Lumileds Names Steve Barlow to Lead Automotive Business Unit

Semiconductor technology company BluGlass Ltd. has appointed company president Jim Haden to the position of CEO. Haden joined the company in September 2021. BluGlass named laser industry...

PhotonVentures, a deep-tech venture capital firm, has added Ewit Roos as a general partner. Since 2019, Roos most recently served as PhotonDelta’s CEO, helping to co-found the venture capital...

LED illumination technology company Smart Vision Lights promoted Nick Doornbos to director of sales. Doornbos has held the role of interim director of sales since March 2022. He joined the company in...

Teledyne Technologies Inc.’s board of directors announced the transition of Robert Mehrabian to executive chairman; Edwin Roks to CEO; George Bobb III to president and COO; and Melanie S. Cibik...

Asahi Kasei and subsidiary Crystal IS’ Klaran single-chip 160 mW UVC LED is designed to meet the performance and cost targets needed to expand into new applications in high-flow water and air...

CoolLED’s ground-breaking pE-800 Series Illumination Systems for fast, powerful, and affordable imaging can now be controlled in Olympus/Evident cellSens imaging software version 4.1. This is...

CoolLED’s Amora Series for custom microscopy illumination is based on an established portfolio of off-the-shelf products, adapted to offer unparalleled customization opportunities. This...

CoolLED's ground-breaking pE-800 Series Illumination Systems for fast, powerful, and affordable imaging is popular for high-speed live cell fluorescence — but the potential applications don't...

As recently as five years ago, shopping for a microscope light source was fairly straightforward. For routine applications, it was tungsten halogen, typically 100 W, while for fluorescence, it was an...

An interferometer is an instrument that compares the position or surface structure of two objects. The basic two-beam division of amplitude interferometer components consists of a light source, a...

Aspheric surfaces are powerful tools that combine the optical corrections of multiple lenses into a single element (Figure 1) and affect performance in ways that spherical optics cannot. For example,...

One of the most critical elements of any time-resolved spectroscopy and dynamics experiment is the optical delay line. A typical optical delay line consists of a retroreflector or folding mirrors on...

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...

The optoelectronic properties of an OLED device are mapped using an RMS1000 Confocal Raman Microscope in spectral and time-resolved photoluminescence and electroluminescence imaging modes. These...

Sapphire is a tough optical material resistant to chemicals, scratching, and high pressure in many diverse environments and has exceptional transparency. Frequently it is the combination of two, or...

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....

A new generation of visible laser light sources is being developed to enable advanced optical control through the use of miniature optics and reflectors, high-efficiency fiber optic transport, and...

Free Webinar Post Webinar Notes We will be posting additional questions and answers from the webinar soon. The presentation slides will not be available for download but we will have a list...

Presenters: Professor Stephen Boppart The Future of Healthcare With Optical Biomedical Imaging A medical doctor and professor at the University of Illinois, Boppart's...

Lasers, LEDs, and photonics in general are providing new dimensions to industrial automation solutions, far beyond illumination and material treatment. They enable open work-cell production setups as...

A light therapy that utilizes nonionizing light sources, including lasers, LEDs, and broadband light, in the visible and infrared spectrum. It is a nonthermal process involving endogenous...

Chip-on-board (COB) lights refer to a type of LED lighting technology where multiple LED chips are directly mounted onto a substrate, typically a printed circuit board (PCB), without the need for...

Gallium nitride-based light-emitting diodes (GaN-based LEDs) are semiconductor devices that emit light when an electric current passes through them. These LEDs are constructed using gallium nitride...

An LED, or light emitting diode, is a semiconductor device that emits light when an electric current passes through it. LEDs are widely used in various applications due to their energy efficiency,...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Trade Show in Austin, Texas, as new photonics innovations hit the show floor of the Austin Convention Center....

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...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you on a brief tour of the Higgins Laboratories at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Quinsigamond Community College and WPI received a $4M grant...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we take you to the grand opening of the Price Chopper Market 32 Capital Holiday Lights in the Park in downtown Albany, New York. We'll introduce you to the...

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),...

Excelitas Technologies® Corp. is a leading industrial technology manufacturer focused on delivering innovative, market-driven photonic solutions to meet the illumination, optical, optronic,...

Lumispot Tech, a leading scientific and technical enterprise, specializes in advanced rangefinder module, laser diode, LiDAR laser source, DPSS laser, solid-state, and fiber lasers, as well as...

Founded in 1971, Edinburgh Instruments Ltd. is a global provider of sophisticated, state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation for optical spectroscopy. We design and manufacture a range of...