CEO of the prominent German optics company fills position vacated by Osram’s Martin Goetzeler earlier this year.

A ranking of the UK's fastest growing technology vendors confirms that photonics can be a route to rapid business expansion.

Event conference marks silver jubilee, ambition still strong.

Expanded event is aimed at pre-revenue companies started up by students, post-docs and professors.

ECOC 2012 symposium addresses how to drive next-gen optical networks.

Equipment providers sense an upturn, and with the launch of its LED-based “personal wireless lighting” system, Philips might just kick-start the lighting revolution.

Executive board of the United Nations' educational and cultural wing backs proposal for 2015.

Moving towards making Ottawa “photonics and geoscience powerhouse”.

‘Birthday’ conference learns about bright future for semiconductor sources

Serge Haroche and David Wineland devised different methods for measuring quantum effects.

Ignition research continues at the giant laser facility, but the end of the calendar year looks like a more significant date than that set by Congress.

Fraunhofer ISE’s Andreas Bett and Hansjörg Lerchenmüller from Soitec Solar share €500,000 prize.