Space applications in Korea and Brazil help to boost UK company's high-performance imaging business.

The industrial behemoth is about to start building the largest panel factory in the US, and expects to begin commercial shipments in 2013.

The world's dominant lithography equipment supplier aims for commercial productivity levels by mid-2012, after problems with light sources.

"Multi-million" euro agreement covers engineering and flight model phases of a next-generation optical payload for Earth observation.

Analysts at Solarbuzz identify more than 1000 non-residential PV projects in China, and estimate a project pipeline of 14GW.

Holland Private Equity becomes the largest external shareholder in the developer of water-jet-guided laser cutting technology.

Jury returns a verdict of non-infringement in the patent saga, five years after IMRA America sued IPG Photonics.

Acquisition of the Israeli photonics company will help to insulate Newport from an anticipated down-cycle in the semiconductor equipment market.

Only a handful of publicly listed companies showed any gain in value in Q3 2011, although the industrial laser sector still looks strong.

Long-term collaboration agreement will commercialize laser scanning and microprojector devices.

As production equipment bookings slump, Solarbuzz says that the industry should brace itself for another challenging year.

Optics firm to deliver a large optical sapphire blank to the Large-Scale Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope in Japan early next year.