AEye Names Matt Fisch CEO

Leonardo Electronics US appointed Steve Patterson CTO for its laser solutions business unit. The unit designs and manufactures laser diodes for defense and commercial applications. Patterson has over...

Stephen Streiffer, deputy laboratory director for science and technology at Argonne National Laboratory, has been named Stanford University’s new vice president for SLAC National Accelerator...

QuiX Quantum appointed Devin Smith CTO, as co-founder and former CTO Jelmer Renema steps into the role of chief scientist. Smith joined QuiX Quantum in 2021 serving as a senior quantum engineer...

Lidar company AEye named Conor Tierney CFO and treasurer. Tierney joined AEye as chief accounting officer in 2022 and most recently served as interim CFO. Prior to joining AEye, Tierney was head of...

The Vista®-X90 Plus lidar from Cepton Inc. is designed to industrialize automotive series production with high performance, power efficiency, and software definability in a compact package. ...

The Komodo lidar point cloud processor application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip from Cepton improves lidar performance and reduces cost for mass-market adoption. The integrated,...

1D and 2D VCSEL arrays from Lumentum Holdings Inc. are designed for advanced automotive, consumer, and industrial lidar and 3D sensing applications. The multijunction VCSEL arrays deliver...

The Tensilica ConnX 110 and ConnX 120 radar, lidar, and communications digital signal processors (DSPs) from Cadence Design Systems Inc. provide broad performance range from the low to the ultrahigh...

When purchasing an industrial laser system, the astute buyer will look for a Class 1 laser product — a system where the laser beam hazard is completely enclosed and there is no potential laser...

Developed in the early 1990s, the silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) is a solid-state photodetector whose sensitivity to light rivals that of a photomultiplier tube (PMT) in a regime where a few hundred...

Materials processing with lasers is actually a broad term for a diverse range of applications. The major categories of these uses, and the lasers that service them, are summarized Table 1. At one...

Given the pace at which technology advances, there always seems to be a learning curve. With the abundance of consumer electronics available, there typically is no right or wrong way to use these...

The NSI1000 is a CMOS image sensor for machine vision applications. It is designed for high volume markets such as robotics LiDAR, industry 4.0, automotive & ADAS and smart city markets, which...

Monte Carlo raytracing algorithms have long been used in optical design and analysis software. A limitation of the Monte Carlo method is that low probability events or ray paths may be undersampled....

3D vision is going mainstream — and that’s a good thing. Advances in technology and reduced costs now make 3D vision a technology that can be applied to all sorts of applications and industries. 3D...

Lossless laser beam shaping by splitting multi-kW laser energy into 3×3 matrix of spots with variable intensity for welding, cladding with TEM00, or multimode lasers. Optimizing heating of the...

This event is supported by the European initiatives presented and is moderated by EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Consortium. The European Commission is helping companies access the...

Traditional machine vison systems have relied on frame-based methods, which represent motion by capturing a number of still frames each second. For modern computer-enabled vision in industrial...

Liquid Instruments co-founder and CEO Daniel Shaddock shares next-generation strategies to perform optical phase locking using digitally implemented, FPGA-based lock-in amplifiers and phasemeters. He...

An all-star panel discussion hosted by Optica’s Jose Pozo and featuring experts from the entire PIC value chain to discuss lessons learned when scaling PIC production for volume applications. ...

A device which operates under the processes of absorption and stimulated emission and by the condition that gain exceeds loss in order to sustain amplification. The term laser is the acronym for...

A ruticon is an opto-electronic device in which light going through it can be modulated by an electric field. The intensity distribution of the resulting image can be precisely controlled....

A type of ultrafast laser that creates a minimal amount of heat-affected zones by having a pulse duration below the picosecond level, making the technology ideal for micromachining, medical device...

A discipline that combines optics and genetics to enable the use of light to stimulate and control cells in living tissue, typically neurons, which have been genetically modified to respond to light....

Outstanding performance is our focus. We are constantly tuning the performance and accuracy of our new reference design demo - the eTOF LiDAR 3.0, based on Newsight's NSI9000 depth sensor chip. In...

Newsight's complete reference design for depth imaging. The robust, thermally balanced design enables smooth operation indoors and outdoors. Plug it in and get started. Try it out for yourself!...

Focuslight is developing product platforms and photonics solutions for LiDAR, DMS, and other emerging automotive applications. Focuslight was awarded with volume supply contract with an automotive...

Newsight’s enhanced Time-of-Flight (eTOF™) solid-state LiDAR is a complete solution for a versatile and affordable 3D mapping device, using Newsight’s patented eTOF™ technology for improved...

A scanning electron microscope is an electron microscope that uses a beam of electrons -- accelerated to high energy and focused on the sample -- to scan the sample surface, ejecting secondary...

Newsight is a designer, developer, and manufacturer of advanced CMOS image sensor chips for 3D machine vision and spectral analysis. Newsight’s depth camera sensors for machine vision...

As a provider of precision automation and motion control systems, Aerotech offers a complete range of motion and automation solutions to our clients. Our standard product offerings include: ...

Optics that Defend, Build, Cure and Discover The LaCroix name is synonymous with quality precision optics. Since 1947, three generations of family leadership have placed LaCroix Precision Optics...

Incom is known as the world’s largest supplier of fused fiber optics solutions. We enable innovation in the medical, scientific, display, and defense industries. Combining the most progressive...