New general manager for Menlo USA
Jens Schumacher takes over the helm of the frequency-comb specialized company’s American branch.
Photonics
The Magnificent Six
Contenders nominated for the annual pitch competition final, held at SPIE Photonics West.
AMS Technologies takes over Neolase
Acquisition to broaden the existing customized photonic solutions portfolio.
Lithography system for high-tech fab
Jenoptik is investing a low double-digit million euro amount in its Dresden site, purchases machine from Vistec Electron Beam.
100 % acquisition of Art Photonics
Expansion the technology platform, creating significant synergy potential within the Nynomic group.
Applied Materials and CEA-Leti unveil joint lab
The collaboration focuses on developing differentiated materials engineering solutions for several specialty semiconductor applications.
“Igniting the future of outdoor augmented reality”
VitreaLab receives investment from PhotonVentures targeting a leap in display technology and new AR and VR experiences.
New chip integrates electronics with photonic components
New device paves the way towards a new generation of compact, high-resolution RF photonic filters.
KCOP: a high-tech center for KIT
Karlsruhe Center for Optics and Photonics sets standard and uses synergies – interdisciplinarity to push exchange and innovation.
World's first superconducting wide-strip photon detector
High-performance photon detection will lower the fabrication cost and hurdles of photon detectors.
Generating circularly polarized light
A novel semiconductor generates light and simultaneously gives that light a spin.
Ultrafast laser fits on a fingertip
New advance will enable pocket-sized GPS-free navigation, medical imaging and food safety inspection.
Jenoptik increases sales and incoming orders
The photonics group Jenoptik continued on its growth path: sales rose by 10.1 percent to 768.7 million euros in the first nine months (previous year: 698.0 million euros).
New managing director for Trumpf Photonic Components
Dr Thomas Harrer will be the new head of the Trumpf subsidiary in Ulm, Germany, effective December 1, 2023.
Nanophotonic electron accelerator works
German researchers succeed for the first time in accelerating electrons using a nano device.
The 2023 winners of Applied Photonics Award
Fraunhofer IOF Young Scientists Award for Innovative Theses presented
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov are awarded “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”.
Shimura Masayuki joins Quantum Science
The new commercialization director will oversee the company’s activities to drive further growth for its quantum dot materials.
Quix Quantum completes its C-suite executives
Kathy Willing is appointed the new chief financial officer.
EOSAM brought together photonics experts in Dijon
Review of the European Optical Society Annual Meeting, 11 – 15 September 2023 in France, co-organized by the French Optical Society.
Bernhard Ohnesorge is the new Spectaris chairman
Mirjam Rösch becomes his deputy, Amily Guo now heads the Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein regional group.
Photonic memory for faster optical computing
A nanosecond-scale volatile modulation scheme integrating a phase-change material.
Second photonics industry summit in Washington, DC
The day-long SPIE event focuses on optics and photonics as a key enabler of emerging technologies.
Delivering new computing paradigm using photonics
Optical interconnect for composable data center architectures, unlocking infrastructure scalability
CrayoNano and AquiSense sign commercial frame contract
The contract contains sales of UV-C LED components valued at about 4 million NOK over the next 12 months.
Chip-based dispersion compensation for faster fiber internet
New grating devices significantly reduce data transmission errors.
100 million euros for Smart Photonics
The Dutch foundry for PICs has secured an additional round of funding from a group of strategic industrial and financial players.
New high-heat resin for fiber optics and more
Chemical company Sabic has expanded its product portfolio.
KDPOF receives investment of the European Commission for chip development
Company gets access to the 8.1 billion euro investment for their projected packaging plant for optoelectronic devices in Spain.
An anomalous quantum interference of light
New bunching effect in which all photons coalesce into two output beams.
Complex is the scattering of light
Understanding how nanoparticles influence light rays could provide innovative and more efficient designs of metasurfaces for future optical devices and metaoptical systems.
Lasers enable internet backbone via satellite
Satellites could replace expensive deep-sea cables as the internet backbone soon.
Photonics industry thrilled by Laser 2023
Review Laser World of Photonics, 27 – 30 June 2023: A great atmosphere in full halls, lively discussions and a very international audience.
Optical control with topological edge states
Researchers harness the robustness of topological edge states to manipulate light transport.
€ 11 M-funding for nonlinear optics on atomic scales
The collaborative research center on light-matter interactions in Jena will be funded by the German Research Foundation for another four years from July 1, 2023.
