News

Photo
04.05.2022 • News

LEDs from rice husks

Waste rice husks are an excellent source of high-purity silica and value-added Si powder.

Photo
02.05.2022 • News

Strong response in challenging times

The international photonics industry met again in person at Laser World of Photonics 2022 in Munich from April 26 to 29. The world’s leading trade fair lent support to an industry that is on the upswing worldwide.

Photo
29.04.2022 • News

First photonic quantum memristor

An optical device shows the same functional characteristics as the memristor, capable of operating on quantum states of light.

Photo
28.04.2022 • News

Changes in the Executive Board of Sick

Dr. Martin Krämer is leaving sensor manufacturer Sick on September 30. Nicole Kurek will join the Executive Board on July 1, 2022 and will be responsible for People & Culture.

Photo
26.04.2022 • News

“Dawning of a new era”

A new market report by Spectaris and Messe München shows the importance of photonics in the commercial age of quantum systems – a profound technological change is expected in industrial sectors such as medical technology and artificial intelligence.

Photo
22.04.2022 • News

Fraunhofer Vision at Control 2022

At the Fraunhofer Vision booth, the focus is on machine learning and associated artificial intelligence methods. The central exhibit is an AI-based robot.

Photo
22.04.2022 • News

A new kind of 3D printing

Engineers at Stanford and Harvard have laid the groundwork for a new system for 3D printing that doesn’t require that an object be printed from the bottom up.

Photo
22.04.2022 • News

PhotonicsViews issue 2/2022 is out!

Issue 2/2022 – April/May – is out, including feature articles from Amada, Amplitude Systèmes, Bos Photonics, Hema Elektronik, Instrument Systems / Konica-Minolta Group, Joya Team, Laseroptik, MKS Spectra-Physics, Primes, Synova, Tematys, and more companies and institutions. On the cover: Shenzhen JPT Opto-Electronics.

Photo
21.04.2022 • News

Telescope system for Zettawatt Equivalent laser

Optical Surfaces has been selected by the Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS) at the University of Michigan (USA) to provide beam expander optics for its ground-breaking Zettawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort-pulse laser System (ZEUS).

Photo
19.04.2022 • News

Vitector Acquired by Cedes

19.04.2022 - Fraba sells the Vitector division, which focuses on sensor systems for industrial doors, to the Swiss technology company Cedes.

Photo
19.04.2022 • News

Machine Vision Forum at Control 2022

The series of events on technology knowledge in industrial machine vision from Evotron is being continued. From May 3 to 6, the Control trade show in Stuttgart will be offering up-to-date, free knowledge in a compact, practice-oriented format between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. every day. The media partner is the trade magazine inspect - WORLD OF VISION.

1843 more News

inspect America

inspect America September 2025 available now!

inspect America September 2025 available now!

This edition covers the debut of two major trade shows in the US: SPS Atlanta and Embedded World North America, both showcasing significant advancements in the industry.