- Covid-19 update: 30 July 2020
A round-up of this week's coronavirus-related news and countermeasures from the photonics industry. - Cognex swings to rare loss on Covid-19 impact
But the machine vision company will pay out another $10M shareholder dividend and expects revenues to bounce back in the current quarter. - U.S. DoE launches Blueprint for Quantum Internet at University of Chicago
National effort to develop quantum networks and “new era of communications”. - UK team targets UAVs and 5G with organic and perovskite solar
Swansea-led collaboration aiming to extend the reach and application of photovoltaics beyond the provision of stationary energy. - University of Rochester finds new route to ultrashort laser pulses
Novel soliton platform generates shortest pulse to date from a gain-free fiber source. - Lumibird seeks medical recovery as like-for-like sales fall 17%
French firm hopes that expanding medical laser business will help it bounce back from the impact of the pandemic. - SPIE and University of Glasgow announce $1 M quantum photonics program
The SPIE Early Career Researcher Accelerator Fund in Quantum Photonics will support collaborative early-career research. - Orders down at Trumpf as Covid-19 'catalyzes' automotive slump
Laser giant also posts 8% decline in sales in preliminary results for latest financial year. - Curved-field OCT offers larger-scale imaging of the cornea
Langevin Institute platform enables more precise cell and nerve counts to tackle disease. - First image of multi-planet system around Sun-like star taken by ESO
Europe's Very large Telescope photos reveal relatively young, star orbited by two giant exoplanets. - LZH refines its laser approach to dealing with resistant weeds
Now testing the directed energy approach in the German "LURUU" research project with farmers and regional government. - Covid-19 update: 23 July 2020
A round-up of this week's coronavirus-related news and countermeasures from the photonics industry. - Teledyne e2v sensors to fly on future Sentinel satellites
European Copernicus program will study cloud structures and carbon dioxide emissions. - Teledyne Technologies second quarter sales dip 5% on Q2, 2019
Robert Mehrabian, Executive Chairman says, "much uncertainty remains in 2020; we do not know the pace of recovery." - Infrared imaging from silicon-based cameras offers versatile microscopy
University of California, Irvine generates mid-IR images using standard silicon CCDs. - Trumpf and STMicro partner on ultra wideband positioning systems
As part of deal, Trumpf also selling stake in BeSpoon, a developer of software and UWB chips for indoor localization. - Dublin researchers develop single photon emitter from quantum dots
Scientists from CRANN and Trinity College School of Physics say this offers a better route to quantum computing. - Solar powered purification helps meet need for clean water
University of Science and Technology of China uses nanocomposites to offer low-cost route to drinking water. - 2021 SPIE Photonics West rescheduled for March in San Francisco
Call for papers deadline extended and potential presenters have until 26 August to submit an abstract for consideration by conference chairs. - GÉANT awards Infinera contract to deploy 600G optical technology
Latest development phase to interconnect pan-European research and education community.