
Light-shrinking material for higher resolution
New material turns a conventional light microscope into a super-resolution microscope.

New material turns a conventional light microscope into a super-resolution microscope.

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 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.

The members elected Dr. Garbe to its board of directors, which promotes the interests and networking of European Machine Vision companies.

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.

European Photonics Industry Consortium forms partnership with IEEE Photonics Society

Her father, company founder Alex Cable, will continue in his role as CEO

Noise-assisted signal amplification in a new systems with memory.

IRsweep, develops, manufactures, and supplies optical spectroscopy solutions based on semiconductor quantum cascade laser (QCL) frequency comb technology.

Colloidal cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals emit very bright light.

Evosys (Suzhou) Laser System was able to expand its premises and Evosys North America Corp. moved into its new location

Co-planar optoelectrowetting device allows for droplet access from above.

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.

The bioconvergence company Cellink and the German 2PP specialist entered into an agreement for Nanoscribe to be part of the Cellink group

Long delays and narrow filtering of microwave signals in silicon-photonic circuits.

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.

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.

CEA-Leti announced the world’s first autonomous imager technology that activates smartphones and small appliances through face recognition or other specific patterns.

From September 1, 2021, Susan-Stefanie Breitkopf (52) will take over as Head of Corporate Human Resources at the Zeiss Group.

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.

New microscopy method brings new insight into how the brain works in health and disease.

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.

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

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".

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

Photonic Integration Technology Center PITC to advance innovations for global technological and societal challenges with revolutionary chip technology.


The post-Corona world of work, augmented reality in industry, or AI-based acoustic quality and process monitoring are just a selection of the topics in our Wiley Industry Days conference program. Register free of charge for the presentation you would like to attend. Just click on the download window at the bottom left!

Science Council recommends an investment of 54.2 million euros to build the research building OPTICUM.

The sensor manufacturer Sick is changing the top of its management board on October 1, 2021: Then Dr. Robert Bauer will take his leave and Dr. Mats Gökstorp will follow to take the place as CEO. At the same time, Dr. Niels Syassen will be appointed to the Executive Board. He will assume responsibility for Technology & Digitalization.


Stemmer Imaging AG got off to a good start in the 2021 financial year and was able to continue the upward trend from the second half of 2020. This is already indicated by the recently published preliminary figures, which the company confirms today.

World Metrology Day commemorates the great achievements of the “universal language” for measurements.

At the beginning of May, camera manufacturer Kappa Optronics celebrated the company's 43rd anniversary. The trainees had a nice surprise for this occasion also for the colleagues in the home office.

Jenoptik achieved a 26.8 percent increase in order intake to 268.3 million euros in the first quarter of 2021. All three photonics divisions contributed to this - Light & Optics, Light & Production and Light & Safety. In terms of sales, Trioptics has pushed the Light & Optics division to the top of the group.