading trade fair once again the centre of the machine vision industry.

Deeper understanding of how the line width in microcombs works.

Bioanalytics, mobile communication, weather research – this year, the winners of the Applied Photonics Award have once again demonstrated how broad photonics research is. The young researcher award of the Fraunhofer IOF was presented to the five award winners of 2022 on October 5 as part of Photonics Days Jena.

New technology opens the way to quantum light sources with fiber optic compatibility.

In times of limited availability of components and materials, reworking takes on a very special significance. This also applies to LED manufacturing, where irregularities in processed LEDs are immediately visible at first sight.


The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honors “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.

Read our free E-Special inspect America, our edition especially for the American market. The focus is on the Boston Vision Show.


Through this operation, Lumibird will welcome a team of five people with complementary technological know-how and twelve years’ experience designing and manufacturing optoelectronic subsystems and components.

New sensor that describes a completely new way of identifying the wavelength of light.

After a virtual edition of the LANE conference in 2020, Bayerisches Laserzentrum (BLZ) and the Institute of Photonic Technologies (LPT) of Erlangen Nuremberg University welcomed more than 300 scientists from 20 different countries on-site.

This year, the European Optical Society Annual Meeting, EOSAM, took place in Portugal, at the faculty of engineering of the University of Porto, FEUP.

The physicist has been working at Leibniz IPHT since 1994 and heads the quantum systems department since 2019.
