10.09.2025 • News
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Laser
10.07.2025 • News
Optics and photonics industry gathering at Optatec 2026
The international trade fair for optical technologies will take place in Frankfurt am Main from May 5 to 7, 2026.
26.06.2025 • News
Optical knots made of laser beams
Interference patterns between overlapping laser beams could transmit encoded information over thousands of feet through chaotic environments.
12.06.2025 • News
Tiny laser measures objects at ultrafast rates
The chip-scale laser has applications ranging from guiding autonomous vehicles to detecting gravitational waves.
03.06.2025 • News
A laser that can “see” and “think”
Machine learning makes laser processes more precise, more cost-effective and more efficient.
13.05.2025 • News
Change in management at Carl Zeiss Meditec
Dr. Markus Weber has informed the Supervisory Board that he will be leaving the company at his own request on May 31, 2025.
29.04.2025 • News
A tiny chip for mid-infrared pulses
New device generates short bursts of light for sensing and spectroscopy.
22.04.2025 • News
Infineon and Marelli enter new era of cockpit design
MEMS laser beam scanning for an immersive car display experience.
03.04.2025 • News
Microcombs for ultraprecise optical atomic clocks
New chips help pave the way for thousand times more accurate GPS systems.
25.03.2025 • News
Quantum light source for a green production of biogas
A quantum cascade lasers helps to extract valuable substances from biomass.
06.03.2025 • News
From qubits to qudits
A new quantum device could improve encryption in critical service areas like banking and health care.
11.02.2025 • News
Boosting lightweight vehicle design with laser surface texturing
Korean researchers utilize laser surface texturing to enhance metal-polymer bonding.
06.02.2025 • News
Shadow of a laser beam
Surprising finding could lead to new ways of controlling light.
17.01.2025 • News
Laser 2000 announces partnership with Optomotive
Strategic collaboration to expand photonics offering
17.01.2025 • News
Ultracompact light source for encryption
Fraunhofer IOF unveils an ultracompact VCSEL-based photon source for quantum communication, enabling high-speed, space-ready encryption with precise polarization and spectral control.
16.01.2025 • News
New lidar system identifies plastics
Hyperspectral imaging offers a valuable tool for future monitoring and analysis of oceanic plastic pollution.
14.01.2025 • News
Printing droplet laser displays
A new method for rapidly creating laser light sources in large quantities.
30.12.2024 • News
Recycling quantum dots in microscopic lasers
New method could be applied to wide range of nanoparticles, promoting sustainability in lasers, biosensors and electronics.
23.12.2024 • News
The last missing piece of silicon photonics
The first electrically pumped continuous-wave semiconductor laser for a seamless silicon integration.
03.12.2024 • News
Controlling light with photonic time crystals
A new discovery could dramatically enhance technologies like lasers, sensor, and optical computing in the near future.
24.10.2024 • News
Record-breaking laser pulses
New laser produces the strongest ultrashort laser pulses to date for precision measurements or materials processing.
22.10.2024 • News
Pushing the limits of conventional lasers
A project for a new type of light source for extremely fast laser pulses starts.
17.10.2024 • News
First demonstration of a dual-media NV diamond laser system
New approach to measure extremely low magnetic fields in the femtotesla to picotesla range.
08.10.2024 • News
New partnership for ultrashort-pulse lasers
LZH and the Ferdinand-Braun-Institute are jointly researching electrically pumped semiconductor disk lasers.
19.09.2024 • News
EOS cooperates with nLight
nLight to supply EOS with AFX programmable beam shaping lasers, and collaborate on technologies for light engine optimization.
17.09.2024 • News
SuperLight Photonics expands reach with strategic partnership in Japan
The Dutch spin-off company from the University of Twente is expanding its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region.
16.09.2024 • News
Nanowires for photonic chips
New strategy to deliver thousands of nanolasers with multiple wavelengths on the same substrat.
12.09.2024 • News
Gamma ray laser project gets funded
NSF funding will allow University of Rochester scientists and their European collaborators to study the feasibility of coherent light sources beyond x-rays.
16.08.2024 • News
A chip-scale titanium-sapphire laser
New approach for cheaper and massively scalable laser-array systems for several applications.
07.08.2024 • News
A new path for on-chip frequency comb generators
Streamlined microcomb design provides control with the flip of a switch.
31.07.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
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.
19.06.2024 • News
Miniaturizing a laser on a photonic chip
A tiny powerful erbium-based fiber laser on a silicon-nitride photonic chip promises advances in optical communications.
15.05.2024 • News
Illegal ivory detected by lasers
Laser technology offers new method in detecting illegal ivory and fighting illegal trade.
30.04.2024 • News
Strong signals for photonics’ future
Review: AKL’24 - International Laser Technology Congress, 17 – 19 April 2024, Aachen, Germany
26.04.2024 • News
New record in laser cooling
German and American researchers succeed in cooling silica glass by 67 Kelvins.
VDMA Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbauer e.V.
Schulz-Electronic GmbH
LioniX International BV
VALO Innovations GmbH
Laser Cheval – SAS
TOPTICA Photonics SE
SCANLAB GmbH
HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG
LPT – Lehrstuhl für Photonische Technologien
Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics (IAP)
Vector Photonics Ltd.
NUBURU Inc.
nLIGHT, Inc.
Trumpf Gruppe
Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik IWS
A&B KMG Service GmbH
BLOOM LASERS
Coherent Corp.
Marelli Holdings Co., Ltd
S&I Spectroscopy & Imaging GmbH
TRUMPF SE + Co. KG
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH
Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT
TRUMPF Scientific Lasers GmbH + Co. KG
Evosys North America Corporation
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
Heriot-Watt University
HighFinesse GmbH
Precitec GmbH & Co. KG
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik
IRsweep AG
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF
Innoptics SAS
AMS Technologies AG
MKS Instruments
Luxinar Inc
TRUMPF Photonic Components GmbH
Laser Institute of America
P.E. Schall GmbH & Co. KG
AT - Automation Technology GmbH
Precitec Optronik GmbH
Optomotive LTD
Quantel USA
Active Fiber Systems GmbH
IMS CHIPS
Laser Components Germany GmbH
Prima Industrie S.p.A.
European Photonics Industry Consortium EPIC
neoLASE GmbH