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Ghost imaging, a technique that reframes image formation by replacing pixelated sensors with correlation measurements between structured illumination and a single-pixel detector, offers distinct advan...
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is modernizing its vehicle lighting standards, which the agency called "outdated," in a release issued th...
photonicSENS was awarded the 2026 VISION Award at the VISION 2026 conference in Stuttgart. The company is recognized for its plenoptic camera technology which captures a full 2D image and a metric, pe...
TPL Vision, a manufacturer of LED illumination technologies for machine vision, identification, and robotics applications, acquired the intellectual property for the DRX and DLX product platforms from...
Rehm Thermal Systems, a provider of thermal manufacturing equipment, appointed Hannes Reinhardt CEO. Current CEO Johannes Rehm will continue to support the company as founder and chairman. Reinhardt h...
Infleqtion, in collaboration with Honeywell Aerospace and UC Santa Barbara, has developed an integrated optical cavity that helps shrink quantum sensors down to handheld size. The University of Califo...
Neogen Corporation, a leader in food safety solutions, has established a strategic collaboration with hyperspectral imaging solutions developer and provider Hinalea Imaging Corp. The collaboration, wh...
Sujatha Ramanujan has been named CEO of the newly awarded U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) STELLAR Engine of the Rochester/Finger Lakes Region of New York, led by the University of Rochester (UR...
Precision applications like optical metrology, quantum sensing, and atomic clocks require a laser source with an exceptionally stable optical frequency. Often, this stability comes from bulky lasers h...
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in developing optogenetics — a technique which makes it possible to sho...
With its 2026 forecast, photonics market research firm LightCounting is projecting a roughly-10x increase in shipments of silicon-based pluggable modules from 2024’s projected total. As industry striv...
When hurricane season is approaching in the Americas and much of Europe is already taking jackets out of the closet, there are places where summer still reigns. In Málaga in late September, palm trees...
Tesla is embedding distributed fiber sensing and machine vision throughout its Gigafactory lines as part of an AI-first manufacturing strategy Musk calls TeraFab.
TeraFab isn't just a building — it's a manufacturing philosophy. Musk wants every surface of every factory wired with fiber sensors and AI vision systems, pushing optical component demand to new level...
Samsung's Taylor, TX fab expansion is part of a broader US semiconductor manufacturing wave that will require new fiber routes connecting fabs to power grids, research centers, and logistics hubs.