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.
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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.
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.
Optical sensors watch over patients in hospitals
Sensors will be embedded in hospital mattresses.
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.
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.
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.
Optical fibers with unusual properties
The grown crystals have extremely high transparency, plasticity and photostability.
Tunable single-mode lasing on a high-Q resonator
Lithium niobate microlaser offers ultranarrow linewidths and wavelength tunability.
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
Less background noise in nanoscopy
A frequency-domain method possesses great potential to improve STED microscopy.
New photoacoustic endoscope fits inside a needle
Tiny probe lays groundwork for high-resolution 3D imaging during clinical procedures.
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.”
Trapping photons in a quantum flute
Holes create different wavelengths that can be used to encode quantum information.
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.
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.
PV voltage depends on the wavelength
Changing the color of incident light from visible to ultraviolet induced a reversible change in the output voltage.
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.
Twin photons from unequal sources
An important step towards tap-proof communications and the quantum internet.
IFM acquires 30 percent stake in Swiss microchip manufacturer
IFM acquires a minority stake in the Hidensity Group, the sole owner of Biel-based HMT Microelectronic. Together they want to further expand the area of innovation.
Free tickets for Vision 2022
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Two additive manufacturing processes in comparison
A team from the center for additive manufacturing at Fraunhofer IPA evaluated the technical and economic potential of selective absorption fusion versus selective laser sintering.
Trumpf and the Cellforce Group enter into strategic partnership
The battery manufacturer will use Trumpf lasers to produce high-performance lithium ion cells in Reutlingen.
FAU is set to become a beacon in quantum research
In recognition of their expertise, eleven researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will receive roughly three million euros in funding by 2025.
Direct laser writing of electronic noses
A new laser writing technique to develop the first highly customizable microscale gas sensing devices.
Baumer joins IO-Link Steering Committee
The sensor manufacturer Baumer becomes an active member of the IO-Link Steering Committee. The company is represented there by Lasse-Pekka Thiem, Senior Product Manager Connectivity & Control.
Spinout to develop thin film optical coatings and photonic sensors
A new spinout company from University of the West of Scotland is set to disrupt the thin film and sensor industry – currently valued at more than 2.5 billion pound globally.
Edmund Optics receives certification for medical devices
Edmund Optics is certified according to ISO 13485. The company thus fulfils the requirements for the manufacture of components and assemblies for medical devices.
“The universal laser machine”
After a Corona-related break in 2020, highlights and innovations in the field of industrial laser-based manufacturing brought together about 180 experts and users at the 11th Stuttgart Laser Technology Forum (SLT) in June 2022.
Multiphoton Optics becomes a Heidelberg Instruments branch
This step, effective January 1, 2023, will enable even closer cooperation between the technical departments and strengthen the focus of the Würzburg site on future product developments based on two-photon polymerization.
Improving the efficiency of lasers
New approach to increase both size and power of a single-mode laser.
Edmund Optics strengthens Business Development
In the newly created position of senior vice president of corporate development at Edmund Optics, James Fisher will lead business development strategies, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic investment partnerships and activities. The lens manufacturer is thus strengthening its focus on global growth and expansion.
Fully scalable all-perovskite tandem solar cells
Two different prototypes show promising efficiencies.
Leuze plant in Malaysa starts production
After 16 months of construction, Leuze opened its production site in Malacca, Malaysia. From now on, sensors for the local Asian market will be produced there. High demand comes from the electronics, solar and laboratory automation sectors.
