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16 Jan 25
2025 winner of Nick Cobb Memorial Scholarship named as Clay Klein

Lithography-focused award honors the memory of the SPIE Senior Member and Mentor chief engineer.

16 Jan 25
NASA publishes simulated universe previews from upcoming ‘Roman’ telescope

More than one million images present the cosmos as Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will see it from 2027.

13 Jan 25
SPIE names its 2025 Society award winners

Twenty-one award recipients working across light-based sciences and technologies.

08 Jan 25
SPIE announces 47 new Fellow Members for 2025

Society recognizes leading photonics figures from across the globe.

06 Jan 25
Polar Light creates red light from its new pyramidal microLED

625 nm output from non-etching, bottom-up design is based on same source materials as previous green and blue sources.

31 Dec 24
Fraunhofer group develops building façade units with integral solar panels

Recyclable system combines power generation, weather protection, and insulation.

31 Dec 24
HSG Laser opens new manufacturing facility in China

Company also unveils ytterbium-doped fiber laser-based 120 kW laser cutter.

31 Dec 24
Laser retroreflector array set for 2026 lunar mission

Italian Space Agency and iSpace-Europe to deploy the palm-sized optical device on the dark side of the Moon.

18 Dec 24
Amplitude and Focused Energy agree $40 M high-energy laser deal for fusion

Aim is to develop two kilojoule-class high-rate lasers for new Focused Energy facility in San Francisco.

12 Dec 24
2025 SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Morgan Fogarty…

…and Paul Corkum awarded American Physical Society’s 2025 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research.

06 Dec 24
Imagia announces ‘breakthrough’ in optical feature detection

Promises low-power, high-speed detectors for AI, image recognition, and other imaging applications.

04 Dec 24
TNO-led group analyzes building fires associated with solar panels

Of 10,000 fires in 2022-23, 152 involved buildings fitted with solar energy systems (fewer than 2%).

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