Andlinger Acquires VPT

EV Group (EVG) — a provider of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology, and semiconductor markets — and photomask provider Toppan Photomask Co. Ltd. entered...

Laser communications company Mynaric has named Mustafa Veziroglu as president and as a member of its management board. Veziroglu served as chief operating officer of SA Photonics, a developer of...

Dental technology company Convergent Dental has entered into a new credit facility of $40 million with Trinity Capital. The company has drawn $20 million at closing and has the option to draw an...

DustPhotonics, a silicon photonics technology developer for data center and AI applications, has completed an oversubscribed $24 million series B follow-on funding round. The company said that the...

This free webinar, sponsored by the Technology Transfer program of CLEO: Market Focus and Photonics Media, complements the live event, which will be held on Thursday, June 13, in the CLEO:2013...

Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique that relies on optical interference to generate a spectrum. It enables spectral analysis covering a wide range, 1100 to...

Microscope objectives are critical for high magnification machine vision applications such as semiconductor inspection. There are different key considerations when choosing the right objective...

AR/VR/XR is becoming more widespread, creating new consumer and enterprise experiences. As the technology expands, AR/VR/XR headsets are becoming imbued with increasingly advanced functionality....

A photovoltaic cell, commonly known as a solar cell, is a semiconductor device that directly converts light energy into electrical energy through the photovoltaic effect. The photovoltaic effect is...

GigE, short for gigabit Ethernet, refers to a standard for high-speed Ethernet communication, capable of transmitting data at rates of up to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps), or 1000 megabits per second...

An opaque projector is a device used for enlarging and projecting images from opaque objects such as printed pages, photographs, or three-dimensional objects onto a screen or surface. Unlike a...

Free-space optics (FSO), also known as optical wireless communication or optical wireless networking, refers to the transmission of data using modulated beams of light through free space (air or a...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we take you to the Quantum Photonics Laboratory at MIT run by Dr. Dirk Englund. Dr. Englund's group, the Quantum Photonics Group, is made up of postdocs and...

Photonics West 2016 will be here before we know it! This annual event brings together industry players from around the world, and presents a week of learning, cool new products, new technologies, and...

On this week's show we’ll learn about a lens-free microscope that could be just as useful as its optical counterparts for pathology. But first we’ll bring you December’s top business news, introduce...

Tune into this month's edition of Light Matters for 'Part 1' of an exclusive interview with SPIE CEO, Eugene Arthurs, as he speaks about his upcoming retirement. We’ll also take you to Rochester,...