Automatic Defect Detection in Laser Welding and Brazing with AI
Process Monitoring in Automotive Production.
Photonics
Systematic Characterization of Ring-Shaped Laser Beams
New metrics for meaningful analysis beyond ISO 11146.
Thermal and Visual Image Synchronized
Efficient Analysis Through Combined Image Data.
The Rise of Photonic and Neuromorphic Computing: A New Era for AI Hardware
Computer Architectures for future data processing
Additive manufacturing of metal becomes more efficient, and sustainable
AI-driven beam shaping and multispectral imaging combined.
First access for external users to the QSolid quantum computer
The prototype of the QSolid quantum computer was successfully integrated into the JUNIQ infrastructure of the Jülich Supercomputing Center.
Laser Components: customized laser optics since 1986
Laser Components began coating individual laser optics almost 40 years ago. These are used in laser processes in numerous industries, including medicine, defense and aerospace.
Schäfter+Kirchhoff expands management team
The aim is continuity and securing the future
ORCA-Halo: A New Benchmark for Back-illuminated sCMOS Imaging
Product: Scientific sCMOS camera ORCA-Halo (C17440-20U), which expands the existing ORCA camera series.
Photonics as a key technology for space travel and earth exploration
Photonics is essential for our understanding of the universe and enables precise measurements, laser-based communication and comprehensive earth observation.
AI prompts innovation boost in photonics
Artificial intelligence (AI) is significantly accelerating developments in photonics - from industrial production to medical diagnostics and environmental technology.
Laser World of Photonics 2025: innovations, expertise and international impetus
Laser World of Photonics will once again bring the international photonics community together in Munich from June 24 to 27, 2025.
The next hardware generation for AI networking
iPronics ONE is a breakthrough in AI infrastructure: a fast reconfigurable, and lossless Optical Circuit Switch built on software-defined Silicon Photonics.
From raw material processing to recycling
Battery production is at the heart of industrial and climate policy worldwide. Indeed, the demand for energy storage systems for electromobility and stationary applications is growing globally as is the importance of efficient, sustainable and regionally independent battery production.
Reinventing laser processing for EVs
Coherent’s Thomas Hofmeister and Majid Abbasi discuss how lasers have played a key role in the transformation of manufacturing in the automotive industry in a new PhotonicsViews article.
Process and product innovation in electric mobility enabled by photonics
At Politecnico di Milano, the Laboratory for Laser Applications, SITEC, looks towards the development of new processes enabling new products and solutions for electric mobility exploiting the increased availability of laser-based manufacturing solutions in the industry.
E-mobility requires new innovations for high-productivity laser welding
Two recent advances in laser welding, described in a PhotonicsViews special issue, have the ability to increase both productivity and part quality for e-mobility applications.
Laser welding with green and infrared lasers
In a study by BLZ researchers, two laser sources – green and IR – were compared for laser welding at identical laser spot sizes. The results are presented in a the PhotonicsViews special issue.
Laser-based welding in lightweight construction
Projects Twin-Weld and MULTISPOT overcome the limitations of fixed bifocal optics and develop a welding head with a matrix of 3 × 3 laser diodes that can be individually controlled.
Laser welding: the game changer in battery production
Battery production in focus: today’s challenges – laser technology as the solution.
An innovative laser decoating for hybrid components
A new high-tech system can dissolve paint on complex 3D components efficiently by laser and the paint can be removed like a film – residue-free and without harmful substances.
A new concept for automotive battery boxes manufacturing
Optical coherence tomography in a laser processing head can accomplish precise real-time post-process control and position adjustment for the filler wire.
High speed laser cutting of EV electrodes
High-quality cut edges are essential to ensure reliable electric connections and prevent defects like spatter and dross, which can cause internal short circuits.
High-precision at low-cost
Product: High-power and high-volume Pulsed Laser Diodes (1550UA Series) at 1550 nm
Solutions for wire and busbar stripping
A new early view article in PhotonicsViews discusses challenges for busbars in mass production, and high-speed CO₂ laser busbar de-coating methods.
PARMS coating technology for UV to IR laser applications
A new article in PhotonicsViews discusses the production of high-quality oxides-based optical filters with low losses.
Line beam shaping with a tailored anamorphic diffuser
A method for improving the narrow-axis integrated intensity uniformity in laser line beam shaping for partially coherent laser sources is presented in the PhotonicsViews e-Special 1/2025.
Beginning to see the light
A new early view article in PhotonicsViews presents a rigorous far-field model that allows to calculate the reflectance of the via.
How laser material processing can benefit from OCT technology
A qualitative and quantitative analysis of ultrashort-pulse processing of glass in a technical article – now online and in PhotonicsViews issue 1/2025.
Laser cleaning of insect residue without surface alteration
Insect residues disturb and interrupt the laminar air flow on airplane wings after a while. These residues therefore need to be repeatedly removed. Shockwave-based laser cleaning of insect residue on stainless steel (1.4544.9) is presented in an early view article in PhotonicsViews.
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.
Shaping the future of photonics and quantum technologies in Germany
The opportunities and challenges of photonics and quantum technologies were addressed at the Photonics Germany Future Summit in Berlin.
Gas detector to prevent millions of air pollution deaths
A new gas-sensing network that analyzes multiple gasses in real time in towns and cities is being developed to prevent deaths caused by ambient air pollution.
OCT for automated conventional welding in the automotive industry
Experts from Lessmueller Lasertechnik discuss the advantages to extend the use of OCT – as known from laser welding – to classical GMAW in an early view article of PhotonicsViews.
