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27 Sep 23
EPFL builds all-glass femtosecond laser cavity

Miniaturized design could solve alignment challenges for novel optical systems.

27 Sep 23
Doped materials allow windows to be tuned to block targeted wavelengths

Researchers at NCSU block wavelengths by doping glass with Li ions and e- in tungsten oxide hydrate.

27 Sep 23
UK's Vulcan laser set for £85M upgrade to 20PW output

Central Laser Facility funding is expected to deliver the world's most powerful laser pulses.

26 Sep 23
Silicon-based multijunction solar cell hits record 36.1% efficiency

Fraunhofer ISE and NWO-Inst AMOLF presented the result at EU PVSEC 2023.

26 Sep 23
Laser speckle detects postpartum hemorrhage

WUSTL wearable optical sensor tackles a leading cause of maternal mortality.

26 Sep 23
MantiSpectra lands €4M for chip-scale spectroscopy

Eindhoven startup backed by Netherlands' PhotonDelta scheme to scale production of its miniaturized spectrometers.

26 Sep 23
German Military completes laser weapons trials at sea

More than 100 test firings achieve integration and testing of laser weapon demonstrator on frigate “Sachsen”.

21 Sep 23
Germany and Bavaria to invest €300 million in opto-semiconductor innovations at ams Osram

Company predicts 400 new high-tech jobs, developments in UV-C LEDs, NIR emitters for lidar, and microLEDs for novel displays.

21 Sep 23
Chalmers researchers make optical microcombs 10 times more efficient

Trick is using two micro-resonators, instead of one, to boost laser power of soliton microcomb.

20 Sep 23
RIKEN boost for laser-based ice-core sampling for studying climate change

New laser melting sampler has 3mm depth-resolution; three times smaller than currently available systems.

20 Sep 23
Prisma Photonics adds $20M venture round

Israeli firm’s optical fiber sensing technology is designed to improve electrical grid management and renewables integration.

20 Sep 23
Intel launches novel glass substrates to enable more powerful compute

New formulations enable order of magnitude boost in designs for future data centers, AI products.

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