Optical Dazzler Interdictor, Navy (“ODIN”) directed energy weapon destined for five U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

French project develops new method to optimize restoration of fragile items.

...and further self-driving LiDAR announcements from AEye & Nvidia; and ON Semiconductor & AutoX’s Gen5 solution.

“Clinic-on-the-wrist” combining hardware, firmware, and cloud analytics, is based on spectrophotometer-on-a-chip.

Company indicates long-range performance possible in bad weather and behind glass.

TruPrint 1000 offers “Multilaser” capability; two lasers working simultaneously in a metal powder bed.

Upgraded mid-IR platform provides critical atmospheric data.

Mauna Kea's Cellvizio platform able to identify malignant tissue accurately in small-scale, proof-of-principle study.

Maxim Integrated's optical sensor is 1/4 size and 1/10 cost than camera-based ToF systems for automotive applications.

...as Ouster partners with Danfoss to drive adoption of Lidar technologies.

Designed for industry, laser-diode pumped source is claimed to offer “world’s highest pulse energy”.

Harvard SEAS foresees novel methods to engineer various optical devices.