- Stewardship plan for redundant solar panels mooted by University of South Australia
Paper considers how the sunny country will dispose of 80 million solar panels in an environmentally-friendly way. - Trumpf promotes Berthold Schmidt to CTO
Management reshuffle sees Peter Leibinger become chairman of the industrial laser giant’s supervisory board. - Lancaster University 3D-printing integrates electronics into living tissues
Multiphoton fabrication method could produce printable bioelectronics or interfaces. - Dynamically steering light pulses from incoherent sources
Sandia Labs “breakthrough” enables LEDs or bulbs to replace lasers for holograms, sensing, ADAS and communications. - UK politicians to probe quantum tech commercialization efforts
Parliamentary committee chaired by Greg Clark MP looking into new £2.5BN 'National Quantum Strategy'. - Solar panels to be installed between rail tracks for trial
Experimental project in Switzerland with Sunways and EPFL starts in May, 2023 - 7th UKP Workshop to be more international and consider future markets
Fraunhofer ILT’s Ultrafast Laser Technology workshop to take place in Aachen 26-27 April, 2023. - EPFL and IBM scientists create new lithium niobate laser technology
New type of laser could have “significant impact” on lidar and optical ranging, say developers. - Luna Innovations reports modest 2022 results
Fiber-optics firm completes “transformative” year; expects strong growth in 2023; but stock price falls ~30%. - Dutch-German consortium developing simplified tandem solar modules
Module consists of solar cells made of sandwiched monolithic perovskite-silicon layers. - Budget boost for UK quantum scene
£2.5BN, decade-long follow up to National Quantum Technologies Programme defined in new National Quantum Strategy. - Max Planck Institute enhances imaging of single proteins
Combining interferometric scattering with AI could detect small traces of disease markers. - Lumibird positive on 2023 prospects despite dented profits
French photonics group blames supply chain constraints, with brokers needed to source some key components. - Mitsubishi Electric, L3Harris win weather satellite contracts
Technology firm to build 'Himawari-10' geostationary craft for the Japan Meteorological Agency. - UNIGE and ID Quantique develop record-breaking single-photon detectors
Geneva-based group say high-performance detectors will combat optical network eavesdropping. - Heliatek installs solar film on port rooftops in Barcelona
29.5 kWp solar project inaugurated at end of February. - Self-assembling colloids show new route to photonic crystals
University of Birmingham investigates manufacture of bioinspired structure to manipulate light. - Twente develops ultra-efficient supercontinuum white light laser on chip
Netherlands-based researchers claim progress in integrated photonics with applications in portable medical imaging. - ESO’s ELT ‘MORFEO’ instrument passes preliminary tests…
…while Rensselaer's ultrafast laser method advances satellite-earth links; enabling FSO comms even through rough weather. - OFC 2023: new launches round-up, part II
A selection of new launches and announcements from this week’s expo in San Diego.