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Teldyne FLIR and Ansys have launched a collaboration to integrate longwave-infrared (LWIR) information into advanced driver assistance and autonomous vehicle systems. The companies announced that Ansys’ AVxcelerate sensor simulation software suite is now offered with Thermal by FLIR, creating a tool for perception engineers and designers to help fast-track the integration of thermal imaging in ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) and AV (autonomous vehicle) sensor stacks, the companies said.

Further, the integration will enable engineers to easily simulate millions of miles and difficult-to-produce scenarios where thermal cameras provide critical data, including detecting pedestrians in crowded and low-contrast...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Teledyne_FLIR_Ansys_Integrate_Longwave-IR_Data/a69382 A69382 Mon, 09 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Rennes, France, based laser communications company Cailabs expanded its operations by opening an office in Washington, D.C. The company has stated an interest in not only supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, but also the Space Development Agency in its laser communications roadmap.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Teledyne Technologies has entered into an agreement to acquire Xena Networks ApS, a Copenhagen-based provider of high-speed terabit ethernet validation, quality assurance, and production test solutions. The deal will allow Teledyne to leverage Xena’s test tools to strengthen its own network.

Process Instruments’ company building in Salt Lake City, Utah. Courtesy of Horiba Instruments Inc.
IRVINE, Calif...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Cailabs_Opens_US_Office_Teledyne_Acquires_Xena/a69377 A69377 Fri, 06 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Physik Instrumente (PI) has established an “innovation hub” in Karlsruhe, Germany, as the company looks to intensify its cooperation with leading universities and research institutions. The nanopositioning equipment developer and provider said it is transferring areas from R&D to its so-called innovation hubs in close proximity to technical universities and colleges.
Physik Instrumente established an innovation hub in the iWerkx on the Hoepfner Areal in Karlsruhe, Germany. The hub is located near the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, and the Technologiefabrik Karlsruhe. Courtesy of PI. The company began this effort in September, leasing around 500 sq m of office and...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Physik_Instrumente_Establishes_Innovation_Hub_in/a69373 A69373 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Central Laser Facility (CLF) was awarded £85 million ($103.2 million) by UK Research and Innovation for an upgrade initiative that includes construction of the Vulcan 20-20 laser, which is set to be the most powerful laser in the world.
The CLF’s Vulcan laser will receive a significant upgrade that will bring the laser’s energy output to 20 PW. The upgrade will take place over the course of six years. Courtesy of the Science and Technology Facilities Council. CLF, based at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, uses a suite of lasers to generate plasma. The most powerful of the CLF’s lasers is Vulcan, with Vulcan 20-20 expected to be 100 times brighter than...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/UKs_Central_Laser_Facility_Receives_Over_100M/a69372 A69372 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery and development of quantum dots, which are nanoparticles small enough that their size determines their properties. These discoveries have led to advancements in nanotechnology that are now used in products such as televisions, LED lamps, QLED screens, and technology that allows biochemists and doctors to map biological tissue.

Bawendi, Brus, and Ekimov were awarded 11 million SEK ($989,495) to be shared equally.
Alexei Ekimov, formerly the chief scientist at Nanocrystals Technology Inc. Courtesy of Niklas Elmehed, Nobel Prize Outreach.
In the early 1980s, Alexei Ekimov succeeded in creating size-dependent quantum...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Bawendi_Brus_and_Ekimov_Earn_Nobel_Prize_in/a69374 A69374 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 11:11:54 GMT
The news comes one week after ams OSRAM said it will receive more than €300 million from Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the Free State of Bavaria to support investments in the R&D of innovative optoelectronic components at its Regensburg, Germany, location, which is home to ams OSRAM’s Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH.

