Laseroptik was granted Coherent’s global supplier excellence award
German coating experts recognized for ”Outstanding Quality 2025“.
Awards
DeepEn wins Leibniz Start-up Prize 2025
Spin-off of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena develops minimally invasive microendoscope systems for neuroscience and medicine.
EPIC honors members at its annual meeting
At the photonics association’s assembly in Barcelona, awards were presented to the CEOs of NIL Technology, IMM Photonics, and the founder of Amplitude Laser
Laser technology successful at Fraunhofer awards
On February 19, the 50,000 euro Fraunhofer Founder Award was presented to the spin-off Fusion Bionic. Dr Sarah Klein from the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology won 3rd place in the prestigious Hugo Geiger Prize.
Prism Awards presented for new products in the photonics industry
The industry-focused awards recognized innovations in lasers, biomedical, quantum tech, sensors, and cameras and imaging.
2025 Optica Ambassadors – 50 % from industry
Coherent – Edmund Optics – Jenoptik – Lightfinder – Zeiss: ambassadors provide mentorship and support student and early-career professional engagement worldwide.
SPIE names its 2025 Fellows
The society is welcomes 47 new fellow members from across the globe, among them eight from industry.
AMS Osram and Fraunhofer IZM win Deutscher Zukunftspreis
“Digital light” LED technology brings intelligence and precision to the world of traffic lighting and enables novel, safety-related applications.
Awards presented for innovations in quantum technologies
The Quantum Effects Awards were presented in four categories at the Stuttgart trade fair and conference.
30 years of exchange on laser technology
Review: 13th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies [LANE 2024]
ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards presented in Frankfurt
The awards highlight significant achievements in advancing the business of optical communications, networking, fiber-based products, PICs and related developments.
Werner von Siemens Ring goes to Zeiss and Trumpf
Award for the development of High-NA-EUV lithography and the industrial utilization of the EUV lithography.
Jürgen Czarske receives Dennis Gabor Award
TU Dresden professor awarded for works on digital holography and related techniques for biomedicine, fiber communication, imaging, information processing, and laser metrology.
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Jeff Kimble recognized for contributions to quantum optics
Optica names inaugural Leonard Mandel Quantum Optics Award recipient.
Jena research team receives Thuringian Research Prize
Four scientists from Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF have been awarded the “Thüringer Forschungspreis”.
EPIC awards for Viacheslav Artyushenko, Axel Kupisiewicz
Consortium honors leadership in the manufacturing of industrial laser machines, special optical fibers.
Presentation of the Innovation Award Laser Technology 2024 in Aachen
Recognition of innovations from laser technology for the industry.
Quantum Effects Award 2024: application phase has started
Presented on the first day of the Quantum Effects 2024 trade fair, the award honors outstanding innovations which open up new prospects in different industries.
£2.5M to develop new ultrafast laser technologies
Edinburgh scientist John Travers has secured a prestigious engineering award.
Award for authors of Introduction to Infrared and Electro-Optical Systems
2024 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award for Driggers, Friedman, Devitt, Furxhi, and Singh.
Winning products, companies, and startup challenge contestants
The photonics industry-focused Prism Awards honor innovations in technology areas such as lasers, biomedical, quantum, AR/VR/MR, sensors, and imaging.
The Magnificent Six
Contenders nominated for the annual pitch competition final, held at SPIE Photonics West.
20 researchers and developers honored with SPIE awards
Recipients represent a broad range of outstanding achievements across light-based sciences and technologies.
SPIE honors new fellows for 2024
The international society for optics and photonics is welcoming 47 new fellow members from across the globe.
QED-C recognizes Mark Wippich
The Quantum Economic Development Consortium’s (QED-C) third annual Carl Williams Award was presented to the CEO of MPW for his leadership of the QED-C Quantum Marketplace.
Bringing quantum computing to light
Funding award for generation and detection of large-scale quantum entanglement on an integrated photonic chip.
Take 5: new laser, photonics, quantum experts for Acatech
A total of 39 scientists have been newly elected into Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering.
75,000 dollars for non-invasive brain monitoring
Caltech’s Simon Mahler receives the 2024 SPIE Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship to achieve progress on real-time blood-flow monitoring in the human brain.
Photonic technologies introduce new ways to diagnose menopause and glaucoma
Optica Foundation Challenge provides grants for work on a chip-integrated light sensor for early-stage medical intervention.
Coherent wins 2023 IOP Business Innovation Award
The Axon laser has won one of three Business Awards from the Institute of Physics. The trophy was presented in a ceremony held October 30.
Peter Leibinger receives the Schawlow Award
Recognition of outstanding achievements that lead to a fundamental understanding of laser technology and its applications.
The 2023 winners of Applied Photonics Award
Fraunhofer IOF Young Scientists Award for Innovative Theses presented
Industry Awards at ECOC 2023
This year’s awards have been announced live at the ECOC Exhibition in the Product Focus theater.
Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH
Laser Institute of America
LPT – Lehrstuhl für Photonische Technologien
CSEM SA
European Photonics Industry Consortium EPIC
SPIE
SUSS MicroOptics SA
Cobolt AB, a part of HÜBNER Photonics
Technische Universität Dresden
EMVA European Machine Vision Association
Comet Yxlon GmbH
VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V.
TriLite Technologies GmbH
Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)
Vector Photonics Ltd.
Fraunhofer-Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration IZM
ficonTEC Service GmbH
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V.
AMA Verband für Sensorik und Messtechnik e.V.
TriEye Ltd.
Quantum Science Ltd
TOPTICA Photonics SE
Nynomic AG
Max Planck School of Photonics
Arbeitskreis Lasertechnik e.V.
Deutsche Messe AG
German Physical Society
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF
University of Cologne
Institute of Physics
Optica
Fusion Bionic GmbH
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Heriot-Watt University
TRUMPF SE + Co. KG
Evosys Laser GmbH
Photonics21
Ziemann & Urban GmbH
Coherent Corp.