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KPM Analytics Acquires EyePro System S.r.l. to Better Serve Food Manufacturing and Processing Markets with True Color, 3D, and Hyperspectral Vision Inspection Systems

KPM Analytics Inc. announced today that it has acquired EyePro System S.r.l., a company headquartered in Trento, Italy, that specializes in vision inspection technology and vision-based process control solutions for the baking and snack industries.

16 Feb 2021

Novel Technique for Scalable Fabrication of Photonic Devices

Our world needs reliable telecommunications more than ever before. However, classic devices have limitations in terms of size and cost and, especially, power consumption - which is directly related to greenhouse emissions. Graphene could change this and transform the future of broadband.

12 Feb 2021

ficonTEC Appoints Augusto Mandelli as Global Director Sales, Service, and Marketing

The extraordinary growth in the adoption of integrated photonic devices across a number of existing, emerging and societally important high-tech sectors has resulted in an exceptional 2020 for ficonTEC.

From ficonTEC Service GmbH 12 Feb 2021

Researchers Create High-Torque Light-Powered Actuators

If you watch the leaves of a plant long enough, you may see them shift and turn toward the sunlight through the day. It happens slowly, but surely.

11 Feb 2021

Lenses and Optical Systems for Challenging Environments

Resolve Optics is a leading supplier of bespoke lenses and optical systems that offer many advantages over regular off-the-shelf commercial-grade optics for use in environmentally challenging aerospace, industrial, and military applications.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 9 Feb 2021

Sheaumann Announces New Photonics Focused Incubator

Sheaumann is announcing its brand-new incubator space, The Incubator @ Sheaumann. The Incubator, Sheaumann’s photonics-focused accelerator, will occupy the entire 20,000 square foot top floor of the Sheaumann building.

From Sheaumann Laser, Inc. 9 Feb 2021

Multiplying Light Signals can Solve Challenging Computational Problems

An important class of challenging computational problems, with applications in graph theory, neural networks, artificial intelligence and error-correcting codes can be solved by multiplying light signals, according to researchers from the University of Cambridge and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia.

9 Feb 2021

Breakthrough Research Paves the Way to Production of Quantum Photonic Circuits

The modern world is powered by electrical circuitry on a "chip"--the semiconductor chip underpinning computers, cell phones, the internet, and other applications. In the year 2025, humans are expected to be creating 175 zettabytes (175trillion gigabytes) of new data. How can we ensure the security of sensitive data at such a high volume- And how can we address grand-challenge-like problems, from privacy and security to climate change, leveraging this data, especially given the limited capability of current computers-

8 Feb 2021

Scientists Advance the Technology of High-Speed Sintering for Optical Ceramics

Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) have advanced the technology of high-speed sintering for optical ceramics (Nd3+:YAG), i.e. active elements generating laser emission in the near-infrared wavelength range (1.06 µm) for cutting the edge microelectronics and medicine. The researchers have managed to reduce significantly the initial nanopowders consolidation period (10 - 100 times) forming a nanostructure with ensured high optical transparency of the ceramic material. A related article appears in Optical Materials.

5 Feb 2021

Novel Optical Coating Exhibits the Same Color in Reflection and Transmission

For more than a century, optical coatings have been used to better reflect certain wavelengths of light from lenses and other devices or, conversely, to better transmit certain wavelengths through them. For example, the coatings on tinted eyeglasses reflect, or "block out," harmful blue light and ultraviolet rays.

5 Feb 2021