S&I qualified the C-WAVE tunable laser for use with TriVista
Combination of widely tunable spectrometers and lasers advances resonant Raman spectroscopy.
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A three-day industry exhibition with conference and a physics job fair
Review: WIN>DAYS, 7. – 9. Juni 2021, online
“Showcasing innovative research and applications in laser science”
Review: CLEO 2021, 9 – 14 May, online only
Application Center for Optical Metrology positively evaluated
Five years after the launch of the Fraunhofer AZOM. the research institution has received good reviews.
New prototype of a quantum microscope
Quantum entanglement provides 35 % improved clarity without destroying the living cell.
Zeiss Innovation Hub in Dresden opens Its doors
First program is being run in the life sciences, for which the new staff is hired.
Proof of the phonoriton succeeded
Team hunts down elusive phonoriton with light trapped in a cavity.
M-Fibre wins innovation award
Side light fiber system by Mentor named “Winner” in the Lighting Solutions category
“100 % English edition a 100 % success”
Photonics Online Meetings #3 was supported by 23 French and European partners.
Cornelia Denz takes office as PTB President in 2022
Joachim Ullrich, who has held the presidency since 2012, will then retire due to age.
Light-shrinking material for higher resolution
New material turns a conventional light microscope into a super-resolution microscope.
EMVA expert provides insight into what's new in the EMVA 1288 standard
He's back again! Also at this year's Wiley Industry Days (June 7-9, 2021), Prof. Dr. Bernd Jähne will give a presentation on the machine vision standard EMVA 1288.
Blaize Names New VP of Worldwide Sales
Blaize announced the appointment of Mark Glasgow as VP of Worldwide Sales. Glasgow joins Blaize to lead and grow the Blaize sales organization seizing the substantial opportunity for Blaize pioneering products in the multi-billion-dollar market for AI in industrial edge, enterprise, and automotive/mobility segments.
Christoph Garbe becomes a member of the EMVA Board of Directors
The members elected Dr. Garbe to its board of directors, which promotes the interests and networking of European Machine Vision companies.
EMVA General Assembly Elects New Board of Directors
The General Assembly of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions taking place in an online format June 1st, 2021, has elected the new EMVA Board of Directors.
EPIC collaborates with IEEE
European Photonics Industry Consortium forms partnership with IEEE Photonics Society
Jennifer Cable named president of Thorlabs
Her father, company founder Alex Cable, will continue in his role as CEO
Microcavity shows stochastic resonance of light
Noise-assisted signal amplification in a new systems with memory.
Sensirion fully acquires infrared spectrometer specialist IRsweep
IRsweep, develops, manufactures, and supplies optical spectroscopy solutions based on semiconductor quantum cascade laser (QCL) frequency comb technology.
Superfluorescence in superlattices
Colloidal cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals emit very bright light.
Evosys expands locations in USA and China
Evosys (Suzhou) Laser System was able to expand its premises and Evosys North America Corp. moved into its new location
New kind of open-top optofluidic device
Co-planar optoelectrowetting device allows for droplet access from above.
Isra Vision: Founder and CEO Enis Ersü retires
After 36 years at the helm of Isra Vision, Enis Ersü will retire at the end of June 2021. A successor has already been found in Tomas Ludin for the then vacant position on the Executive Board.
Nanoscribe to become a Cellink company
The bioconvergence company Cellink and the German 2PP specialist entered into an agreement for Nanoscribe to be part of the Cellink group
Silicon chips combine light and ultrasound
Long delays and narrow filtering of microwave signals in silicon-photonic circuits.
Macnica ATD Europe distributes AI learning and decision support system
The distributor Macnica ATD Europe includes the products of the Israeli company Innereye in its portfolio. This is an AI training system that creates a direct interface between the user's brain and the AI models. It is used, among other things, in industrial machine vision.
W3+ Fair Wetzlar cancelled for this year
The W3+ Fair 2021 in Wetzlar, Germany, is now definitely cancelled. The trade fair was originally planned for February of this year and was last postponed to July 6/7. Now the organizer Fleet Events has to finally pull the ripcord because of Corona.
First autonomous imager for smartphones, smart-home appliances and automobiles
CEA-Leti announced the world’s first autonomous imager technology that activates smartphones and small appliances through face recognition or other specific patterns.
Zeiss is planning a change in personnel management
From September 1, 2021, Susan-Stefanie Breitkopf (52) will take over as Head of Corporate Human Resources at the Zeiss Group.
Teledyne Flir: Clearview takes over sales in DACH region and Eastern Europe
Effective immediately, Clearview is also a distributor of Flir cameras in the DACH region as well as in Eastern Europe. The company has already been a distributor in the UK, Spain, and Portugal for ten years.
Deep view into the living brain
New microscopy method brings new insight into how the brain works in health and disease.
Laser Components introduces the new head of the Detector Group
In January 2021, Dr Raj Chakraborty took over the Laser Components Detector Group from Dragan Grubisic, who was retiring from day-to-day operations after 17 years at the helm, but will continue to be available to the company for development projects.
Qurin Diagnostics and LioniX invest in Surfix
New investment in light-powered biosensor accelerates the availability of high quality – low cost tests for early detection of cancer, Covid-19, and other diseases
Global Robot Report 2021 presented
As the economy gradually opens up after the pandemic, Asia, Europe and America are adjusting their funding programs for robotics research. But what are the goals of the officially operated government programs today? The International Federation of Robotics has researched and published the results with the 2021 update of the "World Robotics R&D Programs".
Photonics industry expects growth spurt
April survey by Spectaris and OptecNet shows recovery after the crisis year 2020 / Sales in the industry could reach 46 billion euros in 2021 / Industry is experiencing a digitization boost from Corona
