biophotonics

19.02.2025 • News

Leica Microsystems acquires Atto-Tec

The microscopy and scientific instrumentation company has taken over the specialty supplier of fluorescent dyes and reagents from Siegen.

18.11.2024 • News

New UCF lab focuses on healing power of light

Opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, medical students, residents fellows and physicians to conduct interdisciplinary research at University of Central Florida.

11.11.2024 • News

Jena and Albany establish research center for photonics and AI

CeBAI is based at the University at Albany, NY, and focuses on the development of new diagnostic tools and forensic applications.

19.08.2024 • News

Implantable LED device to treat cancer

Photoactivated cells exhibited signs of cell death by light-induced pyroptosis.

04.04.2024 • News

Controlling biofilm formation using optical traps

As a tool for influencing biofilm growth patterns, laser manipulation could enable biofilms to be used for sensors.

20.03.2024 • News

Extended live cell imaging at nanoscale resolution

Power to see more with improved resolution and light dose balance.

02.02.2024 • News

Pilot project for recruiting skilled workers at international trade fairs

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) and Spectaris test new concept at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco

17.01.2024 • News

Laser scarecrows make birds see red

Lasers could deliver a sustainable answer to the expensive problem of bird damage to crops.

02.01.2024 • News

Insights into the evolution of far-red light photosynthesis

New approach to engineer enhanced plants with expanded light absorption capabilities.

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.

03.08.2023 • News

Shaping the world with light and women’s power

Leibniz IPHT offers career workshop in Jena – registration open until August 31, 2023, travel grants available.

27.06.2023 • News

German photonics on course for growth

Sales growth of seven percent per year expected until 2027

24.04.2023 • News

Chromacity targets key industrial markets with AMS Technologies

Ultrafast laser company joins forces with key European provider of photonics technologies as it focuses on biomedical, semiconductor, energy and defense sectors.

18.04.2023 • News

Toptica opens new headquarters

The company welcomes its customers and employees to new premises at the Gräfelfing site near Munich

10.02.2023 • News

Tracking down tumors with quantum optics

€6.7M project works on new tool for cancer diagnostics – Rapp Optoelectronic coordinates partners from industry and academia.

10.02.2023 • News

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.

02.02.2023 • News

Modulight laser gets FDA approval for photodynamic AMD treatment

The company will start launching the product in the US without delay – European Union authorization is expected this year.

24.01.2023 • News

Improving microscopy with optimized software

The Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology IPHT was awarded $20,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

19.01.2023 • News

Blood glucose monitoring with laser light instead of needles

Rather than having to prick with a needle or wear an implant, in the future people with diabetes will simply be wearing a wrist-worn device that reads their glucose with a minilaser.

10.01.2023 • News

Better results for skin cancer surgery

Fluorescence imaging helps improve outcomes in head and neck skin cancer treatment – at reduced cost.

04.01.2023 • News

Light converting films accelerate plant growth

Plastic sheets coated with an europium-based compound converts UV light to red light.

27.12.2022 • News

Detecting bacterial infestation fast, contactless and free of markers

With a multimodal microscope, the joint project PriMe wants to detect bacterial infestation using fast, marker-free, and contactless imaging.

12.12.2022 • News

Controlling photosynthesis using mirrors

Placing photosynthetic antenna complexes between two mirrors to detect a strong interaction.

14.11.2022 • News

New photodetector inspired by photosynthesis

Technology uses polaritons to convert light to electrical charge. New approach could boost solar cell efficiency.

12.09.2022 • News

Intelligent microscopes detect biological events

Detecting much more subtle biological events using a neural network.

08.03.2022 • News

Seeing through blood with a microscope

The new collaborative project ‘BetterView’ is working on a special surgical microscope in order to detect cholesteatomas – an aggressive form of chronic otitis media – and bacterial biofilms and to remove them safely.

13.01.2022 • News • Photonics

PhotonicsViews issue 1/2022 is out

Issue 1/2022 – February / March – is online and has been mailed. It includes feature articles from Cailabs, Coherent, Hamamatsu Photonics, Ingeneric, iPronics, Joya Team, Solmates, and more companies and institutions. On the cover: Shenzhen JPT Opto-Electronics.

04.10.2021 • News

3D microscopy of human organs

New method can be used to reveal previously unrecognised alterations in the pancreas, but it can also be used to study other human organs and diseases.

12.08.2021 • News

Jenoptik: Second quarter of 2021 also shines with high growth

Jenoptik achieves sales growth of 29.6 percent in the 2nd quarter 2021 compared to the previous year. Half-year sales increased by 18.3 percent to 389 million euros. Based on these figures, the optics group is increasing its targets for 2021 as a whole: sales are expected to rise to 880 to 900 million euros and the EBITDA margin to 19 to 19.5 percent.