12.11.2021 • News
A new type of mirror coating for LIGO
One important factor in increasing the sensitivity of the observatories involves the coatings on the glass mirrors that lie at the heart of the instruments.
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Novel material allows 3D printing of black structures
Highly precise 3D structures in black can now be printed using a 2-photon polymerization (2PP) 3D printing process. This seemed for a long time impossible as non-transmissive (black) materials greatly reduce the polymerization efficiency of the printing process.
10.11.2021 • News
Scansonic: Rethinking operation of the optics
When laser cutting sheet metal, the quality of the cutting optics is decisive for the overall process. The cutting heads of the SCut series from Scansonic set standards in quality and operation with their comprehensive functionalities.
10.11.2021 • News
Baden-Württemberg starts new image campaign
In the future, Baden-Württemberg will present itself nationally and internationally as “The Länd”. The new umbrella brand campaign presents Baden-Württemberg as a location for technology and innovation and as a place worth living in with a high quality of life and attractive work opportunities.
10.11.2021 • News • Automation
RS Components expands distribution center
RS Components has inaugurated its expanded distribution center at the Bad Hersfeld location. It's the biggest in the company. After the project has now been completed from the technical point of view, RS gave selected customers and suppliers a deep insight into the highly automated system. In particular, the largest multi-shuttle system installed in Germany by the manufacturer Dematic is used here.
10.11.2021 • News
Nano-precision metrology of X-ray mirrors
A team from the Diamond Light Source set about creating a brand-new instrument which can potentially improve the toolbox for metrologists and manufacturers around the world.
09.11.2021 • News
PhotonicsViews issue 6/2021 is out
Issue 6/2021 – December ’21 / January ‘22 – is out, including content from BEAMIT, cailabs, Duma Optronics, Fraunhofer IWS, Hübner Cobolt, Siemens and more companies and institutions. On the cover: Toptica Photonics.
09.11.2021 • News
“It was a festival!”
In a great atmosphere and with a world-class supplementary programme, the industry sector celebrated the personal exchange of information on cutting-edge technologies for standalone and system solutions for the fabrication of parts made from sheet metal, profiles and pipe.
08.11.2021 • News
2021 Optica Diversity and Inclusion Advocacy Recognition
The recognition honors the steadfast commitment and achievements of Optica members, companies or institutions that proactively work to create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive optics and photonics community.
08.11.2021 • News • Automation
IAI opens new showroom
IAI Industrieroboter will open a new showroom in the office in Schwalbach am Taunus on November 10, 2021. From this day on, all electrical automation components from IAI can be viewed in person near Frankfurt Airport. In addition, this new showroom will also serve as a training center in the future to test the actuators and robot systems in practice and to learn their perfect integration and programming in training courses.
08.11.2021 • News
New designs for all-optical computation
An all-optical processor uses spatially-engineered diffractive surfaces in manipulating optical waves and computes any desired linear transform as the light passes through a series of diffractive surfaces.
05.11.2021 • News
Quantum dots enable infrared lasing
A solution-processed laser comprising PbS colloidal quantum dots integrated on a distributed feedback cavity, with tunable lasing wavelength from 1.55 μm to 1.65 μm.
03.11.2021 • News
ON Semiconductor reports Record Revenue for Third Quarter 2021
ON Semiconductor Corporation announced results for the third quarter of 2021. The company reports a record revenue of $1,742.1 million, an increase of 32 percent year-over-year.
03.11.2021 • News
Edmund Optics introduces new Senior Vice President of Technology and Development
Edmund Optics appointed Dr. Ekaterina (Katya) Golovchenko as Senior Vice President of Technology and Development. This newly created position is part of a series of aggressive technology-related investments aimed at delivering greater optical innovation to meet the demands of an increasingly complex market.
03.11.2021 • News
Full color LEDs cut down to size
The scientists observed very high output power of 1.76 milliwatts from each square millimeter on the device’s surface – a notable improvement on previous devices.
02.11.2021 • News
Every third industrial robot in the EU is installed in Germany
With around 230,000 industrial robots, Germany is the most highly automated economy in the European Union. The number of newly installed robots reached around 22,300 units in 2020. Despite the crisis year 2020, this is the third highest value ever achieved.
02.11.2021 • News
A fiber-to-SiPh PIC coupling solution
Created using the company’s proprietary high-speed laser writing technique, the solution is designed to overcome fiber-to-SiPh photonic integrated circuit (PIC) coupling challenges to enable high volume automated assembly and help drive down costs.
01.11.2021 • News
Metalenses focus light with ultra-deep holes
A special metasurface uses very deep, very narrow holes, rather than very tall pillars, to focus light to a single spot.
