Acquisition gives Coherent wider portfolio of ultrashort-pulsed lasers for industrial and medical applications.

Flexible CIGS photovoltaics specialist implements drastic actions as it pursues a sale.

Long-lived nature of solid-state lighting technology means LED lamp sales could be flat from 2015 onwards.

Thin-film optical coatings production will be consolidated at Massachusetts and Shanghai facilities.

New Boston-based venture group with photonics pedigree and strong Russian influence looks to fund breakthrough companies.

Weak semiconductor spending and investment in extreme UV technology dented profits in latest financial year.

Medical division of the optics giant reports a 19% increase in EBIT in latest fiscal year.

Venture-backed San Diego start-up wants to advance technology for visualizing spread of tumors towards clinical trials.

Asia-Pacific sales have helped to offset impact of “constrained” scientific budgets in the West, says the imaging sensor specialist.

Parent companies are set to equip their joint venture with the full range of infrared detector technologies.

Buyer Marlin Equity setting up Munich-based optical unit; NSN refocusing on mobile broadband.

Analyst IHS is hopeful that new entrants will rekindle enfeebled solar power business.