57 new “Clusters of Excellence” – several focused on photonics – and substantial funding for next seven years.

Pilot safety development product contracts are worth up to $98 million each, deliverable by 2024.

Quantum key distribution (QKD) test bed to be based on CubeSat standard; 2021 operations targeted.

Five-year research effort with University of Oxford co-funded via UK’s 'Prosperity Partnerships' scheme.

CIGS or silicon solar cells are integrated with perovskite to use different parts of spectrum boosting overall output.

Harvard-Hong Kong-Bell integrated modulator is also more energy efficient, to serve next-gen optical networks.

Chip-sized "smart mirror" technology could help manufacturers measure laser power from 1W to several 100W in real time.

Reducing piston wear in cylinders is now more than “science friction”, say engineers at Fraunhofer IWS.

ANU (Australia) -developed system is based on nano-structures forming a metasurface, which controls photon behavior.

Simple, efficient and fast uncooled device operating at 12.2µm wavelength looks suitable for realization of future on-chip detector array.

European consortium is developing tiny organic optoelectronic device to help cut antibiotic use and check animal health.

Meeting in October will discuss path to commercial Joule-scale pulsed 1.9 µm sources, and potential applications.