29.10.2021 • News
“Biggest development in semiconductor lasers in 30 years”
Developers have won the Royal Academy of Engineering Colin Campbell Mitchell award.
29.10.2021 • News
New camera detects solar panel defects better
An all-weather imaging system works in any lighting conditions and uses an InGaAs detector with a very high frame rate to acquire a sequence of images of the solar panels as the electric current is applied.
29.10.2021 • News
‘Life-ready AI’ for 3D industrial vision
Framos and GrAI Matter Labs (GML), a pioneer of brain-inspired ultralow latency computing solutions, have united at Vision 2021 to create ‘life-ready artificial intelligence’ for industrial vision platforms.
28.10.2021 • News
Omron redesigns automation center in Barcelona
What will the production hall of the future look like? Interested parties can now get the answer in the redesigned Omron Automation Center Barcelona. Visitors can experience Omron's automation solutions live on site, including robotics, quality control, flexible manufacturing and artificial intelligence. In addition, they learn how to adapt their company to changing requirements.
28.10.2021 • News
In memoriam Valentin Gapontsev
Valentin P. Gapontsev, PhD, was an accomplished entrepreneur in addition to being a recognized scientist and inventor. He passed away on October 22nd, after reportedly having battled cancer.
28.10.2021 • News
High international interest in career and networking event
One Nobel Prize winner, two funding awards, 45 program points, almost 50 speakers and nearly 600 participants from all over the world.
27.10.2021 • News
Next-generation night vision technology
A grant from the US Navy will advance sensor technology to improve the effectiveness of night vision and infrared devices made with silicon germanium tin.
27.10.2021 • News
Forcing photons to never bounce back
New discovery based on topological insulators paves the way to a new generation of high-frequency circuits and extremely robust, compact communication devices.
26.10.2021 • News
Vision & Control turns 30 years
Vision & Control is celebrating its 30th birthday this year. As early as the mid-1980s, its later founder and managing director, Dr. Jürgen Geffe and his team developed an automatic optical control system for industrial production. The great success with the smart camera “ILK02” led to the founding of the company in 1991.
26.10.2021 • News
New laser system for photovoltaics manufacturing
Heckert Solar, one of the largest and leading German manufacturers of high-performance photovoltaic modules, has purchased two systems for its plants in Thuringia (LWD Solar GmbH) and Chemnitz.
26.10.2021 • News
Clean air at all times
Metal processing with lasers and plasma releases many different pollutants into the ambient air. Together with industry partners, the Fraunhofer IWS has developed a system that efficiently removes these substances from the air. The filter can be adapted to the various materials and substances released in each case. In the future, the technology will be used in other applications, such as additive manufacturing.
25.10.2021 • News
“Image analysis for everyone”
A multinational team from the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Francis Crick Institute in London and PoL scientists in Dresden will develop solutions for distributed, accelerated image analysis that is accessible to end-users without programming experience.
25.10.2021 • News
New managing directors of Ebm-Papst introduced
Dr. Klaus Geißdörfer (47) takes over the chairmanship of the management of the Ebm-Papst Group with headquarters in Mulfingen (Baden-Württemberg). Thomas Wagner (62) takes over the position of deputy again after interim management of the company and as planned in advance. He is supposed to support Geißdörfer with the induction and, in his function as COO, actively accompany the ongoing strategy and transformation process.
25.10.2021 • News
Fraunhofer Vision organizes seminar on surface testing
With the seminar "Inspection and characterization of surfaces with machine vision" on December 1 and 2, 2021 at the Fraunhofer IOSB in Karlsruhe, the Fraunhofer Vision division is continuing its series of seminars. The practical seminar imparts specialist knowledge of the technology of surface inspection and provides information about its possible uses in industrial quality assurance.
25.10.2021 • News
Tiny lasers acting together as one
Israeli and German researchers have developed a way to force an array of vertical cavity lasers to act together as a single laser – a highly effective laser network the size of a grain of sand.
22.10.2021 • News
Quantum cryptography with higher-dimensional photons
Eight different paths can be taken by each of the photons. As the team has now been able to show, this makes the generation of the quantum cryptographic key faster and also significantly more robust against interference.
21.10.2021 • News
Klaus Fiedler named as LPKF’s new CEO
Dr Klaus Fiedler will become the new chief executive officer of LPKF Laser & Electronics AG. The supervisory board of the SDAX-listed technology company has appointed the 50-year-old top man-ager to join CFO Christian Witt in the management board, effective 1 April 2022 or earlier, with a three-year contract term.
