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Weekly News: Fraunhofer Appoints Vice President of Research and Transfer; Hologram Method Boosts Additive Manufacturing (2/20/2025)

Weekly News: Fraunhofer Appoints Vice President of Research and Transfer; Hologram Method Boosts Additive Manufacturing
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Thursday, February 20, 2025

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Fraunhofer Completes their Board and LightPath Acquires G5 Infrared

Fraunhofer’s newly named vice president of research and transfer is officially in place with Constantin Haefner officially assuming those duties. LightPath Technologies acquires G5 Infrared for $27M. Neutral-atom quantum computing company, Quera, secures more than $230M in its latest financing round. Applied Energetics is opening a new battle lab facility in Tucson. And the photonics community is saddened by the loss of Jay Kumler. Sponsored by Edmund Optics, POET Technologies, and scia Systems.
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Hologram Method Boosts Additive Manufacturing
Hologram Method Boosts Additive Manufacturing

While traditional 3D printers work by depositing layers of material, tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing (TVAM) involves shining laser light at a rotating vial of resin until it hardens where accumulated energy exceeds a certain threshold. An advantage of TVAM is that it can produce objects in a matter of seconds, compared to approximately 10 minutes for layer-based 3D printing. But a disadvantage is that it is very inefficient, because only around 1% of the encoded light reaches the resin to produce the desired shape.  Read Article 
Cailabs, DataPath Partner to Deploy Transportable SATCOM Terminals
Cailabs, DataPath Partner to Deploy Transportable SATCOM Terminals

Cailabs has entered into a partnership with satellite communications (SATCOM) solutions and services provider DataPath Inc. to deploy a new class of transportable optical SATCOM terminals. The collaboration combines Cailabs’ advanced optical reassembling technology and optical ground stations with DataPath’s experience in deploying ruggedized, tactical SATCOM systems for U.S. and allied militaries.  Read Article 
Nanophotonic Processor with Optical Camera Could Improve AI Efficiency
Nanophotonic Processor with Optical Camera Could Improve AI Efficiency

Increasing demand for high-performance AI has engendered interest in using photonic processing instead of conventional electronic processing for AI computations. Optical computing has the potential to boost AI’s computational throughput, processing speed, and energy efficiency by orders of magnitude.  Read Article 
 
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Wavefront Sensing Specialist Wooptix Nets $10.4M in Series C Funding

LightPath Acquires G5 Infrared

Fraunhofer Names Haefner Executive Vice President of Research and Transfer

Thales Alenia Space to Build Optical System for ESA

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Simulating Nano-Optical Scattering Efficiently
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The clever design of optical scattering characteristics in nanostructures has become a fundamental building block for breakthrough devices in high-speed telecommunication, biosensors, solar cells, AR/VR, and more. Accurately describing and predicting this behavior calls for full-wave simulations. Justus Bohn demonstrates how to easily set up a simulation model through an example that focuses on single-particle scattering. Furthermore, the discussion extends to typical nano-optical structures, such as diffraction gratings, metasurface deflectors, plasmonic structures, photonic crystals, distributed Bragg reflectors, and hyperbolic metamaterials. Presented by COMSOL.

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All Things Photonics

 
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Microelectronics Packaging Through a Photonics Lens — With Abdul Rahim

Discussions around packaging — the art, the challenge, and the roadmap — have ramped up over the last 18 months. A bona fide industry trend, packaging is commanding the focus of leading companies and individuals. Abdul Rahim, ecosystem manager at PhotonDelta, joins the "All Things Photonics" podcast to discuss microelectronics packaging and how the concept applies in and for photonics. Also in this episode, Carlos Lee, director general of the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC), checks in with Joost van Kerkhof, COO of PHIX Photonics Assembly, and Michal Nejbauer, CEO of Fluence.
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