Registration has opened for SPIE Photonics West 2026, which will run from 17 to 22 January at San Francisco's Moscone Center. The largest annual conference and exhibition in optics and photonics, ...

Spanoptic was founded over 32 years ago and is regarded as one of the largest independent lens making companies in the United Kingdom. We manufacture flats, prisms, aspheres, cylinders and spherical ...

Optical communication technologies require large-capacity data transmission with minimal power consumption. Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have attracted significant attention as a ...

Thulium fiber lasers, operating at a wavelength of 2 μm, are valued for applications in medicine, materials processing, and defense. Their longer wavelength makes stray light less damaging compared to ...

The Düsseldorf district government, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB) in Karlsruhe, has carried out a pioneering pilot project to ...

Engineers from NASA are to test a suite of new laser technologies from an aircraft this summer for Earth science remote sensing. The lidar instruments could also be used to improve models of the ...

GlobalFoundries (GF) has announced the acquisition of Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), a silicon photonics foundry based in Singapore, marking a pivotal step in GF's strategy to advance innovation and ...

A project from TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) has demonstrated how laser patterning can be used to create microvascular channels within microfluidic chips. The breakthrough, ...

Relativity Networks, the central Florida startup working to bring the advantages of hollow-core optical fiber (HCF) to data center networking, says it has raised a further $6.1 million in seed funding ...

Following the successful completion of a one-year trial phase at sea, defense contractors Rheinmetall and MBDA, in Germany, have transferred a laser demonstrator for the German Navy to the Laser ...

PicoJool, a Palo Alto-based developer of optical connectivity photonics sources, has "emerged from stealth", announcing $12 million in funding led by Playground Global. PicoJool has developed what it ...

A project group from Heriot-Watt University Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences (IPaQS) and the University of Edinburgh has studied the use of deep-UV ultrashort pulse lasers for surgical ...