Lasers and Industry 4.0
Cutting-edge laser-based technologies are a key component of Industry 4.0 systems and occupy an increasingly central role in the ongoing evolution of connected, agile and high-speed manufacturing... Read More
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Element Six Diamond Shortlisted for Innovation Award
Element Six, a specialist in synthetic diamond supermaterials announced that its quantum diamond for room temperature Maser is a finalist in the optical device category of the Laser World of Photonics Innovation Award 2019, held... -
SPIE to Acquire Photonex, UK Optics and Photonics Exhibition
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has agreed to purchase Xmark Media, tradeshow organizer of key photonics exhibitions and conferences in the UK including Photonex Europe, Vacuum Expo, Graphene Expo, and... -
UKIVA Machine Vision Conference Considered a Success
The 3rd UKIVA Machine Vision Conference and Exhibition, held in Milton Keynes, proved to be a great success, with visitor numbers up by 15% compared to 2018 and an outstanding exhibitor satisfaction rating. In an... -
Confocal.nl One of Ten Winners in Dutch Startup Competition
Nominated as one of 28 Dutch technology companies, Confocal.nl was named as one of ten winners of the Netherlands Academic Startup Competition organised by the Association of Universities (VSNU), the Netherlands Academy of... -
EU Photonics Industry to Invest 100 Billion Euros in Horizon Europe Partnership
A new position paper published yesterday shows the photonics industry’s commitment to invest up to €100 billion in R&I throughout the next scientific research initiative, Horizon Europe, 2021-2027, in an... -
Organic CMOS Image Sensor Market to Grow More than 20% through 2025
Organic CMOS image sensor market is expected to value at $696.0 million in 2020 and is projected to reach $1,750.0 million by 2025, registering a CAGR of 20.9% from 2021 to 2025. The organic CMOS image sensor market is... -
Embedded Vision Europe October in Stuttgart
The second edition of Embedded Vision Europe will take place from 24-25 October 2019 at the ICS International Congress Center Stuttgart again, directly at Stuttgart Airport. The Embedded Vision... View All
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Imaging Cells with DNA Microscopy Compiles Genomic Information
Traditionally, scientists have used light, x-rays, and electrons to peer inside tissues and cells. Today, scientists can trace thread-like fibers of nerves throughout the brain and even watch living mouse embryos conjure the beating cells of a... -
Lasers Can Scan Large Areas for Hazardous Materials
Researchers have developed a new laser-based method that can detect electric charges and chemicals of interest with unprecedented sensitivity. The new approach could one day offer a way to scan large areas for radioactive material or hazardous... -
New Wire Additive Manufacturing Project
The NEWAM (New Wire Additive Manufacturing) project has a vision to transform large-area metal additive manufacture, by pioneering new high build-rate wire based processes with greater precision of shape and microstructure. It builds on and... -
Recording Music with Rydberg Atoms
The group at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado (US), spent six years finding a way to directly measure electric fields using atoms, so who can blame them for then having a little fun with their new... -
Solar-Powered Approach to Purifying Salt Water with Sunlight and Nanoparticles
Rice University's solar-powered approach for purifying salt water with sunlight and nanoparticles is even more efficient than its creators first believed. Researchers in Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) this week showed... -
Atherosclerotic Plaque Imaging with Photoacoustic Radar
In an article published in the peer-reviewed SPIE publication Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO), "Frequency-domain differential photoacoustic radar: theory and validation for ultra-sensitive atherosclerotic plaque imaging,"... -
European Photonics Research Consortium Gets Thousands of Girls into STEM
According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), fewer than 30% of the world's researchers are women. However, a new outreach project has been tackling this underrepresentation by engaging young female minds with STEM, in the... View All
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Automated Bonding Inspection in the Automotive Industry
In the automotive industry, bonding has become a key technology that is increasingly replacing other joining technologies. Both engine and body parts are bonded, and for good reason: bonded cars generally perform better in crash tests than welded... -
Specialist Endoscope Systems for Challenging Applications
Resolve Optics is a well established supplier of specialist endoscopic systems for hostile environments where radiation, extremes of temperature / pressure or contact with corrosive liquids and gases would render standard products unusable. To... -
Is CoaXPress the Future of Autonomous Vehicle Camera Safety Systems?
While the CoaXPress (CXP) standard is intended primarily for machine vision tasks, it is equally well suited for imaging applications in other sectors where extreme high-speed data transmission from a camera to a PC is required. One of most... -
First Field-Deployed Testbed for Multi-Core Fiber Communications
Optoscribe, a supplier of 3D glass-based integrated photonics components, and Sumitomo Electric Industries, an optical fiber cable and component manufacturing technology supplier, have teamed up with the University of L’Aquila, Italy, to... -
PicoQuant's Quantum Symposium: Focus on photonic quantum technologies
From May 22 to 24, 2019, PicoQuant held its second international symposium on “Single Photon Based Quantum Technologies” in Berlin. The three day event brought together scientists from various areas of quantum technologies to report on... -
Technological Advances that Facilitate True Mass Micro Manufacturing
Nanofabrica recently announced the commercial launch of the world’s first mass production additive manufacturing (AM) platform aimed at micro manufacturing applications. Boasting single micron resolution, Nanofabrica’s technology... -
Lux Research Establishes AI's Role in Unleashing Intelligent Sensing
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is unlocking a wave of new sensor applications and driving market demand for intelligent sensing – the ability to extract insights from sensor data. To guide innovation and investment in this... View All
