Jochen Trautmann Appointed Managing Director
27.04.2022 - Jochen Trautmann has been Managing Director of Rittal Automation Systems since April 1, 2022.
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Paving the way for next-gen deep ultraviolet lasers
New laser improves the use of ultraviolet light for sterilizing medical tools, purifying water, sensing hazardous gases and enabling precision photolithography.
40 Years Laser Components
The owner-managed photonics specialist celebrates its 40th anniversary.
“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.
Label-free super-resolution microscopy
Resolving nanostructures smaller than the diffraction limit of light without any dyes or labels.
Sustainable laser solutions for the food industry
On Earth Day, laser manufacturer Luxinar discusses sustainable solutions like an ink-free alternative to mark packaging or laser coding directly onto food.
Viscom appoints new Head of Central Service
As of May 1, 2022, Viscom will have a new Head of Central Service in Christian Schweizer (40). His predecessor, Henning Obloch, is retiring.
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.
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.
Cooperation of Mettler-Toledo and Buhmann
Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection and Buhmann Pac Solutions intensify their cooperation in the packaging sector.
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.
Physik Instrumente grows by 27 percent in fiscal 2021
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.
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).
Lutz Steiner is Senior Vice President Innovation at Lenze
Lutz Steiner has been Senior Vice President Innovation at the Lenze Group since April 1, 2022.
New research platform ‘lasers for hydrogen technology’ inaugurated
A major goal of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT is to make the fuel cell ready for series production.
Terahertz spectroscopy probes crystallinity
New method is well suited for determining the crystallinity of active pharmaceutical ingredients.
Best business prospects for additive technologies
Investment plans in AM remain high – technology development of greatest importance in the industry.
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.
Promoting breakthroughs in research and applied innovations
CLEO, the world-renowned conference for laser science and photonics applications, will be presented in a hybrid format, 15 – 20 May 2022.
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.
Vectorial metrics reveal complex optical information
Defining Mueller matrix properties enables new roles and possibilities for vectorial metrics.
Light derails electrons through graphene
Circular polarized light can induce bent electronic flows in bilayer graphene.
“SynthAI achieves great results within just a few hours”
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.
PhotonDelta lands €1.1 billion euro investment
Capital will be used to build 200 startups, scale up production, create new applications for photonic chips and develop infrastructure and talent.
Hummel is growing in all product segments
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.
Fast lidar system with submillimeter localization accuracy
A new generation of lidar-based 3D cameras could be fast enough to enable integration of 3D vision into all sorts of products.
Measuring the smallest magnetic fields with diamond and laser
Fraunhofer IAF develops quantum magnetometers based on diamond. They are able to detect magnetic fields with a spatial resolution of a few nanometers down to single electron and nuclear spins.
Single-photon source for practical quantum encryption
The new source is an important step toward highly secure communication based on quantum key distribution.
Nicoletta Casanova joins EPIC Board of Directors
During the annual general meeting 2022 celebrated in Vilnius, Lithuania, the European Photonics Industry Consortium announced its new board member: Nicoletta Casanova, CEO and president of Femtoprint.
Tiny microlaser emits two circular beams
A new precisely tunable laser can be used in many fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and communication.
EPIC Award goes to Reinhard Völkel
The European Photonics Industry Consortium has announced that Reinhard Voelkel, CEO of Suss MicroOptics, is the winner of the EPIC CEO Award 2022.
Optronis: world’s first streak camera with semiconductor sensor
With the world’s first commercially available semiconductor-based streak camera, Optronis offers research a new instrument to enable detailed scientific investigations in the field of ultrafast processes.
Prima Additive is born
Prima Industrie completed the spin-off operation of the business unit dedicated to additive manufacturing.
New world record for qubit storage
Long-duration quantum memories for photonic qubits are essential components for achieving long-distance quantum networks and repeaters.
Precisely coat complex-shaped optics
The new Spatial ALD system can uniformly coat complex-shaped optics, allow higher deposition rates than previously possible. It is of interest, among others, for applications in the automotive lighting or VR/AR sectors.
