09.09.2022 • News
Switzerland welcomes a major event
Every fall, industry leaders and scientists in optics and communications gather at the European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC.
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08.09.2022 • News
Jenoptik invests more than 70 million euros
Groundbreaking ceremony for the new high-tech fab in Dresden, extremely demanding construction and manufacturing environment taking high environmental standards into account.
08.09.2022 • News
Evident to be sold to Bain Capital
Olympus is divesting its Evident subsidiary, which provides scientific and industrial solutions. The buyer is the private equity firm Bain Capital. According to the agreement concluded, all shares in Evident will be transferred to Bain Capital on January 4, 2023.
08.09.2022 • News
Horwitz Prize for foundational work on optogenetics
Columbia University will award the 2022 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA, Peter Hegemann, Humboldt University, Germany, and Gero Miesenböck, University of Oxford, UK, “for foundational work on optogenetics”. The prize will be presented at a ceremony held in New York City on February 16, 2023.
07.09.2022 • News
Trumpf and KDPOF become strategic partners
Trumpf Photonic Components, a global leader in high-speed VCSEL and photodiode solutions for data communication, and KDPOF, an expert in high-speed optical networking solutions based in Spain, have become strategic partners on automotive datacom solutions.
07.09.2022 • News
Friedrich Richter is the new managing director of Proleit
Friedrich Richter is the new managing director of Proleit. He succeeds the previous CEO and Proleit co-founder Wolfgang Ebster, who retired at the end of August.
07.09.2022 • News
Captron with new management
Captron is making a change in international management: Sean Walters will be responsible for Captron North America LP as General Manager North America from August 2022.
07.09.2022 • News
Vision: Lecture program is set
At the Vision in early October 2022, trend topics and innovations in the image processing industry will be presented and discussed. Special highlights in this context are the Industrial Vision Days and the Vision Award ceremony.
07.09.2022 • News • Machine Vision
Guided Tours at Vision 2022
From 4 to 6 October, the organiser of this year's Vision, Messe Stuttgart, is offering theme-specific tours. Visitors thus have the chance to learn about trends for their industry and gain insights into various machine vision solutions.
07.09.2022 • News
Better control in additive manufacturing
The elastic properties depend on structure size, process and fabrication parameters.
06.09.2022 • News
PhotonicsViews issue 4/2022 is out!
Issue 4/2022 – August/September – is online and has been mailed. It includes feature articles from Fraunhofer ILT, High Speed Vision, Luxinar, Pulsar Photonics, SVS Vistek, and more companies and institutions.
06.09.2022 • News
“Joint Application Lab” with Hamamatsu Photonics at Fraunhofer ILT
Together with Hamamatsu, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen has set up an application lab for advanced laser material processing with ultrashort pulsed (USP) laser radiation.
05.09.2022 • News
Fiber as a Bessel beam generator
New device for applications in imaging, optical trapping and communications.
02.09.2022 • News
Evotron: Machine Vision Forum again part of Motek
The "Machine Vision Forum" returns to the Motek 2022 trade fair. After a corona break, the event series on machine vision technology knowledge will be continued by the machine vision and training specialist Evotron.
02.09.2022 • News
International Vision Night on the eve of Vision 2022
To get in the mood for the trade fair, the International Vision Night on the eve of the opening of Vision 2022 offers a mixture of networking and celebrations in a relaxed atmosphere.
02.09.2022 • News
Better beam steering on a chip
New approach für small, cost-effective and high-performance lidar.
01.09.2022 • News
EMVA appoints new Business Development Manager
The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) today announced that Oliver Scheel has joined the EMVA team as Business Development Manager, effective September 1st.
01.09.2022 • News
Edmund Optics appoints new CEO
Edmund Optics has appointed Samuel Sadoulet as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Sadoulet will succeed Robert Edmund and assume his responsibilities with immediate effect.
01.09.2022 • News
Optical Surfaces with 20 percent growth
Optical Surfaces reports how strong demand for high precision optics and optical systems from the astronomy, fundamental physics and defence communities has enabled it to exceed its annual sales target after just 7-months of 2022. This follows a 20 percent growth in sales achieved in the previous 2 years.
31.08.2022 • News
Optical sensors watch over patients in hospitals
Sensors will be embedded in hospital mattresses.
31.08.2022 • News
VC Xray expands sales in France
VC Xray, a division of Visiconsult, has signed Actemium NDT-P&S as its French distributor. Actemium will offer its customers X-ray inspection solutions with maintenance and service support.
31.08.2022 • News
SVS-Vistek merged with Mikrotron
SVS-Vistek takes over all shares in Mikrotron GmbH retrospectively as of January 1, 2022. The two camera manufacturers belong to the parent company TKH Vision, the marriage is intended to open up new market segments.
30.08.2022 • News
Tula Solution handles Distribution of PEAK-System Products in Vietnam
PEAK-System expands the list of its worldwide trading partners with the Vietnamese company TULA Solution.
29.08.2022 • News
Optical fibers with unusual properties
The grown crystals have extremely high transparency, plasticity and photostability.
26.08.2022 • News
Tunable single-mode lasing on a high-Q resonator
Lithium niobate microlaser offers ultranarrow linewidths and wavelength tunability.
24.08.2022 • News
Quantum effects improve lidar
New approach could make lidar useful for facial recognition.
23.08.2022 • News
From garage company to hidden champion
Founded as an oHG in Hamm in 1972, the student start-up EKF started with just a few employees with the small series production of electronic laboratory devices in analogue technology
22.08.2022 • News
Less background noise in nanoscopy
A frequency-domain method possesses great potential to improve STED microscopy.
19.08.2022 • News
New photoacoustic endoscope fits inside a needle
Tiny probe lays groundwork for high-resolution 3D imaging during clinical procedures.
18.08.2022 • News
NIH grants $4M to supercharge miniature microscope
The UCLA creators of a miniature microscope that can be mounted on the heads of lab animals to provide an invaluable view into the brain’s inner workings have received a 4 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop next-generation versions of their “miniscope.”
17.08.2022 • News
Trapping photons in a quantum flute
Holes create different wavelengths that can be used to encode quantum information.
16.08.2022 • News
Marisa Edmund is the new Chair of Edmund Optics Board
She succeeds Robert Edmund who is retiring. She will also continue to serve as chief sales and marketing officer for Edmund Optics.
15.08.2022 • News
Professorship for “Laser Technology in Manufacturing” established
Since August 2022 Andreas Michalowski is professor at the IFSW at the University of Stuttgart, focusing on laser technology in manufacturing. This professorship was newly established within the framework of the InnovationCampus Future Mobility.
15.08.2022 • News
PV voltage depends on the wavelength
Changing the color of incident light from visible to ultraviolet induced a reversible change in the output voltage.
12.08.2022 • News
Hema has a new sales manager
Hema Electronic has brought Torsten Schairer into its team. His focus will be on expanding and shaping all sales activities.
