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Senswork opens development center for deep learning and AI

Senswork, an expert in machine vision, opens its Innovation Lab in Munich, where it researches solutions for optical inspection using deep learning and ai.

Salvo Technologies acquires Spectrecology

Takeover expands company’s spectral sensing offerings, adding complementary systems and components of modular spectroscopy

AMS invests in new imaging center of excellence

Rochester NY site to boost sensor-enabled consumer imaging expertise

Color blindness-correcting contact lenses

A rose-tinted gel with gold nanoparticles filtered light within 520 - 580 nanometers.

Fine pitch placement of flip-chip photonics devices

Cooperation between Bay Photonics, Palomar Technologies and EPIC Paignton

Light pretending to be a ferromagnet

An optical cavity filled with a liquid crystal enables to investigate exotic states of polarization of light.

Aerotech announces Robert Novotnak as President

New head to guide company through expansion and new era of growth

Start-up develops new lasers for life sciences

Laser pulses as subtle machining tools

Industrial-grade materials processing on the sub-micron scale is enabled by spatially structured ultrashort laser pulses.

Active Silicon acquired by Solid State Plc

The initial consideration of £6.3m is being settled out of Solid State’s existing cash resources and banking facilities.

Teledyne e2v and Yumain jointly develop AI-based machine vision solutions

Teledyne e2v teams up with Yumain (Dijon, France) to develop bio-inspired imaging solutions. In particular, the focus is on improved accessibility.

Osram appoints Ingo Bank as Chief Executive Officer

Babette Fröhlich to be head of Corporate HR in future combined company, joins the Management Board of Osram as Labor Director

Schneider Messtechnik expands management

Andreas Strobel joins the management team of Dr. Heinrich Schneider Messtechnik GmbH on January 1, 2021. The 42-year-old has since been responsible for sales, marketing and service. He now forms a dual leadership with Dr. Wolfram Kleuver.

New optical antennas for vortices of light

Increasing the amount of information that can be simultaneously transmitted by a single light source.

Developing an intelligent camera-sensor technology

Project MISEL – Multispectral Intelligent Vision System with Embedded Low-Power Neural Computing

Bachelor thesis on sensor technologies for computed tomography receives award

In February, the Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Foundation awarded a prize to a scientific paper in the field of non-contact dimensional metrology at a ceremony held on the premises of Werth Messtechnik in Giessen.

Coherent to engage in discussions with II-VI

Evaluation of potential MKS transaction, continues to recommend Lumentum merger at this time

Laser generates random numbers at ultrafast speeds

Scientists achieve a total bit rate of 250 terabits per second with off-line postprocessing.

Bernard Maitenaz passed away age 94

Essilor mourns death of the first Varilux progressive lens’ inventor

Commercializing innovative laser prototyping technology

Jenoptik and 4JET jointly launch new technology

Frequency combs in a photonic molecule

A step towards the study of emergent nonlinear phenomena in soliton networks and multimodal lattices.

EssilorLuxottica and CooperCompanies acquire SightGlass Vision

Leading vision care companies have entered into an agreement to create a 50/50 joint venture

Ultrabright dots see beyond skin deep

New polymer dots can produce low-noise images with single-molecule sensitivity.

EMVA and Khronos gather requirements for embedded standard

The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and Khronos Group established a joint Embedded Camera API Exploratory Group. The goal is to explore industry interest in creating open, royalty-free API standards for embedded camera and sensors. Participation is open to all interested sensor and camera manufacturers, chip providers, and software developers from the machine vision and sensor industries.

Changes in the Management Board of 3D-Micromac

Tino Petsch hands over the management of the company to Uwe Wagner

A sharper look at semiconductors

Extreme ultraviolet coherence tomography unveils the interior of materials with nanometer precision.

Free-space optical light for high-speed wifi

Nanocubes interact with the silver base in a way that enhances the photonic capabilities of the fluorescent dye.

Ebm-Papst appoints new managing director

On March 1st, 2021, Dr. Hannes Säubert (49) takes over the management of ebm-papst Landshut GmbH, including the plants in Slovenia and Serbia as well as the development centers in Osnabrück and the Netherlands.

Kim Povlsen becomes the new President of Universal Robots

Povlsen will take over his new role as President on March 1, 2021.

Deutsche Messe AG: Siemens builds industrial 5G network in the exhibition hall

This year, the Deutsche Messe exhibition center in Hanover will be 5G-ready on more than 1.4 million square meters

MVTec changes responsibilities in product management

Christoph Wagner has been product manager for Merlic since September 1, 2020. He also remains responsible for Embedded Vision. Thomas Hopfner has held the newly created position of Product Manager Licensing and Interfaces since January 2021.

World’s first laser to operate with 349-nm single frequency

UniKLasers presents Duetto 349 DPSS cw device with a 50 mW output

Edmund Optics opens New Assembly Plant

Edmund Optics has opened a new Assembly and Advanced Design Facility in Tucson, AZ, the second Edmund Optics location in the state.

SVS-Vistek presents new company building

SVS-Vistek will move into a new, modern company building in Gilching near Munich in summer 2021.

Laser World of Photonics is postponed

Messe München decided to move the Laser World of Photonics to April 26-29, 2022.