Coast Composites, CCAT to Fabricate Molds

Lidar technology company Cepton received a nonbinding letter of intent for an investment of up to $100 million from its long-term automotive Tier 1 partner and current shareholder Koito Manufacturing...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Leonardo DRS received a contract to produce its next-generation thermal weapon sights for the U.S. Army. The firm fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command is...

Medical device developer and manufacturer Mauna Kea Technologies appointed Sacha Loiseau CEO. Loiseau replaces interim CEO Nicolas Bouvier effective immediately. Loiseau co-founded Mauna Kea...

Rockley Photonics appointed Richard Meier president and CFO, effective immediately. Meier joins Rockely from Intersect ENT, a global ear, nose, and throat medical technology company, where he served...

Metrohm has opened a new webshop for lasers, component spectrometers, and Raman spectroscopy sampling solutions. The new m-oem brand includes four Metrohm companies: Innovative Photonic Solutions...

The Dove 800D and 410D PAM4 digital signal processors ICs from Credo were manufactured to address the increasing bandwidth requirements of hyperscale customers, AI backend clusters, and general...

The WSF series from TeraXion comprises all-fiber band-stop (notch) filters that are used to selectively attenuate or block a wavelength or a range of wavelengths while allowing others to pass...

A new product family of broadband Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCFs) is launched by Schäfter+Kirchhoff. PCFs outperform conventional step-index fibers due to their enormous bandwidth and large MFD,...

An optical time-domain reflectometer sends short pulses of light into a fiber and measures its reflections as a function of time. The delay of these reflections to the detector as well as their...

Silicon photonics is widely considered a key enabling technology for further development of optical interconnect solutions needed to address growing traffic on the internet. From the first submarine...

Adhesives for fiber optic components that perform well on glass, metal, ceramic and most plastic substrates provide excellent chemical and solvent resistance. They also can act as an electrical...

Early fiber lasers were inefficient and limited to low powers, until more effective methods emerged to deliver the pump light into the cladding. Valentin Gapontsev, founder and CEO of IPG Photonics,...

Answering some common questions new users of optical design and analysis software have are “How accurate are the results?” or “Can I trust the results I get?” and discussing the importance of...

We started developing FACs more than 15 years ago. The result is highly automated in-house processes which allow for competitive prices – even with high volumes. Diode lasers are efficient, compact,...

Enabling new laser applications with fused silica fibers.

In the PON (Passive optical network), especially the complex point-to-multipoint PON ODN (Optical distribution network) topology environment, the rapid monitoring and diagnosis of optical fiber...

Vision and imaging technology is critically important to the automation solutions that are driving improvements in our lives. The capabilities of hardware and software are enabling some of the most...

The societal and economic spasms of the early 2020s highlighted the crucial role of world-spanning supply chains in the modern global economy, as well as the growing role of digital technology,...

This webinar will discuss ultraprecision machines for optics, covering aspects of machine design, related software development, inline automated metrology, and hybrid processes. The presenter will...

The determination of image quality is a multifaceted problem, dependent upon illumination, optical system construction, and the image sensor. When the optical system is used in conjunction with the...

Diamond turning refers to a precision machining process used to produce complex optical components, particularly lenses and mirrors, from materials such as metals, plastics, and crystalline materials...

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...

A machining process that uses a laser to cut three-dimensional molds or models.

A measure of the relative difference in refractive index between two optical materials. Most commonly used in fiber optics where the refractive index contrast, D, is given as follows: where n1 equals...

Benjamin Eggleton, University of Sydney, Australia, shares his early beginnings as an undergraduate student in optical astronomy.

In this month’s Light Matters Extra, we take you to the Springfield Technical Community College campus and introduce you to Professor Nick Massa, who has been teaching Optics and Photonics there for...

The changing nature of the "optics shop" — and, more broadly, its role in the optics and photonics industry today — is an effective gauge for tracking how optics workforce development is aligned to...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you to central Massachusetts as Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Quinsigamond Community College take on a comprehensive joint photonics laboratory...

Established in 1985, OZ Optics is a leading worldwide supplier of fiber optic components, test equipment and sensors. OZ Optics manufactures its products in three locations, Ottawa (Canada),...

Lambda Research Optics, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of laser optics with high power thin-film coatings and high precision fabrications. Lambda serves a wide range of industries, such as Biotech,...

Arkwright Technologies design and manufacture application specific fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors. Our innovative, award winning designs have evolved from over 30 years direct expertise in the...

We are a manufacturer of Diffraction Limited Fiber Coupled Laser Systems, Optical Systems, and Fiber Optic Systems from 240 nm to 6000 nm. Unique products include various sizes of Fiber Collimators,...