Funding Optics

Three photonics professional societies partnered to kick off the International Day of Light, May 16, with a stylized trailer for a movie titled “Day of Light.” In the trailer, a diverse...

The membership of Optica elected James Kafka as the society’s 2023 vice president; Kafka is CTO at Spectra-Physics and an MKS fellow. Julie Sheridan Eng, CTO at Coherent Corp., and Ulrike...

Scintil Photonics, a supplier of advanced silicon photonic integrated circuits with monolithically integrated lasers and optical amplifiers, secured €13.5 million ($14.4 million) in second-round...

Integrated photonics-based optical networks developer Astrape Networks secured a pre-seed funding round of €1.6 million ($1.7 million) to develop sustainable data centers by eliminating multiple...

The PAVOS kW Ultra from Coherent Corp. is an optical isolator designed for high-energy ultrashort-pulse (USP) lasers. The device is specifically designed for applications involving USP lasers...

The EVG®850 NanoCleave™ from EV Group is a system that enables nanometer-precision release of bonded, deposited, or grown layers from silicon carrier substrates. The system does this by...

The Volta Scanner from Lumencor is an optical ion-channel plate reader. Optical transduction enables consistent, controllable, fast responses in a user-friendly platform. The high-throughput kinetic...

Theia Technologies’ motorized lenses come in 4-10-mm, 9-36-mm, and 12-50-mm focal ranges. The lenses offer up to 12 megapixel, 300 lp/mm resolution and are excellently IR-corrected to maintain...

With a specific gravity of 1.85 g/cm3, beryllium is the lightest metal that is workable. It is 45 percent lighter than aluminum and approximately five times as stiff. Its stiffness to weight ratio...

Flat optics generally perform three main functions: They transmit light (windows), reflect light (mirrors), and fold light (prisms). While most optical manufacturers make spherical and flat optics, a...

Electrical engineers are very familiar with the effects of shot noise, thermal noise, flicker noise and crosstalk, and recognize how these effects can reduce the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in their...

For rotationally symmetric optical systems, either the lens or the detector moves along the optical axis to maintain optical performance. If the compensating axial motion is accomplished without the...

As we reach single photon resolution in imaging, and go beyond it, we approach a world better described by quantum mechanics than classical mechanics. In ghost imaging, the key principle is to...

Discover the power of light guides with our free whitepaper! Learn about total internal reflection, surface features, and performance parameters with ease. Elevate your expertise and stay ahead in...

Speed and precision are paramount to photonics alignment. For Silicon Photonics assembly & test applications such as wafer probing, alignment time is the primary cost driver, especially in production...

A great "How-to" for cleaning optics. A must have for ALL.

Visionary science fiction books and movies have been accurately predicting future innovations for years! DeGroote Nelson explores science fiction prophecies that have become reality thanks to optics...

Nirmala (Nimmi) Ramanujam, Ph.D., is Robert W. Carr Jr. professor of Biomedical Engineering, professor in Pharmacology & Cancer Biology and Global Health, and founding director of the Global...

Deep learning is a class of machine learning techniques that use multilayered artificial neural networks for automated analysis of signals or data. The name comes from the general structure of deep...

The global optics, photonics, and imaging industry is growing, but a worldwide shortage of technicians exists. This, coupled with industry reports that 20% of experienced technicians and engineers...

An array or mosaic of optical surfaces. May be a number of lenses closely packed to form multiple images or many parallel cylinders used as a projection screen.

A group of photosensors arranged in a grid-like pattern covering the entire field of view, enabling them to record it all at once (as a camera records an image on film) rather than by scanning parts...

Chirality is a property of certain molecules and objects in which they are non-superimposable on their mirror images. In other words, a chiral object or molecule cannot be exactly superimposed onto...

Technology Transfer Programs are often a concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or...

Inspired to follow in the footsteps of 20th Century Indian Physicists, Monish Ranjan Chatterjee, University of Dayton, USA, shares his journey from a college student in Kharagpur, India, to a...

Nicholas Wong, University of Southampton, UK, talks about photonics and its impression on the 21st century.

Aldo Di Costanzo, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico, looks forward to the future of functional infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for premature infants with heart defects and issues with cerebral...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

The LaCroix name is synonymous with quality precision optics. Since 1947, three generations of family leadership have guided LaCroix Precision Optics to become the premier precision optics...

OHARA manufactures more than 130 environmentally safe optical glass types, free of both lead and arsenic. More than 300 tons of optical glass are melted per month, available in the following forms of...

ISO 9001 & ISO 13485 certified and D&B DUNS # 113515303 Shanghai Optics is an unparalleled custom system solution provider offering advance precision custom optical design, engineering,...