
Isorg appoints Dieter May as new CEO
Leading hi-tech business executive will pioneer new growth phase at Isorg, taking over from founder Jean-Yves Gomez, who becomes CIO.

Leading hi-tech business executive will pioneer new growth phase at Isorg, taking over from founder Jean-Yves Gomez, who becomes CIO.

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

With their partnership, the specialist for optical components and the manufacturer of machine vision cameras are getting a grip on the existing supply problems.

At the Control trade fair, Yxlon announced that the company will be renamed Comet Yxlon from September 8, 2022.

The Photonics Germany survey of 1,000 German photonics manufacturers after the 2021 annual financial statements showed sales of 47.3 billion euros.

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.

Integrated lithium niobate photonics is a promising platform for the development of high-performance chip-scale optical systems.

Edmund Optics has announced the opening of its facility in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA.

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

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.

27.04.2022 - Jochen Trautmann has been Managing Director of Rittal Automation Systems since April 1, 2022.

New laser improves the use of ultraviolet light for sterilizing medical tools, purifying water, sensing hazardous gases and enabling precision photolithography.

The owner-managed photonics specialist celebrates its 40th anniversary.

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.

Resolving nanostructures smaller than the diffraction limit of light without any dyes or labels.

On Earth Day, laser manufacturer Luxinar discusses sustainable solutions like an ink-free alternative to mark packaging or laser coding directly onto food.

As of May 1, 2022, Viscom will have a new Head of Central Service in Christian Schweizer (40). His predecessor, Henning Obloch, is retiring.

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

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.

Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection and Buhmann Pac Solutions intensify their cooperation in the packaging sector.

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.

Physik Instrumente achieved a 27 percent increase in sales in fiscal year 2021. The Karlsruhe-based company also started 2022 with the highest order intake in the company's history.

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).

Lutz Steiner has been Senior Vice President Innovation at the Lenze Group since April 1, 2022.

A major goal of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT is to make the fuel cell ready for series production.

New method is well suited for determining the crystallinity of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Investment plans in AM remain high – technology development of greatest importance in the industry.

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

CLEO, the world-renowned conference for laser science and photonics applications, will be presented in a hybrid format, 15 – 20 May 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.

Defining Mueller matrix properties enables new roles and possibilities for vectorial metrics.

Circular polarized light can induce bent electronic flows in bilayer graphene.

Siemens Digital Industries Software’s SynthAI service is delivering the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to solve the challenge of training machine vision systems.

Capital will be used to build 200 startups, scale up production, create new applications for photonic chips and develop infrastructure and talent.

Hummel achieved sales of EUR 91 million in 2021 and thus increased the previous year's result (EUR 70.4 million) by around 30 percent.