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Olympus Announces 2019 Light Microscopy Award WALTHAM, Mass., March 27, 2020 — Olympus has announced the winners of its first Global Image of the Year Life Science Microscopy Award. The winning image, captured by Ainara Pintor of Spain using a superresolution confocal microscope system. The image shows the immunostaining of a Thy1-EGFP mouse brain slice with two fluorophores. In green, the excitatory hippocampal neurons, which express green fluorescent protein under Thy1 promoter. In red, fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) protein revealed with Alexa Fluor 594
Rensselaer Offers AiMOS Supercomputer to Combat COVID-19 TROY, N.Y., March 23, 2020 — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is enlisting AiMOS, one of the world’s top supercomputers, in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. RPI said it is reaching out to the research community, including government entities, universities,...
Hamamatsu Photonics Acquires 55% Share in Korean Branch HAMAMATSU CITY, Japan, March 20, 2020 — Hamamatsu Photonics has acquired a 55% stock share in Hamamatsu Photonics Korea Co. Ltd., a new company where Hamamatsu Photonics has shifted its local sales distributor activities. Hamamatsu aims to increase sales in Asia by strengthening its sales...
Energy Department Labs Close to Thousands of Visitors WASHINGTON, D.C., March 19, 2020 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has begun to restrict access and to ramp down activities at its national laboratories in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The labs serve more than 30,000 visiting researchers each year. Of the 10 Office of...
SPIE Cancels DCS In-Person Conference, COVID-19 Leads to Surge in Online Conferences PITTSFIELD, Mass., March 17, 2020 — SPIE has announced that it is canceling the in-person format of April’s Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference and moving online in the wake of increased coronavirus awareness. With WHO officially declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, several optics...
Photonics Market Begins to Feel Impacts of COVID-19 PITTSFIELD, Mass., March 17, 2020 — With COVID-19 now declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, and states of emergency declared around the globe, the photonics market is starting to feel the impacts of the virus — global supply chains are beginning to slow, and...
With COVID-19, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference Moves Online BELLINGHAM, Wash., March 17, 2020 — Defense + Commercial Sensing, scheduled for April 26-30 in Anaheim, Calif., will be transitioning from an in-person to an online conference. SPIE, the conference sponsor, is actively following the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and...
Esther Wertz Wins NSF CAREER Award TROY, N.Y., March 13, 2020 — The NSF has named Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute physicist Esther Wertz the winner of its CAREER award to support her investigation of nanometer-scale metal structures that will control light at the quantum limit. “I’m interested in...
AR Rapid Deployment Kits Aid Response to COVID-19 JERSEY CITY, N.J., March 13, 2020 — To help organizations collaborate and quickly train workers in R&D and manufacturing environments, augmented reality company Apprentice.io is sending dozens of its Tandem Rapid Deployment Kits to pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing...
OSA Honors Ursula Keller with Society’s Highest Award, Among Other Winners WASHINGTON, D.C., March 13, 2020 — The Optical Society (OSA) announced in early February that Ursula Keller of ETH Zurich would be honored with the society’s highest award. OSA has been announcing winners of its annual awards since November 2019, with most of the awards coming...
Demand for FLIR Temperature Screening Devices Rises Along with Number of Coronavirus Cases WILSONVILLE, Ore., March 13, 2020 — In efforts to contain the highly contagious virus causing COVID-19, thermal cameras, set up at checkpoints or hand-held by personnel at airports, borders, and entrances to businesses, schools, and other institutions, are being used to screen large...
COVID-19 Spreads, New York Institutions Remain Resilient Mar 12, 2020 — New York state universities have begun moving to online classes. Courtesy of University of Rochester. With COVID-19 spreading across the U.S., universities are facing decisions of closing live classes and navigating to online formats. Among such...
COVID-19 Increases Demand for Disinfecting UVLEDs ANSAN, South Korea, March 12, 2020 — Seoul Viosys, a developer of UV LED technology and a subsidiary of Seoul Semiconductor, announced this week that customer inquiries for its violeds UV LED products, which can be used for sterilizing bacteria, increased more than five times over the...
Jenoptik Acquires Remaining Shares of Japanese Division YOKOHAMA, Japan, March 12, 2020 — Jenoptik has acquired the remaining 33.42% of the shares in Jenoptik Japan Co. Ltd. from its joint venture partner Kantum Ushikata Mfg. Co. Ltd., transferring the joint venture to a wholly owned Jenoptik Group subsidiary. The two business partners...
A3 Cancels Vision Show Amid Growing Coronavirus Uncertainty ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 11, 2020 — Due to continued uncertainty surrounding the growing coronavirus outbreak, the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the parent organization of AIA, has made the decision to cancel The Vision Show and Conference on June 9-11, 2020, in Boston....
Smart Vision Lights’ Kinney Elected to AIA’s Board of Directors NORTON SHORES, Mich., March 11, 2020 — Steve Kinney, Smart Vision Lights’ director of engineering, has been elected to serve a two-year term on the board of directors of AIA, the machine vision industry’s trade group and part of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3)....
LightPath Appoints Sam Rubin President and CEO ORLANDO, Fla., March 10, 2020 — LightPath Technologies Inc., a vertically integrated global manufacturer of proprietary optical and infrared components, announced that Sam Rubin joined the company as president and CEO, effective March 9. The board of directors also appointed Rubin...
Bohnacker and Eckstein Fill Roles at MVTec MUNICH, March 6, 2020 — MVTec has filled two leadership positions. Mario Bohnacker will serve as technical project manager, and Christian Eckstein will serve as business developer and partner manager. In his role, Bohnacker’s duties include identifying technologies...
OFC 2020 Celebrates 50 Years of Light-Speed Connections SAN DIEGO, March 2, 2020 — The Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition (OFC 2020), to be held at the San Diego Convention Center March 8-12, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first viable optical fiber. The world’s largest conference on...
EU Consortium to Prevent Quantum Cyberattacks BRUSSELS, Feb. 25, 2020 — Scientists at the EU’s €1 billion Quantum Technology (QT) Flagship initiative have developed quantum encryption protocols to create what they’re calling the most secure transmission of sensitive information through the internet. The...
II-VI, Lumentum Partner with Infinera SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 21, 2020 — Infinera has announced partnerships with II-VI Inc. and Lumentum Holdings Inc. to advance the development of optical transceivers based on the XR optics technology. XR optics are expected to enable more efficient and cost-effective solutions for...
HORIBA Scientific to Sponsor Upcoming RamanFest PISCATAWAY, N.J., Feb. 11, 2020 — HORIBA Scientific, a manufacturer of Raman spectroscopy systems, has announced it is once again sponsoring RamanFest, this year at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), June 29-30. The conference is being held in association with the Advanced...
Elbit Systems Awarded Contracts for Laser Systems HAIFA, Israel, Feb. 10, 2020 — Elbit Systems has been awarded contracts worth approximately $136 million to provide customers in the Asia-Pacific area with airborne laser direct infrared countermeasure (DIRCM) systems. The contracts will be completed over a four-year period....
SPIE, Edmund Optics Award Top Companies in Startup Challenge SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 2020 — Six new companies were awarded funding last week during the 10th annual Photonics West Startup Challenge event. Three top companies were selected by a panel of judges in the fields of health care and deep tech, with prizes of $2500, $5000, and...
2020 Prism Awards Celebrate Innovation SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6, 2020 — The 12th annual Prism Awards ceremony showcased a plethora of innovation: hand-held spectrometry, plug-and-play inspection, multispectral imaging, and more. The event, sponsored by SPIE and Photonics Media, honors the most innovative and...
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