Ziehl-Abbegg appoints Marc Wucherer as new CEO
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.
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Official start of the ‘Prometheus’ Horizon-funded action
‘Prometheus’: programmable integrated photonic neuromorphic and quantum networks for high-speed imaging, communications and security applications.
Vision 2022: Machine vision fair exceeds expectations
Vision 2022 recorded 6,505 trade visitors. This made the world's leading trade fair once again the centre of the machine vision industry.
Combining light with sharper teeth
Deeper understanding of how the line width in microcombs works.
Applied Photonics Award 2022 – these are the winners
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.
Silicon nanopillars for quantum communication
New technology opens the way to quantum light sources with fiber optic compatibility.
Rework of LED dies using new debonding solution
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.
Nobel Prize in physics goes to Aspect, Clauser, and Zeilinger
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honors “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.
inspect America Fall now available
Read our free E-Special inspect America, our edition especially for the American market. The focus is on the Boston Vision Show.
Lumibird acquires Innoptics
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.
Organic thin-film sensors for light-source analysis
New sensor that describes a completely new way of identifying the wavelength of light.
International photonics community back in Franconia
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.
13 topical meetings, 3 special sessions and 1 exhibition
This year, the European Optical Society Annual Meeting, EOSAM, took place in Portugal, at the faculty of engineering of the University of Porto, FEUP.
Ronny Stolz appointed honorary professor at TU Ilmenau
The physicist has been working at Leibniz IPHT since 1994 and heads the quantum systems department since 2019.
Quix Quantum to deliver a 64-qubit quantum computer based on light
The contract awarded runs within the framework of DLR’s Quantum Computing Initiative and is in line with the roadmap of Quix Quantum to develop a universal quantum computer.
Leadership duo for Lumics
Beate Sauter and Dennis George have been appointed as the company’s chief executive officers effective immediately. Lumics is a provider of high-power diode laser components and part of the Berlin Industrial Group (BIG).
A new holographic microscope images the brain
New kind of label-free deep-tissue imaging retrieves the fine neural network of a mouse brain.
Sensor specialist IPF strengthens sales team
Dominik Jökel and Patrick Wittich join IPF's sales team as application specialists.
Ulrich Krauss is the new Spectaris Chairman
The CEO of Analytik Jena was elected as the new chairman with a clear majority of votes at the Spectaris general meeting in Berlin. Krauss succeeds Josef May, who led the association for fifteen years.
Tunable lenses for virtual reality headsets
Variable focus length lays groundwork for more comfortable, realistic AR/VR experiences.
International standardization of medical 3D printing and scanning
Korean researchers are taking the lead in developing standards for creating patient-customized medical devices. Such standards are expected to be of great help in promoting public health, revitalizing the related medical equipment industry, but also spreading digital twins and metaverse.
New managing director of Fraunhofer ISIT
The executive board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has appointed Prof Dr Holger Kapels as managing director of the institute. In this position, he succeeds Prof Dr Axel Müller-Groeling, who is moving to the executive board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Munich.
Pilot Photonics uses pilot line services to create new products
Using the JePPIX MPW server which covers all the processes from the design to the foundry, Pilot Photonics has developed three new products.
Harting appoints new board
Doris Höpfl takes over the board department Human Resources and Legal Affairs in the Harting Technology Group
China: Robot installations grew by 44 percent
The industrial robotics market in China achieved strong growth with a new record of 243,300 installations in 2021 – a rise of 44% compared to the previous year. These preliminary data have been published by the International Federation of Robotics.
Spiraling lasers decrypt topological insulators
Light reveals phase transition accompanied by the loss of quantum properties.
Change in the management of Jumo
Bernhard Juchheim and Michael Juchheim hand over management to Dimitrios Charisiadis and Steffen Hoßfeld. Bernhard Juchheim and Michael Juchheim focus on shareholder role.
Two experienced photonics leaders appointed
Thorsten Frauenpreiss promoted to VP global sales and service and Markus Ruetering hired for VP sales and service EMEIA position, both for the photonics solutions division of MKS.
When a laser collar tames the arc
Fraunhofer ILT engineers have developed a new optical system with glass substrates and an arc torch which unites gas metal arc (GMA) welding and laser material deposition with an annular beam, thus creating a completely new process.
Resilient laser cladding with high-power laser
Together with its project partner Laserline, the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS has developed applications and specific processes for this laser class to industry readiness under the label “HICLAD”.
Manz opens Laser Application Center
Companies can check the best joining technology for new products in terms of mechanical strength, welding time, cost and quality, in Manz’s new Laser Application Center (LAC).
