Eyecare giant Bausch & Lomb is to distribute an ultrafast system for both cataract and refractive surgery.

LED fluorescence microscopy is now recommended by the World Health Organization as the preferred technique for detecting the disease.

A team at Laser Zentrum Hannover in Germany has perfected a way to manufacture strain gauges on free-form three-dimensional surfaces.

The UK's first Technology and Innovation Centre, dedicated to high-value manufacturing, is looking for a high-power fiber laser.

An infrared radar system, laser target designation and LED projection simulators feature in the latest round-up.

After ten years of qualification tests, the Danish photonics firm agrees a volume contract for fiber laser modules used in oil exploration.

Distribution deal will provide European customers with wafer-level optics and camera technology.

CPV subsidiary Concentrix Solar also plans to build a new 200 MW module factory in San Diego.

Caryatid sculptures are treated with a dual-wavelength system in a public viewing area at the Acropolis Museum in Athens.

One sailor's request to replace humming fluorescent tubes with a quieter alternative will have the additional benefit of saving energy.

Aiming for clinical trials in 2013, an Israeli start-up's neuron-stimulating synthetic retina is powered by spectacles featuring an infrared laser.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, featuring CCD components made by the UK company e2v, captures the ejection of a large solar flare.