Using optical fiber making ideas enables development of soft robots with advanced motion control.

Process Design Kit is said to enable rapid PIC designs with on-chip laser technology.

BMBF project “IDEA” yields two demo production lines – showing that smaller firms can deliver AM products.

US NSF funding Weidong Zhou's group investigating beam steering device based on VCSELs.

Including car lighting, robot guidance, UVC purification technologies, and smart watch to capture vital signs.

Large copper components can for the first time be processed on 3D printers with Truprint 5000.

CMOS-based platform brings imaging and ranging together for automotive and other applications.

Frigate Sachsen successfully engaged UAVs at short ranges in Baltic near Putlos military training area.

Simple device, measuring 15x15x20cm, includes heating structures and fluorescence camera as detector.

Probe with multiple focusing elements achieves better resolution with smaller diameters.

Narrow pump sources at 1154 and 1064 nm can be doubled into yellow-green for retinal treatments.

Four-laser reflectometer onboard orbiting small satellite will spot accumulated ice in shadows.