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Photonics
ORCA-Halo: A New Benchmark for Back-illuminated sCMOS Imaging
Product: Scientific sCMOS camera ORCA-Halo (C17440-20U), which expands the existing ORCA camera series.
Photonics as a key technology for space travel and earth exploration
Photonics is essential for our understanding of the universe and enables precise measurements, laser-based communication and comprehensive earth observation.
AI prompts innovation boost in photonics
Artificial intelligence (AI) is significantly accelerating developments in photonics - from industrial production to medical diagnostics and environmental technology.
Laser World of Photonics 2025: innovations, expertise and international impetus
Laser World of Photonics will once again bring the international photonics community together in Munich from June 24 to 27, 2025.
The next hardware generation for AI networking
iPronics ONE is a breakthrough in AI infrastructure: a fast reconfigurable, and lossless Optical Circuit Switch built on software-defined Silicon Photonics.
04.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
From raw material processing to recycling
Battery production is at the heart of industrial and climate policy worldwide. Indeed, the demand for energy storage systems for electromobility and stationary applications is growing globally as is the importance of efficient, sustainable and regionally independent battery production.
01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
Reinventing laser processing for EVs
Coherent’s Thomas Hofmeister and Majid Abbasi discuss how lasers have played a key role in the transformation of manufacturing in the automotive industry in a new PhotonicsViews article.
01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
Process and product innovation in electric mobility enabled by photonics
At Politecnico di Milano, the Laboratory for Laser Applications, SITEC, looks towards the development of new processes enabling new products and solutions for electric mobility exploiting the increased availability of laser-based manufacturing solutions in the industry.
01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
E-mobility requires new innovations for high-productivity laser welding
Two recent advances in laser welding, described in a PhotonicsViews special issue, have the ability to increase both productivity and part quality for e-mobility applications.
01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
Laser welding with green and infrared lasers
In a study by BLZ researchers, two laser sources – green and IR – were compared for laser welding at identical laser spot sizes. The results are presented in a the PhotonicsViews special issue.
01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
Laser-based welding in lightweight construction
Projects Twin-Weld and MULTISPOT overcome the limitations of fixed bifocal optics and develop a welding head with a matrix of 3 × 3 laser diodes that can be individually controlled.
01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
Laser welding: the game changer in battery production
Battery production in focus: today’s challenges – laser technology as the solution.
01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
An innovative laser decoating for hybrid components
A new high-tech system can dissolve paint on complex 3D components efficiently by laser and the paint can be removed like a film – residue-free and without harmful substances.
01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
A new concept for automotive battery boxes manufacturing
Optical coherence tomography in a laser processing head can accomplish precise real-time post-process control and position adjustment for the filler wire.
01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
High speed laser cutting of EV electrodes
High-quality cut edges are essential to ensure reliable electric connections and prevent defects like spatter and dross, which can cause internal short circuits.
High-precision at low-cost
Product: High-power and high-volume Pulsed Laser Diodes (1550UA Series) at 1550 nm
05.02.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
Solutions for wire and busbar stripping
A new early view article in PhotonicsViews discusses challenges for busbars in mass production, and high-speed CO₂ laser busbar de-coating methods.
23.01.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
PARMS coating technology for UV to IR laser applications
A new article in PhotonicsViews discusses the production of high-quality oxides-based optical filters with low losses.
23.01.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
Line beam shaping with a tailored anamorphic diffuser
A method for improving the narrow-axis integrated intensity uniformity in laser line beam shaping for partially coherent laser sources is presented in the PhotonicsViews e-Special 1/2025.
13.01.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
Beginning to see the light
A new early view article in PhotonicsViews presents a rigorous far-field model that allows to calculate the reflectance of the via.
06.11.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
How laser material processing can benefit from OCT technology
A qualitative and quantitative analysis of ultrashort-pulse processing of glass in a technical article – now online and in PhotonicsViews issue 1/2025.
27.09.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
Laser cleaning of insect residue without surface alteration
Insect residues disturb and interrupt the laminar air flow on airplane wings after a while. These residues therefore need to be repeatedly removed. Shockwave-based laser cleaning of insect residue on stainless steel (1.4544.9) is presented in an early view article in PhotonicsViews.
31.07.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
Tracking greenhouse gases with a laser
Faced with advancing climate change, we drastically need to monitor and understand the various sources and sinks of greenhouse gases worldwide in real time. One approach to accomplishing this is to regulate and monitor man-made methane emissions. Laser systems as developed by researchers at Fraunhofer ILT offer ways to do exactly that. At the heart of lidar instruments, they can precisely determine greenhouse gases in the atmosphere with high spatial and temporal resolution, even from great distances, and do so worldwide.
09.07.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
Shaping the future of photonics and quantum technologies in Germany
The opportunities and challenges of photonics and quantum technologies were addressed at the Photonics Germany Future Summit in Berlin.
08.07.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
Gas detector to prevent millions of air pollution deaths
A new gas-sensing network that analyzes multiple gasses in real time in towns and cities is being developed to prevent deaths caused by ambient air pollution.
20.06.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
OCT for automated conventional welding in the automotive industry
Experts from Lessmueller Lasertechnik discuss the advantages to extend the use of OCT – as known from laser welding – to classical GMAW in an early view article of PhotonicsViews.
06.06.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
Flexible laser plastic welding as an addition to AM
Individualization, shorter product cycles and prototyping are leading to increased use of additive manufacturing in industry. A reliable and versatile process like laser plastic welding is needed to join parts with other additively manufactured or injection molded parts.
15.05.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
Light technologies buck trend despite global economic turmoil
New research published today shows the photonics industries in Europe, the US, and Asia outpaced global GDP from 2019 to the post-pandemic period of 2022, growing at a CAGR of 6.8 %.
22.01.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
Integrating quantum sensors onto chips
Quantum technologies: Bosch aims to use sensors to take a leading position, describes areas of application from medicine to mobility in a new PhotonicsViews article.
12.01.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
Image sensing revolution makes 2024 the ‘year of the quantum dot’
Nanoscale semiconductor particles are making waves in the sectors including autonomous vehicles, food inspection, medical devices, artificial intelligence, and more, as industry players increasingly seek to expand their access to infrared data.
09.01.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
Fiber optics connectivity based on long-wavelength VCSELs
KDPOF and Trumpf describe the implementation of optical data communication standards and solutions for the automotive industry in a new technical article.
06.12.2023 • Contributions • Photonics
Towards the quantum internet
With its immense computing power, quantum communication is set to become the backbone of the next-generation internet.
05.12.2023 • Contributions • Photonics
Laser applications boost battery manufacturing efficiency
During a two-day meeting hosted by the University of Stuttgart at the cutting-edge research campus ARENA2036, a panel of experts discussed the latest developments, new applications, and market trends.
