Rewarding Quantum Effects
Award presentation ceremony is highlight on first exhibition day, five winners announced in four categories.
Awards
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov are awarded “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier are awarded “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.
James Wyant named Optica Honorary Member
Emeritus professor is recognized for his exceptional contributions to the global optics and photonics community.
Ultrafast lasers for materials processing
Clara Saraceno plans to bring a new kind of laser to the market with a grant from the European Research Council.
SPIE welcomes 89 new Senior Members
The society honor recognizes scientific excellence and technical achievements, as well as active participation in the optics community.
inspect award 2023: Vote now and choose the best innovations
The jury of the inspect award 2023 has nominated ten products each in the categories "Vision" and "Automation + Control". Now it's the readers' turn to vote.
Auggie Award for TriLite’s ultracompact AR display
The world’s smallest projection display Trixel 3 has been chosen as a winner at the AWE Auggie Awards, in the category ‘best interaction product’.
Humboldt Professorship awarded to F. Ömer Ilday
Expert for ultrafast laser technology establishes a materials science research center at Ruhr University, Germany.
Femtosecond fiber lasers for high-precision measurement technology
The DPG Technology Transfer Prize was awarded to the Center for Applied Photonics at the University of Konstanz and Toptica at the 4th WTT Forum Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Dialog.
AMA Innovation Prize goes to Leipzig this year
This year, the AMA awards its innovation award to Quantum Technologies for their magnetic field quantum sensor
Theodor Hänsch Prize in Quantum Optics awarded to Victoria Xu
$20,000 prize honors achievements in using quantum optics to improve metrology and advance gravitational wave detection.
Overcoming the fundamental dispersion limit of optical interference
Alexander von Humboldt Professor Malte Gather at the University of Cologne receives 2.5 million euros funding from the European Research Council (ERC) over five years.
Bosch Rexroth and MantiSpectra win Hermes Awards
Companies from Germany and The Netherlands were presented with the prestigious industrial prizes at the opening ceremony of Hannover Messe.
A celebration of sustainable growth and leadership in laser technologies
EPIC presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Ekspla’s Kestutis Jasiunas and CEO Award to Håkan Karlsson, the head of the Photonics division at Hübner Group and CEO of Cobolt.
Optica names recipients for 2023 awards and medals
Robert Boyd wins the 2023 Frederic Ives Medal / Jarus W Quinn Prize and 17 more recipients for other honors.
Robert Byer named Optica honorary member
The Spectra Physics and Stanford University emeritus, an outstanding volunteer in the laser community, is added to the most distinguished of all Optica member categories.
IPHT expands its range of optical methods in medicine
The Leibniz Institute in Jena establishes a new working group for field-resolved spectroscopic measurement methods, headed by ERC Consolidator Grant winner Ioachim Pupeza.
Optical blood pressure monitoring method honored
The concept is the cornerstone of a technological solution that enables non-invasive health checks for millions of patients worldwide.
Evosys receives Top 100 seal and Best of Industry Award
In the 30th round of the Top 100 innovation competition, the laser welding experts from Erlangen were successful once again after 2020.
Photonics West for the win
Companies receive Prism Awards and Startup Challenge prizes at Photonics West, San Francisco.
SPIE announces its 2023 Fellows from across the globe
This year, the international society for optics and photonics welcomes 83 members as new ‘Fellows of the Society’.
Improving microscopy with optimized software
The Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology IPHT was awarded $20,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Optica Foundation funds research through its 20th Anniversary Challenge
New photonics research to solve for environmental challenges and increasing the global bandwidth of optical communications.
Quantum Science wins at Warrington Business Awards
UK quantum company beat out two other finalists to take home gold in the innovation award category, recognized for its forward-thinking quantum dot solutions.
Evosys receives Bavaria innovation award
Evosys is winner of the first main prize of this year's Bavarian innovation award. The jury was impressed by the patented AQW laser welding process.
Rainer Blatt named 2023 Herbert Walther Award recipient
Optica and the DPG have named Rainer Blatt, University of Innsbruck, Austria, the recipient of the 2023 Herbert Walther Award.
Bioabsorbable breast implants and robotic post-processing …
For the eighth time, the international Formnext Start-up Challenge has recognized young companies from the world of additive manufacturing for their innovative business ideas and technical developments.
Applied Photonics Award 2022 – these are the winners
Bioanalytics, mobile communication, weather research – this year, the winners of the Applied Photonics Award have once again demonstrated how broad photonics research is. The young researcher award of the Fraunhofer IOF was presented to the five award winners of 2022 on October 5 as part of Photonics Days Jena.
Nobel Prize in physics goes to Aspect, Clauser, and Zeilinger
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honors “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.
Horwitz Prize for foundational work on optogenetics
Columbia University will award the 2022 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA, Peter Hegemann, Humboldt University, Germany, and Gero Miesenböck, University of Oxford, UK, “for foundational work on optogenetics”. The prize will be presented at a ceremony held in New York City on February 16, 2023.
Pruuve wins Photonics21 Innovation Award 2022
Tim Achenbach, Paul-Anton Will and Philipp Wellmann started the spin-off with the aim of bringing reusable UV sensor foils to market maturity. Now they have been honored with the Photonics21 Innovation Award.
inspect award 2022: Vote now and choose the best innovations
The jury of the inspect award 2022 has nominated ten products each in the categories "Vision" and "Automation + Control". Now it's the turn of the readers of WileyIndustryNews to choose the best innovations in machine vision and optical metrology of 2022.
Yang wins German research award
Lan Yang, at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected to receive the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award.
Helmholtz Prize for two world-class optics research teams
This year’s Helmholtz Prize is honoring two important contributions to physics, one relating to fundamental research and one to applied research, but both in the field of optics.
Ziemann & Urban GmbH
Institute of Physics
Deutsche Messe AG
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
CSEM SA
SPIE
Technische Universität Dresden
EMVA European Machine Vision Association
Optica
SUSS MicroOptics SA
University of Cologne
VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V.
Cobolt AB, a part of HÜBNER Photonics
Nynomic AG
LPT – Lehrstuhl für Photonische Technologien
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Coherent Corp.
Laser Institute of America
Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V.
TriLite Technologies GmbH
ficonTEC Service GmbH
Max Planck School of Photonics
Vector Photonics Ltd.
Comet Yxlon GmbH
Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Photonics21
Fraunhofer-Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration IZM
Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF
Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH
Fusion Bionic GmbH
European Photonics Industry Consortium EPIC
Arbeitskreis Lasertechnik e.V.
AMA Verband für Sensorik und Messtechnik e.V.
TRUMPF SE + Co. KG
German Physical Society
Heriot-Watt University
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Evosys Laser GmbH
TOPTICA Photonics SE
TriEye Ltd.
Quantum Science Ltd