An Ultrafast Laser on a Chip
Ultrafast lasers emit pulses lasting only a few hundred femtoseconds, or quadrillionths of a second. These flashes of light power applications from precision micromachining, eye surgery to optical... Read More
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Laser Components USA Relocates to Chandler, Arizona
The sales organization of LASER COMPONENTS USA has relocated to Chandler, Arizona. Located in the same modern facility where LASER COMPONENTS produces a large portfolio of detectors, this move strengthens collaboration between... -
VISION 2026 on track - strong international presence, high level of innovation and new formats
Preparations for VISION 2026 - the world’s leading trade fair for machine vision – are already in full swing, and the latest figures give cause for optimism: With around 400 exhibitors currently registered, the trade... -
Innovation Award for Laser Technology Goes to Riblet Process
The Innovation Award Laser Technology 2026 has been awarded to Dr. Tobias Dyck and the LEAF team from 4JET microtech. The 10,000 Euro prize was awarded to a laser-based process for creating so-called riblet structures, i.e.... -
Photon Design's Laser Design Course Is Now Part of Cardiff University's Physics Curriculum
Photon Design, a global leader in photonic simulation CAD software, has partnered with Cardiff University to deliver a two-day, laser design course, as part of its physics curriculum. Students begin the course with laser theory... -
Hamamatsu Photonics Europe and Coher Sense Collaborate to Simplify Laser Measurement
Hamamatsu Photonics Europe has announced a collaboration with Coher Sense to advance the next generation of laser measurement technology. Building on Coher Sense’s award-winning innovation in compact... -
BitFlow Frame Grabber Selected by NASA for Space Radiation Testing of InGaAs Infrared Camera
BitFlow, Inc., a division of Advantech, today announced that its Axion-CL Camera Link frame grabber was selected by engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center as the ground-based interface device in a system-level... -
Basler AG and Orbbec Launch Technology Partnership for Industrial 3D Vision
Basler AG, a leading provider of machine vision components and solutions, and Orbbec Inc., a 3D vision technology and robotics specialist, have announced a strategic partnership to develop industrial 3D solutions for factory and... View All
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An Ultrafast Laser on a Chip
Ultrafast lasers emit pulses lasting only a few hundred femtoseconds, or quadrillionths of a second. These flashes of light power applications from precision micromachining, eye surgery to optical frequency combs, the Nobel Prize-winning technology... -
Event-Driven 3D Imaging Using Virtual-Screen Deflectometry for Complex Surfaces
Imagine navigating a city street during rush hour – cars and bikes zipping by, pedestrians hustling down a crowded sidewalk, your eyes adjusting to the shop windows' glare in one moment and a dark underpass the next. Our brain, of course,... -
Novel Device Could Boost the Development of Sound-based Lasers
Researchers at McGill University in Canada have developed a novel device that generates sound-like particles known as phonons at extremely cold temperatures. The technology could be used to create phonon lasers, with possible applications in... -
Double-slit Experiment Reveals Hidden Details Between Light and Matter
A rainbow reveals with colours what otherwise remains hidden: light is “refracted” by transparent matter, in this case water droplets. This same physical effect underlies many everyday technologies, like LCD screens and broadband... -
Pixelated BIC Metasurfaces for Terahertz Integrated Sensing and Imaging
A new study reports a breakthrough metasurface-enabled terahertz (THz) imaging and spectroscopy platform that overcomes the limitations of the slow, sequential data acquisition process. Utilizing quasi-bound states in the continuum (q-BICs), the... -
A High-Performance Photodetector with Precision in Structure and Power Detection
A research team from the Department of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan, has achieved a significant breakthrough in nanoscience by overcoming a longstanding challenge in... -
High-Speed Machine Vision System Decodes Chicken Feeding Biomechanics at 300 FPS
Researchers at Paulista University in São Paulo, Brazil have issued a landmark study validating a scalable, automated sensing framework capable of quantifying broiler feeding biomechanics in real time. Published under the title Smart Farming... View All
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High-Speed Machine Vision System Decodes Chicken Feeding Biomechanics at 300 FPS
Researchers at Paulista University in São Paulo, Brazil have issued a landmark study validating a scalable, automated sensing framework capable of quantifying broiler feeding biomechanics in real time. Published under the title Smart Farming... -
Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) Boosts Flexibility of Arbitrary Waveform Generators
Spectrum Instrumentation has introduced a new Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) option for its 65xx series Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWGs), providing a highly economical solution for generating sinusoidal signals, finely tuneable reference... -
Photon Bridge and CPFC Validate Path to Scalable Multi-Wavelength Light Engines
 Photon Bridge© announced a strategic partnership with CPFC, the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre, as the InP laser foundry partner for Photon Bridge’s multi-wavelength external laser sources (ELS). This... -
Hamamatsu Photonics and Physicist Professor Massimo Caccia Launch Educational Videos Series
Hamamatsu Photonics, in partnership with Professor Massimo Caccia, CEO of Random Power and Insubria University Professor of Physics, announces the launch of “Every Photon Matters: Professor Caccia’s Single Photon Counting... -
CEA-Leti Demonstrates Combined MicroLED and Organic Photodetector Architecture For Display-Integrated Optical Sensing
CEA-Leti today demonstrated a co-packaged microLED and organic photodetector (OPD) architecture that enables optical sensing functions. This solution paves the way to integrate sensing capabilities directly within a microLED display, without... -
Solar-Powered Streetlights Wipe Out AI Climate Impact
A new high-tech solar-powered streetlight, iLamp, made by British greentech firm Conflow Power Group, provides a unique solution to a growing global AI power consumption crisis – reducing the carbon footprint to near-zero while supplying the... -
Line Scan Camera Provides Highly Accurate 2D Color and 3D Inspection of Cell Phone Glass Surfaces
The manufacture of glass displays for mobile devices requires a high level of precision and speed. Common surface defects in screen glass, such as scratches, chips and embedded foreign objects, should be identified and removed during manufacturing... View All
