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On January 29th at a gala during SPIE Photonics West 2025, SPIE announced its Prism Awards winners. The awards reflect the rapidly growing trajectory, exciting latest developments, and rich technical innovations across photonics and photonics-enabled industries. This year, the annual ceremony honored a range of established and emerging companies applying innovative and creative solutions to […]

January’s photonics-related IP activities include 43 cases concerning various technologies, including cameras, imaging systems, and image processing; displays; lighting and light sources; optical communications; solar cells; automotive applications; sensors; and eyewear. Here are the summaries. Cameras, imaging systems, and image processing On January 3rd, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB, a branch of the

SPIE Photonics The SPIE Photonics West 2025 event, set to take place January 25-30th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA, The event will kick off Saturday and Sunday, January 25-26th, with the Biomedical Optics Symposium (BiOS) and the BiOS Expo, followed by the SPIE Global Business Forum on Monday, January 27th for executives,

innovation Innovation and invention by nature are creative processes. People involved in bringing creative processes to fruition possess an ambiguous innate talent, for those not familiar with the work. A divinity of inspiration or a flash of insight or genius while engaged in other pursuits is how the process is often described. Is this an

Gallium (in the form of gallium nitride or gallium arsenide) is commonly used to create products ranging from semiconductors/electronic devices to laser diodes and solar cells. And germanium is used in infrared optics, solar cells, and fiber optics. Both are used for numerous military applications. The U.S. semiconductor device manufacturing industry is expected to be

In a fitting end to 2024, the headline venture funding for December was in the space of optical interconnects for datacenters and AI clusters, an area that dominated photonics venture funding all year (see the October, September, and March Photonics VC Updates). In December, San Jose, California-based Ayar Labs, one of the older startups within

Learning and recreating from the grip of a gecko Schöneich joined INM in 2017. At the time, the team had more than a decade of high-level, award-winning scientific research emulating the gecko adhesion effect. He and his team will tell you geckos are amazing: They can climb the steepest walls (of any texture—wet, rough, slippery)

December’s photonics-related IP activities include 33 cases concerning various technologies, including lighting and light sources; cameras, imaging systems, and image processing; optical communications; displays; automotive applications; solar cells; medical and dental applications; sensors; augmented reality/virtual reality; manufacturing; and eyewear. Here are the summaries. Lighting and light sources On December 3rd, LED Apogee LLC sued Texas

Once again, we at Laser Focus World take a look back on what articles piqued your interest the most. In doing so, it not only shines a light on what stories were the most popular—it also helps to guide us on topics where we can expand our coverage in the future. View each most-read story,

Data is the new oil in our modern, data-driven world, needed to power everything from the global financial markets to the latest trending meme on social media. This reality is driving unprecedented demand for data infrastructure and pushing traditional systems to their limits. A 2024 report from Meticulous Research projects the global market for cloud