Credit: D. Antón, J. Mayoral-Valsera, M. D. Simón-Vallejo, R. Parrilla-Giráldez, and M. Cortés-Sánchez, J. Archaeol. Sci., 181, 106330 (Sep. 2025); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106330; Licensed under CC BY 4.0
Photonics Hot List: October 17, 2025
In this episode: A LiDAR and laser scanning combo illuminates caves, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to a quantum discovery, and an Edge AI-based hyperspectral imaging tech...
Credit: AMF
AMF’s ‘Silicon Photonics Ecosystem Summit 2025.’ Credit: AMF
© Endeavor Business Media
lfw_ftprob_devlingraphiclandscape
Credit: École Polytechnique/Jérémy Barande
The team’s setup for time-resolved photoluminescence measurements. Credit: École Polytechnique/Jérémy Barande
Credit: Corporal Adam J Wakefield, RLC/UK MOD © Crown copyright 2022
FIGURE 1. The British Army's Challenger 3 main battle tank is at the heart of high-intensity warfighting and, therefore, a vital part of an integrated defense system.
Sign up for Laser Focus World Newsletters
Get the latest news and updates.

Learning Resources

hubner_photonics_white_paper_lung_tissue_valo
Sponsored
Ultrafast lasers enable rapid cancer diagnosis with simultaneous two- and three-photon imaging.
Oct. 15, 2025
new__pi_phy__image
Sponsored
This paper reviews advances in precision motion control for photonics alignment and laser material processing, highlighting micro-hole drilling, new control algorithms, and hybrid...
Oct. 15, 2025
yokogawa__image_1
Sponsored
Unlock the science behind the world's fastest data. From the photophone's dawn to modern WDM systems, master the core principles of fiber optics and future-proof your communication...
Oct. 10, 2025
healthdc_1540x557
Sponsored
Is Your Healthcare Data Center Built for the Demands of Tomorrow?
Oct. 1, 2025

Lasers/Sources

Credit: Laserax
laserax
The Linear UV laser system has a 1- to 55-W power range.
Oct. 14, 2025
Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf/Science Communication Lab
Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields’ (HIBEF) target chamber. Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf/Science Communication Lab
A new twist on a computational approach helps simulate warm dense matter—an exotic state that combines solid, liquid, and gaseous phases—and may advance laser-driven inertial ...
Oct. 9, 2025
Credit: Photon Design
photon_design
A quantum dot (QD) module for the HAROLD laser simulation tool enables engineers to model a QD laser’s epitaxy structure.
Oct. 8, 2025
© Endeavor Business Media
lfwftpmohamed_elsherifgraphic_landscape
Episode 72 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Mohamed Elsherif, a postdoctoral associate at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Oct. 7, 2025

Optics

Credit: Zygo
zygo
The 0.5X ZWF widefield objective is designed for use with the company's noncontact optical profiler product line.
Oct. 16, 2025
Credit: Alluxa
alluxa
ULTRA Series thin-film dichroic filters have uses in microscopy, medical, and space-based applications.
Oct. 10, 2025
Credit: Eric Sucar/University of Pennsylvania
FIGURE 1. Li He (left) and Bo Zhen (right) in the lab with their photonic crystal platform that enables guiding light in a forward-only direction around a chip’s defects and bends. Credit: Eric Sucar/University of Pennsylvania
Chips are akin to optical mazes, in which photons can scatter or never reach their destination. But researchers just created a gamechanger “photonic crystal highway” design to...
Oct. 2, 2025
Credit: Edmund Optics
edmund_optics
Acktar ultra-black, light-absorbing coatings are available in Metal Velvet and Spectral Black versions.
Sept. 30, 2025

