The official laying of the foundation stone for the expansion of Precitec's main site for laser cutting and welding heads in Gaggenau took place on July 25, 2022. The building is scheduled to be ready for move-in in the summer of 2023.
Stemmer Imaging was founded on July 27, 1987. Now the machine vision supplier is celebrating its 35th anniversary.
The members of a joint research project are developing innovative processes and equipment to enable the industrial use of (111)-oriented diamond substrates.
Researchers achieve microscale organic electronics via multiphoton 3D printers.
New amplifier generates a record output power of more than 145 mW.
Markus Mettler, Technical Operations Manager at EBM-Papst, was honoured for his Energy Scout project in Berlin. Energy scouts are trainees who, in addition to their apprenticeship, work to optimise energy consumption and efficiency in companies.
The global provider of total process solutions for advanced photonics and microelectronic device packaging, Palomar Technologies, expands its innovation center in Singapore to meet a growing demand in Southeast Asia for process development and specialty OSAT for advance semiconductor new product introductions.
Sensor specialist Micro-Epsilon Messtechnik opens a new production center for micromechatronics at its headquarters in Ortenburg in the district of Passau.
Instrument Systems acquires the Korean manufacturer of display measurement systems Kimsoptec in full. The manufacturer of cameras and measuring systems is thus strengthening its core business areas of Display Testing and Optical Metrology.
KDPOF, supplier for gigabit connectivity over fiber optics, has developed and validated the first 1000BASE-RH SFP module for optical gigabit connectivity in vehicles.
Extracting optical light from a qubit without disrupting the qubit.
The technology housed in the new Long Beamline Building will lead to more efficient solar cells, longer-lasting batteries, more durable materials for airplanes and much more.
Waygate Technologies and the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) agree a long-term partnership to drive innovation in battery pack and cell inspection.
Under the scientific direction of Instrument Systems, the Technical Committee TC2-80 of the CIE has prepared a new technical report on the spectroradiometric measurement of optical radiation sources.
Dual-shutter vibration-sensing system uses ordinary cameras to achieve extraordinary results.
The Dutch TKH takes over the camera manufacturer Nerian completely. The German company, based in Stuttgart, develops and manufactures high-speed 3D cameras.
In 2017, Christian Wolf took over the chairmanship of the committee and presided over it for five years. He is now passing on the post as scheduled.
W. M. Keck Observatory and deformable mirrors and adaptive optics specialist Alpao have partnered to develop an improvement for the Keck II telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii.
There were many satisfied faces on the evening of July 7 when the doors of the W3+ Fair Wetzlar 2022 closed after two days.
German researchers have entangled two quantum memories over a 33-kilometer long fiber optic connection.
Leica Microsystems has introduced a new generation of its multiplexed imaging solution, Cell DIVE, including software and hardware improvements.
In collaboration with 3D time-of-flight system specialist PMD Technologies, has therefore developed the second generation of the REAL3 automotive image sensor – an ISO26262-complient high resolution 3D image sensor.
The decision to acquire outstanding shares in joint venture and invest in cloud platform programming experts are prompted by the machine tool and laser maker’s ongoing digitalization strategy.
igus presented the online browser game igumania. The idle game was developed using the Unity gaming platform and allows players to experience igus products in a playful way.
Matthias Lapp (39), grandson of the company's founder Ursula Ida Lapp, will take over as CEO of Lapp Holding from 1 October 2022. His uncle Andreas Lapp (66), Chairman of the Executive Board, and his father Siegbert E. Lapp (69), Chairman of the Supervisory Board, will retire from the operational business of the Lapp Group on 30 September 2022.
Approach could lead to new materials for sensing, computing, light sources and displays.
Previous commercial manager Mark Naples has almost two decades of experience working across the optics, sensing, and imaging industries.
EssilorLuxottica and Politecnico di Milano have created the first ever joint research center aimed at designing the smart glasses of the future, EssilorLuxottica Smart Eyewear Lab.
Being one of the leading manufacturers for high-power, edge-emitting semiconductor lasers, Jenoptik will use new equipment in lithography processes. Amcoss, based in Feldkirch, Austria, has supplied a fully automatic amc 2000 wafer processing unit for coating and developing of wafers.
With the acquisition of Milturn, Vision Engineering aims to expand the existing manufacturing base in the UK and US.
A silicon-based non-volatile switch manipulates light through the use of a phase-change material and graphene heater.
Visiconsult wants to acquire a majority stake in Diondo, a manufacturer of computer tomography devices. The company would thus significantly expand its competencies and capacities in this area.
Under the new joint slogan ‘envisioning the future’, the three companies are offering a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for for surface inspection, quality assurance, metrology, machine vision and 3D robotics.
Using multiple polarization channels to carry out parallel processing.
Investment will accelerate development of revolutionary holographic extended reality (HXR) technology to make virtual reality practically indistinguishable from the real world.
