Ready for a change?

KAREN A. NEWMAN, GROUP PUBLISHER, karen.newman@photonics.com

After an especially challenging winter, I think we’re all ready for something new and exciting!

The completely redesigned www.Photonics.com may be just the thing. The site is a tremendously popular resource, with news updated every business day, plus YOUR videos and white papers, and the popular Photonics Handbook and Dictionary Plus. It’s also home to the online edition of the Photonics Buyers’ Guide, now in its 60th year. The redesign brings improved speed and organization to the site, aimed at giving visitors an even better experience and a lot of good reasons to extend their visits. What’s more, our editors are always working on fresh content to appeal to our broad global audience.

Photonics.com also is home to new, dedicated web pages for each of our publications, including Industrial Photonics, which launched this year to highlight research, business news and new products for industry – from lasers to sensors as well as machine vision and automation systems for materials processing, process control and production. It’s where you’ll find a growing community of specialists working to integrate the latest photonic technologies into manufacturing processes of all kinds.

Finally, how about a new way to tell your story to the 95,000-strong Photonics Spectra audience, and to the readers of any of our publications? In every issue of every magazine, companies just like yours contribute well-crafted technical feature articles that discuss the latest technologies propelling this industry forward. If you have a story you would like to tell in any of our magazines, get in touch directly with Managing Editor Laura Marshall – Laura.Marshall@Photonics.com – for guidelines. We welcome your contributions.