At the beginning of 2022, laser scanner manufacturer Scanlab added two new members to its management team. One left at the same time. In addition to long-time managing director Georg Hofner, the management board now includes Dirk Thomas and Christian Sonner.
Metasurface diffusers in a layer that is 0.2 micrometers in thickness scatter light of a specific color and let other wavelengths pass undisturbed.
Spectro Analytical Instruments appoints Michael Privik as Managing Director with effect from January 1, 2022. He succeeds Dr. Christoph Mätzig, who has taken over the management of the "Ultra Precision Technologies" division within the Ametek Group.
Hexagon’s manufacturing intelligence division collaborates with printer manufacturers Pro-beam, Sciaky, DM3D, Gefertec and Meltio.
Avnet Embedded has opened a new design center in Deggendorf. The aim of the company is to further strengthen and expand the design competence of standardized and customer-specific embedded products.
Pfannenberg has Dr. Tobias Merl appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Pfannenberg Group. At the beginning of the year, Merl succeeded Andreas Pfannenberg, who has headed the company as managing partner since 1995 and is now moving to the supervisory board.
On March 23, 2022, Meorga is organizing a trade fair for measurement, control and regulation technology, process control systems and automation technology in the Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt am Main.
EVG has also taken over the northern German sales area (zip code area 20-28) for Binder. In this way, the already existing successful partnership between the two companies will be further expanded.
The partnership provides benefits to global coil coating, converting, and packaging leaders who are processing flat-profile products. The benefits include a combination of best-in-class solutions for in-process thickness measurement as well as surface detection and classification.
Microcombs have the potential to enhance GPS systems, telecommunications, autonomous vehicles, greenhouse gas tracking, spacecraft autonomy and ultra-precise timekeeping.
IT systems that are physically isolated from the outside world (air-gapped) can still be attacked. This has been demonstrated by computer security experts in the LaserShark project.
New discovery provides the first hint that a previously unknown, topological phase of light and matter which hosts Majorana bosons may exist.
QuTech – a collaboration of TU Delft and TNO – is joining forces with Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT to cooperate on quantum communication and quantum information networks.
New process uses lasers to dramatically sculpt the properties of materials without the production of any excess damaging heat.
The Leibniz Association will fund the joint project UV Lasers – From Modeling and Simulation to Technology (UVSimTech) for three years with nearly 1 million euros within the Leibniz Competition. It is coordinated by the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin.
Caroline Amiot has started December 1, 2021, as a project manager, she will work closely with Dr Ana Gebejes on the ongoing projects and with Tuukka Pakarinen on the organization of future Photonics Finland events.
Demonstration of a new concept in detecting infrared light, showing how to convert it into visible light, which is easily detected.
New approach opens the door to drastic miniaturization and cost reduction of 3D laser nanoprinters.
To make the EU independent of non-European suppliers, Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH), Altechna Coatings, and Optomaterials work on a purely European supply chain for space-qualified alexandrite laser crystals in the EU project Galactic.
The management board of the Chemnitz, Germany, company for laser micromachining and roll-to-roll laser systems for the semiconductor, photovoltaic, medical device and electronics markets, has appointed Marko Gerlach to the role of chief financial officer effective December 1, 2021.
The first demonstration of direct femtosecond-pulse emission from a quantum cascade laser in the mid-infrared region paves the path towards novel applications of ultrashort laser pulses.
The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year, Materialise acquires 100 % of the Link3D equity interests for 33.5 million US dollars.
Thermal scanning boomed during the current pandemic. A large number of systems are available, many of them have been launched during Covid-19 in a short time. The number of companies offering thermal screening or infrared fever measurement multiplied.
On-chip frequency shifters in the gigahertz range could be used in next generation quantum computers and networks.
Compact and power-efficient phase modulator will improve lidar for remote sensing, AR/VR goggles, quantum information processing chips and implantable optogenetic probes.
The idea of using light as a tool was still in its infancy when the Schramberg engineers used laser systems to spot-weld watch springs.
The director of research at Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics and also head of the Strathclyde-hosted Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics, Professor Martin Dawson, has been named as the 2021 winner of the Global SSL Award of Outstanding Achievement by the International SSL Alliance (ISA).
As of February 1st, 2022, under the management of Dr Rolando Ferrini, a new business unit will pursue the company’s growth in photonics and specifically micro-optics.
An international team of researchers experimentally created a topological 3D skyrmionic hopfion in fully structured light.
Scientists working on the BW Foundation project Hyazinth have developed a special 3D method that allows complex micro-optics, including apertures or other components, to be printed in a single step. This 3D microfabrication technology can be used to manufacture microendoscopes, for example.
Congatec and Dr. Dirk Haft has announced a new management team as the new CEO and Daniel Jürgens as the new CFO. Gerhard Edi, currently CTO, will also take on the newly created position of CSO (Chief Strategy Officer). Konrad Garhammer, who previously acted as global director engineering, is moving up to the position of CTO.
The EU-funded LAMpAS project has achieved the target parameters of its kilowatts ultrafast laser. A demonstrator system will be integrated into a machine designed for industrial laser micromachining of square-meter sized surfaces.
Dr Panos Kapetanopoulos and Pedro Matos promoted as director of Atik Cameras Norwich, and general manager of the production facilities in Lisbon, respectively.
A new microscope uses interference patterns of entangled photons and very low intensity levels of light to image large areas of samples with a high sensitivity and resolution.
The Eindhoven-based start-up will use the new investment by PhotonDelta and the Smart Industries TTT Fund to optimize the quality of optical fiber-to-chip connections at packaging and start exploring the market opportunities.
