The call for applications for the EMVA Young Professional Award 2022 has started. From now on, students and young professionals in machine vision can apply for the annual award. The winner will receive prize money and will have the opportunity to attend the upcoming EMVA conference in Brussels free of charge. Costs for flight and hotel will be covered.
The new material allows small and high-quality lasers that are expected to have applications for example in imaging, flow detection and wireless optical communication.
Co-operation between UC Santa Barbara researchers and Cisco Systems aims to push the boundaries of quantum technologies.
The general assembly of Laserlab-Europe AISBL, the international not-for-profit association representing 45 leading laser research infrastructures in 22 European countries, elected Jens Biegert as new executive director and appoints new management board members.
Trinamix has transformed the established method of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy into an accessible, affordable, and easy-to-use solution for broad usage beyond common lab applications.
Lasers write the lines by prompting the ink to absorb two photons, initiating free-radical polymerization of the material.
The German-Swedish manufacturer of high performance lasers for advanced imaging, detection and analysis, expands its technology portfolio to include short-pulse femtosecond fiber lasers, with the recent acquisition of Valo Innovations, Hannover, Germany.
The membership of Optica has elected Prof Gerd Leuchs, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany, as the society’s 2022 vice president. Prof Judith Dawes, Macquarie University, Australia, was voted in as a director-at-large. The board of directors appointed Prof Min Qiu of Westlake University, China, as a director-at-large.
Scientists from Paderborn University, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences and the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) are researching new environmentally-friendly plastic products based on lactic acid.
Quantum error correcting codes are a method to protect qubits, by embedding them in a more robust entangled state of many particles.
A new generation of particle accelerators aims at taking cancer therapy, drug detection and material analysis to a higher level. Green laser copper AM allows the previously impossible in component optimization.
The recovery in demand in the three photonics divisions of Jenoptik - Light & Optics, Light & Production and Light & Safety - continued in the 3rd quarter of 2021. Sales in the first nine months increased by more than 20 percent compared to the previous year, and by almost 25 percent in the 3rd quarter.
In fiscal 2021, Hamamatsu benefited simultaneously from the recovering economy and the continued high demand for Coronatest equipment. As a result, sales increased by over 20 percent and operating profit by almost 60 percent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A special metasurface uses very deep, very narrow holes, rather than very tall pillars, to focus light to a single spot.
Developers have won the Royal Academy of Engineering Colin Campbell Mitchell award.
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.
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.
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.
