11.04.2025 • News
Laseroptik was granted Coherent’s global supplier excellence award
German coating experts recognized for ”Outstanding Quality 2025“.
Awards
03.04.2025 • News
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.
27.03.2025 • News
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
21.02.2025 • News
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.
31.01.2025 • News
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.
27.01.2025 • News
2025 Optica Ambassadors – 50 % from industry
Coherent – Edmund Optics – Jenoptik – Lightfinder – Zeiss: ambassadors provide mentorship and support student and early-career professional engagement worldwide.
08.01.2025 • News
SPIE names its 2025 Fellows
The society is welcomes 47 new fellow members from across the globe, among them eight from industry.
03.12.2024 • News
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.
09.10.2024 • News
Awards presented for innovations in quantum technologies
The Quantum Effects Awards were presented in four categories at the Stuttgart trade fair and conference.
26.09.2024 • News
30 years of exchange on laser technology
Review: 13th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies [LANE 2024]
25.09.2024 • News
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.
18.09.2024 • News
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.
17.09.2024 • News
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.
15.08.2024 • News
AutomationsBest Award: Vote now!
Choose your favorite from the categories: Best Product, Best Solution, Best Start-up until October 11th
28.06.2024 • News
Jeff Kimble recognized for contributions to quantum optics
Optica names inaugural Leonard Mandel Quantum Optics Award recipient.
20.06.2024 • News
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”.
19.04.2024 • News
EPIC awards for Viacheslav Artyushenko, Axel Kupisiewicz
Consortium honors leadership in the manufacturing of industrial laser machines, special optical fibers.
18.04.2024 • News
Presentation of the Innovation Award Laser Technology 2024 in Aachen
Recognition of innovations from laser technology for the industry.
02.04.2024 • News
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.
21.03.2024 • News
£2.5M to develop new ultrafast laser technologies
Edinburgh scientist John Travers has secured a prestigious engineering award.
14.03.2024 • News
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.
02.02.2024 • News
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.
19.01.2024 • News
The Magnificent Six
Contenders nominated for the annual pitch competition final, held at SPIE Photonics West.
15.01.2024 • News
EMVA announces Young Professional Award
You can apply now; the prize is worth 1,500 euros
11.01.2024 • News
20 researchers and developers honored with SPIE awards
Recipients represent a broad range of outstanding achievements across light-based sciences and technologies.
09.01.2024 • News
SPIE honors new fellows for 2024
The international society for optics and photonics is welcoming 47 new fellow members from across the globe.
05.01.2024 • News
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.
19.12.2023 • News
Bringing quantum computing to light
Funding award for generation and detection of large-scale quantum entanglement on an integrated photonic chip.
14.12.2023 • News
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.
13.12.2023 • News
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.
11.12.2023 • News
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.
08.11.2023 • News
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.
06.11.2023 • News
Peter Leibinger receives the Schawlow Award
Recognition of outstanding achievements that lead to a fundamental understanding of laser technology and its applications.
13.10.2023 • News
The 2023 winners of Applied Photonics Award
Fraunhofer IOF Young Scientists Award for Innovative Theses presented
11.10.2023 • News
Industry Awards at ECOC 2023
This year’s awards have been announced live at the ECOC Exhibition in the Product Focus theater.
Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)
ficonTEC Service GmbH
Comet Yxlon GmbH
Deutsche Messe AG
Nynomic AG
Coherent Corp.
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
TRUMPF SE + Co. KG
SPIE
Max Planck School of Photonics
Arbeitskreis Lasertechnik e.V.
EMVA European Machine Vision Association
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF
Optica
Heriot-Watt University
TriLite Technologies GmbH
Technische Universität Dresden
Fraunhofer-Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration IZM
Photonics21
Quantum Science Ltd
Institute of Physics
CSEM SA
Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V.
LPT – Lehrstuhl für Photonische Technologien
German Physical Society
Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH
Cobolt AB, a part of HÜBNER Photonics
Fusion Bionic GmbH
TriEye Ltd.
University of Cologne
Laser Institute of America
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
European Photonics Industry Consortium EPIC
Ziemann & Urban GmbH
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
TOPTICA Photonics SE
Evosys Laser GmbH
SUSS MicroOptics SA
Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH
AMA Verband für Sensorik und Messtechnik e.V.
VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V.
Vector Photonics Ltd.
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)