In July, the...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/ams_Osram_Unveils_Refinancing_Plan_as_Company/a69371 A69371 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT
GLASGOW, Scotland — Vector Photonics appointed Bill Ring to it executive team as chief product officer. Ring previously held senior roles at HP, Tyco Electronics, Solar Systems, Poet Technologies, and Voyant. He is also the first employee of Vector’s U.S. subsidiary, Vector Photonics Inc.
OXFORD, England — Refeyn, a life science instrumentation company and developer of mass photometry instruments, appointed Gerry Mackay CEO effective Jan. 1, 2024. Mackay served as CEO of BioOutsource from 2009 to 2015, and before that as a member of Sartorius AG’s executive board and head of its laboratory products division.
Volha Alsheuskaya. Courtesy of Yukon Advanced Optics Worldwide.
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Thermal...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Vector_Photonics_Adds_Chief_Product_Officer/a69370 A69370 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter. The work of the laureates has developed and enabled new tools to explore the movement of electronics inside atoms and molecules, movement that occurs at extremely short timescales. Agostini, Krausz, and L'Huillier were awarded 11 million SEK ($989,495) to be shared equally.
Anne L'Huillier, professor of atomic physics at Lund University. Courtesy of Niklas Elmehed, Nobel Prize Outreach. In 1987, L’Huillier and her colleagues at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique in Saclay, France, fired short...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Agostini_Krausz_LHuillier_Earn_Nobel_Prize_in/a69369 A69369 Tue, 03 Oct 2023 09:58:06 GMT
Policymakers and appointed officials outlined many of the U.S. government’s foremost priorities in science and technology, joining with leaders from the photonics sector in Washington, D.C., last week for the second SPIE Photonics Industry Summit. The one-day summit placed a premium on using industry collaboration to help spur economic and technological advancement, with additional focus on workforce development and education.

The event built on last year’s inaugural Industry Summit, which SPIE held six weeks after the CHIPS and Science Act was signed into law. The legislation factored prominently in the program again in 2023, with the road to securing funding under the Chips and Science Act placing high up among...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Critical_Tech_Policy_Priorities_at_the_Fore_of/a69366 A69366 Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Monroe Community College received a $5.1 million grant from the Department of Defense’s Manufacturing Engineering Education Program (MEEP) to fund its optics and photonics associate degree programs. The funding is part of $53 million recently distributed by the National Defense Education Program to 13 organizations. This is the second time Monroe has been awarded funding through the MEEP program, as the nation’s first community college to administer associate degrees in precision optics.

The collaboration will use ASMPT’s hardware and Teramount’s optical elements. Courtesy of Teramount.
REGENSBURG, Germany — ASMPT AMICRA, a supplier of ultrahigh-precision die attach equipment, and Teramount Ltd., a...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Monroe_CC_Awarded_5M_by_DOD_ASMPT_AMICRA/a69363 A69363 Fri, 29 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Oculi, developer of a smart, programmable vision sensor, took home $1 million in follow-on funding and Company of the Year honors as the winner of Luminate’s sixth cohort. Awardees, including a three-way tie for the Distinguished Graduate Award, were named Sept. 27 during the Luminate 2023 finals, held at The Theater at Innovation Square in Rochester.

Oculi, a spinout of Johns Hopkins University, is developing smart programmable vision sensors based on the company’s Real-Time Vision Intelligence developed by founder and CEO Charbel Rizk at Johns Hopkins. The OCULI SPU (Sensing and Processing Unit) is an integrated sensing and processing module designed to mimic the human eye in selectively delivering information to make...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Oculis_Smart_Sensors_Earn_Top_Prize_at_Luminate/a69360 A69360 Thu, 28 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Austria-based ams OSRAM will receive more than €300 million ($317.3 million) in funding over the next five years from Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the Free State of Bavaria. The Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) funding will support the company in making its own investments in the R&D of innovative optoelectronic components at its Regensburg location, which is home to ams OSRAM's Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH.

The company said that its main investment beyond activities supporting R&D pursuits will target manufacturing processes, creating 400 jobs. ams OSRAM will invest in new cleanroom and laboratory facilities for research, development, and pilot...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/ams_OSRAM_to_Receive_300M_in_Funding_to_Drive/a69355 A69355 Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Industrial blue laser technology producer NUBURU Inc. appointed Ron Nicol executive chairman, effective immediately. Nicol, who joined NUBURU as a director in 2020, previously acted as independent chairman of the board since 2023. In this new role, he will take on executive administrative functions, as CEO and co-founder Mark Zediker focuses on leading NUBURU’s technology and development efforts.

