Education minister calls for more than 100 PhD students to be trained in photonics by 2020 at Cork launch event.

Legacy Tower building announced as the administrative center of the $600M effort by SUNY Polytechnic, amid concern over who exactly is in charge.

Biennial event offering prestige and €10,000 prize for industrial applications of lasers.

Commercial and technical aspects of how to maximize returns from PV were under the microscope in San Diego.

Core mission of AIM Photonics will be to serve DoD needs, but commercial benefits will emerge from a new economy of scale for integrated photonics.

"Comet chaser" Artur Chmielewski, who helped land Philae on 67P, tells San Diego meeting about new plan to set orbiter down in 2016.

US Vice President talks waveguides and quotes Bragg amid the fanfare of New York's country-spanning photonics innovation plan.

Photonics cluster aims to be involved in entire value chain for companies across its region.

US Department of Defense chooses Rochester-led consortium partnered by MIT and the University of Arizona.

Stephen Hawking among a host of eminent scientists launching most comprehensive search for extra-terrestrial life ever undertaken.

Custom sensors from e2v technologies on board the New Horizons probe help capture extraordinary views of the dwarf planet.

Booming Glasgow laser developer recognized; other scanning and photonics UK firms also winners.