Quantum

Credit: Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach
(L-R) John Clarke, Michael H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis. Credit: Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach
Congratulations to John Clarke, Michael H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their “discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electrical...
Oct. 7, 2025
Credit: Thomas Linker/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Bright x-ray flash where the Rabi-cycling process and filamentation was observed. Credit: Thomas Linker/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Rabi cycling and filamentation at hard x-ray wavelengths is the building block for coherent control of quantum systems and opens new experimental capabilities centered around ...
Oct. 6, 2025
Credit: Alain Herzog/CC BY SA 4.0
FIGURE 1. Christina Beanea-Chelmus, head of EPFL’s Laboratory of Hybrid Photonics, with Yazan Lampert, who holds the team’s lithium niobate chip that generates and detects THz by converting them to and from ultrafast optical signals.
Lithium niobate photonic circuits move into the terahertz domain—and may enable devices for ultrafast telecommunications, spectroscopy, computing, and ranging.
Sept. 29, 2025
Credit: Stephan Höck
Professor Andreas Tittl in front of his lab’s optical table. Credit: Stephan Höck
‘Temporal symmetry breaking’ marks a paradigm shift in active photonics. By enabling ultrafast control over light-matter interactions within metasurface resonators, it paves the...
Sept. 15, 2025

Test/Measurement

Credit: Teledyne DALSA
teledyne_dalsa
The Z-Trak Express 1K5 3D laser profiler series delivers high-speed 3D inspection with real-time processing.
Oct. 12, 2025
Credit: D. Antón, J. Mayoral-Valsera, M. D. Simón-Vallejo, R. Parrilla-Giráldez, and M. Cortés-Sánchez, J. Archaeol. Sci., 181, 106330 (Sep. 2025); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106330; Licensed under CC BY 4.0
Smartphone LiDAR 3D textured mesh: Gran Pez panel. Credit: D. Antón, J. Mayoral-Valsera, M. D. Simón-Vallejo, R. Parrilla-Giráldez, and M. Cortés-Sánchez, J. Archaeol. Sci., 181, 106330 (Sep. 2025); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106330; Licensed under CC BY 4.0
La Pileta Cave is one of Europe’s most revered rock art sites, and researchers created a 3D replica of its morphology via iPhone light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and a terrestrial...
Oct. 1, 2025
Credit: EPIGAP OSA Photonics
epigaposa
The OCI-460 shortwave-infrared (SWIR) LEDs combine a silicone dome and ceramic package for thermal efficiency.
Sept. 24, 2025
Credit: Wavelength Electronics
wavelength_electronics
The LD250mTC5 LAB Series temperature control instrument has a 250-mA laser diode current capacity for cumulative current noise of 3 µA.
Sept. 16, 2025

Detectors/Imaging

Credit: FlexEnable
FIGURE 1. Three types of dimming: Global, pixelated, and segmented.
Key dimmer parameters such as transmission range, dimmer color, uniformity, and reliability must be considered to ensure augmented reality (AR) glasses provide the expected quality...
Oct. 8, 2025
Credit: Gamma Scientific
gamma_scientific
The NED E-Series GazeCam imaging camera is available as a standalone camera head.
Oct. 2, 2025
Credit: Leica Microsystems
leica_microsystems
The ARveo 8x hybrid surgical microscope is designed for neurosurgery, spine, and plastic reconstructive procedures.
Sept. 26, 2025
© Endeavor Business Media
lfw_ftpuniv_st_andrewsgraphiclandscapefinal
Episode 70 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Ifor Samuel and Andrea Di Falco, professors and researchers at the University of St. Andrews.
Sept. 23, 2025

Executive Forum

ID 392426973 © BiancoBlue | Dreamstime.com
dreamstime_xxl_392426973
Oct. 6, 2025
Credit: Lumotive
From warehouse floors to the cloud, Lumotive’s LCM technology bridges the physical and digital worlds through software-defined light.
Sept. 26, 2025
Credit: Singular Photonics
Singular Photonics’ Andarta sensor.
Sept. 10, 2025
© Endeavor Business Media
lfw_ftpmarket_insightsgraphiclandscape
Sept. 9, 2025