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Investment Firm Carlyle Group Acquires Optics Company Meopta
PREROV, Czech Republic, May 31, 2023 — Global investment firm Carlyle has agreed to acquire Meopta Optika, a manufacturer of optical, optomechanical, and optoelectronic solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Carlyle said it aims to partner with Meopta’s management team to capture opportunity in more advanced built-to-spec use cases through an increased focus on R&D. Carlyle further aims to expand Meopta’s international presence through the creation of a direct sales network. The acquisition,
Laser Interferometer Measures Performance, Efficiency of 5G Devices
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 23, 2022 — An instrument that images acoustic waves over a range of frequencies and produces so-called movies of the waves will enable improved understanding of the acoustic vibrations. The ability to dynamically measure vibrations in mechanical resonators at...
Mirror Specifications and Energy-Efficient Design Support Increasingly Portable System for Laser Precision at Room Temperature
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 30, 2020 — A team of MIT physicists, working with researchers from Louisiana State University (LSU) and Crystalline Mirror Solutions (CMS, now part of Thorlabs Inc.) has designed a quantum “light squeezer” capable of limiting quantum noise in laser...
OptoSigma Europe Opens Office in Germany
PARIS, June 9, 2020 — OptoSigma Europe has opened an office in Munich, Germany, to support expansion in Germany and Eastern Europe. It’s the company’s first office outside of France since its European division was established in 2014. Parent company OptoSigma...
Scientists Show Microwave-Optical Entanglement via Mechanical Interface
COPENHAGEN, April 3, 2020 — Using lasers, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have developed a way to entangle electromagnetic fields from microwave radiation and optical beams. Creating entanglement between microwave and optical fields...
Suppression of Backscattering Could Improve Optical Data Transmission
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Aug. 14, 2019 — To control backscattering and reduce energy loss during optical data transmission, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign exploited the interaction between light and sound waves. They were able to achieve robust light...
Natural-Scale Snail Robot Is Powered by Light
WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 5, 2019 — A soft snail robot, developed by a team at the University of Warsaw with colleagues from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, is capable of mimicking the adhesive locomotion of snails and slugs on a natural scale. The bioinspired robot is made from...
OLED Efficiency Is Improved by Freeing Trapped Photons
DRESDEN, Germany, July 15, 2019 — An international research team led by Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) has found a way to significantly boost OLED efficiency by extracting the trapped photons from OLEDs, which account for about 20% of the light particles that OLEDs...
Prototype Could be Used to Connect Quantum Computers
KLOSTERNEUBURG, Austria, June 28, 2019 — Physicists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) used a mechanical oscillator to produce entangled radiation. According to the research team, this is the first time a mechanical object has been used to create entangled...
Nanomechanical Router Could Open Way for Scalable Quantum Networks
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 29, 2019 — University of Copenhagen researchers have developed a nanocomponent that emits photons carrying quantum information. The component, called a nanomechanical router, emits quantum information carried by photons and routes the photons in different...
Particle Cavity Cooling Could Aid Quantum Effects Study
VIENNA, April 2, 2019 — A new method for cooling levitated nanoparticles using optical tweezers, discovered by researchers at the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), could advance scientists’...
Researchers Achieve Strong Optomechanical Coupling of Light and Sound
LONDON, Dec. 28, 2018 — A strong coupling regime between light and high-frequency acoustic sound waves was demonstrated by a team from Imperial College London, the University of Oxford, and the National Physical Laboratory. The team’s findings could provide a possible...
Device for Measuring Nanoparticles Could Aid in Quantum Measurement
VIENNA, Dec. 19, 2018 — A new device that can measure and control an optically trapped nanoparticle with extreme sensitivity has been developed by researchers at the University of Vienna and the Delft University of Technology. Although this approach has been used before...
2019 Prism Award Finalists Announced
BELLINGHAM, Wash., and PITTSFIELD, Mass., Dec. 5, 2018 — Established industry stalwarts will compete with disruptive startups at the Prism Awards ceremony and banquet during SPIE Photonics West 2019 in San Francisco. Celebrating its 11th year, the Prism Awards recognize industrial innovation in photonics...
Optically Levitated Nanodumbbell Could Further Study of Quantum Mechanics
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 23, 2018 — Using levitated optomechanics, a man-made rotor has been created that can spin at 60 billion revolutions per minute. Such ultrafast rotation could be used to study material properties and probe vacuum friction. Researchers from Purdue University...
Education, Technology at the Heart of Optatec 2018
May 4, 2018 — Biennially, the Frankfurt (Germany) International Exhibition Center hosts some of the world’s top innovators who showcase their work and products at the Optatec International Trade Fair. To be held May 15-17, this event highlights the latest...
Photonic Hook Could Enable Optical Manipulation of Nanoparticles
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, March 20, 2018 — A curved photonic nanojet, called a photonic hook, was created using an asymmetric cuboid, formed by appending a triangular prism to one side of a cube. Using numerical methods, scientists showed that the trajectory of a probe nanoparticle in the...
Enhancing Sensitivity at Higher-Order Exceptional Points
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 1, 2017 — A state of exceptional sensitivity, formed when a third nanoparticle is added to an optical microcavity already containing two light scatterers, is being studied by researchers as the potential basis for a system that could detect objects at the...
Levitated Optomechanics Could Lead to Advances in Sensing Technology
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2017 — A study supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) will employ the emerging field of levitated optomechanics to investigate precision quantum sensing technologies. Laser trapping techniques and quantum mechanics will be used to test the limits...
Light-Generated Bubbles Propel Microparticles, Create Optomechanical Force
BEER-SHEVA, Israel, June 27, 2017 — Energy created from light was converted into kinetic motion using nano-sized, laser-generated bubbles. As the bubble expanded, it acted as a propulsion mechanism for surrounding micron sized particles, propelling them at forces many times greater...
Barnett Joins Pro-Lite Technology
MELTON MOWBRAY, England, May 3, 2016 — Nick Barnett has joined the U.K. team of optics company Pro-Lite Technology Ltd. as its business development manager in the remote sensing and spectroscopy group. Barnett holds a Ph.D. in biomedical optics, and has worked for a range of companies...
Optical Fiber ‘Nanospikes’ Effectively Trap, Focus Laser Light
ERLANGEN, Germany, March 14, 2016 — Using laser light to manipulate a glass optical fiber tapered to a sharp point smaller than a speck of dust, in the middle of an optical fiber with a hollow core, has been demonstrated. Optical forces cause the sharp point, or...
Graphene Enables Nanoelectromechanical Systems Integration
BARCELONA, Spain, Jan. 21, 2016 — Combining nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) systems with on-chip optics holds promise as a method to actively control light at the nanoscale, and now a hybrid system has overcome the challenges of integrating such nanoscale devices with optical fields...
Optical Coatings Take a Leap Forward
VIENNA, and BOULDER, Colo., July 23, 2013 — A novel crystalline coating technique that produces low-loss mirrors could help accelerate progress in the development of lasers for precision measurement applications.
Device Bridges Optomechanics, Microfluidics
URBANA, Ill., June 10, 2013 — Whispering galleries — circular spaces beneath a dome that capture and amplify sound as quiet as a whisper — have inspired numerous scientific discoveries over the past several years. Now the phenomenon, discovered more than a century ago, has been...
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