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Integrated Optical System Helps Contain COVID-19 in Airports STUTTGART, Germany, and SAN FRANCISCO, April 16, 2020 — Will automated infection tracking become standard procedure in airports around the world? Real-time thermal monitoring combined with biometric data that could be immediately extracted and analyzed would help airport personnel quickly identify individuals with potential illness in even the most crowded terminals. Possible points of contact with the individual could also be tracked and identified. To help airlines manage through the COVID-19 outbreak and beyond, Amorph Systems and VANTIQ
Headwall Adds Two to Its Leadership Team BOLTON, Mass., April 15, 2020 — Headwall Photonics Inc. has hired Karen Armstrong as director of manufacturing and operations, and promoted Christian Felsheim to director of Headwall Photonics Europe. Armstrong most recently served as operations manager at IPG Photonics,...
COVID-19 Casts Shadow on IDL 2020 with Events Postponed PARIS, April 14, 2020 — As photonics conferences worldwide begin to plan for virtual meetups in lieu of conference centers, the secretariat team for the International Day of Light (IDL) issued a statement guiding the public to other forms of celebrations for the event....
BIOLASE Partners with MEKICS to Respond to Pandemic IRVINE, Calif., April 13, 2020 — Medical device manufacturer BIOLASE Inc. announced that it expects to join the fight against COVID-19 by teaming up with MEKICS Co. Ltd, an intensive care unit equipment manufacturer, to supply MEKICS’s MTV-1000 ICU-grade portable ventilator...
Paul Millman, CEO of Chroma Technology, Retires BELLOW FALLS, Vt., April 13, 2020 — Paul Millman, who co-founded Chroma Technology Corp. in 1991 and helped build the firm into a successful worker-owned enterprise serving the photonics industry, is stepping down as CEO, effective April 30. Millman will be followed as CEO by current...
B-Con Shifts Workforce to Fight the Pandemic OTTAWA, Ontario, April 10, 2020 — B-Con Engineering Inc., an optics manufacturing company, is shifting its manufacturing focus to make face shields for medical staff and facilities. The company has previously designed and built optical systems for NASA’s Mars missions as well...
Power Technology Provides Sanitizer for Employees and Families LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 9, 2020 — Power Technology Inc., a designer and manufacturer of laser products, made the recent decision to use supplies on hand to create hand sanitizer for employees and their families to combat the spread of COVID-19. “As a 51-year-old company, Power...
Edmund Optics Teams Up with MiCo BioMed on COVID-19 Diagnostics BARRINGTON, N.J., April 9, 2020 — Edmund Optics and MiCo BioMed Co. Ltd. have collaborated on a highly sensitive molecular diagnostic device, the VERI-Q PCR 316, that is capable of detecting COVID-19 within an hour. The device uses optical filters, beamsplitters, lenses, and mirrors...
BIO-key to Donate Portion of Scanner Sales to Support Pandemic Response WALL, N.J., April 9, 2020 — BIO-key International, Inc. will donate to the American Red Cross a portion of the proceeds from the sale of its compact finger scanners, over the balance of 2020. The donations will be designated to support the American Red Cross’ COVID-19...
Coherent Appoints Andreas Mattes CEO SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 7, 2020 — Coherent Inc. and its board of directors has named Andreas “Andy” W. Mattes, previously senior adviser at McKinsey & Company and president and CEO of Diebold Nixdorf, as the company’s new president, CEO, and member of the board...
Coherent Creates Center of Excellence in Finland for Fiber Lasers SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 3, 2020 — Coherent Inc. has expanded its fiber laser operation in Tampere, Finland, designating the facility as a “Center of Excellence for Fiber Lasers.” Fiber lasers have been produced at the location since 2003. To further streamline the...
Jelle Hendrix Wins 2020 HORIBA Award PISCATAWAY, N.J., April 2, 2020 — HORIBA Scientific, a manufacturer of fluorescence spectroscopy systems, presented Jelle Hendrix, assistant professor at the Biomedical Research Institute of Hasselt University in Belgium, with the annual Young Fluorescence Investigator Award. The...
NJIT Designers Fabricate Masks and Shields to Combat COVID-19 NEWARK, N.J., April 2, 2020 — As medical supplies dwindle in the face of increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases, members of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) community are designing and fabricating devices using lasers to bolster supply. After consulting with emergency...
Fraunhofer Spin-Off Develops Silicon Micro-Loudspeaker DRESDEN, Germany, April 1, 2020 — The Fraunhofer IPMS spin-off company Arioso Systems GmbH has completed its first round of financing for its sound transducer principle for miniaturized headphones. Known as hearables, the micro-loudspeaker technology made from 100% silicon is based...
French Startup Develops Neural Chip Technology for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s LYON, France, April 1, 2020 — Cambridge Consultants, a global product development and technology consultancy firm, and French startup Neuro Engineering Technologies Research Institute (NETRI) have achieved a brain-on-a-chip technology and lensless imaging approach that detects...
ZEISS Medical Technology Announces New Leadership JENA, Germany, March 31, 2020 — Andrew Chang will be appointed president of Carl Zeiss Meditec, and effective May 1, Euan Thomson will assume the roles of president of Ophthalmic Devices and head of Ophthalmic Devices Strategic Business Unit for ZEISS, succeeding James Mazzo, who...
Olympus Announces Light Microscopy Image Awards 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...
RPI's 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 Feels Impacts of COVID-19 at Many Levels 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 Training, 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...
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