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18 Mar 26
Olympus launches Visera Elite III platform in US for surgical imaging

Collaboration with Sony designed to enhance visualization during minimally invasive surgeries.

18 Mar 26
Real-time control boosts CHARA observatory’s stellar imaging powers

Delay line control system intended to improve precision and interferometric capabilities.

18 Mar 26
imec-led consortium to develop chip roadmap ‘beyond CMOS’...

...while imec and New Origin partnering to scale SiN photonic IC manufacturing.

17 Mar 26
Fiber networks now pass 295 million homes across Europe

FTTH Council Europe releases report on continental progress ahead of London conference in April.

11 Mar 26
STMicro ramps silicon photonics platform

Chip giant plans to more than quadruple capacity for 'PIC 100' process by next year.

10 Mar 26
TNO and HTC Eindhoven to build 6in InP wafer factory

Novel photonic chips promise better AI data centers, 6G networks, super computers.

09 Mar 26
Raman spectroscopy looks inside Charles Darwin's jars

Agilent and STFC use spatially offset Raman technique in museum setting for the first time.

03 Mar 26
Airbus and TNO demo secure laser link between aircraft and satellite

Geostationary UltraAir terminal test transmitted data optically at 36,000km altitude.

17 Feb 26
Fraunhofer ISE reports ‘record efficiencies’ for two tandem PV modules

III-V germanium module at 34.2%, and III-V silicon module at 31.3% are “world beating”.

16 Feb 26
Infleqtion and NASA taking quantum gravity sensor into space

With $20 M funding so far, Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder Mission is intended to “advance U.S. space sensing”.

12 Feb 26
imec opens NanoIC pilot line to drive innovation in sub-2 nm SoC

Supporting aims of EU’s Chips Act and located in a 2,000 sqm cleanroom expansion at Leuven.

11 Feb 26
AR Alliance expands reach with 18 new member companies

High-tech firms from across the global AR sector sign up to group that recently became part of SPIE.

 
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