The German-Swedish manufacturer of high performance lasers for advanced imaging, detection and analysis, expands its technology portfolio to include short-pulse...

The membership of Optica has elected Prof Gerd Leuchs, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany, as the society’s 2022 vice...

Scientists from Paderborn University, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences and the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) are researching new...

Quantum error correcting codes are a method to protect qubits, by embedding them in a more robust entangled state of many particles.

The recovery in demand in the three photonics divisions of Jenoptik - Light & Optics, Light & Production and Light & Safety - continued in the 3rd quarter of 2021. Sales...

In fiscal 2021, Hamamatsu benefited simultaneously from the recovering economy and the continued high demand for Coronatest equipment. As a result, sales increased by...

Highly precise 3D structures in black can now be printed using a 2-photon polymerization (2PP) 3D printing process. This seemed for a long time impossible as non...

Issue 6/2021 – December ’21 / January ‘22 – is out, including content from BEAMIT, cailabs, Duma Optronics, Fraunhofer IWS, Hübner Cobolt, Siemens and more companies and...

The recognition honors the steadfast commitment and achievements of Optica members, companies or institutions that proactively work to create a more diverse, equitable...

An all-optical processor uses spatially-engineered diffractive surfaces in manipulating optical waves and computes any desired linear transform as the light passes...