
Fast computing with light fields
Researchers at Rochester and Erlangen use laser pulses for ultrafast signal processing.

Researchers at Rochester and Erlangen use laser pulses for ultrafast signal processing.

It is a key milestone for the implementation of the group’s Future Ready 2025 strategy: The one-brand strategy was successfully implemented.

Precise polarizers in the X-ray range provide a good tool to detect the vacuum birefringence.

Amplitude and MW Technologies have been working together for many years. The Portuguese company has been a trusted manufacturing and R&D partner specializing in fiber laser and control electronics.

Karsten Roth has won the EMVA Young Professional Award 2022.

Chief Financial Officer Hans-Dieter Schumacher (58) has informed the Supervisory Board that, for personal reasons, he will not be available for another term after his current Management Board contract expires in March 2023.

On May 10, the AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement (AMA) awarded the winning team the AMA Innovation Prize at the Sensor+Test 2022 in Nuremberg.

The Wenzel Group and Visiconsult signed a cooperation agreement for a development and sales partnership at Control in Stuttgart.

Imint Image Intelligence AB, provider of video enhancement software, has named Nils Hulth as the company’s new chief product officer, reporting directly into company CEO Andreas Lifvendahl.

Originating from western Switzerland, Ligentec has established its first foreign subsidiary in Corbeil-Essonnes near Paris.

On 2 May 2022, the EU-funded Pulsate project launched the Technology Transfer Experiments (TTE) open call for LBAAM technology in production environments.

New optical device creates VUV light used in semiconductor manufacturing, photochemistry and materials science.

GD Optical Competence GmbH is investing around six million euros in its new production and administration site in the community of Sinn. On May 6, 2022, the groundbreaking ceremony took place for the construction of the company's new nearly 2,000-square-meter production facility.

As the density of charge carriers increases, it linearly narrows the energy gap that electrons need to vault.

David Hien was director of business development for Europe and Asia. Effective as of April 4, 2022, he succeeds Eric Delmas, who has decided to pursue his career outside the group.

Angst+Pfister and signs a partnership with Finland-based software expert Nordic Inertial (NI).

Teledyne Princeton Instruments and Teledyne Photometrics became an industrial partner in the Innovation Ecosystem of the Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center.

Adriana Pálffy-Buß has been appointed to the new W2 professorship for theoretical quantum information and quantum optics of the cluster of excellence ct.qmat. She is an expert in the new research field of x-ray quantum optics.

The optical and quantum technology capabilities of more than 500 member companies and institutes were demonstrated by the association.

Through a spin-off, three Dresden physicists want to bring UV curing and UV disinfection technology to market in the next 18 months.

German and American researchers use computed axial lithography to print extremely fine features in glass.

Starting May 01, 2022, the standardization organization ASAM e.V. is led by a new management team. Marius Dupuis takes on the role of chief executive officer and Benjamin Engel the newly created position of chief technology officer.

On April 27, 2022, the board of directors of KEB Automation Italia took place to determine the new management. Marino Crippa (former Marketing and Sales Director of KEB Automation Italia) has been appointed Managing Director, succeeding Andrea Menegale who has retired.

Abstract artwork by Advait Kolarkar and geometric motifs by digital design collective Illusorr are featured on Car From Flood Disaster

Dominique Bouwes from Micronit is the new chairwoman of the board of IVAM.

Dr Castelo started in April 2022 and will be supporting the technical needs of the growing membership as well as the EU-funded initiatives.

Upfront the Embedded Vision Summit, David Löh, Editor-in-chief of the machine vision magazine inspect talked with Jeff Bier, organizer of the embedded event in California about the Summit, the industry, and trends in embedded vision.

The Laser Zentrum Hannover LZH is developing a laser-assisted metal flux-cored welding process for underwater use together with an industrial partner. The process aims to facilitate welding work and produce better weld seams.

The realization of light-based aberration corrector will significantly reduce installation costs for electron microscopes with atomic resolution.

The computer vision expert Basler wants to participate in the distribution business of its long-time partner I2S. In addition, Basler now offers its solutions specifically for applications in the medical and life sciences.

Optical vortex crystals will have impact on fields as diverse as microscopy, optical communications and photonics simulations.

The EMVA expects around 120 participants to attend the Business Conference in Brussels, the first physical meeting of the machine vision industry in Europe after the pandemic break. The conference will be held from May 12 to 14. The program is now complete.

The application phase for the inspect award 2022 has begun. All machine vision and optical metrology companies are invited to submit their products by May 13. This year, the six winners of the two categories will receive a trophy in a completely new design.

An endowed chair at the Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona (UA) has been newly created and named after Robert M. Edmund, Edmund Optics CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Outstanding innovations in laser technology were presented and honored in the Coronation Hall of Aachen’s city hall on May 4, 2022 in front of around three hundred guests. This year's winners of the 10,000-euros award are Dr Boris Regaard of Trumpf (2020) and Stefan Wolf of Primes.