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Precise 3D quality inspection with laser profile scanners
Micro-Epsilon's Scancontrol series laser profile scanners are used in coordinate measuring machines (CMM) for quality assurance and reverse engineering.
Aerotech opens LaserLab in Fürth
This new center offers customers from all over Europe the opportunity to test and optimize sophisticated laser processes under realistic conditions.
PhotonicsViews September 2025 available now!
The new issue of the PhotonicsViews is available. Read the September 2025 issue for free as PDF or E-Paper.
Optics and photonics industry gathering at Optatec 2026
The international trade fair for optical technologies will take place in Frankfurt am Main from May 5 to 7, 2026.
Optical knots made of laser beams
Interference patterns between overlapping laser beams could transmit encoded information over thousands of feet through chaotic environments.
Tiny laser measures objects at ultrafast rates
The chip-scale laser has applications ranging from guiding autonomous vehicles to detecting gravitational waves.
A laser that can “see” and “think”
Machine learning makes laser processes more precise, more cost-effective and more efficient.
Change in management at Carl Zeiss Meditec
Dr. Markus Weber has informed the Supervisory Board that he will be leaving the company at his own request on May 31, 2025.
A tiny chip for mid-infrared pulses
New device generates short bursts of light for sensing and spectroscopy.
Infineon and Marelli enter new era of cockpit design
MEMS laser beam scanning for an immersive car display experience.
Microcombs for ultraprecise optical atomic clocks
New chips help pave the way for thousand times more accurate GPS systems.
Quantum light source for a green production of biogas
A quantum cascade lasers helps to extract valuable substances from biomass.
From qubits to qudits
A new quantum device could improve encryption in critical service areas like banking and health care.
Boosting lightweight vehicle design with laser surface texturing
Korean researchers utilize laser surface texturing to enhance metal-polymer bonding.
Laser 2000 announces partnership with Optomotive
Strategic collaboration to expand photonics offering
Ultracompact light source for encryption
Fraunhofer IOF unveils an ultracompact VCSEL-based photon source for quantum communication, enabling high-speed, space-ready encryption with precise polarization and spectral control.
New lidar system identifies plastics
Hyperspectral imaging offers a valuable tool for future monitoring and analysis of oceanic plastic pollution.
Printing droplet laser displays
A new method for rapidly creating laser light sources in large quantities.
Recycling quantum dots in microscopic lasers
New method could be applied to wide range of nanoparticles, promoting sustainability in lasers, biosensors and electronics.
The last missing piece of silicon photonics
The first electrically pumped continuous-wave semiconductor laser for a seamless silicon integration.
Controlling light with photonic time crystals
A new discovery could dramatically enhance technologies like lasers, sensor, and optical computing in the near future.
Record-breaking laser pulses
New laser produces the strongest ultrashort laser pulses to date for precision measurements or materials processing.
Pushing the limits of conventional lasers
A project for a new type of light source for extremely fast laser pulses starts.
First demonstration of a dual-media NV diamond laser system
New approach to measure extremely low magnetic fields in the femtotesla to picotesla range.
New partnership for ultrashort-pulse lasers
LZH and the Ferdinand-Braun-Institute are jointly researching electrically pumped semiconductor disk lasers.
EOS cooperates with nLight
nLight to supply EOS with AFX programmable beam shaping lasers, and collaborate on technologies for light engine optimization.
SuperLight Photonics expands reach with strategic partnership in Japan
The Dutch spin-off company from the University of Twente is expanding its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region.
Nanowires for photonic chips
New strategy to deliver thousands of nanolasers with multiple wavelengths on the same substrat.
Gamma ray laser project gets funded
NSF funding will allow University of Rochester scientists and their European collaborators to study the feasibility of coherent light sources beyond x-rays.
A chip-scale titanium-sapphire laser
New approach for cheaper and massively scalable laser-array systems for several applications.
A new path for on-chip frequency comb generators
Streamlined microcomb design provides control with the flip of a switch.
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.
Miniaturizing a laser on a photonic chip
A tiny powerful erbium-based fiber laser on a silicon-nitride photonic chip promises advances in optical communications.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
NUBURU Inc.
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
A&B KMG Service GmbH
AMS Technologies AG
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
IRsweep AG
Coherent Corp.
Evosys North America Corporation
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
Vector Photonics Ltd.
Precitec GmbH & Co. KG
BLOOM LASERS
TRUMPF Scientific Lasers GmbH + Co. KG
VALO Innovations GmbH
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
MKS Instruments
Aerotech GmbH
Prima Industrie S.p.A.
Quantel USA
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik
SuperLight Photonics BV
Laser Components Germany GmbH
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF
TRUMPF SE + Co. KG
nLIGHT, Inc.
VDMA Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbauer e.V.
S&I Spectroscopy & Imaging GmbH
Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik IWS
Precitec Optronik GmbH
European Photonics Industry Consortium EPIC
SCANLAB GmbH
Laser Cheval – SAS
TOPTICA Photonics SE
neoLASE GmbH
Newport Spectra-Physics
Trumpf Gruppe
Marelli Holdings Co., Ltd
Active Fiber Systems GmbH
Micro-Epsilon Messtechnik GmbH & Co. KG
Prima Additive S.r.l.
HighFinesse GmbH
HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG
Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH
Innoptics SAS
Civan Lasers
Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics (IAP)
IMS CHIPS
Schulz-Electronic GmbH
Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT