Optatec, international trade fair for optical technologies, components and systems will not take place May, 12-14. The new date will be November, 17-19. Here krueger@schall-messen.de you can send an email if you have any questions, or if you like to have detailed information.

Honle UV, http://www.honleuv.com/ will be showing their Powerline UV LED curing system with Aspen Systems’ RMC-800, ultra-compact liquid chiller system.  The RMC series is based on Aspen’s vapor compression technology using the world’s smallest compressor.  It shares many of the advantages UV LEDs including small size, high efficiency and light weight. According to Deivis Parejo – Business…

Gentec-EO launched the 2020 Laser Lab Awards contest. Twelve winners will receive one of the five laser beam measurement kits of their choice among a selection of products made by Gentec-EO. The contest ends on March 31, 2020. The 2020 Gentec-EO Laser Lab Awards contest aims to support optics laboratories in universities and colleges by ensuring students…

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has strongly impacted developments in China. Following the directives of the Government of Shanghai Municipality to prevent and control the virus from spreading, Messe München Shanghai felt compelled at the beginning of February to postpone electronica China, productronica China and LASER World of PHOTONICS CHINA, which were planned…

Coronavirus and Traveling to Strasbourg, France SPIE has been closely monitoring the global health and transportation situation related to COVID-19 since the outbreak first began in late 2019. We are following the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), and local government authorities….

19-20 March, 2020: Freeform optics cannot be manufactured by standard spherical or aspheric manufacturing techniques. They can embody a wide range of geometries, offering great advantages over conventional shapes to a wide range of applications.  The purpose of this meeting is to bring together the complete value chain of the manufacturing and measurement of freeform optics,…

Are you looking for a reliable solution that provides fast, easy and high performing optical connector and cable repair in the field? Well, look no further.  Diamond offers a complete range of solutions for a wide variety of applications, including different connector types necessary to meet your requirements. The ZEUS Fusion Field Termination Kit offers: Splice-on…

A method of identifying the material and determining the physical thickness of each layer in a multilayer structure is disclosed.The method includes measuring the optical thickness of each of the layers of the multilayer object as a function of wavelength of a light source and calculating a normalized group index of refraction dispersion curve for…

One of our TOPTICA founders, Dr. Wilhelm Kaenders was recognized during this year’s BiOS/Photonics West 2020 for his contributions to the laser world and the company’s community engagement with the SPIE Fellow award. David Andrews, President-Elect of SPIE (left), and John Greivenkamp, President of SPIE (right), presented the award to Wilhelm. "Our Fellows represent the…

A new tip-tilt mechanism based on low voltage piezoelectric actuators has been designed by Cedrat Technologies (CTEC) to answer the need of a Point Ahead Mechanism (PAM) for the JPL Deep Space Optical Communication (DSOC) module of incoming Psyche mission. The PAM aims at deviating optical downlink signal towards earth position during DSOC communication phases….