Sapphire manufacturer has scaled back operations dramatically in recent months but is now looking to expand with acquisitions.

Machine vision firm piles up cash during highly profitable period as investment in factory automation grows.

$250m deal creates "new franchise" in optical interconnect; extends IDT’s lead in comms and cloud data center markets.

Series A funding led by Robert Bosch and Nautilus to bring high-density flash lidar to self-driving cars.

CEO Gapontsev says that market saturation remains ‘far away’ as high-output fiber lasers drive growth.

Saudi Arabian innovation fund involved in early round completed by Canadian developer of quantum-dot structures to harvest infrared energy.

Laser systems company to relocate more operations to Asia, where it benefits from low-tax status in Singapore.

Photonic component maker says billion-dollar market could open up as Kinect-like technology gets into mobile devices.

Higher profitability of optics and life science segment boosts cashflow in latest financial year.

Stock rises strongly after the newly expanded laser company posts strong profits and a solid outlook.

$815M deal should see two complementary vendors of semiconductor manufacturing equipment merge.

Integration of Newport now starting to pay dividends.