SHIZUOKA, Japan — Among a series of changes to its board of directors, Hamamatsu Photonics KK appointed Takayuki Suzuki as representative director. Suzuki joined Hamamatsu in 1989 and has held a variety of managerial roles, most recently as senior managing executive. He takes on Akira Hiruma’s role,...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/NUBURU_Appoints_Executive_Chairman_Hamamatsu/a69359 A69359 Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Photonis_Group_Rebrands_as_EXOSENS/a69358 A69358 Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Sentient Vision Systems, a developer of passive modular optical sensors, has completed live demonstrations of its AI-enabled ViDAR (visual detection and ranging) payload deployed on unmanned aerial systems (UAS) provided by Edge Autonomy. The collaborators used Edge Autonomy’s VXE30 UAS models to demonstrate capabilities for passive wide-area search for maritime operations.

Sentient’s ViDAR technology combines AI, computer vision, and machine learning integrated with electro-optic and infrared sensors to passively detect objects that are difficult to spot with the human eye or recognize via conventional radar. The technology has been deployed on intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, maritime patrol, border...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Sentient_Edge_Autonomy_Collaborate_for_Maritime/a69351 A69351 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT
The University of Rochester has received nearly $18 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design and prototype key technologies for EP-OPAL, a new facility dedicated to the study of ultrahigh-intensity laser-matter interactions. The facility could be built at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) upon completion of the design project, according to the university.

High-intensity lasers enable scientific work in fields ranging from plasma science to particle acceleration, laboratory astrophysics to laser-driven nuclear physics — work that has resulted in myriad scientific, medical, commercial, and industrial applications.
The National Science Foundation has provided funding for the University of Rochester...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/University_of_Rochester_Receives_18M_for_New/a69353 A69353 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Further, combined with Rockwell’s continuing partnerships in fixed robotic arms, solutions for independent cart technology, and leadership in programmable logic controllers, the addition of OTTO Motors’ AMR capabilities will create a complete portfolio...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Rockwell_Automation_Acquires_Clearpath_Robotics/a69349 A69349 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 14:21:00 GMT
According to Vodafone, photonic chip integration would support advancements in computation seen in generative AI, cybersecurity, and autonomous vehicles technologies, among others. iPronics, a spinout of...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Vodafone_Unveils_Partnerships_with_Silicon/a69350 A69350 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT
Sensor technology company FRAMOS broke ground on the construction of its new campus in Cakovec, Croatia, into which the company said it plans to move next year. The facility marks the largest investment in Framos history and is expected to quadruple production capacities, establish advanced R&D laboratories, and provide office space for current and future employees.
From left: FRAMOS director of embedded engineering Damir Dolar; CEO Andreas Franz; and director of supply chain and production Markus Walluschnig. Courtesy of FRAMOS.
The new building will be 3500 sq m and house 150 employees in its first phase. From 2023 to 2025, FRAMOS will invest more than €6 million ($6.3 million) into the campus by constructing and equipping...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/FRAMOS_Breaks_Ground_on_Production_Facility_in/a69348 A69348 Fri, 22 Sep 2023 10:48:08 GMT
Photoelectronic sensors and machine vision cameras developer wenglor sensoric group acquired the AI and image processing startup deevio GmbH. The acquisition opens opportunities for future innovations in machine vision, wenglor said, and boosts its capabilities in AI and data science.

Spun out of the the Viessmann Group’s wattx incubator, Berlin-based software developer deevio specializes in the automation of visual inspection processes in production. Combining AI, software, and hardware, the company’s image processing systems provide solutions for complex production applications that cannot be solved with rule-based image processing. These solutions are used in many areas of production within the automotive, packaging,...]]> https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Wenglor_Acquires_AI_Image_Processing_Startup/a69346 A69346 Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:34:45 GMT