Three-year sales agreement for the Chinese tech giant’s ‘Apollo’ development program in autonomous vehicles.

French firm closes first of 3 tranches in Series D investment for product and facility development near Grenoble.

To expand defense and aerospace offering with solid-state discrete firing switches.

Acquisition brings company’s total number of industrial metal printers to twenty-one; more planned for next two years.

Developer of laser fluorescence technique for early Alzheimer’s diagnosis eyes pivotal trial in 2021.

$255 million deal sees Santa Rosa maker of optical filters become part of the much larger materials group.

Vermont-based manufacturer of optical filters and coatings for spectroscopy is going for growth.

2018 SPIE Startup Challenge Winner gets $5.2M series A round, including backing from Sony, plus $2.1 M SBIR grant from US NIH.

San Francisco lidar firm says sales and bookings are up sharply following January launch of 128-beam products.

Epiwafer foundry delivers record first-half revenues and now expects to post full-year growth of nearly 20%.

Optical networking systems company says it has started to see a Covid-related slowdown in spending.

New prediction from analysts at Yole Développement suggests $3.8BN market by 2025 - much lower than its earlier estimates.