Access Space Alliance and EPIC collaborate
Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the photonics and new space industries
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Automation Technology appoints Director Business Development
Guido Deutz has been Director Business Development at camera manufacturer Automation Technology since March 1, 2021.
Electrifying inspiration – lasers save energy, costs and space
Review: Laser Symposium on Electromobility LSE’21, 19 – 20 January 2021
Camera manufacturer JAI under new management
JAI appoints Michael Lisby Jensen as its new CEO. His predecessor, Jorgen Andersen, moves to the top of the Board of Directors.
Laserlab-Europe AISBL Elections
ICREA professor Jens Biegert elected Chair of the association’s General Assembly
Shrimp inspires new breed of light sensors
Bionic optical sensor fits on a smartphone and is capable of hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging.
Pulse energy of UV nanosecond lasers tripled
World’s smallest >200 µJ actively Q-switched UV laser, ideal for industrial manufacturing
Lights on for silicon photonics
Electroluminescence at terahertz frequencies from a silicon-germanium device.
To determine the fluorescence quantum yield
First calibration reference materials available to companies worldwide
Zeiss opens research center in California
Zeiss opens a research and development center with associated production and customer service in Dublin, California. With this, the optics group wants to strengthen its presence in the San Francisco Bay Area. It invested 180 million US dollars for this purpose. Around 700 employees will be located there.
Significant advances in beam quality
Laserline optimizes its portfolio in the blue diode laser segment
Registration for the Wiley Beach Party has started
We are taking your order: Register now for free to attend the virtual Wiley Industry Days Beach Party on June 07, 2021 at 5pm. End your day at the trade fair with a cocktail and expand your network at the same time.
A new kind of microcomb on a chip
New device could help discover exoplanets and detect diseases.
Panasonic opens Customer Experience Center (CXC) in Munich, Germany
Panasonic is expanding its activities at the Munich-Ottobrunn site: The Customer Experience Center (CXC) is now opening on the Panasonic Campus Munich. On more than 6,000 square meters, the company shows its portfolio of electro-mechanical components and systems, drives, industrial robots and pick-and-place machines for electronics manufacturing.
Heidelberg Instruments acquires Multiphoton Optics
With immediate effect, Multiphoton Optics GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Heidelberg Instruments Mikrotechnik GmbH. One of the two managing directors of Multiphoton Optics will go to the new parent company, while the other will continue to run the company on his own.
PHABULOuS Pilot Line Association established
Serving the market with free-form micro-optics solution
Hilscher is a partner of the CIIT research center
Together with the German Industrial IT Center (CIIT), Hilscher has entered into a strategic partnership in Germany's first science-to-business center for industrial automation. The company will set up a new location with three employees in Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia. The start of the cooperation between CIIT and Hilscher is planned for the middle of the year.
Basler Confirms Strong Annual Result and Gives Positive Forecast for 2021
Basler AG has released the audited annual report for fiscal year 2020 today. In a declining market environment characterized by Covid-19 in 2020, the group‘s sales increased to Euro 170.5 million (previous year: Euro 162.0 million). Incoming orders amounted to Euro 181.6 million, and were significantly higher than the previous year’s level of Euro 166.5 million.
Rockley Photonics is going public
Transaction will advance the commercial opportunities in personal health, medtech and beyond
US associations merge to form Association for Advancing Automation (A3)
On April 14, 2021, the robotics, vision and motion control industry trade associations will merge to form the new Association for Advancing Automation (A3).
New microscopy method with nanometer resolution
MINSTED resolves fluorescent molecules with resolution at the nanometer scale.
Advanced imaging solutions for use with PCR instruments
Atik Cameras signs multiple new contracts with leading global PCR manufacturers
Making quantum dots brighter
First atomic-scale observations of how nanocrystals lose their light-producing efficiency.
Compact on-chip photon pair sources for quantum technologies
Fraunhofer IAF starts project QuoAlA on AlGaAs Bragg reflection waveguides
Jenoptik creates financial scope for acquisitions
Jenoptik has placed a promissory note loan in the amount of 400 million euros on the capital market. The additional funds are intended to enable the optics and photonics group to make acquisitions and investments in photonics.
3Doptix’ cross-vendor optics discovery portal
More than 40,000 optical elements from 17 different vendors available in the portal
Stemmer Imaging: Corona pushes operating result into the red
Stemmer Imaging clearly felt the effects of the Corona pandemic in fiscal 2020. The second quarter was hit the hardest. Subsequently, the business recovered. In the end, however, a negative operating result and a drop in sales of almost 13 percent remained.
A new optical sensor for acceleration
The optomechanical accelerometer could be used as a portable, high-accuracy reference device.
China live events close successfully
Review: Laser World of Photonics China 2021 & Vision China, Shanghai, China
Omron cooperates with Onrobot
Omron has signed a new distribution agreement with Onrobot, a Danish manufacturer of gripper tools for collaborative robot applications (cobots).
Turnkey solutions for the automotive industry
Manz: From the laboratory to the fully integrated production line
Thin-film LEDs for VR-technologies
Directional and polarized emissions from an organic LED without external optical elements.
Fugro’s technologies monitor Amsterdam’s bridges and quay walls
Mobile laser scanning technology for large-scale surveying of structural integrity
Chromatic photon effect for quantum networks
A novel photonic interference effect could pave the way to large-scale controllable quantum systems.
Research project aims to increase plastics recycling rate
The BMBF research project "Tasteful" combines tracer-based sorting with object recognition and artificial intelligence (AI). Two companies, two universities and a Fraunhofer Institute are joining forces to make plastics recycling more efficient by distinguishing types of plastic such as PET according to additional criteria.
